Hacker News Digest

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  1. ▲ 693AI Researcher Quits Anthropic: 'Neither Company Is Acting Responsibly'

    Jacob Coxon, who spent three years on pretraining research at OpenAI and Anthropic, has resigned from Anthropic, warning that both companies are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence a…

  2. ▲ 71US to Ban Canadian Dairy, Alcohol, and Motor Vehicle Imports Starting September 29

    The Trump administration will ban imports of certain Canadian alcoholic beverages, motor vehicles, and dairy products starting September 29, according to notices posted on the White House website on…

  3. ▲ 53Reviving phpBB 1.4.4: Running a 2001 Forum in Docker

    phpBB 1.4.4, the last release before the forum software became famous, was built for a different era—PHP 3, register_globals, and a high-trust web. A developer has patched it to run on modern PHP 5 a…

  4. ▲ 33Ask HN: 3.5 inch diskette read errors, would a period correct drive do better?

    I'm experiencing read errors with 3.5 inch diskettes and I'm wondering if using a drive from the same era (period correct) would improve my chances of reading them. I'm seeking advice on hardware and…