Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn

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The writer's train from Cologne to Meckenheim was delayed and took a detour due to issues around Bonn. The train continued to Troisdorf, then Neuwied, and eventually passed by the writer's father waiting at the station.

Google is dead. Where do we go now?

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Revenue down 50% in 3 months despite increased Google Ads budget and efforts to diversify on TikTok, Instagram, and physical advertising. Considering alternative income sources through website and IOT project building.

GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder

Michał Kiciński has acquired GOG from CD PROJEKT, keeping its mission to preserve classic games and provide freedom to players. GOG will remain independent, DRM-free, and committed to its values of freedom, independence, and control.

You can make up HTML tags

Browsers treat unrecognized HTML tags as generic elements with CSS effects. Custom tags with hyphens won't appear in future HTML versions.

Show HN: Z80-μLM, a 'Conversational AI' That Fits in 40KB

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Z80-μLM is a conversational AI that runs on a 1976 Z80 processor with 64kb of ram, generating short character-by-character sequences with personality. It uses quantization-aware training and 2-bit weights to run efficiently on the 8-bit CPU.

List of domains censored by German ISPs

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Tesla's 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%

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Tesla's 4680 battery supply chain has been severely impacted with a major supplier L&F Co. slashing its contract value by over 99%. This suggests Tesla's Cybertruck, the only vehicle using 4680 cells, is in serious trouble with low demand.

Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code

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The user created a digital bookshelf using AI tool Claude, cataloging 460 books with 90% accuracy and customizing the UI to resemble a physical bookshelf. Through trial and error, the user learned to balance perfection with practicality, deleting unnecessary features and trusting Claude's suggestions to create a functional and visually appealing digital bookshelf.

You can't design software you don't work on

Generic software design advice is mostly useless for practical problems due to its lack of understanding of the concrete system details. It's useful for brand-new projects and tie-breaking decisions, but not for existing systems where consistency and concrete factors dominate.

Staying ahead of censors in 2025

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Tor's anti-censorship team has been working to keep users connected in regions with intense internet censorship, adapting tools like Snowflake and Conjure to stay ahead of censors. The team is preparing for future censorship events by improving WebTunnel and rolling out Conjure, and encourages users to help by running their own Snowflake or WebTunnel bridges.

Rich Hickey: Thanks AI

All Delisted Steam Games

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This page gives you direct access to all 1,038 delisted Steam titles on the site. Below each title are the companies it relates to. An * in the title denotes a placeholder page that contains basic details.

Libgodc: Write Go Programs for Sega Dreamcast

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The Go runtime is modified for the Dreamcast's single-core SH-4 CPU and 16MB RAM. It provides garbage collection, goroutines, channels, and core runtime functions for the console.

Nvidia takes $5B stake in Intel under September agreement

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Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM

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Device makers are dropping SIM slots in favor of embedded SIMs, or eSIMs, which take up less space and allow multiple SIMs to be stored and swapped in software. However, eSIMs are prone to glitches and can leave users locked out of their accounts, highlighting the need for alternative authentication methods.

Linux DAW: Help Linux musicians to quickly and easily find the tools they need

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Quality audio software for Linux Audio Production such as LV2, VST2, VST3, and CLAP effects, synthesizers and sampler plugins.

LLMs Are Not Fun

The author started programming for precision and solitude but found joy in mentoring colleagues and guiding teams. Using LLMs for projects is efficient but lacks the personal satisfaction of hands-on work and human connection.

Huge Binaries

You experienced issues with PhD publications claiming problems didn't exist despite observing them in industry. Large binaries are a problem in mega-codebases due to static builds and relocation barriers.

Show HN: My not-for-profit search engine with no ads, no AI, & all DDG bangs

No AI, no ads, just search.

UK accounting body to halt remote exams amid AI cheating

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The ACCA will stop allowing remote exams for students in March due to rising cheating cases. Cheating has become a major issue with the help of AI tools, making it difficult for the ACCA to police online tests.

Feynman's Hughes Lectures: 950 pages of notes

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These are personal notes from lectures by Richard Feynman from 1966 to 1971, covering topics like astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology. The notes provide insight into Feynman's thought process and ability to explain complex subjects.

Static Allocation with Zig

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The author is implementing a Redis-compatible key/value server called kv in Zig, focusing on static memory allocation during initialization to improve performance and stability. The server allocates memory for connections, parsing, and storage upfront, using a combination of memory pools and a custom hash map to manage key/value pairs.

Panoramas of Star Trek Sets

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My First Meshtastic Network

The author set up Meshtastic radios to create a mesh network without cell towers, using low-power LoRa devices that relay messages. They successfully extended the network's range by upgrading antennas and adding relay nodes, discovering a local community of enthusiasts in the Chicagoland area.

EU to build no-fee payments service like Visa/Mastercard and Apple/Google Pay

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It’s January 1, 2029, the first day of the digital euro. You are in a shop buying milk and bread, and decide to pay with this new money. How exactly will it work? If you have a bank account, the digital euro will sit inside its app on your phone. The cost of the bread and milk can be taken out of your digital-euro wallet, which is separate from your regular bank account. You don’t have a bank?

ManusAI Joins Meta

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Manus has developed a general-purpose AI agent that processes vast amounts of data and powers virtual computers. The company joins Meta to build on a stronger foundation and expand its subscription service to businesses and users worldwide.

Meta's ads tools started switching out top-performing ads with AI-generated ones

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Meta's AI tools are generating strange ads, causing issues for advertisers like True Classic and Kirruna. Advertisers are finding it difficult to control AI-driven ads, leading to wasted budgets and damaged relationships with customers.

A production bug that made me care about undefined behavior

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The user encountered a bug in a C++ codebase where a struct's fields were not initialized properly due to the default initialization rule, leading to undefined behavior. The user learned that the C++ standard has intricate rules for default initialization, which can be complex and prone to errors, and that using third-party tools like Address Sanitizer or clang-tidy can help detect such issues.

My app just won best iOS Japanese learning tool of 2025 award (blog)

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The user discusses the best tools for learning Japanese in 2025, including Game Sentence Miner, Manabi Reader, Migaku, and Jiten, which offer features such as dictionary lookup, flashcard creation, and video player integration. The user also mentions other tools like Anki, Yomitan, and Kiku, which are used for language learning and vocabulary building, and highlights the importance of ...

Show HN: See what readers who loved your favorite book/author also loved to read

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Every book is from a reader's top 3 picks for 2025. Vote for your 3 favorite reads.

When someone says they hate your product

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When receiving negative feedback, resist the urge to push back and instead listen, show ownership, and thank the person for sharing their thoughts. This approach can diffuse tension and make criticism less effective.

Asking Gemini 3 to generate Brainfuck code results in an infinite loop

Brainf*ck's minimalistic nature makes it a challenging test for Large Language Models (LLMs) due to lack of training data and repetitive structures. This results in LLMs often falling into infinite loops due to self-referential patterns.

AI employees don't pay taxes

The author sees AI's limitations as a green flag, indicating the system is working as intended, and raises concerns about the economic impact of replacing human workers with AI. The author argues that relying on AI could lead to a massive shortfall in public revenue, crumbling infrastructure, and a heavier tax burden on remaining workers.

CIA Star Gate Project: An Overview (1993) [pdf]

Self-hosting is being enshittified

Self-hosting is becoming increasingly difficult due to rising hardware costs and unreliable software. The trade-off for control and flexibility is constant challenges and potential software changes or failures.

Binance's Trust Wallet extension hacked; users lose $7M

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Trust Wallet Chrome extension was compromised in a supply chain attack, resulting in $7 million in losses. Binance will reimburse users who lost funds due to the attack.

Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything

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Ensure is a persistent knowledge tree that grows with user input, allowing for compound knowledge and contextual understanding. It can be enabled in read-only mode by setting ENSUE_READONLY=true.

AI is forcing us to write good code

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To effectively use agentic coders, establish strict guardrails through 100% code coverage, thoughtful directory structure, and automated quality checks. This setup removes degrees of freedom from the LLM, making it more reliable and efficient.

The future of software development is software developers

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A 43-year computer programmer shares their experience with technology cycles that claim to replace programmers, but ultimately don't. They argue that the hard part of programming is turning human thinking into precise computational thinking, which AI models currently can't do.

Fast GPU Interconnect over Radio

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Two startups, Point2 and AttoTude, are developing radio-based interconnects to replace copper cables in data centers.

Private equity is killing private ownership: first it was housing, now it's PCs

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John Simpson: 'I've reported on 40 wars but I've never seen a year like 2025'

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Russia's invasion of Ukraine and China's plans to take over Taiwan pose significant threats to global stability, with the risk of a world war escalating due to the weakening of the Western alliance. The year 2026 may be crucial in determining the outcome of these conflicts, with President Putin potentially gaining more control over Ukraine and China's Xi Jinping making a move on Taiwan.

Five Years of Tinygrad

The company tinygrad has been working on a sovereign software stack for AI since October 2020, with a team of 6 people and a codebase of 18,935 lines. It aims to compete with NVIDIA by focusing on software, not hardware, and has made significant progress in outperforming PyTorch on many workloads.

Kubernetes egress control with squid proxy

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The user implemented a simple egress control solution using Squid proxy and a NetworkPolicy in Kubernetes to enforce explicit HTTP/HTTPS egress control and logging. This approach provides visibility and security for outbound traffic without requiring heavy machinery, making it suitable for simple deployments and compliance requirements.

I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year

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The author replaced their Google ecosystem with a private setup using Proton, NordVPN, Notion, and other EU-hosted tools, saving over 528 euros a year. This migration improved their user experience and data sovereignty.

Why I think Valve’s retiring the Steam Deck LCD

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Valve has discontinued the Steam Deck LCD model, but the Steam Deck itself remains a capable gaming device for at least four more years. The move likely aims to create a pricing anchor for the OLED model, making the Steam Machine and Frame seem more palatable to gamers.

USPS announces changes to the postmark date system

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The USPS adopted a rule clarifying postmarks and their relation to the date of mailing. The rule states that a postmark does not necessarily indicate the date the USPS first accepted a mail piece.

Stranger Things creator says turn off "garbage" settings

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Ross Duffer advised viewers to turn off TV settings like dynamic contrast, noise reduction, and truemotion to watch Stranger Things season 5 as intended. He stressed preserving the director's vision by disabling features that alter the original look of the content.

Parsing Advances

The user is implementing a parser following the Resilient LL Parsing Tutorial to produce a syntax tree and diagnostics. They found a solution to prevent infinite loops by asserting the parser advances as expected.

US Confirms Strike on 'Big Facility' Inside Venezuela

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Ask HN: Loneliness at 19, how to cope?

You're a lonely college student struggling to form lasting connections, feeling like it's your fault due to self-doubt about appearance, humor, and intelligence. You're seeking human connection and companionship.

Market design can feed the poor

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Feeding America's old system wasted food due to misallocation and duplication. A new market-driven system increased food supply by 100 million pounds annually.

Why the Internet Is Bad for Democracy (2005)

Which Humans? (2023)

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Geology of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary

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USGS studies the geology and oceanography of the Farallones area to support sound management decisions for environmental issues. USGS maps and interprets sonar signals to locate and assess hazardous waste containers in the marine environment.

Left Behind: Futurist Fetishists, Prepping and the Abandonment of Earth (2019)

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The Left Behind series and prepper culture reflect a fascination with end-of-world scenarios, with some individuals and groups preparing for disasters through technological means and others embracing a nihilistic view that welcomes global collapse. This phenomenon is linked to the technocratic elite's focus on space exploration and colonization, which may be driven by a fatalistic view that ...

Show HN: Evidex – AI Clinical Search (RAG over PubMed/OpenAlex and SOAP Notes)

Evidex - Evidence-Based Medicine Platform for Medical Education. Free literature search, clinical calculators, and AI-powered tools for medical students and residents.

NextDNS is my new favourite DNS service (2020)

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The user was looking for a DNS service that blocks trackers at the DNS level and is accessible on mobile devices. They found NextDNS, which meets their requirements and provides customizable filtering, logs, and statistics.

Obelisk 0.32: Cancellation, WebAPI, Postgres

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Obelisk 0.32 introduces cooperative cancellation, PostgreSQL support, and a new WebAPI. It enables multi-node deployments, high availability, and all-or-nothing semantics.

Musk's DOGE Failed to Slash Government Spending, It Led to a 6% Increase

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Elon Musk's DOGE agency reduced the federal workforce by 9% in 2025, cutting over 270,000 positions. However, federal spending rose by nearly 6% to $7.558 trillion, failing to meet Musk's goal of saving trillions.

FBI Response to Minnesota Fraud Allegations

Are We Ready to Be Governed by Artificial Intelligence?

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AI technologies are transforming democratic government, affecting lives in ways both large and small, often without notice or consent. The challenge is to ensure AI is used to decentralize power, empower individuals, and strengthen democracy rather than concentrating authority.

Show HN: Per-instance TSP Solver with No Pre-training (1.66% gap on d1291)

A Deep Learning solver using PPO learned from scratch to achieve a 1.66% gap on TSPLIB d1291 in 5.6 hours. The solver uses an inductive bias based on exception edges to guide the learning process without pre-training.

Lead-Free Organic–Inorganic Halobismuthate for Large Piezoelectric Effect