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skilled··on Google Was a Lifeline for Publishers. Now Some Are Thinking of Cutting It Off
https://archive.is/lV1Ez
skilled··on US tech groups cut 140k jobs
https://archive.is/3ha2l
skilled··on Launching Health in ChatGPT to US Users
I have read that there is private software for radiologists that has better training data, but I can’t comment on it myself.

Maybe someone who has used it can give some feedback.

skilled··on Launching Health in ChatGPT to US Users
I think doctors are going to lose their minds or at the very least get extremely agitated/frustrated as patients increasingly use AI tools to do self-research for symptoms and diagnosis. And I know this because I am guilty of this myself and recently had a dentist tell me to not do that. And this applies to so many health workers, your GP as well as your physical therapist, etc.

Recently I had Claude analyze an MRI of my knee and it gave me five different potential problems, but once I got the radiologist report - none of those problems were present, it did not detect that it was chondromalacia that I found out from the radiologist report.

Health and the current iteration of LLM's just doesn't seem like a great match.

skilled··on GPT‑Live
Not had a chance to experiment yet, but will this be an upgrade for using AI for language learning?
skilled··on OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake
https://archive.is/jafKB
skilled··on One million passports leaked online
I think the URL should be changed to The Verge link or something else as the current source is repetitive AI writing and incohesive to read.
skilled··on CPanel and WHM Authentication Bypass – CVE-2026-41940
What a shame that I no longer have access to my teenage-level conscience, I am sallivating at the idea of going wild with this and the Copy Fail cve.

The potential here to do all kinds of manipulation for search engines / AI tools is enormous. Perhaps the more scary thought is that someone could easily make an agent that would exploit both bugs to wipe out servers.

Good on these companies to publish their findings straight away as I'd imagine that both bugs would have fetched quite a lot on the black market.

skilled··on Copy Fail
This looks like an extraordinary find at first glance.

Does this mean you can go from a basic web shell from a shared hosting account to root? I can see how that could wreak havoc really quickly.

skilled··on Copy Fail – CVE-2026-31431
Probably to some extent it is marketing, but generally it has to do with significant bug finds to get the message out to the people who need to apply patches and/or be informed. Heartbleed, Log4Shell, etc.

Very few CVE’s get names dedicated to them like this, because usually when they do - it is very serious, as in this case.

skilled··on Sergey Brin Moves to the Right, with a 'MAGA Girlfriend' by His Side
https://archive.is/9n5Ow
skilled··on Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket
I did the Everest base camp trek in late 2015, at that time it was quite common (saw it myself and heard about it) that people would do the trek up but to get down they would fake a leg/back injury or blame altitude sickness and the chopper from Kathmandu would come pick you up, as long as you had the right insurance.
skilled··on Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder
Norway
skilled··on GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all
Discussion from two days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47521799

skilled··on Norway wealth fund moves towards some AI-driven decisions with humans in control
https://archive.is/3te3o
skilled··on John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists
https://xcancel.com/id_aa_carmack/status/2032460578669691171
skilled··on Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
I think Discord/IRC are the best two options for real-time talk. Social media sites are quite clunky for that purpose, but still useful to discuss the topic.
skilled··on [dead]
Will it be possible to attend virtually?
skilled··on Nvidia contacted Anna's Archive to access books
> In response, NVIDIA defended its actions as fair use, noting that books are nothing more than statistical correlations to its AI models.

Does this even make sense? Are the copyright laws so bad that a statement like this would actually be in NVIDIA’s favor?

skilled··on Does this demonstrate verifiable governance for autonomous systems?
New account. Plain zip file. Unclear instructions.

Those are clear red flags that HN users will consider and ignore the submission accordingly.

Write a blog about it and do a better presentation.

skilled··on Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines
https://xcancel.com/eastdakota/status/2009654937303896492
skilled··on London–Calcutta bus service
Interesting. I did a quick search but doesn’t look like there are any personal stories on this.

Can see it having been a unique experience, bonding with people over such a long period of time.

Looks like photos from inside the bus are also not available sadly.

skilled··on 'Chinese Peptides' Are the Latest Biohacking Trend in the Tech World
https://archive.is/4DH0k
skilled··on New York to require social media platforms to display mental health warnings
Well, no. Upvoting a certain story doesn’t change the homepage to match it to similar stories.
skilled··on Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files
Not much to say other than that this is really impressive work. Thanks for putting it all together!
skilled··on Fefe is back
It went dark earlier this year and from what I gather from German media is that he had a problem and was hospitalised.

The site is quite popular in Germany, last year or the year before a blog post of mine was linked from there and it had a similar pull to HN.

I distinctly remember wondering how many more such sites exist that have such strong communities but you’re unlikely to find these sites in the wild.

skilled··on Critical RCE Vulnerabilities in React and Next.js
Wow, I am at a loss for words how serious this is. Looking forward to a more technical write up.

This might cause quite a lot of chaos and leaked code / credentials over the next couple of weeks.

skilled··on Wikipedia row erupts as Jimmy Wales intervenes on 'Gaza genocide' page
This was not linked in the article, so here is what Jimmy wrote in the talk page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gaza_genocide#Statement_f...

skilled··on Ex-Builder.ai CFO subpoenaed as US authorities probe its collapse
https://archive.is/qokks
skilled··on US Seizes 15B BTC, Indicts Chairman: Forced Labor Scam Compounds, Crypto Fraud
Previous discussion from a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45580981

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