uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust

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uv is a single tool that replaces multiple Python package managers, managing dependencies and environments with support for lockfiles and workspaces. It offers advanced features like dependency version overrides and platform-independent resolutions for faster and more reproducible package management.

Backyard Coffee and Jazz in Kyoto

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The writer visited a tiny coffee shop in Kyoto, Japan, which doubles as a bar in the evening, and found it to be a unique and atmospheric experience. This small business, like many others in Japan, blurs the line between business and customer, creating a sense of intimacy and community.

Vera C. Rubin Observatory first images

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Rubin Observatory's cosmic treasure chest has released its first image, exposing a universe teeming with stars and galaxies. The image offers a stunning variety of objects, demonstrating the broad range of science made possible by Rubin data.

How I use my terminal

The user uses tmux to open remote files in nvim with a custom script, allowing for features like file search and navigation. They plan to switch to kitty due to its better ssh integration and session persistence.

Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable

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The Fairphone 6 has a modular design with replaceable components, a 6.31-inch pOLED display, and a 4415mAh battery. It launches on June 25th starting at €549 with a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 processor and various color options.

U.S. Chemical Safety Board could be eliminated

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The Trump administration proposed eliminating the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) citing fiscal responsibility. The proposal has sparked bipartisan opposition in Congress and concern among industry groups.

GitHub CEO: manual coding remains key despite AI boom

Ambient Garden

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ambient.garden: an algorithmic audio landscape

Judge denies creating “mass surveillance program” harming all ChatGPT users

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A US judge ordered OpenAI to retain ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats, for a copyright infringement lawsuit. A user, Aidan Hunt, tried to intervene, claiming the order created a nationwide mass surveillance program and infringed on his privacy rights.

WhatsApp banned on House staffers' devices

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The US House banned WhatsApp on government devices due to data vulnerability concerns. WhatsApp's parent company Meta disputes the ban, citing end-to-end encryption and higher security than approved alternatives.

NASA's Voyager Found a 30k-50k Kelvin "Wall" at the Edge of Solar System

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Voyager probes crossed the heliopause, the edge of the Sun's magnetic field, in 2012 and 2018, measuring temperatures of 30,000-50,000 kelvin. The heliopause is the boundary between the Sun's solar wind and interstellar medium, forming a giant bubble around the Sun and its planets.

Making TRAMP faster

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The user improved TRAMP performance by adjusting settings, using direct async process, and disabling unnecessary features. They also created a custom mode for magit and a caching function to reduce TRAMP calls.

Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245B of gold home from US

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Claude Code for VSCode

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Claude Code integrates with popular IDEs to enhance coding workflow. It offers auto-installation, diff viewing, and keyboard shortcuts within VSCode.

2025 Iberia Blackout Report [pdf]

Ry of state for energy, the director of energy policy and mines, director general. ren agreed to reduce the program additionally from 2,545.2 mw to 2,000 mw, he says - redispatches were made between 9:00 am and 1:00 pm, which never materialized, writes rafael gómez-santorini. the existing generation in the balearic islands responded adequately

Timdle – Place historical events in chronological order

Challenge yourself with Timdle, the daily timeline game where you arrange historical events in chronological order. Play for free, learn history, and compete with others!

Discord Is Threatening to Shutdown BotGhost

Discord has issued BotGhost with a formal breach warning and given us an ultimatum: find a completely new way to operate without using bot tokens by July 14, 2025, or the platform will be shut down. The catch? That alternative does not exist, and Discord has offered no guidance, no support, and no path forward.

Ask HN: How to get rid of Gemini?

Google's Gemini has disrupted user experience and is being pushed despite user disinterest. User seeks permanent removal of Gemini to avoid constant interruptions and is willing to switch to alternative services if necessary.

Officials concede they don't know the fate of Iran's uranium stockpile

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Nano-Vllm: Lightweight vLLM implementation built from scratch

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The code initializes a Nano-vLLM model and generates text based on a prompt with specified sampling parameters. It uses the LLM.generate method to produce output text with a temperature of 0.6 and a maximum of 256 tokens.

US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visas

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Polystate: Composable Finite State Machines

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The polystate library is a powerful tool for building finite state machines with composability and type safety, allowing for concise and correct code reuse through type composition. It enables automatic generation of state diagrams and supports complex state machine behaviors through simple declarative programming conventions.

'Sticky thinking' hampers decisions in depression

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Researchers found that rumination, or excessive thinking about negative feelings, can disrupt decision-making by making it harder to navigate options. This "sticky thinking" is linked to higher levels of depressive symptoms and impaired decision-making.

Resurrecting flip phone typing as a Linux driver

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None! The library requires nothing but a basic implementation of the C standard library. The CLI requires ncurses solely, but this is by no means needed to just compile the library. The image used as the background for the web demo was created by Matt Hardy. Word data set is from Takala on HuggingFace. The orignal driver code came from Chengtao Wang.

The X Window System didn't immediately have X terminals

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Tesla Robotaxi Videos Show Speeding, Driving into Wrong Lane

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Backlash to artificial dye grows as Kraft ditches coloring for Kool-Aid, Jell-O

The Last of Us Part II – Seattle Locations Tour

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“The Last Of Us Part II” Seattle Locations Tour Notes before starting This is a walking tour through (almost) all of the recognizable Seattle buildings from The Last Of Us Part II. This tour is also heavily focused on the game, events in the game, and especially buildings in the game. (It’s neces...

The AI lifestyle subsidy is going to end

The current AI landscape is being subsidized by venture capital, but this may change as interest rates rise and investors seek to monetize their investments through ads. Consumer AI applications will likely be influenced by advertising, potentially leading to biased results and a loss of trust in AI-powered discovery tools.

2B people don't have safe drinking water: what does this mean for them?

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Two billion people worldwide lack safe drinking water, with many spending hours collecting water from distant sources, risking disease and death. This issue affects families in extreme poverty, with women and children often shouldering the burden of water collection.

Modeling the World in 280 Characters

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Xor is a graphics programmer who creates tiny, expressive shaders that combine code, art, and constraint, and shares them on Twitter, explaining the process and techniques behind them. He uses a tool called Twigl.app and has developed a code-golfing process that involves reducing names, numbers, initializations, and ifs to create compact shaders that are both aesthetically pleasing and ...

New York to build one of first U.S. nuclear-power plants in generation

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EU rules for durable, energy-efficient and repairable smartphones and tablets

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New EU rules for smartphones, tablets, and cordless phones aim to boost lifespan, energy efficiency, and ease of repair, promoting sustainable consumption and reducing environmental impact. The rules are expected to save 2.2 TWh of electricity and €20 billion in expenses by 2030.

Using Wave Function Collapse to solve puzzle map generation at scale

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Logic Islands uses WFC to generate maps for 6 different rulesets, including Modern, Minimal, and Yin-Yang, which previously failed to generate maps larger than 7x7. By simplifying the problem and expressing constraints as connection relationships, WFC generates large-scale maps with complex logical rules, making Logic Islands stable up to 12x12 map sizes.

Show HN: Weather Watching

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AI is people-watching this New York street cam, counting the people walking by, if they're using umbrellas, and what they're wearing. Forecasts can lie. Crowds don't. Just follow the crowd.

A deep critique of AI 2027's bad timeline models

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Ai2027 authors argue that 2027 is a plausible year for the singularity to happen. but they don't have the data straight, so it's concerning that they're not having it straight - eli has stated he'll fix this in an update to his website if this persists in the future! the “re-bench logistic curve” simulation part of the forecast is completely separate from the code for their actual simulations

Environmental Impacts of Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is omnipresent and transforming the world. The increasing use of AI not only brings progress—it also introduces new environmental challenges.

Disabling Intel Graphics Security Mitigation Boosts GPU Compute Performance 20%

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Canonical and Intel are disabling Intel graphics security mitigations to recoup a 20% performance boost in Ubuntu 25.10. This change is agreed upon by both companies and Intel already disables these mitigations in their GitHub binary packages.

10 out of 12 people cured in Type 1 Diabetes Study

Researchers conducted a phase 1-2 study of zimislecel in type 1 diabetes patients, showing restored islet function and insulin independence in most participants. The study's results support further investigation of zimislecel's efficacy and safety in type 1 diabetes patients.

Skip the exit interview when you leave your job

When leaving a job, an exit interview may be conducted by HR to gather feedback. It's best to remain neutral and not speak negatively about colleagues or the company.

Launch HN: Reducto Studio (YC W24) – Build accurate document pipelines, fast

Adit and Raunak co-founded Reducto, a platform that turns unstructured documents into structured data. Reducto Studio is a web platform for building and iterating on document pipelines with per-field and per-document accuracy scores.

Thoughts on Asunción, Paraguay

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The user visited Asunción, Paraguay, and found the city's aesthetic coherence lacking, similar to developing countries in Asia. This is due to a lack of urban planning and a low government expenditure, which is around 19% of GDP, the lowest in South America.

LeetCode for System Design

Master system design interviews with AI-powered practice sessions. Interactive whiteboard, voice conversations, and real problems from Google, Meta, Amazon. Start practicing today!

Getting by on the Generosity of Strangers in Japan

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Paul Salopek, a National Geographic Explorer, shares his experiences on the Out of Eden Walk, a 24,000-mile storytelling trek. He highlights the importance of hospitality, citing a 84-year-old Japanese woman, Yoshiko, who runs a traditional guesthouse, Migita Ryokan, with warmth and compassion.

I built an app to backup Live Photos from iPhone to external hard drives

iPhone users face storage issues due to limited space and high photo volume. BackiGo app solves this by allowing direct backup of Live Photos to external hard drives without a Mac.

How to store Go pointers from assembly

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Go's garbage collector and assembler can be tricky to use together. To manipulate Go pointers from assembly, you need to inform the GC of pointer stores, which can be done with a write barrier.

Interesting Bits of Postgres Grammar

You're working on Squawk, a PostgreSQL linter, which uses a handmade parser and handles custom operators like <-> and #. Custom operators can be tricky to implement and diverge from mainstream languages.

Howdy – Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux

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Howdy provides Windows Hello style authentication for Linux using facial recognition. It's available for Debian/Ubuntu, Arch Linux, Fedora, and openSUSE, with installation instructions provided.

LLM Hallucinations in Practical Code Generation

Researchers study large language models (LLMs) for code generation, focusing on hallucinations, which are incorrect or misleading code outputs. They analyze the causes and propose mitigation methods to improve the reliability of LLM-generated code.

The Business of Betting on Catastrophe

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The World Bank's pandemic bonds paid out after a certain death toll threshold was met, part of a booming market where investors speculate on calamity. Insurance-linked securities (ILS) allow investors to buy risk, not things or commodities, with the chance to make significant returns.

Tensor Manipulation Unit (TMU): Reconfigurable, Near-Memory, High-Throughput AI

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Researchers introduced the Tensor Manipulation Unit (TMU) to efficiently execute data-movement-intensive operators in AI SoCs. TMU achieves significant latency reduction when integrated with a TPU, demonstrating its effectiveness in modern AI SoCs.

Our sister died because of our mum's cancer conspiracy theories, say brothers

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Paloma Shemirani died at 23 from non-Hodgkin lymphoma after refusing chemotherapy due to her mother's anti-medicine conspiracy theories. Her brothers blame their mother's influence for her death, saying she promoted misinformation that put Paloma's life at risk.

Tesla launches robotaxi rides in Austin

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Tesla has launched its robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, with a small fleet of 10 Model Y SUVs, using cameras and end-to-end AI for navigation. A human safety monitor sits in the front passenger seat to oversee the ride.

Scientists use bacteria to turn plastic waste into paracetamol

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Researchers used E coli to convert plastic waste into paracetamol, a painkiller, in a sustainable process. This breakthrough combines chemistry and biology to clean up plastic waste and produce the drug.

Gov. Greg Abbott vetoes THC ban

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Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed a bill banning THC products in Texas, instead calling a special session to regulate the substance. Abbott wants a framework that protects public safety, aligns with federal law, and has a funded enforcement structure.

The Gender Attractiveness Gap

Researchers studied facial attractiveness globally and found a "Gender Attractiveness Gap" where female faces are rated more attractive than male faces. The gap is driven by aesthetic preferences for structural femininity and varies by gender and cultural background.

RaptorCast: Designing a Messaging Layer

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RaptorCast is a solution designed to address the challenge of block proposal propagation in Proof of Stake blockchains, using UDP as its data transmission protocol and R10 encoding system to address packet loss and ensure data integrity. The system implements a two-hop broadcast tree where chunks are distributed by stake weight initially, and the recipients re-broadcast their chunks to the ...

OpenAI and Jony Ive's "io" brand has disappeared

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OpenAI removed references to io, a hardware startup co-founded by Jony Ive, due to a trademark lawsuit from Iyo. The deal with io is still happening, but OpenAI scrubbed mentions due to the lawsuit.

Show HN: Ariadne – A Rust implementation of aperiodic cryptography

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The Ariadne Protocol is a novel cryptographic architecture providing aperiodic transformations using a Labyrinth Construction and Cryptographic Virtual Machine. It's a public good with community-funded development and security audits, but use is at your own risk.

How many PhDs does world need? Doctoral graduates outnumber academia jobs

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The number of PhD graduates globally is growing rapidly, exceeding job openings in academia. Many graduates are finding non-academic jobs, often outside their area of expertise, with varying levels of job satisfaction.

What Happens When Hertz's AI Scanner Finds Damage on Your Rental

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Hertz is using AI to scan vehicles for damages, issuing charges to renters. A customer was charged $440 for a 1-inch scuff, with a $52 discount offered if paid within two days.

Typr – TUI typing test with a word selection algorithm inspired by keybr

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Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

PicoGUS gets CD-ROM emulation

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PicoGUS now supports CD-ROM emulation in SB and USB modes with 2x-4x speed. Firmware v3.0.1 fixes issues with MPU emulation and adds CD audio playback support.

Yet another insignificant programming notes

Ford Will Keep Battery Factory Even If Republicans Ax Tax Break

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Deep Research as a Swim Coach

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The user is training for long-distance swimming with the help of an AI coach, OpenAI's o3-pro model, which provides a personalized training plan based on their goals, schedule, and fitness level. The AI coach uses Deep Research to analyze the user's progress and adjust the plan accordingly, making it a fluid and adaptive training experience.

How much slower is random access, really?

The article discusses how locality affects performance in array operations, specifically when summing numbers in a particular order. The results show that for arrays smaller than a million elements, there's no difference in performance between first-to-last order and random order.

If you're building a JavaScript library and need logging, you would love LogTape

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LogTape is a logging library designed for JavaScript library authors, providing a way to add logging capabilities without imposing choices on users and minimizing dependencies. It offers a unified logging system, supports both ESM and CommonJS environments, and has a zero-dependency approach, making it a practical choice for library authors who want to provide valuable diagnostic capabilities ...

Primitive Kolmogorov complexity is computable

The article discusses reformulating Kolmogorov complexity and Solomonoff induction using primitive recursive functions to create computable and practically relevant analogues. This approach sidesteps the Halting Problem and provides a viable foundation for building intelligent systems.

The role of the University is to resist AI

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The speaker argues that universities should resist the increasing influence of AI, which is being used to further precaritize workers and privatize services. They propose that universities apply rigorous questioning to the idea that AI is inevitable, and instead focus on developing a tolerant society through critical thought and imagination.

Spectroscopic Classification of ASASSN-25cm as a Classical Nova

Astronomer Yusuke Tampo classified ASASSN-25cm as a new classical nova based on its spectrum. The nova was discovered by ASAS-SN on June 12, 2025, with a magnitude of 8.7.

Muntz Metal

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Muntz metal is an alpha-beta brass alloy used for corrosion-resistant machine parts and originally for boat sheathing due to its anti-fouling properties. It was patented by George Fredrick Muntz in 1832 and became a successful business, eventually being sold and becoming part of a large company.

DHEA-S hormone linked to shorter lifespan in men, but not women

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A new genetic study found higher DHEA-s levels linked to shorter lifespan in men but not women. The study suggests DHEA supplements may increase blood pressure and reduce lifespan in men.

The symbol of earthly good, and the immediate object of toil

The author reflects on the theme of money and worth in George Eliot's Silas Marner, noting how the Protestant Ethic can lead to a sense of entitlement and the commodification of human relationships.

A grad student got LHC data to play nice with quantum interference

A young researcher, Aishik Ghosh, developed a new method using deep neural networks to tackle interference in Large Hadron Collider data, allowing for more precise measurements. His method, Neural Simulation-Based Inference, has already improved previous analysis results and will be used to search for new particles and clarify the quantum world.

Show HN: Windowfied

User created a joke "windowfied" ls alternative for macOS, but was quickly deterred by its appearance. User suggests using ls with a custom date format for a similar effect.

CF-Shield – An open source tool to protect any website with Cloudflare

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To set up CF-Shield, you need to provide your Cloudflare email, API token, zone ID, and account ID. Then, you can configure additional settings such as CPU usage threshold, challenge type, and notification options.

GIF export in Snipping Tool begins rolling out to Windows Insiders

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Windows Insiders can now export GIFs from Snipping Tool screen recordings, limited to 30 seconds or less. To export, record a screen, click "Export GIF" in the app, and select quality before saving or copying.

Introduction to error handling strategies in Go

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Functions can return errors as values, which should be handled carefully. Errors can be created using fmt.Errorf or errors.New and handled using strategies such as presenting a clear causal chain.

Laid off from Microsoft after 23 years, and I'm still going into the office

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Freddy Kristiansen, a 59-year-old former Microsoft principal product manager, was laid off in May after 23 years but still feels committed to the company and its products. He's using his six-month notice period to plan his own business and help his former team.

The largest map of the universe reveals over 800k galaxies

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Astronomers have created the most comprehensive cosmic map ever, including images of the early universe as far back as 13.5 billion years, using the James Webb Space Telescope. The COSMOS-Web dataset covers nearly 98% of cosmic history and has revealed 10 times more galaxies than expected, raising new questions about the universe's early formation.

Real-world performance comparison of ebtree/cebtree/rbtree

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The performance of various tree data structures (ebtree, cebtree, rbtree) was compared for different key types and distributions, showing that ebtree is generally the best choice for well-distributed keys. However, for poorly distributed keys, hashing the keys before indexing can improve performance, and compact trees can be a good option for small keys with rare removals.

Build a Sentence-Level Text-to-Speech Reader in JavaScript

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We'll build a web tool to explore Text-to-Speech in JavaScript and sentence-level highlighting. The SpeechSynthesis API and CSS/JavaScript will be used to create an accessible reading experience.

Where is Iran's uranium? Questions remain over stash of enriched material

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