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Post #231723 2.34K Sep 6, 2026, 23:48 UTC

Hackers have withdrawn ~4k BTC (~$320M) from the Liquid Federation wallet
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X (formerly Twitter) Liquid Network 🌊 (@Liquid_BTC) on X We are aware of a security incident on @Liquid_BTC. Purported white-hat hackers have withdrawn ~4,000 BTC (~$320 million) from the Liquid Federation wallet. The @Blockstream team is working on con…

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Post #231722 2.22K Sep 6, 2026, 23:30 UTC

Political meddling at the Census Bureau damages the US statistical system
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PIIE Political meddling at the Census Bureau damages the entire US statistical system This summer marks the worst period for US statistical integrity since President Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last August. Two different and seemingly uncoordinated events at the Census Bureau raised alarms about inappropriate…

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Post #231721 2.43K Sep 6, 2026, 23:18 UTC

Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes
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Austinhenley Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes I challenged myself to make a tiny subset of Python in C.

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Post #231720 2.31K Sep 6, 2026, 22:12 UTC

Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings
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arXiv.org Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings We introduce the first method for translating text embeddings from one vector space to another without any paired data, encoders, or predefined sets of matches. Our unsupervised approach...

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Post #231719 2.43K Sep 6, 2026, 21:28 UTC

Show HN: VODForge – a free local desktop UI for YouTube video/playlist downloads
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VODForge VODForge: Your media. Your way. Save YouTube video and audio, build your local library, and watch it your way. Free, open-source YouTube downloader for Mac and Windows.

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Post #231718 2.38K Sep 6, 2026, 21:13 UTC

Show HN: Agentic OS: one Rust Linux binary, one SQLite and sandbox per entity
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GitHub GitHub - mmeyerlein/meclaw: Where agents build agents. An agentic build system for agentic systems. Ontology-grounded, auditable… Where agents build agents. An agentic build system for agentic systems. Ontology-grounded, auditable, one Rust binary. - mmeyerlein/meclaw

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Post #231717 2.38K Sep 6, 2026, 20:51 UTC

GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard
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GrapheneOS Mastodon GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social) We're well into the process of converting the Messaging app included in GrapheneOS into a modern app. We'll be making a new release later today with a completely overhauled user interface written in Android Compose. We've made a massive amount of other improvements…

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Post #231716 2.36K Sep 6, 2026, 20:48 UTC

They're Made Out of Meat
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Post #231715 2.42K Sep 6, 2026, 20:48 UTC

It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
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anubis.techaro.lol It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis | Anubis After a year of work, hundreds of commits, 5 generations of pull requests, dozens of tests, rewriting part of Anubis in Rust, the first compiler bug of my career, and at least three times making my tower run out of ram I think I have finally done it. The…

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Post #231714 2.41K Sep 6, 2026, 20:48 UTC

Show HN: Mador – Make any DOM reactive with a tiny 80-line Proxy state tuple
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GitHub GitHub - marsbos/mador: Make Any DOM Reactive Make Any DOM Reactive. Contribute to marsbos/mador development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Post #231713 2.49K Sep 6, 2026, 20:03 UTC

The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and without CarPlay
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A Whole Lotta Nothing The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and without CarPlay and the results are not shocking A couple years ago, GM made waves by saying that soon, all their new cars would be completely free of Apple's CarPlay and Android Auto support, instead opting for the "Android Automotive OS" in their cars. Admittedly, I'm a huge fan of CarPlay for basic…

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Post #231712 2.45K Sep 6, 2026, 19:16 UTC

Recreating Minecraft Is Not a Benchmark
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ᨒ MindDump Recreating Minecraft is Not a Benchmark GPT Astra released a couple of days ago and, inevitably, within the hour my entire feed was the same five things: recreating Minecraft in one prompt, painting themselves in MS Paint, ...

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Post #231711 2.42K Sep 6, 2026, 19:13 UTC

Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one
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kepter.app Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one Every way to find a file on a Mac assumes you remember something about it. Why that fails, and the drawer app that came out of fixing friends' Macs.

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Post #231710 2.67K Sep 6, 2026, 18:48 UTC

Nitter is unarchived and will continue
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GitHub Update README - Nitter lives · zedeus/nitter@1428b4c Alternative Twitter front-end. Contribute to zedeus/nitter development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Post #231709 2.44K Sep 6, 2026, 18:16 UTC

2026 Hugo Awards
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The Hugo Award The Official Site of The Hugo Award

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Post #231708 2.7K Sep 6, 2026, 18:08 UTC

Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue
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GitHub GitHub - zedeus/nitter: Alternative Twitter front-end Alternative Twitter front-end. Contribute to zedeus/nitter development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Post #231707 2.5K Sep 6, 2026, 18:05 UTC

Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
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OpenAI Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI Inside OpenAI, coding agents are reshaping AI research. Explore early data on agent usage, experiment velocity, task complexity, and research acceleration.

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Post #231706 2.62K Sep 6, 2026, 17:31 UTC

Any Nix package, live in the browser
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Farid Zakaria’s Blog Any Nix package, live in your browser tl;dr Try it at https://trynix.dev. Click hello, or python 3.6.2 from 2017, or two eras of hello at once, or a package that exists in no public cache. A Linux machine boots in the tab and you get a shell with those Nix packages on PATH.

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Post #231705 2.49K Sep 6, 2026, 17:22 UTC

OpenAI: We monitor internal coding agents for misalignment
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OpenAI How we monitor internal coding agents for misalignment How OpenAI uses chain-of-thought monitoring to study misalignment in internal coding agents—analyzing real-world deployments to detect risks and strengthen AI safety safeguards.

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Post #231704 2.46K Sep 6, 2026, 16:45 UTC

An Alien Mind
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OpenAI An Alien Mind Jakub Pachocki reflects on increasingly capable AI and the challenge of keeping it aligned. He calls for stronger safeguards and international coordination.

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