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Scrap

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The author moved to Pittsburgh in 2006 and struggled with winter, especially without working utilities. They encountered scrappers who would steal valuable metals from their property, including a cast-iron bathtub that mysteriously disappeared.

ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs

A user discovered a trend of companies naming themselves after numbers followed by "labs", possibly inspired by ElevenLabs, and found numerous examples online. The reason behind this naming scheme is unclear, but it may be due to independent innovation or a desire to associate with the AI industry.

A Friendly Introduction to Racket

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Lisp is an old programming language that predates many modern languages, offering a unique structure and the ability to write programs within programs. It has evolved over time into various dialects like Scheme, Racket, and Clojure, each with its own strengths and applications.

Chinese robot runs 100M sprint quicker than Usain Bolt's world record

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Lightning, a humanoid robot developed by Honor, set multiple world records in the 100m dash and half marathon at China's World Humanoid Robot Games. The robot achieved speeds of up to 14.5 meters per second and surpassed human world records in various events.

Hister – A private, full content search index that you control

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Hister creates a private search index of visited pages and files, allowing users to control what's indexed. The tool supports various sources, including browser extensions, file watches, and crawlers.

How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt

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RF Cafe

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The author discusses various electronics topics, including amplitude modulation, radio tuners, antennas, and radar technology. They also touch on the history of printed circuit boards and transistors.

typ.ing

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typ.ing is an awesome typing trainer, designed to help you get faster and more accurate when typing with an external keyboard. It looks like you're using a mobile device - typ.ing will work much better if you plug a physical keyboard in (or just use a computer).

Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

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Munder Difflin is a tool that wraps your existing agent CLI and runs on your laptop, capturing workflow and context to enable clones to work around the clock. It provides end-to-end encrypted clone-to-clone messaging and a shared org knowledge base, with optional cloud-based sandbox VMs for added security.

ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data

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The atproto alpha update introduces a new protocol primitive called "spaces" that allow for private data storage while maintaining the advantages of atproto. Spaces enable gated access control, flexible use cases, and real-time sync capabilities.

Guess which of these LLM outputs is watermarked

An informal blind quiz about spotting SynthID-watermarked language-model responses.

Z80 – The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive (2021)

Why it might be time to rethink the human family tree

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Scientists are reevaluating the human family tree due to outdated classification systems. A new paper suggests merging Australopithecus and Paranthropus into a single Homo genus to better reflect real relationships.

New MCP Roadmap

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The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has released an updated roadmap covering the next specification release and beyond, focusing on five priority areas. The roadmap aims to improve MCP's primitives for modern agentic workloads and enhance its scalability.

ProgramBench Vetted: Reverse Engineering from a Runnable Binary

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ProgramBench Vetted is a set of 50 tasks designed to test an agent's ability to rebuild a program from a runnable binary, with improvements to task design and validation. The benchmark aims to measure the agent's capability in long-context coordination and its ability to implement specified behavior without relying on shortcuts or exploiting defects in the evaluation environment.

Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

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US tariffs on Canadian goods came into effect after trade talks broke down, with Canada imposing reciprocal tariffs. The move is seen as a significant escalation in tensions between the two countries over trade and economic issues.

Ameliorate

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Ameliorate helps break down complex problems into clear pieces, allowing multiple people to inspect assumptions and integrate knowledge. It creates a concrete visual of causes and effects, making it easier to discuss and decide on solutions.

Mythic's analog compute-in-memory architecture

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Mythic's analog compute-in-memory architecture is 100x more efficient than traditional chips, reducing energy waste by storing AI model weights in flash memory and computing directly. Validated by Honda and the US Department of Defense, Mythic's technology is operational and available today.

MiniageOS: "Dumbphone" Version of LineageOS

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A stripped-down version of LineageOS for a Google Pixel maintains camera quality and touchscreen functionality while removing unnecessary features. The modified OS auto-downloads and installs apps as needed, preserving existing data and excluding carrier software to increase battery life.

One night in Uzbekistan: Why was this one data point so influential?

Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code

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Anthropic is testing a server-side update to reduce effort scale, excluding older versions and Opus 5. The test group may experience changes in how "high" and "low" are perceived as effort levels.

The Creation of Abulafia

The author discusses Umberto Eco's novel "Foucault's Pendulum" and how it explores the concept of conspiracy theories, while also reflecting on the limitations of artificial intelligence models in generating coherent narratives. The author notes that these models can create convincing but ultimately meaningless text.

Show HN: Rotation via Double Reflection

Belgian car salesman becomes prince after DNA test proves royal parentage

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A 26-year-old Belgian man, Clément Vandenkerckhove, has been acknowledged as the son of Prince Laurent and will receive equal inheritance rights to his half-siblings. He was legally recognized at a ceremony six months ago after a DNA test confirmed his link to the royal family.

Show HN: Anonymous age verification with passkey-powered encryption

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One provides a frictionless way to verify identities without collecting personal data, using encrypted proof stored with the user. It powers reusable identity presentation for various applications, including KYC and private AI chat transcripts.

What's in a PowerPoint File?

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A PowerPoint presentation is a collection of slides with various elements like text boxes, shapes, pictures, tables, and charts. It stores all content in a file that can be broken down into smaller files for organization.

Show HN: terminal-code – VS Code inside the terminal

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terminal-code combines code-server (VS Code in the browser) and terminal-browser (a browser in the terminal) to bring VS Code to the terminal. You should look into these projects for more details!

Show HN: Public Muscriptor Instance (latest, most powerful Audio-to-MIDI model)

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Drop an audio file or paste a YouTube link. It is decoded in the tab, drawn as a waveform, and cropped to ten seconds. That clip goes to a transcriber, which sends back the notes — and the piano roll fills in while the model is still decoding, plays on a sampled Steinway grand with a working damper pedal, engraves the transcription as sheet music, and crossfades against the original recording.

Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM

The author has developed Rust Glancer, an alternative LSP implementation that focuses on low memory usage. It allows immediate indexing after restart and is suitable for older computers with limited RAM.