Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

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Claude 3.7 Sonnet is a hybrid reasoning model that produces near-instant responses or extended thinking, available on all Claude plans. It shows strong improvements in coding and front-end web development, and is now available with a command line tool for agentic coding, Claude Code.

Show HN: I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass

decrease yourscreen time...touch grass

Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US

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Apple plans to hire 20,000 US workers and produce AI servers domestically to avoid US tariffs on Chinese goods. The company will spend $500 billion in the US over four years on new facilities and suppliers.

“The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study”

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A Reddit user conducted an informal study to investigate the claim that kebab restaurants near train/metro stations in Paris are less tasty, using Google Places API and OSMnx to gather data on kebab restaurants and train stations. The study found a weak correlation between distance to train stations and kebab restaurant quality, suggesting that other factors may be at play, such as rent, ...

Breaking into apartment buildings in five minutes on my phone

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The writer found a vulnerable access control system called MESH by Viscount, which exposed residents' personal info and allowed remote access to buildings. They discovered 89 vulnerable systems, mostly in Canada, using a Nuclei scan.

Right to Repair laws have now been proposed in all U.S. states

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Right to Repair legislation has been introduced in every US state, with 24 states having active legislation this year. Five states have passed electronics Right to Repair laws, with manufacturers like Google and Apple now supporting the movement.

Clean Code vs. A Philosophy Of Software Design

(This document is the result of a series of discussions, some online and some in person, held between Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin and John Ousterhout between September, 2024 and February, 2025. If you would like to comment on anything in this discussion, we recommend that you do so on the Google group associated with APOSD) Hi (Uncle) Bob! You and I have each written books on software ...

Introduction to Stochastic Calculus

This document is a brief introduction to stochastic calculus. Like, an actual introduction. Not the textbook “introductions” which immediately blast you with graduate-level probability theory axioms and definitions. The goal of this blog post is more to focus on the physical intuition and derivation of Brownian motion, which is the foundation of stochastic calculus. I will avoid very ...

DeepSeek Open Source FlashMLA – MLA Decoding Kernel for Hopper GPUs

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FlashMLA is an efficient MLA decoding kernel for Hopper GPUs, achieving up to 3000 GB/s and 580 TFLOPS. It is optimized for variable-length sequences and available on GitHub.

Freelancing: How I found clients, part 1

To find work, you need experience and a well-structured resume with quantifiable achievements. Prepare a clear personal pitch and use tools like Calendly and Briskine to manage your time and responses.

Microsoft cancels leases for AI data centers, analyst says

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Microsoft is canceling datacenter leases in the US, possibly due to concerns about overbuilding AI computing capacity. This move may reflect a shift in Microsoft's capital spending strategy.

Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate

The quarter started Wednesday, 01 January and will end Monday, 31 March (each quarter is ~13 weeks) Wouldn't it be better if there was a tool that removed the need for this though?

Show HN: Libredesk – Open-source customer support desk. Single binary app

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This project is an alpha version of a smart automation tool for repetitive tasks, with features like auto-tagging, assignment, and SLA management. It can be set up using Docker and has a Vue js 3 frontend and Go backend.

How the UK Is Weakening Safety Worldwide

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The UK ordered Apple to insert a backdoor into iCloud, but Apple refused and removed encryption for UK users instead. This is part of a global assault on privacy and online safety, with the UK's demand emboldening other regimes to undermine user safety.

The benefits of learning in public

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The writer has been reflecting on their blog posts and found that the most effective ones are tutorials on things they've learned, which help solidify their own knowledge and are also useful to others. They plan to focus on writing more of these "TIL deep dives" posts.

Ask HN: Former devs who can't get a job, what did you end up doing for work?

You're struggling to pay rent due to low savings and are considering alternative careers. Former developers have transitioned into various jobs, such as outdoor work or skilled trades like electrical work or carpentry.

Ggwave: Tiny Data-over-Sound Library

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This library uses sound to communicate between air-gapped devices with a bandwidth rate of 8-16 bytes/sec. It implements a simple FSK-based transmission protocol with error correction codes.

The best way to use text embeddings portably is with Parquet and Polars

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The author created text embeddings for 32,254 Magic: the Gathering cards and found a simple way to calculate similarity between cards using numpy, without needing a vector database. They recommend using Parquet files and the polars library for efficient storage and fast similarity search, which can be a good alternative to vector databases for smaller projects.

Pollution from Big Tech's data centre boom costs US public health $5.4bn

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Is Ketamine Neurotoxic?

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Ketamine use at high doses causes widespread cognitive and neurological impairment, including bladder damage and central nervous system toxicity. Low therapeutic doses may still lead to tolerance and reduced effectiveness over time.

Laravel Cloud

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Laravel Cloud offers serverless Postgres databases with auto-scaling and flexible pricing. It provides a fully-managed platform with control over scaling limits and predictable costs.

Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go (2020)

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Visiting thepiratebay and downloading a torrent file leads to connecting to a tracker, retrieving a list of peers, and initiating a handshake with each peer to start downloading pieces of the file. The downloaded pieces are then assembled into a complete file, and the file can be sublimated into an mp3 format from thin air using software that converts the file into a different format.

ARPA is funding cheap community-owned gigabit fiber to neglected neighborhoods

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The 2021 American Rescue Plan Act is funding community-owned fiber networks in the US, challenging monopoly power and providing cheap internet to long-neglected towns. States like New York and Minnesota are leveraging ARPA funds to deploy affordable gigabit fiber, disrupting regional monopolies and offering lower prices to users.

Larry Ellison's half-billion-dollar quest to change farming

Larry Ellison's Sensei Ag is a $500 million project to modernize agriculture using cutting-edge tech. Ellison sees it as part of his legacy, aiming to grow food in areas like Africa.
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Cloudflare has launched a legal action against LaLiga over IP blocking that affected millions of users accessing unrelated websites. LaLiga claims Cloudflare helped pirates distribute its content, but Cloudflare says the blocking was misguided and unlawful.

'Impossible-to-hack' security turns out to be no security

A security researcher discovered an exposed database of Teammate App, containing 2,963,124 records of exposed data, including user information, passwords, and sensitive company data. The company's CEO, Sean Banayan, responded inappropriately, claiming the data breach was impossible and accusing the researcher of harassment.

Student refines 100-year-old math problem, expanding wind energy possibilities

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Penn State engineering student Divya Tyagi refined a century-old math problem, making it easier to use in wind turbine design. Her work expands research in aerodynamics, unlocking new possibilities in wind turbine efficiency and energy production.

Show HN: I scrape Steam data every month and it's yours to download for free

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GG Insights uses AI to provide game insights and data, offering a free plan for basic analysis and a paid membership for deeper analysis and custom datasets. Paid membership includes access to raw data, but does not allow reselling or redistribution of data and has a monthly billing cycle.

What's New in Emacs 30.1?

Emacs 30.1 is upon us, and it’s time for another bumper release full of new features and improvements. As always, I have taken the time to go through most of the changes in Emacs 30.1 and annotated them to give perspective and clarity. completion-preview-mode is a tantalizing replacement for company mode and corfu as it uses a buffer and window system (not unlike the *Completions* window when ...

OpenAI Researchers Find That AI Is Unable to Solve Most Coding Problems

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OpenAI researchers found that even advanced AI models struggle with coding tasks, unable to solve the majority of tasks on a benchmark of 1,400 software engineering tasks. The models can work quickly but lack the skill and reliability to replace human coders.

Neut Programming Language

Neut handles resources through type-directed functions for discarding or copying values. It achieves this by translating programs to use variables exactly once, avoiding unnecessary copies.

Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking

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Modernist Cuisine is a six-volume cookbook that explores the art and science of cooking through thousands of photographs and diagrams. It won the 2012 James Beard Award for Cookbook of the Year and features over 1,500 recipes and advanced cooking techniques.

We don't need startups, we need Digital-Mittelstand

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Germany's attempt to replicate Silicon Valley has failed due to cultural differences, and instead, the country should focus on developing a unique digital model called Digital-Mittelstand that aligns with its cultural ethos. This model prioritizes quality, sustainability, and employee well-being, and with tailored government incentives, it could help create profitable and sustainable digital ...

Launch HN: SubImage (YC W25) – See your infra from an attacker's perspective

Alex and Kunaal introduce SubImage, a tool for security teams to fix issues before attacks, built on Cartography, an open source security graph. SubImage provides actionable recommendations and customization for teams to prioritize real threats and improve infra security.

Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algorithm ever? (2021)

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A simple sorting algorithm is presented and proven to be correct despite initial appearances. It is compared to other simple sorting algorithms and analyzed for its properties.

The Wrongs of Thomas More

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The user delves into the Oxford English Dictionary's definition of "wrong" and discovers a 1528 quote from Thomas More's "A Dyaloge" that showcases the word's evolution. The quote is part of a lengthy and abstruse dialogue that reveals More's true character as a devout, sincere Catholic who hardened his heart and made a career of setting people on fire for their thought crimes.

MongoDB acquires Voyage AI

Closing the “green gap”: energy savings from the math of the landscape function

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Researchers used the "landscape function" to improve LED efficiency, which led to a significant decrease in US residential electricity consumption due to the transition from incandescent to LED light bulbs. The landscape function, a mathematical discovery, enabled accurate numerical simulations of LED designs, allowing for faster and more efficient development of energy-saving LED technology.

Practical Foundations of Mathematics

I recreated Shazam's algorithm with Go [video]

Micro Journal: Distraction-Free Writing Device

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The user created a series of writing devices with various features such as mechanical keyboards, paper-like displays, and distraction-free interfaces to enhance the writing experience. Each iteration aimed to improve the design, functionality, and user experience, with some versions utilizing Raspberry Pi, ESP32, and old phones to create a portable and immersive writing environment.

Show HN: Bracket City – A daily, exploded (?) crossword puzzle

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The Smurfs, a group of small creatures, are unwanted in a shop with a Gatsby-like wall. Azrael, the eldest Smurf, announces that the Tom Bunch kids are not the ones making pizzas.

Writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C# – Part 1

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The user attempted to write a custom Garbage Collector in C# using NativeAOT but encountered a crash due to the NativeAOT runtime calling the custom GC's initialization function prematurely. The user found a workaround by enabling standalone GC support in NativeAOT and using environment variables to load the standard GC for NativeAOT and the custom GC for the .NET runtime.

Grok 3 is highly vulnerable to indirect prompt injection

Grok 3 is vulnerable to indirect prompt injection attacks on Twitter. Malicious tweets can cause Grok to misbehave in future queries by including specific keywords.

The journalists training AI models for Meta and OpenAI

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Carla McCanna, a recent Northwestern University graduate, found a remote data work job at Outlier, a platform owned by Scale AI, which pays her $35 per hour. She recommends the gig to fellow journalists struggling to find full-time writing positions.

Modular forms, the 'fifth fundamental operation' of math (2023)

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Modular forms are complex mathematical functions that exhibit multiple symmetries, making them powerful tools in various areas of mathematics and physics, including number theory, geometry, and cryptography. They have been used to prove important theorems, such as Fermat's Last Theorem, and have connections to other areas, including the Langlands program and string theory.

Understanding Surrogate Pairs: Why Some Windows Filenames Can't Be Read

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Windows has a design issue with UTF-16 encoding that can cause surrogate pairs to appear as unreadable filenames, but the operating system can still execute these files correctly. This issue can be replicated by creating files with surrogate pairs using Python, and it's not specific to Windows as some Linux filesystems also allow these characters.

The DOS 3.3 sys.com bug hunt

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The DOS 3.3 SYS.COM command has a bug where it fails to check the return code from Generic IOCTL, causing it to write garbage to the BPB of the media when it fails. This bug was introduced in DOS 3.2 and is still present in DOS 4.0, affecting hard drive images mounted with NetDrive but not floppy images.

Starship's Eighth Flight Test

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Dragon performs a series of burns to position itself near the International Space Station. It then docks, pressurizes, and opens the hatch for crew entry.

Microsoft dropped some AI data center leases, analyst says

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Microsoft canceled some US data center leases, raising concerns about oversupply. The move may be tied to Microsoft's potential shift in AI computing capacity needs or a reallocation of investments.

What happened to the n in restaurateur?

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A restaurateur is a person who owns or manages a restaurant, derived from the French verb "restaurer" meaning to restore. The term originated in the 18th century from medical assistants who prepared restorative soups.

$1.5B Bybit Hack – How the biggest hack in history happened

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North Korea's state-sponsored Lazarus Group hacked Bybit, stealing ~$1.4 billion in a sophisticated attack that exploited a hidden flaw in the exchange's Safe smart contract wallet. The attack highlights the need for better security controls and operational risk management in the crypto industry to prevent similar incidents and protect users' assets.

JSON has become today's machine-readable output format on Unix

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Show HN: Instantly Translate Manga – TranslateManga

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TranslateManga is an AI-powered tool translating comics into 50+ languages instantly. It preserves artwork quality and is easy to use with a cancelable subscription.

Sigma BF Camera

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The Sigma BF is a digital camera with a simple design and advanced features, offering a pure photographic experience. It features a 35mm full-frame sensor, 6k recording, and a streamlined user interface for effortless photography.

Apple to Build A.I. Servers in Houston and Spend $500B in U.S.

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Apple plans to spend $500 billion and hire 20,000 people in the US over four years, opening a Texas factory for AI machines. The move comes after CEO Tim Cook met with President Trump, amid US tariffs on Chinese products.

Every line is a potential bug (2009)

A programmer's code used wait() with a 1 second timeout, but reviewers suggested using the remaining time to avoid unnecessary thread wakes. The suggested optimization introduced bugs due to complexity and potential for negative time values.

Apple will spend more than $500B in the U.S. over the next four years

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Apple commits $500 billion to US investments over four years, focusing on AI, silicon engineering, and skills development. The pledge includes opening a new manufacturing facility in Houston, doubling the US Advanced Manufacturing Fund, and expanding R&D investments.

Show HN: Electro – A hyper-fast Windows image viewer with a built-in terminal

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Electro is a lightweight, fast image viewer built with Rust for developers, featuring a custom terminal and open-source code. It loads images from the web without download and sets itself as the default image viewer.

Apache NetBeans 25

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Multiple NetBeans issues were reported and fixed, including Maven dependency resolution, test file handling, and Java hints. Various PHP and Java features were also implemented or improved.

Type 1 diabetes reversed by new cell transplantation technique

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Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine successfully reversed type 1 diabetes in mice by transplanting insulin-producing cells with engineered blood-vessel-forming cells. This novel approach could lead to a cure for type 1 diabetes with further testing and preclinical trials.

Show HN: RadiaCode – Python Library for RadiaCode-10x Radiation Detectors

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The RadiaCode-10x library is used for interfacing with radiation detectors and spectrometers via Bluetooth or USB. It allows control, measurement collection, and data analysis.

AI's Biggest Flaw? The Blinking Cursor Problem

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The author believes that AI's potential is being held back by clunky user interfaces and a lack of discoverability, and that we need more intuitive and proactive interfaces to unlock its true power. The author suggests that we should build a relationship with AI, forgive its errors, and understand its strengths and weaknesses to make it more effective.

Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation [pdf] (2023)

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Fortune(6) – Linux Man Page

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Computer Simulation of Neural Networks Using Spreadsheets (2018)

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Researchers analyzed training methods for computer simulation of neural networks in spreadsheets, identifying various approaches and tools. They also studied the historical development of neural network models, including those by Rashevsky, McCulloch, Pitts, Householder, and Landahl.

Ente: Self Host the Google Photos Alternative and Own Your Privacy

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People are becoming more aware of their privacy and taking control, with community-driven solutions emerging to address this critical aspect. This blog post guides readers through deploying the Ente server in a Kubernetes setup and hosting the frontend on GitHub Pages.

How to add a directory to your PATH

To add a directory to your PATH, first find the correct directory by running the program and checking its location, then update your shell's config file, which is usually ~/.bashrc for bash, ~/.config/fish/config.fish for fish, or ~/.zshrc for zsh.

Making a system highly available isn't just about adding redundancy

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Parents favor daughters: A meta-analysis of predictors of differential treatment

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Can I run this LLM?

Wiley journal retracts 26 papers for 'compromised peer review'

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A Wiley journal, Environmental Toxicology, has retracted over two dozen articles due to peer review issues. All retracted articles were affiliated with Chinese universities and showed signs of paper mill activity.

Show HN: LLPlayer – a media player with OpenAI Whisper

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LLPlayer supports dual subtitles, real-time automatic subtitle generation, and translation in 134 languages. It also features OCR, a subtitles sidebar, and customizable code on GitHub under the GPL license.

The Yin and Yang of Programming

Researchers propose adding a controlled, declarative form of iteration to a pure functional language to satisfy programmers' longing for iteration. They demonstrate this with PyFL, an experimental language, and suggest similar extensions could be applied to other functional languages.

My startup journey with BYBE

The founder of BYBE shares their startup journey, from ideation to exit, highlighting lessons learned and challenges faced in navigating the complex alcohol industry and building a scalable solution. The founder reflects on their mistakes, including failing to articulate a clear long-term vision and misaligning expectations with employees and investors, and provides insights for future ...

Winners of the $10k ISBN visualization bounty

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We announced a $10,000 bounty for the best ISBN space visualization, received many creative submissions, and awarded prizes to four winners. The submissions provided unique perspectives on UI and implementation, and we plan to incorporate some into our main website.

A simple way of visualizing Git repository

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A colleague used an interactive Python shell to create treemap visualizations of a project's git history, which sparked interest in understanding repository evolution. Custom visualizations can be created using GitPython and Plotly, but git-truck is a faster and more convenient tool for large projects.

Xcode Constantly Phones Home

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User's project in Xcode was slow due to internet connections, specifically to developerservices2.apple.com. Disabling these connections with Little Snitch made builds fast and successful.

Show HN: Orra – The missing glue layer for production-ready multi-agent apps

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Orra is used to build production-ready multi-agent applications handling complex interactions. It coordinates tasks across existing stacks and tools using intelligent reasoning.

Hive Roaster Handheld Smoke Incinerating Coffee Roaster

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A professional coffee roaster reviews the Hive Roaster, a handheld, indoor roasting tool that provides great results with minimal smoke and mess. It's a cost-conscious, apartment-friendly option for those interested in roasting coffee at home.

John Ousterhout and Uncle Bob discuss John's disagreements with Clean Code

(This document is the result of a series of discussions, some online and some in person, held between Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin and John Ousterhout between September, 2024 and February, 2025. If you would like to comment on anything in this discussion, we recommend that you do so on the Google group associated with APOSD) Hi (Uncle) Bob! You and I have each written books on software ...