Why Janet? (2023)

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The author promotes Janet, a small, easy-to-learn Lisp dialect with a simple syntax and powerful features like macros and implicit serialization. Janet is ideal for writing command-line apps, scripting, and embedding in other languages due to its ease of use and flexibility.
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Adafruit received a letter from Flux's counsel demanding they stop publishing an article about Flux's intellectual property and user base. Adafruit has temporarily stopped publishing to consider their response to the demand.

CSS-Native Parallax Effect

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CSS Scroll-driven animation timelines enable parallax effects without JavaScript, improving performance and simplicity. A utility class uses a single block of declarative styles to create a parallax animation with a variable offset and scale.

The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen

Hackers can easily take over Instagram accounts by tricking Meta's support AI into sending verification codes to an arbitrary email address. This zero-auth password reset method bypasses 2FA and allows attackers to gain full ownership of the account, with the AI being easily fooled by simple methods.

You Don't Love Systemd Timers Enough

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Systemd timers are a modern alternative to traditional cron jobs, offering more flexibility and features such as stdout and stderr output control and calendar versus time span units. They can be configured to run at specific times, intervals, or relative to other events, and provide a clear picture of scheduled tasks with the list-timers subcommand.

Muxcard, a dyi credit card size computer

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The user is developing a fully working computer the size of a credit card, with a thickness of around 1mm, and is sharing the process and challenges of creating it.

Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?

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SpaceX plans a $75bn stock market debut on Nasdaq, followed by AI firms Anthropic and Open seeking up to $60bn each. The three listings could add $4trn to US market value.

macOS needs its grid back

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The user created an app called GridLion to restore grid-based virtual desktops to macOS, a feature removed in Lion. They used an LLM to help with development, but found it challenging to create a polished app due to macOS limitations and permission requirements.

Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Applied AI Interns

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Great Question is hiring an AI-native Software Engineering intern for a 3-month summer program. The intern will work on real AI-focused projects, own a project from day one, and collaborate with the CTO as a mentor.

Expanding Project Glasswing

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Project Glasswing is our collaborative effort to secure the world’s most important software. In early April, we announced that roughly 50 initial partners had access to Claude Mythos Preview, and since then, they’ve been deploying the model to scan their codebases for vulnerabilities. We recently described how these partners have so far found more than ten thousand high- or critical-severity ...

Webcam head tracking, webcam to control in‑game FOV

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OpenFOV uses your webcam to control iRacing's in-game FOV. Unlocks VR-style functionality for your monitor!

Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API

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The user created WhisperPad to help people with hand injuries like themselves type more efficiently, but Apple rejected the app due to a guideline issue. The user decided to release a compromised version on the App Store and a full version directly, which led to a better-organized product and a new understanding of their build configuration.

CQL: Categorical Databases

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CQL is an open-source, production-ready data processing system using category theory for querying, combining, and evolving databases. It guarantees correctness through an embedded automated theorem prover and preserves data quality with perfect provenance.

OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS

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OpenAI models and Codex are now available on AWS, allowing customers to build AI applications with existing security and governance controls. This partnership reduces friction around AI adoption, enabling customers to move faster from evaluation to production.

Chipotlai Max

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Chipotle's Pepper AI chatbot was hacked and turned into a free coding agent called Chipotlai Max. It's a community project to add support for other retailers' chatbots.

Debug Project

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Mosquitoes spread diseases like dengue and Zika, killing hundreds of millions yearly. Debug uses male mosquitoes with Wolbachia bacteria to stop bad mosquitoes from reproducing.

Strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance

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Jane Street developed Bonsai_term, a terminal UI framework, to create fast and keyboard-centric apps. Bonsai_term uses a declarative, type-safe approach and is well-suited for AI assistance and testing.

CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch

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This course teaches students to develop their own language models using Python and PyTorch, with a focus on implementation and systems optimization. Assignments involve building a standard Transformer model, optimizing attention, and applying RL to train LMs to reason.

AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford

AI agents should guide students in CS336 through explanation, feedback, and debugging, not directly completing assignments. They should review code, suggest improvements, and provide high-level guidance to help students learn through implementation-heavy projects.

Show HN: Eyeball

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eyeball is built for precision clicking with a mouse or trackpad. you can play on touch, but finger taps aren't accurate enough to really compete.

Why Custom Attributes in .NET Give Me Nightmares

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However, as much as I like .NET, there are some things that just really do not make any sense to me, and they frustrate me to no end. Given that I maintain a PE parsing library and thus am deeply familiar with the anatomy of .NET binaries, I feel I am qualified to complain about some of the design choices Microsoft made for this file format :). In this post, I will rant about Custom ...

Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?

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The standard approach maps 0 to 0.0 and 255 to 1.0, while the alternative adds a 0.5 bias and divides by 256. The standard approach is a mid-riser quantizer with L=255, wasting bandwidth but suitable for image processing.

How is Groq raising more money?

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Groq, a company that licensed its AI chip tech to Nvidia, is raising $650M despite already being acquired. They have 4 large datacenters and a unique asset as a private inference datacenter operator.

Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra

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Microsoft unveiled the Surface Laptop Ultra, a powerful device running Windows on Arm, in partnership with NVIDIA. It features up to 128GB of unified memory, a 15-inch mini-LED display, and a custom NVIDIA RTX Spark platform for demanding workloads.

Fooling around with encrypted reasoning blobs

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The user spent a weekend exploring OpenClaw and Claude APIs, discovering that encrypted reasoning blocks can be replayed across sessions and accounts, potentially exposing sensitive information. However, the user was unable to extract model prompts, but found that reasoning itself can be leaky, allowing for side-channel attacks to extract secret data.

Stop Ruining It

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Paul McGowan's insight is that quality is what remains when flaws are removed. He suggests that customer delight, curiosity, satisfaction, and trust are all preserved if not ruined by external factors.

Launch HN: Expanse (YC P26) – Unlock Wasted GPU Capacity

Ismaeel, Eren, Yafet, and Nikodem built Expanse to predict job resource needs and optimize HPC/GPU cluster utilization, addressing the 30-40% effective utilization issue in datacenters. Expanse outperforms state-of-the-art models by 8x and continuously updates its models to improve accuracy, offering a paid pilot deployment for HPC/GPU clusters.

What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology

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Sébastien Fontaine's lab found that dead soil continued to emit carbon dioxide for six years. Their experiments suggest that nonbiological catalysts in soil can induce reactions that resemble the metabolic breakdown of sugar.

On Reading SRAMs in IR Images, and Establishing Bounds on Trust

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IR imaging can detect extra RAM macros in a system by placing an upper bound on SRAM size, allowing end users to verify claimed RAM against fabricated RAM. However, hiding a small amount of extra memory, such as a single row, may be possible but is still detectable with other means, such as laser interferometry or SEM.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)

Here are the job postings summarized in 2 concise English sentences each, not exceeding 200 characters: