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In Search of a Compositional Theory of Self-Stabilization (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-21 | by Visit Profile | tags: self-stabilization, tla+, rely-guarantee

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San Francisco Onion Futures Company (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-19 | tags: onion futures, san francisco, stripe payments

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Hacker turns 25 cents into 46 billion fake Bitcoins to steal $770,000 — Symbiosis DeFi exchange bit by lack of basic bounds checking in smart contract (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-18 | by Bruno Ferreira | tags: symbiosis, defi, smart contract exploit

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Adventures in Microcontroller Circuit Debugging (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-17 | by Steven Pasternak | get Hantek digital oscilloscope USB 2 channel → | tags: floppy emu, atmega1284, microcontroller debugging

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SpaceX Manager Arrested for Allegedly Stabbing a Tesla Contractor Over Karaoke Performance (futurism.com)

2026-09-17 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: spacex, tesla, kyle gonzalez

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Boston dumps Flock, says it shared data nationwide in violation of contract (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-15 | tags: flock safety, license plate readers, boston police department

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These Robot Soldiers Are Getting Downright Terrifying (futurism.com)

2026-09-15 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: foundation robotics, phantom mk1, sankaet pathak

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ChatGPT transcripts are reportedly read by humans to improve responses, including those with personal information — 'Project Lilly' has seen OpenAI hire hundreds of contractors to manually review logs (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-15 | by Bruno Ferreira | tags: chatgpt, openai, project lily

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Union Contract with Microsoft Ratified by 1,900 Blizzard Developers and Workers (slashdot.org)

2026-09-14 | by Posted | tags: microsoft, blizzard, union contract

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Contractor Admits They, Not Imaginary Antifa Vandals, Wrecked the Reflecting Pool (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-11 | tags: atlantic industrial coatings, reflecting pool, antifa

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Silicon Valley is transforming the military-industrial complex? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-10 | get Unit X How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley book → | tags: tech inquiry, microsoft, amazon

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Silicon Valley Is Transforming the Military-Industrial Complex (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-10 | get Unit X Pentagon Silicon Valley book → | tags: tech inquiry, microsoft, amazon

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Scientists Drastically Underestimated How Much Mercury Has Shrunk (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-10 | get Celestron NexStar 130SLT telescope → | tags: mercury, planetary contraction, planetary science

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World’s largest contract chipmaker TSMC sees August revenue surge over 53% to record high (cnbc.com)

2026-09-10 | by Jenny Lee | get Chip War Chris Miller book → | tags: tsmc, semiconductor foundry, ai chips

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Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-10 | get Relativity The Special and the General Theory Einstein book → | tags: speed of light, special relativity, length contraction

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Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-09 | get World of Warcraft gaming mouse pad → | tags: blizzard, union contract, blizzard workers

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Blizzard employees have ratified their first union contracts (engadget.com)

2026-09-09 | by Anna Washenko | get World of Warcraft 60 day game time card → | tags: blizzard entertainment, communications workers of america, union contract

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Kenyans Did College Students' Homework for Years. Then A.I. Arrived (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-08 | get They Say I Say academic writing book → | tags: kenya, artificial intelligence, contract cheating

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Top Pentagon Official Contracted Personal Lawyer to Handle Minerals Deal (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-04 | by Zachary Groz | tags: pentagon, mp materials, cerberus capital

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ICE Has a $2M Contract for Spyware That Can Hack Phones Without a Click (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-03 | get Mission Darkness Faraday bag phone → | tags: ice, spyware, phones

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Blue Origin wins NASA contract for telecommunications on Mars (engadget.com)

2026-09-01 | by Anna Washenko | get Celestron NexStar 130SLT telescope → | tags: blue origin, nasa, mars telecommunications network

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This Website Is Most Reliable Tool for Looking Up Flock Cameras Near You (cnet.com)

2026-08-29 | by Tyler Lacoma | get Garmin Dash Cam Mini 3 → | tags: flock safety, surveillance cameras, electronic frontier foundation

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Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-28 | get Mission Darkness Faraday bag phone → | tags: flock safety, surveillance, secure justice

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Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-28 | tags: anthropic, claude ai, federal judge

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A Judge Has Blocked the Pentagon’s Attempt to Blacklist Anthropic (wired.com)

2026-08-28 | by Hugo Lowell | get AI Engineering Chip Huyen book → | tags: anthropic, pentagon, ai models

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Aker Shares Climb After Nscale Gets $45 Billion Contract (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-27 | tags: aker, nscale, monarch

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Debian polls its developers on AI: permit or ban? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-26 | by Liam Proven | get Debian Administrator's Handbook book → | tags: debian, sruthi chandran, llm

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Trump bought SpaceX shares two weeks after blockbuster IPO (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-24 | by Sean O'Kane | get LEGO Icons NASA Artemis Space Launch System 10341 → | tags: spacex, elon musk, ipo

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I ditched T-Mobile for Mint after 10 years of service - now I'm saving $120/month (zdnet.com)

2026-08-22 | by Kerry Wan | tags: t-mobile, mint, verizon

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A Contract-Grade Verifier for LLM-Generated GPU Kernels (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: llm, gpu, verifier