Keep Android Open

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F-Droid users were misled into thinking Google canceled plans to lock down Android, but the plans are still scheduled. F-Droid is raising awareness about the issue with a banner in their app and website.

Turn Dependabot Off

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The author criticizes Dependabot for generating unnecessary security alerts and recommends using govulncheck and scheduled GitHub Actions to filter out irrelevant alerts.

Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI

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Announcement We are happy to announce that ggml.ai (the founding team of llama.cpp) are joining Hugging Face in order to keep future AI truly open. Georgi and team are joining HF with the goal of s...

I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer

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A diving instructor discovered a critical vulnerability in a major diving insurer's member portal, exposing personal data of students, including minors, due to incrementing numeric user IDs and static default passwords. The organization responded with legal threats and an NDA, rather than gratitude and a plan to notify affected users, highlighting a common issue in the security research ...
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Wikipedia editors have decided to deprecate Archive.today due to its involvement in a DDoS attack and altering archived webpages. Over 695,000 links to Archive.today will be removed and replaced with other archive sites.

OpenScan

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OpenScan offers affordable, open-source 3D scanners for everyone. Our community-driven project combines photogrammetry with modular hardware to create high-quality 3D models. From hobbyists to professionals, OpenScan empowers users worldwide to explore 3D scanning in various fields. Join us in making 3D scanning accessible and push the boundaries of digital preservation and creation.

Facebook is cooked

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User logged into Facebook after 8 years and found their feed filled with AI-generated thirst traps and spam, but also some genuine content and memes. They were shocked by the extent of the algorithmic feed's focus on engagement bait and decided to leave the platform.

Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization

Free search across 91,000+ US mines from the MSHA open dataset. Filter by state, commodity, mine type, and operator. Mine locations, production history, and employee data — updated weekly.

Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet

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Using blue light filters at night may not be effective in improving sleep due to their limited ability to reduce light intake, and other methods such as using dark mode, dimming screen brightness, and increasing daytime light exposure can be more beneficial. Controlling light intake and exposure can help regulate the body's circadian rhythm, and taking the right dose of melatonin supplements ...

Making frontier cybersecurity capabilities available to defenders

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Claude Code Security scans codebases for security vulnerabilities and suggests patches for human review. It uses AI to detect novel vulnerabilities and reduce the risk of attacks by allowing teams to find and fix issues before they are exploited.

Lil' Fun Langs

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The user discusses various small programming languages, including Iota, tinylisp, milliForth, and Fractran, and highlights notable examples of ML-style languages such as Haskell, Elm, and OCaml. They also mention several implementations of functional languages, including Write You a Haskell, Implementing Functional Languages, and The ZINC experiment, showcasing their capability-to-size ratio ...

Uncovering insiders and alpha on Polymarket with AI

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Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court

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The Supreme Court ruled against President Trump's ability to impose tariffs, citing Congress's power to do so. This decision represents a rare check on Trump's executive authority.

Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company

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Companies building AI assistants are now funded by advertising, creating a collision course with always-on devices that see and hear everything. Local on-device inference is the only way to prevent data exploitation, requiring a business model based on hardware and software sales, not data collection.

The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)

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Taalas developed a platform to transform AI models into custom silicon, resulting in faster, cheaper, and lower power hardware. Their first product, a hard-wired Llama 3.1 8B, achieves 10X faster performance, 20X lower cost, and 10X lower power consumption than current state-of-the-art solutions.

How to Review an AUR Package

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The Arch Linux team removed malware from the AUR and explained how to review PKGBUILD files to prevent future malicious uploads. Reviewers should check the sources, functions, and scripts in PKGBUILD files to ensure they are trustworthy and follow best practices.

Legion Health (YC) Is Hiring Cracked SWEs for Autonomous Mental Health

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Legion is hiring a Founding Engineer to design and build the backend infrastructure for its psychiatric practice, including AI agents and workflows. The ideal candidate is a strong systems engineer who can learn fast, make decisions, and grow into owning backend/agent systems.

Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI

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Download the latest DMG from the Releases page, open it, and drag the app to Applications. That's it — no Xcode or developer tools needed.

I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs

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WikiLeaks' Vault7 revealed a CIA developer tip to clean stale git branches using git branch --merged, grep, and xargs. This command helps keep local branches organized by deleting merged branches except the current one.

FCC asks stations for "pro-America" programming, like daily Pledge of Allegiance

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FCC Chairman Brendan Carr urged broadcasters to air patriotic programming in support of America's 250th birthday. The "Pledge America Campaign" is voluntary but may be seen as a way for Carr to enforce public interest standards.

Untapped Way to Learn a Codebase: Build a Visualizer

The author learns an unfamiliar codebase by starting with a bug report, reducing it to a minimal case, and understanding the code involved in the bug. They use visualization to see how the code flows through the system.

The Popper Principle

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Karl Popper's theory of fallibilism revolutionized science by focusing on disproving theories rather than proving them. Popper's critique of Plato's totalitarian ideology in "The Open Society and Its Enemies" exposed the dangers of a closed society that arrests all change.

Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking

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The author visits San Francisco and notices a city where people are obsessed with AI and startups, with ads everywhere promoting B2B services for entrepreneurs. The author meets Roy Lee, the founder of Cluely, a startup that uses AI to assist people in their work, but whose true intentions and personality are more complex and disturbing.

The Essential Economics of Nigeria's Okrika Industry (2023)

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Deeply rooted in Nigeria’s culture and commerce, Okrika (thrift clothes) is a vital source of affordable clothing for many Nigerians. A looming ban on Okrika is set to change not just Nigeria’s fashion industry but life in Nigeria as we know it. Citing health, economic and sustainability concerns, on 8 June 2023, the Nigeria Customs Service announced the Federal Government’s intention to ban ...

Escaping Misconfigured VSCode Extensions (2023)

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TL;DR: This two-part blog series will cover how I found and disclosed three vulnerabilities in VSCode extensions and one vulnerability in VSCode itself (a security mitigation bypass assigned CVE-2022-41042 and awarded a $7,500 bounty). We will identify the underlying cause of each vulnerability and create fully working exploits to demonstrate how an attacker could have compromised your ...

PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months

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PayPal notified customers of a data breach after a software error exposed sensitive info for nearly 6 months. The breach affected small business loan app users, with exposed info including Social Security numbers.

AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton

Companies that treat AI as an extension of their workforce, amplifying human capability, see transformative results. The AI exoskeleton model, where AI handles scale and humans interpret meaning, is a more effective approach than autonomous agents.

Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024)

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The user shares their 4-year experience leading infrastructure at a startup, highlighting key decisions made and lessons learned, including choosing AWS over GCP, using EKS over ECS, and leveraging tools like Terraform, Notion, and PagerDuty. They emphasize the importance of simplicity, flexibility, and automation in infrastructure management, and provide recommendations for tools and ...

Raspberry Pi Pico 2 at 873.5MHz with 3.05V Core Abuse

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The RP2350 chip in the Pico 2 can be overclocked to 873.5MHz with a 3.05V core voltage. Diminishing returns are seen above 700MHz, and the chip remains hardy despite extreme temperatures and high voltages.

Consistency diffusion language models: Up to 14x faster, no quality loss

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Natalia sold clips to 48 of her friends in April, and then she sold half as many clips in May. To find the total number of clips Natalia sold in April and May, we need to calculate the number of clips she sold in May first. Since she sold half as many clips in May as in April, we can find the number of clips she sold in May by dividing the number of clips she sold in April by 2.