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Sortis – A paper empire game

Sortis – A paper empire game

✨ Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: I settled on the name Sortis from the latin because you don't play every turn in the game instead you skip ahead and calculate what happened at the point you want to make a genuine change to what's going on. Its a way of having the mechanics of the computer adding 1 wheat each turn without you having to manually add 1 wheat each turn. The literal translation is "of the lot/ of fate/ of oracle". Its etymology stretches back to a series, chain or…
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a sovereign language model for the Netherlands

a sovereign language model for the Netherlands

✨ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: GPT‑NL values We are building a responsible language model for the Dutch language and context: trustworthy, transparent, reciprocal and sovereign. Sovereign: control over technology that matters GPT‑NL is developed within the Netherlands and Europe. This gives us full control over the model, the data and the choices we make. We avoid dependency on non‑European providers and invest in a sustainable AI ecosystem aligned with our laws, values and societal goals. Open and transparent: insight from source to model GPT‑NL is built on transparency. We clearly…
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Making HTTP requests from a container that has no curl, using bash /dev/tcp

Making HTTP requests from a container that has no curl, using bash /dev/tcp

✨ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I needed to check that one container could reach another over an internal Docker network: a plain GET /health against a service on a shared network. The obvious move is curl http://service:8642/health. But this app image was stripped right down, with no curl or wget and nothing else around that I could use to open a socket.As it turns out, bash can speak HTTP by itself. Opening a connection to a host and port and writing the request by hand needs nothing beyond the shell…
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UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts

UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts

✨ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The UK government will ban under-16s from social media, with regulations due before Christmas and the rules taking effect in spring 2027. To enforce it, platforms must age-check their users. In practice that means anyone opening a new account will likely have to prove they're over 16 by uploading an ID or passing a facial age scan. Long-standing accounts are largely exempt, but signing up fresh now triggers verification, effectively ending anonymous account creation in the UK. Security and privacy experts warn the checks are…
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Google Chrome’s Next Update Will Mark the End of Popular Ad Blockers

Google Chrome’s Next Update Will Mark the End of Popular Ad Blockers

🚀 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Google is removing Chrome's last remaining workarounds for Manifest V2 extensions, effectively ending support for legacy ad blockers such as the original uBlock Origin. 9to5Google reports: CyberNews points out a Chromium commit that removes support for the "kExtensionManifestV2Disabled" flag, which is referred to as "dead code" seeing as Chrome no longer supports Manifest V2 extensions. This removal acts as the final stop for many Manifest V2-based ad blocker extensions that were still in use today -- the flag was effectively a loophole to continue using…
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‘Wow, it really worked!’: the 70s TV show that’s causing worldwide panic – 50 years later | Television

‘Wow, it really worked!’: the 70s TV show that’s causing worldwide panic – 50 years later | Television

🚀 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Over the past few months, a strange story has been seeping into the mainstream media from the more excitable corners of Substack and YouTube. Its claim: scientists whose work related to aerospace and nuclear research are either dying or going missing. According to an influential report in the Daily Mail in March, the disappearances form a “chilling pattern”: two, for instance, had worked together at an air force laboratory. The implications, in some accounts, are Hollywood sinister, with scientists working on top-secret breakthroughs running into…
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Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU emulator

Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU emulator

💥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: We are very excited to announce Unicorn2 beta to the public! Unicorn engine was first introduced at Blackhat USA 2015 as the only cross-platform-architecture framework for CPU emulation. After its release, Unicorn made some good impact in the security community and quickly established itself as the foundation of various innovative work. More than 6 years passed, it is time to make a major step forward with Unicorn2! Based on Qemu 5, we built Unicorn2 from scratch, with a lot of optimization on performance & code…
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Mechanical Watch – Bartosz Ciechanowski

Mechanical Watch – Bartosz Ciechanowski

🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: In the world of modern portable devices, it may be hard to believe that merely a few decades ago the most convenient way to keep track of time was a mechanical watch. Unlike their quartz and smart siblings, mechanical watches can run without using any batteries or other electronic components. Over the course of this article I’ll explain the workings of the mechanism seen in the demonstration below. You can drag the device around to change your viewing angle, and you can use the…
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Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple ‘fix this code’ prompt, not jailbreak, says researcher

Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple ‘fix this code’ prompt, not jailbreak, says researcher

💥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: security According to the one person who actually read the research paper The “jailbreak” that prompted the Trump administration to block Anthropic’s most advanced models was actually a simple three-word prompt: “Fix this code.”That's according to Katie Moussouris, founder and CEO of Luta Security, and the fairy godmother of bug bounties. She says she was the only outside expert to read the third-party research paper on the Fable 5 guardrail bypass techniques that prompted the ban.On Friday, the US government, reportedly citing national security concerns, issued an…
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Why a Flip Phone? – Commodore

Why a Flip Phone? – Commodore

💥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: I can see it shouted from Reddit already. “That’s not a Commodore!” If I weren’t the CEO, I’d be very into the Callback (I do love a dumb phone). And if I weren’t already down the digital minimalism path, I’d probably be a little sceptical too. So let me earn it. “I love my smartphone.” When’s the last time you said that, and meant it? Be honest. There was a time you could say that about your phone. Remember the wild west of it?…
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