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The US Government Is Hiding Secret Court Ruling About How It Spies on Americans https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-government-is-hiding-a-secret-court-ruling-about-how-it-spies-on-americans/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50259604)

wired.comThe US Government Is Hiding a Secret Court Ruling About How It Spies on AmericansTwo US senators say the Trump administration is breaking the law by withholding the FISA court decision while it presses Congress to renew America’s most sweeping surveillance program.
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AI promised less work. I've never worked more https://oioannou.com/blog/ai-promised-less-work/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257325)

oioannou.comAI Promised Less Work. I Have Never Worked More. - Orestis IoannouAgents made implementation cheap, so I started doing far more of it in parallel. My GitHub history since 2019 shows what that did: as VP of Technology I am back at my full-stack engineer pace, with bursts, burnout and a low season that is no longer low.
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Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible https://www.bitlog.com/2026/10/27/software-may-be-getting-worse-but-it-used-to-be-horrible/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257548)

bitlog.comSoftware may be getting worse, but it used to be horribleSoftware is degrading all around us, for obvious reasons. I've written about this before. All else equal, if you increase your code production by 10x but you don't reduce your error rate by a factor of 10, then your production app is buggier than it used to be. I've seen threads where people also have...
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Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking https://open3dlab.com/news/roblox-downloaded-145-gb-of-models-from-our-sites/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256985)

open3dlab.comRoblox downloaded 145 GB of models from our sites (including adult content) without askingOn 15 and 16 October 2026, a crawler that said it belonged to Roblox walked through almost every project on Open3DLab, SFMLab and SmutBase, and proceeded to download complete copies of 1,027 files from 712 projects. 145.5 GB of our creators' work, downloaded for what we assume are AI training purposes.
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Just imagining a workout can make you stronger (2016) https://nautil.us/just-imagining-a-workout-can-make-you-stronger-236068 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50252457)

nautil.usJust Imagining a Workout Can Make You Stronger - NautilusI bet when you woke up this morning, even before you opened your eyes, you knew where all of your limbs were. You didn’t have to look at, or try moving them, to feel their presence. This is because you have the power of proprioception (it’s also sometimes called “kinesthesis”). Because it’s a sense, just…
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Show HN: Hob - Open-source, on device alternative to Claude Cowork and ChatGPT https://github.com/FrigadeHQ/hob (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50246238)

github.comGitHub - FrigadeHQ/hob: An easier way to use AI on your own computer. A free, open-source alternative to Claude and ChatGPT that runs open-weight models like Gemma and gpt-oss locally on Mac, Windows and Linux. Private, and works offline.An easier way to use AI on your own computer. A free, open-source alternative to Claude and ChatGPT that runs open-weight models like Gemma and gpt-oss locally on Mac, Windows and Linux. Private, a...
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Skydance offers buyouts, orders return to office https://variety.com/2026/film/news/skydance-voluntary-buyouts-layoffs-5-days-per-week-in-office-policy-1236931402/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50249116)

variety.comSkydance Is Offering Employees Voluntary Buyouts Ahead of Layoffs, Adopts 5-Days-per-Week In-Office PolicySkydance, as it embarks on the work to integrate the businesses of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery, is offering certain employees a voluntary buyout in a "one-time offer."
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Stalwart v1.0: The Fastest Mail Server on the Planet https://stalw.art/blog/stalwart-1-0/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50245945)

stalw.artStalwart v1.0: The Fastest Mail Server on the PlanetFive years after the first line of code, Stalwart v1.0 is here: the first stable release, with a finalised database schema, months of profiling and stress testing, a rewritten search engine, and benchmark results that put it ahead of Postfix and Dovecot in 35 of 38 tests.
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'It's offensively cheap': Solar power is quietly becoming bigger than nuclear https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20261023-how-solar-became-bigger-than-nuclear (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50245385)

bbc.com'It's offensively cheap': How solar power is quietly becoming bigger than nuclearAfter defying projections, solar's dramatic growth means it is overtaking nuclear as a global power source. Here are seven reasons for solar's success, and where it might go from here.