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Hacker News

hnrss.org14 items
• Morgan Lewis▲ 57

Algorithmic rent-pricing litigation expands under new state and local laws

A new wave of litigation focused on violations of municipal regulations is emerging against multifamily housing landlords, many of whom are facing antitrust litigation targeting their use of certain revenue management products. The new regulations may potentially provide a simpler path to liability and the possibility of significant penalties.

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• Tencent▲ 250

Hy4 preview

Tencent has released and open-sourced Tencent Hy4 preview, a next-generation large language model with 770B total parameters and 49B active parameters, and a context window exceeding 1M…

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• Texas Tribune▲ 226

Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras

The higher fee, meant to combat catalytic converter theft, provided millions to expand the Flock network across Texas. Some lawmakers say that wasn’t the intent.

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• The Guardian▲ 374

DHS is using obscure law to snoop on journalists, non-profits, unions

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• Dan Luu▲ 159

Bug Blindness

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• Tucker▲ 137

Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role

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• FreeCORE▲ 64

FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued

FreeCORE carries TrueNAS CORE 13.3 forward as an independently maintained operating system on FreeBSD, with in-place upgrades to 15.0.

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• Smithsonian Magazine▲ 32

Benjamin Franklin's Alter Egos Gave Him the Most Freedom

Silence Dogood. Richard Saunders. Benevolus. Sidi Mehemet Ibrahim. All were pen names that allowed Franklin to say things he couldn’t have otherwise said

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• GitHub▲ 17

Open Oscar Server: open-source server compatible with AIM and ICQ clients

Self-hostable instant messaging server compatible with classic AIM and ICQ clients written in golang. (Independently developed, not affiliated with or endorsed by AOL) -…

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• Google▲ 10

Google: Lake Ontario/Lake America name change in the U.S. will appear in Maps

The U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) has formally changed the name for "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" in the United States. Since we update Google Maps …

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HN — Best of the Week

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• OpenAI▲ 808

Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

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• Stephen Diehl▲ 408

The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now

Personal blog of Stephen Diehl - Software engineer writing about technology, programming, and the future

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• The Guardian▲ 374

DHS is using obscure law to snoop on journalists, non-profits, unions

Even after judges rejected the same ploy, the Trump administration is going directly to social media and telecommunications companies

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• BBC▲ 326

Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU

Turbulent international affairs have brought the vote forward, but the campaign has focused more on Iceland's vital fishing industry.

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• Eng Leadership▲ 325

Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI

AI definitely helps with productivity, but only when you have the right culture in place first!

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• Sky▲ 280

GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)

We have a partial port of GrapheneOS to the Pixel 11 series after a week of work on it. We're unable to complete the port due to lack of support for ARM hardware memory tagging in software,…

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• LWN.net▲ 476

Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"

The results of the Debian general-resolution vote on the use of large language models have been [...]

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• Tencent▲ 250

Hy4 preview

Tencent has released and open-sourced Tencent Hy4 preview, a next-generation large language model with 770B total parameters and 49B active parameters, and a context window exceeding 1M…

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• Texas Tribune▲ 226

Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras

The higher fee, meant to combat catalytic converter theft, provided millions to expand the Flock network across Texas. Some lawmakers say that wasn’t the intent.

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