.name Grandfathered

Verisign is retracting its plan to terminate 22,000 domain names and email redirects after a team effort. The existing domains and email redirects will remain indefinitely due to the collective efforts of many individuals who joined the fight against this decision.

Smart home devices should work without the internet

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The author shares their home automation setup, emphasizing the importance of hardware ownership and local protocols to ensure devices work offline. They outline 11 rules for building a reliable smart home system.

AlphaProof Code

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Google DeepMind researchers used a new agentic framework to formally verify the code of Signal's cryptographic protocol, proving its security properties mathematically. This breakthrough uses AI to prove key security aspects of widely deployed protocols like Signal and Google Messages at unprecedented depth.

Blender 5.3 released with Gaussian Splat support

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Blender 5.3 introduces new features such as Gaussian Splats, Dispersion in the Transmission panel, DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction, and more for improved rendering and animation capabilities.

The Hardest Tarball?

A GNU tar archive is constructed with a single invocation, which can be extracted in 8 distinct ways depending on the tool used. The archive exploits unique path handling to create unexpected results when extracting it with different tools.

Ableton Live 13

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See what’s coming in Ableton Live 13: experimental sound design tools, precision mixing effects and workflow improvements to bring your ideas into focus.

I deleted all my SSH keys

The author documents using secure enclaves like YubiKeys, TPMs, and Apple Secure Enclave to store SSH key material securely. They test three hardware methods for achieving this goal.

Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strands Decider

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Amazon replaced Sonnet 4.6 with Strands Decider, a decision model that labels tickets at 98% less cost, saving millions of dollars in token costs annually. The new model uses a shorter prompt and returns a probability for each option plus confidence score, beating production Sonnet results on separate tests.

AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast

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AMD's Zen 6 CPU core family has evolved from Zen 5 with changes in the integer schedules, branch predictor, and out-of-order structures. The new designs cater to different workloads, with Zen 6 optimized for high-frequency applications and Zen 6c designed to handle memory-intensive tasks.

Show HN: Valencia, Spain in Sim City/Isometric View

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A pixel-art map of València is created using real 3D city data, then repainted in a hand-picked style. The map features the entire municipal area, including the huerta and Albufera, with seamless tiling.

What's new in the .NET 11 runtime

The .NET runtime for .NET 11 has been updated with new features, including improved async support and performance optimizations. The minimum hardware requirements have also been updated to require more modern instruction sets on various architectures.

NetBSD 11 desktop on a Raspberry Pi 4

The author successfully installed NetBSD on a Raspberry Pi, creating a guide for others to follow. They configured the system with various tools and settings to make it more usable, including installing desktop environments and customizing shell settings.

Taking another shot at the cheap IP camera, part 2

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The author attempted to enable ONVIF streaming on a cheap Tuya IP camera by modifying its firmware. They used reverse engineering tools and Linux kernel analysis to understand the camera's configuration process, but ultimately relied on a Large Language Model (LLM) for assistance with decoding binary data and identifying specific functions. The modified firmware was successfully flashed onto ...

Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2

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Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 models have improved capabilities in coding, reasoning, and vision, with strong cybersecurity and biology safeguards to prevent misuse. These models are suitable for ambitious technical work and can be used for various applications such as robotics evaluations, hardware engineering, and scientific research.

Queens Public Library under ransomware attack

Public computers at 7 NYC Library locations are temporarily unavailable due to an outage, but book borrowing and returns remain possible. Renewals are currently not available during this time.

What constant surveillance is doing to children and parents

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Process Explorer for macOS

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Sysinternals Process Explorer for Mac is a native macOS tool offering live process trees, detailed process properties, and system performance metrics. It uses Swift and public macOS APIs to provide advanced process inspection and privileged operations via a helper daemon.

M John Harrison becomes first science fiction author to win the Booker

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M. John Harrison, 81, wins the £50,000 Booker Prize for his postapocalyptic novel "The End of Everything". He is the oldest winner in the award's history and becomes a historic win for science fiction literature.
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The author is frustrated with Google's AI-powered search function, which often prioritizes automated answers over actual addresses and has become a problem for the company's business model. The rise of A.I. chatbots like ChatGPT is further eroding the need for traditional search engines like Google, threatening its very existence.

Tailscale's DNS IPv6 spells out "Tailscale"

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Fossil CO2 emissions decrease in 2026

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Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels are projected to decrease by 0.4% in 2026, driven by solar and wind power growth. However, total CO2 emissions will still reach 43.3 billion tonnes due to land-use change increases.

AI usage generates a fragile codebase

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The author was laid off from Meta due to their resistance to adopting AI/LLMs as coding tools, but now they're employed at another company where AI-generated code is the norm. They argue that relying on AI for large-scale SaaS development leads to fragile and brittle codebases.

A failed experiment in laptop cooling (2025)

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The author attempted to improve cooling on their Lenovo P53 laptop by adding custom fans, but found no significant improvement in performance. The external fans did provide some cooling, but it was not enough to make a noticeable difference at high loads.

Billion Watts in the Speaker [video]

USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons

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USPS ZIP Code Boundaries provides accurate national map data for industries like mapping, logistics, and real estate. It helps correct existing data as changes occur and serves as a proxy for delivery location groupings.

Show HN: Ghanaian street games you can play in the browser

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Let over Lambda–50 Years of Lisp (2008)

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Let Over Lambda is a hardcore computer programming book that explores Lisp's advanced features, focusing on macros that write programs. The book aims to inspire and educate readers about the power of Lisp programming.

Simon Winchester, Author of 'The Professor and the Madman,' Has Died

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PHP2Shell Deep Dive

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The author researched PHP2Shell, a vulnerability in PHP that allows attackers to exploit memory corruption bugs by leveraging stale pointers and heap grooming. The author created an in-depth technical walkthrough of the vulnerability, including how to forge a zend_array structure with a poisoned pDestructor pointer, which can be used to redirect execution and execute arbitrary commands.

Here comes the sun[light]:An ambient Daylight Clock with time and space controls

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The author built an analog clock that displays daylight hours based on its home latitude and longitude, with a control box to override the time zone. The project took several months of mental space and physical effort, including designing the clock face and body, programming the microcontroller, and overcoming technical challenges.