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Western Blotting Must Die
Article URL: https://randombio.com/westernblots.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44134341
Points: 1
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Split Keyboards Are Superior
Article URL: https://aftermath.site/best-split-keyboards-diy-qmk-zmk-corne
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44134338
Points: 1
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Brain drugs can now cross the once impenetrable blood–brain barrier
Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01569-z
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44134332
Points: 3
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How AI coding agents could infiltrate and destroy open source software
Ask HN: User IDs in app share links
A thing I've noticed recently is more and more apps including some sort of "share id" query string parameter when you copy a link to share content.
These parameters are then (sometimes) used to surface a banner in the app when the receiver of the link opens it. Something like "user so and so shared this with you, want to follow them?". I'm presuming they are also used for ad/data mining/network building purposes under the hood.
For example Instagram adds an `igsh` parameter to share links while Youtube and Spotify add an `si` parameter.
I guess these are a continuation of the `utm` type parameters used for marketing. But they feel a way more creepy and invasive when operating on a personal level than a marketing campaign level.
Also the user isn't made aware of this parameter at all. A user link could get sent onwards and would identify the user as a source long after they are out of the loop.
Any thoughts on these practices? Is there an opt out somewhere?
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44134198
Points: 1
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The UK wants you to sign up for £1B cyber defense force
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/30/uk_cyber_defense/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44134196
Points: 1
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Gaza Macht Frei
Article URL: https://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/meinung/gaza-macht-frei/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44134191
Points: 1
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FLOSS/Fund: First tranche of funding to 9 global FOSS projects
Article URL: https://floss.fund/blog/update-2025-may/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44134154
Points: 1
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Tell HN: Namecheap pre-purchasing searched domain names?
Yesterday afternoon, I was playing around with domain name ideas and landed on getfitgpt.com Checked it out on namecheap.com nice, it's available. Mind you, it was the first time I had ever typed or even imagined this domain name before.
Today I decided that it has a ring to it and I'll go ahead and just buy it.
What do you know, it's already bought...
Checked whois getfitgpt.com:
Registry Domain ID: 2987595751_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.namecheap.com Registrar URL: http://www.namecheap.com Updated Date: 0001-01-01T00:00:00.00Z Creation Date: 2025-05-29T23:29:02.00Z Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2026-05-29T23:29:02.00Z Registrar: NAMECHEAP INC
The timing is also suspicious: 23:29:02, as if it was a script that was scheduled to buy searched domain names at midnight?
Namecheap was the only domain lookup I used, I don't trust godaddy. Apparently I can't trust namecheap also anymore?
I mean there's just too many coincidences.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44134152
Points: 1
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The case for using a web browser as your terminal
Article URL: https://blog.pomdtr.me/posts/tweety-v1/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44134136
Points: 1
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Memvid – Video-Based AI Memory
Article URL: https://github.com/Olow304/memvid
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44134122
Points: 1
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Interlock ransomware: what you need to know
PHP Pipe operator v3 Accepted
Article URL: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pipe-operator-v3
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44134115
Points: 1
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Ping A real-life social app to meet people nearby (WIP)
Article URL: https://www.figma.com/design/G54P77Ud84q8bPha1Ysf1o/Ping-V1?node-id=1-8&m=dev&t=FZlA5zCzuTFOAfe7-1
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44134108
Points: 1
# Comments: 1
Show HN: Overlay Images
Article URL: https://overlayimages.app/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44134099
Points: 1
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Anduril and Meta Partner for US Army VR Headsets
Show HN: I redirected 10K+ URLs in 5 minutes
Last month, I migrated a client’s website with over 10,000 URLs. The old site had messy, hardcoded links, and manually setting up 301 redirects would’ve taken days. That's why I created Redirectify, a tool that helps you redirect in minutes, not hours, with the help of AI.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44134088
Points: 1
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Ask HN: Do we need AGI to filter spam?
Given that we now have PhD-level agentic reasoning AI models I was wondering how is it possible that spam still a problem.
Does spam filtering requires super intelligence?
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44134084
Points: 1
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Grammarly secures $1B from General Catalyst to build AI productivity platform
First and Best Offers
Article URL: https://brilliantorg.notion.site/First-and-Best-Offers-b32d30b688fd4c449f0ff588e2bf38a0
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44134072
Points: 2
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