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Space Elevator

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Take a trip to space and explore the atmosphere in the world's only space elevator.

Major AWS Outage Happening

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DeepSeek OCR

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Researchers release DeepSeek-OCR, a model for image understanding from a large language model perspective. It can perform OCR, document conversion, and image description tasks.

Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout

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AWS experienced a major outage due to DNS issues in the US-EAST-1 Region, affecting many online services. The incident highlights concerns about AWS's talent exodus and the loss of institutional knowledge among senior engineers.

Entire Linux Network stack diagram (2024)

The Linux Network Stack includes upper layers (TCP, UDP) and lower layers (GRO, RPS, RFS, GSO) with various optimizations and statistics. It also covers virtualization, containers, network sockets, device drivers, network functions, and interfaces like Bridge, Bond, and Tap.

Claude Code on the web

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Claude Code on the web lets you delegate coding tasks from your browser, running in isolated environments with real-time tracking. It's available in research preview for Pro and Max users, allowing parallel task execution and automatic PR creation.

Servo v0.0.1

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Servo is a Rust-based web browser engine developed on multiple platforms. To build Servo for Android, set environment variables and install necessary components using the sdkmanager command.

Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents

The user spent 8 months optimizing RAG for Usul AI and a legal AI enterprise, focusing on query generation, reranking, chunking strategy, metadata, and query routing to improve performance. They shared their findings in an open-source project, agentset-ai/agentset, under an MIT license for others to learn from.

Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system

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Alibaba Cloud's Aegaeon system reduces Nvidia GPU usage by 82% for large language models. It achieves this through token-level autoscaling and packing multiple models per GPU.

Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

Welcome to Postman's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.

BERT is just a single text diffusion step

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Researchers repurposed BERT-style models for text generation by applying a discrete diffusion process to masked language modeling. This approach transforms the standard MLM objective into a step-by-step generation procedure, allowing fine-tuned models to generate coherent text.

Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has died

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Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption

Docker services are experiencing issues, causing access problems across multiple products. Investigation is ongoing to resolve the issues and provide a report.

Forth: The programming language that writes itself

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The user shares their personal journey of discovering the Forth programming language and its context in computing history, highlighting its use of Reverse Polish Notation and stack-based operations. They delve into the concept of concatenative programming, combinators, and Joy, a language that uses combinators to perform computations, and explore the idea of universal computation and the ...

AWS Outage: A Single Cloud Region Shouldn't Take Down the World. But It Did

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AWS outage disrupted over 70 services including Amazon, Snapchat, and Disney+, causing widespread operational issues. The outage was attributed to an operational issue with DNS resolution in the US-EAST-1 region.

Dutch spy services have restricted intelligence-sharing with the United States

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Dutch intelligence officials have restricted sharing with US counterparts due to Washington's political developments. They now share more with European counterparts, particularly in Scandinavia and Western Europe.

AWS outage shows internet users 'at mercy' of too few providers, experts say

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Amazon's cloud computing service experienced a glitch that brought down apps and websites worldwide, affecting over 2,000 companies. Experts warn of the dangers of relying on a small number of tech companies for the global internet's infrastructure.

J.P. Morgan's OpenAI loan is strange

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OpenAI secured a 4 billion dollar revolving credit facility from J.P. Morgan and other banks at 5% interest. This seems to be an unusually low interest rate for a company with no earnings.

Look at how unhinged GPU box art was in the 2000s (2024)

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GPU box art from the late 90s and early 00s was bold, strange, and iconic, featuring elves, wizards, and demons. Modern GPU boxes lack the excitement of the past, now being bland and similar-looking.

Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more

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Amazon Web Services is experiencing a major outage affecting multiple online services including Amazon, Alexa, and Fortnite. The cause of the outage is unclear and Amazon is investigating to restore regular service.

iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

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Apple has introduced a new setting in iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, and macOS 26.1 to customize Liquid Glass look, allowing users to choose between clear and tinted options. The new setting is available in Settings & Display and Brightness on iOS and iPadOS, and System Settings & Appearance on Mac.

Introduction to reverse-engineering vintage synth firmware

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The article explains how to reverse-engineer the firmware of a vintage synthesizer, specifically the Yamaha DX7, using a disassembler called Ghidra and a basic understanding of low-level programming. By tracing the address decoding logic in the synth's schematics, the article maps the memory-mapped peripherals and sets up the memory map in Ghidra to disassemble the firmware.

AI-generated 'poverty porn' fake images being used by aid agencies

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AI-generated images of extreme poverty are flooding stock photo sites and being used by NGOs, raising concerns over "poverty porn 2.0". These images often perpetuate stereotypes and racial biases, and their use is driven by concerns over consent and cost.

Show HN: Playwright Skill for Claude Code – Less context than playwright-MCP

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Claude can write and execute Playwright automation on-the-fly for browser tasks. Install the Playwright skill via the Claude marketplace for custom browser automation.

Peanut allergies have plummeted in children

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x86-64 Playground – An online assembly editor and GDB-like debugger

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The app allows users to run amd64 assembly snippets and inspect ELF files, with a debugger interface similar to GDB+PwnGDB. It provides a learning environment with Compiler Explorer and guides for binary exploitation.

Nvidia has produced the first Blackwell wafer on US soil

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Nvidia and TSMC produced the first US-made Blackwell chip at TSMC Arizona, potentially cementing America as an AI hardware hub. This move aligns with President Trump's goal of bringing production back to the US, creating local jobs and boosting American leadership in AI.

When a stadium adds AI to everything, it's worse experience for everyone

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The author visited BMO stadium in Los Angeles twice, once in 2024 and again in 2023, to watch the Portland Thorns. The author experienced a worse overall experience in 2023 due to the stadium's reliance on automated AI-powered checkout systems.

How much Anthropic and Cursor spend on Amazon Web Services

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Anthropic's AWS spend has increased dramatically, with $1.35 billion spent in 2024 and $2.66 billion through September 2025, exceeding its estimated revenue of $400 million to $600 million in 2024 and $2.55 billion through September 2025. Anthropic's costs have escalated rapidly, with its monthly AWS spend increasing by 174% since January 2025, and its overall costs likely including hundreds ...

Bat v0.26.0

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Recent bat improvements include support for negative line ranges and context in line ranges. Other changes include fixes for crashes, improved CSV/TSV highlighting, and support for new file types.

Commodore 64 Ultimate

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A new Commodore 64 is released, a faithful recreation of the original motherboard on FPGA hardware with upgraded features. It comes with 50+ games, licensed classics, and modern printer support, and is available in a standard or gold-plated Founders Edition.

Show HN: I created a cross-platform GUI for the JJ VCS (Git compatible)

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Restore your repo to any point in time with the Operation Log. Undo and redo any change. Apply or revert hunks of any diff, files, commits, or even multiple commits at once Use custom revsets to select which commits are shown. Filter by descriptions, authors, ancestry, and more.

Building a message queue with only two UNIX signals

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The user built a simple message broker using UNIX signals and Ruby, encoding messages as binary and sending them between processes. They demonstrated how to send messages using signals, decode them, and build a basic message broker using a module called SignalCodec.

Matrix Conference 2025 Highlights

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The Matrix Conference 2025 was a huge success with governments embracing Matrix as the future of government and inter-governmental communications. Key benefits driving Matrix adoption include digital sovereignty, interoperability, resilience, and security, enabling governments to control their own digital destiny.

TernFS – an exabyte scale, multi-region distributed filesystem

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XTX developed TernFS, a distributed filesystem for large-scale compute efforts, to store over 500PB of data across 30,000 disks and 10,000 flash drives. TernFS is designed to scale up to tens of exabytes, trillions of files, and millions of concurrent clients.

Beaver-engineered dam in the Czech Republic

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In early 2025, a family of beavers in the Czech Republic's Brdy Protected Landscape Area built dams that restored a wetland ecosystem, saving the government approximately US$1.2 million. The beavers' spontaneous effort resulted in a thriving ecosystem, benefiting local wildlife and providing long-term benefits by reducing flood risks and maintaining a balanced ecosystem.

What I Self Host

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The user hosts various self-made applications on a DigitalOcean droplet, including an RSS reader, Grafana, and a Spotify statistics tracker, using Docker and Ansible for management. They aim to improve their setup to a "production grade" infrastructure as code approach, but currently use a mix of automation and manual configuration.

Americans can't afford their cars any more and Wall Street is worried

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Car loan delinquencies have surged by 50pc in 15 years, with subprime borrowers missing payments at a record high. This threatens lenders and the $1.66tn US car debt pile, with experts warning of potential defaults and economic strain.

Why a 'Boring' Life Might Be the Happiest One

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The writer reflects on a Japanese film called Perfect Days, which reminded them of the importance of living a simple, calm life. They feel overwhelmed by the world's fast pace and pressure to keep up with trends.

The MacBook Air 2025 Is Now Cheaper Than a Random Mid-Range Windows Laptop

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The 2025 MacBook Air with M4 chip and 256GB storage is now $899 on Amazon, a $100 discount from its original price. This affordable price offers powerful performance, a 13.6-inch Liquid Retina screen, and a 12MP Center Stage camera.

Why UUIDs won't protect your secrets

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Indirect Object Reference (IDOR) occurs when a resource can be accessed directly by its ID without proper authorization, and using unguessable UUIDs does not completely mitigate this issue. A better solution is to route file access through the web application, using private storage buckets and pre-signed URLs with short expiration dates to offload file access and reduce load on the application server.

Old Computer Challenge – Modern Web for the ZX Spectrum

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User recreated a ZX Spectrum website using BASIC, designing Google and Hacker News interfaces within the computer's limited 256x192 pixel resolution and 8-color palette. They used an emulator to test their code, which can be found in their repository on codeberg.org.

From Hollywood to horticulture: Cate Blanchett on a mission to save seeds

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Cate Blanchett supports the Millennium Seed Bank at Kew's Wakehurst botanic garden, which stores 2.5 billion seeds from 40,000 species worldwide. The seed bank helps restore threatened environments by releasing seeds back into their natural habitats.

First Self-Propagating Worm Using Invisible Code Hits OpenVSX and VS Code

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A sophisticated malware called GlassWorm is spreading through VS Code extensions, using invisible Unicode characters and blockchain-based C2 infrastructure to evade detection. It turns infected developer workstations into proxy nodes for criminal activity, stealing credentials and compromising additional packages.

Qt Group Buys IAR Systems Group

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The Qt Company acquired 94.49% of IAR Systems Group AB shares for SEK 180 per share. The acquisition is expected to expand Qt's total addressable market and strengthen its global presence.

What do we do if SETI is successful?

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The International Academy of Astronautics updated its SETI protocol to handle confirmed extraterrestrial intelligence, including not responding to direct messages without UN discussion and protecting researchers from online harassment. The new protocol also includes methods for verifying signals and storing data securely.

Modeling Others' Minds as Code

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Researchers propose ROTE, an algorithm that predicts human behavior by synthesizing and reasoning about behavioral programs. ROTE outperforms existing methods by up to 50% in predicting human and AI actions from sparse observations.

Calculating legally compliant rent late fees across U.S. states

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Getting DeepSeek-OCR working on an Nvidia Spark via brute force with Claude Code

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The user successfully ran the DeepSeek-OCR model on an NVIDIA Spark device using Claude Code, a tool that can automate tasks, and obtained OCR results for an image. The process took less than 40 minutes and involved using a Docker sandbox, PyTorch, and CUDA to overcome hardware compatibility issues.

Ask HN: What are some impressive vibe coding projects?

The user has created several projects using AI-assisted coding, including an inventory program for artists, a coffee shop finder app, and a compliance-grade RTO comparison tool, and has shared their experiences and lessons learned from these projects. The user has also shared their own projects, such as a 3D model viewer, a web app for lawyers, and a daily newsletter, and has discussed the ...

State-based vs Signal-based rendering

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Signal-based rendering in front-end frameworks like Preact and Solid.js triggers re-renders only where state is consumed, improving performance and code organization. This approach inverts the traditional model, where rendering occurs where state is created, and makes applications faster and more maintainable by default.

Carefully Educated to Be Idiots

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The user discusses how American education has been deliberately altered to prioritize social conditioning over literacy and critical thinking, citing various books and studies that highlight the negative effects of this approach. The user provides a list of resources, including books and studies, that detail the decline of literacy and critical thinking skills in American children and the ...

How Soon Will the Seas Rise?

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Scientists warn that West Antarctica's ice sheet may collapse, raising global sea levels by over 2 meters by 2100 and 15 meters by 2300. The exact timeline is uncertain, but rapid destabilization could outpace humanity's ability to adapt and respond to the consequences.

Populism and economic prosperity

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Populist governments tend to damage economies, with a 10% lower GDP after 15 years, due to trade restrictions, reduced openness, and devaluing expertise. The media's role in promoting populism and hiding economic facts contributes to their persistence in power.

Tron: Ares Set to Lose $132M+

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Tron: Ares is a $220 million movie that may lose $132.7 million due to a predicted $160 million box office.

The death of thread per core

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Async runtimes like async Rust handle long running tasks by yielding and spawning new work, which gets pushed onto a local queue for later processing. Work-stealing models allow threads to steal tasks from other threads, balancing work more evenly but potentially losing locality guarantees.

An Unexpected Benefit from Quitting Coffee – 10 Months In

Quitting coffee helped me feel rested and less groggy in the mornings. Limiting caffeine intake has further improved my resilience to occasional bad sleep.

Kohler launches smart toilet camera

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The Dekoda toilet analyzes images to track gut health, hydration, and detect blood, with a rechargeable battery and fingerprint sensor for user identification. It's available for pre-order with a subscription fee of $70-$156 per year for data analysis.

Show HN: I got tired of managing dev environments, so I built ServBay

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ServBay is a one-click web development environment that sets up in 3 minutes, offering various services and tools for developers. It supports multiple versions of programming languages, databases, and services.

How Kids' TV Got Way Too Normal

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A parent noticed their 7-year-old son Levi's preference for older movies and TV shows with psychological ambiguity and psychedelic silliness, such as Willy Wonka and Pee-wee's Playhouse. This led to a discussion about the decline of playful, complex content in children's media and its potential impact on kids' psychology.

Intel fabs misusing J1 Visas

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China Can't Win

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China's economic model is vulnerable due to a hidden banking crisis and property losses, making decoupling inevitable and asymmetric. The US holds strategic leverage over China due to its control of the dollar system and China's dependence on US assets.

Webflow Donates $150k to Support Astro's Open Source Mission

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Webflow donated $150,000 to Astro and chose it to power their AI app gen capabilities. This partnership will benefit Astro's long-term maintenance and open new creative possibilities for developers.

"COBOL supports close to 90% of Fortune 500 business systems today."

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COBOL systems are crucial for business growth due to continuous improvements and enhancements. COBOL remains widely used with 65% of active code and 85% of business transactions.

The Demise of the Flynn Effect

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The Flynn Effect, a supposed increase in intelligence, is actually due to psychometric bias in tests, not a real change in population intelligence. The effect disappears when corrected for changes in test understanding.