Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font

Iosevka is an open-source sans-serif and monospace typeface designed for coding, terminals, and technical documents. It offers two widths: Normal and Extended, with the latter providing more breathing space between characters.

Submarine cable resilience

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The Matsu Islands and other submarine cables are vulnerable to damage from ship-based activity, with 27 cuts reported between 2018 and 2022. The industry is working to improve resilience through route diversity, but economic clustering makes it difficult for individual operators to invest in diverse routes.

Better HTTP/1 connection reuse in Go 1.27

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The author discusses the performance difference between Go 1.26 and 1.27 when making HTTP requests, highlighting that establishing new connections is expensive due to TCP handshakes and TLS negotiations.

Amsterdam police confiscates server left-wing ISP A/I at American request

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De Amsterdamse politie heeft een server van de Italiaanse internetdienstverlener Autistici/Inventati in beslag genomen op basis van een Amerikaans rechtshulpverzoek. De organisatie, die gratis webhosting en e-maildiensten aanbood aan 20.000 organisaties wereldwijd, is door de Amerikaanse regering als terroristisch bestempeld.

Pg_vectorsearch: An index that is faster than pgvector's IVFFlat and HNSW

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PRISM is a PostgreSQL-native index access method that offers faster querying and index building compared to pgvector's IVFFlat and HNSW. It can be used with native types or existing pgvector tables, allowing seamless integration with PostgreSQL.

ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program

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ICE is launching a $100 million domestic surveillance program, ERO ONE, to analyze classified and unclassified information on individuals and their connections. The program aims to expand ICE's ability to reach into private lives and identify "threats" without specifying who or what it's targeting.

Show HN: Graphicle, a Rust port of Graphify with memory for coding agents

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Graphicle is a tool that creates a code graph, indexes repository files, and connects coding agents to provide cited excerpts from both the exact files and lines. It runs on your machine without an API key or account.

Running Windows desktop tests from Linux with disposable VMs

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QA Wolf has developed a way to test Windows desktop apps by using disposable virtual machines, which are similar to mobile testing infrastructure and can be claimed, run, and released quickly. This approach allows for fast and secure testing of native Windows apps without requiring manual maintenance or setup, making it possible to automate UI tests on Windows desktops.

Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet

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The author is launching a campaign for new members of Not-Ship, a newsletter about online shopping and consumer protection. The author will send three extra emails to free subscribers.

LittleJS is 2D and 3D now

LittleJS has received a major update with new 3D rendering, level editors, particle effects, and AI tools. The engine now supports both 2D and 3D game development with a small, fast API.

Has AI Tells

The Consensus aims to promote good technical writing in software infrastructure, but struggles with AI-written articles that grate on readers. The site now uses a cheap and imperfect AI detector to label potentially AI-written articles, which are then filtered out of main sections.

The Gold-Bug: Edgar Allan Poe's story that taught me about cryptography (2024)

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The author shares their experience with Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Gold-Bug" which introduced them to cryptography, a science of secret messages. The story follows a protagonist who cracks a pirate's treasure code using logical reasoning and frequency analysis.

Linus Torvalds's first LLM-assisted patch series

Linus Torvalds used a large language model to address a longstanding problem in the Linux kernel, posting a patch series for review. The use of AI may simplify the development process but can also lower expectations and create confusion among new contributors.

Sound (2022)

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This article explains the nature of sound, from its creation and propagation through air to its perception by humans. It uses visualizations and simulations to illustrate how pressure waves are generated by vibrating objects, such as a plate or a string, and how they interact with their surroundings.

Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts

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Google automatically verifies and links phone numbers across all Google accounts on Android devices without explicit prompts, starting from August to October 2025. Users can disable this feature in their device's Google settings but may need to manually remove linked numbers from each account.

The Origin Story of Kid Pix

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The author, a photographer, discovered his passion for programming after being introduced to computers in the 1970s and developed Kid Pix, a user-friendly painting program.

ASML's strong orders ease fears AI spending boom is running out of steam

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I Deleted 168,000 Lines of Comments. My AI Agent Didn't Notice

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Almost a third of our source code was comments. I deleted all of them and asked an AI agent to build the same features on both versions of the codebase, three times each. The code it wrote was just as good with or without comments. If you use agents on a real codebase and wonder whether comments help them, slow them down, or don’t matter, here’s what I found. In this video (around 23:07), ...

US report details extent of 'devastating' dating-app scams

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Congress investigates romance scams on dating apps, citing $1.3bn annual losses. Match Group faces criticism for outdated AI and slow response to scammers.

Why do LLM pelicans look like this?

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Researchers created a new benchmark to measure AI model creativity in UI design, finding that even top models fall short of human designers. The best model scored 65.5 out of 92.3 for originality and creative range in UI tasks.

Show HN: A guided 3D Leonardo da Vinci museum, built in code

The label names what you see. The drawer explains the evidence. The record gives the full sources, measurements and licences. Certainty words distinguish documented, reconstructed, conjectural and not known. The museum labels the reproduction, not the painting.

Scientists Are Teaching Birds to Sing Lost Songs

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Researchers created a computer-generated version of a 1960s song by Buenos Aires' rufous-collared sparrows, which local birds began to imitate. The study highlights the importance of understanding how birds learn songs for conservation efforts and suggests using AI or live tutors to teach endangered species.

TV4 postpones show after AI agent erases edited material

A TV4 programme's edited season was deleted, but the network denies an AI agent caused it. The actual cause is a technical failure that will delay the premiere until 2027.

900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692 (With Complete High-Res Scan)

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A 900-page book on color mixing created by A. Boogert in 1692 predates modern color theory and features over 700 pages of color swatches, but its practical application is unclear. The book, meant to educate watercolorists, remains a rare and unique insight into the workshop of 17th-century painters.

The Genealogy of Eliza

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The ELIZAGen project analyzes the code of various ELIZA implementations to reconstruct their phylogeny, treating them as biological specimens. The current corpus contains 27 specimens spanning six decades and eight languages, described by 13 binary features that are analyzed with PAUP* software to infer trees.

Americans' Social Activity Has Steeply Declined in the Past 30 Years

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US adults are spending more time alone and less time with friends, with a 25% decline in close friendships over the past few decades. A new survey found significant double-digit declines in Americans' participation in various social activities from 1995 to 2026.

Nvidia's first GPU: GeForce 256

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Nvidia released the GeForce 256 in 1999, describing it as a GPU, but its predecessor TNT2 wasn't. Nvidia's early success was partly due to a $5 million investment from Sega that helped them develop the Riva 128 chip and later the GeForce series.

Pulsar at ESUG 2026 (new Smalltalk IDE)

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I presented Pulsar, a new Pharo IDE focusing on coding and system understanding, at ESUG 2026. It aims to help programmers navigate and modify code effectively with generative tools.

Strands Decider: Why Not an Encoder?

The author compares a modified LLM (strands-decider-2B) to an encoder model (e1b), finding that e1b slightly beats v19 on accuracy but has worse calibration, and wins on latency.

Gemini 4 Argon

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Gemini 4 Argon is a highly advanced AI model that excels in various domains, including long-horizon software engineering, scientific research, and enterprise knowledge work. It achieves significant improvements in accuracy and performance compared to previous models, with applications in fields like healthcare, finance, and robotics.