User purchased an ebook but couldn't export it to Calibre due to restrictions. They plan to reverse engineer the web client to read it in Calibre.
Intuit, a tax software company, has used lobbying and tactics to prevent the government from creating a free tax filing system. The company has made billions from its TurboTax product.
Claude can now use Skills to improve task performance by loading relevant instructions and scripts. Skills are portable, composable, and powerful, allowing users to build and share custom expertise across Claude apps and API.
The Secure Resilient Future Foundation is calling for Microsoft to extend Windows 10 support past the October 14th deadline due to data privacy concerns with Windows 11. The author recommends switching to Linux for freedom and security, citing its availability as a real alternative to Windows.
Dozens of reporters left the Pentagon after refusing to agree to new government-imposed restrictions on their work. The restrictions, imposed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, would have left journalists vulnerable to expulsion for reporting unapproved information.
User accessed Gemini 3.0 through Google AI Studio A/B testing, generating an impressive Xbox 360 controller SVG. Gemini 3.0 showed improved performance with 24s higher TTFT and 40% longer output length.
The user is trying to understand why a video from Windows Media Player would play inside Paint when a screenshot was taken and pasted into Paint in an old version of Windows. The reason is due to the use of overlays, which allowed the video to be rendered directly to the graphics card without going through the normal paint cycle, and the screenshot captured the desktop screen with the video ...
Elixir v1.19 improves type system and compilation times, enabling bug detection and faster builds. It introduces module type inference, lazy module loading, and compiler improvements for parallelization and deterministic builds.
Hyperflask is a Python web framework built on top of Flask, offering a component-driven architecture and seamless integration with frontend technologies. It provides a wide range of features for building products, including file-based routing, email sending, and deployment options.
Tor Browser 15.0a4 is now available for download, with planned promotion to stable in late October. This alpha release includes various changes and bug fixes, including removal of AI features and improved UI styling.
Liquibase has switched to the Functional Source License, a non-open source license. Its README.md file will no longer claim it's an open source project.
The Rust for Linux project is driving language improvements in Rust, including field projections, in-place initialization, and arbitrary self types, which will simplify code involving user-defined smart pointers in the kernel. These features are being developed to address specific needs of the kernel, such as handling untrusted data and improving performance, and are expected to benefit the ...
EA employees and the Communications Workers of America union oppose the private acquisition of EA, claiming it will lead to job losses to benefit investors. They call on regulators to scrutinize the deal and protect jobs, creative freedom, and worker rights.
DoorDash partnered with Waymo to launch an autonomous delivery service in Metro Phoenix and offer a $10 Waymo promotion for DashPass members in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Phoenix. The service will start with DashMart deliveries and expand over time, offering a seamless and contact-free experience to customers.
Scaling Kubernetes to 1 million nodes requires addressing technical hurdles such as etcd scalability, kube-apiserver performance, and networking challenges. Key areas to focus on include optimizing etcd's performance, implementing efficient caching mechanisms, and using IPv6 to handle network traffic for a large number of nodes.
The user chose Phoenix LiveView for speed and simplicity, preferring a monolithic solution over separate frontend and backend stacks. They found Phoenix to be the best fit for their project, Hyperzoned.com, due to its performance, built-in features, and ease of use.
Zed now supports Codex via Agent Client Protocol (ACP) for improved UI and flow in IDEs, with billing and legal terms between user and OpenAI. ACP has been adopted by various clients and agents, including JetBrains, and is now open-sourced for community use.
The sandbox SDK provides a secure environment for executing tasks and managing files, exposing them via public URLs. It simplifies the process of running insecure user apps and handles proxying and allocation.
The US Mint released designs for the 2026 American Innovation $1 Coin Program honoring innovators from Iowa, Wisconsin, California, and Minnesota. The coins feature designs emblematic of innovation in each state, selected by the Secretary of the Treasury.
The user discusses the concept of natural talent and how some people are born with a natural ability to excel in certain areas, citing examples of prolific writers and mathematicians who seem to effortlessly produce high-quality work. The user reflects on their own experiences and those of others, concluding that it's essential to focus on strengths and do more of what comes naturally, rather ...
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Researchers at Chalmers and the University of Freiburg developed a method using electric stimulation to speed up wound healing. Their method, which heals wounds up to three times faster, may be a game changer for diabetic and elderly people with slow-healing wounds.
A YouTube web development team conspired to kill IE6 by launching a banner threatening to drop support, using their OldTuber status to bypass code review. Their plan succeeded, and IE6 users dropped significantly, with the team getting away with it without facing corrective action.
A 1670 letter from William Perwich to Louis XIV was successfully decrypted twice, once by Matthew Brown and once by a team of Dr George Lasry, Professor Norbert Biermann, and Tomokiyo Satoshi. The letter reveals Louis XIV's coolness towards his soldiers and his mistresses' influence on his decisions.
Christian Ludloff posted about a corporate entity using x86 opcodes not used by Intel/AMD. The entity's identity is unknown, but it could be Zhaoxin, a Chinese company that has contributed to open-source projects.
The author likes Hacker News because it's a platform where users can share and discuss interesting links and topics without politics, trivia, or spam, and it's a great space for learning and exchanging ideas. The site's focus on signal over noise, combined with its expert users and text-only format, makes it a unique and valuable resource for intellectual curiosity.
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A website owner is retiring and transferring the site to a Regional Internet Registry, which will continue running it in the public interest. The site will shut down in December 2025, and mirror operators and service providers need to update their resources accordingly.
The author issues a challenge to roboticists to push the state of the art in humanoid robotics by completing various tasks such as folding laundry, opening doors, and cleaning windows. The author will award medals to the first robots that successfully complete these tasks.
Scientists have repaired a natural gateway into the brains of mice, allowing Alzheimer's disease to be reversed with a nearly 45 percent reduction in amyloid-beta plaques after three drug injections. The benefits lasted at least six months, offering a new era in drug research and a potential cure for Alzheimer's disease.
Coral NPU is a hardware architecture designed for ultra-low-power, always-on edge AI, enabling private and efficient assistive experiences on devices like wearables and smartwatches. It provides a unified developer experience and is optimized for machine learning frameworks like TensorFlow and PyTorch.
A Reddit sentiment analysis dashboard was built to compare Claude Code and Codex, showing Codex has more positive sentiment but Claude Code has more discussion volume. Codex leads in categories like performance, problem-solving, and code quality, but Claude Code excels in speed and workflows.
The article discusses a new computational rule called LACE, which demonstrates emergent "artificial life" behavior on a grid of cells. LACE utilizes neighborhood topology, where cell states and links interact to form complex patterns.
Antibiotic resistance is growing worldwide, with nearly 40% of antibiotics losing effectiveness over the past five years. This could lead to 1.2 million deaths annually and threaten medical advancements like surgery and chemotherapy.
Experts from various fields including nutrition, public health, and food policy were consulted for their opinions. They are professors, researchers, and professionals from institutions such as Duke University, NYU, and the FDA.
The author explores Spec-Driven Development (SDD) tools and approaches, finding multiple implementation levels and a lack of clear definition for the term "spec". The author questions the effectiveness of SDD tools in real-world scenarios, citing issues with verbosity, non-determinism, and inflexibility.
Developers built Agent4, a browser agent that remembers workflows to reduce latency and improve performance. Agent4 uses a client-side networked RAG to reuse workflows and adapt to changes, making automation faster and more reliable.
Skibidi Toilet is a viral YouTube series that explores themes of surveillance, technology, and the natural world, reflecting the anxieties of Gen Alpha. The series features monstrous digital creatures and a dystopian landscape, symbolizing the fears and concerns of a generation born into a world of climate catastrophe and technological transformation.
European cloud providers like STACKIT, Scaleway, OVHcloud, and others offer various services including IaaS, PaaS, AI, and serverless services. Some providers like Delos Cloud and Oracle offer sovereign cloud solutions to meet specific regional sovereignty requirements, such as those mandated by Germany's public sector.
A new study found ancient humans were exposed to lead up to two million years ago, but a gene mutation may have protected modern human brains, allowing language to flourish. This mutation, in the NOVA1 gene, may have given modern humans an evolutionary advantage over Neanderthals.
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed toothless AI bills, allowing Silicon Valley to dominate state politics. The bills, meant to regulate AI, are nearly pointless and may even hinder meaningful reforms, highlighting the tech industry's significant influence.
We trained SWE-grep and SWE-grep-mini models to match frontier coding models' retrieval capabilities in 1/10th the time. They power Fast Context, a subagent for Windsurf that helps users stay in flow.
We refactored code to manipulate customer and order records in an ERP system using a free applicative to batch queries and handle side effects. This allowed us to analyze the applicative program without running it and optimize requests.
Lawyers, especially solo and small-firm attorneys, are frequently submitting AI-tainted briefs due to flawed AI tools. The majority of cases involve plaintiff's counsel and ChatGPT, highlighting the need for better AI tools and awareness of their limitations.
Inkeep is a platform that allows building and shipping AI Agents with a No-Code Visual Builder or TypeScript SDK for technical and non-technical teams. It's extensible, open, and licensed under Elastic License 2.0 for broad usage.
Mathematicians have finally proven that instabilities in water waves arise naturally from the Euler equations, showing exactly when these instabilities occur and when they don't. The result explains why some disturbances can kill waves, while others can't, and leaves mathematicians with more work to do to understand the alternating pattern of wave-killing disturbances.
George Orwell's 1984 has become a cultural barometer, with its themes of totalitarianism, misinformation, and surveillance resonating across the political spectrum. The novel's warnings about the manipulation of truth and language remain relevant today, making it a timeless classic.
AI can't yet accurately file taxes due to errors in tax tables and calculations. A new benchmark, TaxCalcBench, is proposed to improve AI's tax calculation abilities.
Waymo plans to launch its fully autonomous ride-hailing service in London in 2026, partnering with Moove to secure necessary permissions. The service aims to complement London's public transport and offer safe rides, citing data showing five times fewer injury-causing collisions than human drivers.
Ron Conway resigned from the Salesforce Foundation board due to CEO Marc Benioff's support for deploying National Guard troops in San Francisco. Conway expressed shock and disappointment over Benioff's comments, feeling he no longer recognizes the person he once admired.
The Web Application Integrity, Consistency, and Transparency (WAICT) system aims to provide stronger security guarantees to the entire web by ensuring that websites commit to their contents, are transparent about their code, and can be audited for malicious activity. WAICT uses a combination of integrity manifests, append-only logs, and a global prefix tree to ensure that websites are secure, ...
We received early access to NVIDIA DGX Spark units and Apple Mac Studios with M3 Ultra chips. Combining them for LLMs improves TTFT by 2.8x through automated phase placement and layer-by-layer KV streaming.
User is raising funds but struggling to respond to support inquiries due to Supabase's free plan limitations. Supabase requires users to upgrade or use alternative channels for support due to security reasons.
US citizens are being detained and mistreated by immigration agents, with over 170 cases found, including children and pregnant women. The government does not track these incidents, and many cases have been dropped or dismissed, raising concerns about racial profiling and abuse of power.
RTFM is a real-time generative World Model that creates video in real-time as you interact with it, allowing exploration of generated 3D worlds and real-world locations. It uses a general end-to-end architecture that learns from large-scale video data and models 3D worlds without explicit 3D representations.
A malicious shared library was loaded using LD_PRELOAD to intercept file operations. It copied Solana keypair files before they were closed, allowing private keys to be stolen silently.
Tech companies are hiring Chief Trust Officers to ensure high levels of integrity with customers and secure consumer data. This role combines IT and security to build stakeholder trust and directly impact revenue generation.
Robert F Kennedy Jr's ally Gray Delany pushed for chemtrail conspiracy theories to be a federal priority in a memo to a White House health advisor. Delany's claims are unsubstantiated and contradict climate scientist Daniel Swain, who calls them false and physically impossible.
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Pivot tables are experiencing a resurgence in modern data tools due to their ability to turn complex data into instant insights without requiring coding. They democratize data analysis by allowing users to easily explore and summarize large datasets, making them a key tool for business intelligence.
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The Amiga's RAM disk is a unique feature that uses a portion of the computer's RAM as a disk, providing speed benefits but reducing available RAM. It's dynamic, automatically growing and shrinking to accommodate file creation and deletion.
Developers are working on a custom LilyGo T-Deck firmware in beta, join irc.supernets.org #comms for collaboration and sponsorship.
Ace Frehley, co-founder and lead guitarist of Kiss, has died at 74 following injuries from a fall. He was a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and left a lasting legacy in rock music.
The US ranks 11th globally in the Work-to-Essentials Index, requiring 140 hours/month to cover basic needs, better than 74% of countries but not among the top. Countries like Bolivia and Nicaragua require the least hours, while Antigua & Barbuda and Portugal require the most.
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Journalists at major news organizations like The New York Times and NBC News have refused to sign new Pentagon rules limiting access and raising punishment for requesting public information. The rules, seen as an attempt to curb First Amendment protections, have been negotiated for weeks between media lawyers and Pentagon officials.
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Reactive Programming simplifies event-driven and asynchronous applications by handling data streams declaratively. It uses Observables, Observers, and Operators to react to changes as they occur.
Veteran game developer Tomonobu Itagaki has passed away, leaving behind a legacy of creating the Dead or Alive series and reviving Ninja Gaidan. His peers mourn his loss, remembering his confidence and unapologetic personality.
Ripgrep 15 is a bug fix release with minor performance improvements and new features. It fixes several bugs including gitignore matching issues and improves binary size and performance.
PaddleOCR-VL is a SOTA, resource-efficient model for document parsing that supports 109 languages and excels in recognizing complex elements. It achieves SOTA performance in page-level document parsing and element-level recognition with fast inference speeds.
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Ripgrep 15 is a bug fix release with minor performance improvements and new features. It fixes several bugs including gitignore matching issues and improves binary size and performance.