LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer

LinkedIn scans users' computers for installed software without consent, collecting data on job search activity, religious beliefs, and competitor products. BrowserGate is a campaign to expose this corporate espionage and data breach scandal, seeking funds and public support to hold LinkedIn accountable.

Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU

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Using --no-mmap and increasing context size can speed up load times. Lemonade offers a unified API with various features like chat and image gen.

Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket

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Nepal's fake rescue scam involves staging medical emergencies to claim insurance, with guides and hospitals involved in the scheme. The scam has been ongoing since 2018, with investigators finding 171 confirmed fake rescues between 2022 and 2025, resulting in millions of dollars in insurance claims.

IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm

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IBM and Arm collaborate to develop dual-architecture hardware for AI and data-intensive workloads. The collaboration aims to create flexible and scalable computing platforms for the future with greater reliability, security, and scalability.

Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom

The Swedish government is reintroducing physical textbooks and reducing digital devices in schools to improve reading and writing skills. They aim for every student to have a physical textbook for each subject, citing concerns about screen time and distraction.

Significant Raise of Reports

The kernel security list has seen a huge increase in bug reports, from 2-3 per week to 5-10 per day, with most being correct and leading to faster bug fixes. This shift is expected to change the approach to security fixes, making embargoes obsolete and encouraging periodic updates.

Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021)

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The user designed a reference data system for manufacturing using Clojure, a dynamic functional programming language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine, due to its benefits in data manipulation and prototyping. The user found Clojure's REPL environment, code-as-data semantic, and macro system particularly useful for rapid development and prototyping, and recommends considering it for ...

Gone (Almost) Phishin'

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A scammer targeted the user's Apple account by sending fake password reset prompts and contacting Apple Support, pretending to be the user. The scammer's convincing tactics included a fake Apple Support call and a pixel-perfect replica website to steal the user's password.

Enabling Codex to Analyze Two Decades of Hacker News Data

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User analyzed 10GB Hacker News dataset with Codex and Modolap to compare Rust and Go mentions and MySQL vs Postgres. Initial findings suggest a gradual decline in comment length over time.

Email obfuscation: What works in 2026?

Techniques to protect email addresses from spammers include HTML entities, CSS, JavaScript, and encryption, with varying levels of effectiveness. Most harvesters are unsophisticated, making even simple techniques effective, but no method is foolproof.

Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise LiteLLM

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Mercor AI startup was affected by a cyberattack linked to TeamPCP and Lapsus$ hacking groups. Mercor is investigating the incident with third-party experts and communicating with customers and contractors.

Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools

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Caltech and Google announced quantum computing breakthroughs, lowering overhead for fault-tolerance and Shor's algorithm. This may make Bitcoin signatures vulnerable to quantum attack sooner than expected.

Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March

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Steam on Linux reached an all-time high of 5.33% market share in March 2026, a 3.1% increase from February. Windows lost 4.28% to 92.33% while macOS gained 1.19% to 2.35%.

Reinventing the Pull Request

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The author of Lubeno improved code review to help teams reduce comprehension debt by breaking down pull requests into smaller, digestible bits and allowing reviewers to focus on important changes. Lubeno's features, such as prioritizing diffs and overlaying interdiffs, aim to make code review more efficient and effective in the face of growing codebases and AI agents.

EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security

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Cloudflare's EmDash is a new, open-source CMS built on Astro, aiming to replace WordPress with a more secure, serverless, and AI-friendly platform. EmDash offers improved security, scalability, and ease of use, with features like plugin sandboxing, dynamic workers, and AI-driven content management.

Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it

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A subscription bombing attack targeted Suga's sign-up form, using bots to create fake accounts with real email addresses and then requesting password resets to flood victims' inboxes with unwanted emails. The attack was mitigated by implementing Cloudflare Turnstile CAPTCHA and limiting email sends until user verification, preventing further damage to victims.

Artemis II Launch Day Updates

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The Artemis II mission has successfully deployed the Orion spacecraft's solar array wings, completing a key configuration step for the mission. The spacecraft is now preparing for the perigee raise maneuver and apogee raise burn to increase its orbit and prepare for deep-space operations.

Order and Tension

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The user warped 180 threads in two halves, creating a continuous thread with a 'cross' at one end, and then threaded them onto an eight-shaft loom using a binary grid pattern. They successfully completed the threading, but made a small mistake that was later corrected.

Telli (YC F24) is hiring engineers, designers, and more (on-site, Berlin)

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Businesses will increasingly use AI voice agents to interact with customers, improving the experience. AI advancements will make voice agents a no-brainer for B2C companies in the coming years.

Emacs-libgterm: Terminal emulator for Emacs using libghostty-vt

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A terminal emulator for Emacs built on libghostty-vt offers ANSI colors, full key handling, and scrollback, but has character width mismatches and no mouse support. It requires Zig and Git installed, and can be customized with settings like shell and TERM variable.

New laws to make it easier to cancel subscriptions and get refunds

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New laws will make it easier to cancel subscriptions and get refunds for unwanted auto-renewals, saving the average person nearly £170 a year. The laws will give consumers a 14-day cooling off period and force companies to provide clear information upfront.

A new C++ back end for ocamlc

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The suggestion cannot be applied due to various reasons including no code changes, viewing a subset of changes, and pull request status. It cannot be added to a batch for a single commit.

DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market

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Raspberry Pi increased prices for LPDDR4 RAM Pis, making high-end SBCs unaffordable for hobbyists. The hobbyist SBC market is dying due to high DRAM prices, with vendors like Radxa being the only exception.

ReactOS Shows Improved Stability and 64-Bit Support at Chemnitz Linux Days 2026

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Show HN: I built a DNS resolver from scratch in Rust – no DNS libraries

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numa is a portable DNS resolver built in Rust that blocks ads, resolves local services, and caches DNS queries. It runs as a system service on macOS and Linux, and auto-starts on Windows, providing a secure and private DNS experience.

Built a cheap DIY fan controller because my motherboard never had working PWM

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The user built a retro computer with a socket 754 motherboard and a GTX 960 GPU, but encountered issues with the MSI 970 Gaming motherboard's fan control, which was not connected to the Super IO chip. The user created an Arduino script and a C++ application, DummyFanX, to control fans and read CPU temperatures, making it available for Windows XP to Windows 11.

Fast and Gorgeous Erosion Filter

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The user explains an erosion technique for generating virtual landscapes, which involves using a special kind of noise to produce branching gullies and ridges while allowing fast and GPU-friendly evaluation. The technique has been developed and refined over time, with various approaches and tweaks to address issues such as chaotic distortions, inconsistent gully magnitudes, and non-straight gullies.

Show HN: Git bayesect – Bayesian Git bisection for non-deterministic bugs

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git_bayesect uses Bayesian inference to identify commits introducing changes, with greedy minimisation of expected entropy and Beta-Bernoulli conjugacy. It sets priors based on commit messages and diffs to handle unknown failure rates.

Reverse Engineering Crazy Taxi, Part 2

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The user is reverse engineering the .shp file format used in Crazy Taxi, a 3D game, and has discovered that the file contains vertex data, color data, and texture coordinates, which are stored in fixed-point format. The user has used a combination of analysis and experimentation to determine the format of the data, including using a hex editor to play with column widths and noticing patterns ...

AI for American-produced cement and concrete

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Meta is releasing an AI model for designing concrete mixes, Bayesian Optimization for Concrete (BOxCrete), to help US producers use domestic materials. The model improves mix design speed and sustainability, reducing US reliance on imported cement.