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Proving Laderman's 3x3 Matrix Multiplication Is Locally Optimal via SMT Solvers

https://zenodo.org/records/18514533
1•DarenWatson•59s ago•0 comments

Fire may have altered human DNA

https://www.popsci.com/science/fire-alter-human-dna/
1•wjb3•1m ago•0 comments

"Compiled" Specs

https://deepclause.substack.com/p/compiled-specs
1•schmuhblaster•6m ago•0 comments

The Next Big Language (2007) by Steve Yegge

https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.html?2026
1•cryptoz•7m ago•0 comments

Open-Weight Models Are Getting Serious: GLM 4.7 vs. MiniMax M2.1

https://blog.kilo.ai/p/open-weight-models-are-getting-serious
3•ms7892•17m ago•0 comments

Using AI for Code Reviews: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why

https://entelligence.ai/blogs/entelligence-ai-in-cli
3•Arindam1729•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Solnix – an early-stage experimental programming language

https://www.solnix-lang.org/
2•maheshbhatiya•17m ago•0 comments

DoNotNotify is now Open Source

https://donotnotify.com/opensource.html
5•awaaz•19m ago•2 comments

The British Empire's Brothels

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/british-empires-brothels
2•pepys•19m ago•0 comments

What rare disease AI teaches us about longitudinal health

https://myaether.live/blog/what-rare-disease-ai-teaches-us-about-longitudinal-health
2•takmak007•25m ago•0 comments

The Brand Savior Complex and the New Age of Self Censorship

https://thesocialjuice.substack.com/p/the-brand-savior-complex-and-the
2•jaskaransainiz•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A Prompting Framework for Non-Vibe-Coders

https://github.com/No3371/projex
2•3371•27m ago•0 comments

Kilroy is a local-first "software factory" CLI

https://github.com/danshapiro/kilroy
2•ukuina•37m ago•0 comments

Mathscapes – Jan 2026 [pdf]

https://momath.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/1.-Mathscapes-January-2026-with-Solution.pdf
1•vismit2000•39m ago•0 comments

80386 Barrel Shifter

https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2026/80386_barrel_shifter/
2•jamesbowman•40m ago•0 comments

Training Foundation Models Directly on Human Brain Data

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.12053
1•helloplanets•40m ago•0 comments

Web Speech API on HN Threads

https://toulas.ch/projects/hn-readaloud/
1•etoulas•43m ago•0 comments

ArtisanForge: Learn Laravel through a gamified RPG adventure – 100% free

https://artisanforge.online/
2•grazulex•43m ago•1 comments

Your phone edits all your photos with AI – is it changing your view of reality?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260203-the-ai-that-quietly-edits-all-of-your-photos
1•breve•44m ago•0 comments

DStack, a small Bash tool for managing Docker Compose projects

https://github.com/KyanJeuring/dstack
2•kppjeuring•45m ago•1 comments

Hop – Fast SSH connection manager with TUI dashboard

https://github.com/danmartuszewski/hop
1•danmartuszewski•46m ago•1 comments

Turning books to courses using AI

https://www.book2course.org/
6•syukursyakir•47m ago•3 comments

Top #1 AI Video Agent: Free All in One AI Video and Image Agent by Vidzoo AI

https://vidzoo.ai
2•Evan233•47m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How would you design an LLM-unfriendly language?

1•sph•49m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MuxPod – A mobile tmux client for monitoring AI agents on the go

https://github.com/moezakura/mux-pod
1•moezakura•50m ago•0 comments

March for Billionaires

https://marchforbillionaires.org/
1•gscott•50m ago•0 comments

Turn Claude Code/OpenClaw into Your Local Lovart – AI Design MCP Server

https://github.com/jau123/MeiGen-Art
1•jaujaujau•50m ago•0 comments

An Nginx Engineer Took over AI's Benchmark Tool

https://github.com/hongzhidao/jsbench/tree/main/docs
1•zhidao9•53m ago•0 comments

Use fn-keys as fn-keys for chosen apps in OS X

https://www.balanci.ng/tools/karabiner-function-key-generator.html
1•thelollies•53m ago•1 comments

Sir/SIEN: A communication protocol for production outages

https://getsimul.com/blog/communicate-outage-to-ceo
1•pingananth•54m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

PlateShapez – Tool for generating adversarially perturbed license plate overlays

https://github.com/bennjordan/PlateShapez
32•Rhea_Karty•5mo ago

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Rhea_Karty•5mo ago
Background: from this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ)

Floxk AI is a startup that apparently runs highly suspicious police data collection services. As a fun bonus, it sells this data to private bidders and retains no liability for any mess-ups.

Apparently, it uses a Bluetooth system to relay some of this information. And seems to generally have awful security...

Any thoughts? Or further projects on this?

toomuchtodo•5mo ago
Flock Safety

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Rhea_Karty•5mo ago
A lot of news... not too much technical.

The real scandal seems to be the use of data brokers' data, re-selling/owning the data collected from publicly funded cameras, and also using bluetooth and ostensibly other outdated security.

toomuchtodo•5mo ago
The scandals you mention have been reported on in depth by 404media, which has led to state and congressional investigation. A Google search will provide technical details about their cameras and the Android/hardware stack that operates them.
theamk•5mo ago
for such a well-documented repo, the complete lack of sample outputs is surprising.

I don't want to run the code, just show me some perturbed plates!

nxpnsv•5mo ago
I guess benn jordan assumed you would watch the video on yt before finding the repo
ChrisArchitect•5mo ago
Aside: this is the third or fourth time this week I've seen a repo/project shared here with some visual output component and no examples shown in the Readme or anywhere and multiple people asking about it. What's with these maintainers missing that key aspect? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
on_the_train•5mo ago
Might actually be interaction bait. Just like those Reddit posts with false info or typos. Gets people to interact, just like us
lantry•5mo ago
I watched the video, and I think the creator of the repo might be concerned about liability. Also, the perturbed plates don't look that interesting, they just look slightly dirty
LargoLasskhyfv•5mo ago
Next level: Produce solution for actually dirtying a given plate whith patterns of applied "dirt", easily removable, just in case...
radar1310•5mo ago
Highly illegal in most likely all states.Every state has laws against obstruction of license plates.
hackable_sand•5mo ago
Don't get caught I guess
spicybright•5mo ago
If you see the video, the initial iteration just looks like specs of mud on the plate with the letters+numbers still fully readable. His ultimate goal is a custom plate frame that looks normal to the human eye but can block camera readings.

I can see this as being legal because it's still human readable.

Plate readers aren't expected to be 100% reliable as is (angles, lighting, network goes down, etc.) Plates get dirty, sometimes rusty. Also you can't test your own plate for machine readability against all the different types of systems cops use, so how could you reasonably know the issue is on your end and how to fix it?

vintermann•5mo ago
Well, you know the issue is on your end if you specifically installed a system which is designed to foil a specific type of license plate reader.
Turlututu•5mo ago
My guess is that either the system flag you as plate-less and warn cops about it.

Or trigger a human read of licence plate capture.

xnx•5mo ago
Post COVID, where the streets are full of terrible/reckless/dangerous/uninsured drivers with missing or fake (ghost) tags, I have a hard time opposing license plate enforcement.
01HNNWZ0MV43FF•5mo ago
Stop stalking me
rickytheguy•5mo ago
I've been wondering for a long time about adding a layer of UV reflective material to a license plate (maybe even a spray?), built specifically to either alter the image so a camera sees different numbers/letters, or to block it altogether. With this it wouldn't be obstructing the licence plate at all for human eyes, so it's feasible that you could easily get away with it.