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Why Prefer Textfiles? (2010)

http://textfiles.com/uploads/textfiles.txt
9•kmstout•2h ago

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orionblastar•51m ago
Unlike Word files, there is no chance of a Macro Virus in them. I sent our family lawyer some documents converted to Text by request.
hagbard_c•16m ago
No macro viruses but if your family lawyer uses some LLM-powered thingy in his workflow it might add a new dimension: prompt manipulation/injection attacks. A good spot to hide these would be at about ⅔ distance inside some wall of legalese at the beginning or end of a document since hardly anyone ever reads those.
akoboldfrying•4m ago
Weeeell... Ya say that, but:

Many years ago someone "infected" my computer with a "manual virus": A printed-out sheet of paper placed on top of the computer, telling me to delete all my hard drive's files myself, then photocopy the sheet and put both copies on nearby computers.

It was obviously a joke. But in the "modern" agentic era, the same thing in a text file is slightly more realistic as a threat...

Pelican: Multi-step SVG generation with vLLMs

https://pelican.alexey.work/
1•xl0•39s ago•0 comments

Rust9x update: Rust 1.93.0-beta

https://seri.tools/blog/rust9x-1-93/
1•pornel•45s ago•0 comments

Saks Prepares for Bankruptcy After Missing Debt Payment

https://www.wsj.com/finance/saks-prepares-for-bankruptcy-after-missing-debt-payment-ff3df6d2
1•bookofjoe•1m ago•1 comments

Security breaks during partial failures – design notes from distributed systems

1•sandhyavinjam•1m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Automated WebRTC Livestream Recording

2•PhilipWee•5m ago•0 comments

Everyone's Watching Stocks. The Real Bubble Is AI Debt

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-12-31/everyone-s-watching-stocks-the-real-bubble-...
1•zerosizedweasle•8m ago•1 comments

Norman Foster's steroidal new skyscraper is an affront to the New York skyline

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/dec/03/eco-obscenity-norman-foster-skyscraper-jp-mo...
2•PaulHoule•8m ago•0 comments

Why users cannot create Issues directly (Ghostty)

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/3558
1•xpe•9m ago•1 comments

Why CoreWeave Is Weighed Down by Its Debt Load

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/heres-why-coreweave-nasdaq-crwv-140015154.html
1•zerosizedweasle•10m ago•0 comments

DeepSeek MHC: Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections

https://huggingface.co/papers/2512.24880
1•marc__1•11m ago•0 comments

Bud-Sex: Sexual Flexibility Among Rural White Straight Men Who Have Sex with Men

https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/d38a6707-f38a-4b2f-b598-c4bf171b6c7c/...
2•lesk•11m ago•0 comments

From Silicon to Darude Sand-storm: breaking famous synthesizer DSPs [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-from-silicon-to-darude-sand-storm-breaking-famous-synthesizer-dsps
1•tzmlab•15m ago•0 comments

Type-Safe User Interfaces and the Manifest Pattern

https://andrewhathaway.net/blog/manifest-pattern/
1•handfuloflight•15m ago•0 comments

California Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP)

https://privacy.ca.gov/DROP/
1•8organicbits•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: BreachLab – Can you hack our AI?

https://breachlab.xsourcesec.com
2•xsourcesec•27m ago•0 comments

California dessert empire Sprinkles Cupcakes abruptly closes all stores

https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/california-sprinkles-cupcakes-closes-21270149.php
3•apparent•29m ago•2 comments

Journalism, media, and technology trends and predictions 2025

https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/journalism-media-and-technology-trends-and-predictions...
1•barishnamazov•29m ago•0 comments

LakeFS Acquires DVC

https://lakefs.io/blog/celebration-shared-vision-lakefs-dvc/
2•farhanhubble•33m ago•0 comments

In-house electronics manufacturing from scratch: How hard can it be? [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-in-house-electronics-manufacturing-from-scratch-how-hard-can-it-be
1•Fnoord•34m ago•0 comments

File manager for the COSMIC desktop environment

https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-files
1•doener•38m ago•0 comments

New California Laws Going into Effect in 2026

https://newsroom.courts.ca.gov/news/new-california-laws-going-effect-2026
2•ChadNauseam•40m ago•0 comments

You Are Not an Average

https://thinkhuman.com/you-are-not-an-average/
2•jamesgill•41m ago•0 comments

Lean: Open source algorithmic trading engine

https://github.com/QuantConnect/Lean
2•nateb2022•43m ago•0 comments

Fastest Electric Drone World Record Broken with $3000 Drone (655 KM/H) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zag6qsalZgw
3•nomilk•46m ago•0 comments

U.S. Patent Law and Perpetual Motion Machines (2011)

https://ipwatchdog.com/2011/10/11/the-patent-law-of-perpetual-motion/
2•ilamont•46m ago•0 comments

Trump Mobile delays plan to launch gold-coloured smartphone this year

https://www.ft.com/content/29fc1e75-7bec-4011-acc3-603e51cf9fe2
3•doener•47m ago•0 comments

Show HN: FountainData – product, revenue, and GTM Intel from user conversations

https://fountaindata.com
2•j_mao•47m ago•0 comments

XWayland is the bridging mechanism between legacy Xorg programs and Wayland

https://wiki.hypr.land/Configuring/XWayland/
3•doener•49m ago•0 comments

The Rise of Homonationalism

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/12/30/the-rise-of-homonationalism/
4•buggery•50m ago•0 comments

Donald Knuth "32 Years of Metafont" at the San Francisco Public Library [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LR_lBEy7qU
2•gjvc•51m ago•1 comments