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White House Posts Altered Photo Showing Arrested Minnesota Protester Crying

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Tesla fined for repeatedly failing to help UK police over driving offences

Tesla's UK arm has been convicted at least 18 times since 2024 for failing to identify drivers in speeding offences, with fines and costs totaling over £20,000. Highlights include an 80mph on the M4 near Llantrisant and a Petersfield A3 offence; in one case a Tesla director pleaded guilty by email after alleging online plea issues. Police letters to Tesla Financial Services were left unanswered in several instances. Seventeen convictions have been sentenced; another case is due to be sentenced.

The cleaner: One woman’s mission to help Britain’s hoarders

Access to Al Jazeera's feature 'The Cleaner: One Woman's Mission to Help Britain's Hoarders' is blocked by the server, returning an Access Denied error with reference #18.eef12417.1769180708.6476597f and a tracking URL.

Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities

Google Programmable Search Engine outlines a shift to more focused tools. The Programmable Search Element remains for site-specific searches, while enterprise needs are met by Google Vertex AI Search with AI-powered, grounded features. For full-web search, a full-web option is available with a transition deadline of January 1, 2027. New engines must use Sites to search up to 50 domains; those needing more or full web should contact Vertex AI Search. Custom Search JSON API users can migrate to Vertex AI Search (up to 50 domains) or full web. Existing engines aren’t affected and may stay on setup until 2027.

Radicle: The Sovereign Forge

Radicle is an open-source, peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git that lets users run their own nodes, store all social artifacts as Git objects, and work without a central authority. It uses cryptographic identities and a custom gossip protocol for decentralized repository metadata, offers local-first operation (online/offline), and is extensible via Radicle’s Collaborative Objects. The stack includes CLI, Web, and TUI clients, a Node and HTTP daemon, and a Git-backed storage model; it runs on Linux, macOS, and BSD, and is licensed MIT/Apache 2.0.

Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw

Microsoft will provide BitLocker recovery keys to law enforcement with a valid warrant, a practice the Guam case shows can expose private data. The FBI obtained the keys to unlock three laptops tied to Covid unemployment fraud. Microsoft says it handles about 20 key requests a year and that cloud-stored keys aid recovery, but raise privacy risks if misused. Privacy advocates note this is a rare instance of Microsoft handing over keys; Apple and Meta have stronger protections or refuse such access. The incident suggests officials may seek broader access in future.

Variation on Iota

Explains solving a nested-index problem in APL: for each item in the left list a, find the index of the sublist in the right list w that contains it. After exploring flatten-and-lookup, interval-index, and tacit forms (liota, liota2), the author notes items may be vectors, so ⊃,/ is preferred over ∊. A compact solution is proposed: {(⍸≢¨⍺,1)[⍵⍳⍨⊃,/⍺]}. Updates credit Josh David, Aaron Hsu, Roger Hui, and a ComputeRange function for grouping a numeric column.

Presence in Death

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Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go

Whosthere is a Go-based LAN discovery tool with a modern terminal UI. It runs unprivileged, concurrent discovery using mDNS, SSDP, and an ARP sweep, then enriches devices with OUI data. Features: fast TUI, no elevated privileges, optional port/service discovery, daemon mode with an HTTP API, and YAML/config-driven theming. Cross-platform (Linux/macOS/Windows). Install via brew or go install; build from source. Use on networks you are authorized to scan; provides device lists and details endpoints.

Show HN: S2-lite, an open source Stream Store

GitHub repo for the Durable Streams API (s2). s2.dev is a serverless datastore for real-time streaming data, and s2-lite is a self-hosted S2 API server using SlateDB with durability on object storage. It supports in-memory mode or external object stores (e.g., AWS S3, Tigris, R2). The README covers quickstart, basins/streams, benchmarking, streaming sessions, and API details (OpenAPI/Protobuf) and SDKs in TypeScript, Go, Rust, Python, and Java. MIT license.

Why I Don't Have Fun With Claude Code

Stephen Brennan argues that AI coding tools like Claude Code are popular but not for him, because he values the process of creating and understanding software over the end product. He distinguishes task automation from learning through building mental models, rejects being a “product-focused” developer, and emphasizes that his career hinges on aligning goals with meaningful, debugging-focused work. He remains cautiously optimistic about staying relevant if he maintains technical expertise and values the craft of software.

What has Docker become?

Docker Inc. has struggled to monetize its once-dominant container technology. After Swarm failed against Kubernetes, it pivoted to developer tools (Scout for software-supply-chain security; Testcontainers) and then to AI infrastructure (Model Runner, AI-enabled Compose, Offload) with partnerships and MCP Defender. In December 2025, it opened 1,000+ Hardened Images as free, Apache-2.0 open source, challenging its business model. A 2025 CEO change and acquisition speculation hint at an exit strategy; yet Docker’s technology remains, even if the company’s future is uncertain.

Microsoft Mishandling Example.com

Since 2020, Microsoft’s Autodiscover misroutes the IANA-reserved domain example.com to Sei.co.jp mail servers (imapgms.jnet.sei.co.jp for IMAP and smtpgms.jnet.sei.co.jp for SMTP), potentially exposing test credentials. Outlook auto-configures example.com to these endpoints despite no DNS records for the domain. The issue is in Microsoft’s Autodiscover database (API/curl shows IMAP/SMTP with validated: false). The misconfiguration appears manual and has persisted for years.

White House defends sharing AI image showing arrested woman crying

BBC Verify Live: The White House defends posting an AI-generated image of Nekima Levy Armstrong crying after an anti-ICE protest. Verify tracked 42 UK-sanctioned Russian 'shadow fleet' tankers crossing the English Channel this month, using MarineTraffic and satellite imagery; Arcusat—also known as Tia—was turned away by German authorities and is under investigation. Davos coverage: experts say Kushner’s US plan for Gaza is unrealistic; a 'New Gaza' map shows a 1km buffer, eight residential zones and a relocated port. Verify also fact-checks Trump’s NATO-downplay claims. Uses open-source intel and satellites.

Booting a PC from a Vinyl Record

An experimental boot gimmick: a ROM-based loader lets an IBM 5150 boot from a vinyl record. The 64 KB RAM disk image, containing a FreeDOS kernel, a micro COMMAND.COM, and a patched INTERLNK, is encoded as a cassette-like audio signal cut to vinyl. The bootloader, in ROM, uses the PC’s cassette interface and BIOS INT 15h/13h to demodulate and load the image into RAM, effectively presenting a RAM disk C: for DOS. It’s a fusion of BootLPT/86 and 5150CAXX; requires specific audio hardware tweaks, with an analog variant on IBM PC Jr.

How to Leave Germany

Comprehensive step-by-step guide for leaving Germany. Before you go: quit job, deregister address (Abmeldung), end leases, cancel contracts, collect documents (Arbeitszeugnis, last pay slip, tax certificates), activate eID, and settle health insurance and bank matters. After you leave: close or deregister business (exit tax if applicable), file tax declarations, reclaim pensions, keep essential records (pension, tax IDs, birth certificates). It notes what continues abroad (public/private pensions, some unemployment in EU) and what stops (health insurance, residence permit, Kindergeld).

Our collective obsession with boredom: Interview with a boredom lab researcher

Interviewer Kristen French talks with Boredom Lab researcher James Danckert about why the “Do Nothing” challenge and rawdogging fail to deliver. Boredom is state vs trait; forced, prolonged boredom is not inherently restorative and often signals misaligned attention or meaning. People prone to boredom struggle with launching into action, not just inhibiting it; self-control and insular cortex/interoception play roles. Studies (Just Think 2014; mink experiments) show we evolved for action, not thought, and creativity is not sparked by boredom. Better to seek meaningful, attainable tasks during dull moments rather than endure boredom.

The State of Modern AI Text to Speech Systems for Screen Reader Users

The piece argues that despite AI TTS advances, blind users’ screen reader voices haven’t improved since Eloquence (2003). Eloquence is 32‑bit, unmaintained, and requires emulation, creating security and NVDA-compatibility problems. Non‑English voices are often inefficient or poorly designed (espeak-ng relies on Wikipedia rules and few maintainers). The author tested modern AI TTS (Supertonic and Kitten TTS) for NVDA and found dependency bloat, accuracy errors, slow speech (needs full chunks before speaking), and limited real‑time voice customization. No viable open‑source path exists; Eloquence remains in use, with hope for a funded reimplementation.

Ghostty's AI Policy

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AI Is a Horse (2024)

The author likens AI to a horse: faster than walking on rough terrain, yet slower and less reliable than a train and consume energy. You can’t simply command it to do tasks—you must guide its turns and keep it on track, since it may guess incorrectly. It can access more places if steered, but you only lead it to water, not force it to drink. A capable AI runs under careful direction, while the author remains skeptical of grandiose talk.

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