Local LLM App by Ente

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Ente Labs has released Ensu, an offline LLM app that runs on your device with full privacy and zero cost. The app is currently in its early stages and the developers are seeking feedback to determine its future direction and features.

Meta told to pay $375M for misleading users over child safety

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A New Mexico court ordered Meta to pay $375m for misleading users over child safety on its platforms. Meta plans to appeal, despite a jury finding it liable for exposing children to explicit material and predators.

My Astrophotography in the Movie Project Hail Mary

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Rod Prazeres is an award-winning astrophotographer from Brisbane, Australia, capturing the night sky's beauty and complexity. His images showcase stunning nebulae, star clusters, and supernova remnants, blending science and art.

TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression

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Researchers developed TurboQuant, a vector quantization algorithm that reduces memory usage without sacrificing AI model performance. It achieves high compression with zero accuracy loss, ideal for key-value cache compression and vector search.

VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS

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Vitruvian OS is a free, open-source operating system built on Linux with a user-friendly interface and KISS principles. It prioritizes user experience and data privacy, with a strong focus on community feedback and customization.

Goodbye to Sora

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Flighty Airports

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Search any airport for real-time delays, weather, arrivals, departures, and performance insights powered by Flighty.

Why I forked httpx

A contributor to the popular Python HTTP client HTTPX is frustrated with the lack of releases and maintenance, leading to a decision to create a stable fork of the project. The fork aims to maintain a stable path for users, with a motto of "Move a little faster and not break things," and has a potential co-maintainer to share the load.

Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised

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A malicious litellm package on PyPI contains a .pth file that steals credentials. Users who installed it via pip should rotate all credentials.

Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller

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Video.js v10.0.0 beta is a ground-up rewrite of the video player, modernizing it for today's web development and setting the foundation for AI-augmented features. It's 88% smaller than the previous version and features a new engine project called SPF for smaller streaming engines.

Building a coding agent in Swift from scratch

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Rebuilding Claude Code's CLI from scratch in Swift to test the idea that coding agents benefit from a small set of excellent tools and tight loop design. The project focuses on core mechanics first, then adds features like context, memory management, and persistence to make the agent usable.

In Edison’s Revenge, Data Centers Are Transitioning From AC to DC

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Data centers are upgrading to DC power configurations to reduce energy losses and improve efficiency as AI demands increase. Companies like Delta, Vertiv, and Eaton are developing 800 V DC systems to power AI infrastructure.

VNDB founder Yorhel has died

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Apple Business

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Apple Business is a new platform that offers all-in-one services for companies to manage devices, reach customers, and get support. It features built-in mobile device management, email, calendar, and directory services, and will be available in over 200 countries starting April 14.

I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job

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You worked in GTM consulting for traditional industries, noticed decreased interest in ride-alongs and research calls, and joined a home services company as a tech. You found the industry challenging due to poor recruitment and inefficient processes.

Microbenchmarking Chipsets for Giggles

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The author tested GPU to host memory access latency on various platforms, finding that going through a chipset adds hundreds of nanoseconds of latency.

Arm AGI CPU

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Arm has announced the Arm AGI CPU, a production-ready silicon designed for AI infrastructure. It delivers high performance and efficiency for agentic AI workloads at massive scale.

Looking at Unity made me understand the point of C++ coroutines

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The author discusses the lack of coroutine adoption in C++ due to their low-level nature and the need for complex code to integrate them, as well as the lack of concrete examples. The author provides an example of using coroutines to create a simple effect system in a game, which is more interesting and useful than the typical Fibonacci generator example.

Open source isn't a tip jar – it's time to charge for access

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The author argues that relying on charity donations from large companies to fund open source projects is unsustainable and unfair to maintainers who often earn little to nothing. They propose creating an organization to ensure top programmers and maintainers receive a share of the tech industry's profits.

I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced

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Experts say it's difficult to prove you're not a deepfake, even for those who know you well. A codeword between trusted individuals can be a simple way to verify identities.

The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV

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You can run a DNS server (2025)

The user recommends using PowerDNS for DNS records and suggests setting up a subdomain with its own NS record for redundancy. This allows for separate DNS servers and easier management of records.

Algorithm Visualizer

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Algorithm Visualizer is an interactive platform that visualizes code in various programming languages to help understand algorithmic behavior. It consists of multiple repositories including a web app, server, and language-specific visualization libraries.

Show HN: Email.md – Markdown to responsive, email-safe HTML

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Turn markdown into responsive, email-safe HTML that renders perfectly across every client.

Show HN: DuckDB community extension for prefiltered HNSW using ACORN-1

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This extension adds HNSW indexing to DuckDB for vector similarity search. It supports filtered queries and uses ACORN-1 algorithm for high recall.

Fun with CSF firmware (RK3588 GPU firmware)

The Mali-G610 GPU requires firmware (mali_csffw.bin) to be present in a firmware directory for use, which runs on a Cortex-M7 microcontroller inside the GPU. The MCU communicates with the rest of the system through interrupts, doorbells, and shared memory regions, allowing for tasks such as power management and command stream processing.
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SentrySearch indexes dashcam videos using Google's Gemini Embedding model and stores video embeddings in a local database. It allows sub-second semantic search over hours of footage by directly comparing text queries to video embeddings.

Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains

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Wine 11 brings significant improvements to Linux gaming with NTSYNC, a new kernel driver that corrects synchronization issues, and WoW64 architecture overhaul, allowing 32-bit applications to run on 64-bit systems without additional libraries.

Hypothesis, Antithesis, synthesis

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Hegel is a new family of property-based testing libraries that brings Hypothesis quality to every language, making it easy to integrate with Antithesis for increased bug-finding power. Hegel is still in early days but has the potential to be a huge part of the future of software development, especially with AI-based workflows.

A Compiler Writing Journey

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User is documenting a self-compiling compiler for a C subset, now working on a new language called alic from scratch, using SubC compiler code as reference. User's code has a different license than SubC.