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Scikit-learn 1.9.1 released with Python 3.15 support

https://scikit-learn.org/stable/whats_new/v1.9.html
1•theanonymousone•2m ago•0 comments

Brainstorming novel biological attacks with an LLM

https://www.robertvesco.com/posts/chatgpt-helps-me-brainstorm-guerilla-warfare-against-ai-powered...
2•rlvesco7•10m ago•0 comments

This Week in Plasma: 6.8 Beta Release

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/09/12/this-week-in-plasma-6.8-beta-release/
1•HieronymusBosch•11m ago•0 comments

Why Rocq is better than Lean for program verification

https://joomy.korkutblech.com/posts/2026-07-28-why-rocq-is-better.html
2•birdculture•12m ago•0 comments

The V8 JavaScript Runtime Undermined My Constant-Time JavaScript Library

https://soatok.blog/2026/09/12/the-v8-javascript-runtime-undermined-my-constant-time-javascript-l...
3•some_furry•12m ago•0 comments

Attestly

https://www.attestly.online/
1•swishmilnet•13m ago•0 comments

Ocarina Music in the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

https://danbruno.net/writing/ocarina/
2•drifkin•13m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Did anyone try to build game engine purely for LLM

2•steammaho•15m ago•0 comments

Roundtables: AI's Apocalypse Crisis

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/11/1143936/roundtables-will-ai-really-kill-us-all/
1•joozio•18m ago•0 comments

Governor Newsom Signs Student-Backed Digital Literacy Bills Along Misguided Bans

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/governor-newsom-signs-student-backed-digital-literacy-bills...
1•mdp2021•18m ago•0 comments

The Evolution of Human Science (2000)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evolution_of_Human_Science
1•xiaoyu2006•19m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I turn Airtable exports into real Postgres schemas(FKs, not CSVs)

https://www.atmigrator.com
1•saud_c•20m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT-using lawyer punished for citing fake testimony from made-up witnesses

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/chatgpt-using-lawyer-punished-for-citing-fake-testimo...
2•mdp2021•23m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: New way of organizing Mathematical Research

1•youoy•28m ago•0 comments

28 Years of Tara Books

https://tarabooks.com/blog/the-past-is-always-present/
1•vishnukvmd•30m ago•0 comments

TablePro: A native, open-source database client for macOS

https://github.com/TableProApp/TablePro
2•fourfire•31m ago•0 comments

Robust Solution of Laplacian Equations by Random Approx Cholesky Factorization

https://epubs.siam.org/doi/10.1137/24M1673577
1•musha68k•31m ago•0 comments

Schwung: Layer synths, effects, new tools on top of the Ableton Move

https://schwung.dev/
1•QuantumNomad_•32m ago•0 comments

This is really bad: AI Safety Threat

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/opinion/ai-safety-threat-technology.html
2•ryan_j_naughton•38m ago•1 comments

Rare Not Random Using Token Efficiency for Secrets Scanning

https://lookingatcomputer.substack.com/p/rare-not-random
1•boyter•38m ago•0 comments

Teaching an M4 CPU to Tell Stories with XOR, Popcount and SDOT

https://dnhkng.substack.com/p/teaching-an-m4-cpu-to-tell-stories
1•JPLeRouzic•41m ago•0 comments

A.I. Could Possibly End Humanity. How Are Humans Supposed to Process That?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/science/ai-humanity-risk.html
1•doener•41m ago•0 comments

Artemis: Google's new AI agent framework for mobile test automation

https://github.com/google/artemis
2•soltanov•46m ago•0 comments

The Emperor's Old Clothes [pdf]

https://worrydream.com/refs/Hoare_1981_-_The_Emperors_Old_Clothes.pdf
3•pykello•47m ago•0 comments

Dissolving the Fermi Paradox (2018)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404
1•bumbledraven•55m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why are the tech companies tracking humans?

4•roschdal•58m ago•3 comments

City Layout Guessr Game

https://noahdarwinlee.com/citylayoutguessr/
2•noahdlee•59m ago•0 comments

Jetpack: Consensus Made Generally Fast (OSDI '26)

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/09/jetpack-consensus-made-generally-fast.html
3•gavide•1h ago•0 comments

White House weighs Defense Production Act to expand US oil refining capacity

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/white-house-weighs-how-use-defense-production-act-expand-...
4•geox•1h ago•0 comments

A2ABreak: Systematic Security Analysis of the A2A Protocol

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.10871
2•sbulaev•1h ago•0 comments
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Ask HN: Why are the tech companies tracking humans?

4•roschdal•58m ago

Comments

zerolunier•46m ago
if they don't track human then who they gone track ? humans use their product so why they should not track it, but they are going out of the line by tracking personal things and using them for ads or any advantage, and we are so much reliable on these products can't do anything
onion2k•31m ago
I strongly suspect a lot of the huge tech companies don't actually know why they do things. There isn't a grand plan. There's a vague notion of "It'd be cool if we had a source for data for X, Y, and Z, because then we might be able to do A, B, and C!" They then build the infra for gathering the data, find that A, B, and C are actually harder or less valuable than they figured, and just carry on sucking up the data in case they dream up a use for it in the future.

There are examples of this happening. Niantec built Pokemon Go, made a lot of money from, sold to the Saudi Wealth Fund for even more money, and then the company pivoted to selling all the map data for telling delivery robots where your front door is. I don't think that was ever the plan when Niantec were storing all that data to optimize where to put a Magikarp. it just happened that way.

steammaho•17m ago
Isn't it some kind of Asimov's Foundation thing? You track to be able to predict. The better you predict the more power you have.