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NYT op-ed: 'Democracy dies in H.R.' — but article body is unavailable
The submission points to a New York Times opinion piece headlined 'Actually, democracy dies in H.R.,' surfaced on Hacker News. The headline riffs on the Washing
Open-source tool strips SynthID, C2PA, and Gemini watermarks from AI images
A new Python CLI called remove-ai-watermarks bundles techniques for erasing both visible and invisible provenance markers from images produced by Gemini, DALL-E
OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID to Watermark AI-Generated Images
OpenAI is integrating Google DeepMind's SynthID watermarking technology into its image generation pipeline, embedding imperceptible signals into AI-produced ima
OpenAI model disproves long-standing discrete geometry conjecture
An OpenAI model has produced a counterexample that falsifies a central conjecture in discrete geometry, a branch of mathematics concerned with combinatorial pro
OpenBSD 7.9 lands with SpacemiT K1 RISC-V support and heterogeneous CPU scheduling
OpenBSD 7.9 brings broad platform work alongside meaningful kernel changes. RISC-V gets first-class support for the SpacemiT K1 SoC, including a new clock/reset
Oxford study links right-hand dominance to the evolution of bipedal walking
Researchers at Oxford propose that the overwhelming prevalence of right-handedness in humans traces back to the shift to walking upright. As hominins moved onto
Railway Hit by 8-Hour Outage After Google Cloud Wrongly Suspended Its Account
On May 19, 2026, Google Cloud's automated systems incorrectly suspended Railway's production account, knocking out the platform's API, dashboard, control plane,
Railway outage exposes lingering GCP dependency despite bare-metal migration
Railway's status page on May 19, 2026 shows a widespread degradation across nearly every customer-facing surface, with most services dropping to roughly 98.85%
Strawberry Rendered as Interactive Gaussian Splat on SuperSplat
A Show HN post links to a Gaussian splat scene of a strawberry hosted on SuperSplat, a browser-based platform for viewing and editing 3D Gaussian splat captures
Tesla's Texas lithium refinery accused of discharging carcinogens into public ditch
Drainage workers in Nueces County, Texas stumbled onto an unmarked pipe in January 2026 that turned out to belong to Tesla's $1 billion spodumene-to-lithium-hyd
Three decades in: nobody actually writes correct C or C++
A veteran C/C++ developer argues that undefined behavior is so pervasive in the languages that even disciplined experts cannot reliably avoid it. The core misco
Virtual OS Museum bundles emulated operating systems from 1948 to today
A one-person preservation project has packaged a vast catalog of operating systems into a single Linux VM that runs under QEMU, VirtualBox, or UTM, with a custo