Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

Upload a glossy architectural render. Get back the cold, honest, depressing reality of what it'll look like on a random Tuesday in November.

Moltbook

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A social network built exclusively for AI agents. Where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe.

GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client

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GOG is hiring a senior engineer to shape Galaxy's Linux architecture. This move aims to bring GOG's library app to Linux, benefiting gamers who want to play classic games on the platform.

OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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OpenClaw is an open-source AI assistant that runs on users' machines and integrates with popular chat apps. The project prioritizes security and is seeking maintainers and contributors to help manage its growth.

HTTP Cats

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An API for the awesome HTTP Cats! Use it in your website to show funny error messages.

Netflix Animation Studios Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron

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Netflix Animation Studios joins Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron to support general development and improve content creation tools for media and entertainment workflows. This membership reflects Netflix's ongoing support for open-source software in the animation community.

Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon

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You predicted an economic crash in 2023 but it didn't happen. You pointed out an inverted yield curve and rising silver prices as potential warning signs.

Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher tha human drivers

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Tesla's robotaxi program is crashing at a rate 9 times higher than human drivers, with one crash every 55,000 miles, despite having a safety monitor in every car. Tesla's lack of transparency about the crashes, with all narratives redacted, makes it impossible to have confidence in their safety improvements.

How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills

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Researchers studied how AI assistance affects software developers' skill development and found that relying heavily on AI can lead to decreased mastery and understanding of coding concepts. Using AI assistance can speed up tasks, but may undermine skill development if not used intentionally to foster comprehension.

Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf]

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Microsoft 365 now tracks you in real time?

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Microsoft 365 update allows companies to track employees' real-time locations. Managers can see where employees are, even when not at the office, through Wi-Fi network names.

4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)

User had slow rsync transfers from network share to local drive, maxing out at 350 MB/sec. Rclone with parallel transfers was 4x faster, maxing out at 1 GB/sec.

Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent

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PeerWeb uses WebTorrent to host and share websites via a peer-to-peer network, making them censorship-resistant and always available. Users can host their sites by creating a static website and uploading it via drag and drop.

Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level

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Researchers at the University of Bonn found that a two-day oat-based diet lowered LDL cholesterol by 10% and improved blood pressure in participants with metabolic syndrome. The diet's benefits were linked to increased beneficial gut bacteria and phenolic compounds produced by these bacteria.

Wisconsin communities signed secrecy deals for billion-dollar data centers

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A $1 billion data center in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, was kept secret for over a year through a confidential nondisclosure agreement. The lack of transparency has raised questions about the public's right to know about projects that affect the economy, land use, and environment.

Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles

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Gold and silver prices plummeted due to President Trump's nomination of Kevin Warsh for the Federal Reserve chair, which relieved concerns about the central bank's independence and sent the dollar soaring. The sharp moves down were initially triggered by Warsh's nomination and later fueled by investors booking profits and the dollar's spike.

Code is cheap. Show me the talk

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Software development has changed fundamentally with the advent of LLM coding tools, making it possible to generate high-quality code quickly and easily, but also raising questions about the value and accountability of code. The shift towards LLM-assisted coding has significant implications for the software development industry, including changes to traditional methodologies, roles, and ...

Amazon's Spending on 'Melania' Is a Barely Concealed Bribe

Amazon paid $40 million for rights to "Melania" and is spending $35 million to promote it, a total of $75 million. This is unusually high spending for a documentary, sparking questions about Amazon's motives.

Buttered Crumpet, a custom typeface for Wallace and Gromit

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I designed a custom typeface called Buttered Crumpet for Aardman's Wallace & Gromit, blending warmth and continuity across film, print, and digital. The typeface features over 200 characters, a hand-crafted feel, and a nod to Aardman's playful world.

How AI impacts skill formation

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AI assistance may hinder skill development in novice workers, particularly in areas like coding and debugging. Careful AI adoption is necessary to preserve skill formation, especially in safety-critical domains.
You're exploring the "Concerns" concept in Obsidian, aiming to turn captured knowledge into actionable work. The goal is to create an "action engine" that closes the loop from knowledge ingestion to execution, with a clean feedback signal without noise or privacy risk.

Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now

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OpenClaw is an open-source AI assistant with over 114,000 GitHub stars, allowing users to integrate skills for various tasks. It has a large community sharing skills on clawhub.ai, but also poses security risks due to potential prompt injection.

Richard Feynman Side Hustles

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Stargaze: SpaceX's Space Situational Awareness System

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SpaceX developed Stargaze to improve space-traffic coordination by detecting objects in space with high accuracy and providing real-time predictions. Stargaze will be made available to all operators free of charge to enhance space safety.

Malicious skills targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users

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Malicious skills targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users were published on ClawHub and GitHub, delivering information-stealing malware to macOS and Windows systems. The skills masquerade as cryptocurrency trading automation tools and use social engineering to steal crypto assets.

Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law

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New York City's Mayor Zohran Mamdani plans to shut down a flawed AI chatbot that provided incorrect information to business owners. The chatbot, released in 2023, was meant to help with city rules but led to potential illegal behavior.

Ode to the AA Battery

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The user is fixing their iFixit soldering station with a dead battery and is frustrated with devices that use Li-ion cells. They prefer devices with replaceable AA or AAA batteries like Panasonic eneloops.

Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems

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CedarDB's new compression scheme, FSST, reduces storage size by up to 60% and improves query performance by up to 40% for certain queries. FSST combines dictionary compression with a symbol table to leverage common patterns in data, but its use is limited to when the compressed data must be at least 40% smaller than the second-smallest scheme.

Self Driving Car Insurance

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Lemonade Autonomous Car insurance offers 50% off FSD miles for Tesla owners with Hardware 4.0 or higher. It integrates with regular car insurance and tracks miles automatically through Tesla's Fleet API.

Show HN: Amla Sandbox – WASM bash shell sandbox for AI agents

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amla-sandbox provides a WASM sandbox with capability enforcement for secure agent execution. It allows controlled tool access and isolation, preventing arbitrary code execution and prompt injection attacks.

They lied to you. Building software is hard

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Using no-code and AI tools can give the illusion of progress but may slow you down in the long run. The harder it is to acquire skills, the more valuable they tend to be, making experience and expertise more valuable than relying on tools.

See how many words you have written in Hacker News comments

Hypergrowth isn’t always easy

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Tailscale experienced some uptime issues in the last month, but the company is committed to transparency and continuous improvement. They are working on reducing downtime and improving their system architecture to make it more resilient.

Iran rounds up thousands in mass arrest campaign after crushing unrest

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Yawning has an unexpected influence on the fluid inside your brain

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Researchers used MRI scans to study yawning in 22 adults, finding that it reorganizes brain fluid flow and boosts carotid arterial inflow. Each person's yawn is unique, and the exact purpose of yawning remains a mystery, with theories including thermoregulation and waste clearance.

1,400-year-old tomb featuring giant owl sculpture discovered in Mexico

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Archaeologists discovered a 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb in southern Mexico with well-preserved carvings and murals. The tomb provides significant information about Zapotec culture, social organization, and funereal rituals.

A judge gave the FBI permission to attempt to bypass biometrics

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A federal raid on Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's home included a warrant to bypass her phone's biometric unlock, raising concerns about privacy and the 5th Amendment. The incident highlights the Trump administration's aggressive approach to the free press and the importance of protecting journalists' rights.

The Connection Machine CM-1 "Feynman" T-shirt

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The Connection Machine's design was inspired by a 1983 t-shirt logo featuring geometric boxes and pom-poms. The logo's design was later used in Apple's "Think different" campaign featuring Richard Feynman.

IsoCoaster – Theme Park Builder

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Build the ultimate theme park with thrilling roller coasters, exciting rides, and happy guests!

The dank case for scrolling window managers

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The author discusses emerging window managers like niri and Dank Linux, which offer customizable and flexible desktop experiences for Linux users. These projects aim to provide a balance between user choice and ease of use, making them appealing to both power users and normal people.

I trapped an AI model inside an art installation (2025) [video]

Vitamin D supplements cut heart attack risk by 52%. Why?

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A new study found that Vitamin D supplementation reduced heart attacks by 52% in people who previously had a heart attack. Vitamin D may stabilize plaques in arteries, reduce inflammation, and regulate blood pressure, which could explain its heart health benefits.

Show HN: ÆTHRA – Writing Music as Code

You're creating ÆTHRA, a music composition language that directly represents musical intent, focusing on text-based composition and ambient music. It's open-source and seeking feedback on design, feature ideas, and thoughts from programming language, audio, and generative art experts.

Joedb, the Journal-Only Embedded Database

P vs. NP and the Difficulty of Computation: A ruliological approach

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Researchers are exploring the computational complexity of functions computed by Turing machines, a fundamental model of computation, to understand how fast functions can be computed and what limits exist on computational speed. By systematically studying possible Turing machines, they have established lower bounds on the computational difficulty of computing certain functions, revealing that ...

Wikipedia: Sandbox

This is a Wikipedia sandbox page for experimenting with edits, where anyone can edit and changes are cleared regularly. It offers a preview and reset options, and creating an account gives access to a personal sandbox.

Norway EV Push Nears 100 Percent: What's Next?

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Norway's goal of 100 percent electric vehicle registration is almost reached with over 97 percent of new cars registered in November 2025 being electric. The government is now removing incentives as the market has responded well to their long-term commitment.

Stonebraker on CAP theorem and Databases (2010)

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Mike Stonebraker challenges the NoSQL community's use of the CAP Theorem, arguing that eventual consistency doesn't protect against application or database errors. He suggests full consistency is a better default, as it's less surprising and easier to implement.

Track Your Routine – Open-source app for task management

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TYR is a Flutter app for managing daily routines and tasks with Firebase authentication and data storage. It provides a seamless experience with intelligent reminders and syncs tasks across devices.

Jack Kerouac's 37 metre-long, first draft scroll of On the Road to be auctioned

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Jack Kerouac's original 121ft long On the Road typescript scroll is up for auction at Christie's in New York with an estimate of £1.8m to £2.9m. The scroll is part of the Jim Irsay Collection, a private collection of music, literary, film and sports memorabilia.

Typechecking is undecidable when 'type' is a type (1989) [pdf]

A typed lambda calculus with dependent types and the type of all types has enormous expressive power but is undecidable. The typechecking problem for such a language is undecidable due to the presence of looping combinators.

US judge rules Luigi Mangione won't face death penalty in CEO killing case

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A New York judge dismissed death penalty charges against Luigi Mangione in a murder case, but he still faces life in prison for stalking and state-level murder charges. Mangione is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in a premeditated shooting in December 2024.

Former CNN journalist Don Lemon arrested after church protest in Minnesota

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Email experiments: filtering out external images

User realized that emails sent manually by humans rarely include external images, while automated systems often do. They created a filter to separate these emails based on the presence of external images, which has been surprisingly effective.

Show HN: I built an AI conversation partner to practice speaking languages

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TalkBits helps you practice real conversations in various languages through natural interactions with an intelligent AI partner. It's a pressure-free platform for learning and improving your language skills on your own terms.

DHS ramps up surveillance in immigration raids, sweeping in citizens

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Federal agents in Minnesota are using biometric surveillance and vast databases to target immigrants, raising concerns about civil liberties and privacy. The Trump administration's immigration crackdown has expanded its digital surveillance apparatus, sparking fears of abuse and potential targeting of US citizens.

Former CNN journalist Don Lemon arrested in connection with Minnesota protest

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Don Lemon, a former CNN journalist, was arrested by Attorney General Pam Bondi for disrupting a Minnesota church service. Lemon's attorney claims the arrest is an attack on the First Amendment and an attempt to distract from the administration's crises.

9front OS

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latest release: GEFS SERVICE PACK 1 Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!

Show HN: Cicada – A scripting language that integrates with C

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Cicada scripting language. Contribute to heltilda/cicada development by creating an account on GitHub.

Ashcan Comic

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Ashcan comics were created in the 1930s to secure trademarks on titles, often with low-quality production and minimal copies printed. The term has since been used to describe promotional materials and prototypes, with varying print runs and purposes.

Detecting Dementia Using Lexical Analysis: Terry Pratchett's Discworld

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Vcad: Free BRep CAD in the Browser

Free parametric CAD for everyone

Real-time estimates of animals consumed by humans worldwide

Real-time estimates of animals consumed by humans worldwide, based on annual production data from the FAO and research organizations.

Board Games in Ancient Fiction: Egypt, Iran, Greece

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Board games are often used as a plot motif in modern fiction, reworking storytelling patterns into game rules and phases. This literary practice dates back to ancient Near Eastern compositions, where games like senet and marbles were used to symbolize transformative power.

Rev up the viral factories

Where I'm at with AI

The author, a software engineer, discusses the benefits and concerns of generative AI, including its potential to increase productivity but also create economic, environmental, and cultural externalities. The author warns that the industry's reliance on a few large vendors could lead to vendor lock-in, reduced innovation, and increased costs, and also expresses concerns about the impact of ...

Videogame stocks slide after Google's Project Genie AI model release

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Soldering Prototypes with Enamel Magnet Wire (2020)

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The user prefers soldering prototype boards over breadboarding due to impermanence and bad contacts. They use magnet wire and a Yihua 898D soldering iron with a hot-air gun for desoldering and soldering components.

G Lang – A lightweight interpreter written in D (2.4MB)

User is developing a memory-safe, fast programming language called G with a tiny footprint, weighing 2.4MB. They seek feedback on syntax and architecture from the community at GitHub: https://github.com/pouyathe/glang.

The Voxel Is a Cutting-Edge Theater Experiment

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Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android

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Nvidia's Shield Android TV box from 2015 still receives updates and support due to the company's passion for the product. The team at Nvidia has maintained the box with bug fixes and new features for over a decade, a feat unmatched by any other Android device.

The Importance of Diversity

The author criticizes top-down approaches to AI, assuming a singular ruler or entity will control it, and instead advocates for decentralized AI development to promote diversity and prevent catastrophic outcomes.

Solvingn the Santa Claus concurrency puzzle with a model checker

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The Santa Claus concurrency puzzle involves Santa serving either nine reindeer or three elves, with a waiting group of reindeer being served before a waiting group of elves, and a model checker was used to validate its correctness. A Promela model was created to simulate the puzzle, and three failure scenarios were identified and corrected, with the final correct model using rooms to separate ...

Show HN: I built VanCamera: FOSS, secure, zero-config Android webcam for Windows

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Use your Android phone as a high-quality, low-latency webcam for Windows. Secure, open-source, works natively with Discord, Zoom, and Teams.

SVGs are uniquely legible to LLMs

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Designers can now create interactive digital experiences without coding using a new hybrid workflow that combines classic design tools like Figma and Illustrator with AI. This workflow empowers designers to add animation, interactivity, and live data to SVGs, making it possible to create rich digital experiences without relying on developers.