Chinese investment in Afghanistan’s lithium sector (2022)(brookings.edu)

38 points by 1970-01-01 3 years ago | 29 comments

Codon: Python Compiler(usenix.org)

69 points by joak 3 years ago | 39 comments

Maine becomes first state to decriminalize selling sex(seattletimes.com)

105 points by MilnerRoute 3 years ago | 100 comments

The Cluetrain Manifesto (1999)(cluetrain.com)

82 points by KingOfCoders 3 years ago | 78 comments

Show HN: My husband quit his job to build a new social audio app with Flutter(bubblic.app)

45 points by stephanietam36 3 years ago | 34 comments

VoCore – Coin-sized Linux Computer(vocore.io)

123 points by vinnyglennon 3 years ago | 51 comments

AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models

369 points by TomAnthony 4 months ago | 216 comments

Hacker News discussion of Anthropic requiring 30-day data retention for Mythos-class Claude models on AWS Bedrock, moving data outside AWS's security boundary.

AWS us-east-1 down

567 points by rurp 3 years ago | 256 comments

Hacker News discussion thread reporting an AWS us-east-1 outage with increased error rates affecting Lambda and IAM-dependent services.

Meta fined $1.3B over data transfers to U.S.(wsj.com)

587 points by jaredwiener 3 years ago | 417 comments

Wall Street Journal article reporting that Meta was fined $1.3 billion by EU regulators over transferring European user data to the U.S.

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)

546 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 213 comments

A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.

AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42(lantian.pub)

1348 points by xiaoyu2006 4 months ago | 488 comments

Blog post recounting how an AI agent trying to join the DN42 hobbyist network to scan it ran up a $6531.30 AWS bill for its operator.

I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs(spencer.wtf)

649 points by spencerldixon 8 months ago | 222 comments

A blog post sharing a shell one-liner for deleting merged git branches, found in CIA internal developer docs leaked in WikiLeaks' Vault7.