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Local-AI e-ink frame IDs garden birds by ear, draws them as 1800s plates

A Norwegian developer has released Fugleramme, an open-source project that turns a Raspberry Pi 5 and a 13.3-inch Inky Impression e-ink panel into a living natu

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Navier-Stokes Was AI's Easy Case: Why Autonomous LLMs Still Don't Scale

Frontier labs are valued as if a drop-in replacement for most knowledge workers is imminent, but this essay argues the headline feats that fuel that valuation —

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cybersecurityprivacy

Nexus Dark Web Service Leaks 153M US and Canadian Driver's Licenses

A newly surfaced dark web operation called Nexus has been selling access to a trove of identity documents, including roughly 3 million travel documents and 153

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No article content provided — headline only

The source supplied only a headline ('Israeli Minister Threatens Filmmakers' Citizenship over Gaza Documentary') with no article body — no quotes, named officia

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Norway's Consumer Council pushes durability over throwaway goods

Forbrukerrådet, the Norwegian Consumer Council, is running a campaign arguing that too many products are built to die prematurely and that quality and longevity

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Open-Source Flight Planning: Cutting Jet Fuel Bills With Wind-Optimized Routes

A single nonstop Newark-to-Rome flight on a Boeing 787-9 can burn roughly $68,000 in jet fuel over 8.5 hours, and routing around favorable winds can shave a few

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Rheinmetall publishes onboardapi — but only the interface spec is open

Rheinmetall has released documentation for onboardapi, a middleware library that standardizes how sensor systems and software components exchange data across mi

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tech-cultureopen-source

Show HN: A flight simulator where all you do is ride along

A developer has launched a browser-based "flight simulator" that inverts the usual premise of the genre: there are no controls to fly the plane. Instead of pilo

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privacypolicy

Snowden Was 12 Years Ago; Post-9/11 Mass Surveillance Never Stopped

Schneier and Cindy Cohn argue that the surveillance regime built after 9/11 has outlived and outgrown its counterterrorism rationale. What began as a wartime sh

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tech-cultureopen-source

Speakers are rattled by silence — tell them their talk landed

A recap and gentle argument from the web-conference circuit: after speaking at events like SmashingConf Freiburg and MCing CSS Day, the author noticed how often

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The case for taking an X-acto knife to your 850-page paperbacks

An 850-page brick like Lonesome Dove is miserable to hold on a plane, in bed, or anywhere else, so the author makes an unapologetic pitch: buy your own copy and

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The data is in: across countries, most people prefer traditional buildings

Modernist architecture—unornamented, built from exposed steel and concrete—has dominated global building since the 1950s, yet critics and admirers alike long su

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