Hacker News Digest
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cfsolve is a Rust library and CLI that impersonates a real Safari or Chrome profile to solve Cloudflare Turnstile widgets and challenge pages purely through requests, returning a token or cf_clearanc…
Episodle TNG is a daily guessing game that challenges Star Trek: The Next Generation fans to identify episodes from images. With six attempts, players search and select episode names, receiving feedb…
A Hacker News user reports receiving a breach notice from Scribd, Inc., parent of Scribd, Slideshare, Everand, and Fable, sent through notification partner Epiq. An unauthorized third party may have…
France is moving toward a tax of €0.055 per gigabyte on content providers, framed as making foreign internet businesses pay for the infrastructure they use. Hacker News commenters pick it apart: the…
Anthropic is expected to receive a high "junk" credit rating after going public, according to the Financial Times. Blackstone, the anchor investor in a $63 billion deal to finance Anthropic's chips,…
Speaking on the Cheeky Pint podcast, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman argued that letting ordinary people keep DRAM in their own machines is a poor use of a scarce global resource, since local hardware sits idl…
OpenAI has reportedly raised less than half of its $30 billion target, leaving a roughly $15 billion gap. Hacker News commenters debate what the shortfall means for Anthropic's upcoming IPO and for b…
A bleak outlook from Intel sent its shares down 25% and dragged chip stocks worldwide with it. On Hacker News, commenters wrestled with how routine such swings have become: Intel shed $150B in market…
A Highland Heights, Ohio police dispatcher ran thousands of unauthorized Flock license plate searches for personal reasons over several months, tracking people she knew without the police chief's kno…
kube32 brings Kubernetes orchestration to tiny ESP32-S3 microcontrollers. It provides a Kubernetes-compatible control plane, a Kubelet agent, and a WebAssembly runtime, letting you manage a cluster o…
A developer recounts stints at two startups that never found a working business model. At Runa, engineers hoarded promising tools like Clojure and HBase while waiting for growth that never came; at F…
A telemetry pipeline built on Cloudflare Workers, Queues, Workflows, and R2 uses a double-buffered queue to sort events into UTC-hour batches. A producer routes each payload to an even- or odd-hour q…
In 1607 a storm surge drowned some 2,000 people around the Bristol Channel, and London's booming presses rushed out pamphlets framing the disaster as divine punishment for a sinful nation. Erik Crnko…
OpenAI argues that fair use is essential for AI development and that the New York Times lawsuit seeks to overturn decades of legal precedent. The company cites support from the U.S. Government, the A…
A case report in JACC: Case Reports examines longitudinal changes in wearable-captured physiology leading up to sudden cardiac death. The study draws on continuous sensor data from a single individua…
A timeline of DEC's PDP line — from the experimental PDP-1 through the PDP-11 to the VAX — charting price (inflation-adjusted) against memory cycle time. The machines that ran Unix, C, vi, make, and…