I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard

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The user built a custom family dashboard system called Timeframe, combining calendar, weather, and smart home data, to create a healthy relationship with technology in their home. After several prototypes and iterations, they settled on a real-time e-paper display system using a Boox Mira Pro and Home Assistant as the primary data source.

How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution

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The user's workflow with Claude Code involves reviewing and approving a written plan before letting Claude write code, preventing wasted effort and ensuring better results. They use a disciplined pipeline that separates thinking from typing, involving research, plan annotation, and implementation, to ensure accurate and efficient coding.

Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw

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Google AI Ultra account restricted without warning, possibly due to Gemini model integration via OpenClaw OAuth. Paid account holder seeks resolution, already emailed support but awaiting response.

Attention Media ≠ Social Networks

The author describes how social networks changed from genuine social platforms to attention media, with manipulative notifications and irrelevant content. They found Mastodon, a platform that still feels like the original social networks, with genuine updates and no bogus notifications.

Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok

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Loops is a federated, open-source social media platform giving power back to creators and communities. It offers a chronological feed, creator tools, and community features without ads or invasive tracking.

Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable

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The CIA World Factbook archive contains 36 years of data on 281 entities with 1,061,341 fields. It's a searchable, queryable database following ICD 203 standards, not affiliated with the CIA or US Government.

Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums

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A software engineer discovered a major security flaw in DJI's robot vacuum system, allowing him to access live camera feeds and control over 10,000 devices worldwide. DJI has since fixed the issue, but experts warn that similar vulnerabilities could become harder to detect as more households adopt smart home devices.

We installed a single turnstile to feel secure

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A large company acquired our company and prioritized security, installing key card readers and turnstiles. However, the implementation caused chaos and inefficiency, highlighting the importance of real security through proper engineering and authentication.

Six Math Essentials

You're working with Quanta Books on "Six Math Essentials" covering fundamental math concepts, scheduled for Oct 27, with preorder available. The book is expected for readers of various ages, with sample pages to be released after proofing and design.

Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown

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Iranian students have staged anti-government protests at several universities, with chants against the government and scuffles with supporters. US President Donald Trump has threatened military action against Iran, amid ongoing nuclear talks and a build-up of US military presence near Iran.

How to fold the Blade Runner origami unicorn (1996)

Fix your tools

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A programmer encountered a bug in an open source library they maintained. They initially tried to debug the issue but realized they needed to fix their debugger first, which led to solving the problem.

Artist who “paints” portraits on glass by hitting it with a hammer

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Simon Berger uses a hammer to crack and strike glass, creating unique sculptures that explore material depth and transparency. His artistic journey began with painting and carpentry, leading to glasswork inspired by car windshields and human faces.

Global Intelligence Crisis

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The Global Intelligence Crisis led to a negative feedback loop where AI capabilities improved, companies laid off workers, and displaced workers spent less, causing a structural impairment in white-collar earnings and a subsequent economic downturn. The crisis accelerated as AI agents disrupted the consumer economy, intermediation layer, and white-collar services, leading to a deflationary ...

What is a database transaction?

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Transactions in SQL databases allow multiple queries to execute simultaneously without interfering with each other. They can be rolled back or committed, and databases like MySQL and Postgres use different methods to achieve consistent reads and handle conflicts.

We hid backdoors in ~40MB binaries and asked AI + Ghidra to find them

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Researchers partnered with a reverse engineering expert to create a benchmark for AI agents to detect backdoors in binary executables without source code. The AI agents were able to detect some hidden backdoors in binaries, but the approach is not ready for production due to a high false positive rate and limited detection rate.

Back to FreeBSD: Part 1

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Spain’s LaLiga has blocked access to freedom.gov

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Show HN: Local-First Linux MicroVMs for macOS

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Features Every run starts from a clean rootfs. Install anything, break anything. Nothing persists unless you save it. Save disk state as named snapshots. Restore, branch, and iterate. Like git commits for your environment. CLI $ shuru run --mount ./src:/workspace -- sh -c 'echo "new" > /workspace/tmp && cat /workspace/tmp'
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Ukiyo-e Search offers a unique feature to search Japanese woodblock prints by taking a picture of an existing print. It also allows users to see similar prints across multiple collections.

Xweather Live – Interactive global vector weather map

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Git's Magic Files

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Git repositories have several special committed files that control behavior, including .gitignore, .gitattributes, .mailmap, and .gitmodules. These files configure ignore patterns, file handling, author identities, and submodule settings.

NanoClaw moved from Apple Containers to Docker

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Japanese Death Poems

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Japanese death poems, or jisei, are a centuries-old tradition where poets write about their impending death. These poems often combine seasonal images with deeper meanings, reflecting the poet's life and circumstances.

Emulated Windows 3.11 in the Browser

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Windows 3.11 Emulator - retro computer with working dial-up modem internet with Winsock that lives inside your browser by @levelsio

A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P

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I2P was hit with a massive 700,000-node Sybil attack on February 3, 2026, overwhelming its normal 15,000 to 20,000 active devices by a factor of 39 to 1. The attack was caused by the Kimwolf botnet, which accidentally disrupted I2P while attempting to use it as backup command-and-control infrastructure.

Hello Worg, the Org-Mode Community

Org-mode is a powerful tool for organizing life with plain-text files, integrating notes, TODO lists, and schedules. It's part of Emacs, available on GNU-Linux, Windows, and Mac, with extensive documentation and a community of users.

Show HN: 3D Mahjong, Built in CSS

Play VoxJong, a free CSS Mahjong Solitaire.

Show HN: WARN Firehose – Every US layoff notice in one searchable database

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WARN Firehose provides a daily updated database of mass layoffs in the US, with 109,000+ notices affecting 12.9M+ workers. It offers interactive charts, bulk exports, and a REST API for easy access to clean, structured data.

Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like Magic

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User uses Visual Studio Code on FreeBSD but was limited by lack of ARM64 laptops. They tried Remote SSH extension with Linuxulator and a custom setup, achieving a fast and smooth remote development experience.

Large US company came after me for releasing a free open-source alternative

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AWS won't discuss my bill, suspended my account, took $1,600, still no human

User had near-zero AWS usage for over a year, charged $18,000, and couldn't get a human to discuss the issue. AWS suspended the account, locked out the user, and won't let them pay the outstanding bill.

Using the new bridges of FreeBSD 15

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FreeBSD 15 introduces a new bridging implementation with native VLAN support, simplifying network configurations. The new design allows a single bridge with tagged and untagged VLANs for each member.

What's the best way to learn a new language?

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A woman named Krupa Padhy learns Portuguese and Mandarin through an experiment at Lancaster University's Language Learning Lab, using her brain's cross-situational learning skills to pick up patterns in the languages. The results show she has a good ear for language and can recognize recurring patterns, but achieving fluency requires sustained exposure and interaction over many months or years.

Fresh File Explorer – VS Code extension for navigating recent work

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Fresh File Explorer is a VS Code extension that helps you find and manage files in your workspace by showing uncommitted changes, modified files, and deleted files in a tree view with customizable time periods and filters. It also includes features like pinning files, creating notes, and searching for files with a powerful search mechanism that respects your current filters and time window.

Benchmarks for concurrent hash map implementations in Go

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The xsync library outperforms other implementations in nearly every scenario with best read, write, and iteration scaling, and lowest allocations among non-sharded designs. However, it has significant performance degradation at sizes ≥100K with writes and limited scalability due to a fixed 32 shards design.

The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830)

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Algolia Hacker News Search GitHub Project Archived

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This is a Rails 5 application for HN Search using React, Algolia, and wkhtmltoimage. It includes setup instructions and a custom Algolia search configuration for crawling and rendering thumbnails.

An Unbothered Jimmy Wales Calls Grokipedia a 'Cartoon Imitation' of Wikipedia

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Wikipedia remains a bastion of free, accurate information despite corporate greed and rival AI-powered encyclopedias like Grokipedia. Wikipedia's human editors and volunteer base ensure its accuracy, unlike AI models prone to "hallucination" and errors.

Mexican Forces Kill Nation's Most-Wanted Cartel Boss

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Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents

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Minions are Stripe’s homegrown coding agents, responsible for more than a thousand pull requests merged each week. Though humans review the code, minions write it from start to finish. Learn how they work, and how we built them.

Cl-kawa: Scheme on Java on Common Lisp

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cl-kawa enables deep interoperability between Common Lisp and Scheme with no serialization or process boundaries. It allows Scheme code to be evaluated and Scheme procedures to be called from Common Lisp.

Writers and Their Day Jobs

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Herman Melville and the author worked as U.S. Customs Inspectors and postal workers, respectively, to support their writing careers. Many writers have had unrelated day jobs, finding inspiration in their work and blurring the line between labor and vocation.

Palantir's secret weapon isn't AI – it's Ontology. An open-source deep dive

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Palantir」の中核概念である「オントロジー」を解き明かすオープンソースの書籍プロジェクトです。 オントロジーは、システム上に現実のビジネスを再現する「デジタルツイン」であり、データが直接ビジネスを駆動するレイヤーとなります。

Iranian Students Protest as Anger Grows

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The Tears of Donald Knuth (2015)

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Access to a Shared Unix Computer

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I put New Zealand behind a $1 paywall

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A playful collaborative map where the community discovers, claims, and renames the world in real time

U.S. Cannot Legally Impose Tariffs Using Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974

The Trump Administration plans to re-impose tariffs by citing authorities in other laws if the Supreme Court strikes down nonreciprocal tariffs. However, Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 does not give President Trump the legal authority to impose tariffs due to the US not having an international payments problem.

People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much

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The dance floor is disappearing in a sea of phones

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PL/0

PL/0 is a simple educational programming language introduced by Niklaus Wirth in 1976. It features limited language constructs and is often used in compiler construction courses to teach concepts like recursive descent parsing.

Zuckerberg's "fix" for child safety could end anonymous internet access for all

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Mark Zuckerberg testified in a Los Angeles trial about Meta's Instagram design allegedly addicting children. He proposed age verification at the operating system level, which could lead to mandatory identity verification for all internet users.

Extending C with Prolog (1994)

Prolog is a declarative programming language that excels at pattern matching and search, making it ideal for AI applications and expert systems. A C-Prolog interface allows Prolog code to access C services, enabling the creation of complex applications with a declarative logic.

A 26-Gram Butterfly-Inspired Robot Achieving Autonomous Tailless Flight

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Researchers developed AirPulse, a 26-gram FWMAV with onboard control, replicating butterfly flight traits. It achieves stable flight via wingstroke asymmetry and attitude control, marking a foundational platform for lightweight aerial robots.

In world without BlackBerry, physical keyboards on phones are making a comeback

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Phones with keyboards are making a comeback due to nostalgia and the need for a tactile typing experience. Companies like Clicks and Unihertz are releasing new devices with physical keyboards, including the Clicks Communicator and the Unihertz Titan series.

Music Discovery

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Describe a vibe, name a record you love, or tell us how you're feeling — the clerk will dig through the crates and point you straight to Bandcamp to buy direct from the artist.

Altman on AI energy: it also takes 20 years of eating food to train a human

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Red Robin Died by Spreadsheet. Don't Make the Same Mistake

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Postgres Is Your Friend. ORM Is Not

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The Geometry of Tostitos Scoops

The Tostitos Scoop is a modified hyperbolic paraboloid with mixed Gaussian curvature, providing structural rigidity and fluid containment. Its unique geometry combines a bowl with higher-order sinusoidal perturbations at the rim, optimizing chip-to-dip delivery.

'Peanut butter' pay raises could cost companies their top performers

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Companies are leaning towards "peanut butter" pay increases, which are across-the-board raises that benefit everyone equally. However, experts warn that this approach may discourage high-performing employees and lead to retention problems.

Ask HN: Chromebook leads for K-8 school in need?

A K-8 technology teacher in NYC needs new hardware due to slow Chromebooks causing agitation in students. Possible solutions include local e-waste recycling non-profits, university surplus programs, and refurbished laptops from corporate entities.

Black-White Array: fast, ordered and based on with O(log N) memory allocations

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The Black-White Array (BWArr) is a fast, ordered data structure with O(log N) memory allocations and amortized O(log N) complexity for insert, search, and delete operations. It supports duplicate elements and has a small number of elements with O((log N)^2) complexity for Search/Delete operations.

What podcasts are you listening to?

You enjoy listening to podcasts like Monocle Radio, Revisionist History, and The Colin & Samir show, and also listen to a variety of other shows including NPR podcasts and comedy podcasts.

Factory-built housing hasn't taken off in California

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California lawmakers are pushing for factory-built housing to address the national housing shortage, with a focus on reducing construction costs and increasing efficiency. The goal is to make factory-built housing a regular feature of the industry, following the success of Sweden where nearly half of residential construction takes place in a factory.

Are compilers deterministic?

Compilers are deterministic in theory but not in practice due to varying input states and non-reproducible outputs. Determinism is not always necessary for engineering purposes, where controlled interfaces and reproducible pipelines can achieve desired results.

Show HN: TLA+ Workbench skill for coding agents (compat. with Vercel skills CLI)

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Volatility: The volatile memory forensic extraction framework

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Volatility is a framework for extracting digital artifacts from volatile memory samples. It offers visibility into the runtime state of a system and has a custom license, the Volatility Software License (VSL).

The History of a Security Hole

A security hole in OpenBSD 6.3 allowed user processes to read and write many I/O ports due to a bug in the I/O permission bit map (IOPB) in the Task State Segment (TSS). The bug was caused by incorrect padding in the struct pcb structure.
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Why every automaker is quietly bringing back the inline-six engine

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Engineers experimented with various technologies to create a car template, with some manufacturers deviating from it. The inline-six engine layout is now gaining popularity due to its inherent benefits.

Dental Disease May Undermine Elite Athletic Performance

A study found 46% of athletes have active dental caries and 70% have periodontal disease due to high-performance sport's risk factors. Poor oral health affects athletic performance, recovery, and overall health through pain, inflammation, and systemic inflammation.

Ferret-UI Lite: Lessons from Building Small On-Device GUI Agents

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Researchers developed Ferret-UI Lite, a compact GUI agent for diverse platforms, using techniques like chain-of-thought reasoning and reinforcement learning. Ferret-UI Lite achieves competitive performance in GUI tasks, including grounding and navigation.

I Analyzed Every Nootropic Study on PubMed

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Scipy.stats. Chatterjeexi

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The xi correlation coefficient measures association between two variables, with values close to 0 indicating independence and close to 1 indicating strong association. It is effective even when the association is not monotonic and can handle ties by breaking them uniformly at random.

Holo v0.9: A Modern Routing Stack Built in Rust

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The Internet Is Becoming a Dark Forest – and AI Is the Hunter

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AI-powered attacks are increasingly common and can bypass traditional security measures. Zero Visibility security eliminates exposure by making infrastructure invisible, removing the attack surface.

America's most partisan voters hold the most voting power

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Mid-decade redistricting efforts initiated by President Trump have reduced competitive congressional seats, making primary elections decisive for over 90% of races. This has led to a lack of accountability in Congress, with only 5% of Americans deciding who controls the House.

30 Years of Decompilation and the Unsolved Structuring Problem: Part 1 (2024)

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The author discusses the history of binary decompilation research, starting with Dr. Cristina Cifuentes' 1994 dissertation on reverse compilation techniques.

Read Locks Are Not Your Friends

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Read locks are not always beneficial due to atomic contention and cache-line ping-pong, which can be slower than write locks in some cases. Profile your code and consider sharding or using a Mutex for extremely fast operations or small reads to optimize throughput.

Hacking Tauri for Designer

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Tauri uses Webview, but some features like invoke and event subscriptions break outside the managed webview. A custom relay was built to enable these features, allowing for a more approachable development process.

Show HN: Modern Reimplementation of the Speck Molecule Renderer

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This project is a modernized reimplementation of the original Speck molecule renderer created by Rye Terrell. Runs the app in the development mode. Open http://127.0.0.1:5173/ to view it in the browser.

Sewage Spill in the Potomac River

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A sewer line in Montgomery County, Maryland, collapsed on January 19, causing a massive wastewater spill into the Potomac River. DC Water is handling repairs, and a recreational advisory remains in place for Virginia residents until sustainable repairs are completed.

Quasi-Zenith Satellite System

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The Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) is a Japanese regional navigation satellite system developed to enhance GPS in Asia-Oceania, with a focus on Japan. It provides highly precise and stable positioning services, compatible with GPS.

Running RISC-V in a VM to test my snaps

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The user set up a QEMU VM on their ThinkPad to test a snap on riscv64 architecture, which worked slowly but effectively. Due to the lack of RVA23-compliant RISC-V boards, the user recommends using QEMU for now to test snaps on riscv64.

Unicode's confusables.txt and NFKC normalization disagree on 31 characters

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To prevent homoglyph attacks, use confusables.txt to detect visually similar characters, but note that NFKC normalization can make some confusable entries unreachable. A filtered confusable map, excluding characters that NFKC handles, can be generated automatically using a script to keep the map clean and ensure correct visual detection results.

Symplex, an open-source protocol semantic negotiation between distributed agents

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Agent Semantic Protocol enables AI agents to communicate by meaning through semantic intent vectors. It's a lightweight extension of MCP for agentic AI meshes, allowing agents to negotiate and collaborate without pre-registered APIs.

New York Just Killed Its Robotaxi Plan. The Real Problem Isn't the Technology

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New York Governor Kathy Hochul withdrew a proposal to allow commercial robotaxi services due to lack of legislative support. A data platform called PhyWare is being developed to provide verifiable records of autonomous systems' operations, addressing the trust deficit in their safety.

The AI apocalypse for enshitification has started

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