I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe

6 monokai_nl 2026-05-13 11:43:46 UTC monokai.com Prefix Share 0

There’s a version of this post that starts with a spreadsheet and ends with a quiet sense of satisfaction. That’s mostly how it went. But underneath the practical exercise of swapping one SaaS tool for another was something that felt more urgent, a growing discomfort with how much of my digital infrastructure sat on servers I didn’t control, in a jurisdiction increasingly prone to ...

Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation Without Heuristics

215 matt_d 2026-05-13 04:49:46 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 51

Elevator translates x86-64 executables to AArch64 without debug info or assumptions. It produces separate translations for each byte interpretation, enabling testing and validation before deployment.

New stainless steel can survive conditions for hydrogen production in seawater

93 HardwareLust 2026-05-13 07:49:46 UTC sciencedaily.com Llama Share 27

A team at the University of Hong Kong developed a new "super steel" that resists corrosion in seawater, making it suitable for green hydrogen production. The steel uses a double-protection mechanism and could replace costly titanium parts, reducing production costs by 40 times.

Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers

480 Murfalo 2026-05-12 22:49:46 UTC github.com/fulu-foundation Full Share 209

Contribute to FULU-Foundation/OrcaSlicer-bambulab development by creating an account on GitHub.

Googlebook

814 tambourine_man 2026-05-12 17:49:46 UTC googlebook.google Full Share 1327

Meet Googlebook: A new kind of laptop designed for Gemini Intelligence. Built with heavyweight power and perfectly in sync with your Android Phone. Sign up for updates and stay in the know.

Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model

499 HenryNdubuaku 2026-05-12 18:49:46 UTC github.com/cactus-compute Llama Share 154

Gemini 3.1 was distilled into a 26m Simple Attention Network, Needle, for consumer devices. Needle outperforms other models in single-shot function calls but may be finicky and less effective in conversational settings.

Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter

17 dmitrygr 2026-05-13 09:49:46 UTC dmitry.gr Llama Share 0

A complete reverse engineering, documentation, emulation, and preservation of all Fisher-Price/Mattel Pixter device series and almost all the games was achieved, including the discovery of a 16-bit virtual machine that executes most simple opcodes in a dozen cycles or so. The Pixter Color device was found to use a unique audio system that involves a Melody Chip, which is controlled using a ...

The Boring Part of Bell Labs (2025)

30 surprisetalk 2026-05-13 07:49:46 UTC acesounderglass.com Llama Share 4

Craig worked at Bell Labs for a year and then started his PhD in statistics, where he spent four summers working at Bell Labs and became interested in piecewise linear regression and design of experiments. He used his knowledge of design of experiments to help a large chemical company in Great Britain solve a problem with their fertilizer production, and also worked on various projects at ...

How to make your text look futuristic (2016)

381 _vaporwave_ 2026-05-12 20:49:46 UTC typesetinthefuture.com Llama Share 51

The article discusses six rules to create a futuristic movie title, including adding an italic slant, curvy and angular shapes, consummate Vs, combined letters, removing text segments, and adding noise textures. These rules are demonstrated in various movie titles such as Blade Runner, Battlestar Galactica, and Star Wars.

Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise

619 nilirl 2026-05-12 15:49:46 UTC nair.sh Llama Share 273

Senior developers worry about complexity, while others want to reduce uncertainty. They should communicate solutions in terms of uncertainty reduction, not complexity management.

SecurityBaseline.eu

174 aequitas 2026-05-13 07:49:46 UTC internetcleanup.foundation Llama Share 81

SecurityBaseline.eu monitors baseline security for European governments, revealing issues such as tracking cookies, exposed admin panels, and poor email encryption. The website provides maps and metrics to help governments protect citizens and improve online security.

CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq

330 chizhik-pyzhik 2026-05-12 18:49:46 UTC lists.thekelleys.org.uk Llama Share 172

CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious dnsmasq security vulnerabilities. Patches are available and a new stable release, dnsmasq-2.92rel2, has been made with the fixes applied.

The vi family

193 hggh 2026-05-13 03:49:46 UTC lpar.ath0.com Llama Share 121

The vi editor is a 50-year-old terminal-based text editor with a steep learning curve but offers efficiency and widespread availability. Many vi clones and derivatives exist, including Vim, Elvis, and nvi, each with unique features and improvements.

Traceway: MIT-licensed observability stack you can self-host in ~90s

122 sebakubisz 2026-05-13 00:49:46 UTC github.com/tracewayapp Llama Share 16

Traceway is an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform combining logs, traces, metrics, and AI tracing. It's self-hosted, MIT licensed, and integrates with tools via OTLP/HTTP.

Scrcpy v4.0

228 xnx 2026-05-12 21:49:46 UTC github.com/genymobile Llama Share 32

New scrcpy release migrates to SDL3 for active maintenance and new features like aspect-ratio locking. It includes improvements like dynamic display resizing, better quality settings, and clearer disconnections.

When “idle” isn't idle: how a Linux kernel optimization became a QUIC bug

107 sbulaev 2026-05-12 23:49:46 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 14

A bug in the CUBIC congestion controller caused it to permanently pin the congestion window at its minimum and never recover from a congestion collapse event, resulting in a self-perpetuating recovery trap. The bug was fixed by changing just three lines of code to measure the idle duration from when bytes_in_flight actually transitioned to zero, rather than the last packet sent.

Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track

173 tcp_handshaker 2026-05-12 23:49:46 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 132

Kraftwerk's 1975 album Radio-Activity is a groundbreaking electronic album that has mutated over decades into a protest song and party anthem. The album's 50th anniversary reissue still crackles with Kraftwerk's creative power and has influenced countless artists across various genres.

Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets

485 ibobev 2026-05-12 13:49:46 UTC blog.maximeheckel.com Llama Share 39

The user implemented an atmospheric scattering shader post-processing effect to render a realistic sky and atmosphere in real-time, using raymarching, Rayleigh and Mie scattering, and ozone absorption to achieve a natural color for any altitude. The user also explored a more performant approach using Look Up Tables (LUTs) to store precomputed scattering calculations, resulting in a ...

Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol

305 aduffy 2026-05-12 18:49:46 UTC duckdb.org Llama Share 65

DuckDB instances can now communicate with each other using the Quack protocol, enabling client-server setups and concurrent writers. Quack is built on HTTP and optimized for low overhead and fast bulk data transfer.

My graduation cap runs Rust

164 ericswpark 2026-05-13 00:49:46 UTC ericswpark.com Llama Share 61

The user has never graduated from college and is renting a cap and gown for $94, which is expensive. They created a custom device that lights up their cap when the tassel is moved, using a microcontroller and code written in Rust.

The Future of Obsidian Plugins

390 xz18r 2026-05-12 15:49:46 UTC obsidian.md Llama Share 147

Obsidian Community is launched with a new directory and developer dashboard for plugins and themes. Automated reviews ensure safety and security of the Obsidian ecosystem.

What if there was no BASIC in EndBASIC?

26 rbanffy 2026-05-13 06:49:46 UTC blogsystem5.substack.com Llama Share 6

The author of EndBASIC is considering reusing its building blocks to create a new project, possibly replacing the BASIC language with a more modern one, or focusing on the core compiler and VM, or even creating a BSD-based buildroot alternative.

Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era

219 devhouse 2026-05-12 17:49:46 UTC deepmind.google Llama Share 183

Google is developing an AI-enabled pointer called Gemini to simplify interactions with computers by understanding context and intent. The pointer will work across all apps, allowing users to point and speak to get information without needing to write complex prompts.

Up in Smoke

33 NaOH 2026-05-13 04:49:46 UTC thebaffler.com Llama Share 14

A writer reflects on the struggles of making a living as a writer, revealing the financial realities and side hustles that underwrite creative work. He chose a job as a fire lookout, which offered solitude and subject matter, and now prioritizes this role over his writing career.

As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work

86 Brajeshwar 2026-05-12 20:49:46 UTC nautil.us Llama Share 86

Researchers found that scientists increase their ability to combine existing ideas as they age, but decrease in their ability to create groundbreaking innovations. This pattern suggests that scientists become more attached to established ideas and less likely to disrupt their field with new concepts.

Fc, a lossless compressor for floating-point streams

76 enduku 2026-05-12 23:49:46 UTC github.com/xtellect Llama Share 22

fc is a lossless compressor for IEEE-754 64-bit doubles that uses adaptive block sizes and multi-threading for compression and decompression. It outperforms other compressors on structured and analytic floats but is outdone by zstd on byte-pattern-friendly quantized data.

I made Rust’s cargo copy but for CPP

19 anybodyy 2026-05-13 05:49:46 UTC github.com/user-with-username Full Share 8

Lightweight C/CPP build system written in Rust. Contribute to user-with-username/crow development by creating an account on GitHub.

Starship V3

251 fprog 2026-05-13 01:49:46 UTC spacex.com Full Share 405

SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.

Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine

349 doener 2026-05-12 23:49:46 UTC savethearchive.com Llama Share 97

Journalists' work is being threatened by major media outlets blocking the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. We call on media outlets to commit to working with the Internet Archive to preserve news for future generations.

Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract

1301 rubenbe 2026-05-12 15:49:46 UTC jeffgeerling.com Llama Share 404

Bambu Lab is threatening an open source developer with legal action for using their code in a fork of OrcaSlicer. They claim the developer is impersonating their client and creating a security risk, but the developer says they're just using upstream code verbatim.