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ComputerGuru
7 hours ago
MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
Reverse engineering reveals how Paint and Photos embed a server-issued GUID into the pixels of locally generated AI images....
A DAY AGO
BILSBIE
I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch
4 HOURS AGO
REALEXWEB
Show HN: Kern – container and resource runtime in a 1.5 MB binary, no daemon
6 HOURS AGO
LARSFAYE
Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance
3 HOURS AGO
STAGAS
Removed all counters, replies, following/ers, timestamps, from textlog
16 HOURS AGO
DABINAT
FDA clears blood test to aid evaluation for Alzheimer's disease
7 HOURS AGO
JEREMYJH
Codefloe Is a Professionally Hosted Public Git Forge
7 HOURS AGO
KSEC
Hot Chips 2026: Applying High Bandwidth Flash (HBF)
6 HOURS AGO
BEARSYANKEES
A Blackstone real estate company exposed SSN digits, DOBs, addresses and more
2 HOURS AGO
ROOT-PARENT
The Government Report That Made Me Stop Trusting Our Statistical Agencies
2 HOURS AGO
ROOT-PARENT
Greg Abbott says data centers:'basically dug their own grave'
7 HOURS AGO
RBANFFY
Hot Chips 2026: Samsung and HBM Base Die Opportunities
A DAY AGO
PANTELISK
I built a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with me
A DAY AGO
SCHLARPC
Everything I own, owned
2 HOURS AGO
ROOT-PARENT
Greg Abbott says data centers:'basically dug their own grave'
2 HOURS AGO
SPECKX
Amazon hikes hardware prices by 60 percent, blaming memory shortage
7 HOURS AGO
RBANFFY
Hot Chips 2026: Samsung and HBM Base Die Opportunities
14 HOURS AGO
V3GAS
Fast drilldown dashboards from a single Parquet file
A DAY AGO
PANTELISK
I built a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with me
7 HOURS AGO
MATALLO
Walgit – a Git server that is one binary in front of an object store
tosh
7 hours ago
Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
Xiaomi is the Chinese tech giant. Their phones compete with iPhones. Their new CPU roughly matches Apple cores on single threaded tasks, and is much faster in multithreaded execution. Of course, Apple may soon announce their next processor, so this edge may not last long. And
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l-one-lone
9 hours ago
How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
European Union's new packaging rules threaten to kill the world of makers and micro-entrepreneurs, putting jobs, livelihoods and an entire ecosystem of innovation at risk....
lumpa
3 hours ago
Anger, Anxiety and Agency
Who is the AI villain we should be angry at?...
bookofjoe
4 hours ago
Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation
Scientists discovered a strange feature in certain octopuses’ ribosomal RNA, molecules that create a 3D scaffold for cellular protein factories. It was found only in shallow-water creatures ...
tcp_handshaker
3 hours ago
Oceans hit highest temperature on record
The record "is another clear signal of an ocean under growing stress", according to Dr Samantha Burgess from the European Copernicus climate change service....
herbertl
5 hours ago
Where did all the public bathrooms go?
Nineteenth-century Paris tackled public urination with ornate pissoirs. American reformers later turned toilets into a temperance cause....
zdw
3 hours ago
LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines
| Read on LessWrong | Large language models often take actions running on one computer (via an agentic harness such as Claude Code or Codex), however the LLMs’ responses to prompts are compu...
iand
6 hours ago
IPFS Maintainers Winding Down
We have some difficult news to share with the IPFS and wider peer-to-peer community. Our IPFS funding was cancelled...
https://ipshipyard.com/blog/2026-the-end-of-ipfs-at-shipyard/
tosh
7 hours ago
OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)
Pricing information for the OpenAI platform....
brandonb
7 hours ago
Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study
Hypertension represents the predominant risk factor for cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality; with significant healthcare utilization and expenditure. Pharmaceutical management is ...
theanonymousone
4 hours ago
What Is a Syslog Server?
A syslog server is software or a dedicated appliance that receives syslog messages from various devices over a network....
tosh
5 hours ago
Fences, Not Sandboxes
Fences, not Sandboxes...
tke248
6 hours ago
Show HN: GlassBox – what the browser reveals, and how identifiable you are
See every signal a website can read from your browser, and how identifiable it makes you. Runs entirely in your browser, nothing is sent....
qainsights
5 hours ago
Agent Lightning v1.0
Agent Lightning v1.0.1 marks the first official release of the Agent Lightning Skill, which helps coding agents optimize other AI agents. Provide an editable agent and a benchmark, and the s...
lafond
5 hours ago
Tracking Costco Gas Prices During a Global Fuel Crisis
I reverse-engineered Costco's gas price API and built a live tracker covering every US warehouse, right as a Strait of Hormuz scare sent fuel prices climbing....
Pawel_SkimmIQ
3 days ago
Show HN: A puzzle I couldn't solve for a year – cubers cracked it in an hour
Switch layouts, slide the color bands, and test the SkimmIQ cube mechanic in your browser....