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Quantization-Aware Distillation for NVFP4 Inference Accuracy Recovery [pdf]

https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nemotron/files/NVFP4-QAD-Report.pdf
1•gmays•24s ago•0 comments

xAI Merger Poses Bigger Threat to OpenAI, Anthropic

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-02-03/musk-s-xai-merger-poses-bigger-threat-to-op...
1•andsoitis•32s ago•0 comments

Atlas Airborne (Boston Dynamics and RAI Institute) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNorxwlZlFk
1•lysace•1m ago•0 comments

Zen Tools

http://postmake.io/zen-list
1•Malfunction92•3m ago•0 comments

Is the Detachment in the Room? – Agents, Cruelty, and Empathy

https://hailey.at/posts/3mear2n7v3k2r
1•carnevalem•4m ago•0 comments

The purpose of Continuous Integration is to fail

https://blog.nix-ci.com/post/2026-02-05_the-purpose-of-ci-is-to-fail
1•zdw•6m ago•0 comments

Apfelstrudel: Live coding music environment with AI agent chat

https://github.com/rcarmo/apfelstrudel
1•rcarmo•7m ago•0 comments

What Is Stoicism?

https://stoacentral.com/guides/what-is-stoicism
3•0xmattf•7m ago•0 comments

What happens when a neighborhood is built around a farm

https://grist.org/cities/what-happens-when-a-neighborhood-is-built-around-a-farm/
1•Brajeshwar•8m ago•0 comments

Every major galaxy is speeding away from the Milky Way, except one

https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/every-major-galaxy-is-speeding-away-from-the-milky-wa...
2•Brajeshwar•8m ago•0 comments

Extreme Inequality Presages the Revolt Against It

https://www.noemamag.com/extreme-inequality-presages-the-revolt-against-it/
2•Brajeshwar•8m ago•0 comments

There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)

1•dtjb•9m ago•0 comments

What Really Killed Flash Player: A Six-Year Campaign of Deliberate Platform Work

https://medium.com/@aglaforge/what-really-killed-flash-player-a-six-year-campaign-of-deliberate-p...
1•jbegley•9m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Anyone orchestrating multiple AI coding agents in parallel?

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Show HN: Knowledge-Bank

https://github.com/gabrywu-public/knowledge-bank
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3•sinisterMage•17m ago•2 comments

Take a trip to Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth

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2•zdw•17m ago•0 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
20•bookofjoe•18m ago•7 comments

BookTalk: A Reading Companion That Captures Your Voice

https://github.com/bramses/BookTalk
1•_bramses•19m ago•0 comments

Is AI "good" yet? – tracking HN's sentiment on AI coding

https://www.is-ai-good-yet.com/#home
3•ilyaizen•19m ago•1 comments

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OpenClaw Partners with VirusTotal for Skill Security

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Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and Disney

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1•thelok•21m ago•0 comments

Towards Self-Driving Codebases

https://cursor.com/blog/self-driving-codebases
1•edwinarbus•21m ago•0 comments

VCF West: Whirlwind Software Restoration – Guy Fedorkow [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLoXodz1N9A
1•stmw•22m ago•1 comments

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FOSDEM 26 – My Hallway Track Takeaways

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1•birdculture•23m ago•0 comments

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Show HN: Almostnode – Run Node.js, Next.js, and Express in the Browser

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1•PetrBrzyBrzek•27m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

DOGE might be storing every American's SSN on an insecure cloud server

https://www.theverge.com/news/785706/doge-insecure-cloud-server-social-security-numbers
62•text0404•4mo ago

Comments

amanaplanacanal•4mo ago
I assume everybody's SSN has been leaked at one time or another by now.
kccoder•4mo ago
Which means we no longer need to store and handle them securely, right? Can I have yours?
amanaplanacanal•4mo ago
You can probably look it up online if you really want to, since it was already leaked.
icedchai•4mo ago
Mine was leaked several times. At least once by the government itself. See https://iapp.org/news/a/21-5-million-breached-in-second-opm-... for example.
bhhaskin•4mo ago
SSNs where never meant to be secret. It's an ID not a password. You can thank banks and credit card companies for treating them like a verification system.
calvinmorrison•4mo ago
I have stored every americans ssn in a text file, you can too!

seq -w 0 999999999 | sed -E 's/^([0-9]{3})([0-9]{2})([0-9]{4})$/\1 \2 \3/' | awk '{ area=$1+0; group=$2; serial=$3 if (area==0 || area==666 || area>=900) next if (group=="00" || serial=="0000") next printf "%03d-%02s-%04s\n", area, group, serial }'

DoNotMindMe•4mo ago
I'm sure they are talking about a database that only contains the numbers and no other identifying information directly linked to those numbers.
collingreen•4mo ago
What is the point of this kind of reply? To try to diminish the impression of the severity? To distract? To just make reading the contents slightly worse for everyone?

It's so clearly not the point of the db in the article that there is no chance anyone reads this and thinks it is the same thing the article is referencing. Is this just really low quality trolling?

gdbsjjdn•4mo ago
For people who don't read TFA:

> In addition to SSNs, the database reportedly includes Americans’ place and date of birth, work permit status, and parents’ names

This is quite a bit more information than just a number.

JdeBP•4mo ago
The actual report text identifies the uploaded database as "NUMIDENT".

A quick shufti turned up https://aad.archives.gov/aad/series-description.jsp?s=5057 which states that "NUMIDENT" includes things like "mother's maiden name". Other sources imply that the signatures from SSN application forms (form SS-5) are stored here.

Normal methods of access to this database seem to include "NOVU" (https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/numident-online-verificatio...).

ChrisArchitect•4mo ago
Actual article: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/media/dems/peters-report-finds-...
JdeBP•4mo ago
Which was submitted directly and flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45377439
JdeBP•4mo ago
That 65% figure in the press release has an interesting origin. It seemed oddly specific to me, so I had a look.

In the actual report main text, it says that the risk is between 35% and 65%, but does not explain the calculation, if any, that results in those numbers.

It's not until one reaches Appendix A that one finds that this really means that it has been assigned a value of 3 on a scale of 1 to 5, meaning "medium risk", and the value 3 is arbitrarily assigned that percentage range, originating with the U.S.A. FDA's Office of Information Security, where "low risk" (2) is similarly 10% to 35% and "very low risk" (1) is less than 10%.