The European Union plans to force tech companies to scan private messages and images for child abuse content. This would override privacy rights for 450 million Europeans and set a global precedent for mass surveillance.
Microsoft cut off Israeli military's access to Azure cloud platform due to term service violation. The decision resulted from a Guardian investigation that revealed the unit's mass surveillance of Palestinian phone calls.
Private equity-owned hospitals saw a 13% increase in patient deaths in emergency departments compared to similar non-private equity hospitals due to reduced staffing levels following acquisitions. Research found that after acquisitions, the number of full-time employees fell by 11.6% and emergency department salary expenditures declined by 18%.
Developers can now send transactional emails directly from Cloudflare Workers with a simple, reliable, and integrated Email Sending capability. This forms the new Cloudflare Email Service, a unified developer experience for all email needs.
ChatGPT introduces Pulse, a new experience that proactively delivers personalized updates based on chats, feedback and connected apps. Users can guide what appears in Pulse by curating topics, giving feedback and connecting apps to create a proactive assistant that works on their behalf.
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite was updated with improved instruction following, reduced verbosity, and stronger multimodal and translation capabilities. This update aims to make the model more cost-efficient, easier to use, and scalable for high-throughput applications.
A 67-year-old man, Tim Andrews, has survived more than six months with a genetically modified pig kidney transplant, a medical milestone in xenotransplantation. The six-month survival is significant as it marks the period of highest risk, with complications including anemia and graft rejection.
Douglas rushkoff: federal employees were told to return government ids. he says they were threatened with terminations, cut health care if they didn't cooperate - a trauma 'they wanted' o'brien: i've personally encouraged immigrant parents to file for benefits for their american children equitably less than 1 percent of claims were flagged for further investigation. gop should be wary of
Radiology AI models have difficulty replicating performance in hospital conditions, and even when accurate, they often struggle to adapt to different hospitals and data sets, which hinders their adoption. Regulatory and insurance challenges, combined with the diverse tasks involved in radiology, may mean that AI in radiology will initially lead to more human work, rather than replacement.
The Raspberry Pi 500+ is a complete all-in-one PC with a mechanical keyboard, 16GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD, priced at $200. It features a 2.4GHz quad-core CPU, dual 4k display output, and dual-band Wi-Fi, making it a powerful and polished device for hobbyists and education.
He worked on Bundler for 15 years and protected the trademark after Ruby Central claimed sole ownership. The idea is to transfer the trademark to a community-accountable organization when one is established.
Amazon secured a historic order with a $1 billion civil penalty and $1.5 billion in consumer refunds for enrolling millions in Prime without consent. The FTC required Amazon to change its enrollment and cancellation practices through clear disclosures and easier opt-out options.
You've compared Postgres and Redis for caching, running benchmarks on a k8s cluster and found Redis performed better due to its optimized caching capabilities and hardware usage. Postgres, despite a significant improvement using unlogged tables, still lags behind Redis in caching speed.
Ollama's new web search API provides free web searches with rate limits and deeper integrations in Python and JavaScript libraries. It enables models to reduce hallucinations, improve accuracy, and conduct long-running research tasks with tools like search agents.
A domain-specific language for knitting patterns.
AMD released Athlon 64 in 2003, a 64-bit x86 CPU that was fully backward compatible with 32-bit x86. The Athlon 64's success forced Intel to clone it with their own 64-bit architecture in 2004.
Report the issue via Apple's Feedback Assistant while it's happening and with sysdiagnose included, as it likely involves a macOS issue with Electron apps causing lag on M1 Max MacBook Pro since upgrading to macOS 26 RC. Issue occurs when moving windows or scrolling with multiple Electron apps open but not minimized, not replicating with one Electron app or minimized Electron apps.
User is unhappy with the state of social media, feeling it's become noisy and addictive. The solution is to use blogs and RSS feeds to reconnect with others, promoting a return to the old web.
Saša Jurić's talk "Tell Me a Story" focused on Code Review and Pull Requests, emphasizing the importance of making PRs reviewable by reducing scope and writing clear commit messages. He advocates for normalizing returning difficult-to-understand PRs to the author to ensure quality code.
US ranks 24th in World Happiness Report, a new record low, due to financial struggles and a sense of isolation. Young Americans feel less supported, less free, and less optimistic about their future and the American Dream.
Redox OS uses a custom filesystem inspired by ZFS and supports disk encryption. You can create a RedoxFS filesystem using the redoxfs-mkfs tool on an empty image.
Researchers tested a bramble map model by conducting a field trip around Cambridge, confirming the model's accuracy in predicting bramble locations. The model performed well for large quantities but struggled to detect brambles partially obscured from above.
447 pull requests were merged in August, including the rendering of inline SVG elements and named grid lines. The update also includes various performance improvements, bug fixes, and new features like support for CSS 'font-variation-settings'.
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bgp.tools monitors internet exchanges for misconfigured devices and reports them to help network administrators correct issues. Common misconfigurations include enabled protocols like LLDP, DHCP, and proprietary protocols, which can pose security risks and disruptions to the internet exchange.
A critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-20352, affects up to 2 million Cisco devices, allowing remote code execution or denial of service attacks with low-privileged access. Cisco recommends updating the devices' software to a fixed release as the best protection against exploitation, with no known workarounds available.
The new Pi 500+ keyboard uses standard low-profile switches, has individual RGB LED control, and comes with pre-programmed lighting effects. It's a notable improvement over previous Pi keyboards but comes with the drawback of not being switch-changeable.
Data visualization color palettes are crucial as they help users distinguish between data points and compare the chart to the key. A color palette picker tool allows users to create equidistant and brand-suitable palettes for different visualization styles.
Fernflower is a Java decompiler that is still under development, allowing users to decompile .class files and view the Java source code. It includes a IDE plugin in IntelliJ IDEA and supports various options for customizing the decompilation process.
A smartphone processor begins as quartz mined in Spain, going through various treatments and purifications in Spain and Germany to become silicon. The silicon is then molded into crystalline form in Taiwan and finally packaged in Malaysia and assembled into a fully-fledged iPhone in India.
Microsoft reimagines Windows devices for local AI by bringing powerful AI compute directly to Windows devices through advancements in silicon, software, and OS integration. Windows ML is now generally available, allowing developers to deploy AI models securely and efficiently on-device.
A tech-savvy San Francisco resident discovered his LG washing machine used up to 3.6GB of data daily. LG is investigating the issue, but its smart washing machines are also found to collect user data.
Webhound is an AI agent that builds datasets from the web based on natural language prompts, with a no-signup version available for the HN community. It has reduced costs by 30x and improved speed and quality following a system architecture change and addition of a multi-agent system.
Litex is an open-source formal language making reasoning accessible to anyone in 1-2 hours without math or programming background. It scales formal reasoning by lowering the entrance barrier and constructing formalized proofs cost by 10x.
The file_operations structure in the kernel is being updated to retire the mmap() method. A new method called mmap_prepare() will be used instead, which provides more constraints on what code outside of the memory-management layer can do.
There is a Welsh community in Patagonia, Argentina, where speakers are able to understand each other despite the dialect differences. The community uses Welsh as a subject in schools and has bilingual Welsh-Spanish schools to promote the language.
The user created Rustroid, a Rust IDE for Android, after experimenting with Java and Kotlin on their phone. It involved porting a custom text buffer, implementing the Language Server Protocol, and adapting various features from other Android apps.
Larger video models are gaining general-purpose vision capabilities like language models, enabling zero-shot task solving. Veo 3 demonstrates this by performing various tasks not explicitly trained for.
The Department of Homeland Security's proposed weighted H-1B lottery system based on Department of Labor Wage Levels would not prioritize the highest-skilled or best-paid workers, instead benefiting outsourcing firms and older workers in lower-skill jobs. A compensation-based ranking system would have the opposite effect, increasing median H-1B salaries by 52% and raising the share of PhDs ...
Redox aims to improve stability, performance, and compatibility over the next 15 months, with potential grants, donations, or community support. Key goals include secure hosting for web services and lightweight, natural sandboxing for users.
Rust's designer opinion is to avoid memory-unsafe code and big dependency trees by making it harder to use raw pointers and requiring explicit audits, as seen in its tools like cargo vet. The goal is to force developers to adopt safer and more maintainable code practices, even if it means imposing constraints that might be inconvenient for some.
Apple has urged the European Commission to repeal the Digital Markets Act due to its negative impact on user experience and data privacy Apple warns the act could block certain products and services from being distributed in the EU if unchanged.
User received a translated error message from Japanese online and struggled to interpret it. The message describes installation issues and potential problems with Java runtime and software dependencies.
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Microsoft is mandating a Return To Office policy, citing non-innovative business reasons, despite employee concerns. Companies mandating RTO policies may be using it as a cost-cutting measure, increasing employee stress and commuting costs.
The author Daniel Temkin discovered esoteric programming languages, which challenge traditional coding styles, after reading a paper on Minesweeper's accidental computer concept. He created his own language, inspired by the minimalist esolangel Piet and the hacker folk art culture.
US military unaware of Israeli airstrike on Hamas in Doha, Qatar, due to focus on threats from Iran. US and Qatari air defenses had no warning, detecting attack only after it began.
The team implemented a new synchronization process for a mobile app, addressing issues with compatibility, performance, and efficiency. The new implementation features end-to-end streaming, fast queries, and efficient memory usage, making it resumable, incremental, and performant.
Human beings are distinguished by the capacity of logos, or worded thought, which brings essential use of language and reaches beyond it to find significance and guidance. We need to understand this special power of ours to navigate our headlong rush into the Age of Artificial Intelligence.
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Our system uses delayed timing and precise compensation to ensure seamless music recording and video conferencing despite internet latency. It synchronizes tracks with delayed sends and receptions, using temporal separation to ensure studio-quality audio on imperfect connections.
Raspberry Pi 500+ is a premium computer built into a high-quality mechanical keyboard with 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD, and quad-core ARM processor. It features programmable RGB LED backlighting, improved thermal performance, and dual 4K display output capabilities.
Apple has called for the repeal of the EU's Digital Markets Act, citing complexity issues and the law's negative impact on consumer choice. The company claims it is spending thousands of hours to comply with the law, but its requirements create problems.
Starbucks is closing 1% of its North America coffeehouses due to poor performance, while also cutting 900 non-retail roles and investing in stores and customer service. The company aims to create a better, stronger, and more resilient future, prioritizing customer experience.
The Apache License Version 2.0 grants a perpetual license to reproduce and distribute a work with modifications. This license includes both copyright and patent licenses with certain conditions and limitations.
The author designed a translation system for SumatraPDF to support 72 languages without hiring translators, using a web app to collect translations from users. The system uses a simple text file format to store translations, which is embedded in the executable and updated periodically.
Cloudflare is introducing NET Dollar, a new U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, to enable secure and instant transactions for the agentic web. This will power a new business model rewarding originality and creativity in an AI-driven world.
Researchers discovered a pair of polynomial knot invariants called $\Theta$ with high separation power and topological meaning. It can be computed efficiently even on large knots and is stronger than other invariants like the hyperbolic volume.
After a failed experiment, the team revived a project called "Haydex" to build a hyper-fast filtering system and eventually achieved an effective throughput of 178.6 billion rows per second. The project, which went through many challenges and optimizations, ultimately led to a 12.7x speedup in queries and transformed the performance envelope of the Axiom platform.
The writer discusses recent advancements in running technology, including shoes with carbon-fiber plates that improve performance by around 2.7%. They also address various unrelated topics, including the Algernon argument, Pangea, and the Sea Peoples of the Eastern Mediterranean.
Researchers studied 26,783 TikTok posts, finding that only 45% of conspiracy videos express anti-establishment sentiment. Casual users rarely see this content due to algorithms.
Astronomers discovered the 19-meter asteroid 2025 PN7 which orbits the Sun similarly to Earth. It is the smallest known quasi-moon that will accompany us for 60 years before moving off in a different direction.
We raised $50M in Series B funding at a $300M valuation, led by industry leaders, and our Droids AI coding platform ranks #1 on Terminal Bench. Droids are available for any model, interface, and IDE, and our platform is used by enterprises like MongoDB and EY to accelerate software delivery and reduce bottlenecks.
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Walking around an app is like walking through a forest to clear inner turbulence and solve complex engineering problems. This involves constantly checking the app's interface and IR for any inconsistencies or complex machinery.
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Writer with cancer is preparing for final post as health worsens with weight loss, secondaries, low platelet count, and breathlessness. They end posts by recommending Max Edwards' Guardian piece about his cancer experiences.
CVE-2025-10035, a CVSS 10.0 vulnerability in Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT, allows unauthenticated command injection due to a deserialization flaw. Despite patches, the severity of the vulnerability remains uncertain due to concerns about bypassing signature verification.
User created Lingo, a SQLite-style semantic search database, challenging traditional transformer paradigm, and seeking feedback. The open-source code is on GitHub at https://github.com/RobAntunes/lingodb, but currently broken and incomplete.
GDPval is a new evaluation measuring AI model performance on economically valuable real-world tasks across 44 occupations, bridging the gap between academic tests and real-world work. It assesses model capabilities in various industries, including manufacturing, by evaluating tasks like designing a jig for cable spooling in underground mining operations.
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Here are more options for citing the Harvard-Emory ECG Database. I will use the first option for citation in our conversation.
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[There were ~500,000 elephants in the world in 2023. This is down from ~10,000,000 elephants in the 1930s, due mainly to habitat loss and poaching.]
DEC engineers realized that it was challenging to design competitive VAX CPUs by the early 1990s due to inherent architectural issues, and they concluded that it was not possible to catch up with RISC designs like MIPS. The VAX's end was also influenced by DEC's decision to shift focus to a new RISC architecture, which became Alpha, due to the company's inability to fund and maintain a large ...
Starting in 2004, the US reduced H-1B visa quota from 195,000 to 65,000 but this didn't prompt US firms to hire more US workers.
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Subscribing to LWN helps keep its publication going and offers immediate site content access and extra features. Typst is a document typesetting program well-suited for technical writing, offering high-quality results and a simpler markup system than LaTeX.
User built EndlessWiki, an AI-generated Wikipedia where clicking links creates new pages on-the-fly, exploring a language model's stored knowledge. It prevents cheating by validating links on the server-side and uses a large model like Kimi K2 for fast generation.
The study investigated how human-robot collaboration affects human visuospatial attention and body schema integration. Participants performed a joint sawing task with a humanoid robot and then completed a Posner cueing task, showing an increased ability to detect targets near the robot's hand after collaboration.
Cloudflare is introducing NET Dollar, a new U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, to enable secure and instant transactions for the agentic web. This will power a new business model rewarding originality and creativity in an AI-driven world.
The user discusses their thoughts on Content Credentials (C2PA) and its current state, analyzing its use in photos, pros, and cons, and potential impact on the internet conversation by promoting truth and discouraging lies. They propose that C2PA adoption by major camera companies, such as Apple, may be the key to making it a mainstream standard.
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The writer is a fan of binturongs and has a plushie, but is tempted to buy another. They have otter plushies but think about getting a binturong to join them.
Amgen pursued aggressive patent strategies for their PCSK9 inhibitor evolocumab, claiming ownership of millions of antibodies it had never made, but the Supreme Court ultimately rejected their position, upholding patent law's enablement requirement. The ruling had significant implications, leading to market competition and price reductions and preventing Amgen's attempted monopoly from ...
California has one of the nation’s most comprehensive consumer data privacy laws. But it’s not always easy for people to exercise those privacy rights. That’s why we supported Assemblymember Josh Lowenthal’s A.B. 566 throughout the legislative session and are now asking California Governor Gavin Newsom to sign it into law.
Licensure for software engineers would improve quality, just as it has for other professions, by setting a minimum bar for quality and upfront cost and protecting public welfare. The profession should follow the existing engineering disciplines' precedent for licensure and certification, including exams, training, and codes of ethics.
Apple has urged the European Commission to repeal the Digital Markets Act due to its negative impact on user experience and data privacy Apple warns the act could block certain products and services from being distributed in the EU if unchanged.