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Butterflies use optical illusions to dodge predators

Article URL: https://www.essex.ac.uk/news/2026/09/30/butterflies-use-optical-illusions-to-dodge-predators Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49928152 Points: 21 # Comments: 3
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How Singapore's government-run dating service works

Article URL: https://www.singapore-samizdat.com/p/how-singapores-government-run-dating-service-firstdate-works Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49929113 Points: 14 # Comments: 7
Your Platform Is a Matrix: How to Get From O(B × P) to O(B + P)
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Your Platform Is a Matrix: How to Get From O(B × P) to O(B + P)

The article discusses the challenges of building scalable platforms by avoiding the "matrix" problem, where two growing systems become tightly coupled and require significant integration efforts. This is often caused by a shared API or abstraction layer that carries knowledge from both domains, leading to a multiplication of integration costs.
Can a Greek Game Studio Build a Global Audience?
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Can a Greek Game Studio Build a Global Audience?

Can a Greek game studio build a global audience? Explore how distribution and discoverability can overcome geographic limits and reach players worldwide.
The Lifecycle of Email Objects
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The Lifecycle of Email Objects

Sam proposes moving Thursday's demo to Friday due to delayed finance numbers, and Priya agrees to the new date. Both parties express appreciation for each other's flexibility and understanding throughout the conversation.
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Apple’s reportedly developing a smart home camera that doesn’t record video

Apple's rumored push into smart home tech could include a smart home security camera that only gives users text event descriptions instead of video footage. Mark Gurman said in the first episode of the Power On podcast that the camera will be part of "a new Apple smart home ecosystem," alongside Apple's rumored smart home […]
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September 2026 Security Review: Attacks Following Legitimate Features and AI Execution Capabilities

Executive Summary Publicly available information collected in September 2026 highlighted common discussion points: "attacks that use legitimate connections and privileges to move laterally after infiltration," "malicious code in software supply chains that activates during normal use or after distribution resumes," and "governance over the scope of execution left to AI." An important defensive lesson is not only to strengthen perimeter defenses, but also to pre-define the extent of...
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CVE-2026-65660: a SharePoint flaw that never writes a file to disk

CVE-2026-65660: a SharePoint flaw that never writes a file to disk Most incident response playbooks for a web server compromise start with the file system. Analysts look for recently written scripts, unexpected directories and timestamps that do not match a deployment window. CVE-2026-65660 breaks that habit, because the exploitation chain it uses builds its payload in memory and leaves no file behind. Technical context Microsoft rated the flaw 8.8 and fixed it on 11 August 2...
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IBM's New AI Skills Study: How to Keep Learning While You Build With AI

Your AI coding tool finishes the feature. The button works. You can finally move the task out of the pile. Then someone asks why it works that way, and you realize the explanation left with the chat window. That is the beginner problem I kept thinking about while reading IBM's new workforce skills announcement, published September 21 . In surveys conducted with Oxford Economics from April through June, IBM gathered responses from 1,500 human-resources leaders and 8,800 full-time employees...
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Preparing for Git 3.0's SHA-256 Default: Find What Breaks in Your Tooling Before It Breaks

Tuần này trên Hacker News có một bài khá nóng: Git 3.0 dự kiến đổi object format mặc định từ SHA-1 sang SHA-256, và tác giả cho rằng đây là một quyết định tốn kém. Mình không định tranh luận chuyện đúng hay sai. Câu hỏi thực tế hơn với team mình là: nếu một ngày repo mới tạo ra mặc định là SHA-256 thì những gì trong hệ thống của mình sẽ gãy? Câu trả lời thường không nằm ở Git, mà nằm ở hàng tá script CI, regex, schema database và tool nội bộ đang ngầm giả định rằng commit hash luôn dài đúng 40...