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Generative AI Systems Miss Vast Bodies of Human Knowledge, Study Finds • Oct 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM • aeon.co • Slashdot
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rumdl: A Markdown Linter written in Rust • Oct 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM • github.com/rvben • Lobsters
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Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults • Oct 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM • theverge.com • Hacker News
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No Science, No Startups: The Innovation Engine We’re Switching Off • Oct 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM • steveblank.com • r/science
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Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead • Oct 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM • consumerreports.org • Hacker News
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SmolBSD – build your own minimal BSD system • Oct 14, 2025 at 1:43 PM • smolbsd.org • Hacker News
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Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass • Oct 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM • npr.org • Hacker News
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Reflecting on the first 6 months of a rewrite (Text Editor) • Oct 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM • bold-edit.com • r/programming
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Why your boss isn't worried about AI - "can't you just turn it off?" • Oct 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM • boydkane.com • Lobsters
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California Cracks Down on 'Predatory' Early Cancellation Fees • Oct 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM • theverge.com • Slashdot
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BentoPDF is now open sourced • Oct 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Benchmarking Postgres 17 vs 18 • Oct 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM • planetscale.com • Lobsters
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How bad can a $2.97 ADC be? • Oct 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM • excamera.substack.com • Hacker News
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A Tiny Typo May Explain Centuries-Old Mystery Bout Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' • Oct 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM • smithsonianmag.com • Hacker News
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Prefix sum: 20 GB/s (2.6x baseline) • Oct 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM • github.com/ashtonsix • Hacker News
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W3C logo refresh • Oct 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM • w3.org • r/webdev
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Flettner rotor sail technology was invented more than 100 years ago. Modern need for fuel efficiency is bringing it back. • Oct 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM • bbc.com • ~transport
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1.5x to 2.2x GB/s decoding throughput for delta, delta-of-delta and xor-with-previous codes • Oct 14, 2025 at 12:33 PM • github.com/ashtonsix • Lobsters
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Smithsonian Open Access • Oct 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM • si.edu • Hacker News
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Hold Off on Litestream 0.5.0 • Oct 14, 2025 at 12:10 PM • mtlynch.io • Hacker News
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How AI hears accents: An audible visualization of accent clusters • Oct 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM • accent-explorer.boldvoice.com • Hacker News
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Beijing Issues Documents Without Word Format Amid US Tensions • Oct 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM • scmp.com • Slashdot
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Ruby Blocks • Oct 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM • tech.stonecharioteer.com • Hacker News
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Benchmarking Postgres 17 vs. 18 • Oct 14, 2025 at 11:35 AM • planetscale.com • Hacker News
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A modern approach to preventing CSRF in Go • Oct 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM • alexedwards.net • Hacker News
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Medicaid expansion linked to improved long-term survival in cancer patients in the US. These findings underscore the importance of protecting and expanding Medicaid in the remaining 10 nonexpansion US states to improve outcomes for all individuals. • Oct 14, 2025 at 11:24 AM • eurekalert.org • r/science
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Subverting Telegram's end-to-end encryption (2023) • Oct 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM • tosc.iacr.org • Hacker News
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Introducing Reactive Programming for Go • Oct 14, 2025 at 11:20 AM • github.com/samber • r/programming
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Playing recordings of a mother’s voice to premature babies may help their brains mature faster, according to the first randomised-controlled trial of this simple intervention. This approach could ultimately improve language outcomes for babies born too early. • Oct 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM • newscientist.com • r/science
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RFK Jr. Must Go • Oct 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM • quillette.com • Hacker News
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GPT-5o-mini hallucinates medical residency applicant grades • Oct 14, 2025 at 11:12 AM • thalamusgme.com • Hacker News
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Hold Off on Litestream 0.5.0 • Oct 14, 2025 at 11:10 AM • mtlynch.io • Lobsters
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DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia • Oct 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM • cnbc.com • Hacker News
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Tesla is at risk of losing subsidies in Korea over widespread battery failures • Oct 14, 2025 at 10:53 AM • electrek.co • Hacker News
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Men’s brains shrink faster than women’s: During ageing, men experience a greater reduction in volume across more regions of the brain than women do. This means that age-related brain changes do not explain why women are more frequently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease than men are. • Oct 14, 2025 at 10:53 AM • nature.com • r/science
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Kaitai Struct: declarative binary format parsing language • Oct 14, 2025 at 10:51 AM • kaitai.io • Hacker News
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Show HN: Metorial (YC F25) – Vercel for MCP • Oct 14, 2025 at 10:49 AM • github.com/metorial • Hacker News
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Astronomers 'image' a mysterious dark object in the distant Universe • Oct 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM • mpg.de • Hacker News
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Principles and Methodologies for Serial Performance Optimization • Oct 14, 2025 at 10:43 AM • danglingpointers.substack.com • Hacker News
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The Great Software Quality Collapse • Oct 14, 2025 at 10:41 AM • techtrenches.substack.com • Slashdot
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A modern approach to preventing CSRF in Go • Oct 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM • alexedwards.net • Lobsters
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When if is just a function • Oct 14, 2025 at 10:20 AM • ryelang.org • Hacker News
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Wireshark 4.6.0 Supports macOS Pktap Metadata (PID, Process Name, etc.) • Oct 14, 2025 at 10:18 AM • nuxx.net • Hacker News
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Looking for Apify experts who specialize in custom actors for data extraction, any recommendations? • Oct 14, 2025 at 10:16 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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nanochat: The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy • Oct 14, 2025 at 10:11 AM • github.com/karpathy • Lobsters
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reCAPTCHA migration to Google Cloud by the end of 2025: what do you need to do • Oct 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM • privatecaptcha.com • r/programming
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2025 NFL Season 🏈 Weekly Discussion Thread – Week 6 • Oct 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM • tildes.net • ~sports.american_football
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Digital Platforms Correlate With Cognitive Decline in Young Users • Oct 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM • npr.org • Slashdot
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Let's Not Encrypt (2019) • Oct 14, 2025 at 9:44 AM • michael.orlitzky.com • Hacker News
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CDC battered by government shutdown firings, while some are rescinded • Oct 14, 2025 at 9:25 AM • statnews.com • Hacker News
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Self-improving LMs are becoming reality with MIT's updated SEAL technique • Oct 14, 2025 at 9:21 AM • venturebeat.com • Hacker News
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CRISPR-like tools that finally can edit mitochondria DNA • Oct 14, 2025 at 9:21 AM • nature.com • Hacker News
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Show HN: Daily install trends of AI coding extensions in VS Code • Oct 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM • bloomberry.com • Hacker News
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How to check for overlapping intervals • Oct 14, 2025 at 8:48 AM • zayenz.se • r/programming
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Meta news on Lix in October 2025 • Oct 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM • lix.systems • Lobsters
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Pyrefly: Python type checker and language server in Rust • Oct 14, 2025 at 8:33 AM • pyrefly.org • Hacker News
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Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem’s Brain • Oct 14, 2025 at 8:24 AM • dl.acm.org • Lobsters
74
Happy Birthday to KDE • Oct 14, 2025 at 8:16 AM • kde.org • Lobsters
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Compiler for "Easy" language from "Etudes for Programmers" book (1978) • Oct 14, 2025 at 8:14 AM • github.com/begoon • Hacker News
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If you'd built a "tool" that stupid, why would you advertise the fact? • Oct 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM • svpow.com • Hacker News
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Instagram removes slain Gaza journalist Saleh al Jafarawi's account • Oct 14, 2025 at 7:41 AM • siasat.com • Hacker News
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Let's not Encrypt (2019) • Oct 14, 2025 at 7:29 AM • michael.orlitzky.com • Lobsters
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Zoo of array languages • Oct 14, 2025 at 7:01 AM • ktye.github.io • Hacker News
68
Nexperia – Update on Company Developments • Oct 14, 2025 at 6:52 AM • nexperia.com • Hacker News
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ADS-B Exposed • Oct 14, 2025 at 6:38 AM • adsb.exposed • Hacker News
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Nearly 30% of people who try cannabis will go on to develop a substance use disorder | Researchers have identified two key genes associated with a number of physiological and psychiatric disorders which have been linked to long-term and frequent cannabis use. • Oct 14, 2025 at 6:37 AM • newatlas.com • r/science
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number made available online • Oct 14, 2025 at 6:30 AM • abc.net.au • Hacker News
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Women who take HRT after menopause less likely to develop dementia, study indicates • Oct 14, 2025 at 6:28 AM • irishtimes.com • r/science
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Just 30 minutes of less sitting each day can improve the body's ability to utilize fats and carbohydrates for energy production. Reducing sedentary behavior can be particularly beneficial for people who are physically inactive and have an increased risk of heart diseases and type 2 diabetes. • Oct 14, 2025 at 6:06 AM • utu.fi • r/science
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KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser • Oct 14, 2025 at 5:54 AM • kde.org • Hacker News
80
Adding Breadcrumbs to a Rails Application • Oct 14, 2025 at 5:54 AM • avohq.io • Hacker News
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When Compiler Optimizations Hurt Performance • Oct 14, 2025 at 5:49 AM • nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com • Hacker News
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Weekend projects: Chicken Squisher 3000 • Oct 14, 2025 at 5:41 AM • lcamtuf.substack.com • Hacker News
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We saved 76% on our cloud bills while tripling our capacity by migrating to Hetzner from AWS and DigitalOcean • Oct 14, 2025 at 5:30 AM • digitalsociety.coop • r/programming
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Mergiraf - syntax-aware git merge driver • Oct 14, 2025 at 5:29 AM • mergiraf.org • Lobsters
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New analysis found that both low and high increases in social media use throughout early adolescence were significantly associated with lower performance in specific aspects of cognitive function • Oct 14, 2025 at 4:59 AM • npr.org • r/science
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The Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894: predictions of 9 feet of manure in cities • Oct 14, 2025 at 4:35 AM • en.wikipedia.org • Hacker News
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Microsoft 'illegally' tracked students via 365 Education, says data watchdog • Oct 14, 2025 at 4:35 AM • theregister.com • Hacker News
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People who stop smoking in middle age can reduce their cognitive decline so dramatically that within 10 years their chances of developing dementia are the same as someone who has never smoked, research has found. • Oct 14, 2025 at 4:33 AM • thelancet.com • r/science
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After 4 years with react components, i'm switching to boring tech ^ • Oct 14, 2025 at 4:12 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025 • Oct 14, 2025 at 3:46 AM • support.microsoft.com • Hacker News
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How one of the longest dinosaur trackways in the world was uncovered in the UK • Oct 14, 2025 at 3:44 AM • bbc.co.uk • Hacker News
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I let my AI agents run unsupervised and they burned $200 in 2 hours • Oct 14, 2025 at 3:30 AM • blog.justcopy.ai • Hacker News
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Comparing the power consumption of a 30 year old refrigerator to a new one • Oct 14, 2025 at 3:28 AM • ounapuu.ee • Hacker News
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AI is making it so hard to hire good developers • Oct 14, 2025 at 3:15 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Optical diffraction patterns made with a MOPA laser engraving machine [video] • Oct 14, 2025 at 3:09 AM • youtube.com • Hacker News
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Why the push for Agentic when models can barely follow a simple instruction? • Oct 14, 2025 at 3:08 AM • forum.cursor.com • Hacker News
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Inside Cassandra: The Internals That Make It Fast and Massively Scalable • Oct 14, 2025 at 2:47 AM • beyondthesyntax.substack.com • r/programming
53
I dream with a new mainstream handheld console that is neither an extension of a regular console experience, a smartphone, or a wine-powered Linux machine • Oct 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM • tildes.net • ~games
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What Dynamic Typing Is For • Oct 14, 2025 at 2:23 AM • unplannedobsolescence.com • Hacker News
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Gemini 3 Pro simulated macOS in a single HTML file in 1 prompt • Oct 14, 2025 at 2:02 AM • twitter.com/chetaslua • Hacker News
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The Story of Codesmith: How a Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp By Becoming a Reddit Moderator • Oct 14, 2025 at 1:55 AM • larslofgren.com • r/programming
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I migrated my monorepo to Bun, here’s my honest feedback • Oct 14, 2025 at 1:48 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Why study programming languages (2022) • Oct 14, 2025 at 1:36 AM • people.csail.mit.edu • Hacker News
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PlayStation 3 Architecture (2021) • Oct 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM • copetti.org • Hacker News
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Django forever • Oct 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM • jmduke.com • Lobsters
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Copy-and-Patch: A Copy-and-Patch Tutorial • Oct 14, 2025 at 1:14 AM • transactional.blog • Hacker News
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A US Medicare study found the recombinant shingles vaccine cut infection risk by over 50% in older adults, including those with weak immunity. Two doses worked best. • Oct 14, 2025 at 12:48 AM • doi.org • r/science
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A website builder that lets you download the site as an HTML/CSS template and does not require signing up. • Oct 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
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Hairballs may reveal why cats eat grass: spiky projections on plant matter may act like “drain snakes,” helping felines dislodge wads of fur | Plant eating behavior in domestic cats: support for the hair evacuation hypothesis • Oct 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM • science.org • r/science
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Botnet blankets US ISPs in record denial-of-service attack • Oct 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM • krebsonsecurity.com • ~tech
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New York Times, AP, Newsmax and others say they won't sign new Pentagon rules • Oct 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM • apnews.com • Hacker News
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Modifying a Casio F-Series Digital Watch (2020) • Oct 13, 2025 at 10:48 PM • shellzine.net • Hacker News
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University of California sets world record with five Nobel Prizes in one week • Oct 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM • sfchronicle.com • Hacker News
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Don’t Look Up: Sensitive internal links in the clear on GEO satellites [pdf] • Oct 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM • satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu • Hacker News
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Starship Flight 11 successful • Oct 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM • spacex.com • ~space
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SpaceX Starship Hits Key Milestones Before Stunning Splashdown • Oct 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM • cnn.com • science.slashdot
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South Africa's one million invisible children without birth certificates • Oct 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM • france24.com • Hacker News
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NVIDIA DGX Spark In-Depth Review: A New Standard for Local AI Inference • Oct 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM • lmsys.org • Hacker News
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Women are systematically portrayed as younger than men online, and AI amplifies the bias, according to a sweeping new study by UC Berkeley Haas, Stanford, and Oxford researchers published in the journal Nature. • Oct 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM • newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu • r/science
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Traffic lights with four colors and a new white light are coming • Oct 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM • unionrayo.com • Hacker News
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Major US Online Retailers Remove Listings For Millions of Prohibited Chinese Electronics • Oct 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM • tech.slashdot.org • yro.slashdot
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SpaceX Starship flight 11 successful • Oct 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM • twitter.com/SpaceX • Hacker News
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SpaceX launches Starship megarocket on 11th test flight • Oct 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM • cnn.com • Hacker News
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StreamingVLM: Real-Time Understanding for Infinite Video Streams • Oct 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM • arxiv.org • Hacker News
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Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones • Oct 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
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DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS • Oct 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM • krebsonsecurity.com • Hacker News
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Britain Issues First Online Safety Fine To US Website 4chan • Oct 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM • reuters.com • yro.slashdot
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Sony PlayStation 2 fixing frenzy • Oct 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM • retrohax.net • Hacker News
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Researchers Discover the Optimal Way to Optimize • Oct 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM • quantamagazine.org • Hacker News
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The Rules of Investing Are Being Loosened. Could It Lead to the Next 1929? • Oct 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
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Tesla Cybertruck sales are flatlining • Oct 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM • theverge.com • Hacker News
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Dutch Government Takes Control of China-Owned Chipmaker Nexperia • Oct 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM • reuters.com • yro.slashdot
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Something to watch out for as a contractor: Clients often have no clue what they're doing with your information. Don't let them cause hell for you by mishandling it. • Oct 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
154
React Compiler v1.0 • Oct 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM • react.dev • r/programming
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How does Turbo listen for Turbo Streams • Oct 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM • ducktypelabs.com • Hacker News
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nitro: tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor • Oct 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM • github.com/leahneukirchen • Lobsters
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AI Won’t Fix Broken Systems: Lessons from the 2025 DORA Report • Oct 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM • aviator.co • r/programming
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Software Update Bricks Some Jeep 4xe Hybrids Over the Weekend • Oct 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM • arstechnica.com • Slashdot
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Avoiding Ultra-Processed Foods Is Completely Unrealistic • Oct 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM • theatlantic.com • Hacker News
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Thoughts on Omarchy • Oct 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM • tedium.co • Hacker News
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I built a small C compiler to understand how compilers work • Oct 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM • github.com/ironrinox • r/programming
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Lab-grown embryo-like models have produced human blood cells, offering hope for regenerative medicine. Creating blood stem cells in vitro could someday allow bone marrow transplant patients to be treated with their own cells. • Oct 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM • theguardian.com • r/science
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Don't Be a Sucker (1943) [video] • Oct 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM • youtube.com • Hacker News
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An AI that turns any book into a text adventure game • Oct 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM • kathaaverse.com • ~books
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AWS Service Availability Updates • Oct 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM • aws.amazon.com • Hacker News
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Listen to your gut regarding red flags • Oct 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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German state replaces Microsoft Exchange and Outlook with open-source email • Oct 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM • zdnet.com • Hacker News
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LLMs are getting better at character-level text manipulation • Oct 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM • blog.burkert.me • Hacker News
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Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement • Oct 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM • arstechnica.com • ~tech
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Carmakers Chose To Cheat To Sell Cars Rather Than Comply With Emissions Law, 'Dieselgate' Trial Told • Oct 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM • uk.finance.yahoo.com • Slashdot
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zoo of array languages • Oct 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM • ktye.github.io • Lobsters
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Ask HN: Has AI stolen the satisfaction from programming? • Oct 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Why Signal's post-quantum makeover is an engineering achievement • Oct 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
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Reverse Engineering a 1979 Camera's Spec • Oct 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM • blog.mano.lol • Hacker News
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How do I convince my workplace we need SQL databases? • Oct 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM • tildes.net • ~tech
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Strudel REPL – a music live coding environment living in the browser • Oct 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM • strudel.cc • Hacker News
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Programming in Assembly Is Brutal, Beautiful, and Maybe Even a Path to Better AI • Oct 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM • wired.com • Hacker News
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People Are People, or Why I Don't Want to Be a Landlord • Oct 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM • oddevan.com • Hacker News
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The liquid air alternative to fossil fuels • Oct 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM • bbc.com • ~enviro
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Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements scientists have discovered that the weak region in Earth’s magnetic field over the South Atlantic – known as the South Atlantic Anomaly – has expanded by an area nearly half the size of continental Europe since 2014. • Oct 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM • esa.int • r/science
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Modern iOS Security Features – A Deep Dive into SPTM, TXM, and Exclaves • Oct 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM • arxiv.org • Hacker News
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Credential Stuffing • Oct 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM • ciamweekly.substack.com • Hacker News
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Critical vulnerability in Lua scripts run on Redis - CVE-2025-49844 • Oct 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM • redis.io • r/programming
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Tests Don’t Prove Code Is Correct… They Just Agree With It • Oct 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM • medium.com/@arnonaxelrod • r/programming
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There Are No Programmers In Star Trek • Oct 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM • i-programmer.info • r/programming