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reconnecting
6 hours ago
Alignment whack-a-mole: Finetuning activates recall of copyrighted books in LLMs
The official code repo of Alignment Whack-a-Mole: Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in Large Language Models - cauchy221/Alignment-Whack-a-Mole-Code...
11 HOURS AGO
SHIVSAK
Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Engineer
15 HOURS AGO
TAKIRA
Ramp's Sheets AI Exfiltrates Financials
16 HOURS AGO
ZDW
Virtualisation on Apple Silicon Macs is different
6 HOURS AGO
HACKTHEMACK
Microsoft open sources DOS 1.00 on 45th anniversary
2 HOURS AGO
BWESTERB
Scott Aaronson on quantum: "Will you heed my warnings NOW?"
3 DAYS AGO
NNOORBAKHSH
Show HN: Qumulator – quantum circuit simulator, 1000 qubits, no GPU
salkahfi
18 hours ago
Zed 1.0
From the Zed Blog: The editor we set out to build is now 1.0.
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homebrewer
14 hours ago
HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing
Summary When a git repository's recent commit history contains the case-sensitive string HERMES.md, Claude Code routes API requests to "extra usage" billing instead of the included Max plan ...
bobbiechen
16 hours ago
Laws of UX
Laws of UX is a collection of best practices that designers can consider when building user interfaces....
0x54MUR41
18 hours ago
An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce
A research-validated stethoscope whose plans are available Freely and openly. The cost of the entire stethoscope is between $2.5 to $5 to produce - GliaX/Stethoscope...
speckx
2 days ago
A 25-Year-Fight over a 2-Second Sample
In 1999, members of the band Kraftwerk filed a lawsuit in Germany that has lasted for nearly 30 years. Here’s what the fight is about and who won....
evakhoury
2 days ago
Creating a Color Palette from an Image
This Spectrimage palette extractor started as a sidecar to image color analysis, but grew into its own feature....
Jblx2
8 hours ago
Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight
Production prototype air taxi becomes the first electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft to depart one of NYC’s three major airports....
unsnap_biceps
14 hours ago
Copy Fail
CVE-2026-31431. 100% Reliable Linux LPE — no race, no per-distro offsets, page-cache write that bypasses on-disk file-integrity tools and crosses containers. Found by Xint Code....
https://copy.fail/
icy
19 hours ago
We need a federation of forges
git is decentralized, but what of the rest?...
unignorant
11 hours ago
Vera: a programming language designed for machines to write
Vera: a programming language designed for LLMs to write - aallan/vera...
s2l
21 hours ago
GitHub – DOS 1.0: Transcription of Tim Paterson's DOS Printouts
Transcription of Tim Paterson's DOS printouts. Contribute to DOS-History/Paterson-Listings development by creating an account on GitHub....
e12e
a day ago
Soft launch of open-source code platform for government
Code.overheid.nl platform is now live, enabling government organisations to jointly develop and publish open-source software independently....
tabbott
7 hours ago
Zulip 12.0 Released
We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 12.0, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes: end-to-end encryption for mobile push notifications, a major upgrade for Docker...
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16 hours ago
Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores
Critics say Maryland’s new law banning rapidly change product costs based on consumer data is full of carveouts...