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ridesisapis
2 hours ago
The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows
Without permission, a marketing agency republished the entirety of John Koenig's Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows book, replacing its art with AI slop and adding new AI words. Their unauthorize...
19 HOURS AGO
ONEMIND
Why has the pointe shoe been so resistant to change?
2 HOURS AGO
NRYOO
The ability to regrow body parts is dormant in mammals, not lost
16 HOURS AGO
MOULTANO
Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You
4 DAYS AGO
SAPAL
S‑CURVES a field guide to technology adoption · 1825–2026
6 HOURS AGO
BRAJESHWAR
From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn't stop anyone
5 HOURS AGO
TOSH
Cargo-Geiger
3 DAYS AGO
RBANFFY
The discovery that changed how scientists think about memory
4 DAYS AGO
OHJEEZ
A 1969 camera operators' strike created Upstairs Downstairs multiverse
31 MINUTES AGO
ROBOROR
AMD will reinstate memory encryption on Ryzen 9000 CPUs via BIOS update in July
zdw
3 hours ago
SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — June 17, 2026 — SMPTE®, the home of media professionals, technologists and engineers, has announced that its entire Standards catalog is now freely available to the global media technology community.
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dk189
6 hours ago
Show HN: We post-trained a model that pen tests instead of refusing
Two security tools in one CLI. Audit your code, or attack it. Same binary, two tabs....
sylwester
3 hours ago
Ember, a native iOS Hacker News reader I built around accessibility
Ember — a native, accessible Hacker News reader for iOS, built in SwiftUI with no third-party dependencies. - DatanoiseTV/ember-hackernews...
farhadhf
9 hours ago
Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents
The moment an agent needs to deploy something, it slams face-first into a wall built for humans. Today we're rolling out Temporary Accounts on Cloudflare Workers. Any agent can now run wrang...
msalsas
9 hours ago
CSSQuake
Play Quake in your browser with no install. cssQuake renders the game as inspectable HTML and CSS powered by PolyCSS....
overflowy
2 hours ago
Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM)
Makes PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM) - overflowy/make-look-scanned...
saisrirampur
an hour ago
PostgresBench: A Reproducible Benchmark for Postgres Services
Discover how Postgres managed by ClickHouse compares to its peers in a reproducible, open benchmark....
gr4vityWall
3 hours ago
Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore
What this is Shared-memory threads for JavaScriptCore. new Thread(fn) runs fn on another thread, in the same heap, with the same objects. No structured clone, no message passing, no SharedAr...
https://github.com/oven-sh/WebKit/pull/249
oraziorillo
3 days ago
Show HN: Microcrad – Micrograd Reimplemented in C
A re-implementation of Karpathy's micrograd in C. Contribute to oraziorillo/microcrad development by creating an account on GitHub....
karakoram
5 hours ago
Vacation With An Artist – Mini-Apprenticeships with Artists in Their Studios
VAWAA is a mini-apprenticeship with a curated master artist or craftsman in cities around the world....
robin_reala
5 hours ago
Web Browsers on PDAS
The web in the palm(Pilot) of your hand....
iamnothere
6 hours ago
VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'
Ministers have said details about action alongside the social media ban, including regarding VPN use, will come in July....
Pamar
2 days ago
Can you see three trees?
There's a simple three-part test for whether your city has enough nature. Most fall short....
matt_d
18 hours ago
LLMs Are Complicated Now
Back in 2022 and 2023 there were two big branches of machine learning happening at Meta1. The LLM work that led to Llama was a clean, smooth stack of repeated Transformer modules; the recomm...
hrishi
3 hours ago
The frontier is open-source today
GLM-5.2 - open weights - single-shot our AI-resistant backend take-home to a higher level than Opus 4.8, and built offmute-v2: state-of-the-art timestamp-accurate diarization. A head-to-head...
vincvinc
8 hours ago
Race Against Time to Save Brixton Market from Private Equity
Local traders at a historic British market are in a race against time to raise £15m to stop it falling into the hands of private equity firms.   ...