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Show HN: Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone
Your phone has a GPU more powerful than most 2018 laptops. Right now it sits idle while you pay monthly subscriptions to run AI on someone else's server, sending your conversations, your photos, your voice to companies whose privacy policy you've nev
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Homeland Security reportedly sent hundreds of subpoenas seeking to unmask anti-ICE accounts
The Department of Homeland Security has been increasing pressure on tech companies to identify the owners of accounts that criticize ICE.
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Is safety ‘dead’ at xAI?
Elon Musk is “actively” working to make xAI’s Grok chatbot “more unhinged, according to a former employee.
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Is safety is ‘dead’ at xAI?
Elon Musk is “actively” working to make xAI’s Grok chatbot “more unhinged, according to a former employee.
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In a changed VC landscape, this exec is doubling down on overlooked founders
As much of Silicon Valley chases mega-rounds and buzzy AI deals, Stacy Brown-Philpot is running Cherryrock Capital like a throwback to venture capital's earlier days
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NASA has a new problem to fix before the next Artemis II countdown test
"We observed materially lower leak rates compared to prior observations during WDR-1."
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Colored Petri Nets, LLMs, and distributed applications
Article URL: https://blog.sao.dev/cpns-llms-distributed-apps/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47018405 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
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Descent, ported to the web
Article URL: https://mrdoob.github.io/three-descent/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017545 Points: 93 # Comments: 13
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News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns
Article URL: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news-publishers-limit-internet-archive-access-due-to-ai-scraping-concerns/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017138 Points: 260 # Comments: 156
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A review of M Disc archival capability with long term testing results (2016)
Article URL: http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artsep16/mol-mdisc-review.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015579 Points: 44 # Comments: 49
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Vim 9.2
Article URL: https://www.vim.org/vim-9.2-released.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015330 Points: 285 # Comments: 127
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Unicorn Jelly
Article URL: https://unicornjelly.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47014260 Points: 14 # Comments: 4
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OpenAI should build Slack
Article URL: https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-why-openai-should-build-slack Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47012553 Points: 61 # Comments: 61
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Discord: A case study in performance optimization
Article URL: https://newsletter.fullstack.zip/p/discord-a-case-study-in-performance Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47010147 Points: 20 # Comments: 6
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An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened
https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116065340523529645 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009949 Points: 581 # Comments: 512