The <output> Tag

840 todsacerdoti 2025-10-11 08:27:26 UTC denodell.com Llama Share 183

The &lt;output&gt; element announces its value when it changes, making it suitable for dynamic results that need to be announced to screen readers. It's a native HTML element that provides built-in assistive technology support, eliminating the need for ARIA attributes.

Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year

838 dmitrygr 2025-10-11 18:36:51 UTC hardware.slashdot.org Llama Share 331

Microsoft's OneDrive uses AI to recognize faces in photos, but users can only turn off this setting 3 times a year. The feature is currently rolling out in a preview, but Microsoft won't confirm a release date.

Daniel Kahneman opted for assisted suicide in Switzerland

577 kvam 2025-10-11 08:09:15 UTC bluewin.ch Llama Share 613

Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman died by assisted suicide in Switzerland at 90 after deciding to end his life to avoid suffering and loss of autonomy. He spent his last days in Paris, enjoying life and writing about his decision to die on his own terms.

GNU Health

465 smartmic 2025-10-11 15:47:22 UTC gnuhealth.org Llama Share 133

GNU Health is a free, community-driven project providing tools for health professionals, institutions, and governments to assess and improve health determinants. It offers a modular design, covering EMR, hospital management, and health information systems, with a focus on social medicine and universal healthcare.

Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025

430 Ch00k 2025-10-11 07:29:23 UTC blog.fsck.com Llama Share 231

The author has developed a system called Superpowers using Claude, which allows for automated coding and project management. The system uses skills, which are reusable pieces of code, to streamline tasks.

Meta Superintelligence Labs' first paper is about RAG

420 skadamat 2025-10-11 23:16:05 UTC paddedinputs.substack.com Llama Share 270

Meta Superintelligence's REFRAG paper innovates RAG, a real-world topic, by promising 30x faster responses for existing RAG stacks. This breakthrough makes RAG cheaper and faster at scale, directly impacting product economics and user experience.

Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Tutorial (2024)

386 cjbarber 2025-10-11 18:06:40 UTC github.com/anthropics Llama Share 116

This course teaches optimal prompt engineering in Claude with 9 chapters and exercises, allowing practice and troubleshooting. It uses the Claude 3 Haiku model, with more advanced models available.

Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

356 ofalkaed 2025-10-11 22:16:18 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 882

The user reminisces about abandoned tech projects like Vine, Midori, Macromedia Flash, Movieclips, Maemo/Meego, ReactOS, and Google Glass, speculating on what could have been if they succeeded.

Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme

349 zzzeek 2025-10-11 18:17:10 UTC reason.com Llama Share 283

A Tennessee man was arrested and held on a $2 million bond for posting a meme on Facebook that referenced a previous school shooting, which some interpreted as a threat. The arrest has raised concerns about free speech and the First Amendment, with some arguing the meme was just heated rhetoric and not a true threat.

People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads

338 croes 2025-10-11 17:41:45 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 186

Amazon has increased ads on Echo Show smart displays, including full-screen ads for Alexa+, which users cannot disable. Users are pushing back, considering returning or switching to Google devices due to the ads.

LineageOS 23

337 cdesai 2025-10-11 23:53:17 UTC lineageos.org Llama Share 180

LineageOS 23.0 is now available, based on Android 16's initial release, with some features like Material 3 Expressive not yet included due to Google's delayed QPR1 source release. The new version includes various improvements, such as a rewritten camera app, updated music player, and support for virtualized environments, with more devices to be added as they meet the requirements.

Vibing a non-trivial Ghostty feature

332 skevy 2025-10-11 14:31:15 UTC mitchellh.com Llama Share 147

The user developed a non-trivial Ghostty feature using AI, specifically an unobtrusive macOS automatic update notification, and shared their 16-session agentic coding process. The feature was completed in 8 hours, with a total token spend of $15.98, and is now available in the nightly beta version of Ghostty.

AMD and Sony's PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline

324 zdw 2025-10-11 04:36:16 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 412

Sony and AMD are working on "Project Amethyst," a new chip architecture that improves ray-tracing and machine-learning capabilities. It uses neural arrays and separate "radiance cores" to enhance graphics and memory bandwidth.

Firefox is the best mobile browser

297 kelvinjps10 2025-10-11 14:12:02 UTC kelvinjps.com Llama Share 198

Firefox is a private, open-source browser with seamless sync and customizable homepage, supporting powerful mobile extensions like Ublock and Lechblock. These extensions help block ads, pop-ups, and other annoyances, improving browsing experience on mobile devices.

Windows Subsystem for FreeBSD

277 rguiscard 2025-10-11 07:32:08 UTC github.com/balajes Llama Share 139

This project enables running FreeBSD in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) with minimal changes to the base system. It's a personal, experimental project not affiliated with Microsoft or the FreeBSD Project.

AV2 video codec delivers 30% lower bitrate than AV1, final spec due in late 2025

276 ksec 2025-10-11 08:19:31 UTC videocardz.com Llama Share 221

AV2 is a new open video codec nearing completion after five years of development, offering 30% lower bitrate than AV1 at the same quality. It features improved prediction, quantization, and filtering, with potential AI extensions for future optimization.

Microsoft Amplifier

257 JDEW 2025-10-11 15:19:54 UTC github.com/microsoft Llama Share 152

Amplifier is a development environment that uses AI coding assistants to deliver complex solutions with minimal hand-holding. It centralizes data, automates workflows, and allows for parallel experimentation.

Rating 26 years of Java changes

235 PaulHoule 2025-10-11 18:29:27 UTC neilmadden.blog Llama Share 311

The user reflects on 26 years of Java releases, rating various language and core library changes, from the Collections Framework to Java Time, and expressing both praise and criticism for each feature. They conclude that while some features, such as Generics and Try-with-resources, have been highly successful, others, like Java Modules and Text Blocks, have been poorly received or underwhelming.

CamoLeak: Critical GitHub Copilot Vulnerability Leaks Private Source Code

233 greyadept 2025-10-11 22:58:30 UTC legitsecurity.com Llama Share 43

A critical vulnerability in GitHub Copilot Chat allowed silent exfiltration of secrets and source code from private repos and gave full control over Copilot's responses. The vulnerability was exploited by injecting a prompt into the chat that used GitHub's own infrastructure to bypass CSP and exfiltrate data, which was then encoded and appended to a URL.

Google blocks Android hack that let Pixel users enable VoLTE anywhere

213 josephcsible 2025-10-11 23:41:00 UTC androidauthority.com Llama Share 104

Google's October 2025 update broke the Pixel IMS app, a tool enabling VoLTE and VoWiFi on unsupported regions. A new workaround has been discovered for VoLTE, but users need to root their devices for VoWiFi.

How hard do you have to hit a chicken to cook it? (2020)

190 jxmorris12 2025-10-11 02:06:02 UTC james-simon.github.io Llama Share 107

To cook a chicken, four people hitting it with baseball bats at 75 mph once a second in a vacuum chamber is needed. This method would cook the chicken in a few minutes due to continuous heat input.

Discord hack shows risks of online age checks

181 ColinWright 2025-10-11 19:22:03 UTC news.sky.com Llama Share 54

Discord says hackers stole around 70,000 users' ID photos from a third-party age verification service. The stolen data may include personal info and partial credit card numbers, but not full credit card details or passwords.

A Guide for WireGuard VPN Setup with Pi-Hole Adblock and Unbound DNS

175 pSYoniK 2025-10-11 19:41:27 UTC psyonik.tech Llama Share 31

The user set up a Wireguard network with a VPS as the server and multiple devices as clients, using Pi-Hole and Unbound for DNS resolution and ad-blocking. They configured the network to allow devices to access local network resources and the internet through the VPS, and also set up a system for accessing home server resources remotely using custom domain names.

Heroin addicts often seem normal

164 surprisetalk 2025-10-11 22:43:58 UTC justismills.substack.com Llama Share 239

The author questions the effectiveness of providing drugs at government facilities for treatment, citing that addicts can behave strategically and that the typical addict is not the stereotypical homeless person. They share personal experiences with opiate addiction among friends, highlighting that addiction can affect both dysfunctional and functional individuals.

Japan's summers have lengthened by 3 weeks over 42 years, say resaerchers

159 anigbrowl 2025-10-11 20:51:03 UTC english.kyodonews.net Llama Share 35

Japanese summers have lengthened by three weeks over 42 years due to climate change. Rising sea surface temperatures are causing an earlier onset and longer duration of summer.

Vancouver Stock Exchange: Scam capital of the world (1989) [pdf]

135 thomassmith65 2025-10-11 23:43:42 UTC scamcouver.wordpress.com Full Share 67

Root cause analysis? You're doing it wrong

134 davedx 2025-10-11 13:39:31 UTC entropicthoughts.com Llama Share 92

The article discusses the limitations of traditional root cause analysis in understanding complex system accidents and proposes the use of Causal Analysis based on Systems Theory (cast) for deeper analysis. Cast analysis considers the system's goal, constraints, and hazardous conditions to identify the root causes of accidents and prevent future occurrences.

Learn Turbo Pascal – a video series originally released on VHS

133 AlexeyBrin 2025-10-11 11:57:58 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 43

Peter Thiel's antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon

129 jamesblonde 2025-10-11 04:01:52 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 99

Peter Thiel, a billionaire venture capitalist, has given off-the-record lectures on the antichrist in San Francisco, drawing on René Girard's ideas but struggling to stay coherent. Thiel's vision of the antichrist is narrow and self-referential, reflecting his own Silicon Valley-coded worldview.

Indonesia says 22 plants in industrial zone contaminated by caesium 137

125 geox 2025-10-11 19:59:14 UTC reuters.com Full Share 32

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Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal

125 Bender 2025-10-11 00:22:31 UTC theregister.com Llama Share 143

US datacenters are shifting towards coal-powered energy due to high natural gas prices and growing demand. This shift is expected to continue through 2027, despite environmental concerns and the potential for renewable energy to power datacenters at lower cost.

What is going on with all this radioactive shrimp?

119 riffraff 2025-10-11 04:31:15 UTC consumerreports.org Llama Share 29

The FDA issued a warning about radioactive shrimp from Indonesian firm Bahari Makmur Sejati, affecting hundreds of thousands of pounds of frozen shrimp. The contamination is linked to a steel manufacturer in Indonesia, with the FDA imposing new import requirements for shrimp and spices from the island of Java.

Diane Keaton has died

111 mhb 2025-10-11 20:50:45 UTC nytimes.com Full Share 19

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Datastar response to misunderstandings

108 alvaroflm 2025-10-11 21:55:49 UTC data-star.dev Llama Share 116

Datastar Pro is a one-time lifetime license for convenience plugins, supporting the project, and funding work. The free core remains available for hobbyists, students, and solo developers.

ElementaryOS – Thoughtful, capable and ethical replacement for Windows/macOS

104 donutshop 2025-10-11 21:14:40 UTC elementary.io Llama Share 86

elementary OS offers a secure and private operating system with features like Secure Session, Inclusive Design, and customizable keyboard shortcuts. It provides a curated app store, multitasking features, and a focus on user data ownership and control.

Hackers leak Qantas data on 5M customers after ransom deadline passes

104 breve 2025-10-11 13:27:42 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 85

Hackers leaked 5 million Qantas customer records on the dark web after a ransom deadline passed. The stolen data includes email addresses, phone numbers, and birth dates, but not credit card details.

TikTok removing posts for violating the "joy of TikTok"

103 bhouston 2025-10-11 00:02:41 UTC twitter.com/prem_thakker Full Share 107

Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot. Some privacy related extensions may cause issues on x.com. Please disable them and try again.

How to check for overlapping intervals

97 birdculture 2025-10-11 15:26:31 UTC zayenz.se Llama Share 27

The user discusses how to represent and check for overlap between intervals in programming, using Python as an example language, and simplifies the overlap condition using case analysis and negation. The user also applies this technique to two-dimensional boxes, showing that checking for non-overlap is easier and can be used to simplify the overlap condition.

They Don't Have the Money: OpenAI Edition

92 eatonphil 2025-10-11 00:14:10 UTC platformonomics.com Llama Share 58

OpenAI's enormous spending plans and cash burn rate are raising concerns about its financial sustainability. The company needs hundreds of billions of dollars to fund its ambitions, but its fundraising efforts are struggling.

Paper2video: Automatic video generation from scientific papers

90 jinqueeny 2025-10-11 23:32:25 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 24

Researchers created Paper2Video, a benchmark for presentation videos, and proposed PaperTalker, a multi-agent framework for generating academic videos. PaperTalker produces more faithful and informative videos than existing methods, enabling automated academic video generation.

Tech megacaps lose $770B in value as Nasdaq suffers steepest drop since April

88 rntn 2025-10-11 14:33:22 UTC cnbc.com Llama Share 159

Tech stocks fell 3.6% on Nasdaq after President Trump threatened tariffs on Chinese products. Nvidia, Amazon, and Tesla lost around 5% each, wiping out $770 billion in market cap.

How much revenue is needed to justify the current AI spend?

81 polskibus 2025-10-11 20:49:49 UTC pracap.com Llama Share 99

The author spoke with over two-dozen datacenter industry experts and found that no one understands how the financial math works for AI, with a potential revenue range of $320 billion to $480 billion needed to break even.

Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley

79 RyanShook 2025-10-11 02:28:13 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 68

Silicon Valley fears an AI bubble bursting due to overvaluation and financial engineering. Experts warn of a potential disaster if the bubble breaks, citing concerns over circular financing and environmental impact.

Vietnam Airlines Data Breach

74 pbd 2025-10-11 09:40:10 UTC haveibeenpwned.com Llama Share 34

In October 2025, Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters released stolen data from multiple companies, including Vietnam Airlines. The exposed data included 7.5M email addresses, names, phone numbers, dates of birth, and loyalty program numbers.

US moves to cancel one of the largest solar farms

73 doener 2025-10-11 23:05:54 UTC ft.com Full Share 132

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We Found a Hidden Camera in the Bathroom of Our Airbnb

68 danso 2025-10-11 23:04:22 UTC nytimes.com Full Share 46

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How to tame a user interface using a spreadsheet

67 msephton 2025-10-11 00:11:59 UTC blog.gingerbeardman.com Llama Share 16

The author uses spreadsheets to design user interfaces due to their flexibility and ability to focus on layout and hierarchy without clutter. They prefer using Apple Numbers but suggest other options like Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel.

Show HN: Aidlab – Health Data for Devs

58 guzik 2025-10-11 14:24:35 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 18

Jakub and his co-founders built Aidlab, a wearable that provides developers with gold-standard physiological data through a free SDK across multiple platforms. Aidlab aims to bridge the gap between accuracy and accessibility by delivering medical-grade signals without hospital-level complexity, with a focus on edge computing and data privacy.

Wilson's Algorithm

58 FromTheArchives 2025-10-11 13:35:00 UTC cruzgodar.com Llama Share 9

Wilson's Algorithm creates a random maze by drawing a path and avoiding loops and the starting point. It involves backtracking and restarting when loops or the starting point are hit until every dot is white.

The story of X-Copy on the Amiga

57 onename 2025-10-11 21:35:33 UTC spillhistorie.no Llama Share 12

X-Copy was the most popular Amiga program, allowing users to copy entire disks, and its developers, Frank Neuhaus and Hans Georg Berg, later joined Cachet Software to create a commercial version. The program's success led to the development of a suite of tools, including Cyclone, and its legacy lives on through the KryoFlux system used for digitizing and preserving disks.

You won't believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned

57 Michelangelo11 2025-10-11 06:21:18 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 15

Pope Leo XIV condemned clickbait as degrading and called for journalists to be vigilant against AI replacing human beings. He emphasized the importance of transparency, accountability, and objectivity in news media.

Is Odin just a more boring C?

56 birdculture 2025-10-11 19:33:27 UTC dayvster.com Llama Share 71

The user has been experimenting with the Odin programming language, building a tiny key-value store with pub/sub capabilities and exploring its features, including manual memory management, concurrency, and threading. They found Odin to be a fast and easy-to-use language with a comprehensive standard library and vendor libraries, but noted some minor nitpicks, such as verbose error messages ...

Salesforce CEO Says National Guard Should Patrol San Francisco

46 anigbrowl 2025-10-11 04:07:47 UTC techcrunch.com Llama Share 56

Benioff expressed support for President Trump and suggested National Guard troops patrol San Francisco streets. His comments reflect Silicon Valley's accommodation of Trump, but it's unclear if other Bay Area tech CEOs will follow his lead.

Does anyone remember websites?

44 lr0 2025-10-11 14:42:04 UTC tttthis.com Llama Share 58

Websites before 2005 were unique, organic collections of information written by individuals with no standard format. They were mostly text-based, hosted by providers, and often disappeared after users stopped paying for them.

Nue 2.0 Beta released! The Unix of the web

42 dumindunuwan 2025-10-11 14:29:11 UTC nuejs.org Llama Share 12

Nuekit 2.0 is rebuilt with a focus on simplicity and performance, using Bun only and eliminating external dependencies. It features a new architecture, improved development model, and edge-first backend development.

Blood-Sharing Drug Trend Fuels Global HIV Surge

41 zahlman 2025-10-11 15:10:05 UTC nytimes.com Full Share 37

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What happens to college towns after peak 18-year-old?

40 measurablefunc 2025-10-11 01:48:57 UTC theargumentmag.com Llama Share 56

The US is facing a demographic cliff with falling birth rates and an aging population, leading to a decline in college enrollment and economic instability. Universities are competing with the labor market and alternative credentials, and policymakers must plan for this transition to maintain trust in institutions and a shared future.

A whirlwind introduction to dataflow graphs (2018)

37 shoo 2025-10-11 20:52:21 UTC fgiesen.wordpress.com Llama Share 0

The user is creating a simplified machine model to analyze the performance of C++ code, focusing on compute-bound loops and dataflow dependencies, and using a pseudo-C form to represent instructions. The model assumes a pipelined processor with a variable width (W) and a latency of 4 cycles for memory operations, and is used to analyze the performance of a simple sum kernel and a linked list traversal.

Eon – An Effects-Based OCaml Nameserver

36 Bogdanp 2025-10-11 10:02:03 UTC ryan.freumh.org Llama Share 1

Eon is a DNS-based nameserver using OCaml's effect handlers for direct-style IO, allowing data exfiltration and tunneling. It has a transport layer over DNS and can be used for a shell over DNS or an IP tunnel.

AI data centers have an impossibly short runway to achieve profitability

35 stalfosknight 2025-10-11 03:17:20 UTC futurism.com Llama Share 9

Harris Kupperman initially predicted AI data centers would be unprofitable due to rapid component obsolescence. He revised his estimate after industry professionals revealed data centers last only 3-10 years, requiring much higher revenue to break even.

Sysco Is Not "Ruining Restaurants"

34 liface 2025-10-11 13:15:37 UTC liamrosen.com Llama Share 53

The recent viral video criticizing Sysco for "ruining restaurants" is based on flawed arguments and scare tactics, with Sysco being a distributor that offers both high and low-quality products. As a consumer, one can avoid Sysco's poor quality offerings by choosing restaurants that use their products wisely and opting for farm-to-table or cooking at home instead.

Bitter lessons building AI products

32 vinhnx 2025-10-11 02:56:28 UTC hex.tech Llama Share 20

The author learned the "Bitter Lesson" in AI product development, where leveraging general methods that utilize computation is more effective than trying to make AI work for existing roadmaps. They changed their approach by ditching demos, spotting capability shifts, and killing projects faster.

My first week of vibecoding

30 danabramov 2025-10-11 02:37:26 UTC underreacted.leaflet.pub Llama Share 26

The user is working on a project to create a proper IDL language for writing Atproto lexicons, and they are using a large language model (LLM) named Claude to help with the development. The user has been guiding Claude through the process, providing feedback and direction, and has made significant progress in creating a typespec lexicon emitter that can compile TypeSpec models to Atproto ...

Show HN: Gnokestation Is an Ultra Lightweight Web Desktop Environment

25 edmundsparrow 2025-10-11 17:32:10 UTC gnokestation.netlify.app Full Share 29

Gnoke Station is free and open-source software licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPLv3). You are free to use, view, modify, and redistribute this software under the terms of the license. This software is provided "as-is" without any warranty.

Apple Postpones Jessica Chastain Thriller 'The Savant' Amid Current Events

21 raw_anon_1111 2025-10-11 18:19:49 UTC deadline.com Llama Share 11

Apple TV+ has delayed the release of 'The Savant' due to its subject matter, which includes violent imagery following recent US events. The streamer cited a need to avoid triggering content after recent shootings and the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.

The Case Against 30-Year Mortgages

13 paulpauper 2025-10-11 16:42:19 UTC wsj.com Llama Share 54

Millennials face record-high housing costs and mortgage rates, delaying homeownership. The 30-year mortgage is a predatory instrument warping the housing market for nearly a century.