THE HACKER NEWS

opengrass
19 hours ago
Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance
The decades-long battle over lawful access entered a new phase yesterday with the introduction of Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act. This bill follows the attempt last spring to bury lawful a...
3 DAYS AGO
BLEWBOARWASTAKE
The Accidental Room (2018)
4 DAYS AGO
ANTICS
Lies I was told about collaborative editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs
A DAY AGO
LUU
SpiceCrypt: A Python library for decrypting LTspice encrypted model files
8 HOURS AGO
MIKHAEL
385TB video game archive saved by fans; torrents being generated
A DAY AGO
HERODOTUS
In Memoriam: John W. Addison, my PhD advisor
A DAY AGO
RICKJWAGNER
Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis
PaulHoule
5 hours ago
Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies
IntroductionWhile corruption exists in both democracies and autocracies, its social consequences may differ fundamentally across regime types. Democratic nor...
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xnx
21 hours ago
Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)
We shipped a new feature to the Chrome DevTools MCP server that is going to make it a lot easier for your coding agent to debug your current browser sessions....
tzury
a day ago
LLM Architecture Gallery
A gallery that collects architecture figures from The Big LLM Architecture Comparison and related articles, with fact sheets and links back to the original sections....
surprisetalk
4 days ago
Why Are Viral Capsids Icosahedral?
Viral capsid structure is a geometric packing problem under genetic constraints....
kermatt
21 hours ago
The 49MB web page
A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience....
finniananderson
4 days ago
Home Assistant waters my plants
My first foray into home automations, Zigbee and irrigation systems....
tjohnell
19 hours ago
LLMs can be exhausting
Some days I get in bed after a tortuous 4-5 hour session working with Claude or Codex wondering what the heck happened. It's easy to blame the model - there'......
turoczy
21 hours ago
The "are you sure?" Problem: Why AI keeps changing its mind
Ask your AI 'are you sure?' and watch it flip. Models fold 60% of the time because we trained them to please, not push back. The fix isn't better prompts....
https://www.randalolson.com/2026/02/07/the-are-you-sure-problem-why-your-ai-keeps-changing-its-mind/
robinhouston
a day ago
Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories
The Glassworm supply chain attack is back. Researchers uncovered malware hidden in invisible Unicode characters across 150+ GitHub repositories, plus npm packages and VS Code extensions....
vismit2000
a day ago
A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning (2015)
What is machine learning? See how it works with our animated data visualization....
anjel
16 hours ago
Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer's proteins from brain cells (2016)
LA JOLLA–Salk Institute scientists have found preliminary evidence that tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and other compounds found in marijuana can promote the cellular removal of amyloid beta, a ...
imichael
18 hours ago
Nasdaq's Shame
How to rig an index to appease a billionaire...
speckx
4 hours ago
Obsession with growth is destroying nature, 150 countries warn
China, India and EU countries were among the signatories of a report that criticized the prevailing measures of economic success....
gaplong
4 days ago
A Plain Anabaptist Story: The Hutterites
From a historical and demographical perspective....