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Cyberdecks go mainstream as makers reject the corporate internet

A countercurrent is forming against the flattened, enshittified "corpo-internet": people quitting social media, dusting off MP3 players, returning to pirated an

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Developer ditches ad-funded puzzle sites, builds his own free logic-game daily

A Hacker News "Show HN" post introduces Puzzle Lair, a hobby project built by a developer who grew tired of ad-laden puzzle websites and decided to roll his own

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FDA panel votes 9–0 for Moderna's mRNA flu shot despite earlier block attempt

An independent FDA advisory committee (VRBPAC) voted unanimously to recommend approval of Moderna's seasonal mRNA flu vaccine, mRNA-1010, marketed as mFlusiva.

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Half of LG smart TV apps ship hidden residential proxy SDKs, study finds

Spur Intelligence Labs unpacked and scanned 6,038 LG webOS and Samsung Tizen apps and found 2,058 of them — roughly a third overall, and nearly half on LG — car

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tech-culture

HN's Father's Day thread: hacker dads, Dragon 32s, and arch support

This isn't a news story but a community appreciation thread on Hacker News, where readers traded personal reflections for Father's Day. The posts skew toward th

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HTTP gets a QUERY method: a safe, idempotent verb that carries a request body

REST APIs have long been stuck with a bad choice when filters get complicated. GET keeps everything in the URL, which works for simple parameters but breaks dow

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Oak: a content-addressed version control system built for AI coding agents

Oak is a public-beta (v0.99.0) version control system pitched as a Git alternative optimized for AI coding agents rather than humans. Instead of human conventio

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OpenAI's Daybreak adds GPT-5.5-Cyber and 'Patch the Planet' for open-source defense

OpenAI has broadened its Daybreak cybersecurity effort with the full release of GPT-5.5-Cyber, a model tuned for defensive security work: locating vulnerabiliti

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Optocam Zero: a pocket DIY camera built from a Pi Zero and printed parts

Doruk Kumkumoglu has published Optocam Zero, a compact digital camera built around a Raspberry Pi Zero and parts you can source anywhere. The design targets a p

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Police Chiefs Caught Stalking Exes via Flock LPR Fuel Push for Warrant Rules

License plate reader vendor Flock insists its cameras track vehicles, not people, but a growing record of police officials using the system to follow romantic p

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Polymarket Accused of Seeding Social Media With Misleading Paid-Creator Videos

A Wall Street Journal report alleges that prediction-market platform Polymarket has saturated social media with misleading videos produced by creators it pays.

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Prompt Injection Is a Role-Perception Failure, Not a Phrasing Problem

An LLM doesn't experience a conversation as structured turns the way a chat UI presents it. It receives one continuous string containing the system prompt, user

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