Articles by diggan
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Data-Center Power Use to Become Major Antitrust Issue (wsj.com)

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Madagascar's president says a coup is underway after soldiers joined protestors (apnews.com)

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Unity discloses a years-old security exploit – urges developers to update games (theverge.com)

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IETF Draft: Authenticated Transfer Repo and Sync Specification (ietf.org)

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The Sacred Conspiracy by Georges Bataille (1936) (marxists.org)

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Steam Censorship of Adult Games Shows How Payment Processors Wield Immense Power (ign.com)

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On discourse and decentralisation (connectedplaces.online)

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Star Birds – A game set in the Kurzgesagt universe (steampowered.com)

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Automated Red Teaming for AI-Induced Psychosis (github.com/tim-hua-01)

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The Pentagon Pizza Index Has Changed to "Defcon 1 – Maximum Readiness" (pizzint.watch)

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If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward (reddit.com)

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Wan-S2V: Audio-Driven Cinematic Video Generation (humanaigc.github.io)

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Anubis_offload – userscript to offload Anubis PoW to native CPU or GPU code (github.com/davidbuchanan314)

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60-Hour Dance Sessions, Simulated Sex, and Ketamine: The World of VR Ravers (wired.com)

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Mid-Year Online Safety Update – The UK Online Safety Act Deadline Has Arrived (newgrounds.com)

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Veratu – Bespoke Custom PC Builds (veratu.com)

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GPT-OSS-20B at 10k tokens/second on a 4090? Sure (reddit.com)

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Profiling LLM Inference on Apple Silicon: A Quantization Perspective (arxiv.org)

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Lurk – A Turing-complete programming language for ZK-SNARKs (github.com/lurk-lab)

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A comparative exploratory analysis of altmetric mentions between X and Bluesky (sciencedirect.com)

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Steam Trailer Player Upgrades (steampowered.com)

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Itch.io – Update on NSFW Content – Addendum FAQ July 28th (itch.io)

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Harvard Said to Be Open to Spending Up to $500M to Resolve Trump Dispute (nytimes.com)

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Dalí's creative dream: Scientific evidence demonstrates the power of micro-naps (elpais.com)

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Early Hawaiian petroglyphs on a beach are visible again (apnews.com)

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2025 July Pebble Update – Pebble Is Now Called Pebble (ericmigi.com)

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"Whites-only" community plotting expansion to another US state (independent.co.uk)

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Gmail/Google starts disabling features unless you agree to data processing (bsky.app)

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Mistral AI releases Devstral-Small-2507 (huggingface.co)

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Realtime counter of visitors from Hacker News (plausible.io)

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A new law in Sweden makes it illegal to buy custom adult content (euronews.com)

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Happy Birthday, GamingOnLinux – 16 years today (gamingonlinux.com)

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Europe's first geostationary sounder satellite is launched (eumetsat.int)

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GrapheneOS warns ICEBlock users of court order risk (bsky.app)

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Ask HN: Do you have a BYD car or driven one? What do you think about it?

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Pangu Pro Moe: Mixture of Grouped Experts for Efficient Sparsity (arxiv.org)

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Dyson Sphere Program – Dev Log – The New Multithreading Framework (steampowered.com)

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The Anthropic Copyright Ruling Exposes Blind Spots on AI (bloomberg.com)

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Tech execs are joining the Army – no grueling boot camp required (businessinsider.com)

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Connections with James Burke – Official Trailer [video] (youtube.com)

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Iran cut internet access to outside world since June 18 (apnews.com)

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World Government (wikipedia.org)

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Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (wikipedia.org)

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Zed Editor – The Debugger Is Here (zed.dev)

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An analysis of recent multithreading improvements for a smoother game (arma3.com)

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A New Rust Packaging Model in Guix (guix.gnu.org)

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'How come I can't breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis (simonwillison.net)

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The Early History of Human Excreta (jstor.org)

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The Butter Battle Book (1984) (archive.org)

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Nvidia RTX 50 Cards Spotted with Missing ROPs, Nvidia Confirms the Issue (techpowerup.com)

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Quote Origin: Nothing Can Be Accomplished Without Solitude (quoteinvestigator.com)

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Malware Discovered in Blender File Circulating Online (80.lv)

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Precious Plastic is in trouble (preciousplastic.com)

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2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey (qualtrics.com)

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How do you define "vibe coding"? (reddit.com)

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Activism, hacking or campaigning: Why it's so easy to win the vote at Eurovision (elpais.com)

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Faith Meets AI and Tech in Vatican's Bold Move Under Pope Leo XIV (forbes.com/sites/torconstantino)

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Towards React Server Components in Clojure, Part 1 (romanliutikov.com)

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MASL – Metadata for Arbitrary Structures and Links (dasl.ing)

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Snake venom protection by a mix of varespladib and neutralizing human antibodies (cell.com)

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A Full-Network Bluesky/ATProto Relay for $34 a Month (whtwnd.com)

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Russian Colonization of North America (wikipedia.org)

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Lists of Unsolved Problems (wikipedia.org)

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SuperGenPass – Browser Bookmarklet Password-Manager (chriszarate.github.io)

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Epigrams on Programming (1982) (archive.org)

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Retrospective of the OSI Board Election (opensource.org)

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If AI Systems Become Conscious, Should They Have Rights? (nytimes.com)

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Rclone – a command-line program to manage files on cloud storage. (rclone.org)

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Whistleblower: DOGE came, data went out, and Russians used valid DOGE passwords (bsky.app)

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Console Do Not Track (DNT) (consoledonottrack.com)

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Clip Studio Paint will no longer implement an image generator function (2022) (clipstudio.net)

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Brain drain? Trump cutbacks force scientists to seek jobs in Europe (reuters.com)

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Erica Synths DIY Eurorack Modules (github.com/erica-synths)

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What 2026 looks like (2021) (lesswrong.com)

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Inference with different LLM models make different sounds from the GPU [video] (bsky.app)

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You're Probably Breaking the Llama Community License (victor.earth)

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How Llama’s Licenses Have Evolved Over Time (victor.earth)

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CRDTs and Security: Authentication (2023) (bartoszsypytkowski.com)

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Gas hob can raise indoor air pollution higher than busy UK road, study finds (theguardian.com)

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Buy European Made – A directory of European products and services (buy-european-made.eu)

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Linux’s Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down (phoronix.com)

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Neko Health – Fast full-body scans, cardiovascular assessments, and blood tests (nekohealth.com)

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Retro review: Microsoft's 2008 Surface/PixelSense 'coffee table' (2017) (windowscentral.com)

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Browser WebTransport – Consider Removing ServerCertificateHashes (github.com/w3c)

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Why is mass tourism such a problem in Spain but not in France? (thelocal.es)

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TKey – Security for the New World (tillitis.se)

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Koya Bound – Eight Days on the Kumano Kodo (walkkumano.com)

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Spanish ministers agree to cut legal working week to 37.5 hours (reuters.com)

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U.S. War Department – Don't Be a Sucker (1947) (archive.org)

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Intellectualization (wikipedia.org)

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AI-assisted targeting in the Gaza Strip (wikipedia.org)

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Proposal to Amending the 22nd Amendment to Allow Trump to Serve a Third Term (house.gov)

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Trump Orders Declassification of JFK, RFK, and MLK Assassination Files (whitehouse.gov)

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Ask HN: And Worst Parts of HN?

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Maybe "Environmental, Social and Governance" Investing Is Illegal Now (bloomberg.com)

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PairDrop: Transfer Files Cross-Platform, no setup, no signup (github.com/schlagmichdoch)

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Shapecatcher – Find Unicode characters by drawing (shapecatcher.com)

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SICP Anime-like Opening [video] (youtube.com)

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NVIDIA release GPU driver for Linux and Windows after announcing security issues (gamingonlinux.com)

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Hot, dirty, dangerous: Aerial firefighting is a labor of love (latimes.com)