Hacker News headlines

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Computational Turing test shows systematic difference between human, AI language (arxiv.org)

20 hours ago | anigbrowl | arxiv.org | newest

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Mapping 2M votes in the NYC mayoral elction (kieranhealy.org)

a day ago | anigbrowl | kieranhealy.org | newest

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[dupe] IRS halts Direct File and points to other free services (wsj.com)

a day ago | anigbrowl | wsj.com | best

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Friction interventions to curb the spread of misinformation (nature.com)

3 days ago | anigbrowl | nature.com | newest

1

Calm: Continuous Autoregressive Language Models (github.com/shaochenze)

3 days ago | anigbrowl | github.com | newest

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Meta and TikTok are obstructing researchers' access to data, EU commission rules (science.org)

a week ago | anigbrowl | science.org | best

2

It's surprising that people are surprised that Signal runs partly on AWS (bsky.app)

a week ago | anigbrowl | bsky.app | newest

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Use of full-body restraints during deportation raises humanitarian concerns (apnews.com)

2 weeks ago | anigbrowl | apnews.com | newest

3

Daniel Naroditsky, who became chess grandmaster as a teen, dies at 29 (washingtonpost.com)

2 weeks ago | anigbrowl | washingtonpost.com | frontpage

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Elon Musk now owns 2/3 of satellites after 10,000th Starlink launches (independent.co.uk)

2 weeks ago | anigbrowl | independent.co.uk | newest

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This is just the Internet now: the slop is winning (theatlantic.com)

2 weeks ago | anigbrowl | theatlantic.com | frontpage

1

Florida attorney-general issues subpoena to Roblox over child safety (nbcnews.com)

2 weeks ago | anigbrowl | nbcnews.com | newest

3

China Accuses US of Cyberattack on National Time Center (kyodonews.net)

2 weeks ago | anigbrowl | kyodonews.net | frontpage

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Russian/neo-Nazi fight clubs grew audience using YouTube, isntagram (theguardian.com)

3 weeks ago | anigbrowl | theguardian.com | best

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OpenAI accused of using legal tactics to silence nonprofits (nbcnews.com)

3 weeks ago | anigbrowl | nbcnews.com | best

3

US charges Cambodian executive in crypto scam and seizes $14B BTC (kyodonews.net)

3 weeks ago | anigbrowl | kyodonews.net | frontpage

53

Japan's summers have lengthened by 3 weeks over 42 years, say resaerchers (kyodonews.net)

3 weeks ago | anigbrowl | kyodonews.net | best

20

Salesforce CEO Says National Guard Should Patrol San Francisco (techcrunch.com)

4 weeks ago | anigbrowl | techcrunch.com | best

3

MIT rejects political cooperation in exchange for university funding (nbcnews.com)

4 weeks ago | anigbrowl | nbcnews.com | newest

3

A debate about AI plays out on the subway walls (nytimes.com)

a month ago | anigbrowl | nytimes.com | frontpage

1

Universities should reject the administration's proposed 'compact' (msnbc.com)

a month ago | anigbrowl | msnbc.com | newest

1

Denmark leads EU push to copyright faces in fight against deepfakes (techpolicy.press)

a month ago | anigbrowl | techpolicy.press | newest

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Takaichi Sanae wins LDP vote, likely to be Japan's first female Prime Minister (japantimes.co.jp)

a month ago | anigbrowl | japantimes.co.jp | best

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Pentagon plans widespread random polygraphs, NDAs to stanch leaks (washingtonpost.com)

a month ago | anigbrowl | washingtonpost.com | frontpage

8

YouTube to pay $22M for White House ballroom to settle Trump lawsuit (cbsnews.com)

a month ago | anigbrowl | cbsnews.com | frontpage

3

Wave of phony news quotes affects everyone, including EFF (eff.org)

a month ago | anigbrowl | eff.org | newest

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Hollywood performers union condemns AI-generated 'actress' (reuters.com)

a month ago | anigbrowl | reuters.com | newest

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South Korean government services offline following data center fire (techradar.com)

a month ago | anigbrowl | techradar.com | newest

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Electronic Arts to be acquired – $52.5B in largest ever private equity buyout (nbcnews.com)

a month ago | anigbrowl | nbcnews.com | newest

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[flagged] NSPM-7 labels common beliefs as terrorism 'indicators' (kenklippenstein.com)

a month ago | anigbrowl | kenklippenstein.com | best

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US plans to require 1:1 ratio of domestic to imported chips (reuters.com)

a month ago | anigbrowl | reuters.com | frontpage

13

Japanese ship-mounted railgun successfully hits targets in test (mainichi.jp)

a month ago | anigbrowl | mainichi.jp | frontpage

6

Japanese city passes ordinance to limit smartphone use to 2 hours/day (yomiuri.co.jp)

a month ago | anigbrowl | yomiuri.co.jp | newest

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Eschatological thinking: why Peter Thiel is talking about the Antichrist (realtimetechpocalypse.com)

a month ago | anigbrowl | realtimetechpocalypse.com | frontpage

2

Wikipedia can save the Internet with advertising (techpolicy.press)

a month ago | anigbrowl | techpolicy.press | newest

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Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material (washingtonpost.com)

a month ago | anigbrowl | washingtonpost.com | frontpage

7

Fees for H1-B visas raised to $100k (nbcnews.com)

a month ago | anigbrowl | nbcnews.com | frontpage

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Imperial Tyranny, Korean Humiliation (hani.co.kr)

a month ago | anigbrowl | hani.co.kr | frontpage

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New bill would give Marco Rubio 'thought police' power to revoke US passports (theintercept.com)

a month ago | anigbrowl | theintercept.com | frontpage

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Hyundai battery plant faces startup delay after US immigration raid, CEO says (japantimes.co.jp)

a month ago | anigbrowl | japantimes.co.jp | frontpage

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EPA plans to stop collecting greenhouse gas emission data from most polluters (propublica.org)

a month ago | anigbrowl | propublica.org | frontpage

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US Senate Republicans trigger 'nuclear option', changing rules to speed nominees (nbcnews.com)

a month ago | anigbrowl | nbcnews.com | newest

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AI startup Flock thinks it can eliminate all crime in America (forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster)

2 months ago | anigbrowl | forbes.com | frontpage

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[flagged] House Republicans want to dox Wikipedia editors over 'bias' complaints (techdirt.com)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | techdirt.com | frontpage

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SSA whistleblower's resignation email mysteriously disappeared from inboxes (wired.com)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | wired.com | frontpage

2

Sony confirms critical flaw in IC chips used for Japan's transit cards (mainichi.jp)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | mainichi.jp | newest

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End of low-value tariff exemption on packages is permanent, administration says (reuters.com)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | reuters.com | frontpage

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Researchers say AI 'deadbots' are primed for monetization (npr.org)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | npr.org | newest

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Director of Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit Resigns (reuters.com)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | reuters.com | frontpage

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DHS admits it no longer preserves text message data for top officials (americanoversight.org)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | americanoversight.org | frontpage

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Popular Japanese smartphone games have introduced external payment systems (kyodonews.net)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | kyodonews.net | best

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'Cheapfake' AI celeb videos are rage baiting people on YouTube (wired.com)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | wired.com | newest

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Administration will review all 55M visa holders for deportable violations (apnews.com)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | apnews.com | best

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A Climate of Unparalleled Malevolence (theguardian.com)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | theguardian.com | newest

2

Philip K Dick and the fake humans (2018) (bostonreview.net)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | bostonreview.net | newest

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Federal court decision finds cellphone tower-dumping searches unconstitutional (courtwatch.news)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | courtwatch.news | frontpage

2

PicoCalc (clockworkpi.com)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | clockworkpi.com | newest

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AI may make dubbing for film and TV easier (bbc.com)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | bbc.com | frontpage

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Trump reverse on Intel CEO, calls him 'success' days after demanding resignation (cnbc.com)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | cnbc.com | frontpage

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Japanese government to use AI to teach language skills to kid with foreign roots (kyodonews.net)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | kyodonews.net | newest

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Bureau of Labor Standards nominee suggests suspending monthly jobs report (axios.com)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | axios.com | newest

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Wplace – pixel art on a world map (wplace.live)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | wplace.live | newest

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Nvidia, AMD to pay 15% of China chip sales to US Government – reports (cnbc.com)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | cnbc.com | frontpage

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Major Japan newspaper sues 'free-riding' AI firm Perplexity (japantimes.co.jp)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | japantimes.co.jp | frontpage

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July 2025 Tech litigation roundup (techpolicy.press)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | techpolicy.press | newest

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Rapidus is Japan's best bet. Will it be enough? (zososdispatches.substack.com)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | substack.com | newest

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Hubble catches sharpest image yet of 3I/ATLAS (skyatnightmagazine.com)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | skyatnightmagazine.com | frontpage

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Age verification is coming for the whole internet (nymag.com)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | nymag.com | newest

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Global fight over who governs communications satellites heats up (techpolicy.press)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | techpolicy.press | newest

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Trump eyes 100% tax on imports containing semiconductors (bloomberg.com)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | bloomberg.com | frontpage

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Health Secretary cancels $500M in mRNA vaccine research (cbsnews.com)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | cbsnews.com | frontpage

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Freedom of Information Act and Deteriorating Federal Transparency Infrastructure (justsecurity.org)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | justsecurity.org | frontpage

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Circadian justice (2022) (lse.ac.uk)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | lse.ac.uk | frontpage

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WiFi signals could be used to uniquely identify individuals (techradar.com)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | techradar.com | newest

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Mark Zuckerberg is out of ideas (techpolicy.press)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | techpolicy.press | newest

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Iran's plan to abandon GPS is about much more than technology (aljazeera.com)

3 months ago | anigbrowl | aljazeera.com | frontpage

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Japan Records Highest Temperature (aljazeera.com)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | aljazeera.com | newest

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Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne dies aged 76 (cnn.com)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | cnn.com | newest

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EPA says it will eliminate its scientific research arm (nytimes.com)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | nytimes.com | best

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The unholy alliance that killed the AI moratorium (theverge.com)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | theverge.com | newest

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Information on Contrails from Aircraft (epa.gov)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | epa.gov | newest

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Japan focusing on fix for smart-phone related eye condition (kyodonews.net)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | kyodonews.net | newest

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Over 2000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push (politico.com)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | politico.com | newest

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UK post office scandal led to 13 suspected suicides, says report (reuters.com)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | reuters.com | frontpage

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China is increasingly a home to major brands (musgrave.substack.com)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | substack.com | frontpage

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Michael Madsen has died (nytimes.com)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | nytimes.com | best

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'Explosive increase' in ticks that cause meat allergy due to climate change (theguardian.com)

4 months ago | anigbrowl | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Japan's H2A rocket retired after successful final launch (japantimes.co.jp)

5 months ago | anigbrowl | japantimes.co.jp | newest

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AI fakes duel over impeachment of Vice-President in Phillipines (afp.com)

5 months ago | anigbrowl | afp.com | frontpage

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White House ends all trade talks with Canada over digital services tax (cnbc.com)

5 months ago | anigbrowl | cnbc.com | frontpage

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Blind spots on American cars are expanding (streetsblog.org)

5 months ago | anigbrowl | streetsblog.org | frontpage

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Ranking generative AI companies from most to least evil (cwodtke.medium.com)

5 months ago | anigbrowl | medium.com | newest

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Hurricane forecasters scrambling after sudden shutdown of key satellites (notus.org)

5 months ago | anigbrowl | notus.org | frontpage

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Spotify's Daniel Ek leads €600M investment in AI military defence company (djmag.com)

5 months ago | anigbrowl | djmag.com | newest

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Health secretary wants every American to be sporting a wearable within 4 years (gizmodo.com)

5 months ago | anigbrowl | gizmodo.com | newest

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Tiny orange beads found by Apollo astronauts reveal Moon's explosive past (sciencedaily.com)

5 months ago | anigbrowl | sciencedaily.com | frontpage

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How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy (osf.io)

5 months ago | anigbrowl | osf.io | best

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Man arrested for selling AI-colorized pirated 1954 'Godzilla' film (kyodonews.net)

5 months ago | anigbrowl | kyodonews.net | newest

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National parks ordered to police 'negative' history under presidential directive (sfgate.com)

5 months ago | anigbrowl | sfgate.com | frontpage

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AI nudifiers pivot to video and reach users via Apple, Google, social media (indicator.media)

5 months ago | anigbrowl | indicator.media | newest