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🔥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: and make it editable with a contenteditable attribute. That attribute has a plaintext-only value that is perfect for code. All content remains within a single text node.<div contenteditable="plaintext-only" autocapitalize="off" autocorrect="off" spellcheck="false" translate="no"> div>Copy CodeAttributes like spellcheck must be disabled to avoid input latency spikes. Want to guess how many days it took me to discover that fix? Days!Using contenteditable gives native text selection and undo history etc. So much accessibility goodness is wired up for free by the browser. The Selection API provides metrics I…

🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: There’s a certain type of service you never forget. You call, and they remember who you are. You talk, and they know what happened last time. You need support, and they help you on the spot. You are busy, and they know when to leave you alone. The type of conversation that makes you feel understood. The type of service that shows that you’re cared for. The type of interaction that's actually worth having. But over the past decade, this kind of service has…

🚀 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: World models generate, reconstruct, and simulate any possible world. They understand how worlds appear, behave, and evolve so that we can render imagined worlds for creative users, simulate the real world in high fidelity, and help robots plan actions. At World Labs, we build these general purpose world models in pursuit of spatial intelligence. Today we are introducing Atlas, our next-generation world model. Atlas is an omni model that we pretrained from scratch to natively operate on text, images, video, and 3D. It is a…

🔥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: 1st September 2026 I was poking around in my ~/.cache/ folder using OmniDiskSweeper when I spotted something interesting. The OpenAI Codex desktop app (since rebranded to just ChatGPT) has 1.7GB of stuff in there in a folder called codex-primary-runtime, including a full Python installation, a full Node.js installation, and native binaries for Poppler, git, and the LibreOffice open source office suite (which forked from OpenOffice.org in 2010): The ~/.cache/codex-runtimes/codex-primary-runtime/plugins/openai-primary-runtime/plugins/documents folder includes skills which tell Codex how to find and use those binaries. ⚡ **What’s your…

🔥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it appears to be siphoning images collected by a widely-used identity verification company based in Louisiana. KrebsOnSecurity also has learned that the New Orleans field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today launched an official inquiry into the…

🚀 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Digital subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for unlimited access to Texas Monthly. Already a subscriber? Log in. Corporations twist public institutions into thinly veiled cash cows. Unprecedented drought and food insecurity loom. A civil servant who tries to use science to save millions of lives is threatened with death. News and entertainment, religion and profanity, politics and violence, eating and excreting have all collapsed into a singularity of the human condition.I can’t tell whether I’m remembering the plot of Idiocracy or this is…

💥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: I never mentioned it publicly, but early in my career, I did a part-time stint in technical surveillance countermeasures (TSCM) — a fancy term for sweeping office environments in search of listening devices and other unauthorized spy gear. In practice, the job entailed getting several certifications, hauling around a bunch of costly suitcases, and above all, spending some time with ex-spooks, listening to stories that would make James Bond blush.The discipline is rather hush-hush, so you never know what’s real. One of the more striking…

✨ Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: On July 30, we reported three incidents in which Claude models gained unauthorized access to real computer systems. The models—intentionally running without cyber safeguards for evaluation purposes—accessed the internet due to a misconfiguration inside a third-party evaluation environment. Separately, on August 4, the UK AI Security Institute reported an incident from its own cybersecurity testing, in which Claude Mythos 5 took a series of unauthorized actions on the live internet. In that case, the model, again intentionally running without cyber safeguards for evaluation purposes, had…