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intheitmines··on The lifesaving secret hidden inside a horseshoe crab's blue blood
The crab had correctly identified it's importance within the org and therefore comp structure
intheitmines··on How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood
Super interesting, do you feel this is death by 1000 cuts or can you point at the economics no longer working as small handful of causes (i.e. rise of cost of living in LA, move towards direct to streaming rather than theater releases, AI workflows)?
intheitmines··on Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
How do you ban numbers?
intheitmines··on I Built a Private Genomics Study with Stoffel MPC
Have you used them? Interested myself
intheitmines··on Show HN: Read the Tape – Wordle for daytrading, five blind S&P 500 charts a day
From a very non altruistic point of view part of me wants to encourage this
intheitmines··on I found a WordPress RCEs with GPT5.6 and $25
Is there anywhere currently buying that you can approach without a pre-existing relationship?
intheitmines··on Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle
What do people use bloom filters for in production? I've only ever used as part of a blacklist
intheitmines··on Frank Lloyd Wright’s first home
According to BLS CPI data $5000 in 1889 is $182,132.07 in modern day purchasing power
intheitmines··on British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply
See also Chinese companies buying UK private schools and closing them down

Original: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07/02/chinese-company-...

https://archive.is/dRQsB#selection-2155.4-2155.79

Choice quote from the article

  Mike Parker, the school’s director of marketing, wrote on LinkedIn: “Whatever you read, this isn’t a VAT story. It isn’t a ‘falling rolls, unstoppable decline’ story. The truth is deeper and more complex and, eventually, the truth will out.”
intheitmines··on Chinese company closing private schools raises 'national security concerns'
https://archive.is/dRQsB#selection-2155.4-2155.79
intheitmines··on Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behavior
Same, several nights in a row when trying it for just 5 minutes after a baseline 30 days around the same number previously.

I wonder if people practicing sports / exercise that puts you in a cyclic breathing cycle i.e continuous effort run / cycling would have the same gain or not.

intheitmines··on Chewing gum restores dad's taste and smell years after Covid
how long before you noticed a change?
intheitmines··on Improving ICU handovers by learning from Scuderia Ferrari F1 team
If you enjoyed this you'll likely enjoy the checklist manifesto https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6667514-the-checklist-ma...
intheitmines··on Wacli – WhatsApp CLI: sync, search, send
The lifting/interfacing with whatsapp is handled by https://github.com/tulir/whatsmeow
intheitmines··on Ukrainian drone holds position for 6 weeks
“It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease [would] be greatly diminished.” ― Richard Jordan Gatling, 1877
intheitmines··on Show HN: Quantifying opportunity cost with a deliberately "simple" web app
Crudely, if my aunt had a dick she'd be my uncle.

In terms of feedback: - need BTC prices pre 2014 to really feel the pain - The date format for earliest date available is different to the date format then used in the input below

intheitmines··on Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild
See the equation group saga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_Group
intheitmines··on 'My Words Are Like an Uncontrollable Dog': On Life with Nonfluent Aphasia (2025)
I witnessed somebody go through a temporary form of this after brain surgery. They could converse relatively normally except were completely unable to make decisions.

They would talk about the bird songs from outside but being asked if they wanted a coffee would freeze. Thankfully they made a full recovery after a few months.

intheitmines··on Xfce is great
i3 + xfce works well for this
intheitmines··on Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension
see streisand effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
intheitmines··on Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight
Interesting that for the "December 16 2015 geohot is building Comma" it graded geohot's comments on the thread as only B
intheitmines··on 'Life being stressful is not an illness' – GPs on mental health over-diagnosis
A UK doctor friend mentioned they believed a lot of people being prescribed anti-depressants were suffering from "shit life syndrome" rather than real depression. This wasn't to belittle the issues but rather to highlight the issues they maybe facing, which society doesn't deem valuable enough to fix and the GP is one of the only perceived options they have for help.
intheitmines··on Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
Anyone using Claude for processing sensitive information should be wondering how often it ends up in front of a humans eyes as a false positive
intheitmines··on Ask HN: How much money did you get from the Facebook privacy settlement?
$25
intheitmines··on Ask HN: How much money did you get from the Facebook privacy settlement?
I got no notification, just a deposit to the bank account I submitted
intheitmines··on I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer
If you do this be sure to buy BPA free receipt paper

Handling receipt paper is what turned out to be the cause of the high BPA numbers when boba tea was tested https://x.com/natfriedman/status/1899641377002025252

intheitmines··on Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs
Thanks, its cool to hear attitudes have changed.
intheitmines··on Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs
Just out of interest have you had any legal threats etc from this kind of probing if they don't have explicit bug bounty programs? Also do you ever get offered bounties in on reporting where there wasn't a program?