Regressive JPEGs

238 vitaut 2026-07-18 03:30:38 UTC maurycyz.com GoogleT5 Share 15

A jpeg file can be broken up into multiple "scans'. this allows displaying partially downloaded images at low resolution instead of being cut off. the smallest possible 'progressive' image can contain only dc scans with no actual progression. if the file only includes dc-only scan, playback is entirely dependent on network delay. for more information, see cnn.com/code/jpeg/

Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux

88 parksb 2026-07-18 03:30:38 UTC parksb.github.io GoogleT5 Share 47

Archlinux officially dropped support for the x86 architecture after 2017. a netbook with 1gb of ram was out of storage again, and i decided to bring it back to life - if it would be pleasant to use again. to do this, i removed the hard drive and installed the operating system as root. the netbooks have been used as servers, but the arch linux installation is much lighter compared to other ...

AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion

1163 nprateem 2026-07-17 13:30:38 UTC news.ycombinator.com Qwen Share 698

AWS users reported massive unexpected billing estimates (up to $595B) due to a billing console bug, causing panic and infrastructure shutdowns. The incident highlights urgent need for AWS to improve error communication and billing accuracy.

Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work

549 nicholasjbs 2026-07-17 20:30:38 UTC news.ycombinator.com Qwen Share 54

Celebrating 15 years, Recurse Center began as a YC 2010 startup, pivoting from failed ventures to a self-directed programming retreat, driven by Hacker News (HN) for growth. Though not a billion-dollar venture, it's impacted over 3,000 programmers, with HN as a key applicant source and catalyst for the founder's work—thanking HN!

First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star

445 neversaydie 2026-07-17 14:30:38 UTC bbc.com Qwen Share 262

Researchers discovered the first atmosphere on an Earth-like rocky planet, LHS 1140b, in a star's habitable zone, detecting helium but noting other gases might exist, marking progress in the search for extraterrestrial life. While not confirming life, this finding, alongside studies of planets like K2-18b and TRAPPIST-1, highlights ongoing efforts to identify habitable worlds beyond our solar system.

The Zilog Z80 has turned 50

213 st_goliath 2026-07-17 20:30:38 UTC goliath32.com Qwen Share 73

The Zilog Z80, launched 50 years ago in 1976, became a foundational 8-bit processor for early computers and embedded systems, influencing CP/M and spawning clones like the GameBoy’s LR35902, while its industrial use persisted until 2024. The author’s DIY Z80 projects and exploration of its evolution from the 8080 highlight its technical legacy, from simplified interfacing to advanced features ...

TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years

112 BadChemical 2026-07-17 22:30:38 UTC github.com/badchemical GoogleT5 Share 27

Tp-link kasa spot ec71 indoor cameras are vulnerable to two vulnerabilities. a secondary market attack path enables recovery of previous owner's credentials and gps coordinates from devices returned to factory settings. both are fleet wide and identical across all devices running this firmware build. the practical exploitability of the extracted fleet-wide key for active traffic interception ...

Learning a few things about running SQLite

240 surprisetalk 2026-07-17 18:30:38 UTC jvns.ca Qwen Share 63

Using SQLite with Django revealed performance issues resolved by `ANALYZE`, but concurrency challenges during deletions caused crashes, prompting consideration of Postgres for scalability. Despite backup efforts and small-scale success, SQLite's limitations highlight the need for better database management as projects grow.

Porting nanochat to a TPU: what carries over from PyTorch, and what breaks

13 tucan9389 2026-07-18 06:30:38 UTC github.com/tucan9389 Full Share 0

Karpathy's nanochat normally runs on an 8×H100 GPU node, and several ports of it to JAX already exist. Among them, my aim was to keep the config and architecture as close to nanochat as possibl...

In-toto: A framework to secure the integrity of software supply chains

14 Erenay09 2026-07-18 05:30:38 UTC in-toto.io Full Share 0

in-toto is designed to ensure the integrity of a software product from initiation to end-user installation. It does so by making it transparent to the user what steps were performed, by whom and in what order. An open metadata standard that you can implement in your software’s supply chain.

Stenchill: 3D Printable Solder Paste Stencil Generator

45 radeeyate 2026-07-18 01:30:38 UTC stenchill.com GoogleT5 Share 8

Barbatronic is a french maker and robotics creator on twitch since 2019. he shares his first impressions of the stenchill, which was born in one of his streams. in this video, briant explains how to use squeegees to spread solder paste on pcbs - and how reflow works if you use stencils. for finer components (0402, fine-p

I started a “dirt notebook”

54 herbertl 2026-07-18 01:30:38 UTC pinewind.bearblog.dev GoogleT5 Share 47

Sam taylor has started a dedicated 'dirt notebook' to help keep her notes messy. she uses it to write down random quotes from podcasts, ideas for stories, memos on her life... with no elaborate structure - just jotted down next to each other if it's relevant to me at the time! she'll be sharing more of her tips and tricks with you in the next issue of the

Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark

330 droidjj 2026-07-17 14:30:38 UTC simonwillison.net Qwen Share 171

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter model, claims top performance in benchmarks, open weights by July 2026, and high pricing ($3/$15 per million tokens), outperforming peers in code tasks but costing 25 cents for a complex SVG generation test.

Vāgdhenu: A Sanskrit Chanting TTS System

154 subinalex 2026-07-17 23:30:38 UTC prathosh.in GoogleT5 Share 35

A free app for the complete rmad bhgavatam — all 12 skandhas. recitations from the shipped deployments are available for download here. search any verse in any script, traditional indices, works fully offline. free, no ads. code courtesy of iisb. indian institute of science, bengaluru. for more information, visit http://www.iist.edu/

An Update on Igalia's Layer Based SVG Engine in WebKit (Reducing Layer Overhead)

43 bkardell 2026-07-18 01:30:38 UTC blogs.igalia.com GoogleT5 Share 2

Lbse was bootstrapped upstream, patch after patch, for almost four years. a project of this size needs sustained funding to move forward, and for ages that funding was not there, says sam taylor, co-author of the technical design document for the libsvg engine - he's now working on it again with the help of dr.saul mccarthy

Battery packs: Let's talk about crates, baby

15 MeetingsBrowser 2026-07-18 04:30:38 UTC smallcultfollowing.com GoogleT5 Share 6

Battery packs are curated set of crates arranged around a common theme. they are meant to address one of the most common things new rust adopters hear - picking crate choices... eric saunders: letting anybody create 'battery packs' is in contrast to the previous ideas for an "extended standard library for rust," he says, and it is intended to tackle some of ru

Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search (2024)

107 lalitmaganti 2026-07-17 20:30:38 UTC curiouscoding.nl GoogleT5 Share 6

In this post, we will implement a static search tree (s+ tree) for high-throughput searching of sorted data. classically, one can then find the locations where the string occurs by binary searching the suffix array. but small allocations below 32mb still go on the program’s heap, causing them to not actually be hugepages. to save some space, i will not show any code for constructing s-trees - it

Show HN: IKEA Complexity Index

13 gregsadetsky 2026-07-18 04:30:38 UTC ikea.greg.technology Full Share 9

single-pdf products only

Lego building instructions through time

117 NaOH 2026-07-17 18:30:38 UTC lego.com Qwen Share 26

A security service blocked your action due to potential threats like specific phrases, SQL commands, or malformed data. Contact the site owner with your activity details and the Cloudflare Ray ID for resolution.

DrDroid (YC W23) Is Hiring

0 2026-07-18 01:30:38 UTC ycombinator.com Prefix Share

₹1.7M - ₹2.1M INR•0.01% - 0.10%•Bengaluru, KA, IN / Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN Expect all of this in less than 7 days from the date of assignment submission. DrDroid is building AI Agents for Platform & Infrastructure teams. We help engineering teams fix issues faster and reduce escalations during on-call—automating triage, debugging, and remediation. We’re also the team behind several ...

Shipping OpenStrike: A Counter-Strike-Shaped FPS on a 2004 Handheld

41 itvision 2026-07-18 02:30:38 UTC pocketjs.dev GoogleT5 Share 13

Openstrike is a single-player, counter-strike-shaped fps. it plays the classic goldsrc-era maps: bots, tracers, recoil, round flow, and an jsx hud. the base game grants itself no privileges an mod wouldn't have: change rules.ts and you have made an add-on. level loads are instant because nothing loads — the same be

Quintile – keyboard N×M grid tiling for macOS

4 stefanopineda 2026-07-18 06:30:38 UTC github.com/stefanopineda Prefix Share 1

Official brew install quintile (homebrew/cask) is blocked until the GitHub repo meets Homebrew notability (~225 stars / 90 forks / 90 watchers). We submitted PR #274471; maintainers asked to resubmit once thresholds are met. System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility → Quintile ON (if it already looks ON after an update: OFF then ON, then Check Again) brew reinstall --cask ...

Open Book Touch: open-source e-reader

106 surprisetalk 2026-07-17 21:30:38 UTC crowdsupply.com GoogleT5 Share 36

Open book touch is a small, beautiful, completely open source e-book reader. the device slips into your pocket and disappears until you unlock it to read. it runs readable firmware (on esp-idf/freertos) that you can understand and hack on. backers get their devices before anyone else can spin up clones. if you back the project, you'll get your device in early 2027. funding ends on august

The Isomorphic Labs Drug Design Engine unlocks a new frontier beyond AlphaFold

70 andsoitis 2026-07-17 23:30:38 UTC isomorphiclabs.com GoogleT5 Share 6

Isodde is a unified computational drug-design system. it has been used by over 3 million researchers in more than 190 countries. 'isolated structures alone were not sufficient for unlocking real-world drug discovery programs in silico,' says co-founder daniel koehler. "isaac is the world's leading provider of computationally-assisted drug design tools."

Painting the sides of railroad rails white to reduce derailment

90 zdw 2026-07-17 20:30:38 UTC up.com GoogleT5 Share 45

Union pacific began targeted deployment in high-heat areas last year. white paint applied to both sides of the rail lowers its surface temperature - by 20 degrees, doerr says a 20-degree drop is possible if it's not fighting the sun’s heat, he says. the idea is simple: by reflecting sunlight, the paint reduces the surface heat on the track – reducing the risk of rail shifting. union pacific has

The state of open source AI

429 rellem 2026-07-17 15:30:38 UTC stateofopensource.ai Qwen Share 304

Open-source AI models are gaining traction globally, offering cost-effective, customizable solutions across sectors like healthcare, finance, and agriculture, with growing adoption by developers and enterprises. They enable ownership, interoperability, and resilience against vendor lock-in, though challenges in operational tooling and trust persist.

Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse

493 gnabgib 2026-07-17 22:30:38 UTC localnewsmatters.org GoogleT5 Share 313

Nurses who spend more than 15 minutes on a call routinely face criticism from kaiser management. the california nurses association begins negotiating statewide contract with kaiser this month. two-thirds of surveyed nurses said their own assessments had at some point disagreed with an ai prediction. six out of 10 respondents said they don't trust their employer to prioritize patient safety ...

Show HN: A zoomable timeline of 4M Wikipedia events

89 lortex 2026-07-17 19:30:38 UTC app.everything.diena.co Full Share 31

Explore the timeline of everything, from the Big Bang to the present day, and beyond. Discover the history of the universe, life on Earth, and human civilization in a new and interactive way.

Moonstone: Modern, cross-platform Lua runtime and package manager written in Zig

53 ksymph 2026-07-18 01:30:38 UTC moonstone.sh Full Share 13

Moonstone — the modern, content-addressed package manager and deterministic environment orchestrator for Lua.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s first home

100 NaOH 2026-07-17 16:30:38 UTC architecturaldigest.com Qwen Share 51

Frank Lloyd Wright's Oak Park Home and Studio (1889-1909) in Illinois, where he designed Prairie-style masterpieces like the Robie House, is a preserved National Historic Landmark showcasing his early architectural evolution. Restored by the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust since 1974, the site offers guided tours of his living and workspaces, reflecting his innovative design philosophy.