Building a Rust-style static analyzer for C++ with AI

The user, a systems researcher with 15 years of experience in C++, is troubled by memory failures and wishes for a mechanical way to eliminate them, but is concerned that rewriting existing codebases in Rust is impractical. The user successfully created a C++ static analyzer using AI coding assistant Claude, which provides Rust-style memory safety features, and is now using it to refactor ...

Lessons from 14 years at Google

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To succeed in engineering, focus on understanding user problems, navigating people and politics, and creating clarity in your work. Prioritize learning, humility, and relationships over technical expertise and personal gain.

Logos Language Guide: Compile English to Rust

LOGOS is a programming language that lets you write code in natural English. It unifies concepts of word, reason, and principle to create efficient, executable programs.

Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS

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taws is a terminal UI for AWS resources, providing easier navigation and management. It requires IAM permissions and can be launched with a default or specific profile and region.

During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website

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The user recalls struggling with slow-loading websites after Hurricane Helene, highlighting the need for faster mobile web performance, especially during emergencies. They advocate for simpler, more accessible websites with better information architecture and content, citing the success of a simple email newsletter during the disaster.

A spider web unlike any seen before (2025)

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Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data?

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The user observed a biased linear least-squares fit in their data and found that the eigenvector with the maximum corresponding eigenvalue (PCA) gave a more expected result. This is due to the difference between ordinary least squares (OLS) and total least squares (TLS), where OLS treats the dependent and independent variables asymmetrically.

The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café

The author sat alone in a café without distractions, enjoying time with their dog and observing people's lives. This experience showed them the beauty of slowing down and the futility of trying to control others' thoughts and feelings.

Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021)

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Akiman discovered a typo in Street Fighter II's subtitle "World Warrier" just before shipping. He fixed it by layering sprites and using a "pencil-tile" to create a line that made the typo look like an "o".

Baffling purple honey found only in North Carolina

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In North Carolina's Sandhills region, a rare violet-hued honey is produced by bees under unknown conditions. Theories abound, but experts like Paige Burns and Don Dees can't explain what causes the honey's unique color.

I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019)

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The author, a contractor, was hired by a large company to build a simple HTML page but ended up spending 7 weeks on the project due to the company's slow responses and inefficient processes, resulting in a total payment of $21,000. The author's experience highlights the challenges of working with large companies and the importance of setting clear expectations and boundaries to avoid ...

ICE Is Using Facial-Recognition Technology to Quickly Arrest People

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Monads in C# (Part 2): Result

In Part 1 (List), we contrasted Map (Select) vs Bind (SelectMany) on List<T>, then built Maybe<T>. If you read Part 1, you already know the shape: Bind/SelectMany chains steps, and Maybe decides whether the next step runs. The Result monad1 lets you compose computations that can fail. You return Ok(value) or Fail(error), then compose with Bind to propagate the first failure (later ...

Claude Code On-the-Go

User runs 6 Claude Code agents in parallel from their phone using Termius and a cloud VM, enabling async development from anywhere. The setup includes Tailscale, mosh, and fail2ban for secure and seamless remote access and development.

Web development is fun again

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The author reminisces about simpler web development days with PHP 4, jQuery, and Dreamweaver, but now uses AI to boost productivity and manage complexity. AI has given the author confidence to tackle entire projects again, freeing time for experimentation and quality-of-life improvements.

Linear Address Spaces: Unsafe at any speed (2022)

The website is temporarily blocked due to security reasons after a suspicious action was detected. Please email the site owner with the Cloudflare Ray ID and details of the action that triggered the block.

Show HN: An interactive guide to how browsers work

A guide to how browsers work is available, using interactive examples to help build an intuition of the technical details, omitting some critical details like HTTP protocol versions and DNS nuances. The guide explains how browsers transform URLs into HTTP requests, establish TCP connections, parse HTML, and render web pages using the DOM, CSS, and rendering pipeline.

Six Harmless Bugs Lead to Remote Code Execution

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The user conducted a security assessment of the LogPoint SIEM/SOAR platform and discovered a pre-authenticated remote code execution vulnerability by chaining six small bugs, including exposed internal routes, auth primitives, and a hard-coded signing secret. The vulnerability was exploited by leveraging the platform's architecture, which includes a legacy Python backend and modern Java ...

California residents can now request all data brokers delete personal info

You can request deletion of personal info from data brokers through DROP, a simple process governed by CalPrivacy's Terms of Use. By using DROP, you agree to provide true info and consent to data brokers processing your request.

Eurostar AI vulnerability: When a chatbot goes off the rails

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A security researcher found four issues in Eurostar's AI chatbot, including guardrail bypass and HTML injection, and disclosed them through the company's vulnerability disclosure programme. Despite initial silence, Eurostar eventually fixed some of the issues, but the researcher notes that the fixes are not exotic and should be applied consistently across the whole lifecycle of AI features.

Millennium Challenge: A corrupted military exercise and its legacy (2015)

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The Millennium Challenge 2002 (MC '02) war game was scripted to ensure a US victory, but the red team led by Paul Van Riper surprised everyone by sinking 19 US ships. The exercise's shortcomings and unrealistic scenarios were later acknowledged, but senior Pentagon officials were unwilling to hear the bad news.

Ripple, a puzzle game about 2nd and 3rd order effects

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Test your knowledge of history's domino effects. Predict what happened next in famous historical events. New puzzle every day!

NeXTSTEP on Pa-RISC

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NeXTSTEP is a Unix operating system developed by NeXT in the 1980s and 90s with a Mach microkernel and advanced GUI. It supported various hardware platforms including HP 9000 PA-RISC workstations and Intel x86 PCs.

The Showa Hundred Year Problem

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The Showa Hundred Year Problem was a feared issue in Japan due to the long duration of the Showa imperial era, which overlapped with the rise of personal computing and could cause date-related problems. Fortunately, the January 1, 2025, date change passed without issue, and it appears that any potential problems were mitigated by the era's end in 1989 and the replacement of old systems.

Agentic Patterns

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This catalogue lists repeatable AI patterns for production use. It bridges the gap between toy demos and real products, helping to ship smarter, faster agents.

Anti-aging injection regrows knee cartilage and prevents arthritis

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Researchers at Stanford Medicine found a treatment that blocks a protein linked to aging, restoring cartilage in aging and injured joints by reprogramming existing cells. The treatment, which targets a protein called 15-PGDH, has shown promise in restoring cartilage in mice and human knee tissue, potentially eliminating the need for knee or hip replacement surgery.

Bison return to Illinois' Kane County after 200 years

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How to translate a ROM: The mysteries of the game cartridge [video]

The great shift of English prose

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The article challenges the idea that shorter sentences are better and argues that English prose has evolved to be more logical and syntactical.