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FBI, Dutch Police Disrupt 'Manipulaters' Phishing Gang 20 by todsacerdoti | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Cointelpro 54 by georgecmu | 11 comments on Hacker News.

Building a T1D smartwatch for my son from scratch 35 by andrewchilds | 5 comments on Hacker News.

Waymo to test its autonomous driving technology in over 10 new cities 2 by JumpCrisscross | 1 comments on Hacker News.

It is time to ban email 11 by keepit | 15 comments on Hacker News.

Using AI for Coding: My Journey with Cline and Large Language Models 6 by me2too | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Facebook ban on discussing Linux? 133 by rogerthis | 46 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Orange intelligence, an open source alternative to Apple Intelligence 9 by MexicanYoda | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN! I’m excited to share Orange Intelligence, an open-source alternative to Apple Intelligence for macOS. Orange Intelligence allows you to interact with any text on your macOS system in a more powerful and customizable way. It brings a floating text processor that integrates seamlessly with your workflow. Whether you’re a developer, writer, or productivity enthusiast, this tool can boost your efficiency. Key Features: Floating Text Processor: Trigger a floating window by double-tapping the Option key to process selected text. Run Any Python Function: From basic text manipulations to running large language models (LLM) like OpenAI or local LLaMA, you can execute any Python function on the fly. Full Customization: Want to add your own functions or logic? Just write them in Python, and they’ll appear in the floating window. How does it work? Capture: Uses App...

Men lose half their emotional support networks between 30 and 90 52 by clockworksoul | 45 comments on Hacker News.

A phishing attack involving g.co, Google's URL shortener 81 by zachlatta | 19 comments on Hacker News.

Life expectancy/years of life lost in adults w ADHD in UK: matched cohort study 16 by bookofjoe | 9 comments on Hacker News.

Morse Code in Tubular Bells (2021) 12 by xanderlewis | 0 comments on Hacker News.

You should write "without bugs" 26 by ex3ndr | 20 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Open-source AI video editor 26 by drochetti | 5 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN community! I'm one of the lead devs of this project at fal.ai and we created an open source lightweight video editor powered by the latest media AI models. The main goal was to tackle some challenges when dealing with complex media handling and encoding on the browser. It all started as an internal experiment but as we tackled some of the issues it was clear there could be some value sharing it with the open source community. Some of the key points and tech stack details: - It uses IndexedDb, so all data is local (i.e. no auth, no cloud db) - Multiple AI models for video, image, music and voice-over. APIs are provided by fal.ai - Built with the typical React+Next.js, Shadcn front-end - Used remotion.dev for the realtime video preview (this is such a great project, without it the codebase would be twice as large) - File uploads so you can bring your own media by uploadthing.com - ffmpeg for e...

File Systems: The Original Hypermedia 11 by pilgrim0 | 2 comments on Hacker News.

A Spy Satellite You've Never Heard of Helped Win the Cold War 10 by Brajeshwar | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Why AI reminds me of cloud computing 7 by ghaff | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Mercator: Extreme 23 by bschne | 7 comments on Hacker News.

SRCL: Open-source React project to build web apps with terminal aesthetics 4 by CharlesW | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Frustration Tolerance: An Essential for Surviving Large Orgs 20 by sherilm | 16 comments on Hacker News.

Escape the walled garden and algorithm black boxes with RSS feeds 20 by rekl | 5 comments on Hacker News.

Philosophy Eats AI 6 by robg | 1 comments on Hacker News.

VS Code Pets 59 by vortex_ape | 8 comments on Hacker News.

Reverse-engineering a carry-lookahead adder in the Pentium 9 by DamonHD | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: ZX Spectrum SCR to PNG Converter 9 by iamflimflam1 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Scratching my own itch. I had to do this for showing information on ZX Spectrum games. So thought I'd turn it into a useful tool for other people to use.

Skyvern Browser Agent 2.0: How We Reached State of the Art in Evals 5 by suchintan | 3 comments on Hacker News.

How can a top scientist be so confidently wrong? R. A. Fisher and smoking (2022) 26 by tchalla | 31 comments on Hacker News.

Penn Station Can Handle the Load: New York Is Ready for Through-Running 28 by Ericson2314 | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Gemini Advanced now included in Google Workspace 7 by simonpure | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO 82 by andypiper | 18 comments on Hacker News.

'So immoral': gig economy workers forced to pay fee to receive their wages 27 by zfg | 14 comments on Hacker News.

I will never need to buy a new computer again 78 by ecliptik | 87 comments on Hacker News.

Snake Game in 56 Bytes 9 by birdculture | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork 80 by impish9208 | 33 comments on Hacker News.

Map of California roads for cyclers (1895) 5 by grajaganDev | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Datadog acquires Quickwit 33 by lrx | 11 comments on Hacker News.

Mercury's shadowy North Pole revealed by M-CAM 1 12 by divbzero | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Can we communally deprecate git checkout? 3 by mirawelner | 2 comments on Hacker News.

How Britain got its first internet connection (2018) 12 by samizdis | 6 comments on Hacker News.

Perpetual Movement: Francis Picabia's 391 Review (1917–1924) 3 by prismatic | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Collection: More Doctors Smoke Camels 6 by t0bia_s | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Some Programming Language Ideas 19 by todsacerdoti | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: HipScript – Run CUDA in the Browser with WebAssembly and WebGPU 14 by lights0123 | 2 comments on Hacker News. CUDA is NVIDIA's language for GPU programming, allowing you to mix write CPU and GPU code in C++ in one file. By chaining a few projects that compile CUDA to OpenCL, then Vulkan, then WebGPU, you can experiment with this GPGPU language on any hardware.

My Favorite Book on AI 20 by f1shy | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Remote code execution via MIDI messages 31 by portasynthinca3 | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Human study on AI spear phishing campaigns 28 by DalasNoin | 5 comments on Hacker News.

Don't Clobber the Frame Pointer 5 by felixge | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Open Rewind – POC for audio and screen and video streaming to S3 6 by wwoessi | 0 comments on Hacker News. Got into a rabbit hole today. POC works using 'npx efficient-recorder'. Is this useful to anyone?

Oral history of Caroline Rose, writer of Inside Macintosh (2023) [video] 5 by msephton | 0 comments on Hacker News. Caroline Rose was a technical writer at Apple from 1982, lead writer and editor of "Inside Macintosh". Apple-era starts at 1h22m in the video, NeXT-era at 1h58m.

Bridging Science and Art: Exploring the World of Scientific Illustrations 3 by samonurofil | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Rules for Writing Software Tutorials 9 by mtlynch | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Walter Isaacson: "My So-Called Writing Life" 10 by nsoonhui | 2 comments on Hacker News.

How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops (2020) 33 by mgd | 26 comments on Hacker News.