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Exploring the Complexity of Distributed Consensus Algorithms in Blockchain

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2026-02-02 04:00:45

Consensus in blockchain isn’t just a technical problem—it’s an intellectual minefield. You’ve got decentralized nodes spread across the globe, each operating under different assumptions, with varying latencies, incentives, and potential motivations, and yet they’re all expected to come to the same conclusion about the state of a distributed ledger. No central authority, no fallback mechanisms, no easy resets. Just code, cryptography, and coordination dancing on the edge of chaos. It’s beautiful

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Treasury sanctions North Korean over IT worker malware scheme

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-02 05:43:11

The U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned cyber actor Song Kum Hyok for his association with North Korea's hacking group Andariel and for facilitating IT worker schemes that generated revenue for the Pyongyang regime. Considered a sub-cluster of the Lazarus group linked to North Korea's Reconnaissance General Bureau, the Andariel state actor is focused mostly on financially-motivated operations like ransomware (Maui, Play) and cryptocurrency heists. Song Kum Hyok has been identified as a

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Heavy AI use at work has a surprising relationship to burnout, new study finds

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2026-02-02 05:25:00

Alexmia/Getty Images The adoption of AI tools in the workplace is making employees more productive, but new research from freelance hiring firm Upwork suggests it might also be hurting their mental health. Following a survey of 2,500 workers (including executives, full-time employees, and freelancers) across multiple countries, the research showed that the most devoted users of AI tools, including agents, are also 88% more likely to experience burnout and twice as likely to quit, compared to t

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Scaling agentic AI: Inside Atlassian’s culture of experimentation

venturebeat.com Vb Staff 2026-02-02 09:50:00

Scaling agentic AI isn’t just about having the latest tools — it requires clear guidance, the right context, and a culture that champions experimentation to unlock real value. At VentureBeat’s Transform 2025, Anu Bharadwaj, president of Atlassian, shared actionable insights into how the company has empowered its employees to build thousands of custom agents that solve real, everyday challenges. To build these agents, Atlassian has fostered a culture rooted in curiosity, enthusiasm and continuous

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Heavy AI use makes you more likely to burn out and quit your job, new study finds

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2026-02-02 15:00:14

Boris Zhitkov/Getty The adoption of AI tools in the workplace is making employees more productive, but new research from freelance hiring firm Upwork suggests it might also be hurting their mental health. Following a survey of 2,500 workers (including executives, full-time employees, and freelancers) across multiple countries, the research showed that the most devoted users of AI tools, including agents, are also 88% more likely to experience burnout and twice as likely to quit, compared to th

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Show HN: A rain Pomodoro with brown noise, ASMR, and Middle Eastern music

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-03 16:42:10

Can I use Rain Pomodoro timer for studying and work? Absolutely! Rain Pomodoro is perfect for both studying and work. The pomodoro technique's 25-minute focus sessions are ideal for maintaining concentration during study sessions, while the variety of background sounds (rain, brown noise, ASMR, desert ambience) allows you to customize your environment based on the type of work you're doing. The visual rain effects also help reduce eye strain during long computer sessions.

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MIT Economist Warns AI Is Poised to Turn Economy Into "Mad Max" Scenario

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-05 05:10:47

MIT economist David Autor is warning that AI could create a "Mad Max" scenario, in which the job market becomes dominated by cheap and commoditized labor. Autor made his grim prediction during an interview on the "Possible" podcast, hosted by LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman and his chief of staff Aria Finger. When asked whether he thought society is headed towards a "Wall-E" scenario — where "people sit around on hovercraft armchairs watching holographic TV" — or much grimmer alternative, Auto

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The Download: hunting an asteroid, and unlocking the human mind

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2026-02-05 10:10:00

If you were told that the odds of something were 3.1%, it might not seem like much. But for the people charged with protecting our planet, it was huge. On February 18, astronomers determined that a 130- to 300-foot-long asteroid had a 3.1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032. Never had an asteroid of such dangerous dimensions stood such a high chance of striking the planet. Then, just days later on February 24, experts declared that the danger had passed. Earth would be spared. How did t

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How scientists are trying to use AI to unlock the human mind

technologyreview.com Grace Huckins 2026-02-05 18:30:00

Compared with conventional psychological models, which use simple math equations, Centaur did a far better job of predicting behavior. Accurate predictions of how humans respond in psychology experiments are valuable in and of themselves: For example, scientists could use Centaur to pilot their experiments on a computer before recruiting, and paying, human participants. In their paper, however, the researchers propose that Centaur could be more than just a prediction machine. By interrogating th

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Apple @ Work Podcast: Portability for Passkeys is coming to macOS

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2026-02-05 20:00:00

Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional-grade platform all the solutions necessary to seamlessly and automatically deploy, manage & protect Apple devices at work. Over 45,000 organizations trust Mosyle to make millions of Apple devices work-ready with no effort and at an affordable cost. Request your EXTENDED TRIAL today and understand why Mosyle is everything you need to work with

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This portable workstation keeps me productive on the go - and it's half off

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2026-02-05 22:10:18

ZDNET's key takeaways The CaseUp Combo includes ProtoArc's wireless keyboard, mouse, and laptop stand for $50 on ProtoArc's site. The ease of use and transport make this a solid option for improving your hybrid and remote work setup. However, the mouse, while comfortable, might be too small for some people. View now at ProtoArc There is no shortage of wireless keyboards, portable monitors, and laptop mounts on the market. Remote work demands new use cases from tech to get our work done, and l

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Why CISOs are making the SASE switch: Fewer vendors, smarter security, better AI guardrails

venturebeat.com Louis Columbus 2026-02-06 00:13:03

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Investors, including venture capitalists (VCs), are betting $359 million that secure access service edge (SASE) will become a primary consolidator of enterprise security tech stacks. Cato Network’s oversubscribed Series G round last week demonstrates that investors view SASE as capable of driving significant consolidation across its core a

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Metriport (YC S22) is hiring engineers to improve healthcare data exchange

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-08 06:00:02

Metriport helps healthcare organizations access, analyze, and exchange patient data in real-time. Our open-source data intelligence platform integrates with all major healthcare IT systems in the US, and taps into comprehensive medical data for 300M+ individuals. Concretely, check out the following resources to learn more about what we actually do: We are looking for passionate engineers that are motivated by working on problems at scale (think billions of queries and PBs of medical records).

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Two and a Half Years in GameDev

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-08 08:31:51

About 3 years ago, I joined a GameDev company, without any prior experience making games or hands-on exposure to this industry. Statistically, this time is not even enough’s to release a single game. But during that window, I was lucky to meet many talented people deeply involved in modern GameDev, who shared with me their career journeys, war tales, and anecdotes, and helped me shape my vision. One unexpected outcome of this switch was that many friends and former colleagues reached out to me

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Why the simplest desktop agent abstraction wins

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-05 10:52:05

This is first post in a series about the design and implementation of Bytebot . Give us a star on our open source repo . We’re still in the early innings of AI agents. There are hundreds of companies building wrappers around LLMs, trying to make them more useful; more tool-aware, more stateful, more capable of completing tasks across applications. But most of them are barking up the same tree: they’re building agents that work by connecting APIs and tools in structured ways. Bytebot was born o

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Apple @ Work: Macs have never been more expensive to repair, but never been more reliable

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2026-02-08 00:00:00

Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional-grade platform all the solutions necessary to seamlessly and automatically deploy, manage & protect Apple devices at work. Over 45,000 organizations trust Mosyle to make millions of Apple devices work-ready with no effort and at an affordable cost. Request your EXTENDED TRIAL today and understand why Mosyle is everything you need to work with

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Amiga Linux (1993)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-07 20:57:17

Either email addresses are anonymous for this group or you need the view member email addresses permission to view the original message |> [Copy of email sent to Guenther] In article < [email protected] >, [email protected] (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:|> [Copy of email sent to Guenther]  Didn't get any email from you by now. Hi Jordan, hi world! I want to clear things up a bit and answer your question, why we are 'starting' with Linux. I have followed the discussions abo

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Android May Soon Warn You About Fake Cell Towers

wired.com Matt Burgess 2026-02-08 05:30:00

In recent years, North Korea has deployed thousands of so-called IT workers to infiltrate Western businesses, get paid salaries, and send money back to support the regime. As the schemes have become more successful, they have grown increasingly elaborate and employed new tactics to evade detection. But this week, the United States Justice Department revealed one of its biggest operations to tackle IT workers to date. The DOJ says it has identified six Americans who allegedly helped enable the s

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Why AO3 Was Down

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-08 02:23:35

An unofficial sub devoted to AO3. The Archive of Our Own (AO3) offers a noncommercial and nonprofit central hosting place for fanworks. We are proactive and innovative in protecting and defending our work from commercial exploitation and legal challenge. We preserve our fannish economy, values, and creative expression by protecting and nurturing our fellow fans, our work, our commentary, our history, and our identity while providing the broadest possible access to fannish activity for all fans.

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Open Source and FPGA Maker Board for Networking

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-08 00:16:10

Open Source and FPGA Maker Board for Networking Private Island Networks Inc. is pleased to announce that we will sponsor and support a limited number of university efforts this upcoming academic year (2025/2026) for students that desire to work with the Private Island ® open source networking stack in the areas of network security, privacy, and machine learning. We believe that this open source networking project and the Betsy™ maker board are ideal for university senior projects, master these

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Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-08 20:11:24

There is a moment, just before creation begins, when the work exists in its most perfect form in your imagination. It lives in a crystalline space between intention and execution, where every word is precisely chosen, every brushstroke deliberate, every note inevitable, but only in your mind. In this prelapsarian state, the work is flawless because it is nothing: a ghost of pure potential that haunts the creator with its impossible beauty. This is the moment we learn to love too much. We becom

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The Novelty of the Arpanet

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-04 14:48:24

If you run an image search for the word “ARPANET,” you will find lots of maps showing how the government research network expanded steadily across the country throughout the late ’60s and early ’70s. I’m guessing that most people reading or hearing about the ARPANET for the first time encounter one of these maps. Obviously, the maps are interesting—it’s hard to believe that there were once so few networked computers that their locations could all be conveyed with what is really pretty lo-fi car

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We're Not Innovating, We're Just Forgetting Slower

news.ycombinator.com About Brian Tristam Williams 2026-02-09 11:13:25

We’ve mistaken complexity for progress — and forgotten how things really work. A 41-year-old home computer still boots instantly, while today’s “smart” tech buckles under its own abstractions. My Texas Instruments TI-99/4A Home Computer still boots. Forty-one years after I first plugged it into our family’s wood-grain TV, it fires up in less than two seconds, ready to accept commands in TI BASIC. No updates required. No cloud connectivity. No subscription fees. No ads. Just pure, determinis

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I want to leave tech: what do I do?

news.ycombinator.com Conjure Utopia 2026-02-10 04:58:49

Let’s say you’re working in tech and you have a technical role: you’re a programmer, a graphic or UI/UX designer, a sysadmin, maybe even a product manager. Let’s say you want to leave, change career, and do something more meaningful with your skills. Your motivations may vary: you feel the tech industry produces nothing of value, or maybe you have the legitimate suspicion that what you build helps bomb innocent people somewhere. You might want to leave because of the individualistic culture tha

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Amazon’s Best Portable Monitor Is Nearly 50% Off, Feels Like Prime Day Already Started

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2026-02-10 05:10:09

Just because you’re a work-from-home employee does not mean you need to be working specifically from home. You can feasibly work from anywhere that has an internet connection if you’d be so inclined. What stops me from getting out more often is that I don’t find myself as productive as when I’m at my desk at home. I’ve built a pretty robust workspace for myself with three large monitors so I can see everything I’m working on at once. When tied to just my laptop screen, I feel restrained. That is

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Batteries and Buildings

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-07 22:49:53

Batteries and Buildings [2025-07-01] In categorizing software, a new classification that slides under people's noses is batteries vs no-batteries. TL;DR. software is said to be battery included if it works out of the box and it has all the necessary materials to build your software without external packaging While the latter means you add your own packages. burn the batteries# First principles are the most important part of learning anything. For instance, Express is moderately battery-incl

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I'm Still Obsessed With This Cult Conspiracy Thriller and Now It's on Netflix

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-11 00:00:05

Every once in a while, a TV show comes out of nowhere and changes the very fabric of the medium. Off the top of my head, I can think of five: Twin Peaks, Lost, The Sopranos, Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad. After Vince Gilligan's hit drug drama ended in 2013, I wondered what series would capture the cultural zeitgeist next. The answer came in the form of an edgy show about the internet, of all things. It starred a relatively unknown character actor as a flawed, neurodivergent hacker genius who

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Meet Soham Parekh, the engineer burning through tech by working at three to four startups simultaneously

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-02-11 15:07:15

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. One name is popping up a lot across tech startup social media right now, and you might’ve heard it: Soham Parekh. On X, people are joking that Parekh is single-handedly holding up all modern digital infrastructure, while others are posting memes about him working in front of a dozen different monitors or filling in for the thousands of people that M

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Flounder Mode – Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work

news.ycombinator.com Brie Wolfson 2026-02-11 14:18:01

Kevin Kelly isn’t known for one ‘big thing’, and doesn’t aspire to be. He’s as intelligent, hard-working, ambitious, and prescient as history’s most iconic entrepreneurs—only without any interest in building a unicorn himself. Instead, in his words, he works “Hollywood style”—in a series of creative projects. What follows is a sampling of his life’s work. Kelly was an editor for the Whole Earth Catalog in the early 1980s, helped start WELL, one of the first online communities, in 1985, and co-f

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Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Would Leave Millions Without Health Insurance

wired.com Emily Mullin 2026-02-11 21:57:18

Senate Republicans on Tuesday passed President Donald Trump’s sprawling tax and spending package, known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” paving the way for a major overhaul of the country’s Medicaid program. If passed by the House, which could happen before the July Fourth holiday, millions of people stand to lose their health insurance. The number of people without health insurance in the United States nearly halved from 2013 to 2023, falling from around 14 percent to a record low of less than

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Metriport (YC S22) is hiring engineers to improve healthcare data exchange

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Amiga Linux (1993)

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