Do the simplest thing that could possibly work

The author suggests doing the simplest thing that could possibly work when designing software, focusing on current requirements rather than anticipating future needs. This approach prioritizes stability and ease of maintenance over scalability and flexibility.

Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy

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We're updating our Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy to improve AI models with user data opt-in. Users can choose to share data to enhance model safety and capabilities, up to a 5 year retention period.

Tesla said it didn't have key data in a fatal crash, then a hacker found it

Some users have noticed settings that let Meta analyze and retain phone photos

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Meta has enabled camera roll sharing suggestions in Facebook, allowing it to access users' photos for AI-powered ideas. Users can check and turn off the feature by going to Settings > Privacy and Settings > Camera roll sharing suggestions.

John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta

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Grok Code Fast 1

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Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode

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Xcode 26 beta 7 includes SDKs for various operating systems and supports on-device debugging. It requires a Mac running macOS Sequoia 15.5 or later.

The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch

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Cloudflare's "signed agents" pitch is flawed as it relies on a single company's allowlist, whereas the internet requires open, portable, and independent authentication.

The Synology End Game

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User is a long-time Synology fan but may switch due to new policy requiring Synology-branded hard drives. They prefer TrueNAS for custom NAS builds.

If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward

User needs to register or sign in with developer credentials and ensure a unique User-Agent string to access the application. Alternatively, try resetting to default User-Agent or file a ticket for assistance.

Essential Coding Theory [pdf]

The book discusses coding theory and error-correcting codes for communication. It explores the tradeoff between redundancy and error correction.

Flunking my Anthropic interview again

The writer was rejected from Anthropic after an interview and published a blog post about their experiences with Claude, a dev tool, in an attempt to stand out as a candidate. They express feelings of inadequacy and shame, but ultimately affirm their self-worth and resilience.

Sig Sauer citing national security to keep documents from public

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The secrecy battle over the Army's FMECA for Sig Sauer's P320 continues in the Eighth Circuit, with media intervenors seeking to keep key records open. Sig Sauer argues for secrecy citing "national security," but The Trace and Practical Shooting Insights argue the public's right of access has been compromised.

Deploying DeepSeek on 96 H100 GPUs

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SGLang achieves nearly on-par performance with the official DeepSeek's report by optimizing key components such as attention layers, dense feed-forward networks, and the language model head using tailored parallelism strategies. The optimized implementation, which includes prefill-decode disaggregation and large-scale expert parallelism, achieves a throughput of 52.3k input tokens per second ...

Wikipedia as a Graph

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{ "lang": "en", "date": "20250820", "url": "https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20250820", "nodes": { "pages": 7043985, "redirects": 11563911, "categories": 2550366, "orphans": 27427 }, "relations": { "link_to": 691392572, "redirect_to": 11535980, "belong_to": 44331587 } }

Lucky 13: a look at Debian trixie

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Debian 13, also known as "trixie", is a stable release with over 14,000 new packages and 64-bit RISC-V support, prioritizing stability over the latest software. Users can upgrade from bookworm, but should read the release notes carefully, especially regarding potential network interface name changes and the need to remove third-party packages before upgrading.

Private equity snaps up disability services, challenging regulators

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Private equity firms have acquired hundreds of disability services providers, leading to abuse, neglect, and deaths. State and federal regulators are scrutinizing these companies, citing cost-cutting measures that harm people with disabilities.

AI’s coding evolution hinges on collaboration and trust

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Researchers from top universities say AI is not yet ready to be a real coder due to challenges with complex coding tasks and human-AI collaboration. They suggest improving AI interfaces, quantifying uncertainty, and capturing user intent to overcome these limitations.

A deep dive into Debian 13 /tmp: What's new, and what to do if you don't like it

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Debian 13's /tmp is now a tmpfs filesystem in memory, not on disk, to improve speed and reduce permanent storage usage. Files in /tmp are automatically deleted after 10 days or a reboot, with options to modify or exclude certain files.

The Theoretical Limitations of Embedding-Based Retrieval

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Researchers found that vector embeddings have theoretical limitations that can be encountered in realistic settings with simple queries. They created a dataset called LIMIT that stress tests models, showing even state-of-the-art models fail due to these limitations.

Strange CW Keys

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SQLite's documentation about its durability properties is unclear

SQLite's default durability properties are unclear and depend on configuration settings, specifically journal_mode and synchronous options. To ensure durability, set synchronous to FULL in WAL mode or EXTRA in DELETE mode, and consider enabling fullfsync on macOS.

PSA: Libxslt is unmaintained and has 5 unpatched security bugs

libxslt has three unfixed security issues and a fourth undisclosed vulnerability. Engineers proposed patches but no fix has been applied due to lack of a maintainer.

Income Equality in Nordic Countries: Myths, Facts, and Lessons

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The Nordic model's low income inequality is driven by a compressed wage bargaining system reducing returns to labor market skills. This challenges common explanations for Nordic equality, such as tax transfers and public spending.

God created the real numbers

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The distinction between science and art is complex, with science often seen as divine or natural knowledge and art as human-made. The concept of infinity and its relationship to human understanding and the divine is explored through the ideas of mathematicians like Cantor and Kronecker.

Show HN: Sosumi.ai – Convert Apple Developer docs to AI-readable Markdown

Search Apple Developer documentation Parameters: query (string) Returns structured results with titles, URLs, descriptions, breadcrumbs, and tags Fetch Apple Developer documentation by path Parameters: path (string) - Full or relative documentation path Returns documentation content as markdown

Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters

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Taco Bell is rethinking its AI-powered drive-through technology after comical videos of mistakes went viral. The company will now use AI more carefully, especially in busy restaurants, and coach staff on when to intervene.

Offline-First Landscape – 2025

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The author of Marco, a cross-platform email client, struggled to find a suitable offline-first solution due to its complex requirements and large data storage needs. After investigating several options, they settled on Replicache, a KV store that provides raw get and set performance, and paired it with Orama for indexing and search capabilities.

Seedbox Lite: A lightweight torrent streaming app with instant playback

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SeedBox Lite is an open-source torrent streaming platform for educational and personal use, providing a Netflix-like experience with powerful torrent capabilities. It requires Docker, Node.js, and PM2 for setup and configuration.

Show HN: Find Hidden Gems on HN

This tool finds hidden gems on Hacker News by searching recent posts with low engagement. It uses a Passion Score to rank posts based on writing effort and recognition.

How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs?

The input is a list of 1000+ domain names from various companies and organizations. The list appears to be a comprehensive collection of domain names from around the world.

Data engineering and software engineering are converging

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MooseStack is an open-source developer experience layer for ClickHouse that provides a modern, git-native, and local-first development workflow for building analytics and AI-powered features. It abstracts away boilerplate code, provides integrated workflows, and offers a unified end-to-end abstraction layer for building end-to-end data services.

The Qweremin

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You built a C64-based theremin and later developed the Qweremin, a keyboard instrument combining theremin and organ features. The Qweremin addresses the volume control issues of the theremin with an external DAC and improved response.

The No-CPU Amiga Demo Challenge

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Amiga custom chip challenge invites demos running entirely on custom chips without CPU involvement. A no-CPU demo is a raw memory image loaded into chip memory by a runner application.

MSNBC: Whistleblower accuses DOGE team of endangering Social Security data

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Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency team accessed a Social Security database without oversight, putting 300 million Americans at risk of identity theft. The team's actions were criticized by a whistleblower, Charles Borges, who claims they copied sensitive data without proper security monitoring.

How to stop Google from AI-summarising your website

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Google's AI Overviews force publishers into a no-win choice between giving up control or visibility. A workaround is setting snippet length to zero with max-snippet:0, but it significantly decreases click-through rate.

What the interns have wrought, 2025

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Jane Street interns worked on various projects including optimizing JSQL evaluators, improving PyTorch bindings, and managing memory across processes. The interns' projects aimed to improve performance, efficiency, and safety in Jane Street's trading systems and data warehouse software.

AI is ummasking ICE officers. Can Washington do anything about it?

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An activist is using AI to identify ICE agents wearing masks, sparking concerns over AI-powered surveillance and government accountability. The project, called the ICE List, has published over 100 ICE employee names, but experts warn of its reliability and potential to expose agents to threats.

A dark money group is funding high-profile Democratic influencers

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Dozens of Democratic influencers were offered $8,000 per month to join a secretive program called Chorus, but the contract came with restrictions on disclosing payments and creating content. The program is funded by The Sixteen Thirty Fund, a liberal dark money group, and has raised concerns about transparency and ethics in Democratic online influence.

Trump's Global Tariffs Found Illegal by US Appeals Court

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Most of President Donald Trump’s global tariffs were ruled illegal by a federal appeals court that found he exceeded his authority by imposing them through an emergency law, but the judges let the levies stay in place while the case proceeds.

India's billion-dollar e-waste empire

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India's e-waste recycling industry is worth $1.5 billion, but 95% of its workers are informal, earning meager wages and facing lawless and toxic conditions. The government is pushing for formalization, but informal players like the Malik community, who control the recycling economy in Khatta, are resisting, and the industry's future remains uncertain.

Show HN: FFmpeg Pages – because I was tired of fighting FFmpeg

Simple command: ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.gif For higher quality, add filters: ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "fps=10,scale=320:-1:flags=lanczos" output.gif Create a text file file_list.txt: file 'video1.mp4' file 'video2.mp4' Then run: ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i file_list.txt -c copy output.mp4

Probability of typing a wrong Bitcoin address

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A person said Bitcoin is dangerous due to typos, but this is unlikely because addresses are long and have checksums, making typos result in invalid addresses. The chances of two addresses being one character swap away from each other are low due to the vast number of possible addresses.

Bourbaki – A Secret Society of Mathematicians

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Nginx-CGI brings support for CGI to Nginx and angie

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The user explains how to use the CGI (Common Gateway Interface) tool with Nginx, a web server software, and provides examples of how to enable CGI support, write CGI scripts, and use the plugin's features. The user also discusses security considerations, such as avoiding misuse of CGI and not running scripts with root permission, and provides examples of how to use the plugin's features, such ...

German Economist fined €16,100 for sarcastic X posts

A Düsseldorf-based economist Thomas Vierhaus is being prosecuted for sarcastic online remarks about public figures under Germany's Section 185 of the German Criminal Code. He faces a €16,100 fine for insulting posts about politicians Katrin Göring-Eckardt, a doctoral student, and journalist Moritz Rödle.

Amtrak's New Acela Trains Are Here. They're Moving Slower Than the Old Ones

Amtrak's new Acela trains start service Thursday with a $2.45 billion project, but two of them will travel slower than predecessors. New trains take at least 7 hours and 5 minutes to complete the Washington to Boston trip.

Contrastive Representations for Temporal Reasoning

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Researchers developed CRTR, a method that removes spurious features from temporal contrastive learning, enabling efficient temporal reasoning. CRTR achieves strong results on complex temporal domains like Sokoban and Rubik's Cube, solving the puzzle faster than BestFS.

Show HN: A minimal TS library that generates prompt injection attacks

This library provides 25+ curated prompt injection patterns for security research, easy to integrate and production-ready. It includes role-play attacks, direct overrides, and obfuscation techniques to bypass AI safety guidelines and detection systems.

Fake accounts drove the DeepSeek AI hype and distorted markets

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DeepSeek's record-breaking hype was artificially driven by thousands of fake profiles working in tandem. These fake accounts were identified through recent creation dates, avatar recycling, and synchronous activity.

Draft SMS and iMessage from any computer keyboard

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User wants to send text messages using a computer keyboard without spending money on a Bluetooth keyboard. They found a tool that generates a QR code to send messages from a browser window.

Apple Health lies to you about your six months sleep average

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An app is manipulating sleep data to make users feel better by excluding 32 days from a 6-month average calculation. This could be an error or intentional deception by Apple Inc.

A power shortage could short-circuit Nvidia's rise

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Nvidia exceeded expectations by selling $47bn worth of semiconductors in Q3. Its Blackwell graphics-processing units and superchips drove the sales, accounting for 60% of revenue.

FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American'

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China's Salt Typhoon cyberspies stole information from millions of Americans, including high-profile officials, over a years-long intrusion into US telecommunications networks. The espionage campaign, backed by the Chinese government, compromised at least 200 American organizations and 80 countries worldwide.

Zuckerberg's AI hires disrupt Meta with Swift exits and threats to leave

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Meta's AI efforts are undergoing a significant shift with new hires, including Shengjia Zhao and Alexandr Wang, who are working to build "personal superintelligence." However, the transition has led to some departures, including several AI staff who have left the company after brief tenures.

Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained"

Linus Torvalds has changed the maintainer status of bcachefs to "externally maintained", indicating that further changes are unlikely to enter the mainline kernel anytime soon, but the code will not be immediately removed. The user suggests designating someone to handle upstreaming patches, but notes that Linus has closed the door on controlling what appears in his tree, and one of three ...

An adventure in writing compatible systems

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Turso, a SQLite rewrite in Rust, encountered a compatibility issue where inserting over 1GB data caused data corruption. The issue was due to a missing special page in the B-Tree at the 1GB mark, which SQLite requires for file integrity checks.