The Intelligence Failure in Iran
Listen−1.0x+ Seek 0:0014:28 In 2005, a bipartisan commission of lawmakers and security experts concluded that “the Intelligence Community was dead wrong in almost all of its pre-war judgments about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.” America’s spies had told President George W. Bush that Saddam Hussein had reconstituted a nuclear-weapons program and that Iraq possessed biological […]
Is Germany’s gold safe in New York ?
Around one‑third of Germany’s gold — worth roughly 160 billion euros — remains in the vaults of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. While Bundesbank officials insist the reserves enjoy special protection, some experts fear a shift in US leadership at the Federal Reserve could alter long‑trusted norms. The discussion highlights broader concerns about transatlantic […]
Age Verification as Mass Surveillance Infrastructure
Independent decompilation of the Persona Wallet APK v1.14.0 (SDK v2.32.3, built March 11, 2026) and analysis of the web inquiry bundle from cdn.withpersona.com (inquiry-main.js, 1.8MB) reveals the full scope of Persona’s surveillance capabilities. The APK was obtained from APKPure and decompiled with jadx 1.5.5. The Roblox APK v2.714.1091 was decompiled separately to confirm the SDK […]
Euro-Office – Your sovereign office
Your sovereign office What is Euro-Office? Euro-Office provides a truly open, transparent, and sovereign solution for collaborative document editing. Euro-Office is not designed for stand-alone use, but developed to be a web based and integrated in another product that handles documents, for example a file sharing solution, an online wiki, a project management tool and […]
SideX – A Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code
A Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code. Same architecture, native performance, fraction of the size. Early Release — This project is in active development. Many features are not fully working yet. We’re releasing early because a lot of people wanted to help build this out. If you’re into open source and want to help make […]
Winners of the 2026 Kokuyo Design Awards
The Kokuyo Design Awards, (previously) arguably Japan’s most-prestigious stationery design award, has been held for almost a quarter of a century now. Hosted by 120-year old stationery firm KOKUYO, the award receives close to 1500 entries each year for new products that have yet to be commercialized, with winning concepts given the opportunity to become […]
Media scraper Gallery-dl is moving to Codeberg after receiving a DMCA notice
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An open-source 240-antenna array to bounce signals off the Moon
A New Frontier for Ham Radio Bouncing signals off the Moon—known as Earth-Moon-Earth (EME) communication—has long been the ultimate challenge for radio amateurs. It required large antennas, expensive equipment, and accurate manual pointing and tracking. We try to bring this down to Earth, providing all the tools needed to experience the thrill of space communication, […]
Case study: recovery of a corrupted 12 TB multi-device pool
Hello, and thanks in advance for reading. This is not a bug report. It is a case study write up of a recovery effort on a severely corrupted 12 TB multi-device pool, shared here in case any of the observations are useful to btrfs-progs development. The goal is constructive, not a complaint. One paragraph summary […]
Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work
A ~9M parameter LLM that talks like a small fish. This project exists to show that training your own language model is not magic. No PhD required. No massive GPU cluster. One Colab notebook, 5 minutes, and you have a working LLM that you built from scratch — data generation, tokenizer, […]