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Post #232843 2.14K Sep 25, 2026, 09:43 UTC

Tech Needs Humanists More
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passo.uno Tech needs humanists more than ever Whoever speaks badly, thinks badly and lives badly. We must find the right words: words are important! —Nanni Moretti A reader reached out to me the other day to talk about the future of tech writing as a profession. They asked me a pretty good question:…

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Post #232842 2.08K Sep 25, 2026, 09:26 UTC

The last day of the dinosaurs, as an interactive painting
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echohive The Last Day: Step into the age of dinosaurs An interactive 2.5D dinosaur painting made by Opus 5.5. Explore seven movements with parallax, a synchronized soundtrack, pinch zoom and fullscreen.

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Post #232841 2.07K Sep 25, 2026, 09:25 UTC

Special Projects (2016)
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OpenAI Special projects Impactful scientific work requires working on the right problems—problems which are not just interesting, but whose solutions matter.

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Post #232840 2.28K Sep 25, 2026, 09:08 UTC

Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS
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Post #232839 2.29K Sep 25, 2026, 09:07 UTC

Jev Based Code Review
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GitHub GitHub - egma-ai/jev-code-reviewer: Review behavior, not just diffs. Jev prioritizes human attention; OpenAI explains the changes.… Review behavior, not just diffs. Jev prioritizes human attention; OpenAI explains the changes. Local CLI + agent skill + GitHub extension. - egma-ai/jev-code-reviewer

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Post #232838 2.29K Sep 25, 2026, 08:35 UTC

Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini
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nyaa.sh Mac Mini M6: Retro PC Emulation with 86Box (600MHz PII?!) The best platform for cycle-accurate retro PC emulation may just be the Mac. The M6 achieved a stable 600MHz clock using a 6.0 derived 86Box build.

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Post #232837 2.28K Sep 25, 2026, 07:42 UTC

The Efficiency-Throughput Gap with GitHub Copilot
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Post #232836 2.4K Sep 25, 2026, 07:18 UTC

CVE-2025-13032: Entering and Breaking the Avast Antivirus Sandbox Part 2
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SAFA CVE-2025-13032: Entering and Breaking the Avast Antivirus Sandbox Part 2 SAFA details the full exploitation of CVE-2025-13032, turning a double-fetch vulnerability in Avast's kernel driver into a local privilege escalation to SYSTEM on Windows 11.

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Post #232835 2.36K Sep 25, 2026, 05:33 UTC

Goodbye Google
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Post #232834 2.5K Sep 25, 2026, 02:39 UTC

Jev and System One Models: Calibration Beats Accuracy
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Kartik Pansuriya Jev and System One Models: Calibration Beats Accuracy An ML engineer's read on TypeSafe AI's Jev: what a non-autoregressive System One model changes for production classifiers, where it fits, and how I plan to test it.

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Post #232833 2.46K Sep 25, 2026, 01:21 UTC

Is A.I. Above the Law?
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The New Yorker Is A.I. Above the Law? Our legal system isn’t ready for machines that act on their own.

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Post #232832 2.47K Sep 24, 2026, 23:17 UTC

New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators
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Ars Technica New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators Million-dollar fines won’t end billionaires’ data center pollution, neighbors fear.

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Post #232831 2.34K Sep 24, 2026, 23:16 UTC

GitLab Outage
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Gitlab GitLab System Status This status page is exclusively intended for monitoring GitLab.com and its associated services. If there are any performance or service interruptions, an update will be posted here. If you are experiencing an issue that is not related to an active GitLab.com…

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Post #232830 2.4K Sep 24, 2026, 23:15 UTC

Back and shoulder surgery is often worse than useless
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The Economist Back and shoulder surgery is often worse than useless Millions of operations should be scrapped

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Post #232829 2.91K Sep 24, 2026, 22:05 UTC

California is chasing wealth that has feet
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blog.landeconomics.org California Is Chasing Wealth That Has Feet California has $8.14 trillion in land sitting right under its feet. It's chasing billionaires instead.

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Post #232828 2.15K Sep 24, 2026, 21:52 UTC

Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance
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Post #232827 2.22K Sep 24, 2026, 21:29 UTC

Security headers on 4,688 small-business websites: 49.7% met none of 7 criteria
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RACKCRUNCH Security Headers Study 2026: Local Businesses | RACKCRUNCH We scanned 7,040 directory-listed U.S. local-business websites for security headers. Half met none of seven criteria. Full report, data and code.

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Post #232826 2.14K Sep 24, 2026, 21:25 UTC

Vibe Coding Production Kit – a production workflow for AI coding agents
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GitHub GitHub - Moeeryani/Vibe-Coding-Production-Kit: Production-grade vibe coding framework with specs, architecture, AI agents, testing… Production-grade vibe coding framework with specs, architecture, AI agents, testing, security, code review, CI/CD, and battle-tested workflows — from idea to production. - Moeeryani/Vibe-Coding-Pro...

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Post #232825 2.04K Sep 24, 2026, 21:18 UTC

The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014)
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Grantland The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds It was the summer of 1909. I was on the south coast of Spain. I remember it well because the season was almost over. Peace was within reach, I felt. There had been a vote to end the war, and the English had told me to support it. But the vote needed to be…

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Post #232824 2.9K Sep 24, 2026, 21:13 UTC

AI safety is mostly a sex cult in Berkeley
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www.verysane.ai AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In Berkeley, California We might some day have “AI Safety”, as a science or policy area, that is not primarily a sex cult in Berkeley, California, but it does not currently exist.

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