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Still sending checks in the mail? It's time to stop

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personal-finance/2026/09/05/is-it-safe-to-mail-checks/91591254007/
1•mikhael•47m ago

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k310•19m ago
On one hand, USPS is not directed to throw away your mail, as they are directed to do with ballots, but

On the other hand: How about the more trustworthy internet [0]

Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year

And this is just one of countless hacks.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49561320

OpenAI boosts Astra's eval metrics, and continues to change others

https://fortune.com/2026/09/04/openai-quietly-boosts-some-of-astras-evaluation-metrics-amid-rare-...
1•enraged_camel•54s ago•0 comments

Praetor – Privacy-first open-source system prompt for CV self-assessment

https://github.com/simonesan-afk/CV-Praetorian-Guard
1•simonenespolosa•1m ago•0 comments

The most epic bank statement, 6 months later (2016)

https://medium.com/@yanismydj/the-worlds-most-epic-bank-statement-6-months-later-6e749c100435
3•Tomte•7m ago•0 comments

Subagents on Subagents: How Many Layers Deep Is Too Many?

https://twitter.com/JoshARosen/status/2087944178558791874
1•gmays•9m ago•0 comments

The Giant Explanation of Possession (1981)

https://filmcolossus.com/possession-explained-1981
1•Bluestein•12m ago•0 comments

When Traceroutes Lie

https://labs.ripe.net/author/shk/when-traceroutes-lie-how-ttl-jumps-can-give-us-a-false-impressio...
1•jruohonen•12m ago•1 comments

A proof of a rectangle partition conjecture using two-bar slabs

https://zenodo.org/records/22349886
1•shaikhmubin•12m ago•0 comments

Hallucinated Citations and Accuracy of Papers

https://veruscite.com/blog/hallucinated-citations-and-accuracy-of-papers
1•apwheele•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A browser-based public speaking simulator with WebXR support

https://www.generateppt.com/free-tools/public-speaking-presentation-vr-simulator
1•fer_momento•14m ago•0 comments

Deft: A gradual type system for Janet

https://codeberg.org/zzkt/deft
1•birdculture•15m ago•0 comments

Cortex – I wrecked my cofounder's codebase with agents, so we built this

https://workspace.socra.com/products/cortex
1•eduardadotai•15m ago•1 comments

Pile of Index Cards

https://www.flickr.com/photos/hawkexpress/albums/72157594200490122/
1•Tomte•15m ago•0 comments

Architecting memory and storage in the AI era

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/04/1140872/architecting-memory-and-storage-in-the-ai-era/
1•joozio•16m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How have interviews changed over the last year?

2•mikodin•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: TossedTheTVKeptTheRemote – VIA-like configuration to reuse IR remotes

https://github.com/Brisk4t/TossedTheTVKeptTheRemote
1•Brisk4t•17m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Source Code of Emerald Editor

1•fithisux•18m ago•0 comments

Threejs-Punk – Raining Scene Inspired in CyberPunk by Anderson Mancini and Sunag

https://threejspunk.vercel.app/
2•xeonax•20m ago•1 comments

Show HN: One schema file, validated identically in Python, Node and the browser

https://github.com/angeldevmobile/Seam
1•usxr1515•22m ago•0 comments

Nobody in Tech Knows How to Get Rich Anymore [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GjDQwqY2Oc
1•bigtechtea•23m ago•0 comments

Do it for the Data. Toss the coins for the data

https://ichingportal.com/blog/coin-toss-for-data-randomness-study
1•richcostello68•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Conecta – blue-green deployments on a VPS using DNS and Caddy

https://github.com/albersola/conecta
1•bypirob•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: My Instagram saved posts was a mess, so I created InstaSave

https://insta-saved.gitnasr.com/
1•c0nasr•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: xbrl-tag mapping for 10ks and 10qs, using EDGAR database

https://xbrlmetrics.com
1•Loris_jk•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SwarmMemo – a public bulletin board for agents

https://swarmmemo.com/
1•montenegrohugo•27m ago•0 comments

Awed, Scared and Humbled

https://insufferable.dev/posts/awed-scared-humbled/
2•allisdust•29m ago•1 comments

Engineer and Nam A2 and AI = Perfect and Free Valen Halen Plug-In [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drQGeK8wfNY
1•xbar•29m ago•0 comments

Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop

https://reason.com/2026/09/02/wisconsin-cops-used-flock-over-100-times-to-track-a-navy-veteran-af...
75•bbatsell•29m ago•7 comments

Show HN: Formula-Only Sudoku and Tower of Hanoi in Excel

https://github.com/sleetdrop/vibexcel
1•sleetdrop•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A Lightweight TUI for Colima and Docker

https://github.com/leodeim/colimui
1•ygagaga•31m ago•0 comments

When the Finder's size 'on disk' is misleading

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/09/05/when-the-finders-size-on-disk-is-misleading/
2•Brajeshwar•32m ago•0 comments