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A Treatise for One Network – Anonymous National Deliberation [pdf]

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-08 15:21:20

Authoritarian regimes thrive by systematically dividing their opposition and silencing the populace, creating a crisis where citizens feel isolated and powerless. This paper proposes a technological solution: a new, secure feature within Telegram to bridge these divisions and forge a genuine national consensus. Executive Summary "The protocol is remarkably efficient, capable of distilling the views of a population of 100 million participants down to a core group of 100 in as few as six weeks.

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I tried vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well

news.ycombinator.com Paul Lefebvre 2026-01-08 10:14:42

With the rise of LLM systems (or “AI” as they are annoyingly called), the term “vibe coding” is all the rage recently. Vibe coding is when you rely almost entirely on these “AI” system to write your code for you via a series of drawn-out conversations. Putting on my cranky old man hat, I find most of it rather frustrating. Now I’m not some retro-sycophant who refuses to use modern tools. I’ve been a software professional for over 30 years at this point and I’ve used lots of tools throughout the

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Your Recession FAQs Answered: 5 Tips to Help You Prepare, Not Panic

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-13 04:00:00

Recession risks are down, but keep your guard up. Getty Images/Jeffrey Hazelwood/CNET Early this spring, talk of a recession swirled after President Donald Trump began his chaotic tariff campaign. The likelihood of a severe economic downturn hit 66%, according to Polymarket. As Trump deferred some of his most aggressive trade proposals, those forecasts leveled out, but the contours of a potential recession are hard to ignore. Growth in the first quarter of 2025? Down. Jobless claims? Sharply h

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This Is the Commodore Comeback Fans Have Waited for—but the Odds Are Still Against It

wired.com Craig Grannell 2026-01-13 05:00:00

In 1994, Commodore crashed and burned. Once a home computing giant across the US and Europe, the company was undone by mismanagement and misfires. The carcass was picked clean and the pieces resold so many times that it was hard to keep track, but with each new owner came the inevitable—an attempt to make a fast buck by slapping the famous C= logo on any old junk. Fans watched in horror as the brand appeared on the mediocre Web.it all-in-one PC, the bizarrely named Gravel in Pocket media player

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New York’s bill banning One-Person Train Operation

news.ycombinator.com Blair Lorenzo 2026-01-13 00:33:47

The New York State Legislature has just passed a bill (S4091/A04873) that would lock New York City’s transit system in the past. This bill, which would require a conductor to be on board every train operated by New York City Transit, is the technological equivalent of requiring every elevator in the city to still be staffed by an elevator operator. If you take other transit systems both across the country and around the world, you'll quickly realize that two-person train operation (TPTO) is an o

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I tried Vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well

news.ycombinator.com Paul Lefebvre 2026-01-08 16:14:42

With the rise of LLM systems (or “AI” as they are annoyingly called), the term “vibe coding” is all the rage recently. Vibe coding is when you rely almost entirely on these “AI” system to write your code for you via a series of drawn-out conversations. Putting on my cranky old man hat, I find most of it rather frustrating. Now I’m not some retro-sycophant who refuses to use modern tools. I’ve been a software professional for over 30 years at this point and I’ve used lots of tools throughout the

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Psychiatric Researchers Warn of Grim Psychological Risks for AI Users

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-12 22:15:54

Without even looking at medical data, it's pretty clear that "artificial intelligence" — a vast umbrella term for various technologies over the years, but currently dominated by the data-hungry neural networks powering chatbots and image generators — can have life-altering effects on the human brain. We're not even three years out from the release of the first commercially-available LLM, and AI users have already been driven to paranoid breaks from reality, religious mania, and even suicide. A

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Indie App Spotlight: ‘Nunch’ is an elegantly designed calorie and macro tracker

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2026-01-12 23:30:00

Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact. Many people want to do a better job monitoring their diet and eating habits, but don’t exactly know where to start. Nunch is a fantastic new app to make the process a lot more seamless. Top features Nunch‘s top feature is certainly its interface. It’s very clean, and gets straight to the point. On the

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Bizarre "Infinity Galaxy" Could Hold the Secrets of Supermassive Black Holes

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-12 18:45:01

Astronomers using data collected by the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a spectacular cosmic object they're calling the "Infinity Galaxy." The site of an epic head-on collision between two galaxies, it could harbor the secrets to how the heaviest black holes in the universe, the supermassive black holes found at the hearts of galaxies, are born and reach their unbelievable masses — masses extreme enough to organize trillions of stars around them. "Everything is unusual about this ga

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Scientists Say That Uranus Appears to Have a Girlfriend

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-12 22:00:39

When checking out Uranus, scientists discovered something exciting: that the planet appears to have a long-term... well, call it a situationship. In a new, yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper flagged by Universe Today, an international group of researchers detailed finding a so-called "Centaur" — a small, icy and rocky body that sits between Uranus and Neptune and is designated as a minor planet — that appears to have been keeping up with Uranus in a delicate cosmic dance for thousands or even millio

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After ditching Spotify for a week, I now understand why readers love YouTube Music

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-12 20:00:16

Andy Walker / Android Authority A few weeks ago, I ran an Open Thread asking readers why they prefer using YouTube Music over many available alternatives, including my service of choice, Spotify. It would be an understatement to say that it received a flurry of comments and strong opinions from our community questioning my views. With just under 400 replies at the time of this writing, not to mention the big win for Google’s streaming service in the accompanying poll, it’s clear that I was perh

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Corning avoids EU antitrust fine by ending exclusive deals with phone manufacturers

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-13 02:30:23

Corning, the US-based glass manufacturer behind Gorilla Glass, has vowed to end its exclusive deals and other practices that the European Commission deemed to be anti-competitive in order to avoid getting fined. If you'll recall, the commission announced that it was investigating Corning last year, accusing it of squashing competition with its exclusive supply agreements, thereby driving up prices and stifling innovation. Now, the commission has accepted the commitments Corning offered and made

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Popular npm linter packages hijacked via phishing to drop malware

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-12 21:51:22

Popular JavaScript libraries were hijacked this week and turned into malware droppers, in a supply chain attack achieved via targeted phishing and credential theft. The npm package eslint-config-prettier, downloaded over 30 million times weekly, was compromised after its maintainer fell victim to a phishing attack. Other packages, namely eslint-plugin-prettier, synckit, @pkgr/core, and napi-postinstall from the same maintainer, were also targeted. The attacker(s) used stolen credentials to pub

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North America's Oldest Known Pterosaur

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-08 10:02:06

A Smithsonian-led team of researchers have discovered North America’s oldest known pterosaur, the winged reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs and were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight. In a paper published today, July 7, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers led by paleontologist Ben Kligman, a Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, present the fossilized jawbone of the new species and describe the sea gu

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I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer

news.ycombinator.com Tomáš Baránek 2026-01-12 18:51:59

Now for my more detailed arguments. Reason 1: I don’t want to become cognitively lazy In a recent study by MIT researchers (Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task) demonstrated using LLMs when writing essays reduces the originality of the resulting work. More notably, when measured using an EEG, LLMs also diminish brain connectivity compared to when participants were allowed to use only their brains or a search engine. People who

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The GameSir G8 Plus Is a Solid Mobile Controller, With One Big Caveat

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-12 20:00:05

GameSir G8 Plus $80 at Amazon Pros Great hardware Fits phones and small tablets Extra back buttons Good battery life Cons Buggy app No extra faceplates available No case included If you don't think gaming on your phone could be fun, you've likely never tried using it with a controller. Once you do, you'll realize why mobile gaming is continuing to grow exponentially. It really is, pun very much intended, a game-changer. There are a ton of mobile controllers out there. Most of them are bad

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The Art of Freelancing Like a Boss, According to the Folks Who Do It

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-12 21:00:17

Jeffrey Hazelwood/CNET Jamie Brindle has been freelancing for 16 years and is on a mission to "demystify" the freelance world. In 2020, amid a shaky job market and widespread rejection of corporate hustle culture, he started helping beginner freelancers become their own bosses. The expansion of remote work, advances in AI and the growth of influencer platforms have all led to a kind of self-employment boom. As Gen Zers and millennials find new ways to upgrade their skills in a flexible work se

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Why It’s Taking LA So Long to Rebuild After the Wildfires

wired.com Umair Irfan 2026-01-12 20:00:00

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the wake of the record-breaking wildfires in Los Angeles in January—some of the most expensive and destructive blazes in history—one of the first things California governor Gavin Newsom did was to sign an executive order suspending environmental rules around rebuilding. The idea was that by waiving permitting regulations and reviews under the California Coastal Act and the California Environmental Quality A

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Nothing Phone 3 review: flagship-ish

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2026-01-12 23:00:00

Nothing says that the Phone 3 is its “first true flagship phone,” and it has put its money where its mouth is. The phone is getting a full US launch, and at $799, it costs exactly the same as a Pixel 9, Galaxy S25, or iPhone 16. That makes reviewing the Phone 3 refreshingly simple, because there are only two real questions that matter: is this as good as those three? And will it be as good as what we’re expecting from the new Pixel and iPhone models that are right around the corner? The answer

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The Bitter Lessons Behind Kimi Researcher's Taste

news.ycombinator.com Crystal J 2026-01-08 08:39:57

The Bitter Lessons Behind Kimi Researcher’s taste Crystal J 7 min read · 2 days ago 2 days ago -- 2 Listen Share This blog will not look like what you often see in tech reports — where someone says, “Oh, ideas just came to my mind, and bang, it just happens.” The reality was far more challenging, iterative, and often frustrating. When I first rolled out this Apple-style frontend UI, it looked sleek, and I was genuinely excited. I shared it with everyone, thinking, “This is really great!” But

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Microsoft Office is using an artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool

news.ycombinator.com Italo Vignoli 2026-01-12 17:22:45

Thank you for visiting our website and your interest in our services and products. As the protection of your personal data is an important concern for us, please click on the "More information" link to access our Privacy Policy page - which will open in a separate browser tab - where we explain what information we collect during your visit to our website, how it is processed, and whether or how it may be used. Once you have carefully read our Privacy Policy page, close the browser tab to return

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Bun adds pnpm-style isolated installation mode

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-13 00:43:08

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community. By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails. Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

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Silo season 3 is coming: Here’s everything we know right now

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-01-13 15:01:12

Apple’s biggest hit ever, Severance, is far from the only sci-fi success in the Apple TV+ catalog. The dystopian thriller Silo aired its second season last fall, and season 3 is well under way. Here’s everything we know so far about Silo season 3. Season 3 expands the story outside the silos Silo season 2 ended on a bit of a cliffhanger. While the series to this point has been set almost exclusively inside underground silos, the season 2 finale shook things up. Creator and showrunner Graham

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Arch Linux pulls AUR packages that installed Chaos RAT malware

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-13 15:12:39

Arch Linux has pulled three malicious packages uploaded to the Arch User Repository (AUR) were used to install the CHAOS remote access trojan (RAT) on Linux devices. The packages were named "librewolf-fix-bin", "firefox-patch-bin", and "zen-browser-patched-bin," and were uploaded by the same user, "danikpapas," on July 16. The packages were removed two days later by the Arch Linux team after being flagged as malicious by the community. "On the 16th of July, at around 8pm UTC+2, a malicious AU

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AI's biggest impact on your workforce is still to come - 3 ways to avoid getting left behind

zdnet.com Mark Samuels 2026-01-13 15:28:00

Mihaela Rosu/Getty Images If you think AI has already irrevocably changed your role, think again. The full impact of AI on professional responsibilities will be felt in the months and years ahead. That's the opinion of Kirsty Roth, chief operations and technology officer at business information services specialist Thomson Reuters, who reflected on her firm's recently released research into the use of AI in modern enterprises. Also: Most AI projects are abandoned - 5 ways to ensure your data e

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Section 174 is reversed, mostly

news.ycombinator.com Gergely Orosz 2026-01-13 11:07:57

Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover Big Tech and startups through the lens of senior engineers and engineering leaders. Today, we get into one out of four topics from last week’s The Pulse issue, which full subscribers received seven days ago. If you’ve been forwarded this email, you can subscribe here. Since early 2024, a tax change in the US named “Section 174” has been plaguing tech companies in the country. It was introd

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ServiceNow’s acquisition of Moveworks is reportedly being reviewed over antitrust concerns

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2026-01-13 15:04:30

In Brief ServiceNow’s acquisition of enterprise AI startup Moveworks is reportedly drawing regulatory scrutiny. The acquisition is currently under review for antitrust by the U.S. Justice Department, according to Bloomberg, which cited sources familiar with the matter. The probe began in June, Bloomberg reported, and both companies have since received a “second request” calling for additional information that has to be provided before the deal can move forward. ServiceNow announced it was acq

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Apple has three products launching this fall that we’ve waited a long time for

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-01-13 20:58:20

Apple has a big fall launch season up ahead, with 15+ new products coming. But per various reports and rumors, there are three particular products launching that we’ve been waiting a long time for. #1: AirTag 2 AirTag first arrived over four years ago, and it hasn’t had a single hardware revision since then. But rumors about an AirTag 2 have been circulating for a long while. Based on recent reporting, it sounds like we’ll finally get a new AirTag this fall. New features are expected to incl

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Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-13 18:29:52

📢 Overview As of August 28th, 2025, the Bitnami public catalog will undergo the following changes: Community catalog Disable images generation for Debian-based images and gradually move existing ones to a Bitnami Legacy repository. A focused set of more hardened, more secure images. These free images are intended for development and are only available on the “latest” tag. You can find them at https://hub.docker.com/u/bitnamisecure. Helm charts and container images' open-source code will contin

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Trying to send a sticker in Steam Chat burned through a month of mobile data

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-13 18:44:48

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A Treatise for One Network – Anonymous National Deliberation [pdf]

I tried vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well

Your Recession FAQs Answered: 5 Tips to Help You Prepare, Not Panic

This Is the Commodore Comeback Fans Have Waited for—but the Odds Are Still Against It

New York’s bill banning One-Person Train Operation

I tried Vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well

Psychiatric Researchers Warn of Grim Psychological Risks for AI Users

Indie App Spotlight: ‘Nunch’ is an elegantly designed calorie and macro tracker

Bizarre "Infinity Galaxy" Could Hold the Secrets of Supermassive Black Holes

Scientists Say That Uranus Appears to Have a Girlfriend

After ditching Spotify for a week, I now understand why readers love YouTube Music

Corning avoids EU antitrust fine by ending exclusive deals with phone manufacturers

Popular npm linter packages hijacked via phishing to drop malware

North America's Oldest Known Pterosaur

I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer

The GameSir G8 Plus Is a Solid Mobile Controller, With One Big Caveat

The Art of Freelancing Like a Boss, According to the Folks Who Do It

Why It’s Taking LA So Long to Rebuild After the Wildfires

Nothing Phone 3 review: flagship-ish

The Bitter Lessons Behind Kimi Researcher's Taste

Microsoft Office is using an artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool

Bun adds pnpm-style isolated installation mode

Silo season 3 is coming: Here’s everything we know right now

Arch Linux pulls AUR packages that installed Chaos RAT malware

AI's biggest impact on your workforce is still to come - 3 ways to avoid getting left behind

Section 174 is reversed, mostly

ServiceNow’s acquisition of Moveworks is reportedly being reviewed over antitrust concerns

Apple has three products launching this fall that we’ve waited a long time for

Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts

Trying to send a sticker in Steam Chat burned through a month of mobile data

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