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danpinto
5 hours ago
We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities
We discovered a privacy vulnerability in Firefox Private Browsing and Tor Browser that allows websites to fingerprint and track users across origins using IndexedDB database ordering, even a...
2 DAYS AGO
HERBERTL
Books are not too expensive
9 HOURS AGO
T-3
Ultraviolet corona discharges on treetops during storms
5 HOURS AGO
CAINXINTH
Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries
10 HOURS AGO
INGVE
GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry
6 HOURS AGO
YZHONG94
Show HN: Broccoli, one shot coding agent on the cloud
A DAY AGO
CHIPLY
A Vompeccc Case Study: Spotify as Pure ICR in Emacs
13 HOURS AGO
ALFANICK
How does GPS work?
2 HOURS AGO
JJBA23
Olive CSS: Lisp powered vanilla CSS utility-Class A la Tailwind
2 HOURS AGO
PARENTHESES
How I Use Unspent Tokens
8 HOURS AGO
JANANDONLY
DuckDB 1.5.2 – SQL database that runs on laptop, server, in the browser
6 HOURS AGO
BROCKBEDARD
Homegrown – An interactive map of every 2025 FBS college football player
AN HOUR AGO
CGMTHROWAWAY
Failed Companies Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Email Archives to Train AI
8 HOURS AGO
JANANDONLY
DuckDB 1.5.2 – SQL database that runs on laptop, server, in the browser
AN HOUR AGO
BREVE
F-35s Quarterbacking Drones Seen as Gateway to USMC's 6th Gen Fighter
6 HOURS AGO
BROCKBEDARD
Homegrown – An interactive map of every 2025 FBS college football player
4 DAYS AGO
MODINFO
MuJoCo – Advanced Physics Simulation
cdrnsf
2 hours ago
Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
The iPhone and iPad bug allowed law enforcement using forensic tools to read messages that had long been deleted by the Signal app.
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sethbannon
4 hours ago
Website streamed live directly from a model
A generative visual internet...
renameme
an hour ago
The Neon King of New Orleans
Artist Nate Sheaffer revives historic signs, crafts electric glass originals, and keeps the Crescent City aglow...
xnx
10 hours ago
Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era
An overview of Google’s eighth generation TPUs, built for the agentic era....
agronaut
2 hours ago
The Illuminated Man: an unconventional portrait of JG Ballard
The biographer’s terminal illness and death is woven into this original and moving account of Ballard and his work...
theorchid
6 hours ago
Technical, cognitive, and intent debt
fragments 02 Apr 2026...
hubraumhugo
8 hours ago
Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns
An attempt to detect AI design patterns in Show HN pages...
sohkamyung
13 hours ago
Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux
Attached: 1 image With Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux you can run all your favourite Windows and Linux apps side-by-side with a modern Linux kernel running cooperatively with the Windows ke...
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DamonHD
3 days ago
The great Scouse pasty war
Once a Liverpool institution, Sayers has been driven out of its own city centre by Greggs. What went wrong?...
zdw
5 days ago
Bodega cats of New York
Documenting the working cats of NYC bodegas through photography, storytelling, and advocacy. Book coming October 2026....
danso
2 days ago
What killed the Florida orange?
The powerhouse of American citrus is suffering a brutal decline. Everyone has a theory about why....
ndr42
a day ago
Another Day Has Come
If you agree that Apple itself was It’s hard to imagine a more orderly, confidence-inspiring, exciting-but-not-at-all-surprising, this-feels-right way to do this....
kkl
2 days ago
Anonymous credentials: an illustrated primer (Part 2)
This is the second in a series of posts about anonymous credentials. You can find this first part here. In the previous post, we introduced the notion of anonymous credentials as a technique...
ibobev
10 hours ago
Columnar Storage Is Normalization
Something I didn't understand for a while is that the process of turning row-oriented data into column-oriented data isn't a totally bespoke, foreign concept......
ingve
16 hours ago
XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub?
Somehow xor became the most popular version....
vinni2
2 hours ago
US saw record high of 5,668 books banned in libraries in 2025, says agency
Most-banned book was Sold, a 2006 novel by Patricia McCormick about sex trafficking in India...