Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59

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Ruff v0.16.0 is a fast Python linter and formatter with breaking changes, including a new default rule set with 968 rules. It adds suppression comments and improved output formats, including JSON and GitHub/GitLab formats.

A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway

A programmer is discussing how a single colon in a shell script can simplify code by discarding the result of a parameter expansion. This allows for a more concise and typo-reduced way of checking if a variable is set.

GrapheneOS protections against data extraction from locked devices

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An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk

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User built a live aircraft radar using an ESP32-C3 and a 1.28-inch display, improving the project with proper flight context and local weather data. They plan to port the project to a larger display and design a 3D-printed enclosure.

The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models

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Claude Code's previous best practices have become myths, and newer models can handle decisions without explicit rules. To effectively use Claude, focus on providing context through design, using progressive disclosure, and referencing relevant information in code, skills, and CLAUDE.md files.

Stinkpot: SQLite-backed shell history

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Stinkpot is a tiny SQLite-backed shell-history searcher for Bash, providing session agnostic history management and a TUI searcher. It's a smaller alternative to Atuin, with a 400-line Go codebase.

Inflect-Micro-v2: complete voice in 9.36M parameters

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Inflect v2 is a local text-to-waveform speech synthesis model with 10M parameters, supporting fixed-voice English TTS, long-text handling, and CPU or CUDA inference. It has a public API with two sizes: Micro prioritizing quality and Nano prioritizing footprint.

Show HN: I mapped every US golf course

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Free interactive map of 18,000+ US golf courses — ratings, slope, hole-by-hole scorecards, live weather, public/private status, and tee time booking.

DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf]

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Overloaded Overloading

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Python does not support method overloading like Java, but it allows operator overloading through magic methods like __add__ which can be used for different operations. To achieve method overloading in Python, you can implement it manually or use the @singledispatch decorator from the functools module.

Cloudflare's new AI traffic options for customers

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Cloudflare is updating its AI bot management system to provide more nuanced control over AI traffic, including three use cases: Search, Agent, and Training. The new system will allow website owners to block or allow specific AI behaviors and will introduce a new "Verified" label for bots that meet certain transparency and honesty standards.

Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home

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A meteorite crashed through a New Jersey home on July 16, 2024, and was found to be a rare primitive CM1/2 carbonaceous chondrite. The meteorite's pristine condition allowed scientists to study fragile minerals and organic compounds, providing new insight into the role of water and asteroid chemistry in shaping the early solar system.

Some more things about Django I've been enjoying

You're learning Django to build a website with an SQL database and backend rendering of HTML. You're finding it more achievable than using Go's standard library or Flask, and appreciate features like query set classes and template filters.
The University of Chicago Law School is adapting its curriculum to the AI era by developing AI-resilient pedagogy, elevating essential human skills, and teaching responsible AI use. The school is implementing policies across its curriculum, including prohibiting electronic devices in 1L classrooms, introducing AI skills training in 1L Legal Research and Writing, and experimenting with ...

Git rebase -I is not that scary

The fear surrounding Git rebase -i is often due to misunderstanding its functionality, which is simply opening a text file for editing commit history. Interactive rebasing is a powerful tool that can make life easier, not harder, once you understand it creates new commits and moves the branch pointer, with safety nets like the reflog and pre-rebase backups.

Running a 28.9M parameter LLM on an $8 microcontroller

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A 28.9 million parameter language model runs on an $8 ESP32-S3 microcontroller, writing text to a small screen at 9 tokens per second. The model fits due to Google's Per-Layer Embeddings, storing most parameters in slow flash and loading only needed rows.

DskDitto: Ultra-fast, parallel duplicate-file detector

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dskDitto is a parallel duplicate-file detector with interactive menus for hassle-free duplicate clearing. It offers a terminal interface and an optional graphical alternative, with features like safe deletion, symlink conversion, and fine-grained filtering.

JetZero

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JetZero raised $175 million in Series B financing led by B Capital and broke ground on its manufacturing campus in North Carolina. The company advances toward its first flight with new board members and Japan Airlines supporting its Z4 program for improved fuel efficiency and passenger experience.

Clinical failure rates over the decades: yikes

A new paper estimates the clinical failure rate of the biopharma industry since the 1960s, finding it to be extremely high, with 91% of candidates failing in the 2000s and 2010s. This rate is unsustainable and explains the industry's high stakes and pressure to succeed.

LLM Usage in Debian: Three Proposals

The Debian project proposes to ban contributions written with the use or assistance of large language models (LLMs) or other generative AI tools due to concerns over stability, accuracy, and legal status. The proposal aims to protect Debian's reputation for stability and reliability, as well as the interests of its volunteers, by prohibiting LLM-assisted contributions to the project.

What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality

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Research suggests AI is not causing significant job losses, but may be negatively affecting demand for young white-collar workers. AI adoption is uneven and slow, with many firms still in the experimentation stage, and its effects on employment are not yet clear.

Systems and Delays

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The author took a break from their usual activities to read a book on systems thinking and create a bitmap font. They used the book's concepts to model a car dealership's inventory system with delays, discovering that shortening delays can make the system worse, not better.

SIMD for Collision

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The user discusses the benefits of using "wide SIMD" in collision detection, particularly in 3D convex hulls, which can lead to significant performance gains. They share results showing that enabling SIMD in Box3D can make it over twice as fast as scalar mode for a 500-step run of the convex pile benchmark.

GM Backs Sodium Ion Batteries for U.S. Grid Storage

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Peak Energy, a US startup, claims it can succeed in sodium-ion battery development where others have failed, partnering with General Motors to deploy batteries at grid scale. The company's sodium-ion tech can't match energy density but costs operators 20 percent less over its lifetime compared to lithium-iron phosphate storage.

Show HN: I made some transistor animations

Blue dots represent electrons, red dots represent holes, and white flashes indicate recombination events in the animations. The animations show charge carrier motion under different conditions, with the second set being the most accurate but also more visually complex.

Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site

The weather forecast shows overcast conditions with temperatures ranging from 14-29 degrees Celsius and light drizzle on July 26-31. Precipitation is expected to be low, with 0.2mm of rain on July 26 and 31.

W4ME Station – a WASM-4 runtime for Java ME phones

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W4ME Station brings unmodified WebAssembly cartridges to mid 2000s feature phones via a 275 KB JAR. It targets CLDC 1.1 / MIDP 2.0 devices with no JIT and no network connection required.

Producing ammonia and fertiliser using wind power in Morris, Minnesota

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A low-carbon ammonia production facility has opened in Minnesota, powered by wind energy and aiming to produce one ton per day of ammonia for local fertiliser. The plant uses new modeling and control systems to adjust production based on fluctuating renewable energy supply.

Memory safety absolutists

The author discusses the recent criticism of Rust's memory safety, suggesting it's disingenuous and based on fanaticism. They argue that Rust minimizes memory safety issues and that Fil-C, a new way to make C and C++ code memory safe, has trade-offs that make it unsuitable for all projects.

Android may soon restrict on-device ADB

A Google employee is considering restricting On-Device ADB connections to protect against "bad actors". This change could impact developers and users who rely on On-Device ADB for legitimate purposes.