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Ask HN: European Tech Alternatives?
20 by BrunoBernardino | 7 comments on Hacker News.
I've used https://ift.tt/gHmau8M in the past but I've found it impossible to submit anything there (I've got one submission "Waiting for Review" since July 2025), and I haven't really seen updates in categories/apps for at least 6 months, which is, at a minimum, strange. I've also reached out to the owner a couple of times (via chat and via email) over the last year and never got a reply. Has anyone else had a similar experience? If so, is there any other kind of listing you look for EU alternatives to US software/hardware? Thanks!

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First Western Digital, now Sony: The tech giant suspends SD card sales
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Building FireStriker: Making Civic Tech Free
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Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027
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2026 tech layoffs reach 45,000 in March
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New 'negative light' technology hides data transfers in plain sight
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Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker
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Iran warns U.S. tech firms could become targets as war expands
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I used pulsar detection techniques to turn a phone into a watch timegrapher
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Tech jobs are getting demolished in ways not seen since 2008
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Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions
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Palantir and other tech companies are stocking offices with tobacco products
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US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for datacenters
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Was Windows 1.0's lack of overlapping windows a legal or a technical matter?
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The Internet's Top Tech Publications Lost 58% of Their Google Traffic Since 2024
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Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes
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The Case for Apolitical Tech Spaces
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Techno‑Feudal Elite Are Attempting to Build a Twenty‑First‑Century Fascist State
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Technical Excellence Is Not Enough
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Tech Companies Shouldn't Be Bullied into Doing Surveillance
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Tiny QR code achieved using electron microscope technology
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Making Wolfram Tech Available as a Foundation Tool for LLM Systems
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Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking
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Techno-cynics are wounded techno-optimists
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IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup
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European Tech Alternatives
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Show HN: I wrote a technical history book on Lisp
28 by cdegroot | 2 comments on Hacker News.
The book page links to a blog post that explains how I got about it (and has a link to sample content), but the TL&DR is that I could not find a lot of books that were on "our" history _and_ were larded with technical details. So I set about writing one, and some five years later I'm happy to share the result. I think it's one of the few "computer history" books that has tons of code, but correct me if I'm wrong (I wrote this both to tell a story and to learn :-)). My favorite languages are Smalltalk and Lisp, but as an Emacs user, I've been using the latter for much longer and for my current projects, Common Lisp is a better fit, so I call myself "a Lisp-er" these days. If people like what I did, I do have plans to write some more (but probably only after I retire, writing next to a full-time job is heard). Maybe on Smalltalk, maybe on computer networks - two topics close to my heart. And a shout-out to Dick Gabriel, he contributed some great personal memories about the man who started it all, John McCarthy.

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Ex-Tech –> Homeless in SF
43 by Zamoshi | 2 comments on Hacker News.

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Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer; pulls story
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Cogram (YC W22) – Hiring former technical founders
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Mamdani Hires Lisa Gelobter as Chief Tech Officer
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CoLoop (YC S21) Is Hiring Ex Technical Founders in London
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MIT Technology Review has confirmed that posts on Moltbook were fake
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In the AI gold rush, tech firms are embracing 72-hour weeks
33 by yladiz | 32 comments on Hacker News.

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Modern and Antique Technologies Reveal a Dynamic Cosmos
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Show HN: BioTradingArena – Benchmark for LLMs to predict biotech stock movements
9 by dchu17 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, My friend and I have been experimenting with using LLMs to reason about biotech stocks. Unlike many other sectors, Biotech trading is largely event-driven: FDA decisions, clinical trial readouts, safety updates, or changes in trial design can cause a stock to 3x in a single day ( https://ift.tt/jIlnFA3... ). Interpreting these ‘catalysts,’ which comes in the form of a press release, usually requires analysts with previous expertise in biology or medicine. A catalyst that sounds “positive” can still lead to a selloff if, for example: the effect size is weaker than expected - results apply only to a narrow subgroup - endpoints don’t meaningfully de-risk later phases, - the readout doesn’t materially change approval odds. To explore this, we built BioTradingArena, a benchmark for evaluating how well LLMs can interpret biotech catalysts and predict stock reactions. Given only the catalyst and the information available before the date of the press release (trial design, prior data, PubMed articles, and market expectations), the benchmark tests to see how accurate the model is at predicting the stock movement for when the catalyst is released. The benchmark currently includes 317 historical catalysts. We also created subsets for specific indications (with the largest in Oncology) as different indications often have different patterns. We plan to add more catalysts to the public dataset over the next few weeks. The dataset spans companies of different sizes and creates an adjusted score, since large-cap biotech tends to exhibit much lower volatility than small and mid-cap names. Each row of data includes: - Real historical biotech catalysts (Phase 1–3 readouts, FDA actions, etc.) and pricing data from the day before, and the day of the catalyst - Linked Clinical Trial data, and PubMed pdfs Note, there are may exist some fairly obvious problems with our approach. First, many clinical trial press releases are likely already included in the LLMs’ pretraining data. While we try to reduce this by ‘de-identifying each press release’, and providing only the data available to the LLM up to the date of the catalyst, there are obviously some uncertainties about whether this is sufficient. We’ve been using this benchmark to test prompting strategies and model families. Results so far are mixed but interesting as the most reliable approach we found was to use LLMs to quantify qualitative features and then a linear regression of these features, rather than direct price prediction. Just wanted to share this with HN. I built a playground link for those of you who would like to play around with it in a sandbox. Would love to hear some ideas and hope people can play around with this!

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ICE seeks industry input on ad tech location data for investigative use
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Technocracy 2.0
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Exploring Different Keyboard Sensing Technologies
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New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers
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Europe just started building a 'kill switch' for U.S. tech
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The Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in Scala
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The tech market is fundamentally fucked up and AI is just a scapegoat
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TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues
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Mothers (YC X26, Defense Tech) Is Hiring
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The Adolescence of Technology
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Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology
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Tech Is Fun Again: The Tech Monoculture Is Finally Breaking
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My first year in sales as technical founder
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Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU's roll-back of digital rights
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Congress Wants to Hand Your Parenting to Big Tech
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Escaping the trap of US tech dependence
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Italy's privacy watchdog, scourge of US big tech, hit by corruption probe
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The 3D Software Rendering Technology of 1998's Thief: The Dark Project (2019)
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A letter to those who fired tech writers because of AI
5 by theletterf | 1 comments on Hacker News.

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Tech Writers Are About to Become Obsolete
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There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape
39 by abnercoimbre | 18 comments on Hacker News.

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Games Workshop bans staff from using AI, management not excited about the tech
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BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech
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Anyone building software for wearable tech?
4 by ssc23 | 2 comments on Hacker News.
With rings, bands and sunglasses interface are popping up from various companies. Anyone trying to build software for it?

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ICE Is Using Facial-Recognition Technology to Quickly Arrest People
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Straussian Memes: A Lens on Techniques for Mass Persuasion
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