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Police departments weren’t looking for Flock abuse. We did it for them.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/19/we-found-cops-who-misused-flock-their-police-departments-didnt-know/
20•dataflow•1h ago

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2legit2quit•1h ago
Sadly paywalled.
Sn0wCoder•1h ago
Here ya go https://archive.ph/holar

Hy4 preview

https://www.tencent.com/tencent-releases-and-open-sources-tencent-hy4-preview/
186•shenli3514•5h ago•118 comments

Bug Blindness

https://danluu.com/bug-blind/
18•davidmckenna•55m ago•3 comments

Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux

https://zackbartel.com/blog/2026/08/tether/
339•zackb•5d ago•136 comments

Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-08-26/highest-ever-ocean-temperature-measured-as-p...
70•measurablefunc•1h ago•40 comments

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/roman-space-telescope/
118•JumpCrisscross•9h ago•58 comments

Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role

https://tucker.wales/writing/bias-towards-action/
106•tuckerwales•7h ago•44 comments

Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/08/28/texas-flock-cameras-auto-insurance-fee-mvcpa-grants/
60•DeepLogin•1h ago•21 comments

SQLite as a Document Database (2020)

https://dgl.cx/2020/06/sqlite-json-support
169•lioeters•5d ago•45 comments

Is it safe to call print in a Python signal handler?

https://iafisher.com/2026/08/sigprint
10•hellerve•3d ago•0 comments

Domain-Driven Agents

https://coldtake.dev/blog/domain-driven-agents
48•AlarQ•5h ago•6 comments

Functional State Machines in Rust: Typestate and Newtype Patterns

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3830438.3830958
44•matt_d•6h ago•7 comments

Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI

https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/good-culture-is-the-biggest-productivity
244•gpi•7h ago•56 comments

DHS is using obscure law to snoop on journalists, non-profits, unions

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/29/trump-dhs-1509-summons-records-journalists-nonpro...
293•firefax•6h ago•44 comments

Glacier Mice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier_mice
255•ostacke•5d ago•49 comments

Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online

https://defrag98.com
82•throw0101a•2h ago•45 comments

EVE Online moves to Python 3

https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/the-move-to-python-3-begins
300•TylerJaacks•4d ago•155 comments

Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/hot-chips-2026-samsungs-processing
245•ingve•19h ago•92 comments

Indirect Calling of Nested Functions on GCC Without Executable Stack

https://uecker.codeberg.page/2026-08-29.html
66•uecker•10h ago•42 comments

I co-founded Burning Man. The festival has lost its soul

https://sfstandard.com/2026/08/29/burning-man-lost-its-soul-founder/
83•lisper•2h ago•49 comments

Trees for a Changing Climate and Resilient Urban Forest (2022)

https://www.coolboulder.org/news/trees-for-a-changing-climate-resilient-urban-forest
31•mooreds•8h ago•5 comments

Show HN: Typebase – A single-folder back end you write in TypeScript

https://typebase.io
97•andrewww-dev•3d ago•24 comments

Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework

https://github.com/Lakr233/vphone-cli
380•hentrep•1d ago•103 comments

Sleepwalker: Passive Backdoor with Its Own Command Language

https://r136a1.dev/2026/08/24/sleepwalker-a-passive-backdoor-with-its-own-command-language/
53•defrost•4d ago•8 comments

Recovering Corrupt Zip Files

https://www.construct.net/en/blogs/ashleys-blog-2/recovering-corrupt-zip-files-1895
31•AshleysBrain•3d ago•9 comments

Creating the Aetheryte Radio

https://haz.ee/posts/aetheryte-radio.html
67•wonger_•1d ago•14 comments

Quantifying Colour

https://ekunazanu.foo/lab/quantifying-colour/
66•vismit2000•9h ago•7 comments

The Wandering Yamamura Theater Troupe

https://cinemasojourns.com/2026/08/27/the-wandering-yamamura-theater-troupe/
7•jjgreen•2d ago•0 comments

The Finn – an agent that lives in my router and complains about it

https://github.com/YuriKovalov22/the-finn
19•YuriiKovalov•1d ago•5 comments

StemDeck, a free, open-source and local AI stem separator

https://github.com/stemdeckapp/stemdeck
206•thclpr•23h ago•58 comments

I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis

https://pwning.systems/posts/llm-memory-program-analysis/
277•matt_d•1d ago•73 comments