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Big Tech
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Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
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AI
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Don't paste the AI, please
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Web
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AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint
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Web
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HTML Can Do That
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AI
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AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
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Big Tech
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Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code
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Developer
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Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload
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AI
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Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device
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Startups
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CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s
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AI
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Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI
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AI
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Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM
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Developer
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Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)
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Open Source
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Linux 7.2
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AI
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Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam
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AI
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Scientific study reveals TikTok videos deactivate key cognitive brain regions
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AI
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Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU
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AI
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Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful
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AI
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I'm Becoming AI-Blind
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Web
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Small, native web tricks worth remembering
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AI
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Extensible Software in the age of LLMs
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Hardware
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What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x
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Open Source
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We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon
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Developer
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Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces
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AI
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AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: Study
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Developer
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I should have loved biology
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Developer
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Stop Eating Lady Gaga's Oreos
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Cloud
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Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges
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AI
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Claudette: Make Claude Stop Talking Like a BuzzFeed Article
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AI
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It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use
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AI
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AI didn't erase the junior engineer's value, it increased it it
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Developer
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There's no such thing as a small software team anymore
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Developer
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Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1
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Developer
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How to compromise your system with a job interview
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Developer
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The August 17 outage, and the work ahead
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Developer
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WPD won't replace stolen Flock cameras, citing public trust
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Developer
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Slack Code
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Developer
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DiffusionGemma Technical Report
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AI
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Hacking with Claude on a $27 smart watch
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Developer
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The Citizen Developer
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Developer
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Every Model Cheats
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Hardware
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Nvidia AVO scores 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 interactive reasoning benchmark
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AI
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Show HN: Check if any of the $656M in unclaimed royalties at The MLC is yours
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Developer
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Consumer Rights Wiki
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AI
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Could AIs Become Conscious?
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AI
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AI Boosted Homework Scores by 18% – Then Exam Scores Dropped 20%, Study Shows
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Developer
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Why Aren't Smart People Happier?
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Developer
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Generic Methods in Go 1.27
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Web
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Kino: A high-performance Ractor web server for Ruby 4.0
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Developer
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Show HN: Open-source Stripe Connect alternative
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Hardware
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I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip
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