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What Does Palantir Actually Do?

wired.com Caroline Haskins 2025-12-08 04:00:00

Palantir is arguably one of the most notorious corporations in contemporary America. Cofounded by libertarian tech billionaire Peter Thiel, the software firm's work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the US Department of Defense, and the Israeli military has sparked numerous protests in multiple countries. Palantir has been so infamous for so long that, for some people, its name has become a cultural shorthand for dystopian surveillance. But a number of former Palantir employees tell WIR

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The hidden cost of living in Mark Zuckerberg’s $110M compound

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-12-07 09:59:20

In Brief Mark Zuckerberg has spent 14 years gobbling up his leafy Palo Alto neighborhood, according to a New York Times report that details how the Meta CEO has purchased 11 properties for over $110 million to create his own personal fiefdom in Crescent Park. The piecemeal compound features a main residence, guest homes, manicured gardens, and a pickleball court — even a pool with a movable hydrofloor that can turn the swimming area into a dance floor. The pièce de résistance: a seven-foot sta

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TCP Client Self-Connect (2013)

news.ycombinator.com Stjepan Groš 2025-12-07 21:33:09

Random notes of what's on my mind. Additional materials you'll find on my homepage.

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Dropbox announces new gen server hardware for higher efficiency and scalability

news.ycombinator.com Eric Shobe 2025-12-04 20:14:33

Fourteen years ago, Dropbox took its first steps toward building its own hardware infrastructure—and as our product and user base has grown, so has our infrastructure. What started with just a handful of servers has evolved into one of the largest custom-built storage systems in the world. We've scaled from a few dozen machines to tens of thousands of servers with millions of drives. That evolution didn’t happen by accident. It took years of iteration, close collaboration with suppliers, and a p

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Bouncing on trampolines to run eBPF programs

news.ycombinator.com View All Posts Alexis Lothoré 2025-12-03 11:37:29

This blog post is the second installment in our eBPF blog post series, following our blog post about eBPF selftests. As eBP F is more and more used in the industry, eBPF kernel developers give considerable attention to eBPF performance: some standard use cases like system monitoring involve hundreds of eBPF programs attached to events triggered at high frequencies. It is then paramount to keep eBPF programs execution overhead as low as possible. This blog post aims to shed some light on an inte

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Basic Social Skills Guide

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-08 03:19:01

The basic guide covers the core concepts of social interaction. It contains three sections made up of seventeen in-depth lessons, and it's 100% free. If you find the basic guide helpful, please share it with your friends or your favorite social skills forum. Also, don't forget to check out the member's guide once you finish reading the basic guide. Good luck, and enjoy improving your social skills! Think of Foundations as the introduction to the guide. It explains how to get the most out of th

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 11, #322

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-08 02:32:31

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition wasn't terribly tough. It helps to be a fan of college football rivalry games, and of a certain legendary baseball player who sadly died young. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl

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Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China chip sales revenues to the U.S. government, FT reports

cnbc.com Erin Doherty 2025-12-08 00:20:44

A smartphone with a displayed AMD logo is placed on a computer motherboard in this illustration taken March 6, 2023. Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices have agreed to give the U.S. government a share of revenues from certain chips sold in China, the Financial Times reported, in an unprecedented arrangement with the White House. In exchange for 15% of revenues from the chip sales, the two chipmakers will receive export licenses to sell Nvidia's H20 and AMD's MI308 chips in China, according to th

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Dark Rumors Swirl as Boar's Head Plans to Reopen Notoriously Disgusting Meat Processing Plant

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-07 14:00:43

Over a year after a deadly bacterial outbreak forced a Boar's Head deli meat factory in Virginia to shutter indefinitely, the facility is reportedly set to reopen — but that doesn't mean they've cleaned up their act. Starting in May of last year, a number of people throughout the middle- and eastern-US began falling ill with symptoms eerily similar to the flu. Following several hospitalizations and two deaths traced to the same source, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) officially launched a

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Conversations remotely detected from cell phone vibrations, researchers report

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 20:14:38

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — An emerging form of surveillance, “wireless-tapping,” explores the possibility of remotely deciphering conversations from the tiny vibrations produced by a cell phone’s earpiece. With the goal of protecting users’ privacy from potential bad actors, a team of computer science researchers at Penn State demonstrated that transcriptions of phone calls can be generated from radar measurements taken up to three meters, or about 10 feet, from a phone. While accuracy remains limit

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ECScape: Understanding IAM Privilege Boundaries in Amazon ECS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 05:16:00

This post is Part 2 of our educational series on Amazon ECS security. In Part 1 – Under the Hood of Amazon ECS on EC2, we explored how the ECS agent, IAM roles and the ECS control plane provide credentials to tasks. Here we’ll demonstrate how those mechanisms can lead to a known risk when tasks with different privilege levels share the same EC2 host. This cross-task credential exposure highlights the inherent risks of relying on per-task IAM scoping and task execution boundaries when workloads s

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Type (YC W23) is hiring a founding engineer to build an AI-native doc editor

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 18:19:25

About Type and the Role Type is an AI-native document editor. Our mission is to help people communicate confidently. We believe that writing is and will always be the backbone of clear thinking and effective communication, especially in the AI era. Tools like Type free writers up to do more high-level thinking – exploring more ideas before coming to a conclusion, testing lots of approaches to expressing a message, and arguing with the AI about the oxford comma. We're backed by Y Combinator a

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PHP compile time generics: yay or nay?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 21:49:17

One of the most sought-after features for PHP is Generics: The ability to have a type that takes another type as a parameter. It's a feature found in most compiled languages by now, but implementing generics in an interpreted language like PHP, where all the type checking would have to be done at runtime, has always proven Really Really Hard(tm), Really Really Slow(tm), or both. But, experimentation by the PHP Foundation's dev team suggests we may be able to get 80% of the benefit for 20% of th

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Fight Chat Control

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 17:50:34

You Will Be Impacted Every photo, every message, every file you send will be automatically scanned—without your consent or suspicion. This is not about catching criminals. It is mass surveillance imposed on all 450 million citizens of the European Union. 📱 Mass Surveillance Every private message, photo, and file scanned automatically: no suspicion required, no exceptions*, even encrypted communications. 🔓️ Breaking Encryption Weakening or breaking end-to-end encryption exposes everyone’s commu

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The Real Reason You Haven’t Been Replaced by AI Yet

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-12-08 00:44:46

It’s the ticking time bomb in the global economy, and every CEO knows it: AI is already powerful enough to replace millions of jobs. So why haven’t the mass layoffs begun? The answer has little to do with technology and everything to do with fear. Corporate leaders are quietly waiting to see who will be the first to pull the trigger. My discussions about Generative AI reveal a stark generational divide. Most people under 35 are convinced that AI is a reality, not a gimmick, and that the displac

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 11, #792

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-07 22:00:05

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle is a tough one. I grabbed on to "chocolate" and ran it through every connection I could with the other words, so I landed the purple category first, which is rare. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connec

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The hidden cost of living amid Mark Zuckerberg’s $110M compound

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-12-07 21:59:20

In Brief Mark Zuckerberg has spent 14 years gobbling up his leafy Palo Alto neighborhood, according to a New York Times report detailing how the Meta CEO has purchased 11 properties for over $110 million to create his own personal fiefdom in Crescent Park. The piecemeal compound features a main residence, guest homes, manicured gardens, and a pickleball court — even a pool with a movable hydrofloor that can turn the swimming area into a dance floor. The pièce de résistance: a seven-foot statue

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AI Designs Super Safe Sub for Billionaires to Ride Into the Depths of the Ocean

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-07 16:45:47

Billionaires have, for a few years now, been insisting that artificial intelligence is clever enough to take huge swaths of jobs while curing disease and solving the energy crisis. As such, we presume that the loudest among them will be first in line to test out a super-safe submersible created by AI to avoid the sort of snafus that resulted in the Titan sub's tragic implosion, which killed its creator and his four well-heeled friends while they were exploring the wreckage of another downed ves

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LHC's New Chip Tackles Radiation Challenges

news.ycombinator.com Michelle Hampson 2025-12-07 21:33:26

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Deep in the belly of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), about 400 million particle collisions are happening in a single second. But as the LHC undergoes upgrades and becomes the High Luminosity-LHC, the number of collisions will increase to an astounding ~1.5 billion collisions or more per second. Capturing all these events via detectors and analyzing the staggering amount of data created from each ex

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Writing simple tab-completions for Bash and Zsh

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 15:50:25

The last quality of life feature we will add is the ability to show completion descriptions when tabbing on a complete word: $ foo apple<TAB> For example, the Mill build tool does this so if you’re not sure what a flag or command does, you can press <TAB> on it to see more details: Tab-completion is a common way to explore unfamiliar APIs, and just because someone finished writing a flat or command doesn’t mean they aren’t curious about what it does! But while Zsh tab-completion displays desc

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Inside OS/2 (1987)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 20:15:33

by Vaughn Vernon from the December 1987 issue of Computer Language OS/2, Microsoft’s latest addition to its operating system line, could well become the operating system of the next decade for Intel 80286/80386 microcomputers. Its multitasking capabilities, full-featured application programming interface (API), and extendability to future hardware almost guarantee its success. Microsoft sees microcomputing as a platform for office automation hardware and software: The office of the future (re

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The Merlin Bird ID App Is Better Than Meditation, and It's Not Just for Birders

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-07 16:34:03

I've done everything I can think of to improve my mindfulness. I've tried countless meditation apps and breathing exercises to stay in the present, and I'm always working on improving my mental health. What helps me stay grounded has nothing to do with any of that. It's an app for identifying birds. Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Merlin Bird ID launched in 2014 to help people identify the birds they see and hear. Thanks to eBird, the world's largest database of bird sounds and photos based on 80

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This New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands With the Same Side Up

wired.com Elise Cutts 2025-12-07 17:00:00

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 360 BC, Plato envisioned the cosmos as an arrangement of five geometric shapes: flat-sided solids called polyhedra. These immediately became important objects of mathematical study. So it might be surprising that, millennia later, mysteries still surround even the simplest shape in Plato’s polyhedral universe: the tetrahedron, which has just four triangular faces. One major open problem, for instance, asks how densely you can p

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After researchers unmasked a prolific SMS scammer, a new operation has emerged in its wake

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-12-07 18:00:00

If you, like practically anyone else with a cell phone in the U.S. and beyond, have received a scam text message about an unpaid toll or undelivered mail item, there’s a good chance you have been targeted by a prolific scamming operation. The scam isn’t particularly complex, but it has been highly effective. By sending spam text messages that look like genuine notifications for popular services, from postal deliveries to local government programs, unsuspecting victims click a link that loads a

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I've tested every iPad sold by Apple right now - here's the model I recommend most

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-12-07 22:30:18

ZDNET's key takeaways The 11th-generation iPad 11th Generation normally retails for $349. The upgraded iPad has double the base storage as the previous generation, more RAM, and an upgraded processor in the A16 Bionic chip. However, it still isn't compatible with Apple Intelligence and doesn't support the Apple Pencil Pro. $299 at Amazon $349 at Apple $299 at Best Buy more buying choices It's not every day that a tech giant offers a new, improved product for an equal or lesser price than its

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Writing Your Own Simple Tab-Completions for Bash and Zsh

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 21:50:25

The last quality of life feature we will add is the ability to show completion descriptions when tabbing on a complete word: $ foo apple<TAB> For example, the Mill build tool does this so if you’re not sure what a flag or command does, you can press <TAB> on it to see more details: Tab-completion is a common way to explore unfamiliar APIs, and just because someone finished writing a flat or command doesn’t mean they aren’t curious about what it does! But while Zsh tab-completion displays desc

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How to Protect Yourself From Portable Point-of-Sale Scams

wired.com Diego Barbera 2025-12-07 22:00:00

Considering the widespread use of contactless payment systems, it's no surprise that portable point-of-sale thefts are making a comeback. This type of robbery is enjoying a new wave of popularity, and is much harder to spot given how quickly those transactions take place. But how much risk is there, really? And how can you protect yourself from POS scams? The Case of Sorrento A recent example of POS theft happened recently in Italy, when topic exploded again a few days ago when the news agency

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CarPlay connection issues? This might explain why

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-07 15:19:16

If your Apple CarPlay connection randomly drops out while driving, the cause might not be your iPhone, cable, or car. Radio interference, of all things, could be the cause of your troubles. An Axios report from this year details a peculiar phenomenon in Boston, where drivers lose their CarPlay or Android Auto connection at the exact same spots. Similar “dead zones” are likely in other cities, though they may go unreported. CarPlay units don’t handle GPS navigation on their own. Instead, they

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GPTs and Feeling Left Behind

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 15:07:58

Every time that I read some blog post about “coding with AI”, or how cool new models write entire libraries by themselves, I feel like I’m lagging behind, like I’m missing out on some big, useful tool, and my skills are about to become obsolete very soon. So I try different models and tools, and it’s all incredibly underwhelming. It’s honestly hard to believe that people get work done using these tools, because I can spend a few hours on them (without getting even close to finishing the task at

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R0ML's Ratio

news.ycombinator.com Glyph Lefkowitz 2025-12-07 02:21:31

My father, also known as “R0ML” once described a methodology for evaluating volume purchases that I think needs to be more popular. If you are a hardcore fan, you might know that he has already described this concept publicly in a talk at OSCON in 2005, among other places, but it has never found its way to the public Internet, so I’m giving it a home here, and in the process, appropriating some of his words. Let’s say you’re running a circus. The circus has many clowns. Ten thousand clowns, to

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What Does Palantir Actually Do?

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TCP Client Self-Connect (2013)

Dropbox announces new gen server hardware for higher efficiency and scalability

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 11, #322

Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China chip sales revenues to the U.S. government, FT reports

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Conversations remotely detected from cell phone vibrations, researchers report

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The Real Reason You Haven’t Been Replaced by AI Yet

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 11, #792

The hidden cost of living amid Mark Zuckerberg’s $110M compound

AI Designs Super Safe Sub for Billionaires to Ride Into the Depths of the Ocean

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Writing simple tab-completions for Bash and Zsh

Inside OS/2 (1987)

The Merlin Bird ID App Is Better Than Meditation, and It's Not Just for Birders

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CarPlay connection issues? This might explain why

GPTs and Feeling Left Behind

R0ML's Ratio

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