Daily Top Stories
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Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work (github.com)
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I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok (0xsid.com)
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France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain (mining.com)
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Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with the Feb updates (github.com)
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Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept (marketwatch.com)
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The cult of vibe coding is insane (bramcohen.com)
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Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters (playlists.at)
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81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone (twitter.com)
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Age verification as mass surveillance infrastructure (tboteproject.com)
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The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes (twitter.com)
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What being ripped off taught me (belief.horse)
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Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game (wesnoth.org)
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An open-source 240-antenna array to bounce signals off the Moon (moonrf.com)
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Is Germany's gold safe in New York ? (dw.com)
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German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups (krebsonsecurity.com)
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OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic (latimes.com)
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Media scraper Gallery-dl is moving to Codeberg after receiving a DMCA notice (github.com)
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In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants (techcrunch.com)
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A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines (words.filippo.io)
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Sam Altman May Control Our Future – Can He Be Trusted? (newyorker.com)
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Copilot is 'for entertainment purposes only', per Microsoft's terms of use (techcrunch.com)
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Book review: There is no antimemetics division (stephendiehl.com)
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Show HN: Gemma Gem – AI model embedded in a browser – no API keys, no cloud (github.com)
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Launch HN: Freestyle: Sandboxes for AI Coding Agents (freestyle.sh)
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Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed (osnews.com)
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Usenet Archives (usenetarchives.com)
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Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair (drop.com)
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Case study: recovery of a corrupted 12 TB multi-device pool (github.com)
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Number in man page titles e.g. sleep(3) (lalitm.com)
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UK intelligence censored report on global warming and homeland security (theoryofchange1.substack.com)