I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens

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The author visited The Franklin Institute with their six-year-old son and was disappointed by the prevalence of screens and video games, which detracted from the hands-on exhibits that made the museum special as a child. The author believes museums should focus on tangible, interactive experiences rather than digital representations.

Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah

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Charlie Kirk, a 31-year-old conservative activist, was shot at Utah Valley University while giving a presentation. A suspect is in custody and Kirk is in the hospital, with many politicians sending prayers for his recovery.

Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone"

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Pontevedra, a Galician city in Spain, has successfully reduced traffic and improved air quality by prioritizing pedestrians over cars. The city's mayor, Miguel Anxo Fernández Lores, attributes the success to a people-centered urban model that discourages unnecessary car travel and promotes public spaces.

I replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue with a live LLM by hacking GameCube memory

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A developer successfully integrated modern AI into a 24-year-old Animal Crossing game without modifying its code, using a RAM mailbox for inter-process communication. The AI now generates context-based dialogue, with the help of a two-model pipeline, Writer and Director.

KDE launches its own distribution

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KDE Linux is an immutable distribution built by the KDE Project, using Arch Linux packages as its base, with a focus on newer technologies and modern approaches. It aims to provide a complete Linux system for home, business, and OEM use, with a unique approach to distribution and updates.

ChatGPT Developer Mode: Full MCP client access

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Explore resources, tutorials, API docs, and dynamic examples to get the most out of OpenAI's developer platform.

DOOMscrolling: The Game

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The author created a Doom-inspired game where players scroll to move forward, adding features like monsters, upgrades, and obstacles. The game also incorporates real-time news headlines from the New York Times.

OrioleDB Patent: now freely available to the Postgres community

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Supabase has completed the acquisition of OrioleDB and now offers a non-exclusive license of a US patent to users. The goal is to develop OrioleDB as a drop-in storage engine for Postgres with the community.

We can’t circumvent the work needed to train our minds

People rely too heavily on technology and lack critical thinking skills due to a lack of prior knowledge. This leads to a superficial understanding of information and a brittle knowledge foundation.

Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference

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Large language model (LLM) inference is nondeterministic due to batch-size nondeterminism, not concurrency or floating-point non-associativity. Achieving batch invariance in kernels is necessary to ensure determinism in LLM inference, which can be done by using fixed split-size strategies for attention and matrix multiplication.

Jiratui – A Textual UI for interacting with Atlassian Jira from your shell

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JiraTUI is a terminal-based tool that enables developers to manage Jira tasks efficiently with features like search, creation, and update. It offers a customizable and user-friendly command-line interface for rapid task management and enhanced productivity.

TikTok has turned culture into a feedback loop of impulse and machine learning

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TikTok has industrialized human attention by creating a system that harvests attention through instant learning from micro-behaviors. This has reshaped how we consume information, encouraging instant gratification and specialization, but potentially sacrificing depth and serendipity.

NASA finds Titan's lakes may be creating vesicles with primitive cell walls

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NASA research suggests simple molecules in Titan's lakes can form tiny vesicles that mimic life. These vesicles could provide an environment for the origin of life on Saturn's moon Titan.

Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room

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Kerberoasting

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Microsoft's Active Directory uses outdated cryptography, including RC4, which makes it vulnerable to attacks like Kerberoasting, allowing attackers to crack passwords and access network services. This vulnerability has been known for over a decade and was used in the 2024 ransomware attack on Ascension Health hospital system, highlighting the need for Microsoft to update its legacy configurations.

Performance Improvements in .NET 10

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The user's kids love the movie "Frozen" and the user has seen it so many times that they started paying attention to the details, including the ice harvesting scene at the beginning of the film, which is actually based on a real historical practice of harvesting ice in the 19th century. The user then uses this analogy to explain how small improvements in software development, like those in ...

Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas

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Ride in Zoox’s purpose-built autonomous robotaxi. Now serving Las Vegas. Download the app and ride in a Zoox.

“No Tax on Tips” Includes Digital Creators, Too

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The US Treasury Department's "no tax on tips" policy now includes digital content creators, such as podcasters and influencers, who can deduct tipped income up to $25,000 per year. This change may shift how creators seek income, with platforms potentially promoting tips and gifts over recurring subscriptions.

Three farmers on monopolies and mismanagement in U.S. agriculture

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Farmers from Arkansas are experiencing extreme despair with crippling commodity prices and high input costs, resulting in potential bankruptcy or farm closures. Immediate relief and a deep look at consolidation, monopolies, and diversification are needed to address the crisis.

API, Claude.ai, and Console services impacted [resolved]

Anthropic's Status Page - API, Claude.ai, and Console services impacted.

Show HN: TailGuard – Bridge your WireGuard router into Tailscale via a container

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TailGuard is a Docker container app that connects WireGuard servers to Tailscale networks, allowing devices without Tailscale support to access the network. It simplifies key management, SSO login, and exit node switching, and can be used with routers that only support WireGuard.

Tarsnap is cozy

User recommends tarsnap for online backups, citing its usability and anonymity features. They created a cost estimator for tarsnap and feel safe using it for sensitive data.

'Block Everything' protests sweep across France, scores arrested

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Microsoft PowerToys

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PowerToys is a set of free Microsoft Windows utilities for power users to customize and streamline their Windows experience. It includes various tools such as Advanced Paste, Always On Top, and Color Picker to enhance productivity.

Minerals represent potential biosignatures in the search for life on Mars

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The Perseverance rover explored the Bright Angel formation in Jezero Crater, discovering organic-carbon-bearing mudstones with iron-phosphate and iron-sulfide minerals. The rocks show evidence of low-temperature redox reactions involving organic matter.

R-Zero: Self-Evolving Reasoning LLM from Zero Data

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R-Zero is a fully autonomous framework that generates its own training data from scratch, allowing Large Language Models to self-improve without human-curated tasks. It boosts reasoning capability in LLMs by +6.49 on math-reasoning and +7.54 on general-domain reasoning benchmarks.

A love letter to the CSV format (2024)

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Comma separated values (csv) is not a binary format, can be opened with any text editor. feed the bytes of your file in reverse order to scv parser, then reverse the yielded rows and their cells' byte and you're done. this means you can very well use csv output to efficiently resume an aborted process. if you want to read the header row before though,

Windows 10 resists its end: usage share climbs while Windows 11's falls

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Microsoft is ending Windows 10 home support next month, but users can extend it for free. Windows 10 usage may decline as users migrate to Windows 11, but recent stats show a temporary reversal.

Launch HN: Recall.ai (YC W20) – API for meeting recordings and transcripts

Recall.ai launches Desktop Recording SDK for meeting data without a bot, providing a self-serve solution for developers. Pricing starts at $0.70 per hour of recording, with volume discounts and 0-day retention for customer data.

Dotter: Dotfile manager and templater written in Rust

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Dotter is a tool that manages dotfiles by providing flexible configuration and automatic templating or symlinking. It simplifies managing multiple machines with different configurations.

The origin story of merge queues

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Merge queues, which ensure a main branch remains green by automatically testing and merging pull requests, have evolved from a niche hack to an industry standard over the past decade. From early scripts like Bors and Homu to modern SaaS offerings like Mergify and GitHub's native Merge Queue, these tools have become essential for software teams to maintain high-quality code integration at scale.

Delphi 13 Florence Released

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Embarcadero has released RAD Studio 13 Florence with Delphi 13 and C++Builder 13, offering a 64-bit IDE, AI components, and quality improvements. The release includes new language features, a Clang 20 based compiler, and enhanced UI libraries.

Intel's E2200 "Mount Morgan" IPU at Hot Chips 2025

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Intel's Mount Morgan IPU packs more compute power, improved accelerators, and increased off-chip bandwidth. It offers flexible modes, including multi-host, headless, and converged, to handle various cloud infrastructure tasks.

Fraudulent Publishing in the Mathematical Sciences

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A joint IMU and ICIAM report analyzes the state of publishing in mathematical sciences and identifies problems. A second report will offer recommendations and guidelines to counteract gaming of bibliometric measures.

Show HN: Haystack – Review pull requests like you wrote them yourself

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Haystack — the fastest path from pull request to merge. AI-powered code reviews that guide you through changes in logical order, keeping reviews fast and focused.

Children and young people's reading in 2025

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A literacy survey of 114,970 children and young people aged 5-18 found a 36% decline in reading enjoyment since 2005, with 32.7% enjoying reading in 2025. Daily reading rates dropped to 18.7% among 8-18 year olds, with boys and primary-aged children experiencing the steepest decline.

Rayhunter: IMSI Catchers We Have Found So Far

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Rayhunter is an open source tool that detects cell-site simulators, also known as IMSI catchers or Stingrays, and has been used at dozens of protests in the US without finding evidence of their use. The tool's developers believe that law enforcement may be using other techniques, such as location data brokers and facial recognition, to track protesters instead.

Show HN: Building a Deep Research Agent Using MCP-Agent

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The Deep Orchestrator is a complex task completion system that integrates multiple MCP tools, uses a planner LLM to break down tasks, and combines sub-agent results into a final response. It addresses issues such as hallucination, token inefficiency, and fixed planning with features like dynamic subagents, external memory, and budget management.

Show HN: Making a cross-platform game in Go using WebRTC Datachannels

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You discussed alternatives to WebRTC for web multiplayer games, including GameNetworkingSockets and Godot Engine's WebRTC Native.

Leaked Ice document shows worker detained in Hyundai raid had valid visa

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A Hyundai factory worker with a valid US visa was detained and forced to agree to deportation despite not violating his visa. Immigration officials claim he admitted to unauthorized work, but a leaked document contradicts this, calling the detention "illegal".

Homeowners insurance is pricing people out in disaster-prone cities

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Insufficiently sanitized data allows unauthenticated access to FreePBX Admin

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A zero-day vulnerability in FreePBX's Endpoint module allowed attackers to gain access to phone calls, voicemails, and recordings. The vulnerability was exploited through a SQL injection that led to remote code execution, allowing attackers to upload files and run commands.

Defense.gov Now Redirects to War.gov

You don't have permission to access "http://defense.gov/" on this server. https://errors.edgesuite.net/18.ab89cc17.1757771076.2d11c085

Gravitational wave detector confirms theories of Einstein and Hawking

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LIGO celebrates 10 years of gravitational wave science, confirming Einstein's predictions and revealing a path to quantum gravity. The latest detection, GW250114, validates Hawking's and Kerr's predictions on black hole mergers and event horizons.

In 1979 one of the best guitar solos recorded was cut for radio time

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The Knack's My Sharona features a criminally underrated guitar solo by Berton Averre. The solo is inventive and fun, showcasing Averre's mastery of rock music.

Christie's Deletes Digital Art Department

The website is temporarily blocked due to security reasons after a suspicious action was detected. Please email the site owner with the Cloudflare Ray ID to report the issue.

The subjective experience of coding in different programming languages (2023)

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The writer experiences synesthesia-like sensations when coding, feeling different programming languages as physical sensations such as walking a tightrope or crawling through caves. This embodied connection helps them understand systems and code.

Google Doesn't Rank My Site for My Own Brand Name

You're experiencing a Google ranking issue where your own site doesn't show up for your brand name search, despite efforts to improve SEO. This may be due to Google's algorithm prioritizing social media and other platforms over your site.

Jeopardy’s most controversial moment was years in the making

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Cnn's john sutter talks to the man who helped develop the first watson game. he says the computer was rigged to show its top three guesses, along with its confidence rate - but it didn't. watson was the star of a televised version of jeopardy! j.k. rowling: the technology is proving its worth, but is it able to compete with humans

A security incident that may involve your Plex account information

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A security incident occurred at Plex, where an unauthorized third party accessed some customer data, including emails and hashed passwords. To ensure account security, Plex recommends resetting passwords, enabling two-factor authentication, and logging out of all devices.

Show HN: HumanAlarm – Real people knock on your door to wake you up

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Get a real person to knock on your door to wake you up

News: Arm announces next Generation core family called Arm Lumex

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Arm introduced Lumex, a compute platform for AI in next-gen PCs and smartphones, combining AArch64 CPUs, GPU IP, and software stack. It features SME2-enabled CPUs and a new Mali G1-Ultra GPU for improved AI performance and efficiency.

Automate compile_flags for C/C++ projects on the Zig build system

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compile_flagz generates compile_flags.txt from build.zig to help editors find include paths and provide code intelligence. It solves a common issue when using Zig's build system for C/C++ projects, improving the development experience.

Radar footage shows Hellfire missile fired by US Military bounce off UFO

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US military fired a missile at a UFO, but it bounced off without affecting the object. Two Air Force veterans testified about witnessing large, unidentified aerial phenomena near military bases.

XNEdit – fast and classic X11 text editor

UNIXwork XNEdit - classic X11 editor based on NEdit, with full unicode support

My Workflow Is 70% AI, 20% Copy-Paste, 10% Panic. What's Yours?

You use AI tools like ChatGPT, perplexity, and Gemini for 70% of research, and tools like Canva, fliki, Lunabloom Ai, and invideo for graphics and videos. Proper instructions are key to completing tasks efficiently with AI.

UGMM-NN: Univariate Gaussian Mixture Model Neural Network

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The uGMM-NN neural architecture embeds probabilistic reasoning into deep networks by parameterizing activations as univariate Gaussian mixtures. This design enables richer representations and a probabilistic interpretation of activations.

AI negotiator successfully haggles down the price of a car thousands of dollars

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CarEdge's AI negotiator saves customers thousands of dollars by handling car price negotiations. The AI system uses proprietary market insights and negotiation training to create anonymous email and phone numbers to contact dealerships directly.

Wiggling into Correlation

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The author analyzed data on contra dance attendance with and without mask requirements, finding a correlation of 0.21 between mask requirements and attendance. The effect of masking is small and not statistically significant.

Why our website looks like an operating system

The new PostHog.com website allows multitasking and window snapping, providing a more efficient way to consume content. It features a unique OS-like interface with keyboard shortcuts and a bookmark app, aiming to improve user experience.

Office CMBS Delinquency Rate Spikes to Record 11.7%

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Office and multifamily commercial real estate loan delinquencies spiked in August, with office CMBS at 11.7% and multifamily at 6.9%. Older office towers and multifamily properties are struggling due to high vacancy rates and low demand.

Show HN: Ark v0.5.0 – A Minimal, High-Performance Entity Component System for Go

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The code uses the Ark ECS library to create a world with 1000 entities, each with a position and velocity component. It then updates the position of each entity based on its velocity over 5000 iterations.

Claude's new Code Interpreter review

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Claude can now create and edit files, including Excel spreadsheets, documents, and PDFs, and execute custom Python and Node.js code for data analysis. However, this feature may put data at risk due to internet access and requires monitoring to prevent potential security issues.

Power series, power serious (1999) [pdf]

Power series are ideal for implementation as data streams in Haskell, allowing for lazy lists and compositional code. This approach enables the evaluation of arbitrary polynomial expressions as power series.

ARM is great, ARM is terrible (and so is RISC-V) – The Changelog

The user is looking for ARM devices with accelerated AES for full-disk encryption but is frustrated with the lack of standardization in the ARM community and poor support for Debian. They are considering switching to x86-based mini PCs due to their reliability and performance.