A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool

679 nvahalik 2025-10-26 01:15:43 UTC nrc.gov Llama Share 489

Multiple nuclear facilities reported incidents including inoperable control room ventilation systems, contaminated personnel, automatic reactor trips, and lost radioactive sources. The incidents were reported to the NRC and did not result in any immediate harm to the public or plant personnel.

You already have a Git server

632 chmaynard 2025-10-26 10:53:37 UTC maurycyz.com Llama Share 418

You can clone a git repository on a server with ssh access, work locally, and push changes back to sync code between computers. Git hooks can automate tasks like publishing code and running static site generators for easy backup and version tracking.

Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time

468 vismit2000 2025-10-26 08:19:48 UTC adventofcode.com Llama Share 219

Eric Wastl created Advent of Code, an annual programming puzzle event with varying difficulty levels. It's free to use, but not to copy, and users can participate with any programming language and skill level.

Let's Help NetBSD Cross the Finish Line Before 2025 Ends

399 jaypatelani 2025-10-26 12:34:36 UTC mail-index.netbsd.org Llama Share 230

The NetBSD Foundation needs a $39,262 donation to reach its $50,000 goal for the year. Donations will support projects like Wi-Fi Renewal and help keep NetBSD modern, secure, and sustainable.

Pico-Banana-400k

388 dvrp 2025-10-26 02:01:17 UTC github.com/apple Llama Share 64

Pico-Banana-400K is a large-scale dataset for text-guided image editing with ~400K triplets covering diverse transformations. It provides both breadth and depth for training and evaluating text-guided image editing models.

I'm drowning in AI features I never asked for and I hate it

341 gnabgib 2025-10-26 00:29:51 UTC makeuseof.com Llama Share 222

The author is frustrated with AI's overuse in consumer tech, making products worse and adding unnecessary features. They feel AI has become a marketing checkbox to convince shareholders of relevance.

We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3"

314 mpweiher 2025-10-26 21:05:09 UTC engineering.nanit.com Llama Share 246

Nanit built N3, a custom in-memory landing zone for video processing, to reduce costs and improve efficiency. By using S3 as a fallback buffer, they eliminated $0.5M/year in costs while maintaining system simplicity and reliability.

Poison, Poison Everywhere

310 dividendpayee 2025-10-26 22:36:34 UTC loeber.substack.com Llama Share 206

The author shares a story about lead poisoning in schools due to exhaust fumes and leaded gasoline, highlighting the dangers of hidden hazards in everyday life. They propose a business that empowers consumers as citizen scientists to monitor and remediate hazards at home.

A definition of AGI

298 pegasus 2025-10-26 18:09:37 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 495

Researchers defined AGI as matching a well-educated adult's cognitive versatility and proficiency, using Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory to evaluate AI systems. Current AI models have significant cognitive deficits, particularly in long-term memory, with AGI scores ranging from 27% to 58%.

Feed the bots

296 chmaynard 2025-10-26 12:09:02 UTC maurycyz.com Llama Share 197

Aggressive AI-powered scrapers are overwhelming server traffic by collecting data to train LLMs, ignoring robots.txt and rate limits. Serving static files or blocking them with JavaScript challenges is ineffective, but a simple Markov babbler consumes them without issues.

Asbestosis

282 zeristor 2025-10-26 08:34:38 UTC diamondgeezer.blogspot.com Llama Share 212

A monument in Barking remembers asbestos victims, highlighting the area's high asbestos-related death rate due to a former factory. The memorial emphasizes remembering the dead and fighting for workers' rights to prevent similar tragedies.

Movie posters from Ghana in the 1980s and 90s

266 bookofjoe 2025-10-26 15:47:29 UTC utterlyinteresting.com Llama Share 94

Ghanaian movie posters from the 1980s and 90s are hand-painted, chaotic, and often hilarious. They're now considered collectible art, showcasing ingenuity and visual storytelling in the face of limited resources.

Ken Thompson recalls Unix's rowdy, lock-picking origins

253 dxs 2025-10-26 16:57:12 UTC thenewstack.io Llama Share 65

Ken Thompson, a 82-year-old pioneer of Unix, shared his memories of building the operating system with a community of geeks at Bell Labs. He credited the open environment and camaraderie at Bell Labs for the success of Unix and the C programming language.

Show HN: MyraOS – My 32-bit operating system in C and ASM (Hack Club project)

237 dvirbt 2025-10-26 20:43:40 UTC github.com/dvir-biton Llama Share 54

MyraOS is a real OS that can run games like Doom on real devices. It's a fully functional OS with a preloaded Doom port, awaiting user feedback and feature requests.

What if tariffs?

235 Erikun 2025-10-26 08:23:48 UTC swatch.com Full Share 258

Microsoft 365 Copilot – Arbitrary Data Exfiltration via Mermaid Diagrams

213 gnabgib 2025-10-26 22:58:31 UTC adamlogue.com Llama Share 47

A researcher discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft 365 Copilot that allowed data exfiltration through Mermaid diagrams. The vulnerability was patched after a reliable payload was reported to MSRC.

Alzheimer's disrupts circadian rhythms of plaque-clearing brain cells

198 gmays 2025-10-26 17:40:06 UTC medicine.washu.edu Llama Share 41

Researchers found that Alzheimer's disease disrupts the body's internal clock, affecting hundreds of genes in brain cells that regulate waste removal and inflammation. Controlling or correcting these circadian rhythms could be a potential way to treat the disease.

GenAI Image Editing Showdown

192 rzk 2025-10-26 02:57:57 UTC genai-showdown.specr.net Llama Share 49

The user tested various AI models, including Midjourney and DALL-E, on their ability to generate images based on specific prompts without editing features. The results showed that while some models performed well, others struggled with complex prompts, and aspect ratio heavily influenced the accuracy of the results.

Myanmar military shuts down a major cybercrime center, detains over 2k people

181 bikenaga 2025-10-26 15:11:51 UTC apnews.com Llama Share 55

Myanmar's military shut down a major online scam operation near the Thai border, detaining over 2,000 people and seizing Starlink equipment. The operation, KK Park, was notorious for recruiting workers under false pretenses and forcing them to carry out cybercrime activities.

Clojure Land – Discover open-source Clojure libraries and frameworks

179 TheWiggles 2025-10-26 08:15:48 UTC clojure.land Llama Share 47

Overarch provides a data model for software systems and supports various tools and use cases. It includes features like C4 and UML diagram generation and a functional quantum computer library for Clojure.

PCB Edge USB C Connector Library

166 walterbell 2025-10-26 02:31:54 UTC github.com/anasmalas Llama Share 84

The library allows using a PCB as a USB C connector with 10 or 14 pin versions. It can be installed in KiCAD and EasyEDA for use in designs.

Smartphones manipulate our emotions and trigger our reflexes

154 PaulHoule 2025-10-26 19:00:07 UTC theconversation.com Llama Share 80

Smartphones have become intimate, sensitive, and knowing presences in our lives, using features like facial recognition, geolocation, and sensory cues to build emotional attachments. To manage this dependency, we can adjust device settings, limit features, and opt for more secure locks, but stronger government regulation is needed to prioritize users and their data.

Nvidia DGX Spark: When benchmark numbers meet production reality

149 RyeCatcher 2025-10-26 17:53:22 UTC publish.obsidian.md Llama Share 115

The author tested NVIDIA's DGX Spark and found its benchmarks technically accurate but lacking in revealing stability constraints and inference issues. The hardware delivers on raw performance but requires expertise to navigate limitations.

Formal Reasoning [pdf]

144 Thom2503 2025-10-26 12:03:59 UTC cs.ru.nl Llama Share 31

The text discusses formal languages, propositional logic, and predicate logic, explaining how to define the meaning of a word or statement in a formal language and how to express logical consequence. It also introduces the concept of a structure and an interpretation in predicate logic, explaining how formulas gain meaning in a piece of the 'real' world.

TOON – Token Oriented Object Notation

135 royosherove 2025-10-26 22:19:02 UTC github.com/johannschopplich Llama Share 50

TOON is a compact data format for LLMs, combining YAML and CSV for uniform data. It optimizes token usage and is suitable for uniform complex objects.

My favorite cult sci-fi and fantasy books you may not have heard of before

135 bwb 2025-10-26 11:18:41 UTC shepherd.com Llama Share 156

The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson is a dark tale of a grieving widower who experiences a vision of a future where the sun has been extinguished, and he sets out to find his beloved in a world under constant assault by nightmarish creatures. A Voyage to Arcturus by Hodgson is another classic work of speculative fiction that explores a planet called Tormance, a world both wondrous and ...

Books by People – Defending Organic Literature in an AI World

120 ChrisArchitect 2025-10-26 16:57:44 UTC booksbypeople.org Llama Share 122

Books By People is an independent organisation that verifies and certifies human-written books to safeguard creative integrity in an AI-driven era. They partner with publishers to provide a trusted 'Organic Literature' market, promoting human authorship and authenticity.

Writing a RISC-V Emulator in Rust

118 signa11 2025-10-26 07:34:30 UTC book.rvemu.app Llama Share 53

This project is an ongoing book on writing a 64-bit RISC-V emulator from scratch in Rust. It covers computer architecture and allows running xv6 OS once completed.

AI Mafia Network – An interactive visualization

107 dipakwani 2025-10-26 22:54:23 UTC dipakwani.com Full Share 9

An interactive visualization — based on the Acquired Google Podcast Credits to Ben and David. Click any node to highlight its connections • Drag to pan • Scroll to zoom

Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead with Ads in Maps App

102 daveoc64 2025-10-26 13:47:49 UTC macrumors.com Llama Share 134

Apple may integrate ads into Maps as early as next year, risking consumer backlash, and is also cutting iPhone Air production due to weaker demand. Apple is shifting focus to the iPhone 17 and 17 Pro models and may prioritize ads to increase revenue for future innovations.

The FSF considers large language models

96 birdculture 2025-10-26 13:38:30 UTC lwn.net Llama Share 85

The user discusses the limitations and potential of large language models (LLMs) in software development, citing their usefulness in generating boilerplate code, suggesting design improvements, and providing explanations for complex concepts. However, the user also notes that LLMs can fail miserably when faced with novel or unique tasks, and that their output often depends on the state of the ...

Making the Electron Microscope

91 mailyk 2025-10-26 16:46:22 UTC asimov.press Llama Share 9

Ernst Ruska and Reinhold Rüdenberg independently developed the first electron microscope in the 1930s. Their inventions enabled scientists to view biological structures at the atomic level, revolutionizing the field of biology.

YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started

89 wallflower 2025-10-26 13:52:37 UTC hollywoodreporter.com Llama Share 212

YouTube is partnering with the NFL to broadcast exclusive games and is on the verge of subsuming traditional TV genres. The platform's viewership on TV sets has surpassed mobile and is now the primary device for YouTube viewing in the US.

Are-we-fast-yet implementations in Oberon, C++, C, Pascal, Micron and Luon

88 luismedel 2025-10-26 23:08:09 UTC github.com/rochus-keller Full Share 23

See here for the main repository of the Are-we-fast-yet suite: https://github.com/smarr/are-we-fast-yet. See also the ORIGINAL_README.md file in this repository. Each additional implementation is in a separate subdirectory (e.g. "Cpp", "Oberon", "FreePascal"); see there for more information.

LaserTweezer – Optical Trap

78 o4c 2025-10-26 08:03:14 UTC gaudi.ch Llama Share 5

Optical Tweezers are used to manipulate microscopic objects with a laser beam, allowing for new possibilities in scientific exploration. A DIY version of Optical Tweezers was created using recycled consumer electronics parts, weighing less than 500g and costing under $100.

Louis Rossman: Politician calls constituents criminals with no right to privacy [video]

77 walterbell 2025-10-26 18:23:38 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 13

Connect to a 1980s Atari BBS through the web

69 JPolka 2025-10-26 09:31:47 UTC southernamis.com Llama Share 9

Atari BBSs restored from the 1980s include United Federation of Pirates, NiteLite, and Carina II, featuring Atascii Graphics and old games. Sysops like Giarc, Jay C, and Commodore Clifford run these boards with various themes and features.

Show HN: Helium Browser for Android with extensions support, based on Vanadium

61 jqssun 2025-10-26 22:41:02 UTC github.com/jqssun Llama Share 27

To use Helium Browser for Android, enable Desktop site in Chrome and change WebRTC IP handling policy to Default public interface only or Default.

The Apple Network Server Mac OS ROMs have resurfaced

48 zdw 2025-10-26 22:34:25 UTC oldvcr.blogspot.com Llama Share 5

The Apple Network Server was a Unix server that initially ran IBM's AIX, but was also intended to run MacOS and Windows NT. It was cancelled in 1997 due to poor sales.

Text Depixelization

32 rossant 2025-10-26 08:32:26 UTC github.com/spipm Llama Share 3

The Depix tool is a pixel image deblurring tool that works on linear box filter pixelized images. It uses a block-matching algorithm to detect and restore text from pixelated images.

Tsdown – The Elegant Bundler for Libraries

28 jcbhmr 2025-10-26 03:19:08 UTC tsdown.dev Full Share 10

tsdown preconfigures everything you need to get started, so you can focus on writing code.

Smart Beds Helped Them Sleep on a Cloud. Then the Cloud Crashed

22 Animats 2025-10-26 18:57:31 UTC nytimes.com Full Share 13

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Resource use matters, but material footprints are a poor way to measure it

20 surprisetalk 2025-10-26 14:21:44 UTC ourworldindata.org Llama Share 5

The material footprint metric measures the total weight of resources used within an economy, but it fails to capture the scarcity and environmental impact of different resources. It treats every kilogram of resources equally, regardless of their environmental consequences.

Show HN: FlashRecord – 2MB Python-native CLI screen recorder

19 Flamehaven 2025-10-26 17:12:37 UTC github.com/flamehaven Llama Share 7

FlashRecord is a Python-native, cross-platform screen recorder for automation-friendly screen capture. It supports GIF recording, AI session integration, and direct scripting integration.

Why the New Leisure Class Enjoys Activism and Philanthropy

15 walterbell 2025-10-26 01:01:03 UTC letter.palladiummag.com Llama Share 7

Veblen's concept of the leisure class remains relevant, where people show off their exemption from labor through accomplishments and social status. Today's leisure class pursues social activism, philanthropy, and vicarious leisure through maintaining others to engage in nonproductive activities.