I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers

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The user thanks ArchWiki maintainers for their contributions to software freedom and documentation, highlighting its usefulness in understanding technology. They encourage others to appreciate and support the maintainers through donations.

EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear

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The European Commission adopted new measures to prevent unsold apparel destruction, cutting waste and emissions. Companies must disclose unsold products and ban destruction by 2027, with derogations for safety reasons.

Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state

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Amazon's Ring ad sparked a backlash over its "Search Party" feature, which links cameras to form a neighborhood-wide surveillance dragnet. The incident highlights growing concerns over the US surveillance state and the erosion of individual privacy.

I fixed Windows native development

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The user describes the issues with using Visual Studio on Windows, including lengthy installations, registry pollution, and lack of transparency, and proposes a solution called msvcup, a CLI tool that installs the MSVC toolchain and SDK in a few minutes. msvcup is a versioned, isolated, and declarative dependency that allows for reproducible builds across machines and eliminates the need for ...

I’m joining OpenAI

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Joining OpenAI to bring AI agents to everyone, OpenClaw will stay open and independent through a foundation. I'm excited to join OpenAI and continue building with the community, focusing on making AI accessible to all.

Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library

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Oat is a lightweight, zero-dependency UI library for building web applications with semantic HTML and minimal JavaScript. It's designed for simplicity and customization, with a focus on standards-based UI and minimal bloat.

Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega's consoles, has died

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Hideki Sato, the designer behind Sega consoles, has died at 77. He led the creation of Sega's arcade and home console hardware, including the Master System, Genesis, Saturn, and Dreamcast.

Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved

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Flashpoint Archive preserves over 200,000 games and animations from the web, aiming to prevent their loss to time. The non-profit project relies on community contributors and donations to further its goal of preserving internet history and culture.

LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop

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You're working on a PC6502 project with a tower of PCBs on your sofa. You've made progress with keyboard integration, compact flash, and display functionality.

NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed

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NewPipe offers a YouTube-like experience without ads and questionable permissions. It's a free, open-source app that supports the goal of a more free and open internet.

Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015

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Old code was often verbose and used multiple style blocks, whereas modern code is concise and uses features like CSS variables, transitions, and media queries. Modern code also tends to use fewer JavaScript libraries and more native functionality.

Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars from New York City's Public Hospitals

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New York City's public hospital system pays Palantir $4 million to improve billing efficiency. Critics argue Palantir's involvement puts patients' data at risk due to its role in ICE deportations and Israeli military actions.

Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface

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Discord is enforcing age verification globally, using a third-party service called Persona, which has ties to Peter Thiel's Palantir and ICE-approved surveillance. Users are being prompted for age verification, with Discord stating it's a "limited test" and data will be stored for seven days.

Palantir vs. the "Republik": US analytics firm takes magazine to court

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Palantir is suing Swiss online magazine Republik for factual comparison in two reports. The company claims it was unfairly treated by the reporting, which came at an inopportune time for Palantir's business interests.

Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format

A new file format called Gwtar is introduced to solve the problem of archiving large HTML pages, which is difficult because it needs to be static, single, and efficient. Gwtar achieves all three properties by using a combination of HTML, JavaScript, and a tarball to store assets, allowing for lazy-loading and selective downloading of assets.

Two different tricks for fast LLM inference

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Anthropic and OpenAI have introduced "fast mode" for their coding models, but with different approaches. Anthropic's fast mode offers up to 2.5x tokens per second by lowering batch sizes, while OpenAI's fast mode uses Cerebras chips for 15x faster inference.

Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations

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Ars Technica published fabricated AI-generated quotations attributed to a source without permission, violating their standards and policy. The incident appears isolated, but the publication regrets the failure and apologized to readers and the falsely quoted individual.

Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship

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Magnus Carlsen won the 2026 FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship with a 2.5-1.5 match victory over Fabiano Caruana. Carlsen secured his 21st world title across formats.

Show HN: Microgpt is a GPT you can visualize in the browser

A model generates names by learning from training data, using attention heads and multilayer perceptrons to focus on input aspects and relationships. It uses gradient descent and entropy to adjust weights, allowing it to learn patterns and generate names with varying levels of complexity.

State Attorneys General Want to Tie Online Access to ID

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A coalition of 40 state attorneys general supports the Senate's Kids Online Safety Act, urging Congress to adopt it over the House version due to its stronger regulatory framework. The Act would require online platforms to verify users' real-world identities and mitigate harms to minors, raising constitutional concerns about anonymous speech and identity checks.

Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice

Show HN: Knock-Knock.net – Visualizing the bots knocking on my server's door

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Knock-knock.net visualizes bot traffic on the internet as "background radiation." It shows real-time bot activity and historic stats on attempted usernames and passwords.

Ex-Tech –> Homeless in SF

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The author is recounting a 6-month journey through psychosis, homelessness, and navigating the US systems, while constructing a story called the Sanctuary of the Silent Star. They reflect on their experiences in shelters, interactions with authorities, and moments of resilience.

Reversed engineered game Starflight (1986)

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The game Starflight, published by Binary Systems in the 80s, is a sandbox game that allows players to explore the galaxy, engage in combat, and interact with aliens, with a broader plot emerging as the player discovers an ancient threat. The game's code is written in Forth, a minimalist language with a simple syntax, which makes it unique and challenging to reverse engineer, but also allows ...

AI is going to kill app subscriptions

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App cloning is becoming easier and cheaper due to AI tools like Claude, making subscription pricing less viable for local apps. This shift benefits users but poses challenges for developers trying to make a living from apps.

Guitars of the USSR and the Jolana Special in Azerbaijani Music (2012)

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The author bought an "Orpheus" electric guitar in Bulgaria for $20 and became obsessed with Eastern Bloc guitars, collecting several models including a Tonika and a Ural Tonika.

Towards Autonomous Mathematics Research

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Researchers introduced Aletheia, a math research agent that generates, verifies, and revises solutions in natural language. Aletheia demonstrated capabilities from Olympiad problems to PhD-level exercises and achieved milestones in AI-assisted mathematics research.

1940s Irish sci-fi novel features early mecha and gravity assists

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Irish-language sci-fi book Digitization of Manannán is being made more accessible. Errors in the first chapter are being corrected to reduce mistakes in later chapters.

SCM as a database for the code

DjVu and its connection to Deep Learning (2023)

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DjVu is a superior file format for scanned documents and books due to its efficient compression and ability to capture text and images. It was created by Yann LeCun, Léon Bottou, and Yoshua Bengio, who also developed Deep Learning, and has features like wavelet compression and arithmetic coding.

Kimi Claw

Deploy OpenClaw in seconds via Kimi. Build a 24/7 AI assistant with long-term memory and personality that proactively executes scheduled tasks. Experience the power of Kimi Claw now.

Show HN: VOOG – Moog-style polyphonic synthesizer in Python with tkinter GUI

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A Moog-style polyphonic synthesizer is built in Python with a tkinter GUI inspired by the Subsequent 37. It supports MIDI controllers for real-time parameter control.

GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor

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Pies is a utility that starts and controls external programs, restarting them if they terminate. It can be configured to perform various actions upon termination, including sending mail notifications.

Pocketblue – Fedora Atomic for mobile devices

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This is a work-in-progress. During the installation process all data on your device will be wiped. Use at your own risk.

An Enslaved Gardener Transformed the Pecan into a Cash Crop

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Antoine's grafting innovation led to the development of a commercial pecan industry in the US, transforming the crop into a cash crop. His work paved the way for the Centennial variety of pecan, catapulting the industry into profitability across the South.

Court orders Acer and Asus to stop selling PCs in Germany over H.265 patents

Acer and ASUS have been ordered to stop selling PCs in Germany due to a patent dispute with Nokia over H.265 video coding patents. They plan to challenge the decision and are examining further legal action to reach a fair solution.

Seeing Theory

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Seeing Theory was created by Daniel Kunin while an undergraduate at Brown University. The goal of this website is to make statistics more accessible through interactive visualizations (designed using Mike Bostock’s JavaScript library D3.js). We are currently working on a textbook for Seeing Theory. Download a draft of our pdf below. You can provide feedback on our writing here.

Error payloads in Zig

Error payloads in Zig are handled using union(enum)-based Diagnostics types with special methods for code bloat reduction. The withContext method is used to set a payload while returning an error, and diag.call is used to call functions with error handling and payload copying.

A Pokémon of a Different Color

The owner of this website (matthew.verive.me) has banned the autonomous system number (ASN) your IP address is in (8075) from accessing this website.

Show HN: Pangolin: Open-source identity-based VPN (Twingate/Zscaler alternative)

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Pangolin is an open-source identity-based remote access platform combining VPN and reverse proxy capabilities for secure connectivity. It offers zero-trust security, granular access control, and a free tier for personal and hobbyist use.

No Coding Before 10am

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A startup scrapped their playbook due to Claude Code and Codex issues and rebuilt it to focus on AI agents doing the work, with engineers ensuring agents' success. Their new playbook emphasizes building for agents, maximizing agent utilization, and optimizing for comprehensibility and time.

Show HN: Klaw.sh – Kubernetes for AI agents

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Klaw is an open-source platform for deploying and managing AI agents at scale. It allows users to orchestrate intelligent agents that can code, research, communicate, and automate tasks.

Inner-Platform Effect

The inner-platform effect occurs when software developers create a system that replicates the functionality of the platform they are using, often inefficiently and as an anti-pattern. This can happen in various areas such as plugin-based software, database design, and XML usage, leading to poor performance and maintainability.

Why I don't think AGI is imminent

The current transformer-based large language models (LLMs) lack the cognitive primitives that humans take for granted, such as object permanence, causality, and spatial reasoning, due to their feed-forward architecture and lack of embodied experience. Researchers are exploring alternative architectures, such as neurosymbolic AI and bidirectional neural networks, and simulated environments to ...

Show HN: Lightwave – Real-time notes app, 3.5 years of hand-rolled JavaScript

User built a solo project, Lightwave, a text editor with structure, using Laravel, MySQL, Redis, and custom JavaScript. It's a pre-release stress test, open to feedback, with known rough edges and fixes shipped in real time.

Continuous batching from first principles (2025)

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Continuous batching is a technique used in LLM serving systems to maximize performance by processing multiple conversations in parallel and swapping them out when they are done. It combines ragged batching, which allows mixing prefill and decode phases in the same batch without padding, with dynamic scheduling to eliminate padding waste and keep the GPU fully utilized.

Dutch Defence Secretary Boldly Claims F-35 Software Could Be 'Jailbroken'

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Dutch Defence Minister Gijs Tuinman claims F-35 software independence is possible, comparing it to 'jailbreaking' an iPhone. He believes third-party operators could alter the software without permission in a worst-case scenario.

With Apple: Fortify your app: Essential strategies to strengthen security

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Apple Developer Center offers an all-day online activity to bolster app security, teaching users how to protect data with tools like Memory Integrity Enforcement and Swift's inherent safety. The activity covers various security topics, including memory safety vulnerabilities and control flow integrity.

The Dark Side of the Enlightenment

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The book "The Killing Age" by Clifton Crais focuses on mass killing and environmental destruction under capitalism, but excludes similar violence under anti-capitalist regimes. This selective approach promotes a kind of learned ignorance and reinforces Western guilt narratives.

Under the current DTC model, investors do not directly own their securities

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Millions of Americans risk losing retirement savings in a financial crash due to a little-known legal change that centralizes ownership of securities. The Depository Trust Company, created by Wall Street and banks, allows institutions to seize customer assets during a crisis.

Linear Representations and Superposition

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Researchers are working to understand the inner workings of large language models through mechanistic interpretability, with concepts like the linear representation hypothesis and superposition providing valuable frameworks for interpretation. These frameworks suggest that concepts have linear representations and can be superimposed in higher-dimensional spaces, allowing models to capture the ...

Show HN: DSCI – Dead Simple CI

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Forgejo uses YAMLess pipelines for CICD and a single runner to install infra on a single server, controlled by Bash/Python. It's a small, fast, and secure setup suitable for VPS/self hosting with limited infra capabilities.

Show HN: Perlin Noise Terminal Animation in Rust (60 FPS, Truecolor)

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Perlin-terminal is a terminal animation tool that renders smooth gradients using half-block characters. It offers various themes and customization options for noise and speed.

I need AI that scans every PR and issue and de-dupes

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Scientists observe a 300M-year-old brain rhythm in several animal species

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