‘Asia's cleanest village’ bans tourists on Sundays

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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Climate.gov was destroyed. Open data saved it

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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.