US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

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Pixel trackers on websites collect personal info, including health data, often for advertising. Government websites sharing health data with tech companies affects millions of Americans.

Securing a DoD Contractor: Finding a Multi-Tenant Authorization Vulnerability

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A company, Schemata, handling sensitive military data had no API authorization, allowing a low-privilege user to access users, organizations, and confidential training materials. The issue was fixed after 150 days of disclosure attempts, highlighting the importance of open disclosure channels and robust authorization testing.

Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to

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A 2019 study found teens can't switch off from Instagram, leading to a landmark ruling against Meta and YouTube for designing addictive products. The ruling's implications are being digested as the world adjusts to its impact.

I am worried about Bun

The author is concerned about Bun's future after Anthropic acquired it, citing Claude Code's decline in quality and restrictions. They're moving away from Bun for package management and recommend pnpm instead.

Talking to strangers at the gym

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The user, who was struggling to make friends after college, approached 30 people at the gym over a month, resulting in some meaningful connections and friendships. Through this experience, the user became more resilient and confident in initiating conversations with strangers, eventually forming connections with people who share similar interests and hobbies.

Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused

Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot. Some privacy related extensions may cause issues on x.com. Please disable them and try again.

Redis array: short story of a long development process

The user implemented a new Array data type for Redis, taking four months with AI assistance, which helped with specification, implementation, and testing. AI provided a safety net for complex tasks, allowing the user to venture into higher complexity and achieve high-quality system programming.

UK Fuel Price Intelligence

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This site provides independent UK fuel price data sourced from the UK Fuel Finder scheme, with no influence on prices. It stores and analyses publicly mandated data, using Google Analytics to understand site usage.

Heat pump sales rise across Europe

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Residential heat pump sales rose 17% in 11 European countries in Q1 2026 due to high gas and oil prices. France, Germany, and Poland saw 25% growth, while Austria's sales fell 30% due to lack of government subsidies.

Pomiferous: The most extensive apples (pommes) database

Several apple varieties are described including Sekai Ichi, French cider apple, and Pink Lady. These apples have unique characteristics such as flavor, texture, and origin.

PyInfra 3.8.0 Is Out

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Big release with fixes and improvements, switching to full semver. It includes user-mode systemd fixes, SELinux port bug fixes, and new config options.

GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay

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GameStop made a $55.5bn offer to buy eBay at $125 a share, with CEO Ryan Cohen planning $2bn in cost savings. The deal would link GameStop with eBay, lifting GameStop's valuation and giving eBay a national network for its business operations.

Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks

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Researchers Noah Arman Kouchekinia, David Neumark, and Tim A. Bruckner received grants for their study on employment and cognitive decline. The study was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.

Let's Talk about LLMs

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The author discusses the potential impact of large language models (LLMs) on software development, arguing that they may not offer the promised order-of-magnitude improvements in productivity.

Offenders sentenced up to 10 years for spying on TSMC

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A former TSMC engineer was sentenced to 10 years in prison for leaking trade secrets to Tokyo Electron Taiwan. Three other TSMC employees and Tokyo Electron Taiwan were also sentenced for their roles in the trade secret leak.

Show HN: nfsdiag - a NFS diagnostic application

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nfs-doctor is a small command line tool written in C to help debug NFS servers from the client side. The idea is simple: you give one IP or hostname, and the tool checks the things that usually break in NFS: network, rpcbind, NFS versions, mountd, exports, permissions, root squash, locking, stale handles and some basic performance. It is not magic, and it will not replace a good server side ...

Rumor: Disney to Remove Star Wars Sequel Trilogy from Timeline

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Disney may split the Star Wars sequel trilogy into its own isolated timeline to remove it from the mainline storyline. This move could be a response to declining engagement and weak box office projections for the sequel era.

Trillions in Retirement Dollars Flow into Opaque Trusts

Bloomberg delivers business and financial information worldwide. Collective Investment Trusts are a multi-trillion dollar business with unclear regulation.

'Kitten Space Agency' Is the Spiritual Successor to 'Kerbal Space Program'

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Stefan Moluf, a former SpaceX engineer, is working on Kitten Space Agency, a spiritual successor to Kerbal Space Program, with a focus on a solid technical foundation and modding capabilities. The game aims to be both authentic and accessible, with a free "pay-what-you-want" distribution model.

Alberta voter list leak is a potential public safety disaster

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A massive data breach in Alberta has exposed nearly three million voters' personal information, creating a potential public safety and political interference crisis. The leak could be used by criminals and authoritarian regimes to commit fraud, extortion, and witness tampering, and influence the upcoming separatist referendum.

Days without GitHub incidents

🏆 High Score (2026)

DAG Workflow Engine

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Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers

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User shares a technique to generate images with Gemini 3.0 Pro and ChatGPT-Images-2 by combining deterministic underdrawing with generative painting. This method still outperforms the models on certain tasks.

Why are neural networks and cryptographic ciphers so similar? (2025)

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Language models and cryptography share similarities in their algorithms, including sequential absorbing, parallel processing, and repeated mixing layers. Both fields prioritize low-level hardware performance and emphasize parallelism, resulting in similar solutions despite different problem statements.

Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer

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Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer in this new-style education program. Unique animated characters assist in the fun and lucid introduction of 5 core programming processes: analysis, combination, generalization, abstraction and simulation.

BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth

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dataparty is releasing a small, capable LoRa companion dev kit with 2.4GHz and sub-1GHz capabilities. It combines SX1276 and SX1281 chips for mesh networking and high-speed data transfer.

Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test

Researchers confirmed Newton's law of gravity on the largest scales using galaxy clusters. The study tightens the vise on alternative theory MOND, which tries to explain dark matter without gravity.

Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac

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A fake website notepad-plus-plus-mac.org is pretending to offer an official macOS version of Notepad++. It's not affiliated with the project and has been fooling people into believing it's an official release.

How Monero's proof of work works

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Monero's RandomX proof of work makes mining expensive for custom chips by using CPU strengths like dynamic code and memory access. It generates random programs and uses memory-hard functions to make mining look like general-purpose computing.

DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro

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Claude Code can be used with DeepSeek V4 Pro for 17x cheaper, scoring 96.4% on LiveCodeBench. It supports file reading, editing, and autonomous multi-step coding loops with various Anthropic-compatible backends.