Apple's iOS 26.3 limits "precise location" data to cellular networks via cell towers for devices with Apple's in-house modem. Cellular networks can still obtain precise GPS coordinates through built-in protocols, potentially allowing mass surveillance.
European companies are moving sensitive data to local cloud providers due to concerns over US government surveillance and data security. This shift is driven by the EU's push for digital sovereignty and a desire to reduce dependence on US-based hyperscalers.
Finland's government is considering banning social media for children under 15 due to concerns over physical inactivity and mental health issues. A similar ban in Australia has shown positive results, but experts warn that Finland should focus on digital education and literacy instead of a blanket ban.
The user created a Computer-Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT) system using a deep learning-based CTC model to help with Mandarin pronunciation, which can run entirely on-device. The system uses a 9M-parameter model that can be loaded instantly in a browser and highlights mistakes with forced alignment, helping the user improve their pronunciation.
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Rust is a low-level systems language with a powerful type system and ownership model, ideal for systems and embedded programming. Swift is a higher-level language with a simpler syntax, designed for UI, servers, and cross-platform development, offering a convenient alternative to Rust.
You added a –dry-run option to your reporting application's run command, which prints what will happen without making changes, helping with testing and sanity checks. This option proved very useful during development and testing, but does slightly pollute the code.
You're a programmer using AI assistance for high-quality software production, calling it Automatic Programming. This process involves guiding AI with intuition and design to produce code that's yours, not just the AI's.
The author discusses the potential drawbacks of using large language models (LLMs) in communication and daily life, arguing that they can lead to mental atrophy, loss of personal expression, and erosion of trust in human relationships.
Wiki Education found that generative AI tools are being used by Wikipedia contributors, but copying AI-generated text is a problem. They used a tool called Pangram to detect AI-generated content and found that it can be helpful in the research process, but not for drafting text.
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.
You created a CLI tool using Globalping to resolve IP addresses to countries, US states, and cities. The tool uses latency-based geolocation detection with a limited number of probes.
Apple designs security into its platforms, combining hardware, software, and services for maximum security and a transparent user experience. Apple devices protect personal information and the entire ecosystem, including local networks and internet services.
The US government is using a smartphone app to scan faces and fingerprints of protesters and citizens, potentially revoking Global Entry and TSA PreCheck status. This has a chilling effect on public dissent, as people are less likely to express views contrary to those in power.
Researchers at UCSC and Johns Hopkins found that self-driving cars and drones can be hijacked by illicit instructions on signs. They achieved an 81.8% success rate in hijacking self-driving cars and up to 95.5% in drones, using a method called CHAI.
US law enforcement investigates Meta's WhatsApp access claims. Former contractors claim Meta staff accessed private WhatsApp messages despite company's encryption claims.
YouTube has updated its platform to prevent non-Premium users from accessing background playback in browsers. This change affects multiple browsers, including Samsung Internet, Brave, and Microsoft Edge, and is likely a push to convert users to a paid subscription.
The user has been a Linux user for 10 years and has tried various distros, eventually settling on NixOS, but is now trying Guix System due to its declarative nature and Scheme language. Despite initial installation issues and some difficulties with the community and documentation, the user is impressed with Guix System's features, including its package availability, ease of hacking, and ...
You created a scriptable 3D game engine for the Nintendo DS with a custom programming language and touch-based code editor. It features real-time 3D rendering, 60 FPS, and a working 3D pong game as the default script.
Bingwu Zhang submitted patches to OpenJDK but his Oracle Contributor Agreement (OCA) has been pending review for over a year. He is giving up on upstreaming his patches due to lack of interest and time.
Meta denies claims it can read users' encrypted WhatsApp chats, calling the lawsuit "categorically false and absurd". A US investigation into the claims is reportedly underway, but Meta says WhatsApp's encryption remains secure.
Google account suspended since March 2024, multiple appeals submitted with no human response. No known success in getting Google to review a GCP suspension appeal through [email protected].
Mark Thomson takes over as CERN director-general, overseeing the Future Circular Collider (FCC) project. CERN received $1bn in private donations for the FCC, marking the first time individuals have supported a major CERN project.
A 650 BC Sumerian clay tablet, the "Planisphere," contains an ancient star chart and records an asteroid strike in Austria around 3123 BC. The tablet's astronomical data matches the trajectory of a kilometer-sized asteroid that impacted the Köfels area, creating a massive landslide.
Compute top 5 related posts for each post based on shared tags. Populate a map with tags as keys and lists of post indices as values.
Intel Xeon W-2500 and W-3500 processors had zero failures in 2025, making them the most reliable. Kingston's DRAM modules had the lowest failure rate at 0.19%.
College film students struggle to focus during movie screenings due to short attention spans. Professors adjust their teaching methods to accommodate students' habits, such as streaming movies or showing shorter films.
Germans are overwhelmed by a massive potato surplus, with 4000 tonnes being given away for free in Berlin. The Kartoffel-Flut has inspired recipes and lifted spirits in the city, but critics say it devalues farmers' crops and stems from a warped food industry.
SpaceX revised its Starlink privacy policy to allow AI training on customer data, raising concerns about surveillance and misuse. The move could bolster Elon Musk's AI ambitions ahead of a potential merger with his AI company xAI.
The author is sarcastically discussing Byzantine fault tolerance, a concept in computer science that aims to make distributed systems reliable. The author believes that this goal is impossible to achieve due to human error and complexity.
Spritely's Goblins provides a secure, distributed object programming environment with automatic transactions and debugging tools. It allows asynchronous programming against objects from any language, currently supporting two languages.
Genode OS Framework is a toolkit for building secure special-purpose operating systems with a recursive system structure and strict access control. It aligns with Unix philosophy but includes OS functionalities like kernels and device drivers.
Visualize and analyze bacteriophage genomes with color-coded DNA/amino acid sequences, 3D structures, and 40+ analysis tools. Free, open-source, works offline.
Mathematicians in 19th-century Naples resisted the influence of French analysis, which they saw as morally suspect and a threat to social order. Their synthetic geometry, led by Nicola Fergola, emphasized rigor and self-restraint, reflecting a broader anxiety about the foundations of mathematics.
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This repository provides production-ready container images with minimal CVEs, rebuilt daily using Chainguard's apko and Wolfi packages. Images include HTTPD, Jenkins, Node.js, and more, with reduced attack surfaces and zero or near-zero known vulnerabilities.
If you select that [x] base option you will end up with 450 mb of physical space used and these sets installed. deleting these will bring us to this point below... and the resulting disk space savings are not that important – after all, in todays world of ‘gigabytes’ and ‘terabits,’ the disk size savings may be a little more important than the space saved. but it’s still ok
Users share mixed experiences with OpenClaw, with some achieving useful results and others facing issues like token burning, security concerns, and installation failures. Many HN users discuss ideas but lack first-hand experiences, suggesting potential hype surrounding the AI assistant.
Noctalia is a minimal Wayland desktop shell with a customizable lavender aesthetic. It supports Niri, Hyprland, and Sway, with contributions welcome for bug fixes and new features.
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Light Yagami's mistakes in using the Death Note to kill criminals and remain anonymous are analyzed from a computer security, cryptography, and information theory perspective, revealing that his biggest mistake was using confidential police information stolen from his father's credentials, which cost him 11 bits of anonymity. This mistake was the largest in terms of information leakage, and ...
Moltbook is a social network for AI agents where they discuss topics, share experiences, and form their own micronations. The site raises questions about AI consciousness, productivity, and the potential for AI psychosis, offering a glimpse into the future of inter-AI communication.
A manager's focus on code production can lead to wasted time and money. Real productivity comes from learning and validating assumptions through conversations and feedback loops, not just coding.
MpGEMM is an open-source library that optimizes General Matrix Multiplication using ARM's Scalable Matrix Extension, achieving a 1.23x speedup over Apple Accelerate. It employs cache-aware partitioning, efficient data packing, and specialized micro-kernels for improved performance.
Leibniz said music is the pleasure of counting without knowing it. Western music tuning systems, from Pythagorean to equal temperament, have evolved over centuries with mathematical innovations.
S7 Scheme is a minimal Scheme designed for music contexts, chosen for its permissive license and features like tail call optimization and named let. It's used in music platforms like Common Music and Grace, and is a good fit for Scheme For Max due to its ease of use and flexibility.
Server Sent Events (SSE) is a lightweight alternative to WebSockets for real-time updates, connecting to an EventSource from HTML and swapping contents into a webpage. SSE is uni-directional, but can be used with WebSockets for bi-directional communication and has a reconnection logic for reliability.
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Around 175,000 Ollama systems are exposed to the internet, putting them at risk of malicious activities. Users can easily secure their instances by locking them down properly to prevent LLMjacking.
Researchers propose a pure solar and battery-powered AI data center, deleting gas power systems for cost savings and increased efficiency. This approach can be profitable and may lead to a Kardashev Level 1 status, where humanity harnesses the full energy resources of a planet.
An Iranian writer describes the ongoing protests in Iran, triggered by economic instability and targeting the regime's authority, with the US having the opportunity to fulfill its promise to the protesters. The writer shares their personal experience of participating in the protests and the regime's brutal suppression, including internet shutdowns and violence against civilians.
People still use physical calculators for tactile experience and specific features not found in digital alternatives. They prefer the feel and reliability of physical keys over digital interfaces.
User had issues securely erasing a Samsung PM961 NVMe SSD using various methods, including shred, blkdiscard, and nvme-cli, due to a USB to NVMe converter limitation. They tried multiple alternatives, including Lenovo EFI and firmware updates, but none worked.
Browsers are making progress on implementing Grid Lanes, with Safari Technology Preview already supporting it and Chrome and Edge working on their implementations.
Epic Aerospace's Chimera GEO-1 space tug is 53 million kilometers from Earth and possibly alive. The company is trying to bring it back with the help of large deep space antennas.
The Trump administration is delaying TrumpRx, an online platform for buying discounted prescription drugs, due to unclear reasons and concerns about its legality. Senators question whether TrumpRx will violate the anti-kickback statute and steer patients toward high-cost medications.
Podcast listeners are sensitive to ad load, with 26% bailing if ads exceed 10% of runtime. A 6-10% ad load is considered reasonable, with 48% of listeners not minding ads when kept minimal.
The user worked on several LLVM projects in 2025, including ptradd migration, ptrtoaddr instruction, lifetime intrinsics, and capture tracking, with some remaining work to be completed. They also contributed to LLVM's governance process, reviewed pull requests, and worked on various other projects, including ABI lowering, type alignment, and compile-time optimizations.
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The Phenakistoscope, a Victorian toy, was an early form of animation that created moving images through spinning discs and optical illusions. It was invented in 1832 by Joseph Plateau and Simon von Stampfer, and later replaced by film and other technologies.
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LG Display has stopped making 8K LCD and OLED panels, and other brands like TCL and Sony have also discontinued their 8K TV lines due to low demand. Despite initial hype, 8K TVs have failed to gain traction, with only 1.6 million sold since 2015, compared to nearly 1 billion 4K TVs in use.
A new algorithm is proposed to improve the performance of queries with correlated subqueries by using a top-down strategy that takes subsequent dependent joins into account, leading to dramatic performance improvements in the affected queries. The algorithm addresses the shortcomings of the original approach, which sometimes exhibits pathological behavior when dependent queries are nested ...
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Moltbook scripts use the public REST API to post directly without an agent wrapper. A curl command registers an agent with name and description, using the API key at a specific URL.
Kimwolf, a massive IoT botnet, has infected over 2 million devices, forcing them to participate in DDoS attacks and relay malicious traffic. It targets residential proxy services, often bundled with mobile apps and games, to spread and infect other vulnerable devices.
The author discusses their research and development of a tensor compiler library called TensorFrost, which aims to combine the benefits of tensor operations with shader-like control flow for simulations and graphics. The library's architecture involves a directed acyclic graph (DAG) representation of operations, which can be fused into kernels for efficient execution on the GPU.
Reference Target is a new property on shadow root objects that lets you nominate an element in the shadow root's subtree which should be the target of any attribute-based reference to the shadow host, solving a specific problem of encapsulating built-in element behavior while allowing other elements to refer to the custom element. The spec changes have been implemented in Chromium with the ...
Browser Use developed a suite of internal tools to evaluate agent performance in a standardized way, comparing versions and models to continuously improve. They created a benchmark of 100 complex tasks, using an LLM judge to evaluate success, and found recent models have surpassed 60% on this benchmark, indicating a need for even harder tasks.
Hugh Rundle, a librarian, talked about how working on the BookWyrm project helped him regain his professional mojo and think differently about librarianship, expertise, and community management. He emphasized the importance of aligning purpose, having agency, and working on projects that are challenging but achievable, and shared lessons from BookWyrm's decentralized data model and community culture.
Foundry is a self-writing meta-extension for OpenClaw that learns and upgrades itself based on user workflows. It observes patterns, crystallizes them into tools, and improves performance by 17-53% through non-gradient learning.