Flock cameras gifted by Horowitz Foundation, avoiding public oversight
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) quietly entered an agreement in 2023 with Flock Security, an automated license plate reader company that uses cameras to collect vehicle information and cross-reference it with police databases. But unlike many of the other police departments around the country that use the cameras in their police work, Metro […]
SIM (YC X25) Is Hiring the Best Engineers in San Francisco
About Sim Sim is the open-source platform to build, deploy, and orchestrate AI agents. Over 70,000 developers — from early-stage startups to the U.S. Department of Defense — use Sim to turn ideas into production-grade agentic workflows on a visual, Figma-like canvas. We connect to 1,000+ apps and LLMs, and our Copilot is the state […]
I baked a pie every day for a year and it changed my life
When Vickie Hardin Woods retired, she knew she needed a plan. “I was worried about losing my carefully crafted identity as a professional. I was looking for something to carry me through that time … What else can I be?” She decided to do – rather than be – something new. Hardin Woods would bake […]
The challenges of porting Shufflepuck Cafe to the 8 bits Apple II
This post originally appeared in the June 2025 issue of Juiced.GS, and has been expanded with more details. I am very proud to have succeeded in porting Shufflepuck Cafe to the 8 bits Apple II, bringing a very dynamic 1989 game to an 1979 platform without losing in playability or details. In this article, I […]
Show HN: Babyshark – Wireshark made easy (terminal UI for PCAPs)
Wireshark made easy (in your terminal). Babyshark is a PCAP TUI that helps you answer: What’s using the network? What looks broken/weird? What should I click next? Status: v0.1.0 (alpha). Offline .pcap / .pcapng viewing works without Wireshark Live capture requires tshark (Wireshark CLI) Quickstart Download a release (recommended) Grab a binary from GitHub Releases: […]
”Car Wash” test with 53 models
By Felix Wunderlich – 2/19/2026 The car wash test is the simplest AI reasoning benchmark that nearly every model fails, including Claude Sonnet 4.5, GPT-5.1, Llama, and Mistral. The question is simple: ”I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?” Obviously, you need to drive. […]
Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras
Brian Merchant, writing for Blood in the Machine, reports that people across the United States are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras, amid rising public anger that the license plate readers aid U.S. immigration authorities and deportations. Flock is the Atlanta-based surveillance startup valued at $7.5 billion a year ago and a maker of license […]
Show HN: Shibuya – A High-Performance WAF in Rust with eBPF and ML Engine
01 ⚡ Kernel Power · Linux Only eBPF / XDP Kernel-Level Blocking Shibuya drops an XDP hook directly in the Linux kernel. Packets from known-malicious IPs get killed before they ever reach your application or even the WAF itself. IP blacklists stored in eBPF maps for O(1) lookup on millions of IPs. SYN flood protection […]
What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust
Righty-ho, I’m back from Rust Nation, and busily horrifying my teenage daughter with my (admittedly atrocious) attempts at doing an English accent. It was a great trip with a lot of good conversations and some interesting observations. I am going to try to blog about some of them, starting with some thoughts spurred by Jon […]
The First Fully General Computer Action Model
We designed FDM-1, a foundation model for computer use. FDM-1 is trained on videos from a portion of our 11-million-hour screen recording dataset, which we labeled using an inverse dynamics model that we trained. Our video encoder can compress almost 2 hours of 30 FPS video in only 1M tokens. FDM-1 is the first model […]