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Loupe: open-source iOS app shows exactly what apps can fingerprint about you
Loupe is a free, open-source iOS and iPadOS app that demonstrates the device-fingerprinting surface available to any third-party app. It reads live values from
MIT-born $40 home test grinds ticks to flag Lyme in 15 minutes
LymeAlert, a $40 at-home kit launching in August, tests the tick rather than the person. Users drop up to five ticks into a container with a built-in grinder, t
No article body provided — only a headline on slow breathing and brain function
There is nothing here to summarize beyond the headline: the supplied 'article content' is just the title of a Cell/Neuron paper, 'Slow breathing modulates brain
South Korea's arms-export boom (source text unavailable)
No article body was supplied for this item — only the Politico headline 'The rise of South Korea's weapons business' was passed in, and the live URL could not b
StartupWiki pitches a free, AI-powered alternative to Crunchbase
A new Show HN post introduces StartupWiki, a startup-research directory positioned as a no-cost alternative to Crunchbase. The site describes itself as an AI-po
Tesco sues Broadcom for £100M, says VMware perpetual licenses were stranded
UK supermarket chain Tesco has taken Broadcom and reseller Computacenter to court, alleging breach of contract over support for VMware software it already owns.
The Zoom localhost flaw was really a CORS misunderstanding
Plenty of web developers fundamentally misread how CORS works, and the 2019 Zoom vulnerability is a textbook case. Zoom ran a local web server on localhost:1942
TownSquare: a one-tag script that puts live visitors back on your web page
TownSquare is a lightweight presence layer that site owners add with a single <script> tag dropped before the closing body tag — no build step, dependencies, or
UHF X11 Turns Apple Vision Pro Into a Full X11 Display Server
UHF X11 reimagines the decades-old X Window System as a native display server for visionOS, letting an Apple Vision Pro host classic Xlib clients in 3D space. V
Why io_uring Is Quietly Retiring epoll for Linux Async I/O
A developer recounts how building an educational reverse proxy called TinyGate pushed his team through three architectures in pursuit of nginx-class throughput:
Why Your p50 Lies: Customers Live in the Tail of Your Latency
AWS engineer Marc Brooker explains a measurement gap that makes service operators and their users both correct when they disagree about speed. An operator measu
AlphaFold Lead John Jumper Leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic
John Jumper, the Nobel-winning researcher who led DeepMind's AlphaFold protein-structure work, is leaving Google DeepMind after almost nine years to join Anthro