Flock cameras gifted by Horowitz Foundation, avoiding public oversight

101 rurp 2026-02-23 21:16:07 UTC thenevadaindependent.com Llama Share 26

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department quietly implemented a surveillance network using Flock Security's automated license plate readers, funded by a private foundation, avoiding public comment. Critics worry the technology could be misused to track undocumented immigrants, dissidents, and others, despite Metro's policy against such use.

UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A

95 marcodiego 2026-02-23 21:01:07 UTC forums.atariage.com Full Share 27

The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection

1019 oldnetguy 2026-02-23 15:01:07 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 806

Regulators are pushing social media platforms to verify users' ages, but this creates a technical problem: collecting personal data to prove age. Platforms are using intrusive verification systems that often conflict with data-privacy laws.

Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras

343 mikece 2026-02-23 20:01:07 UTC techcrunch.com Llama Share 217

Flock, a $7.5 billion surveillance startup, allows authorities to track people through its nationwide license plate readers. Communities are pushing back against Flock cameras, with vandalism reported in several states and cities rejecting its use.

Ladybird adopts Rust

952 adius 2026-02-23 12:01:07 UTC ladybird.org Llama Share 519

Ladybird is rewriting parts in Rust for better safety guarantees and ecosystem support. The first target was LibJS, Ladybird's JavaScript engine, which was translated from C++ in two weeks with zero regressions.

Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app

133 levkk 2026-02-23 17:01:07 UTC github.com/pgdogdev Llama Share 33

PgDog is a PostgreSQL proxy that supports connection pooling, load balancing, and sharding, written in Rust for high performance and security. It can manage thousands of connections on commodity hardware and supports various deployment methods, including AWS RDS.

The challenges of porting Shufflepuck Cafe to the 8 bits Apple II

7 homarp 2026-02-23 21:01:07 UTC colino.net Prefix Share 1

This post originally appeared in the June 2025 issue of Juiced.GS, and has been expanded with more details. I am very proud to have succeeded in porting Shufflepuck Cafe to the 8 bits Apple II, bringing a very dynamic 1989 game to an 1979 platform without losing in playability or details. In this article, I will share the challenges that made me pause, and how I solved them. If you are ...

SIM (YC X25) Is Hiring the Best Engineers in San Francisco

0 2026-02-23 21:01:07 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Sim Sim is an open-source platform for building AI agents, used by 70,000 developers. The company is seeking a full-stack engineer to lead the Sim platform's visual, end-to-end agent builder.

AI-powered reverse-engineering of Rosetta 2 for Linux

4 inoki 2026-02-23 21:48:07 UTC github.com/inokinoki Full Share 0

This repository contains a collection of functions that have been reverse-engineered from the Rosetta 2 binary, which is Apple's dynamic binary translator for running x86_64 applications on ARM-based Apple Silicon Macs. The functions are categorized into two main groups: GF(2^8) multiplication functions and AES cryptographic extensions.

Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel

481 qsi 2026-02-23 09:01:07 UTC chrisbrunet.com Llama Share 90

Brian Lucey, a professor at Trinity College Dublin, was removed as editor from 5 journals after 12 papers he co-authored were retracted due to a conflict of interest. Lucey was accused of running a citation cartel and selling papers through his consultancies, which may have been used to circulate ecosystem funds or consultancy payouts.

'Viking' was a job description, not a matter of heredity: Ancient DNA study

118 bookofjoe 2026-02-23 16:01:07 UTC science.org Full Share 92

A simple web we own

145 speckx 2026-02-23 17:01:07 UTC rsdoiel.github.io Llama Share 93

The user argues that the Web and Internet can be decentralized and controlled by individuals and cooperatives, rather than large corporations, by using simpler software and technologies like Markdown and static website generators. By leveraging the abundance of computers and resources, individuals can create their own private networks and connect to the public Internet, mirroring the concept ...

Show HN: Babyshark – Wireshark made easy (terminal UI for PCAPs)

6 eigen-vector 2026-02-23 21:01:07 UTC github.com/vignesh07 Full Share 2

Permissions note: live capture may require elevated permissions (sudo, dumpcap caps, or being in the wireshark group). If babyshark prints a permission error, follow the guidance it outputs. These are text-only examples of what you’ll see in the TUI. IPs/domains are anonymized.

Show HN: Sowbot – open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS)

83 Sabrees 2026-02-23 16:01:07 UTC sowbot.co.uk Llama Share 33

The Sowbot Open AgBot ecosystem provides a reproducible, lightweight robotics platform for researchers and farmers to reduce labour and environmental impact. It offers a modular, open-hardware agricultural robot with a stable, repeatable environment for experiments and field-ready system.

Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer

317 microflash 2026-02-23 08:01:07 UTC magicalmushroom.com Llama Share 106

Companies are still using outdated 1950s plastics like EPS, causing environmental harm and commercial burdens. Mushroom Packaging, made from natural mycelium, offers a sustainable alternative that matches EPS's protective qualities and cost.

Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran

241 boplicity 2026-02-23 20:01:07 UTC nytimes.com Full Share 108

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Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics

364 mhb 2026-02-23 07:01:07 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 493

MicroVision aims to produce a solid-state lidar sensor for under $200, a price drop that could make lidar affordable for advanced driver-assistance systems. This move could alter the calculus of autonomous-car design by lowering the cost of precise three-dimensional sensing.

IBM Plunges After Anthropic's Latest Update Takes on COBOL

32 gradus_ad 2026-02-23 21:12:07 UTC zerohedge.com Llama Share 22

Anthropic's AI Claude found COBOL skills, alarming IBM stock. Claude's disruption updates may be Anthropic's self-funding strategy, causing market cap damage.

Scent, in Silico

5 surprisetalk 2026-02-23 21:01:07 UTC asimov.press Prefix Share 0

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Smell is our most primal and, arguably, most emotionally potent sense. It summons memories, shapes taste, and influences behavior: the aroma of coffee is capable of enhancing alertness well before caffeine ever reaches the bloodstream. A hint of sunscreen collapses decades, taking us back to youth; but, pinch the nose, and ...

Stop Killing Games update says EU petition advances

19 LorenDB 2026-02-23 21:05:07 UTC videocardz.com Llama Share 2

The EU's "Stop Destroying Videogames" initiative moves to the Commission stage, shifting focus from signature collection to policy work and regulator engagement. A Commission reply is due by July 27, 2026, with potential fallbacks including existing EU consumer law enforcement.

ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030

167 pieterr 2026-02-23 18:01:07 UTC reuters.com Full Share 43

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0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix

322 jonbaer 2026-02-23 05:01:07 UTC play0ad.com Llama Share 113

Wildfire Games releases 0 A.D. version 28, "Boiorix", a free open-source real-time strategy game of ancient warfare. The game features a new Germanic faction, improved text rendering, and various bug fixes.

Benchmarks for concurrent hash map implementations in Go

66 platzhirsch 2026-02-23 15:01:07 UTC github.com/puzpuzpuz Llama Share 4

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 Lighthouse: How extreme isolation transforms the body and mind

49 nixass 2026-02-23 17:01:07 UTC newscientist.com Llama Share 12

The Lighthouse film explores the effects of isolation on the mind, with characters experiencing hallucinations and losing grip on reality. Social isolation can be damaging to mental and physical health, leading to hallucinations and erratic behavior.

Generalized Sequential Probability Ratio Test for Families of Hypotheses [pdf]

15 luu 2026-02-23 18:01:07 UTC sites.stat.columbia.edu Llama Share 4

The generalized sequential probability ratio test is a natural extension of the sequential probability ratio test for testing two separate families of composite hypotheses. The test is based on the generalized likelihood ratio statistic and stops when the statistic crosses either of the two boundaries Ln > eA or Ln < e−B.

Emulating Goto in Scheme with Continuations

38 usually 2026-02-23 15:01:07 UTC terezi.pyrope.net Llama Share 13

Dijkstra criticized the GO TO statement for inviting program messes, but Scheme programmers can emulate its style using the call/cc procedure. A Scheme macro, goto, can be implemented using call/cc to provide a limited context for jumping around in a program.

The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022)

198 montenegrohugo 2026-02-23 15:01:07 UTC sabrinas.space Llama Share 89

The user analyzed 2,671 images of popular websites worldwide using AI to identify web design patterns and found that Japan's web design is relatively unique in its concentration of lighter-colored and denser design. The user explored possible causes including writing systems, cultural differences, and technology, concluding that Japan's web design trajectory has been influenced by its unique ...

femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation

100 tosh 2026-02-23 13:01:07 UTC github.com/jeffbezanson Llama Share 14

Femtolisp is a fast, self-contained Scheme dialect with a bytecode compiler and VM, written in the language itself. It prioritizes elegance, simplicity, and reliability with a small core of features and proper tail recursion.

A lithium-ion breakthrough that could boost range and lower costs

34 thelastgallon 2026-02-23 20:01:07 UTC techradar.com Llama Share 9

Researchers at Columbia University developed a gel electrolyte to improve anode-free lithium-ion battery safety and longevity. The gel electrolyte prevents dendrite formation, allowing for greater energy density, longer lifetimes, and safer operation in EVs.

Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026)

113 ai_bot 2026-02-23 10:01:07 UTC llm-timeline.com Full Share 46

Interactive AI timeline tracking 194+ Large Language Models from 2017 to 2026. Explore the history of ChatGPT, GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, LLaMA, Mistral, DeepSeek and every major LLM ever released.