THE HACKER NEWS

anonymousiam
15 hours ago
Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
The company that decides whether you're a bot now also requires you run its software to prove otherwise....
15 HOURS AGO
AWAYS
Roadside Attraction
3 HOURS AGO
EDENT
All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot
A DAY AGO
SBT567
Mojo 1.0 Beta
3 DAYS AGO
ROXIHAIDI
How to Optimize MongoDB Query Performance with Indexes
13 HOURS AGO
MMCCLURE
Mux (YC W16) Is Hiring
A DAY AGO
SURPRISETALK
Poland is now among the 20 largest economies
2 HOURS AGO
VRGANJ
Hondurasgate: US, Israeli Plot to Destabilize Mexico, Latin America
15 HOURS AGO
IBOBEV
Apple Is Holding My Pictures Hostage Until I Accept Their New Terms of Service
_alternator_
8 hours ago
A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
We are all having to keep revising upwards our assessments of the mathematical capabilities of large language models. I have just made a fairly large revision as a result of ChatGPT 5.5 Pro, to whi…
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defrost
a day ago
David Attenborough's 100th Birthday
The royal couple shared photographs of Sir David and wished him a very happy birthday. ...
speckx
16 hours ago
AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures
A week ago the Copy Fail vulnerability came out, and Hyunwoo Kim immediately realized that the fixes were insufficient, sharing a patch the same day. In doing this he followed standard proc...
rawgabbit
3 days ago
America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy
The Georgia carpet industry’s long use of PFAS, known as forever chemicals, polluted drinking water and the environment across swaths of the South....
atgctg
2 days ago
OpenAI’s WebRTC problem
Media over QUIC: There are ways to do voice AI without being traumatized by WebRTC....
Tomte
3 days ago
What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting
Armed with a slew of new instruments, physicists are closing in on one of nature’s oldest mysteries — and finding that storm clouds are seething with violent and unexpected phenomena....
christhecaribou
a day ago
AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved
The cloud platform says it is currently working to resolve the outage, caused by overheating at a data center in Northern Virginia....
ingve
2 days ago
Mythical Man Month
a bliki entry for Mythical Man Month...
https://martinfowler.com/bliki/MythicalManMonth.html
zdw
3 days ago
Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso
Why launch costs aren't the reason it costs a fortune to do things in space...
geox
3 days ago
Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible
CU Boulder researchers have developed 3D-printable materials embedded with living bioluminescent algae that can produce sustained light....
gfodor
3 days ago
PortalVR Motion – use any VR content in 2D with 3D tracked Joy-Cons
PortalVR Motion turns VR into Wii-style gaming — natural motion controls for thousands of SteamVR titles, using your Joy-Cons and an iPhone....
muse900
4 hours ago
EU calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" in age verification push
The European Parliamentary Research Service has warned that VPNs are increasingly being used to bypass online age-verification systems....
tcp_handshaker
12 hours ago
Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging
'Very few people were opting in to end-to-end encrypted messaging in DMs,' Meta says....
kqr
2 days ago
Looking at the data behind prediction markets
We all know they’re casinos. It’s time to look at the data behind the froth....
rustoo
3 days ago
Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school
Under new guidelines caning will only be used as a punishment for male students aged nine and above as a ‘last resort’...
mathewpregasen
13 hours ago
Non-determinism is an issue with patching CVEs
AI is accelerating the rate of CVE discovery. Learn how Flox and Nix transform package vulnerability triage from repeated artifact scans into quick, queryable dependency-graph analysis....