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Jury Says Instagram and YouTube Were Built to Hook Kids — Now What?

Mar 29

▸ A Los Angeles jury ruled that Meta's Instagram and Google's YouTube were deliberately designed with addictive features targeting children.

Career / Industry Security / Privacy Politics / Regulation clear_take

CERN's 75-Nanosecond AI: When Your Model Has to Fit on a Chip

Mar 29

▸ CERN uses neural networks with 100-1,000 parameters and 6-bit weights, compiled directly into FPGA gate logic via the hls4ml framework, to filter LHC ...

Open Source AI / ML Hardware / Chips explainer

GitLab's Sid Sijbrandij Is Founding Companies While Fighting Cancer

Mar 29

▸ Sid Sijbrandij, who co-founded GitLab and took it to an $11B IPO, is channeling his cancer battle into founding new companies rather than stepping bac...

Open Source Career / Industry clear_take

Reco.ai Rewrote JSONata in a Day With AI — The $500K Question Is Whether You Should Too

Mar 29

▸ Reco.ai claims they replaced the JSONata library with custom AI-generated code in a single day, cutting $500k/year in compute costs.

Cloud / Infrastructure Backend / APIs AI / ML clear_take

Your Old Hardware Still Has Years Left — Stop Replacing It

Mar 29

▸ A blog post arguing against premature hardware replacement hit 608 points on HN, striking a nerve with developers tired of forced upgrade cycles.

Career / Industry DevOps / Platform Engineering Cloud / Infrastructure clear_take

Slovenia Caught Black Cube Running a Social Engineering Op on Its Democracy

Mar 29

▸ Slovenian counter-intelligence caught Israeli private intelligence firm Black Cube deploying operatives posing as fake investors to manipulate a Europ...

Politics / Regulation Security / Privacy clear_take

A 133K-Star Repo Just Leaked the System Prompts of Every AI Coding Tool

Mar 29

▸ A GitHub repo collecting the full system prompts of 30+ AI tools — including Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code, Devin, and Replit — has hit 133K stars, ma...

Security / Privacy Open Source AI / ML explainer

ARC-AGI-3 Drops: Now AI Has to Learn on the Fly, Not Just Pattern-Match

Mar 29

▸ ARC-AGI-3 is the first interactive reasoning benchmark where AI agents must learn novel rules through experimentation, not just static pattern matchin...

Career / Industry AI / ML explainer

EU Parliament Kills Chat Control: Encrypted Messaging Survives

Mar 28

▸ The EU Parliament rejected the 'Chat Control' regulation that would have required platforms like Signal and WhatsApp to scan all messages — including ...

Politics / Regulation Security / Privacy breaking

The Iran School Bombing Wasn't an AI Failure — It Was a Human One

Mar 28

▸ A deadly strike on an Iranian school was widely attributed to an AI targeting system, but a Guardian investigation reveals the root cause lies in how ...

Defense / GovTech Politics / Regulation Security / Privacy multiple_viewpoints

Ente Brings Its E2E Encryption DNA to Local LLM Apps with Ensu

Mar 28

▸ Ente, the open-source encrypted photo storage company, has launched Ensu — a local-first LLM application that runs models entirely on-device with no d...

Open Source Security / Privacy AI / ML explainer

AMD's 9950X3D2 Doubles Down on V-Cache: 208MB in One Socket

Mar 28

▸ AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition stacks 3D V-Cache on both CCDs, delivering 208MB of total cache in a single AM5 chip — roughly 3× what the origina...

Hardware / Chips explainer

Iran-Linked Hackers Breached FBI Director's Personal Email

Mar 28

▸ Iran-linked threat actors compromised FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email accounts, exposing sensitive communications of the nation's top law enf...

Politics / Regulation Security / Privacy breaking

Stanford's Jai Project Says You're Using File Systems Wrong

Mar 28

▸ Stanford researchers show that most applications make unsafe assumptions about file system behavior during crashes, leading to silent data corruption.

Open Source DevOps / Platform Engineering Backend / APIs explainer

Apple's Bug Report Graveyard: Verify It's Still Broken or We Close It

Mar 28

▸ Apple's Feedback Assistant automatically closes bug reports unless developers actively re-verify the bug still exists in newer OS releases — shifting ...

DevOps / Platform Engineering Career / Industry clear_take

Moving from GitHub to Codeberg: A Lazy Person's Guide Hits a Nerve

Mar 28

▸ A practical migration guide from GitHub to Codeberg scored 572 points on HN, signaling real appetite for GitHub alternatives among working developers.

DevOps / Platform Engineering Open Source explainer

The 113k-Star Repo That Treats AI Coding Skills Like Software

Mar 28

▸ Jesse Vincent's obra/superpowers — a framework of structured prompt-skills for AI coding agents — has rocketed to 113.5k GitHub stars, signaling that ...

DevOps / Platform Engineering Open Source AI / ML explainer

EU Parliament Says No: Chat Control 1.0 Scanning Must End

Mar 27

▸ The European Parliament has voted that Chat Control 1.0 — the temporary regulation allowing platforms to voluntarily scan private messages — must not ...

Politics / Regulation Security / Privacy clear_take

Mario Zechner Says Slow Down — 925 HN Upvotes Say He's Right

Mar 27

▸ Mario Zechner (libGDX creator) published a raw essay arguing developers have lost the ability to work deliberately — and Hacker News overwhelmingly ag...

Open Source Career / Industry clear_take

Apple Kills the Mac Pro — and Admits Apple Silicon Has No Pro Tower Story

Mar 27

▸ Apple has officially discontinued the Mac Pro, its $6,999+ tower workstation — the last Mac with PCIe expansion slots.

Career / Industry Hardware / Chips clear_take
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