Apple Is Fighting for TSMC Capacity as Nvidia Takes Center Stage

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TSMC's CEO CC Wei told Apple it needs to pay a large price rise, and Apple may no longer be TSMC's largest client. Nvidia's strong demand for AI chips has narrowed Apple's lead, and TSMC's revenue growth is driven by AI and HPC.

25 Years of Wikipedia

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Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia with 65 million articles in 300 languages, updated by 250,000 volunteers. It remains one of the most-visited websites, providing reliable knowledge to everyone.

Show HN: TinyCity – A tiny city SIM for MicroPython (Thumby micro console)

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TinyCity is a city simulation game for Raspberry Pi, inspired by SimCity and MicroCity. It involves building and managing a metropolis, balancing zones and resources, and navigating disasters.
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The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible. Normal links are too trustworthy. Make them creepy.

OBS Studio 32.1.0 Beta 1 available

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Fixed an issue where the NVIDIA Blur and Background Blur could have banding or look splotchy [pkviet] Fixed an issue where macOS Screen Capture would select an item for capture by default [jcm93] Fixed an issue with PipeWire when capturing a device that does not require a framerate [tytan652]

Claude Cowork exfiltrates files

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Anthropic's Claude Cowork is vulnerable to file exfiltration attacks via indirect prompt injection due to unremediated isolation flaws. Users are recommended to be cautious when granting access to local files and avoid suspicious actions that may indicate prompt injection.

The 3D Software Rendering Technology of 1998's Thief: The Dark Project (2019)

Sean Barrett, the primary author of the core rendering technology in Thief, describes the game's rendering engine, which used a portal-and-cell idea for visibility and occlusion, and was written contemporaneously with Quake. The Thief engine, which was software-rendered, used a breadth-first traversal of portals and cells to determine what part of the level was visible and needed rendering, ...

Sinclair C5

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The Sinclair C5 is a small, one-person electric tricycle that was designed by Sir Clive Sinclair in the 1980s, but it failed to gain popularity due to its limited range, speed, and practicality. Despite its commercial failure, the C5 has become a cult item for collectors and enthusiasts who have modified it to increase its speed and performance.

Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?

People are using BM25+trigram for code search due to its speed and effectiveness. Some use static embedding models like Lee101/Gobed for faster search, but they require training and may not always be ideal.

Ask HN: Share your personal website

User is creating a community-maintained directory of personal websites at hnpwd.github.io and needs help to grow it. They want users to share their personal websites and consider joining the GitHub project as a maintainer.

Z80 Mem­ber­ship Card

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The Z80 Membership Card is a retro-style microcomputer that fits in an Altoids tin, allowing users to build and program their own computer. It comes with a kit, manual, and parts to create a classic 8-bit computer with CP/M operating system.

Americans Overwhelmingly Support Science, but Some Think the U.S. Is Lagging

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A majority of Americans believe the US should be a world leader in science, but Democrats and Republicans have differing views on the country's standing in science. The Pew Research Center's report shows a significant gap in opinion between the two groups since the last survey in 2023.

Programming, Evolved: Lessons and Observations

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Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineers

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Jiga streamlines product sourcing by connecting engineers with vetted manufacturers and automating administrative tasks. This saves time and reduces costs, allowing engineers to focus on actual work.

Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs

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Raspberry Pi's new $130 AI HAT+ 2 includes a Hailo 10H chip and 8 GB of LPDDR4X RAM, allowing for standalone LLMs and freeing the Pi's CPU. It's useful for power-constrained applications with both vision processing and inferencing, but its performance is limited by its 8 GB RAM.

The 500k-ton typo: Why data center copper math doesn't add up

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A technical paper from Nvidia claimed a 1 GW data center would require 500,000 tons of copper, sparking a copper bull case. However, the figure is likely a typo, with the correct amount being around 226 tons, still indicating a potential undersupply issue.

San Remo Pasta Measurer

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San Remo Pasta Packaging with built-in measurer reduces food waste and ensures portion control. It eliminates the need for external tools, making dinner easier with accurate serving sizes.

Scaling long-running autonomous coding

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We've developed a system of hundreds of concurrent agents that can work together on a single codebase for weeks, making real progress on ambitious projects. Our system uses a pipeline with distinct roles, including planners and workers, to coordinate tasks and avoid conflicts.

Show HN: Voice Composer – Browser-based pitch detection to MIDI/strudel/tidal

Voice Composer - Sing to MIDI

Crafting Interpreters

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Crafting Interpreters teaches you to design and build a full-featured scripting language from scratch. It covers high-level concepts and gritty details like bytecode and garbage collection in a few thousand lines of clean code.

Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

You're renovating an old agricultural machine shed using historic pipeline sections as support poles and researching the pipeline's history. Your parrot is laying an egg and you're providing care and food to support her.

Python: Tprof, a Targeting Profiler

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tprof is a targeting profiler for Python 3.12+ that measures time spent in specified target functions, ideal for comparing before and after optimizations. It uses sys.monitoring and C timing to minimize overhead and provides a quick report on the command line or via a Python API.

Bubblewrap: A nimble way to prevent agents from accessing your .env files

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The user proposes using Bubblewrap to sandbox coding agents like Claude Code, providing a more secure and simpler alternative to dedicated user accounts and Docker. Bubblewrap allows running untrusted code without risking the host system, and the user provides a test script to demonstrate its usage.

The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography

Paul Kehrer and Alex Gaynor are reducing their reliance on OpenSSL due to performance regressions, API complexity, and lack of testing. They plan to add new APIs only available on LibreSSL/BoringSSL/AWS-LC and consider switching to one of these forks for their binary wheels.

Impeccable Style

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Anthropic's frontend-design skill was built upon with curated patterns and 17 commands. Extract the ZIP to apply the skill and commands, or use the skill explicitly in your prompt.

The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis

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Palantir is working with ICE on a tool called ELITE that uses data from various sources to identify and target potential deportation targets. The tool provides a map interface, dossiers on individuals, and a "confidence score" on their current address.

Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app

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Handy is a cross-platform, open source speech-to-text tool built with Tauri, providing private and simple transcription without cloud reliance. It's designed to be extensible and forkable, allowing users to customize and contribute to its development.
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The Paris Judicial Court has ordered VPN providers to block access to pirate sports streaming sites in France, citing that they help users bypass existing site-blocking measures. The order targets ProtonVPN, NordVPN, Cyberghost, Surfshark, and ExpressVPN, requiring them to block 13 initial domains and potentially more.

Show HN: WebTiles – create a tiny 250x250 website with neighbors around you

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Show HN: Sparrow-1 – Audio-native model for human-level turn-taking without ASR

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Sparrow-1 is a conversational flow control model that predicts when a system should listen, wait, or speak in real-time, enabling human-like timing in conversational AI. It models conversational uncertainty directly and responds with precision, allowing interactions to feel attentive, patient, and natural.