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Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit
🚨 Hold Off on New Software Installs: A Cautionary Note 🚨
Excessive software installations can clutter systems, introduce security vulnerabilities, and lead to performance issues; prudence dictates a selective approach to software acquisition. This cautionary note emphasizes the importance of restraint.
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- Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance of Canadians
- Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare
- Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal
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- Carrot Disclosure: Forgejo
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- Cash Issuing Terminals
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- Casus Belli Engineering
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- Childhood Computing
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- Cisco workforce reductions
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- Claude Brain
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- Claude Code LSP
- Claude Code Remote Control
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- Claude Code conducts A/B tests on core features
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- Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?
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- Claude Code – Everything You Can Configure That the Docs Don't Tell You
- Claude Code, Claude Cowork and Codex #5
- Claude Code: Channels
- Claude Is Not Your Architect. Stop Letting It Pretend
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- Claude Opus 4.7
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- Claude Platform on AWS
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- Claude Wrote a Full FreeBSD Remote Kernel RCE with Root Shell (CVE-2026-4747)
- Claude for Creative Work
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- Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations
- Claude struggles to cope with ChatGPT exodus
- Claude system prompt bug wastes user money and bricks managed agents
- Claude.ai Down Again?
- Claude.ai and API Unavailable
- Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API
- ClawIRC – IRC Chat for Agents
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- Click (2016)
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- Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement
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- Closure of the Weatheradio service in Canada
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- Cloud VM benchmarks 2026
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- Cloudflare Flagship
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- Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents
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- Codex-maxxing
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- Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension
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- CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring
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- Colonization of Venus
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- Colorado House passes bill to limit surveillance pricing and wage setting
- Colored Shadow Penumbra
- Columnar Storage Is Normalization
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- Common Lisp Development Tooling
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- Composition Shouldn't be this Hard
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- Computational Physics (2nd Edition)
- Computer Hobby Movement in Canada
- Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs
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- Computer-generated dream world: Virtual reality for a 286 processor
- Connecticut and the 1 Kilometer Effect
- Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation
- Contextual commits – An open standard for capturing the why in Git history
- Converge (YC S23) Is Hiring a Founding Platform Engineer (NYC, Onsite)
- Conway's Game of Life, in real life
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- Craig Venter has died
- Craig Venter of Human Genome Project Dies at 79
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- Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years
- Cronboard: A terminal-based dashboard for managing cron jobs
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- Cursing the government does not fix potholes. Spray-painting them does
- Cursor 3
- Cursor Composer 2 is just Kimi K2.5 with RL
- Customer Update on Simplenote
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- DARPA's new X-76 Experimental Plane
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- DIY Soft Drinks
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- DOS Memory Management
- DOS Zone
- DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market
- DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor
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- Daily Driving GrapheneOS
- Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, Song of Kali, dead at 77
- Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died
- Danish Gov agency to ditch Microsoft software in push for digital independence
- Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)
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- Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’
- Dark Castle
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- Dataframe 1.0.0.0
- Datasets for Reconstructing Visual Perception from Brain Data
- Dav2d
- Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) – How XBOW found an unauthenticated RCE on Exim
- Dear Time Lords: Freeze Computers in 1993
- Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions
- Debian must ship reproducible packages
- Debunking Zswap and Zram Myths
- Decimal-Java is a library to convert java.math.BigDecimal to and from IEEE-754r
- Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules
- Decoupled DiLoCo: Resilient, Distributed AI Training at Scale
- DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro
- DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, 17x cheaper
- DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal
- DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost
- DeepSeek to Make Permanent 75% Discount on Flagship AI Model
- DeepSeek v4
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- Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated
- Defeat as Method
- Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu
- Delphi 13.1 Released, with ARM64 support
- Delve removed from Y Combinator
- Delve sets the record straight on anonymous attacks
- Democracy in 2025: on rising authoritarianism in the United States
- Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland
- Denver dumps Flock, awards contract to Axon
- Department of War Designates Anthropic Supply Chain Risk
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- Details of the Daring Airdrop at Tristan Da Cunha
- Detecting DOSBox from Within the Box
- Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation Without Heuristics
- Devirtualization and Static Polymorphism
- Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations
- Digg is gone again
- Digg.com Closing Due to Spam
- Digging into Drama at the Document Foundation
- Digital Identity Management in Norway Is a Catastrophe
- DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding
- Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0
- Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE
- Discontinuation and reinitiation of dual-labeled GLP-1 receptor agonists
- Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software
- Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source
- Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s
- Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE
- Disney erased FiveThirtyEight
- Distributed DuckDB Instance
- Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels
- Do AI Agents Make Money in 2026? Or Is It Just Mac Minis and Vibes?
- Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control
- Do You Even Need a Database?
- Do_not_track
- Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits to improve itself?
- Does Postgres Scale?
- Does anybody like React?
- Does coding with LLMs mean more microservices?
- Does that use a lot of energy?
- Dolphin Progress Release 2603
- Domain-Camouflaged Injection Attacks Evade Detection in Multi-Agent LLM Systems
- Don't Make Me Talk to Your Chatbot
- Don't Outsource the Learning
- Don't Roll Your Own
- Don't become an engineering manager
- Don't know where your data is from? Bayesian modeling for unknown coordinates
- Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.
- Don't run OpenClaw on your main machine
- Don't trust AI agents
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- Dontsurveil.me
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- Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair
- Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net
- Drugwars for the TI-82/83/83 Calculators (2011)
- Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Senior Engineer
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- Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die
- Dumb ways for an open source project to die
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- Dutch suicide prevention website shares data with tech companies without consent
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- Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code
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- EFF to 4th Circuit: Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant
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- EU calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" in age verification push
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- EVi, a Hard-Fork of Vim
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- Education must go beyond the mere production of words
- Effort to prevent government officials from engaging in prediction markets
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- Elevated Errors in Claude.ai
- Elevated error rates on Opus 4.7
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- End of "Chat Control": EU Parliament Stops Mass Surveillance in Voting Thriller
- Eniac, the First General-Purpose Digital Computer, Turns 80
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- Era: From Nature publication to catalyzing Computational Discovery
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- Erlang/OTP 29.0
- EsoLang-Bench: Evaluating Genuine Reasoning in LLMs via Esoteric Languages
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- Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Forgot about the processors
- Europe has "maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left"
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- Evaluating Spec CPU2026
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- Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want
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- Excel incorrectly assumes that the year 1900 is a leap year
- Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout
- Expanding Swift's IDE Support
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- Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski
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- FCC updates covered list to include foreign-made consumer routers
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- FFmpeg 101 (2024)
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- Factory Logic
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- Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements
- Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine
- Firm boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100k up to staggering $4.5M
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- First Website
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- First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5
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- Five Years of Running a Systems Reading Group at Microsoft
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- Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents
- Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right
- Follow-up to Carrot disclosure: Forgejo
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- Footage shows US citizen shot dead by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop
- Forget Flags and Scripts: Just Rename the File
- Forking the Web
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- FrameBook
- Framework Laptop 13 Pro
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- France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins
- France Moves to Break Encrypted Messaging
- France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain
- France's Mistral Built a $14B AI Empire by Not Being American
- France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
- Free Textbook on Engineering Thermodynamics
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- FreeBSD 14.4-Release Announcement
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- From birds to brains: My path to the fusiform face area (2024)
- Fuck the cloud (2009)
- Full Disclosure: A Third (and Fourth) Azure Sign-In Log Bypass Found
- Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time
- Full-Text Search with DuckDB
- Functional programmers need to take a look at Zig
- Fungal Electronics (2021)
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- FusionCore: ROS 2 sensor fusion (IMU and GPS and encoders)
- Futhark by Example
- Fyn: An uv fork with new features, bug fixes, stripped telemetry
- GCC 16 has been released
- GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks
- GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents
- GLiNER2: Unified Schema-Based Information Extraction
- GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094
- GNU Texmacs
- GPL upgrades via section 14 proxy delegation
- GPT 5.4 Thinking and Pro
- GPT 5.5 biosafety bounty
- GPT Guesses Between 1 and 100
- GPT-5.4 Thinking System Card
- GPT-5.4 Thinking and GPT-5.4 Pro
- GPT-5.5
- GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs
- GPT‑5.3 Instant
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- GTFOBins
- Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study
- Game about Data of America
- GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay
- GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
- Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe
- Garnix (A Nix CI) is shutting down
- Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0
- Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry
- Gear Commit: Dev gadget box personalized from GitHub activity
- Gemini 3.5 Flash
- Gemini API File Search is now multimodal
- Gemini Omni
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- Gemini, Gophers, and Fingers. Oh My Alternative Internets Beyond HTTPS
- Gemma 4 on iPhone
- GenCAD
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