Hacker News Digest
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Lindsey Isaacs, 23, was arrested in Palm Beach, Florida, after a Flock license plate camera placed her black Dodge Durango near a fatal crash that killed three people. Despite witness reports of a ma…
After noticing a CMake tutorial mention that ray-tracers had been written in CMake, I decided to write one in Brainfuck. I implemented fixed-point arithmetic (Q16.16), square root via long division,…
A New Mexico jury found Facebook liable for deceiving users about privacy protections tied to the Cambridge Analytica breach, which harvested data from roughly 87 million profiles. The two-week trial…
A backend engineer at a gig-economy delivery service hit a wall caching route estimates in Redis. Their keys, built from H3 hexagon IDs, never landed in the same hash slot, so every MGET exploded int…
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson pushed back on treating AI agents as autonomous actors with "wills and desires of their own," arguing that the developers who instruct them should bear liability for harm…
Hacker Atlas is an interactive map that visualizes what Hacker News talks about, organizing discussions into 206 topics. It tracks post volumes and trends, showing which subjects are heating up or co…
A new hydrogel contact lens with printed graphene and silver electrodes can measure serotonin in tears at concentrations as low as 72 trillionths of a mole per liter. In tests, serotonin levels dropp…
Ekselio by GPTBeyond is an AI-native financial workflow platform that connects to QuickBooks Online to automate complex accounting tasks. Describe your data transformation in plain English—like 'summ…
Unspin is a game that challenges you to spot fake news by swiping through viral memes and headlines. It presents real and fake stories, from moon tourism to drone birds, and asks you to judge their a…
A developer trains a JEPA-based world model on Pokémon Red to select a starter Pokémon from Professor Oak's lab. The model learns to predict future screen embeddings, but suffers from latent collapse…