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A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead / In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas town to use as a park. The town sold it to a data center developer for $10 million.

CCTV footage of a grandmother trying to protect her grandchild during the 7.8 magnitude earthquake in the Philippines today. Fortunately, both were unharmed.

Hacker News

Surveillance Is Not Safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]

Siri AI

Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes

MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second

Looking Forward to Postgres 19: Query Hints

Apple Core AI Framework

Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds

EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices

Show HN: Gitdot – a better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab

Why are cells small?

FrontierCode

Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC

Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models

Hermes Agent – Open-Source AI Agent with Persistent Memory

Launch HN: Intuned (YC S22) – Build and run reliable browser automations as code

Programming

VS Code Adds 2-Hour Extension Auto-Update Delay to Limit Supply Chain Attacks

Lies We Tell Ourselves About Email Addresses

Why Compiler Engineers Rarely Use Strassen's Algorithm for Fast Matrix Multiplications

Hot path optimization. When float division beats integer division

You can fork a package, but can you own it?

In Defense of YAML :: Posit Open Source

Native Elm (the real kind this time) · cekrem.github.io

Building a spaced repetition system that adapts to user pace in real-time (Kotlin/Compose)

Making numpy-ts as fast as native

Poor Man's Time Machine: Lazy Evaluation in JavaScript and Haskell

Building a Detection Layer on PostgreSQL with Sigma Rules

System Dynamics Course | Chapter 16: Discrete-Time and Sampled-Data System Dynamics

An opinionated logging setup in Go

I'm building local voice dictation that turns talk into finished text — commit messages, tickets, clean prose — all on your own machine

Storing cryptographic hashes on the blockchain for dataset integrity

Tech

A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead / In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas town to use as a park. The town sold it to a data center developer for $10 million.

Pennsylvania lawmaker seeks ‘visual indicator’ if smart glasses are recording

Working class neighborhoods are resisting data centers at 5 times the rate of wealthy ones

Meta Furious Over Bombshell Smart Glasses Revelation

Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report

Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism — CBC uncovers 14 accounts from India, Pakistan, Indonesia posting on popular Alberta separatist groups

Meta So Desperate for Compute That It’s Building “Data Centers” That Are Just Tents Filled With AI Chips

Massachusetts votes to pass new privacy rights bill that bans sale of precise location data

Silicon Valley including Meta has embraced Maga politics, says Nick Clegg

Amazon engineers in Seattle slam employer for building AI data centers while laying off 30,000 staffers

Smart Glasses Would Legally Require a Recording Light Under Proposed Law

Al Leaders Are Cosplaying James Bond Villains

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burntsushi discusses personal medical diagnosis To my students Stop Using Conventional Commits rsync and outrage .furry - A Top-Level Domain for furries Did Claude Increase Bugs in rsync?Elixir v1.20 released: now a gradually typed language Changing How We Develop Ladybird Vim Classic 8.3 released Quality in the Age of Slop A faster bump allocator for rust My Software North Star Life is too short for a slow terminal

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World News

Why the U.S. Is Unprepared for a Potential Public Health Outbreak at the World Cup - Sports Illustrated Ebola outbreak live updates: WHO and Africa CDC unveil $518 million plan as DRC cases pass 450 - Yahoo The late-night eating habit that may throw your gut health into chaos - KSL.com Targeting Cancer-Specific Mutations with RNA-Triggered Chromatin Shredding - Nature Bumblebees have tiny brains but they can solve problems like chimps and elephants - NPR A Falcon 9 booster turns 5 years old—and just set a remarkable reuse record - Ars Technica Why do Venus and Jupiter meet up in the sky so often? It's a symptom of a solar system that supports life on Earth - Space Why the International Space Station keeps leaking - Axios Knicks Finals Ticket Prices Drop $5,000 In Last-Minute Collapse - Forbes Trump booed at Madison Square Garden before Knicks, Spurs finals game - CNBC Check Out Knicks Shirts Given to All Fans at MSG for NBA Finals Game 3 vs. Spurs in Photos - Bleacher Report Judge clears QB Brendan Sorsby to play for Texas Tech despite NCAA ban for gambling - AP News

Crypto

AWS

I bypassed AWS API Gateway auth with a trailing slash. Got $12K bounty.

The radical network redesign that led AWS to forge a more resilient cloud

Open-sourced an S3 gateway that transparently compresses your bucket — 50-80% storage savings with zero app changes

AWS things you wish somebody had told you earlier

GA: Introducing the Claude Platform on AWS

CDK now can revert drifts

Introducing ExtendDB: An open source DynamoDB-compatible adapter with pluggable storage backends

AWS racks M3 Ultra Macs that boast specs you can’t currently buy

Cracked job interview - built AWS Serverless app

All the AWS Bedrock AgentCore best practices in one Claude Code skill. So the agent doesn't scour dozens of docs or go trial-and-error

How flat is replacing fat in AWS data center networks

Users bounce after 2 minutes, but CDN caches the whole 5GB movie. How to stop wasting bandwidth?

NewScientist

Solar farm on the ocean outperforms land-based solar in Taiwan We may finally know why dinosaurs like T. rex evolved tiny arms After news about Oliver Sacks's "lies", we revisit his best-loved book Intoxicating and astonishing: Why 'The Selfish Gene' almost never was Putting CO2 into rocks and getting hydrogen out is climate double win Women’s body temperature rises from age 18 to 42 but we don’t know why New Scientist recommends a devastating account of farming honeybees Shiver me timbers: Do we have to worry about space pirates now?How ageing on Earth mimics the effects of space travel How a visit to Stonehenge reminded me of deep time Australia is battling its largest diphtheria outbreak in living memory Political anger affects the body differently to other forms of anger Photos reveal unexpected details from the world's first atomic test

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