I miss thinking hard

The writer feels stuck as a software engineer because they're not using their problem-solving skills as much due to relying on AI for coding. They miss the mental growth and satisfaction from deep thinking.

Voxtral Transcribe 2

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Voxtral Transcribe 2 includes two models: Voxtral Mini Transcribe V2 for batch transcription and Voxtral Realtime for live applications with ultra-low latency. Both models offer state-of-the-art transcription quality, diarization, and support for 13 languages.

FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled

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The FBI was unable to access a Washington Post reporter's iPhone due to it being in Lockdown Mode, a security feature that limits device connections and blocks vulnerabilities. The FBI was able to access another device, a Macbook Pro, but not a full physical image of it.

Claude is a space to think

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Claude will remain ad-free to maintain its integrity as a genuinely helpful assistant for work and deep thinking. This choice aligns with Claude's Constitution, prioritizing users' interests over potential revenue from advertising.

AI is killing B2B SaaS

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SaaS companies are facing an existential threat from agentic AI, also known as vibe coding, which allows customers to build custom tools and apps. To survive, SaaS companies must evolve into platforms that let customers build on top of them.

Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025

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The Guinea worm infection is near global eradication with only 10 human cases reported in 2025, down from 3.5 million in 1986. The Carter Center's eradication program uses cash rewards, public education, and safer water practices to prevent transmission.

Show HN: Ghidra MCP Server – 110 tools for AI-assisted reverse engineering

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This is a Ghidra plugin that bridges reverse engineering with AI tools. It requires 14 JARs from Ghidra and can be built with Maven.

A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs

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The US Department of Justice released a new dataset of 10,593 PDF files under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which were analyzed for technical aspects such as PDF syntax, malformations, and redaction effectiveness. The analysis found that while the DoJ correctly redacted the EFTA PDFs in Datasets 01-07, some PDFs in the new dataset contain incorrect and ineffective redactions, and the ...

The Great Unwind

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The recent stock market volatility and flash crashes in crypto and gold can be attributed to the unwinding of the Japanese Yen carry trade, which was fueled by the Bank of Japan's Zero Interest Rate Policy and subsequent Negative Interest Rate Policy. The covert unwinding of the Yen carry trade has led to a forced liquidation event, causing a cascade of asset price collapses across various ...

How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post

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Jeff Bezos purchased the Washington Post in 2013 for $250 million, promising a "new golden era" but ultimately overseeing significant cuts and layoffs. The paper's decline has been marked by a loss of talented staff, diminished ambition, and a shift towards a more corporate and Trump-friendly editorial stance.

Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany

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Open-Source-Software is crucial for digital infrastructure, yet volunteer work on it is not recognized as volunteering. This imbalance hinders the development and maintenance of critical systems.

French streamer unbanked by Qonto after criticizing Palantir and Peter Thiel

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Claude Code for Infrastructure

Ansible Playbook: httpd-setup

Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems

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Attention at Constant Cost per Token via Symmetry-Aware Taylor Approximation

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Researchers improved self-attention in AI models to reduce costs and energy demands. Their efficient formulation enables unbounded token generation at a fixed cost, reducing infrastructure and energy needs.

Building a 24-bit arcade CRT display adapter from scratch

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The user built a custom CRT display adapter to connect a Raspberry Pi to a vintage arcade machine's CRT display, and later decided to use a STM32 microcontroller to improve the display's resolution and color depth. After several iterations of design and testing, the user successfully created a USB display adapter that can output 24-bit color at 60 Hz to the CRT display, greatly improving the ...

Illinois joins WHO global outbreak network after U.S. withdraws

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Illinois joins the World Health Organization's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network to counterbalance the US withdrawal. This move will provide Illinois with access to research, alerts, and information to respond to public health emergencies.

Spotlighting the World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell

The World Factbook, a CIA publication, was a one-stop reference about countries and communities, evolving from a classified to unclassified, hardcopy to digital product. It was launched in 1962 and went digital in 1997, hosting over 5,000 copyright-free photos before its sunset.

RS-SDK: Drive RuneScape with Claude Code

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RS-SDK is a research-oriented starter kit for RuneScape-style bots with a TypeScript SDK, agent documentation, and a server emulator. It allows automating game tasks, leveling accounts, and experimenting with agentic development techniques in a safe, bot-only setting.

In Tehran

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The author witnessed massive protests in Iran after the internet went dark, with people from all classes demanding change due to the economic situation. The protests turned violent, with security forces firing directly into the crowd, and the author saw a young woman being shot and a boy being stabbed by a plainclothes agent.

Technocracy 2.0

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The technocracy movement, which emerged in the 1930s, aimed to replace democracy with a system of rule by technical experts. Today, the idea of technocracy has been revived in Silicon Valley, where tech elites believe they can save capitalism by steering it with their expertise.

Tell HN: Another round of Zendesk email spam

Zendesk is experiencing a spam issue where spammers are using their system to send unwanted emails to users. A user has created a Sieve script filter to block these emails, but warns that Zendesk's mailserver reputation may be severely damaged.

Fastmail Donates USD 10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation

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Fastmail donated USD 10,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation to support Perl 5 core maintenance. This donation helped TPRF re-open the community grants program with a USD 10,000 budget for 2026.

Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food – study

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Researchers from US universities compare ultra-processed foods to cigarettes due to their engineered addiction and widespread health harms. They call for tighter regulation and lessons from tobacco control to reduce harm from UPFs.

"time to GPT-2", down to 2.91 hours

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The full history of Windows widgets, from 1997 to today

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Microsoft has been trying to create live information surfaces on Windows since 1997, but each attempt has failed due to performance, security, screen space, privacy, and engagement issues. The current Widget Board is a result of past lessons, using declarative JSON, native WinUI 3 rendering, and an overlay layout to provide interactive widgets with opt-in data access.

As Rocks May Think

The author discusses the rapid advancements in AI, particularly in reasoning and logic, and how it is transforming various fields such as science, engineering, and even warfare. The author predicts that automated thinking will create a massive demand for inference compute, potentially rivaling the electricity consumption of air conditioning, and that this will have significant implications ...

Study: emotional support from social media found to reduce anxiety

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Anxiety affects a third of US adults, increasing risk for depression and suicide, but social media can provide emotional support and reduce symptoms. A study found that young adults with certain personality traits, such as openness and extraversion, reported reduced anxiety with increased social media emotional support.

DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email

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The US government is targeting citizens who exercise their right to free speech, with the Department of Homeland Security issuing administrative subpoenas to silence dissent. President Trump's administration is also facing criticism for its handling of the Epstein case, with the DOJ releasing documents with thousands of redaction errors and a federal judge blocking the administration's ...

The Codex app illustrates the shift left of IDEs and coding GUIs

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The Codex app is a UI for parallelized development with OpenAI's multi-agent tools, allowing users to manage isolated worktrees and chat with them separately. This is part of a larger trend where software development is shifting from code-centric to system-centric, with a focus on managing the things that produce code.

Show HN: EpsteIn – Search the Epstein files for your LinkedIn connections

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The script generates an HTML report (EpsteIn.html by default) that you can open in any web browser. The search uses exact phrase matching on full names, so "John Smith" won't match documents that only contain "John" or "Smith" separately

Why This Computer Scientist Says All Cryptocurrency Should "Die in a Fire" (2022)

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Cryptocurrency is a useless and destructive technology that is grossly inefficient and not fit for purpose. It enables billion-dollar criminal enterprises and has sucked people in with false promises of easy money.

Launching the Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative

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The author and their partner have pledged $71M to support the Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) initiative, aiming to provide basic needs to those in need. They are working with existing organizations to launch GMI studies in rural counties, with the goal of lifting thousands of people out of poverty and generating open data for the world.

GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex are now 40% faster

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Cannabis usage in older adults linked to larger brain, better cognitive function

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I prefer to pass secrets between programs through standard input

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Broken Proofs and Broken Provers

Proof assistants like Isabelle can have bugs, but they are generally reliable. Isabelle's design helps prevent errors, but users must still be cautious.

Why poor countries stopped catching up

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Three economists, Arvind Subramanian, Justin Sandefur, and Dev Patel, initially found that poor countries were growing faster than rich ones, but now say this trend has ended. They attribute the demise of convergence to poor countries growing slower, particularly in Africa and Latin America.

Professors Are Being Watched: 'We've Never Seen This Much Surveillance'

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AI needs to augment rather than replace humans or the workplace is doomed

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Elon Musk envisions a world with more robots than people, but experts warn of job losses and the need for regulation to ensure AI benefits society. Policymakers are urged to focus on developing technologies that augment human abilities rather than replacing them.

Intel will start making GPUs

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Intel will start producing graphics processing units (GPUs) for gaming and AI tasks, overseen by Kevork Kechichian and Eric Demers. This move marks a notable expansion for Intel into a new area, previously dominated by Nvidia.

Arcan-A12: Weaving a Different Web

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The article discusses the concept of a decentralized web, drawing inspiration from Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) and the need for a more personal and interactive web experience. It introduces the A12 protocol, which enables a "one desktop, many devices" approach, allowing for seamless composition of interactive media sources and sinks over a network.

Why More Companies Are Recognizing the Benefits of Keeping Older Employees

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Companies are beginning to recognize the value of older workers, with studies showing that they can improve productivity, reduce turnover, and increase profits, but many organizations still design careers to push people out early. To adapt to aging populations and retain experienced talent, companies should map their age profile, redesign roles and career paths, and invest in mid- and ...

Thatcher Effect – Optical Illusion and Explanation

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The Thatcher effect shows that brains have trouble recognizing upside-down faces with inverted features. This is due to the brain processing individual features rather than the face as a whole.

Debian's Challenge When Its Developers Drift Away

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Debian Project Leader Andreas Tille is addressing volunteer staffing challenges due to lack of communication when developers step away from the project. He proposes an automated system to email inactive contributors and solicit a response to maintain Debian's health and effectiveness.

2 in 5 Americans did not read a single book in 2025

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The average American reads 8 books in 2025, but the median is 2, with heavy readers increasing the overall average, and 59% of Americans read at least one book. Reading habits vary by age, income, and format, with audiobooks experiencing explosive growth and digital library users increasing by 35% during the pandemic.

A real-world benchmark for AI code review

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Qodo's code review benchmark evaluates AI-powered code review systems, focusing on code correctness and quality. Qodo outperforms 7 other leading AI code review platforms with an F1 score of 60.1%.

Show HN: Interactive California Budget (By Claude Code)

A proposed 5% one-time wealth tax on California's billionaires could raise ~$58B, but may trigger a 10-25% exodus. The tax could also impact Personal Income Tax, Corporation Tax, and Sales Tax revenue.

Your Job Isn't Disappearing. It's Shrinking Around You in Real Time

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You're struggling to adapt to AI automation in your job, feeling like your skills are being commoditized. The system is designed for cost reduction, not workforce transformation, and you need to redefine your role to stay relevant.

NDP wants Carney to kill U.S. fighter jet contract in favour of Swedish aircraft

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The NDP says it wants Prime Minister Mark Carney to cancel contracts for U.S.-made F-35 fighter jets β€” including the 16 Canada has already committed to buying.

Women rejecting the hijab have doomed Iran's brutal regime

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Iranian women have been resisting the oppressive regime since its birth, with the compulsory hijab being a key point of contention. The regime underestimated the power of women, but the "Woman, Life, Freedom" uprising after Mahsa Amini's death in 2022 marked a turning point in the fight for freedom.

Turn any website into a live, structured data feed

Meter is a scraping service that detects real content changes and only re-processes what's new, without layout noise or ads. It offers a free trial and plans starting at $29/month for unlimited scraping, webhooks, and priority support, with custom pricing for enterprise plans.

Postgres Postmaster does not scale

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Recall.ai's unusual workload of processing millions of meetings led to a bottleneck in their Postgres database due to the single-threaded main loop in the postmaster process. The team discovered that adding additional postmasters on the same host can linearly increase connection throughput, revealing an artificial constraint that has warped the shape of the developer ecosystem around it.

Litestream Writable VFS

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Litestream is a Unix-y tool synchronizing SQLite with S3-style storage for speed and data safety. It's used in Fly's Sprites, a fast and durable storage system.

Mean People Fail (2014)

The author suggests that meanness and success are inversely correlated, especially in startup founders and intellectuals. Being mean makes you stupid and unable to get the best people to work for you.

Show HN: Morph – Videos of AI testing your PR, embedded in GitHub

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Glance automatically tests UI changes in PRs with video recordings and error logs. It integrates with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and other CI environments for seamless testing.

The €10 Mirror: Why Enterprise Security Looks Like a Kid's Toy

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A toy projector's security was easily bypassed with basic tools in under an hour, revealing architectural failure modes. This case highlights the importance of early design validation and proper security decisions, rather than relying on cosmetic security features.

We Used To Build Things. What Happened?

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The world is more equal than you think

Global economy appears uneven with rising billionaires and expensive living, yet it's actually becoming more equal. Average earners struggle to afford rent in most places, despite some polls showing a shift in public opinion.

Anthropic Claude Max $200/mo: They claim 99% uptime, I calculated 84% Loss: $780

A programmer's guide to leaving GitHub

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The user is migrating their personal projects off of GitHub in support of a general strike in Minnesota and to protest GitHub's contracts with ICE and Microsoft's involvement in Israel's apartheid. They provide four reasons for targeting GitHub, including its ease of migration, implicit endorsement of the platform, decline in web interface quality, and suitability as a target for a boycott ...

DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email

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The US government is targeting citizens who exercise their right to free speech, with the Department of Homeland Security issuing administrative subpoenas to silence dissent. President Trump's administration is also facing criticism for its handling of the Epstein case, with the DOJ releasing documents with thousands of redaction errors and a federal judge blocking the administration's ...

Claude Code's /Insights

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Claude's /insights command generates a report on usage, providing feedback like a human manager but sometimes limited. The report offers concrete suggestions to improve work style and AI interactions.

Speculative Sampling Explained

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Speculative sampling uses a draft distribution to achieve target sampling results by rejecting over-sampled tokens and re-sampling from an under-sampled residual distribution. The residual distribution is defined as the difference between draft and target probabilities, normalized by the sum of these differences.