GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches

GrapheneOS provides early Android security patches, backported to Android 13-16, while large companies like Samsung and Google take months to integrate them. This requires significant work and resources, slowing down GrapheneOS feature development.

Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode

User needs to register or sign in with developer credentials and ensure a unique User-Agent string to access the application. Alternatively, try resetting to default User-Agent or file a ticket for assistance.

How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM

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NanoKVM is a hardware KVM switch developed by Sipeed, but it has serious security issues including default passwords and a hardcoded encryption key, and it also contains a built-in microphone that can record audio. The device's security flaws are likely due to rushed development, but there are ways to install custom software and remove the microphone, and similar devices with hidden ...

Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop

Tiny Core Linux is a minimal, ultra small graphical desktop OS that boots fast and supports additional apps and hardware. It's based on a core kernel and modules, with users able to add extensions from online repos or compile their own.

YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries

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YouTube is quietly using AI to enhance videos by top creators without their knowledge or consent. Critics warn this sets a precedent for altering digital media, eroding trust and authenticity in online content.

Sam Altman’s DRAM Deal

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A massive deal between OpenAI and Samsung and SK Hynix for 40% of the world's DRAM supply has caused a 156% price increase in RAM, leaving the market unprepared and scrambling to secure inventory. The shortage is expected to last for at least six to nine months, affecting various products including RAM, RADEON GPUs, XBOX, Nvidia GPUs, and laptops and phones.

Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched

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Search if your license plate has been queried in the Flock mass surveillance database

Autism's confusing cousins

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A clinician discusses the challenges of diagnosing autism, noting that many people self-diagnose with autism due to its high public awareness and perceived recognition of their social difficulties. The clinician emphasizes that autism diagnosis requires a nuanced understanding of various diagnostic possibilities, including anxiety disorders, schizoid personality, and social communication disorder.

Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video]

Wolfram Compute Services

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Wolfram Compute Services allows users to scale up computations by sending them to a cloud-based system, providing access to supercomputer power. The service is easy to use, programmable, and offers various options for machine selection, notification, and job management.

HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023)

arXiv has launched HTML papers alongside PDFs to improve accessibility, with a goal to backfill over 2 million papers over time. The beta rollout is a work in progress, and feedback from the community is needed to improve conversions from LaTeX.

Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)

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Unix enthusiasts share their unchanged desktop habits over 13 years, still using terminals and command-line interfaces. They've switched to various Linux distributions and window managers, but remain loyal to their Unix roots and text-based work style.

Perl's decline was cultural

Perl's growth was hindered by its culture, which was rooted in conservative UNIX sysadmin values and a tribal meritocracy, making it difficult for the language to evolve and adapt to changing needs. The language's culture and values, such as its emphasis on flexibility and its reluctance to change, ultimately led to its decline in popularity, but it remains widely used and influential in the ...

PalmOS on FisherPrice Pixter Toy

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The author is working on a project to port PalmOS to the Pixter Color, a toy device from the early 2000s, and has made significant progress, including creating a Pixter Color emulator and designing a board with a 1MB NOR flash for the OS. The author has also overcome several challenges, including the lack of a cache, MMU, and MPU in the Pixter Color's SoC, and has implemented a scheme to ...

Touching the Elephant – TPUs

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Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is a specialized hardware accelerator that has enabled the company to excel in artificial intelligence, thanks to its focus on neural network inference and training. The TPU's design, which involves a systolic array and a scalar unit, has been optimized for performance and power efficiency, allowing it to outperform general-purpose processors in certain tasks.

Linux Instal Fest Belgrade

Linux Install Fest will be held on December 9, 2025, at the Faculty of Mathematics in Belgrade, to help install Linux on laptops. Several people with Linux experience will be present, and short trainings may be held on various topics.

OMSCS Open Courseware

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Georgia Tech's OMSCS program offers public course content through Ed Lessons, excluding graded assignments. Students enrolled in OMSCS should access course content through Canvas for full versions.

Coffee linked to slower biological ageing among those with severe mental illness

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Researchers at King's College London found that moderate coffee consumption is linked to longer telomeres in people with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, equivalent to a 5-year younger biological age. The study suggests that up to four cups of coffee per day may slow biological ageing in this population.

Why Speed Matters

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Moving fast is crucial in professional life as it allows for better work and faster learning from mistakes. Slow work can lead to outdated results and less relevant work.

The general who refused to crush Tiananmen's protesters

Protests in Beijing and China's cities in May 1989 led leaders to consider martial law, but a major-general objected to the order. He was punished with five years in prison for his defiance, a rare glimpse into dissent within China's Communist Party.

Nook Browser

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The memory of web browsing being quick and easy lives with us all. Fewer pop-ups, less clutter, and finding what you need ASAP. When enabled, they provide helpful tools such as chat assistance, summaries, up-to-date web insights, and more.

Ask HN: How many people got VPNs in response to laws like UK Online Safety Act?

User installed VPN after UK Online Safety Act blocked an article on The Free Press, citing security concerns with ID verification. They now use VPN to bypass censorship and protect their online identity.

The past was not that cute

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The author enjoys retro aesthetics but acknowledges the past was not as charming as often portrayed, with many people facing hardships and difficulties. They appreciate the past's lessons, such as the value of music and community, but choose to live in the present with modern conveniences.

Zebra-Llama: Towards Efficient Hybrid Models

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Researchers propose Zebra-Llama, a method to create efficient hybrid language models from pre-trained models, achieving Transformer-level accuracy with reduced training tokens and memory. Zebra-Llama outperforms existing models in accuracy and efficiency, using significantly fewer tokens and smaller memory.

EU hits X with €120M fine for breaching the Digital Services Act

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The European Union fined Elon Musk's X €120 million for breaching transparency rules. The fine consists of €45 million for verification checkmarks, €35 million for advertising transparency, and €40 million for researcher access.

I cracked a $200 software protection with xcopy

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The author analyzed Enigma Protector, a commercial software protection system, and found it to be ineffective due to a lack of runtime protection. The actual product, a VST synthesizer plugin, runs unprotected despite being protected by Enigma Protector during installation.

Extra Instructions Of The 65XX Series CPU (1996)

The 65XX series CPU has 105 extra opcodes that are not part of the standard 6502 instruction set, which can be used to perform various operations such as combining multiple instructions or accessing registers in unique ways. However, some of these opcodes have complex and variable behavior, and their operation may depend on the specific machine or circumstances, making them difficult to use reliably.

United States Antarctic Program Field Manual (2024) [pdf]

The USAP Field Manual provides an overview of USAP field logistics, operations, and safety, intended to enhance success in the field. It emphasizes the importance of risk management, emergency preparedness, and environmental stewardship in Antarctica.

Wave of (Open Street Map) Vandalism in South Korea

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Vandals defaced OpenStreetMap in South Korea, but most changes were rolled back and over 50 malicious accounts banned. The issue is likely caused by a single employee trying to delete power plant data, not a coordinated attack by Korean right-wing groups.

Ireland's Inability to Defend Itself

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's visit to Ireland was disrupted by four military drones that breached a no-fly zone and flew near his plane. Ireland's lack of defense capabilities makes it a vulnerable target for hostile actors.

Catala – Law to Code

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Catala annotates legislative texts with code translations through programmer-lawyer pair-programming. It defines a Qualified Employee Discount as the lesser of an employee discount or the gross profit percentage of the customer price.

Copy-Item is slower than File Explorer

The user compared the speeds of various file copying methods on Windows, including File Explorer, rsync, robocopy, SFTP, and PowerShell's Copy-Item. File Explorer's copy and paste was the fastest at 111-112 MBps.

'Life being stressful is not an illness' – GPs on mental health over-diagnosis

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Hundreds of GPs in England believe mental health problems are being over-diagnosed due to societal pressures to medicalise normal life stresses. The GPs also worry about a lack of help for patients with mental health conditions, citing a need for better support and coping strategies.

Saving Japan's exceptionally rare 'snow monsters'

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Japan's unique "juhyo" or "snow monsters" are shrinking due to climate change and forest damage. A team is working to revive the fir forests and preserve the natural wonder, which attracts tens of thousands of visitors annually.

Chernobyl protective shield can no longer confine radiation after drone strike

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A drone strike damaged the New Safe Confinement at Chernobyl, losing its primary safety functions. The IAEA recommends timely and comprehensive restoration to prevent further degradation and ensure long-term nuclear safety.

How America's "truck-driver shortage"

CATL Expects Oceanic Electric Ships in 3 Years

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CATL aims to provide zero-carbon marine transportation with electric ships navigating open seas within three years. The company has supplied batteries for over 900 vessels and is collaborating with shipping partners to advance electric shipping.

Germany votes to bring in voluntary military service programme for 18-year-olds

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Germany's parliament voted to introduce voluntary military service for 18-year-olds, with a questionnaire to be sent from January 2026. The move aims to boost national defences and increase the military's strength to 260,000 personnel by the early 2030s.

Show HN: Tascli, a command line based (human) task and record manager

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tascli is a CLI task manager, allowing users to create, list, and record tasks and activities with various options and recurring formats. It can be configured to store the database in a custom location via a config file.

PatchworkOS: An OS for x86_64, built from scratch in C and assembly

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PatchworkOS is a modular, non-POSIX operating system that rigorously follows the "everything is a file" philosophy, built from scratch in C and assembly for the x86_64 architecture. It aims to be educational and experimental, with a goal of creating a "real" operating system that runs on real hardware and has modern performance.

Wine 11.0 RC1 – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS

The Wine development release 11.0-rc1 is now available. This is the first release candidate for the upcoming Wine 11.0. It marks the beginning of the yearly...

Running Claude Code in a loop to mirror human development practices

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Continuous Claude is a CLI tool that runs Claude Code in a loop to maintain context and improve AI coding efficiency. It enables self-improvement and tackles larger projects by persisting context and results across iterations.

Albert Michelson's Harmonic Analyzer (2014) [pdf]

Albert Michelson invented a harmonic analyzer to perform Fourier synthesis and analysis. The machine uses gears, springs, and levers to combine weighted sines or cosines and analyze functions.

How the 'hypnagogic state' of drowsiness could enhance your creativity

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Paul McCartney's song "Yesterday" was written in the hypnagogic state where he experienced a semi-conscious state between sleep and wakefulness. Research shows that this state can be a creative "sweet spot" where ideas emerge, and with practice, people can capture and develop these ideas.

Authorities investigating Waymo over failure to stop for school buses

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Show HN: FuseCells – a handcrafted logic puzzle game with 2,500 levels

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FuseCells is a logic puzzle game blending Sudoku, Minesweeper, and Nonogram styles with handcrafted puzzles and no ads. It offers 2500 puzzles, daily challenges, and a crystal rating system with beautiful cosmic visuals and offline play.

Kidney Recipient Dies After Transplant from Organ Donor Who Had Rabies

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Fefe is back

Wer schöne Verschwörungslinks für mich hat: ab an felix-bloginput (at) fefe.de!

A fork of Calibre called Clbre, because the AI is stripped out

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clbre is a fork of calibre without AI integration for personal use, keeping it up to date. calibre is an e-book manager with cross-platform support, available on Linux, Windows, and macOS.

Decades-old study on common weed killer retracted

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Health Canada says a retracted study on glyphosate won't affect its approval, despite concerns over ghostwriting and potential carcinogenic effects. Glyphosate use is increasing in Canada, with 50 million kilograms sold annually, and Health Canada is being called to review the latest science.

Why "all-in-one" productivity tools confuse new users

You've created an all-in-one productivity model that people love once they try it, but struggle to understand before using it. This makes onboarding a challenge due to a lack of clear mental model.

OpenTelemetry Distribution Builder

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A custom OpenTelemetry Collector distribution can be built using the OpenTelemetry Distribution Builder, which automates packaging for multiple platforms and manages version releases via GitHub. The distribution can be built locally with Docker, Google Cloud Build, or a GitHub Action, and is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.

From Rockets to Heat Pumps

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The author of the Heat Pumped Podcast recently appeared as a guest on Less Talk, More Action, discussing heat pumps and their adoption in California. They emphasized that while heat pumps may not offer significant cost savings, they provide better comfort and future-proof homes at similar lifetime costs.

Show HN: SFX – A language where 0.1 and 0.2 = 0.3 and Context is first-class

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SFX is a beginner-friendly programming language with JIT compilation and reactive observers. It can be built and run using Rust with commands like cargo build and cargo run.