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Hacker News

hnrss.org14 items
• Marfa Public Radio▲ 123

Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

Marfa Public Radio is literally never asleep. It operates 24/7 (except when lightning strikes) and there’s so much that goes on behind the scenes to make this happen– fundraising, compliance, protocols, emergency response, maintenance…the list goes on and on.Do you lay awake wondering what FCC compliance entails? Ever wondered what NPR's code of journalistic ethics involves for the newsroom?We may never be able to explain what it takes to operate the station, but we can put you to sleep trying to.For this fall membership drive we bring you Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep. It's a sleep podcast wherein we…

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• IP Crawl▲ 276

IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet

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• Jay Acunzo▲ 146

Response to AI slop is from Robin Williams

There

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• Psychology Today▲ 133

What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis

Recent research finds that weight-loss drugs like Ozempic can act as antidepressants. But the effect is due to changes in the gut microbiome, and you can achieve some of that yourself with…

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• Caul Auenpier▲ 191

Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

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• The Drive▲ 96

Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo. That Should Terrify You

Polestar is done in the U.S. market. Its sister brand Volvo, owned by the same Chinese parent company, was spared. No one has explained why.

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• The Independent▲ 91

Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly

‘We didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers,’ says automaker

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• ClickHouse▲ 37

WAL-RUS: a Rust Rewrite of WAL-G for PostgreSQL Backups

How we built WAL-RUS, an open-source Rust-based Postgres backup tool that reduces virtual memory usage by over 70% compared to WAL-G while maintaining full compatibility.

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• Decomp Academy112d ago

Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C

Over the past few months I've been heavily involved in the decompilation community. I've been hands-on decompiling a beloved game from my childhood (Star Fox Adventures). I started this…

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HN — Best of the Week

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• The Electronic Frontier Foundation▲ 413

The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online

Buried inside the KIDS Act are provisions that will push online services to verify all users’ ages, require government-directed moderation policies for online speech, and even create new rules about private and encrypted communications. While supporters continue to claim this bill protects minors online, its requirements come at the expense of privacy, free expression, and the ability of people of all ages to use the internet without revealing sensitive data.

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• Marfa Public Radio▲ 395

Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

Marfa Public Radio is literally never asleep. It operates 24/7 (except when lightning strikes) and there’s so much that goes on behind the scenes to make this happen– fundraising, compliance, protocols, emergency response, maintenance…the list goes on and on.Do you lay awake wondering what FCC compliance entails? Ever wondered what NPR's…

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• GLM▲ 659

GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks

Among models given nothing but a prompt, the best open-weight option beat Claude Opus 4.8.

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• Patrick Breyer▲ 635

EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors

Civil rights activist Dr. Patrick Breyer warns of an unprecedented "double-attack" on secure messaging ahead of critical Friday and Monday EU meetings. Ahead of a highly critical weekend for digital civil rights in Europe, former Member of the European Parliament Dr. Patrick Breyer is sounding th

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• Antoine▲ 393

I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI

Welcome to my personal blog! I use it to share what I'm currently learning or thinking about, usually on topics related to technology, business, and health.

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• Jay Acunzo and Robin Williams▲ 378

The best response to AI slop and online noise is from Robin Williams

There

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• Engadget▲ 359

Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast

Mounting privacy and security issues have residents and activists concerned.

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• Professor at Brown▲ 349

Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown

The renowned economist Roberto Serrano has ‘overwhelming evidence’ that his students cheated. He thinks the time has come for an in-depth debate so the technology does not signal the end of…

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• Pudding▲ 349

5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)

What do America’s earliest restaurant menus teach us about America?

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• Librepods▲ 337

Librepods: AirPods liberated

AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem. Contribute to librepods-org/librepods development by creating an account on GitHub.

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• Stanford University▲ 253

Historical memory prices 1960-2026

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• CBS News▲ 248

Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers

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• Zanagrams▲ 241

Show HN: Zanagrams

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In Brief
Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badlyThe IndependentAMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup GuideAMDThe curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)Ares LunaA way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI CodexOpenAIShow HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching CDecomp AcademyFeds Killed Polestar and Spared VolvoThe DriveEU Open Sources Ten-Year Network Development Planning ToolsEUGoogle limits Meta's use of its Gemini AI modelsCNBCDLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloadedMicrosoftThe US Used to Demand the Best Tech. Now We Ban ItPCMagFord rehires 'gray beard' engineers after AI falls shortTechCrunchTokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing12 Grams of Carbon
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