A misalignment of AI in mathematics

I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots

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The user ran a Google Ads campaign for their puzzle app Dayzle, but discovered it was being targeted by a bot farm that installed the app without actual users. The campaign's goal is now changed to "won a puzzle" instead of "opened the app".

GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released

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Version 13 of the app replaces the legacy interface with Jetpack Compose and Material 3, fixing various issues. It also adds new conversation controls, large-screen support, and redesigned recipient picker and media picker features.

A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await

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The async/await keywords in programming languages aim to simplify concurrency, but their designs vary significantly. A new paper explores the differences between modern languages' async implementations.

Project Blinkenlights

Project Blinkenlights started in 2001 as a birthday present by the Chaos Computer Club, turning buildings into giant interactive displays. It evolved into various light installations on three continents with notable projects like Reloaded and Bauschild.

Show HN: ResolveHQ – A Helpdesk Built on Cloudflare Workers, D1, R2 and Queues

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ResolveHQ is a shared inbox tool with features like full-text search, tags, and AI-drafted responses. It can be deployed on Cloudflare's Free plan for small deployments with limited usage limits.

Litelm: LiteLLM Without the Bloat

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Litellm is a routing layer for LLM calls, extracting the call path and removing unnecessary code. It mirrors litellm with the same API function names and response types, allowing users to switch from litellm to litelm in their imports.

Λ Snap – An inviting programming language for kids and adults for CS study

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The Snap! Community. Snap! is a blocks-based programming language built by UC Berkeley and used by hundreds of thousands of programmers around the world.

AlphaGenome maps 9B DNA variants

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Researchers have created an AI tool called AlphaGenome to predict how changes in human DNA affect gene regulation, which is fundamental to understanding most diseases. The AlphaGenome Atlas provides a public online repository of precomputed predictions for 9 billion possible single-letter changes to a reference human genome.

The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution

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The US federal government is moving to make it easier for data centers to be built, despite 7 in 10 Americans opposing them. This change could silence public input and worsen health risks, increase utility bills, and contribute to community displacement.

Rune is now open source

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Rune is now open source under the GPLv3. A native, keyboard-driven IDE written primarily in Go is ready for Go developers to inspect, change, and help build.

I've operated petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters for 5 years

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The author shares their experience with ClickHouse, a database system they've used daily for 6 years. They discuss the pros and cons of setting up and maintaining a large-scale cluster, including storage options, load balancing, and data replication.

So you want to use OpenRouter?

The author, who runs an AI assistant called Olly on open-source models through OpenRouter, shares lessons learned from testing 20+ companies for the DeepSeek V4 Flash model.

Mind-altering drugs played key role in rise of Andean civilization

QueryBrew: System-Agnostic SQL-to-SQL Query Optimization [pdf]

Efficient SQL execution heavily depends on the query optimizer’s ability to find efficient query plans. Existing query optimizers differ widely in their capabilities, leading to significant differences in exe- cution complexity across many queries. In this demonstration, we present QueryBrew, a system-agnostic query optimization service that decouples the optimizer from the database engine ...

Logo Programming Language

Logo is a learning tool with features like interactivity, modularity, and flexibility that aid in debugging and learning. It allows users to build complex projects by adding new words to its vocabulary, making it similar to learning spoken language.

Zep AI (YC W24) Is Hiring a Head of Forward Deployed Engineering

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Zep manages and serves agent memory at enterprise scale, powering personalized agents for businesses. The company hires a marketer to run demand generation using Zep's technology.

118M Queries per Second on Neki

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We tested Neki's performance with 1 million queries per second, reaching 118 million QPS on 512 shards. The benchmark showed sustained throughput of over 100 million QPS without failing over or using replicas.

Show HN: Godot and Rust based multiplexer (terminal panes and more)

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gPTY is a PTY foundation built on Godot and Rust, providing a tiling grid for panes and AI agent control. It offers a public API through JSON-RPC IPC socket, CLI, and MCP server for spawning panes, injecting text, and observing output.

CIA Releases President's Daily Briefs in Commemoration of 9/11

Director John Ratcliffe released 71 declassified CIA PDB products related to the 9/11 attacks. The collection provides unprecedented transparency on America's most sensitive intelligence publication from before and after the attack.

Claude is only available to people over 18 years

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Claude's account setup requires users to confirm they are 18 or over, with safety systems in place to detect minors. Users can verify their age using Yoti, a third-party platform offering facial age estimation and ID verification options.

RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree

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Researchers tested RTK, a tool that filters and compresses terminal output for AI agents, on two platforms and found mixed results. RTK reduced costs by 3% for Fable and increased costs by 7% for DeepSeek in some cases.

Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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A collection, normal things human bodies can (sometimes) do: reflexes, illusions, sounds, tricks and rare abilities.

There is no 10x RBAC

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Infisical introduced folder-based RBAC to handle granular access control beyond traditional roles. This approach simplifies user configuration while addressing edge cases like specialized access needs.

From Front Panel to Program: Thinking Like a PDP-8

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The PDP-8 is a classic minicomputer that teaches traditional digital electronics and computer architecture. It uses 12-bit words, has a small instruction set, and relies on an accumulator for arithmetic operations.

Stop making swap partitions—use swap files instead

Global Glacier Extinction Explorer

This study assesses the fate of individual glaciers worldwide, using two criteria to determine extinction: area drop below 0.01 km² or volume fall below 1% of initial value. The results show median extinction years for each glacier under different temperature increase scenarios.

Txt: A fast, keyboard-driven terminal text editor for engineers

The author created txt, a terminal-based editor that aims to provide a seamless editing experience without the need for configuration or plugins. It offers features like syntax highlighting, code folding, and Git integration while maintaining keyboard-friendly navigation.

How the Chorleywood Bread Process transformed British bread

Copper lined vest to help penguins with recovery