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Benchmarking Leading AI Agents Against CAPTCHAs

Benchmarking Leading AI Agents Against CAPTCHAs

💥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Main takeaway: Many sites use CAPTCHAs to distinguish humans from automated traffic. How well do these CAPTCHAs hold up against modern AI agents? We tested three leading models—Claude Sonnet 4.5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and GPT-5—on their ability to solve Google reCAPTCHA v2 challenges and found significant differences in performance. Claude Sonnet 4.5 performed best with a 60% success rate, slightly outperforming Gemini 2.5 Pro at 56%. GPT-5 performed significantly worse and only managed to solve CAPTCHAs on 28% of trials. Figure 1: Overall success rates for each AI model.…
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Introducing the open-source Agentic Data Stack

Introducing the open-source Agentic Data Stack

🔥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Key idea: We are excited to announce that ClickHouse has acquired LibreChat, the leading open-source AI chat platform that offers a unified interface for interacting with a wide range of large language models (LLMs), giving users and organizations full control over their data, agents, and conversations. We couldn't be more thrilled to welcome Danny Avila (the founder of LibreChat) as well as the LibreChat team and community into the ClickHouse family. LibreChat becomes a core component in our vision for Agent-Facing Analytics, creating a truly open-source Agentic Data…
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How Cops Can Get Your Private Online Data

How Cops Can Get Your Private Online Data

🔥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: Can the cops get your online data? In short, yes. There are a variety of US federal and state laws which give law enforcement powers to obtain information that you provided to online services. But, there are steps you as a user and/or as a service provider can take to improve online privacy.Law enforcement demanding access to your private online data goes back to the beginning of the internet. In fact, one of  EFF’s first cases, Steve Jackson Games v. Secret Service, exemplified the now…
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Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel

Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel

🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Main takeaway: Welcome to Internal Tech Emails: internal tech industry emails that surface in public records. 🔍 If you haven’t signed up, join 50,000+ others and get the newsletter:From: Nick CleggSent: Friday, December 20, 2019 8:13 PMTo: Peter ThielSubject: MilennialsHi PeterSheryl suggested I reach out to you as she says you and Mark have been discussing the need for FB to remain more attuned to Milennials. Would be great if I could hear your thoughts so that I can help support the direction of travel.Do tell me…
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Interesting SPI Routing with iCE40 FPGAs · Daniel Mangum

Interesting SPI Routing with iCE40 FPGAs · Daniel Mangum

🚀 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Main takeaway: A few weeks ago I posted about how much fun I was having with the Fomu FPGA development board while travelling. This project from Tim ‘mithro’ Ansell and Sean ‘xobs’ Cross is not new, but remains a favorite of mine because of how portable it is — the entire board can fit in your USB port! The Fomu includes a Lattice Semiconductor iCE40 UltraPlus 5K, which has been a popular FPGA option over the past few years due to the reverse engineered bitstream format and ability…
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The Linux Kernel Looks To “Bite The Bullet” In Enabling Microsoft C Extensions

The Linux Kernel Looks To “Bite The Bullet” In Enabling Microsoft C Extensions

🚀 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: Two patches queued into the Linux kernel's build system development tree, kbuild-next, would enable the -fms-extensions compiler argument everywhere for allowing GCC and LLVM/Clang to use the Microsoft C Extensions when compiling the Linux kernel. Being in kbuild-next these patches will likely be submitted for the Linux 6.19 kernel merge window next month but remains to be seen if there will be any last minute objections to this change. The -fms-extensions compiler option honored by the GNU Compiler Collection and LLVM/Clang allow enabling…
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Europe deciding whether 6 GHz is Wi-Fi or cellular space • The Register

Europe deciding whether 6 GHz is Wi-Fi or cellular space • The Register

✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Main takeaway: A row is brewing in Europe over the 6 GHz part of the wireless spectrum, between those who believe it should be licensed for use by cellular networks and others that want it reserved for Wi-Fi. The Wi-Fi Alliance and the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) have published open letters addressed to "EU digital ministers," expressing concerns that the upper 6 GHz band (6425 to 7125 MHz) may be rendered off-limits to Wi-Fi networks in European Union countries. At the heart of the problem is that newer…
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DNS Provider Quad9 Sees Piracy Blocking Orders as “Existential Threat” * TorrentFreak

DNS Provider Quad9 Sees Piracy Blocking Orders as “Existential Threat” * TorrentFreak

💥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Main takeaway: Home > Anti-Piracy > Site Blocking > Non-profit DNS resolver Quad9 reports that legal battles over pirate site blocking have become an "existential threat" to its service. In a recent blog post, the Swiss foundation argues that while tech giants like Google and Cloudflare can absorb the legal and engineering costs, smaller organizations cannot. The warning comes after Quad9 decided not to represent itself at a French court due to a lack of financial resources. In May 2024, the Paris Judicial Court ordered Google, Cloudflare, and…
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Microsoft’s lack of quality control is out of control • The Register

Microsoft’s lack of quality control is out of control • The Register

🔥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Main takeaway: OPINION I have a habit of ironically referring to Microsoft's various self-induced whoopsies as examples of the company's "legendary approach to quality control." While the robustness of Windows NT in decades past might qualify as "legendary", anybody who has had to use the company's wares in recent years might quibble with the word "quality." As repeated Azure outages due to configuration errors have shown, "control" is perhaps also inappropriate these days. It's difficult to pinpoint precisely where it went wrong for Microsoft when it comes…
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JP’s Website · 2025-11-08 · Installing and using HP-UX 9

JP’s Website · 2025-11-08 · Installing and using HP-UX 9

✨ Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: JP's Website Posted on 2025-11-08 Contents Background A few weeks back I got a note on Bluesky, linking me to a website offering a free computer. The owner was in Cambridge, not far from me, and the computer was an HP 9000/300 Series - a Model 340, specifically. The HP 9000 line of workstations and servers ran from the early 1980s through to the late 2000s (see this great history page at openpa.net for more details). It encompassed many processor architectures, including Itanium, HP's…
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