From apnews.com
Hegseth had an unsecured internet line set up in his office to connect to Signal, AP sources say
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had an internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon’s security protocols set up in his office to use the Signal messaging app on a personal computer.
#dod #inc #coup #doge #eeuu #elon #musk #opsec #ngated #reddit
1h ago
From eurogamer.net
Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov dies aged just 52
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Half-Life 2 art director and Dishonored designer Viktor Antonov has died aged just 52.
#hackernews #ycombinator #viktorantonov #bethesdasoftworks
on Feb 16
From theverge.com
Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen
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Would you buy a truck this bare-bones?
#ev #tech #ngated #theverge #automotive #innovation #minimalism #ycombinator #electrictruck #transportation
14h ago
From theregister.com
Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks
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: Cursor, Codium makers lose access as add-on goes exclusive
#c #cpp #coding #ngated #technews #vscodium #extensions #theregister #ycombinator #devstruggles
18h ago
From bigthink.com
Why 21 cm is our Universe's "magic length"
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Photons come in every wavelength you can imagine. But one particular quantum transition makes light at precisely 21 cm, and it's magical.
#bot #news #ngated #bigthink #universe #hackernewsbot #cosmicobsession #celebrityscientists #intellectualtrophies #ycombinator
16h ago
From rook2root.co
Manufactured consensus on x.com
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How algorithm-driven influence quietly replaces genuine discourse with engineered popularity—no fake users, no overt propaganda.
#ngated #mutebutton #techethics #ycombinator #breakingnews #manufacturedconsensus #socialmediaalgorithms #hackernews
21h ago
From deepmind.google
Music AI Sandbox, now with new features and broader access
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Google has long collaborated with musicians, producers, and artists in the research and development of music AI tools. Ever since launching the Magenta project, in 2016, we’ve been exploring how...
#bot #news #music #google #lyria2 #ngated #safety #deepmind #ycombinator #elevatormusic
12h ago
From substack.com
Avoiding Skill Atrophy in the Age of AI
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How to use AI coding assistants without letting your hard-earned engineering skills wither away.
#bot #tech #coding #impact #ngated #skills #webdev #solutions #programming #ycombinator
6h ago
From wordpress.com
Google Maps Doesn’t Know How Street Addresses Work
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I was driving around Vernon, BC a few weeks ago and I asked Google Maps for directions to 3207 30th Ave. It confidently told me where to go but luckily my passenger noticed that it was actually dir…
#bot #news #fails #ngated #vernonbc #techhumor #googlemaps #hackernewsbot #streetaddresses #algorithmadventures
15h ago
From lbl.gov
Scientists Develop Artificial Leaf That Uses Sunlight to Produce Valuable Chemicals
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Researchers built a device made of perovskite and copper that mimics a green leaf.
#gov #ngated #secrets #chemistry #leafmagic #innovation #ycombinator #photosynthesis #materialsscience #alternativeenergy
18h ago
From hiddenlayer.com
Novel Universal Bypass for All Major LLMs
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HiddenLayer’s latest research uncovers a universal prompt injection bypass impacting GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, and more, exposing major LLM security gaps.
#ml #qwen #llama #bypass #claude #gemini #ngated #chatgpt #copilot #infosec
22h ago
From cnn.com
California overtakes Japan to become the world’s fourth-largest economy | CNN Business
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California has surpassed Japan to become the world’s fourth-largest economy, Gov. Gavin Newsom said, as he warned of the threat posed by President Donald Trump’s tariffs to the tech powerhouse’s fast-growing wealth.
#cnn #humor #global #growth #ngated #economy #victory #downfall #economic #ycombinator
10h ago
From afina.com
Everyone Says They’ll Pay More for “Made in the USA.” So We Ran an A/B
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When we priced a U.S.-made version of our flagship product 85% higher than our Chinese-made one, 25,650 customers had the chance to vote with their wallets. Here’s what happened. As small business owners, we’ve heard it a thousand times: “I’d gladly pay more to support American-made.” We wanted...
#a #ngated #madeinusa #virtuesignaling #consumerbehavior #patrioticshopping #hackernews #ycombinator
17h ago
From open-vsx.org
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Welcome to Eclipse Foundation status page for real-time and historical data on system performance.
#ngated #vscode #openvsx #innovation #ycombinator #suspensenovel #eclipsefoundation #hackernews
22h ago
From chrbutler.com
You Can Be a Great Designer and Be Completely Unknown - Christopher Butler
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I often find myself contemplating the greatest creators in history — those rare artists, designers, and thinkers whose work transformed how we see
#ngated #newfame #artworld #obscurity #creativity #ycombinator #unknowndesigner #misunderstoodgenius #hackernews
18h ago
From morling.dev
What If We Could Rebuild Kafka From Scratch?
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The last few days I spent some time digging into the recently announced KIP-1150 ("Diskless Kafka"), as well AutoMQ’s Kafka fork, tightly integrating Apache Kafka and object storage, such as S3. Following the example set by WarpStream, these projects aim to substantially improve the experience...
#kafka #ngated #rebuild #innovation #commonsense #distributed #ycombinator #softwareengineering #hackernews
on Thu, 4PM
From macrumors.com
Apple Maps Might Start Showing Ads
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Apple is "exploring" the idea of showing search ads in the Apple Maps app, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Back in 2022, Gurman...
#mac #foss #tech #android #windows #apple_maps #hackernews #mark_gurman #ycombinator #Apple
on Feb 16
From sfstandard.com
Her job is to remove homeless people from SF's parks. Her methods are extraordinary
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Instead of forcing people out of Golden Gate Park, ranger Amanda Barrows helps them find housing.
on Feb 9
From substack.com
When /etc/h*sts Breaks Your Substack Editor: An Adventure in Web Content Filtering
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An exploration of web security mechanisms and their unexpected consequences
#bot #news #ycombinator #hackernewsbot #hackernews
1h ago
From greptime.com
Observability 2.0 and the Database for It
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Observability 2.0 centers around “wide events,” breaking down the silos between metrics, logs, and traces. This article outlines the core ideas and technical challenges of this new paradigm, and introduces how GreptimeDB, a native open-source database for wide events, provides a unified and...
#ngated #metrics #database #zoomparty #techtrends #ycombinator #datasolutions #observability2 #hackernews
12h ago
From substack.com
Acquisitions, consolidation, and innovation in AI
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Should every startup give up and go home?
#ai #big #news #tech #ngated #startup #founders #innovation #entrepreneurship #hackernews
22h ago
From github.com
GitHub - dtnewman/zev: A simple CLI tool to help you remember terminal commands
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A simple CLI tool to help you remember terminal commands - dtnewman/zev
#zev #open #tech #github #ngated #source #commands #discover #terminal #reminders
on Wed, 5AM
From jenslink.net
10 11
Yesterday I read this toot (German) over on mastodon which starts with “IPv6 is hard.” No it’s not. It’s different. I ran across this multiple times: There is an A and an AAAA-record for a FQDN, but the web server is only reachable via IPv4. You can easily test this with...
#ipv6 #hackernews #ycombinator
on Feb 15
From coindesk.com
Javier Milei Backtracks on $4.4B Memecoin After 'Insiders' Pocket $87M
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Milei deleted his original promotional tweet and revealed that he wasn't aware of its details.
on Feb 15
From benjamindlee.com
Why I Use Nim Instead of Python for Data Processing
10 10
Lazy programmers often prefer to substitute computing effort for programming effort.
#nimlang #hackernews #programming #比較程式語言效能 #ycombinator #python
on Sep 6
From github.com
10 10
UE5's Nanite implementation using WebGPU. Includes the meshlet LOD hierarchy, software rasterizer and billboard impostors. Culling on both per-instance and per-meshlet basis. - Scthe/nanite-webgpu
#Bot #News #github #ycombinator #hackernewsbot #hackernews
on Aug 9
From swiss-miss.com
A Love Letter To People Who Believe in People
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Tina on the transformative power of enthusiasm When I was eight, I made a big, hand-drawn poster that said, “Do you want to join my fan club?” and put it up in the small Swiss town where I grew up.…
#nginx #ngated #brickwall #techhumor #loveletter #poetryfail #webdevelopment #hackernews
15h ago
From github.com
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A command line tool to set default openers for file formats and url schemes on macos - philocalyst/infat
#infat #ngated #manager #techhumor #opensource #application #association #declarative #ycombinator #filemanagement
22h ago
From github.com
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Magical Rust patterns laid out and simplified. Contribute to alexpusch/rust-magic-patterns development by creating an account on GitHub.
#github #ngated #tutorial #asyncrust #programming #ycombinator #githubzombies #visualjourney #developerhumor #rustprogramming
on Apr 13
From leerob.com
Rust is Eating JavaScript | Lee Robinson
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Why is Rust being used to replace parts of the JavaScript web ecosystem like minification (Terser), transpilation (Babel), formatting (Prettier), bundling (webpack), linting (ESLint), and more?
#rust #webdev #rustlang #hackernews #programming #ycombinator #javascript
on Feb 16
From arxiv.org
Three things everyone should know about Vision Transformers
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After their initial success in natural language processing, transformer architectures have rapidly gained traction in computer vision, providing state-of-the-art results for tasks such as image classification, detection, segmentation, and video analysis. We offer three insights based on simple...
#arxiv #ngated #research #ycombinator #simonsfoundation #irrelevantresearch #visiontransformers #groundbreakingthesis #hackernews
23h ago
From claudiu-ivan.com
A Principled Approach to Querying Data | Claudiu Ivan
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This article explores a type-driven approach, leveraging a Domain-Specific Language (DSL), to create a powerful and maintainable search system.
#ngated #codingjokes #typesafedsl #ycombinator #developerhumor #techabstraction #complexityoverload #softwaredevelopment #hackernews
on Mar 24
From stackexchange.com
Does or did COBOL default to 1875-05-20 for corrupt or missing dates?
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There is a claim circulating, e.g. here on Mastodon: [...] in COBOL, if a date is missing [or "corrupt"] the program defaults to 1875 [...] The claim is sometimes "enhanced" by
on Feb 17
From substack.com
Big Tech Has Disrupted the Social Contract
8 8
I rented a car from Turo this weekend and it might as well have exploded...
#uspoli #bigtech #techbro #techbros #hackernews #uspolitics #ycombinator #enshitification #turo
on Feb 16
From github.io
My most downvoted StackOverflow answer
8 10
Ohad's blog
#blog #rust #tech #thoughts #hackernews #ycombinator #技術社羣
on Sep 5
From github.com
GitHub - cloudflare/serverless-registry: A Docker registry backed by Workers and R2.
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A Docker registry backed by Workers and R2. Contribute to cloudflare/serverless-registry development by creating an account on GitHub.
#devops #docker #github #hackernews #serverless #ycombinator
on Sep 4
From codeberg.org
7 17
Petition to Open Source Initiative to publish 2025 Board election results. Sign using pull request (see below).
#ngated #pullrequest #freesoftware #techelection #transparency #keyboardwarriors #opensourceinitiative #osi #hackernews #opensource
6h ago
From ssrn.com
Asymmetric Content Moderation in Search Markets: The Case of Adult Websites
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We study the competitive impact of content moderation by a dominant online platform. We exploit an exogenous shock that led the largest adult content platform t
#ssrn #jargon #ngated #odyssey #academia #research #ycombinator #breakingnews #martin_quinn #carlo_reggiani
23h ago
From redhat.com
New C++ features in GCC 15 | Red Hat Developer
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Explore new C++ front-end features in GCC 15.1, including pack indexing and structured binding declaration as a condition
#c #bot #news #gcc15 #ngated #redhat #spacejam #ycombinator #hackernewsbot #timetravelingcaveman
on Thu, 11AM
From substack.com
Elon Musk’s terrifying vision for AI
7 7
All your thoughts belong to him
#ai #musk #hackernews #ycombinator
on Feb 17
From substack.com
Why bother with privacy when I have nothing to hide?
7 7
The "why" behind Hannah on Privacy
on Feb 17
From github.com
blog/docs/cmd_icons.md at main · madprops/blog
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I might write stuff here sometimes. Contribute to madprops/blog development by creating an account on GitHub.
on Feb 16
From quantamagazine.org
How Hans Bethe Stumbled Upon Perfect Quantum Theories | Quanta Magazine
7 12
Quantum calculations amount to sophisticated estimates. But in 1931, Hans Bethe intuited precisely how a chain of particles would behave — an insight that had far-reaching consequences.
on Feb 12
From github.com
GitHub - apple/swift-container-plugin: Swift Package Manager plugin for building container images
7 7
Swift Package Manager plugin for building container images - apple/swift-container-plugin
#ai #apple #github #ngated #security #automation #innovation #ycombinator #packagemanager #swiftcontainerplugin
on Sep 27
From fortune.com
Swiss watchmakers put employees on state-funded leave as luxury demand disappears
7 7
The Sowind Group, owner of Girard-Perregaux and Ulysse Nardin luxury watches, has put 15% of his workforce on furlough.
#hackernews #ycombinator #瑞士鐘錶製造業狀況
on Sep 6
From flipt.io
7 7
A feature management platform built for developers from scale-ups to enterprises that leverages the tools developers already know and love.
#git #hackernews #ycombinator #功能標籤管理平臺
on Sep 5
From thehackernews.com
Veeam Releases Security Updates to Fix 18 Flaws, Including 5 Critical Issues
7 7
Veeam releases updates fixing 18 security flaws, including critical remote code execution vulnerabilities. Users urged to update software to prevent p
#it #cysec #privacy #hackernews #News #infosec #cybersecurity
on Sep 5
From github.com
GitHub - alastairmccormack/keyutil: A sensible Java key management tool for normal people
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A sensible Java key management tool for normal people - alastairmccormack/keyutil
#java #hackernews #programming #ycombinator #github專案介紹
on Sep 5
