News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns

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The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has become a liability for news publishers due to AI companies scraping its content. News outlets like The Guardian and The New York Times are limiting the Archive's access to their content.

uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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User added a link to a GitHub repository containing a list to block YouTube Shorts, and mentioned taking over maintenance of the list from its original creator @gijsdev.

NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed

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NewPipe offers a YouTube-like experience without ads and questionable permissions. It's a free, open-source app that supports the goal of a more free and open internet.

My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker

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A user reverse-engineered a smart sleep mask's Bluetooth protocol and app to create a web control panel, but discovered it could also read and control other users' brainwaves and devices. The user contacted the company about the issue and used the experience to revisit digital hygiene practices.

IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption

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IBM and Dropbox are hiring more Gen Z workers despite AI concerns, recognizing their AI fluency and potential to accelerate adoption. Companies like IBM are rewriting entry-level roles to focus on human skills, building more durable skills for workers and long-term value for the company.

Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you

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This is a Brainfuck program. It appears to be a simple counter that increments and decrements a value.

Zvec: A lightweight, fast, in-process vector database

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Zvec is an open-source vector database for in-process similarity search with low-latency and scalability. It supports dense and sparse vectors, multi-vector queries, and runs on various platforms including notebooks and edge devices.

Can my SPARC server host a website?

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The user successfully hosted a website on a 25-year-old Sun Netra X1 SPARC server running OpenBSD 7.8, using Noctua fan mods, pf firewall, and Cloudflare tunnels for security. They also set up a similar server, a 2001 Sun Netra X1, with OpenBSD, httpd, and Cloudflare tunnels, and exposed it to the internet at sparc.rup12.net.

Instagram's URL Blackhole

A jailbroken iPhone 6s had an SQLite database with 4629 entries in a "url_blackhole" table, mostly using t.co and other URL shorteners. The active link led to a fake virus page with a Google logo, which could be used to download and reverse engineer an app on a wiped jailbroken device.

5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites story of ancient Egyptian tools

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Researchers at Newcastle University and the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, have identified the earliest known rotary metal drill from ancient Egypt, dating back to the Predynastic period. The drill, made from a unique copper alloy, was found in a 4th millennium BCE grave and shows distinctive wear consistent with drilling.

Flood Fill vs. The Magic Circle

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The author argues that AI automation will not flood fill the physical world due to its limitations in handling complexity and physical constraints. Instead, humans will work alongside AI in a symbiotic relationship, with AI handling digital tasks and humans handling physical tasks.

I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers

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The user thanks ArchWiki maintainers for their contributions to software freedom and documentation, highlighting its usefulness in understanding technology. They encourage others to appreciate and support the maintainers through donations.

Amsterdam Compiler Kit

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The Amsterdam Compiler Kit is a complete compiler toolchain that supports various languages and platforms. It can be installed and used on Unix-like systems including Linux, OSX, and Windows.

The Perfect Device

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I promise, I am not setting up a smart home. The Wi-Fi kettle was a gift, and I haven’t connected it to the Internet anyway. But I have been curious what The Cloud has to offer. I have been dabbling. I’m not a fan of most of it, but some features are really cool: for example, the infamous Tuya devices can fully run on a local network, without any outside traffic. So I am not setting up a ...

The consequences of task switching in supervisory programming

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Senior developers will play a key role in managing LLMs, while junior developers will benefit from AI mentors, and mid-level developers face the greatest challenges in adapting to LLMs. The future of software development may involve supervisory programmers herding agents, but they will still be accountable for the code generated under their watch.

Show HN: Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone

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Off Grid is a complete offline AI suite for phones with text generation, image generation, vision AI, voice transcription, and document analysis. It runs natively on phone hardware with various models and features like Stable Diffusion and Whisper speech-to-text.

Show HN: MOL – A programming language where pipelines trace themselves

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MOL is a programming language with native pipeline operators and auto-tracing for AI/RAG pipelines. It fixes glue code issues in AI pipelines with a simple and efficient syntax.

Ask HN: How to get started with robotics as a hobbyist?

You're looking to start a robotics hobby with a focus on physical activities, exploring various kits and projects, and learning through hands-on experience. You want to start with a kit that works end-to-end, such as the Lerobot SO101 arm, and learn the necessary skills to achieve a specific goal.

Discord: A case study in performance optimization

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Discord's architecture is built on the Actor Model, which ensures safe concurrency and location independence, allowing it to handle trillions of messages without data loss or latency. The company optimized its system by implementing techniques such as request routing, caching, and disk abstraction, and by using a functional programming language like Elixir to handle concurrency and distribution.

Show HN: Sameshi – a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB

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a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB. Contribute to datavorous/sameshi development by creating an account on GitHub.

Git with WD-40 Applied

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Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access to internals. Git is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License version 2 (some parts of it are under different licenses, compatible with the GPLv2). It was originally written by Linus Torvalds with help of a group of ...

Launching Interop 2026

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The Interop Project aims to improve web compatibility by focusing on well-defined features with good test suite coverage. It balances developer priorities with collective resources to track progress across browsers.

Colored Petri Nets, LLMs, and distributed applications

Colored Petri Nets (CPNs) can be used to implement concurrent applications and provide formally verifiable correctness, making it easier to write concurrent programs. CPNs can be used to model and solve complex concurrency problems, such as web scraping, and can be implemented in Rust with persistence using a database or in-memory with move semantics.

Unicorn Jelly

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Unicorn Jelly is a philosophical science fiction manga strip published from 2000 to 2003 with a complete story and universe. It has a film noir side story, To Save Her, and a community with extensive background information and interactive features.

A review of M Disc archival capability with long term testing results (2016)

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The problem of archiving data is difficult due to technology's short lifespan and data corruption. A solution is to use M-Discs, which are more durable and can last 1000 years.

A header-only C vector database library

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The library is a C header-only database for high-dimensional vector embeddings with optional multithreading support. It includes functions for adding vectors, searching for nearest neighbors, and retrieving vectors and metadata.

Descent, ported to the web

YouTube as Storage

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The yt-media-storage program encodes files into lossless YouTube videos and decodes them back to the original file. It has a CLI and GUI, and can be installed with dependencies like FFmpeg and Qt6.

Windows NT/OS2 Design Workbook

Vim 9.2

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Vim 9.2 introduces significant enhancements including improved diff mode, comprehensive completion features, and platform-specific improvements. It also includes new features like Enums, Generic functions, and Tuple data type, and supports native dark mode on MS-Windows.