Year: 2026

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๐Ÿš€ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Reviving BrowserID in 2026April 25, 2026I'm building WKID (Wakamoleguy's Identity server), a BrowserID-style identity provider (IdP) for the bespoke apps I build for myself, my friends, and my family. Here's why I dusted off a 10-year-dead protocol to do it.LLMs have made it easier than ever for developers to turn an idea into a working app. This lower barrier to entry means we are seeing an explosion of small, bespoke projects only meant for solo use, or for a few close friends or family. This…
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A California engineer has been identified in a suspected shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

A California engineer has been identified in a suspected shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

๐Ÿ”ฅ Discover this insightful post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Politics,Politics / Politics News,Security / Security News,Security / National Security,Gun Violence ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: A 31-year-old engineer and computer scientist has been identified by media reports and President Donald Trump as the suspected shooter at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday night.Cole Thomas Allen, of Torrance, California, was arrested after the shooting at the Washington Hilton, where Trump was scheduled to deliver remarks to a room full of reporters, Cabinet officials and Hilton employees. Allen's name appeared in media reports shortly before Trump released two photos of the…
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Amateur armed with ChatGPT ‘vibe-maths’ a 60-year-old problem

Amateur armed with ChatGPT ‘vibe-maths’ a 60-year-old problem

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: April 24, 20264 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmAn amateur just solved a 60-year-old math problemโ€”by asking AIA ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of. Experts believe it may have further usesBy Joseph Howlett edited by Lee Billings Eugene Mymrin/Getty ImagesLiam Price just cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians have tried and failed to solve. Heโ€™s 23 years old and has no advanced mathematics training. What he does have is a ChatGPT Pro subscription, which gives…
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Apple’s next CEO needs to launch a Killer AI product

Apple’s next CEO needs to launch a Killer AI product

๐Ÿš€ Discover this must-read post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Business,Business / Tech Culture,Backchannel ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Sometime in In the next year or two, Apple's new CEO, John Ternos, will take the stage and tell the world that his company has a revolutionary product. He will say that this product will put the full, wonderful power of artificial intelligence into everyone's hands. This probably wouldn't represent a major breakthrough in AI research, and it might not allow people to automate work or perform tasks better than many technically-minded people do today. It may or may not include new…
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Agents Arenโ€™t Coworkers, Embed Them in Your Software

Agents Arenโ€™t Coworkers, Embed Them in Your Software

โœจ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Agentic management software is all the hype today: What started with Moltbot and OpenClaw now has a lot of competition: ZeroClaw, Hermes, AutoGPT etc.These systems work well and allow you to train and build generic agent loops that are genuinely helpful. We run quite a few agents ourselves at Feldera: to review code, to help troubleshoot customer issues, to maintain and debug our infrastructure etc.Using agents makes me think about an article a famous computer scientist named Mark Weiser once wrote, titled The Computer for…
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Recent efforts to expand major US spying powers remain a mess

Recent efforts to expand major US spying powers remain a mess

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this awesome post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Security,Security / National Security,Security / Privacy,Security / Security News,Politics / Policy,Politics / Politics News,Faking It ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: A senior Democratic aide familiar with the negotiations referred to the section as a "legislative scam," telling WIRED: "There are many members who do not fully understand the ins and outs of this bill. By throwing the phrase 'Fourth Amendment requirement' into the bill, the speaker and the intelligence community are tricking them into supporting a bill that does not contain meaningful constitutional safeguards."Section 5 directs the U.S. Attorney General to…
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The Coalton Programming Language

The Coalton Programming Language

๐Ÿš€ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: mine is an integrated development environment for Coalton and Common Lisp for Windows, macOS, and Linux. ๐Ÿ‘‰ Download the latest release.mine comes in two flavors: mine-app for Windows and macOS is a complete, all-in-one, packaged application with no dependencies. It Just Worksโ„ข, or itโ€™s a bug. mine-core for Windows, macOS, and Linux is a hacker-friendly โ€œbring your own compliant terminalโ€ variant. It allows you to use mine at the command line, but requires a terminal that has a Unicode font and supports the Kitty…
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Designer baby companies are in turmoil

Designer baby companies are in turmoil

โœจ Check out this insightful post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Science,Science / Biotech,Gene Editing ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Two companies that Launched last year with plans to produce genetically modified babies, it has already been halted, due to financial problems and internal strife.One such company, Manhattan Genomics in New York, closed abruptly shortly after announcing a team of scientific advisors in October that included a leading fertility doctor, a data scientist who worked at the de-extinction firm Colossal Biosciences, and a scientist who pioneered the โ€œthree-parentโ€ IVF technique. Bootstrap Bio, based in California, said it would cease operations in…
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USB Cheat Sheet

USB Cheat Sheet

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: USB Cheat Sheet May 05, 2022 USB Cheat Sheet I spend time investigating a non-existing bug today because I misunderstood a USB term. So I made myself a cheat sheet. Maybe it will save time to someone. Marketing Name Also Known As Signal Gbps Signal MiB/s Wires Cable USB 1.1 Full Speed 12 Mbps 1.5 MiB/s 4 4m USB 2.0 Hi-Speed 480 Mbps 60 MiB/s 4 4m SuperSpeed USB ย 5Gbps USB 3.0USB 3.1USB 3.2USB 3.1 Gen 1USB 3.2 Gen 1 5000 Mbps 625 MiB/s…
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Sources say Indian startup Snabbit is seeking $400 million in new funding

Sources say Indian startup Snabbit is seeking $400 million in new funding

๐Ÿ’ฅ Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Startups,Venture,FJ Labs,lightspeed venture partners,Mirae Asset Venture Investment,Snabbit,Susquehanna Venture Capital โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Snapbit, an Indian instant home assistance startup, is close to raising around $400 million in new funding in a round led by Susquehanna Venture Capital, TechCrunch has learned. The Bengaluru-based startup is in talks to raise about $50 million in a round, according to three people aware of the deal. The round could be worth around $55 million or more, as strong demand from investors could push the company to raise more than initially planned, one…
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