Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation Without Heuristics

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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.

Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers

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Googlebook

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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.

The vi family

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.

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

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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.

How to make your text look futuristic (2016)

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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.

Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track

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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.

My graduation cap runs Rust

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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.

CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq

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.

Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

Referer Reality

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Chris Morgan rejects query strings in URLs but Robin Sloan uses a custom query string utm_source=Robin_Sloan_sent_me to track referrals. This is considered digital etiquette to help website operators identify legitimate traffic.

Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets

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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

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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.

Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine

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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.

Scrcpy v4.0

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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.

Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI

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Zig is a systems language that produces lightweight binaries and allows for fast development with instant hot-reloads. It enables building desktop shells on macOS and Linux from a single codebase with native API access.

The Future of Obsidian Plugins

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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.

Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era

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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.

Fc, a lossless compressor for floating-point streams

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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.

Up in Smoke

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In the fall of 1971, Wallace Stegner, who was running his eponymous fellowship at Stanford, offered the writers in his program some financial advice. The Stegner Fellowship, which included a $3,500 annual stipend—the equivalent today of about $28,000—was one of the most prestigious an early-career writer could receive. Past participants included Larry McMurtry, who had written his debut ...

Lanzaboote – NixOS Secure Boot

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NixOS users developed lanzaboote, a UEFI application, to enable Secure Boot without embedding kernel and initrd into the UKI. The project aims to integrate Secure Boot into NixOS, but still requires user-generated keys and enrollment in firmware.

Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL

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Hopper uses AI agents to navigate and operate inside z/OS from a modern development environment. It drives ISPF, writes JCL, and queries VSAM with SQL-like functionality.

Launch HN: Voker (YC S24) – Analytics for AI Agents

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Voker provides analytics for AI agents, offering insights into performance and outcomes. It helps teams track agent interactions, identify knowledge gaps, and measure improvement over time.

Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract

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.

Foucault's Order of Things Explained with Trading Cards [video]

When life gives you lemons, write better error messages

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Wix revamped its error messages to be clear, concise, and user-friendly. They defined what makes a good error message and worked together to replace thousands of generic and unclear messages.

EFF to 4th Circuit: Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant

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EFF and ACLU urge the Fourth Circuit to require a warrant for border searches of electronic devices under the Fourth Amendment. They argue that a warrant standard is necessary to protect travelers' privacy interests in their personal data.

We tested super-resolution pre-filter for LPR OCR. It did nothing

If you're building a custom license plate recognition system in 2026, you've probably come across super-resolution. The pitch is everywhere: upscale a blurry 50 pixel crop to a crisp 200 pixel image, then hand it to your OCR model. Papers show dramatic before and after images. ICPR 2026 dedicated an entire competition to it. It sounds like free accuracy. We built one, tested it on ...