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First open-weight Qwen-Max-class model; Qwen3.8-Max supports chatbot, multimodal I/O, docs, web search, tools, artifacts; weights due next week; $2/M in, $6/M out, $0.25/M cached.
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- “Max-Preview” ran since July 19; new demos: oh-my-cli autonomous coding, pelican SVG
- “Self-evolves” marketing draws skepticism; cost tied to reasoning_effort
WMF rejects voluntary union recognition, demands NLRB election; union alleges delay and anti-union prep during Wikimania.
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- WMF cites prior non-secret vote, claims staff felt pressured; lawyers invoke card-signing duress rules
- Many see this as classic union-busting delay, referencing John Oliver’s NLRB episode
AI answers pasted verbatim into Slack/PRs force others to debug hallucinations; authors should verify, compress, and own responses instead of offloading work.
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- “Meat proxies” are often managers/PMs dumping huge LLM blobs on others to “see if it’s right”
- Core risk is unverified AI as fake superpower; see noslopgrenade.com
eBay staff cyberstalked a Boston couple with threats and macabre deliveries; seven went to prison, and eBay paid $56M plus exec settlements.
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- Seven security staff got 12–57 months (one time served + $20k); eBay used a deferred prosecution deal with a $3M cap
- Ex-CEO Wenig paid $2M; other execs paid less and later joined new firms/boards (incl. symbolic.ai)
1953 vs 2023 ELL “essential vocabulary” lists show big shifts: many old moral/character words vanish; new social/identity terms appear; core social phrases stay.
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- Debate causes: inequality, globalization, or sampling/corpus bias in word lists
- Note vocab lists are hard to curate and complain about distracting site UX/animations
Runs macOS ARM64 CLI binaries on Linux ARM via Rust userspace: Mach-O loader, libSystem shim, BSD syscall translation; 7-zip works but ~5.2x slower, curl 200+ cmds OK.
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- Xcode git basics work but unstable; goal is full Xcode/Homebrew/iOS builds
- Debate over “clean room” vs Darling; author cites Rust userspace, LLM-assisted “light-gray room”, invites audit
EU plan ties age checks to hardware-bound remote attestation, sidelining non-TPM desktops, Linux, and custom ROMs; device IDs enable cross-site tracking via Apple/Google.
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- Remote attestation isn’t ZKP; unique device IDs leak identity across services
- Mandatory attestation risks platform lock-in and broad surveillance beyond age checks
SF rendered as an interactive isometric pixel map using Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles, Claude Code, three.js, and AI-generated tiles with manual curation.
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- Links: https://sf.isopolis.city, dev: https://sf.isopolis.city/dev.html, plus Floor796 & isometric.nyc comparisons
- Note mapping quirks (roads as rivers/lakes, fake lakes in Starr King & Buena Vista parks) and want better zoom/pixel scale
NY Fed sells euros to buy yen as JPY hits ~40-year lows; aims to stabilize FX without forcing Japan to dump U.S. Treasuries; interventions seen as short-lived.
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- US uses EUR, not USD, to support JPY and protect UST market, yields
- Move tied to rate differentials, energy/oil costs, and Bessent “Buy Yen 5–10B” note
Compare STL/3MF/OBJ revisions in-browser to see added/removed material and dimensional drift; runs client-side and free. HN: privacy-first use, but mobile text truncates.
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- Multi-group OBJs partly ignored; no warning on identical-file compare
- Requests: synced viewports/transforms, axis-based diff, CLI/CI + GitHub PR previews
Feels like a 7-year-old beta: unstable, slow, missing controls; devs often drop to UIKit/AppKit; yearly WWDC churn, weak docs, and modifier chains frustrate teams.
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- 7 years post-release, 12 for Swift, yet core pieces still feel unfinished
- Declarative model clashes with complex UI needs; Apple’s “use SwiftUI” push feels premature
Proof-oriented language with dependent types, SMT automation, tactics; compiles to OCaml, can extract elsewhere; open-source from MSR/Inria.
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- Tutorial/examples are buried; see https://fstar-lang.org/index.html#learn
- Tooling rough: Z3 path issues; C interop helps gradual migration
AI-generated “news” site tied to OpenAI’s $125M political firm Targeted Victory attacks AI critics; bot reporter outreach exposed operation.
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- Commenters see coordinated astroturfing: tone shifted from skepticism to hype over time
- Pangram flagged 69% of 94 articles fully AI, 28% partial, raising fraud/nondisclosure concerns
v0.8.0 adds Thunderbird/Edge/Firewalld policies, new web UI, finer RBAC, and security hardening; desktop configs enforced and auto-rolled back on drift.
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- Competes with Samba GPO and Ansible/Puppet, but focuses on desktop lockdown + audit via mTLS gRPC, no SSH.
- No OAuth/SAML; LDAP-only auth, no custom scripts (avoid RCE); optional Kerberos enrollment.
RISC OS Open Ltd, founded 2006, opened proprietary RISC OS source in 2007, enabling community-led ARM OS development and two decades of incremental evolution.
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- Tiny user base but big UI influence via ARM icon bar design that spread to later devices
- Veterans recall apps like !Director; screenshots in manuals back up historical claims
Internship in Germany leads to long-term relocation, citizenship path, and deep integration into German life and bureaucracy.
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- Better German-learning sources: learngerman.dw.com, DW slow news, easygerman.org
- Bus-door “rule” is liability-driven; admin delays, far-right rise vary by city
Le Guin defends her work’s tech depth, distinguishing gadget‑driven “hard” SF from social/philosophical technology; notes like the ansible blur that line.
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- Clarifies Hainish universe has FTL ships, but passengers don’t survive
- Links to related media: Hatchet novel, and two YouTube talks (e.g. t=2827)
Memory-unsafe C++ fork of zutty, dual-licensed (MIT+GPL) with heavy tooling; benchmarks show ~2× throughput vs slowest terminals but only throughput, not latency.
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- Name collisions with “st” and other “shitty” projects; relicensing required contributor sign‑off.
- Claims precise damage tracking/minimal redraw; no keypress latency or startup time data.
Models get 3 tries/month to draw a frog SVG with mandibular prognathism; many fail anatomy, side profile, or add royalty context unasked.
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- Mistral repeated byte-identical SVG; Gemini verbose, Llama minimal
- Exercise shows hallucinations/embellishments likely in real tasks without QA
From Aug 1, Californians can mass-delete/opt-out via DROP; 12 brokers already fined; noncompliance costs $200/day per CA resident; applies even to many out-of-state firms.
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- DROP targets data brokers, not typical sites like HN
- Deletion is limited: sites may keep content (e.g., posts with replies) and only redact/reassign
AI-made poster with visible glitches wins Ohio State Fair contest; human artist named winner, AI use not banned until 2027; top 5 displayed in Kasich Hall.
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- Judges missed obvious AI artifacts (duplicated pigs, broken zipline, odd “250th birthday” text)
- Policy gap: AI not banned, so entry stood until backlash forced a rules review
Medieval grimoire promised instant mastery of liberal arts via rituals, but hid demon invocations, visions, and dangerous dependence; “AI” link is mostly a joke.
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- Framed as predatory shortcut for poor students lacking books/lectures
- Parallels drawn to AI “magic” promises; see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Aramaic#Chaldean_misnomer
Open-source AI agent for hardware/software dev; site currently down; claims web-context retrieval, autonomous purchases via Prava, and upcoming benchmarks vs rivals.
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- Site often unavailable; users told to “check back in 20 mins”
- Agent can buy items/subscriptions autonomously; reliability tied to web retrieval
NixOS images, hardware modules, and devshells bring reproducible Nix workflows to DGX Spark/Asus GX10, including running Nix atop stock DGX OS and handling GPU drivers.
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- Reported FP8 DeepSeek on Asus GX10: ~1800 tps prefill, ~45 tok/s decode with k3s
- Related hardened Nix/CUDA stacks: https://flox.dev/blog/deploying-hardened-flox-nvidia-cuda-stacks-in-minutes-not-hours/
Compiles statically typed functional code to native via GRIN+LLVM; solo dev shipped working backend and examples.
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- No Unicode strings, no module system; latest impl wins on name clashes
- IO via .exec(), purity/runtime still evolving; tree-sitter+fusefmt exist, LSP planned (see GitHub link)
Firmware rooted, UART used to dump/analyze TL-WR841N image and persistent credentials on an EOL, low-flash TP-Link router; focus is learning hardware hacking, not the model.
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- TL-WR841N is EOL but still runs OpenWrt; target chosen for exposed UART + docs
- Suggest tio over picocom for serial: https://github.com/tio/tio
Shared SSH “r/place” canvas; rate limits via SSH key + IP/device (see GitHub README). No account/install:
ssh ssh.place.🗣️ HN commenters add:
- Warn against SSH agent forwarding; treat as untrusted host
- Related SSH art/toy sites: late.sh, shellbox.dev, billard.sh, pico.sh
Rust teams share 2026 planning, contributor paths, and project updates; HN corrects claims on compile times and GPU/embedded ecosystem status.
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- Compile-time complaints ignore fast incremental
cargo checkand hardware differences - Rust-CUDA rebooted, rust-gpu incomplete, Nvidia work not announced; mods aren’t anonymous
- Compile-time complaints ignore fast incremental
Statcounter shows Linux at 10.65% of North American desktops; Cloudflare data aligns, but OS detection quirks and traffic bias may inflate/deflate real users.
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- “Unknown” OS share fell as Linux rose, suggesting reclassification vs new installs
- Methodology may miss Firefox/Linux and mix in bots; growth still aided by Steam, YouTube tech, LLM help
Ex-Apple engineer claims firing followed refusal to share AT&T customer device IDs without releases; Apple says legal OK’d sharing serial/IMEI as PII.
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- Seen as civil contract dispute; disobeying manager still breach of policy
- Speculation AT&T/Apple privacy weaker on AT&T media pressure could push settlement
