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Post #231823 2.29K Sep 8, 2026, 16:40 UTC

US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them
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the Guardian US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them Exclusive: Documents show officers from Maine to California worry Meta’s camera-equipped glasses will be used either to secretly record them or aid acts of terrorism

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Post #231822 2.11K Sep 8, 2026, 16:40 UTC

C*: Unifying Programming and Verification in C
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arXiv.org C*: Unifying Programming and Verification in C Ensuring the correct functionality of systems software, given its safety-critical and low-level nature, is a primary focus in formal verification research and applications. Despite advances in...

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Post #231821 2.27K Sep 8, 2026, 16:28 UTC

Why I'm Not Excited About the Graphene OS and Motorola Partnership
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Switched to Linux Podcast "Why I'm Not Excited About the Graphene OS and Motorola Partnership" “GrapheneOS has entered into a partnership with Motorola to create phones for the custom Android version, but I have a lot of questions and concerns. This is why I am not excited about this partnership.”

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Post #231820 2.11K Sep 8, 2026, 15:56 UTC

Disappointed Optimists
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Christina Wodtke Disappointed Optimists Every time I give a talk on design, someone finds me afterward. They wait out the handshakes and the business cards, and then they ask a version of the same question. How do I make THEM do things the

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Post #231819 2.13K Sep 8, 2026, 15:48 UTC

Reverse engineering the 2008 LogiCola, a logic drill program
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logicola.org Back to the original formula Building LogiCola's new design language from what I found reverse-engineering the 2008 original.

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Post #231818 2.13K Sep 8, 2026, 15:46 UTC

Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses
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Quesma Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses - Quesma Blog I test Unsloth GGUFs of Qwen3.8 27B (Q4_K_M, UD-Q2_K_XL, UD-IQ1_S) with llama.cpp on GPQA Diamond, IFBench, Terminal-Bench 2.1. Q4_K_M matches BF16 abd fits an RTX 4090.

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Post #231817 2.04K Sep 8, 2026, 15:39 UTC

Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake Support for Merger
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Techdirt Paramount Caught Using ‘Astroturf’ Group To Drum Up Fake Support For Merger We’ve well established how the $111 billion Paramount and Warner Brothers merger is terrible for labor, creatives, consumers, and markets. But the kind of behaviors Paramount leadership have …

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Post #231816 2.12K Sep 8, 2026, 15:31 UTC

DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits
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404 Media A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans’ Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over 404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.

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Post #231815 2.08K Sep 8, 2026, 15:29 UTC

I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop your coding agent from burying the answer
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GitHub GitHub - ayghri/i-have-adhd: A skill to stop your coding agent from burying the answer. ADHD-friendly output. A skill to stop your coding agent from burying the answer. ADHD-friendly output. - ayghri/i-have-adhd

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Post #231814 2.07K Sep 8, 2026, 15:08 UTC

The two Christian saints who are the Buddha
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Signore Galilei The two Christian saints who are secretly the Buddha Let me tell you the story of saints Barlaam and Josaphat of India. A king named Abenner, who persecutes Christians, hears from his court astrologers that his son will attain great power and rule ov…

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Post #231813 2.04K Sep 8, 2026, 15:05 UTC

Google DeepMind Releases AlphaGenome Atlas
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Google AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA We’re introducing AlphaGenome Atlas, a database predicting the effects of every possible single nucleotide variant in the human genome.

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Post #231812 2.02K Sep 8, 2026, 15:02 UTC

ZX Spectrum: Experimenting with 1-Bit Sound
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Bumbershoot Software ZX Spectrum: Experimenting With 1-Bit Sound As part of the ZX Spectrum tour, I implemented some routines that would let you play simple tones out of the 1-bit beeper. These were in large part inspired by earlier work I did on the Apple II. W…

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Post #231811 2.01K Sep 8, 2026, 14:56 UTC

How Climate Resilient Are the Largest Cities?
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AlphaGeo How Climate Resilient Are the World’s Largest Cities? AlphaGeo’s analysis of 72 major cities shows that climate resilience depends not only on exposure, but on the strength of adaptation in place. Using CRRI, the report identifies where policy, infrastructure, and investment are reducing residual risk — and…

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Post #231810 2.03K Sep 8, 2026, 14:52 UTC

PyPI Blog: Incident File Hosting Errors
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blog.pypi.org Incident Report: File Hosting Errors - The Python Package Index Blog For two weeks in August 2026, some PyPI users hit intermittent 502 and 503 errors downloading files. Here's what was happening, and what we changed.

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Post #231809 2.32K Sep 8, 2026, 14:44 UTC

We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person
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McSweeney's Internet Tendency Why We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person “I didn’t think a full, six-day-per-week, fourteen-hour-per-day, in-office schedule was necessary to discharge my duties clicking the ‘generate’ button, foll...

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Post #231808 2.26K Sep 8, 2026, 14:42 UTC

An overview of how our family is prepared
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michaelharley.net An overview of how our family is prepared Richmond keeps throwing water problems at us, so we've built our preps around that instead of the zombie apocalypse stuff. What does your local threat model look like?

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Post #231807 2.78K Sep 8, 2026, 14:13 UTC

LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features
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Post #231806 2.39K Sep 8, 2026, 13:52 UTC

DaVinci Resolve 21.1
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Blackmagicdesign Media | Blackmagic Design

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Post #231805 2.54K Sep 8, 2026, 13:43 UTC

Why AI-generated slopaganda works
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www.machinesociety.ai Why AI-generated slopaganda works The fact that AI can create convincing fakes is not why it’s such a powerful tool of disinformation. Other attributes matter more.

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Post #231804 2.59K Sep 8, 2026, 13:39 UTC

Show HN: Copperhead – Hardware as Fast as Software
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copperhead copperhead. Cursor for circuit boards. An open-source AI agent that designs, documents and validates real PCBs from a prompt.

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