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Three Hapsburgs and a Reporter Walk into a Canadian Vault

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/insider/florentine-diamond-hapsburgs.html
9•samclemens•2d ago

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gnatman•1h ago
I didn’t understand the angle of this article until I realized it was “Times Insider”, a sort of behind the scenes. The actual story is here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/arts/design/florentine-di...

gsf_emergency_6•10m ago
https://archive.ph/V2Ehj
throwup238•1h ago
https://archive.ph/dCcMq

Verifying your Matrix devices is becoming mandatory

https://element.io/blog/verifying-your-devices-is-becoming-mandatory-2/
99•LorenDB•4h ago•72 comments

Loose wire leads to blackout, contact with Francis Scott Key bridge

https://www.ntsb.gov:443/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20251118.aspx
278•DamnInteresting•8h ago•114 comments

Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws

https://www.theverge.com/news/823750/european-union-ai-act-gdpr-changes
598•ksec•14h ago•617 comments

A surprise with how '#!' handles its program argument in practice

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ShebangRelativePathSurprise
15•SeenNotHeard•1d ago•15 comments

Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp

https://www.univie.ac.at/en/news/detail/forscherinnen-entdecken-grosse-sicherheitsluecke-in-whatsapp
169•KingNoLimit•8h ago•52 comments

Meta Segment Anything Model 3

https://ai.meta.com/sam3/
346•lukeinator42•11h ago•70 comments

What Influence Has the BBC Had on History?

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/head-head/what-influence-has-bbc-had-history
14•pepys•2d ago•2 comments

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

https://darwin-online.org.uk/
10•bookofjoe•6d ago•0 comments

Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-1-codex-max/
366•hansonw•10h ago•207 comments

Precise geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning System

https://www.amoses.dev/blog/wifi-location/
131•nicosalm•7h ago•64 comments

What really happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11/11/what-really-happened-with-the-cia-and-the-paris-re...
29•frenzcan•1w ago•2 comments

AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power

https://www.chrbutler.com/what-ai-is-really-for
182•delaugust•9h ago•133 comments

Launch HN: Mosaic (YC W25) – Agentic Video Editing

https://mosaic.so
114•adishj•13h ago•108 comments

The Lucas-Lehmer Prime Number Test

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-identify-a-prime-number-without-a-computer/
54•beardyw•1w ago•33 comments

How Slide Rules Work

https://amenzwa.github.io/stem/ComputingHistory/HowSlideRulesWork/
78•ColinWright•7h ago•20 comments

Three Hapsburgs and a Reporter Walk into a Canadian Vault

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/insider/florentine-diamond-hapsburgs.html
9•samclemens•2d ago•3 comments

Robert Louis Stevenson's Art of Living (and Dying)

https://lithub.com/robert-louis-stevensons-art-of-living-and-dying/
13•Caiero•9h ago•1 comments

Measuring the impact of AI scams on the elderly

https://simonlermen.substack.com/p/can-ai-models-be-jailbroken-to-phish
73•DalasNoin•4h ago•23 comments

Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/larry-summers-epstein-openai.html
301•koolba•15h ago•329 comments

Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable

https://www.theverge.com/tech/823337/switching-linux-gaming-desktop-cachyos
297•throwaway270925•7h ago•219 comments

Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/11/thunderbird-adds-native-microsoft-exchange-email-support/
357•babolivier•17h ago•103 comments

Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linu

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/19/static-web-hosting-intel-n150-freebsd-smartos-netbsd-openb...
135•t-3•11h ago•45 comments

The patent office is about to make bad patents untouchable

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/patent-office-about-make-bad-patents-untouchable
336•iamnothere•7h ago•34 comments

Vortex: An extensible, state of the art columnar file format

https://github.com/vortex-data/vortex
58•tanelpoder•5d ago•10 comments

Racing karts on a Rust GPU kernel driver

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/racing-karts-on-a-rust-gpu-kernel-driver....
57•mfilion•8h ago•3 comments

Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-ai-ceo-pushes-back-against-critics-...
139•thewebguyd•8h ago•150 comments

Blame as a Service

https://www.humaninvariant.com/blog/blame
94•humaninvariant•1w ago•10 comments

CornHub

https://cornhub.website/
45•andy99•5h ago•14 comments

Measuring political bias in Claude

https://www.anthropic.com/news/political-even-handedness
51•gmays•9h ago•75 comments

How to stay sane in a world that rewards insanity

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/how-to-stay-sane-in-a-world-that-rewards-insanity
168•enbywithunix•14h ago•140 comments