A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias (2025)(propublica.org)

95 points by georgecmu 8 days ago | 20 comments

ProPublica investigative feature "The Militia and the Mole" about an informant who infiltrated the top ranks of American militia groups like AP3.

Foreign Scammers Use U.S. Banks to Fleece Americans(propublica.org)

91 points by wstrange 1 year ago | 66 comments

Who's Been Impersonating This ProPublica Reporter?(propublica.org)

96 points by hn_acker 6 months ago | 2 comments

The Posse Comitatus Act Explained(brennancenter.org)

9 points by Bluestein 1 year ago | 2 comments

Pope Leo XIV denounces the 'delusion of omnipotence' he says fuels the Iran war(politico.com)

45 points by achierius 6 months ago | 7 comments

How ProPublica Uses AI in Its Investigations(propublica.org)

47 points by marban 1 year ago | 7 comments

Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem(scientificamerican.com)

733 points by pr337h4m 6 months ago | 508 comments

Scientific American article about an amateur who used ChatGPT to prove a 60-year-old Erdős conjecture with a novel method.

Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal(nytimes.com)

557 points by jbegley 1 month ago | 409 comments

New York Times article on a federal judge ruling that the Trump administration's blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal; the capture shows a captcha page.

PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform(github.com)

592 points by doener 3 months ago | 274 comments

GitHub repository for PeerTube, an AGPL-licensed ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform that uses P2P delivery in the browser.

Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

378 points by anarbadalov 1 year ago | 179 comments

MIT Press Reader article recounting the history of Tor, from its origins as a US military research project to a widely used privacy and anonymity tool.

Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules(reason.com)

773 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 385 comments

Reason article reporting that the D.C. Circuit ruled police cannot hold seized property indefinitely after an arrest, calling it unconstitutional.

Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world(news.ucsc.edu)

414 points by XzetaU8 11 months ago | 284 comments

UC Santa Cruz news article reporting research suggesting early developing human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world.