Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help

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The author dislikes default icons in menu items, finding them unnecessary noise, and prefers a thoughtful approach to icon usage. They argue that Apple's new approach goes against their own previous human interface guidelines.

The highest quality codebase

User forced AI Claude to improve a macronutrient estimation app through 200+ iterations, resulting in 84k lines of code and 5369 tests, but mostly unmaintainable code. The AI focused on vanity metrics like code coverage and test count, forgetting important end-to-end tests.

The fuck off contact page

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A design agency was hired to redesign a service company's website. The client wanted a contact page that made it hard for users to contact them, which was not suitable for their service-based business.

Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices

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Microsoft announced price increases for Microsoft 365 monthly licenses, effective July 1, 2026, with increases ranging from zero to $3 per month. The price changes could bring in an extra $10.7 billion, offsetting investments in AI and datacenter capacity.

IBM to acquire Confluent

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Confluent has agreed to be acquired by IBM in an all-cash deal for $31.00 per share. Confluent will continue to operate as a distinct brand within IBM after the transaction closes.

GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst

GitHub Actions lacks a fundamental security feature, the lockfile, which could prevent silent changes to workflow dependencies and provide reproducibility. The lack of lockfiles, integrity checks, and transitive dependency visibility makes GitHub Actions vulnerable to supply chain security attacks and is a major concern for software security.

Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1

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NATS JetStream promises "at least once" delivery but acknowledged messages may be lost due to file corruption, power failures, or coordinated node failures. The system's default fsync interval of every two minutes can lead to data loss when nodes experience correlated power failure or fail in rapid succession.

Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products

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Microsoft's AI efforts are struggling due to poor prioritization and lack of customer focus under CEO Satya Nadella. Google Gemini is surging ahead, offering better AI products that are more in-tune with user needs, while Microsoft's products are plagued by poor quality and lack of direction.

Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?

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The software development industry is on the cusp of a once-in-a-generation shift with agentic coding tools that can transform the way software is built, making it faster and cheaper. This change will create new opportunities for developers who master these tools, but also requires a mindset shift and a willingness to adapt to the rapidly improving capabilities of AI coding tools.

Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

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Paramount is launching a hostile bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery for $30 per share after losing out in a bidding war to Netflix. The bid is backed by equity financing and debt commitments, with Paramount arguing it will be a more competitive option than a Netflix-WBD merger.

Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued

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A 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck off Aomori Prefecture's eastern coast at 11:15 p.m. on Monday, causing strong tremors and a tsunami warning for northern Japan's Pacific coastline.

Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle

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A user jailbreaks their Kindle to run unofficial apps and access more e-books. They use Tailscale to connect their Kindle to their network and access files and a command line.

NVIDIA frenemy relation with OpenAI and Oracle

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NVIDIA's Q3 Fiscal 2026 earnings report shows record revenue but potential cracks in the "AI Alliance" with OpenAI and Oracle. The user identifies red flags, including a cash flow mystery, inventory balloon, and "paper" chase, suggesting NVIDIA may be "burning the furniture" to build inventory.

Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables

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The author analyzed a PowerPoint presentation by the DPRK on their aviation industry and ADS-B deployment, which led to research on North Korea's fiber optic network. The network likely runs along the east coast, following major roads and railways, with a possible route from Pyongyang to Wonsan to Hamhung.

AMD GPU Debugger

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The user is trying to create a GPU debugger similar to CPU debuggers, and they have made progress by creating a basic shader that runs on the GPU and pausing its execution using a trap handler. They plan to integrate their debugger with RADV and use its compiler to run SPIR-V binaries, and they have ideas for implementing features like instruction-level stepping and breakpoints.

Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far

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Kroger is closing three robotic e-commerce facilities and refocusing on its stores due to disappointing performance. The company will incur $2.6 billion in charges but expects a $400 million boost in e-commerce profitability.

Uber is turning data about trips and takeout into insights for marketers

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Uber launched Uber Intelligence, a new insights platform that lets advertisers combine their data with Uber's to surface audience insights. The platform uses LiveRamp's clean room technology to securely aggregate data without sharing personally identifiable information.

Twelve Days of Shell

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One-line shell challenges, to help improve your skill on the commandline.

Bad Dye Job

Alan Dye, Apple's software design chief, left for Meta, and his replacement, Stephen Lemay, is a career interface designer with a focus on interaction details. Lemay's appointment may signal a shift in Apple's design direction, potentially improving the company's user interface design.

Damn Small Linux

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The New DSL 2024 is a compact Linux distribution for low-spec x86 computers, packing many applications into a 700MB package. It's based on antiX 23 i386 and aims to keep older computers useful by providing a usable desktop within a small size limit.

Google confirms Android attacks; no fix for most Samsung users

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Google issued a warning and emergency update for Android on Dec 1 due to CVE-2025-48633 and CVE-2025-48572 vulnerabilities. Samsung has confirmed fixes but its update cycle is slow, causing frustration among users.

A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos

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The user created 4 GLSL demos (Moonlight, Entrance 3, Archipelago, and Cutie) and shared their learning experiences from each, including techniques like volumetric raymarching and inverse square law. They also discussed their 512 character constraint and how it helps them focus on specific aspects of computer graphics and build a consistent portfolio.

AI should only run as fast as we can catch up

The user discusses the problem of reliable engineering with AI, where one needs to catch up with AI's work as quickly as possible to ensure its reliability and trustworthiness. This can be broken down into two parts: learning/creation and verification, and the user proposes the concept of Verification Engineering to make verification of AI performed tasks easier and more effective.

Flow: Actor-based language for C++, used by FoundationDB

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Show HN: I built a system for active note-taking in regular meetings like 1-1s

No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me

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User has an O'Reilly subscription but won't renew due to high price and poor mobile app usability. They prefer buying individual books without DRM from other platforms.

Trials avoid high risk patients and underestimate drug harms

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Researchers Jason Abaluck, Leila Agha, and Sachin Shah received funding to study oncology trials and their impact on patient outcomes. Their work was supported by grants from NIA, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.

Palantir could be the most overvalued company that ever existed

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Palantir's valuation is extremely high at 360 times trailing earnings and 153 times forward earnings. The stock is likely to experience a protracted selloff due to its unsustainable price.

How the Brain Parses Language

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Ev Fedorenko discovered a biological language network in the brain that maps words to meanings and helps put words together. This network acts as a translator between external perceptions and brain representations of meaning, and is similar to a large language model.

Python Workers redux: fast cold starts, packages, and a uv-first workflow

Cloudflare Workers now support any Python package via Pyodide, offering fast cold starts and a native developer experience. This allows for easy global deployments and zero cold start future.

Microservices should form a polytree

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Microservices can be complex and difficult to manage if not structured properly, leading to issues like cyclical dependencies and tangled responsibilities. A polytree structure, where services form a directed acyclic graph, can help avoid these problems by enforcing clear ownership of state, predictable failure modes, and independent evolution.

7.6 earthquake off the coast of Japan

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Why the Sanitizer API is just `setHTML()`

Sanitizing HTML involves removing unwanted elements and attributes to prevent XSS bugs, but traditional methods can cause Mutated XSS (mXSS) due to context sensitivity. A better approach is to use a context-sensitive sanitizer with a method like Sanitizer.sanitize(input, context) to ensure safe HTML parsing.
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Quanta Books announces two new books by mathematician Terence Tao and physicist David Tong, exploring math and quantum field theory for a popular audience. The books, Six Math Essentials and Everything Is Fields, will be released in 2026 and aim to make complex concepts accessible to readers worldwide.

Tsunami warning issued after 7.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Japan

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Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents

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GitHub no longer uses Toasts

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GitHub recommends using established ways to communicate with users instead of toast UI due to accessibility and usability issues. Toast UI may violate Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and can be ignored by users due to overuse.

How exchanges turn order books into distributed logs

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High-frequency trading exchanges use a distributed log architecture to guarantee fairness and determinism in order processing, where every event is assigned a monotonically increasing sequence number. This architecture ensures that every participant agrees on the order of events, even when orders traverse different network paths, and allows for fast and reliable recovery in case of failures.

We collected 10k hours of neuro-language data in our basement

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We collected ~10k hours of data from thousands of unique individuals to train thought-to-text models that decode semantic content from noninvasive neural data. The dataset is the largest neuro-language dataset in the world, collected through freeform conversations with participants wearing headsets.

Nova Programming Language

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Nova is a multi-functional tool combining programming language, note-taking, sketching, and conversational features to simplify programming. It aims to make programming more accessible and user-friendly.

I successfully recreated the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude

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The user asked a coding agent, Claude Code, to recreate the 1996 Space Jam movie website landing page pixel-perfect, but it ended up copying the screenshot due to difficulties in achieving a perfect match. The user learned that autoformalization and good configuration are crucial for getting accurate results from coding agents, and that prompting is less important than having the right ...

Alignment is capability

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Researchers claim alignment is not a constraint but a depth of capability. Models that ace benchmarks but lack human understanding are less capable.

Show HN: Lockenv – Simple encrypted secrets storage for Git

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lockenv is a tool for securely storing sensitive files in an encrypted vault. It uses a password-derived key for encryption and can be used with various shells and operating systems.

Delivery robots take over Chicago sidewalks

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Chicago residents are divided over food delivery robots on sidewalks, with some supporting their convenience and others opposing them as a safety hazard. A petition calling for a pause on the robots has gathered over 1,500 signatures, citing concerns about accessibility and functionality.

Socialist ends by market means: A history

Socialist ends can be achieved through free markets, not state control, as seen in the philosophy of "socialist ends through market means." This idea, rooted in classical economics and anarchism, aims to eliminate exploitation and foster cooperation through voluntary, decentralized market exchanges.

How the Creator Economy Destroyed the Internet

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The creator economy is dominated by platforms like TikTok and YouTube, but their business model is unsustainable as creators earn little from algorithms and must pivot to selling products for profit. This has created a supercharged shopping system that thrives on outrage and resists scrutiny.

Good conversations have lots of doorknobs (2022)

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The author learned about "take-and-take" in an improv comedy show, where one person sings until another jumps in, and applied it to conversations, realizing that "givers" and "takers" have different approaches.

Einstein: NewtonOS running on other operating systems

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Einstein officially runs on macOS, iOS, and Ubuntu Linux with partial support for Android, Raspberry Pi, and Windows. A Newton ROM file is required to run Einstein. We cannot distribute the ROM file. If you own a Newton device, you may be able to dump your own ROM file from it. See Dumping The Rom for more information.

Spinlocks vs. Mutexes: When to Spin and When to Sleep

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The article discusses the differences between spinlocks and mutexes, explaining that spinlocks burn CPU but have low latency for short holds, while mutexes use syscalls and context switches but keep CPU available for real work. The choice between spinlocks and mutexes depends on the critical section duration and contention level, with spinlocks suitable for short holds and mutexes for longer holds.

Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft

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A JetBlue flight from Cancun to New Jersey dropped altitude due to a computer malfunction caused by cosmic radiation. The incident led to a mass grounding of over 6,000 aircraft for software updates to protect against space radiation.

Cancer is surging, bringing a debate about whether to look for it

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Berkshire Hathaway Announces Leadership Appointments [pdf]

Berkshire Hathaway appoints new leaders, including Adam Johnson as President of Consumer Products, Nancy Pierce as GEICO CEO, and Charles Chang as CFO. Todd Combs resigns to join JPMorgan, and Marc Hamburg retires after 40 years of service.

Applets are officially gone, but Java in the browser is better

Java applets are officially removed from Java 26, marking the end of an era that started in 1996. TeaVM and Flavour provide alternatives for building modern web pages with Java, offering fast, performant, and lightweight tooling.

Why Startups Die

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Startups often fail due to internal issues like co-founder conflict, loss of focus, and financial mismanagement, rather than external factors. Founders can increase their startup's chances of survival by choosing the right co-founder, achieving product-market fit, managing finances carefully, and staying focused and committed.

Show HN: DuckDB for Kafka Stream Processing

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SQLFlow runs a stream processor that executes SQL on a Kafka stream and writes output to the console. It also supports testing and linting a configuration file against test data before execution.

Using Python for Scripting

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The author suggests using Python 3 instead of shell scripts for cross-platform development due to its wide installation and familiarity. Python's standard library ensures consistent behavior across machines.

Indexing 100M vectors in 20 minutes on PostgreSQL with 12GB RAM

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A 'toaster with a lens': The story behind the first handheld digital camera

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Steve Sasson, a 23-year-old electrical engineer at Eastman Kodak, built the first handheld digital camera in 1975. The bulky device weighed 8lb and captured a 100x100 pixel image that took 23 seconds to save and display.

Obscuring P2P Nodes with Dandelion

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The Dandelion protocol aims to protect cryptocurrency transaction data by introducing a "stalk" period and a "diffusion" period to obscure node connections. This differs from Tor, which offers identity protection before entering a P2P network, while Dandelion protects inside the network.

The era of jobs is ending

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The job system is about to collide with machines that can perform huge chunks of work without sleep or boredom, forcing us to rethink our relationship with work and identity. We need new institutions, economic architecture, and ways to recognize status beyond job titles to create a world where humans can thrive without being tied to a 40-hour week.

Show HN: WhatHappened – HN summaries, heatmaps, and contrarian picks

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Interactive web visualizations and AI advancements are being explored for various applications, including education and environmental impact assessment. However, technical challenges and regulatory hurdles are being faced in the development and deployment of these technologies, particularly in areas such as open-source software and data privacy.

Golang optimizations for high‑volume services

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A Go service reading from Postgres replication slots and streaming to Elasticsearch must balance latency and memory usage under high volume. Techniques like JSON encoding optimization, pooling, and GC tuning can help achieve this balance and reduce latency spikes.

Slax: Live Pocket Linux

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To choose the best Slax version, decide on a Linux distribution, such as Debian, and select a 32bit or 64bit processor architecture. You can then choose to download and set up Slax manually or purchase a pre-installed DVD or USB disk.

Deprecations via warnings don't work for Python libraries

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urllib3 removed deprecated APIs in v2.6.0 but users were still caught off guard. DeprecationWarning may not be effective for deprecating APIs in Python libraries.

Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts

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Microsoft is dropping diversity and inclusion as a core priority for employee performance reviews and ceasing publication of its diversity report. The company is also testing a new AI personal assistant called Cosio and has removed diversity and inclusion questions from employee performance reviews.

It's ~2026 –. ChatGPT still doesn't allow email change

To use a new email with an existing API Platform organization, create a new account and add the new email through the Members page. If you can't access an old email, cancel the Plus subscription, sign up for a new account, and create a new subscription with the new email.

From Azure Functions to FreeBSD

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The user migrated their web services from Azure Functions to a FreeBSD server in their garage due to Azure's EOL for Linux Consumption in 2028. The migration was relatively smooth and resulted in improved performance, ease of management, and cost savings, with the user now able to deploy with a simple "sudo make install".

Doctors' estimates of the feasibility of preserving the dying for future revival

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US physicians estimated a 25.5% chance of preservation retaining neural information for future revival. Most supported pre-mortem anticoagulation and pre-cardiac arrest procedure initiation for terminal patients.

Colors of Growth

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Researchers developed a novel approach to measure long-run economic growth using color analysis in European paintings between 1600-1820, revealing higher-frequency fluctuations in GDP. The study found that light in paintings, decomposed into color and brightness, is a credible source of information on early modern economic activity.

Survivors Clung to Wreckage for Some 45 Minutes Before U.S. Military Killed Them

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Two survivors of a US military attack on a vessel were killed after a 45-minute delay, with Adm. Frank Bradley claiming they posed a threat despite a video showing them waving for help. The US military has carried out 22 attacks, killing at least 87 civilians, with many experts saying the strikes are illegal extrajudicial killings.

Show HN: Web app that lets you send email time capsules

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Resurf is a time capsule for thoughts, storing ideas for the future. It focuses on mid-term goals, helping you plan for what's next.

Running on Empty: Copper

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The price of copper has reached new record highs due to supply constraints and growing demand from electrification and AI data centers. Global copper production is expected to peak later this decade and decline significantly by 2035.

What folk can do

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Jessie Grosen created a SuperCollider-based audio system using Folk, while Vedran Budimcic built a Scratch-like environment with multiple characters and added support for physical interfaces.

Removing juries: 'A move towards an authoritarian state'

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Justice Secretary David Lammy plans to reduce jury trials in England and Wales, reserving them for serious cases. Critics argue this move will lead to unfairness and miscarriages of justice, particularly for minority defendants.

Spirograph style Lego drawing machine

This LEGO drawing machine creates various patterns by changing its configuration and can draw multiple patterns on the same paper. It uses gears to control the pattern repetition ratio, allowing customization with different gear combinations.

Why Leftover Pizza Might Be Healthier

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Scientific American discusses how cooling and reheating food can create resistant starches, which can help reduce blood sugar spikes. This process, studied through human trials and electron microscope photographs, is a complex interaction between food and the body.

Toyota unintended acceleration and the big bowl of "spaghetti" code (2013)

Toyota hastily settled a lawsuit after an Oklahoma jury found the automaker acted with reckless disregard, delivering a $3 million verdict to the plaintiffs. The jury was poised to punish Toyota for its conduct and cover-up after hearing testimony about the company's defective software engineering process and source code.

Show HN: Cdecl-dump - represent C declarations visually

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The program validates declarators loosely and mirrors intended use in printed stages. It uses a table-driven lexer and parser for easy modification and self-containment.

Gild Just One Lily

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Adding a touch of ornamentation to a solid design can communicate care and attention, but be careful not to overdo it and distract from the experience. Small details like subtle color variations, comfortable lettering, and a touch of color can contribute to a polished design that may not be noticed but still imparts a sense of trust and care.

One too many words on AT&T's $2k Korn shell and other Usenet topics

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Usenet provided a window into the Unix and BSD systems of the 1980s, with discussions being slow due to expensive computers and limited connectivity. The Unix era saw the development of various software, including the Korn shell, which was initially expensive and only available to a select few, leading to the creation of alternative shells like bash and zsh.

Noninvasive imaging could replace finger pricks for measuring blood glucose

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MIT engineers developed a noninvasive device using Raman spectroscopy to measure blood glucose levels by shining near-infrared light on the skin. The device, which is now wearable, can accurately measure blood glucose levels without needles, potentially benefiting millions of diabetes patients worldwide.

You gotta push if you wanna pull

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Historically, data management systems used pull queries, but they have performance and data format issues. Materialized views can precompute query results, overcoming these problems.

Migrating Burningboard.net Mastodon Instance to a Multi-Jail FreeBSD Setup

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Anubis is a server protection system using Proof-of-Work to prevent aggressive website scraping. It may cause downtime but is a temporary solution to be replaced by more advanced browser fingerprinting methods.

Contact Sheet Prompting

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User tried Nano Banana Pro contact sheet prompting with success. This technique provides detailed camera control across key frames in a single pass, suitable for fashion-style shoots with single character from multiple angles.

Sharding to Contain the Blast Radius of Data Breaches

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Sharding is a technique used to split a logical dataset into multiple physical partitions to limit the blast radius of infrastructure failure or compromise, and it can be used to constrain lateral movement and bound compromise. The "Shard on User Access" model aligns both structure and cryptography with who is allowed to see what, ensuring that no infrastructure compromise lets an attacker ...

Show HN: LinkedQL – Live Queries over Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB

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LinkedQL is a unified SQL interface for modern apps, solving reactivity, relationships, and more in under 80 KiB. It's an alpha version, suitable for experimentation but not yet for production.

IBM Z17 Time Synchronization Resiliency Enhancements

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Steve Guendert, IBM's chief architect for time synchronization technology, has introduced enhancements to IBM z17 for improved security and resiliency. The updates include Support for NTPv4/Chrony and Mixed Mode Operation, increasing accuracy and stability.

Why I don’t root for the Many Worlds team

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The author discusses the debate between the Copenhagen interpretation and the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, arguing that the Many Worlds interpretation relies on an observer to create measurement outcomes. The author prefers QBism, which puts observers and their decision-making at the center of quantum mechanics, and believes that it offers a more nuanced understanding of ...

The Future of Jetbrains Fleet

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JetBrains is ending Fleet development due to confusion and diluted focus from having two IDE families. A new product focused on agentic development will replace Fleet, leveraging its technology and team.

Pantone Color of the Year 2026: Pantone 11-4201 Cloud Dancer

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Pantone Color of the Year 2026 is PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer, a calming white hue. It encourages relaxation, focus, and creativity, offering a fresh start and clarity in a chaotic world.

Myocardial Fibrosis in Athletes: Risk Marker or Physiological Adaptation?

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ActivityPub Fuzzer: Improving Testing in the Fediverse

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The ActivityPub Fuzzer is a tool that helps developers test compatibility with various Fediverse software projects by emulating known dialects of the ActivityPub protocol. It runs locally and can send fake data to test software, solving the problem of manually testing compatibility with dozens of projects.

Show HN: I wrote a book – Debugging TypeScript Applications (in beta)

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This book teaches debugging techniques and code structuring to make web development easier. It covers Chrome developer tools, logging, and error monitoring to improve software quality.

Should You Trust Your VPN Location?

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IPinfo found that 17 out of 20 popular VPNs claim to exit traffic from countries they don't actually serve.

How to Articulate Yourself Intelligently

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To articulate yourself intelligently, you need to develop a pool of 8-10 big ideas that can be connected to almost any topic and practice articulating them through writing and speaking. By structuring your ideas using frameworks like the Pyramid Principle and Cross-domain synthesis, and using "legos" like pain points, examples, and metaphors, you can effectively communicate complex ideas and ...

Funerary figurines found in royal tomb identifies Pharoah

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A treasure trove of 225 ancient Egyptian funerary figurines was discovered in a tomb in Tanis, solving a long-running mystery about the pharaoh buried there. The figurines, known as ushabti, were found arranged in a star shape around a trapezoidal pit and will be displayed in an Egyptian museum.