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British runner Josh Kerr breaks world record for mile which stood for 27 years

21 points, 9 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsnews.sky.com1d

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LG ThinQ Terms of Use

Some of my kitchen appliances are LG and I installed the LG ThinQ app on my phone. Sometimes I like to leave a cold dish in the oven before I go out then remotely start it when I’m on my way back home, so I arrive to a nice hot dinner. After a recent HN post about LG malware and further research, I decided to kick my appliances out of the network. I also tried to remove my user account just to find out that in order to use the app I need to first accept the new terms of use. I asked ChatGPT for a summary. This seems a lot more aggressive than the standard terms of use of other products and services. 1. No arbitration opt-out. You give up court, jury trial, class actions, mass actions, and collective claims. Most disputes must go through individual arbitration, and LG says your only alternative is to stop using the service. Claims generally must be brought within one year. (Sections 20.b and 20.c) 2. Broad rights over anything you submit. LG receives a perpetual, irrevocable, transferab

Hacker Newsnews.ycombinator.com1d

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EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application

84 points, 52 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsenvironment.ec.europa.eu1d

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Pinecone Introduces Nexus Engine for Compiling Business Context into Structured Data for AI Agents

Now generally available, Pinecone Nexus is a "knowledge engine" for AI agents that transforms enterprise data into a structured layer agents can query directly. It enables teams to ingest and curate business context once for all, making it reusable across agents and reducing token costs while improving accuracy. By Sergio De Simone

InfoQinfoq.com1d

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Haunt 0.4.0 released

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Lobstersgit.dthompson.us1d

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GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization

231 points, 118 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsold.reddit.com1d

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Goodbye, and thanks for all the Bikesheds

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Lobstersqueue.acm.org1d

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Cache Directory Tagging Specification

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Lobstersbford.info1d

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What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph

197 points, 235 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsdata.stackexchange.com1d

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NextBSD project revived: Apple's FOSS user-space tools on the FreeBSD kernel

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Lobstersnextbsd.org1d

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Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal help?

129 points, 48 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newscharlesazam.com1d

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LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent

608 points, 317 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsvideocardz.com2d

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PowerShell over SSH in 2026: OpenSSH on Windows, Key Auth, and PowerShell 7 Remoting

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Lobstersmattmichie.com2d

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Qubes OS Security in the Public Record

51 points, 9 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsarxiv.org2d

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The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal

93 points, 18 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsnegroniventurestudios.com2d

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neither gcc nor clang are compliant with standard c++

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GitRoot

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Version Controlled SQL Database Dolt Releases 2.0 with Automatic Storage Cleanup and Compression

DoltHub has recently released Dolt 2.0, a major update to the open source version-controlled SQL database. The latest major version adds automatic storage optimization, including garbage collection and compression, along with improved support for large and vector data types. By Renato Losio

InfoQinfoq.com2d

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