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Leatherman (vagabond)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-15 11:17:03

American vagabond of unknown and disputed identity The Leatherman ( c. 1839–1889) was a vagabond famous for his handmade leather suit of clothes who traveled through the northeastern United States on a regular circuit between the Connecticut River and the Hudson River from roughly 1857 to 1889. Of unknown origin, he was thought to be French-Canadian because of his fluency in the French language, his "broken English", and the French-language prayer book found on his person after his death. His i

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After selling to Spotify, Anchor’s co-founders are back with Oboe, an AI-powered app for learning

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-04 13:27:55

The co-founders who sold their last startup Anchor to Spotify are launching their next project: Oboe, an AI-powered educational app that enables anyone to create lightweight, flexible learning courses on nearly any topic they choose, simply by entering a prompt. These courses can span a variety of verticals, including topics like science, history, foreign language, news, pop culture, preparing for life changes, and more. At launch, Oboe — a name inspired by the root of the Japanese word meaning

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FBI says China’s Salt Typhoon hacked at least 200 US companies

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-10-26 09:39:40

A Chinese-backed hacking campaign that previously hacked into nine U.S. telecommunication and internet providers is now confirmed to have hacked at least 200 American companies, according to the FBI’s top cyber chief. FBI Assistant Director Brett Leatherman told The Washington Post that the hackers, dubbed Salt Typhoon, also broke into companies in 80 countries, revealing for the first time the global scale of the Chinese spying campaign. Leatherman didn’t name the hacked companies. AT&T, Veri

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Stop buying cheap multitools - here's the one I recommend instead

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-12-30 15:00:17

A good multitool can be a reliable companion for decades (as long as you don't lose it!). Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET I like having a good multitool close at hand and at all times. While they can't replace a proper toolkit, I don't fancy carrying a full toolkit with me when I'm out and about. Many of my readers are like me, often finding themselves doing random and unplanned DIY tasks throughout the day, so having a portable toolkit that can handle the basics is essential. Also: Storms and ba

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How Social Media Is Fueling Gen Z’s Sex Recession

wired.com Manisha Krishnan 2026-01-14 23:00:00

As a teenager growing up in Seattle, Carter Sherman was “pathologically obsessed” with the fact that she was still a virgin. In her new book The Second Coming: Sex and the Next Generation's Fight Over Its Future, which chronicles Gen Z’s sex lives (or lack thereof), Sherman describes having a meltdown after one of her best friends has sex with their classmate, making her feel left behind. “I fully broke down crying in front of my mom,” she tells me when I bring up the incident. She cried harde

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Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-20 06:45:32

Samuel Herman and Alexander Baciu never liked using Comcast's cable broadband. Now, the residents of Saline, Michigan, operate a fiber Internet service provider that competes against Comcast in their neighborhoods and has ambitions to expand. "All throughout my life pretty much, I've had to deal with Xfinity's bullcrap, them not being able to handle the speeds that we need," Herman told Ars. "I lived in a house of 10. I have seven other brothers and sisters, and there's 10 of us in total with m

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Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-20 22:43:35

Samuel Herman and Alexander Baciu never liked using Comcast's cable broadband. Now, the residents of Saline, Michigan, operate a fiber Internet service provider that competes against Comcast in their neighborhoods and has ambitions to expand. "All throughout my life pretty much, I've had to deal with Xfinity's bullcrap, them not being able to handle the speeds that we need," Herman told Ars. "I lived in a house of 10. I have seven other brothers and sisters, and there's 10 of us in total with m

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Finally, a premium multitool that doesn't feel like I'm getting scammed - and it's on sale now

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2026-01-27 17:58:11

A good multitool can be a reliable companion for decades (as long as you don't lose it!). Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET I like having a good multitool close at hand and at all times. While they can't replace a proper toolkit, I don't fancy carrying a full toolkit with me when I'm out and about. Many of my readers are like me, often finding themselves doing random and unplanned DIY tasks throughout the day, so having a portable toolkit that can handle the basics is essential. Also: Storms and ba

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Finally, a premium multitool that doesn't feel like I'm getting scammed

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2026-02-20 00:30:18

A good multitool can be a reliable companion for decades (as long as you don't lose it!). Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET I like having a good multitool close at hand and at all times. While they can't replace a proper toolkit, I don't fancy carrying a full toolkit with me when I'm out and about. Many of my readers are like me, often finding themselves doing random and unplanned DIY tasks throughout the day, so having a portable toolkit that can handle the basics is essential. Also: Storms and ba

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“My Malformed Bones” – Harry Crews’s Counterlives

news.ycombinator.com Charlie Lee 2026-02-16 08:50:56

Adjust Share One night in early 1941, when Harry Crews was five years old, his father nearly killed his mother with a twelve-gauge shotgun. Looking back almost four decades later, Crews didn’t find that fact particularly exceptional. This was Bacon County, Georgia, where in those days “it was not unusual for a man to shoot at his wife,” as he wrote in his memoir A Childhood: The Biography of a Place. “It was only unusual if he hit her.” Crews and his older brother heard the shot, which blew the

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"My Malformed Bones" Harry Crews's Counterlives

news.ycombinator.com Charlie Lee 2026-02-16 14:50:56

Adjust Share One night in early 1941, when Harry Crews was five years old, his father nearly killed his mother with a twelve-gauge shotgun. Looking back almost four decades later, Crews didn’t find that fact particularly exceptional. This was Bacon County, Georgia, where in those days “it was not unusual for a man to shoot at his wife,” as he wrote in his memoir A Childhood: The Biography of a Place. “It was only unusual if he hit her.” Crews and his older brother heard the shot, which blew the

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Leatherman (vagabond)

After selling to Spotify, Anchor’s co-founders are back with Oboe, an AI-powered app for learning

FBI says China’s Salt Typhoon hacked at least 200 US companies

Stop buying cheap multitools - here's the one I recommend instead

How Social Media Is Fueling Gen Z’s Sex Recession

Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP

Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP

Finally, a premium multitool that doesn't feel like I'm getting scammed - and it's on sale now

Finally, a premium multitool that doesn't feel like I'm getting scammed

“My Malformed Bones” – Harry Crews’s Counterlives

"My Malformed Bones" Harry Crews's Counterlives

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