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Onion Futures Site Sells Legal Onion Contracts by Exploiting a 1958 Ban's Loophole
The San Francisco Onion Futures Company sells private, transferable contracts for the future physical delivery of yellow onions, priced between $3 and $12 per o
OONI Probe turns your device into an internet censorship sensor
OONI Probe is a free tool for Linux and macOS that tests whether websites and messaging apps are being blocked on your network. Beyond simple reachability check
OpenAI's Jalapeño Chip Went Concept-to-Silicon in 20 Months, Aided by Its Own LLMs
OpenAI has revealed Jalapeño, its first in-house AI accelerator, built in partnership with Broadcom and aimed at its inference fleet. The chip delivers up to 13
PlanetScale ships TIN, a Postgres full-text search index it claims crushes rivals
PlanetScale has released TIN (short for "Text INdex"), a full-text search extension for Postgres, now generally available across its Postgres and Neki databases
Researchers document a humpback mother's days-long vigil over her stillborn calf
Scientists from Griffith University and the Sea World Foundation have recorded what appears to be grieving behavior in a baleen whale, a first for the species.
Reverse-engineering Hacker News: how votes, time decay, and hidden penalties rank stories
Hacker News scores each submission from its upvotes, the elapsed time since posting, and a set of penalties. Because time carries a larger exponent than votes —
Sealed NYT briefs show OpenAI, Microsoft staff privately doubted AI scraping
Legal filings in The New York Times' copyright suit against OpenAI and Microsoft, surfaced by 404 Media from documents both companies wanted sealed, reveal that
Spain Blocks Archive.today Over Copyright, Redirects Users to 'Illegal Site' Warning
Spain's Intellectual Property Commission, operating under the Ministry of Culture, has ordered ISPs to block multiple domains belonging to Archive.today, the wi
Study Breaks Down Coding-Agent Harnesses: What Actually Moves the Needle
Autonomous coding agents live or die by their harness — the scaffolding that turns a model's raw ability into sustained software-engineering work — yet harnesse
The a-or-an problem: sound beats spelling, and only 129 words break the rule
Choosing between the English articles "a" and "an" looks trivial until you try to automate it. The naive approach — check whether the first letter is a vowel —
The brain isn't one organ — Stanford finds it's two, wired together 500M years ago
Stanford Medicine researchers report that the vertebrate brain isn't a single organ grown from one common progenitor, but two neural systems of separate evoluti
The Case Against Letting AI Write Your Prose
Erich Grunewald argues that AI should almost never be used for the actual act of writing—composing the sentences meant to convey an argument, analysis, or subst