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KOReader: Open-Source E-Reader Homepage Shared to Hacker News

The submission points to the homepage of KOReader, an open-source document and e-book reader best known for running on e-ink hardware such as Kindle, Kobo, Pock

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aicybersecurity

'LLM2HUMAN' Parody Clinic Is a Honeypot Baiting AI Summarizers

A satirical site styled like a mid-1990s GeoCities page (visitor counters, 'Netscape Now!' badges, hold music, a guestbook 'signed by Claude') advertises a fake

via Hacker News ·
aipolicy

New benchmark finds AI agents ignore the policy docs meant to govern them

HANDBOOK.md is a benchmark that tests something most agent evaluations skip: whether a long, binding policy document actually constrains an agent's behavior acr

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aitech-culture

OpenAI teases GPT-5.6 price-performance gains — but no details provided

The source supplied for this item contains only a headline — 'Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6' — pointing to an OpenAI announcement page.

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aicybersecurity

Self-Propagating AI Worm Rides Copilot for Word — No Fix at Disclosure

A security researcher has documented what appears to be the first public case of a self-replicating prompt-injection worm spreading through a mainstream product

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tech-culture

Show HN: CheapFoodMap crowdsources verified sub-$10 meals across US cities

CheapFoodMap is an indie web project that plots inexpensive meals—diner specials, taco spots, sandwich shops, and other 'hidden gems'—on an interactive map, wit

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This item cannot be summarized: the supplied article content contains only the headline ('French musician Kavinsky found dead'), so there is no substantive text

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The muon 'new physics' hint faded — now two proven methods refuse to agree

For a quarter century, the muon — a heavier sibling of the electron — looked like a crack in the Standard Model. Spun inside a magnetic field, the particle wobb

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tech-culturedevops

The Productivity Mirage: Why Great Engineers Beat Great Toolchains

A former Facebook engineer recounts obsessing over an elaborate developer setup — custom Vim syntax highlighting, tmux over mosh, bespoke debugger shortcuts and

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tech-cultureai

Vision Pro's killer app: walking through your unbuilt house in VR

Reddit-app developer Christian Selig describes a genuinely useful role for his mostly-idle Vision Pro: previewing a house he and his partner are building at ful

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tech-culturedevops

Why an Empty List Is 'True': The Logic Behind Python's all()

A short teaching excerpt from the 'Logic for Programmers' project uses Python's all() to illustrate a foundational idea in formal reasoning: identity elements.

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aipolicy

1,178 frontier AI staff urge U.S. to build tools to slow the AI race

A July 2026 open statement signed by 1,178 employees of the leading AI labs — including chief scientists from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta AI, and T

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