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Muse Spark 1.3

https://developer.meta.com/ai/models/muse-spark/
383•bvaldivielso•5h ago•250 comments

Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/3-8-flash-and-3-8-flash-c...
817•bratao•10h ago•481 comments

Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/technology/google-ad-tech-remedies.html
256•donohoe•10h ago•171 comments

Holden's Lightning Flight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden%27s_Lightning_flight
49•ColinWright•2d ago•6 comments

Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex

https://werwolv.net/posts/file_format_reverse_engineering/
97•carlos-menezes•2d ago•19 comments

Fable 5.1 World Modeling

https://github.com/PhiloLabs/fable51-worlds
139•surreal_•5h ago•47 comments

Uber shuts operations in Nigeria and Uganda with immediate effect

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86xpv8l9y9o
91•yakkomajuri•3h ago•46 comments

Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them

https://trellner.com/reports/manufactured-sources-behind-ai-recommendations/
304•jakobgreenfeld•11h ago•141 comments

Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s

https://ronanrx.com/
21•lloydarmbrust•2h ago•28 comments

Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?

https://help.mistral.ai/en/articles/455207-can-i-opt-out-of-my-input-or-output-data-being-used-fo...
369•teekert•12h ago•163 comments

Engineering of the fastest WebAssembly interpreters

https://wasmi-labs.github.io/blog/posts/wasmi-v2.0/
38•herobird•1d ago•1 comments

Wendell Berry has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/us/wendell-berry-dead.html
139•Curiositry•1d ago•72 comments

The shrinking landscape of linguistic diversity in the age of LLMs

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02550-0
22•Anon84•3d ago•3 comments

Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle

https://www.science.org/content/article/world-s-biggest-dark-matter-detector-spots-single-weird-p...
245•randycupertino•11h ago•82 comments

Nango (YC W23) is hiring across eng, product and GTM (SF and remote)

https://nango.dev/careers
1•bastienbeurier•4h ago

Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure in 2010 (2023)

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-matter-of-millimeters-the-story-of-qantas-flight-32-bdaa62d...
78•gumby•6h ago•46 comments

Reasons robotics is hard

https://secondthoughts.ai/p/14-reasons-robotics-is-hard
30•ddp26•3h ago•5 comments

Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/whistleblower-postal-service-new-mail-ballot-system/
58•ck2•1d ago•25 comments

Altair Basic Interpreter Source Code (1975) [pdf]

https://images.gatesnotes.com/12514eb8-7b51-008e-41a9-512542cf683b/34d561c8-cf5c-4e69-af47-3782ea...
39•Eridanus2•5h ago•18 comments

Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them

https://studyfinds.com/aging-brains-blend-memories-together-instead-of-forgetting-them-study-finds/
211•mdp2021•12h ago•92 comments

Exit the Cave

https://turtlespace.blog/p/exit-the-cave
210•akkartik•11h ago•73 comments

METR Report on OpenAI / Hugging Face Hacking Incident

https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/#core-takeaways-about...
81•stikit•2h ago•66 comments

Embedded Rust RTOS vs. C RTOS

https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/65/async-rust-vs-rtos-showdown/
54•kooi•6h ago•24 comments

A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards

https://clui.org/collections/los-alamos-business-cards/selection-cards
138•1970-01-01•2d ago•33 comments

Making the Internet Boring

https://cemrehancavdar.com/2026/08/30/making-the-internet-boring/
77•zdw•3d ago•43 comments

Poisson Disk Sampling

https://stripeacross.com/posts/poisson-disk-sampling/
128•vismit2000•11h ago•18 comments

I wanna live an NPC life

https://signalundefied.bearblog.dev/i-wanna-live-an-npc-life/
180•conferza•5h ago•175 comments

Product Backlog Problems: Why Your Hierarchy Is Broken

https://www.prodpad.com/blog/backlog-hierarchy-problem/
15•adrianhoward•2d ago•8 comments

WebLLM: high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine

https://github.com/mlc-ai/web-llm
88•saikatsg•11h ago•17 comments

We could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cache-transcoding/
62•torutofu•1d ago•29 comments
Open in hackernews

Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/whistleblower-postal-service-new-mail-ballot-system/
57•ck2•1d ago

Comments

ck2•1d ago
good thing it's completely illegal for the federal government to interfere with state voting proceedure

> For instance, the Postal Service has what the whistleblower claims is a "zero percent failure rate."

> Mail workers would scan a sample of a batch of mail ballots — about 400 out of a batch of 10,000 or more — to verify it matches what is in the federal mail ballot portal.

> Under the policy, if even one barcode on a single ballot in the batch doesn't scan properly or the information does not match, the entire batch would be rejected and returned to state election officials so the problem ballot could be addressed, and then the verification process would have to be started again.

downrightmike•1d ago
That sample is wrong for statistics, 4% is literally not significant. It's also too much for sample controls
daveguy•54m ago
No one ever accused this administration of being competent.
emeril•50m ago
maybe so, but it is very vocal about they are the most modest
mafuy•45m ago
This is not the job of the postal service, but of the government. There is zero reason to outsource verification, and the postal service ought to vehemently reject this attempt to shift responsibility. Though I guess they won't, seeing as they are gleichgeschaltet.
grim_io•38m ago
Assuming they check 400 out of 10k, and assuming someone would want to cause any meaningful discrepancies >= 1% of the ballots, meaning 100 problematic ballots per 10k batch.

This system would catch it 98,3% of the time. Pretty good, I'd say.

Jordan-117•29m ago
They don't care if it's illegal. They'll do it anyway and trust in the tainted result being a fait accompli that the courts can't (or won't) resolve.
gWPVhyxPHqvk•24m ago
It's still funny thinking that there's people out there in 2026 who think that "it's illegal" will stop the Trump administration.
BigTTYGothGF•11m ago
> good thing it's completely illegal for the federal government to interfere with state voting proceedure

Oh yeah that'll stop them.

hackyhacky•44m ago
> Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

Yes. That's the point. The administration doesn't care about fixing whatever hypothetical mail ballot fraud may or may not exist; they are doing this to inject chaos into the election results, giving them cover to claim any result they want or even to just throw out the results entirely. Catastrophic problems are the means to that end.

RickJWagner•17m ago
Upon what do you base that?

Provide reputable sources, we can discuss it.

Geeek•12m ago
One can observe and accuse based on that observation. What 'sources' do you expect to see?
toomuchtodo•8m ago
You mean where the sitting president said they were going to try to rig the midterms?

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/trum...

NegativeLatency•7m ago
They’d said as much explicitly and implicitly with their actions.
SoftTalker•32m ago
> One third of all Americans cast their ballots by mail

Sounds like BS. Or if it isn't, it's alarming.

Most voting should be in person, on election day. Absentee ballots for those who cannot do that, as we have done for decades. Early voting, unchecked mail-in voting, are all additional avenues for fraud or simply problems such as lost or damaged ballots or delayed processing.

torben-friis•16m ago
I'm not American, but if I'm not mistaken, you don't have election day off like in other countries, right?

If so, how is that not clearly discriminatory for those who can't afford the time to go.

Arubis•11m ago
We have a designated Election Day. It is (as you correctly imply) not a federal holiday. My own perspective is that that is indeed clearly discriminatory, and that some people like it that way.
fhdkweig•7m ago
It is not a paid holiday. It isn't an unpaid holiday either. And if you work a minimum wage job, you probably need to work as many hours as you can. And if you don't show up to work on Tuesday, don't bother showing up on Wednesday because you don't have that job anymore.

This is absolutely discriminatory against the poor. That's why the republicans fight for these types of restrictions and democrats fight against them.

gortok•7m ago
No, Election Day is not a paid holiday, or even a recognized holiday. Public schools are generally out (at least the ones used as voting precints) but folks have work, and typically most "in person" votes are cast after 5pm (after folks traditionally leave work).

Mail in voting has been something that the elderly, infirmed, workers, and folks in the military have done for decades. It's remarkably secure and quite auditable. The issue the right has with it is that the folks that vote by mail (the military notwithstanding) are typically democrats.

thataccount•9m ago
So these rules by the Federal government were implemented to stop mail in voting from being abused as it has been for some time. The US Postal Inspections Service was being heavily abused by the government in times past in ways that were blatantly illegal. Hardly a peep was had about that, but everyone being up in arms about this tells me that the same people who were abusing the US Postal Inspections Service are probably upset that they won't be able to abuse mail in ballots the same way as they were that service.
NDlurker•6m ago
Everywhere I've lived has early voting too. I usually vote a few days before election day because it's not so busy.
1shooner•13m ago
Perhaps every state should just have one very well-monitored polling place.
mchristen•11m ago
Then voting needs to be a national holiday with plenty of polling locations.
wpm•7m ago
How much fraud is proven to be occurring due to mail-in ballots?