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'Palantir vs. the “Republik”: US analytics firm takes magazine to court

Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega's consoles, has died Hideki Sato, the designer behind virtually every Sega console and the company’s former president, died a...

The math is simple: if it costs almost nothing to build an app, it costs almost nothing to clone an app. And if cloning is free, subscription pricing dies. We'r...

Inner‑Platform Effect The inner‑platform effect is the tendency of software architects to create a system so customizable that it becomes a replica—often a poo...

markdown !https://dl6pgk4f88hky.cloudfront.net/2026/02/11/202607killingmain.jpg Free thinking: Revolt on the Amistad 1989, a silkscreen print by Jacob Lawrence...

Article https://www.kimi.com/bot Discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47023633 Points: 17 Comments: 17...

perlin-terminal Beautiful Perlin noise animation for your terminal. Smooth, flowing gradients rendered in 24‑bit truecolor using half‑block characters for doub...

Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State Just a decade after a global backlash was triggered by Snowden r...

Build Requirements: Install Visual Studio > If you’re lucky enough not to know this yet, I envy you. Unfortunately, at this point even Boromir knows… Well put,...

Categories - Uncategorizedhttps://matthew.verive.me/blog/category/uncategorized/ A Pokémon of a Different Color - Post author: By verive.mhttps://matthew.veriv...

Fast Mode Showdown: Anthropic vs. OpenAI Anthropichttps://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/fast-mode and OpenAIhttps://openai.com/index/introducing...

DjVu vs. PDF DjVu is a vastly superior file format for books, mathematical papers, and just about anything else you can think of, compared to the original PDF...

!Oat UIhttps://oat.ink/logo.svghttps://oat.ink/ Semantic, minimal, zero dependencies. ~8KB CSS and JS. Oat is an ultra‑lightweight HTML + CSS, semantic UI compo...

Last Week I helped build Super Bowl activations for DraftKings, Bud Light, and Spotify, turning San Francisco into a vice‑centric Disneyland for the rich and f...

Last July marked the deadline for major digital platforms to comply with the UK’s Online Safety Act OSA. To block minors from material deemed “harmful,” platfor...

Overview Flashpoint Archive is a community effort to preserve games and animations from the web. Internet history and culture are important, and the web evolve...

As LLMs become larger, more capable, and more ubiquitous, the field of mechanistic interpretabilityhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanistic_interpretability—th...

The lightweight YouTube experience for Android !NewPipe logo/img/logo.svg !get NewPipe/img/Get_NewPipe_logo_large.svg !NewPipe running on a Fairphone/img/fairp...

For this year's I love Free Software Dayhttps://ilovefs.org/ I would like to thank the maintainers of Free Software documentation, and here especially the maint...

Overview Your phone’s GPU is often more powerful than the GPUs in many 2018 laptops, yet it typically sits idle while you pay monthly subscriptions to run AI o...

Overview A big theme in LLM‑enabled software development is that verifiable correctness makes it much easier to take bigger leaps with LLMs e.g., tests, compil...

- AI CODE CREATION GitHub CopilotWrite better code with AI https://github.com/features/copilot - GitHub SparkBuild and deploy intelligent apps https://github.co...

markdown This is a 'byte' post. It may not be as detailed as other posts. I like things that are strange and a bit obscure. It’s a habit of mine, and a lot of t...

Gemini 3 Deep Think Gemini 3 Deep Thinkhttps://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-deep-think/ via Hacker Newshttps://news...

Article Descent, Ported to the Webhttps://mrdoob.github.io/three-descent/ Discussion Hacker News thread – 36 points, 7 commentshttps://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Article Descent, ported to the webhttps://mrdoob.github.io/three-descent/ Discussion Hacker News discussion ID 47017545https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=470...

Digital Archives, AI Crawlers, and News Publishers Outlets such as The Guardian and The New York Times are scrutinising digital archives as potential back‑door...

AI Crawlers, Digital Archives, and News Publishers Outlets like The Guardian and The New York Times are scrutinizing digital archives as potential backdoors fo...

markdown !Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz speaks at an Action for Progress event about plans to transform behavioral health,...

Dynamic Visualization of the Complex Gamma Graph A real‑time exploration of the complex gamma function in motion. Watch how the real and imaginary components e...

vdb A lightweight, header‑only C library for storing and searching high-dimensional vector embeddings with optional multithreading support. !benchmarkhttps://g...

uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts A maintained uBlock Originhttps://github.com/gorhill/uBlock filter list to hide all traces of YouTube Shorts vide...

Overview Hey HN! I was a long-time Arc browser user and loved how its sidebar organized tabs and bookmarks into workspaces. I wanted to switch to other browser...

The Problem Anyone who wishes to archive material—images, documents, or videos—is faced with an almost unsolvable problem when one considers our over‑reliance...

The Problem Anyone who wishes to archive material—images, documents, or videos—is faced with an almost unsolvable problem when one considers our over‑reliance...

Bluetooth The first thing Claude did was scan for BLE Bluetooth Low Energy devices nearby. It found mine among 35 devices in range, connected, and mapped the i...

Overview I made a chess engine today and managed to fit it within 2 KB. Implementation Details - Search algorithm: A variant of MinMax called Negamax with alph...

Article URL: http://qualify.gauntletAI.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47001968 Points: 0 Comments: 0...

MonoSketch Unleash your ideas with ASCII. MonoSketch is a powerful ASCII sketching and diagramming app that lets you effortlessly transform your ideas into vis...

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Cryptographic Library Landscape – Quick Thoughts - OpenSSL – Generally reliable, but can feel heavyweight for some projects. - BoringSSL Google – Tailored to G...

> !NOTE > THIS REPOSITORY IS NO LONGER MAINTAINED. > > Alternatives: > - AIStor Freehttps://min.io/download — Full‑featured, standalone edition for community us...

About the Project We're building training data for humanoid robots by collecting egocentric video of people doing everyday tasks. The Role Wear a phone mounted...

Article URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/shopping/ring-owners-are-returning-their-cameras-here-s-how-much-you-can-get/ar-AA1W8Qa3 Comments URL: https://...

Article URL: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999224 Points: 3 Comments: 0...

I’m sorry, but the content you provided is the raw binary data of a PDF file rather than HTML or plain‑text. I’m unable to extract and convert the article’s tex...

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Article URL: https://www.economist.com/interactive/international/2026/02/12/inside-epsteins-network Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997658...