‘Asia's cleanest village’ bans tourists on Sundays

31 gmays 2026-07-13 22:31:42 UTC bbc.com Qwen Share 6

Mawlynnong, India's cleanest village, bans tourists on Sundays to prioritize community life and worship, balancing tourism-driven growth with cultural preservation. The Sunday closure allows residents to maintain hygiene standards and traditions, reflecting a shift from daily tourism reliance to reclaiming authentic village life.

Claude is just Mr. Meeseeks

48 patrickwiseman 2026-07-13 22:31:42 UTC github.com/thephw Qwen Share 15

A Claude Code plugin plays Mr. Meeseeks voice lines for user prompts, using event-driven audio clips for task completion or approval needs, with OS-agnostic playback and silent background activity. Inspired by Rick and Morty, it includes non-commercial audio clips and allows customization, emphasizing focused, single-task sessions.

Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without ever opening Xcode

236 speckx 2026-07-13 18:31:42 UTC scottwillsey.com Qwen Share 111

Use Xcode's CLI tools (xcodebuild, notarytool) and XcodeGen to automate Mac/iOS app builds, avoiding Xcode GUI entirely via scripts like release.sh. LLMs like Claude Code streamline setup, handle certificate management, and generate workflows for signing, notarization, and deployment without manual GUI steps.

Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor

399 get-inscribe 2026-07-13 16:31:42 UTC get-inscribe.com Qwen Share 169

Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer surpasses Whisper models and its legacy API, achieving 3.5-4x lower word error rates and 3x faster processing on M2 Pro, making it the top on-device English transcription engine for current Apple devices. It supports fewer languages than Whisper but offers superior accuracy and speed for English, prompting Inscribe to prioritize it for compatible languages while ...

Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser

50 neogenix 2026-07-13 20:31:42 UTC github.com/marcelpanse Qwen Share 38

The tool automates converting YouTube videos to PDF tablature by sampling frames, using AI to detect and crop tab regions, deduplicating by bar numbers, and compiling into a PDF with the video title as metadata. It requires no configuration and outputs to out/<video-title>.pdf.

Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust, boots in QEMU

77 arto 2026-07-13 20:31:42 UTC github.com/poseidon-fan Qwen Share 61

linux-0.11-rs rewrites Linux 0.11 in Rust, booting on i386 QEMU with a Unix userland. It offers idiomatic Rust abstractions, processes, virtual memory, Minix filesystem, and tools for building bootable images.

Linux on the Sega 32X. Who needs hardware synchronization primitives anyway?

83 cakehonolulu 2026-07-13 18:31:42 UTC cakehonolulu.github.io Qwen Share 18

The author ported Linux to the Sega 32X to enhance board bringup skills, overcoming hardware limitations via SDK examples, FPGA flash carts, and custom synchronization solutions like Peterson's algorithm. Challenges included cross-compilation fixes, memory constraints, and implementing inter-CPU communication, resulting in a functional albeit slow Linux system with a console display.

The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed

201 ibobev 2026-07-13 15:31:42 UTC fabiensanglard.net Qwen Share 38

Silpheed's Mega-CD FMV optimized tile reuse, 16-color palettes, and tilemap compression to deliver cinematic video despite 90s hardware limits, with reverse-engineering uncovering 7.5fps compression and ASIC tricks for efficient playback.

The real prices of frontier models

145 ianberdin 2026-07-13 19:31:42 UTC playcode.io Qwen Share 72

AI model pricing per token is misleading due to varying tokenizers, which split text differently—TypeScript costs 1.73x more on Claude than GPT. Real costs depend on your content: test tokenizers directly, as silent tokenizer updates can raise bills without price changes.

Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended

216 Tiberium 2026-07-13 20:31:42 UTC whois.com Qwen Share 138

The domain t.me, registered with GoDaddy since 2010 and expiring in 2035, uses privacy protection via Domains By Proxy. It has multiple EPP status restrictions and Google's name servers, with DNSSEC unsigned.

SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineers (SF)

0 2026-07-13 21:31:42 UTC jobs.ashbyhq.com Qwen Share

Replacing outdated systems with an AI-native platform for defense/aerospace supply chains, this role involves building integrated systems with legacy environments. Senior Software Engineers need full-stack project experience, SQL proficiency, and problem-solving skills to drive autonomous operations.

Samsung Health app threatens data deletion if users opt out AI training

208 bundie 2026-07-13 20:31:42 UTC neow.in Qwen Share 56

Samsung requires users to consent to health data use for AI training to retain access, risking deletion otherwise, and introduces AI features like Vitals and Heart Health Score to analyze biometrics and fitness metrics.

The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes

43 Stratoscope 2026-07-13 19:31:42 UTC sfgate.com Full Share 52

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Climate.gov was destroyed. Open data saved it

370 benwerd 2026-07-13 20:31:42 UTC werd.io Qwen Share 146

Climate.us was created by former NOAA employees to preserve public climate data after Climate.gov's shutdown under Trump. The site relies on donations to maintain critical resources, underscoring the need for sustained government support for public infrastructure.

TFTP Honey Pot Results

42 speckx 2026-07-13 19:31:42 UTC bruceediger.com Qwen Share 18

A TFTP honey pot over 35 days captured mostly infosec company scans (e.g., Palo Alto, Censys) probing for TFTP servers via file requests like "a" or "pxelinux.0," revealing automated server identification efforts rather than malicious exploitation. Despite varied patterns, most traffic aimed to detect TFTP server presence, with limited CVE exploitation attempts observed.

Show HN: I implemented a neural network in SQL

43 alxmrs 2026-07-13 20:31:42 UTC github.com/xqlsystems Qwen Share 10

A 28x28 image model uses flattened indices, skips zero-weight rows, and computes pre-activation layers (z = W @ a + b) with gradient updates (weight/bias - lr * gradient). Trained parameters are stored as xarrays, preserving layer shapes and biases per output dimension.

Show HN: Jacquard, a programming language for AI-written, human-reviewed code

27 jbwinters 2026-07-13 20:31:42 UTC github.com/jbwinters Qwen Share 11

Jacquard is a FriendMachine research project for effect-tracking, probabilistic programming, and structural identity in a small language with a test framework (Warp). Version 0.1 includes a repair demo using Bayesian inference and is a non-production prototype with OCaml tools and C backend.

Collaboration Networks in Brazilian Computer Science

6 aliiiimaher 2026-07-13 22:31:42 UTC blog.ptidej.net Prefix Share 1

During my bachelor's, I picked up Albert-László Barabási's Network Science book for a research project. The premise is elegant: protein interactions, power grids, social media feeds, financial markets, and many other complex systems can be modeled as graphs, with objects as nodes and relationships as edges. Once you have a graph, you can measure things: who is central, what clusters ...

Ancient Roman Board Game

79 nobody9999 2026-07-13 17:31:42 UTC ludus-coriovalli.web.app Qwen Share 35

Ludus Coriovalli, an ancient Roman asymmetric board game featuring four Hounds blocking two Hares, was reconstructed via AI and wear analysis of a 2,000-year-old stone in the Netherlands. A 2025 Antiquity study confirmed its rules by linking play patterns to a cooperative blocking game design.

The Origins of Heikki's Garden of Flowers

25 panic 2026-07-13 19:31:42 UTC garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com Full Share 2

An archive of ~2500 pictorial typography and letterpress works spanning four centuries, images composed entirely of type ornaments, characters, and rule. The history of ASCII art before computers.

Show HN: Nobie – an Excel-compatible runtime for agents and humans

68 matthewgapp 2026-07-13 18:31:42 UTC nobie.com Full Share 33

Every formula, every pixel, calculated the same as Excel. Your files are always standard .xlsx — open them in Excel anytime, no surprises.

The 4-Bitter Lesson: Balancing Stability and Performance in NVFP4 RL

20 Areibman 2026-07-13 20:31:42 UTC humansand.ai Qwen Share 3

Researchers developed a stable NVFP4 quantization method for RL training, addressing throughput-stability tradeoffs via dequantized gradients and 4/6 scaling, enabling efficient large-scale model training while preserving accuracy. Open-sourced solutions include optimized implementations across frameworks like TransformerEngine and SGLang.

A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

328 momentmaker 2026-07-13 11:31:42 UTC jivx.com Full Share 64

Ride the Yamanote line through a voxel Tokyo synced to Japan's real clock, weather, and seasons. A lofi bed plays while N5 sentences are read aloud and drift by as subtitles — an ambient Japanese study room you just press play into. 🇺🇸🇯🇵🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇬🇧🇸🇪🇫🇷35 countries

MIT's New Method Flags AI Models Trained on CASM Without Generating It

8 sdoering 2026-07-13 22:31:42 UTC insideai.news Prefix Share 0

July 13, 2026, (Inside AI) — A new auditing method developed by MIT researchers can determine whether an AI model has been fine-tuned to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM) without ever producing an image, sidestepping the legal and ethical barriers that have stymied safety checks. Led by graduate student Vinith Suriyakumar and associate professors Ashia Wilson and Marzyeh Ghassemi, ...

Show HN: BillAI Bass, an AI-Powered Big Mouth Billy Bass Using Strands Agents

50 mtw14 2026-07-13 18:31:42 UTC github.com/morganwilliscloud GoogleT5 Share 24

A pi can be turned into an ai assistant. the fish can lip-sync to its own voice and flap its tail if it wants to emphasize itself. you talk to the pi, it talks back — head swiveling, mouth lip synchronizing, tail flapping for emphasis. this project was created with help from claude code and you can use any ai helper to help you get through. point the mic away from the speaker

Manifest Man

6 ekluger 2026-07-13 22:42:42 UTC thenewcritic.com Prefix Share 2

*THIS SATURDAY, July 18th, to celebrate our readers, fellow editors, and many esteemed contributors, The New Critic will party in New York on from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. If you’re not yet a paid subscriber, you can become one below. For $30 a year, paid subscribers get access to Postscript, our interview series, Contra, our criticism section, and exclusive New Critic parties like July 18th’s ...

Show HN: Sigwire – a live TUI switchboard for every signal on your Linux box

18 zasc 2026-07-13 20:31:42 UTC github.com/yeet-src Qwen Share 7

Sigwire uses kernel tracepoints and BPF to monitor real-time signal activity, showing sender/target, type, delivery status, and EINTR interruptions. It aggregates bursts, filters signals, and tracks handler execution and syscall interruptions system-wide.

Benchmarking 15 "E-Waste" GPUs with Modern Workloads

105 eso_logic 2026-07-13 14:31:42 UTC esologic.com Qwen Share 45

Decommissioned NVIDIA GPUs (K80, P100, V100) are benchmarked for homelab use, showing viable performance despite age and inefficiency. Docker-based testing reveals multi-GPU setups can deliver strong results for projects like streamarize, though power costs and outdated drivers remain challenges.

Robust Secret Storage in Networks

10 Anon84 2026-07-13 21:31:42 UTC arxiv.org Qwen Share 0

A framework for distributed secret storage optimizes robustness by balancing survivability and security via minimal information-carrying subgraphs (MICS). Semi-local methods and a spin Hamiltonian mapping enable efficient, scalable solutions without global network knowledge.

Show HN: OpenClawMachines – Extending OpenClaw to the Enterprise

24 mathaix 2026-07-13 18:31:42 UTC github.com/mathaix Qwen Share 21

OpenClaw Machines is an open-source platform using Firecracker microVMs for secure, hardware-isolated AI agent sandboxes on self-hosted infrastructure, with a control plane for orchestration and Cloudflare for secure routing. It offers cost efficiency via flat server costs, data sovereignty, and enterprise features like workspace integrations, all under Apache-2.0 licensing.