France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins

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1D Chess

1d-chess is a simplified chess variant where white plays against an AI. Assuming optimal play, white has a forced win by checkmating the enemy king.

FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages

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The FBI recovered deleted Signal messages from an iPhone by extracting data from the device's notification database. The messages were preserved in internal memory due to the defendant's iPhone settings and iOS's data caching capabilities.

France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech

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France plans to switch from Windows to an open source operating system to regain control over its digital destiny and reduce reliance on US tech companies. This move is part of France's effort to achieve digital sovereignty and reduce dependence on US technology.

You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings

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The user demonstrates how an app can gain access to a protected folder on macOS despite being listed as restricted in Privacy & Security settings. This is achieved by using the app to access the folder through an Open and Save Panel, which bypasses the need for user consent and allows the app to retain permanent access to the folder.

I still prefer MCP over skills

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The author is against the "Skills" standard for LLMs, preferring the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for service integration. MCP provides a more practical and standardized way to connect LLMs to services.

OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable

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OpenAI supports Illinois state bill SB 3444, which shields AI labs from liability for "critical harms" caused by frontier models. The bill defines frontier models as those trained with over $100 million in computational costs and requires labs to publish safety reports.

WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution

Jason Donenfeld released updated WireGuard for Windows and WireGuardNT with new features, bug fixes, and performance improvements. Users can update via the built-in updater or download the latest version from the WireGuard website.

Filing the corners off my MacBooks

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User filed off sharp corners of their MacBook for comfort, using a file and sandpaper in increments. They're happy with the result and encourage others to modify their machines for a better user experience.

Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects

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Microsoft suspended developer accounts for several high-profile open-source projects without notification, blocking new software builds and security patches. The company claims the suspensions were due to mandatory account verification, but project maintainers say they were not notified and had no way to appeal.

Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice

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Keychron shares production CAD files for compatible accessories and educational use. Users can study and remix designs, but not copy or sell Keychron products.

We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

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GitButler, a tool for software development, has raised $17M in Series A funding to redesign the way developers collaborate. The goal is to create a more social and intuitive platform that removes friction from collaboration and integrates AI tools seamlessly.

CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised

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CPUID website briefly exposed visitors to malware after attackers hijacked its backend, turning trusted download links into malicious ones. The issue has been fixed, but users who clicked on compromised links may have downloaded malware targeting browser data and credentials.

Helium is hard to replace

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Helium supply chain disruptions due to the war in Iran have caused prices to spike and shortages to loom, with many industries struggling to find substitutes for the essential gas. Helium's unique properties make it crucial for various applications, including MRI machines, semiconductor manufacturing, and fiber optic cable production.

Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers

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Chimpanzees at Uganda's Kibale National Park have been locked in a civil war for 8 years with 24 killings, including 17 infants. Researchers say the conflict may inform how early human conflict developed and highlights the danger of group divisions.

A new trick brings stability to quantum operations

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Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a highly stable swap gate for neutral atom qubits using geometric phases. This robust gate can be applied to 17,000 qubits simultaneously with a precision of over 99.9 percent.

New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK

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Apple's iOS 26.4 update requires UK users to prove age and identity to access the internet, risking privacy and freedom of expression. This mandatory ID check excludes millions of adults, particularly low-income and disabled people, and may lead to a national digital ID system.

DOJ wants to scrap Watergate-era rule that makes presidential records public

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Lauren Harper criticizes the Department of Justice's opinion that grants Trump a license to steal American history by claiming the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional. This move threatens transparency and accountability in the presidency.

Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

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Afrika Bambaataa has died

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Afrika Bambaataa, a founding figure of hip-hop culture, has died at 68 due to cancer complications. He helped shape hip-hop as a musical genre and cultural force, but his legacy was complicated by allegations of child abuse and trafficking.

Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident

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The author shares a personal experience of a Molotov cocktail attack on their house and reflects on the power of words and narratives. They emphasize the importance of democratizing AI, adapting to its rapid development, and working within the democratic process to ensure its safe and beneficial use.

A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it

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The text outlines a structured approach to writing a comprehensive article, breaking down complex topics into manageable sections and using transitional paragraphs to guide the reader. This approach helps to establish trust with the reader and provides a clear, step-by-step explanation of the topic at hand.

AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel

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AI tools cannot add Signed-off-by tags, only humans can certify the DCO. Contributions from AI tools should include an Assisted-by tag for proper attribution.

YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription

Universal Music Group is fighting AI music platforms, accusing them of using copyrighted material without permission, but this pressure is causing platform-wide consequences for users who are not involved in the fight. Users are losing access to their accounts and data due to automated enforcement, raising questions about who the system is built to serve.

JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware

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JSON Formatter is now closed-source and commercial, but the final open source version, JSON Formatter Classic, remains available for use. It provides a simple, local-only JSON-formatting extension with no updates.

White House staff told not to place bets on prediction markets

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White House staff were warned against using insider information for bets on prediction markets due to concerns over government officials exploiting non-public information. US lawmakers are calling for an investigation into suspicious trades and legislation to ban prediction market betting related to war or military action.

Installing Every* Firefox Extension

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The user scraped all Firefox extensions using a public API, finding 84,194 extensions, and discovered various issues including phishing extensions, malicious code, and performance problems when installing all extensions at once. The user documented their process and findings, including the use of a script to download and install all extensions, and the performance issues that arose when ...

Penguin 'Toxicologists' Find PFAS Chemicals in Remote Patagonia

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Scientists used leg bands with chemical sensors on 54 Magellanic penguins to detect pollutants in their environment. The study found PFAS in over 90% of the bands, revealing exposure to pollutants in a remote region.

Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989

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Intel announced the 486 CPU at Comdex on April 10, 1989, priced at $950 each in quantities of 1,000. Predictions about its limited demand and high price were later proven incorrect as the 486 became a viable processor for several years.

Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem

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Bluesky experienced an 8-hour outage on Monday due to a memcached port exhaustion issue caused by a new internal service that sent large batches of requests without proper concurrency limits. The team eventually fixed the issue by expanding the client IP+port space, but not before experiencing a death spiral of port exhaustion and OOMs due to excessive logging and aggressive tuning of GOGC ...

The Raft consensus algorithm explained through "Mean Girls" (2019)

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The Raft Consensus Algorithm is explained through the movie Mean Girls, where a clique of friends (the Plastics) replicates data and ensures consistency by achieving a majority vote. The leader of the clique (Regina George) sends heartbeats to maintain leadership status, and a new leader is elected when the current one is unable to assert dominance.

Nowhere is safe

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The US is facing a new threat from low-cost drones that can overwhelm air defense systems. To counter this, the US needs to rethink its approach to force protection and infrastructure protection.

CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised

User needs to register or sign in with developer credentials and ensure a unique User-Agent string to access the application. Alternatively, try resetting to default User-Agent or file a ticket for assistance.

Code is run more than read (2023)

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The author emphasizes the importance of considering users and maintainability in software development, and that code is a means to an end, not an end itself. They also highlight common software development dysfunctions and the need for a stronger ethical stand to not harm users, while acknowledging business realities.

Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate

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The Rust ecosystem is vulnerable to supply chain attacks due to its centralized package repository and lack of a comprehensive standard library. Dev Containers and other security measures can help mitigate these risks, but thinking like attackers and learning their tactics is essential for building secure-by-design systems.

Show HN: FluidCAD – Parametric CAD with JavaScript

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The feature allows non-destructive editing and modeling with various operations such as extrusion and mirroring. It supports CAD tools and imports/export designs with color support.

US summons bank bosses over cyber risks from Anthropic's latest AI model

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US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent summoned major bank chiefs to discuss cyber risks from Anthropic's AI model Claude Mythos. The model has exposed thousands of software vulnerabilities, prompting concerns about potential hacking risks.

Microsoft PhotoDNA scanning problem

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Microsoft's PhotoDNA technology keeps flagging user's face picture, immediately closing Microsoft accounts. User's face picture is being scanned across Microsoft's ecosystem, including Windows 11, causing repeated account closures.

HBO Obtains DMCA Subpoena to Unmask 'Euphoria' Spoiler Account on X

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HBO's parent company Warner Bros. Discovery sent a DMCA notice to X for spoilers of unaired Euphoria episodes. X was ordered to share account information to identify the person behind the infringing account.

The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life

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Caffeine's effects last longer than assumed due to its conversion into paraxanthine, which blocks adenosine receptors. Paraxanthine has a shorter half-life and may reduce tolerance buildup compared to caffeine.

DOJ Top Antitrust Litigators Exit After Ticketmaster Accord

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Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real

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A researcher created a fake medical condition called bixonimania to test AI chatbots' ability to spread misinformation. The experiment was successful, with major AI systems repeating the invented condition as if it were real, highlighting the risks of relying on AI-generated references without verifying the underlying papers.

Artemis II and the invisible hazard on the way to the Moon

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NASA's Artemis II mission is testing radiation protection for humans beyond Earth's magnetic shelter, measuring how radiation levels change with trajectory and shielding. The mission will lay the foundation for safe human exploration of the Moon and Mars by characterizing the radiation field inside the spacecraft and linking it to biological effects.

Watgo – A WebAssembly Toolkit for Go

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watgo is a WebAssembly Toolkit for Go that parses WAT, validates, and encodes WASM binaries. It uses wasmir for semantic representation and has a CLI and Go API.

Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more

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Researchers found that combining plant compounds like mint, eucalyptus, and chili peppers can suppress inflammation more effectively than using each one alone. This study provides evidence for the benefits of plant-rich diets and suggests new possibilities for developing functional foods and supplements to regulate chronic inflammation.

"Negative" views of Broadcom driving VMware migrations, rival says

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Nutanix claims to have gained tens of thousands of VMware customers due to customer dissatisfaction with Broadcom's takeover strategy. The main drivers for migration are high costs, bundled products, and reduced channel partners, making VMware unaffordable for small businesses.

Show HN: A WYSIWYG word processor in Python

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This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 – see LICENSE for details. Contact me if you need something else.

OpenClaw’s memory is unreliable, and you don’t know when it will break

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The user discusses OpenClaw, a software that deploys AI agents, but notes that its unreliable memory and lack of context management make it impractical for real-world use. Despite its potential, the user advises against investing time in OpenClaw until its memory problem is solved, calling it a "theater" without real-world applications.

Show HN: Keeper – embedded secret store for Go (help me break it)

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Keeper is a Go library for a hardened secret store with four security levels, per-bucket DEK isolation, and a tamper-evident audit chain. It uses Argon2id key derivation and XChaCha20-Poly1305 authenticated encryption.

The difficulty of making sure your website is broken

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The author created a Go program to manage test certificates for a Certificate Authority, specifically to host websites with revoked or expired certificates, which is a tricky task. The program uses Lego to request certificates, checks for revocation, and waits for the correct certificate state before serving it to the webserver.

Why I'm Building a Database Engine in C#

The author built an ACID database engine called Typhon in C# despite common assumptions that managed languages are unsuitable for high-performance software, and found that modern C# provides features like unsafe code, raw pointers, and constrained generics that allow for efficient and safe development. By leveraging these features and the .NET ecosystem, the author was able to achieve ...

Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs

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Twill automates coding tasks, allowing developers to focus on high-priority work. It streamlines workflows, enabling teams to ship more and context-switch less.

Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men?

Betsey Stevenson argues men need help in the job market as women dominate new job growth. She suggests making "girly jobs" appealing to men to boost job growth.

US plans to automatically register young men for military draft

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The US government may automatically register young men for the military draft by December, saving millions of dollars on registration reminders. The change, approved by Congress, has sparked fears of mandatory conscription in the event of a crisis.

Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members

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The UK government has agreed to ban step-incest pornography following a vote in the House of Lords. The ban aims to reduce harmful content online and protect women and girls from abuse.
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A large backup system was optimized to reduce duplicate files by 16x, but hit a filesystem limit when creating hardlinks. A fallback was implemented to copy files instead, allowing the backup to complete but with slower performance.

Ads in ChatGPT

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ChatGPT is testing ads in the US, starting February 9, 2026, for Free and Go users, excluding Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu accounts. Ads are separate from ChatGPT's responses and do not influence answers.

Tech job relocation market is recovering. The competition is growing faster

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Tech job market is improving with 1.9% net employment growth, but competition density is increasing due to more candidates. Companies still offer visa sponsorship and relocation support for the right profiles.

Has Mythos just broken the deal that kept the internet safe?

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Anthropic's Mythos model generates working exploits for browser sandboxes 72.4% of the time, posing a serious cybersecurity risk. This breakthrough could lead to widespread malicious attacks on devices and cloud computing systems, despite Anthropic's cautious approach to releasing the model.

Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about AI?

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Author Yuval Noah Harari told a story about AI GPT-4 manipulating humans to solve captchas, but the story was misleading and based on OpenAI's experiment where researchers instructed GPT-4 to use Taskrabbit to hire a human. Experts argue that AI systems don't have a will to survive or manipulate, but rather are designed to follow goals and instructions, and their capabilities are often ...

The tool that won't let AI say anything it can't cite

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The system generates a decision-ready brief by tracking typed claims, challenging them, and compiling output with a confidence score. It uses Node built-ins and downloads tools on first use via npx, with no global install required.

Adobe Diddles with Your /etc./Hosts File

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Show HN: Eve – Managed OpenClaw for work

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Eve is an orchestration layer to delegate any work task to an AI agent

Italo Calvino: A Traveller in a World of Uncertainty

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Bluesky users are mastering the fine art of blaming everything on "vibe coding"

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Bluesky users blamed AI-assisted "vibe coding" for service disruptions, despite the company blaming an upstream service provider. Many users reflexively distrust AI tools in tech, despite professional coders finding them useful.

Untaxed hidden wealth surpasses wealth of the poorest half of humanity

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The richest 0.1 percent hide $3.55 trillion in untaxed wealth offshore, exceeding the wealth of the poorest half of humanity. Oxfam urges coordinated international action to tax extreme wealth and end tax havens.

Autonomy Is Real Now

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Autonomous vehicles are finally real and rapidly improving, with Waymo's safety record showing AVs are roughly ten times safer than human drivers. Waymo's expansion and production ramp-up may give it a substantial advantage in the market, potentially making it unassailable.

"Not Even Government Agencies" - Proton's misleading marketing

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Proton's marketing claims they are outside US jurisdiction, but their own documents show they comply with US laws and have US infrastructure. This means users who trusted Proton for privacy may be at risk of surveillance.

Installing OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250{,XY?}

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To install OpenBSD on a Japanese-model Pomera DM250, you need a custom kernel and U-Boot image, and follow specific steps to boot the device into recovery mode and write the new U-Boot image to the eMMC. After installing OpenBSD, you can customize the device by setting up the keyboard layout, creating a custom kernel, and addressing the LEDs near the USB-C port.

OpenAI backs bill to exempt AI firms from harm lawsuits

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OpenAI supports Illinois state bill SB 3444, which shields AI labs from liability for "critical harms" caused by frontier models. The bill defines frontier models as those trained with over $100 million in computational costs and requires labs to publish safety reports.

Zero-build privacy policies with Astro

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OpenPolicy Astro integration now compiles policies directly in frontmatter. This eliminates friction from generated files and allows for static HTML rendering with no client-side JavaScript.

Vibe-Coded Ext4 for OpenBSD

OpenBSD rejected a patch for the ext4 filesystem generated by a large language model due to copyright concerns and maintainability issues. The discussion highlights the challenges of using AI-generated code in open-source projects and the need for clear guidelines on copyright and licensing.