Eating Stinging Nettles

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Stinging nettles are a nutritious food source rich in iron, calcium, and vitamins, with anti-inflammatory properties. They can be used in various dishes and are free to collect in Britain over summer.

Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale

Researchers used AlphaEvolve to solve various math problems, achieving similar results to expert users and discovering new solutions. The tool's advantages include scale, robustness, and interpretability, but it struggled with certain areas of mathematics, such as analytic number theory.

Ratatui – App Showcase

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Various CLI tools are described including Atuin, csvlens, dua, Oatmeal, oha, and Yōzefu for tasks like shell history, network utilization, disk space analysis, and API viewing. These tools offer features like fuzzy matching, real-time UI, and SQL-like search capabilities for tasks like data exploration and network diagnostics.

Open Source Implementation of Apple's Private Compute Cloud

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OpenPCC is an open-source framework for private AI inference with encrypted streaming and hardware attestation. It allows users to run AI models without exposing prompts or logs on their own infrastructure.

AI Slop vs. OSS Security

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The bug bounty industry is being overwhelmed by AI-generated false security reports, causing frustration and burnout among volunteer maintainers who are already underpaid and overworked. To address this crisis, the industry needs to fundamentally change its approach, prioritizing compensation, support, and reasonable expectations for maintainers, and implementing technical solutions that ...

Solarpunk is happening in Africa

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Africa is witnessing the most ambitious infrastructure project in human history, with startups selling solar panels to farmers on payment plans, resulting in over 30 million solar products sold in 2024 and 400,000 new solar installations every month. This model, enabled by mobile money and carbon credits, is creating a template for building infrastructure in the 21st century, with the ...

How I am deeply integrating Emacs

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You're deeply integrating Emacs into your workflow, using it for everything except heavy video or media, and aiming for a frictionless environment to create and work. You're also trying to replicate EXWM functionality in a Wayland environment.

Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser

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Dillo is a fast, secure, and private graphical web browser with a small footprint. It uses the FLTK 1.3 GUI toolkit and accepts additional patches or pull requests.

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OpenAI dispelled suggestions that it’s changing its terms around legal and medical advice.

Pico-100BASE-TX: Bit-Banged 100 MBit/s Ethernet and UDP Framer for RP2040/RP2350

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This library allows to stream out data with around 11 MByte/s from a RP2040 or RP2350 MCU using the PIO to bit-bang a 100 MBit/s Fast Ethernet connection. It is somewhat similar to Pico-10BASE-T, which implemented TX-only 10 MBit/s Ethernet. Ideally use a pulse transformer with proper matching circuitry, or at least the 47 + 470 Ohms resistors as seen here. In my experiments I directly ...

Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse

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Firefox introduces a new profile management feature to keep work, school, and personal life separate with distinct spaces for bookmarks, logins, and more. This feature prioritizes privacy and accessibility, allowing users to set boundaries and protect their information.

Recursive macros in C, demystified (once the ugly crying stops)

The user discusses the challenges of using C macros for compile-time recursion and proposes a solution to count the number of variable arguments in a function-like macro. They explain the limitations of the C preprocessor and propose a workaround to achieve recursion by adding a proxy layer to call the recursive macro on rescan.

NY school phone ban has made lunch loud again

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Benjamin N. Cardozo High School in Queens implemented a smartphone ban, resulting in a more engaging and interactive school environment. Students are now more focused on socializing and learning, with teachers reporting improved productivity and student interaction.

Why aren't smart people happier?

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Author Adam Mastroianni argues that traditional intelligence tests only measure the ability to solve well-defined problems, not the ability to solve poorly defined problems like living a happy life. He suggests that we should value and recognize the skill of solving poorly defined problems, which is often associated with wisdom and is essential for living a good life.

Vacuum bricked after user blocks data collection – user mods it to run anyway

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An engineer discovered his iLife A11 smart vacuum was sending logs and telemetry data to the manufacturer without consent. The device was remotely bricked after he blocked its data collection capabilities, revealing a security nightmare and potential for manufacturer control.

Show HN: Qqqa – A fast, stateless LLM-powered assistant for your shell

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qqqa is a CLI tool that brings LLM assistance to the command line. It offers two modes: qq for quick questions and qa for quick agents that can perform tasks.

Show HN: Flutter_compositions: Vue-inspired reactive building blocks for Flutter

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Flutter Compositions brings Vue 3's Composition API to Flutter, enabling fine-grained reactivity and composable logic. It uses a declarative API for clean and efficient code.

I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]

Chibi Izumi: Phased dependency injection for TypeScript

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The Izumi Chibi TS library provides a TypeScript re-implementation of the Izumi Project's staged dependency injection library, allowing for automatic dependency resolution and type safety. It supports features like axis-based activation, lifecycle management, and parallel dependency injection, making it suitable for complex applications.

Ruby and Its Neighbors: Smalltalk

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Smalltalk, a programming language developed at Xerox PARC, had a significant influence on Ruby's object model, where every piece of data is an object and interactions are managed through method calls. Ruby's syntax and style, particularly its emphasis on creating new classes and objects, were shaped by the author's experience with Smalltalk, which encouraged a more agile and object-oriented ...

New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair

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Scientists at the University of Nottingham have developed a gel that can repair and regenerate tooth enamel, a major contributor to tooth decay affecting almost 50% of the world's population. The gel, which mimics natural proteins, can be applied to teeth and promotes the growth of new mineral, recovering the structure and properties of natural healthy enamel.

Oldest woman to finish Ironman World Championship in Kona

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Natalie Grabow, 80, became the oldest female to finish the Ironman World Championship in Kona. She completed the 140.6-mile triathlon in 16 hours, 45 minutes, and 26 seconds.

The state of SIMD in Rust in 2025

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SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) is a technique to speed up arithmetic operations by processing multiple data in parallel, but it has limitations and drawbacks such as instruction decoding bottleneck and complexity limits. Various Rust crates like std::simd, wide, pulp, and macerator provide portable SIMD abstraction to help developers use SIMD without worrying about platform-specific details.

Carice TC2 – A non-digital electric car

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The Carice TC2 is a lightweight, fully electric car with no emissions, offering a dynamic and comfortable driving experience. It combines 21st-century technology with classic car looks, delivering a unique driving experience.

Show HN: CoordConversions NPM Module for Map Coordinate Conversions

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A robust TypeScript library for converting between different geographic coordinate formats: Decimal Degrees (DD), Degrees-Minutes (DM), and Degrees-Minutes-Seconds (DMS). Features comprehensive parsing, validation, and formatting with support for hemisphere indicators. <script src="https://unpkg.com/coordconversion@latest/dist/index.global.js"></script> <script> ...

A new oral history interview with Ken Thompson

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Ken Thompson, creator of Unix and C programming language, shares his insights in a new oral history interview. Thompson's clarity and innovation in programming have had a lasting impact on the digital world.

App Store web has exposed all its source code

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The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (1987) [pdf]

The author argues that a constant fraction of people, denoted as å, are stupid and this fraction is determined by nature, not nurture. The author also proposes four basic categories of human behavior: intelligent, helpless, bandit, and stupid.

The shadows lurking in the equations

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FuzzyGraph visualizes equations in non-binary mode, showing areas of high and low error. This reveals hidden features like black holes and underwater islands that are invisible in conventional graphing.