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How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM

https://blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-drm/
657•pixelmelt•7h ago•206 comments

Free the Internet: The Tor Project's annual fundraiser

https://blog.torproject.org/2025-fundraiser-donations-matched/
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524•meetpateltech•12h ago•294 comments

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106•zdw•5h ago•51 comments

Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing

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303•ricklamers•11h ago•180 comments

Cloudflare Sandbox SDK

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153•bentaber•7h ago•48 comments

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70•ATiredGoat•4d ago•45 comments

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45•gmays•5h ago•14 comments

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198•hunglee2•2d ago•30 comments

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https://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/waymo
231•ChrisArchitect•14h ago•518 comments

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194•meetpateltech•12h ago•28 comments

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302•emixam•15h ago•95 comments

Next steps for BPF support in the GNU toolchain

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128•BinaryIgor•10h ago•56 comments

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10•hhs•5d ago•18 comments

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49•janpio•6h ago•6 comments

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https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/syntax-highlighting-is-a-waste-of-an-information/
230•swyx•4d ago•92 comments

Post office in France rolls out croissant-scented stamp

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/french-post-office-rolls-out-croissant-scented-stamp/
101•ohjeez•1w ago•37 comments

Microwave technique allows energy-efficient chemical reactions

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-microwave-technique-energy-efficient-chemical.html
36•rolph•6d ago•1 comments

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https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/10/16/elixir-v1-19-0-released/
229•theanirudh•20h ago•50 comments

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106•robobenjie•8h ago•78 comments

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145•mgh2•15h ago•90 comments

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100•msephton•6d ago•24 comments

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https://blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6
169•romanhn•9h ago•100 comments

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122•airesearcher•14h ago•48 comments

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64•engomez•15h ago•47 comments

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119•smartmic•7h ago•132 comments

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110•shardullavekar•15h ago•54 comments

VOC injection into a house reveals large surface reservoir sizes

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91•PaulHoule•5d ago•79 comments
Open in hackernews

Post office in France rolls out croissant-scented stamp

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/french-post-office-rolls-out-croissant-scented-stamp/
101•ohjeez•1w ago

Comments

n1b0m•1w ago
Do they taste buttery when you lick them?
wvbdmp•1w ago
Unfortunately, WebSmell-o-Vision has not yet been unilaterally pushed by the dudes at Google to do this news justice, but as a croissant connaisseur I would have at least appreciated a webp of the thing instead of some random archive image. It’s a stamp, for christ’s sake.

There is a pic here and it’s quite nice imo: https://www.wopa-plus.com/en/stamps/product/&pid=105515

bogzz•7h ago
I'm holding out for a <smell> HTML tag.
JumpCrisscross•6h ago
<bouquet>
_kb•5h ago
And of course the `olfactoryFactory` component for Enterprise™ frameworks.
layer8•5h ago

  function olfactory() {
      return document.createElement("ol");
  }
ghssds•4h ago
I can't wait for nasa.gov to let everybody smell Uranus.
gerdesj•3h ago
Have a chat with your dog
usr1106•6h ago
But wopa-plus does even mention the essential detail?

https://www.laposte.fr/pp/c/timbre-croissant-au-beurre

xattt•6h ago
Here I was misreading the article that it was croissant-shaped, not scented, until I saw a picture.
carbocation•4h ago
Friendly counterpoint (I know, not actually responsive to your comment, but tangentially related): https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade4401
tempodox•9m ago
I can almost smell breakfast…
bowsamic•7h ago
Try and find a good one in France. Harder than you’d think
JumpCrisscross•6h ago
> Try and find a good one in France. Harder than you’d think

In Paris? Sure. You're competing with tourists. Almost any rural bakery? No. You'd have to try to find something shitty.

jjgreen•5h ago
In Paris, look for the little old ladies carrying half-baguettes and go in the direction they're coming from.
JumpCrisscross•5h ago
You also want to know when they’re fresh. Good bread, particularly in the unseasoned French style, stales rapidly once cool.
Scoundreller•3h ago
it's a bit harder, but if you find a local walking out of their home, and pass 6 or 7 boulangeries until going into one, you're probably at a good one (or at risk of a stalking accusation)
GLdRH•7h ago
Can't wait for the cheeses
Scoundreller•3h ago
not before the RATP series!
jraph•7h ago
La Poste might have invented the first non-vegan stamps in history.

I hope they don't turn rancid.

hansvm•6h ago
Given the normal process for making glue I wouldn't be so certain.
tux3•6h ago
Most modern glues are synthetic. Super glue is usually cyanoacrylate, regular glue sticks might be Polyvinyl Acetate (PVA). Outside of specialty glues that are intentionally going for old school methods, it's not really a thing anymore
hammock•5h ago
How recently were stamps with glue invented?
hansvm•4h ago
IIRC, envelopes still use adhesives derived from gelatin. Maybe stamps have modernized at some point?
ch-one•6h ago
Nice, we got 4 fruits in Switzerland: https://shop.post.ch/en/stamps-philately/philately/single-st...
derelicta•6h ago
I miss my concrete stamps... A bit rough on the tongue but still lovely
mihaaly•6h ago
I am holding off for the red wine flavoured one.
fisherjeff•6h ago
Now this is the future I’ve been waiting for
cultofmetatron•6h ago
I wish we had croussants here in teh states (tiny speciality shops not withstanding). They are a rare. instead we get a weird butter flavored croissant shaped bread with nothing of the texture or aroma of the real thing.
dismalaf•5h ago
Because most in North America are made with margarine or a mix of margarine and butter, so much of the butter "taste" is fake. That's also why the lamination is worse.
esperent•4h ago
It's not just the states, pretty much all of Europe and even in France you'll find cheap croissants made with margarine. You always need to go to a real small bakery (tiny specialty shop as you say) to find real, freshly baked croissants. That's just a bit easier in France. The problem isn't where you live, it's where you shop.
bvan•5h ago
La Frenchtech at its peak.
wakawaka28•4h ago
How are they going to discourage roaches from eating your mail?
SoftTalker•4h ago
Has science gone too far?
genter•3h ago
Better than the time that a utility company mailed out a gas-scented flyer to teach people what a gas leak smelled like. 911 was inundated with gas leak calls.

(Search is so fucking useless these days that I can't find anything about it, but pretty sure it was in New York.)

rendaw•1h ago
Or is it that they made all croissants stamp-scented instead?
tempodox•10m ago
Wonderful, I want one! Say what you will, the French have good taste.

Naturally, this also poses some serious questions:

- Will this lead to more croissants being eaten? Everyone within reach of such a stamp could be affected. Will bakeries have to brace themselves?

- How will this affect the stamp collector scene? Will they flip upside down to get one of these? Will they eat more croissants?

Only time can tell!