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Google cloud outage takes down banks

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DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order

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Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads

If you teach or present with an iPad, avoid iPadOS 27.

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There Are over 1M New York City Street Signs. Here's How They Are Made.

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An ad-free Android TV

Android TV is full of ads, even in apps-only mode. Here's how I replaced the launcher, YouTube, and the remote's buttons to get rid of them.

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NixOS is making me less afraid

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Making a 88x31 button book using ImageMagick

Making an 88x31 book-button using ImageMagick

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OpenBSD 8.0

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Capturing 400 American Girls and Their Most Meaningful Objects

A photographer spent six years meeting more than 400 girls across the United States and capturing their portraits on film.

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Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs

How 50,000 fake stats kept getting cited by ChatGPT Read more on the Peec AI blog.

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MiniMax M3.1 Flash

Today, we officially roll out MiniMax M3.1 Flash. As a next-generation Flash model, M3.1 Flash delivers a generational leap in agentic tasks, coding, Computer Use and cybersecurity, while making online inference nearly three times faster and reducing usage costs by 70%.

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WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator

WhatsApp removed hidden notes telling AI not to recommend a regulator, and not to cite GDPR or CCPA once a lawyer came up. We quote both notes.

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How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed

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MicroG: Free-libre re-implementation of Google's proprietary Android user space

Free implementation of Play Services. Contribute to microg/GmsCore development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Hazel (YC W24) Is Hiring

Note: This role is exclusively available to U.S. citizens who can obtain and maintain a U.S. government-issued Top Secret security clearance with full-scope polygraph. There are no exceptions. Who We Are: Our mission at Hazel is simple and powerful. We use AI to help U.S. government purchasing teams buy at the speed of need with unparalleled efficiency and cost-effectiveness. It is a $2.7T problem every single year, and Hazel is at the forefront with Federal and State, Local, and Education (SLED) agencies. Hazel has identified a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to solve this by deploying cutting-edge AI to the public sector and unlocking the full potential of our nation. We empower our partners to move with expediency against the most pr

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Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust

Cloudflare is collaborating on tsrs, a Rust port of TypeScript that is up to 8x faster and uses 70% less memory.

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'Der Viener Schlinger': The meat cannon that launched 20k hot dogs

The Memorial Stadium fixture can fire a 2.67-ounce Fairbury Tomboy at 90 mph from Tom Osborne Field over the 165-foot-high skyboxes. But most land in the stands.

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DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine

DeepInfer: High-performance, large-scale inference framework for DeepSeek models - deepseek-ai/DeepInfer

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Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers

A compact monospace neo-grotesque font designed for developers (and adventurers). - tywr/Nordwand-Mono

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Restoration of Retinal Regenerative Potential (2025)

Individuals with retinal degenerative diseases struggle to restore vision due to the inability to regenerate retinal cells. Unlike cold-blooded vertebrates, mammals lack Müller glia (MG)-mediated retinal regeneration, indicating the limited regenerative capacity of mammalian MG. Here, we identify prospero-related homeobox 1 (Prox1) as a key factor restricting this process. Prox1 accumulates in MG of degenerating human and mouse retinas but not in regenerating zebrafish. In mice, Prox1 in MG originates from neighboring retinal neurons via intercellular transfer. Blocking this transfer enables MG reprogramming into retinal progenitor cells in injured mouse retinas. Moreover, adeno-associated viral delivery of an anti-Prox1 antibody, which seq

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Liz Truss steps down as British Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party amid the country's political crisis, serving for the least time of any British Prime Minister (49 days).

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Top Stories from Hacker News

Google cloud outage takes down banks

DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order

Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads

There Are over 1M New York City Street Signs. Here's How They Are Made.

An ad-free Android TV

NixOS is making me less afraid

Making a 88x31 button book using ImageMagick

OpenBSD 8.0

Capturing 400 American Girls and Their Most Meaningful Objects

Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs

MiniMax M3.1 Flash

WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator

How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed

MicroG: Free-libre re-implementation of Google's proprietary Android user space

Hazel (YC W24) Is Hiring

Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust

'Der Viener Schlinger': The meat cannon that launched 20k hot dogs

DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine

Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers

Restoration of Retinal Regenerative Potential (2025)

On this day

Liz Truss steps down as British Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party amid the country's political crisis, serving for the least time of any British Prime Minister (49 days).

The BepiColombo spacecraft is launched on an Ariane 5 rocket to study Mercury.

Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) declare victory in the Raqqa campaign.

Libyan Crisis: Rebel forces capture Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi and his son Mutassim in his hometown of Sirte and kill them shortly thereafter, ending the first Libyan civil war.

The general conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) passes the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.

The Sloan Great Wall, once the largest cosmic structures known to humanity, is discovered by students at Princeton University.

Top Gear, the revived popular British TV motoring magazine, premieres on BBC.

Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-73.

A 6.8 Mw earthquake strikes the Uttarkashi region of India, killing more than 1,000 people.

A massive firestorm breaks out in the hills of Oakland and Berkeley, California killing 25 people and destroying more than 3,000 homes, apartments and condominiums.

Aeroflot Flight 6502 crashes while landing at Kuibyshev Airport (now Kuromoch International Airport) in Kuibyshev (now present-day Samara, Russia), killing 70 people.

During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster.

Two police officers and a Brink's armored car guard are killed during an armed robbery carried out by members of the Black Liberation Army and Weather Underground in Nanuet, New York.

A plane carrying the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in woodland in Mississippi, United States. Six people, including three band members, are killed.

The Luling–Destrehan Ferry MV George Prince is struck by the Norwegian freighter SS Frosta while crossing the Mississippi River in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. Seventy-eight passengers and crew die, and only 18 people aboard the ferry survive.

Watergate scandal: "Saturday Night Massacre": United States President Richard Nixon fires U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Solicitor General Robert Bork.

The Sydney Opera House is opened by Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction.

China launches simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line, igniting the Sino-Indian War.

The Soviet Navy performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf-class submarine.

The Governor of Kenya Evelyn Baring declares a state of emergency and begins arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising.

The "Johnny Bright incident" occurs during a football game between the Drake Bulldogs and Oklahoma A&M Aggies.

A KLM Lockheed L-049 Constellation crashes on approach to Glasgow Prestwick Airport, killing 40.

Cold War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of the Hollywood film industry, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.

World War II: The Soviet Red Army and Yugoslav Partisans liberate Belgrade.

Liquefied natural gas leaks from storage tanks in Cleveland and then explodes, leveling 30 blocks and killing 130 people.

World War II: American general Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he comes ashore during the Battle of Leyte.

World War II: Thousands of civilians in German-occupied Serbia are murdered in the Kragujevac massacre.

The Long March, a mammoth retreat undertaken by the armed forces of the Chinese Communist Party a year prior, ends.

British ocean liner RMS Olympic is launched.

Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.

Peru and Chile sign the Treaty of Ancón, by which the Tarapacá province is ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru's involvement in the War of the Pacific.

Greek War of Independence: In the Battle of Navarino, a combined Turkish and Egyptian fleet is defeated by British, French and Russian naval forces in the last significant battle fought with wooden sailing ships.

The Convention of 1818 is signed between the United States and the United Kingdom, which settles the Canada–United States border on the 49th parallel for most of its length.

The United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.

The Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, is approved in Austria.

American Revolution: The Continental Association, a nonconsumption and nonimportation agreement against the British Isles and the British West Indies, is adopted by the First Continental Congress.

France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction, and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.

Eighty Years' War: Three thousand Spanish soldiers wade through fifteen miles of water in one night to effect the relief of Goes.

The Spanish Duke of Alba defeats a Dutch rebel force under William the Silent.

The second battle of Kosovo ends when the larger army of the Ottoman Empire defeats those of the Kingdom of Hungary after the Wallachian troops desert.

On this day

Liz Truss steps down as British Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party amid the country's political crisis, serving for the least time of any British Prime Minister (49 days).

The BepiColombo spacecraft is launched on an Ariane 5 rocket to study Mercury.

Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) declare victory in the Raqqa campaign.

Libyan Crisis: Rebel forces capture Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi and his son Mutassim in his hometown of Sirte and kill them shortly thereafter, ending the first Libyan civil war.

The general conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) passes the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.

The Sloan Great Wall, once the largest cosmic structures known to humanity, is discovered by students at Princeton University.

Top Gear, the revived popular British TV motoring magazine, premieres on BBC.

Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-73.

A 6.8 Mw earthquake strikes the Uttarkashi region of India, killing more than 1,000 people.

A massive firestorm breaks out in the hills of Oakland and Berkeley, California killing 25 people and destroying more than 3,000 homes, apartments and condominiums.

Aeroflot Flight 6502 crashes while landing at Kuibyshev Airport (now Kuromoch International Airport) in Kuibyshev (now present-day Samara, Russia), killing 70 people.

During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster.

Two police officers and a Brink's armored car guard are killed during an armed robbery carried out by members of the Black Liberation Army and Weather Underground in Nanuet, New York.

A plane carrying the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in woodland in Mississippi, United States. Six people, including three band members, are killed.

The Luling–Destrehan Ferry MV George Prince is struck by the Norwegian freighter SS Frosta while crossing the Mississippi River in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. Seventy-eight passengers and crew die, and only 18 people aboard the ferry survive.

Watergate scandal: "Saturday Night Massacre": United States President Richard Nixon fires U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Solicitor General Robert Bork.

The Sydney Opera House is opened by Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction.