German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws

126 bundie 2025-07-10 05:50:58 UTC therecord.media Llama Share 35

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.

Tree Borrows

459 zdw 2025-07-09 14:50:58 UTC plf.inf.ethz.ch Llama Share 92

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

170 GavCo 2025-07-09 19:50:58 UTC github.com/snap-stanford Llama Share 28

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.

MCP-B: A Protocol for AI Browser Automation

193 bustodisgusto 2025-07-09 22:50:58 UTC mcp-b.ai Full Share 95

A Typology of Canadianisms

125 gnabgib 2025-07-09 22:50:58 UTC dchp.arts.ubc.ca Llama Share 135

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.

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

241 iraton 2025-07-09 17:50:58 UTC github.com/lraton Full Share 56

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.

The Origin of the Research University

48 Petiver 2025-07-10 01:50:58 UTC asteriskmag.com GoogleT5 Share 1

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

111 iosifache 2025-07-09 21:50:58 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

267 akkad33 2025-07-09 17:50:58 UTC jank-lang.org Llama Share 66

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

25 jackdoe 2025-07-10 01:50:58 UTC punkx.org Llama Share 14

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.

Generic Interfaces

19 Merovius 2025-07-10 03:50:58 UTC go.dev Llama Share 6

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.

Show HN: BreakerMachines – Modern Circuit Breaker for Rails with Async Support

16 seuros 2025-07-10 04:50:58 UTC github.com/seuros Llama Share 4

The BreakerMachines gem provides a Ruby implementation of the Circuit Breaker pattern for reliable distributed systems protection. It offers customizable circuit breakers for services like payment and webhook delivery with fallback and retry options.

A fast 3D collision detection algorithm

210 OlympicMarmoto 2025-07-09 14:50:58 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 ...

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Memory Safety Sanitizers

11 signa11 2025-07-10 02:50:58 UTC computer.org Full Share 2

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

85 kushalpandya 2025-07-09 22:50:58 UTC github.com/kushalpandya Llama Share 36

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.

I used to prefer permissive licenses and now favor copyleft

29 bpierre 2025-07-09 22:50:58 UTC vitalik.eth.limo Llama Share 2

The author, a free open source software developer, has switched from permissive to copyleft licenses due to increased adoption of open source, a more competitive and mercenary crypto space, and economic arguments favoring nonzero openness.

Configuring Split Horizon DNS with Pi-Hole and Tailscale

93 gm678 2025-07-09 17:50:58 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 13:50:58 UTC bbc.co.uk Llama Share 48

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.

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

93 dmazin 2025-07-09 12:50:58 UTC newyorker.com GoogleT5 Share 124

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

Understand CPU Branch Instructions Better

59 mfiguiere 2025-07-09 21:50:58 UTC chrisfeilbach.com Llama Share 18

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.

Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

423 donohoe 2025-07-09 15:50:58 UTC nytimes.com Full Share 667

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HyAB k-means for color quantization

36 ibobev 2025-07-09 21:50:58 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.

Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business

825 jonkuipers 2025-07-09 06:50:58 UTC projectionlab.com Llama Share 221

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

72 onhacker 2025-07-09 21:50:58 UTC whitenoise.chat Llama Share 33

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

221 thomas_witt 2025-07-09 09:50:58 UTC prateekcodes.dev Llama Share 110

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.

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

21 Zephyrion 2025-07-10 01:50:58 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.

The most otherworldly, mysterious forms of lightning on Earth

87 Anon84 2025-07-09 17:50:58 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.

Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful

324 BerislavLopac 2025-07-09 07:50:58 UTC florian-kraemer.net Llama Share 493

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.

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

164 retooth 2025-07-09 06:50:58 UTC xenharmlib.readthedocs.io Llama Share 15

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.

Making Explainable Minesweeper

36 greentec 2025-07-09 20:50:58 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.