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Researchers virtually unwrapped and read PHerc. 1667, a Herculaneum scroll sealed since 79 AD.
Team member fields questions on method, speed, and potential for lost works.
Om Malik, influential tech writer, blogger, and venture partner, has passed away.
Condolences and memories of Om Malik as a kind mentor, incisive writer, and tech industry pioneer.
Mandatory age verification laws are undermining online anonymity and privacy.
Two camps: those seeing age verification as a minor extension of existing surveillance, and those arguing it destroys First-Amendment-protected anonymous speech.
A tool that charts how often any topic trends across 18 years of Hacker News comments and posts.
Broadly positive reception, with requests for normalization and a hug of death.
A web-based port of Half-Life 2 runs in the browser via WASM.
Split on legality: some see clear infringement, others say Valve tolerates it.
Ford rehired veteran engineers after AI tools failed to improve vehicle quality.
Two camps: those seeing AI's limits exposed, and those expecting Ford to repeat the cycle after mining engineers' expertise.
LastPass warns of breach via third-party Klue, exposing CRM data.
Deep skepticism toward LastPass, with many advocating offline alternatives like KeePass.
Marc Seitz accuses Corgi's Nico of stealing Papermark's AGPL-licensed code, not vibe coding it.
Split between those condemning the license violation and those dismissing it as typical startup drama.
Cloudflare now lets all customers create and manage their own OAuth apps for delegated API access.
Debate over whether OAuth for infrastructure access is needed or secure, with camps favoring delegated tokens versus simpler API keys.
IBM announces the world's first sub-1 nanometer chip with a 3D nanostack architecture.
Discussion focused on IBM's commercialization model and the disconnect between node names and physical dimensions.
Major tech firms launch Akrites to defend open source against AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery.
Skepticism over corporate motives and NDA-gated coordination, with concerns about who does the actual patching.
Article body wasn't reachable. HN discussion still summarized.
Mixed reception: impressed by the build but skeptical about differentiation from Obsidian + AI tools.
Democratic and authoritarian states compete to expand mass surveillance capabilities.
Split between those citing poll support for age-verification and those calling polls rigged, plus debate on surveillance efficacy.
Apple will skip high-end M6 Mac chips and release AI-focused M7 Pro, Max, Ultra instead.
Skepticism over Apple's chip skip, with technical analysis of M7 memory bandwidth.
Apple raises MacBook and iPad prices by 20%.
Dominant belief: RAM pricing won't normalize for 18 months.
Zig redefines @bitCast to use logical bit layout and improves LLVM backend integer lowering.
Overwhelmingly positive reception, with practical praise for arbitrary-width integers in emulation and FPGA work.
An AI assistant resisted 6,000+ prompt-injection attempts to leak a secrets file.
Skepticism that the test proves real-world security, citing sample size, nondeterminism, and untested indirect injection.
OS9Map lets you browse OpenStreetMap on Mac OS 9 with search and bookmarks.
Praise for retro development; hardware enthusiasts share their OS 9 setups and upgrades.
Microsoft quietly extends Windows 10 support by one additional year.
Two camps: those welcoming the extension due to high hardware costs, and those recommending Windows 10 IoT LTSC or Linux as longer-term solutions.