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Ohio prison inmates 'built computers and hid them in ceiling (2017)

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39576394
28•harambae•1h ago

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Anonbrit•54m ago
Nearly a decade old story now
cwillu•46m ago
[2016]
Quarrelsome•46m ago
That's some fine problem solving, albeit not the problems the prison wanted to be solved.

I sometimes wonder if these sorts of people who "succeed" in these odd ways on the wrong side of the criminal fence, would have had rather successful careers had just a couple of things gone differently towards the start of their life.

AngryData•12m ago
Most certainly many could. You don't get 25% of the world's prison population without spending every effort to screw over your own citizens.
roughly•5m ago
This is the other side of the coin of Uber violating state and local regulations for the better part of a decade to get their business off the ground or HSBC laundering money for the cartels.
t1234s•42m ago
Creative.. someone should hire this guy when or if he gets out.
markus_zhang•39m ago
I wonder if the those articles are from textfiles.com?
tetrisgm•25m ago
Excellent lateral thinking, and result driven mindset. I’m not being sarcastic either
codezero•11m ago
This makes me wonder if people might be getting Starlink Minis smuggled in by corrupt guards.
b00ty4breakfast•6m ago
Boredom and time breeds creativity.

Chinese Electrotech Is the Big Winner in the Iran War

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/chinese-electrotech-is-the-big-winner
1•MaysonL•6m ago•0 comments

Pentagon Approaches Automakers, Manufacturers to Boost Weapons Production

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/pentagon-approaches-automakers-manufacturers-to-bo...
1•cwwc•8m ago•0 comments

WebODM – Free and open source drone mapping software

https://webodm.org
1•alligray•17m ago•0 comments

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is preparing banks to collect citizenship data

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/banks-citizenship-data-collection-customer-accounts.html
5•pseudolus•20m ago•0 comments

The Universal Constraint Engine: Neuromorphic Computing Without Neural Networks

https://zenodo.org/records/19600206
1•skinney_uce•22m ago•0 comments

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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/15/allbirds-stock-ai-pivot
3•i7l•24m ago•1 comments

Tirith – Track your AI API spend with one CLI import

https://github.com/joedaviesio/tirith
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Show HN: The RUM Conjecture Explained [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGoI6T3SGfY
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Amazon worker dies on warehouse floor. Workers told to keep going

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/healthcare/articles/just-dont-look-amazon-worker-170000180.html
8•latexr•27m ago•1 comments

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18•pentagrama•27m ago•2 comments

Ants Find Food (2003)

https://mute-net.sourceforge.net/howAnts.shtml
1•downbad_•29m ago•3 comments

Substrate Independent

https://github.com/Technologicat/substrate-independent
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Anthropic: Stop Shipping. Seriously.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s/C9WM4DHtqt
2•IndignantTyrant•33m ago•0 comments

The TL;DR on MCP: Why context matters and how to put it to work

https://www.figma.com/blog/the-tldr-on-mcp/
2•salkahfi•34m ago•0 comments

TruffleRuby 34: Ruby 3.4 Compatibility, 23% Faster Parsing, New 20x Faster

https://truffleruby.dev/blog/truffleruby-34-is-released
1•birdculture•34m ago•0 comments

Atlassian defends firing engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'

https://www.afr.com/technology/atlassian-defends-firing-engineer-for-suggesting-ceo-is-rich-jerk-...
14•jamesfinlayson•38m ago•3 comments

Docker Hodgepodge Images

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2•prdonahue•45m ago•0 comments

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https://bonafide.work/
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Elegant D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kYM7ue7pqc
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Switch: Faster, smarter AI audio conversion

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Nginx 1.30.0

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Gay Talese on a Writer's Life

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Repos.. 2M+ scanned.. most Google OAuth implementations key on email not sub

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Google shoehorned Rust into Pixel 10 modem to make legacy code safer

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8•snackoverflow•1h ago•0 comments

Amud 7, the Neanderthal baby who shows they developed faster than modern humans

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3•c420•1h ago•0 comments

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https://michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-to-crawl-a-quarter-billion-webpages-in-40-hours/
3•downbad_•1h ago•1 comments

Why Can't Programmers Be More Like Ants? (2015)

https://blog.ubiquity.acm.org/why-cant-programmers-be-more-like-ants-or-a-lesson-in-stigmergy/
2•downbad_•1h ago•3 comments