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Anthropic ditches its core safety promise

2026-02-26 @ 12:52:50Points: 143Comments: 64

Fentanyl makeover: Core structural redesign could lead to safer pain medications

2026-02-26 @ 12:44:28Points: 24Comments: 23

Number of UK workers on zero-hours contracts hits record high ahead of crackdown

2026-02-26 @ 12:18:11Points: 35Comments: 24

Show HN: Agent Swarm – Multi-agent self-learning teams (OSS)

2026-02-26 @ 12:15:38Points: 42Comments: 21

Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring

2026-02-26 @ 12:02:14Points: 1

Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals'

2026-02-26 @ 11:58:13Points: 77Comments: 81

You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play or App Store Account

2026-02-26 @ 11:26:10Points: 160Comments: 228

Show HN: Terminal Phone – E2EE Walkie Talkie from the Command Line

2026-02-26 @ 10:40:45Points: 131Comments: 36

TerminalPhone is a single, self-contained Bash script that provides anonymous, end-to-end encrypted voice and text communication between two parties over the Tor network. It operates as a walkie-talkie: you record a voice message, and it is compressed, encrypted, and transmitted to the remote party as a single unit. You can also send encrypted text messages during a call. No server infrastructure, no accounts, no phone numbers. Your Tor hidden service .onion address is your identity.

Technical Excellence Is Not Enough

2026-02-26 @ 09:51:48Points: 77Comments: 71

Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users

2026-02-26 @ 09:35:08Points: 230Comments: 76

I recently noticed that an YC company (Run ANywhere, W26) sent me the following email:

From: Aditya <aditya@buildrunanywhere.org>

Subject: Mikołaj, think you'd like this

[snip]

Hi Mikołaj,

I found your GitHub and thought you might like what we're building.

[snip]

I have also received a deluge of similar emails from another AI company, Voice.AI (doesn't seem to be YC affiliated). These emails indicate that those companies scrape people's Github activity, and if they notice users contributing to repos in their field of business, send marketing emails to those users without receiving their consent. My guess is that they use commit metadata for this purpose. This includes recipients under the GDPR (AKA me).

I've sent complaints to both organizations, no response so far.

I have just contacted both Github and YC Ethics on this issue, I'll update here if I get a response.

RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs

2026-02-26 @ 02:43:26Points: 326Comments: 259

Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance

2026-02-26 @ 00:37:32Points: 380Comments: 117

Banned in California

2026-02-25 @ 23:16:40Points: 260Comments: 294

First Website (1992)

2026-02-25 @ 23:02:58Points: 261Comments: 72

How will OpenAI compete?

2026-02-25 @ 22:29:25Points: 333Comments: 460

Making MCP cheaper via CLI

2026-02-25 @ 20:29:37Points: 262Comments: 104

Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer

2026-02-25 @ 20:16:47Points: 560Comments: 183

Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules

2026-02-25 @ 19:54:14Points: 919Comments: 215

Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

2026-02-25 @ 17:14:19Points: 317Comments: 476

Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective

2026-02-25 @ 16:31:26Points: 385Comments: 557

Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better

2026-02-25 @ 14:21:19Points: 192Comments: 191

Current moderation tools just seem to focus on deletion and banning. Wouldn’t it be helpful to encourage productive discussion and teach people how to discuss and argue (in the debate sense) better?

A year ago we started building Respectify to help foster healthy communication. Instead of just deleting bad-faith comments, we suggest better, good-faith ways to say what folks are trying to say. We help people avoid: * Logical fallacies (false dichotomy, strawmen, etc.) * Tone issues (how others will read the comment) * Relevance to the actual page/post topic * Low-effort posts * Dog whistles and coded language

The commenter gets an explanation of what's wrong and a chance to edit and resubmit. It's moderation + education in one step. We want, too, to automate the entire process so the site owner can focus on content and not worry about moderation at all. And over time, comment by comment, quietly coach better thinking.

Our main website has an interactive demo: https://respectify.ai. As the demo shows, the system is completely tunable and adjustable, from "most anything goes" to "You need to be college debate level to get by me".

We hope the result is better discussions and a better Internet. Not too much to ask, eh?

We love the kind of feedback this group is famous for and hope you will supply some!

Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs

2026-02-24 @ 17:18:17Points: 307Comments: 217

The Physics and Economics of Moving 44 Tonnes at 56mph

2026-02-23 @ 22:00:58Points: 69Comments: 56

The First Fully General Computer Action Model

2026-02-23 @ 17:00:00Points: 293Comments: 71

Out of Light Adjust Share: Caravaggio, La Tour, and the Art of Attention

2026-02-23 @ 07:19:45Points: 28Comments: 3

Artist who “paints” portraits on glass by hitting it with a hammer

2026-02-22 @ 16:25:48Points: 211Comments: 85

A 26-Gram Butterfly-Inspired Robot Achieving Autonomous Tailless Flight

2026-02-22 @ 14:15:09Points: 28Comments: 6

What podcasts are you listening to?

2026-02-22 @ 13:52:30Points: 36Comments: 56

Looking for recommendations for anything well done and engaging.

Writers and Their Day Jobs

2026-02-22 @ 12:13:15Points: 53Comments: 15

Show HN: Modern Reimplementation of the Speck Molecule Renderer

2026-02-22 @ 11:03:19Points: 12Comments: 1

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