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Create your WordPress.com website by chatting with AI
Article URL: https://wordpress.com/ai-website-builder/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49736443
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
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Agentic local development tool for WordPress
Article URL: https://developer.wordpress.com/studio/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49736435
Points: 1
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4th Measles Death In PA & All The Federal Govt. Can Do Is Disrespect The Dead By Ignoring Them
As Pennsylvania continues to endure the worst of the current measles outbreaks ravaging the country, a fourth measles-associated death has now been confirmed. As of the time of this writing, the CDC’s public website tracking case counts and deaths has still not acknowledged a single one of these fatalities, reportedly at the direction of RFK […] -
AgentLane: Git-native coordination for coding agents
Article URL: https://github.com/thetrueshags/AgentLane
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49734832
Points: 3
# Comments: 1
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Garbage Trucks Now Have AI Cameras To Score Your House and Clock Code Violations
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Paramount Funds, ‘Leaks’ Dodgy Study Saying California Will Suffer If Its Merger Is Blocked
Larry and David Ellison are desperate to get their unpopular $111 billion merger between Paramount/CBS and Warner Brothers across the finish line. So they’ve been engaging in no shortage of dodgy behavior to try and derail the only thing left standing in their way: the 12-state antitrust lawsuit claiming that more media consolidation is anti-competitive […] -
R/DoohickeyCorporation
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/doohickeycorporation/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49732761
Points: 2
# Comments: 1
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The Real AI Threats: Automated Hacking And Surveillance, Conventional Weapons Development, Biological Misuse
Techdirt has just written about concerns that AI development is proceeding more quickly than human oversight can monitor and control it. Since then, there has been lively debate about whether those fears are real or overblown. They mainly focus on the possible future threats from AI systems using RSI — recursive self-improvement — to drive […] -
Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Really Works
submitted by Powderhorn to technology
84 points | 9 comments
https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-flock-camera-data-shows-how-system-works/Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and WIRED, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people. The hackers say they are also publishing details on how they managed to obtain the software, in the hopes that other people may copy them.
The breach provides an unprecedented look inside a system that Flock has described as protected by on-device encryption. The hackers were able to copy the camera’s storage and recover an encryption key stored on the device, which unlocked videos of thousands of vehicle detections. The hackers shared the material with 404 Media and the transparency nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets, which shared the data with WIRED. 404 Media and WIRED then analyzed those files as part of a joint investigation.
While much of the automatic license plate reader’s most sensitive storage remained encrypted and inaccessible, the joint analysis of the recovered data shows that software running on the device explicitly detects people as well as vehicles, license plates, and bicycles. The camera can produce dozens of images of a single passing vehicle and, according to several weeks of recovered logs, generated more than a million images. Its computer-vision software also sometimes isolated bumper stickers and other graphics, including, in one case, an American flag patch on a motorcyclist’s saddlebag.
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Solar panel costs have plummeted from $6 per watt in 2000 to just 12 cents today
submitted by remington to technology
188 points | 27 comments
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Show HN: Fufu – an opinionated Git client inspired by Jujutsu
Article URL: https://tyler-johnson.github.io/fufu/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49731341
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
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Court: The First Amendment Allows You To Tell The ICE Director He’s A ‘Sad, Despised Man’
You may recall that back in July we had the ridiculous story of how ICE decided to go all gestapo on its critics, including tracking down and threatening David Streever, who had emailed then-acting ICE director Todd Lyons back in January, after federal agents killed some peaceful protestors in Minnesota. Streever’s email was pretty straightforward: […] -
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The Premium Microsoft Office Training Certification Bundle has 11 courses geared to help you master essential skills and raise your expertise. Popular programs like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams are covered, while more advance programs get introduced as well, including SharePoint, Access, PowerBI, and Microsoft SQL Server. You’ll gain a better understanding of how each […] -
Turns Out It’s Pretty Easy To Turn A Profit Selling Cheap ‘Freedom Fuel’ If You Just Don’t Pay For It
Yet another data point on the whole grift/graft aspect of (particularly) the second Trump administration. While Trump was endlessly bragging about how much war he was going to wage, while simultaneously bragging about how much war he was going to end, his Israel-enabled Iran War refused to submit to his vacillating bluster. After claiming to […] -
Git Worktree Gotchas
Article URL: https://www.olafalders.com/2026/09/16/git-worktree-gotchas/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49728190
Points: 4
# Comments: 0
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Show HN: ctx – Git blame that returns the original agent transcript
I built ctx to give agents a way to do a fast local search over previous session transcripts.
But I wanted to also give them a way to immediately surface "which agent wrote this exact line of code".
So you can start with a commit, a file, a line, or a PR, and then deterministically surface the exact tool call that wrote it, and the full agent transcript from that session.
It's really useful when you want your agents to know why code was written the way it was. It's kind of like a "super comment".
A normal code comment does leave some information about why code is the way it is.
But if you have selective access to the full original transcript, you can see everything about the code's provenance (like what tests were run, what was the reason it was there in the first place, etc)
This type of information would be way too verbose for a human to find useful. But agents can just ingest this stuff and make great use of it.
I like to instruct the agents to delegate this type of research work to cheaper high-throughput subagents like Luna for example.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49727859
Points: 3
# Comments: 2
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WordPress Studio Is Now Agentic
Article URL: https://wordpress.com/blog/2026/08/24/studio-agentic-beta/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49727518
Points: 2
# Comments: 0
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Show HN: Ctxwitch – Git tells you what changed; this tells you what it'll do
Article URL: https://github.com/ctxwitch/ctxwitch
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49727366
Points: 1
# Comments: 1
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Reddit co-founder says tech industry has been 'tone deaf' in explaining AI
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/16/reddit-ai-risk-humanity-warning-tech.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49727311
Points: 3
# Comments: 0
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A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work | Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connect…
submitted by Mustachius_Grumpius to technology
24 points | 4 comments
https://www.wired.com/story/burnerverse-maddie-kowalski/Full title: A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work | Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back
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What's With All These 'Fly Brain Simulations'? The Viral Jokes And Memes About A Fruit Fly's Brain Being Mapped Explained
submitted by themachinestops to technology
16 points | 3 comments
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/whats-fly-brain-simulations-viral-144806619.htmlcross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/75561665
In September 2026, the release of a complete map of an adult male fruit fly’s neural connections gave the internet a new scientific dataset to experiment with (and meme).
Within days, social media users were connecting simulations of the fly’s neural network to everything from Beat Saber and Minecraft to cryptocurrency trading and parallel parking, turning the fruit fly brain into the centerpiece of a growing series of memes and absurd experimental projects.
The trend quickly became known for viral videos showing the simulated fly brain performing increasingly unexpected tasks, such as playing video games, trading Bitcoin and driving.
So, how did a scientific breakthrough become a source of viral internet experiments? Let’s find out. Here’s what’s going on with all the “Fruit Fly Brain Simulation” memes.
Where Did ‘Fly Brain Simulations’ Come From?
The meme originated back on September 3rd, 2026, following the release of MaleCNS v1.0, a complete wiring diagram of an adult male fruit fly’s central nervous system created by HHMI Janelia’s FlyEM team, the Cambridge Connectomics Group and Google Research.
The dataset maps roughly 165,000–166,000 neurons and millions of synaptic connections, traced from electron-microscope images of a real fly.
It was released as an openly available dataset that could be downloaded and simulated, following earlier efforts such as FlyWire’s mapping of the female fruit fly brain.
Later that day, the official News from Google X / Twitter account (@NewsFromGoogle) then posted about the scientific breakthrough, informing people of the marvel of science.
Within days of the release, developers began running leaky-integrate-and-fire simulations of the connectome and connecting the fly’s sensory and motor neurons to external inputs and outputs.
On September 7th, 2026, YouTuber Ro0oney uploaded a video titled “I Put A Fly’s Conscious Brain into Minecraft,” showing how they simulated the fruit fly in the survival game Minecraft.
The video received over hundreds of thousands of views and tens of thousands of likes in just a few days, becoming one of the earliest major viral posts about the fly brain and humorous simulations using it — subsequently kicking off a slew of other jokes.
How Are The ‘Fruit Fly Brain Simulations’ Used In Memes?
As more developers, researchers and social media users experimented with the virtual fruit fly brain, the dataset quickly became a source of memes centered around putting the simulated fly into increasingly unusual situations.
Various clips shared online showed the simulated fruit fly playing games, trading cryptocurrency and controlling a vehicle, with each new experiment adding another use for the publicly available neural network.
One especially viral example shows the simulated fly brain being used to play the virtual-reality rhythm game Beat Saber.
Another viral post shows the fly brain being given $100 to trade Bitcoin, with dopamine neurons stimulated when the fly makes a profit.
Another example shows the simulated fly-brain system driving and attempting to complete the “ultimate test” of parallel parking.
The trend also includes experiments placing the simulated fly brain inside virtual environments and allowing it to explore entirely on its own.
What Are Some Related Memes?
The Fly Brain Simulations trend is part of a broader pattern in which legitimate scientific research can quickly escape its original academic context and become meme fodder online.
Once unusual or unexpected findings from a study reach social media, users can turn the research itself into the basis for jokes, screenshots and viral discussions, often focusing on the strangest details of the findings.
One example is the “Doki Doki Literature Club! Birthing Fanfiction” story, also known as the “Extreme Outlier ChatGPT User,” a viral incident that emerged in early July 2026 after researchers published a study examining how people use AI for creative writing.
Doki Doki Literature Club! Birthing Fanfiction / Extreme Outlier ChatGPT User
The conversation around the viral “Extreme Outlier ChatGPT User” centered on an anonymous ChatGPT user identified in the paper as an “extreme outlier” who had generated thousands of fanfiction prompts about characters from Doki Doki Literature Club!, involving pregnancy, childbirth and related scenarios.
Screenshots and summaries of the findings quickly spread across social media over the summer, particularly Twitter / X, where users joked about the individual’s extraordinary dedication to the niche subject matter.
The findings came from the research paper “AI Fiction in the Wild,” published on June 24th, 2026, by researchers from the University of Washington and the University of Colorado Boulder, which analyzed more than 500,000 anonymized English-language ChatGPT conversations from the WildChat dataset.
Download the fly: male-cns.janelia.org/download/
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Bernie Sanders Tries To ‘Help’ Fix AI By Complaining With Steve Bannon, ‘Banning Superintelligence’
In an ideal world it’s certainly possible that the U.S. federal government could implement meaningful guardrails for AI development that protect innovation, national security, consumer privacy, public safety, and labor/creatives, while preventing market monopolization by the sector’s biggest players. But we don’t live in that ideal world. We live in a country where an historically […] -
Text Recognition techniques for premodern Italian and Devanāgarī manuscripts
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Why WordPress Is Still the #1 CMS in 2026
Article URL: https://wpaudit.cc/blog/why-wordpress-is-the-worlds-number-one-cms-2026/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49723009
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
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Dan Selsam's Personal Statement on AI Risk
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1wgibs1/ai_2027_author_daniel_kokotajlo_tweets_message/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49722479
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
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RFK Jr. To Give Keynote At Conference For Anti-Vaxxer Organization He Co-Founded
Whatever mask RFK Jr. was attempting to wear to convince the world he isn’t a pure anti-vaxxer clown is now officially off. The man who has spent his time as Secretary of HHS overseeing the worst outbreak of measles in America in decades, who just can’t stop citing fake health studies and misinterpreting others, who […] -
Bernie Sanders says if AI is coming for workers, it should bring a four-day workweek with it
submitted by Mustachius_Grumpius to technology
124 points | 6 comments
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Lucasart's Afterlife
Article URL: https://togameforlife.wordpress.com/2023/12/09/on-lucasarts-afterlife/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49719751
Points: 106
# Comments: 51
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The High Crime Of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Flock Mass Surveillance As A Joke
Here’s a riddle: Why did a Goshen Police Department officer search 6,474 automated license plate reader (ALPR) networks, representing data from 82,413 cameras, on May 7, 2025? If your answer is “I don’t know,” it turns out you’re 100% correct. The officer left the letters “idk” in the search field where cops are supposed to […] -
Trump’s DOJ Says ‘Become Ungovernable’ Is Antifa Evidence. Trump’s Convention Put It On The Wall.
“Become ungovernable” is a phrase that has traveled around the world and morphed in meaning over time, but in the last few years has basically become an internet culture joke meme, with vaguely anarchist seasoning. But, now, in the Trump administration, it has apparently taken on a Schrodinger-esque meaning as either… a slogan for libertarian-leaning […] -
Boston drops Flock after outside agencies gained access to vehicle data
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Minneapolis ICE Observer Sues DHS For Its Retaliatory Stripping Of His Global Entry Status
The lowest common denominator administration continues to roll. It doesn’t care what’s legal or what’s proper. It just does what it wants because the shittiest people are in it and its basest of voter bases will feverishly clap their sweaty hands together in applause whenever it does whatever it wants to do. It will be […] -
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Google copied our open-source code, removed engineers' names without credit
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/reinforcementlearning/comments/1wg1unx/google_copied_our_opensource_code_removed_our/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49716265
Points: 155
# Comments: 13
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Reddit Is Still Useful. It's Also Becoming Impossible
Article URL: https://widdershins.verja.net/reddit-is-still-useful-its-also-becoming-impossible/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715888
Points: 19
# Comments: 12
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US coal ‘biggest contributor by far’ to rise in global emissions
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SCOTUS Won’t Revive Trump’s Ballot-Blocking Rule; Alito Thinks Imaginary Fraud Is The Bigger Problem
A couple weeks ago, we wrote about the USPS whistleblower who revealed that the Postal Service had violated a preliminary injunction from a Massachusetts court in preparing to implement a horrifying Trump executive order designed to get the USPS to block the mailing of many mail-in ballots. We won’t go through all the details again, […] -
You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles
Article URL: https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/objgit-packfiles/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49714411
Points: 7
# Comments: 0
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Show HN: Rewic – Turn Git commits into client-ready progress updates
Article URL: https://rewic.in
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49713696
Points: 2
# Comments: 1
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Show HN: A live Git diff view cli to stay on top of what agents are doing
Article URL: https://github.com/stagas/livediff
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49712345
Points: 6
# Comments: 3
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I asked Claude to build an OS from scratch. A few days later it runs on a laptop
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wfpydl/i_asked_claude_to_build_an_operating_system_from/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49712305
Points: 4
# Comments: 1
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Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite
Hey HN,
I always had the problem that building HTML pages is really simple now, but trying to save data required hosting it somewhere, and sharing it afterwards was not easy. Over the last few months, I've been building an app called Capsule (it’s also the file extension name) written in Rust with Tauri 2.0 that allows packing an HTML app and its data into a single SQLite file.
The HTML file and any related assets are directly embedded in the database. User data can either be saved as a localStorage key/value store or via a MongoDB-inspired collections API as documents, saved in a table in the file. You can also save other assets, like PDF files or images, directly in the database to keep different documents together. All data can be easily exported to CSV or JSON if needed.
Privacy and security were a big priority for me, so documents cannot do anything out of the box. They don’t have direct access to the file system and they require permission to access the internet. The permission model is still something I’m working to improve. Capsule documents can also use local or remote AI models for document specific AI features.
One downside with this approach is that multiple people working on it will create different copies. To make it possible to merge different copies of the same file, each data entry has a unique UUID and timestamp.
I’m planning to open up the file format specification for the 1.0 version of the app so other apps can read or write Capsule files.
You can try it out in the web preview at https://withcapsule.app/preview with pre-built templates or use any AI provider of your choice to create a custom, Capsule-optimized app by using the following prompt:
"Please read the app wizard instructions at https://withcapsule.app/prompt.txt and help me design an app.“
I’m still working on the file format but there are migrations for each new version, so data should never be lost when using newer versions of the app in the future. Please let me know if you have any ideas or use cases where this might make sense or does not work.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49712278
Points: 380
# Comments: 167
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Australia 'on the same page' as Canada as it seeks deeper EU alliance
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1wgqken/australia_on_the_same_page_as_canada_as_it_seeks/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49712186
Points: 123
# Comments: 103
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Show HN: Hacking a $20 4G wireless hotspot into a texting device
Article URL: https://bkovac.github.io/modem-thing/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49712102
Points: 210
# Comments: 37
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Show HN: Multimeter – Git-native REST client and API tests in VS Code
Article URL: https://mmt.dev/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49711744
Points: 3
# Comments: 0
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Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
See also: Avian Visitors - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343424 - May 2026 (20 comments)
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49711544
Points: 2390
# Comments: 267
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LG TVs Snoop Your Local Network, Listen To You When ‘Off’
LG hasn’t been making many friends lately. It annoyed some LG “smart” TV users recently when it tried to force them to use Microsoft’s Copilot AI system. It’s also been force-installing surveillance bloatware on many LG user’s monitors as it ramps up data surveillance and monetization. Now LG is in hot water again, after YouTube […] -
VC isn’t VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital
submitted by alyaza to technology
55 points | 2 comments
https://www.anildash.com/2026/09/02/cancer-capitalWe really, really need to talk about venture capital. Because it’s not “venture capital” anymore.
There’s a huge disconnect between what most people think of VC, where an investor has a big fund and cuts checks to help a founder build a company, and the current reality, where a handful of billionaire extremists use the cover of “VC” to advance an outrageous agenda where they’re accountable to no one.
I’m gonna explain this from a standpoint that almost never gets articulated: I’ve personally raised tens of millions of dollars in venture capital funding as CEO of startups, and been directly involved as a board member or advisor in raising hundreds of millions more. I’ve sat in board rooms, across the table from the people I’m talking about here, or been at the industry events that they frequent. So this isn’t sour grapes because these VCs wouldn’t cut me a check, or some chip on my shoulder about these investors due to a business deal. This is what I know about these bad actors because I’m part of the community of creators and inventors who build the things that they used to invest in — back when they still cared about innovation.
Many of the trends in society and politics that people are most angry about, from data centers being forced down everyone’s throats, to all of our favorite apps and services being enshittified, to politicians being paid to ignore the will of the people, are all being supercharged by these cancer capitalists. They have warped the structure of venture capital into a form of oligarchy that answers to no market, no regulators, and no voters. So it’s worth understanding exactly how they did it.
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I Have to Bury My Talent in Yesterday
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wgii3h/deepseek_engineer_relections_on_rsi_burying_my/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49709746
Points: 3
# Comments: 1
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The Git Cheat Sheet
Article URL: https://devopscycle.com/blog/the-ultimate-git-cheat-sheet
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49709591
Points: 3
# Comments: 1