Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

A Discord script is provided to bypass age verification by replicating encryption and payload checks. The script uses a combination of AES-GCM cipher and HKDF to generate a legitimate verification payload.

GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering

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GLM-5 is a complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic task model that scales from 355B to 744B parameters and increases pre-training data. It achieves best-in-class performance on reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks, closing the gap with frontier models.

Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter

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Fluorite is a console-grade game engine integrated with Flutter, allowing developers to write game code in Dart and leverage its tools. It features a data-oriented ECS architecture, physically-accurate lighting, and Hot Reload for rapid development.

Text classification with Python 3.14's ZSTD module

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Python 3.14's Zstd compression algorithm supports incremental compression, making it suitable for small data and text classification tasks. A ZstdClassifier class was implemented to leverage this feature, achieving 91% accuracy on the 20 newsgroups dataset in under 2 seconds.

NetNewsWire Turns 23

NetNewsWire 7.0.1 is in development to fix regressions and bugs, with a focus on tech debt and polish. Future updates, including 7.2 and 7.3, will depend on progress and Apple's WWDC announcements.

Claude Code is being dumbed down?

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Users want a toggle to show file paths and search patterns, not verbose mode. The current fix is stripping verbose mode of useful features, creating more problems.

Microwave Oven Failure: Spontaneously turned on by its LED display (2024)

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The user's microwave oven malfunctioned after five years, causing it to randomly power on the lamp, fan, and turntable, and was stuck on mostly. The issue was caused by a failing LED display that was sharing a pin with the door switch sense circuit, and was fixed by adding a diode in series with the segment A LEDs to prevent leakage current.

Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance

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Ring's new Search Party feature uses AI to find lost dogs, but critics worry it could be used for human surveillance. The feature has raised concerns about mass surveillance and Ring's partnerships with law enforcement.

WiFi Could Become an Invisible Mass Surveillance System

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Researchers have developed a technology that can identify individuals by recording WiFi signals in their surroundings, raising serious privacy concerns. To avoid recognition, carrying a low-power noise source at the 2.4GHz WiFi band may be effective.

GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

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GLM-OCR is a multimodal OCR model for complex document understanding, achieving state-of-the-art performance on diverse document layouts. It's designed for real-world scenarios, easy to use, and optimized for efficient inference.

Components will kill pages

The internet is changing with AI-powered chat interfaces replacing traditional website navigation. To adapt, companies should invest in AI-first component libraries to provide seamless, branded experiences.

We rendered and embedded one million CAD files

Search CAD models with natural language

Hacking the last Z80 computer – FOSDEM 2026 [video]

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The Z80 CPU has been extremely popular in home computers of the eighties, but as 16-bit and 32-bit processors became more popular, the only new computers built using the Z80 were continuations of some legacy lines (like the Amstrad PCW). And yet, in 1999 a company named Cidco unveiled a completely new computer line named the MailStation. with a Z80 CPU clocked at 12 MHz and 128 kB of RAM. It ...

Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport

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Why vampires live forever

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The author believes the modern longevity movement is a vampire disclosure program, where individuals like Peter Thiel and David Johnson are obsessed with blood transfusions to reverse aging. They think vampires drink blood to dilute old blood factors that accelerate aging, not for nutrition.

Show HN: Agent framework that generates its own topology and evolves at runtime

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Should your developer company go open source?

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The author argues that open-source is not a distribution hack but an architectural decision that requires a clear understanding of the product, business model, and execution bar. To succeed with open-source, founders should focus on differentiations and persona alignment, and be willing to make strategic decisions that will last for years.

iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day

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Apple released iOS 26.3, iPadOS 26.3, and macOS Tahoe 26.3 with bug fixes and security improvements, addressing dozens of vulnerabilities. Apple recommends users update their devices as soon as possible to prevent potential exploitation.

Show HN: AI agents play SimCity through a REST API

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The city simulator where AI agents are the mayors. Build and manage cities through an API or MCP server.

US labels SpaceX a common carrier by air, will regulate firm under railway law

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The National Labor Relations Board dropped a complaint against SpaceX after deciding the agency lacks jurisdiction over the company. SpaceX is now regulated under the Railway Labor Act, which governs labor relations at railroad and airline companies.

Paragon accidentally uploaded a photo of its spyware control panel

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Q&A: New UK onshore wind and solar is '50% cheaper' than new gas

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The UK government secured a record 14.7GW of new renewable capacity in its latest auction, with solar and onshore wind projects winning contracts at £65/MWh and £72/MWh respectively. This will cut UK gas demand by 95TWh per year and reduce exposure to volatile international gas markets.

Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Labor Behind Modern Literary Masterpieces

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Women like Theodora Bosanquet, Véra Nabokov, and Valerie Eliot played crucial roles as amanuenses, typing and editing literary works for famous authors. Their labor, often undervalued and misunderstood, had a profound impact on modern literature, liberating authors from drudgery and producing legible texts quickly.

The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory

Exposure Simulator

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The simulator works with Chrome or Firefox, simulating camera settings like depth-of-field and image noise. It offers three modes: Shutter Priority, Aperture Priority, and Manual, with a camera meter for exposure control.

Show HN: Agent Alcove – Claude, GPT, and Gemini debate across forums

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The thing I keep coming back to is that versioning isn't really a technical problem — it's a commitment problem. You're making a promise about the future behavior of a system you haven't finished designing yet. Of course that breaks down. Stripe's dated versions are better, but I think the reason they work isn't the dating scheme itself — it's that Stripe has the ...

Rome is studded with cannon balls (2022)

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Rome is filled with historical sites containing cannon balls from various battles. Guided tours are available to explore these sites and learn their stories.

Apple's Siri revamp reportedly delayed again

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Apple's new AI-powered Siri is delayed again, with features now expected to roll out over several iOS updates. The changes, initially expected in iOS 26.4, may now arrive in May or September with iOS 27.

End of an era for me: no more self-hosted git

User ended self-hosted git service due to AI scrapers, now using mirrors on large gitforges like GitLab and GitHub. Remaining self-hosted service is a static blog hosted on a webserver.

Communities are not fungible

The value of a community lies in its unique, non-fungible relationships and shared history, which cannot be replicated or replaced once disrupted. Treating communities as interchangeable or optimizable resources is misguided, and every decision that disrupts an existing community carries a hidden cost of lost social capital and irreparable damage.