Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options

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To avoid smart TV tracking and ads, consider using a non-smart TV, such as an Apple TV box, a laptop, or a projector, or opt for a digital signage display, but be aware of potential image and sound quality tradeoffs. Alternatively, you can use a TV antenna to watch free, untracked TV channels, but be aware of limitations such as limited channel selection and potential performance issues.

OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI

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OpenAI has implemented Anthropic's Skills mechanism in their Codex CLI tool and ChatGPT, allowing users to access and use skills. Skills are folders with Markdown files and optional resources, enabling LLM tools to use them.

macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt

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The macOS 26.2 SDK supports developing apps for Mac computers running Tahoe 26.2 and comes bundled with Xcode 26.2. It fixes several issues including device discoverability and Allocations instrument failures.

“Are you the one?” is free money

The TV show "Are You the One?" is essentially a game where contestants try to guess their perfect matches, and a strategy based on information theory can be used to determine the best way to gain information and win the game. By using this strategy, it's possible to show that the contestants on the show are not making the best decisions and that a simple algorithm can perform better than them ...

Nokia N900 Necromancy

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The user attempted to revive an old Nokia N900 smartphone by replacing its battery with a capacitor and USB-C port, but the process caused damage to the phone's internal components and USB port. The user eventually managed to revive the phone using a new USB-C port and a custom-built battery compartment with a large capacitor, allowing it to function as an online radio device.

Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why

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I accidentally triggered a Google glitch with Bear Blog by validating a non-indexable feed URL, de-indexing other articles. I've created a new blog with URL forwarding and hope Google will naturally index it after my previous troubleshooting.

Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case

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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling that Apple's 27% fee for iOS developers using outside payment options was in violation of a 2021 injunction. Apple may still charge a "reasonable fee" for outside payments, but the exact amount is to be determined.

Rats Play DOOM

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We built an open-sourced, modular VR setup for rats to play DOOM, featuring motion tracking, a panoramic headset, and rewards. The system, designed for rodents, enables research but needs behavioral validation.

SQLite JSON at full index speed using generated columns

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SQLite has JSON functions and operators, allowing flexible schemaless data with relational database performance. Virtual generated columns compute values on demand, enabling instant indexing and blazing fast queries.

The Tor Project is switching to Rust

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The Tor Project's Arti 1.8.0 release addresses security flaws in the C codebase by introducing usage-based circuit timeouts and a new command for migrating onion service keys. It also improves routing architecture, protocol implementation, and directory cache support.

GNU Unifont

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Gnu unifont contains glyphs for every printable code point in the unicode basic multilingual plane (bmp) a user has asked if unifont can be used with commercial (non-free) software. the licenses also provide acknowledgement of previous unify font contributors. gnuunont is based on the open source project openunicode.org, which has contributed to the project since 2004. for more

Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union

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Id Software studio workers unionize with 165 employees voting to join the CWA. They will now negotiate with Microsoft to address concerns over work rules, pay and representation.

Koralm Railway

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The Koralm Railway is part of Austria's new Southern Line and shortens travel time between Graz and Klagenfurt from 3 hours to 45 minutes. It enhances rail transport, reduces CO2 emissions, and boosts Austria's economy through increased competitiveness.

CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat

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Researchers used CRISPR to create a more efficient, nutritious, and sustainable fungi strain called FCPD. FCPD reduces greenhouse gas emissions by up to 60% and requires 70% less land than traditional chicken production in China.

Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems

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Home Depot employee's exposed GitHub token granted access to private source code and cloud infrastructure. Home Depot did not respond to security researcher's emails, but the token's access was revoked after TechCrunch outreach.

The tiniest yet real telescope I've built

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A 3D-printed dobsonian telescope was created with specific constraints, using a 76mm/300mm mirror kit and featuring a unique focuser design. It achieved good performance with refiguration, but overcorrected initially and needs recoating.

Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices by 50% for DIY Laptops

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Framework Computer increased DDR5 memory prices by 50% for DIY Edition laptops due to industry-wide shortages. Existing pre-orders and pre-built laptops remain unchanged, with new return policy requiring DDR5 module return with laptop returns.

Google releases its new Google Sans Flex font as open source

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Google has released Google Sans Flex an open source variable font under the SIL Open Font License. It provides more expressive design options but has a drawback on Linux where it can't support fancy features like Dark Mode.

CM0 – A new Raspberry Pi you can't buy

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The Raspberry Pi CM0 is a small Linux computer with WiFi, eMMC storage, and castellated edges for easy integration. It's only available in China, possibly due to supply chain issues with the LPDDR2 RAM chip used in the RP3A0 SoC.

Show HN: Tiny VM sandbox in C with apps in Rust, C and Zig

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uvm32 is a minimalist C99-based virtual machine for microcontrollers offering a RISC-V emulator with a management interface. It aims for safety over speed and is designed for executing custom scripts, not hardware simulation.

String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof

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Mathematicians have made a major breakthrough in classifying polynomial equations, using techniques from string theory to prove that four-folds are not parameterizable. The proof, posted in August, has sparked excitement and skepticism among the mathematical community, with many experts struggling to understand the new techniques.

Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers

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The user's git forge was hit by hundreds of thousands of queries a day from thousands of IPs, causing significant power consumption, CPU usage, and network traffic, and the user implemented various measures to limit the damage, including caching, rate limiting, and a garbage generator. The user eventually settled on a solution using Iocaine, a middleware that traps scrapers in a maze of ...

Japan law opening phone app stores to go into effect

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Japan will introduce new law on Dec 18 to loosen tech giants' grip, allowing users to choose between app stores and default services. Changes aim to improve convenience but raise security concerns.

Benn Jordan’s flock camera jammer will send you to jail in Florida now [video]

US TikTok investors in limbo as deal set to be delayed again

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A billionaire investor is waiting to see if TikTok's US operations will be sold as the latest deadline looms. The investor, Frank McCourt, wants to buy TikTok without its Chinese technology and operate it in compliance with US law.

Berlin Approves New Expansion of Police Surveillance Powers

Berlin's parliament passed a law expanding police surveillance powers, allowing digital and physical monitoring, and potentially compromising citizens' civil liberties. The law grants police new authority to hack into devices, install spyware, and use AI to identify individuals, raising concerns about privacy and cyber security.

Freeing a Xiaomi humidifier from the cloud

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The user built a smart home platform with Home Assistant but struggled to find a compatible humidifier, so they decided to modify a Xiaomi Mi Smart Antibacterial Humidifier with ESPHome firmware. They disassembled the humidifier, removed the WiFi module, and prepared it for flashing with a new firmware using ESPHome's build-in web flasher or esptool.py.

Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels off the Dutch and German coast

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Seven German journalism students tracked Russian-crewed freighters connected to drone swarms over military bases. Their investigation revealed a pattern of suspicious behavior by three ships, leading European intelligence to assess them as working for Russia with high confidence.

The true story of the Windows 3.1 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme

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Virginia Howlett, Microsoft's first interface designer, confirmed that the Hot Dog Stand color scheme in Windows 3.1 was not intended as a joke. It was a garish choice included to appeal to people who liked bright colors.

In Defense of Matlab Code

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The author argues that MATLAB's syntax is still valuable for certain types of work, such as linear algebra and signal processing, despite its dated runtime and business model. A new runtime, RunMat, is proposed to execute MATLAB-style syntax in a modern, high-performance way that integrates with cloud and CI workflows.

50 years of proof assistants

Formal verification has made significant progress over the past 50 years, from initial proof assistants like LCF and HOL to modern systems like Isabelle and Coq. Today, proof assistants are used in various applications, including hardware verification, cryptographic protocols, and even operating system kernels, with AWS and Apple using them in their products.

Oracle made a $300B bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price

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Oracle's stock has plunged 40% from its September peak after investors' concerns over the company's reliance on OpenAI and mounting costs for AI infrastructure remained unfounded following its Q2 earnings. Investors remain wary of Oracle's future returns and debt load amid OpenAI's financial struggles.

Async DNS

The user is trying to handle async DNS requests using various methods in C. They need a method without background threads, signals, or secret mechanisms.

Using secondary school maths to demystify AI

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Researchers are developing ways to teach about AI using school math. A team, CAMMP, has created materials using data-driven technologies to demystify AI and show students how to build AI systems using existing math concepts.

Nuclear energy key to decarbonising Europe, says EESC

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The EESC supports nuclear energy as a key component in the EU's clean energy mix, calling for regulatory and financial enablers to make investment possible. The Committee urges the European Commission to include measures to support the nuclear industry and promote dialogue with civil society.

Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation

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Fedora is a sustainable open-source repository system for digital libraries and archives, designed for institutions to preserve and provide access to digital content. It's a community-driven project with a 20+ year history, offering a transparent persistence layer and various community resources.

Stoolap: High-performance embedded SQL database in pure Rust

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Stoolap is an embedded SQL database written in Rust with MVCC transactions. It supports in-memory and persistent storage modes with full ACID compliance.

Smartphone without a battery (2022)

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The user modified an old Samsung Galaxy S5 to run OctoPrint for a 3D printer by creating a "fake battery" circuit that emulates the battery but is powered by 5V via USB. The circuit includes a silicon diode to drop the voltage and a capacitor to stabilize power, allowing the smartphone to boot and run OctoPrint with a 2A power supply.

Capsudo: Rethinking sudo with object capabilities

capsudo is a project that reframes privilege escalation as a mediated interaction with a service called capsudod, providing narrowly scoped capabilities. This object-capability model makes privilege boundaries visible, composable, and easier to reason about, shifting from identity to possession.

Security issues with electronic invoices

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The EU's electronic invoicing system has security flaws due to its design and use of vulnerable technologies like XML and Saxon. Implementing software for electronic invoices may be affected by security flaws if no countermeasures are implemented.

Senator endorses discredited book that claims chemical treats autism, cancer

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Sen Ron Johnson endorsed a book promoting chlorine dioxide as a treatment for autism and various ailments despite warnings of its toxicity. The book's author Dr Pierre Kory has a history of spreading misinformation about COVID-19 treatments.

Why isn't online age verification just like showing your ID in person?

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Online age verification is more invasive and poses serious risks to privacy, security, and free speech compared to in-person ID checks. It creates barriers to access and anonymity, disproportionately affects marginalized communities, and threatens First Amendment-protected speech.

New Kindle feature uses AI to answer questions about books

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Amazon added Ask this Book to its Kindle iOS app, an AI feature that answers questions about books without disrupting reading flow. Authors and publishers cannot opt out of this feature, raising concerns about copyright and AI-generated content.

Building small Docker images faster

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The author is building a Go service at a Python shop and chose Go due to its ease of use and speed. They're using Docker and Docker Compose for the project.

Training LLMs for honesty via confessions

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Researchers propose a method to elicit honesty from large language models by having them provide a self-reported confession of their shortcomings. This approach incentivizes models to be honest in their confessions by rewarding them based on honesty, not the main answer's reward.

America's betting craze has spread to its news networks

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News organizations like CNN and CNBC are partnering with prediction markets, allowing users to bet on current events, which could lead to a deluge of similar deals. Critics argue that this integration of gambling into news coverage could be problematic, particularly for compulsive gamblers and those who may be misled by the allure of betting odds.

Cadmium Zinc Telluride: The wonder material powering a medical 'revolution'

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A new device at Royal Brompton Hospital in London reduced lung scan time to 15 minutes thanks to a highly detailed, 3D scanner with cadmium zinc telluride technology. The technology can detect tiny blood clots and gamma rays, enabling a "revolution" in medical imaging, with many other uses in X-ray telescopes and airport security.

Testing a cheaper laminar flow hood

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The author tested a cheaper laminar flow hood to prevent contamination in biology experiments and found it effective in reducing contamination on agar plates. The hood, which uses a HEPA filter, kept 2 out of 4 plates clean compared to 4 out of 4 contaminated plates without the hood.

Wine 11.0 RC2 – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS

Wine 11.0 release candidate is available for testing, with issues including NET Framework installers and Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun.

BpfJailer: eBPF Mandatory Access Control [pdf]

- TCP bind() - TCP connect() - UDP sendmsg() - UDP recvmsg() - Unix domain bind() - Unix domain connect() - Unix domain sendmsg() - Vsock bind() - Vsock connect() - accept() - DNS - DBus - TCP and UDP Proxy - CA injection and local TLS

Mark V Shaney

Mark V. Shaney was a synthetic Usenet user created by a Markov chain algorithm that generated quirky and sometimes uncannily topical posts. The program was designed by Rob Pike and Bruce Ellis, and was initially used to create humorous deconstructionist activities in the 1980s.

Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon

Break down any marketplace and you'll find the same core. Product management,order processing, andcustomer support.We're creating these solutions for every vertical.

Disks Lie: Building a WAL that actually survives

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A write-ahead log (WAL) is a database concept that ensures data durability by writing records to disk before applying them to in-memory state, but it can fail silently due to various hardware issues. To build a reliable WAL, five layers of defense are necessary, including checksums, dual WAL files, O_DIRECT and O_DSYNC flags, and operation linking with io_uring.

Debug Mode for LLMs in vLLora

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vLLora introduces Debug Mode for LLM requests, allowing users to inspect and edit outgoing requests before they reach the model. This feature brings a familiar software-engineering workflow to LLM development, making it easier to validate fixes and test ideas.

Checkers Arcade

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A "Checkers Arcade" set can be created with a standard American Checkers set and offers various games with different complexities and play times. The games include Ricochet Roombas, Checkers Go-Moku, Halma, Squava, Hobbit Checkers, and others that can be played with a standard 8x8 board and 12 discs per side.

The Average Founder Ages 6 Months Each Year

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Founder age is increasing due to AI investment, B2B focus, and media bias. The typical founder may be a decade older in 20 years if this trend continues.

We are not here to make code

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In Pastagang, "let code die" means deleting code to encourage experimentation and freedom, not just for beginners but also for experienced jammers. It's about embracing change and impermanence, letting go of attachment to specific code and starting anew.

The Boot Order of the Raspberry Pi Is Unusual

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Raspberry Pi boots using firmware in its GPU, not a traditional BIOS, to power up the CPU via its VideoCore VI GPU. This GPU first boot order is derived from the device's Broadcom BCM2xxx chip design, typically suited for video streaming.

Can I use HTTPS RRs?

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RFC9460 defines SVCB and HTTPS Resource Records but support is still limited in popular browsers. Tests show that Chrome, Firefox, and Edge support SVCB records but with varying degrees of support for SvcParamKeys.

Show HN: tomcp.org – Turn any URL into an MCP server

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The AI tool connects to a chat server at https://tomcp.org/chat using a POST request with JSON data containing the website URL and message to be asked. It displays free models as enabled, but premium models are disabled until an API key is added for access.

How does a "you interview for US company, we do the work" scam work?

The scammer is offering a fake partnership for employment fraud, where you'd receive a share of the salary without doing any work. They're trying to lure you in with a 50/50 split of the monthly salary after tax.

Living Particle System

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Native ads coming soon to Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange

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Stack Exchange users are strongly opposed to the introduction of native ads that blend in with the site's content, citing concerns about deception, accessibility, and the potential for misleading users. Users are calling for changes to the ad system, including clearer labeling, respect for ignored tags, and community moderation tools to review ads.

Show HN: Jottings; Anti-social microblog for your thoughts

A content platform offers chronological posts, semantic HTML, and full analytics without tracking. It features AI-assisted writing, tag-based feeds, and a clean interface for writers to share content with control.

Meta's New A.I. Superstars Are Chafing Against the Rest of the Company

Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker

Various locale mismatch scenarios in Windows clipboard text format synthesis

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The CF_LOCALE clipboard format does not affect Unicode text copied to the clipboard, but it can cause mojibake when reading 8-bit ANSI text with a different code page. The activeCodePage feature introduced a problem with the Ansi­To­Oem conversion when programs choose different code pages, leading to unexpected results in test programs.

You are dating an ecosystem

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The digital world influences relationships, changing the person you wake up next to. Your own feed shapes you in ways you don't notice, creating opinions and emotions you never thought through.

I couldn't find a logging library that worked for my library, so I made one

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The author of Fedify, an ActivityPub server framework, created LogTape to address logging issues in libraries. LogTape provides hierarchical categories and implicit contexts for fine-grained control over logging, making it suitable for libraries that want to stay unobtrusive.

Notes on Gamma

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The author discusses how gamma correction affects digital color and how it's necessary to use sRGB image formats for Vulkan swapchains to display linear gradients correctly. To achieve a perceptually linear gradient, the sRGB gamma transform must be undone using the inverse_srgb_oetf function.

Why more American seniors are getting high

Marijuana use among seniors has increased significantly, with one in ten now using it, compared to one in 300 in 2007. This age group has seen the fastest rise in cannabis use.

The Beauty of Dissonance

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Classical music has always included both harmony and dissonance, with composers like Bach and Mozart using dissonance to create tension and resolution. The 20th century saw a period of atonality, but eventually, the compositional world loosened up, allowing composers to write in various styles and express themselves freely.

Censorship in Western Academia and the War in Ukraine

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Academic freedom and open debate are eroding in Western institutions, as seen in the suspension of a panel on forced mobilization in Ukraine. The decision was made without consulting the panelists, questioning their academic integrity and expertise.

Show HN: Search the lyrics of 500 HÖR Berlin techno sets

HÖR Berlin is an online music platform with a prototype search engine for 500 YouTube videos. The site uses auto-generated subtitles with potential errors, especially for non-English languages.