Oracle, it’s time to free JavaScript

32 pavelai 2025-12-04 09:11:54 UTC javascript.tm Llama Share 4

Oracle controls the JavaScript trademark, but its use has been discontinued and it's become a generic term. The trademark has remained with Oracle since its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, but it has been in disuse for years, causing confusion and disruption.

Elites Could Shape Mass Preferences as AI Reduces Persuasion Costs

172 50kIters 2025-12-04 09:11:54 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 177

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.

Ghostty is now non-profit

1134 vrnvu 2025-12-03 19:11:54 UTC mitchellh.com Llama Share 230

Ghostty is now a non-profit project under Hack Club's fiscal sponsorship, ensuring its mission-driven and publicly beneficial goals. This structure allows for tax-deductible donations and transparent financial transactions, paving the way for sustainable development.

Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm

774 evolve2k 2025-12-03 19:11:54 UTC theverge.com Llama Share 667

Valve is working on bringing Windows games to Arm chips, allowing games to run on phones, laptops, and desktops. The company is using open-source technologies such as Proton and Fex to make this possible, with funding from Valve supporting the development of these technologies.

Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s

145 rgun 2025-12-04 06:11:54 UTC uncloud.run Llama Share 58

Uncloud is an open source project for zero-downtime deployments, automatic HTTPS, and cross-machine scaling without Kubernetes. It uses a simple network of machines with WireGuard mesh networking and peer-to-peer communication for reliable infrastructure.

PGlite – Embeddable Postgres

6 dsego 2025-12-04 10:54:54 UTC pglite.dev Full Share 0

Lightweight WASM Postgres

Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files

696 bearsyankees 2025-12-03 18:11:54 UTC alexschapiro.com Llama Share 231

The user discovered a vulnerability in Filevine's system, allowing access to a law firm's confidential Box files, and responsibly disclosed it to Filevine, who quickly remediated the issue. This highlights the importance of data security in AI legal-tech companies, especially when handling sensitive information.

Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months

336 zekrioca 2025-12-04 00:11:54 UTC pcpartpicker.com Llama Share 222

The graph displays average part prices with a gray band showing minimum and maximum price ranges. Dips in the lower bound often indicate sales or merchant pricing errors.

Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business

594 simlevesque 2025-12-03 18:11:54 UTC investors.micron.com Llama Share 291

Micron Technology is exiting its Crucial consumer business and will continue to support enterprise products. The company will transition and continue warranty service for Crucial products until February 2026.

Unreal Tournament 2004 is back

36 keithoffer 2025-12-04 10:11:54 UTC old.reddit.com Llama Share 9

User needs to register or sign in with developer credentials and ensure a unique User-Agent string to access the application. Alternatively, try resetting to default User-Agent or file a ticket for assistance.

1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long

455 nooks 2025-12-03 18:11:54 UTC conwaylife.com Llama Share 156

A unidimensional spaceship, also referred to as "Arrow 1", has been successfully created using a combination of four construction arms, including a newly invented fuse arm, a binary arm, and two extreme compression construction arms (ECCA1 and ECCA2). The spaceship's period is 133076755768 and it uses a complex system of gliders, blinkers, and corderships to achieve its movement, with a total ...

Tunnl.gg

6 klipitkas 2025-12-04 10:17:54 UTC tunnl.gg Full Share 3

Instant public URLs for your local web server. No installation required, just use SSH. Secure, fast, and developer-friendly reverse tunneling.

Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions

263 mhashemi 2025-12-03 21:11:54 UTC finfam.app Llama Share 85

Credit unions offer competitive mortgage rates compared to big banks due to their non-profit nature and focus on serving members. A daily-updated comparison of mortgage rates from over 120 US credit unions can help individuals find the best rates, potentially saving thousands of dollars.

Saturn (YC S24) Is Hiring Senior AI Engineer

0 2025-12-04 07:11:54 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Saturn is a company revolutionizing financial services with AI, building the operating system for financial advisors. They offer a Senior AI Engineer role, requiring robust software engineering fundamentals, deep LLM intuition, and obsession for product quality in a regulated domain.

Show HN: Walrus – a Kafka alternative written in Rust

13 janicerk 2025-12-04 09:11:54 UTC github.com/nubskr Llama Share 1

Walrus is a distributed message streaming platform with a high-performance log storage engine providing fault-tolerant streaming and automatic leadership rotation. It includes a formal TLA+ specification and a Rust library for embedded use cases..

RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js

541 rayhaanj 2025-12-03 16:11:54 UTC github.com/vercel Llama Share 196

A React vulnerability affects versions 19.0.0-19.2.0 and Next.js 15.x and 16.x using App Router. Users should upgrade to a patched version or downgrade to a stable release.

All the Way Down

23 surprisetalk 2025-12-04 08:11:54 UTC futilitycloset.com Llama Share 3

Archimedes found the infinite series 1/4 + 1/16 + 1/64 + 1/256 + ... sums to 1/3. This is demonstrated visually by equal areas of black, white, and gray in unit squares and triangles.

The Mysterious Realm of JavaScriptCore (2021)

15 program 2025-12-04 09:11:54 UTC cyberark.com Llama Share 0

The user discusses the JavaScriptCore (JSC) engine used by Safari and other apps in macOS, explaining its four-tier execution system and how it handles side effects in JavaScript code. The user then describes how they used CodeQL to develop a query that uncovers bad side effect modeling vulnerabilities in JSC, which can lead to Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilities.

Why WinQuake exists and how it works

92 wicket 2025-12-04 02:11:54 UTC fabiensanglard.net Llama Share 5

The original Quake binaries had different versions for various operating systems, but winquake.exe was a special version that optimized performance on Windows 95 by using different backends for input, audio, and video. It used DirectInput and DirectX for input and audio, and SciTech's MegaGraph Graphics Library (MGL) for video, which provided a fast rendering path through DirectDraw or ...

Porn company fined £1M over inadequate age checks (UK)

7 ndsipa_pomu 2025-12-04 10:49:54 UTC bbc.co.uk Prefix Share 1

Ofcom has told the BBC it has never heard from a porn company it has fined £1m for failing to comply with the UK Online Safety Act. It said it had been emailing AVS Group Ltd since it launched its investigation in July, but had not had a response at any point - so the firm had been fined an extra £50,000. The Act makes it a legal requirement for websites that host pornographic material to put ...

Kea DHCP: Modern, open source DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server

96 doener 2025-12-04 00:11:54 UTC isc.org Llama Share 30

Kea DHCP is a modern, open-source DHCP server distribution with features like modular design, REST API, and database support. It allows for high availability, separate data storage, and a graphical management dashboard called Stork.

Acme, a brief history of one of the protocols which has changed the Internet

120 coffee-- 2025-12-04 00:11:54 UTC blog.brocas.org Llama Share 50

The ACME protocol, developed by the Let's Encrypt team, has enabled the widespread adoption of HTTPS by providing an automated and free certificate authority service, resulting in over 700 million active certificates and 95% HTTPS usage in the US. The protocol's standardization process within the IETF has led to improvements in security, flexibility, and adoption, making it a crucial tool for ...

8086 Microcode Browser

114 zdw 2025-12-03 22:11:54 UTC nand2mario.github.io Llama Share 1

User recreated 8086 microcode for an interactive browser, decoding 21-bit micro-instructions into readable fields with tooltips. The browser features a list of documented instructions and highlights the 8086's reuse of micro-operations for various arithmetic behaviors.

Show HN: A Minimal Monthly Task Planner (printable, offline, no signup)

49 defcc 2025-12-04 06:11:54 UTC printcalendar.top Full Share 16

A calm, printer-friendly canvas to map your month, capture notes, and keep a lightweight log of what matters.

In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended

20 samizdis 2025-12-04 06:11:54 UTC newyorker.com Llama Share 25

The Stones of Stenness, a Neolithic site in Orkney, Scotland, features massive sandstone slabs with intricate lichen patterns, evoking a sense of mystery and awe. Archaeological discoveries at the site and nearby Ness of Brodgar reveal a complex, gregarious culture that flourished 5,000 years ago, leaving behind a rich legacy of art, architecture, and symbolism.

Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app

112 rushingcreek 2025-12-03 18:11:54 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 84

Phind 3 is an AI answer engine that creates interactive mini-apps to visualize and answer questions in real-time. It generates custom widgets and tools to enable new functionality and answer complex questions that other tools can't.

Ethiopian Volcano Erupts for First Time in Nearly 12K Years of Records

63 pseudolus 2025-12-04 01:11:54 UTC smithsonianmag.com Llama Share 14

A volcano in northern Ethiopia, Hayli Gubbi, erupted for the first time in 12,000 years spewing ash up to nine miles into the air. The eruption caused flight cancellations and dust spread across nearby communities with no reported casualties.

Lie groups are crucial to some of the most fundamental theories in physics

140 ibobev 2025-12-03 20:11:54 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 49

Marius Sophus Lie created Lie groups, which are continuous symmetries that can be visualized as smooth shapes. These groups are essential in physics, explaining laws of conservation and fundamental forces like gravity and electromagnetism.

How to Synthesize a House Loop

230 stagas 2025-12-03 15:11:54 UTC loopmaster.xyz Llama Share 82

A kick drum is synthesized using a sine wave, frequency modulation, and an amplitude envelope, with the phase synced to the beat. Additional elements like hi-hats, snare, bass, and chords are created using various waveforms, filters, and envelopes to produce a classic house sound.

Euler Conjecture and CDC 6600

34 zaikunzhang 2025-12-04 04:11:54 UTC fortran-lang.discourse.group Llama Share 4

The CDC 6600 and 7600 had floating point multiply units that could perform 2 million multiplies/sec. They allowed parallel execution via scoreboard logic and pipelining in the 7600.