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Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing Article URL: [https://github.com/eighttrigrams/us-vs-them][1] Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232300][2] Points: 3 # Comments: 0 [1]:

GitHub

GitHub - eighttrigrams/us-vs-them: Line-level provenance for text under agentic editing — who wrote this line, us or them? — derived from version history, not from markup in the file.

Line-level provenance for text under agentic editing — who wrote this line, us or them? — derived from version history, not from markup in the ...

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Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing | Hacker News

GitHub

GitHub - eighttrigrams/us-vs-them: Line-level provenance for text under agentic editing — who wrote this line, us or them? — derived from version history, not from markup in the file.

Line-level provenance for text under agentic editing — who wrote this line, us or them? — derived from version history, not from markup in the ...

Hacker News (Front Page) (RSS/Atom feed) 5 hours ago

Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley Article URL: [https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.1287/orsc.2024.19981][1] Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232318][2] Points: 9 # Comments: 0 [1]: https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.1287/orsc.2024.19981 [2]:

Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud | Hacker News

https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.1287/orsc.2024.19981

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A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample Article URL: [

What's new

1% quasimorphisms and group cohomology

Let $latex {G = (G,+)}&fg=000000$, $latex {H = (H,+)}&fg=000000$ be additive groups (i.e., groups with an abelian addition group law). A map $latex...

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231586][2] Points: 4 # Comments: 0 [1]:

What's new

A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample

A function $latex {f(t) \in L^2({\bf R})}&fg=000000$ of one variable can be translated in space by a spatial shift $latex {x}&fg=000000$ to obtain ...

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A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample | Hacker News

What's new

A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample

A function $latex {f(t) \in L^2({\bf R})}&fg=000000$ of one variable can be translated in space by a spatial shift $latex {x}&fg=000000$ to obtain ...

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Show HN: Today's cities on a globe of Earth's tectonic past and future Article URL: [

Douwe

Unkown project

The project page you are trying to reach does not exist. I killed a bunch of deadprojects which could very well explain this

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231777][2] Points: 4 # Comments: 0 [1]:

Douwe

Tectonic Globe

A rotatable Earth that drags today's countries and major cities through the Merdith 2021 plate reconstruction model, plus a simple future extrapola...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231777

Douwe

Tectonic Globe

A rotatable Earth that drags today's countries and major cities through the Merdith 2021 plate reconstruction model, plus a simple future extrapola...

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Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) Article URL: [https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI][1] Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231809][2] Points: 10 # Comments: 1 [1]:

Hypertext Style: Cool URIs don't change.

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Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) | Hacker News

Hypertext Style: Cool URIs don't change.

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I Wanted to Own the Harness. Then Codex Desktop Won Article URL: [https://jorypestorious.com/blog/portable-agent-factory/][1] Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231838][2] Points: 7 # Comments: 4 [1]:

I Wanted to Own the Harness. Then Codex Desktop Won.

I staged a manifesto about owning my AI harness. Then I canceled Claude Max and moved into Codex Desktop because the integrated system gave me more...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231838

I Wanted to Own the Harness. Then Codex Desktop Won.

I staged a manifesto about owning my AI harness. Then I canceled Claude Max and moved into Codex Desktop because the integrated system gave me more...

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Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM Article URL: [

Notebookcheck - Page not Found!

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232138][2] Points: 13 # Comments: 1 [1]:

Notebookcheck

Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

A new report shows Windows 11's built-in Weather app can consume more than 1 GB of RAM. By comparison, Apple's native Weather app on macO...

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Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM | Hacker News

Notebookcheck

Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

A new report shows Windows 11's built-in Weather app can consume more than 1 GB of RAM. By comparison, Apple's native Weather app on macO...

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Show HN: Vibez – Open-Source Rust Based Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) Article URL: [https://alexanderwanyoike.github.io/vibez/][1] Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232369][2] Points: 4 # Comments: 0 [1]:

vibez: Perform, Arrange, Mix

vibez is an open source DAW for electronic music, written in Rust. Perform a track from a pad grid, arrange what you played on a timeline, and mix ...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232369

vibez: Perform, Arrange, Mix

vibez is an open source DAW for electronic music, written in Rust. Perform a track from a pad grid, arrange what you played on a timeline, and mix ...

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Every fast write moves work somewhere else Article URL: [https://www.shayon.dev/post/2026/220/every-fast-write-moves-work-somewhere-else/][1] Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232410][2] Points: 4 # Comments: 0 [1]:

Shayon Mukherjee

Every fast write moves work somewhere else

A database write can stop after memory, a local SSD, an object PUT, or a replicated WAL. Each choice changes latency, durability, and who owns the ...

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Every fast write moves work somewhere else | Hacker News

Shayon Mukherjee

Every fast write moves work somewhere else

A database write can stop after memory, a local SSD, an object PUT, or a replicated WAL. Each choice changes latency, durability, and who owns the ...

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Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change Article URL: [https://82mhz.net/posts/2026/08/tech-sucks-you-have-to-vote-with-your-wallet-or-nothing-will-change/][1] Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232570][2] Points: 23 # Comments: 8 [1]:

Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change - 82MHz

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232570

Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change - 82MHz

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Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's Article URL: [https://theconversation.com/taxi-drivers-rarely-die-of-alzheimers-how-complex-mental-maps-and-spatial-reasoning-protect-your-brain-286650][1] Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232253][2] Points: 7 # Comments: 0 [1]:

The Conversation

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer’s – how complex mental maps and spatial reasoning protect your brain

Working with and living in spatially complex environments may help delay cognitive decline, though more research is needed.

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Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's | Hacker News

The Conversation

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer’s – how complex mental maps and spatial reasoning protect your brain

Working with and living in spatially complex environments may help delay cognitive decline, though more research is needed.

Hacker News (Front Page) (RSS/Atom feed) 6 hours ago

Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone Article URL: [

$1.1-Billion Streets of Monaco Yacht Doubles as Private Island - TechEBlog

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232110][2] Points: 6 # Comments: 0 [1]:

A Falling Weight Just Broke the Sound Barrier with Tom Stanton's Supersonic Trebuchet - TechEBlog

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Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone | Hacker News

A Falling Weight Just Broke the Sound Barrier with Tom Stanton's Supersonic Trebuchet - TechEBlog

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Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy Article URL: [https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/historian-jill-lepore-says-the-tech-industry-is-led-by-bad-readers-who-are-undermining-democracy/][1] Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232221][2] Points: 7 # Comments: 0 [1]:

TechCrunch

Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy | TechCrunch

On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about "government by machines" and why Elon Musk is a bad science fiction reader.

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Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy | Hacker News

TechCrunch

Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy | TechCrunch

On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about "government by machines" and why Elon Musk is a bad science fiction reader.

Hacker News (Front Page) (RSS/Atom feed) 6 hours ago

John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978) Article URL: [https://kibotronics.net/unlisted/lilly-machines/][1] Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231397][2] Points: 4 # Comments: 0 [1]:

Kibotronics

Lilly's message | Kibotronics

From John C. Lilly’s “The Scientist: A Metaphysical Autobiography” 1978 In the isolation tank with K1, John received a new message as follows...

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John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978) | Hacker News

Kibotronics

Lilly's message | Kibotronics

From John C. Lilly’s “The Scientist: A Metaphysical Autobiography” 1978 In the isolation tank with K1, John received a new message as follows...

Hacker News (Front Page) (RSS/Atom feed) 7 hours ago

Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution Article URL: [https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/12/gas-propane-stoves-nitrogen-dioxide-exposure-health-risks-switching-electric][1] Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230424][2] Points: 8 # Comments: 2 [1]: https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/12/gas-propane-stoves-nitrogen-dioxide-exposure-health-risks-switching-electric [2]:

Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution (2025) | Hacker News

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/12/gas-propane-stoves-nitrogen-dioxide-exposure-health-risks-switching-electric

Hacker News (Front Page) (RSS/Atom feed) 7 hours ago

70% of AI revenue comes from OpenAI and Anthropic Article URL: [ Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230605][2] Points: 17 # Comments: 1 [1]: [2]:

70% of AI revenue comes from OpenAI and Anthropic [video] | Hacker News

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Why Wall Street Is Ignoring Big Tech's Debt Article URL: [ Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230630][2] Points: 21 # Comments: 2 [1]: [2]:

Why Wall Street is ignoring big tech's debt [video] | Hacker News

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Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5 Article URL: [https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem/tree/op2-rv32][1] Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230891][2] Points: 8 # Comments: 0 [1]: