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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49716952

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Article URL: https://golangbot.com/secure-go-code/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49716926

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Article URL: https://lubaretsi.com/en/writing/microsoft-startups/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49716917

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The federal government has inserted a provision into a funding deal with the state of California that would make the state abandon its gold standard net neutrality law, broadband affordability laws, and public safety protections. Doing so would be a huge step back for California, and would actually end up being more expensive for Californians in the long run. Tell the governor to reject this provision before accepting these funds from the federal government.

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Tell the Governor to Stand Up for Net Neutrality, Affordability, and Public Safety

On August 31, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced it would be awarding California $1.4 billion to expand broadband connectivity in the state. In that deal is a provision that says that California agrees to not enforce any law, order, or policy that imposes any sort of restriction on internet service providers (ISPs). These ISPs will get awarded the funding in order to connect Californians they have neglected for years. The ban on enforcing our laws would last 14 years. This is disastrous for a lot of reasons. 

First, California is one of the only states with a strong state net neutrality law. Recreating much of the FCC’s Open Internet Order, the law prevents ISPs from blocking, throttling, zero rating, and instituting paid prioritization on internet service. Put another way, the law ensures that users, not companies, decide how they can see on the internet. If California is not allowed to enforce our gold standard law, there will be little stopping ISPs from controlling how everyone experiences the internet. 

Second, California has a number of affordability protections that would also fall under this agreement. For example, when the state approved the merger of Verizon and Frontier earlier this year, it required the new merged company to offer a $20 internet plan to low-income Californians—saving Californians billions of dollars over the next decade. Just this year the California Public Utilities Commission found that the average cost of broadband across four major urban markets (San Mateo, Oakland, Los Angeles, and San Diego) was $51 per month. In 2023, Consumer Reports found that 84% of American consumers pay at least $50 per month, with many paying more. That $30 difference per month—which is likely to actually be more—makes all the difference for low-income Californians. It is how Californians will save billions from this merger requirement. In contrast, $1.4 billion in new connectivity and infrastructure doesn't matter if the most vulnerable Californians cannot afford it. Eviscerations of this and the net neutrality protections will, ultimately, cost Californians more than they will get. 

Third, this deal will impact public safety. The same California net neutrality law which protects consumers also ensures reliable service for first responders during emergencies by banning throttling. In 2018, Verizon throttled, or slowed down, the service of firefighters as they were battling what was, at the time, the largest wildfire in California history. In reaction, fire departments came out in support of what would become California’s net neutrality law. If California cannot enforce its net neutrality law it will leave its first responders in a weaker position as natural disasters only become more intense. 

Most people do not have a choice in ISP as it is. California’s net neutrality law is one of the few things protecting Californians from the whims of these monopolistic giants. Californians should not give up our few hard-won protections in return for a hand out to these behemoths. Tell Governor Newsom to reject this provision before he accepts these funds from the federal government. 

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Tell the Governor to Stand Up for Net Neutrality, Affordability, and Public Safety

How do security teams distinguish between people and AI? It's getting harder, but behavioral biometrics might help discern human users from machine impersonators.

With trust in AI agents close to rock bottom in the popular imagination, Splunk and Cisco unveiled a series of platform enhancements designed to enhance observability and confidence in agentic AI.

Cyber attackers linked to Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security are targeting opponents and opposition groups with Windows spyware  

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715465

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Article URL: https://jackevans.bearblog.dev/leaving-linux/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715463

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I originally started with this project because my partner wanted a way to make visually clean travel videos for her social media. The ones that existed felt a bit too expensive for the quality they delivered, and many of them leaned heavily on a cartoonish visual style.

So I decided I'll build an app for her that fits her needs, and over the last few months it has become bigger and better.

I've even created my own map tiles because licensing existing ones was not cost effective.

Now it's finally open for public beta and I'd love to get some feedback before I bring this to the App Store.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715460

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Article URL: https://nautil.us/the-brutal-origins-of-bear-baiting-1285024

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715459

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Article URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/15/1144141/the-download-ai-extinction-whistleblowing-agents-donated-livers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715458

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I recently tried SuperColoring, a convenient tool for creating your own crossword puzzles. You can add your own words and hints, automatically generate a crossword, edit the title, and choose a layout you like.

The finished crossword can be downloaded and printed together with an answer key. I think it can be especially useful for classroom activities, homework, language learning, and vocabulary practice.

Does anyone here use crossword generators like this?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715448

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Article URL: https://pixly.app/tools/drone-video-property-lines

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715441

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Article URL: https://nautil.us/did-venus-eat-its-own-moon-1285021

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715434

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Article URL: https://twitter.com/davepl1968/status/2099883465256865923

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715417

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Article URL: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2018/05/09/page-previews-documentation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715413

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Article URL: https://lemire.me/blog/2026/09/15/subnormal-floating-point-numbers-are-expensive-on-intel-processors/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715408

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Article URL: https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/ai-leading-driver-cybersecurity-spending/830418/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715404

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Hi HN!

Over the past year, I've been building Omni (https://github.com/getomnico/omni) - an open-source, self-hosted agent that connects to your workplace apps (drive, email, wiki, CRMs, ticketing systems, etc.), and gives your team an AI agent that can operate across these apps.

I posted about Omni on HN about 6 months ago, and it generated some interesting discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47215427. At the time, Omni was largely an enterprise search system. Since then, the project has evolved to become more of an agent that can gather context, analyze information, and carry out tasks; rather than just search for answers.

E.g., you can tell Omni, "create a project status deck on Google Slides with this week's progress", and it will search through Jira, Slack, Docs, meeting transcripts, fetch the relevant information, analyze spreadsheets with Python, prepare a summary and ask for your approval before creating the slides on your drive.

A non-exhaustive list of things Omni can do today:

- Take action on connected apps, with an approval system for write actions

- Full MCP support, so connectors can integrate with any existing MCP servers.

- Sync data from connected apps into a unified search index, allowing the agent to query data across all apps using a single search tool.

- Sand-boxed code execution and shell access, enabling the agent to create documents, spreadsheets, presentations and HTML landing pages.

- Persistent memory and user-defined skills

Omni still uses Postgres as its core data layer where it syncs and indexes all data from connected apps. We use ParadeDB (Postgres extension) for BM25 search and pgvector for semantic search - so there's no need to run and operate a dedicated search cluster or vector database. To know more about the architecture: https://docs.getomni.co/architecture.

Would love to get more folks involved in the project, so if you find this interesting, please check out the repo below. It only takes around 10-15 min to deploy using docker compose and connect a few apps.

Happy to answer any questions!

GitHub: https://github.com/getomnico/omni (Apache 2.0 licensed)

Docs: https://docs.getomni.co

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715402

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