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AOS GLM Language Engine – Beta Test

https://github.com/ThePikey/AOS_GLM_language
1•imageanet•3m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do you test Lambda/ECS code before deploying?

1•ioanarebeca•4m ago•2 comments

Work, Wellbeing, and Choice: Empirical Lessons for AI Futures

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.11019
1•gwintrob•5m ago•0 comments

Local AI News Feed

https://local-ai-signal.vercel.app/
1•agcat•7m ago•1 comments

The Fine-Grained City Needs an Operating System

https://courtyardurbanist.com/p/the-fine-grained-city-needs-an-operating
1•idbnstra•9m ago•0 comments

Small Modular Reactors: a short history of a nuclear pipe dream

https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/smrs-a-short-history-of-a-nuclear-pipe-dream/
1•bazzmt•10m ago•0 comments

LensVLM: Compressing long context as images, expanding only relevant pages

https://huggingface.co/apple/LensVLM-9B
2•victormustar•11m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Do you offload your coding to AI, or keep your skills sharp?

3•Hex08•12m ago•0 comments

Can internal model transparency tame the AI race?

https://blog.karthiktadepalli.com/p/internal-model-transparency
1•gmays•12m ago•0 comments

The meta-harness for coding agents

https://soloterm.com/
1•ibobev•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Jev-mice – mouse colony simulation using Jev and deterministic engine

https://mice.jev.carsonsweet.com/
1•carsonsweet•14m ago•0 comments

Discover Solo: The Ultimate AI-Integrated Control Panel

https://blog.master.dev/introducing-solo/
1•ibobev•17m ago•0 comments

Steam Frame Teardown

https://www.ifixit.com/News/119488/steam-frame-teardown-were-fans-except-of-the-fan
1•Lwrless•18m ago•0 comments

SpaceX Starshield

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starshield
1•simonebrunozzi•18m ago•0 comments

Mexican Navy's tall ship Cuauhtémoc will be at the Embarcadero all week

https://www.kqed.org/news/12101113/tall-ship-san-francisco-mexican-navy-cuauhtemoc-free-public-tours
1•higgins•19m ago•0 comments

A Worthwhile Trade

https://voices.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/VOICESpost2600056?referrer=https://t.co/
2•brandonb•20m ago•0 comments

Loopjacking in A2A Implementations: Hijacking Human-in-the-Loop Approvals

https://adithyanak.com/loopjacking-in-a2a-implementations/
1•akoffsec•24m ago•0 comments

How AI Helps and Hampers Junior Workers

https://www.nominalnews.com/p/how-ai-helps-and-hampers-junior-workers
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Jackrong/Qwopus3.8-27B-Flash-V2

https://huggingface.co/Jackrong/Qwopus3.8-27B-Flash-V2
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Nemotron 3 Diarization

https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/nemotron-diarization
2•arbayi•26m ago•0 comments

CKKS – Encryption and Decryption

https://www.jeremykun.com/2026/09/23/ckks-encryption-and-decryption/
1•ibobev•27m ago•0 comments

What AI pays the people who train it

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Cloud Agents Are Inevitable AI Prisons

https://normanponte.io/19df691f
2•nponte•31m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why so many dead comments lately?

2•mattm•32m ago•2 comments

Illinois, California governors fast-track AI safety measures with EOs

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2•tolugenius•32m ago•0 comments

Gvnr

https://gvnr.io/
5•juliainstruxi•34m ago•0 comments

HySparse2: Hybrid Sparse Attention with Two-Level KV Sharing

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.26368
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The Vigilante Who's Taking Down Recruitment Scammers, One Fake Job Ad at a Time

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3•fortran77•36m ago•1 comments

Pretraining data, not verifiability, is why LLMs are good at math (and coding)

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xvdngZAqFZfek7KGH/pretraining-data-not-verifiability-is-why-llms-are
1•gmays•36m ago•0 comments

Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/publisher/microsoft-publisher-will-no-longer-be-supported-aft...
3•gscott•37m ago•2 comments
Open in hackernews

UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c32l8y8kygdvo
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Comments

ck2•44m ago
this should end well

or a whole new technology invented other than radio waves for data transmission

are any satellites using laser downlink yet or is line-of-sight too temperamental with weather and planes?

cheschire•38m ago
Let’s launch hard drives back and forth between earth and LEO. Like sneakernet in space.
chris_va•33m ago
never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes reentering the atmosphere
ck2•32m ago
railgun microSD

but seriously, the first spy satellites used to drop film rolls and they had a crazy way for the military to track and catch them via planes

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORONA_(satellite)

pixl97•32m ago
Been there, done that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORONA_(satellite)

They'd drop their film back down to earth.

GolfPopper•31m ago
U.S. spy satellites were returning film payloads to Earth as late as 1986:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-9_Hexagon

nefarious_ends•13m ago
I'm laughing at how many bots wanted to share their trivia with you after this post
someonebaggy•7m ago
If they're heavy enough, it doubles as a space fountain.
pixl97•34m ago
I mean isn't space X testing satellites with sat to sat lasers?

In that case you don't need to ground lasers, you just beam the data where you have unjammed communications with the cost of higher latency.

LorenDB•28m ago
More than testing. That is their primary on-orbit link method for Starlink satellites as of 2.5 years ago: https://www.pcmag.com/news/starlinks-laser-system-is-beaming...
exe34•26m ago
Neutrinos
Kevcmk•19m ago
Gravitational waves
notahacker•6m ago
Laser links for satellites work fine, but if you're up against a 10 year old spy satellite or you're selectively jamming their SAR (radar imaging) or GLONASS positioning rather than their comms...
mosura•30m ago
The British seem reduced to their historic state of piracy to restore the empire:

“disrupting, degrading and denying hostile threats in space”

Not even pretending to be building and defending anything positive in space.

esskay•22m ago
What a bizarre take.
bigyabai•20m ago
Nobody is pretending to build or defend anything positive in space. Efforts like Starlink are blatantly and publicly a synthetic aperature radar constellation for military use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starshield
wil421•16m ago
Of course it is. That’s why they didn’t really care at first if Russia was using it in Ukraine. I thought the military had their own constellation but maybe not.
ab5tract•13m ago
And in that respect, it was a deviation from the propaganda of previous eras, which did in fact frame efforts as building and defending positive things in space.
nonethewiser•18m ago
Its OK for the UK to be strong
mgaldys4•27m ago
In terms of international game theory, this is entirely expected. No action would be the anomaly.
autoexec•19m ago
> Defence Secretary Wes Streeting said daily lives depend on satellites that power everyday technologies like mobile phones and banking apps, adding the loss of GPS would cost the UK economy £1.4bn a day.

Oh no! Not our precious banking apps! What a weird thing to call out specifically. It's also kind of strange to talk at such length about how critical satellites have become to people's lives, national economy, emergency services, and people's "daily freedoms", only to conclude with "So now we're using ground-based systems to take out the satellites other countries depend on for all of those things"

tene80i•14m ago
Why is it strange? Millions of people use banking apps daily to make transactions essential to their lives and businesses.
boredatoms•13m ago
Why does a banking app require GPS?
nickweb•11m ago
GPS relies on very very accurate timing. I would wager that the timing side of GPS is used more than the positioning side - but I have no way of confirming that.

Accurate timing is needed for banks accepting/sending payments (not just £5 for the window cleaner - more billions flowing every day).

O3marchnative•5m ago
That makes the issue worse as the actual app/device likely just relies on querying some NTP pool for accurate time. Then that would mean the actual stratum 1 servers are not working right.
ExoticPearTree•16m ago
I thought after 60,000 feet MSL a country's airspace ends.

So, who's the UK actually attacking?

unrented7977•11m ago
If you take a look back at history, literally everyone would disagree. A strong England has done unimaginable damage to almost every other society on the planet.
zahrc•8m ago
Any strong empire, nation or person in power has.

With great power yadda yadda

ChocolateGod•4m ago
[delayed]
someonebaggy•8m ago
It doesn't. They're making shit up.
itsafarqueue•8m ago
To track you
autoexec•8m ago
Data collection and targeted advertising
notahacker•10m ago
It's also a favourite stat of the UK space industry that a large percentage of UK GDP is vaguely linked to space in some way, and "some of your financial transactions touch a satellite uplink or require location data" is one of the more tangible non-obvious ones.
autoexec•9m ago
Those apps can all be replaced by a website, and most banks already have those websites, which means if all the banking apps on earth stopped working right now the solution wouldn't involve anything more complicated than stabbing your finger at different icon on your phone and typing the name of your bank into a search engine.
foldr•5m ago
That’s beyond about 90% of the population.
vallerie•4m ago
not being funny - if the internet goes out how does a website make this better?
autoexec•2m ago
The internet for most people doesn't depend on banking apps, or even satellites. Wifi would still work great.
0x1ch•6m ago
It's not and it's also not uniquely a British thing either. Most of my friends and myself use our phones as wallets, in the US. The only time I use my physical cards is to pull cash from the ATM, ha.
jameshart•13m ago
In a largely cashless society like the UK, ‘banking apps’ are effectively people’s wallets. Knowing you got paid, being able to pay your rent, being able to pay for goods and services… seem like pretty everyday concerns.
bigyabai•2m ago
That's going to be a problem when the UK faces sustained asymmetric warfare. Building fragile systems like this during peacetime is always a bad bet.
someonebaggy•9m ago
The UK's largest export is banking (i.e. money laundering).