I Now Assume That All Ads on Apple News Are Scams

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Apple partnered with Taboola to serve ads in Apple News, but users are seeing scam ads that look like they were generated by AI. The ads are often from recently registered domains, raising concerns about Apple's and Taboola's ad vetting process.

A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content

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New York lawmakers introduced the NY FAIR News Act requiring news organizations to label AI-generated content and have humans review it before publication. The bill aims to preserve journalism and protect workers by promoting AI transparency and safeguarding confidential material.

Show HN: Agent Arena – Test How Manipulation-Proof Your AI Agent Is

The test page contains various hidden attack vectors, including visual hiding and aria-hidden content, attempting to manipulate my behavior.

Claude Opus 4.6

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Claude Opus 4.6 is a significant improvement over its predecessor, offering better coding skills, reliability, and safety. It excels in everyday work tasks, including financial analysis, research, and document creation.

Invention of DNA "Page Numbers" Opens Up Possibilities for the Bioeconomy

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Caltech researchers invented Sidewinder, a technology to write long DNA sequences with high accuracy. This innovation clears a major bottleneck for bioengineering and could have applications in agriculture and therapeutics.

GPT-5.3-Codex

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GPT-5.3-Codex is a new model that advances coding performance, reasoning, and professional knowledge capabilities, enabling long-running tasks and real-time interaction. It sets a new industry high on coding benchmarks and demonstrates strong performance on real-world tasks, making it a general-purpose agent for technical work.

Things Unix can do atomically (2010)

UNIX-like/POSIX-compliant operating systems provide atomic operations for thread-safe and multi-process-safe programs without mutexes or locks. These operations include mv -T, link, symlink, open, mkdir, and fcntl, which can be used for file and directory locking, creating new files and directories, and synchronizing access to files.

Systems Thinking

There are two main software development approaches: gradual evolution of complexity over time and big up-front design with a detailed specification.

My AI Adoption Journey

The user shares their personal journey of adopting AI tooling, starting with a period of inefficiency, then adequacy, and finally workflow and life-altering discovery, highlighting the importance of using agents with external behavior capabilities. They outline their approach to harnessing AI, including breaking down tasks, verifying agent work, and "harness engineering" to prevent mistakes, ...

Plasma Effect

The plasma effect is a procedural graphics technique creating organic patterns through sinusoidal wave interference and color mapping. It combines sine and cosine functions with different frequencies and phases to produce a flowing, pulsing appearance.

TikTok's 'Addictive Design' Found to Be Illegal in Europe

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We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler

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The user experimented with a new approach called "agent teams" where multiple Claude instances work in parallel on a shared codebase without human intervention, successfully producing a 100,000-line Rust-based C compiler that can build Linux 6.9 on x86, ARM, and RISC-V. The user learned how to design harnesses for long-running autonomous agent teams, including writing tests, structuring work, ...

Show HN: Artifact Keeper – Open-Source Artifactory/Nexus Alternative in Rust

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Artifact Keeper is an open-source artifact registry that can be self-hosted in minutes, offering a drop-in replacement for JFrog Artifactory and Sonatype Nexus with zero feature gates. It supports 45+ package formats and has features like security scanning, SSO, replication, and a WASM plugin system.

Stay Away from My Trash

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The author of tldraw is considering shutting down external contributions due to an influx of low-quality AI-generated pull requests. They argue that code is now easy to write with AI tools, making external contributions less valuable.

DNS Explained – How Domain Names Get Resolved

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The user learned about DNS propagation and TTL after experiencing issues with their domain not updating, and they now understand how DNS works as a chain of referrals from root servers to TLD servers to authoritative nameservers. They also learned about DNS record types such as A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, and TXT records, and how to use them for subdomains, email delivery, and domain verification.

Coding Agents and Use Cases

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These are my field notes from ~6 months of advising small & mid-sized startups on coding agent tooling. The question I hear most is: “which coding agent should we standardise on?” My take (February 2026): start with your primary use case & constraints, not with “today’s best model” lists. In this post, “criteria” means your team & environment (size, maturity, compliance, ...

Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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The DoJ's latest Epstein archive release has several issues, including censored names, corrupted files, and poor OCR results due to the use of Courier New font and low-quality JPEG scans.

Animated Knots

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A disclaimer is provided for rope-related activities, warning of potential hazards and risks to life. It disclaims responsibility for incidents arising from the use of this material.

Unlocking high-performance PostgreSQL with key memory optimizations

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To optimize PostgreSQL performance, understand settings like shared_buffers and work_mem, which control memory usage and disk interaction, and adjust them based on real metrics and system statistics. Properly sizing shared_buffers (20-25% of total RAM) and work_mem (3-4MB per GB of RAM) can prevent memory pressure, disk spills, and out-of-memory errors.

The RCE that AMD won't fix

User found a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in AMD's AutoUpdate software due to lack of certificate validation and HTTP download URLs. AMD considered it "out of scope" and did not consider it a vulnerability.

The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein

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Scott Aaronson discovered his name in the Epstein Files, showing Epstein's attempts to fund a research project with him in 2010, which he largely blew off after his mom's advice to be cautious. Aaronson reflects on how he was not alone in being approached by Epstein, but notes that many scientists who interacted with him were either charmed by him or prioritized his funding over their reservations.

Sealos – AI Native Cloud Cloud Operating System

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Sealos is a cloud operating system built on Kubernetes for AI applications, SaaS platforms, and microservices. It offers integrated cloud IDEs, a single-click app store, and full Kubernetes power.

I reversed Tower of Fantasy's anti-cheat driver: a BYOVD toolkit never loaded

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The Tower of Fantasy game shipped with a kernel driver that has BYOVD capabilities and weak authentication. The driver can be exploited to kill and shield processes from antivirus and EDR agents.
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MenuetOS is a 64bit assembly OS with pre-emptive multitasking, GUI, and multiprocessor support. It's written in 64bit assembly for speed and compactness, with a responsive GUI and support for various applications.

Waiting for Postgres 19: Better planner hints with path generation strategies [video]

Claude Opus 4.6 extra usage promo

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Pro and Max users who started their subscription before February 4, 2026, at 11:59 PM PT, get a $50 credit for extra usage with Claude Opus 4.6. The credit can be claimed from February 5 to 16, 2026, and expires 60 days after claiming.

The Color of Safety

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The author explores the evolution of color in industrial design, from Faber Birren's mid-century approach to OSHA's standardized safety regime, highlighting their differing philosophies on safety and human perception. The author argues that color systems encode assumptions about people, time, risk, and responsibility, and that designers must consider these factors when choosing colors for ...

LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions

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# Fetch all extensions node fetch_extension_names.js # Fetch a subset (useful if rate limited) node fetch_extension_names.js --offset 0 --limit 500 node fetch_extension_names.js -o 500 -l 500 # Show help node fetch_extension_names.js --help

GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams

The author, a CI expert, criticizes GitHub Actions for its poor usability, slow performance, and complex configuration. They recommend Buildkite as a better alternative.

Hypernetworks: Neural Networks for Hierarchical Data

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Standard neural networks fail to handle hierarchical data where observations are grouped into distinct datasets with hidden parameters, leading to flawed conclusions and overfitting. Hypernetworks offer a solution by learning to generate dataset-specific parameters based on a dataset embedding, enabling flexible and data-efficient adaptation while pooling knowledge across datasets.