Backing up Spotify

1954 vitplister 2025-12-20 18:28:41 UTC annas-archive.li Llama Share 682

Anna's Archive released a 300TB music archive with 256 million tracks and 186 million unique ISRCs, representing 99.6% of listens. The archive is open and can be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space, aiming to preserve humanity's musical heritage.

Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files

1547 lukeigel 2025-12-20 21:00:05 UTC jmail.world Full Share 359

You are logged into [email protected], Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.

Go ahead, self-host Postgres

675 pavel_lishin 2025-12-20 15:43:15 UTC pierce.dev Llama Share 396

The author argues that self-hosting a database is a viable option, especially with the rising costs of managed services like AWS RDS. They claim that the performance difference between self-hosting and managed services is minimal, and that self-hosting offers more control and flexibility.

Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud

516 saubeidl 2025-12-20 08:36:52 UTC theregister.com Llama Share 495

Airbus is seeking a digitally sovereign European cloud provider for mission-critical workloads with an 80/20 chance of finding a suitable one. The contract, worth over €50 million, aims for long-term price predictability and European control over sensitive information.

NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power

488 lpage 2025-12-20 07:39:26 UTC lists.nanog.org Llama Share 209

NIST's Boulder campus lost power due to high winds and utility shutdowns, affecting atomic time scale and internet time services. Standby power generators are failing, causing disruptions to time distribution services.

Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does

455 ybceo 2025-12-20 06:21:05 UTC servury.com Llama Share 289

The term "privacy" is often abused in tech, implying protection of user data when in reality it's possession that's the vulnerability. True anonymity requires an architectural decision to not collect user data, making it impossible to compromise users even with a warrant.

Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates

426 a1k0n 2025-12-20 16:45:48 UTC a1k0n.net GoogleT5 Share 73

A few days before the tt8 deadline, i submitted two designs to the competition. the first was based on ripping art and music, the second was an audio donut - both of which failed to make it into the final cut despite being simulated in verilog vs. tinytapeout 8 is now available for pre-order from efabless.cc/tt8/devices/.

Over 40% of deceased drivers in vehicle crashes test positive for THC: Study

344 bookofjoe 2025-12-20 16:07:24 UTC facs.org Llama Share 497

A new study found that over 40% of drivers who died in crashes tested positive for THC, with average blood levels far exceeding impairment thresholds. The rate of THC positivity remained unchanged after recreational cannabis legalization in Ohio.

Charles Proxy

331 handfuloflight 2025-12-20 06:09:17 UTC charlesproxy.com Llama Share 119

Charles proxy software has released several updates with UI improvements, bug fixes, and new features including dark mode support, TLS debugging, and Brotli compression.

OpenSCAD is kinda neat

323 c0nsumer 2025-12-20 17:45:48 UTC nuxx.net Llama Share 251

You created a basic battery holder design in Autodesk Fusion and recreated it in OpenSCAD to learn the basics of the new tool. The OpenSCAD code allows for customizable battery holders with adjustable parameters.

Claude in Chrome

314 ianrahman 2025-12-20 21:26:14 UTC claude.com Llama Share 191

Developers can use Claude Code to build and test in Chrome, enabling faster iteration on browser-based projects. Use Claude with caution, pre-approving actions and supervising it closely to avoid security risks.

Programming languages used for music

313 ofalkaed 2025-12-20 18:40:45 UTC timthompson.com Llama Share 104

Various music notation and composition languages exist, including AC Toolbox, AML, MARS, CAL, CLM, Cmix, CMN, CM, and others, each with unique features and capabilities. These languages enable algorithmic composition, real-time processing, and interactive music creation, often with support for MIDI, sound synthesis, and visual interfaces.

Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN

310 hubraumhugo 2025-12-20 13:39:47 UTC hn-wrapped.kadoa.com Full Share 153

Not affiliated with Y Combinator or Hacker News. All data is deleted within 30 days.

Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title

308 1659447091 2025-12-20 19:56:47 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 124

Diarmuid Early, known as the "LeBron James of Excel spreadsheets," won the 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championships with a $60,000 prize. He defeated triple-world champion Andrew Ngai in the final and plans to use his skills in his financial business.

The entire New Yorker archive is now digitized

307 thm 2025-12-20 14:49:39 UTC newyorker.com Llama Share 45

The New Yorker's full archive is now available online with over 100,000 articles from 4,000 issues. The expanded archive includes classic pieces by notable writers and allows for easier searching and discovery.

Skills Officially Comes to Codex

301 rochansinha 2025-12-20 08:09:17 UTC developers.openai.com Llama Share 130

Codex skills are task-specific capabilities that extend Codex with instructions, resources, and scripts. They can be shared across teams or the community and are built on the open Agent Skills standard.

Big GPUs don't need big PCs

284 mikece 2025-12-20 17:49:18 UTC jeffgeerling.com Llama Share 122

The author tested various GPUs on a Raspberry Pi 5 and a modern desktop PC, finding that the Pi can match or beat the PC's performance in some cases, especially in efficiency. The Pi's efficiency is due to its lower power consumption, often 20-30W lower than the PC.

Reflections on AI at the End of 2025

241 danielfalbo 2025-12-20 09:38:51 UTC antirez.com Llama Share 362

Researchers now widely accept Chain of Thought (CoT) improves LLM output through internal search and reinforcement learning. CoT may lead to significant AI advancements, potentially reaching AGI without new paradigms, and is a key factor in LLMs' growing capabilities.

Why do people leave comments on OpenBenches?

232 sedboyz 2025-12-20 16:08:17 UTC shkspr.mobi Llama Share 26

The OpenBenches project is a crowd-sourced repository of memorial benches with 39,000 catalogued worldwide, allowing users to share connections and express feelings through comments. Comments on the site are used for various purposes, including sharing personal connections and expressing emotions.

Android introduces $2-4 install fee and 10–20% cut for US external content links

222 radley 2025-12-20 05:00:55 UTC support.google.com Llama Share 203

Developers must enroll in the external content links program by January 28, 2026, to link users to external content. They must meet eligibility criteria and comply with program requirements, including reporting transactions and providing customer support.

The Deviancy Signal: Having "Nothing to Hide" Is a Threat to Us All

216 NickForLiberty 2025-12-20 05:24:21 UTC thompson2026.com Llama Share 165

People who say "I have nothing to hide" are actually creating a baseline for the state to analyze and control others. They are making it easier for the state to identify and target those who do have something to hide.

Perfect Software – Software for an Audience of One

206 ggauravr 2025-12-20 07:14:53 UTC outofdesk.netlify.app Llama Share 95

The author seeks "perfect software" that meets individual needs, not just scales or grows. With LLMs, anyone can build such software, regaining autonomy and joy in development.

You have reached the end of the internet (2006)

204 raytopia 2025-12-20 17:10:06 UTC hmpg.net Full Share 63

You have finally reached the end of the internet! There's nothing more to see, no more links to visit. You've done it all. This is the very last page on the very last server at the very far end of the internet. You should now turn off your computer and go do something useful with the rest of your life. * In order to save time, we will now start downloading the internet to your local drive.

Build Your Own React

185 howToTestFE 2025-12-20 00:16:13 UTC pomb.us Llama Share 22

We're building a simplified version of React called Didact, starting from scratch and adding features one by one, focusing on understanding the underlying architecture. Didact will render JSX to the DOM, handle updates and deletions, and support hooks, but will lack some React features and optimizations.

I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)

165 mahirsaid 2025-12-20 18:31:23 UTC apalrd.net Llama Share 356

Implementing IPv6 is necessary to move away from legacy methods and address exhaustion, and it offers advantages such as global routing, no need for NAT or port forwarding, and improved network design. The primary methods of transition are Dual-Stack, SIIT, NAT64, and 464XLAT, with Dual-Stack being the easiest but most difficult to scale, and 464XLAT being a solution with no user-visible downsides.

Immersa: Open-source Web-based 3D Presentation Tool

163 simonpure 2025-12-20 13:38:24 UTC github.com/ertugrulcetin Llama Share 25

Immersa is a 3D presentation tool that creates animated transitions between slides. It allows users to add 3D models and export presentations as .edn files.

Debian adds LoongArch as officially supported architecture

157 cbmuser 2025-12-20 07:47:55 UTC lists.debian.org Llama Share 48

Loong64 has become an official Debian architecture and will be part of Debian 14. Initial bootstrap has started with 112 manually built packages and is expected to take about a week.

What Does a Database for SSDs Look Like?

147 charleshn 2025-12-20 10:13:33 UTC brooker.co.za Llama Share 121

A modern database design for local SSDs should have a cache sized to store pages expected to be accessed in the next 30 seconds for optimal cost and consider transfers to disk not to be much smaller than 32kB on average for optimal throughput. The database should commit transactions to a distributed log for multi-machine multi-AZ durability and use high-quality clocks and knowledge of actual ...

A train-sized tunnel is now carrying electricity under South London

146 zeristor 2025-12-20 08:26:50 UTC ianvisits.co.uk Llama Share 102

A new £1 billion London Power Tunnels 2 project has started, replacing old cables with a 32.5km tunnel network beneath South London. The first 18km circuit is now live, connecting New Cross and Hurst substations with tunnels up to 50 metres deep.

The post-GeForce era: What if Nvidia abandons PC gaming?

135 taubek 2025-12-20 10:25:38 UTC pcworld.com Llama Share 274

Nvidia's gaming division is becoming a minor side hustle as AI initiatives drive 90% of its revenue. Gaming revenue makes up less than 8% of Nvidia's total revenue.

Comptime – C# meta-programming with compile-time code generation and evaluation

134 bj-rn 2025-12-20 20:49:52 UTC github.com/sebastienros Llama Share 62

Comptime is a .NET source generator that executes methods at compile time and serializes results to C# code. It enables compile-time code generation and evaluation, shifting expensive computations from runtime to compile time.

The Polyglot NixOS

133 todsacerdoti 2025-12-20 07:39:00 UTC x86.lol Llama Share 52

A colleague mentioned building NixOS images for multiple architectures. The goal is to create a single disk image that boots on x86_64, ARM AArch64, and RISC-V 64-bit UEFI platforms.

MIRA – An open-source persistent AI entity with memory

130 taylorsatula 2025-12-20 20:50:43 UTC github.com/taylorsatula Llama Share 53

MIRA is a comprehensive digital entity that generates recipes based on user preferences, utilizing asynchronous conversation processing and context window manipulation. It's an open-source project that allows users to extend and customize it with tools and APIs.

Contrails Map

128 schaum 2025-12-20 07:38:57 UTC map.contrails.org Full Share 62

Anatomy of US inequality

94 hhs 2025-12-20 23:43:04 UTC nber.org Llama Share 78

The authors thank Hans-Joachim Voth and David Weil for discussions and acknowledge the views expressed are their own. The paper is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.

Approaching 50 Years of String Theory

91 jjgreen 2025-12-20 13:20:57 UTC math.columbia.edu Llama Share 131

Edward Witten expresses discomfort with the anthropic landscape in string theory, finding it made him unhappy for years. He now accepts it, but critics see this as a refusal to admit string theory's failure and instead repeating outdated hype.

Anthropic: You can't change your Claude account email address

89 behnamoh 2025-12-20 21:21:14 UTC support.claude.com Llama Share 72

Claude account email change is not possible, use a long-term accessible email when creating an account. Cancel paid plans by following steps and confirm with support to avoid charges.

Qntm's Power Tower Toy

83 ravenical 2025-12-20 11:19:21 UTC qntm.org Full Share 25

About Knuth's up-arrow notation · See also Graham's number Back to Things of Interest

The dawn of a world simulator

75 olivercameron 2025-12-20 19:40:02 UTC odyssey.ml Llama Share 50

Researchers are training world models to predict the next observation from large-scale video data, enabling them to learn physics, causality, and persistence. This approach allows for interactive simulations that feel continuous and stateful, supporting richer forms of interaction than traditional simulators.

Prototaxites

66 andsoitis 2025-12-20 00:22:26 UTC astrobiology.com Llama Share 14

Scientists studied Prototaxites, a giant extinct organism, and found it was not a fungus as previously thought. Instead, it belongs to a now extinct terrestrial lineage with unique anatomy and molecular composition.

AI will make our children stupid

65 binning 2025-12-20 19:24:34 UTC thecritic.co.uk Llama Share 93

The author is concerned about the decline in IQs and attention spans due to excessive use of social media and mobile phones. This trend threatens to undermine intelligence and learning, making children reliant on AI for thinking and problem-solving.

The Fisher-Yates shuffle is backward

63 possiblywrong 2025-12-20 14:17:13 UTC possiblywrong.wordpress.com Llama Share 19

The Fisher-Yates shuffle is a standard algorithm for pseudo-randomly permuting elements in a list, but a simpler "forward" version exists that achieves the same uniform distribution. This "forward" version, also known as the "inside-out" Fisher-Yates shuffle, applies the same set of random transpositions in reverse order, resulting in a uniformly distributed permutation.

Proving Bounds for the Randomized MaxCut Approximation Algorithm in Lean4

62 todsacerdoti 2025-12-20 13:16:21 UTC abhamra.com Llama Share 3

The user describes a randomized algorithm for the MaxCut problem, which finds the largest cut in a graph, and proves that the expected size of the output cut satisfies a 1/2 approximation ratio. The user then formalizes this algorithm and proof in the Lean programming language and proof assistant, using techniques such as linearity of expectation and induction to derive the result.

Mathematicians don't care about foundations (2022)

59 scrivanodev 2025-12-20 18:15:48 UTC matteocapucci.wordpress.com Llama Share 33

Mathematicians often work informally despite recent developments in foundations, showing a robustness in mathematics that relies on unspoken mutual understanding. Formality is respected but its meaning is a social construction, allowing mathematicians to choose convenient foundations like ZFC or more expressive alternatives.

Show HN: Claude Code Plugin to play music when waiting on user input

56 Sevii 2025-12-20 16:06:44 UTC github.com/sevii Full Share 15

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TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL queries in React Server components

53 ravenical 2025-12-20 13:54:29 UTC github.com/mmarinovic Llama Share 58

TailwindSQL allows writing SQL queries using Tailwind-style class names in React Server Components. It fetches and renders database data based on class names like db-users-name-where-id-1 or db-products-title-limit-5.

More databases should be single-threaded

52 lawrencechen 2025-12-20 22:12:22 UTC blog.konsti.xyz Llama Share 23

A developer argues that databases should be single-threaded and aggressively sharded to avoid transactional issues and improve scalability.

Space Math Academy

44 dynamicwebpaige 2025-12-20 18:47:23 UTC space-math.academy Full Share 21

Data Bank – Nuforc – Latest UFO Sightings

44 handfuloflight 2025-12-20 06:00:31 UTC nuforc.org Llama Share 25

NUFORC Databank is a 25-year-old UFO sighting report collection with freely available reports to browse. Reports are categorized into TIER 1, 2, and 4 based on sighting characteristics and explanations.

I wrote a code editor in C and now I'm a changed man

39 birdculture 2025-12-20 22:21:29 UTC github.com/thisismars-x Full Share 15

text editor made for me, by me. Contribute to thisismars-x/light development by creating an account on GitHub.

Ask HN: The internet is getting worse every day. How do we fix this?

33 electrodisk 2025-12-20 05:01:13 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 30

The modern internet is often optimized for outrage, addiction, and shallow engagement, driven by greed for money, and users should consider opting out of problematic platforms and services. A "mindful internet" approach, where users deliberately choose what to read and engage with, could help mitigate the negative effects of the current internet landscape.

Here you can find the contents of the Unix v4 tape ready for bootstrapping

32 zdw 2025-12-20 05:17:32 UTC squoze.net Llama Share 2

The UNIX v4 tape contains a tar file of the filesystem, which can be extracted to install the system. To boot the system, load uboot directly from the boot sector using the command 'k unix'.

Show HN: CodinIT, local open-source Lovable alternative (Electron desktop app)

23 Gerome24 2025-12-20 08:54:49 UTC github.com/codinit-dev Llama Share 3

CodinIT.dev is an open-source AI-powered platform for building Node.js applications. It combines code generation, project management, and deployment tools with AI providers like OpenAI and Google.

Show HN: Chart Preview – Preview environments for Helm charts on every PR

22 Olu 2025-12-20 17:23:16 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 9

The user, a software engineer, created Chart Preview to help teams review Helm chart changes without waiting on a bottleneck, by deploying the chart to a real Kubernetes cluster and providing a unique preview URL. Chart Preview is built in Go using the Helm v3 SDK and supports GitHub and GitLab integration, but may not work for cluster-scoped resources or charts with complex dependencies.

Show HN: Fucking Websites

11 kuberwastaken 2025-12-20 20:44:26 UTC afw.kuber.studio Full Share 6

A curated list of websites that just tell you to use the fucking tool. No bloat, just content.