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Post #232263 2.39K Sep 15, 2026, 12:40 UTC

25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough
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Schneier on Security 25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough - Schneier on Security This essay was written with Cindy Cohn, and originally appeared in Lawfare. One of the many legacies of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 is the government-wide shift from targeted surveillance—such as individual wiretaps or pen register/trap and trace orders—to…

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Post #232262 3.36K Sep 15, 2026, 12:04 UTC

Israeli Effective Altruism Firm Behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta Cyberattacks
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X (formerly Twitter) Brian Chau (@brianchau57) on X BREAKING: A single Israeli Effective Altruism firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta cyberattacks 🧵 with help from @lumpenspace

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Post #232261 2.4K Sep 15, 2026, 11:28 UTC

CSS-Tricks in Limbo
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Vale.Rocks CSS-Tricks in Limbo - 15 Sept 2026 01:35 UTC

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Post #232260 2.46K Sep 15, 2026, 10:45 UTC

Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption
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Bbc Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption Trains were cancelled or delayed on Tuesday after objects were found on tracks at multiple locations.

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Post #232259 2.37K Sep 15, 2026, 10:40 UTC

The k-server conjecture is true
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arXiv.org The $k$-server conjecture is true The $k$-server conjecture states that a deterministic online algorithm can achieve competitive ratio $k$ on every metric space. We prove the conjecture. Specifically, we show that the work...

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Post #232258 2.5K Sep 15, 2026, 10:29 UTC

US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons
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Bbc US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons The US Air Force Secretary says the weapons are necessary to defend the country against enemy action.

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Post #232257 2.47K Sep 15, 2026, 10:12 UTC

How much of F-Droid is LLM generated?
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tintotint's site How much of F-Droid is LLM generated? Investigating the use of LLMs in the Android FOSS community

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Post #232256 2.42K Sep 15, 2026, 10:10 UTC

Let's make quality the norm again
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Forbrukerrådet Let’s make quality the norm again A more circular economy is not only important for the environment. It can also strengthen consumer rights and improve societal resilience. In this report, we show how consumer policy can make circular choices easier, safer and more attractive for consumers.

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Post #232255 2.49K Sep 15, 2026, 10:03 UTC

Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3
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Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3

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Post #232254 2.63K Sep 15, 2026, 08:25 UTC

I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea
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Substack why I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea and what I think everyone should know about it When you talk about Papua New Guinea, people may say, oh, is that the place where:

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Post #232253 2.68K Sep 15, 2026, 06:29 UTC

Anthropic is in regulatory-capture financial loop
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X (formerly Twitter) Kevin Bass (@kevinnbass) on X The AI safety nonprofits around Anthropic promote an Anthropic-aligned Doomer narrative, whether Tarbell Fellows in popular media, or METR in evaluations. All rely on Moskovitz's Anthropic stock …

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Post #232252 2.59K Sep 15, 2026, 05:33 UTC

Linux from Scratch
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Post #232251 2.66K Sep 15, 2026, 04:45 UTC

Oil Executives Say the Great Fuel Crisis Is Here
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The Wall Street Journal Oil Executives Say the Great Fuel Crisis Is Here Trump officials say the oil-market disruption is temporary, but Chevron’s Mike Wirth and others warn global supplies are running low, with no respite in sight.

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Post #232250 2.53K Sep 15, 2026, 03:25 UTC

Ex-FTC boss Khan: break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent
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theregister Ex-FTC boss Khan urges Uncle Sam to break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent There are plenty of laws on the books to hold companies, and potentially their execs, accountable

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Post #232249 2.41K Sep 15, 2026, 03:22 UTC

Backprop Alternative: Augmented Lagrangian Predictive Coding
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Sakana AI Augmented Lagrangian Predictive Coding: training 1000-layer networks without backpropagation A local alternative to backpropagation. PC-ALM trains residual MLPs up to 1000 layers, nearly matching backprop's performance despite using only layer-local dynamics. PC-ALM equips each layer with a feedback control dynamical system that distributes and propagates…

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Post #232248 2.38K Sep 15, 2026, 02:47 UTC

Tell HN: iOS 27 does not allow Apple Intelligence to be disabled
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Post #232247 2.42K Sep 15, 2026, 02:31 UTC

Show HN: Sunk Cost – How long until a local LLM rig pays for itself?
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Sunk Cost How long until local AI pays for itself? — Sunk Cost Which open models fit your machine, how fast they run, and how many tokens it takes to pay back the hardware against an API. Honest enough to say never.

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Post #232246 2.25K Sep 15, 2026, 01:51 UTC

San Jose officer used Flock to help relative track domestic violence victim
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San Francisco Chronicle San Jose officer used Flock cameras to help relative track domestic violence victim, chief says A San Jose police officer allegedly accessed the department’s license-plate tracking system to monitor a victim of alleged domestic abuse and give Flock Safety camera information to his relative.

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Post #232245 2.2K Sep 15, 2026, 00:28 UTC

Dropping eBPF CPU Cost by About 90% with Memoization (Not AI Gen)
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nathan naveen Dropping eBPF CPU Cost by About 90% With Memoization (Not AI Gen) My brother and I spent a lot of time designing our eBPF security agent to be really fast from the ground up, but recently we discovered we could make it much faster using memoization! A couple of weeks ago, I profiled the eBPF code and found that the most…

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Post #232244 2.38K Sep 15, 2026, 00:24 UTC

I'm not addicted to the internet or my smartphone. I'm addicted to information
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explorator.dev Addiction At first, I thought I was addicted to internet forums. Then Facebook appeared and soon after I discovered Reddit, Hacker News, 9GAG, Instagram and other form...

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