YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other Browsers
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Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of an Asteroid (2024)
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America First Risks Becoming America Alone
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Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train
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Show HN: Phage Explorer
I got really interested in biology and genetics a few months ago, just for fun. This was largely inspired by the work of Sydney Brenner, which became the basis of my brennerbot.org project. In particular, I became very fascinated by…
Naples’ 1790s civil war was intensified by moral panic over Real Analysis (2023)
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Senate passes budget with two more weeks of Homeland Security funding
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) talks to reporters following the weekly Senate Democratic policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on January 28, 2026 in Washington, DC. | Getty Images The Senate voted on Friday evening to pass the federal…
Court Filings: ICE App Identifies Protesters; Global Entry, PreCheck Get Revoked
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a16z partner Kofi Ampadu to leave firm after TxO program pause
Kofi Ampadu, the partner at a16z who led the firm’s Talent x Opportunity (TxO) fund and program, has left the firm.
Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones
Built this because tones are killing my spoken Mandarin and I can’t reliably hear my own mistakes. It’s a 9M Conformer-CTC model trained on ~300h (AISHELL + Primewords), quantized to INT8 (11 MB), runs 100% in-browser via ONNX Runtime Web.…