God Sleeps in the Minerals

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I took this snapshot, and the rest of them, at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County's Unearthed: Raw Beauty exhibition yesterday. Enjoy.

Where the Heck Did My Taxes Go?

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This site is for informational purposes only. All figures are based on FY2025 federal budget data from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Congressional Budget Office (CBO), and other official government sources. Your actual tax contribution breakdown may differ based on specific tax types paid.

Open Source Isn't Dead. Cal.com Just Learned the Wrong Lesson

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Cal.com is transitioning to closed source due to AI's ability to automate vulnerability discovery, but this won't stop AI attacks. Open source security tools like Strix can still find vulnerabilities without code access.

Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers (2008)

A beginner in programming buys a set of highly recommended books on programming but finds them too broad and complex. They eventually discover Jack Crenshaw's simple compiler tutorials that focus on basic concepts.

Show HN: Libretto – Making AI browser automations deterministic

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Libretto is a toolkit for building robust web integrations with a live browser and CLI. It helps maintain browser integrations to common software and is open-sourced for easier use.

Good Sleep, Good Learning (2012)

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The article discusses the importance of sleep for learning, creativity, and overall health. It highlights the negative effects of sleep deprivation, including reduced productivity, poor decision-making, and increased risk of accidents and diseases.

Adaptional (YC S25) Is Hiring Founding AI Engineers

Adaptional is building AI for insurance, aiming to replace manual data entry and outdated software with a modern platform. As a founding engineer, you'll build AI agents, work with top insurance companies, and solve complex problems in a highly regulated industry.

The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs

New jobs are emerging at the boundary between human and ML systems, including incanters, process engineers, and statistical engineers. These roles will focus on controlling errors, interpreting model behavior, and optimizing ML performance.

Forcing an inversion of control on the SaaS stack

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100x launched Page Booster, a feature that lets users embed or tweak UI as they like on any website. This allows users to automate workflows and customize UI without needing to wait for vendors to add features.

How do Wake-On-LAN works

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Wake-on-LAN is a network protocol that wakes up a computer or server when a Magic Packet is received by the network interface, which is built by a specific data sequence including a synchronization stream and the target's MAC address repeated 16 times. A Magic Packet can be sent using any network protocol, but the easiest way is to send it as a UDP datagram to the broadcast address with port ...

Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6

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Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 is a significant upgrade that enables robots to understand their environments with unprecedented precision through enhanced spatial reasoning and multi-view understanding. It specializes in reasoning capabilities critical for robotics, including visual and spatial understanding, task planning, and success detection.

Do you even need a database?

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The author tested three approaches to handle database lookups: in-memory map, binary search on disk, and SQLite, and found that the in-memory map handles ~97k req/s, binary search on disk handles ~40k req/s, and SQLite handles ~25k req/s. The author concludes that for most applications, especially early-stage ones, a database might not be necessary yet, but as the application grows, a ...

Costasiella kuroshimae – Solar Powered animals, that do indirect photosynthesis

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Costasiella kuroshimae is a sacoglossan sea slug that performs photosynthesis through kleptoplasty, retaining chloroplasts from algae. It is found in tropical waters near Japan, the Philippines, and Indonesia, and ranges in size from 5 to 10 mm.

Wacli – WhatsApp CLI

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To use the WhatsApp Web protocol via whatsmeow, install via Homebrew and authenticate with pnpm wacli auth.

Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16

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The editor in chief of this blog was born in 2004 and uses the 1997 window manager Enlightenment E16. She fixed a rare bug in the codebase dating back to 2006 caused by a faulty Newton's algorithm implementation.

Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight

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Anna's Archive, a shadow library, was sued by Spotify and major labels for copyright infringement after backing up Spotify data. A US judge awarded $322 million in damages and a permanent injunction to shut down the site's domains.

We ran Doom on a 40 year old printer controller (Agfa Compugraphic 9000PS) [video]

Google Gemma 4 Runs Natively on iPhone with Full Offline AI Inference

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Google's Gemma 4 AI model now runs directly on iPhones with full local inference and offline capability. This marks the beginning of the on-device AI era, making local AI deployment commercially viable for various use cases.

Metro stop is Ancient Rome's new attraction

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Rome's Metro C construction has uncovered ancient Roman ruins, turning stations into "archaeo-stations" showcasing history. Visitors can explore the city's past at €1.50 per entry.

Show HN: Every CEO and CFO change at US public companies, live from SEC

Watch every CEO, CFO, and board change at US public companies in real time. Live data from SEC filings, updated as they're filed.

Pretty Fish: A better mermaid diagram editor

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Press enter or space to select a node. You can then use the arrow keys to move the node around. Press delete to remove it and escape to cancel. Press enter or space to select an edge. You can then press delete to remove it or escape to cancel.

Study: Back-to-basics approach can match or outperform AI in language analysis

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A new study by Dr Andrea Nini at The University of Manchester found a grammar-based method called LambdaG matches or outperforms AI in authorship analysis. LambdaG uses patterns in grammar and sentence construction for accurate results with greater transparency and lower computational cost.

The tiniest e-reader in the world, and you can build one yourself

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The e-reader, only slightly bigger than an adult human thumb, can hold roughly six to 10 books. Despite being available for nearly two decades, e-readers have largely been limited to a small sect of users who demand a distraction-free experience tailored for reading. While they have been nowhere near as popular as smartphones, e-readers have recently seen a surge in interest, especially among ...

Elevated errors on Claude.ai, API, Claude Code

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Claude.ai and related services experienced intermittent errors and outages due to various issues affecting login, API endpoints, and model requests. Most issues have been resolved, but some users may still experience problems.

AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you

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Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider

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The author argues that dependency cooldowns, which delay adopting new versions of packages, are not a good solution to supply chain attacks and instead proposes using upload queues, which delay distributing new packages until they have been reviewed. Upload queues can be implemented in central dependency servers and have several benefits, including reducing the power of release credentials ...

US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) no attorney-client privilege for AI chats [pdf]

Backpacks got worse on purpose

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VF Corporation acquired several brands including JanSport, The North Face, and Eastpak, and then degraded their quality to increase profit margins. The company's business model relies on selling cheap, low-quality products that need to be replaced frequently, creating repeat customers and revenue.

New Modern Greek

User is experimenting with Greek language changes, proposing simplifications such as dropping digraphs and unifying letters. Changes aim to make Greek easier to write and read.

MIT Radiation Laboratory

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In 1940, the US formed the Radiation Laboratory at MIT to develop microwave radar technology for World War II. The lab made significant contributions, including early warning and air-to-surface vessel radars, which helped turn the tide of the war.