Loosely Coupled Thinking

Nov 1, 2026 Lenovo Fingerprint Encrypted USB Drive is a Plain Old SD Card

A Lenovo USB stick with a fingerprint reader was sold as hardware encrypted with AES-256.

Inside sat an ordinary SD card. Nothing on it was encrypted. The fingerprint only switched the USB connection on.

Nov 1, 2026 New study challenges theory that comets seeded life on Earth

They keep moving the goalposts - the article examines several alternative theories but contains zero mentions of God.

No matter how many times I dump ingredients on my kitchen floor, it never turns into pancakes. I just can't figure out why.

Nov 1, 2026 Anthropic Isn't Just a Company, It's a Payoff

Big tech has become jammed together into one giant quasi-holding company, with interlocking business relationships, cross-shareholdings, and long-term cooperation. As a result, we have a situation where Anthropic is going public, with a massive chunk owned by an ostensible set of rivals.

Nov 1, 2026 Shame on Anthropic

Claude built is models on the world's data, then treats paying users doing research automation as the enemy.

Nov 1, 2026 HackerTube is an alternative to YouTube's wall of AI slop

Opus downloaded all comments of HackerNews, filtered them, ran Sonnet over them in a Workflow (Claude Code feature), got rid of spam, and narrowed everything down to 40K comments recommending a YouTube video.

We get 6,454 YouTube videos that have been recommended by a few people on HN from 2007-2026 across 150 topics.

HackerTube:

Contains quality content

Uses the 50% thumbnail instead of the uploaded thumbnail

Custom and good ForYou recommendations without any user accounts, storing state in local browser session

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Export of the site's data available to give to your agent to easily create your own version

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