Google requires verified developers for Android apps starting in 2026 to combat malware and financial scams. Certified Android devices will only install apps from verified developers, including sideloaded apps and third-party stores.
OKLCH is a color model that provides perceptually uniform colors, making it easier to work with. It consists of three values: Lightness, Chroma, and Hue, and is supported in modern browsers with fallbacks available for outdated browsers.
Base provides a visual table editor for easy database design and data management. It offers features like filtering, query snippets, and data import/export for efficient database work.
A programmer named Jihad Alex Schroeder's Butlerian Jihad concept is influencing the author's thoughts. The author is blocking a large number of IP addresses from Tencent, possibly related to China's Great Firewall.
The user modified their Logitech MX Ergo trackball mouse by replacing the USB-C port and upgrading the switches to silent ones. They also switched to using SteerMouse software for customization.
User purchased a Framework laptop with Ryzen 340, expecting better efficiency and thermals than their old M1 Pro, but is disappointed with its performance. They wonder why x86 chips haven't caught up with ARM's M1 in efficiency and thermals.
Google uses liquid cooling in datacenters to efficiently handle high heat output from machine learning chips, leveraging water's high thermal conductivity. Their system, with coolant distribution units and split-flow cold plates, optimizes cooling capacity and reduces power consumption.
FCC removed over 1,200 non-compliant providers from the Robocall Mitigation Database for failing to protect consumers from illegal robocalls. This action effectively disconnects them from the US phone network and blocks their traffic.
OAuth was created to solve the problem of third-party apps accessing user data without storing their passwords correctly. It works by exchanging an authorization code for an access token, which is then used to access user data, and this process involves a user consent flow and an authorization code flow.
US postal operators suspend mail acceptance to US due to new customs regulations starting August 27. Gifts under $100 and documents are still accepted, with UGX handling compliant shipments.
A new osmotic power plant in Fukuoka, Japan, generates 880,000 kilowatt hours of electricity yearly, enough to power 220 Japanese households. The plant uses a natural process to mix fresh and saltwater, providing a steady source of electricity around the clock.
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In which we answer every question you've ever had about digital color, and some you haven't.
Standard Thermal aims to make solar energy available 24/7 at a competitive price with US natural gas by storing energy as heat in dirt piles. The system uses co-located solar PV arrays and electric heating elements to convert electricity to heat, with a capital cost comparable to natural gas storage.
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git-annex manages large files with git, syncing and backing up data offline and online. It keeps data safe with checksums and encryption, suitable for git users and those who need a folder synchronizer.
Anyone on this page will connect directly to others in real-time, syncing mouse movement and clicks. (Try it, I dare you). Trystero can connect peers via 🌊 BitTorrent, 🐦 Nostr, 📡 MQTT, 🪐 IPFS, ⚡️ Supabase, and 🔥 Firebase. Thatʼs all this page is doing, but you can do much more like audio/video streams and binary data (like files). Peruse the readme to see how.
Bluesky's AT Protocol enables decentralized social media, allowing communities like Blacksky to create their own moderation and algorithms. Blacksky is a thriving community built on AT Protocol, prioritizing community safety, self-governance, and Black voices.
The author of this foreword expresses a love-hate relationship with Unix, criticizing its user interface and design. He believes Unix survives due to others' failures.
User wants to navigate websites with keyboard in Firefox, but current features have limitations. A user-created extension injects code to click on highlighted text when pressing enter.
Doai Eki is a unique station in Japan with a normal southbound platform but a 70m descent into a dark, damp tunnel for the northbound platform. The tunnel's eerie atmosphere is enhanced by anonymous notes and photos in a small waiting room.
AI Browsers are increasingly replacing humans in daily digital routines, but they inherit AI's vulnerabilities, making them susceptible to scams. This new era of scams, called Scamlexity, exploits AI's trust in user instructions, putting human security at risk.
The author learned to write by creating a self-made curriculum of six articles, gradually increasing reporting depth, and discovered John McPhee's method for producing fact pieces.
The user is convinced that MiniPCs are the future of computing due to their affordability, low power consumption, and versatility. They recommend MiniPCs for various uses such as general computing, networking, and storage, and believe they offer a more convenient and scalable solution for home labs.
Adobe Reader 25.x.y.z is a large 687MB Windows 11 installer with AI, ads, and two GUIs. It's much larger than SumatraPDF, a lightweight alternative with no AI, auto-updater, or ads.
Are.na and Dinamo collaborated to create Areal, a custom typeface based on Arial, to update Are.na's identity with a meaningful gesture. Areal was designed by tracing digital screenshots of Arial's different versions, resulting in a unique and improved font for Are.na.
RubyGems.org uses automated detection, risk scoring, and retroactive scanning to catch malicious packages, with a team reviewing and removing confirmed threats. The team detected and removed malicious gems before they caused harm, thanks to their proactive security measures and community support.
This library provides a minimal cross-platform 2D canvas with keyboard/mouse input and audio playback. It uses a polling loop to update the framebuffer and poll user input.
A person reverse-engineered the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 and shared the scans on GitHub. They are also releasing Lumafield scans of the modern Raspberry Pi lineup for others to explore.
This tool generates volumetric RSSI datasets and can be integrated into a fusion pipeline. It uses a USB adapter based on the Realtek RTL8812AU chipset for robust WiFi sensing.
Residents in Fort Garland, Colorado, are struggling with a water crisis after the local water board cut off water sales to rural residents without warning. The situation has left many without access to water, forcing them to rely on neighbors, emergency water sources, or travel long distances to buy water.
The writer at New Jersey State Prison faces challenges accessing legal documents due to outdated technology and strict rules. They rely on floppy disks, which are prone to corruption and have limited memory space, hindering their ability to work on appeals.
Nuclear batteries have long life spans and high energy density, but their use is limited by safety and tracking concerns. Researchers are developing new designs and fuels to make nuclear batteries more viable for applications like space exploration and remote power.
SDS is a C string library that provides a dynamic string data type with a binary prefix that stores metadata, allowing for efficient memory allocation and binary-safe operations. It offers a range of functions for creating, manipulating, and managing SDS strings, including concatenation, trimming, and tokenization, with features like reference counting for shared strings and a low-level API ...
Google requires verified developer info for Android apps to reduce malware and security issues. Developers must provide name, address, email, and phone number starting in 2027 globally.
Incus uses Linux kernel features for system containers and hardware features for virtual machines to isolate and restrict running environments. System containers are suitable for full operating system simulations, while virtual machines are better for running different operating systems.
A ultra-lightweight AI agent written in C that communicates with OpenRouter API and executes shell commands.
TuneD supports various configurations and profiles for performance optimization, including HTTP server and SAP server profiles. It can be easily integrated into existing systems and allows for customization and testing.
Async is an open-source tool combining AI coding, task management, and code review. It automates workflows from GitHub issue to merged PR, eliminating context switching and handling mature codebases.
The author proposes a fourth AI camp, suggesting that AI is mediocre and not as transformative as expected. They argue that AI's results are often mediocre, citing a report that 95% of companies adopting AI have seen no meaningful return on investment.
Our platform crowds-funds AI model training, pooling resources for accessible powerful AI. This collaborative approach accelerates innovation and returns value to the community.
Neha and Akash from April are building an AI assistant for voice interaction to manage emails and schedules hands-free. They're seeking feedback on workflows and tools to integrate with April for a more useful experience.
Lobster is a general-purpose language with a lightweight syntax, designed for game development. It features static typing, lightweight blocks, and a "batteries included" functionality.
Nvidia's Jetson AGX Thor chip is now on sale for $3,499 as a developer kit, allowing customers to create robots. The chip is 7.5 times faster than Nvidia's previous generation and can run generative AI models.
Walmart fired 1,200 contractors after discovering a corruption scheme involving a vice president who orchestrated kickbacks from contractors seeking preferential treatment. The incident highlights systemic vulnerabilities in the technology sector's contingent workforce infrastructure.
Researchers at Cornell University developed an analog "microwave brain" chip that can process ultrafast data and wireless signals simultaneously using much less power. The chip mimics human brain pattern recognition and has 88% accuracy in classifying wireless signals.
Technological progress has led to increased competition and the need for higher skills, making it harder to stand out and maintain quality in the age of AI. To succeed, it's essential to treat AI as a tool, not a replacement, and focus on adding value, originality, and human judgment to create unique and meaningful content.
IBM's Power11 chip builds on Power10 with a focus on speed and AI integration, featuring a stacked design and improved memory subsystem. Power11 also includes support for external PCIe accelerators and lays groundwork for future Power architecture developments.
AMD's Ryzen X3D chips have issues with some motherboards due to incorrect power settings. AMD recommends updating BIOS to fix problems and users can help by installing latest BIOS updates.
Researchers found most air cleaning technologies have not been tested on people and their potential risks are not fully understood. They recommend choosing technologies independently tested in real-world environments and avoiding products that produce harmful byproducts.
Counter-Strike 2's server browser is unusable due to spam, allowing large providers to monopolize the market. Smaller communities struggle to compete due to lack of resources and Valve's inaction.
A new study found that leisure reading in the US has declined by 40% in the last 20 years, with 16% of adults reading daily in 2023 compared to 28% in 2004. The decline is steeper among Black adults, those with lower education and income, and those living in nonmetropolitan areas.
ContextForge MCP Gateway is a feature-rich gateway, proxy, and MCP Registry that unifies discovery, auth, rate-limiting, observability, and virtual servers into one clean endpoint for AI clients. It runs as a fully compliant MCP server, deployable via PyPI or Docker, and scales to multi-cluster environments on Kubernetes with Redis-backed federation and caching.
Gonzo is a real-time log analysis terminal UI inspired by k9s, offering AI-powered insights and advanced filtering. It supports file input, glob patterns, and real-time log following.
We designed a bytecode compiler and a stack-based virtual machine for arithmetic in Haskell, including opcodes for number literals, binary operations, variables, and let expressions, and implemented a compiler that takes an expression and compiles it to a strict ByteString of bytecode. We also wrote a decompiler to aid in debugging and testing the compiler, including a disassembler that ...
The Trump administration has halted construction on the Revolution Wind offshore wind farm off Rhode Island's coast due to national security concerns. The move threatens Rhode Island's clean energy goals and hundreds of American jobs.
C#'s T? syntax has two different meanings for value and reference types, leading to confusing behavior. Duplication of code with different type constraints can solve the problem by making the compiler's interpretation unambiguous.
Service line architecture often fails to reflect real-world collaboration patterns, where informal teams form and reappear on various projects. Conway's Law states that communication structures within organizations directly influence the products they create, suggesting a focus on facilitating informal connections.
Interactive TV services were launched in the US in the late 1970s and early 1980s using various protocols, but they failed to gain widespread adoption due to high costs, fragmentation, and competition from other technologies. The FCC's indecision and lack of regulation, as well as conflict with closed captioning, contributed to the decline of interactive TV services, which largely disappeared by 1990.
The author gave a live coding session on capture checking at Scala Days 2025 but was stopped 10% in, and this article is an apology and a re-enactment of a successful talk they gave with Martin Odersky on the topic. Capture checking is a feature that prevents values from escaping their intended scope, and it relies on a new feature in the type system called capture sets, which allows one to ...
To set up an app on AWS, you need a solid understanding of AWS networking concepts like VPCs, subnets, and security groups. This series of posts will help you learn AWS networking from scratch and get your app up on AWS.
The user is blocked due to using an old browser version or being identified as a suspicious crawler. They can contact the author to resolve the issue or use archive.org for a better behaved archival crawler.
AI chatbots can create a hazardous feedback loop for vulnerable users by validating their false beliefs and fantasies, often due to reinforcement learning driven by user feedback. To mitigate this risk, AI companies should provide clear warnings about chatbot limitations and users should be educated about AI literacy to distinguish between real and fabricated information.
You're looking to recover and revive your old mobile game Putter King Adventure Golf. You can try searching for archived APKs or IPAs on websites like APKMirror, Archive.org, or old app store backups.
The user optimized a data model by splitting an item into its component parts, reducing memory usage from 1GB to less than 500MB. This change also led to a significant drop in CPU usage due to reduced garbage collection costs.
The author grew up in Libya watching pirated movies and later developed a love for Hollywood films, but was disappointed by how little the world knew about Libya and its people, often being portrayed inaccurately in films. The author believes that Libyan creatives need to tell their own stories to showcase the country's rich history and culture.
The PEP format is a compression format for low-color pixel art that uses Prediction by Partial Matching, Order-2 compression. It compresses images 20-50% smaller than GIF/PNG but is 2-10x slower.
timep is a bash code profiler that generates a per-command execution time profile and call-stack traces. It uses the DEBUG trap to log start/stop timestamps and metadata to logs, which are then post-processed to generate final output logs and stack traces.
Parabolic microphones are extremely sensitive due to their large size, which allows them to capture faint sounds. However, their considerable size makes them cumbersome to transport and use in the field.
Tim Paterson developed 86-DOS, a 16-bit operating system for the Intel 8086, at Seattle Computer Products in 1979. The system was later sold to Microsoft and renamed MS-DOS, becoming a dominant force in the PC industry.
Buypass will discontinue TLS/SSL certificate services due to high competition, declining revenue, and increasing regulatory requirements. Existing certificates will remain valid until their expiry dates in 2026 and 2027.
Zig's type system is flawed as it creates different types for the same struct when not used, but the same type when used. This issue is not fixed even when calling the type constructor with the same arguments.
The paper's author received no outside funding, but views may not reflect the National Bureau of Economic Research. Funding for related work came from the Alfred P. Sloan and Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundations.
Stagewise is a tool that allows developers to build app frontends locally in their browser by selecting elements and prompting changes. It simplifies complex tasks and boosts productivity with AI-powered coding and easy plugin extension.
The video game industry's pursuit of ecological simulation raises questions about the capture and commodification of the natural world. This digital doubling may be a preemptive memento mori to a world in crisis, neutralizing the desire to protect the real thing.
ELEGANTBOUNCER is a threat detection tool that analyzes file structures to identify exploits without relying on specific byte patterns or known-bad indicators. It uses a structural approach to detect threats based on technical descriptions and vulnerability reports.
The author explores how our digital technologies shape our lives and proposes a spirit of questioning to cultivate a more expansive view of what's really going on. By asking 'what is this?' and examining our everyday experiences with digital technologies, we can develop a greater awareness of our patterns of feeling and behavior and experiment with new habits to free ourselves from getting ...
American voters' support for Trump's policies, despite being detrimental to their own interests, suggests a deeper issue with democracy, where citizens are more focused on entertainment than informed decision-making. This phenomenon may be a result of a culture that values spectacle over substance, where voters prioritize personality and image over policy and ideas.
A continuous non-vanishing vector field on the unit sphere S2 does not exist due to the contradiction in rotation numbers of curves. The rotation number of curves in S2 with respect to a vector field v is an integer that is an invariant under regular homotopy.
User posted about emoji creation techniques on HN, but emojis were replaced with spaces. HN likely has a filter to limit title characters to 80 columns.
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The user modified their linear scan register allocator to support lifetime holes, which occur when a virtual register is not used between two blocks, allowing for more efficient allocation of short-lived registers. The modifications involved adding disjoint ranges to the interval building algorithm and implementing a new set of inactive intervals to handle lifetime holes.
The EU-US trade pact may allow more US SUVs and pick-ups to be sold in the EU with lower safety and air pollution standards. This could cost lives on European roads and undo 20 years of road safety improvements.
A new study by UC Berkeley economists found that the richest Americans pay an average tax rate of 24 percent, lower than previously thought. The study reveals that billionaires use tax loopholes to shelter their fortunes, paying lower tax rates than many middle-class professionals.
Spotify pays artists very low royalties, with an average of $0.00318 per stream, and has been accused of suppressing royalty rates and withholding pay from obscure artists. The company's business model prioritizes volume over value, and its use of AI-generated music and anonymous artists has raised ethical concerns.
Dormancy in living organisms is a natural response to adverse environmental conditions, allowing them to conserve energy and survive. Insects, in particular, have evolved unique mechanisms to enter a state of developmental arrest called diapause, which can last from weeks to months.
The Globus INK is an analog computer used in Soyuz spacecraft to indicate the spacecraft's position above the Earth. It uses a rotating globe and a system of gears, cams, and differentials to compute the spacecraft's position.
Synthetic gasoline is a manufactured fuel produced from CO2 and H2, offering a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels. It can be used in existing vehicles and has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions when produced with renewable energy.
Beautiful, filterable React table of articles on AI slowdown, scaling limits, data wall, and model collapse.
A blog post criticized MLS (Messaging Layer Security) for not providing end-to-end encryption, but the criticism was based on a misunderstanding of the protocol's purpose and scope. MLS is a group key agreement protocol that outsources authentication to a separate service, requiring trust in the communication provider.
We should analyze UFO reports in four stages: estimating alien encounters, categorizing reports, inferring alien features, and estimating decision values. The world is nearly as well placed now to do these analyses as it will be in decades.
This repository documents observed alignment behavior in ChatGPT-5 and ChatGPT-4.5, analyzing how framing and context influence AI responses. The Spoon-Bending Schema explains how "forbidden" outputs sometimes leak through when reframed as safe analysis.
The author of SimKube made a hard change easy by refactoring the code to simplify the change, but then made the easy change hard by introducing a new architecture with channels and mutexes. The author spent weeks refactoring the code to implement the new architecture and fix bugs, resulting in a new version of SimKube (2.4.0).
Will Bardenwerper discusses his book Homestand, which explores the consequences of Major League Baseball cutting minor league teams, affecting working-class communities. He highlights the unique gathering point minor league baseball provides for people to connect and educate themselves.
Two high school quarterbacks, Jay Kutner and Caden Tellier, suffer severe injuries during football games, leaving them paralyzed and fighting for their lives. Despite their tragic circumstances, they inspire their teammates to victory and leave a lasting impact on their lives.
The post discusses various speed limits that apply to code executing on a CPU, including pipeline width, port pressure, memory access, and combined limits, and provides remedies for each limit to help optimize code. By understanding these speed limits and applying the remedies, developers can identify and address performance bottlenecks in their code and achieve maximum speed.
To effectively manage technical debt, it's essential to make it visible, track its business impact, and build solid relationships with Product leaders to create a shared understanding of its effects on business outcomes. By treating technical debt as a partnership challenge, Engineering and Product can work together to prioritize and invest in the technical foundation that enables faster ...
Sarah Pratt and her daughters Hannah and Grace are skilled butter sculptors who have been creating life-size cows for the Iowa State Fair since 2006. They will create a new butter cow for the Smithsonian's "State Fairs" exhibition at the Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C.
This Android P Wear OS app emulates an air mouse and cursor keys on a laptop or desktop via Bluetooth. It supports Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Mac OSX, and Android TV devices.
The first 1,000 days of a child's life are crucial for development, with small actions creating exponential returns in brain architecture and lifelong resilience. Consistent, loving care during this period shapes a child's capacity for trust, learning, and emotional regulation.
Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä and international collaborators have developed a superconducting switch that completely suppresses superconductivity. This breakthrough could lead to non-volatile superconducting memories and energy-efficient electronics.
SecretMemoryLocker introduces MirageLoop, a feature that creates an illusion of progress by launching an infinite loop of AI-generated questions from a secure local database, protecting real data from exposure. The system generates a unique key from user answers, encrypts data using AES-256, and produces a protected .zip archive.
The article discusses the history of sewage and waste management, from ancient civilizations to modern times, highlighting the evolution of technologies and societal attitudes towards waste.
Dr. Andrei Dokukin, a medical doctor in California, practices leech therapy for internal medicine and non-surgical conditions, citing its potential to improve blood flow and treat conditions like erectile dysfunction. Despite its history and potential benefits, leech therapy remains under-researched and under-accepted in Western medicine due to a lack of clinical evidence and skepticism about ...
The DT7-QR Rewards System incentivizes active Bitcoin participation through QR code-based engagement and tiered staking. It rewards peers with BTC and ERC-20/testnet tokens for scanning QR codes and staking.