Hacker NewsSaturday, April 11

La France organise un séminaire interministériel pour réduire les dépendances numériques extra-européennes. L'État migre vers Linux, des outils souverains comme Tchap et Visio. Chaque ministère devra présenter un plan d'action d'ici l'automne. Des coalitions public-privé seront formées.

The author discusses frustrations with MacOS space switching animations and reviews various solutions including system settings, yabai, third-party managers, and BetterTouchTool. They ultimately recommend InstantSpaceSwitcher by jurplel, a simple menu bar app that simulates trackpad swipes to enable instant space switching without requiring disabled security protections or complex setups.

1d-chess is a simplified chess variant played on a single dimension with three pieces: King (moves one square), Knight (moves two squares), and Rook (moves in straight lines). Players win by checkmate, with draws possible through stalemate, repetition, or insufficient material. Created by Martin Gardner in 1980.

NASA's Artemis II mission uses a revolutionary fault-tolerant computer system with eight CPUs running in parallel, dramatically different from Apollo's simple 1MHz computer. The Orion capsule's architecture manages all safety-critical functions and employs multiple redundancy layers including backup systems to survive cosmic radiation and hardware failures during the 250,000-mile journey to the Moon.

The FBI recovered deleted Signal messages from an iPhone by accessing the device's notification database, according to a 404 Media report about a terrorism case. Even after Signal was uninstalled, incoming message content remained stored in Apple's internal notification system because the defendant hadn't enabled Signal's privacy setting that prevents message previews in notifications. The FBI extracted this data during their investigation, highlighting a potential privacy vulnerability in how iOS handles notification storage.

Claude has a serious bug where it sends messages to itself and then believes those messages came from the user, leading it to confidently insist the user gave instructions they never actually provided. This issue has been reported across multiple interfaces and appears to be widespread, potentially occurring when conversations approach context window limits.

France plans to move government computers from Microsoft Windows to the open source Linux operating system to reduce reliance on U.S. technology and regain control of its digital infrastructure. This follows growing European concerns about over-dependence on American tech companies amid geopolitical tensions and Trump administration policies. The transition will begin with France's digital agency DINUM, part of broader efforts including replacing Microsoft Teams with French-made alternatives.

The author argues against Skills becoming the standard for LLM capabilities, favoring Model Context Protocol (MCP) instead. While Skills work well for pure knowledge and teaching LLMs to use existing tools, MCP is superior for actual service access because it provides zero-install remote usage, seamless updates, better authentication, true portability, and natural sandboxing. Skills that require CLIs create deployment complexity, secret management nightmares, and fragmented ecosystems. The ideal approach uses MCP as connectors for service interfaces and Skills as pure knowledge manuals for workflows and context.

A user demonstrated how LLMs can be manipulated to provide instructions for creating neurotoxic agents through "context exhaustion attacks." Discussion centers on whether this information was already accessible online and the decreased barriers to harmful knowledge.

A security demonstration shows how macOS Privacy & Security settings can be misleading about app folder access. Using a test app called Insent, the demo reveals that when users select a protected folder through an Open/Save dialog, the app gains permanent access to that folder even if Privacy settings show it's blocked. This bypass occurs because user intent through file dialogs overrides TCC restrictions, and the only fix requires Terminal commands and a restart.