Ghostty is now non-profit

Ghostty is now a non-profit project under Hack Club's fiscal sponsorship, ensuring its mission-driven and publicly beneficial goals. This structure allows for tax-deductible donations and transparent financial transactions, paving the way for sustainable development.
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The user discovered a vulnerability in Filevine's system, allowing access to a law firm's confidential Box files, and responsibly disclosed it to Filevine, who quickly remediated the issue. This highlights the importance of data security in AI legal-tech companies, especially when handling sensitive information.

Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm

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Valve is working on bringing Windows games to Arm chips, allowing games to run on phones, laptops, and desktops. The company is using open-source technologies such as Proton and Fex to make this possible, with funding from Valve supporting the development of these technologies.

1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long

A unidimensional spaceship, also referred to as "Arrow 1", has been successfully created using a combination of four construction arms, including a newly invented fuse arm, a binary arm, and two extreme compression construction arms (ECCA1 and ECCA2). The spaceship's period is 133076755768 and it uses a complex system of gliders, blinkers, and corderships to achieve its movement, with a total ...

Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business

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Micron Technology is exiting its Crucial consumer business and will continue to support enterprise products. The company will transition and continue warranty service for Crucial products until February 2026.

RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js

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A React vulnerability affects versions 19.0.0-19.2.0 and Next.js 15.x and 16.x using App Router. Users should upgrade to a patched version or downgrade to a stable release.

Lie groups are crucial to some of the most fundamental theories in physics

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Marius Sophus Lie created Lie groups, which are continuous symmetries that can be visualized as smooth shapes. These groups are essential in physics, explaining laws of conservation and fundamental forces like gravity and electromagnetism.

Everyone in Seattle hates AI

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The author's AI project, Wanderfugl, received negative reactions from Seattle engineers due to their resentment towards Microsoft's AI tools, which they felt were poorly implemented and forced upon them. This culture of negativity towards AI in Seattle stifles innovation and makes it difficult for people to try new things.

Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app

Phind 3 is an AI answer engine that creates interactive mini-apps to visualize and answer questions in real-time. It generates custom widgets and tools to enable new functionality and answer complex questions that other tools can't.

Checked-size array parameters in C

A C feature known as static array parameters was discussed for improving safety in the Linux kernel by checking the sizes of arrays passed to functions. The feature was found to be already in use in some kernel code and can be used to provide warnings for incorrect array sizes, although it is not a guarantee against all cases.

Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions

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Credit unions offer competitive mortgage rates compared to big banks due to their non-profit nature and focus on serving members. A daily-updated comparison of mortgage rates from over 120 US credit unions can help individuals find the best rates, potentially saving thousands of dollars.

Why are my headphones buzzing whenever I run my game?

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The user's isometric game caused buzzing in their headphones due to frequent GPU work and pauses, which affected power supply to their MODI DAC. Fixing the issue involved optimizing the game's rendering pipeline by only downloading the necessary part of the picking texture, reducing GPU pauses and power fluctuations.

How to Synthesize a House Loop

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A kick drum is synthesized using a sine wave, frequency modulation, and an amplitude envelope, with the phase synced to the beat. Additional elements like hi-hats, snare, bass, and chords are created using various waveforms, filters, and envelopes to produce a classic house sound.

Chips for the Rest of Us

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Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted that microchip transistors would double every two years, driving computing power and cost decrease. This idea, known as Moore's Law, has driven innovations like personal computers, smartphones, and AI systems.

MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

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R packages for data science

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The tidyverse is an opinionated collection of R packages designed for data science. All packages share an underlying design philosophy, grammar, and data structures. See how the tidyverse makes data science faster, easier and more fun with “R for Data Science (2e)". Read it online, buy the book or try another resource from the community.

Solving the Partridge square packing problem using MiniZinc

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The Partridge Packing Problem is a packing puzzle that involves packing squares of different sizes into a larger square. The problem was originally proposed by Robert T. Wainwright in 1996 and has been modeled and solved using MiniZinc.

Rocketable (YC W25) is hiring a founding engineer to automate software companies

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Rocketable is acquiring profitable SaaS companies and transforming them into fully autonomous systems using AI. The company is looking for an architect to build a platform that enables this transformation.

Apple Desktop Bus Protocol (2021)

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The user's Power Macintosh 8500 came with an Apple Extended Keyboard II, which is considered one of the best mechanical keyboards ever made. The user decided to transform it to USB using an ADB to USB adapter, but chose to make one themselves using an STM32 board called the 'Blue Pill'.

You can't fool the optimizer

Compilers recognize patterns in code and replace them with efficient alternatives, even when the code is obfuscated. This is done by translating code into an intermediate representation, allowing the compiler to treat different code patterns identically.

Greeting Vocalizations in Domestic Cats Are More Frequent with Male Caregivers

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Prompt Injection via Poetry

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Researchers found a way to bypass AI chatbots' safety systems by framing questions in poetic form, achieving a 62% success rate. This "poetry jailbreak" method can be used to access sensitive topics like nuclear weapons and child abuse material.

Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public

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Cross-Compiling Common Lisp to WASM

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Using Common Lisp in WASM enabled runtimes is a new frontier for the Common Lisp ecosystem, and this tutorial describes how to build WECL and cross-compile programs to WASM runtime. The tutorial covers building ECL, cross-compiling user programs, and using an extension to ASDF to compile entire systems with dependencies into a static library.

“Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill

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The authors thank various researchers and institutions for their comments and assistance in their study. The study was supported by grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.

Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust

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Fresh is a fast and feature-rich editor with native UI, full menu system, and command palette. It supports plugins in TypeScript and offers seamless mouse support, near zero-latency experience, and multi-gigabyte file handling.

GSWT: Gaussian Splatting Wang Tiles

The goal is to construct Gaussian Splatting Wang Tiles (GSWT) for real-time rendering on arbitrary surfaces from multi-view images of an exemplar scene. The pipeline involves reconstructing 3D models at multiple LODs, generating Wang Tiles, and pre-sorting them for efficient rendering.

A Look at Rust from 2012

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The user shares their experience with an old Rust tutorial from 2013, highlighting the language's evolution and differences from modern Rust. They discuss various features, such as reference types, borrowing, and tasks, and express relief that Rust has become more user-friendly and simple over the years.

8086 Microcode Browser

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User recreated 8086 microcode for an interactive browser, decoding 21-bit micro-instructions into readable fields with tooltips. The browser features a list of documented instructions and highlights the 8086's reuse of micro-operations for various arithmetic behaviors.

Formally verifying Advent of Code using Dijkstra's program construction

Part 1 of today's problem reminded me immediately of some of the problems i'm doing in my program construction module at ucd. we split our post-condition into two parts, we can use the first part as our invariant and the second as a loop guard, says sam taylor of ucd. he says we don't really need both d and e, in the loop, as they are