ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf]

Individuals with childhood trauma are seeking ADHD and/or autism diagnoses, overwhelming public diagnostic systems. This overlap is complicated by executive function limitations and socioemotional capacity, which predispose individuals to risk of PTSD.

Kolibri – Tech Report [pdf]

Kolibri is an English-German Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 78.1B total parameters and 3.46B active parameters per token, released as open weights under the Apache 2.0 licence for sovereign and specialized deployment in German public administration, industry, and aerospace domains.

Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields

Punch black holes in space and sling a ship home round them.

FTL: A new operating system for clouds

FTL is a userspace OS library that isolates containers and provides a hypervisor-like interface, making it easy to add features and debug. It combines the best of microkernels and monolithic kernels for secure and performant operation.

Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model

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Kolibri is a 78B parameter English-German Mixture-of-Experts Transformer model, optimized for sovereign mission-critical work in regulated areas. It achieves contextualized performance through specialized evaluation suites and training environments.

Woking Electrical Control Room (2016)

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Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server

The pi harness is a customizable and elegant software that offers freedom from AI companies, while its minimal approach leaves certain aspects lacking. The pi pod project aims to consolidate this capability into a simple and elegant software for self-hosting or future hosted service.

C++ Insights – See your source code with the eyes of a Compiler

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C++ Insights is a Clang-based tool that visually reveals the compiler's transformations and magic behind C++ code. It can transform various C++ constructs, such as range-based for-loops, structured bindings, lambdas, and auto expressions into their compiler-internal versions.

Body Awareness in Goffin's Cockatoos

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Researchers tested 15 Goffin's cockatoos in a body-as-obstacle (BAO) task to assess their ability to recognize their own body as a causal obstacle. The birds stepped off the mat significantly more often in the test condition, where their own body impeded task success, than in either control condition.

RetailReady (YC W24) Is Hiring

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RetailReady is an AI-powered supply chain compliance engine that has raised $6.6M and onboarded 50 customers, with a goal to disrupt the antiquated industry through its software. The company aims to create a tangible difference by solving operational retailer compliance within warehouses.

MPEG-2 Transport Streams and MOQ: Yes, MPEG-TS Is Still Relevant Today

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A new video streaming protocol, MOQ, aims to integrate into existing workflows by solving real problems and is being developed with the IETF. The draft focuses on compatibility with existing infrastructure that still relies on MPEG-2 Transport Stream packaging.

Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art

Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility

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A federal judge blocked Utah's attempt to outlaw VPNs due to a law requiring adult websites to block users using them. The court ruled that the law is unconstitutional as it imposes an impossible technical requirement on businesses and people outside of Utah.

Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase

Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager

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ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A Webster man is celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney his mom donated to him as a teenager. In March 1978, surgeons at Strong Hospital transplanted a kidney into 16-year-old Ray Vetuskey. The story behind that kidney is now one for the record books. Vetuskey grew up in Seabreeze as the youngest of five kids and always had a special bond with his mom Betty, “she was a ...

Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city

Former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin showcased his sprawling Minecraft world, "Tomlinburgh", with 20,000 concurrent viewers. The video featured densely populated buildings and communities designed by Tomlin over a 12-year period.

Show HN: Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux

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SEEDS game features a fully emulated Linux system powered by PasRISCV, an open-source emulator that runs on RISC-V 64-bit architecture. The emulator supports various features like SMP/MultiHART, RV64GC, and RVA23 extensions.

Apple Pass Designer

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Use Apple's Pass Designer or a preferred design tool to create custom pass designs, editing in real-time for iPhone and Apple Watch previews. The preview mirrors iOS and watchOS rendering for accurate customer experience.

City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2

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The author of Cities: Skylines 2 is disappointed with the game's aesthetics, finding it too sanitized and lacking in realism. They yearn for a more authentic representation of city life, with imperfections and character that reflect real-world urban environments.

Cloudflare OHTTP gateway

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Cloudflare launches an OHTTP Gateway, a paid add-on that enables developers to receive encrypted HTTP requests without seeing user IP addresses. This allows for more privacy-preserving experiences and is designed to work with existing Cloudflare infrastructure.

Holes (1996-2025)

Holes are a paradoxical case study for ontologists and epistemologists, with evidence suggesting they may be real entities but also challenging traditional notions of materiality and perception. The concept of holes is deeply ingrained in human cognition, yet their nature remains unclear.

A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting

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This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers

The characters of plastics (2024)

“It’s made of plastic” is a common put-down. Marketers selling higher-end bits made of plastic (like gun parts) try to evade the stigma by calling it “polymer”, but that’s just a stupid euphemism: every plastic is a polymer, though not every polymer is a plastic. The word “polymer” says nothing to indicate that this might be a superior sort of plastic. Yet there are superior sorts; plastics ...

An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows

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Kagi is ending development of Orion for Linux and Windows, but open-sourcing the code so the community can carry it forward. The company will focus on Orion for macOS and iOS instead.

FLUX 3 Image

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The user wants to generate an image with FLUX 3, a multimodal model for video, audio, images and actions. They provide a scene prompt that describes a glowing concrete dome rising from a twilight bay, with various elements such as surfers, dancers, and animals in the background.

Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video]

From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4

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DwarfStar 4 is a narrow C inference engine for high-memory Mac, CUDA and ROCm machines supporting DeepSeek V4 and V4.1 Flash models with text and vision models. It provides a CLI, HTTP APIs, native agent and local cache sharing the same model state.

With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now

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Researchers from Carnegie Mellon, MIT, and others created an AI called Ataraxos that beat the world's top Stratego player in 15 games. The AI used a unique approach to learn strategy by thinking ahead and sampling plausible moves rather than iterating through every possible arrangement.

Show HN: Offrun – manage every coding agent from one workspace

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Offrun is a Mac-based CLI tool that runs coding agents on your local machine, allowing multiple users to collaborate without needing an API key or server. It provides features like real-time collaboration, automated testing and retrying, and seamless integration with various providers.