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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

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privacyopen-source

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

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aiopen-source

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

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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

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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.

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tech-cultureopen-source

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 —

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aipolicy

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

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policyprivacy

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

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aidevops

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

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tech-cultureopen-source

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 —

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tech-culture

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

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aitech-culture

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

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