Termux

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Termux is a terminal emulator app for Android that allows users to install packages and run commands. It has a GitHub repository and can be installed from various sources, including F-Droid and Google Play.

Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle

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The user helped an accounting firm move away from legacy software and discovered a hardware copy-protection dongle required for an RPG compiler. The dongle's purpose was to verify a constant number stored in the BX register.

Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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Microsoft is adopting Anthropic's Claude Code across its engineering teams, allowing nontechnical employees to prototype ideas with AI. This move could lead to Microsoft selling Claude Code directly to its cloud customers, putting pressure on junior developer roles.

My (very) fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml

The user has been eager to use OxCaml for real-world projects, particularly for its performance benefits and modularity, and has been building a high-performance HTTP/1.1 parser called httpz using OxCaml's unboxed types and local allocations. The parser aims to have no major heap allocation and minimal minor heap allocation, allowing for efficient handling of HTTP connections and reducing ...

My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs

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The iPhone 16 Pro Max had a hardware defect in its Neural Engine, causing incorrect numerical values in MLX LLMs. The issue was resolved with a new iPhone 17 Pro Max, confirming the hardware defect was specific to the iPhone 16 Pro Max.

Apple's MacBook Pro DFU port documentation is wrong

The user had trouble updating macOS on an external disk due to incorrect DFU port usage and a security policy issue. Changing the port and setting the disk as the startup disk resolved the issue.

Applications where agents are first-class citizens

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Software agents can accomplish complex tasks autonomously by operating in a loop until an objective is achieved, using tools and primitives to compose outcomes. By maintaining parity with users and using atomic tools, agents can learn from user requests and adapt to new tasks, enabling emergent capability and flexible product development.

Show HN: Apate API mocking/prototyping server and Rust unit test library

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API prototyping and mocking server that main purpose is to help with integration and end-to-end testing. Project named after Apate - the goddess and personification of deceit. 🚀 Project is stable. Almost everything works as it was planned. I will wait some time for user feedback. No breaking changes expected in the nearest future. 👨🏻‍💻 local development - to do not run/build other services ...

Ratchets in Software Development

We use a script to count instances of deprecated practices in our codebase at linting time, raising errors if too many or too few instances are found, to prevent their proliferation. This technique automates code review feedback and can be a useful tool for maintaining code quality, but requires careful consideration to avoid enforcing overly strict standards.

Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed

Xikipedia is a demo social feed showing Simple Wikipedia content based on user engagement. It runs locally, collecting no data, but may display NSFW content due to random Wikipedia articles.

Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation

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NanoClaw is a lightweight, secure, and customizable AI assistant that runs in Apple containers. It uses a small codebase and allows users to customize it with skills, eliminating configuration sprawl.

Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation [pdf] (1985)

The actor model is a paradigm for concurrent computation in distributed systems, allowing for dynamic reconfiguration and modeling of shared resources. It provides a framework for exploiting large-scale parallelism and addressing issues such as divergence and deadlock.

Contracts in Nix

The Nix contract library provides a way to add runtime type checking to Nix code using "validators" and "contracts" that can be used to define and enforce type constraints. This library allows for lazy evaluation and customizable error messages, and can be used to improve the readability and correctness of Nix code.

Apple I Advertisement (1976)

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The Apple Computer is a complete microcomputer system on a single board with built-in video terminal and 8K bytes of RAM memory. It's a powerful and affordable system for developing programs, playing games, and running BASIC.

Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games

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AGS is open-source software for creating graphical point-and-click adventure games. It has a friendly community and offers free game creation with support for multiple platforms.

Ian's Shoelace Site

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Ian Fieggen, also known as "Professor Shoelace", created Ian's Shoelace Site, a website about shoelaces with tutorials, photos, and interactive tools. The site has over 300 pages and offers various shoelace knots, lacing methods, and information on shoelace construction.

EU launches government satcom program in sovereignty push

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The European Union's GOVSATCOM program began operations, providing secure satellite communications to EU member states. It pools capacity from eight existing satellites and may expand by 2027 to cover the entire world.

Hypergrowth isn't always easy

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A recent Reddit thread noted that Tailscale's uptime has been, uh, shakier than usual in the last month or so, which included the holiday season. I can't deny it. We believe in transparency, so we have our uptime history available on our status page that will confirm it for you. We are committed to visibility which is why we maintain this public uptime history page. But one challenge ...

Treasures found on HS2 route stored in secret warehouse

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Archaeologists have uncovered 450,000 objects along the HS2 train line route, including a 40,000-year-old hand axe and Roman gladiator's tag. The finds will provide new insights into Britain's past, but the project's future and ownership of the objects are still undecided.

Library of Juggling

The Library of Juggling is a website cataloging various juggling patterns, including animations and tutorials. It aims to archive and make accessible juggling tricks, but is currently on an indefinite hiatus.

Rev Up the Viral Factories

Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compound's Enslaved Workforce

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A whistleblower leaked documents from a Southeast Asian scam compound, revealing a workplace culture of manipulation and coercion, where workers are forced to scam victims out of millions of dollars. The compound, known as the Boshang compound, is one of dozens of scam operations that have enslaved hundreds of thousands of people.

Building Your Own Efficient uint128 in C++

We implement a 128-bit unsigned integer as two 64-bit limbs using x64 intrinsics for carry, borrow, and multiply operations. The generated code is on par with the built-in __uint128_t for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and comparison.

Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems

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CedarDB's new compression scheme, FSST, reduces storage size by up to 60% and improves query performance by up to 40% for certain queries. FSST combines dictionary compression with a symbol table to leverage common patterns in data, but its use is limited to when the compressed data must be at least 40% smaller than the second-smallest scheme.

High performance, open source RAFT clustered database: RooDB

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# Generate TLS certificate mkdir -p certs openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:4096 -keyout certs/server.key -out certs/server.crt \ -days 365 -nodes -subj "/CN=localhost" # Initialize database (first time only, idempotent) ROODB_ROOT_PASSWORD=secret ./target/release/roodb_init --data-dir ./data # Start server ./target/release/roodb --port 3307 --data-dir ./data --cert-path ...

Board Games in Ancient Fiction: Egypt, Iran, Greece

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Board games are often used as a plot motif in modern fiction, reworking storytelling patterns into game rules and phases. This literary practice dates back to ancient Near Eastern compositions, where games like senet and marbles were used to symbolize transformative power.

MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience

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MicroPythonOS is an open-source OS for microcontrollers with a GUI, appstore, and OTA updates, written in MicroPython. It targets applications with GUIs and runs on ESP32, Raspberry Pi, and other platforms, with various hardware support and a growing app ecosystem.

Two kinds of AI users are emerging

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The author notes a significant difference between AI users, with "power users" adopting advanced AI technology like Claude Code and others sticking to basic chatbots. This gap is causing productivity disparities between smaller companies and enterprises.

Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload

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Microsoft is reevaluating its AI strategy on Windows 11 after backlash from users, planning to remove or streamline unnecessary AI features. The company is shifting away from 'AI everywhere' to focus on meaningful and useful AI experiences.

Founding is a snowball

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A person rolls a snowball with others, growing it bigger and faster as they work together. Eventually, the snowball becomes massive, and the group must decide whether to continue pushing it forward or start anew.