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🚀 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: One missing underscore in a Skyrim-themed username put an innocent Nova Scotia man in prison for 18 months. A 2018 child-luring investigation, which began in Madison, Wisconsin, and eventually extended to Halifax, Canada, was based on a false premise. Police were looking for a man using the Kik messaging service under the name “fus__ro_dah” (two underscores after “fus”), but they accidentally requested records for the username “fus_ro_dah” (one underscore after “fus”). This one-character difference led them not to the perpetrator but to a Canadian man…

🚀 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Platform engineering teams have spent the last decade standardizing Kubernetes clusters, pipelines, internal developer platforms (IDPs), and processes for web and microservice workloads. Now, as organizations integrate large language models (LLMs) and AI agents into production workflows, platform engineering 1.0 is shifting into platform engineering 2.0. This shift to platform engineering 2.0 has clear implications for security, specifically for isolation and compliance in this new agentic world. But for those understandably concerned about what they must spend, an effective platform engineering 2.0 strategy should represent an…

🔥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Facepalm: Modern problems require modern solutions – according to the meme. In this case, the issue is students using AI to cheat on assignments. The solution, used to great effect by one professor, was to hide a white-colored font in the assignment prompt telling the AI to talk nonsense about an unrelated subject. In an online discussion post, Alcorn State University history professor Dr. Jason Gibson posed a question that represented part of his students' midterm. It was about the Industrial Revolution, but knowing how…

🔥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A still from My Neighbor Totoro (1988)We’re back! With the mid-year break over, the Animation Obsessive newsletter returns with a new issue. We’ve done a ton of prep over the past few weeks to get ready for the rest of our 2026, which begins today.Here’s the slate for this Sunday:Now, let’s go!The art of Studio Ghibli isn’t really duplicable. People have tried: the internet is full of attempts, the bulk of them machine-generated. Even when those images vaguely recall Ghibli, though, it’s not so simple…

💥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: ← Bicycles Windblown hair Free kick → We’re introducing FeyNoBg, a state-of-the-art model for automatic background removal. Across eight benchmarks, it posts the best published S-measure on four and comes within 2% of the leader on the rest. Others betterFeyNoBg betterUHRSD-TE+2.5%HRSOD-TE+2.3%DIS5K+1.1%DAVIS-S+0.2%DUTS-TE-0.8%COD10K-TE-1.2%DUT-OMRON-1.7%CAMO-TE-1.9%-2%0%+2.5%BenchmarkUHRSD-TEFeyNoBg0.981BiRefNet0.957DescriptionTests salient-object masks in ultra-high-resolution images, including 4K and 8K scenes. We’re also releasing NoBg, the library we used to train our model. Use NoBg to run FeyNoBg or train your own background removal model. Both are open source. Download FeyNoBg on Hugging Face,…

💥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: 🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world." My…