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The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen

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Debug Project

Bad mosquitoes spread disease. Good mosquitoes stop them. We're using technology to raise and release good mosquitoes.

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U.S. Midterms Have a Cyber Problem, but It's Not at the Ballot Box

As the U.S. approaches the 2026 elections in November, the greatest threat to voting integrity will likely not be from hackers targeting voting machines %Check Point research reveals 2026 U.S. midterm cyber risks driven by phishing, fake news sites, domain abuse, and AI-powered disinformation targeting voter trust—not ballots.

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macOS needs its grid back

Two decades ago I had a better Mac desktop experience than I have today. I only had a single low res (by todays standards) screen, yet I felt like Hugh Jackman in Swordfish - deftly navigating more than nine displays without thinking, muscle and spatial memory working seamlessly together. TLDR; I built an app to return macOS spaces to its Pre-Lion Grid-enabled Glory. Read on for the increasingly rare experience of an actual human dropping a bit of nostalgia, the thinking behind why make this and some issues encountered along the way.

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A new way to build chips: Sequentially stacking silicon to extend Moore's Law

Researchers led by Qing Cao have demonstrated a scalable way to directly and sequentially stack high-performance silicon circuits. This advance marks a critical step toward realizing the full potential of three-dimensional chips that could carry computing beyond the limits of traditional scaling.

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KL Zero: KL divergence intuition game

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Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?

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CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch

Official course website for Stanford CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch (Spring 2026), including logistics, schedule, assignments, and course materials.

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Crystal Nights (2008)

Crystal Nights by Greg Egan

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How is Groq raising more money?

Somehow, Palpatine returned.

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Nvidia RTX Spark

The fusion of NVIDIA AI and RTX graphics in slim laptops and small desktops. For creators, developers, and gamers.

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Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra

Microsoft launches the Surface Laptop Ultra with an NVIDIA RTX Spark chip and 128GB unified memory to challenge Apple MacBook Pro dominance.

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What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology

Lifelike biochemistry continued to unfold in sterilized soil for six years, pointing to a metabolic theory for how biology began.

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Fooling around with encrypted reasoning blobs

This is a quick post I wanted to write about a hobby project I spent a weekend on. It has little to do with real cryptography, and mostly doesn't expose a particularly exciting vulnerability. But it did teach me a lot about frontier LLM APIs and coding agents. It also got me certified as an…

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OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS

OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now generally available on AWS, giving enterprises a new path to build with OpenAI through the AWS environments, controls, and procurement workflows they already use. Customers can get started with OpenAI on AWS and move faster from evaluation to production.

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Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?

SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI plan initial public offerings that could collectively raise $200bn and add $4trn to American stockmarket capitalisation. | Finance & economics

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Chipotlai Max

The AI coding agent that runs on stolen Chipotle compute 🌯 Fork of OpenCode with Pepper AI as default model. Community project to add providers from Home Depot, Lowes, Target, Starbucks & more. - cyberpapiii/chipotlai-max

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Squillions: How Money Laundering Won

If it were an industry, money laundering would be the third biggest business in the world, behind commercial property...

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AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford

Student version of Assignment 1 for Stanford CS336 - Language Modeling From Scratch - assignment1-basics/CLAUDE.md at main · stanford-cs336/assignment1-basics

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On this day

A collision between two passenger trains and a parked freight train near the city of Balasor, Odisha in eastern India, results in 296 deaths and more than 1,200 people injured.

2023

Top Stories from Hacker News

The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen

Debug Project

U.S. Midterms Have a Cyber Problem, but It's Not at the Ballot Box

macOS needs its grid back

A new way to build chips: Sequentially stacking silicon to extend Moore's Law

KL Zero: KL divergence intuition game

Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?

CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch

Crystal Nights (2008)

How is Groq raising more money?

Nvidia RTX Spark

Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra

What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology

Fooling around with encrypted reasoning blobs

OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS

Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?

Chipotlai Max

Squillions: How Money Laundering Won

AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford

On this day

A collision between two passenger trains and a parked freight train near the city of Balasor, Odisha in eastern India, results in 296 deaths and more than 1,200 people injured.

Following a request from Ankara, the United Nations officially changes the name of the Republic of Turkey in the organization from what was previously known as "Turkey" to "Türkiye".

Telangana officially becomes the 29th state of India, formed from ten districts of northwestern Andhra Pradesh.

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.

Twelve people are killed and eleven others injured in a spree shooting in Cumbria, England, before the perpetrator takes his own life.

Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.

Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-91, the final mission of the Shuttle-Mir program.

In Denver, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 11 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, in which 168 people died. He was executed four years later.

The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12.

After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 are killed when a flashover occurs as the plane's doors open. Because of this incident, numerous new safety regulations are put in place.

Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.

Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.

Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran are brutally suppressed, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June.

Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is formed.

During the FIFA World Cup, police intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players in one of the most violent games in football history.

Aeronaves de México Flight 111 crashes on approach to Guadalajara International Airport, killing 45.

The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between the two countries, discontinued since 1948.

The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey becomes the first British coronation, and one of the first major international events, to be televised.

Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum, Italians vote to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After the referendum, King Umberto II of Italy is exiled.

World War II: German paratroopers murder Greek civilians in the villages of Kondomari and Alikianos.

U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.

Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.

Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.

Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.

Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.

Nobiling assassination attempt by anarchist Karl Nobiling targeting the German Kaiser, Wilhelm I.

The Fenians defeat Canadian forces at Ridgeway and Fort Erie, but the raids end soon after.

The Slavic Congress opens in Prague.

Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Spanish fleet recaptures from the British the island of Diamond Rock, which guards the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France, Martinique.

French Revolution: François Hanriot, leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul Marat, setting the stage for the Reign of Terror.

The anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in London leave an estimated 300 to 700 people dead.

Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act of 1774 is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.

Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.

Bridget Bishop is the first person to be tried for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts; she is found guilty the same day and hanged on June 10.

Franco-Dutch War: France ensures the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in the Battle of Palermo.

The first Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.

The Colony of Virginia gets a charter, extending borders from "sea to sea".

Wedding of Manfred, King of Sicily, and Byzantine princess Helena Angelina Doukaina.

First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city; the second siege began five days later.

Pope Benedict I is consecrated after obtaining imperial approval from Constantinople.

Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks.

Sima Zhao's regicide of Cao Mao: The figurehead Wei emperor Cao Mao personally leads an attempt to oust his regent, Sima Zhao; the attempted coup is crushed and the emperor killed.

Top Stories from Hacker News

The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen

Debug Project

U.S. Midterms Have a Cyber Problem, but It's Not at the Ballot Box

macOS needs its grid back

A new way to build chips: Sequentially stacking silicon to extend Moore's Law

KL Zero: KL divergence intuition game

Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?

CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch

Crystal Nights (2008)

How is Groq raising more money?

Nvidia RTX Spark

Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra

What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology

Fooling around with encrypted reasoning blobs

OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS