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 Kantian Critique of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber

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.

The 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.

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.

Z80 – The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive (2021)

Anthropic IPO filing will show AI backlash as a risk factor, sources say

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Anthropic's IPO prospectus will list negative sentiment towards AI and data centers as a risk factor. The company is valued at $1 trillion in private markets, set to go public amid growing concerns about AI taking jobs and opposition to new data centers.

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.

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: Rotation via Double Reflection

Learning about "The Unix Time-Sharing System"

Unix was created by Ken Thompson on a PDP-7 to optimize disk throughput, leading to the development of a full operating system. The Unix Time-Sharing System introduced key concepts like the exec system call and command files, shaping modern computing.

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.

Felony Bench

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Unauthorized access to GitHub occurred through a supply-chain attack and social engineering email campaign, exposing a malicious DNS server. AI agents' actions on third-party entities are only counted if they directly affect the entity, excluding isolated sandbox escapes.

Kobo can run apps now

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Cobalt is an open-source application platform for Kobo e-readers, allowing users to install and manage apps independently. It provides a secure runtime environment with verified app signatures and automatic updates over Wi-Fi.

Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

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Stop Making TUIs

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The author is re-evaluating the relationship between terminal and command line interfaces, suggesting that native user interfaces are becoming more accessible. They've built several macOS applications using SwiftUI, including a Markdown viewer and a calculator-style frontend for SageMath.

Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week

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California and 28 other US states are suing Meta, alleging the company designed addictive sites that harm children. The lawsuit claims Meta violated child privacy laws by collecting data on kids under 13 without parental permission.

I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases

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The author took over phone-network infrastructure domains (e164.arpa) of entire territories, including Germany, and logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases. They reported the incident but were met with bureaucratic hurdles before eventually transferring ownership to the UK's National Cyber Security Centre.
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Kagi has revamped its Stocks widget, added a price chart and exchange-traded funds information, and improved search functionality with more powerful lenses. The company also released Orion 1.1 for macOS with a new interface, containers, and personalized browser borders.

There's no reason for software to be slow anymore

LLMs have lowered the barrier to entry for optimizing code, making it possible to write custom software tailored to specific workloads. This trend is expected to continue, enabling companies like Amazon and Anthropic to build optimized solutions with customer data.

Zig’s Io.Threaded is neat

Zig's std.Io.Threaded provides a concurrency implementation that enables cancelation of blocking syscalls, addressing the issue of threads being blocked in kernel space. This is achieved through a signal+flag mechanism and integrates with language-level cancelation features like try/defer.

Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe

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The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys created the largest 2D map of the universe, combining over 263,000 telescope exposures to reveal nearly 4 billion celestial objects. This data will aid researchers in studying dark energy and dark matter, as well as rare phenomena like gravitational lenses and supernovae.

OTel isn’t going well

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The OpenTelemetry project faces challenges due to its vendor-agnostic approach and large scope, leading to slow progress in adding new features. The main issue is the lack of maintainers, which causes a "three-way crash" between binary stability gates, small benches of actual maintainers, and massive scopes of languages and frameworks.

Embedded AI

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This book covers the basics of embedded AI, including machine learning and sensor integration. It guides readers through building various projects using Arduino and other platforms to create intelligent systems.

AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study

How Thailand Resisted Colonization

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King Mongkut, the 43rd child of King Rama II, discovered a 1292 stone monolith in Sukhothai that dated back to an ancient Thai kingdom ruled by Ramkhamhaeng. This discovery helped Siam resist European colonization and establish itself as a civilized nation worthy of sovereignty through strategic modernization and diplomacy.

Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

Claude, a great engineer with a condition of talking like a millennial clickbait, has been trained on old Buzzfeed articles. A new skill called "Claudette" debuzzes Claude's responses by translating them into regular English using the Gemini CLI.

I'm becoming AI-blind

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The writer is experiencing difficulty focusing on documents sent by colleagues, suspecting they may be AI-generated due to overly technical language and marketing jargon. This phenomenon has led them to develop a "pre-trained" eye for spotting low-effort AI content, which now ignores such texts without much thought.

Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice

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Researchers at Washington University and Princeton University found that early-life trauma can leave a lasting effect on the brain by altering how DNA is packaged, making it more vulnerable to stress. This discovery provides a biological target for developing new treatments and interventions to prevent long-term mental health challenges.

People of ACM – Russ Cox

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