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FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/fcc-moves-to-ban-lidar-equipped-foreign-drones-from-us-classifies-the-technology-as-military-grade-in-a-proposal-that-could-also-hit-thermal-models-and-the-swarms-used-drone-light-shows
30•f-serif•1h ago

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cr125rider•46m ago
Another move to remove competition for Don Jr.?
tamimio•19m ago
How’s a Lidar is a national risk?! (It’s easy to build a lidar based drones in a weekend project) Also, knowing plenty of US based drone manufacturers, most of their stuff are dependent on Chinese parts, the radio communication is on top of that list. If I were DJI, I would make Lidar and similar components modular, so they can still sell these drones while consumers can buy these modules later or DIY it, like literally most of the drones, which will be great for other consumers in the world for the easy repairability.

Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html
355•satvikpendem•4h ago•147 comments

Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley

https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.1287/orsc.2024.19981
78•iamnothere•2h ago•26 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

14•david927•33m ago•30 comments

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
59•Klaster_1•3h ago•6 comments

Production Imminent: 40 Solar-Charging Aptera EVs Coming Soon

https://frequal.com/aptera/ProductionImminent.html
7•TeaVMFan•37m ago•2 comments

John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)

https://kibotronics.net/unlisted/lilly-machines/
60•Kiboneu•4h ago•22 comments

Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5

https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem/tree/op2-rv32
71•Rochus•5h ago•15 comments

Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing

https://github.com/eighttrigrams/us-vs-them
13•eighttrigrams•2h ago•1 comments

Every fast write moves work somewhere else

https://www.shayon.dev/post/2026/220/every-fast-write-moves-work-somewhere-else/
19•shayonj•2h ago•7 comments

Crickets as Pets

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crickets_as_pets
18•Michelangelo11•4d ago•7 comments

There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order

https://gukov.dev/math/2026/08/02/new-magic-hexagons.html
148•gukoff•10h ago•21 comments

Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/historian-jill-lepore-says-the-tech-industry-is-led-by-bad-read...
141•evo_9•2h ago•97 comments

Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone

https://www.techeblog.com/tom-stanton-supersonic-trebuchet/
85•Thorondor•2h ago•28 comments

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

https://github.com/jmarshall23/msword
139•BruceEel•12h ago•59 comments

FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/fcc-moves-to-ban-lidar-equipped-foreign-drones-...
31•f-serif•1h ago•4 comments

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

https://theconversation.com/taxi-drivers-rarely-die-of-alzheimers-how-complex-mental-maps-and-spa...
45•jader201•2h ago•29 comments

Literary Sins

https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/seven-literary-sins
5•lermontov•3d ago•1 comments

A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/06/a-partial-digestion-of-the-hrt-counterexample/
12•ijustlovemath•3h ago•1 comments

The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)

https://halfhill.com/byte/1998-12_alpha.html
60•Lammy•7h ago•41 comments

Show HN: Today's cities on a globe of Earth's tectonic past and future

https://douwe.com/projects/tectonic_globe
12•dosinga•3h ago•0 comments

Dithered QR Codes

https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/
337•jmusall•18h ago•37 comments

The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground

https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/8/4/the-grid-that-doubles-the-strength-of-the-ground
104•michaefe•4d ago•29 comments

Banksy works cost public almost £150k

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2vnny7j5zo
18•alvis•1h ago•28 comments

Google Caught AI Faking Creativity in Every Office in America [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_O6Lwj1yjQ
6•Bender•34m ago•0 comments

Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-11-s-built-in-Weather-app-wastes-more-than-1-GB-of-RAM.1364...
108•akyuu•2h ago•90 comments

Show HN: Airy – Free, fast, and simple voice content creation

https://airy.so
26•login588•8h ago•12 comments

We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled

https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations
313•adletbalzhanov•19h ago•210 comments

My server is a phone now

https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/
457•seg6•19h ago•217 comments

TheoremDB – A public workspace for machine mathematics

https://theoremdb.org/
83•frozenseven•16h ago•13 comments

Should you stop cracking your knuckles?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260807-should-i-stop-cracking-my-knuckles
98•tchalla•19h ago•106 comments