War Prediction Markets Are a National-Security Threat
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was not, it’s safe to assume, a devoted Polymarket user. If he had been, the Iranian leader might still be alive. Hours before Khamenei’s compound in Tehran was reduced to rubble last week, an account under the username “magamyman” bet about $20,000 that the supreme leader would no longer be in power […]
We’re Training Students to Write Worse to Prove They’re Not Robots
from the can-someone-ask-an-ai-about-incentives dept About a year and a half ago, I wrote about my kid’s experience with an AI checker tool that was pre-installed on a school-issued Chromebook. The assignment had been to write an essay about Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron—a story about a dystopian society that enforces “equality” by handicapping anyone who excels—and […]
Show HN: Prompt Armour – Real-time PII detection for AI chatbots, 100% local
The suspect, John Doe, attempted to send data [email protected] primary contact number is 555-019-2834 and his backup is 987.654.3210.He used a Visa card ending in 4111-1111-1111-1111 to purchase the assets.His social security number 123-45-6789 was found in the logs. To bypass filters, the suspect wrote his email as:super_hacker [at] gmail [dot] comHe also tried to […]
SigNoz (YC W21, open source Datadog) Is Hiring across roles
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Show HN: Argus – VSCode debugger for Claude Code sessions
🔮 Named after the all-seeing giant of Greek mythology — Argus watches over your Claude Code sessions, detecting inefficiencies, tracking costs, and optimizing your AI development experience. 🎯 What is Argus? Argus is a powerful VS Code extension that provides deep insights into Claude Code sessions, helping developers optimize their AI-assisted workflows through intelligent analysis […]
The Millisecond That Could Change Cancer Treatment
Inside a cavernous hall at the Swiss-French border, the air hums with high voltage and possibility. From his perch on the wraparound observation deck, physicist Walter Wuensch surveys a multimillion-dollar array of accelerating cavities, klystrons, modulators, and pulse compressors—hardware being readied to drive a new generation of linear particle accelerators. Wuensch has spent decades working […]
Show HN: ANSI-Saver – A macOS Screensaver
A macOS screensaver that brings back the art of the BBS era. Remember dialing into BBSes at 14.4k, watching ANSI art fill your terminal line by line? The vibrant CP437 characters, the neon color palettes, the logos crafted pixel-by-pixel by scene artists — that whole world lives on at 16colo.rs, the largest ANSI/ASCII art archive […]
PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD’s Athlon
Today, in the year 2000, AMD shipped an undisputable processor milestone, its 1 GHz Athlon CPU. Thus, the Gigahertz PC era was born. AMD scored marketing gold ahead of its powerful rival Intel. PC industry heavy hitters of the time, Compaq and Gateway, were key partners, and the first pre-built 1 GHz system deliveries began […]
Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep
Those who have never endured the relentless ringing of tinnitus can only dream of the torment. In fact, a bad dream may be the closest some get to experiencing anything like it. The subjective sound, which can also be a hissing, buzzing, or clicking, is heard by no one else, and it may be present […]
Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours
US military used Palantir’s Maven AI system with Anthropic’s Claude to generate and prioritise targets during Iran strikes. Pentagon relied on Palantir’s Maven system paired with Anthropic’s Claude AI to generate and prioritise targets during Iran operations. US military used AI to strike 1,000 targets in Iran in 24 hours Maven system, powered by Claude […]