German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws

78 bundie 2025-07-10 05:19:16 UTC therecord.media Llama Share 11

A German court ruled Meta must pay €5,000 for violating data privacy laws by embedding tracking technology in third-party websites without consent. The ruling sets a precedent for class action lawsuits, potentially exposing Meta to large fines over data privacy violations.

MCP-B: A Protocol for AI Browser Automation

186 bustodisgusto 2025-07-09 23:19:16 UTC mcp-b.ai Full Share 85

Tree Borrows

448 zdw 2025-07-09 15:19:16 UTC plf.inf.ethz.ch Llama Share 91

Rust's ownership-based type system offers strong guarantees but also provides unsafe escape hatches that must be manually upheld. Tree Borrows improves upon Stacked Borrows by using a tree to define rules for safe code, rejecting fewer test cases and enabling new optimizations.

Biomni: A General-Purpose Biomedical AI Agent

165 GavCo 2025-07-09 20:19:16 UTC github.com/snap-stanford Llama Share 27

Biomni is a biomedical AI agent that enhances research productivity and generates testable hypotheses. It integrates large language models with retrieval-augmented planning and code-based execution for various biomedical tasks.

A Typology of Canadianisms

122 gnabgib 2025-07-09 22:19:16 UTC dchp.arts.ubc.ca Llama Share 128

The Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles (DCHP-3) updates the entry structure from DCHP-2 with new Canadianisms and meanings. It includes six types of Canadianisms: Origin, Preservation, Semantic Change, Culturally Significant, Memorial, and a new label for common core terms.

The Origin of the Research University

45 Petiver 2025-07-10 01:19:16 UTC asteriskmag.com GoogleT5 Share 0

University reformers in germany wanted to abolish universities and replace them with colleges. alan schroeder: the real problem with them is that they don't lead anywhere. the goal of education was not to memorize facts but rather to train the capacity to notice connections between them, he says - and that's what the jena circle got to it. "the german universities of the 19th century were so ...

Show HN: FlopperZiro – A DIY open-source Flipper Zero clone

237 iraton 2025-07-09 18:19:16 UTC github.com/lraton Full Share 55

An orribol copi of FlipperZero, uit worst inglish A Flipper Zero clone, but cheapest, DIY and simply Open Source, made with Arduino IDE ⚠️ Important Notice: This is just a fun project, it was started to pass the time, it is not at all professional and is not intended to be. Is not an alternative for professional device.

Show HN: MCP server for searching and downloading documents from Anna's Archive

106 iosifache 2025-07-09 21:19:16 UTC github.com/iosifache Llama Share 31

Anna's Archive is a platform for automated document retrieval under permissive licenses. It does not endorse unauthorized content acquisition and users must respect intellectual property rights.

The jank programming language

263 akkad33 2025-07-09 17:19:16 UTC jank-lang.org Llama Share 65

Jank provides powerful data transformation capabilities with idiomatic functions like reduce, zipmap, and merge-with. It also offers immutable data structures and a loop macro for imperative-style loops.

Code and Trust: Vibrators to Pacemakers

23 jackdoe 2025-07-10 02:19:16 UTC punkx.org Llama Share 13

The user discusses the similarity between a program controlling a vibrator and a pacemaker, both using a loop and pulse function. They argue that for critical systems like pacemakers, trust should be based on open code and specs, not just the programmer's credentials.

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Memory Safety Sanitizers

8 signa11 2025-07-10 03:19:16 UTC computer.org Full Share 1

A Virginia public library is fighting off a takeover by private equity

178 sharkweek 2025-07-10 03:19:16 UTC lithub.com Llama Share 117

The Samuels Public Library in Virginia successfully fought off a takeover by a private equity group after community support and funding cuts. The library, founded in 1799, now faces uncertain funding after local officials withheld annual funding citing poor management.

A fast 3D collision detection algorithm

205 OlympicMarmoto 2025-07-09 15:19:16 UTC cairno.substack.com Llama Share 26

The author presents a new approach to the Separating Axis Test, a collision detection algorithm, by treating it as an optimization problem on a sphere and using graph traversal to find the minimum of the support function, resulting in a 5-10x speedup over the regular SAT. This approach can be used to improve collision detection in games and other applications, and the author provides a demo ...

Show HN: Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS

81 kushalpandya 2025-07-09 22:19:16 UTC github.com/kushalpandya Llama Share 31

Petrichor is an offline music player for macOS that reads music files from directories without altering them, using a SQLite database to store metadata. The app's database schema includes tables for folders, artists, albums, tracks, playlists, and more, with relationships between them to enable features like searching and smart playlists.

Configuring Split Horizon DNS with Pi-Hole and Tailscale

91 gm678 2025-07-09 17:19:16 UTC bentasker.co.uk Llama Share 23

The user set up Tailscale for a mesh network and wanted to implement split horizon DNS for clients on the tailnet. They configured Pi-hole to return the tailnet IP to tailnet clients and the LAN IP to LAN clients.

Archaeologists unveil 3,500-year-old city in Peru

144 neversaydie 2025-07-09 13:19:16 UTC bbc.co.uk Llama Share 45

Researchers discovered Peñico, a 3,500-year-old city in Peru, which was a key trading hub connecting early Pacific coast communities with the Andes and Amazon. The site sheds light on what became of the Americas' oldest civilisation, Caral, after it was decimated by climate change.

Generic Interfaces

12 Merovius 2025-07-10 04:19:16 UTC go.dev Llama Share 5

Using interfaces with type parameters can express constraints on generic functions and types, enabling powerful expressions. However, this comes with a cost, including complexity and potential over-restriction, which should be carefully considered in design choices.

Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

417 donohoe 2025-07-09 15:19:16 UTC nytimes.com Full Share 653

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Solar power has begun to transform the world’s energy system

86 dmazin 2025-07-09 13:19:16 UTC newyorker.com GoogleT5 Share 116

Last year, 96 per cent of the global demand for new electricity was met by renewables. in the u.s. ninety-three percent of new generating capacity came from solar, wind, battery storage, says john sutter jr. he says even saudi arabia, the u.a.e., and qatar are building vast fields of solar panels. by 2050, half the region's electricity would come from photovolt

HyAB k-means for color quantization

33 ibobev 2025-07-09 22:19:16 UTC 30fps.net Llama Share 9

The user is experimenting with color quantization algorithms, specifically the "HyAB" distance formula, to improve image compression results. They found that using HyAB in k-means clustering in CIELAB space produces better results than traditional Euclidean distance.

Understand CPU Branch Instructions Better

55 mfiguiere 2025-07-09 21:19:16 UTC chrisfeilbach.com Llama Share 14

Branch instructions in a CPU program make decisions by jumping to a target instruction based on conditions. Optimizing branch instructions can improve performance by reducing complexity, using direct branches, and minimizing mispredictions.

Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business

821 jonkuipers 2025-07-09 06:19:16 UTC projectionlab.com Llama Share 220

The author built ProjectionLab, a tool to help people plan their financial future, after being inspired by the financial independence movement. Consistency and perseverance helped the author overcome challenges and grow the business to help over 100,000 households.

White Noise – secure and private messenger

65 onhacker 2025-07-09 22:19:16 UTC whitenoise.chat Llama Share 30

White Noise is a secure, private, and identity-free messenger with end-to-end encryption and open standards. It's a non-profit, community-driven project with real-time performance and censorship resistance.

Ruby 3.4 frozen string literals: What Rails developers need to know

220 thomas_witt 2025-07-09 09:19:16 UTC prateekcodes.dev Llama Share 109

Ruby 3.4 introduces frozen string literals by default, but code runs as before unless deprecation warnings are enabled. Enable warnings to prepare for better performance in Ruby 4.0.

The most otherworldly, mysterious forms of lightning on Earth

85 Anon84 2025-07-09 17:19:16 UTC nationalgeographic.com Llama Share 29

Scientists study red sprites, green ghosts, and blue jets in the upper atmosphere during thunderstorms. These transient luminous events or TLEs are mysterious, beautiful, and connected to weather, space, and electricity.

Show HN: I built a playground to showcase what Flux Kontext is good at

15 Zephyrion 2025-07-10 01:19:16 UTC fluxkontextlab.com Llama Share 3

Flux Kontext Dev is an AI-driven image editing tool that transforms user visions into reality. It uses the FLUX.1 Kontext [dev] model for professional-grade results with precise local and global edits.

Xenharmlib: A music theory library that supports non-western harmonic systems

163 retooth 2025-07-09 06:19:16 UTC xenharmlib.readthedocs.io Llama Share 14

Xenharmlib is a music theory library that supports non-standard tunings and notations. It's designed for composers and researchers with Python knowledge, focusing on harmonic relations and scientific exploration.

Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful

318 BerislavLopac 2025-07-09 07:19:16 UTC florian-kraemer.net Llama Share 491

Roy Thomas Fielding's dissertation on REST describes it as an architectural style for designing scalable, performant, and maintainable networked systems. A REST API should use hypermedia to drive application state transitions and not rely on out-of-band information.

Making Explainable Minesweeper

33 greentec 2025-07-09 20:19:16 UTC sublevelgames.github.io Llama Share 26

You created a game called Explainable Minesweeper to help people solve Minesweeper puzzles using logical deduction. The game uses AI to generate solvable maps and provides hints based on global, simple, and advanced patterns.

Multi-Region Row Level Security in CockroachDB

43 rusticwizard 2025-07-09 22:19:16 UTC cockroachlabs.com Llama Share 9

CockroachDB introduces Row-Level Security to control data access at the row level, enabling fine-grained access policies directly within the database. This feature is ideal for multi-tenant applications and regional data boundaries, reducing complexity and ensuring secure data access.