The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection

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Regulators are pushing social media platforms to verify users' ages, but this creates a technical problem: collecting personal data to prove age. Platforms are using intrusive verification systems that often conflict with data-privacy laws.

Ladybird adopts Rust

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Ladybird is rewriting parts in Rust for better safety guarantees and ecosystem support. The first target was LibJS, Ladybird's JavaScript engine, which was translated from C++ in two weeks with zero regressions.

Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app

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PgDog is a PostgreSQL proxy that supports connection pooling, load balancing, and sharding, written in Rust for high performance and security. It can manage thousands of connections on commodity hardware and supports various deployment methods, including AWS RDS.

Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras

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Flock, a $7.5 billion surveillance startup, allows authorities to track people through its nationwide license plate readers. Communities are pushing back against Flock cameras, with vandalism reported in several states and cities rejecting its use.

'Viking' was a job description, not a matter of heredity: Ancient DNA study

Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel

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Brian Lucey, a professor at Trinity College Dublin, was removed as editor from 5 journals after 12 papers he co-authored were retracted due to a conflict of interest. Lucey was accused of running a citation cartel and selling papers through his consultancies, which may have been used to circulate ecosystem funds or consultancy payouts.

Show HN: Sowbot – open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS)

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The Sowbot Open AgBot ecosystem provides a reproducible, lightweight robotics platform for researchers and farmers to reduce labour and environmental impact. It offers a modular, open-hardware agricultural robot with a stable, repeatable environment for experiments and field-ready system.

The Lighthouse: How extreme isolation transforms the body and mind

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The Lighthouse film explores the effects of isolation on the mind, with characters experiencing hallucinations and losing grip on reality. Social isolation can be damaging to mental and physical health, leading to hallucinations and erratic behavior.

Show HN: Shibuya – A High-Performance WAF in Rust with eBPF and ML Engine

Shibuya WAF is an open-source, advanced web application firewall built with Rust, featuring 615+ OWASP rules, ML anomaly detection, and eBPF kernel blocking. It offers a 36-page dashboard and a built-in attack lab for testing.

Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer

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Companies are still using outdated 1950s plastics like EPS, causing environmental harm and commercial burdens. Mushroom Packaging, made from natural mycelium, offers a sustainable alternative that matches EPS's protective qualities and cost.

Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics

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MicroVision aims to produce a solid-state lidar sensor for under $200, a price drop that could make lidar affordable for advanced driver-assistance systems. This move could alter the calculus of autonomous-car design by lowering the cost of precise three-dimensional sensing.

Hadrius (YC W23) Is Hiring Designers Who Code

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Hadrius is hiring a Senior Product Designer to lead design and integrate it into the codebase, with a focus on user-centricity and quality. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of experience, strong visual and interaction design skills, and experience building design systems.

Generalized Sequential Probability Ratio Test for Families of Hypotheses [pdf]

We consider the problem of testing two separate families of hypotheses via a generalization of the sequential probability ratio test. another application is in educational testing. we show that the second term eg ( /b; /m > m )0 as b is sufficiently large. the results are based on the generalized sprt, which is asymptotically optimal if it ludes o(1) -

A simple web we own

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The user argues that the Web and Internet can be decentralized and controlled by individuals and cooperatives, rather than large corporations, by using simpler software and technologies like Markdown and static website generators. By leveraging the abundance of computers and resources, individuals can create their own private networks and connect to the public Internet, mirroring the concept ...

The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022)

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The user analyzed 2,671 images of popular websites worldwide using AI to identify web design patterns and found that Japan's web design is relatively unique in its concentration of lighter-colored and denser design. The user explored possible causes including writing systems, cultural differences, and technology, concluding that Japan's web design trajectory has been influenced by its unique ...

Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran

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0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix

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Wildfire Games releases 0 A.D. version 28, "Boiorix", a free open-source real-time strategy game of ancient warfare. The game features a new Germanic faction, improved text rendering, and various bug fixes.

Benchmarks for concurrent hash map implementations in Go

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The xsync library outperforms other implementations in nearly every scenario with best read, write, and iteration scaling, and lowest allocations among non-sharded designs. However, it has significant performance degradation at sizes ≥100K with writes and limited scalability due to a fixed 32 shards design.

ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030

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femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation

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Femtolisp is a fast, self-contained Scheme dialect with a bytecode compiler and VM, written in the language itself. It prioritizes elegance, simplicity, and reliability with a small core of features and proper tail recursion.

Emulating Goto in Scheme with Continuations

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Dijkstra criticized the GO TO statement for inviting program messes, but Scheme programmers can emulate its style using the call/cc procedure. A Scheme macro, goto, can be implemented using call/cc to provide a limited context for jumping around in a program.

India's VIP culture is out of control

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Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, emphasizes being a public servant rather than a powerful leader. He claims to work 24/7 for the people, embodying the "chief servant" role he declared in 2014.

What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust

The author reflects on Rust's adoption at scale, noting that it has crossed the chasm in some areas like data planes and low-level code, but still faces challenges in Safety Critical Software. To further its adoption, the author suggests that Rust needs to adapt to the needs of the early majority, including providing more practical and incremental improvements, and leveraging open-source ...

SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing (2025)

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Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026)

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Interactive AI timeline tracking 194+ Large Language Models from 2017 to 2026. Explore the history of ChatGPT, GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, LLaMA, Mistral, DeepSeek and every major LLM ever released.

A lithium-ion breakthrough that could boost range and lower costs

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Researchers at Columbia University developed a gel electrolyte to improve anode-free lithium-ion battery safety and longevity. The gel electrolyte prevents dendrite formation, allowing for greater energy density, longer lifetimes, and safer operation in EVs.

Decided to fly to the US to buy some hard drives

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I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard

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The user built a custom family dashboard system called Timeframe, combining calendar, weather, and smart home data, to create a healthy relationship with technology in their home. After several prototypes and iterations, they settled on a real-time e-paper display system using a Boox Mira Pro and Home Assistant as the primary data source.

What Is a Centipawn Advantage?

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A centipawn advantage is a measure of a chess engine's evaluation of a position, with 100 centipawns corresponding to a 50% chance of winning, and can be converted to Elo difference using a graph. The centipawn system models draws separate from wins and losses, unlike the Elo system, and is used to estimate probabilities of each outcome in a chess game.

Anthropic Education the AI Fluency Index

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People are developing skills to use AI well, but many users could improve their skills by staying in conversations, questioning polished outputs, and setting collaboration terms. A baseline measurement of AI fluency has been established, and future research aims to track its development over time.