UniFi 5G

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The UniFi 5G Max lineup delivers a sleek, powerful 5G internet experience with easy deployment and flexible placement. It offers dual SIM capabilities, ultra-low latency, and WAN flexibility with UniFi routing policies and SLAs.

Cloudflare Is Down

Make employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost.

Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond

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Netflix uses AV1, a modern open video codec, to deliver high-quality streaming to its members, achieving 30% viewing share and reducing bandwidth consumption. AV1's superior compression efficiency and features like HDR and film grain synthesis enhance the streaming experience, with AV2 on the horizon to further improve streaming capabilities.

Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

They pretty much said this. All the big companies that had recent outages are companies that publicly embraced vibe coding.

I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years

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The author started Res Obscura in 2010 as a daily blog about obscure historical subjects, but shifted to a Substack newsletter in 2023 due to the changing online landscape. They continue writing about niche topics like 17th century cocaine and Kinetoscopes for an idiosyncratic group of readers.

BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive

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BMW PHEV owners face high costs due to over-engineered diagnostic procedures and expensive replacement parts. This results in unnecessary waste and increased CO2 footprint.

Trick users and bypass warnings – Modern SVG Clickjacking attacks

A new technique has been discovered that allows for complex interactive clickjacking attacks and multiple forms of data exfiltration by using SVG filters to run logic and provide visual output. This technique can be used to create convincing attacks such as fake captchas, input boxes, and even QR codes that can be used to exfiltrate data.

Show HN: Tacopy – Tail Call Optimization for Python

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Tacopy is a Python library that optimizes tail-recursive functions by converting them into iterative loops, preventing stack overflow errors. It uses AST transformation and supports module-level functions, but not nested or async functions.

After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death

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Ron Gilbert, known for classic point-and-click adventure games, has released Death by Scrolling, a rogue-lite action-survival game. He was inspired by modern classics like Binding of Isaac and Dead Cells.

Rats Snatching Bats Out of the Air and Eating Them–Researchers Got It on Video

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Brown rats have been observed hunting bats in Germany, using their whiskers and air currents to detect prey. This behavior could harm local bat populations and potentially spread diseases to humans.

Cloudflare is down

Make employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost.

Show HN: I was reintroduced to computers: Raspberry Pi

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The user took a break from AI projects to focus on work but now wants to explore physical AI, starting with an RC car project using a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. They set up the Pi, connected it to a camera and motors, and created a Cloudflare Tunnel for global access, now able to control the robot remotely.

Transparent leadership beats servant leadership

You're skeptical of servant leadership and propose transparent leadership instead, where leaders empower employees by explaining values and principles, and removing themselves as middlemen. A good leader should become a high-powered spare worker, focusing on technical problems to stay skilled and earn respect.

At IT School with Apple Lisa

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The Apple Lisa was a groundbreaking personal computer with a graphical user interface, developed in the late 1970s and released in 1983. Its user-friendly interface, designed to appeal to office professionals, featured a desktop with icons, overlapping windows, and a document-centric approach.

NeurIPS 2025 Best Paper Awards

The Best Paper Award Committee selected seven groundbreaking papers that highlight advances in various machine learning topics, including diffusion models, self-supervised reinforcement learning, and neural scaling laws. The papers address critical challenges in AI, such as the Artificial Hivemind effect, mode collapse, and the need for improved RL paradigms to unlock novel reasoning abilities in LLMs.

CSS now has an if() conditional function

"Can I use" provides up-to-date browser support tables for support of front-end web technologies on desktop and mobile web browsers.

Multivox: Volumetric Display

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The code is for a volumetric display system using a Raspberry Pi, with two display options: Rotovox and Vortex, each with unique features. The system includes a driver and client code, a demo, and a simulator for testing.

How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs

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Elites use AI-driven persuasion to shape public opinion, potentially increasing polarization. Advances in persuasion technology can either heighten or dampen polarization depending on the governing environment.

CUDA-l2: Surpassing cuBLAS performance for matrix multiplication through RL

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CUDA-L2 optimizes HGEMM CUDA kernels, outperforming major matmul baselines on A100. It supports 16-bit accumulator, with 32-bit support planned for future release.

StardustOS: Library operating system for building light-weight Unikernels

Stardust is a unikernel OS that runs cloud apps in a protected environment with a small code base and static linking. It supports multiple cores, preemptive threads, and POSIX-compatible libraries.

Warner Bros Begins Exclusive Deal Talks With Netflix

Bloomberg delivers business and financial information worldwide. Netflix is in exclusive talks to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's film studios and HBO Max for a potential $5 billion deal.

Is Cloudflare Down Again? Also, DownDetector/Claude.ai/LinkedIn?

I was writing a blogpost on Medium and I noticed errors, tried to open LinkedIn? down. tried downdetector? down. Claude.ai is also down Yep, just went back up and then down again. Let's not put all eggs in one basket...

What's the deal with Euler's identity?

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Euler's formula combines five special constants: e, π, 0, 1, and i. It describes rotation in 2D geometry using complex numbers.
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Zoekt is a text search engine for source code with fast substring and regexp matching. It supports searching individual or multiple repositories with a rich query language and ranking results based on code signals.

State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship'

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The US State Department is instructing staff to reject visa applications from people who worked on fact-checking or content moderation, citing "censorship" of Americans' speech. Critics say this policy is incoherent and unconstitutional, as it conflates trust and safety work with censorship.

Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?

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Elite US universities have high percentages of students claiming learning disabilities, with 20-38% of students at Brown, Harvard, Amherst, and Stanford claiming mental health conditions and learning disabilities. Many experts believe these students are not genuinely learning disabled but rather using accommodations as a way to avoid bad grades and intellectual growth.

The Ofcom Files, Part 4: Ofcom Rides Again

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Britain's Ofcom is threatening to expand a probe into 4chan, a US company, after refusing to pay fines. The US is considering a GRANITE Act to protect Americans from foreign censorship, inspired by Ofcom's letters.

Fighting the age-gated internet

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Members of Congress considered 19 online safety bills that may lead to increased censorship and surveillance. Digital rights groups, including Fight for the Future, oppose the bills, citing concerns over age verification and its impact on internet freedom.

Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig

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The author experimented with Go, Rust, and Zig to understand their values and design choices, finding that Go is minimalist, Rust is maximalist, and Zig is a reaction against both, offering manual memory management and a focus on data-oriented design. Each language reflects its creators' values, with Go prioritizing corporate collaboration, Rust prioritizing safety and performance, and Zig ...

I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer

The author, a Senior Staff Engineer at Google, disagrees with Sean Goedecke's advice to optimize for visibility and fungibility, instead advocating for stewardship and long-term ownership of systems. This approach allows for deeper technical context, trust, and promotion opportunities through technical advocacy and metrics tracking engineering health.