Hacker News Digest
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- ▲ 123Texas lawmakers added $1 to car insurance. That money built a statewide Flock surveillance network
A $1 fee added to Texas auto insurance policies in 2023 to fight catalytic converter theft has quietly funded at least 3,200 Flock license plate readers across the state, according to a Texas Tribune…
In a candid essay, one of Burning Man's three founders reflects on the festival's evolution from a small anarchist gathering in the Nevada desert to a global phenomenon. Though he hasn't attended sin…
Scientists recorded the highest ocean temperature ever measured on Aug. 22, when the global average sea-surface temperature reached 70°F, according to Europe's Copernicus agency. The previous record…
Dan Luu explains why he spots hundreds to thousands of bugs weekly while most people see none: they're hitting the same issues but not noticing. He argues that curing this 'bug blindness' is crucial…
FreeCORE is an independent continuation of TrueNAS CORE, now at version 15.0-RELEASE. It allows existing TrueNAS CORE 13.3 systems to upgrade in place and continue receiving updates. The project is b…
CPython has added RISC-V as a tier 3 supported platform, marking a significant milestone for the open-source instruction set architecture. The announcement, made by a CPython developer, highlights th…
The Finn is a deliberately unhelpful AI agent that runs entirely on a GL.iNet router. It monitors the local network and hallway, detecting anomalies like unusual traffic, new devices, or failed SSH l…
Python's signal handling model defers user handlers until the interpreter is safe, but reentrancy can still bite: if a signal arrives mid-print, the handler may call print again, triggering a Runtime…
Defragger is a real graphical disk defragmenter for Linux, written in Rust and Qt Quick/Kirigami. It provides a visual block map that shows how files, free space, and metadata are allocated, making t…