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Why is Google Maps back to showing old satellite images of Altadena?
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/pasadena/s/94BHlkE84r Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48176762 Points: 17 # Comments: 5
The Mercury logic programming system
42 points, 5 comments on Hacker News
Pre-Stuxnet Fast16 Malware Tampered with Nuclear Weapons Simulations
A new analysis of the Lua-based fast16 malware has confirmed that it was a cyber sabotage tool designed to tamper with nuclear weapons testing simulations. According to Broadcom-owned Symantec and Carbon Black teams, the pre-Stuxnet tool was engineered to corrupt uranium-compression simulations that are central to nuclear weapon design. "Fast16's hook engine is selectively interested in
Calvin - Determinism, Distributed ACID transactions (2020)
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Navigation API Reaches Baseline Newly Available as Replacement to the History API
The Navigation API is a new interface for managing client-side navigation in single-page applications, now available in major browsers as of January 2026. It addresses limitations of the prior History API by providing a unified event model and improved history management. Key features include the navigate event, automatic URL updates, and integrated error handling. By Daniel Curtis
The two oldest printing presses
30 points, 7 comments on Hacker News
MiniPlasma Windows 0-Day Enables SYSTEM Privilege Escalation on Fully Patched Systems
Chaotic Eclipse, the security researcher behind the recently disclosed Windows flaws, YellowKey and GreenPlasma, has released a proof-of-concept (PoC) for a Windows privilege escalation zero-day flaw that grants attackers SYSTEM privileges on fully patched Windows systems. Codenamed MiniPlasma, the vulnerability impacts "cldflt.sys," which refers to the Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver,
Review: Sylve on FreeBSD
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It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness
84 points, 214 comments on Hacker News
Reverse engineering Android malware with Claude Code
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How fast is N tokens per second really?
229 points, 56 comments on Hacker News
Most Americans don't trust AI – or the people in charge of it
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/644853/pew-gallup-data-americans-dont-trust-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48174808 Points: 38 # Comments: 18
Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments
15 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
Rust async and the ARM generic timer
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May I recommend eww for Emacs’s innovative UI?
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WriteUp: 16 Bytes of x86 that turn Matrix rain into sound
Article URL: https://hellmood.111mb.de//wake_up_16b_writeup.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173962 Points: 19 # Comments: 1
Design posters showcasing your country's electrical grid
Article URL: https://github.com/open-energy-transition/grid2poster Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173849 Points: 68 # Comments: 18
Fabricked: Misconfiguring Infinity Fabric to Break AMD SEV-SNP
Article URL: https://xca-attacks.github.io/fabricked/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173708 Points: 31 # Comments: 16
The History of ThinkPad: From IBM’s Bento Box to Lenovo’s AI Workstations
Article URL: https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/thinkpad-history/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173547 Points: 65 # Comments: 35
Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely
Article URL: https://idahonews.com/news/local/two-f-18-fighter-jets-have-crashed-during-an-airshow-at-mountain-home-air-force-base Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173468 Points: 131 # Comments: 108
GenCAD
Article URL: https://gencad.github.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173429 Points: 158 # Comments: 37
Prolog Coding Horror
14 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Fits on a Floppy - A Manifesto for Small Software
In a world where application are getting bigger and bigger seeing application that do something useful while still fitting in a floppy disk is remarkable. To be fair, the apps linked there heavily use the iOS and macOS SDK, so the application itself is small but it still depends on a potentially bug amount of code. Comments
Where OpenClaw Security Is Heading
12 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
Autoregressive next token prediction and KV Cache in transformers
19 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
OpenAI Open-Sources Symphony, a SPEC.md for Autonomous Coding Agent Orchestration
OpenAI Symphony is an agent orchestrator that uses project-management tools, like issue trackers, as a control plan to coordinate multiple coding agents. Instead of developers managing interactive coding sessions, Symphony manages "tasks" by assigning each one to a dedicated agent that works autonomously to completion. Once a task is finished, a human is in charge to review the resulting output. By Sergio De Simone
Simulate real-world places with Project Genie and Street View
We’re expanding access to Google AI Ultra subscribers globally and introducing a new capability powered by Street View.
Introducing Gemini Omni
Introducing Google Antigravity 2.0
VoIP brings back old-fashioned pay phones to rural Vermont (2025)
59 points, 10 comments on Hacker News
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