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Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill

https://citizenlab.ca/toronto-based-vpn-provider-plans-to-quit-canada-over-lawful-access-bill/
34•speckx•2h ago

Comments

LorenDB•49m ago
Problem is, where do you take a company like this if you want peace of mind that the new host country won't immediately try to pass a similar law?
recursive•33m ago
The real use case for satellite-borne data centers.
armadyl•31m ago
I fail to see how a satellite data center would fix this unless the company was entirely off planet
recursive•28m ago
Hell, the whole company could be located on that satellite if it transacts in crypto-currency.
dymk•11m ago
Where do the people live…
armadyl•32m ago
Switzerland? Although they’re attempting to close in on this there too.
petcat•3m ago
Didn't proton end up moving to Germany because of bad Swiss privacy laws?
MrDrMcCoy•24m ago
Iceland.

Mistral Large 4

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4/\
1418•Philpax•8h ago•888 comments

EmbeddingGemma 2

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/embeddinggemma-2/
98•ilreb•5h ago•13 comments

Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2026/
484•solarist•11h ago•157 comments

Paramount completes $111B Warner merger, creating "Skydance" behemoth

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/paramount-completes-111b-warner-merger-creating-skyda...
71•Mgtyalx•1h ago•59 comments

OpenSSH 10.6

https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html#10.6
32•torcete•54m ago•1 comments

Benchmark in Milliseconds

https://matklad.github.io/2026/10/05/benchmark-milliseconds.html
113•surprisetalk•1d ago•27 comments

The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)

https://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/
95•_reza•6h ago•42 comments

Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore

https://gleam.run/news/gleam-doesnt-compile-to-erlang-source-anymore/
276•ingve•13h ago•112 comments

System-level ad-blocking in Android

https://kevinboone.me/adblock.html
19•birdculture•1h ago•9 comments

What's Earth's dominant species by mass?

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/09/27/whats-earths-dominant-species-by-mass/
87•surprisetalk•8h ago•39 comments

Mathematics of Geothermal Energy

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/power-and-energy/mathematics-geothermal-energy/
61•srameshc•8h ago•34 comments

Subquadratic 3SUM and Subcubic APSP

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.06783
80•mauriziocalo•9h ago•31 comments

Erdosproblems.com Succumbs to the AI Onslaught

https://www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread/blog:9
60•pfdietz•8h ago•20 comments

Show HN: I turned my iPhone and a $20 smart plug into an f-stop timer

https://peterszentkiralyi.eu/darkplug/
52•pentakkusu•7h ago•12 comments

Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill

https://citizenlab.ca/toronto-based-vpn-provider-plans-to-quit-canada-over-lawful-access-bill/
35•speckx•2h ago•8 comments

Polars 2.0

https://pola.rs/posts/release-polars-2/
386•simicd•9h ago•91 comments

The smartest Claude Code feature is not for its users

https://www.zohaib.cc/blog/smartest-claude-code-feature
7•zed_labs_dev•3h ago•2 comments

Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model

https://reflection.ai/blog/introducing-beam
532•Philpax•1d ago•167 comments

Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is overestimated: study

https://phys.org/news/2026-10-nature-capacity-species-lost-vastly.html
285•pseudolus•10h ago•146 comments

Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades

https://www.debugbear.com/blog/example-dot-com-redesign-history
333•jgx0•22h ago•222 comments

Show HN: Parseable, an open observability datalake, handles 100M time-series/min

https://www.parseable.com
68•yashdotrv•8h ago•14 comments

Find the flattest route between any two points in SF

https://flattensf.com/
297•ishan0102•23h ago•104 comments

Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation

https://qlabs.sh/research/dust
263•E-Reverance•1d ago•79 comments

Direct retinal projection display for smart glasses using a meta-optic mirror

https://www.tdk.com/en/news_center/press/20261002_01.html
115•bookofjoe•3d ago•57 comments

Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend

https://dbushell.com/2026/10/03/deno-to-node/
299•ibobev•23h ago•227 comments

Google EmbeddingGemma 2

https://twitter.com/googlegemma/status/2107502533992464482
4•hmokiguess•15m ago•0 comments

Best-selling Zigbee temperature sensors tested and compared

https://smarthomescene.com/reviews/best-selling-zigbee-temperature-sensors-tested/
225•walrus01•2d ago•116 comments

Using A.I. to decode communication of sperm whales

https://blue-continuum.com/the-man-who-listens-to-whales
80•dnetesn•2d ago•60 comments

Tapo (Rust/Python library) now speaks TP-Link's TPAP protocol

https://mihai.dinculescu.dev/posts/tapo-speaks-tpap/
121•faithraven•7h ago•58 comments

Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf]

https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf
303•vinhnx•3d ago•79 comments