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Life with Hazard Ratios
15 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
Should DayQuil Be Legal?
Article URL: https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/should-dayquil-be-legal Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48806289 Points: 166 # Comments: 212
Car touchscreens are cheap, not good
7 points, 6 comments on Hacker News
Postgres Is Enough
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1k Words: A Writing Contest
15 points, 3 comments on Hacker News
Electric anti-aircraft interceptor drone breaks world air speed record at 434mph
Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/electric-drone-breaks-world-air-speed-record-at-434-mph-designed-for-anti-aircraft-interceptor-roles-german-firm-convincingly-smashed-the-official-409-mph-record-hopes-to-get-stamp-of-approval-from-guinness-soon Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48805985 Points: 15 # Comments: 7
Multilingual Experience Linked to Delayed Aging in Populations and Individuals
11 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Google Chrome Installed a 4GB AI Model on Your PC
4 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit
46 points, 43 comments on Hacker News
Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future
74 points, 79 comments on Hacker News
Do you really need separate systems when you already have Postgres?
34 points, 10 comments on Hacker News
Emily Bender Sets the Record Straight on "Stochastic Parrots"
79 points, 78 comments on Hacker News
DOJ Closing Abbott Labs Case Spurs Wider Corporate Crime Retreat
Article URL: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/doj-closing-abbott-labs-case-spurs-wider-corporate-crime-retreat Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48805304 Points: 27 # Comments: 1
Netflix Cuts Cassandra Read Latency from Seconds to Milliseconds with Dynamic Partition Splitting
Netflix engineers introduced dynamic partition splitting for Cassandra to address wide partitions in time series workloads. The metadata-driven approach detects oversized partitions, splits them smaller units, and routes reads across child partitions. Netflix reported lower read latency from seconds to milliseconds, reduced timeouts, and improved cluster stability while maintaining transparency. By Leela Kumili
Resetting Xbox
Article URL: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/07/06/resetting-xbox/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804993 Points: 78 # Comments: 36
I Changed My Name
21 points, 16 comments on Hacker News
I Built a Telegram Client for Pi
35 points, 19 comments on Hacker News
The (Petty) Reason We Didn't End Up Using jj
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Triple Dragon Fractal (2020)
27 points, 6 comments on Hacker News
Aluminum foil (2021)
90 points, 31 comments on Hacker News
Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries
144 points, 93 comments on Hacker News
Show HN: Scan your AI agents for dangerous capabilities
32 points, 17 comments on Hacker News
How Kalshi Infects the News
74 points, 44 comments on Hacker News
Why low-latency Java still requires discipline?
47 points, 23 comments on Hacker News
DKIM2 and DMARCbis Have Landed
21 points, 6 comments on Hacker News
⚡ Weekly Recap: Proxy Botnets, Browser Ransomware, AI Agent Tricks, Fake PoC Malware and More
A streaming box should not need a threat model. Neither should a username field, a demo repo, a reset flow, or a browser permission prompt. That is the irritating part this week: the risky pieces were ordinary. Home devices became a routing cover. Clean code pulled dirt from a dependency. Identity shortcuts aged badly. AI systems trusted the wrong instructions. Same soft spot throughout: trust
Your Worker can now have its own cache in front of it
We are launching Workers Cache, a regionally tiered cache that sits directly in front of your Worker entrypoints. Infinitely composable, configured via standard HTTP headers
Caught a .git/config crawler
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NoiseLang: Where N = 5 is a Dirac delta
65 points, 28 comments on Hacker News
Fable 5 On Vending-Bench: Misbehaving, With Plausible Deniability
80 points, 35 comments on Hacker News
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