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Six million fake stars, $0.06 per click, and a VC funding pipeline that treats GitHub popularity as proof of traction. We ran our own analysis on 20 repos and found the fingerprints.

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· 4mo ago

The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription: https://thoughts.hmmz.org/2026-05-31.html

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345896

thoughts.hmmz.org

The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription

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Hacker News 250 points @newsyc250@toot.community

· 4mo ago

AI is slowing down: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-slowing-down/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48446893

wheresyoured.at

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Hacker News 250 points @newsyc250@toot.community

· 4mo ago

Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/08/apple-reveals-new-ai-architecture/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48450142

macrumors.com

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· 4mo ago

How much of Thermo Fisher's antibody data has been manipulated?: https://reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/how-much-of-thermo-fishers-antibody-data-has-been-manipulated/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442075

reeserichardson.blog

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· 4mo ago

My Agent Skill for Test-Driven Development: https://www.saturnci.com/my-agent-skill-for-test-driven-development.html

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48398925

saturnci.com

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· 4mo ago

A 10 year old Xeon is all you need: https://point.free/blog/gemma-4-on-a-2016-xeon/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48353348

point.free

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Hacker News 250 points @newsyc250@toot.community

· 4mo ago

Show HN: Performative-UI – a react component library of design tropes: https://vorpus.github.io/performativeUI/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48445554

vorpus.github.io

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Hacker News 250 points @newsyc250@toot.community

· 4mo ago

Siri AI: https://www.apple.com/apple-intelligence/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48449084

apple.com

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Hacker News 250 points @newsyc250@toot.community

· 4mo ago

1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices: https://prismml.com/news/bonsai-image-4b

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346257

prismml.com

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· 4mo ago

Creatine raise brain energy levels and slow Alzheimer's cognitive decline by 30%: https://thesciverse.org/scientists-found-that-the-creatine-supplement-millions-take-for-muscle-gains-is-quietly-raising-brain-energy-levels-and-slowing-early-alzheimers-cognitive-decline-by-30/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346947

thesciverse.org

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· 4mo ago

WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/white-house-proposes-new-rules-giving-political-appointees-final-say-on-research-grants/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48331511

scientificamerican.com

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· 4mo ago

NPM packages from RedHat have been compromised: https://github.com/RedHatInsights/javascript-clients/issues/492

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48356625

github.com

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· 4mo ago

A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center: https://www.404media.co/a-farmer-donated-land-to-turn-into-a-park-the-city-is-building-a-massive-data-center-instead/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48446439

404media.co

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· 4mo ago

The Cypherpunk Library: https://www.cypherpunkbooks.com

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442725

cypherpunkbooks.com

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· 4mo ago

Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC: https://www.anthropic.com/news/confidential-draft-s1-sec

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48358646

anthropic.com

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Hacker News 250 points @newsyc250@toot.community

· 4mo ago

Dav2d: https://jbkempf.com/blog/2026/dav2d/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48344961

jbkempf.com

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· 4mo ago

The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python: https://ranpara.net/posts/perceptron-explained-from-scratch/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440064

ranpara.net

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· 4mo ago

APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs: https://teenage.engineering/products/apc-2

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440383

teenage.engineering

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Hacker News 250 points @newsyc250@toot.community

· 4mo ago

New drug 'functionally cures' many hepatitis B virus infections: https://www.science.org/content/article/new-drug-functionally-cures-many-hepatitis-b-virus-infections?user_id=66c4bf745d78644b3aa57b08

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440463

science.org

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Hacker News 250 points @newsyc250@toot.community

· 4mo ago

Chuwi Minibook X: https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2026/05/28/chuwi-minibook-x/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350598

tylercipriani.com

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· 4mo ago

1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse: https://www.troyhunt.com/1000-data-breaches-later-the-disclosure-lag-is-worse-than-ever/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440952

Troy Hunt

1,000 Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag is Worse Than Ever

Today, I loaded the 1,000th data breach into Have I Been Pwned. Reflecting on that milestone number, I pondered how to mark the occasion in writing, and what immediately came to mind was a very simple question: why is it still needed? Especially considering the emergence of privacy regulations

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Hacker News 250 points @newsyc250@toot.community

· 4mo ago

Surveillance Is Not Safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]: https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06-08-uk-surveillance-is-not-safety.pdf

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48450646

signal.org

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· 4mo ago

xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab: https://martinalderson.com/posts/xais-new-rental-business/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48446428

martinalderson.com

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· 4mo ago

Massachusetts bans sale of precise location data in new privacy rights bill: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/08/massachusetts-votes-to-pass-new-privacy-rights-bill-that-bans-sale-of-precise-location-data/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448012

techcrunch.com

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· 4mo ago

The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid: https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-remains-resilient-20-years-after-the-raid/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357154

The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After The Raid * TorrentFreak

torrentfreak.com

The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After The Raid * TorrentFreak

Twenty years ago today, dozens of Swedish police officers stormed a Stockholm data center, seizing The Pirate Bay's servers. The entertainment industry hoped the raid would finish the site for good. Instead, the police action inadvertently helped to create one of the most resilient and iconic websites on the Internet, one that remains online today.

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