Qualcomm to acquire Arduino

1283 janjongboom 2025-10-07 13:00:08 UTC qualcomm.com Llama Share 525

Qualcomm acquires Arduino to combine products and technologies, empowering developers with AI and edge computing capabilities. The acquisition unlocks a full-stack platform for modern development, offering access to Qualcomm's technology stack and global reach.

German government comes out against Chat Control

1094 SolonIslandus 2025-10-07 17:31:49 UTC xcancel.com Full Share 491

Great news and big win for privacy in the EU! 🇪🇺🇩🇪 Germany’s ruling CDU/CSU party made it clear today: there will be no chat control - as pushed for by other EU countries - with this German government. 40 Sekunden kurz und präzise: Mit der CDU/CSU wird es keine anlasslose Chatkontrolle geben, wie sie von einigen Staaten in der EU gefordert wird.

Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model

608 mfiguiere 2025-10-07 19:49:11 UTC blog.google Llama Share 309

Google released Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model for developers to interact with UIs via API. The model outperforms alternatives on web and mobile control benchmarks with lower latency and safety features to prevent misuse.

Canadian bill would strip internet access from 'specified persons', no warrant

583 walterbell 2025-10-07 12:20:14 UTC nationalpost.com Llama Share 335

The Canadian government is proposing Bill C-8, which would allow the minister of industry to unilaterally cut off internet services to any individual. Critics argue this gives the government too much power to collect internet data without a warrant.

Vibe engineering

582 janpio 2025-10-07 14:55:14 UTC simonwillison.net Llama Share 624

The author proposes "vibe engineering" to describe a responsible and accountable way of using AI tools like LLMs for software development, contrasting with "vibe coding" which is fast and loose.

Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally

565 mholt 2025-10-07 16:10:22 UTC timelinize.com Llama Share 154

Timelinize is a personal data archiving app that preserves family life stories by collecting data from various sources and storing it on a user's computer. It provides a complete view of a family's story, with features like data deduplication, denoising, and clustering.

IKEA Catalogs 1951-2021

481 bookofjoe 2025-10-07 15:35:48 UTC ikeamuseum.com Full Share 131

IKEA was founded in the 1940s, so why are you showing no catalogues from before 1951? Does IKEA Museum have any physical copies of the IKEA catalogue for people to browse through?

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025

455 luisb 2025-10-07 09:50:49 UTC nobelprize.org Llama Share 95

John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis demonstrated macroscopic quantum tunnelling in an electrical circuit. They showed that a system of many particles can exhibit quantum mechanical properties.

Deloitte to refund the Australian government after using AI in $440k report

455 fforflo 2025-10-07 07:51:57 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 228

Deloitte will repay the federal government after admitting its report contained errors due to generative AI use. The consultancy firm's report found widespread issues in the welfare system, but its own errors have raised concerns about AI's role in producing the report.

Doing Rails Wrong

365 treesenthusiast 2025-10-07 17:01:32 UTC bananacurvingmachine.com Llama Share 262

John installed Vite with React Refresh, TypeScript, Babel, PostCSS, Tailwind, ESLint, Prettier, and Husky for a modern web development setup. The app boots instantly with working forms, fast loading times, and navigation.

Seeing like a software company

343 praptak 2025-10-07 16:49:09 UTC seangoedecke.com Llama Share 106

Large organizations prioritize legibility over efficiency, creating processes that make work predictable but also slow and bureaucratic. Illegible work, such as backchannels and side bets, is essential for high-efficiency work and fills the natural human desire for gossip and soft consensus.

No account? No Windows 11, Microsoft says as another loophole snaps shut

337 Bender 2025-10-07 14:45:54 UTC theregister.com Llama Share 4

Microsoft is closing a loophole in Windows 11 that allowed users to install without a Microsoft account. Users will now need to complete setup with internet and a Microsoft account for proper device configuration.

California law forces Netflix, Hulu to turn down ad volumes

336 c420 2025-10-07 04:03:49 UTC politico.com Llama Share 140

California is regulating loud streaming commercials, requiring them to be at the same volume as the program. The law was inspired by a parent's complaint about loud ads waking up his infant daughter.

ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones

316 mdhb 2025-10-07 17:12:43 UTC techcrunch.com Llama Share 195

TechOps Specialty Vehicles signed a contract with ICE for cell-site simulator vehicles, a technology used to track phone locations. The company, TOSV, also has a history of providing similar services to ICE and other law enforcement agencies.

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.'

300 locopati 2025-10-07 16:18:48 UTC 404media.co Llama Share 157

The Johnson County Sheriff's Office in Texas used Flock cameras to search for a woman who self-administered an abortion, initially claiming concern for her safety but later revealed they were conducting a "death investigation" into the fetus. Newly unearthed court documents show police discussed charging the woman with a crime, contradicting the sheriff's office and Flock's narrative that she ...

Less is more: Recursive reasoning with tiny networks

291 guybedo 2025-10-07 17:42:06 UTC alexiajm.github.io Llama Share 60

The Tiny Recursion Model (TRM) achieves high scores on hard tasks with a tiny 7M parameters neural network by recursively improving its answer through a simple process. This approach simplifies recursive reasoning and is more efficient than large models, potentially breaking the bank requirement for AI success.

User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality

270 gregsadetsky 2025-10-07 19:44:00 UTC plus.flux.community Llama Share 369

Bluesky, a social network, faced criticism for moderation decisions and user bans, including allowing anti-trans writer Jesse Singal to remain on the platform. Bluesky's decentralization plans have yet to be fulfilled, with its alternative, Blacksky, still dependent on Bluesky's application server.

Solar energy is now the cheapest source of power, study

262 giuliomagnifico 2025-10-07 17:50:17 UTC surrey.ac.uk Llama Share 294

Solar energy is now cheaper than coal, gas, and wind power in sunny countries, costing £0.02 per unit. A University of Surrey study found solar power with storage is as cost-effective as gas power plants due to falling battery prices.

Devpush – Open-source and self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Render, Netlify

254 el_hacker 2025-10-07 10:07:50 UTC github.com/hunvreus Llama Share 87

Install DevPush, an open-source alternative to Vercel and Netlify, on a fresh Ubuntu/Debian server with Hetzner's CPX31. Configure DNS records, harden server security, and set environment variables for a fully functional DevPush deployment.

Robin Williams' daughter pleads for people to stop sending AI videos of her dad

239 dijksterhuis 2025-10-07 16:56:40 UTC bbc.co.uk Llama Share 199

Zelda Williams, Robin Williams' daughter, asks people to stop sending her AI-generated videos of her father, calling it "dumb" and "a waste of time." She criticizes AI versions of her father, saying they're "personally disturbing" and disrespect his legacy.

Become unbannable from your email

227 bfoks 2025-10-07 21:39:07 UTC karboosx.net Llama Share 185

The author argues that email has become a crucial piece of personal information, and losing access to it can be a nightmare. They recommend setting up an email address under your own domain to gain control and resilience.

The evolution of Lua, continued [pdf]

220 welovebunnies 2025-10-07 12:54:14 UTC lua.org Llama Share 164

Lua is a lightweight embeddable scripting language created in 1993 at PUC-Rio in Brazil, widely used in industrial applications and game development, with a long history of evolution and improvements. The language has introduced various features such as collaborative multithreading, integers, bitwise operators, and UTF-8 library, with ongoing development and refinement of its garbage ...

Google's requirement for developers to be verified threatens app store F-Droid

207 beardyw 2025-10-07 18:51:40 UTC techdirt.com Llama Share 150

Google requires Android developers to register and verify their apps, which may end F-Droid and other free/open-source app distribution sources. This move is seen as a power grab, restricting users' freedom to install apps and eroding the open-source ecosystem.

A mechanic offered a reason why no one wants to work in the industry

194 thunderbong 2025-10-07 08:27:41 UTC motor1.com Llama Share 262

A mechanic claims Ford's flat-rate pay for repairs under warranty is too low, making it hard to find skilled workers. He says engineers should design vehicles to be easier to work on, not just for assembly speed.

America is now one big bet on AI

164 saubeidl 2025-10-07 13:18:33 UTC ft.com Llama Share 182

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Erlang ARM32 JIT is born

164 plainOldText 2025-10-07 13:00:25 UTC grisp.org Llama Share 19

The BEAM JIT was successfully ported to the ARM32-bit architecture, allowing the execution of the first Erlang function through JITted ARM32 machine code with error code 42. The achievement was made possible by funding from the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation and the support of its Embedded Working Group, and it paves the way for incremental addition of Erlang instructions and completion of the ...

3M May Escape Toxic Chemical, PFAS Manufacturing Legacy

158 speckx 2025-10-07 13:22:04 UTC bloomberg.com Llama Share 102

3M's Command strip revolutionized home decor but the company's success was marred by PFAS liabilities and safety issues. New CEO Bill Brown is trying to turn the company around with a plan to run 3M better and tackle its problems.

Eliminating contrails from flying could be cheap

146 K2L8M11N2 2025-10-07 19:07:07 UTC sustainabilitybynumbers.com Llama Share 183

Eliminating contrails from flights could reduce warming by 2% at a cost of around $5 per flight, making it a cheap solution to climate change. Governments could step in to mandate contrail avoidance, increasing public awareness and making it a more viable option for the aviation industry.

The murky economics of the data-centre investment boom

146 1vuio0pswjnm7 2025-10-07 18:52:46 UTC economist.com Llama Share 104

McKinsey forecasts $5.2trn in AI-related spending worldwide in five years, possibly increasing this estimate. US announcements suggest AI infrastructure investment is reaching a fever pitch.

Swiss glaciers have shrunk by a quarter since 2015, study says

123 bookofjoe 2025-10-07 14:56:09 UTC france24.com Full Share 94

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Tcl-Lang Showcase

118 luismedel 2025-10-07 13:25:33 UTC wiki.tcl-lang.org Full Share 41

By clicking on the image, an interactive demonstration of the Tcl/Tk application is launched using CloudTk. Over 100 Tcl/Tk applications listed from this wiki are demonstrated here . To view the Tcl/Tk Widget Demonstration, go to the "Playground" from the menu above and then select "Demos" in the "Tcl-Playground" - Console menu.

Show HN: MARS – Personal AI robot for builders (< $2k)

113 apeytavin 2025-10-07 15:11:52 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 66

Axel and Vignesh, Innate cofounders, launched MARS, a general-purpose robot with an open onboard OS. MARS has a dedicated app, leader arm, and SDK BASIC for AI agent capabilities.

Pdoc – Generate API documentation for Python projects

113 joshdavham 2025-10-07 03:40:41 UTC pdoc.dev Full Share 25

pdoc auto-generates API documentation that follows your project's Python module hierarchy. It requires no configuration, has first-class support for type annotations, cross-links between identifiers, comes with an integrated live-reloading web server, and understands numpydoc or Google-style docstrings.

Gold Prices Top $4k for First Time

111 thm 2025-10-07 15:30:02 UTC wsj.com Full Share 134

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Launch HN: LlamaFarm (YC W22) – Open-source framework for distributed AI

102 mhamann 2025-10-07 15:30:20 UTC github.com/llama-farm Llama Share 56

LlamaFarm is an open-source framework for building AI applications with opinionated defaults and 100% extendability. It provides a local-first developer experience with a CLI for managing projects, datasets, and chat sessions.

Cache-Friendly B+Tree Nodes with Dynamic Fanout

93 jasim 2025-10-07 16:39:13 UTC jacobsherin.com Llama Share 23

A high-performance B+Tree requires a contiguous memory layout to improve locality of reference and reduce cache misses, which can be achieved using flexible array members in C++. However, this approach increases implementation complexity due to manual memory management, lack of inheritance, and hidden data type constraints, making it a necessary trade-off for unlocking high performance.

California passes law to reduce volume of commercials on streaming services

82 mikhael 2025-10-07 21:12:37 UTC gov.ca.gov Llama Share 57

Governor Newsom signed SB 576 to limit commercial volume on streaming services to match the original programming. This law applies to streaming services, building on a 2010 US law that only covered broadcast TV and cable.

The Mondrian introduction to functional optics

82 marcosh 2025-10-07 09:35:53 UTC marcosh.github.io Llama Share 21

Functional optics are a way to select and manipulate parts of complex data types using graphical representations and algebraic data types. Various optics like Iso, Lens, Prism, AffineTraversal, and Traversal can be composed and used to focus on specific parts of data types.

Learning a foreign language–before you're born

79 XzetaU8 2025-10-07 05:43:56 UTC nouvelles.umontreal.ca Llama Share 37

Researchers found that babies can learn a foreign language before birth through prenatal exposure. A few weeks of listening to a new language rewires the language networks in a newborn's brain, processed along the same neural pathways as the mother tongue.

Origami Patterns Solve a Major Physics Riddle

78 pseudolus 2025-10-07 01:34:32 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 5

A young mathematician named Pavel Galashin found a connection between the amplituhedron and origami, showing that patterns in origami can form the amplituhedron. This link helped resolve an open conjecture about the amplituhedron's structure and its connection to particle collisions.

Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August

77 Erikun 2025-10-07 15:01:29 UTC nytimes.com Llama Share 100

Fewer international students arrived in the U.S. this August due to visa delays and travel restrictions. The decline is expected to impact colleges financially and American competitiveness in science and engineering.

Building a Browser for Reverse Engineers

75 hazebooth 2025-10-07 17:03:15 UTC nullpt.rs Llama Share 2

The user built a web reverse-engineering tool called Snitch that hooks arbitrary global functions and properties in web pages, allowing for stealthy analysis and modification of browser behavior. The tool uses the Chrome DevTools Protocol and Chromium's Blink layer to create custom events and intercept JavaScript execution, making it a powerful Swiss Army knife for web reverse-engineering.

Stress test for parallel disk i/o using git and pnpm

73 robin_reala 2025-10-07 12:14:16 UTC github.com/nullvoxpopuli Llama Share 57

This repo tests APFS on macOS and serves as a stress test for fs event observation. It uses pnpm and git to fill the cache for testing.

The NIH ordered me to stop my 'dangerous' gain-of-function research

73 maxall4 2025-10-07 05:39:27 UTC statnews.com Llama Share 90

The NIH ordered me to stop my TB research due to concerns over "dangerous gain-of-function research," but my work is safe and essential for finding new treatments. I support safety measures, but decisions must be transparent and scientifically informed to prevent unwarranted curtailment of lifesaving research.

The publishing industry has a gambling problem

69 Caiero 2025-10-07 18:55:36 UTC thewalrus.ca Llama Share 50

Publishers prioritize a writer's track record, which can be a double-edged sword, as a bad track can limit future opportunities, but a good track can lead to higher advances and more support. However, the emphasis on track can stifle creativity and lead to a conservative approach in publishing, making it harder for writers with unique voices or styles to break through.

Recursive reasoning with tiny networks

68 stared 2025-10-07 20:11:58 UTC alexiajm.github.io Llama Share 1

The Tiny Recursion Model (TRM) achieves high scores on hard tasks with a tiny 7M parameters neural network by recursively improving its answer through a simple process. This approach simplifies recursive reasoning and is more efficient than large models, potentially breaking the bank requirement for AI success.

MacBook Lid Angle Sensor

68 redbell 2025-10-07 10:38:46 UTC github.com/samhenrigold Llama Share 28

Sam Gold is a designer/design-engineer with a MacBook lid angle sensor utility. He's open to full-time work in NYC or remote and has a website at https://samhenri.gold.

Microsoft are removing mechanisms for creating a local account in Windows Setup

67 MaximilianEmel 2025-10-07 00:19:59 UTC blogs.windows.com Llama Share 2

Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.6772 includes new features such as Click to Do improvements, Windows Hello Enhanced Sign-in Security, and ability to name default user folder. It also fixes various issues with File Explorer, taskbar, and camera settings.

Analytical review of depression and suicidality from finasteride

67 gnabgib 2025-10-07 00:11:34 UTC psychiatrist.com Llama Share 106

Finasteride, a widely prescribed hair loss treatment, has been linked to severe neuropsychiatric reactions, including depression and suicidality, even after discontinuation. A systematic review of postmarketing studies found a significant increase in depression and suicidality risk with finasteride use.

Gifted children are special needs children

66 bko 2025-10-07 13:52:32 UTC mleverything.substack.com Llama Share 134

Zohran Mamdani plans to phase out NYC's gifted and talented programs, citing segregation concerns. Critics argue this move will harm gifted children, not help disadvantaged ones.

GPT-5-Codex is a better AI researcher than me

64 codeclimber 2025-10-07 10:16:29 UTC seangoedecke.com Llama Share 36

The user trained a 1.8M param transformer on a laptop in five minutes using Codex, an AI tool, and achieved better results than their previous attempts. They discovered a successful approach to training a transformer by distilling it from a n-gram teacher model, resulting in coherent and well-structured story outputs.

The Quiet Driving Force Behind Rising Curtailment Costs in Great Britain

57 jayflux 2025-10-07 10:42:47 UTC ukerc.ac.uk Llama Share 76

Wind curtailment in Scotland due to transmission capacity issues has led to high balancing costs and curtailment of new wind farms. Upgrades to the transmission network are underway but delayed, and operational reductions in capacity have also contributed to the problem.

Investing in America 2025

45 gmays 2025-10-07 22:00:20 UTC blog.google Llama Share 46

Google is investing in US infrastructure, research, and education to lead the world in AI. These investments create economic opportunities and new career paths for Americans.

Hardware Stockholm Syndrome

37 rajiv_abraham 2025-10-07 00:46:57 UTC programmingsimplicity.substack.com Llama Share 15

The function-based programming paradigm was a choice made to optimize for expensive, time-shared CPUs in the 1970s, not a fundamental truth of computation. Today, with cheap, parallel CPUs, it's time to reevaluate this paradigm and consider alternative models that better fit the reality of massively concurrent systems.

Buckle Up, the Smart Glasses Backlash Is Coming

35 rbanffy 2025-10-07 09:29:28 UTC gizmodo.com Llama Share 74

Meta's smart glasses have arrived, but with them comes the risk of privacy backlash as people may record others without their knowledge. A recent incident at San Francisco University highlights the issue, with a man using Meta AI glasses to film students without their consent.

How to Figure Out What You're Not Good At

30 donutshop 2025-10-07 21:29:03 UTC blog.martin-haehnel.de Llama Share 13

The author reflects on their struggles with video games and realizes they're not as good at them as others, despite extensive experience. This realization helps them understand that they're not as skilled at various things as they thought.

Show HN: Arc – high-throughput time-series warehouse with DuckDB analytics

25 ignaciovdk 2025-10-07 16:40:02 UTC github.com/basekick-labs Llama Share 17

Arc Core is a technical preview in active development, not recommended for production workloads. It uses MinIO as the primary storage backend for analytical time-series workloads.

Eating capitalism: How our food got hijacked by profits

22 heyimada 2025-10-07 13:47:35 UTC hi-im-ada.beehiiv.com Llama Share 21

The user shares their personal journey of changing their relationship with food after realizing how the current economic system shapes our relationship with food and affects our bodies. They encourage readers to take control by reading labels, cooking simple meals, and trying new recipes to avoid ultra-processed foods and reclaim food from corporations.

Show HN: Greenonion.ai – AI-Powered Design Assistant

21 yanjiechg 2025-10-07 08:04:49 UTC exuberant-premise-723012.framer.app Llama Share 18

The platform offers perfectly sized ads for various channels with no extra effort needed and flexible pricing tiers for creators and enterprises. It also provides answers to common questions about its AI-Powered Design Assistant.

Redis CVE-2025-49844: Use-After-Free may lead to remote code execution

20 khaled_ismaeel 2025-10-07 09:33:50 UTC redis.io Llama Share 13

A security vulnerability in Redis has been identified and remediated in certain versions, allowing an authenticated user to potentially execute remote code. To protect Redis, restrict network access, enforce strong authentication, limit permissions, and upgrade to the latest release.

When money is abundant, knowledge is the real wealth (2020)

19 mustaphah 2025-10-07 12:40:36 UTC lesswrong.com Llama Share 7

The author argues that beyond a certain point, wealth and power cannot efficiently buy knowledge and expertise, which become the bottlenecks to achieving goals. They recommend focusing on acquiring knowledge and understanding the world.

TIL: The Data Furnace

17 sans_souse 2025-10-07 06:56:16 UTC en.wikipedia.org Llama Share 7

Data furnaces use computers to heat homes by releasing waste heat, potentially cheaper than traditional data centers. Companies like Microsoft and Google are exploring data furnaces for sustainability and carbon neutrality.

Polish scientists' startup Pathway announces AI reasoning breakthrough

11 ludovicianul 2025-10-07 10:47:06 UTC polskieradio.pl Llama Share 9

Adrian Kosowski's Polish startup Pathway developed a revolutionary AI solution called Dragon Hatchling, a brain-inspired language model that rivals GPT2 performance and tackles key AI challenges. It creates a structure similar to the brain's neural networks, emerging spontaneously during training and resembling the neocortex's behavior.