Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections

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Internet voting systems are insecure due to vulnerabilities in technology, allowing a small number of people to change votes undetected. No known technology can make internet voting safe, and all deployed systems are unsafe.

Significant US Farm Losses Persist, Despite Federal Assistance

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USDA projects per-acre production costs for nine principal row crops to rise in 2026, driven by inflated operating costs and limited relief. Many farmers may operate below breakeven for another year, with estimated losses exceeding $50 billion over three crop years.

Take potentially dangerous PDFs, and convert them to safe PDFs

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Dangerzone converts untrusted documents to safe PDFs by processing them in a sandbox, then converting the result back to PDF. It uses containers and gVisor for security, with optional OCR and updates available to improve its features.

Binary Fuse Filters: Fast and Smaller Than XOR Filters

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Researchers developed binary fuse filters for fast approximate set membership with low memory usage, outperforming xor filters and other alternatives. Binary fuse filters are within 8% of the storage lower bound and can be faster to construct than xor filters.

Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)

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ChartGPU is a TypeScript charting library built on WebGPU for smooth rendering. It creates a chart instance with a render coordinator that handles layout, scales, data upload, and render passes.

Claude's new constitution

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Anthropic has published Claude's constitution, a document outlining the AI model's values and behavior, to cultivate good values during training. The constitution is a foundational document that expresses and shapes who Claude is, and it will be used to train future versions of Claude.

Threat Actors Expand Abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

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North Korean threat actors have been using Visual Studio Code task configuration files to deliver malware, with recent evolutions including obfuscated JavaScript and a backdoor implant providing remote code execution capabilities. Jamf Threat Labs recommends enabling Threat Prevention and Advanced Threat Controls in Jamf for Mac and advises developers to be cautious when interacting with ...

Skip is now free and open source

Skip is now completely free and open source, allowing developers to create native cross-platform apps without compromises. The platform's future is sustained through sponsorships and community support, ensuring its long-term success.

Show HN: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

Compare prices for SSDs, HDDs and flash memories on Amazon United States. Find the best deals on storage drives with our price-per-TB comparison tool.

Golfing APL/K in 90 Lines of Python

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John McCarthy created Lisp, while Kenneth Iverson developed APL, both languages emphasizing code and data as the same thing. APL's array programming influenced NumPy and deep learning frameworks, with Iverson's ideas still visible in modern syntax.

Show HN: RatatuiRuby wraps Rust Ratatui as a RubyGem – TUIs with the joy of Ruby

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RatatuiRuby is a RubyGem that combines native performance with Ruby's ease of use for building TUIs. It wraps Rust's Ratatui library for rendering and allows Ruby to handle design and domain logic.

Letting Claude play text adventures

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You attended an AI hackathon where you explored using cognitive architectures to improve LLMs. You created a harness for Claude to play text adventures, but it failed due to attention issues and high token costs.

Show HN: Rails UI

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Rails UI offers professional-looking components and themes for Rails apps with no design skills required. It saves developers time and effort, allowing them to focus on business logic.

TrustTunnel: AdGuard VPN protocol goes open-source

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AdGuard is open-sourcing its VPN protocol, TrustTunnel, a secure and mobile-optimized VPN protocol. TrustTunnel is now free to explore, audit, and use in own projects, aiming to change the status quo in VPN protocols.

The WebRacket language is a subset of Racket that compiles to WebAssembly

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The WebRacket compiler supports a large subset of Racket for generating WebAssembly code that can run in the browser or terminal, with a focus on browser functionality and a JavaScript foreign function interface. The compiler is designed to be extensible and has already demonstrated its capabilities through various examples, including a MathJax demo, a game, and a terminal emulator.

Jerry (YC S17) Is Hiring

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Jerry.ai is hiring a Software Engineer for its Core Marketplace Automation Team to build automation systems for its AI-powered AllCar super app, impacting millions of users. The role involves automating complex tasks, scaling business efficiently, and shaping the future of insurance tech.

I'll pass on your zoom call.

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← Chronicle In 2026, there are some amazing programs being made by genius coders, who are happy to hand out their code for free so that people can be sure of their security. One such program is Jitsi - their biggest offense in my book is their name, which is hard to say is or is not really offensive. This group of coders made all good decisions. One, they open-sourced their code so that ...

Three types of LLM workloads and how to serve them

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Large language model workloads can be categorized into offline, online, and semi-online types, each requiring different architectures and optimizations to achieve maximum throughput and low latency. The choice of inference engine, such as vLLM or SGLang, and hardware, including GPUs like H100s and H200s, depends on the specific workload and requirements, with considerations for memory ...

Challenges in join optimization

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StarRocks optimizes joins by using a cost-based optimizer, logical join optimizations, join reordering, and distributed join planning to minimize network cost and leverage parallel execution. The system uses various techniques such as predicate pushdown, equivalence derivation, and join reordering algorithms like Exhaustive and Greedy to generate optimal join plans.

Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi

Google's monopoly on search has stifled innovation and access to information, prompting a US court to rule against Google and order open index access. The ruling aims to create a more competitive search market, enabling companies like Kagi to provide ad-free search experiences and promote a non-commercial baseline for information access.

Tell HN: 2 years building a kids audio app as a solo dev – lessons learned

The user created Muky, a digital app for kids, after their child outgrew the Toniebox and wanted more content options. The app offers a balance between accessibility and parental control, with features like QR code sharing and curated content discovery.

A verification layer for browser agents: Amazon case study

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The report isolates the claim that reliability in Amazon shopping flow comes from verification, not from giving the model more pixels or parameters, using a verification layer with explicit assertions over structured snapshots. A strong planner paired with a small local executor, using Sentience for verification, achieves reliable end-to-end behavior with lower token usage and improved economics.

Can you slim macOS down?

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The user discusses the numerous processes running on a Mac, including those related to Time Machine, and explores ways to disable them due to their resource usage. However, due to the Signed System Volume (SSV) and Duet Activity Scheduler (DAS), it's not possible to stop or disable these processes, making it difficult to pare down the Mac's processes.

Setting Up a Cluster of Tiny PCs for Parallel Computing

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The user set up a cluster of tiny PCs for parallel computing using Ubuntu, passwordless SSH, and R simulations, and compared the performance of CV5 and CV10. They found that tuned xgboost + glmnet had the best results with low bias, low variance, and decent coverage, while gam + lr had high bias and asymmetrical coverage.

SIMD programming in pure Rust

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The user recently tested AMD Zen 5 CPUs and found them to be very exciting, especially for developers who can use AVX-512 SIMD instructions without downclocking. The user provides an introduction to writing SIMD-accelerated code in pure Rust, including examples and advice on how to implement and optimize SIMD code for different CPU architectures.

Mystery of the Head Activator

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Chica Schaller discovered the "head activator" molecule in hydra, a freshwater cnidarian, in 1973, but her findings were impossible to replicate. The discovery was part of the Gierer-Meinhardt model, which explained morphogenesis in hydra.

Nested code fences in Markdown

Corey Dumm, a spiky-haired nerd, lives in a world where Markdown rules vary. He faces problems with triple backticks in fenced code blocks and inline code spans.

Slouching Towards Bethlehem – Joan Didion (1967)

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The author visits San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood in 1967 to explore the counterculture movement, meeting various young people who have abandoned mainstream society. They witness a mix of free-spirited idealism and chaos, with some individuals struggling with addiction, mental health issues, and the consequences of their actions.

Show HN: Yashiki – A tiling window manager for macOS in Rust, inspired by River

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Tag-based workspaces - Bitmask tags (like awesome/river) allow windows to belong to multiple tags and view any combination External layout engines - Stdin/stdout JSON protocol lets you write custom layouts in any language Note: Yashiki.app is not signed. On first launch, allow it in System Settings → Privacy & Security. Or install with --no-quarantine: # Core daemon and CLI cargo install ...

Stevey's Birthday Blog

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The author is celebrating their 57th birthday and reflecting on their life, mentioning their work on Gas Town and Beads, and the impact of AI on software development. They discuss the increasing pressure from money and investors, but are focusing on their goals and not chasing ARR.