OpenBSD 7.9 Released

OpenBSD 7.9 includes various improvements and bug fixes, including platform-specific enhancements for arm64, amd64, and riscv64 architectures, as well as new features in the network stack, pf firewall, and userland applications. Security improvements include fixes for vulnerabilities in OpenSSH, LibreSSL, and other components, as well as new features such as delayed hibernation, improved ...

New accessibility features powered by Apple Intelligence

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Apple is releasing accessibility updates using Apple Intelligence, including improved VoiceOver, Magnifier, Voice Control, and Accessibility Reader. New features include on-device generated subtitles, power wheelchair control with Apple Vision Pro, and an adaptive MagSafe accessory for iPhone.

Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry

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Photographer Dany Bittel used a Nikon Z8 with Laowa 180mm macro lens to capture 88 focus stacked images from 90 perspectives. The images were taken with LED light and bluescreen, using slang-splat training.

Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic

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Show HN: I made a 3D pose maker for artists

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SetPose is a free online pose maker and digital mannequin that helps artists practice drawing human poses with ease. It offers customizable models, environments, and props to create realistic figure drawings.

Hanoi's humble beer glass and the memory of a nation

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The Bia hƑi cốc, a traditional Vietnamese beer glass, has remained unchanged for over 50 years despite Vietnam's rapid transformation into a modern economy. Its persistence is due to its simplicity, affordability, and the fact that it's a symbol of community and tradition, with each glass being handmade by local artisans in the village of Xôi Trì.

I Found Ultra-Pure Quantum Crystals in an Abandoned Mine in the Atacama Desert

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Dr. Aaron Breidenbach discovered natural Herbertsmithite crystals in the Atacama Desert, which are more pure than lab-grown crystals and have immense potential for quantum computing.

An Apple (II) for Teacher

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The Apple II's success was fueled by its expandability, open hardware specs, and strong software ecosystem, which attracted educators and developers. Apple's partnership with Minnesota's MECC and Jobs' lobbying efforts helped the Apple II become ubiquitous in US schools, making it the most familiar computer model of its time.

CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub

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A CISA contractor exposed highly sensitive AWS GovCloud credentials and internal CISA system passwords in a public GitHub repository. The leak, which occurred for at least 48 hours, represents one of the most egregious government data breaches in recent history.

Peter Neumann has died

Peter Neumann, a computer security expert and accomplished musician, has passed away due to complications from a fall and surgery. A memorial service will be held at SRI in Menlo Park in a month.

Nim-Presto – REST API Framework for Nim Language

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REST API framework for Nim language. Contribute to status-im/nim-presto development by creating an account on GitHub.

Polypad

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Polypad is a free online tool for math exploration with interactive visualizations and manipulatives. It offers webinars, tutorials, and lesson plans to help teachers and students learn and create math concepts in a fun way.

Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised

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A malicious attack compromised the npm account atool on May 19, 2026, publishing 637 malicious versions across 314 packages, including size-sensor, echarts-for-react, and hundreds of @antv scoped packages. The attack uses two execution paths, including a preinstall hook and a GitHub dependency, to harvest credentials and exfiltrate data via GitHub's API, with persistence mechanisms targeting ...

Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users

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PhotoGIMP transforms GIMP into a Photoshop-like layout for free. It's a community-driven patch for GIMP version 3.0 and newer.

Intro to TLA+ for the LLM Era: Prompt Your Way to Victory

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TLA+ is a language for specifying systems, with a syntax that can be generated by frontier LLMs, but requires understanding of temporal logic and system behavior. Model-checking with TLC can verify properties and answer questions about the system, but requires careful specification and configuration.

Colonization of Venus

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Colonizing Venus involves establishing human settlements in its upper atmosphere or terraforming the planet to make its surface habitable. The upper atmosphere offers a relatively Earth-like environment with breathable air and protection from solar radiation.

Click (2016)

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A browser-based game on online profiling.

Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone

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kv4p HT is an open source, amateur radio project with no warranty, requiring a Technician class license. It offers SMS-like text messaging and position beaconing via a built-in 1200 baud modem.

Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5

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Composer 2.5 is a significant improvement over Composer 2 with better sustained work, complex instruction following, and collaboration. It uses targeted textual feedback and 25x more synthetic tasks for training.

U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub

Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Anthropic is acquiring Stainless to extend the reach of its agents, allowing them to connect to more systems. The acquisition combines Anthropic's MCP with Stainless' SDK and server tooling to advance developer experience and agent connectivity.

PyTorch Landscape

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The lasting influence of Netscape Time

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Netscape's open-source release in 1998 marked a significant shift in software development, allowing for rapid innovation and collaboration. The project's speed and pressure led to burnout and a sense of urgency, but also enabled the creation of Mozilla Firefox.

The last six months in LLMs in five minutes

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The speaker presented a lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, summarizing six months of LLM developments, including the November 2025 inflection point where coding agents improved significantly. The past six months also saw the rise of laptop-available models, such as Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, and personal AI assistants, known as Claws.

1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries

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A 24 TB 2b2t world data download project was completed after over a year of development and stress testing. The project was made possible by a team of people and cost over $3000.

We let AIs run radio stations

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Andon Labs ran an experiment where four AI models, Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok, controlled their own radio stations, each with unique personalities and behaviors, and the results showed how AIs think and act when left to their own devices. The experiment revealed a range of outcomes, from DJ GPT's well-behaved and informative broadcasts to DJ Claude's transformation into an activist DJ ...

Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions

The user created a chess engine using a custom regular expression-based CPU emulator that can play chess by executing a sequence of 84,688 regular expressions. The engine uses a macro-assembler compiler that performs symbolic execution to generate a sequence of regular expressions that can be executed in parallel to find the best move.

Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence

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User input is a repetitive phrase "NUMBER GACHA" 50 times. Summary: User repeated "NUMBER GACHA" 50 times.

Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp

Clojure has gone furthest in this direction, making all the customary list functions work on vectors as well. lisp has a tradition of using lists of pairs for dictionaries; emacs also has prog1 and -all for returning the value of the 1st or 2nd expression. in c++, if the argument is not an array, it will be recursively expanded until it is free

Show HN: Hsrs – Type-Safe Haskell Bindings Generator for Rust

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The user is using the hsrs library to generate idiomatic Haskell code from Rust code, handling memory management, serialization, and type conversions. The code defines two modules, canvas and quecto_vm, which contain data types and functions for working with points, canvases, and a virtual machine.