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Sage: An atomic bomb kicked off the biggest computing project in history

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-15 21:21:59

In addition to being vital for national security, SAGE was a proving ground for the US Department of Defense. It demonstrated the government’s ability to coordinate large-scale, diversified and highly sophisticated computer research and development. From his earliest conversations with MIT, IBM vice president of engineering John McPherson, who would become the company’s point person on SAGE, quickly recognized the magnitude of the data processing opportunity — the largest for IBM since it was c

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Hijacking Trust? Bitvise Under Fire for Controlling Domain of FOSS Project PuTTY

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-25 20:22:33

Hijacking Trust? Bitvise Under Fire for Controlling Domain of Open-Source Project PuTTY PupRed bigtech bitvise domainsnatcher putty ssh In the open-source world, trust, transparency, and community stewardship form the foundation of public credibility. But a recent case involving the domain name putty.org calls these values into question. The domain, long associated by users with PuTTY, the widely-used open-source SSH and Telnet client, is not controlled by the PuTTY project itself — but by a

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Cloudflare Starts Blocking Pirate Sites for UK Users

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-27 11:33:55

Cloudflare has become the first internet intermediary beyond local residential ISPs, to block access to pirate sites in the UK. Users attempting to access certain pirate sites are greeted with 'Error 451 - Unavailable for Legal Reasons'. In theory, ISP blocking should prevent UK users from even seeing this notice, but a combination of Cloudflare's blocking mechanism and choices made by some VPN users results in a piracy dead end. Internet service providers BT, Virgin Media, Sky, TalkTalk, EE, a

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DEWLine Museum – The Distant Early Warning Radar Line

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-28 11:28:08

Typical DEWLine Stations There were two types of stations, Main and Auxiliary. The sites were placed approximately 100 miles (160 KM) apart, along the 69th parallel about 200 miles inside the Arctic circle. Originally, there was a third type of station called an Intermediate site (I-Site), located midway between each of the Main and Aux sites, and would have been home for about 5-people. The 28 I-Sites proved ineffective and were abandoned in 1963.

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Postcard is now open source

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-14 03:38:02

In 2022, I launched Postcard as a personal website + newsletter. I had deleted social media, and wanted a way to stay in touch with friends via email. It powers my personal website, philipithomas.com, where I've published monthly "What I'm up to" every month since. Postcard's launch was well-received and thousands of people signed up. Today, many people continue to use and maintain their Postcard sites. Revenue is modest - I make dozens of dollars per month on it. But, I'm happy to maintain it

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TikTok lays off more employees working on TikTok Shop US

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-08-16 03:04:35

In Brief Despite all of the ads you’re getting for collagen supplements and electric scrub brushes, TikTok Shop US is apparently not doing so hot. Per a report from Bloomberg, TikTok has conducted its third round of layoffs for this team since April, but has not disclosed how many jobs were impacted. TikTok Shop US, the company’s e-commerce retailer, launched less than two years ago, selling a variety of products and offering creators commissions for their videos that trigger sales. While Shop

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Gmail could soon help you skim your entire inbox without opening any emails (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-22 01:13:12

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Gmail is working on a new feature that could display a one-line AI summary directly in your inbox in the main email list. Such brief, auto-updating synopses could help you quickly scan long conversations without opening them. When the feature rolls out, users will also be able to provide feedback on the one-line summaries with “Helpful” or “Not Helpful” votes. One of the most common use cases for AI is using it for summarizing content. AI summaries a

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Beyond the Hook: A Technical Deep Dive into Modern Phishing Methodologies

news.ycombinator.com Alexandre Nesic 2025-08-22 00:08:37

A technical exploration of modern phishing tactics, from basic HTML pages to advanced MFA-bypassing techniques, with analysis of infrastructure setup and delivery methods used by phishers in 2025. Introduction In 2025, phishing is still the most prevalent kind of cyber attack on the planet. Indeed, 1.2% of the global email traffic is phishing. That's 3.4 billion emails each day, but only a low number results in a compromise since "only" 3% of employees would click on a malicious link. However,

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Show HN: AGL a toy language that compiles to Go

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-18 14:36:38

AGL (AnotherGoLang) Description AGL is a language that compiles to Go. It uses Go's syntax, in fact its lexer/parser is a fork of the original Go implementation, with a few modifications The main differences are: Functions return only a single value. This makes it possible to use types like Option[T] and Result[T] , and to support automatic error propagation via an operator. and , and to support automatic error propagation via an operator. To make returning multiple values easy, a Tuple ty

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Typr – TUI typing test with a word selection algorithm inspired by keybr

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-21 12:27:03

typr TUI typing test with a word selection algorithm inspired by keybr Features Word selection algorithm to optimize your typing speed inspired by keybr weighted by: Accuracy with the letter Frequency of the letter in the English language Speed at which you type the letter A cool TUI with curses Stores your data in a JSON file Installation Windows git clone https://github.com/Sakura-sx/typr.git cd typr pip install -r requirements.txt python3 main.py Linux git clone https://github.com/S

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The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine

news.ycombinator.com Kaushik Patowary 2025-08-26 17:56:14

In the late 19th century, a rare and highly unusual neuropsychiatric condition was observed among a group of French-Canadian lumberjacks living in the Moosehead Lake region of northern Maine. Those affected exhibited an extreme and exaggerated startle reflex. When startled by a sudden movement or loud noise, they reacted with dramatic involuntary responses, such as leaping into the air, screaming, repeating words, or instantly obeying shouted commands. It was reported that the "jumpers" were pri

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Biocide overdose blunder suspected in A321 dual-engine incident

news.ycombinator.com David Kaminski-Morrow 2025-08-29 11:05:21

UK investigators probing a serious dual engine problem on a departing Airbus A321 have discovered its fuel system had previously been overdosed with biocide, after a maintenance engineer misunderstood a measurement term. The engineer was confused by the term ‘ppm’ – meaning ‘parts per million’ – while conducting a biocidal shock treatment of the Titan Airways A321’s fuel tanks, as the jet neared the end of a month-long maintenance check. While the anti-contamination treatment required a biocid

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The Great Egg Heist

news.ycombinator.com Jenn Abelson 2025-08-30 06:44:57

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. “I’d like to report a crime,” said the man who called a Maryland sheriff’s office on April 16. There was a theft, he explained, involving a freight truck. “So they stole the whole freight?” a dispatcher asked. “Only took the cargo,” the man answered. It was valued, he said, at about $100,000. The dispatcher asked what was stolen. The caller hesitated. “They took … basically … they took a whole trailer f

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Show HN: SecureBuild – Zero-CVE Images That Pay OSS Projects

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-03 05:04:31

Revenue Sharing We share subscription revenue with your project maintainers or foundation, creating a sustainable funding source for your open source work. 70% of revenue goes to maintainers, while 30% goes to SecureBuild.

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Finding Dead Websites

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-04 06:03:01

As some of the work planned for Marginalia Search this year has been progressing a bit faster than anticipated, there was time to implement an unplanned change. This post details the implementation of a system for detecting when servers are online, to avoid serving dead links and improve data quality, and for detecting when websites have significant changes including ownership transfers and parking. Table Of Contents Feature Rationale Availability detection is useful not just for filtering o

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Russell T Davies Is Remaining Vague About the Future of ‘Doctor Who’

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-09-07 07:57:11

As Doctor Who‘s ongoing future remains in flux (no, not that flux), fans remain waiting to hear for any sign that news on the security of that future is on the way. Well, in its latest development, there’s good news and bad news: but in the middle of that is the fact that all of this still remains so vague that you’re free to take it however you want. Writing in the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine in his monthly production column (via Cultbox), showrunner Russell T Davies confirmed that he

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Best Internet Providers in Maine

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-09 02:41:00

What is the best internet provider in Maine? CNET picks Fidium Fiber as the best internet provider in Maine for most, thanks to its fast speeds, broad fiber coverage and affordable pricing. It offers plans up to 2,000Mbps for $90 a month and has the cheapest entry-level option in the state at $30 for 100Mbps. Plus, there are no contracts, equipment fees or data caps to worry about. If Fidium isn’t available at your address, GoNetspeed is another fiber provider worth considering. You’ll also fi

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New Veeam RCE flaw lets domain users hack backup servers

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-10 05:42:48

Veeam has released security updates today to fix several Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) flaws, including a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability. Tracked as CVE-2025-23121, this security flaw was reported by security researchers at watchTowr and CodeWhite, and it only impacts domain-joined installations. As Veeam explained in a Tuesday security advisory, the vulnerability can be exploited by authenticated domain users in low-complexity attacks to gain code execution remotely on

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Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix

news.ycombinator.com Netflix Technology Blog 2025-09-13 06:56:52

Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix Netflix Technology Blog Follow 15 min read · 2 days ago 2 days ago -- 8 Listen Share By Alex Hutter, Alexandre Bertails, Claire Wang, Haoyuan He, Kishore Banala, Peter Royal, Shervin Afshar As Netflix’s offerings grow — across films, series, games, live events, and ads — so does the complexity of the systems that support it. Core business concepts like ‘actor’ or ‘movie’ are modeled in many places: in our Enterprise G

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Trump administration throws wrench into $42 billion broadband rollout

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-09-15 20:15:00

The big picture: In a sudden policy shift, the Trump administration has thrown a wrench into the nation's largest broadband expansion effort, forcing states to overhaul plans to distribute $42 billion in federal funding aimed at closing the digital divide. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick has put the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program on pause, unveiling sweeping new rules last week that require states to rethink how they allocate grants to Internet service providers. T

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“Two years of work in two months”: States cope with Trump broadband overhaul

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-16 23:43:46

The Trump administration has upended plans that state governments made to distribute $42 billion in federal broadband funding, forcing state officials to scrap much of the preparation work they did over the previous couple of years. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick essentially put the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program on hold earlier this year and last week announced details of a rules overhaul that requires states to change how they distribute money to Internet servic

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Maingear launches Ultima 18 gaming laptop with ‘extreme performance’

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-09-17 20:30:00

Maingear, a maker of high-end gaming PCs, unveiled its most powerful laptop to date, the 18-inch Ultima 18 with desktop-like specs. Developed in collaboration with Clevo, Ultima 18 aims to offer desktop-level specs in a gaming laptop — such as a 4K@200Hz G-Sync display, Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processor, and up to an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 mobile GPU, all inside a chassis outfitted with metal lid and palm rest. Designed for elite gamers and creators who demand top-tier performance without co

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There's a Steven Universe sequel series in the works at Prime Video

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-18 00:42:11

It's been five years since the Steven Universe saga ended, via a final season and movie that took the story into the future. Now, it's coming back, according to a report by Deadline . Prime Video is working on a sequel series, with franchise creator Rebecca Sugar in tow as an executive producer (and hopefully as a songwriter.) This doesn't look to be a straight sequel series, in that the focus is shifting away from Steven, the Crystal Gems and Beach City. Instead, the tentatively-titled Steven

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Microsoft fixes unreachable Windows Server domain controllers

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-17 21:21:03

Microsoft has resolved a known issue that caused some Windows Server 2025 domain controllers to become unreachable after a restart and triggered app or service failures. As Redmond explained when it acknowledged the bug in April, servers loading the standard firewall profile instead of the domain firewall one after rebooting will have issues managing network traffic correctly. Because of this issue, services and applications running on impacted domain controller servers or remote devices may f

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Latest Tech News

Sage: An atomic bomb kicked off the biggest computing project in history

Hijacking Trust? Bitvise Under Fire for Controlling Domain of FOSS Project PuTTY

Cloudflare Starts Blocking Pirate Sites for UK Users

DEWLine Museum – The Distant Early Warning Radar Line

Postcard is now open source

TikTok lays off more employees working on TikTok Shop US

Gmail could soon help you skim your entire inbox without opening any emails (APK teardown)

Beyond the Hook: A Technical Deep Dive into Modern Phishing Methodologies

Show HN: AGL a toy language that compiles to Go

Typr – TUI typing test with a word selection algorithm inspired by keybr

The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine

Biocide overdose blunder suspected in A321 dual-engine incident

The Great Egg Heist

Show HN: SecureBuild – Zero-CVE Images That Pay OSS Projects

Finding Dead Websites

Russell T Davies Is Remaining Vague About the Future of ‘Doctor Who’

Best Internet Providers in Maine

New Veeam RCE flaw lets domain users hack backup servers

Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix

Trump administration throws wrench into $42 billion broadband rollout

“Two years of work in two months”: States cope with Trump broadband overhaul

Maingear launches Ultima 18 gaming laptop with ‘extreme performance’

There's a Steven Universe sequel series in the works at Prime Video

Microsoft fixes unreachable Windows Server domain controllers

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