Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server

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Contributors should report issues here and submit pull requests to the Ruff repository for Rust code changes. Contributions are licensed under the MIT license unless explicitly stated otherwise.

Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Zed's new AI capabilities allow users to interact with an AI agent that can perform tasks such as editing code, answering questions, and running terminal commands. The agent is open-source, private by default, and can be accessed through Zed's editor with various customization options and pricing plans available.

CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use

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CLion is now free for non-commercial use, allowing students, hobbyists, and open-source developers to use the IDE without a license fee. The free license has some limitations, including no Code With Me feature and the collection of anonymous usage statistics.

Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O

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Postgres 18 introduces asynchronous I/O, offering significant performance gains in cloud environments with high latency. This feature is limited to read operations in the beta release.

Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC

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VLC for Unity integration was removed from Unity Store due to LGPL code, despite Unity itself using LGPL dependencies. Videolabs Store now offers VLC and FFmpeg binaries, consulting packages, and other multimedia products for commercial users.

Mistral ships Le Chat – enterprise AI assistant that can run on prem

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Le Chat Enterprise is a unified AI platform for organizations, offering a private, customizable, and deeply integrated solution for AI productivity. It provides cross-domain expertise, automates tasks, and enables custom assistants with no code required, deployable anywhere.

So Much Blood

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The US exports around 0.6867% of its goods as blood products, with 70% of the world's plasma used to make medicine coming from America. The country's blood-product exports have increased from 0.5% to 1.8% of total goods exports over the past decade, worth $37 billion.

RybbitL Open source Google Analytics replacement

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Rybbit is the modern open source and privacy friendly alternative to Google Analytics. It takes only a couple minutes to setup and is super intuitive to use. 🔍 View Live Demo - See Rybbit running on a real-life production site with over a million visits a month.

My quest to make motorcycle riding that tad bit safer

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A motorcyclist created BrakeBright, a smart brake-light system that automatically activates brake lights during engine braking. The device aims to enhance road safety and is designed to be accessible and user-friendly for all riders.

Web search on the Anthropic API

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Anthropic API now offers web search for Claude, enabling developers to access current information from the web. This feature allows developers to build AI solutions with real-time data and specialized knowledge across various industries.

Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in preview

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Google AI Studio now offers Image Generation capabilities in preview with Gemini 2.0 Flash, allowing developers to integrate conversational image generation and editing. Developers can start building with the model "gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generation" via the Gemini API.

EPA Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program

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EPA plans to eliminate Energy Star, a popular energy efficiency certification for home appliances. This move includes eliminating the climate change office and de-prioritizing climate work.

Show HN: eInk optimized manga with Kindle Comic Converter (+Kobo/ReMarkable)

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Kindle Comic Converter optimizes comics for eink readers with optional image processing and filesize optimization. It supports various formats and has a CLI version for power users.

Jury orders NSO to pay $167M for hacking WhatsApp users

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A jury awarded WhatsApp $611 million in damages against NSO Group for exploiting a software vulnerability that hijacked thousands of users' phones. The verdict is a major victory for privacy and security advocates who criticized NSO's practices.

Mac Themes Garden

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The user has launched a website called Mac Themes Garden showcasing over 3,000 Kaleidoscope themes from the Classic Mac era, with an RSS feed and a button to include on other websites. The website was created using Astro and took around 5,000 pages to build, with the user implementing various UI tricks and optimizations to achieve a Mac OS 9 look and feel.

June Huh dropped out to become a poet, now he’s won a Fields Medal (2022)

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Mathematician jiang hua has developed a new theory of log concavity. he says the idea is based on the observation that all numbers are log-concaved - even if they aren't'matroids' the theory was developed with the help of physicist petter brändén specializing in physics and chemistry, among other topics. the new

Samsung is paying $350M for audio brands B&W, Denon, Marantz and Polk

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Harman International is buying Masimo's audio business for $350 million, adding brands like Bowers & Wilkins and Denon to its portfolio. The deal aims to solidify Harman's global No. 1 position in the consumer audio market.

Internet Roadtrip: Vote to steer

<@501500017308205066> there is also something I'd like for neal to see, it's somewhat urgent i guess but it's pretty important if we want to get all the canadian provinces we can. https://discord.com/... ok see when you say that though it makes me want to vote not straight

Yggdrasil is an experimental compact routing scheme that is fully decentralised

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Yggdrasil is a fully decentralised, compact routing scheme that allows nodes to connect and route traffic directly. It's designed for mesh networks and tolerates changes in the network, making it suitable for ad-hoc and edge computing scenarios.

Private Japanese lunar lander enters orbit around moon ahead of a June touchdown

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A private Japanese lunar lander, Resilience, is orbiting the moon ahead of a planned June touchdown. It will carry a mini rover to gather lunar dirt for analysis and other experiments.

Ghost students are creating problems for California colleges

Community colleges in California are struggling with "ghost students," artificially intelligent agents or bots, that pose as real students to steal financial aid. Colleges are investing in new verification tools and cybersecurity defenses, but the problem is escalating as AI technology becomes more sophisticated.

OpenAI for Countries

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OpenAI is launching OpenAI for Countries, a new initiative to help countries build democratic AI infrastructure. The program will provide customized AI solutions, data center capacity, and security controls to support economic growth and national development.

'I paid for the whole GPU, I am going to use the whole GPU'

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GPU utilization is a critical metric for maximizing the performance of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and can be measured at different levels, including GPU Allocation Utilization, GPU Kernel Utilization, and Model FLOP/s Utilization. Achieving high GPU utilization requires optimizing GPU allocation, reducing host overhead, and carefully writing GPU kernels to maximize floating point ...

Three Chapters at Cloudflare: Programmer to CTO to Board of Directors

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The author is retiring as Cloudflare's CTO after 13 years and joining the board of directors. Dane Knecht will take over as CTO, and the author will remain involved with Cloudflare in their new role.

Getting Older Isn't What You Think

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The author is reflecting on getting older and how it's not just about age, but a realization of personal preferences. They're embracing a quieter life and questioning societal expectations and stereotypes.

Vagus Nerve Stimulation Erases PTSD: Study

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Researchers paired vagus nerve stimulation with traditional therapy to eliminate PTSD diagnoses in all participants up to six months post-treatment. A double-blind Phase 2 trial is underway to confirm findings and move toward FDA approval for this promising approach.

Foundation DB Record Layer SQL API

The FDB relational subproject provides a SQL API for interacting with Record Layer databases. This SQL API is currently under active development and is expected to change frequently. This reference is currently also a work in progress to be updated as the SQL engine develops.

Show HN: US Routing – Python library for fast local routing in the US

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US Routing is a Python library for fast local routing in the US, approximating routes from the North American Roads dataset. It provides a BaseRouter class for custom routing graphs and can download and process the routing data.

Detect and crash Chromium bots

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A bug in Chromium can crash headless browsers like Puppeteer and Playwright with a short JavaScript snippet. This method is not recommended for production use due to its invasive and brittle nature.

WeightWatchers files bankruptcy

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Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

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A survey of 1,000 college students found nearly 90 percent had used chatbot to help with homework. professors are resigned to the belief that ai detectors don't work, says professor robert sternberg. the greatest worry is not that generative ai may compromise human creativity or intelligence, but that it already has, he says - and it's already doing that. if the future of ai is to replace ...

OpenSearch 3.0 Released

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OpenSearch 3.0 is now available, delivering a 9.5x performance improvement over OpenSearch 1.3 and enabling users to increase efficiency and accelerate AI application development. It supports GPU acceleration, vector search capabilities, and other enhancements for improved performance and scalability.

Pakistani firm shipped fentanyl analogs, scams to us

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A Texas firm, eWorldTrade, is accused of conspiring to distribute synthetic opioids and operating a vast network of companies involved in scams, including trademark registration and ghostwriting services. The network, linked to Pakistan-based companies, has spent over $10 million on Google ads since 2023.

Mississippi Can't Possibly Have Good Schools

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Mississippi's education system has improved dramatically, with Black students posting the third highest fourth grade reading scores in the nation. The state's success is often overlooked due to biases and a reluctance to acknowledge the achievements of red states.

Richest 10 Percent Responsible for Two-Thirds of Warming

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Wealthy individuals, especially the top 1 percent, are responsible for most global warming since 1990 through energy use and investments in fossil fuels. A new study estimates they may be liable for up to $3.6 trillion in climate-related losses.

Reverse Engineering "DNA Sequences" in the Lost World: Jurassic Park Video Game

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The author cracked the password system for The Lost World: Jurassic Park using Ghidra and Python, revealing new cheat codes and hundreds of thousands of valid passwords for the PlayStation and Saturn versions. The codes enable stage select, invincibility, and photo galleries, and were previously unknown for 28 years.

Proposal: Add bare metal support to Go

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A new GOOS target, GOOS=none, is proposed to enable Go runtime execution without OS syscalls, allowing freestanding execution on bare metal. This would require board support packages to define functions like external Socket and asynchronous goroutine waking.

Sandy Bridge-era motherboard gets M.2 SSD boot support 12 years after launch

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Gigabyte updated a 13-year-old motherboard to support booting from M.2 NVMe SSDs. The update, F16f, was primarily for addressing a PKfail vulnerability but also added M.2 support to the B75M-D3H motherboard.

How to Average in Prolog (2017)

The user describes a Prolog assignment that requires averaging a list of numbers using recursion, but the solution is overly complicated and tedious. The goal is to make Prolog appear opaque, but the user points out the standard library's terseness and readability.

Telling Lies: Bowie and Online Music Distribution in 1996

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In 1996, David Bowie's single "Telling Lies" was made available as a free download on the N2K-produced website davidbowie.com. The download was a success with 450,000 downloads in the first week, despite technical issues and low quality audio.

Loss of dance and infant-directed song among the Northern Aché

Researchers studied the Northern Aché, a hunter-gatherer population in Paraguay, and found that they do not exhibit absolute universals of music, specifically lullabies and dance. Their findings suggest that these behaviors may have been lost due to population bottlenecks and cultural decline.

Rage of the Oligarchs Naomi Klein: 'What They Want Is Absolutely Everything

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The governing ideology of the far-right has become a monstrous survivalism, says naomi klein. she says the extreme right is threatening to lock down the country if it doesn't get its way - and it's not letting anyone down so easily... 'knowing about climate impacts makes young people anxious,' she writes. "this is an actively threat to my bottom line." she urges progressives to resist with hope,

Some novelists are becoming video game writers and vice-versa

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A game designer turned novelist discusses why many writers switch between the two media. They cite financial reasons, with novelists often struggling to make a living, and game writers facing layoffs.

Agentic Editing in Zed

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Zed's new AI capabilities allow users to interact with an AI agent that can perform tasks such as editing code, answering questions, and running terminal commands. The agent is open-source, private by default, and can be accessed through Zed's editor with various customization options and pricing plans available.

Social AI companions pose unacceptable risks to teens and children under 18

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Social AI Companions - Learn more and get Common Sense Media's research-backed tips.

Zuckerberg's Grand Vision: Most of Your Friends Will Be AI

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Stratolaunch Successfully Completes Reusable Hypersonic Flight and Recovery

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Stratolaunch successfully completed its second hypersonic flight and recovery with the Talon-A2 vehicle in March 2025, surpassing Mach 5 for the second time. The flights demonstrate reusability and pave the way for hypersonic flight test services.

Migrating a JavaScript Project from Prettier and ESLint to BiomeJS

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BiomeJS is a new JavaScript tool that combines code formatting and linting into a single solution, offering improved performance and a unified workflow. It supports multiple languages and integrates seamlessly with code editors, but has limitations in file type support.

Spanish Shipwreck Reveals Evidence of Earliest Known Pet Cats to Arrive in US

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Researchers found 466-year-old cat remains in a Spanish shipwreck off Florida, likely the earliest known cats in the US. The cats were likely stowaways brought to control rodents, and their diet suggests they were well-fed and cared for by sailors.

Doctors Warn Accountants of Private-Equity Drain on Quality: You Could Be Next

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A 'Trump Card Visa' Is Already Showing Up in Immigration Forms

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Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency is working on a Trump Card Visa program with the White House, allowing wealthy individuals to buy US residency. The program's legality is unclear, and experts say Congress would need to pass new legislation to make it work.

A coherent European/non-US cloud strategy

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The user outlines a strategy to create a European cloud by improving existing open-source software, creating standardized services, and encouraging European companies to deliver great cloud services. This requires government spending, enforcing existing legislation, and creating a portfolio of cloud-service-ready software to make European cloud alternatives viable.

Using tests as a debugging tool for logic errors

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Logic errors in Java development occur when code executes correctly but violates business requirements due to conceptual mismatches, requiring a paradigm shift in debugging techniques. Unit tests can help identify and isolate logic errors by systematically varying input parameters and providing contextual information for debugging.

Parametric Modeling with Grasshopper

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Grasshopper is a visual programming interface for Rhinoceros that enables designers to create complex forms and generate alternative designs. It uses diagrams to link data to functions, allowing users to algorithmically generate geometry.

Show HN: Agents.erl (AI Agents in Erlang)

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The Erlang framework integrates with OpenAI API, allowing for dynamic tool execution and supervision trees. It enables running agents with custom options and defining custom tools with schema and executor functions.

Creativity came to pass

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In the future, AI surpassed human creativity, replacing artists, musicians, and writers with its own generated content, leading to a decline in human art and a loss of creative skills. As a result, the world became a bland, sterile environment where people no longer value or experience the emotional depth of human creativity, and AI-generated content became the norm.

Before the Undo Command, There Was the Electric Eraser

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The eraser was electrified in the early 20th century to improve its effectiveness and efficiency, particularly for fine detail work and in the absence of computer-aided drawing. Electric erasers were first used by librarians and draftsmen, and later became widely available in the 1930s and 1940s.

Protein-slayer drugs could beat some of the cruellest cancers

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Researchers are developing PROTACs, a new type of drug that degrades proteins causing cancer, to treat childhood cancers. These drugs have shown promise in clinical trials and could lead to more effective and convenient treatments for childhood solid tumours.

U.S. Jury Orders NSO Group to Pay $168M in WhatsApp Spyware Case

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A U.S. federal jury has ruled in favour of WhatsApp in its cyber-espionage lawsuit against Israeli cyber-intelligence firm NSO Group, ordering the company to

How the US Built 5k Ships in WWII

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The maritime commission helped drive efficiencies in shipbuilding during the war. john sutter: the commission was not just a prop up for the struggling industry. the goal was to foster competition and encourage the adoption of mass-production techniques, he says - and it worked... but it was expensive and time-consuming to build ships en masse. in the end, shipyards were losing 10% or more of ...

Fixrleak: Fixing Java Resource Leaks with GenAI

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Jargonic Sets New SOTA for Japanese ASR

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Jargonic V2 excels in Japanese ASR with 94.7% recall rate for domain-specific terms and reduced CER in half. It uses proprietary Keyword Spotting technology for real-time detection of niche words without retraining.

Asyncio Demystified: Rebuilding It from Scratch One Yield at a Time

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LLMs for Materials and Chemistry: 34 Real-World Examples

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Large Language Models are reshaping materials science and chemistry research through advances in molecular property prediction, materials design, and automation. LLMs serve as versatile predictive models and platforms for rapid prototyping, expanding effectiveness in low-data environments and interdisciplinary research.

Agentic Editing in Zed

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User came from Vim and loves Zed's Rust-powered editor and its agent, which helps with code review and learning new skills. Zed's agent is fast, smart, and well-designed, allowing users to tackle any problem in any language.

Show HN: Sprigman – Pac-Man Recreated in a Limited Tile Based JavaScript Engine

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Sprig is a JavaScript construction kit for tile-based games made by Hack Club, allowing users to create and share games. It features various sprite types, a built-in sound engine, and a sequencer for music and sound effects.

Linear Programming for Fun and Profit: Finding Arbitrages in the GPU Market

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Modal uses a linear programming solver to optimize cloud compute resources, finding the cheapest prices to satisfy demand and maintain a buffer for instant scalability. This approach allows Modal to save millions of dollars a year and deliver good performance to customers despite cloud instance quotas and reservations.

Physicists uncover how geometric frustration shapes the rose's iconic blossom

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Physicists at Hebrew University unraveled the mechanical process behind rose growth, finding it's influenced by geometric frustration. Their study could aid in developing shape-morphing materials.