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AI is a better teacher-but schools will still exist 'because you need childcare'

https://fortune.com/2025/05/20/duolingo-ai-teacher-schools-childcare/
1•twiddling•22s ago•0 comments

Fedora 43 Cleared to Ship with Wayland-Only Gnome

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-43-Wayland-Only-GNOME
1•freedomben•5m ago•0 comments

FCC Asked to Give Spectrum to Allow SpaceX Starlink to Make a Better GPS

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2025/05/fcc-asked-to-give-spectrum-to-allow-spacex-starlink-to-make-a-vastly-better-gps.html
2•dzhiurgis•7m ago•0 comments

Fortnite's Darth Vader Is A.I.-Powered. Voice Actors Are Rebelling

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/arts/fortnite-darth-vader-ai-voice.html
1•donohoe•10m ago•0 comments

Utm_source params for each chatbot – see your AI referral traffic

https://generate-visibility.ghost.io/how-to-see-chatgpt-referral-traffic-on-google-analytics/
1•jenthoven•13m ago•0 comments

The Value Isn't in the Code

https://jonayre.uk/blog/2022/10/30/the-real-value-isnt-in-the-code/
5•fragmede•13m ago•0 comments

Rethinking Sleep from First Principles

https://www.affectablesleep.com/blog/rethinking-sleep-from-first-principles
2•pedalpete•20m ago•0 comments

Intelligent Internet Agent Explanation

https://deepwiki.com/Intelligent-Internet/ii-agent/1.1-installation-and-setup
1•randomcatuser•20m ago•0 comments

Application Isolation using NixOS Containers (2021)

https://msucharski.eu/posts/application-isolation-nixos-containers/
1•kugurerdem•21m ago•0 comments

How Peter Thiel's Relationship with Eliezer Yudkowsky Launched the AI Revolution

https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-the-optimist-open-ai-sam-altman/
1•jandrewrogers•28m ago•0 comments

Creating Art with Code (2020)

https://medium.com/@mauralian/coding-art-312efa2020fd
1•airstrike•28m ago•0 comments

The Laser Revolution Part I: Megawatt beams to the skies

http://toughsf.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-laser-revolution-part-i-megawatt.html
1•EA-3167•29m ago•0 comments

Opus Dei: The Handmaid's School

https://buenosairesherald.com/society/opus-dei-the-handmaids-school
3•Anon84•30m ago•0 comments

Google Acquired GalileoAI

https://twitter.com/arnaudai/status/1924942577545195982
1•nallatamby•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made a pretty cheap marketing breakthrough

https://smarketly.lema-lema.com/
2•abilafredkb•32m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Frustrated with Health-Data Silos?

2•iaftb•33m ago•0 comments

Google Unveils A.I. Chatbot, Signaling a New Era for Search

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/technology/personaltech/google-ai-mode-search.html
2•breadwinner•34m ago•0 comments

Login to any user account using other Facebook app access token

https://hackerone.com/reports/101977
2•gilsonconte•36m ago•1 comments

The Napkin Project

https://web.evanchen.cc/napkin.html
3•luu•38m ago•0 comments

Violence on TV: what happens to children who watch?

https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2025/01/20/violence-on-tv-what-happens-to-children-who-watch/
2•gnabgib•39m ago•0 comments

You Are So Not Ready for This ChatGPT Prompt but You Need It

https://medium.com/readers-club/you-are-so-not-ready-for-this-prompt-but-you-need-it-c22391606c2b
2•stevenjgarner•41m ago•1 comments

Biotech companies I wish existed

https://blog.eladgil.com/p/biotech-companies-i-wish-existed
1•todsacerdoti•42m ago•1 comments

Microsoft's Attempted Merger with Intuit

https://dfarq.homeip.net/microsofts-attempted-merger-with-intuit/
2•rbanffy•43m ago•0 comments

Adguard Mail

https://adguard-mail.com/en/welcome.html
1•dotmanish•44m ago•0 comments

"Safe" YAML Monster

https://gist.github.com/taramtrampam/fca4e599992909b48a3ba1ce69e215a2
2•birdculture•47m ago•0 comments

Google Announces Smart Glasses Partnerships [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvMWLYRCj6s
1•handfuloflight•49m ago•0 comments

The Golden Age of computer user groups

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/08/the-golden-age-of-computer-user-groups/
6•rbanffy•49m ago•0 comments

Lex Fridman twisted my arm into using Cursor and Lovable – welcome Åndra

https://www.aandra.it.com/
2•paaloeye•54m ago•0 comments

Computex 2025: Intel Arc Pro B-Series – By George Cozma

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/computex-2025-intel-arc-pro-b-series
2•rbanffy•54m ago•0 comments

Multiple systems to estimate the number of unattributed paintings by Modigliani

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10260-024-00774-w
1•bookofjoe•57m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

The NSA Selector

https://github.com/wenzellabs/the_NSA_selector
155•anigbrowl•5h ago

Comments

rekttrader•4h ago
This is killer art
cole-k•4h ago
This went over my head at first, but I really like it. So for those like me: it converts network traffic into audio output.

YouTube explainer: https://youtu.be/vfgySTaM1TI

tobyjsullivan•4h ago
For those interested in hearing some beats, the terminal demo starts at 4:34 https://youtu.be/vfgySTaM1TI?t=274
m463•4h ago
No Such Agen^H^H^H^HAttachment
tptacek•4h ago
There used to be a thing on SunOS (I think) where you'd get `ping` to write to /dev/audio so you could diagnose network stuff by sound.
fuddy•3h ago
One of the funnier parameters to encounter in the snoop manpage.
monster_truck•3h ago
You can still do this with /dev/dsp or similar. Might need sudo these days

`cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp`

jdthedisciple•2h ago
thanks this almost crashed my pc
dylan604•1h ago
some people learn the hard way that blindly copying and pasting things from the interweb directly to a terminal is not always the best of ideas. some times, they're bloody brilliant
dgfitz•1h ago
curl $url | bash is probably the only worse culprit.
0xbadcafebee•1h ago
This one saves files to disk more efficiently by skipping the OS's bloated slow filesystem drivers and metadata. The bigger the file and faster the connection, the more efficient it is!

  sudo curl -o /dev/sda https://testfile.org/files-5GB
nicce•51m ago
Some people are just evil.
schoen•3h ago
You can "ping -a" nowadays to get beeps for each reply, but it's not quite as cool!
amelius•3h ago
Cool, but I was hoping for some 80s era modem sounds.
riknos314•3h ago
> if possible disable encryption, then you can profit from not only timing pattern (of white noise), but also listen in on the plaintext payload. the NSA loves plaintext.

Haha, incredible.

On a more serious note this is a really cool idea. Would be interesting to listen to the same origin traffic in different network conditions to hear things like TCP rate control.

ww520•3h ago
Good for network wiring diagnostic. It would be great if it can pipe the noise to Bluetooth audio. I can pair a headphone to it, plug this into the network in another room and still can hear it while checking the line connections on the switch/router.
hnuser123456•2h ago
That audio port is blasting out a total bandwidth of 100 Mbps (4 bits at 25 MHz) versus 768 Kbps for BT audio, assuming a high quality codec (16 bits at 48 KHz), so not without loss.
danesparza•3h ago
The Snowden silkscreen is a nice touch. What a great hardware build!
TiredOfLife•56m ago
Snowden outside Putler inside.
rurban•3h ago
Don't forget the GHCQ which installs a mirror on each UK modem. I don't think the NSA goes to these extremes
godman_8•3h ago
I've worked with quite a few ISPs and exchanges. I haven't set up port mirrors for the NSA but I have setup temporary mirrors for the FBI upon request.
0xbadcafebee•1h ago
The NSA/govt gets its own dedicated floor in some DCs, esp. large interconnects
stavros•42m ago
Oh man, I really hope they don't get all my TLS connections.
dekhn•30m ago
The NSA worked with GHCQ to tap Google's fiber between data centers, which at the time, was not encrypted. You can see several presentations including "SSL added and removed here" (reference to the SSL connection being terminated at the Google front end and then transmitted unencrypted to the backend in another data center), as well as an actual BigTable packet from tcpdump that included a user identifier.

If you read The Idea Factory, it shows that AT&T leadership worked closely with NSA and other governmental agencies (on a "secret schedule" so nobody would know who the execs were meeting with) to help them access US phone data.

I'd love to know the extent of what NSA has done between its founding and today; I'm sure they've pulled off some astounding things, and bolluxed up other stuff badly.

1317•2h ago
You can also achieve something like this with a powerline networking adapter + a shortwave radio

bit evil really, they shit up almost the entire 0-30mhz

but they do work...

simpaticoder•2h ago
Really cool, but has anyone built software to do this locally on a PC? For example:

   sudo tcpdump -i "eth0" -w - -U | aplay -f S16_LE -r 44100
mzs•45m ago
snoop -a on solaris

https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=46328&cid=477520411

jll29•2h ago
In NSA parlance, a "selector" primarily is a string that semi-uniquely identifies and addresses a persons intercepted data, such as

- an IP address,

- an email address,

- a phone number,

- a SIM card's MSIN

- a person's social security number,

- a national ID card number,

- a passport number,

- a social media handle etc.

(elsewhere also known as "accessor", "key", "handle" or "index")

jonathanstrange•2h ago
They are interesting because combining and updating them is a non-trivial problem, as I've realized today while implementing a user ban system.
Terr_•1h ago
There's a certain system I work with where random unauthenticated visitors on the internet end up supplying data like name/phone/email, with no validation... And of course, the business wants to somehow convert that into a list of "real people" and start correlating it to other records.

I've been trying to stop anything too terrible from happening by asking them to clarify their business requirements, e.g. what should happen when there is malicious impersonation, or the expected result should be when inconsistencies and overlaps exist.

It's not like there's no value to the data... but I'm afraid they don't really understand the problem are are hoping the magic computer can somehow *poof* garbage into fine cuisine.

dylan604•1h ago
Since he's building a sequencer, I'm almost disappointed it wasn't named Selecta.

Rewind Bo Selecta!!

desertmonad•2h ago
Imagining in a server farm. Cool project!
hottakesbun•2h ago
The joke is on him - I used to get this functionality for free way back in the day when (what I presume was) RF noise generated during the processing of ethernet traffic would get picked up by my cheap ISA sound card and sent to the speakers. I never built a sequencer out of it though.
sevensor•1h ago
Back in college, I would listen to AM radio while I worked on my computer. The radio would pick up electrical noise from the keyboard and the mechanical mouse. I wonder if this sounds anything like it.
psunavy03•1h ago
Cool idea to audio-ize network traffic. Artwork is peak edgelord cringe, though . . .
als0•1h ago
Stuff like this is exactly why I come to Hacker News.
Liftyee•1h ago
Great idea and +1 for excellent PCB art!
phendrenad2•1h ago
Can you say "calm down my selector"?
yapyap•49m ago
So ridiculous, love it