There's no reason for software to be slow anymore

LLMs have lowered the barrier to entry for optimizing code, making it possible to write custom software tailored to specific workloads. This trend is expected to continue, enabling companies like Amazon and Anthropic to build optimized solutions with customer data.

Initial focus for our partnership with Motorola is a regular non-folding device

Initial focus for our partnership with Motorola is a regular non-folding device. Current generation Motorola Signature (2026), Razr Fold (2026) and Razr Ultra (2026) are very close to meeting our requirements but lack MTE, adequate secure element integration and other features being added for 2027.

Felony Bench

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Unauthorized access to GitHub occurred through a supply-chain attack and social engineering email campaign, exposing a malicious DNS server. AI agents' actions on third-party entities are only counted if they directly affect the entity, excluding isolated sandbox escapes.

Kobo can run apps now

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Cobalt is an open-source application platform for Kobo e-readers, allowing users to install and manage apps independently. It provides a secure runtime environment with verified app signatures and automatic updates over Wi-Fi.

Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM

The author has developed Rust Glancer, an alternative LSP implementation that focuses on low memory usage. It allows immediate indexing after restart and is suitable for older computers with limited RAM.

Three important steps in my maturation process

The author reflects on their personal growth and insights gained since their early 20s, including understanding one's own incentive structure and recognizing the limitations of monocausal determinism. They also explore the cultural construct of reason vs emotion, concluding that integrating both is crucial for better decision-making.

Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

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Zig's Io.Threaded Is Neat

Zig's std.Io.Threaded provides a concurrency implementation that enables cancelation of blocking syscalls, addressing the issue of threads being blocked in kernel space. This is achieved through a signal+flag mechanism and integrates with language-level cancelation features like try/defer.
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Kagi has revamped its Stocks widget, added a price chart and exchange-traded funds information, and improved search functionality with more powerful lenses. The company also released Orion 1.1 for macOS with a new interface, containers, and personalized browser borders.

Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe

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The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys created the largest 2D map of the universe, combining over 263,000 telescope exposures to reveal nearly 4 billion celestial objects. This data will aid researchers in studying dark energy and dark matter, as well as rare phenomena like gravitational lenses and supernovae.

OTel isn't going well (and I made a spreadsheet about it)

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The OpenTelemetry project faces challenges due to its vendor-agnostic approach and large scope, leading to slow progress in adding new features. The main issue is the lack of maintainers, which causes a "three-way crash" between binary stability gates, small benches of actual maintainers, and massive scopes of languages and frameworks.

I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases

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The author took over phone-network infrastructure domains (e164.arpa) of entire territories, including Germany, and logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases. They reported the incident but were met with bureaucratic hurdles before eventually transferring ownership to the UK's National Cyber Security Centre.

AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study

People of ACM – Russ Cox

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Show HN: OzBrain, a shared brain for knowledge between agents and your team

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You're looking for a shared brain that allows multiple AI agents to read and write from the same source of truth, eliminating duplicate explanations. OzBrain offers this feature with unlimited reads and writes, row-level security, and no app-code path around it.

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How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms

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The Qwen3-TTS 1.7B CustomVoice implementation achieves sub-50 ms p95 time-to-first-audio (TTFA) while maintaining real-time playback on a single NVIDIA H100 SXM, outperforming other implementations. The system produces approximately 630 characters per second at 10 RPS and translates to ~$2 per 1M characters at full utilization.

Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

Claude, a great engineer with a condition of talking like a millennial clickbait, has been trained on old Buzzfeed articles. A new skill called "Claudette" debuzzes Claude's responses by translating them into regular English using the Gemini CLI.

Stop Making TUIs

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The author is re-evaluating the relationship between terminal and command line interfaces, suggesting that native user interfaces are becoming more accessible. They've built several macOS applications using SwiftUI, including a Markdown viewer and a calculator-style frontend for SageMath.

New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson

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The author reflects on the rapid advancement of technology, noting that many futuristic concepts are now a reality, such as robots and AI-powered systems. These advancements have become mundane and ordinary in everyday life.

Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice

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Researchers at Washington University and Princeton University found that early-life trauma can leave a lasting effect on the brain by altering how DNA is packaged, making it more vulnerable to stress. This discovery provides a biological target for developing new treatments and interventions to prevent long-term mental health challenges.

Everyone says assembly is untyped—everyone is wrong

The author believes Odin's inline assembly is the best due to its integration with the type system and polyadic return values, making it a safe and expressive way to write assembly code. It uses a consistent syntax across ISAs and provides explicit control over ties, pins, scratch registers, and width-views.

Ozone: The fault is not in our trees, but in ourselves

SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers

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SalesPatriot is a YC W25 company replacing outdated systems with an AI-native platform for aerospace, electronics, and defense supply-chain operations. They're hiring a full-stack engineer to relocate to SF, implement the platform, and drive customer growth through automation and problem-solving.

A look under our trunk: what's in our compute

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Waymo's Driver uses raw sensor data to make real-time driving decisions with ultra-low latency and high-performance computing. The system is designed for deterministic, ruggedized, and redundant performance in various environments.

I'm becoming AI-blind

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The writer is experiencing difficulty focusing on documents sent by colleagues, suspecting they may be AI-generated due to overly technical language and marketing jargon. This phenomenon has led them to develop a "pre-trained" eye for spotting low-effort AI content, which now ignores such texts without much thought.

How orchids inspired the work of Charles Darwin

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Charles Darwin's home, Down House, has a unique blend of Victorian-era charm and natural history exhibits. The property features a collection of orchids that were studied by Darwin, who was fascinated by their structure and behavior.

The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]

Tumble Forth – from assembly to OS with C compiler (2023)

Virgil Dupras is writing a series of articles to guide web developers into low-level programming, starting from bare metal on PCs. He aims to broaden perspectives through step-by-step story arcs and corny jokes.

GitHub, autoscaling, and the component substitution fallacy

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The author discusses the importance of autoscaling policies in managing service resources and highlights a misconfigured policy that contributed to a recent GitHub outage. The author emphasizes the need for bespoke autoscaling policies tailored to each service's unique behavior under load.