CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler

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cuda-oxide is a Rust-to-CUDA compiler for safe GPU programming. It compiles Rust code to PTX and supports async GPU programming with Rust's type system and ownership model.

Can Someone Please Explain Whether Cloudflare Blackmailed Canonical?

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Canonical's website was attacked by a group using a paid service called Beamed, which rented a commercial denial-of-service product to stress test websites protected by Cloudflare. Cloudflare's revenue depends on verifying service reachability, and its hosting of Beamed's infrastructure created a merged threat and protection role, with Canonical eventually paying for relief.

Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)

Justin Frankel, founder of Nullsoft, was a rebellious programmer who created popular music tools like Winamp and Gnutella, often challenging the music industry and his corporate parent AOL. He quit AOL and Nullsoft after releasing a private file-sharing system WASTE, which made it difficult for authorities to track copyright infringement.

Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics

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Ratty is a GPU-rendered terminal emulator with a spinning rat cursor, multiple 3D presentation modes and support for inline 3D graphics. Inspired by TempleOS and built with Rust and Ratatui.

Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix mult from Gflop/s to Tflop/s

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The author optimizes a handwritten matrix multiplication code in Swift for training a Large Language Model (LLM) on Apple Silicon, exploring various techniques such as SIMD, AMX, and Metal to achieve performance comparable to C. The author concludes that while Swift can achieve similar performance to C, it requires more complex and unwieldy code, and that the fastest CPU instruction on Apple ...

Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message

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You created a Google account with an Italian SIM tied to your ID, then enabled 2FA and saved recovery codes. Google likely keeps a record of your used phone numbers but can't verify your account with a reassigned number.

AMÁLIA and the future of European Portuguese LLMs

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The Portuguese government invested 5.5 million euros in AMÁLIA, a large-scale LLM for European Portuguese. The model's architecture is based on EuroLLM, but with modifications to increase European Portuguese data.

Interfaze: A new model architecture built for high accuracy at scale

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Interfaze is a new model architecture that outperforms other models in OCR, vision, and structured output tasks. It offers a balance between performance and price, making it suitable for high-volume tasks.

Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring Founding Product Engineers

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Show HN: TikTok but for Scientific Papers

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Discover, read, and engage with academic papers. AI-powered summaries, quizzes, and a community of researchers — all in one beautiful app.

Venom and Hot Peppers Offer a Key to Killing Resistant Bacteria

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Researchers at UNAM developed three new antibiotics from scorpion venom and habanero peppers to combat tuberculosis and bacterial resistance. The antibiotics showed efficacy against tuberculosis and Staphylococcus aureus, with potential to treat other infections.

I'm going back to writing code by hand

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The user built a GPU-aware Kubernetes dashboard called k10s using vibe-coded sessions with Claude, but the project's architecture collapsed due to AI-generated code that lacked constraints and view isolation. The user learned that AI-assisted coding requires explicit architecture design, view isolation, and concurrency rules to prevent complexity and data races, and is rewriting k10s in Rust ...

Building a web server in aarch64 assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning

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The author built a web server called ymawky in AArch64 assembly for macOS to understand how a web server works and to strip away convenience layers. The project involved parsing HTTP requests, handling edge cases, and implementing security features such as request timeouts and path sanitization in a low-level and manual way.

Holding Community Space

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Creating a community space requires trusting people, being vulnerable, and giving them agency over the space. A community space thrives when it has a shared purpose, is transparent, and prioritizes belonging over profit.

The Boston Library Where You Still Can Borrow a Giant Puppet

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Catching up with a whimsical cellar collection of papier-mâché characters that endures under a rapidly changing downtown Beneath the Emmanuel Church on Newbury Street in Boston, tucked away in the basement, sits a library. A puppet library. It’s been there for decades, and despite innumerable changes in the nearby retail storefronts, this hidden artistic community treasure remains. Throughout ...

Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career

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Some software engineers think AI use makes them less intelligent by not learning tasks, but this is a bad argument. They should adapt to AI like construction workers do to heavy lifting, even if it's detrimental to their long-term cognitive abilities.

Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory

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You've successfully set up a local model on your 24GB Macbook Pro using LM Studio, which runs reasonably well with a 128K context window and enables thinking. This local model, Qwen 3.5 9B (Q4), is useful for research, planning, and basic tasks, but requires more guidance and interaction than SOTA models.

The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)

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The article discusses James Burke's 1978 TV series "Connections" which explores the evolution of science and technology. A memorable clip from the series shows Burke explaining how a thermos flask can store gases that ignite to launch a rocket.

Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler

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Google and Apple are expanding hardware-based attestation to lock out non-approved devices and OSes, presented as a security feature but actually anti-competitive.

Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer

Press the phone firmly against the guitar body and pluck a string. Each axis trace shows raw vibration; |a| is the combined magnitude. Pitch is detected from the strongest axis (alias-corrected to the actual string frequency).

An AI coding agent, used to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs

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The user warns that relying on AI coding agents for speed boosts without reducing maintenance costs can lead to permanent productivity loss and indenture. To avoid this, AI must decrease maintenance costs in proportion to the speed boost, or else it's a temporary gain for permanent loss.

Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan

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A highly targeted social engineering campaign is using Obsidian note-taking app to deliver a previously undocumented RAT named PHANTOMPULSE to finance and crypto professionals. The attack relies on tricking users into enabling community plugins, which then executes code to deploy the RAT with advanced capabilities, including Ethereum blockchain-based C2 server address resolution.

Local AI needs to be the norm

The trend of relying on cloud-hosted AI models for features in applications is creating fragile, invasive, and broken software that invades user privacy and depends on external vendors. Developers should instead use local AI models on-device to transform user-owned data, ensuring faster, private, and trustworthy results without the need for cloud dependencies.

Bliss (Photograph)

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Charles O'Rear took a photograph of a green rolling hill in January 1996 near the Napa-Sonoma county line, California. The photograph, titled Bliss, was used as the default wallpaper for Microsoft's Windows XP operating system and has been viewed by billions of people worldwide.

Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability

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The author of curl received a report from Mythos, an AI model, that found five potential security vulnerabilities, but after review, only one was confirmed. The author believes the hype around Mythos was primarily marketing and it didn't find issues significantly better than other AI tools.

Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI Next Industrial Revolution

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Gloria Caulfield told UCF graduates that AI is the next industrial revolution, prompting a crowd of boos and heckling. Caulfield's comments about AI sparked a negative reaction from the graduating class.

Should you leave red herrings about yourself online?

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Creating fake online trails to confuse data brokers and search aggregators is a weak default and can create more problems than it solves. Instead, focus on subtracting data, segmenting identity, and using pseudonyms, compartments, and decoys to protect your privacy and anonymity.

A.I. note takers are making lawyers nervous

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

The user is working on multiple projects including a tool to help write statements of work with AI, a puzzle game, a video cloud platform, and a search engine alternative called Uruky. They are also developing a tabletop simulator called Orpheus, a task manager, and vibecoded games, and are seeking feedback and help with their projects.

Guy Goma's Accidental BBC Interview Lives on After 20 Years

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