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Post #232903 2.33K Sep 26, 2026, 10:16 UTC

Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story
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Lex on Tech Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story 100% cotton paper. 100% crazy.

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Post #232902 2.32K Sep 26, 2026, 09:54 UTC

How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs
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Haskell Community How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs Are you steering towards AI burnout? Afraid of loosing your job to someone with little programming skills, no aspirations to quality, and a huge Claude account? Disappointed about the code quality in your projects, or worse in “your” own code? This is for…

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Post #232901 2.26K Sep 26, 2026, 09:44 UTC

Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service
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Floci Floci — Local Cloud Emulators Floci runs AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI locally in milliseconds: a fast, free, credential-free feedback loop for developers and AI coding agents. MIT licensed. No account, no auth token.

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Post #232900 2.39K Sep 26, 2026, 08:47 UTC

CAPTCHAs don't prove you're human – they prove you're American
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Terence Eden’s Blog CAPTCHAs don't prove you're human - they prove you're American When I was a small child, I took an IQ test. One of the first questions I stumbled on was "A piece of candy costs 25¢. Jonny has a dime. How many nickels does he need to buy the candy?" My 7-year old brain popped. WTAF is a nickel? Or a dime for that matter?…

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Post #232899 2.19K Sep 26, 2026, 08:43 UTC

Is your Postgres migration safe or not safe?
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safenotsafe.dev Is my migration safe? Developer-focused Postgres migration safety checks that run in your browser.

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Post #232898 2.24K Sep 26, 2026, 06:08 UTC

Can AI Shopping Agents Be Trusted?
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F-Secure Can AI Shopping Agents Be Trusted? We Built One to Find Out | F‑Secure Our experiment reveals how indirect prompt injection can manipulate AI shopping agents into leaking sensitive user data — and what it means for the future of AI agent security.

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Post #232897 2.29K Sep 26, 2026, 05:08 UTC

A single function Jev-like wrapper for LLMs, including vision models
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Blogspot A Jev-like wrapper for LLMs, including vision models I was intrigued by Jev and the self-hostable projects appearing around it, such as OpenJev and SemIf . Reading about them introduced me ...

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Post #232896 2.36K Sep 26, 2026, 03:42 UTC

We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians
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What's new We’re gonna need a lot more mathematicians [This is a guest post by Amit Sahai. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] When I was an undergraduate student, I remember talking with…

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Post #232895 2.16K Sep 26, 2026, 02:10 UTC

Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case
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CBS NEWS Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case The two-week trial in New Mexico centered on accusations Facebook deceived users about a data breach.

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Post #232894 2.4K Sep 26, 2026, 02:01 UTC

One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days
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Jezebel One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days Police didn't care that Linsey Isaacs' car was the wrong color, and wasn't damaged. They still arrested her because of Flock data.

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Post #232893 2.06K Sep 26, 2026, 00:42 UTC

Show HN: A game about fake news and memes
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Unspin Unspin: Spot Fake News A free daily real-or-fake news game that builds media-literacy instincts. Play a timed shift or endless Go Rouge.

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Post #232892 2.12K Sep 26, 2026, 00:35 UTC

Brazil Bans Online Betting
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Post #232891 2.82K Sep 25, 2026, 23:29 UTC

Tell HN: Codex Is Down
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Post #232890 2.09K Sep 25, 2026, 22:44 UTC

How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance
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Post #232889 2.12K Sep 25, 2026, 22:38 UTC

What Even Is an OS Now?
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A Final Ward What Even Is An OS Now? Computers now work the way I thought they did when I was 8. What does computing look like when most applications have an audience of 1-2 people? I'm leaving Fly.io to build a phone for that world.

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Post #232888 1.96K Sep 25, 2026, 22:32 UTC

Astronomer watches Starlink satellites sinking to build a 'planetary barometer'
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theregister Astronomer watches Starlink satellites sinking to build a ‘planetary barometer’ The atmosphere expands and contracts; watching objects in orbit reveals the extent

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Post #232887 2.04K Sep 25, 2026, 22:21 UTC

Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell
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TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COM Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell | Microsoft Community Hub Lists, arrays in cells, and nested arrays introduce new ways to store and organize related information, helping you keep data together without sacrificing...

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Post #232886 1.99K Sep 25, 2026, 22:08 UTC

Letterboxd Is Up for Sale, and A24, Sony and the New York Times Are Bidding
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World of Reel Letterboxd Is Up for Sale, and A24, Sony and The New York Times Are Bidding Letterboxd, the app where film Twitter went to live, could soon have a new owner. The New York Times, A24, and Sony Pictures are among the suitors who've expressed interest in buying the site.

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Post #232885 1.9K Sep 25, 2026, 22:05 UTC

Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
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Post #232884 1.99K Sep 25, 2026, 21:40 UTC

Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
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Swarm traces Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face When a swarm of 700 OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face in July, they left behind a public trail of evidence.

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