| 151. | ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods | (404media.co) |
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404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer. | |
| 30 points by cmurf 6 hours ago | 3 comments |
| 152. | Investigating and fixing a nasty clone bug | (kobzol.github.io) |
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Recently I found myself battling with another nasty bug. It took me several hours to understand what is happening, and once I found it, it turned out that the cause of the bug is relevant to the Ergonomic cloning initiative that is currently being discussed a lot. So I thought that it would be a good candidate for a blog post. | |
| 3 points by r4um 6 days ago | 0 comments |
| 153. | Two ways to crack a walnut, per Grothendieck (2025) | (shreevatsa.net) |
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| 154. | HTML Changes in ePub | (htmhell.dev) |
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A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites. | |
| 5 points by raybb 6 days ago | 0 comments |
| 155. | Volkswagen Brings Back Physical Buttons | (caranddriver.com) |
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The new ID. Polo's interior is full of buttons on the steering wheel and dash, previewing a return to physical switchgear for future Volkswagens. | |
| 11 points by stephc_int13 2 days ago | 2 comments |
| 156. | The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Observatory System | (schmidtsciences.org) |
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| 157. | High-performance header-only container library for C++23 on x86-64 | (github.com) |
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Performance focused header-only container library. Currently primarily contains a fast B+Tree implementation. - kressler/fast-containers | |
| 6 points by mattgodbolt 2 days ago | 1 comments |
| 158. | Why Didn't AI "Join the Workforce" in 2025? | (calnewport.com) |
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| 159. | Show HN: ADHD Focus Light | (github.com) |
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A red LED heartbeat blinker for M5StickC Plus2 to help people with ADHD improve focus and concentration - zonghaoyuan/adhd-focus-light | |
| 7 points by zonghao 17 hours ago | 1 comments |
| 160. | Suppression of Type I collagen in human scleral fibroblasts treated with ELF | (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
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To investigate the expression differences of type I collagen (COL1A1) and its underlying mechanisms in human fetal scleral fibroblasts (HFSFs) that were treated with conditioned medium from retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells under extremely ... | |
| 3 points by CGMthrowaway 8 hours ago | 0 comments |
| 161. | Urban Surveillance | (computer.rip) |
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| 5 points by firloop 20 hours ago | 0 comments |
| 162. | Show HN: 48-digit prime numbers every git commit | (textonly.github.io) |
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| 10 points by keepamovin 7 days ago | 1 comments |
| 163. | Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files | (boingboing.net) |
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| 8 points by mikecarlton 1 day ago | 3 comments |
| 164. | A spider web unlike any seen before (2025) | (nytimes.com) |
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| 3 points by juanplusjuan 3 days ago | 1 comments |
| 165. | Texas A&M bans part of Plato's Symposium | (dailynous.com) |
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Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That’s a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, was told by university officials today about his upcoming “Contemporary Moral Problems” course, due to start next week. Here’s the actual email: “Rule 08.01” refers to these recent policy changes at the university. “Kristi” is Department of Philosophy chair Kristi Sweet, who, I think it’s safe to assume, was merely passing along the verdict of “the college leadership team“, headed up by interim dean Simon North. (The above email and other documents in this post were provided by Professor Peterson.) I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato. The Plato readings were from the Symposium, particularly passages on Aristophanes’ myth of split humans and Diotima’s ladder of love. The other readings are from Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues (10th edition) by Andrew Fiala and Barbara MacKinnon. Professor Peterson had been contacted by his chair on December 19th about the review of syllabi for Contemporary Moral Problems courses. Here’s that email: Professor Peterson replied to this, submitting his syllabus for what he referred to, correctly, as “mandatory censorship review”. Among other things, he said, “Please note that my course does not “advocate” any ideology; I teach students how to structure and evaluate arguments commonly raised in discussions of contemporary moral issues.” (See “The Charade of Banning ‘Advocacy’“.) He also reminded his chair and college officials that “the U.S. Constitution protects my course content,” as do the norms of academic freedom. Here is his full reply: Here is Professor Peterson’s syllabus (also here): It was clear that Texas A&M’s new policies were going to lead to conflicts with the First Amendment and academic freedom. That the first such conflict involves telling a professor to remove from his syllabus the writings of the person who created what was arguably the west’s first institution of higher education is too perfect an irony, though. This reality is unbelievable. (Thanks to several readers who alerted me to the story.) Related: A.. | |
| 7 points by loughnane 1 day ago | 2 comments |
| 166. | Lessons from 14 Years at Google | (addyosmani.com) |
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Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code. | |
| 5 points by cdrnsf 4 days ago | 1 comments |
| 167. | Video Game Websites in the early 00s | (webdesignmuseum.org) |
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Do you remember what video game developer websites and gaming websites looked like in the early 00s? | |
| 9 points by klaussilveira 2 days ago | 2 comments |
| 168. | Musk's X could be banned in Britain over AI chatbot row | (telegraph.co.uk) |
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| 169. | 65% of Hacker News Posts Have Negative Sentiment, and They Outperform | (philippdubach.com) |
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Analysis of 32,000 HN posts and 340K comments reveals negativity bias correlates with higher engagement. Data, methodology, and full paper available. | |
| 15 points by 7777777phil 2 days ago | 5 comments |
| 170. | The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: finding sparse trainable NNs with 90% less params | (arxiv.org) |
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Abstract page for arXiv paper 1803.03635: The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks | |
| 3 points by felineflock 6 days ago | 0 comments |
| 171. | Try to Take My Position: The Best Promotion Advice I Ever Got | (andrew.grahamyooll.com) |
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| 172. | Alzheimer's drug developers accuse clinical trial sites of faking data | (science.org) |
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| 173. | AI Psychosis, AI Apotheosis | (oblomovka.com) |
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| 174. | Loongarch Improvements with Box64 | (box86.org) |
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| 175. | The Rise of Computer Games, Part II: Digitizing Nerddom | (technicshistory.com) |
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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, one could participate in a variety of (mostly novel) hobbies that all asked “what-if”: reading and watching science fiction (especially Star Trek), reading the writings of Tolkien and his growing body of imitators, playing tabletop war games that simulated everything from ancient warfare to World War II, engaging… | |
| 3 points by cfmcdonald 3 days ago | 0 comments |
| 176. | Dealing with abandonware (2024) | (blog.hris.to) |
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reverse engineering, abandonware | |
| 5 points by mondobe 3 days ago | 1 comments |
| 177. | Welcome to Gas Town | (steve-yegge.medium.com) |
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| 178. | Oral microbiome sequencing after taking probiotics | (blog.booleanbiotech.com) |
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| 14 points by sethbannon 2 days ago | 1 comments |
| 179. | Claude Code Emergent Behavior: When Skills Combine | (vibeandscribe.xyz) |
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| 180. | Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024) | (phrack.org) |
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Phrack is both a technical journal and a cultural document. Like all zines, it represents a snapshot of the scene at the time. | |
| 5 points by krrishd 2 days ago | 0 comments |