Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

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Valve released CAD files for the Steam Controller and Puck, allowing modders to create custom accessories. The files are under a Creative Commons license for non-commercial use, with commercial entities needing to contact Valve directly.

Indian matchbox labels as a visual archive

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Inspired by the visual language, cultural history, and format of matchboxes, three contemporary Indian projects are reimagining this object in strikingly different ways.

Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)

This is a TI-83 Plus BASIC programming tutorial for beginners, covering topics such as DISP, OUTPUT, LBL/GOTO, END/PAUSE, MENU, INPUT/PROMPT, and more, with examples and exercises to practice programming skills. The tutorial also covers advanced topics like FOR, WHILE, IF, THEN, ELSE, OR, STRINGS, GETKEY, RAND, RANDINT, iPART, and fPART, as well as drawing functions like CLRDRAW, TEXT, LINE, ...

Appearing productive in the workplace

Generative AI is creating a new form of "slop" in workplaces, where workers rely on tools to produce work without understanding its quality. This leads to a loss of judgment and expertise, as humans become conduits for AI-generated output rather than evaluators of its quality.
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The US Library of Congress recommends SQLite, XML, JSON, and CSV as storage formats for datasets due to their high chance of survival and accessibility. These formats are chosen based on disclosure, adoption, transparency, external dependencies, patent impact, and technical protection mechanisms.

Agent-harness-kit scaffolding for multi-agent workflows (MCP, provider-agnostic)

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Auto-scaffold a multi-agent harness for any repo. SQLite state, MCP tools, health checks, and coordination rules — automatically.

GovernGPT (YC W24) Is Hiring Engineers to Build Thinking Systems in Montreal

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We're a YC-backed startup building AI agents to automate investment fundraising, seeking a backend engineer to own our metadata-enriched database. The role involves building autonomous systems, collaborating with ICs, and working with a team of A-player technologists.

Permacomputing Principles

Permacomputing promotes sustainable digital practices through 10 principles, including resilience, hardware care, and simplicity, to reduce environmental and socio-economic impact. It encourages users to observe, question, and reimagine technology to create a more just and regenerative digital culture.

ZAYA1-8B: An 8B Moe Model with 760M Active Params Matching DeepSeek-R1 on Math

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Zyphra's ZAYA1-8B model performs well on math benchmarks with less than 1 billion active parameters, trained on AMD hardware. It's a reasoning and math specialist, outperforming larger models on certain tasks with the help of a custom inference method called Markovian RSA.

Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense

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Donald Trump's oil market bets before announcements raise suspicions of insider trading. This undermines the oil futures market and contributes to a "predation economy" where success depends on connections rather than knowledge.

Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE

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The user set up a Debian 13 server for Netboot.xyz and used it to remotely boot a Debian installation on a network drive via iSCSI, avoiding the need to repartition their local NVMe drives. They configured the setup to use a custom menu, iSCSI targets, and ZFS volumes, and successfully installed Debian on a remote drive using the Proxmox host as the iSCSI target.

Photoshop's challenges with focus, pt. 2

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The user is extremely dissatisfied with the new "modern user interface" in Photoshop 2026, citing numerous usability issues and design problems that make the software feel unstable and deteriorate on its own. The user believes the changes are a result of carelessness and laziness, rather than a genuine effort to improve the software, and that the team failed to consider the needs of long-time users.

Chevrolet Performance eCrate package (400v/200hp)

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Chevrolet Performance's eCrate system is a 50-state emissions street legal kit for electric vehicle conversions. It includes a 66 kWh lithium-ion pack and 400-volt electric drive motor for most conventional combustion engine vehicles.

LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

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A LinkedIn user is suing Microsoft over GDPR Article 15, which requires companies to provide users with a copy of their personal data. The user wants a list of people who have viewed their profile, but LinkedIn only provides this to premium users.

Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like

The author discussed the convergence of vibe coding and agentic engineering, realizing that relying on AI tools for coding can blur the lines between responsible and irresponsible use. They value proven solutions over perfect documentation and tests.

SingleRide: Longest route on NYC Subway without visiting the same station twice

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Travel the longest route you can on the NYC Subway without visiting the same station twice. Transfer in time before the end of the line! New start station each day. By Logan Williams.

RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google

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User's blog traffic comes from various sources, with 25% from subscribers and the rest from search engines, link aggregators, and other online platforms. They track traffic from RSS, email, and other sources to understand where people find their blog.

ProgramBench: Can Language Models Rebuild Programs from Scratch?

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Researchers created ProgramBench to evaluate software engineering agents' ability to develop software holistically. Agents struggled to fully resolve tasks, favoring monolithic implementations that differ from human-written code.

The brave souls who bought a used, 340k-mile rental camper van

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A man bought a 2012 Ford Econoline camper van for $4,300 after it was liquidated by Escape Camper Van. He and his wife customized the van, which they named Crayola, and used it for adventures before eventually selling it.

RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust

Ready-to-use SDKs and WASM builds ship from the same Rust core: install from npm, Maven, pub.dev, or SPM—step-by-step in Get started. Server-side PNG and CLI are covered there too. Native or server — Ship the same layout on iOS, Android, Flutter, or Rust services (PNG/SVG-style rasterization) without bundling a browser. WASM in your host — Run the core in WebAssembly and draw with Canvas; ...

Show HN: Agent-skills-eval – Test whether Agent Skills improve outputs

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agent-skills-eval is a test framework for Agent Skills that runs skills against the same prompts twice, once with and once without the skill, to measure its impact. It produces a side-by-side report with a judge model's grades and can be used with various agents and models, including OpenAI, Together, and Anthropic.

Making LLM Training Faster with Unsloth and NVIDIA

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Unsloth optimized NVIDIA GPU training by reducing metadata-dependent work and overlapping copy/compute streams. This resulted in a 25% speedup in GPU training speeds.

Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA

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Google Cloud launched Google Cloud Fraud Defense, a platform to verify bots, humans, and AI agents, securing digital interactions and commerce. It measures and controls agentic activity, preventing evolving threats and securing customer journeys to accelerate business growth.

Show HN: Trust – Coding Rust like it's 1989

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TRUST is a retro Rust IDE inspired by classic DOS environments, allowing file saving with F2 or Ctrl+S. It's an independent nostalgia project with features like project creation and compiler output display.

From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth

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The user's company Val Town switched from Clerk to Better Auth for authentication due to reliability and rate limiting issues with Clerk, which caused site outages and complexity. Better Auth provided a more reliable and customizable solution, allowing Val Town to regain control over user sessions and data.

Pen pal programs endure in a digital age

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A 13-year-old girl in New Zealand and a girl in New Hampshire became pen pals in 1985 through International Youth Service, and after 40 years, they finally met in person. Despite the decline of traditional mail, pen pal programs are experiencing a resurgence, especially among younger generations who value tactile, slower forms of communication.

Show HN: Hallucinopedia

Hallucinopedia is an encyclopedia covering unusual topics with equal seriousness. It features articles on obscure events, scientific disciplines, and cultural phenomena.

Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader

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CrossPoint Reader is an open-source firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper display reader, offering EPUB reading with multi-language support. It's built using PlatformIO and targets the ESP32-C3 microcontroller, aiming to unlock the device's potential.

Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem

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Tilde provides a versioned filesystem for autonomous AI agents, ensuring safe use with real data and logging every action. It's built on lakeFS, a battle-tested data versioning layer for managing billions of objects.

The Old Guard: Confronting America's Gerontocratic Crisis

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The US is facing a gerontocratic crisis where aging politicians and voters are increasingly dominating the country's politics and economy, leading to a mismatch between the nation's demography and its leadership. This crisis is fueled by the Great Aging, a demographic transformation driven by scientific advances that prolonged life, resulting in a disproportionate number of older voters and ...