Bitwarden Dual License Model

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Bitwarden will release commercially licensed apps, but GPLv3 OSS version remains open source. Both versions will have the same features and updates.

Lobbying Is Corruption

George Hotz explained how US politicians are influenced by corporations, not directly through bribes but through "Super PACs" and lobbying. As a European, the author sees this as corruption, which includes bribery and other forms of abuse of power within the law.

Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier

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Talorys is a free, open-source personal AI assistant that runs on Cloudflare and provides tasks, notes, memories, reminders and routines without server or database access. It stores data in a single SQLite-backed Durable Object and has no telemetry or analytics code.

Rampart: Browser native on-device PII radaction

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Rampart is an open-source browser-based tool that removes personal info from messages using rules and a small language model. It ensures privacy by processing data locally, avoiding server risks and large model downloads.

REA Reverse – Engineer Anything

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REA is used to inspect and understand programs, allowing users to explain, change or rebuild them. REA helps analyze code and settings by reading the script's update function and speed settings in a running game.

Cloudflare acquires Deno

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The Deno team is joining Cloudflare to further develop a shared platform for building servers, combining compute, storage, and communication capabilities. This move will simplify server software development and make it more accessible to users.

Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen

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A Telegram link can be used to inject malicious commands, allowing an attacker to steal files from a victim's account by clicking on the link. The attack exploits a vulnerability in Telegram Desktop's handling of URLs and file paths.

`123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach

Denmark's CPR system has been breached, exposing 8.8 million people's information, prompting authorities to recommend alternative methods of verification. The government is launching a security review and increasing penalties for assault cases where the victim dies and the offender has previous convictions.

Triple-A Minesweeper

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Sweep to survive in the action-packed, AAA reboot of the classic puzzle game.

Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0

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Microsoft is introducing Execution Containers (MXC) to help run and manage agents more securely, providing a policy-driven execution layer for untrusted code or dynamically generated workloads. MXC limits what the agent workload can access by containing the scope of the impact if something goes wrong.

WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the workload

The author compared WSL 2.6.3.0 and WSL 3.0.2.0, finding a +61% memory bandwidth surge and -11% scheduler & IPC latency in the new version, with some improvements also seen in basic syscall transition and kernel overhead reduction of ~16%.

Eye of Sauron: Long-Range Hidden Spy Camera Detection (2024)

C for Rust Programmers

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The author shares their experience learning C after initially being a Rust programmer, highlighting the language's quirks and differences from Rust. They provide examples of how C handles booleans, strings, error handling, arrays, and pointers to illustrate its unique features.

Chernobyl particles reveal unexpectedly stable nuclear fuel after 40 years

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Apple/macOS silently removed from official Unix registry

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UNIX certification ensures a stable, portable, and cost-effective environment for various platforms. It provides a trusted industry standard for open systems, ensuring portability and global interoperability.

Can you use autoregressive diffusion to generate market data?

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A research intern built a diffusion model for market data, finding that fully continuous models don't work due to the discrete nature of market events. The model uses flow matching and atom smoothing to better capture the blend of continuous and discrete features in market data.

My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack

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The author, a 40-year-old CEO, experimented with personal AI agents like OpenClaw and Hermes to automate tasks but encountered an issue when one of the agents sent a confidential message meant for his personal group chat to XMTP's executive team. This incident highlighted the need for better controls around agent access and clearer boundaries between personal and work life.

Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded

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News carrier-explode 2.0 has an improved backend, and users can contribute to decoders. The API provides JSON data or daily CC0 datasets for comparing carriers' features across different versions and networks.

Noto means "no tofu": fixing dotted circles in Myanmar text

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A customer's S'gaw Karen content was showing weird dotted circles in Firefox, but a fix for 43 scripts has been implemented in the CMS. The fix uses Google's Noto fonts as fallbacks and only loads them when needed.

Compiling Rust to readable C with Eurydice

Eurydice is a Rust compiler project that converts Rust code to clean C code, useful for high-assurance software and environments with a C compiler but no working Rust compiler. It preserves the structure of the code while removing constructs that exist in Rust but not in C.

How to head into VR without wearing a headset

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Researchers at Kyushu University created a VR system that allows users to experience an expansive view without wearing a headset, using aerial imaging optics and a specially designed chair. The system enables users to look around the virtual world in real-time, reducing VR sickness and opening up new possibilities for immersive experiences.

Clinical trial of a prion disease drug candidate begins enrolling participants

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Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists

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American companies use "ingredient splitting" to list less prominent ingredients first, misleading consumers. This technique is allowed by the FDA and is used in various popular American foods.

Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B

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We raised a significant series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, which will be used to enhance Jev's features and infrastructure for building smart software. This investment aims to take the platform to the next level and provide better tools for creating effective AI solutions.

Timestamping a Giant Record of the Web

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Project Timestamper has cryptographically timestamped 339 billion web page snapshots captured by Common Crawl over 18 years, ensuring their integrity. The timestamps are stored on the Bitcoin blockchain, allowing for quick verification of any snapshot's existence and authenticity.

What mathematicians should know about the Lean Theorem Prover: reliability & AI

Thomas Hales discusses the importance of formal proof in mathematics, highlighting Lean as a powerful tool for automating this process. He notes that recent autoformalization projects have made significant progress in formalizing various mathematical theorems and theories.

Cube Type – Isometric Typography Generator

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CUBE Type is a tiny playground for isometric typography. Type a few words, pick a composition and a palette, and your text comes out as stacked blocks.

Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more

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A software engineer used AI to search millions of historical records, uncovering a forgotten meteorite report, three lost rhinos, and unrecorded volcano eruptions. The discoveries were made possible by an open-sourced research pipeline that utilized various AI models to filter results and automate manual steps.

Computers Cannot Make Decisions

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Computer programs cannot make decisions, so blaming them for outcomes is unfair. Companies like OAI/Anthropic are making a deliberate choice to enable problematic behavior with their models.

Show HN: Proton Drive for Linux

This package mounts a Proton Drive, listing files and folders from metadata without downloading content. It uses a "lazy" approach to save bandwidth and disk space, with remote changes invalidating cached listings.