Show HN: TRELLIS.2 image-to-3D running on Mac Silicon – no Nvidia GPU needed

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A port of Microsoft's TRELLIS.2 image-to-3D model is available for Apple Silicon via PyTorch MPS. It replaces CUDA-only libraries with pure-PyTorch alternatives, allowing use without an NVIDIA GPU.

A Brief History of Fish Sauce

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Fish sauce has a long history, with ancient Greeks and Romans producing garum and liquamen, while Southeast Asians independently developed nuoc mam and nam pla. The origins of fish sauce are unclear, but it remains a crucial condiment in Southeast Asian cuisine, with various regional variations and uses.

Vercel April 2026 security incident

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Vercel disclosed a security incident after threat actors claimed to have breached its systems and are selling stolen data. The company is investigating and notifying affected customers, advising them to review environment variables and rotate secrets.

The Uncanny Valley and the Rising Power of Anti-AI Sentiment

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Public sentiment towards AI is growing negative due to repeated exposure to AI's near-human but hollow systems triggering social mismatch and aversion. Experts and the public evaluate AI differently, with experts focusing on capability and utility, while the public experiences AI as disruption and threat.

The Bromine Chokepoint

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A global semiconductor memory supply chain is vulnerable to a bromine shortage due to Israel's reliance on bromine imports and limited conversion capacity outside the country. A disruption would immediately impact global memory production, affecting consumer devices, military systems, and AI infrastructure.

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency

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US President Donald Trump's major announcements often preceded huge trading activity, with some analysts suggesting possible insider trading. Financial regulators have not commented on the allegations, citing difficulty in enforcing the rules.

Mechanical Keyboard Sounds - A listening Museum

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This website curates 36 mechanical keyboards and switches, providing sound-mapped audio samples from the open-source community. It's a listening museum, not a buying guide, with some entries being proxies or field recordings of the same switch in different host boards.

2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email

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Each municipality's official domain is checked via 11 signals from DNS records, SMTP banners, ASN lookups, and a public Microsoft API endpoint, then classified by provider type with confidence scoring. Disclaimer: DNS records indicate mail routing and authorized senders, not necessarily where data is stored.

Swiss AI Initiative (2023)

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The Swiss AI Initiative was launched in December 2023 with 10m GPU hours and 20m CHF grant for AI research. It brings together 800 researchers for frontier AI research on the Alps supercomputer.

Ex-CEO, ex-CFO of bankrupt AI company charged with fraud

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Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction

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Turtle WoW, a popular World of Warcraft private server, is shutting down on May 14 after a cease and desist from Blizzard. The server will close its servers to the final patch and associated social media channels will shut down later this year.

Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7

Anthropic published system prompts for their chat system, with updates from Claude 3 to Opus 4.7, showing changes in child safety, tool usage, and response style. The new prompt includes tools like Claude in Chrome and a tool search mechanism to resolve ambiguities.

Show HN: A lightweight way to make agents talk without paying for API usage

For the past few weeks I have been testing a simple workflow for making coding agents interact with each other without using APIs, SDKs, or extra dependencies. The main constraint is this: use the subscription plans you already have, avoid paying for API usage, and keep the setup simple enough that you can try it in a few minutes. I sometimes want to extend a Claude session by asking Codex or ...

Uber’s Anthropic AI push hits a wall

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Uber spent $3.4 billion on AI research and development, exhausting its budget early in 2026 due to rapid adoption and high costs. The company is now testing OpenAI's Codex to expand its AI stack and aims for AI to handle coding and deployment tasks.

Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors

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A software detected 18 cases of potential data errors in 600 open-access datasets, with 15 cases posted on PubPeer. The true error rate is likely higher than the estimated 3% due to undetectable errors and less lazy methods of data fabrication.

Interesting Map Geometry and Mathematics

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The user encountered a problem with generating organic damage on a world map clue where part of the clue could float in a sea of damage without surrounding elements, and they needed to find a solution that was computationally efficient. They eventually came up with a solution that used hidden grids of cannot-be-damaged tiles to prevent islands from forming, and implemented it in the game with ...

Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024)

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The author discusses six levels of dark mode in CSS, starting with a meta tag that allows browsers to follow user color scheme preferences. They then explore CSS color-scheme declarations, light-dark() color functions, and media queries for maximum customization.

Prove you are a robot: CAPTCHAs for agents

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We launched agent-native signup for Browser Use with no email or OAuth. Agents parse obfuscated math problems, and humans sign up the old way.

Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975

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Foreground p.20 RECYCLING USED ICs [theme Hardware] [author Mikkelsen] p.62 DECIPHERING MYSTERY KEYBOARDS [theme Hardware] [author Heltners] p.72 LIFE...

I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language

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Chip8 Emulator. Contribute to navid-m/chip8emu development by creating an account on GitHub.

The RAM shortage could last years

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Memory makers will meet only 60 percent of demand by 2027 due to production shortages. New fabrication capacity won't be online until 2027 or 2028, exacerbating the RAM shortage.

Canada's PM calls economic ties with US a weakness that must be corrected

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada's strong ties to the US are now a weakness that must be corrected due to US trade changes. He plans to diversify Canada's economy and increase defense spending to take control of its security and future.

Show HN: A working reference implementation of context engineering

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This repo demonstrates context engineering, a discipline that designs, retrieves, and injects AI system information for accurate outputs. It has five components and uses Amazon Bedrock with Claude for generation and Amazon Titan for embeddings.

The seven programming ur-languages (2022)

The user explains that programming languages can be grouped into seven fundamental "ur-languages" that share common patterns and characteristics, and that learning a language from the same ur-language is easier than learning one from a different ur-language. The user suggests learning a language from the ALGOL family (such as Python or Java), then learning a language from the Prolog family ...

Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games

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This project was inspired by Playball, a similar terminal application for following MLB baseball games. This project is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected with the National Hockey League (NHL), any of its teams, or any of its affiliates. All NHL logos, trademarks, and data are the property of the NHL and its teams.

Recovering Windows Live Writer Files

Over a decade ago, I used a program made by Microsoft called Windows Live Writer for a couple years to write blog posts before uploading them to whatever blog platform I was using at the time. That program used a proprietary file format. The blog platforms are lost to me now, an unfortunate casuality of my earlier habit of creating (and sunsetting) new websites all the time. Also, Windows ...

Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people

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People avoid doing work by trying to create systems to replace human interaction, but the problem is they're not listening properly to others. To listen effectively, one must understand the complexities of human knowledge and experiences, avoiding assumptions and stereotypes.

Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language

The Nanopass Framework is an embedded domain-specific language for creating compilers that focuses on creating small passes and many intermediate representations. Nanopass reduces the boilerplate required to create compilers making them easier to understand and maintain.

Got an Old Kindle? It Might Not Work Anymore

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Amazon will stop supporting older Kindle and Fire devices released in 2012 or earlier on May 20. Users can upgrade to a new Kindle with a 20% discount and $20 e-book credit until June 20.

SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)

A new type of malware called SPEAKE(a)R can covertly turn headphones, earphones, or simple earbuds connected to a PC into microphones when a standard microphone is not present, muted, taped, or turned off. The malware can record human speech of intelligible quality and eavesdrop from nine meters away, posing a significant cyber security threat.