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Show HN: Number Checker for WA – Check and Verify WhatsApp Numbershttps://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/number-checker-for-wa-che/iiblpglkglfmefhlcdlcibphegpjfgpo

Check WhatsApp registration in bulk. Import phone numbers and export results to CSV, Excel, or JSON. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49657142 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Show HN: NanoVector – A 120KB zero-dependency vector search engine in C and SIMDhttps://github.com/eminsk/nanovector

Article URL: https://github.com/eminsk/nanovector Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49657006 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Arizona’s lifeline for chip manufacturing is drying uphttps://www.theverge.com/science/993522/water-chip-semiconductor-manufacturing-colorado-river

Arizona, an epicenter for the bipartisan push to revive American chip manufacturing, is about to lose more than a quarter of the water it typically pulls each year from the Colorado River. The 1,400-mile waterway is a crucial lifeline for the region and other western states. A recent federal decision on how to manage its […]

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Packard Bell is back, but there's a catchhttps://www.engadget.com/2252026/packard-bell-acer-back-only-available-europe

If the name Packard Bell sends you back to beige desktop towers, chunky CRT monitors, floppy disks and dial-up modem screeches, Acer has a surprise for you.

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Show HN: Foldelight – the iPhone Duo folding effect the MacBook was owedhttps://lufzle.dev/foldelight

I know the effect makes more sense on the iPhone Duo because of the dual screen, but I wanted something similar on the MacBook: the lid looks like a portal to the real screen. The only app I found that does this charges for it, so it felt like a good thing to ask Astra to build, and I made it OSS. Visual improvements or feature ideas are welcome. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656948 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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Apple's iPhone Handoff feature will cost you $5 a month on T-Mobilehttps://www.engadget.com/2255731/apple-iphone-handoff-5-a-month-on-t-mobile

Apple will release iPhone Handoff with iOS 27 this month, but it will only be available to T-Mobile subscribers in the US at launch.

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Remembering 9/11. And, Vance, Trump urge voters to back Republicans in the midtermshttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/11/g-s1-142846/up-first-newsletter-september-11-remembrance-republican-midterm-convention-scotus-missouri-redistricting

NPR reflects on the events of 9/11 and the toll it left on the U.S. 25 years later. And, President Trump and Vice President Vance's convention speeches urge voters to back the GOP in the midterms.

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Show HN: Light Converter – background removal that runs in the browserhttps://github.com/lightScout/light-converter

Article URL: https://github.com/lightScout/light-converter Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656814 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Catherine sees how her charity climb funds are helping hospitalhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8e6pkkd04o

The Princess of Wales completed the climb in aid of the hospital where she was treated for cancer.

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Show HN: Hopya – Open-Source Project Management Platformhttps://github.com/wnzn/hopya

Article URL: https://github.com/wnzn/hopya Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656775 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Moonshot serves Claude instead of Kimi and collects exchanges for model traininghttps://twitter.com/DavidAgranovich/status/2098168522862215449

Article URL: https://twitter.com/DavidAgranovich/status/2098168522862215449 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656698 Points: 7 # Comments: 0

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Israel says it has destroyed major underground Hezbollah basehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gl92lw8vpo

The powerful blast registered as the equivalent of a magnitude 4.1 earthquake, according to the US Geological Survey.

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Show HN: See 100 charts while your coffee brewshttps://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/autochart/lmpchccnfifkhkeopejnfjnjmbjcfgap

AutoChart auto-scrolls your TradingView watchlist, hands-free. Set an interval, press Start, and scan 100 charts while your coffee brews. Your drawings and indicators stay untouched. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656639 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Instagram's head says engagement falls by half without the algorithmhttps://thenextweb.com/news/mosseri-instagram-algorithm-opt-out-engagement-australia

Article URL: https://thenextweb.com/news/mosseri-instagram-algorithm-opt-out-engagement-australia Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656564 Points: 12 # Comments: 4

The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborativehttps://www.researchagenda.news/articles/the-waymo-effect.html

Article URL: https://www.researchagenda.news/articles/the-waymo-effect.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656496 Points: 23 # Comments: 2

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RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagreehttps://quesma.com/blog/does-rtk-make-ai-coding-cheaper

Article URL: https://quesma.com/blog/does-rtk-make-ai-coding-cheaper/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656471 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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Cliff Stoll’s DEF CON Talkhttps://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/cliff-stolls-def-con-talk.html

In August, Cliff Stoll gave a talk at DEF CON, remembering the wily hacker he stalked forty years ago. Great fun.

Insta360 launches a single-lens Osmo Pocket rival you can actually buy in the UShttps://www.theverge.com/gadgets/993837/insta360-luna-pro-steadicam-gimbal-release-price-specs

Insta360's first compact steadicam, the Luna Ultra, made a splash this year by beating DJI to launch with two lenses. Now it's followed the Ultra with a slightly stripped back Pro model, which drops to one lens but has a unique advantage: it can shoot vertical video in 4K. Plus, unlike DJI's Osmo Pocket 4, […]

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Show HN: You can't read every ToS, but the clanker canhttps://github.com/PAndreew/termsinator

Termsinator is a public registry of LLM-performed analyses of public legal documents like ToSs, Privacy policies, Cookie policies, etc. The goal of this project is to help people better understand how their data will be used, and what potential pitfalls they need to avoid. Why? You know that feeling of enlightenment and sense of control after you've red dozens of pages of legal mumbo-jumbo before subscribing to a service? Yeah, neither do I (well, maybe some of you do and mad respect for that). I've been encountering more and more reports on how corporations abuse ToSs, Privacy policies and t…

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8 Best Travel Adapters (2026): 20+ Models Testedhttps://www.wired.com/gallery/best-travel-adapters

When going abroad, the right plugs are essential to keep your gadgets charged. These are my favorite travel adapters and chargers that I’ve tested myself.

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Buddhist monk arrested in suspected $3m embezzlement scandalhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yjkxlngjyo

Thai police also arrested a suspected female accomplice with whom the monk, who had taken a vow of celibacy, was filmed having sex.

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Claude is no longer available for minorshttps://support.claude.com/en/articles/15171100-age-assurance-on-claude

Article URL: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15171100-age-assurance-on-claude Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656225 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Quickly generate and explain complex shell commandshttps://crates.io/crates/watn

Hi everyone, as I spent a substantial amount of time in the console, even today, i sometimes need to think of some complex combination of git/find/ffmpeg/xargs and friends and so i've been using https://github.com/kagisearch/ask for some time. Since it appears to be unmaintained i started my own version (yes, thanks to some LLMs work) and i am quite happy with it. It appears to have gained a lot more features than i initially thought but there it is. My personal highlights are: - can install shortcuts for bash/fish/zsh for pressing CTRL-W and having the current prompt replaced with the "answe…

I Fixed a Tractor Using John Deere’s Self-Repair Service. Farmers Aren’t Sold on Ithttps://www.wired.com/story/i-fixed-a-tractor-john-deere-self-repair-service

The agricultural machine manufacturer has a subscription service that lets owners repair their own equipment. Why is barely anybody using it?

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We Tried the Most Popular Mushroom Coffees. These Are the Best (2026)https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-mushroom-coffee

β€œCoffee” made with functional mushrooms like lion’s mane and chaga is all the rage. We tried the most popular brands to find which were the most palatable.

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Hull's Thomas unhurt after car crashhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn8m2p4dmjro

Premier League winger Sorba Thomas's Land Rover overturns on Millhouse Woods Lane in Cottingham.

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The Trump Alien β€˜Disclosure Speech’ Rumors Are Reaching a Fever Pitchhttps://www.wired.com/story/the-trump-alien-disclosure-speech-rumors-are-reaching-a-fever-pitch

The US government has been sharing more information about UFOs. That's fueling excitement over the possibility of the president announcing that humans are not alone.

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Show HN: Arcstone – Fail-closed local runtime with sub-12ms execution boundshttps://github.com/trencinodin-stack/arcstone-continuity-core

Article URL: https://github.com/trencinodin-stack/arcstone-continuity-core Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656045 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Resist "AI"https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-v026/x/t

Article URL: https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-v026/x/t/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656033 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

The Trial of Romeo Oscar review – Ayckbourn goes back to the future with android accused of murderhttps://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/sep/11/the-trial-of-romeo-oscar-review-alan-ayckbourn-stephen-joseph-theatre-scarborough

Stephen Joseph theatre, Scarborough The playwright explores our relationship with technology, asks if robots have souls and even questions the value of art in this sci-fi courtroom drama For play number 92, Alan Ayckbourn returns to his preoccupation of exploring where we as a species are heading through a science-fiction lens. He goes back to the future. In The Trial of Romeo Oscar, the playwright famed for his domestic comedies looks to the year 2194 when humans have spread about the galaxy and androids live alongside us. One of them, RSDO83, is on trial for the murder of a teenage girl in…

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Polanski selected as Green Party candidate for Starmer's former seathttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqxvzpg82yvo

The Green Party leader said the party is the "underdog" in Holborn and St Pancras but "can win".

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US diesel prices soar past $6 a gallon, deepening strain for hauling everyday goodshttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/11/g-s1-142842/us-diesel-6-a-gallon

Diesel prices in the U.S. has hit yet another record, soaring past $6 a gallon on average as Washington's war with Iran disrupts the world's flow of fuel

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Apple addresses iPhone Duo copycatshttps://www.theverge.com/tech/993795/apple-addresses-iphone-duo-copycats

Apple was far from the first company to announce a passport-shaped folding phone this year, but that doesn't mean it wasn't copied. As my colleague Dom Preston already explained, it's almost impossible to keep product development secret when Apple and its competitors all share the same global suppliers. Apple's new CEO John Ternus and head […]

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How 9/11 Made Everyone a Conspiracy Theoristhttps://www.wired.com/story/conspiracy-how-9-11-broke-americas-brain

Crackpot theories were once the stuff of shortwave radio, but September 11 unleashed the Age of Alex Jones.

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Read the Bits, Not the Integer: msPKI-Certificate-Name-Flag and the ESC4‍ESC1 Chainhttps://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1wdbsor/read_the_bits_not_the_integer

Stop using static integers to hunt for AD CS vulnerabilities. If your cheat sheet says msPKI-Certificate-Name-Flag == 1 , you are missing complex attack paths. Published my field notes on why we need to read the bits, not the integer. submitted by /u/thesecretmyth [link] [comments]

Show HN: What happened to 14,229 launches from Show HN, YC and Product Hunthttps://www.buildorskip.com

Article URL: https://www.buildorskip.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49655758 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Browse PC Parts on Amazon.com without distractionshttps://findpcpart.com/products

I've built a website where you can browse PC parts from Amazon without distractions and clutter. Most people, like myself, value more information and a clear way to find products than being bombarded with irrelevant stuff like "hey buy this item too" or "people also buy this" Sometimes you need to scroll too far down just to see actual specs. So I decided to make it simple, just a list of products and some filters to find what I need. If you value a distraction free, no clutter way to find what you need, check it out: https://findpcpart.com In the future, I plan to extend it and provide more…

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Multitenancy with .NET and EF Core: A Deep Dive (.NET 10)https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1wdbhz3/multitenancy_with_net_and_ef_core_a_deep_dive_net

Ever had a multi-tenant SaaS app where the only thing stopping Customer A from seeing Customer B's invoices is a Where TenantId == clause someone remembered to write? In this deep dive I build real tenant isolation into EF Core 10 - two real tenants with real registration, login and invite flows (no dev-token shortcuts), a named global query filter that scopes every query automatically, and a SaveChangesAsync override that stamps TenantId on every insert so it's never left unset. I also show the one gotcha that makes EF Core 10 worth the upgrade for this: named query filters, so tenant isol…

The Death of Shame Is Tearing Us Aparthttps://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/the-death-of-shame-is-tearing-us-apart

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/the-death-of-shame-is-tearing-us-apart Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49655619 Points: 5 # Comments: 3

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The US and Mexico Announce They’re Teaming Up Against Droneshttps://www.wired.com/story/us-and-mexico-announce-teaming-up-against-drones

The new joint operation uses laser-based technology capable of detecting, tracking, and disabling commercial drones linked to human and drug trafficking.

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'My experience of tragedy on 9/11 gave me a second family'https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3d7pmxgrz5o

Louise Rayner is still friends with the wife and children of Bob Lawrence, who died in South Tower.

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Bed at 6:45am - US Open semi-finalists fight effects of late-night finisheshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/articles/crk3jjp2l35o

New York is known as the city that never sleeps. But that comes at a price for US Open stars - including men's semi-finalists Ben Shelton and Alexander Zverev.

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Raiding the past: Lara Croft relives her first adventure in Legacy of Atlantishttps://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/sep/11/tomb-raider-legacy-of-atlantis-lara-croft-remake

We have a first play of the forthcoming Tomb Raider remake and speak with its developers. Can they improve on the gameplay without losing what made the 1996 original such a classic? We join Lara Croft in St Francis’ Folly – inspired by the Unesco-listed monasteries of Meteora in Greece – as the light shines through the cracked ceiling and a flock of bats glide across the vast ruins below. When Lara leaps down to the monastery’s crumbling pillared courtyard, it becomes clear that these screeching, leathery creatures aren’t just set dressing. As they lurch towards her with unpredictab…

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The Mic Is On. So Is Live Auto-Tune.

The girl group Flo performing in London last year. The Grammy-nominated trio typically use some level of live Auto-Tune to smooth out their vocals, they said.

Elon Musk Has Pledged to Rid His Platform, X, of Child Sexual Abuse, but It Persists

Elon Musk bought X, which was then known as Twitter, in 2022 and vowed to remove child sexual abuse material from the site, calling it β€œPriority #1.”

Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyonehttps://www.wired.com/story/why-so-many-ai-researchers-think-the-machines-could-kill-everyone

A combination of rapid advances, recursive self-improvement, and agentic swarms are genuinely β€œspooking people” inside big labs.

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They cleaned up ground zero. Now many are hiding from ICEhttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/11/nx-s1-5965553/ground-zero-sept-11-undocumented-immigrants

After 9/11, thousands of rescue and cleanup crews went to work at ground zero. They were exposed to toxic debris and experienced psychological trauma. Today, many say they live in fear of deportation.

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From DOGE to space lasers, Alex Gibney peels back the many layers of Elon Muskhttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/11/nx-s1-5962167/alex-gibney-elon-musk-documentary-review

In the Oscar-winning filmmaker's latest documentary, director Alex Gibney investigates the rise of Elon Musk and says what's behind Musk's success are distressing truths.

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Meet the under-35s shaping the future of biotechhttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/11/1143834/meet-the-under-35s-shaping-the-future-of-biotech

Every year, MIT Technology Review puts together a list of some of the brightest and best young minds working across science and technology. Our 35 Innovators Under 35 are the ones to watchβ€”people whose research and technical work stands to shape the future of their fields. This year, the list includes nine people who are…

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Empty seats, socialism and Trump dominate the Republican midterm conventionhttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/11/nx-s1-5962848/republican-convention-trump-dividend-vance-midterms

The two day Republican convention in Dallas showcased the party's biggest asset in trying to win competitive midterm races and its greatest obstacle: President Trump.

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Trump administration allows TPS to continue for Salvadorans – for nowhttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/11/nx-s1-5963930/tps-salvadorans-immgiration

The Trump administration declined this week to terminate TPS for Salvadorans, even though it has done so for people from other countries like Haiti and Syria. But it also hasn't said whether it will extend the protection in the future.

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On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, a divided U.S. gathers to remember and grievehttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/11/nx-s1-5961366/9-11-memorial-events

The U.S. marks the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Events will honor those lost, at a time when Americans are divided about the meaning and legacy of the terrorist attacks.

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Samsung Galaxy S26 FE Review: Same as Before, but for More Moneyhttps://www.wired.com/review/samsung-galaxy-s26-fe

Samsung is resting on its laurels with the midrange S26 FE, with an unwelcome price bump and only a new processor to show for it.

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The U.S.-Canada trade war is creating a headache for auto-parts makershttps://www.npr.org/2026/09/11/nx-s1-5961530/canada-trade-war-auto-parts-supply-chain

For decades, the U.S. and Canadian auto supply chains have been tightly woven together. The trade war is threatening to unravel a complex system.

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Show HN: Beautiful Markdown rendering in your terminalhttps://github.com/spencerldixon/lime

Hey HN, I’ve been cobbling together a tool to read beautifully formatted markdown without leaving my terminal. Lime renders markdown in the terminal with actual formatting - big headers, syntax highlighted code, mermaid diagrams, all drawn using Ghostty’s Kitty graphics protocol support. It picks up your terminal’s native theme and you can jump between headings, pull up a table of contents to search and jump to sections of your document. It’s macOS and Ghostty for now, the document lives in scroll back and we use Apple Events to ask Ghostty jump around the scroll back instead of re-re…

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Show HN: Jscpd start support type2/type3 cloneshttps://github.com/kucherenko/jscpd

jspcd - copy/paste detector that detect clones in programming source code, starts from v5.2 jscpd supports detection for renamed variables, edited clones with few lines inserted and detect code clones fro similar structure. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49655375 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: FOSS browser-based visual Kegel trainer for menhttps://kegeltrainer.net

Hey, HN. Long time reader; first submission. I read HN daily and greatly enjoy looking at the projects that people are working on. I find the single-page websites particularly fun and decided to make one of my own. KegelTrainer.net is a visual Kegel trainer for men with configurable settings based on clinically recommended protocols. It’s ready to go instantly with no login. I made this tool because I do Kegels myself as a man of a certain age and wanted an easy way to track hold times and reps. Most of what’s currently out there seems to involve upsells and/or data collection. This tool…

Son charged with murdering parents in own homehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c23x7948enlo

Yasin Leli, 46, is charged with two counts of murder after his parents, 80 and 78, were found stabbed.

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Cherenkov Radiation - traveling faster than lighthttp://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/what-is-cherenkov-radiation

Article URL: http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/what-is-cherenkov-radiation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49655286 Points: 11 # Comments: 0

CSA Zero Trust Microsegmentation Guidance - formalizes topology-defined vs. connection-defined segmentation modelshttps://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1wdaeny/csa_zero_trust_microsegmentation_guidance

Disclosure: I led this workstream at the Cloud Security Alliance. CSA published new guidance on Zero Trust Microsegmentation. Sharing here because the framing is more precise than most vendor material on this topic, and I think the model split is useful even if you disagree with parts of the paper. Core definition used throughout: a communication is "segmented" only if it's explicitly permitted, enforceable, observable, and governable over time - not just blocked by default or isolated by network position. Two models, formally separated: Topology-defined segmentation: enforcement based on net…

Show HN: Reversing a ClickFix malware with a blockchain-based C2https://github.com/v-pun215/Tourmaline

Article URL: https://github.com/v-pun215/Tourmaline Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49655228 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Neijuanhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neijuan

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neijuan Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49655176 Points: 8 # Comments: 1

Show HN: Updog.link – a URL shortener you can run for freehttps://whats.updog.link

Hi HN. I half-built a dumb link-shortening service in 2020 on API Gateway and DynamoDB, and never finished it, but that didn't stop me from registering an 'updog'-themed domain for it. I forgot about it until tonight and decided it was worth finishing this tool from a bygone era. I scrapped everything and moved to more modern tools: one script on a Cloudflare Worker, with the links (and the Terraform state) in R2. You can use what I'm hosting if you want, or clone it and deploy your own. Here are some of the characteristics: It's free-ish. It runs on Cloudflare's free tier, which serves somet…

Anthropic blocks possible attempt to use AI to make biological weaponshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2zrrpkx20o

The revelations in Anthropic's threat intelligence report come after a former top researcher at the company warned of the risks of AI to humanity.

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US diesel hits record $6 a gallon on Iran supply shockhttps://www.ft.com/content/ebfa69a3-323b-450d-8bfd-0b12e01d2a5b

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/ebfa69a3-323b-450d-8bfd-0b12e01d2a5b Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49655012 Points: 11 # Comments: 0

In my coding game, you can learn how to program traffic lights! I have finally released a demo! Let me know what you think.https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1wd9tip/in_my_coding_game_you_can_learn_how_to_program

I originally built the first prototype for a university to train engineers. I would love to know what you think of the demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3987060 submitted by /u/AdSad9018 [link] [comments]

Hall signs new contract with Newcastle until 2031https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ce9e3d5exp8o

Newcastle United defender Lewis Hall signs a new contract with the club that runs until 2031.

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