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Bluementhals letter about ICE memo justifying entry into homes without warrant [pdf]
hsgac.senate.gov
Significant US farm losses persist, despite federal assistance
fb.org

While FBA and ECAP payments are an important and welcome step in addressing near-term financial stress, they do not fully close the gap between costs and returns.

Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections
blog.citp.princeton.edu

Andrew Appel - All internet voting systems are insecure. The insecurity is worse than a well-run conventional paper ballot system, because a very small number of people may have the power to change any (or all) votes that go through the system, without detection.

I'll pass on your zoom call
operand.online
Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
jamf.com

Jamf Threat Labs uncovers North Korean hackers exploiting VS Code to deploy backdoor malware via malicious Git repositories in the Contagious Interview campaign

From stealth blackout to whitelisting: Inside the Iranian shutdown
kentik.com

Iran is in the midst of one of the world’s most severe communications blackouts. This post uses Kentik data to detail how this historic event unfolded, where this event lies in the context of previous Iranian shutdowns, and finally discusses what might be in store next for Iran.

Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete
huggingface.co
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We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Convert potentially dangerous PDFs to safe PDFs
github.com/freedomofpress

Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to safe PDFs - freedomofpress/dangerzone

Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant
media.mit.edu

Nataliya Kos'myna - This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and …

Immigration officers assert power to enter homes without a warrant
apnews.com

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.

TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB
terabytedeals.com
What if AI is both good and not that disruptive?
deadneurons.substack.com

Dead Neurons - The moderate case on AI

eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update
valueaddedresource.net

eBay bans AI “buy for me” agents & LLM scrapers, updates arbitration & dispute resolution rules in User Agreement update effective Feb. 20, 2026.

Spotify won court order against Anna's Archive, taking down .org domain
arstechnica.com

Lawsuit was filed under seal; Anna's Archive wasn't notified until after takedown.

FreeBSD
docs.freebsd.org

A constantly evolving, comprehensive resource for FreeBSD users

OpenAI API Logs: Unpatched data exfiltration
promptarmor.com

OpenAI’s API log viewer is vulnerable to a data exfiltration attack, exposing apps and agents that use OpenAI APIs, even if developers (and Agent Builder users) leverage all available defenses. The vulnerability was disclosed to OpenAI, but was closed with the status 'Not applicable' after 4 follow-ups.

Ask HN: How are you automating your coding work?
news.ycombinator.com
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Setting Up a Cluster of Tiny PCs for Parallel Computing
kenkoonwong.com

Enjoyed learning the process of setting up a cluster of tiny PCs for parallel computing. A note to myself on installing Ubuntu, passwordless SSH, automating package installation across nodes, distributing R simulations, and comparing CV5 vs CV10 performance. Fun project!

Linux from Scratch
linuxfromscratch.org
TeraWave Satellite Communications Network
blueorigin.com
Show HN: Rails UI
railsui.com
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railsui.com - Professionally designed UI components & templates made exclusively for Ruby on Rails

Hate is a strong word, but I don't like Windows 11
blog.urara.pl

I regretted installing Win11 from the very start. It seemed slow, buggy, and lacked some Win10 features I liked and used. What, I can't put a taskbar where I like it (on the left side of the screen)? Why is File Explorer so slow? What is this annoying clicking while

Tell HN: Amazon has deactivated my seller account
news.ycombinator.com
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GenAI, the snake eating its own tail
ybrikman.com

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT and Claude have two superpowers. The first superpower is a boon: they can dramatically increase ...

Scientists find a way to regrow cartilage in mice and human tissue samples
sciencedaily.com

Scientists at Stanford Medicine have discovered a treatment that can reverse cartilage loss in aging joints and even prevent arthritis after knee injuries. By blocking a protein linked to aging, the therapy restored healthy, shock-absorbing cartilage in old mice and injured joints, dramatically improving movement and joint function. Human cartilage samples from knee replacement surgeries also began regenerating when

Show HN: Company hiring trends and insights from job postings
jobswithgpt.com
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illumos
illumos.org
Slouching Towards Bethlehem – Joan Didion (1967)
saturdayeveningpost.com

Joan Didion - In her transformative essay from 1967, Joan Didion takes a closer look at the dark side of the Haight-Ashbury counterculture during the Summer of Love.

Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi
blog.kagi.com
TrustTunnel: AdGuard VPN protocol goes open-source
adguard-vpn.com

Today is a big day for us, and for everyone who cares about transparency, privacy, and having full control over their own traffic. We’re finally open-sourcing the protocol that powers AdGuard VPN. And it now has a name: TrustTunnel.

Open source server code for the BitCraft MMORPG
github.com/clockworklabs

The open source server code for the BitCraft MMORPG - clockworklabs/BitCraftPublic

Challenges in join optimization
starrocks.io

The engineering choices that turn joins into a strength. A deep dive with real-world case studies.

PicoPCMCIA – a PCMCIA development board for retro-computing enthusiasts
yyzkevin.com
European lawmakers suspend U.S. trade deal
cnbc.com
JPEG XL Test Page
tildeweb.nl
Three types of LLM workloads and how to serve them
modal.com

The three types of LLM workloads and how to serve them

Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday
news.ycombinator.com
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Claude's new constitution
anthropic.com

A new approach to a foundational document that expresses and shapes who Claude is

SmartOS
docs.smartos.org
Skip is now free and open source
skip.dev
Show HN: yolo-cage – AI coding agents that can't exfiltrate secrets
github.com/borenstein
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AI coding agents that can't exfiltrate secrets or merge their own PRs. - borenstein/yolo-cage

Show HN: See the carbon impact of your cloud as you code
dashboard.infracost.io
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Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)
github.com/ChartGPU
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Beautiful, open source, WebGPU-based charting library - ChartGPU/ChartGPU

Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback
404media.co

The famed convention's organizers have banned AI from the art show.

Uber Faces Growing Pressure over Sexual Assault Record
nytimes.com
Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages
theregister.com

: Its very own Snooper’s Charter comes a month after proposed biometric tech expansion

Tell HN: 2 years building a kids audio app as a solo dev – lessons learned
news.ycombinator.com
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How AI destroys institutions
cyberlaw.stanford.edu

Civic institutions—the rule of law, universities, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life. They are the mechanisms through which complex societies encourage cooperation and stability, while also adapting to changing circumstances. The real superpower of institutions is their ability to evolve and adapt within a hierarchy

Canada Announces Divorce from America
charlotteclymer.substack.com

Charlotte Clymer - And rightly so.

Swedish Alecta has sold off an estimated $8B of US Treasury Bonds
di.se

Pensionsjätten Alecta har dumpat merparten av sina amerikanska statsobligationer. Enligt vad Di erfar handlar det om försäljningar i storleksordningen 70-80…

Nested code fences in Markdown
susam.net
Vibecoding #2
matklad.github.io
Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated in real time (2024)
github.com/vitoplantamura

List of stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated in real time. - vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals

Nukeproof: Manifesto for European Data Sovereignty
nukeproof.org

Join the alliance building a strategic coalition for Europe's digital independence. Break free from hyperscaler control and reclaim European data sovereignty.

The super-slow conversion of the U.S. to metric (2025)
thefabricator.com
Parliament tells Dutch government to keep DigiD data out of American hands
nltimes.nl

A parliamentary majority has asked the current caretaker and upcoming new Cabinet to do everything in their power to prevent Dutch DigiD data from ending up in the United States government’s hands.

EU inc: a new European company structure
ec.europa.eu

President Brende, dear Børge, thank you very much for the warm welcome.\nYour Majesties,\nExcellencies,\nLadies and Gentlemen,\nIt is now 55 years since the first meeting here in Davos. The idea of the fo

EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity
eu-inc.org

EU–INC is a proposal for a pan-European standardized legal entity to unlock pan-European startup scaling.

Belarus begins a death penalty purge of radio amateurs
steanlab.medium.com
EU chief says EU should abandon caution after Bessent calls Denmark 'irrelevant'
theguardian.com

Scott Bessent replied to a question on Danish investments by saying that ‘Denmark’s investment in US treasury bonds, like Denmark itself, is irrelevant’

I made Zig compute 33M satellite positions in 3 seconds
atempleton.bearblog.dev

I've spent the past month optimizing SGP4 propagation and ended up with something interesting: is now the I'm aware of, hitting in native Zig and with ju...

SETI@home is in hiberation
setiathome.berkeley.edu
Director Gore Verbinski: Unreal Engine is the greatest slip backwards for movie
pcgamer.com

Do visual effects look worse than they used to? The director of Pirates of the Caribbean says Unreal is the culprit.

Can you slim macOS down?
eclecticlight.co

In a quest to reduce the number of processes running in macOS Tahoe, consider the example of Time Machine backups, which can easily be replaced by 3rd party alternatives.

EU Parliament freezes US trade deal ratification
lemonde.fr

By delaying ratification, European lawmakers signal their discontent as the bloc debates possible responses, including retaliatory tariffs, should Washington follow through on its warnings.

The percentage of Show HN posts is increasing, but their scores are decreasing
snubi.net
The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns
nibzard.com
cURL removes bug bounties
etn.se
Libbbf: Bound Book Format, A high-performance container for comics and manga
github.com/ef1500

Bound Book Format: A high-performance, DirectStorage-native container format for comics and manga - ef1500/libbbf

Disaster planning for regular folks (2015)
lcamtuf.coredump.cx
Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced
github.com/anthropics

Anthropic's original performance take-home, now open for you to try! - anthropics/original_performance_takehome

RSS.Social – the latest and best from small sites across the web
rss.social
Carney says old world order 'is not coming back'
bbc.com

Canada's prime minister said powerful countries are using economic weapons to pursue their interests, while affirming support for Greenland and Nato.

Verizon starts requiring 365 days of paid service before it will unlock phones
arstechnica.com

Verizon changed prepaid brands' policy a week after FCC waived unlocking rule.

Full Transcript of Carney's Speech to World Economic Forum
globalnews.ca

Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech in Davos, Switzerland, on the 'new world order' and how middle powers like Canada can benefit by working together.

Who owns Rudolph's nose?
creativelawcenter.com
Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's flickering in terminal
github.com/davidbeesley

Contribute to davidbeesley/claude-chill development by creating an account on GitHub.

DOGE employees may have improperly accessed social security data, DOJ says
axios.com
Steam "Offline" status leaks exact login timestamps (Valve: Won't Fix)
xmrcat.org
California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years
latimes.com

After experiencing one of the wettest holiday seasons on record, still soggy California hit a major milestone this week — having zero areas of abnormal dryness for the first time in 25 years.

Lunar Radio Telescope to Unlock Cosmic Mysteries
spectrum.ieee.org

A radio telescope on the moon's far side could change our understanding of the universe. Learn how LuSEE-Night plans to listen to the cosmos like never before.

Provably unmasking malicious behavior through execution traces
arxiv.org

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly generate code with minimal human oversight, raising critical concerns about backdoor injection and malicious behavior. We present Cross-Trace Verification Protocol (CTVP), a novel AI control framework that verifies untrusted code-generating models through semantic orbit analysis. Rather than directly executing potentially malicious code, CTVP leverages the model's own predict

Which AI Lies Best? A game theory classic designed by John Nash
so-long-sucker.vercel.app

lout33 - 162 games analyzed: AI deception is strategic, not intrinsic. Watch Gemini 3 create fake 'alliance banks' to betray GPT and Kimi, but cooperate perfectly with copies of itself.

The challenges of soft delete
atlas9.dev

Exploring alternatives to the archived_at column pattern: triggers, application events, and WAL-based change data capture.

The world of Japanese snack bars
bbc.com

Some 100,000 of these small dives are hidden in plain sight across Japan. Now, travellers are finally discovering these locals-only hangouts – and the beloved "mamas" who run them.

Show HN: Agent Skills Leaderboard
skills.sh
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Discover and install skills for AI agents.

A scammer's blueprint: How cybercriminals plot to rob a target in a week
reuters.com

Handbooks discovered in police raids detail how cyberfraud gangs groom victims for romance scams.

Tech workers ask their bosses to pressure Trump over ICE crackdowns
washingtonpost.com
Our approach to age prediction
openai.com
The secret medieval tunnels that we still don't understand
weirdmedievalguys.substack.com

weird medieval guys - The tantalising mystery of the erdstall

Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data
politico.com
Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge
theregister.com

: PwC survey finds more than half of 4,500+ biz leaders see no revenue growth nor cost savings

Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher
novalauncher.com
Much of the World Facing 'Water Bankruptcy,' U.N. Report Warns
e360.yale.edu
IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT
johnmaguire.me
Without benchmarking LLMs, you're likely overpaying
karllorey.com

We benchmarked 100+ models on our actual task and found a much cheaper alternative that works just as well.

Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One
press.stripe.com

An in-depth exploration of maintenance, and a powerful argument for its civilizational importance.

Immigration Agencies Are Openly Defying Federal Courts
lpeproject.org

Federal courts have overwhelmingly rejected the Trump Administration's radical expansion of mandatory detention. Despite this, ICE continues to arrest and detain tens of thousands of people each month…

When "likers'' go private: Engagement with reputationally risky content on X
arxiv.org

In June 2024, X/Twitter changed likes' visibility from public to private, offering a rare, platform-level opportunity to study how the visibility of engagement signals affects users' behavior. Here, we investigate whether hiding liker identities increases the number of likes received by high-reputational-risk content, content for which public endorsement may carry high social or reputational costs due to its topic (e

How Hightouch built their long-running agent harness
amplifypartners.com

A story of real context engineering: how Hightouch's engineers built a long running agent that smoothly handles sparse and open ended marketing tasks.

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