Apple M5 chip

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Apple announced M5, a chip with improved AI performance, a 10-core GPU, and a 16-core Neural Engine. M5 powers new devices like the 14-inch MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Apple Vision Pro, offering faster AI workloads, graphics, and CPU performance.

I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'

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Claude Haiku 4.5

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Claude Haiku 4.5 is a new AI model that offers near-frontier coding quality with blazing speed and cost efficiency. It's available now on Claude Code and other platforms, offering a balance of intelligence and rapid output for developers.

Zed is now available on Windows

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Zed is now available on Windows with stable and preview releases, offering weekly updates and full support. It integrates directly with Windows for a native look and feel, supporting WSL and all Zed features.

Ireland is making basic income for artists program permanent

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Ireland's basic income for artists program will become permanent in 2026 with 2,000 spots available, providing a weekly payment of $375. The program's success has led to calls for a nationwide universal basic income, citing its benefits in supporting the arts sector and the economy.

Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified architecture

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Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement

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A digital marketing agency head discovered 73% of website traffic on 200 e-commerce sites was fake, with bots mimicking human behavior to inflate metrics. This widespread issue is causing businesses to waste thousands on advertising to robots, and the industry is complicit in a collective charade.

Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC client

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Halloy is an open-source IRC client written in Rust, with the Iced GUI library. It aims to provide a simple and fast client for Mac, Windows, and Linux platforms.

M5 MacBook Pro

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The new MacBook Pro comes in 14-inch and 16-inch models with M5, M4 Pro, or M4 Max chips, offering high-speed performance and advanced AI features. It features a brilliant display, multiple ports, and a long-lasting battery made from 100% recycled aluminum.

IRS open sources its fact graph

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The IRS disclaims responsibility for the accuracy and functionality of code in this repository, used at the user's own risk. The repository contains a production-ready knowledge graph for US tax law, updated frequently in Scala and other JVM languages.

Pixnapping Attack

Pixnapping is a new Android attack that steals sensitive data from other apps and websites by exploiting hardware and API vulnerabilities. It affects nearly all modern Android devices and can recover data from apps like Signal, Google Authenticator, and Google Maps.

Pwning the Nix ecosystem

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The user and their friend Lexi found a vulnerability in nixpkgs that could have compromised the entire Nix ecosystem through GitHub Actions. They reported and helped fix the issue within a day, highlighting the importance of caution with GitHub Actions, especially with the pull_request_target event.

The cost of turning down wind turbines in Britain

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The current grid system causes waste and increased costs when wind energy is produced in excess. Fixing this issue could make energy cheaper by better utilizing abundant green electrons.

Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support

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UUIDv7 is a new type of UUID that fixes performance issues with traditional UUIDs by incorporating a timestamp for natural sortability. However, it's best used for internal keys due to privacy concerns, as it leaks creation time.

Are hard drives getting better?

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Backblaze analyzed drive failure rates over 13 years and found that drives are getting better and lasting longer, with a lower peak failure rate. The data shows a steady failure rate for most of a drive's life, then a steep spike, indicating improved drive reliability.

Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip

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Apple introduced Apple Vision Pro with M5 chip, delivering improved performance, display rendering, and battery life. It comes with visionOS 26, a soft Dual Knit Band, and supports over 1 million apps, including games and 3D movies.

Writing an LLM from scratch, part 22 – training our LLM

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The user is summarizing chapter 5 of Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)" and discusses their experience with cross entropy loss and perplexity, training a model on a sample dataset, and using pre-trained weights for GPT-2. They also mention their confusion with the term "memorisation" and the techniques to prevent it.

I am a programmer, not a rubber-stamp that approves Copilot generated code

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Programmers are being forced to use AI assistance, monitored and appraised based on its usage, raising concerns about job dependency and loss of programming skills. This shift from creating to approving code may lead to a loss of the programming profession and craft.

Next Steps for the Caddy Project Maintainership

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Project leader stepping down, handing over control to a maintainer team with tag and release privileges, to increase community involvement and reduce bottleneck.

A Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway

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Researchers used a large AI model to find a drug that boosts the immune system in specific conditions. The model identified a new potential treatment, silmitasertib, which increased antigen presentation when combined with low-dose interferon.

You are the scariest monster in the woods

Humans are the scariest threat to the environment and themselves, not AI. We should focus on regulating how humans use AI, not the technology itself.

iPad Pro with M5 chip

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Apple introduced the new iPad Pro with the powerful M5 chip, delivering a big boost in performance for AI and graphics. The new iPad Pro features a next-generation GPU, faster CPU, and improved wireless connectivity, available in 11-inch and 13-inch sizes.

Getting syntax highlighting wrong

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The author discusses the importance of using syntax highlighting effectively in code editors. A good color theme should have a minimal number of colors, allowing for easy lookups and highlighting of important elements.

F5 says hackers stole undisclosed BIG-IP flaws, source code

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F5 cybersecurity company was breached by nation-state hackers who stole BIG-IP security vulnerabilities and source code. F5 has taken remediation action and released updates to help customers secure their environments against risks.

Just talk to it – A way of agentic engineering

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The user has been using agentic engineering with Codex CLI to manage a large TypeScript React app and other projects, finding it to be efficient and effective, and prefers it over Claude Code due to its speed, language, and message queuing features. They share their workflow and tips for using Codex, including the importance of developing intuition and not relying on tools or features that ...

Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable

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The user created a PDF reader called Miro based on Zathura and MuPDF, aiming to bring Unix philosophy to document writing. Miro features a cross-platform GUI, hot reloading, and RPC server for syncing with editors, and the user is satisfied with its performance and features.

Nvidia DGX Spark: great hardware, early days for the ecosystem

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The user reviewed NVIDIA's DGX Spark desktop "AI supercomputer" and found it powerful but challenging to use due to its ARM64 architecture and CUDA ecosystem. They used Claude Code and Docker to navigate the device and successfully ran various AI models, but still face some difficulties and expect the ecosystem to improve.

Mac Source Ports – Run old games on new Macs

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Mac Source Ports features native app builds of source ports of your favorite games for both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, signed and notarized whenever possible.Showing 1-10 of 167 games

A kernel stack use-after-free: Exploiting Nvidia's GPU Linux drivers

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NVIDIA's Linux Open GPU Kernel Modules contain two vulnerabilities, one causing a kernel null-pointer dereference and the other a use-after-free bug, which can be exploited to gain control over the kernel. An attacker can use the v4l2 framework to allocate large buffers, trigger purges, and eventually gain control over the kernel by overwriting the file pointer and breaking KASLR.

Show HN: Firm, a text-based work management system

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Firm is a tool that helps businesses manage data by creating a unified graph of entities and their relationships. It uses a plain text DSL to define entities and their fields, and a Rust API to build and query the graph.

Things I've learned in my 7 years implementing AI

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The author argues that current AI hype focuses on flashy chatbots, but real AI applications work beneath the surface to empower users. They share a personal experience where LLMs improved a project's accuracy from 55% to 82%.

Disk Prices

Comparison of all hard drives and SSDs on Amazon, sorted by price per TB

YouTube seems to be down

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Garbage collection for Rust: The finalizer frontier

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Alloy is a new garbage collection (GC) system for the Rust programming language that allows for shared ownership of data structures, improving upon existing workarounds like reference counting. Alloy's design uses conservative garbage collection and reuses existing Rust destructors as finalizers, providing a more efficient and ergonomic solution to the challenges of GC in Rust.

US Passport Power Falls to Historic Low

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The US passport has fallen to 12th place on the Henley Passport Index, tied with Malaysia, due to a series of access changes and a lack of reciprocity with countries like Brazil and China. This decline signals a shift in global mobility and soft power dynamics, with nations embracing openness and cooperation surging ahead.

Show HN: Scriber Pro – Offline AI transcription for macOS

• 4.5hr video → 3.5min. Faster than Rev, Otter, or any online service. • More accurate on long context. No 2-hour upload limits. • 100% offline. Your data never leaves your Mac. Timecode formats: SRT, VTT, JSON (with precise timestamps) Documents: PDF, DOCX, TXT, Markdown Data: CSV, JSON One transcription, eight formats. Perfect timecodes whether it's 3min or 3hr.

Recursive Language Models (RLMs)

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Researchers propose Recursive Language Models (RLMs) to enable processing of unbounded input context length and output length, mitigating "context rot" degradation. RLMs outperform other methods on long-context benchmarks, including OOLONG and BrowseComp-Plus, and can handle huge corpuses of context without retrievers, offering a natural way to extend the effective context window of a LM call.

Europe's Digital Sovereignty Paradox – "Chat Control" Update

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European Council's plan to scan private communications was blocked by Germany, giving tech community a temporary reprieve. EU policymakers must learn from engineers to develop a coherent tech strategy for digital sovereignty.

Reverse engineering iWork

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The user built a parser for iWork documents, extracting native format without exporting to PDF or uploading files. The parser uses SwiftProtobuf and visitor pattern to handle complex structures like tables, images, and shapes.

Recreating the Canon Cat document interface

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The author implemented a system called Jasper, inspired by the Canon Cat, a unique user environment with a single text stream and no mouse. Jasper allows users to navigate and organize their text using leap keys and user conventions.

ImapGoose

ImapGoose is a daemon that continuously synchronizes local mailboxes with an IMAP server using modern IMAP extensions. It uses a task queue and dispatcher to efficiently handle sync tasks and avoid concurrent updates.

David Byrne Radio

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Reverse engineering a 27MHz RC toy communication using RTL SDR

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The user reverse engineered an RC fire engine's 27MHz communication using RTL SDR and gnuradio, identifying the frequency and modulation scheme as Amplitude Shift Keying (ASK). They successfully demodulated and decoded the signal to determine the frame length and key mapping for each switch.

New England's last coal plant has stopped operating, according to its owners

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Merrimack Station, a coal plant in New Hampshire, has closed after nearly three quarters of a century of operation. The region is now poised to become the first in the US without a coal plant on its grid.

US Dept of Interior denies canceling largest solar project after axing review

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The US Department of the Interior canceled the environmental review for the 6.2-GW Esmeralda 7 solar project in Nevada, opting for individual project reviews instead. This decision aligns with the Trump administration's trend of treating renewable energy projects on federal land with delays and cancellations.

Lost Jack Kerouac story found among assassinated mafia boss' belongings

A lost Jack Kerouac story, "The Holy, Beat, and Crazy Next Thing," was found among the belongings of mafia boss Paul Castellano. The story, written in 1957, details an evening with Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg in Denver, and is now up for sale for $8,500.

ASP.NET Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

ASP.NET Core has a security vulnerability allowing attackers to bypass features over a network. This issue is related to inconsistent http request/response interpretation.

How First Wap tracks phones around the world

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Lighthouse Reports uncovered a vast archive of data on the deep web revealing First Wap's phone tracking empire spanning the globe. The data showed thousands of phone numbers and hundreds of thousands of locations were tracked, including high-profile targets like Anne Wojcicki and Gianluigi Nuzzi.
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A list of 100+ open-source clones and alternatives of popular sites needs to be maintained, including source code, tutorials, and GitHub stars count, for learning purposes. Users can contribute by editing the readme.md file and submitting a PR with updates, following a contribution guide and maintaining alphabetical order.

Meta erases Gaza journalist's Instagram

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Can we know whether a profiler is accurate?

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Researchers propose a novel technique to assess the accuracy of sampling profilers for JIT-compiling systems by slowing down Java programs at the machine-code level. This approach allows them to approximate a ground truth and identify cases of inaccuracy caused by missing debug information.

Why The Pentagon run the best schools and the safest nuclear program

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The US military outperforms civilian agencies in various areas, including education, infrastructure, and renewable energy, despite being criticized for inefficiency and waste. Military programs like DoDEA schools and the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program demonstrate consistent excellence through systematic implementation and rigorous training.

Google runs Israel's ads: 'There is food in Gaza'

Irish privacy regulator picks ex-Meta lobbyist as third commissioner

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The Irish Data Protection Commission appointed Niamh Sweeney, a former Meta lobbyist, as its third commissioner to lead its work enforcing the EU's GDPR. Sweeney's appointment raises concerns about the regulator's willingness to take a tough stance on big tech.

Ask HN: Can't get hired – what's next?

A software engineer with two failed companies feels unemployable due to outdated skills and struggles with tech screens. They seek a new career with a decent salary and reasonable work hours, but are unsure where to go next.

Claude Haiku 4.5 System Card [pdf]

Claude Haiku 4.5 is a new hybrid reasoning large language model from Anthropic, showing large safety improvements and capability enhancements. It is smaller and faster than other recent models, suitable for various "agentic" uses.

Gravity Can Explain the Collapse of the Wavefunction (Sabine Hossenfelder)

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A unified theory of matter and gravity leads to a wavefunction collapse in a local, parameter-free model. This model makes testable predictions.

Show HN: Trott – search,sort,extract social media videos(ig,yt,tiktok)

An app uses LLMs for automatic content extraction and smart integrations to organize saved reels, shorts, and videos by location, recipe, or product. It's available on iOS and Android for easy organization and planning.

Esports scholarship at Deutsche Bahn (German railways)

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Die Deutsche Bahn bietet eine Ausbildung und einen zukunftsorientierten Job an, bei dem man auch seine Leidenschaft für Gaming fördern kann. Die Ausbildung umfasst verschiedene Berufe, wie Zugverkehrssteuerung, Bauingenieurwesen und Kaufmann für Verkehrsservice.

Show HN: Specific (YC F25) – Build backends with specifications instead of code

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Our system is a flexible infrastructure that builds, runs, and scales with your product, automatically configuring needed infrastructure such as databases and storage. It also ensures tests pass, letting you adapt at the speed of thought.

F5 Networks reports nation-state cyberattack on product systems

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F5 Networks disclosed a nation-state breach on August 9, 2025, with unauthorized access to systems and exfiltration of BIG-IP source code and vulnerabilities. The company contained the breach, found no software supply chain modifications, and is communicating with affected customers.

Apple Vision Pro

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Apple Vision Pro offers immersive experiences with Spatial Audio, giant screens, and 3D content creation. It enables multitasking, collaboration, and creativity with groundbreaking privacy protections and visionOS 26.

Nvidia sells tiny new computer that puts big AI on your desktop

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Nvidia announced the DGX Spark, a $4,000 desktop AI computer with 1 petaflop performance and 128GB unified memory. It's designed for AI development, allowing users to run larger models locally without cloud infrastructure.

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Italy's Piracy Shield Is Just as Big a Disaster as Everyone Predicted

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A study found Italy's Piracy Shield system causes widespread collateral damage, blocking legitimate websites and disrupting businesses. The researchers suggest replacing IP-level blocking with more targeted methods and increasing transparency from the system's operator, AGCOM.

They Clean the Balls in a Ball Pit

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Ball pits were invented by Charlotte Rude and Hjördis Olsson-Une for Ikea in 1970 and have since become popular in various facilities. However, their cleanliness has been a concern due to inadequate cleaning methods and germs.

We Raised $5.7M to Launch Cto.new Completely for Free

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Engine Labs raised $5.7 million to launch cto.new, a free AI software engineering platform. cto.new provides unlimited access to AI models and enterprise-grade capabilities to developers, startups, and teams at zero cost.