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Zanagrams: a free daily word puzzle where the grid shrinks as you solve

Zanagrams is a browser-based daily word game launched as a Show HN. Players drag across a grid of letters to find hidden words, and the grid progressively shrin

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privacycybersecurity

A Research-Backed Tool for Picking the Right Public DNS Resolver

An independent reference site pairs an interactive finder with a comparison table covering 29 global public DNS resolvers, letting you filter by what you actual

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aipolicy

Asian AI labs rush in as US export ban on Anthropic's Mythos drags on

Two weeks after a Trump Administration order barred Anthropic from giving non-Americans access to its cybersecurity-focused Mythos model and the more restricted

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policytech-culture

California Bans Streaming Ads Louder Than Their Shows Starting July 1

California's SB 576, signed by Governor Newsom in October 2025, takes effect July 1, 2026, barring any video streaming service from playing ad audio louder than

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aitech-culture

Claude Code read my MRI and contradicted the doctor's torn-tendon diagnosis

A developer with weeks of shoulder pain got an MRI at a clinic that diagnosed a Grade III partial-thickness tear of the subscapularis tendon and immediately beg

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policysupply-chain

Connected Vehicle Rule bars Polestar from the U.S. — but clears Geely sibling Volvo

The Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security has denied Polestar the authorization it needs to keep selling cars in the U.S. starting with model ye

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aipolicy

Data Centers Become an Election-Loser as Voters Punish Officials Who Backed Them

Opposition to AI-driven data center projects is hardening into a decisive voting issue in U.S. local and state races. In Utah, State Senate President J. Stuart

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tech-cultureopen-source

Decomp Academy teaches PowerPC reverse engineering by grading your C against a 2001 compiler

Decomp Academy is an interactive course that teaches the craft of matching decompilation — reconstructing C source that compiles, instruction for instruction, i

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aiopen-source

DIY two-node AMD Strix Halo cluster runs big LLMs over RDMA at 5µs latency

A community toolbox documents how to lash two Framework Desktop boards—each built on AMD's Ryzen AI MAX+ "Strix Halo" APU with 128GB of unified memory—into a si

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privacypolicy

EU Pushes Chat Control via Backroom Deals as Activists Relaunch Opposition Site

Digital rights campaigner and former MEP Patrick Breyer is warning of a coordinated two-front effort by EU institutions to revive message-scanning mandates this

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aitech-culture

Ford rehires 350 veteran engineers after AI quality systems backfired

Ford has walked back an aggressive push to replace human expertise with automated quality control, rehiring more than 350 senior engineers—internally nicknamed

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tech-culturedevops

How communism, Ctrl+S, and Windows conspired to eat Poland's Ś on Medium

A Medium user reported a bug that made no sense: writing in Polish, every character typed fine except Ś, which simply vanished — and only on Medium. The cause t

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