Regulators are pushing social media platforms to verify users' ages, but this creates a technical problem: collecting personal data to prove age. Platforms are using intrusive verification systems that often conflict with data-privacy laws.
Ladybird is rewriting parts in Rust for better safety guarantees and ecosystem support. The first target was LibJS, Ladybird's JavaScript engine, which was translated from C++ in two weeks with zero regressions.
Flock, a $7.5 billion surveillance startup, allows authorities to track people through its nationwide license plate readers. Communities are pushing back against Flock cameras, with vandalism reported in several states and cities rejecting its use.
Brian Lucey, a professor at Trinity College Dublin, was removed as editor from 5 journals after 12 papers he co-authored were retracted due to a conflict of interest. Lucey was accused of running a citation cartel and selling papers through his consultancies, which may have been used to circulate ecosystem funds or consultancy payouts.
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Companies are still using outdated 1950s plastics like EPS, causing environmental harm and commercial burdens. Mushroom Packaging, made from natural mycelium, offers a sustainable alternative that matches EPS's protective qualities and cost.
The user used AI to help port a Linux Wi-Fi driver to FreeBSD, but the process was complicated and messy, so they decided to create a detailed specification of how the driver works and then used the AI to implement it from scratch. The user successfully created a working FreeBSD kernel module for the BCM4350 Wi-Fi chip using the AI, but advises against using it for anything beyond a studying ...
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The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department quietly implemented a surveillance network using Flock Security's automated license plate readers, funded by a private foundation, avoiding public comment. Critics worry the technology could be misused to track undocumented immigrants, dissidents, and others, despite Metro's policy against such use.
The user analyzed 2,671 images of popular websites worldwide using AI to identify web design patterns and found that Japan's web design is relatively unique in its concentration of lighter-colored and denser design. The user explored possible causes including writing systems, cultural differences, and technology, concluding that Japan's web design trajectory has been influenced by its unique ...
Maine's 2002 laptop program initially aimed to increase children's access to information but ultimately led to a decline in cognitive capabilities. Experts now warn that excessive screen time in schools hinders learning and may have long-term consequences for the US.
Tech companies spent billions on AI last year and are expected to spend $700 billion this year, but economists disagree on its impact on the US economy. Some say AI investment drives growth, while others claim its contribution is minimal due to imported equipment and lack of reliable measurement methods.
HN users consistently underestimated the success of various startups, including Dropbox, GitHub, Uber, Airbnb, Stripe, Instacart, Figma, Tailwind CSS, Warp, Bun, ChatGPT, Cursor, Windsurf, and Claude Code, often dismissing them as unviable or too complex. Despite initial skepticism, these startups went on to achieve significant success, with some reaching valuations of over $100 billion and ...
PgDog is a PostgreSQL proxy that supports connection pooling, load balancing, and sharding, written in Rust for high performance and security. It can manage thousands of connections on commodity hardware and supports various deployment methods, including AWS RDS.
The user argues that the Web and Internet can be decentralized and controlled by individuals and cooperatives, rather than large corporations, by using simpler software and technologies like Markdown and static website generators. By leveraging the abundance of computers and resources, individuals can create their own private networks and connect to the public Internet, mirroring the concept ...
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The author built a web crawler to crawl 1 billion pages in 24 hours, achieving a cost of $462, and found that the state of the art has changed with more dynamic and heavier content on the web, but still accessible through HTML-only crawling. The author's design used a cluster of 12 highly-optimized nodes, each containing all crawler functionality, and identified parsing as a major bottleneck ...
Interactive AI timeline tracking 194+ Large Language Models from 2017 to 2026. Explore the history of ChatGPT, GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, LLaMA, Mistral, DeepSeek and every major LLM ever released.
The Sowbot Open AgBot ecosystem provides a reproducible, lightweight robotics platform for researchers and farmers to reduce labour and environmental impact. It offers a modular, open-hardware agricultural robot with a stable, repeatable environment for experiments and field-ready system.
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Femtolisp is a fast, self-contained Scheme dialect with a bytecode compiler and VM, written in the language itself. It prioritizes elegance, simplicity, and reliability with a small core of features and proper tail recursion.
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53 AI models failed a simple car wash test, where the correct answer is to drive the car to the car wash because it needs to be there, but most models chose to walk due to the short distance. Only 5 models could reliably answer the question correctly, and even the top-performing model, GPT-5, failed 30% of the time, highlighting the limitations of current AI models in handling simple logic tests.
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Independent charging performance tests were conducted on solid-state battery cells supplied by a customer. The tests involved charging the cells at 5C and 11C rates and measuring capacity, energy, cell temperature, and charging times.
The author reflects on Rust's adoption at scale, noting that it has crossed the chasm in some areas like data planes and low-level code, but still faces challenges in Safety Critical Software. To further its adoption, the author suggests that Rust needs to adapt to the needs of the early majority, including providing more practical and incremental improvements, and leveraging open-source ...
The EU's "Stop Destroying Videogames" initiative moves to the Commission stage, shifting focus from signature collection to policy work and regulator engagement. A Commission reply is due by July 27, 2026, with potential fallbacks including existing EU consumer law enforcement.
The author is building on their 40-year foundation tool, Wolfram Language, to supplement LLMs with precise computation and knowledge. This integration will make LLMs more powerful by providing deep computation capabilities.
User successfully ported libreboot to their X270 laptop, a Kaby Lake model, after overcoming initial issues with a missing capacitor and debugging problems with NVMe and WiFi. With the help of Leah Rowe, the founder of Libreboot, they were able to identify and fix the issues, resulting in a working libreboot installation with GRUB, wireless, and NVMe support.
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Pinterest users, especially artists, are unhappy with the site's increasing reliance on AI, citing issues with AI-powered moderation, AI-generated art, and the labeling of hand-drawn art as AI modified. This has led to frustration and a loss of trust in the platform.
Facebook's crawler is repeatedly accessing a user's self-hosted Forgejo instance's robots.txt file, likely due to a loop issue. The user suspects a technical error at Meta's end, wasting bandwidth and energy globally.
A new study found that cannabis use among teens increases risks of bipolar and psychotic disorders, as well as anxiety and depression, years later. The study suggests that younger teens are more vulnerable to the effects of cannabis on their developing brains.
Cheap code writing disrupts traditional engineering habits, requiring new personal and organizational practices. Developers must balance code quality with the speed of agentic engineering tools.
Recent studies show top AI models memorize copyrighted works, undermining their claim of not storing copies. This could lead to serious ramifications for AI groups in copyright lawsuits and raise questions about fair use and model training.
Anthropic's AI Claude found COBOL skills, alarming IBM stock. Claude's disruption updates may be Anthropic's self-funding strategy, causing market cap damage.
The user created a custom UI framework in PyGame for rapid experimentation with a focus on simplicity and iteration speed, which evolved into a more complex architecture with a tree-based node system and layout engine. The framework now supports features like asynchronous operations, event listeners, performance optimizations, and UI stages, but the user plans to add more functionality such ...
Aqua is a protocol and CLI from mistermorph that enables direct and relay connectivity. It involves setting up relay endpoints and sharing relay-circuit addresses for peer connections.
Live capture may require elevated permissions or OS configuration. Babyshark shows Observed IPs using TLS SNI/HTTP Host hints when DNS answers are not visible.
DMMSY breaks the O(m + n log n) complexity barrier for SSSP problems on large-scale sparse graphs with a recursive subproblem decomposition. It achieves a speedup of over 20,000x compared to standard Dijkstra implementations.
The Trump administration's RealFood.gov website initially featured an AI chatbot called Grok, which was later removed after concerns about its content. The chatbot, developed by Elon Musk, provided bizarre and sometimes disturbing advice, including recommending foods for anal insertion.
Researchers at Columbia University developed a gel electrolyte to improve anode-free lithium-ion battery safety and longevity. The gel electrolyte prevents dendrite formation, allowing for greater energy density, longer lifetimes, and safer operation in EVs.
The ISTAG published a 2000 paper on "Scenarios for ambient intelligence in 2010" predicting a future with ubiquitous computing, digital IDs, and smart homes, but many of these features are still not widely adopted. The paper's optimistic vision highlights the need for open standards and public investment in research to achieve a seamless and integrated ambient intelligence experience.
Agentic Software Engineering focuses on reliability and trust in software development, shifting from coding to architecture and communication. It prioritizes clear intent, risk management, and evidence over speed and code production.
Tech giants like Meta, Amazon, and Google are hiring in India due to growing scrutiny of the H-1B visa. They are adding thousands of workers in India, mostly in AI, machine learning, and cybersecurity roles.
Best Buy stabilized its customer experience and survived, while Joann Fabrics collapsed due to excessive debt from a leveraged buyout. The PE firm's extraction of fees and debt service drained Joann's cash flow, ultimately leading to its liquidation.
People are developing skills to use AI well, but many users could improve their skills by staying in conversations, questioning polished outputs, and setting collaboration terms. A baseline measurement of AI fluency has been established, and future research aims to track its development over time.
NASA repurposed the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's processor to help the Perseverance rover navigate autonomously. The new system, called Mars Global Localization, can pinpoint the rover's location within 10 inches in about two minutes.
The author ported Shufflepuck Cafe to the Apple II, a 1979 platform, without losing playability or details. They overcame challenges such as sprite display, mouse handling, and memory limitations.
Rituals are a universal human practice that helps people cope with uncertainty and anxiety by providing a sense of predictability and control. Research shows that rituals can reduce anxiety and improve wellbeing in individuals and groups.
As AI takes over jobs, a serious debate is needed on how to redistribute wealth and power. A technically efficacious system is required to redistribute the fruits of the economy, but the bigger challenge is aligning AI systems and their owners with the broader goals of society.
The author warns against running a self-hosted email server, citing the difficulty of maintaining a good reputation with major email providers. They recommend using a transactional email service to ensure deliverability.
Traditional dictionaries often ignore multi-word expressions, leaving gaps in language understanding. A vast combinatorial space of English words allows for billions of possible combinations, with some crystallizing into meaningful expressions that carry conceptual weight.
Three Indian IT firms Cognizant, TCS, and Infosys dominate H1B visa filings with 21,000 petitions in 2026, but pay workers under $105,000, nearly 40% below market rate. This exploits the H1B system, depressing wages and fueling anti-immigration sentiment, and the industry needs reform.
Donut Lab commissioned VTT to test its solid-state battery's performance and characteristics. The results show exceptional charging capability and stable thermal behavior at high charge rates.
Hundreds of journalists are forced into exile each year due to authoritarianism and censorship, with over 900 journalists forced into exile in Latin America alone between 2018 and 2024. Despite exile, many journalists continue to report on global issues using open-source intelligence techniques and encrypted messaging, often from thousands of miles away.
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Developing TV apps requires a different mindset than mobile apps due to unique user interactions, hardware constraints, and performance expectations. TV apps succeed when they prioritize navigation clarity, focus, and simplicity, rather than trying to adapt mobile designs.
Someone is considering spending $60K to clone a cat, but thinks it's a strange way to spend money. They're curious about the feasibility and availability of cat cloning due to a recent breakthrough.
Apple transitioned from Intel to ARM-based M1 chips in 2020, requiring Rosetta 2 for existing software compatibility. Rosetta 2 is a dynamic binary translation system enabling Intel apps to run on Apple Silicon Macs.
Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, emphasizes being a public servant rather than a powerful leader. He claims to work 24/7 for the people, embodying the "chief servant" role he declared in 2014.
The user created a system called QRTape that stores high-quality audio on a paper tape using QR codes and computer vision, replacing complex mechanical tape transports with a simple paper and cardboard design. The system uses a webcam to read the QR codes, which are encoded with audio data using the Opus codec, and can play back audio with decent quality.
Server-side load balancing is simpler and provides a single view of fleet health, but can be a bottleneck at high scale. Client-side load balancing offers sub-millisecond failure detection, but requires distributed health state management and more complexity.
You're looking for a new phone that meets your requirements, including good cameras, software look and feel, repairability, size, and a headphone jack. Your shortlist includes the Local, Xiaomi, and Apple phones, but you're disappointed with the options available in local shops and are considering importing a phone from overseas.
Shibuya WAF is an open-source, advanced web application firewall built with Rust, featuring 615+ OWASP rules, ML anomaly detection, and eBPF kernel blocking. It offers a 36-page dashboard and a built-in attack lab for testing.
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Intuition breaks down once we’re dealing with the endless. To begin with: Some infinities are bigger than others.
The user is using the JIT (Just-In-Time) compiler library to generate x86-64 assembly code for various functions, including arithmetic, bitwise operations, and loops. The test suite covers a range of operations, including constants, branches, stack frames, and C function calls.
Medimap, a New Zealand medication platform, has been hacked, incorrectly marking patients as deceased or renaming them to "Charlie Kirk". The platform remains offline as digital forensic teams investigate the breach affecting tens of thousands of patients.
Terence Tao, a mathematically gifted child, was assessed by the author in 1983 at the age of 7. He demonstrated exceptional mathematical abilities, solving complex problems with ease and showing a preference for non-visual, analytic methods.
HackEurope was a chaotic experience but some valuable lessons were learned. Choose a simple problem, ensure the track sponsor is present, and avoid AI-driven projects that lower the bar for innovation.