Unix: An Oral History(princeton.edu)

105 points by zdw 3 years ago | 20 comments

A Brutal Sex Trade Built for American Soldiers(nytimes.com)

20 points by karaokeyoga 3 years ago | 6 comments

LK-99: The live online race for a room-temperature superconductor(forums.spacebattles.com)

489 points by fofoz 3 years ago | 492 comments

A SpaceBattles forum thread discussing claims of the LK-99 room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor and the online efforts to replicate it.

Discussing CNET’s content-pruning to improve SEO ranking(tedium.co)

128 points by marban 3 years ago | 61 comments

The Eleuther AI Mafia(latent.space)

70 points by swyx 3 years ago | 38 comments

Insurance companies fill their networks with ‘ghost’ therapists(seattletimes.com)

81 points by apwheele 3 years ago | 70 comments

Oneplus phone update introduces hardware anti-rollback(consumerrights.wiki)

406 points by validatori 9 months ago | 240 comments

Consumer Rights Wiki article on OnePlus's January 2026 ColorOS 16.0.3.501 update adding a hardware anti-rollback fuse that blocks downgrades and custom ROMs.

The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app(xdaforums.com)

456 points by Magnusmaster 9 months ago | 542 comments

XDA Forums discussion thread page about hiding root and mods, fingerprint spoofing, and keybox issues to pass Android integrity checks, cited regarding Vietnam's rooted-phone banking ban.

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.

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.

So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe(cole-k.com)

546 points by montroser 3 months ago | 550 comments

Blog post complaining that Reddit now requires users to log in to access the plain-HTML old Reddit interface, citing safety.

Android may soon restrict on-device ADB(kitsumed.github.io)

941 points by shscs911 3 months ago | 459 comments

Blog post warning that proposed Android changes may restrict on-device ADB, affecting Shizuku, libadb, power-user apps and developer setups.