Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release

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A browser extension filters search results to exclude AI-generated content. It uses the Google search API to return results from before November 30, 2022, ensuring human-created content.

Advent of Code 2025

Eric Wastl created Advent of Code, an annual programming puzzle event with varying difficulty levels. It's free to use, but not to copy, and users can participate with any programming language and skill level.

It’s been a very hard year

Andy, founder of Set Studio and Piccalilli, is struggling due to a tough year with economic and political instability, affecting their business. He's asking for support to help them continue producing high-quality content and web projects that benefit people.

A Love Letter to FreeBSD

The writer appreciates FreeBSD's coherence, stability, and quiet strength, comparing it to a mainframe humming in the background. They hope it stays different, earning trust with its reliability and long-term focus.

Advent of Sysadmin 2025

Here's a step-by-step solution to fix the problem:

SmartTube Compromised

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SmartTube's digital signature was exposed and a new one has been released after a developer's computer was compromised by malware. Users should factory reset devices with the app installed and audit their Google account permissions due to potential malware exposure.

Writing a good Claude.md

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To onboard Claude into your codebase, use CLAUDE.md to define your project's WHY, WHAT, and HOW, keeping instructions to a minimum and using Progressive Disclosure to avoid bloating the context window. Avoid auto-generating CLAUDE.md and use linters, code formatters, and other features to handle implementation and formatting separately for better results.

Algorithms for Optimization [pdf]

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to optimization with a focus on practical algorithms for engineering design, covering various optimization topics and techniques. The book aims to equip readers with the knowledge and skills to apply optimization algorithms to real-world problems, with a focus on engineering design and applications in fields such as mathematics, statistics, and ...

Do the thinking models think?

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Whether machines can think is a classic debate that dates back to the intellectual titans of the 1950s. Turing opens his 1950 article Computing Machinery and Intelligence with: I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?" The Hungarian genius, von Neumann, shortly before his death in 1957, prepared a posthumously published monograph The Computer and the Brain on the same ...

X210Ai is a new motherboard to upgrade ThinkPad X201/200

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Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive

User needs to register or sign in with developer credentials and ensure a unique User-Agent string to access the application. Alternatively, try resetting to default User-Agent or file a ticket for assistance.

Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z

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Windows allows drive letters outside of A-Z, but they don't appear in File Explorer and can't be navigated to due to explorer.exe's special logic. The kernel32.dll API SetVolumeMountPointW has a quirk where it truncates non-ASCII drive letters, creating a symbolic link to a different drive letter.

NVMe driver for Windows 2000, targeting both x86 and Alpha AXP platforms

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NVMe2K is a SCSI miniport driver for Windows 2000 that supports NVMe devices on x86 and Alpha AXP platforms. It's an experimental, community-developed driver licensed under 3-Clause BSD License, not recommended for production use.

Migrating Dillo from GitHub

Rodrigo Arias Mallo wants to migrate Dillo project from GitHub to a self-hosted server with multiple mirrors to avoid single point of failure and solve usability issues. He chose cgit as the git frontend and created a simple bug tracker software called buggy to store data in plain text.

Replacing My Window Manager with Google Chrome

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The user is working on a project to bring the web to the desktop by using a web browser to control the system and interact with windows, utilizing CEF and Protobuf for communication and nanomsg for IPC. The project has a compositing window manager that uses OpenGL to render windows and allows for custom window decorations, and the user is considering switching to Wayland compositing and a ...

GitHub to Codeberg: my experience

The user migrated their GitHub repositories to Codeberg, a process that took a weekend and involved setting up their profile, importing repositories, and configuring CI/CD pipelines. They also successfully migrated their website to git-pages, a service that supports uploading and hosting static websites.
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BrickLink, a major online marketplace for LEGO enthusiasts, has announced it will no longer be available in 35 countries starting December 12, 2025, affecting thousands of fans and sellers worldwide. The decision has sparked outrage and disappointment among the LEGO community, with many questioning the reasoning behind the ban and calling for a boycott of BrickLink.

How to run phones while being struck by suicide drones

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Ukrainians face frequent power outages due to drone attacks, prompting tech-savvy individuals to build their own backup battery systems. One user built a 4.3kWh LiFePO4 battery system for $600, outperforming a $2300 Ecoflow model.

Regarding Thien-Thi Nguyen

Thien-Thi's daughter thanks the community for kind words about her father's passing. She recently discovered the thread about his death and wanted to express gratitude.

Program-of-Thought Prompting Outperforms Chain-of-Thought by 15% (2022)

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Researchers proposed "Program of Thoughts" (PoT) to improve step-by-step reasoning in language models. PoT achieved an average 12% performance gain over state-of-art method Chain-of-thoughts prompting (CoT) on various math and financial datasets.

Ly – A lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD

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Ly is a lightweight TUI display manager for Linux and BSD, designed for portability. It can be installed and tested on various desktop environments and window managers.

Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?

The US economy is experiencing a divergence between job creation and overall growth, with the stock market and AI investment driving growth. The Federal Reserve is considering further interest rate cuts to support a weakening jobs market.

LLVM-MOS – Clang LLVM fork targeting the 6502

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llvm-mos is an open-source LLVM fork for MOS 6502 and relatives, providing modern software development for classic platforms. It includes a C compiler, SDK, and automated testing infrastructure for various targets.

Show HN: CurioQuest – A simple web trivia/fun facts game

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Learn as you play: uncover amazing fun facts, meet amazing characters, and explore stories full of surprises. Invite your friends and party together. Every round’s a new adventure, and only the bravest minds will triumph!

ESA Sentinel-1D delivers first high-resolution images

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The European Space Agency's Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite captured high-resolution images of Antarctica, South America, and Bremen, Germany, within 50 hours of launch. The images show glaciers, ships, and sea pollution, providing valuable data for climate change research and monitoring.

ETH-Zurich: Digital Design and Computer Architecture; 227-0003-10L, Spring, 2025

The class introduces digital circuit design and computer architecture from the bottom up, covering execution paradigms and hardware description languages. It focuses on fundamental techniques for modern microprocessor design and hardware/software interface.

N-Body Simulator – Interactive 3 Body Problem and Gravitational Physics

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Based on Li and Liao (2025), which discovered 10,059 new 3D periodic orbits. Paper | Data The three-body problem is one of the most famous challenges in classical physics and celestial mechanics. It asks: given the initial positions, masses, and velocities of three bodies in space, can we predict their future motion under mutual gravitational attraction? Unlike the two-body problem (which has ...

AI just proved Erdos Problem #124

Aristotle solved a version of the Erdős conjecture with an olympiad-style proof, but not the original version. The conjecture remains open for now.

Show HN: Fixing Google Nano Banana Pixel Art with Rust

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A tool to snap pixels to a perfect grid. Designed to fix messy and inconsistent pixel art generated by AI. Pixel Snapper is a Sprite Fusion project. Sprite Fusion is a free, web-based tilemap editor for game developers supporting a wide range of engines including Unity, Godot, Defold, and GB Studio.

The Thinking Game Film – Google DeepMind documentary

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The Thinking Game takes you on a fascinating journey into the heart of DeepMind, one of the world's leading AI labs, as it strives to unravel the mysteries of artificial general intelligence (AGI).