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Protect Your Friends and Loved Ones

https://ephemeral.cx/2026/07/protect-your-friends-and-loved-ones/
27•speckx•2d ago

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King-Aaron•26m ago
Just fyi, 300 weight helvetica is almost unreadable on a windows device
fartfeatures•22m ago
Be careful with the emergency contacts. In the UK there have been instances of threats being made to emergency contacts when phones are stolen. You should be able to authenticate yourself.
_tk_•20m ago
There is no glory in prevention, as they say. If you live in a (near) authoritarian state, this is some valuable information. Importantly, if your home country isn’t authoritarian today, that doesn’t mean it won’t be tomorrow.
Zealotux•5m ago
So-called democratic, free, and liberal states routinely abuse their power. You may not be among those who experience it — yet — but try becoming an inconvenience to your local overlord and see how quickly the rule of law can be violated.
pelagicAustral•14m ago
If you get nicked at 1AM, there is zero chance anybody can do anything, until at least 9AM, so my advice will always be to be polite, comply, and more importantly keep your words to a minimum until you can see a lawyer. I probably wouldn't even call anybody.

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https://reflection.ai/blog/introducing-beam
448•Philpax•14h ago•143 comments

Protect Your Friends and Loved Ones

https://ephemeral.cx/2026/07/protect-your-friends-and-loved-ones/
31•speckx•2d ago•7 comments

Accountability mechanisms can be joyful (2024)

https://liquidbrain.net/blog/accountability-and-joy/
33•luu•2d ago•9 comments

Find the flattest route between any two points in SF

https://flattensf.com/
198•ishan0102•11h ago•70 comments

Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation

https://qlabs.sh/research/dust
187•E-Reverance•12h ago•44 comments

Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend

https://dbushell.com/2026/10/03/deno-to-node/
166•ibobev•11h ago•92 comments

Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates

https://www.vals.ai/blogs/room-temperature-magnetic-semiconductors
352•outlier99•12h ago•232 comments

Web Search API

https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-10-02-introducing-web-search-api/
545•tosh•22h ago•248 comments

Resurrecting iChat Audio and Video Conferencing

https://blog.pipetogrep.org/2026/09/11/resurrecting-ichat-audio-and-video-conferencing/
48•thepipetogrep•5h ago•12 comments

Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades

https://www.debugbear.com/blog/example-dot-com-redesign-history
221•jgx0•10h ago•141 comments

An algorithmic failure beneath the secret ballot

https://blog.citp.princeton.edu/2026/08/03/an-algorithmic-failure-beneath-the-secret-ballot/
79•leecoursey•2d ago•47 comments

Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors

https://smarthomescene.com/reviews/best-selling-zigbee-temperature-sensors-tested/
111•walrus01•2d ago•49 comments

Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf]

https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf
198•vinhnx•2d ago•47 comments

Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language

https://www.vivienhenz.com/common-lisp
158•misterchocolat•6h ago•217 comments

The complement of true is true, except when it's false

https://dryperspective.github.io/posts/complement-of-true/
11•aw1621107•1d ago•1 comments

Global Solar Atlas: summary of solar power potential globally

https://globalsolaratlas.info/
52•stratts•10h ago•35 comments

ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chatgpt-is-adding-real-cartoonists-signatures-to-fake-new-yorke...
431•rdmuser•10h ago•309 comments

Using A.I. and machine learning to decode communication of sperm whales

https://blue-continuum.com/the-man-who-listens-to-whales
22•dnetesn•1d ago•6 comments

Show HN: Photoc – Command-line tools for photographers

https://github.com/ahmetomerv/photoc
34•ahmetomer•2d ago•5 comments

Show HN: Entombed in a Raycaster

https://www.stelabouras.com/blog/entombed-raycaster/
23•stelabouras•2d ago•5 comments

The lamps in my house

https://arslan.io/2026/10/05/the-lamps-in-my-house/
202•farslan•19h ago•89 comments

Ephemeral Testing

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/10/05/ephemeral-testing/
56•ibobev•10h ago•19 comments

DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit

https://github.com/dfd-tud/deda
63•greyface-•1d ago•6 comments

Samon: Designing a Zen Garden Raking Puzzle

https://gwern.net/doc/design/2026-10-03-gwern-samon.html
42•networked•9h ago•20 comments

Apple and a hacker's future

https://stratechery.com/2026/apple-and-a-hackers-future/
257•maguay•23h ago•217 comments

Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1

https://floreal.tech/blog/2026/making-a-gtk-app-in-haskell-part-1/
156•Vosporos•19h ago•41 comments

Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-05/qualcomm-licenses-patents-on-huawei-s-logicfol...
190•0xedb•1d ago•125 comments

The first fully implanted cochlear implant reaches patients

https://spectrum.ieee.org/fully-implantable-cochlear-implant
90•rbanffy•4d ago•71 comments

Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge

https://www.techspot.com/news/114091-florida-woman-used-claude-diary-anthropic-reported-shoot.html
726•emptybits•1d ago•563 comments

Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016)

https://blog.lizzie.io/linux-containers-in-500-loc.html
125•mkornaukhov•19h ago•31 comments