GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17

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Running local models is good now

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The user has been using local models since their release and has seen significant improvements in accuracy and speed, particularly with the Gemma 4 family, allowing for agentic coding and tasks like refactoring code and writing unit tests. The user is excited about the potential of local models but notes that they still have limitations, such as slow inference and small context windows, and ...

SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time

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When identifying IIS servers, use Google dorks like "aspnet_client" and "ext:aspx" to locate targets, then use tools like httpx and nuclei to gather information and enumerate potential vulnerabilities. Techniques like shortname enumeration, path traversal, and HTTP Parameter Pollution can be used to discover and exploit IIS-specific vulnerabilities, such as RCE via deserialization and stored ...

Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity

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Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes, refused to license his characters for merchandise due to artistic integrity concerns. He fought a six-year battle with his syndicate, Universal Press Syndicate, before they agreed to his terms.

TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP

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To make a GET request in a minimal Docker container, use bash to open a TCP socket with /dev/tcp and write the request by hand. This method works for plaintext HTTP but not HTTPS, and is a bash feature not available in all shells.

GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands

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Researchers at TNO, SURF, and NFI are building a Dutch language model, GPT-NL, with strong governance, transparency, and public values. This independent model strengthens the Netherlands' digital autonomy and provides a foundation for responsible AI applications.

Mechanical Watch (2022)

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A mechanical watch uses a spiral torsion spring to store energy, which is then released to power the watch's hands. The energy is controlled by gears and an escapement mechanism, ultimately regulated by a balance wheel oscillating at a precise rate.

Stop Using JWTs

Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?

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Tim Ferriss shares his concerns about the impact of AI on the self-help and non-fiction book industry, citing a 57% drop in print sales of his own books since the launch of LLMs like ChatGPT. He believes that the trend will continue and that the industry will need to adapt by focusing on long-form content, personal connections, and unique experiences that AI cannot replicate.

But yak shaving is fun (2019)

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The author built a custom static site generator from scratch, which is an example of yak shaving, a term coined by Carlin Vieri to describe doing a chain of related tasks that eventually lose their original purpose. Yak shaving can be fun but often leads to wasted time and resources.

The UK's Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy

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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is blaming the internet for societal problems and plans to ban teens from more internet services, threatening fines for non-compliance. His policy is seen as a desperate attempt to grab headlines and distract from his own policy failures, rather than addressing the real issues.

10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module

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User upgraded home LAN to 10Gb/s using 10GBASE-T modules. A new Broadcom-based module replaced a Marvell-based one that overheated, resolving network issues.

A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time (2022)

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.data defines the start of a separate data segment, ensuring each program is fast and efficient, says steve mcqueen jr. he says the assembler was the first popular unix debugger and is the direct predecessor of gnu debugger - gdb.c. desautels has graciously agreed to open-source his textbook assembly language programming for pdp-11 and lsi-11 computers

Wolfram Language and Mathematica Version 15, AI Assistant, Symbolic Music, More

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June 23, 1988 is when we launched Version 1.0 of Mathematica. Today—almost 38 years later—we’re launching Version 15 of what—in recognition of how far it’s expanded beyond “math”—we now call Wolfram Language. It’s an impressive release, with a lot of new core functionality. It might perhaps seem surprising that after 38 years there’d still be more to add. But it’s like the typical arc of ...

NLnet announces funding for 67 more open-source projects

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67 new projects have been awarded grants as part of the Next Generation Internet initiative, covering the entire technology stack from open hardware to services and applications.

Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

Apple is changing Sign in with Apple and Hide My Email aliases to @private.icloud.com, making it easier to ban them. This change may lead to services rejecting these emails, reducing their usefulness for iCloud+ users.

W.H. Auden and James Schuyler in life and literature

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James Schuyler was introduced to W.H. Auden by Chester Kallman in the late 1940s and became a central part of Auden's life. Schuyler typed many of Auden's poems, including those in his collection Nones, but was intimidated by Auden's technical skill and instead found inspiration in D.H. Lawrence's free verse style.

Frood, an Alpine Initramfs NAS (2024)

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The user has a custom NAS setup using Alpine Linux with a single initramfs containing the entire system. They've created a custom setup using alpine-make-rootfs to build a container image with a simple system configuration.

Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2

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The game Slay the Spire 2 has a bug called correlated RNG (CRNG) that allows players to predict certain random events, such as the curse from Neow's Bones, the first fight's drop rate, and the Doll Room's outcome, due to unexpected correlations between different random number generators. The bug is caused by the C# implementation of the System.Random class, which makes the output linear in ...

Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness

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The author uses Apple's Vehicle Motion Cues to reduce motion sickness while working in a moving vehicle. This feature, introduced in 2024, uses dots on the screen that move in harmony with the car's motion.

A Nipkow Disk Mechanical TV Simulator

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Geometric mode: flyback dark depth (disk holes cover N × holeTangFrac of revolution; remainder is dark). Random mode: per-frame discharge noise (Davidse 1969 §6.2) Spectral sensitivity of the flying-spot sensor: K/Na deep-UV (~410 nm peak), S-1 broad/flat (red-extended), S-4/5 blue-peaking. Zworykin & Wilson (1934) §3.2 ZnS:Ag phosphor screen persistence (Leverenz 1950) — physically ...

Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?

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Meta's engineering culture has been drastically changed under new leadership, with engineers being reassigned to data labeling and AI training, and being tracked with invasive software. This has led to widespread dissatisfaction, a major security breach, and a significant outage, with many engineers seeking new jobs and questioning the priorities of CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Making ast.walk 220x Faster

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The user's AI reflex-app builder generates massive Python code, but running reflex compile finds issues one at a time, increasing latency. To fix this, the user built a custom linter, but it was slow due to ast.walk, which they optimized by rewriting it in Rust and caching subclass information.

Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence

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The Qwen-Robot Suite bridges the gap between vision and language understanding and physical control with three foundation models: Qwen-RobotNav, Qwen-RobotManip, and Qwen-RobotWorld. These models enable an agentic system where general intelligence translates directly into physical action.

Formal Methods and the Future of Programming

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Jane Street is now excited about formal methods after being skeptical due to high costs. They're building a team to make formal methods useful for software development.

Show HN: cuTile Rust: Safe, data-race-free GPU kernels in Rust

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cuTile Rust is a tile-based system for writing memory-safe GPU kernels in Rust, extending ownership discipline across the GPU launch boundary. It supports synchronous launches, asynchronous pipelines, and CUDA graph replay, with a macro for embedding kernel code in the host binary.

SubQ 1.1 Small

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SubQ 1.1 Small is a new AI model that removes the constraint of attention compute, enabling direct reasoning over large artifacts. It achieves near-perfect long-context retrieval and reduces attention compute by up to 64.5x compared to dense attention.

An interview with an Apple emoji designer

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Ollie Wagner, Apple's first emoji designer, shared his experience designing over 300 emojis in 2008. He worked from a SoftBank spreadsheet, applying Apple's visual language to hundreds of symbols, with Steve Jobs' final approval.

Show HN: Sabela – A Reactive Notebook for Haskell

Curated reactive Haskell notebooks.