IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark

We measure IPv6 connectivity among Google users, showing deployment and reliability issues in various regions. Regions with high IPv6 deployment have fewer issues, while those with low deployment experience significant problems.

Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs

Darkbloom is a decentralized AI inference network connecting idle Apple Silicon machines to demand, reducing costs by up to 70% and giving operators 95% of revenue. It ensures end-to-end encryption and operator anonymity, eliminating data extraction risks.

FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account

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You're looking for a direct contact at Google's Gmail team to report a spammer issue. You've tried the abuse form but want to reach a human employee for a solution.

RedSun: System user access on Win 11/10 and Server with the April 2026 Update

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The Red Sun vulnerability repository. Contribute to Nightmare-Eclipse/RedSun development by creating an account on GitHub.

The paper computer

The user wants to combine physical and virtual worlds to reduce screen time and distractions, allowing for flexibility and convenience. They envision a future where technology helps people work and interact without constant screen interaction.

Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now

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Anthropic's Mythos LLM is highly capable at computer security tasks, completing a simulated corporate network attack in 3 out of 10 attempts. Security may be reduced to a simple equation of spending more tokens than attackers to harden a system.

Moving a large-scale metrics pipeline from StatsD to OpenTelemetry / Prometheus

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Airbnb migrated its metrics pipeline from StatsD to OpenTelemetry and Prometheus, collecting all metrics first to focus on technical challenges. The new pipeline uses a dual-write strategy, OTLP for internal services and Prometheus for OSS workloads, with a centralized aggregation tier for cost savings and scalability.

A Look into NaviDial, Japan's Legacy Phone Service

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NaviDial is a service in Japan where businesses and public services charge callers for calls, often resulting in high costs for those who need help the most. To avoid these costs, international residents in Japan can look for alternative numbers, use text-based support, or ask for a callback when calling from a mobile phone.

Too much discussion of the XOR swap trick

The XOR swap trick is not useful in most programming situations due to compiler optimization. It can be useful in assembly code when swapping values in registers without spare registers.

Fast and Easy Levenshtein distance using a Trie (2011)

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The user compares two methods for finding the closest matching word in a large dictionary using Levenshtein distance, with the second method using a trie data structure being over 300 times faster than the first. The second method has a runtime of O(max word length * number of nodes in the trie), making it more efficient for large dictionaries.

RamAIn (YC W26) Is Hiring

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RamAIn is a YC W26 company that builds AI agents for enterprise work, eliminating repetitive workflows. They're hiring a generalist for go-to-market, sales, and operations to work directly with the founders.

FIXAPL

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FIXAPL is a simple array-oriented programming language with fixed-arity functions and trains for tacit programming. It draws inspiration from BQN, Uiua, and TinyAPL, with a new idea of fixed-arity functions as a beautiful enhancement to tacit programming.

ChatGPT for Excel

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Ask ChatGPT to build full spreadsheets, get insights across tabs and formulas, and update workbooks in real time so projects move forward faster. Available globally for ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, Edu, Teachers, and K-12 users, and for ChatGPT Pro and Plus users outside the EU.

North American English Dialects

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Rick Aschmann created a map of North American English dialects with clickable states and provinces, allowing users to listen to audio or video samples of local dialects. The map is based on data from the Atlas of North American English and has been updated with contributions from users, with over 900 samples listed.

Cal.com is going closed source

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Cal.com is moving to closed source due to increasing security risks from AI-powered vulnerability scanning. They're releasing a modified open source version, Cal.diy, under the MIT license for developers and hobbyists.

I made a terminal pager

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The user built a reusable viewport component in Go for text navigation in terminal applications and used it to create a terminal pager called lore, which they now daily drive as their terminal pager. The viewport component supports features like text wrapping, search, and selection, and is designed to be performant even with large amounts of text.

Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data

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Google handed over Amandla Thomas-Johnson's data to ICE without notifying him, breaking a nearly decade-long promise to users. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has asked California and New York Attorneys General to investigate Google for deceptive trade practices.

Introduction to spherical harmonics for graphics programmers

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Spherical harmonics are a set of special polynomials that can be used to approximate any continuous function defined on a sphere. They are an orthonormal basis for the space of continuous functions on a sphere, meaning that any function can be expressed as an infinite weighted sum of spherical harmonics.

Rewriting a 20-year-old Python library

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The author rewrote the Akismet Python library to support async operations and a new API feature. The new version uses the HTTPX library and includes testing-friendly variants of the API clients.

Pokemon Evolution vs Darwinian Evolution

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Hello interweb, Nate here! Oh, I said in the last post that I’ll do the SuperheroSins episode to DKR Pt 2? I lied! Now I’m a fan of Pokemon, Marvel, DC, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, etc. But I’m also kind of a science nerd. Because of this, sometimes I like to try and use real world science to explain things in fiction. Granted, most things in fiction usually ignores science because if superheroes were ...

Show HN: Libretto – Making AI browser automations deterministic

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Libretto is a toolkit for building robust web integrations with a live browser and CLI. It helps maintain browser integrations to common software and is open-sourced for easier use.

Retrofitting JIT Compilers into C Interpreters

yk is a system that automatically converts C interpreters into JIT compiling Virtual Machines with minimal code changes, offering better performance while retaining full compatibility with reference implementations. yk uses meta-tracing to record and optimise the interpreter's actions, allowing it to inline code and achieve significant performance improvements with minimal manual effort.

CRISPR takes important step toward silencing Down syndrome’s extra chromosome

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The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew

McDonald's Japan website has limited allergen information in Japanese, covering 28 ingredients. English menus and ordering are available through their app and some restaurant locations.

US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) no attorney-client privilege for AI chats [pdf]

PiCore - Raspberry Pi Port of Tiny Core Linux

piCore is a Raspberry Pi port of Tiny Core Linux, a customizable system with a small footprint and recent kernel. It runs entirely in RAM and offers flexibility and community support.

The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock

This clock displays the current time alphabetically. It is inspired by this post on Mastodon. In Three-Hand mode, the hours, minutes, and seconds are each independently sorted by their English spelling, with a hand for each.In Combined mode, every possible time (43,200 of them) is spelled out, sorted alphabetically, and a single needle points to the current one.

Agent - Native Mac OS X coding ide/harness

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Agent! is a free macOS app that uses AI to automate tasks, control apps, and build code without requiring coding knowledge. It supports 17 LLM providers, including Apple Intelligence, and offers features like hotword-anchored dictation, built-in Xcode integration, and secure file management.

Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds

Bloomberg delivers business and financial information worldwide. A New York jury found Live Nation Entertainment illegally monopolized the live events industry.

The Gemini app is now on Mac

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Gemini app now available on macOS as a native desktop experience, allowing users to get help instantly with a keyboard shortcut. The app brings AI assistance to users' work, enabling them to share screens, generate content, and more.