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What's Inside the White House App: A Decompilation Teardown

Mar 30

▸ A developer decompiled the White House's new mobile app and published a full technical teardown of its internals — SDKs, APIs, tracking, and architect...

Politics / Regulation Security / Privacy explainer

Voyager 1 Runs on 69 KB of RAM — and It Still Ships Patches

Mar 30

▸ Voyager 1 operates on a custom CMOS CPU running at ~6.4 MHz with 69.63 KB of memory — less than a modern favicon file.

Career / Industry Hardware / Chips explainer

Your Server Doesn't Know Who's Real Anymore

Mar 30

▸ Automated traffic now exceeds human traffic on the open web, and the ratio is accelerating — not plateauing.

Cloud / Infrastructure Backend / APIs Security / Privacy explainer

Judge Blocks Pentagon's Supply Chain Blacklist Move Against Anthropic

Mar 30

▸ A federal district judge issued an injunction blocking the Pentagon from designating Anthropic as a supply chain risk, which would have barred federal...

Defense / GovTech Politics / Regulation AI / ML clear_take

The libGDX Creator's Case for Doing Less, Better

Mar 30

▸ Mario Zechner, creator of libGDX and veteran systems programmer, argues that the industry's obsession with speed actively degrades the quality of what...

Open Source Career / Industry clear_take

Meta Fined $375M — Not for Bad Safety, but for Lying About It

Mar 30
Security / Privacy Politics / Regulation clear_take

Jury Says Instagram and YouTube Were Built to Hook Kids — Now What?

Mar 29

▸ A Los Angeles jury ruled that Meta's Instagram and Google's YouTube were deliberately designed with addictive features targeting children.

Career / Industry Security / Privacy Politics / Regulation clear_take

CERN's 75-Nanosecond AI: When Your Model Has to Fit on a Chip

Mar 29

▸ CERN uses neural networks with 100-1,000 parameters and 6-bit weights, compiled directly into FPGA gate logic via the hls4ml framework, to filter LHC ...

Open Source AI / ML Hardware / Chips explainer

GitLab's Sid Sijbrandij Is Founding Companies While Fighting Cancer

Mar 29

▸ Sid Sijbrandij, who co-founded GitLab and took it to an $11B IPO, is channeling his cancer battle into founding new companies rather than stepping bac...

Open Source Career / Industry clear_take

Reco.ai Rewrote JSONata in a Day With AI — The $500K Question Is Whether You Should Too

Mar 29

▸ Reco.ai claims they replaced the JSONata library with custom AI-generated code in a single day, cutting $500k/year in compute costs.

Cloud / Infrastructure Backend / APIs AI / ML clear_take

Your Old Hardware Still Has Years Left — Stop Replacing It

Mar 29

▸ A blog post arguing against premature hardware replacement hit 608 points on HN, striking a nerve with developers tired of forced upgrade cycles.

Career / Industry DevOps / Platform Engineering Cloud / Infrastructure clear_take

Slovenia Caught Black Cube Running a Social Engineering Op on Its Democracy

Mar 29

▸ Slovenian counter-intelligence caught Israeli private intelligence firm Black Cube deploying operatives posing as fake investors to manipulate a Europ...

Politics / Regulation Security / Privacy clear_take

A 133K-Star Repo Just Leaked the System Prompts of Every AI Coding Tool

Mar 29

▸ A GitHub repo collecting the full system prompts of 30+ AI tools — including Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code, Devin, and Replit — has hit 133K stars, ma...

Security / Privacy Open Source AI / ML explainer

ARC-AGI-3 Drops: Now AI Has to Learn on the Fly, Not Just Pattern-Match

Mar 29

▸ ARC-AGI-3 is the first interactive reasoning benchmark where AI agents must learn novel rules through experimentation, not just static pattern matchin...

Career / Industry AI / ML explainer

EU Parliament Kills Chat Control: Encrypted Messaging Survives

Mar 28

▸ The EU Parliament rejected the 'Chat Control' regulation that would have required platforms like Signal and WhatsApp to scan all messages — including ...

Politics / Regulation Security / Privacy breaking

The Iran School Bombing Wasn't an AI Failure — It Was a Human One

Mar 28

▸ A deadly strike on an Iranian school was widely attributed to an AI targeting system, but a Guardian investigation reveals the root cause lies in how ...

Defense / GovTech Politics / Regulation Security / Privacy multiple_viewpoints

Ente Brings Its E2E Encryption DNA to Local LLM Apps with Ensu

Mar 28

▸ Ente, the open-source encrypted photo storage company, has launched Ensu — a local-first LLM application that runs models entirely on-device with no d...

Open Source Security / Privacy AI / ML explainer

AMD's 9950X3D2 Doubles Down on V-Cache: 208MB in One Socket

Mar 28

▸ AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition stacks 3D V-Cache on both CCDs, delivering 208MB of total cache in a single AM5 chip — roughly 3× what the origina...

Hardware / Chips explainer

Iran-Linked Hackers Breached FBI Director's Personal Email

Mar 28

▸ Iran-linked threat actors compromised FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email accounts, exposing sensitive communications of the nation's top law enf...

Politics / Regulation Security / Privacy breaking

Stanford's Jai Project Says You're Using File Systems Wrong

Mar 28

▸ Stanford researchers show that most applications make unsafe assumptions about file system behavior during crashes, leading to silent data corruption.

Open Source DevOps / Platform Engineering Backend / APIs explainer
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