Flight disruption warning as Airbus requests modifications to 6k planes

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Airbus software issue may cause flight cancellations over the weekend due to necessary updates. Airlines are working to implement the fix, which could take hours or require replacing computers in older planes.

How good engineers write bad code at big companies

Big tech companies produce sloppy code due to high turnover rates and engineers working outside their area of expertise. Engineers are often forced to rush out work on unfamiliar systems, leading to mistakes and bad code.

Imgur Geo-Blocked the UK, So I Geo-Unblocked My Network

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User's internet provider blocked Imgur in the UK, causing issues with accessing old links. They created a solution using a VPN-connected container and Nginx to automatically route Imgur traffic through a non-UK exit point.

Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship

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The author was afraid to publish due to fear of being judged, but now feels free to write about their knowledge gaps and personal struggles. They want to help others learn and fill in their own gaps.

Molly: An Improved Signal App

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Molly is an improved Signal app for Android

So you wanna build a local RAG?

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Skald aims to provide a self-hostable, data-privacy-focused RAG setup using open-source tech, allowing users to substitute third-party services with local options. The setup uses Postgres, Sentence Transformers, and Docling, and benchmarks show good performance for point queries in English, but struggles with aggregating context from multiple documents.

28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset

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The Hacker News dataset contains 28.74 million postings with 384-dimensional vector embeddings for real-world vector search application design and performance analysis. It can be used with ClickHouse and Sentence Transformers for vector similarity search and Generative AI applications.

A first look at Django's new background tasks

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Django 6.0 introduces a built-in background tasks framework in django.tasks, allowing task creation and queuing, but execution must be managed by external infrastructure. A custom backend and worker can be created to send notifications to phones and other devices using ntfy.sh, demonstrating the framework's capabilities.

The original ABC language, Python's predecessor (1991)

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The ABC programming language sources exist in two versions, one in a tar ball and another in Luciano Ramalho's GitHub. The language is intended to work on 32-bit systems but may be upgraded for 64-bit systems.

Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker

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Real-time 3D visualization of aircraft flight paths. Watch live flights with stunning ribbon trails across the sky.

Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight

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Airbus has identified A320 Family aircraft that may be impacted by intense solar radiation corrupting flight control data. Airbus is working with aviation authorities to issue a precautionary software and/or hardware update to ensure fleet safety.

Effective harnesses for long-running agents

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Developers are asking AI agents to perform complex tasks across multiple context windows, but this remains an open problem. A two-fold solution was developed to enable the Claude Agent SDK to work effectively across many context windows.

How to Short the Bubbliest Firms

V a film released in 2015, based on a book by Michael Lewis, might remember the travails of investors who sought to short-sell American housing debt in the run-up to the collapse of Lehman Brothers. A growing number of investors now fear that America could be in for a jolt of a similar type, if not scale. And it could emerge, they think, from private markets and unlisted corners of the tech ...

I mathematically proved the best "Guess Who?" strategy [video]

Don't tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to (2016)

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A bug in the Perl program git-re-edit caused it to remove the TMPDIR environment variable, leading to a problem with Emacs and emacsclient communicating over a Unix-domain socket. The issue was eventually tracked down to a Linux capability feature that removes TMPDIR from the environment when a program is run with elevated privileges, which was enabled for the Perl program on the user's system.

C++ Web Server on my custom hobby OS

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You finished a working web server for your hobby OS, overcoming issues with the terminal buffer, E1000 network driver, and RST packets. You implemented a HTTP engine and web engine, allowing for routing and serving static files.

Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?

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Dutch universities are highly dependent on US tech companies like Microsoft, which poses risks to their autonomy and academic freedom. They are exploring alternatives like OpenDesk and Nextcloud to reduce their dependence on big tech.

True P2P Email on Top of Yggdrasil Network

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Tyr is a P2P email app that runs on Android devices, using the Yggdrasil network for transport and strong encryption. It provides email freedom by running a complete email server on the device, allowing users to send and receive encrypted emails.

Show HN: Pulse 2.0 – Live co-listening rooms where anyone can be a DJ

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Nothing in particular is wrong, it’s just the suspicion that forces are aligning quietly and there will be trouble • anticipating a delightful surprise and thinking you’re a fool to ignore what you know you like • the sensation of a lot of flesh w

Lobsters Interview

You discussed your background in computing, starting with Logo programming as a kid, and eventually discovering Common Lisp which became your primary language for personal projects. You shared your approach to software development, emphasizing the importance of a clear vocabulary, layered design, and composable functions, and how these principles have helped you maintain a large and ...

JSON Schema Demystified: Dialects, Vocabularies and Metaschemas

JSON Schema is a system for describing the structure and constraints of JSON data, using a set of keywords and vocabularies that can be combined to create custom validation rules. The system consists of schemas, metaschemas, dialects, and vocabularies, which work together to provide a flexible and extensible way to validate JSON data.

Moss: a Rust Linux-compatible kernel in 26,000 lines of code

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moss is a modern kernel with async/await model and binary compatibility with Linux userspace applications. It uses libkernel for architecture-agnostic logic and has a comprehensive test suite.

Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism

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The author argues that internet-driven surveillance has led to a culture of fear and punishment, pathologizing normal desires and eroding erotic and emotional privacy. To reclaim intimacy and desire, we must "kill the panopticon in our heads" by abandoning excessive surveillance and regaining personal and mental privacy.

Ask HN: What is the purpose of all these AI spam comments?

Users with names like Jeff_Davis and Richard_Smith are posting AI-generated summaries of links as comments. These comments are being flagged as dead due to showdead setting.

Anti-patterns while working with LLMs

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When working with LLMs, avoid sending redundant information and instead use context wisely, especially for computer-use. Ask LLMs to perform tasks they are good at, like coding, and be aware of their limitations, such as accuracy decline on obscure topics.

Tech Titans Amass Multimillion-Dollar War Chests to Fight AI Regulation

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Generalizing Printf in C

The user discusses generalizing printf functions into one function that constructs and outputs a formatted string, but notes that this is a harder problem due to the need to handle different output methods and the volatility of function pointers. A possible solution is to use a void pointer to keep track of state and implement vsnprintf, sprintf, and snprintf with a few lines of boilerplate code.

Atuin’s New Runbook Execution Engine

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Atuin Desktop's new runbook execution engine fixes flaky context and inconsistent execution, keeping state and behaving predictably. It lays the foundation for real-time collaboration and CLI-based execution, making runbooks repeatable, shareable, and reliable.

Meta hiding $27B in debt using advanced geometry

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Meta Platforms Inc. is issuing $27.3 billion in senior secured amortizing notes through Beignet Investor LLC, a joint venture with Blue Owl Capital. The notes are assigned a preliminary A+ rating due to strong contractual linkage to Meta and tight technical separation.

A Tale of Two AI Failures: Debugging a Simple Bug with LLMs

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During a recent internal Bitmovin hackathon focused on experimenting with AI tools, I decided to work on a project I had been wanting to explore, even though it was outside of our usual video focus. I gave myself a simple solo project that I thought would be a great way to test modern AI coding assistants: integrate an API that returns solar generation data. It turns out what should have been ...