MinIO Is Dead, Long Live MinIO

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A community fork of MinIO, pgsty/minio, was created after MinIO's open-source repo was archived, restoring the admin console and fixing CVEs. The fork aims to provide a stable, reliable build of MinIO for users who rely on it as a production component.

Obsidian Sync now has a headless client

Obsidian Sync offers a headless client for syncing vaults without the desktop app, useful for automated workflows and CI pipelines. It uses end-to-end encryption and supports config syncing and file creation time preservation.

The happiest I've ever been

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The author became a youth basketball coach in January 2020 to fill a void in his life. Coaching brought him happiness and confidence, allowing him to help kids and be in control.

Building a Minimal Transformer for 10-digit Addition

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A blog post by Alex Litzenberger

Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule

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Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in Israeli attacks with US support. He ruled Iran for 36 years, known for his anti-US and anti-Israel stance and brutal suppression of protests.

Verified Spec-Driven Development (VSDD)

Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access

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Over the past week, we saw reports from Gemini CLI users experiencing account disruptions. These were the result of a series of Antigravity bans rolled out to address violations of the Antigravity ...

Block the "Upgrade to Tahoe" Alerts

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A user found a way to block macOS Tahoe update notifications by using a device management profile, specifically the Stop Tahoe Update project. They modified the profile to block Tahoe update activities for 90 days, and now they can reinstall the profile every 90 days to continue blocking the notifications.

Werner Herzog Between Fact and Fiction

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Werner Herzog's book The Future of Truth is a disappointing collection of repurposed passages and anecdotes that fail to provide insight into his concept of ecstatic truth. The book's failure to achieve its goal suggests that Herzog may not want to understand what he means by "ecstatic truth" in order to preserve the need to quest after it.

New evidence that Cantor plagiarized Dedekind?

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Demian Goos, a mathematician and journalist, discovered a lost letter from Georg Cantor's estate that proved Cantor's famous 1874 paper on infinity was an act of plagiarism. The letter, believed to be lost during World War II, showed Cantor had collaborated with Richard Dedekind on the paper.

Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust

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Implementing a subset of the Wolfram Language for CLI scripting and notebooks, focusing on speed and efficiency. Woxi runs faster than WolframScript with Rust-based implementation and supports a subset of Wolfram Language functions.

Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers

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The Windows 95 User Interface: A Case Study in Usability Engineering

Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages

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Upload a scientific PDF and get back a shareable, interactive web page that explains it in plain language.

The whole thing was a scam

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Altman signed a deal with Amodei after publicly supporting him, while rejecting similar terms from Anthropic due to campaign contributions. This move was seen as punitive and favoring Amodei over Anthropic.

Our Agreement with the Department of War

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We reached an agreement with the Pentagon for deploying AI systems in classified environments with guardrails to prevent misuse. Our approach includes a cloud-only deployment, safety stack, and OpenAI personnel in the loop to ensure responsible use.

747s and Coding Agents

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A Belgian pilot shared his wistful thoughts about flying the 747, feeling no improvement after 20 years. He now works at an AI lab and feels like a pilot, relying on coding agents to implement features, but worries about losing skills and knowledge.

We Will Not Be Divided

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Google and OpenAI employees can sign a letter anonymously or publicly, with verified signatures displayed. The letter aims to find common ground on AI misuse, with signatures manually reviewed by one person for authenticity.

Ghosts'n Goblins – “Worse danger is ahead”

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Famitsu magazine's charts show Ghosts'n Goblins was the #1 game in Japan and UK in 1986. The game's home versions, developed by Elite Systems, were well-received in the UK, with the Commodore 64 version praised for its faithfulness to the arcade original.

What I learned while trying to build a production-ready nearest neighbor system

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SmartKNN is a KNN algorithm with data-driven feature importance and adaptive search strategies. It supports regression and classification tasks with robustness and low latency.

The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks

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Archivist Leontien Talboom is working to preserve decades of digital history stored on floppy disks before they decay. She's developed a guide to imaging floppy disks for preservation, helping to rescue data from hundreds of historically significant disks.

Laravel Inertia Toast

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An opinionated package that provides beautiful toast notifications for Laravel + Inertia.js applications. Fluent PHP API, multi-toast support, redirect-safe, with Vue 3 and React adapters. Toast notifications can can be triggered from both your backend (PHP) and frontend (JavaScript). Use Toast::success('Saved!') in your controllers or useToast().success('Copied!') in your ...

From Noise to Image – interactive guide to diffusion

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A diffusion model navigates a vast space of possible images to produce coherent results by starting with random noise and gradually removing it. The model uses a prompt's embedding space as a compass to guide its journey, with the guidance scale controlling how strongly it follows the prompt.

Stop Burning Your Context Window – How We Cut MCP Output by 98% in Claude Code

Context Mode compresses tool outputs by 98% and reduces context window consumption by 72%. This allows users to work 6x longer before context degradation, increasing session time from 30 minutes to 3 hours.

'Play like a dog biting God's feet': Steven Isserlis on György Kurtág at 100

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The author met György Kurtág at an International Musicians Seminar in Cornwall, where they formed a lifelong friendship through music. Kurtág's teaching style is transformative, using vivid imagery and unexpected connections to illuminate his music.

The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers

The history of software development shows a pattern of tools promising to simplify creation and eliminate the need for programmers, but ultimately creating new categories of work and demand for specialized developers. Despite the hype, the fundamental challenge of translating human intent into correct, efficient, and maintainable software remains unchanged, and human skills such as ...

Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 GGUFs

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Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 quantization outperforms leading methods, preserving accuracy in LLMs. It now supports all models, including non-MoEs, with custom-tailored quantization schemes.

The Future of AI

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The speaker argues that we are raising a new species with AI, which lacks millions of years of evolution and biological hardware for empathy, and therefore we need to install morality in AI from scratch, but this is a difficult task that may be mathematically impossible. The speaker believes that the real problem is not AI itself, but rather our own human limitations, such as our inability to ...

"We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"

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The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran

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US and Israel launched a massive military campaign in Iran targeting its ballistic missiles and missile launchers. The attack follows weeks of US-Iran negotiations over Iran's nuclear program and threats from President Trump.