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I'm 15 and built a free tool for reading Greek/Latin texts. Would love feedback

https://the-lexicon-project.netlify.app/
1•breadwithjam•3m ago•1 comments

How close is AI to taking my job?

https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/how-close-is-ai-to-taking-my-job
1•cjbarber•3m ago•0 comments

You are the reason I am not reviewing this PR

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/479442
2•midzer•4m ago•1 comments

Show HN: FamilyMemories.video – Turn static old photos into 5s AI videos

https://familymemories.video
1•tareq_•6m ago•0 comments

How Meta Made Linux a Planet-Scale Load Balancer

https://softwarefrontier.substack.com/p/how-meta-turned-the-linux-kernel
1•CortexFlow•6m ago•0 comments

A Turing Test for AI Coding

https://t-cadet.github.io/programming-wisdom/#2026-02-06-a-turing-test-for-ai-coding
2•phi-system•6m ago•0 comments

How to Identify and Eliminate Unused AWS Resources

https://medium.com/@vkelk/how-to-identify-and-eliminate-unused-aws-resources-b0e2040b4de8
2•vkelk•7m ago•0 comments

A2CDVI – HDMI output from from the Apple IIc's digital video output connector

https://github.com/MrTechGadget/A2C_DVI_SMD
2•mmoogle•8m ago•0 comments

CLI for Common Playwright Actions

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli
3•saikatsg•9m ago•0 comments

Would you use an e-commerce platform that shares transaction fees with users?

https://moondala.one/
2•HamoodBahzar•10m ago•1 comments

Show HN: SafeClaw – a way to manage multiple Claude Code instances in containers

https://github.com/ykdojo/safeclaw
2•ykdojo•14m ago•0 comments

The Future of the Global Open-Source AI Ecosystem: From DeepSeek to AI+

https://huggingface.co/blog/huggingface/one-year-since-the-deepseek-moment-blog-3
3•gmays•14m ago•0 comments

The Evolution of the Interface

https://www.asktog.com/columns/038MacUITrends.html
2•dhruv3006•16m ago•1 comments

Azure: Virtual network routing appliance overview

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/virtual-network-routing-appliance-overview
2•mariuz•16m ago•0 comments

Seedance2 – multi-shot AI video generation

https://www.genstory.app/story-template/seedance2-ai-story-generator
2•RyanMu•19m ago•1 comments

Πfs – The Data-Free Filesystem

https://github.com/philipl/pifs
2•ravenical•23m ago•0 comments

Go-busybox: A sandboxable port of busybox for AI agents

https://github.com/rcarmo/go-busybox
3•rcarmo•24m ago•0 comments

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

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNorxwlZlFk
2•lysace•25m ago•0 comments

Zen Tools

http://postmake.io/zen-list
2•Malfunction92•28m ago•0 comments

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

https://hailey.at/posts/3mear2n7v3k2r
2•carnevalem•28m ago•1 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•30m ago•0 comments

Apfelstrudel: Live coding music environment with AI agent chat

https://github.com/rcarmo/apfelstrudel
2•rcarmo•31m ago•0 comments

What Is Stoicism?

https://stoacentral.com/guides/what-is-stoicism
3•0xmattf•32m 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•32m 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...
3•Brajeshwar•32m ago•0 comments

Extreme Inequality Presages the Revolt Against It

https://www.noemamag.com/extreme-inequality-presages-the-revolt-against-it/
2•Brajeshwar•32m ago•0 comments

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

1•dtjb•33m 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•34m ago•0 comments
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Students Are Finding New Ways to Cheat on the SAT

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/us/politics/how-the-online-sat-may-be-vulnerable-to-cheating.html
10•JumpCrisscross•1w ago

Comments

apparent•1w ago
> A variety of coding and SAT “prep” websites discuss ways to bypass Bluebook security. One way is to use a plug-in that seems like a mouse, but is, in fact, a video capture device. Another is a program called a “sandbox, an isolated virtual environment that can work without detection within a computer.

I assume that "plug-in" means peripheral? Seems very difficult to catch all of these people, since a proctor won't be able to inspect the device and tell whether it is a regular mouse or something trickier.

Virtual machines seem like a game of cat and mouse, and one which the SAT is likely to lose.

helpfulfrond•1w ago
https://archive.is/vFZDn
denimnerd42•1w ago
If the test is taken on personal laptops it's almost impossible to stop cheating. You can easily take video capture and send it out via 5g modem on a completely separate computer hidden inside of the laptop. Then you can receive answers back in very discreet ways like nearly imperceptible LEDs.

Same reason DRM-data rights management or DLP-data loss protection technologies are rather pointless against determined attackers. Anything that is permitted to be viewed can be copied.

leothetechguy•1w ago
Not from America, but can I ask... Is the SAT that difficult?
OkayPhysicist•1w ago
The SAT, by design, covers the entire difficulty range. Parts are easy, parts are hard, such that about half of students get less than half of it right, and 0.1% of students ace it. It's not merely pass-fail, they're trying to give a pretty granular rank to each student.

Thus, if the test is worth taking for a student (because they want to go to college), it's probably worth cheating on. Students outside the top 0.1% can appear better than their peers to improve their odds of getting into better universities, and students in the top 0.1% tend to be there due to intense extrinsic pressure, which may drive them to cheat to increase their certainty of acing it.

For a competent student, it's not hard to get an acceptable grade. For every student, it's difficult to achieve an exceptional grade.

apparent•1w ago
It is not hard for many students to get a pretty good score (1350). But a score like this will not help you get into a top school, and might actually hurt you. Even having a very good score (1530) does not necessarily help you much, especially if you are from what is perceived to be a high-resource (wealthy) area. If you have a perfect score (1600), that would help you get into any school.

Admittedly, it wouldn't help that much if you are Asian and from a wealthy area, but if you cheated then you could spend time that you would have spent studying for the SAT instead doing something else that you could put on your application.