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Audacity 4.0

https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases/tag/Audacity-4.0.0
549•ClydeN•4h ago•139 comments

ChatGPT Is Throwing 404

https://chatgpt.com/
75•stacktrace•16m ago•40 comments

Elevated Errors for Multiple Models

https://status.claude.com/incidents/461yvfrzpwtt
124•__vivek•1h ago•110 comments

Pre-Release of Polars 2.0

https://pola.rs/posts/announcing-polars-2/
294•komape•8h ago•94 comments

The Browser's Main Thread Is Expensive

https://kciter.so/posts/the-expensive-main-thread/en/
258•kciter•2d ago•86 comments

Invisible Companies

https://colossus.com/article/invisible-companies/
79•ltononro•2d ago•22 comments

Codex Is Down

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/28756
18•armcat•8m ago•6 comments

What I Learned from My Mom (1941-2026)

https://experimentalliving.substack.com/p/what-i-learned-from-my-mom-1941-2026
153•NaOH•4d ago•8 comments

Intrusive Linked Lists

https://www.data-structures-in-practice.com/intrusive-linked-lists/
39•tripdout•3d ago•22 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...
1109•bratao•23h ago•627 comments

Muse Spark 1.3

https://developer.meta.com/ai/models/muse-spark/
644•bvaldivielso•19h ago•424 comments

9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin, TX

https://9mothers.com/careers
1•ukd1•3h ago

Nvidia to Acquire Hugging Face

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-to-acquire-hugging-face/
119•tosh•2h ago•39 comments

Amazon Stonehenge: Parque Arqueológico do Solstício

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque_Arqueol%C3%B3gico_do_Solst%C3%ADcio
18•nycdatasci•3d ago•6 comments

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

https://trellner.com/reports/manufactured-sources-behind-ai-recommendations/
486•jakobgreenfeld•1d ago•236 comments

Elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex

https://status.openai.com/incidents/01M1KWEDH417T2CF44YYHZDFCR
8•tosh•3m ago•2 comments

Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/technology/google-ad-tech-remedies.html
440•donohoe•1d ago•310 comments

Fish Bad, Sugar Good and Other Medieval Ideas About Food

https://lithub.com/fish-bad-sugar-good-and-other-medieval-ideas-about-food/
62•mooreds•2d ago•44 comments

The Computer Museum of America reclamation project

https://computer-museum.org/wp/
79•rbanffy•2d ago•32 comments

Holden's Lightning Flight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden%27s_Lightning_flight
202•ColinWright•3d ago•42 comments

Astronomers Detect a 10-Sided Structure in Saturn's Atmosphere

https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-spot-an-uncannily-geometric-10-sided-structure-in-saturn...
16•jjgreen•1h ago•2 comments

Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2016)

https://scienceblog.com/b-three-schoolgirls-in-kinsale-pulled-up-a-pea-plant-covered-in-warts-and...
121•DamonHD•7h ago•49 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...
479•teekert•1d ago•225 comments

Fable 5.1 World Modeling

https://github.com/PhiloLabs/fable51-worlds
304•surreal_•19h ago•86 comments

Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex

https://werwolv.net/posts/file_format_reverse_engineering/
234•carlos-menezes•3d ago•45 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...
326•randycupertino•1d ago•119 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/
318•mdp2021•1d ago•127 comments

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

77•lloydarmbrust•16h ago•76 comments

Florida revokes permits for license plate readers on state highways

https://www.wusf.org/transportation/2026-08-31/fdot-revokes-permits-for-flock-cameras-installed-o...
33•ilamont•2d ago•4 comments

Wendell Berry has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/us/wendell-berry-dead.html
223•Curiositry•2d ago•113 comments
Open in hackernews

ICE Has a $2M Contract for Spyware That Can Hack Phones Without a Click

https://www.military.com/ice-has-a-2-million-contract-for-spyware-that-can-hack-phones-without-a-click
68•miohtama•1h ago

Comments

SomeonesAccount•1h ago
great article, very detailed
josefritzishere•57m ago
So NSA Wiretapping is illegal but ICE is ok? This administration is so wantonly criminal.
mc32•46m ago
Wait, since when has the NSA stopped collecting data? That assumption is new to me.
edoceo•56m ago
Seems a low price for no-click zero-day infections
bobowzki•49m ago
My first thought too.
miohtama•41m ago
They reuse the same zero-days across multiple countries and agencies; Israelis are very efficient at doing business.
idiotsecant•55m ago
>Citizen Lab helped WhatsApp identify and block an active Graphite zero-click exploit in late 2024.

How to get murdered by a private equity firm in one easy step.

VladVladikoff•37m ago
They’ve been doing this for a while. And actually there’s a pretty great episode of darknet diaries that talks about how they were directly targeted by 8200 agents (taken out to dinner in New York IIRC). They were trying to find dirt on the guy.
empath75•54m ago
for people that don't understand how bad ICE is, here is a brief selection of _recent_ news about ICE, this isn't even like the product of an extensive search

Ice buys shock gloves https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/a-perfect-tool-for-abuse...

ICE doesn't pay hospital bills: https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/ice-detainee-me...

DOJ blocked federal prosecution of ICE agent in shooting: https://www.propublica.org/article/doj-blocks-charges-ice-ag...

ICE doesn't vet candidates: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/us/ice-recruits-national-...

ICE agent with history of violent behavior shoots man in Maine: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/ap-report-ice-officer-in...

ICE puts tracking devices on Haitians who were here legally: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/haitians-ohio-l...

Haitian student commits suicide after being forced to wear tracking device https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/springfield-ohio-haitia...

ICE Deports Milo Yiannopoulos, to settle some intra-MAGA feud: https://sfist.com/2026/08/28/milo-yiannopoulos-detained-by-i...

Like, that isn't like cherry-picking, it's a five minute scroll through one of my social media feeds.

They are a stain on the US and need to be abolished.

miohtama•39m ago
Meanwhile in Serbia

https://citizenlab.ca/research/pegasus-spyware-infection-of-...

"In collaboration with the SHARE Foundation, the Citizen Lab analyzed forensic artefacts from the iPhone of a member of Serbia’s student protest movement after they received an Apple Threat Notification warning of targeting with mercenary spyware."

Zero clicks are cheap if NSO can afford to go after students.

strictnein•33m ago
When a company sells a 0-click exploit like that, they don't sell the actual malware/exploit, they sell access to a service or product. The contract will likely have a certain number of attacks with additional infections having a set price of $XXk.

That is how companies like Crowdfense can pay up to $5 million for an exploit. The sell it to some service (or have the service themselves) and generate revenue off of that. The person who sells that exploit gets some of that revenue, they're not getting $5 million up front.

readthenotes1•39m ago
Ehud Baraj, wasn't he a close confidante of Epstein?
tdeck•25m ago
I assume you mean Ehud Barak? Surely not, or I would have heard about it in the US media for sure.
exceptione•38m ago

  > Graphite belongs to the same category of commercial surveillance technology as Pegasus, the better-known spyware developed by NSO Group. Both are classified as mercenary spyware, meaning private companies develop and sell them to government intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
This buries the lede a bit. These companies play their part in trans-national organized crime networks, spanning countries like the USA, Russia and Israel. In Russia, it is often hard to delineate between organized crime and the FSB, because these networks overlap and they are often well established within the structures of the state. The same increasingly applies to the USA. ICE is becoming a paramilitary force, "immigration control" is clearly not its only purpose. I cannot unsee this from the massive purges in the military, rooting out the most competent leadership. The parallels with Russia can't be ignored.
headsman771•30m ago
What is ICE doing besides immigration control?
saidnooneever•27m ago
causing misery
MrWiffles•21m ago
Modern American version of the SS.
wang_li•21m ago
I know you all are here getting ready for a circle jerk, however ICE stands for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They monitor all goods and such coming and going from the country.
ChrisArchitect•36m ago
Does this article have any information in it from 2026? or is it just a sloppy rehash of information from a year ago.

May 2026: DHS says ICE has 'no relationship' with spyware maker Paragon Solutions

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/22/nx-s1-5831577/dhs-ice-spyware...

jason-phillips•31m ago
This is your daily reminder that orange man bad
teravor•29m ago

    > Researchers have confirmed Graphite attacks through WhatsApp and iMessage, although the complete method remains secret.

unsurprising that it's closed source software which is vulnerable like this. LLMs can now decompile binaries very efficiently so it's not even security by obscurity anymore.

you really have to screw up to not carefully trace the path of incoming messages to ensure they are processed safely.

jmyeet•42m ago
> ICE Deports Milo Yiannopoulos, to settle some intra-MAGA feud

This is probably the one valid thing they did. He's truly vile [1]. He's also illustrative of how most undocumented people aren't "sneaking across the border" as the media claims but are simply visa overstayers. Still, Laura Loomer shouldn't have the power to advance his deportation. The story goes that he was in removal proceedings and he didn't show up for his hearing before an immigration judge so was ordered deported in absentia and then ICE picked him up.

Milo Yiannopoulos is just not a hill I'm ever willing to die on.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/30/milo-yiannop...

kijashdkujdfhas•21m ago
> Still, Laura Loomer shouldn't have the power to advance his deportation.

This is a really key point. Trump operates like a mafia boss. Being in the protected class is a privilege that is fully dependent on the perception of the boss and those close to him. "For my friends everything, for my enemies the law."

It's not a good way to run a country. Did we have perfectly applied rule of law before the Trump era? No, but Trump is bringing us to new extremes of legal inequality.

MSFT_Edging•8m ago
The real terrifying aspect of this whole story has nothing to do with Milo Vs ICE.

It's the fact that these previously cartoonish figures on Twitter are now wielding some level of power.

People love to say "oh just get off those bad social medias", but that fails to recognize how there is now multiple social media sites exercising a high level of coercion and misinformation that is injecting the previously goofy "it's just online" into real life.

The white nationalism that has been boosted by Elon and co IS REAL. It will have lasting effects on every facet of our society. The people who used to be internet clowns are now deporting their enemies.

I can't emphasize this enough, this is BAD.

There is no one with any level of morals or ethics at the wheel. It makes too much money to tear apart society. You can bring up endless cliches, "mainstream media", "billionaires", "politics". But the fact is, news channels have spent endless hours covering Hassan(the twitch streamer) and avoiding actual news. Nearly every facet of society has been captured to manipulate us, and there is no good ending for any of this.

jMyles•21m ago
Indeed. But when the rubber meets the road, even our community has trouble standing behind people taking direct action to disrupt ICE activities. eg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48727750
MSFT_Edging•15m ago
They're suggesting[1] they'll be attempting arrests at polling locations, which due to the statistics on fraudulent votes(statistically microscopic), equates to interference and intimidation since we know ICE isn't beyond arresting US citizens to harass them. This will have a chilling effect on citizens who are remotely non-white, who may avoid voting in person due to the risks associated with interacting with the under-trained ICE forces.

Additionally, USPS's current plans[2] for purging mail-in votes will disenfranchise the other method of voting.

[1]https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/dhs-chief-says-i...

[2]https://www.cbsnews.com/news/whistleblower-postal-service-ne...

chii•30m ago
> ICE is becoming a paramilitary force

this is how the gestapo gets established.

saidnooneever•27m ago
there are many if these companies and toolkits. too many to mention. more than 150 countries spend over 10M a year on _offensive_ cyber. generally making use of such toolkits if they lack inhouse capabilities, which is pretty much all of those countries because the people creating the capabilities will refuse to work for them, so they can sell their tools.
jason-phillips•25m ago
> I cannot unsee this from the massive purges in the military, rooting out the most competent leadership.

Structural coherence issues aside, is this some sort of a joke, or just thinly veiled personal bias presented as fact?

thesuitonym•23m ago
Becoming?
MisterTea•4m ago
> In Russia, it is often hard to delineate between organized crime and the FSB, because these networks overlap and they are often well established within the structures of the state.

This already applies to the USA where Trump was very likely involved with the mob who were deeply embedded in the fabric of NYC. All of his NYC construction projects were pushed through and built by mobbed up companies. It's obvious he's in bed with anyone who will get him what he wants, criminal or not.