Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

156 jumploops 2026-10-25 19:21:57 UTC imaginationlibrary.com Llama Share 26

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifts free books to children worldwide, promoting early childhood literacy and inspiring a love of reading. The program, launched in 1995, has expanded to five countries and aims to reach every child with access to quality books.

Eunice is almost here (William Gibson, Agency)

12 armcat 2026-10-25 19:42:57 UTC armincat.com Llama Share 5

William Gibson's novel Agency (2020) features an AI assistant called Eunice, who can have human-like conversations. The book predates modern AI advancements, but its depiction of a conversational AI is remarkably prescient and eerily relevant today.

A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis

252 sungam 2026-10-25 17:21:57 UTC lynchlab.net Llama Share 121

Two AI models, a CNN and two LLMs, were tested on 200 skin lesions with varying accuracy in diagnosing benign or malignant conditions. The CNN outperformed the LLMs in most cases, especially for melanomas and actinic keratoses.

I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27

242 Tomte 2026-10-25 18:21:57 UTC talkweb.eu Llama Share 116

The Digital Dissident Devroom brings together developers to build tools for digital freedom, focusing on end-to-end chain protection for those under threat. It complements other devrooms and aims to advance interoperability, shared threat models, and engineering practice in circumvention, anonymity, messaging, publishing and whistleblowing tools.

JetBrains Thinkrail

75 hmokiguess 2026-10-25 17:21:57 UTC github.com/jetbrains Llama Share 24

ThinkRail is an agentic IDE that learns and improves with each use, offering isolated workspaces, GitHub PR management, and a rich interface. It supports multiple languages and has a native desktop app or browser version.

Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop

186 tdeck 2026-10-25 18:21:57 UTC theintercept.com Llama Share 49

The Eugene Police Department is charging $2.5 million for public records about police officer Justin Peckels, who punched a resident in the face during a traffic stop, citing it would take 44,816 hours to process the request. The city's response has been criticized as an attempt to intimidate journalists and stifle oversight of police misconduct.

Why I Am a Programmer

7 jruohonen 2026-10-25 19:21:57 UTC alfie.wtf LocalLLM Share 3

Jonny's passion for creating immersive experiences through programming stems from his early exposure to the demoscene and BBS culture. He aspires to craft demos that deeply affect users, reflecting his formative years in a pre-internet digital underground.

VCF Southwest 2026, but Edited on Silicon Graphics for '90s TV [video]

32 zdw 2026-10-25 16:21:57 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 8

Dijkstra vs. A* vs. Contraction Hierarchies

21 signa11 2026-10-25 17:21:57 UTC arcadedb.com Llama Share 4

ArcadeDB uses Customizable Contraction Hierarchies to find the fastest route on a graph, like Florida's 1.07 million junctions and 2.7 million road segments, with exact results in under 0.9ms for Tallahassee to Coral Gables via I-75 and the Turnpike.

AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading homework

125 romanhn 2026-10-25 17:21:57 UTC dailycal.org Llama Share 194

Professor Richard Borcherds, a Fields medalist, no longer grades students' homework due to AI use. He believes AI will surpass human mathematicians in the near future and is uncertain about advising students on math careers.

We should be more ambitious with the software we build

700 ltratt 2026-10-24 22:21:57 UTC danluu.com Llama Share 644

The author discusses the potential for ambitious software projects, citing examples of successful projects like pgrust and Azul AI. They argue that with advancements in capabilities, it's now possible to build more complex and high-quality software without requiring extensive expertise or resources. The author also notes that while some people may be able to achieve impressive results with ...

UTS #39: Unicode Security Mechanisms

15 robin_reala 2026-10-25 17:21:57 UTC unicode.org Llama Share 0

This document provides mechanisms to detect possible security problems in identifiers, such as URLs and email addresses, by restricting the use of certain Unicode characters. It specifies profiles for environments where security is an issue and provides a set of rules to identify visually confusable characters that could be used in spoofing attempts.

Show HN: Hurston-1 open source TTS that speak Southern American and Afro-English

14 Gcarter08 2026-10-25 17:21:57 UTC huggingface.co Llama Share 7

Hurston-1 is a narrowband text-to-speech model that mimics real phone calls, offering diverse accents and natural speech patterns. It was built by Destined AI using contributions from over 250 people from the American South and across Africa.

Active incident at Dreamhost forcing password reset

69 greenchair 2026-10-25 13:21:57 UTC dreamhoststatus.com Llama Share 28

DreamHost is resetting passwords for affected email and FTP/SFTP users due to a system issue, with instructions sent via email. Account owners can set new passwords in the DreamHost control panel at panel.dreamhost.com without waiting for an email notification.

Recreate the Apollo Guidance Computer

24 Brajeshwar 2026-10-25 17:21:57 UTC raspberrypi.com Llama Share 0

A maker recreated a 1:1 scale Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) using a Raspberry Pi computer and Virtual AGC emulator, allowing users to interact with the original system. The project, called Recreate Apollo, aims to educate others about the ingenuity of the AGC's design and functionality.

Moderna and Merck say their mRNA cancer vaccine cut death, recurrence by 42%

40 _Microft 2026-10-25 19:31:57 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 1

Moderna and Merck's mRNA vaccine reduced melanoma death or recurrence risk by 42% in a late-stage trial, significantly advancing cancer treatment. The vaccine showed promise as a personalized approach to treating the deadliest form of skin cancer.

Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models

334 gmays 2026-10-25 02:21:57 UTC cerebras.ai Llama Share 119

Cerebras wafer-scale chips are used to deploy large models, with a single chip having 44 GB of on-chip memory. The model Kimi K3, with ~3 trillion parameters, is split across multiple wafers to run at 1000-2000+ tokens per second.

The U.S. Power Grid

3 surprisetalk 2026-10-25 19:21:57 UTC nomagicpill.site Prefix Share 0

The U.S. power grid is the largest machine people have ever built, and it has a peculiar rule: supply must equal demand every instant, because there is almost nowhere to keep electricity once it is made. The model behind this page is one grid about an eighth the size of the lower 48 states, roughly Texas-sized, stocked with the national mix of plants. On a typical day its generation shares ...

Root shell on Samsung TV

673 testing22321 2026-10-24 20:21:57 UTC twitter.com/log4j Full Share 534

i own a relatively new (2025) samsung tv. i kept getting weirdly targeted ads. i tried reversing the firmware but it was aes encrypted and no keys unless tear it apart and do uart/jtag magic. zero days it is. root shell on new samsung TVs! discovered PRIVACY HORROR. write up?

All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces"

36 bootlegbilly 2026-10-25 18:21:57 UTC isburmistrov.substack.com Llama Share 7

The author criticizes the complexity of observability systems, blaming Open Telemetry for creating confusion among users. They argue that a simpler approach using Wide Events can achieve similar results without the need for separate logs, metrics, and traces.

Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles

150 vfxGer 2026-10-25 15:21:57 UTC bigwhalehunting.com Llama Share 46

The bubble chart displays S&P 500 companies by market capitalization, with employee density indicating value per worker. Companies with at least employees and a market cap of are shown, along with some exceptions like Palantir and Welltower.

fheroes2: A recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine

184 tosh 2026-10-25 11:21:57 UTC github.com/ihhub Llama Share 65

This open source project recreates the addictive turn-based strategy game with improved gameplay, graphics, and logic. The original rights belong to Ubisoft, and users are encouraged to purchase or download a demo version instead of using this unofficial reproduction.

Sabre Wulf Remastered

50 adunk 2026-10-25 17:21:57 UTC gp-64.com Full Share 8

Sabre Wulf Remastered: Ultimate's 1984 jungle maze rebuilt for the Commodore 64 by Genesis Project. New graphics, new music, a map, screenshots, instructions and download.

The Goose Programming Language

542 bobbydigitales 2026-10-24 20:21:57 UTC aardappel.github.io Llama Share 339

Goose is a memory-safe systems language that runs faster than C++ and Rust while using less memory, with syntax familiar to C and Rust programmers. It has no heap allocator, garbage collector, or lifetime annotations.

How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made

169 bookofjoe 2026-10-25 05:21:57 UTC kottke.org Llama Share 46

A Japanese workshop founded in 1882 still uses a traditional method to make dried bonito flakes, called katsuobushi. The tebiyama hand-fired smoke-drying method involves smoking and drying the fish over a wood fire for months.

SpeedCrunch 1.1

216 LordNibbler 2026-10-24 20:21:57 UTC speedcrunch.org Full Share 47

SpeedCrunch is a free, open-source scientific calculator for Windows, macOS and Linux, with 50-digit precision, complex numbers and unit conversion.

Fuck Nuance (2015)

25 bariumbitmap 2026-10-25 18:21:57 UTC crookedtimber.org Llama Share 4

A colleague, Steve Vaisey, asked for a paper titled "Against Nuance" at the American Sociological Association Meetings. The author presented a paper with that title last week in Chicago after jokingly suggesting it earlier.

Scientists rediscover how to make ancient Roman colour-changing glass

27 teleforce 2026-10-25 18:21:57 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 3

Scientists from the University of Sheffield have successfully replicated a 1,600-year-old Roman glass masterpiece, the Lycurgus Cup, which changes color depending on lighting. The team used an ancient recipe to create nanoparticles of gold and silver that block certain colors when light passes through.

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

1663 sohkamyung 2026-10-23 20:21:57 UTC edjefferson.com Full Share 253

If there are fewer than 25 things close to you, it takes the closest 25 things within about 6 miles. If there are more than 500 things only the closest 500 will be included.

Reverse engineer of PC-98 Touhou games retires

63 mimasama 2026-10-25 09:21:57 UTC rec98.nmlgc.net Llama Share 39

The author of Shuusou Gyoku has successfully created a headless game logic library, Hatoyama, which provides a clean and modular API for replay validation. The library is designed to be freestanding and can run on any Windows version since 95 without relying on the C runtime or SDL.