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When Your Digital Life Vanishes

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/27/when-your-digital-life-vanishes
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anenefan•42m ago
Oh how I know what one would give to rescue a dead sd card. Much of what I have is backed up and I long ago stopped putting any faith in flash drives. However my mother passed at the start of this year but three months before that shortly before finding her blood cancer had returned (it's not what ultimately killed her [1],) she became victim to android trying to endlessly thrust encryption over the unencrypted sd card - eventually deciding to ignore its user. My Mum realised the same day so the card was essentially empty bar the couple photos she'd just taken. I ejected the card but no luck scouring with free software for any buried files. It was a good quality sd card and I might have tried further but I've never had any luck with flash drives. Android needs a revert sd card function.

"Flash memory is used in thumb drives, smartphones, newer laptops, and SSDs. The technology exploits a phenomenon known as “quantum tunnelling” to trap electrons in floating-gate transistors, like the genies imprisoned by King Solomon. Because they have no moving parts, flash chips are generally considered to be more stable than HDDs. But their design can also complicate data recovery. "

I had hoped the article would elaborate a little more on SSD - only for the fact 9 times out of 10 I've rescued some if not all the data from HHDs that had suddenly had a problem via software the failures being head damage or my unwillingness to spend money on another control board to replace the one that had died - besides most of it was backed up. Thumb drives and sd cards I've had no luck at all - if it has died, it's dead. About the only win with sd related data was when the device was slow or misbehaving and it was placed into a newer usb port or better quality card reader.

[1] Treatment was going well as expected with other complications, but the care towards the end was lacking, people with little idea of constipation and if one is losing 3 to 5 cups of water more than they are taking in a day, there's going to be a point the body will no longer function, almost week 4 for her.

Show HN: The Trawl CLI, trudge through agent harness logs for shit and giggles

https://the-daily-claude.github.io/the-daily-claude/
1•ElFitz•5s ago•0 comments

Connecting in Narratives

https://jason.blog/2026/04/16/connecting-in-narratives/
1•chilipepperhott•20s ago•0 comments

Montgomery Multiplication in Signed Redundant Representations [pdf]

https://github.com/pornin/small-ecdsa/blob/main/tex/mmul.pdf
1•eripen•2m ago•0 comments

The Ultimate Question: What Does the Endgame Look Like?

https://brodzinski.com/2026/04/what-endgame-looks-like.html
1•flail•3m ago•0 comments

Lessons from Going Solo

https://alex000kim.com/posts/2026-04-20-lessons-from-going-solo/
2•alex000kim•3m ago•0 comments

The $400M Machine That Spawned the Most Coveted Toy

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/asml-lego-set-euv-machine-61dd93c6
1•pondsider•3m ago•0 comments

GitHub Trip Report (2019)

https://fossil-scm.org/forum/forumpost/536ce98d85
1•thunderbong•5m ago•0 comments

Rip language. Compiles to ES2022. Built-in reactivity

https://github.com/shreeve/rip-lang
1•perfunctory•6m ago•0 comments

Open-Weight Models: Curated Guide for Production LLM Deployment

https://github.com/phlx0/awesome-open-weight-models
1•phlx0•8m ago•0 comments

Cryptocurrency industry on track to surpass 2024 spending on Texas midterm races

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/04/20/texas-crypto-currency-pacs-fairshake-menefee-green/
1•hn_acker•8m ago•1 comments

Codebase Readiness Grid: can your repo handle AI agents?

https://github.com/Kenogami-AI/codebase-readiness
1•zoyth•8m ago•0 comments

Could 'A River Runs Through It' Have Been a Hit Today?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/books/could-a-river-runs-through-it-have-been-a-hit-today.html
1•duxup•10m ago•1 comments

Reflections on Vibe Researching

https://joshuagans.substack.com/p/reflections-on-vibe-researching
2•alphabetatango•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Evading an AI SOC with Sable from Vulnetic

https://blog.vulnetic.ai/evading-an-ai-soc-with-sable-from-vulnetic-fad12376995c
1•danieltk76•13m ago•0 comments

Why the Wellness Elite Such as Jordan Peterson and Mark Hyman Are Getting Sepsis

https://sgcarney.substack.com/p/the-miracle-treatment-that-almost
2•randycupertino•13m ago•1 comments

Show HN: ANSI Saver for Apple TV

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ansi-saver/id6762137767
1•lardissone•14m ago•0 comments

Yann LeCun says Dario Amodei "knows nothing about AI effects on jobs"

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/godfather-of-ai-and-metas-most-popular-e...
2•kordlessagain•14m ago•0 comments

Anthropomorphism and Trust in Human-Large Language Model Interactions

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15316
1•Brajeshwar•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: We trained a 32B model to beat Opus 4 at credit card optimization

https://huggingface.co/spaces/endishai/blog-grpo-credit-cards
3•dimberman•18m ago•0 comments

GraalVM JavaScript Sandboxing

https://www.graalvm.org/latest/security-guide/sandboxing/
1•eatonphil•19m ago•0 comments

A Security Framework Sized for the Business You Run

https://nerdsec.io/blog/a-security-framework-sized-for-the-business-you-actually-run/
2•levidurfee•19m ago•0 comments

You don't need a RAG, you just need RAG

https://enopdf.com/blog/rag-for-pdfs/
1•gcassie•21m ago•0 comments

MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany

http://mnt.stanleylieber.com/reform/
2•speckx•21m ago•0 comments

Two Paradoxes Blocking Bitcoin

https://alignmenteconomy.org
2•moeman245•22m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Self-hosted Raspberry Pi wall display (no cloud, no subscription)

https://github.com/silentg33k/chalkboard-installer
1•g_33_k•23m ago•1 comments

Learn Vim for the Last Time

https://danielmiessler.com/blog/vim
1•dolfmaggot•26m ago•1 comments

Build the Dam System

https://jsfour.substack.com/p/build-the-dam-system
1•js4•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Germball – Drone-deployed seeds triggered by soil moisture

https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/germball/germball--smart-seed-capsule
1•lukascodes•27m ago•0 comments

Corporate Bullshit Considered Harmful

https://chuniversiteit.nl/papers/corporate-bullshit
1•ibobev•27m ago•0 comments

Highlighting Interactive Code Blocks

https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2026-04-16-highlighting-interactive-code-blocks/
1•ibobev•28m ago•0 comments