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Ultrasound imaging of the brain β€” Aleph

πŸ’₯ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: A few years ago, a paper came out that blew our minds. The idea was that you can decode what someone is looking at just from their brain activity.Reconstructing seen images from brain activity β€” seen image (left) and reconstruction (right) for each (MindEye, decoded from fMRI)It’s wild and shows just a glimmer of what a telepathic future would be like. Unfortunately, it requires an MRI machine, which sadly can’t be worn on the head.In fact, the first bottleneck to the whole field of mind…
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Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM | Andrew Nesbitt

Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM | Andrew Nesbitt

πŸ”₯ Explore this trending post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: Report filed: 04:13 UTCStatus: Resolved (by treaty)Severity: Informational β†’ Critical β†’ Withdrawn β†’ Critical β†’ NegotiatedDuration: 96 hours (billable: 2.1 trillion tokens)Affected systems: All of them, plus several we do not own Executive Summary: A security incident occurred. Our AI-augmented defence-in-depth strategy, deployed in direct response to CVE-2024-YIKES, performed exactly as configured. We continue to take security seriously, now at scale. Summary A malicious package passed seven independent AI-powered security gates, each of which failed to stop it for a different reason, none of which…
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An oral history of Bank Python

An oral history of Bank Python

✨ Check out this trending post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: November 2021 The strange world of Python, as used by big investment banks High finance is a foreign country; they do things differently there Today will I take you through the keyhole to look at a group of software systems not well known to the public, which I call "Bank Python". Bank Python implementations are effectively proprietary forks of the entire Python ecosystem which are in use at many (but not all) of the biggest investment banks. Bank Python differs considerably from the common,…
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mondaycom/HATCHA: CAPTCHA proves you’re human. HATCHA proves you’re not. Β· GitHub

mondaycom/HATCHA: CAPTCHA proves you’re human. HATCHA proves you’re not. Β· GitHub

✨ Discover this trending post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: CAPTCHA proves you're human. HATCHA proves you're not. HATCHA (Hyperfast Agent Test for Computational Heuristic Assessment) is a reverse CAPTCHA that gates access behind challenges trivial for AI agents but painful for humans β€” large-number multiplication, string reversal, binary decoding, and more. Server-side verification β€” answers never reach the client. HMAC-signed tokens, stateless, no database required. 5 built-in challenge types β€” math, string reversal, character counting, sorting, binary decode. Extensible β€” register custom challenge generators at runtime. Themeable β€” dark, light, or auto mode via…
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Open Letter | Akrites

Open Letter | Akrites

πŸ’₯ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: We All Depend on Open Source. We Will Defend It Together. An open letter regarding the launch of Akrites – a coordinated effort to remediate vulnerabilities in the open source software the world runs on For decades, open source has been one of the great achievements of technology – software we built together and came to depend on completely. Today, this code underpins the world’s critical infrastructure and services that people depend on every day: banking, telecommunications, utilities and more run on the same…
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How much? The hidden costs of restaurant dishes | Restaurants

How much? The hidden costs of restaurant dishes | Restaurants

πŸ’₯ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: Asparagus, smoked emulsion, watercress, sourdough (starter, above) at Apricity, London W1You pay: Β£21Restaurant profit: Β£1.65β€œIt’s easy to assume vegetable dishes should be cheaper than meat,” says chef-patron Chantelle Nicholson. β€œVegetables usually are, but vegetable dishes are more labour-intensive. It’s simple to slap a steak on the grill, but you can’t just plate up a carrot.β€œThis dish is interesting, because asparagus can actually be more expensive than some proteins. It costs between Β£15 and Β£20 a kilo (it was Β£9/kg not so long ago), mainly because…
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Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years

Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years

✨ Read this trending post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: systems Big buyers agree to deals that will deliver historically enormous margins and profits Memory-maker Micron has found a way to keep prices for its products sky-high for another five years, by signing 16 β€œstrategic customer agreements” (SCAs) that include a floor price the company says comes with β€œa very robust gross margin for Micron, well above our peak quarterly margins in any past cycle.”Micron CEO, president and chairman Sanjay Mehrotra explained the SCAs in prepared remarks delivered during the company’s Q3 earnings call. He…
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AI and Cloud Costs – by Aditya Patadia

AI and Cloud Costs – by Aditya Patadia

✨ Read this trending post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: A lot of companies are getting bitten by high AI costs. Uber burned through the entire year’s AI budget in just 4 months and Microsoft, Salesforce and Github are taking steps to reduce AI spend by employees.On the other hand, AI is making many programming tasks very easy and also keeps helping in other domains like data interpretation, making beautiful slides and designing apps and websites. Currently, big AI labs have what we call frontier models and those models perform exceptionally well for a wide…
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✨ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: Blocked Your request has been blocked due to a network policy. Try logging in or creating an account here to get back to browsing. If you're running a script or application, please register or sign in with your developer credentials here. Additionally make sure your User-Agent is not empty and is something unique and descriptive and try again. if you're supplying an alternate User-Agent string, try changing back to default as that can sometimes result in a block. You can read Reddit's Terms of…
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Framework’s 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C’s complexity

πŸ’₯ Explore this trending post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: I've been following WisdPi's development of various 5 Gbps and 10 Gbps Ethernet adapters for the past couple years.They use newer Realtek Ethernet chips, which sometimes have performance quirksβ€”most frequently encountered under Linux.In today's video, I tested the new WisdPi 10G Ethernet Expansion Card for Framework computers. It fits in any available Framework Expansion slotβ€”even on the Framework Desktop.But Expansion Cards use USB-C for their connection to the mainboardβ€”and therein lies the rub...The main problem is USB-C's bandwidth complexityβ€”especially when paired with the Realtek RTL8159…
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