Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents

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Docker Sandboxes provide isolated environments for AI agents like Claude Code and Gemini CLI to run freely and safely without affecting the host system. They offer a balance between speed and safety through permissive modes and microVM isolation.

What Happened to HackerOne?

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HackerOne has undergone significant changes since its founding, shifting from a community-driven platform to a corporate entity focused on sales and AI-powered solutions, raising concerns among hackers about data usage and platform stagnation. The company has faced criticism for its handling of AI technology, transparency, and community engagement, with some hackers questioning the use of ...

Run Android ARM64 VR APKs on Apple Vision Pro

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Klepton-ld translates Android libraries to macOS compatible formats for Java-thin applications. It patches x18 usage and allows runtime patching of libraries on macOS.

The Philippines' big offshoring industry is growing despite AI

Show HN: Voice driven murder mystery, Interview AI suspects with your voice

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Step into the interrogation room. Interview AI suspects with your own voice, catch their lies, and accuse the killer to their face. Solve the murder at Blackwood Manor — if you can.

Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code

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Claude Code is making auto mode the default for new sessions on Pro, Max, and Team plans, which uses a classifier to block irreversible or destructive actions and balances user convenience with safety. Research suggests that auto mode is safer than manual review, catching 89% of dangerous commands and reducing the chance of harmful actions by more than twice.

How I use LLMs to learn complex topics

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User uses generative AI for various tasks but finds LLM explanations too simplistic. They created a game, ChipTycoon, to learn chip building by asking AI to build knowledge, review accuracy, and create a low-poly animation.

An Interesting Fourier Transform – 1/F Noise

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Power law functions in science and engineering have surprising properties, including the Fourier transform being a power law. This may be key to solving the 80-year mystery of 1/f noise, which has a power spectrum close to 1/f but an amplitude spectrum of 1/f1/2.

How We Pushed CDC into Postgres

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Snowflake's data mirroring feature provides highly resilient data replication from Postgres to Snowflake with low cost and low lag. It uses push-based change data capture and transactional boundaries to simplify replication and unify operational and analytical workloads.

Turn satellite imagery into a paper globe you fold yourself

Build a personalized folding paper globe: pick a shape, choose a map style, pin your places, and download a print-ready PDF. By MapScaping.

Show HN: I made alchemical-cosmological PCB badges

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These are alchemical-cosmological PCB hackathon badges I designed in a day for the Fallout hackathon in Shenzhen, China. It's 3 PCB's stacked on-top of each other using testpoints and it's powered by the 10 cent, CH32V003 MCU, with WS2812B neopixels. There's 2 different PCB's: the outer ring and the inner sun. The 2 outer rings are soldered onto the testpoints of the inner ...

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

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Two studies found that taxi and ambulance drivers have a lower risk of dying from Alzheimer's disease due to their continuous real-time navigation work. This association is linked to the hippocampus, a brain region that governs memory and spatial navigation, which is damaged early in Alzheimer's disease.

ATProto for Distributed Systems Engineers

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The AT Protocol is a decentralized backend system that allows applications to share state and interconnect, using a stream processing architecture with a shared data model and event logs to ensure scalability and reliability. The system is designed to be open and convenient, using standard practices for high-scale backends and peer-to-peer techniques to create a global network of applications ...

Nearest Pint

Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

The user has been working on various projects including an offline meeting document generator, a software house, a PlayStation bare-metal programming tutorial repo, a free and open source Chrome extension, and several other tools and platforms such as a music player, a calorie tracker, and a screen recording tool. They are also working on analytics for AI chat and search, a language with AI, ...

Slap ROM Patcher

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The user created a free and open-source rom patcher that supports 20 formats, is multiplatform, and has a CLI and web version, written in Haskell and Rust. The tool handles various edge cases and formats, including IPS, EBP, NINJA2, BPS, and PPF3, and provides detailed error messages and warnings for malformed patches.

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

Picophysics: Single file physics for games on platforms like N64, PSX, DC

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The tragedy of the commons, AI edition

New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it

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New Zealand's music scene is thriving economically, but lacks visibility due to the loss of local music journalists. A platform called Propel is working to change this by providing free coverage and tools to artists, venues, and promoters.

Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes

Gin is a spirit steeped with botanicals and redistilled, with a history dating back to 16th century Holland, and has evolved into various styles including London dry, Old Tom, and New American. Rum is a broad family of spirits distilled from sugarcane, with a history tied to colonial islands and America, and can be classified into various styles including white, gold, dark, and aged.

"The Persian MâR-Nâmeh Or, the Book for Taking Omens from Snakes" (1892)

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George Waters discussed the Marnameh, a 15th-century Zoroastrian text listing omens associated with snakes, at the Bombay Anthropological Society in 1892. The text's positive associations with snakes are unusual given Zoroastrian contempt for the animals, possibly influenced by pre-Zoroastrian Iranian perceptions.

Everything you do is being recorded

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A new device called Spectre I is being developed to prevent others from recording you, using a technology that resembles speech to jam AI-enabled recorders. However, experts warn that this may not be enough to defeat advanced AI algorithms, which could always find new ways to recover speech.

Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video]

The German Mittelstand

I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]

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This website offers lifetime access for donations and features various articles and posts on different topics. It includes a blog with entries on music, technology, and personal experiences.

The Ambition Project

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Jason Brennan's class assignments for his "Ambition" class include activities to help students step out of their comfort zones and learn about themselves. The assignments include singing karaoke in public, making demands of others' time, asking for favors, thanking those who helped them, setting boundaries, counting objects, and trading items to increase their value.

OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment

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OpenChamber is a powerful tool for developers and devops, offering a polished interface, browser access, and end-to-end encryption. It runs on the OpenCode SDK and provides features like agent orchestration, tunnel links, and QR code pairing.

Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

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Microsoft's Weather app consumes over 1 GB of RAM, making it inefficient on PCs with limited RAM, contradicting the company's goal of improving Windows 11's efficiency. The app's high memory usage is due to its non-native Windows implementation and multiple Chromium-based subprocesses.

How Golden Is Silence, Actually?

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Kate McLoughlin's book "Silence: A Literary History" explores the concept of silence in literature, covering a wide range of authors and periods, from ancient times to the present day. While the book is dense and sometimes meandering, it offers a rich and varied exploration of the many forms and functions of silence in literature, from the silences of trauma and protest to the silences of ...