EU Open Sources Ten-Year Network Development Planning Tools

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Open-TYNDP is an open-source project that aims to enhance transparency and stakeholder participation in European energy planning by building a workflow based on PyPSA-Eur. It's under active development and not yet feature-complete.

5k Restaurant Menus, Years 1880-1920

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Explore the Buttolph Collection from the New York Public Library's archive of historic menus

I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI

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The author used Opus 4.8 to analyze an MRI and got a second opinion on their diagnosis, which disagreed with the original doctor's report. The AI analysis found no partial-thickness tear, contradicting the doctor's diagnosis and making the author question the treatment plan.

Examining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle's I/O Processor

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The space shuttle's five1 general-purpose computers played a critical role in each flight. the interface page converts analog signals back to 0's and 1&39 s, enabling data bus networks in the space shuttle. this idea may seem trivial, but it is used in everything from floppy disks to ethernet and rfid tags. combining two boxes into one saved about 300 pounds in total, says john m

Daisugi the Japanese Technique of Trees Out of Trees, Making Exact Straight Wood

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Daisugi, a Japanese technique, involves growing multiple trees from a single tree, creating a giant bonsai-like structure, but it's actually a form of coppicing, a common woodland management technique practiced for centuries. This method produces straight, usable timber without harming the original tree, and it's being re-emphasized as a sustainable way to manage woodlands.

The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)

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A Polish user reported a bug on Medium where Ś wouldn't appear when typed. The issue was caused by Medium blocking CtrlS to prevent browser save dialogs, but Polish users use AltS to type Ś.

A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex

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What feature would you like to see? A mechanism to explicitly mark files/paths that the agent must not read or send to the model, at both repository and global levels (e.g., a repo-local .codexignore plus a global ignore file). Example: ...

Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast

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Flock Security cameras, which track individuals and vehicles, have proliferated across the US, sparking public backlash due to security vulnerabilities and misuse by law enforcement. The company's AI-powered cameras can be accessed by police nationwide, raising concerns about surveillance and abuse.

EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors

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Dr Patrick Breyer warns of a double-attack on secure messaging in the EU, with President Roberta Metsola pushing for mass surveillance and EU governments rushing a new scanning mandate. Citizens can email EU lawmakers and government representatives through fightchatcontrol.eu to stop this threat.

Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers

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Michigan Senate Bill 948, the Workplace Employee Boundaries Act, aims to protect workers from constant availability demands. It would prevent employers from requiring employees to access work-related matters outside assigned hours.

Do Babies Dream of Baby Sheep?

The author's wife has childhood amnesia, unable to recall her early years, while the author has vivid memories from around 6-8 months old. He questions the authenticity of his memories, but talking to his parents confirms some details, suggesting a possible link between emotional experiences and memory consolidation.

Show HN: Zanagrams

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Zanagrams is a free daily word puzzle. Drag across the letters to find the hidden words and watch the grid shrink as you solve it. A new Zanagrams puzzle every day.

Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

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Marfa Public Radio creates a sleep podcast reading boring documents to fundraise for the station. Listeners can donate at marfapublicradio.org/donate to keep the station awake.

California legislature agrees to upload driver's licenses to national database

California legislature agreed to fund state law revision allowing driver's license data to be uploaded to private national ID database. This move raises concerns about data misuse and potential targeting of immigrant and transgender Californians.

Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live Tokenmaxxing

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Generally speaking, if you spend tens of thousands of dollars on something, you want to see something come out on the other end. Some return on investment. O sure, not always. I’ve previously said that selling to consumers is sorta funny because they love spending money on things that waste time or actively cause pain. This is part of why the gambling apps are so popular these days. Why yes, ...

The MUMPS 76 Primer – anniversary edition

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MUMPS is a programming language and database system created in 1966 for hospital information systems. It has a built-in hierarchical database with a schema-free, ordered key-value store.

DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded

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A bug in shell32.dll was initially blamed for a large number of crashes in a third-party program. However, the actual cause was a rogue force-unload of a DLL, which led to a recursive crash loop and stack overflow.

Google limits Meta's use of its Gemini AI models

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Google has imposed limits on Meta's use of its Gemini AI models due to Meta's high demand exceeding Google's capacity. Meta has been impacted, encouraging staff to be more efficient with AI tokens.

Bringing Swift to the Apple ][

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The user created SwiftII, a Swift-flavored mini development environment for the original Apple II, using heavy AI assistance in their spare time. The project involved building a compiler, interpreter, and tools like a file selector and text editor, with a focus on fitting as much of Swift into the Apple II as possible while still reading like Swift on sight.

The origins of the school system aimed to produce independent, critical thinkers (2024)

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Wilhelm von Humboldt created the world's first education system and modern research university around 200 years ago. His philosophy of education, Bildung, focuses on reaching one's potential and developing individual capabilities through critical thinking and self-cultivation.

Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days

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A repository consolidates former PoC repos with identical tracked files. It preserves vulnerability research for 12 repos with 96 tracked entries, for good-faith open-disclosure.

AMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup Guide

Configure a two-node AMD Strix Halo cluster with Intel E810 (RoCE v2) for distributed vLLM inference using Tensor Parallelism. Set up static IPs, MTU, and trust the interface in the firewall, then install the toolbox and run the cluster with Ray and RCCL.

Designing a Personal Pebble Watchface

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User created a custom Pebble Time 2 watchface to help manage depression and ADHD-like symptoms, incorporating features like event visualization and reminders. The watchface design involved iterative prototyping and experimentation with different layouts, colors, and features to create a visually appealing and functional design.

Choosing a Public DNS Resolver

Encrypted DNS options like DoH and DoT add latency but often have similar whole-page load times as plain DNS. However, they provide better security and some providers have minor overhead.

Wayfinder Router: deterministic routing of queries between local and hosted LLM

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Wayfinder is a prompt router that decides whether to send a prompt to a local or cloud model based on its structure and wording. It reads the shape of a prompt and difficulty cues in the wording to determine the routing decision.

Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C

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The MWCC GC/2.0 compiles and diffs code, requiring exact byte matches. It's a decompilation challenge for GameCube PowerPC assembly into C, graded by a Metrowerks CodeWarrior GC/2.0 compiler.

Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs

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Bashblog is a simple script to create a blog by posting entries to a public folder on a server. It works on GNU/Linux, OSX, and BSD.

A stray "j" ruined my evening

User created a link shortener script, but noticed issues with Gurk, a Signal TUI, when copying links ending in 'j'. The issue was due to ANSI newline delimiter being translated as 'j' at the end of links.

Engineering for Bounded Cognition

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The human mind can only hold about four things at once, and even that is a narrow beam of attention that misses much of what is happening around it. This limited capacity is the root of many software problems, but it can also be the key to good engineering, which is about shaping systems to work with the way minds actually work.

Austria Lobbies EU to Host Anthropic After US Access Curbs

Austria wants the EU to host Anthropic PBC to counter US efforts blocking foreigners from using its AI models. Austria's digitalization secretary suggests EU member states explore hosting Anthropic within the EU.