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Google workers seek 'red lines' on military A.I., echoing Anthropic

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Palm OS User Interface Guidelines (2003) [pdf]

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Hydroph0bia – fixed SecureBoot bypass for UEFI firmware from Insyde H2O (2025)

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AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf]

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Museum of Plugs and Sockets

Annotated display of 1000 domestic electrical plugs and sockets from all over the world, including classic and obsolete types.

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Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor

A fast, collaborative, and agentic video editor that runs in your browser. Create, cut, and compose videos with AI — no installs, no downloads.

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An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published

Imagine you could talk to Hieronymus Bosch, the authors of the Book of Revelation, or of the Voynich Manuscript—a bizarre 15th century text written in an uncrackable code; that you could solve centuries-old mysteries by asking them, “what were you thinking?” You might be disappointed to hear them say, as does Luigi Serafini, author and illustrator of the Codex Seraphinianus, “At the end of the day [it’s] similar to the Rorschach inkblot test. Open Culture, openculture.com

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OsmAnd’s Faster Offline Navigation (2025)

Offline navigation is a lifeline for travelers, adventurers, and everyday commuters. We demand speed, accuracy, and the flexibility to tailor routes to our specific needs. For years, OsmAnd has championed powerful, feature-rich offline maps that fit in your pocket. But as maps grew more detailed and user demands for complex routing increased, our trusty A algorithm, despite its flexibility, started hitting a performance wall. How could we deliver a 100x speed boost without bloating map sizes or sacrificing the deep customization our users love?

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Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage

Worldwide smartphone shipments are forecast to decline 12.9% year-on-year in 2026.

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What Claude Code chooses

A systematic survey of 2,430 Claude Code responses across 3 models, 4 project types, and 20 tool categories.

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The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

With a theoretical model of breakfast, can we derive the existence of “dark breakfasts,” breakfasts that we know must exist, but have never observed?

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LiteLLM (YC W23): Founding Reliability Engineer – $200K-$270K and 0.5-1.0% equity

TLDR LiteLLM is an open-source AI gateway (36K+ GitHub stars) that routes hundreds of millions of LLM API calls daily for companies like NASA, Adobe, Netflix, Stripe, and Nvidia. We're at $7M ARR, 10 people, YC W23. When LiteLLM goes down, our customers' entire AI stack goes down. We need someone who makes sure that doesn't happen. You'd be the first dedicated reliability hire. You'll own reliability, performance, and production stability end-to-end. Nobody will tell you how to do it What this job actually is We'll be straight with you: this role is roughly 60% operational reliability and 40% deep performance engineering. On any given week you might be: Hunting a memory leak in our async streaming handler that causes OOMs after 4 hours unde

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A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives

Hours after the State of the Union address, House republicans introduced legislation banning LGBTQ+ books from public schools nationwide.

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Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?

Is your vibe-coded app a Crapject or a Gift?

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I baked a pie every day for a year

Vickie Hardin Woods was worried she would lose her identity when she retired. Instead, she came up with a plan that made her feel more creative, connected and valued than ever

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Layoffs at Block

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Move tests to closed source repo

Move the test suite out of the open source tldraw/tldraw repo and into the closed source repo. Context The tldraw monorepo currently contains ~327 test files across unit, integration, and e2e tests: packages/tldraw: ~148 unit/integration...

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Parakeet.cpp – Parakeet ASR inference in pure C++ with Metal GPU acceleration

Ultra fast and portable Parakeet implementation for on-device inference in C++ using Axiom with MPS+Unified Memory - Frikallo/parakeet.cpp

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What does " 2>&1 " mean?

To combine stderr and stdout into the stdout stream, we append this to a command: 2>&1 For example, the following command shows the first few errors from compiling main.cpp: g++ main.cpp 2&...

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Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI

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On this day

Thirty-five people are killed and 143 injured in a mass stabbing at Kunming Railway Station in China.

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Top Stories from Hacker News

Google workers seek 'red lines' on military A.I., echoing Anthropic

Palm OS User Interface Guidelines (2003) [pdf]

Hydroph0bia – fixed SecureBoot bypass for UEFI firmware from Insyde H2O (2025)

AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf]

Museum of Plugs and Sockets

Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor

An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published

OsmAnd’s Faster Offline Navigation (2025)

Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage

What Claude Code chooses

The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

LiteLLM (YC W23): Founding Reliability Engineer – $200K-$270K and 0.5-1.0% equity

A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives

Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?

I baked a pie every day for a year

Layoffs at Block

Move tests to closed source repo

Parakeet.cpp – Parakeet ASR inference in pure C++ with Metal GPU acceleration

What does " 2>&1 " mean?

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

On this day

Thirty-five people are killed and 143 injured in a mass stabbing at Kunming Railway Station in China.

The Armenian police clash with peaceful opposition rally protesting against allegedly fraudulent presidential elections; as a result ten people are killed.

Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20 people, including eight at Enterprise High School.

English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.

In Roper v. Simmons, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the execution of juveniles found guilty of any crime is unconstitutional.

Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service moves to the United States Department of Homeland Security.

U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan.

The Envisat environmental satellite successfully launches aboard an Ariane 5 rocket to reach an orbit of 800 km (500 mi) above the Earth, which was the then-largest payload at 10.5 m long and with a diameter of 4.57 m.

Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-109 to service the Hubble Space Telescope.

Titanic becomes the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.

Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Uprisings against Saddam Hussein begin in Iraq, leading to the deaths of more than 25,000 people, mostly civilians.

Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.

Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.

Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.

President of Pakistan Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.

Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.

The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria.

Villarrica Volcano begins a strombolian eruption causing lahars that destroy half of the town of Coñaripe.

Paradise Airlines Flight 901A crashes near Lake Tahoe, Nevada, killing 85.

American Airlines Flight 1 crashes into Jamaica Bay in New York, killing 95.

Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.

Samuel Alphonsus Stritch is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first U.S. member of the Roman Curia.

The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.

Formation of the East German Nationale Volksarmee.

Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.

Armed Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.

Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.

Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data.

The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.

The Bank of England is nationalised.

World War II: Japanese forces land on Java, the main island of the Dutch East Indies, at Merak and Banten Bay (Banten), Eretan Wetan (Indramayu) and Kragan (Rembang).

World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers.

An Imperial Japanese Army ammunition dump explodes at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94.

Aviator Charles Lindbergh's 20-month-old son Charles Jr is kidnapped from his home in East Amwell, New Jersey. His body would not be found until May 12.

The Australian cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong becomes the first team to complete a whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years.

Following mass protests in Petrograd demanding greater freedom in the RSFSR, the Kronstadt rebellion begins, with sailors and citizens taking up arms against the Bolsheviks.

March 1st Movement begins in Korea under Japanese rule.

The Zimmermann Telegram is reprinted in newspapers across the United States after the U.S. government releases its unencrypted text.

China joins the Universal Postal Union.

The deadliest avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.

The Australian Army is formed.

Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.

Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay.

Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.

Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park.

The victorious Prussian Army parades through Paris, France, after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.

Marshal F. S. López dies during the Battle of Cerro Corá thus marking the end of the Paraguayan War.

Nebraska is admitted as the 37th U.S. state.

United States President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.

A convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to deliberate independence from Mexico.

Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba.

Leaders of the Mamluk dynasty are killed by Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali.

Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted at the end of his impeachment trial before the U.S. Senate.

The Dutch East India Company is nationalized by the Batavian Republic.

The Articles of Confederation goes into effect in the United States.

Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.