Zig v0.17.0

Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain that has seen significant development, with 5 months of work from over 200 contributors. The latest release includes various improvements, such as enhanced support for architectures like x86_64-linux and ARM targets.

Apple Pass Designer

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Use Apple's Pass Designer or a preferred design tool to create custom pass designs, editing in real-time for iPhone and Apple Watch previews. The preview mirrors iOS and watchOS rendering for accurate customer experience.

The Harness Is the Company

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A SaaS business will transform into a "harness" around a model, encompassing infrastructure, interfaces, and state that surround a stateless LLM. This harness can be composed of smaller sub-harnesses and is key to maximizing value for customers while optimizing human attention.

Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility

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A federal judge blocked Utah's attempt to outlaw VPNs due to a law requiring adult websites to block users using them. The court ruled that the law is unconstitutional as it imposes an impossible technical requirement on businesses and people outside of Utah.

A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting

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This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now

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Researchers from Carnegie Mellon, MIT, and others created an AI called Ataraxos that beat the world's top Stratego player in 15 games. The AI used a unique approach to learn strategy by thinking ahead and sampling plausible moves rather than iterating through every possible arrangement.

Muse Gadgets

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Muse gadgets are open-source devices built by hackers for fun, with side effects including bricked boards and voided warranties. Users can grab an SDK token and start building their own projects or join the community Discord to share ideas and get support.

Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city

Former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin showcased his sprawling Minecraft world, "Tomlinburgh", with 20,000 concurrent viewers. The video featured densely populated buildings and communities designed by Tomlin over a 12-year period.

Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers

From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4

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DwarfStar 4 is a narrow C inference engine for high-memory Mac, CUDA and ROCm machines supporting DeepSeek V4 and V4.1 Flash models with text and vision models. It provides a CLI, HTTP APIs, native agent and local cache sharing the same model state.

Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video]

One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash

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The author attempted to use only one efficient open model for the whole of September, but ended up using 1B tokens and exceeding their budget due to various issues. They learned valuable lessons about model selection, infrastructure availability, and experimentation.

Show HN: Made an open-source Lego AI generator

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An AI agent is guided to build an LDraw LEGO model using a semantic search tool, and the process involves building a Docker image with required tools and libraries. The goal is to enable agents like ChatGPT and Claude to design buildable physical models in LDraw assembly language.

The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4)

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The author detailed the challenges of booting Linux on M4 Mac mini, including SPTM security and MMU initialization issues. They successfully booted Linux with all cores enabled by replacing WFI instructions with NOPs, leading to upstream Linux and m1n1 updates.

Venice’s failed war against Constantinople led to the first bond market

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The birth of the bond market began in 1171 when Venice's Doge Vitale II Michiel forced citizens to lend money for a war fleet, promising 5% interest payments. This loan became tradable and helped solidify links between citizens and the state.

FLUX 3 Image

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The user wants to generate an image with FLUX 3, a multimodal model for video, audio, images and actions. They provide a scene prompt that describes a glowing concrete dome rising from a twilight bay, with various elements such as surfers, dancers, and animals in the background.

Blogging with Gleam, Org-Mode and Pandoc

The author is building a static website using Org-mode, Emacs, and Nix to create a reproducible development environment. The site uses Markdown for conversion but prefers Org-mode's document model for writing and structuring content.

Sites in ChatGPT

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Create websites, dashboards, games, slide decks, and apps with ChatGPT Sites. Describe your idea, refine it through conversation, and share it.

The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]

John von Neumann was a renowned mathematician who made significant contributions to various fields, including quantum physics, logic, and computer science. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential mathematicians of the 20th century.

Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas

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AI painters created artworks in the style of famous artists like Caspar David Friedrich and Edward Hopper without using images as references. They generated paintings by writing code that simulates oil paint, with some even creating their own unique styles and themes.

Anatomy of a Lean proof for software engineers

The author worked through a problem from a theory of computation textbook that asked to prove a property of a language using finite automata, and formalized the proof in Lean. The proof involved building an adder DFA that recognizes the reversal of the language, and then showing that this makes the original language regular by induction on its length.

STS-51-F Abort-to-Orbit (1985)

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The STS-51-F mission, launched on July 29, 1985, was the 19th flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program and carried out an "Abort to Orbit" procedure due to engine failure. The primary payload was Spacelab 2 laboratory module.

Electrification Special Report 2026 [pdf]

The IEA highlights the growing role of electricity in global energy systems, emphasizing its potential to enhance energy security and reduce emissions. Electrification is seen as a key strategy to meet climate goals, with a target of achieving 35% electricity share in final energy consumption by 2035.

The first packet sent via RFC1149 avian carrier is up for auction at Christie's

David Waitzman wrote RFC 1149, a joke protocol for sending IP packets by carrier pigeon in 1990. A Norwegian group implemented the protocol using pigeons and printed packets, with one surviving packet now framed and signed by Waitzman.

F.02 Decommission

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The company decommissioned its F.02 robot fleet by training them to jump into molten steel in Finland, a task deemed impossible due to safety concerns and equipment limitations. The successful experiment was made possible with the help of Arnold Schwarzenegger and resulted in unique metal artifacts commemorating the fleet's history.

Open-sourcing AstaBrief, the fast report-generation model in Asta

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AstaBrief is an open-source model that generates cited scientific reports faster than proprietary models, reducing generation time by 3.5x. It's designed for scientific work, emphasizing evidence grounding and citation accuracy.

On social reality in China

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The author shares their perspective on cultural differences in China, highlighting the importance of understanding Chinese social reality and its impact on AI safety awareness. They discuss various aspects of Chinese culture, including food preferences, beauty standards, and social norms that prioritize strength over kindness.

GrapheneOS has fixed the Android 17 QPR1 kernel performance regression

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Show HN: Pyxel – A Python retro game engine with built-in art and sound editors

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Pyxel is a Python-based retro game engine with simple specifications for creating pixel-art games. It's open source and free to use under the MIT License.

What if we stopped using GPUs? [video]