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This Week In Techdirt History: September 20th – 26th
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Lunex Stealer Abuses AMD Driver to Disable Security Monitoring and Steal Browser Credentials
Reply sourceLunex Stealer Abuses AMD Driver to Disable Security Monitoring and Steal Browser Credentials
The Psychedelic Stealer malware distributed via compromised Ukrainian websites using ClickFix-style Cloudflare verification checks is part of a wider malware-as-a-service (MaaS) platform called Lunex. ... Read more
Published Date: Sep 26, 2026 (2 days, 18 hours ago)Vulnerabilities has been mentioned in this article.
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A Prophetic Classic About the Dangers of Tech is Back in Print: Paulina Borsook’s Cyberselfish is Truer Now Than When it Was Written 26 Years Ago
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https://lithub.com/a-prophetic-classic-about-the-dangers-of-tech-is-back-in-print/Paulina Borsook saw there was something rotten afoot in Silicon Valley in the 1990s, and in her book Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech, she set out to document and understand a peculiar mindset she saw emerging. Originally published in 2000, Paulina’s observations in Cyberselfish have proved truer now than when it was first written. She saw that the culture of high tech was determinedly anti-government, even as it owed its growth to government subsidization. That tech prioritized the idea of progress and profits and ignored all costs. That it co-opted the language of evolution to make human decisions and power structures seem inevitable. That the industry was hyper-male and tended toward hyper-misogynistic. That its figureheads possessed great wealth but were abysmal at sharing that wealth through philanthropy.
Cyberselfish was published into a moment in which tech and its leaders’ reputations were immaculate and unquestioned. Now we know better. Thanks to a surge of interest in her prophetic insights, Cyberselfish will be reissued this fall to a world that’s finally ready to listen. The following is an excerpt from the new edition.
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Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things
Reply sourceI love making diagrams to help understand, plan, etc. However, the options are (A) auto-placement languages like Mermaid or Graphviz (which don't let me decide how the diagram looks), or (B) software like Draw.io which are powerful but are very time consuming (and inefficient for agents to manipulate).
I wanted to have the benefits of both, where you can define a diagram in a diagram language, but also retain a high degree of control over what the diagram looks like.
I also wanted this to work well for humans and agents.
On the Github link, there's a playground where you can try it out without installation. There's also instructions for a simple npm install and for installing a skill you can use with Claude or other agents.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858513
Points: 411
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A value-based approach to mathematics
Reply sourceArticle URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/26/a-value-based-approach-to-mathematics/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857619
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OpenAI: Astra Model Is Nerfed
Reply sourceArticle URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1wqjxyy/i_thought_the_model_nerf_posts_were_bullshit/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49856405
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Zeta(5) has been proven irrational (also Lean-verified)
Reply sourceArticle URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/mathematics/comments/1woe4gx/a_lean_formalization_of_zeta5_being_irrational/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49855681
Points: 2
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Attackers Bypass WAFs to Exploit Oracle PeopleSoft Flaw and Deploy Web Shells
Reply sourceAttackers Bypass WAFs to Exploit Oracle PeopleSoft Flaw and Deploy Web Shells
Google is warning of renewed mass exploitation of a known security vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft as part of a campaign targeting multiple sectors globally. The ShinyHunters-linked activity involv ... Read more
Published Date: Sep 26, 2026 (3 days, 1 hour ago)Vulnerabilities has been mentioned in this article.
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Some HEP-TH News
Reply sourceArticle URL: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=15881
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49855163
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SharePoint RCE and MikroTik RouterOS Flaws Actively Exploited in the Wild
Reply sourceSharePoint RCE and MikroTik RouterOS Flaws Actively Exploited in the Wild
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added two security flaws impacting Microsoft SharePoint and Mikrotik RouterOS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) ca ... Read more
Published Date: Sep 26, 2026 (3 days, 3 hours ago)Vulnerabilities has been mentioned in this article.
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Chat Control 2.0: Next Tuesday, a permanent decision could be made
Reply sourceArticle URL: https://reddit.com/r/tutanota/comments/1wpyild/next_tuesday_a_permanent_decision_on_chat_control/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854252
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Anybody has experience with maintaining self hosted Git?
Reply sourceI have used github, gitlab and bitbucket etc. Now all of them seems to be training all the code. How do one retain privacy while not paying for enterprise plans?
I know of gitlab offering a self hosted plan, but not really sure if that is worth it and how do we go about it. I am asking for a small team, wherre we don't have dedicated people to manage things like backups, uptime etc manually. we can do it but would ideally see what's the best way. and is there a downside of this approach except for pipelines.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49853952
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The Sleazy World of Reddit Marketing, Everything Is Fake
Reply sourceArticle URL: https://larslofgren.com/reddit-marketing/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49853849
Points: 5
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US being left behind in EV charging speeds as China goes sub-5 min to 70%
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Walgit: A Git server that is one binary in front of an object store
Reply sourceArticle URL: https://github.com/rgodha24/walgithub
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852832
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DC Circuit OK’s Hegseth’s Abuse Of A Crummy Statute To Punish AI Vendors Who Won’t Give Him The Deadly Toys He Wants
Pete Hegseth and Trump got a dubious win today: a 2-1 panel of the DC Circuit found that the designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk was not unlawful. It dismissed Anthropic’s challenge despite (1) a different court having found the exact opposite not that long ago; (2) being predicated on a statutory interpretation […]Reply source -
Cuba Under Siege - In These Times
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The Metric Is Not The Mission: When They Still Understood Us
The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of the platform economy—from the optimism of the early internet to the growing tensions around […]Reply source -
The stupidity and arrogance of GNOME developers (2024)
Reply sourceArticle URL: https://felipec.wordpress.com/2024/03/18/stupid-gnome-developers/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849766
Points: 39
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Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Some Assembly Required
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. To get extended episodes with additional coverage, support us on […]Reply source -
OpenAI Accuses Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Of Paying For, Hiding, And Then Laundering Sketchy Key Evidence In AI Copyright Case
A ton of attention was paid recently to some offhand statements from OpenAI and Microsoft employees that surfaced in filings in the NY Times’ ongoing case against OpenAI, which has been consolidated into a much larger class action lawsuit. As I argued earlier, that struck me as something of a nothingburger of a story, because […]Reply source -
Daily Deal: Interactive Self-Rotating Cat Toy Ball
This Smart & Interactive Self-Rotating Cat Toy Ball is a USB-rechargeable toy featuring 360-degree rolling movements, obstacle avoidance, and changing LED lights to help keep cats entertained. It’s built out of scratch-resistant and bite-resistant materials, the ball is tough enough to withstand rough play from high-energy kittens and adult cats alike. It’s on sale for […]Reply source -
We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians
Reply sourceArticle URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/24/were-gonna-need-a-lot-more-mathematicians/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852717
Points: 405
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YouTube continues global crackdown on ad blockers, targeting mobile third-party apps
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Judge Blocks White House Press Ban; White House Spends Thursday Testing How Much Of The Court Order It Can Violate
On Monday we wrote about Donald Trump’s direct attack on the First Amendment and the free press by banning reporters from the White House. As we expected, a judge on Thursday morning issued a Temporary Restraining Order, blocking the White House from continuing this unconstitutional action, though (as happened the last time Trump tried this) […]Reply source -
Passport Control: How Myanmar’s military regime tracks down dissidents abroad.
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https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/myanmar-junta-passport-restrictionsHnin Aye sat listening with growing concern as the officer called out numbers at the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok. “Why are they skipping me?” she thought. A former schoolteacher, she was waiting to get her passport renewed so she could stay in Thailand where she now lived and studied. A denied renewal could lead to imprisonment in Bangkok, or worse, being forced to return home.
Finally, when there was no one left in the room, the official told her to approach the desk. “You better call the person who has been assisting you,” he said. Hnin Aye, 33, glanced at her small red passport on the table, which she had submitted to the official earlier. It was her most prized possession. She snatched it and left to call her broker. She got lucky, the broker told her later; the embassy officials could have simply canceled her passport.
Hnin Aye is one of hundreds of thousands of civil servants who went on strike after the Myanmar military seized power in a coup in February 2021, overthrowing the democratically elected government. (Hnin Aye is a pseudonym.) The mass strike, known as the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), hoped to topple the regime through non-violence. The strike has undermined the junta’s ability to provide public services. Many hospitals and most public schools were completely shut following the coup, and many remain closed today, while others limp on with limited capacity. After the political crisis escalated to civil war, some who quit their jobs as part of the strike became civil servants in rebel territories, which are ruled through a patchwork of decentralized governments. Others fled the country entirely to escape persecution and to find new work as the economy collapsed.
Hnin Aye is one of an estimated 4 million Myanmar people living in Thailand, roughly half of whom crossed the border in 2023 and the first half of 2024 alone. She’s been able to live relatively freely in Thailand, attending university and traveling for conferences and academic workshops. But her seemingly normal life is clouded by constant anxiety over the possibility of being sent back home.
The junta has tried to compel civil servants living in Myanmar to come back to work. It has threatened family members of dissidents, expelled strike participants from government housing and even brutally murdered some. (In 2022, a teacher was publicly beheaded by the junta in central Myanmar, where resistance to the military is fierce.) The junta promises amnesty, but most greet this with skepticism.
The military has exerted pressure on those outside the country through their passports. Myanmar passports are only valid for five years, which means that anyone who applied for a travel document right after the coup in 2021, including Hnin Aye, must now get it renewed. Many choose to make use of a corrupt brokerage system, where people with connections in the foreign ministry and other regime appendages facilitate large bribes for new, and sometimes fake, documentation. But it is by no means a guarantee, especially as the junta expands a digitalized system to track, restrict and repress its citizens. Identity and statehood have become a new weapon.
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The Rise and Fall of Tech Worker Power
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https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-rise-and-fall-of-tech-worker-power/When we were hired by the United Electrical Workers to spearhead the union drive at Twitter, it seemed the tech industry might finally be bending to progressive pressure. It was early in 2022, a year after the historic Capitol attacks of January 6, which saw Donald Trump call on his nearly eighty-eight million Twitter followers in an attempt to overturn his electoral defeat to Joe Biden. More and more public outrage was being directed at the tools that had enabled the president to mobilize his supporters. And Twitter, after deleting a series of Trump’s incendiary posts, had taken the most extreme measure of all the major social media platforms by issuing a permanent ban on the sitting president’s account.
Many outside the industry attributed the decision to Silicon Valley’s then-progressive values—management taking a principled stand against an overt attack on democracy—but in reality, it was almost entirely worker-driven. Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s founder and then-CEO, initially hesitated to take action after the Capitol attack. He said to staff that the company was not “the government,” and it was the responsibility of elected officials—not a private platform—to “do the work to right this and bring the country together.” Twitter’s employees, feeling complicit in enabling Trump’s insurrection, pushed management for decisive action. Two days after the sitting president’s self-coup attempt, hundreds of workers delivered an open letter to their employer that demanded Trump’s permanent suspension. “As Trump’s megaphone,” the letter declared, “we helped fuel the deadly events of January 6th.” That internal revolt proved decisive. Twitter’s leadership caved and permanently removed Trump from the platform.
Emboldened by their success and fueled by a newfound sense of solidarity, the group of employees who penned the letter decided to launch a union drive to codify their collective leverage and ensure the platform would never enable events like January 6 again. They had helped safeguard democracy before. This time, they were determined to win it for themselves—and we, joining their drive as dedicated staff, were determined to help them. Clarissa had helped win one of the first tech unions at Kickstarter. JS, meanwhile, had organized graduate students at MIT. By bringing our experience as organizers to Twitter’s campaign, we hoped we could harness the nascent movement’s energy and steer it with some established labor tactics. We knew we were in for a challenge—but we could never have anticipated how quickly the tech elite would dig up the ground from underneath us.
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Claude Code Integration with iTerm2 Is Legitimately Awesome
Reply sourceArticle URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/s/Gsi3XsHEJg
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49846266
Points: 3
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CVE-2026-87902: Critical Vulnerability in WordPress
Reply sourceCVE-2026-87902: Critical Vulnerability in WordPress
vulnerability CVE-2026-87902, a new critical vulnerability in the WordPress core, is already being actively exploited in real-world attacks. Editorial Team September 25, 2026 A critical vulnerability ... Read more
Published Date: Sep 25, 2026 (3 days, 21 hours ago)Vulnerabilities has been mentioned in this article.
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Test
Reply sourceArticle URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoRoyale/comments/1o97pz5/community_reminder_clan_war_invite_competitions/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49845557
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Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red
Reply sourceHey HN! Wanted to share a fun project I've been hacking on. Given Jev can make decisions really fast (but not fast enough to play Doom yet sadly), I wanted to try and push it to play a more complex game than Tetris. So I went with Pokémon.
I've spent endless hours playing this game as a child so building this was a ton of fun.
I open sourced everything in case you want to hack on it yourself here: https://github.com/christianmat/jev-pokemon
The game is being streamed live including the tokens and cost - hopefully we get all the badges and don't get stuck in a cave :)
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49845172
Points: 282
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Trump Republicans Made A Historic Mess Of This Massive Broadband Grant Program
I’ve written a lot this year about how Republicans hijacked the $42.5 billion Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program (created by the 2021 infrastructure bill) and immediately set about weakening oversight standards, eliminating enforcement of stuff like broadband affordability, speed, and equitable deployment, and making it a priority to heavily subsidize Elon Musk for […]Reply source -
I got Opus 5.5 to make a whimsical video ad for my side hustle
Reply sourceArticle URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wptwrk/got_opus_55_to_build_an_advert_for_my_side_hustle/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49843290
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Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git
Reply sourceArticle URL: https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49843174
Points: 363
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Roundcube Webmail SQL Injection-lek misbruikt bij aanvallen
Reply sourceRoundcube Webmail SQL Injection-lek misbruikt bij aanvallen
Een SQL Injection-kwetsbaarheid in Roundcube wordt misbruikt bij aanvallen. Dat laat het Canadese Centrum voor Cybersecurity weten. Roundcube is opensource-webmailsoftware en wordt door allerlei organ ... Read more
Published Date: Sep 25, 2026 (3 days, 22 hours ago)Vulnerabilities has been mentioned in this article.
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Reverse Engineering a Pellet Stove Remote with Codex
Reply sourceArticle URL: https://itunsecurity.wordpress.com/2026/09/25/mcz-musa-2-0-air-an-esphome-remote-for-home-assistant/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49843038
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How to Clone Linux on Windows
Reply sourceArticle URL: https://kant2002.github.io/en/git/hacking/2026/09/25/cloning-linux-on-windows.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49842734
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Roundcube Pre-Auth SQL Injection Flaw Actively Exploited in the Wild
Reply sourceRoundcube Pre-Auth SQL Injection Flaw Actively Exploited in the Wild
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security has warned that a now-patched Roundcube Webmail vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-48842 (CVSS scor ... Read more
Published Date: Sep 25, 2026 (3 days, 23 hours ago)Vulnerabilities has been mentioned in this article.
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New patent suggests tap to pay is coming to your living room
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NCSC meldt actief misbruik van kritiek WordPress-lek: 'Update nu'
Reply sourceNCSC meldt actief misbruik van kritiek WordPress-lek: 'Update nu'
Aanvallers maken actief misbruik van een kritieke path traversal-kwetsbaarheid in WordPress waardoor websites zijn over te nemen, zo meldt het Nationaal Cyber Security Centrum (NCSC). Er is een update ... Read more
Published Date: Sep 25, 2026 (4 days ago)Vulnerabilities has been mentioned in this article.
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Burnham announces plan for new UK center to fight disinformation
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WSO2 and Adobe Commerce Flaws Exploited in Attacks, Added to CISA KEV
Reply sourceWSO2 and Adobe Commerce Flaws Exploited in Attacks, Added to CISA KEV
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), on Thursday, added two critical security flaws impacting WSO2 and Adobe Commerce and Magento to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (K ... Read more
Published Date: Sep 25, 2026 (4 days, 5 hours ago)Vulnerabilities has been mentioned in this article.
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Promises Made, Promises Broken: RFK Jr. Keeps COVID Vaccines From Children
The velocity with which RFK Jr. continues to break the promises he made during his confirmation hearings is simply incredible. As we get further and further away from those hearings, which amazingly occurred only 21 months ago, we may lose sight of the assurances Kennedy gave directly to Congress about his plans if appointed to […]Reply source -
YouTube Announces A/B Testing for Video Contents
Reply sourceArticle URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1wog7nq/youtube_announces_ab_testing_for_videos/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49839746
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Vitvm: Git for VM State
Reply sourceArticle URL: https://github.com/numinous-technology/vitvm
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49837568
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Teen Sadness And Suicidal Thoughts Keep Falling, Even As Kids Keep Scrolling
Over the last few years, it has become accepted knowledge that the internet — mainly social media and, lately, AI tools — was damaging the mental health of kids and increasing the suicide rate among that demographic. To hear the media and politicians talk about it, this was the biggest issue on the planet and […]Reply source -
Redditor Connects an AMD GPU to a MacBook Pro
Reply sourceArticle URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1woutxp/macbook_pro_m5_max_lse_llm_running_an_amd_radeon/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49837324
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Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance
Reply sourceHi there. My name is Paul. I’m a developer, an explorer and I’ve got ADHD. As of the beginning of August, I’m also unemployed.
This last part, along with everything else this past year, has caused me a great deal of stress.
While our balcony zen garden project is yet to be completed, I had an idea to create a virtual one that everyone can use.
It's an idea that, unfortunately, I’ve been postponing for a while now, mostly because I have no fucking idea how to do it as I don’t know JavaScript, and I don't have the capacity to learn it right now.
So I let perfect be the enemy of good and, well... just kept the idea to myself.
Then I said "fuck it" and used AI to make the thing I really wanted to make.
I realized I didn't want "perfect". I wanted "good enough".
I tweaked, added, removed, drew, researched, questioned, tested... I just wasn't the one coding it.
So now, instead of occupying my brain, it now lives on the internet for others to enjoy.
Yes, there’s something noble about making something entirely on your own, but what good is an idea that just sits in my head?
So here I am. I made the thing. The weird, little, quiet koi pond.
The silly project of passion. The little corner of the internet to let strangers watch fish quietly, together.
I hope this pond helps you as much as it helped me.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49837006
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US Mobile CEO on Reddit: 1.1M customers, $1B+ on Warp, 5G SA, QCI 6, satellite
Reply sourceArticle URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/USMobile/comments/1w1kuvb/the_big_beautiful_update_11_million_customers_1b/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836998
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ChatGPT Helped Tumbler Ridge Shooter Focus on Guns, Tactics, and Terror
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https://www.motherjones.com/media/2026/09/chatgpt-tumbler-ridge-mass-shooter-openai/OpenAI’s chatbot fed the school shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre, our investigation reveals.
In June 2025, Jesse Van Rootselaar received an email notification from OpenAI. Van Rootselaar had been using ChatGPT to discuss committing potential acts of violence—including a mass shooting at a shopping mall—and now OpenAI had banned that account. But the troubled teen living in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, was not deterred and soon logged back on with a second account.
In case anybody doubted the corporation that was actively complicit.