Exapunks (2018)

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A former hacker with the phage now makes deals for one hack per dose of medication. They learn from TRASH WORLD NEWS, a zine with hacking tutorials and tips.

US State of Virginia Bans Sale of Geolocation Data

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Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger signed S.B. 388 into law on April 13, 2026, banning the sale of geolocation data. The ban takes effect on July 1, 2026, following similar laws in Maryland and Oregon.

Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory

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A user discovered a security vulnerability in Linux 6.9 where LUKS encryption keys remained in memory after suspend, making laptops susceptible to cold boot attacks. A patch was created to wipe the LUKS encryption keys on suspend, inspired by Debian's cryptsetup-suspend, and is now available for other Linux distributions.
Public interest organizations strongly oppose X Corp's petition to set aside or terminate its 2022 settlement order with the FTC, citing the company's continued risk to Americans' privacy and data security. The FTC should reject the petition and maintain the 2022 Order, which remains a critical safeguard for users' privacy and security.

Lightning Memory-Mapped Database Manager (LMDB) 1.0

LMDB is a high-performance, memory-efficient database library with full ACID semantics and transactional support. It uses a memory map for data storage and is thread-aware, supporting concurrent read/write access.

Podman v6.0.0

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Podman v6.0.0 is now available with improved networking, enhanced machine capabilities, and configuration file handling. This release includes Docker compatibility improvements and new features like Pesto rootless port forwarding and Quadlet evolution.

PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform

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PeerTube is a decentralized video platform allowing users to host videos on community-owned instances without vendor lock-in. It's free, ad-free, and allows users to follow channels and discover videos across the entire video fediverse.

Vulkan is now available on NetBSD

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A Vulkan driver for NetBSD has been successfully built and installed using the Lavapipe software driver. The process is now automated and reproducible on a fresh install.

Postgres transactions are a distributed systems superpower

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Co-locating workflow state with application data in the same Postgres database simplifies durable workflows by eliminating partial failures and idempotency issues. This approach also simplifies atomic updates and notifications by leveraging database transactions and user-defined functions.

How to ask for help from people who don't know you

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To ask for help effectively, put yourself in the other person's mind and show you're worth helping by demonstrating seriousness, personal connection, or institutional credibility. Explain context briefly and make your request easy to accept by reducing costs, making it specific, and bounded, while also making it easy to say no.

JEP 539: Strict Field Initialization in the JVM moved to preview

The Java Virtual Machine introduces strictly-initialized fields, which must be explicitly initialized before they can be read, ensuring that default values such as 0 or null are never observed. This feature is available for use by compilers that emit class files and provides stronger integrity guarantees for field initialization, making it easier to diagnose and prevent bugs related to field ...

The Short Leash AI Coding Method for Beating Fable

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The author, a software developer, shares their approach to using AI agents in security-critical systems. They recommend a "short leash method" where developers closely monitor AI changes and intervene when necessary.

Launch HN: Manufact (YC S25) – MCP Cloud

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The mcp-use SDK is a fullstack framework for developing MCP Apps and servers for AI Agents like ChatGPT and Claude. It simplifies app development with auto-deployment and analytics.

Claude-real-video - any LLM can watch a video

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claude-real-video extracts frames from videos locally, transcribes audio, and hands a clean folder for LLMs to read. It's smarter than other tools that sample frames at a fixed interval, and can be installed with pip and used with ffmpeg and whisper CLI.

Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies

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Spanish government instructs state-controlled entities to blacklist US data analytics firm Palantir due to national security concerns. Palantir still holds a €16.5 million contract with Spain's Ministry of Defense, set to expire in November.

AI can't be listed as inventor on patent applications, Japan's top court rules

The US Supreme Court rejected an engineer's appeal to name an artificial intelligence as inventor on a patent application. The court upheld lower court rulings that patent inventors must be natural persons, not AI.

Ask HN: Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis?

Craigslist has added emojis to its listings, a departure from its minimalist style, possibly to compete for attention in a modern algorithmic context. This change coincides with the proliferation of emojis, but may also be a small concession to participate in the zeitgeist while maintaining its legacy look.

German button maker searched rivers of American Midwest for valuable shells

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John Boepple discovered freshwater mussel shells in the Illinois River, which led to the creation of a pearl button industry in Muscatine, Iowa. The industry thrived from 1891 to the 1960s, but ultimately devastated the local mussel population and led to conservation efforts.

Great Salt Lake Tracker – Grow the Flow

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Is One Layer Enough? A Single Transformer Layer Matches Full-Parameter RL Train

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Researchers studied how reinforcement learning adapts to transformer layers in large language models. They found that a small subset of layers, often in the middle, contribute most to RL gains, surpassing full-parameter training in some cases.

Modeling the Covid-19 Outbreak with J (2020)

A math major analyzed the SEIRS model used for COVID-19 and created a discrete time simulation to predict disease spread. The simulation shows a massive death toll in a closed population without social distancing.

A New Catalog of Stellar Rotation Periods for over a Million Stars

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Stellar rotation is a crucial aspect of not only stellar evolution but also exoplanet science, and a recent study has built the largest catalog of stellar rotation periods to date. Since its launch in 2018, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has scoured the sky, searching for the signature recurring dip in starlight caused by planetary companions. While the primary goal of TESS ...

Show HN: CLI tool for detecting non-exact code duplication with embedding models

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Slopo detects non-exact code duplication by calculating embeddings and clustering similar code units. It uses incremental re-indexing and customizable thresholds to identify and report duplicate code for refactoring.

Hazel (YC W24) Is Hiring for Our Largest Government Contract

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Hazel is hiring a full stack engineer to deploy and scale AI for government procurement, requiring a TS/SCI clearance and experience with AWS, Python, and React. The role involves architecting and building Hazel's platform, working with customers, and delivering innovative solutions in a classified environment.

Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection

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Google's Android Developer Verification program silently installs a virus on devices running Android 8 or higher, disguising itself as a system service with full root privileges. This virus, which affects an estimated 4 billion devices, blocks users from running software not approved by Google, posing a significant threat to user freedom and privacy.

The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing

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Three major US egg producers, Cal-Maine, Versova, and Hickman's, allegedly conspired to manipulate egg prices from 2022-2025 by submitting fake bids and sham transactions to influence the Urner Barry pricing index. The companies agreed to a settlement, paying $3 million in penalties and donating 53 million eggs to food banks, but critics argue the punishment is too lenient given the alleged ...

Wireless LAN SD

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Wireless LAN SD standard enables wireless communication between devices and SD cards. It integrates SD cards with wireless LAN modules for simple complex tasks.

The fall of the theorem economy

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Mathematics is not just about proving theorems, but about understanding and sharing knowledge. The rise of AI threatens the traditional honor code of mathematicians, which prioritizes theorem-proving over conceptual innovation.

How VictoriaLogs Stores Your Logs in a Columnar Layout

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VictoriaLogs is a system that ingests logs from various protocols, normalizes them into a single internal shape, and stores them in a way that makes them searchable and compressible. It uses a combination of in-memory buffers, shards, and parts to store logs, and employs techniques such as bloom filters and columnar storage to make queries fast and efficient.

The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be hard to maintain

Code review is not for finding bugs but to identify code that will be hard to maintain. The reviewer checks if they can understand the code, and if not, it should be fixed for easier future maintenance.