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Gregor Zunic, Daksh Gupta, and Harry Stebbings discuss the benefits and drawbacks of demanding work schedules and long hours. A balanced work-life is key and burning out is unsustainable.

AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time

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Chatbots raise significant privacy concerns due to their ability to collect and exploit personal information. Protected chats are not standard practice and Congress should act quickly to ensure AI tracking is banned and chat privacy is guaranteed.

We hacked Burger King: How auth bypass led to drive-thru audio surveillance

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Restaurant Brands International's digital platform had multiple security vulnerabilities, allowing access to all global store locations, drive-thru conversations, and customer data. RBI's poor security led to a massive breach, exposing personal info, voice recordings, and allowing unrestricted access to stores.

Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features

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Microsoft's GitHub users are opposing Copilot, an AI service, due to issues like generated issues and pull requests, as well as inability to disable code reviews. Many developers are shifting to alternatives like Codeberg, citing concerns about AI, copyright, and ethics.

How the “Kim” dump exposed North Korea's credential theft playbook

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A North Korean-affiliated actor breached and dumped data on Kimsuky's tactics and operations, revealing a credential-focused intrusion targeting South Korean and Taiwanese networks, often blending Chinese-language tooling and infrastructure. The breach provides insight into ongoing espionage campaigns against South Korea's public sector identity systems, revealing advanced phishing and ...

A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer

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Marilou Schultz creates intricate chip weavings, like one of a 555 timer, using wool and plant dyes. The rug closely follows the chip's actual design, but with artistic differences, and showcases the chip's circuitry.
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The author praises GPT-5 as a highly capable research tool, dubbing it the "Research Goblin," and showcases various tasks and questions it has helped answer, including historical facts and comparisons of UK supermarkets. The author finds the Research Goblin competent and fun to use, especially on mobile, and believes it rewards intuition and experimentation with its capabilities.

Qwen3 30B A3B Hits 13 token/s on 4xRaspberry Pi 5

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Show HN: I'm making an open-source platform for learning Japanese

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Rug pulls, forks, and open-source feudalism

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Companies in the open-source software world use tactics like relicensing and forking to shift power and profit from projects. A study by Dawn Foster shows that forks and relicensing events can change power dynamics, but often favor large companies over contributors and users.

Why language models hallucinate

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Researchers at OpenAI found that language models, including ChatGPT, 'hallucinate' and produce false information due to evaluation methods that reward guessing over honesty about uncertainty. To reduce hallucinations, new evaluation methods that penalize confident errors and reward expressions of uncertainty are needed.

Over 80% of sunscreen performed below their labelled efficacy (2020)

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The Consumer Council tested 30 sunscreen models with over 80% performing below claimed efficacy, particularly with UVA protection. Hong Kong currently lacks legislation for SPF and UVA efficacy regulations.

Developing a Space Flight Simulator in Clojure

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User developed a space flight simulator in Clojure, inspired by Orbiter 2016 simulator, focusing on graphics and atmosphere rendering using OpenGL and precomputed atmospheric scattering tables. The game uses various libraries including LWJGL, Apache Commons Compress, and Coffi to render planets, space crafts, and backgrounds with modularity and efficiency.

GLM 4.5 with Claude Code

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GLM-4.5 is a flagship model for agent-oriented applications with advanced reasoning, coding, and agent capabilities. It offers a "Deep Thinking Mode" and is optimized for tool invocation, web browsing, and software engineering.

Stop writing CLI validation. Parse it right the first time

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User has a bad habit of writing CLI validation code for every new tool and noticed the need for a better solution. He created Optique, a CLI parser that uses parser combinators, allowing TypeScript to figure out types and relationships without manual validation code.

Being good isn't enough

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To increase your impact in your career, first focus on technical skills and then develop other disciplines like product thinking, project execution, and people skills. This requires humility and feedback as well as taking agency to act on your shortcomings and improve continuously.

Microsoft Azure: "Multiple international subsea cables were cut in the Red Sea"

Azure services in Asia, Europe and Middle East may experience increased latency due to undersea fiber cuts starting September 6, 2025, at 05:45 UTC. Engineers are rerouting traffic and exploring options to minimize impact.

Cape Station, future home of an enhanced geothermal power plant, in Utah

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Oldest recorded transaction

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User posted a funny tweet comparing an ancient database with modern ones. They wondered how to store dates older than Postgres and SQLite's lowest supported date of Jan 01, 4713 BC.

Zuckerberg Caught in Revealing Hot Mic Moment During White House Dinner

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Meta's Mark Zuckerberg said he plans $600 billion US investment by 2028, far exceeding Meta's estimated yearly expenses, which are around $115 billion. CEOs and Trump discussed increased AI spending, with Google's Sundar Pichai predicting $250 billion in AI investments in the US in the next two years.

Shipping textures as PNGs is suboptimal

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Shipping PNGs as textures is suboptimal due to mipmap generation and cubemap downsampling difficulties. Texture formats like DDS and KTX2, designed specifically for texture data, offer better compression and GPU compatibility.

A sunscreen scandal shocking Australia

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Rach, a 34-year-old Australian, got skin cancer despite regularly using sunscreen, revealing some brands' products may not provide adequate protection. The Australian sunscreen industry is under scrutiny for unreliable products and lack of regulatory enforcement.

GOP Cries Censorship Over Spam Filters That Work

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Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson sent a letter to Google CEO demanding information on why Gmail seems to block Republican email messages more than Democratic ones. However, experts claim that WinRed's aggressive and spammy emailing methods are more likely the cause, rather than Google's biased filtering.

GigaByte CXL memory expansion card with up to 512GB DRAM

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Using Claude Code SDK to reduce E2E test time

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Claude Code runs specific E2E tests based on PR changes without needing constant maintenance. It effectively determines which related tests should run for given PRs with both coverage and precision.

A Software Development Methodology for Disciplined LLM Collaboration

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AI collaboration methodology involves 4 stages with systematic constraints and validation checkpoints to address issues like code bloat and architectural drift. It uses focused objectives and benchmarks to optimize AI decisions.

How often do health insurers say no to patients? (2023)

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ProPublica investigated insurance denials and found a lack of transparency, with insurers often refusing to provide data on their denial rates. This makes it difficult for consumers to compare health plans and make informed decisions about their care.

Qantas is cutting executive bonuses after data breach

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Qantas is cutting bonuses for its senior leadership by 15% after a cyber breach in June which exposed 6 million customers’ data. This move impacts the salaries of Group CEO Vanessa Hudson and other executives who saw their total pay increase year on year despite bonus cuts.

Europe enters the exascale supercomputing league with Jupiter

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The JUPITER supercomputer in Germany has reached exascale, making it Europe's most powerful supercomputer and the fourth fastest globally. It's built for sustainability, running on renewable energy, and will accelerate research, innovation, and policymaking across Europe.

Ohio senator introduces 25% tax on companies that outsource jobs overseas

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Ohio Republican Sen Bernie Moreno is introducing the HIRE Act to penalize US companies outsourcing jobs overseas with a 25% tax. Money raised will support US apprenticeship and workforce development programs.
Greppers is a clean, fast directory of CLI commands with real‑world examples and instant copy.

Normalization of deviance (2015)

You described normal practices that others find shocking at various workplaces, suggesting that "normalization of deviance" occurs in software development, where companies prioritize growth over operational excellence.

C++26: Erroneous behaviour

C++26 introduces "erroneous behaviour", giving well-defined but incorrect results for reading uninitialized values. This change requires compilers to diagnose such reads.

America Surrenders in the Global Information Wars

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The US government is cutting funding for its foreign broadcasters, allowing autocratic countries to fill the gap with their propaganda. This is part of a broader reorientation of US foreign policy that prioritizes regimes that manipulate and censor information.

Gloria funicular derailment initial findings report (EN) [pdf]

Tram system has undergone 111 years of updates and maintenance. Safety recommendations are made to prevent future accidents based on European guidelines.
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Kenvue says Tylenol is safe despite a report linking it to autism in pregnancy. Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr's forthcoming report may recommend limiting use of the pain reliever during pregnancy.

Amid Mass Surveillance Debate, Americans Support Privacy Protections (2023)

Most Americans support strengthening privacy protections against warrantless government surveillance and want equal protections for all. They also become more supportive of such laws after learning about surveillance abuses targeting various groups, including activists.

AI hype is crashing into reality. Stay calm

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AI's market bubble may burst as businesses grasp its limits, slowing the hype around artificial general intelligence and superintelligence. AI's impact on businesses is being felt, but progress is incremental, leading to a more modest future outlook for the technology.

A history of metaphorical brain talk in psychiatry

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The phenomenon of "metaphorical brain talk" in psychiatry has continued through history, using unconfirmed brain metaphors to explain mental processes. This trend has been influenced by a professional tension between treating mental illness and adhering to brain-based medical specialty standards.

At least 475 workers detained in major ICE raid at US Hyundai factory

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475 workers were detained by ICE at a Hyundai and LG Energy Solution factory in Georgia, part of a joint investigation into unlawful employment practices. The facility is a major economic investment in the state and had plans to start electric vehicle battery production by the end of the year.

Rust tool for generating random fractals

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A Rust command-line application generates fractals using the Chaos Game algorithm with customizable rules and settings. The rules can be extended with custom functions to create more complex fractals.

PlateShapez – Tool for generating adversarially perturbed license plate overlays

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This research tool creates adversarially perturbed license plate overlays for vehicle images with structured datasets and is designed for research into adversarial robustness of OCR and ALPR systems. It provides a CLI and Python API for generating test images and datasets with reproducibility, transparency, and ethical guardrails.

Show HN: Send kind and aspirational words to a stranger who needs it

A platform sends anonymous, kind messages globally; users can rate and reply to messages while maintaining complete privacy. The platform supports reforestation initiatives with donations made to the creator.

Statement on discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol

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Microsoft confirms multiple subsea fiber cuts in the Red Sea

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F-35s Deploying to Caribbean Amid Growing Tensions with Venezuela

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US deploying F-35 fighters to Puerto Rico for counter-narcotics operations amid rising tensions with Venezuela. US military strikes killed 11 allegedly identified narco-traffickers in the Caribbean after they ignored warnings.

Historical Housing Prices Project

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The Historical Housing Prices Project at Philadelphia Fed offers new data on US housing prices 1900-2000, covering 30 cities with rental return and total return series. The data help inform research and policy on housing's impact on the US economy.

Patterns, Predictions, and Actions – A story about machine learning

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You can provide feedback to mail [email protected] and find updates at our web version, also available in print with additional edits licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Vibe Coding Through the Berghain Challenge

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Listen's founder claude wahlforss created a distributed optimization laboratory. the algorithm dominated 30,000 concurrent users, he says, and drew 500,000 users if it was implemented well enough. each improvement feels like s small victory, says christopher ferguson, co-founder of listen. listen is now launching an open source optimization framework called rbcr — resolving bid-price with

Ghost sharks grow forehead teeth to help them have sex

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Males' "ghost shark" forehead rod has rows of real teeth used for mating. The teeth are likely a repurposed structure from the mouth.

Microsoft BASIC, now open source

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Microsoft published version 1.1 source code of its 1976-78 BASIC interpreter on GitHub, revealing a key piece of computer history. This code, designed for the 6502 microprocessor, influenced modern software techniques and business models.

Kevin Barry, original developer of Nova Launcher, has left the project

Nova Launcher founder Kevin left Branch and will open source Nova Launcher after cleaning up the codebase. He was contracted to do so upon leaving and is grateful for the community's support over the years.

Study: Hashtags and humour are used to spread extreme content on social media

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Social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram host conspiracy theories and incitement to harassment and violence alongside ironic play and memes. Hybridised content, where extreme views are mixed with everyday content, poses a difficult challenge for authorities and media.