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• Post #4499520

  OpenAI's Only Ethicist Reportedly Left Last Month L: https://gizmodo.com/openais-only-ethicist-reportedly-left-last-month-she-wasnt-replaced-2000796883 C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257160 posted on 2026.08.11 at 08:23:07 (c=1, p=3)

• Post #4478053

  Taylor Farms recalls salsa and guacamole over salmonella risk L: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/09/taylor-farms-recalls-salsa-and-guacamole-over-salmonella-risk.html C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238509 posted on 2026.08.09 at 22:13:54 (c=0, p=5)

• Post #4434111

  Meta's Ray-Bans are getting banned from UK pubs, and the EU is circling L: https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-ray-ban-smart-glasses-eu-uk-venue-bans-privacy C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49207786 posted on 2026.08.07 at 05:09:34 (c=2, p=5)

• Post #4372782

  The US is not a democracy but an oligarchy, study concludes (2014) L: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2014/04/16/The-US-is-not-a-democracy-but-an-oligarchy-study-concludes/2761397680051/ C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166254 posted on 2026.08.04 at 05:40:03 (c=2, p=5)

• Post #4360723

  A Chinese LLM attacked our lab, so we made it work for us L: https://jesta.ai/blog/darkreasoning C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158479 posted on 2026.08.03 at 13:02:42 (c=0, p=3)

• Post #4354323

  Xkcd: Earth Temperature Timeline L: https://xkcd.com/1732/ C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49154304 posted on 2026.08.03 at 07:25:12 (c=1, p=16)

• Post #4349652

  Show HN: Make your Framework 12 sound like a creaky door L: https://github.com/ArcaEge/creakwork12 C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49148048 posted on 2026.08.02 at 16:33:01 (c=0, p=3)

• Post #4335903

  The House of Ellison Is on the Brink L: https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-house-of-ellison-is-on-the-brink C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49141636 posted on 2026.08.02 at 02:17:41 (c=1, p=4)

• Post #4278354

  AI Firms Are Buying Up Old Books, Then Scanning and Destroying Them L: https://novaramedia.com/2026/07/29/ai-firms-are-buying-up-old-books-then-scanning-and-destroying-them/ C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49121597 posted on 2026.07.31 at 07:00:37 (c=1, p=3)

• Post #4248940

  US Government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference L: https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/us-government-map-africa-mislabels-every-country-global-conference-2026-07-30/ C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112554 posted on 2026.07.30 at 12:50:25 (c=0, p=7)

• Post #4209898

  Google shuts down Nobel Prize winning AlphaFold L: https://www.engadget.com/2225849/google-shuts-down-alphafold/ C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098375 posted on 2026.07.29 at 10:55:32 (c=0, p=10)

• Post #4178774

  American Airlines flights grounded nationwide due to IT outage: FAA L: https://abcnews.com/US/american-airlines-flights-grounded-nationwide-due-outage-faa/story?id=135172101 C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49091320 posted on 2026.07.28 at 19:19:40 (c=1, p=6)

• Post #4147453

  Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32/35 students cheating with AI L: https://www.techspot.com/news/113243-professor-invisible-prompt-trap-catches-32-students-cheating.html C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49074680 posted on 2026.07.27 at 15:46:05 (c=0, p=3)

• Post #4115772

  Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home L: https://www.seti.org/news/alien-world-chemistry-found-inside-meteorite/ C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49053708 posted on 2026.07.25 at 21:35:03 (c=0, p=3)

• Post #4115751

  Humans Haven't Stopped Evolving L: https://www.harvardmagazine.com/research/harvard-human-evolution-genes-selective-pressure C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49054307 posted on 2026.07.25 at 23:09:46 (c=0, p=3)

• Post #4100868

  General Resolution: LLM Usage in Debian L: https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002 C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49050859 posted on 2026.07.25 at 15:44:39 (c=0, p=4)

• Post #4099770

  The growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras L: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/25/flock-surveillance-cameras C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49050538 posted on 2026.07.25 at 15:02:17 (c=0, p=7)

• Post #4095224

  A system prompt to get AI to stop pretending to be human L: https://swiftrocks.com/a-system-prompt-to-get-ai-to-stop-pretending-to-be-human C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49049304 posted on 2026.07.25 at 13:01:05 (c=2, p=4)

• Post #4073818

  A Year On: The DOGE Disaster L: https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-the-doge-disaster C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48950667 posted on 2026.07.17 at 14:31:07 (c=0, p=4)

• Post #4062882

  IRGC Claims It Destroyed Amazon's Bahrain Data Center L: https://houseofsaud.com/irgc-claims-destroyed-amazon-bahrain-data-center/ C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033240 posted on 2026.07.24 at 05:52:58 (c=0, p=5)

• Post #4045306

  New rental trend? A $200 'work-from-home fee' tacked on to Bay Area lease L: https://abc7news.com/post/new-rental-trend-200-work-home-fee-tacked-bay-area-lease/19547108/ C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49027039 posted on 2026.07.23 at 15:45:18 (c=1, p=5)

• Post #4037671

  OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line L: https://www.axios.com/2026/07/22/openai-anthropic-open-models-trump-china C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49020868 posted on 2026.07.23 at 09:00:03 (c=1, p=4)

• Post #4028362

  Mechanical light bulb from 1675 [video] L: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y-9GbsS9Fg C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48913145 posted on 2026.07.14 at 17:26:36 (c=1, p=8)

• Post #4028197

  'The Odyssey' Proves It: Audiences Want Movies Made the Hard Way L: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/odyssey-box-office-2026-practical-effects-1236652219/ C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010980 posted on 2026.07.22 at 14:08:25 (c=1, p=3)

• Post #4024038

  RIP tech journalist John C. Dvorak (1946–2026) L: https://www.facebook.com/aric.mackey/posts/john-c-dvorak-19462026john-c-dvorak-a-pioneering-technology-journalist-podcaster/10242625420121221/ C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49011763 posted on 2026.07.22 at 15:01:17 (c=2, p=7)

• Post #4010381

  Codeberg bans vibe coded projects L: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253#issuecomment-19820434 C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49003386 posted on 2026.07.22 at 04:17:26 (c=3, p=7)

• Post #3998840

  Furtex: Post-exploitation, rootkit and evasion research toolkit for Linux L: https://github.com/MatheuZSecurity/Furtex C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48999323 posted on 2026.07.21 at 18:39:58 (c=1, p=3)

• Post #3998839

  An Engineer's Guide to USB Type-C [pdf] L: https://www.ti.com/lit/eb/slyy228/slyy228.pdf C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48999376 posted on 2026.07.21 at 18:45:27 (c=0, p=3)

• Post #3969390

  Ben Thompson is wrong: US frontier labs are right to be panicking L: https://larrysalibra.com/ben-thompson-is-wrong-us-frontier-labs-are-right-to-be-panicking/ C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982061 posted on 2026.07.20 at 13:35:19 (c=1, p=14)

• Post #3966998

  The AI hype is a mass psychosis echo chamber of incompetent individuals L: https://aob2f.substack.com/p/the-ai-hype-is-a-mass-psychosis-echo C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981857 posted on 2026.07.20 at 13:22:13 (c=1, p=8)