Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains

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Wine 11 brings significant improvements to Linux gaming with NTSYNC, a new kernel driver that corrects synchronization issues, and WoW64 architecture overhaul, allowing 32-bit applications to run on 64-bit systems without additional libraries.

Goodbye to Sora

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Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11

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Microsoft changed the red X button during the GWX campaign in May 2016 to schedule Windows 10 upgrades instead of closing the dialog. The article does not mention how long it took to restore the ability to move the taskbar after it was removed.

Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised

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A malicious litellm package on PyPI contains a .pth file that steals credentials. Users who installed it via pip should rotate all credentials.

Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?

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User is bored with AI discussions and feels they've become routine. They want to see more about the value created rather than the tools used to build it.

Malicious litellm_init.pth in litellm 1.82.8 PyPI package – credential stealer

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A malicious litellm package on PyPI contains a .pth file that steals credentials. Users who installed it via pip should rotate all credentials.

Apple Business

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Apple Business is a new platform that offers all-in-one services for companies to manage devices, reach customers, and get support. It features built-in mobile device management, email, calendar, and directory services, and will be available in over 200 countries starting April 14.

Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller

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Video.js v10.0.0 beta is a ground-up rewrite of the video player, modernizing it for today's web development and setting the foundation for AI-augmented features. It's 88% smaller than the previous version and features a new engine project called SPF for smaller streaming engines.

Mystery jump in oil trading ahead of Trump post draws scrutiny

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US President Donald Trump's announcement to postpone strikes against Iranian energy infrastructure led to a sharp drop in oil prices. Traders who bet on the move made money, raising questions about possible insider trading.

Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms

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A New Mexico jury found Meta liable for failing to protect children from predators on its platforms, ordering the company to pay $375 million in damages. Meta plans to appeal the decision, which marks the first time the company has been held accountable in a jury trial for issues related to kids' safety.

Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem

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A solution to the problem was found using GPT-5.4 Pro, confirmed by Will Brian, and will be published. The solution improves lower bounds on the values of a sequence H(n) by a constant factor.

So where are all the AI apps?

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The AI effect on software productivity is not as significant as expected, with no overall increase in package creation or updates. Instead, a concentrated burst of updates occurred in popular AI packages, possibly due to increased funding and enthusiasm for AI.

I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job

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You worked in GTM consulting for traditional industries, noticed decreased interest in ride-alongs and research calls, and joined a home services company as a tech. You found the industry challenging due to poor recruitment and inefficient processes.
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SentrySearch indexes dashcam videos using Google's Gemini Embedding model and stores video embeddings in a local database. It allows sub-second semantic search over hours of footage by directly comparing text queries to video embeddings.

Arm AGI CPU

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Arm has announced the Arm AGI CPU, a production-ready silicon designed for AI infrastructure. It delivers high performance and efficiency for agentic AI workloads at massive scale.

LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash

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Pilot safety concerns were filed months before a collision at New York's LaGuardia airport left two pilots dead and 41 injured. The concerns included air traffic controllers' failure to provide guidance on nearby aircraft and a shortage of air traffic controllers.

GitHub is once again down

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GitHub's Status Page - Disruption with some GitHub services.

Missile defense is NP-complete

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Missile defense is a hard problem due to unreliable interceptors and a complex allocation problem. The optimal solution is NP-complete, but recent research has developed algorithms to solve instances with thousands of targets and interceptors in seconds.

Show HN: Email.md – Markdown to responsive, email-safe HTML

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Turn markdown into responsive, email-safe HTML that renders perfectly across every client.

Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)

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Ripgrep is a fast, cross-platform command line search tool that combines the usability of The Silver Searcher with the raw performance of GNU grep, offering features like Unicode support, regex engine options, and file type filtering. It is designed to be a hybrid of grep-like and ack-like tools, providing both speed and smart default searching capabilities, making it a suitable replacement ...

Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls

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Log File Viewer for the Terminal

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lnav automatically detects and processes log files, including compressed ones, with online help and previews. It outperforms standard terminal tools in processing large log files like a 3.3GB access log.

From zero to a RAG system: successes and failures

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The user built a local LLM-based chat tool for company engineers with fast response and natural language question answering capabilities. They overcame numerous challenges, including memory management, problematic files, and indexing large datasets, to create a reliable and useful system.

Hypothesis, Antithesis, synthesis

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Hegel is a new family of property-based testing libraries that brings Hypothesis quality to every language, making it easy to integrate with Antithesis for increased bug-finding power. Hegel is still in early days but has the potential to be a huge part of the future of software development, especially with AI-based workflows.

The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI

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The world we live in has two inheritance systems: a biological one that tends to revert to the mean and a legal one that compounds wealth, with the latter dominating the former due to its power-law distribution. The bridge between these systems, built through credentials and education, is being dismantled by artificial intelligence, leading to a widening gap between the wealthy class and everyone else.

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You acknowledge and accept the terms of this site, which are complete and proportionate to its nature. You are responsible for your actions and creations based on this site.

HyperAgents: Self-referential self-improving agents

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To install and set up the Hyperagents repository, run installation commands and create a virtual environment. This involves executing potentially untrusted code with associated safety risks.

Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew

Apple Silicon and macOS 15 improvements include 48 issues closed and 21 security fixes. New features include parallel AI agents and improved security against shell, JSON, and Mach-O binary injection attacks.

Hypura – A storage-tier-aware LLM inference scheduler for Apple Silicon

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Hypura is a storage-tier-aware LLM inference scheduler for Apple Silicon that enables large models to run without crashing systems. It optimizes model placement across GPU, RAM, and NVMe tiers for efficient inference.

Debunking Zswap and Zram Myths

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Use zswap for most people as it provides automatic tiering between compressed RAM and disk swap, gracefully degrading as memory pressure increases. zram is better suited for embedded systems or specific security requirements, but its block device architecture creates constraints and requires manual setup and management to achieve similar behavior to zswap.

Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora

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Disney is shutting down its Sora video app, citing disappointing news for creators who used the platform. The closure also ends Disney's deal with OpenAI, which was valued at $1 billion, and leaves Google as the only major player in AI video generation.

Opera: Rewind The Web to 1996 (Opera at 30)

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An interactive journey through 30 years of the web

Nashville library launches Memory Lab for digitizing home movies

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The Nashville Public Library is launching a free Memory Lab program to help people digitize old home movies, photos, and slides. Anyone can book time to use library equipment and software to convert their family memories into digital files for free.

curl > /dev/sda: How I made a Linux distro that runs wget | dd

To replace a Linux installation with a new OS, you can pipe a pre-prepared disk image directly to the disk using a command like dd. This works by treating the disk as a file and writing to it directly.

Improved Git Diffs with Delta, Fzf and a Little Shell Scripting

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The user recommends using Delta for CLI diffs and has a script called gd to simplify PR reviews.

Ask HN: Founders of estonian e-businesses – is it worth it?

You're considering Estonian e-residency for a SaaS project due to Germany's bureaucracy. You're looking for real-life experiences on its worth and potential pitfalls.

The AI Industry Is Lying to You

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The AI industry is hiding the slow growth of data centers by announcing massive multi-gigawatt deals that may never be built, with only 5GW of global data center capacity actually under construction. This is causing a bottleneck in data center development, with many projects taking 2-4 years or more to complete, and raising questions about the rationality of buying NVIDIA GPUs years in advance.

Country that put backdoors in Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers

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The US FCC has banned new consumer-grade network routers made abroad due to national security concerns. Existing foreign-made routers are still allowed, but new models must be made in the US to be approved.

Show HN: ProofShot – Give AI coding agents eyes to verify the UI they build

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ProofShot is an open-source CLI that gives AI coding agents eyes by recording video proof of their work. It works with any agent and provides a verification workflow to test in a real browser, record video, collect errors, and bundle everything for human review.

LLM Neuroanatomy II: Modern LLM Hacking and Hints of a Universal Language?

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The user discovered a method called RYS (Repeat Your Self) that improves model performance by duplicating middle layers in a transformer model, and found that this method works on multiple models, including Qwen3.5-27B, confirming that transformer reasoning is organized into discrete functional circuits. The user also found that a single contiguous block in the mid-stack is the best first ...

A Compiler Writing Journey

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User is documenting a self-compiling compiler for a C subset, now working on a new language called alic from scratch, using SubC compiler code as reference. User's code has a different license than SubC.

Gzip decompression in 250 lines of Rust

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The user implemented a gzip decompressor from scratch in Rust to gain a deeper understanding of how compression works, and found that the core ideas are based on the DEFLATE algorithm and Huffman coding. The DEFLATE algorithm uses LZ77 back-references to replace repeated sequences with shorter codes, and Huffman coding assigns shorter codes to frequent symbols, allowing for efficient ...

Show HN: AI Roundtable – Let 200 models debate your question

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Ask a question and let 200+ AI models vote, debate, and reach consensus. Compare ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and more side by side.

ARM AGI CPU: Specs and SKUs

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Arm announced the ARM AGI CPU, its first production silicon, for AI infrastructure at scale with high performance and extreme density. It supports up to 45,000 cores in a liquid-cooled design and 8,160 cores in an air-cooled rack.

Embracing Bayesian methods in clinical trials

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The FDA has issued a draft guidance on using Bayesian methodology in clinical trials of therapeutic agents. This guidance aims to promote the use of Bayesian methods in clinical trials.

NanoClaw Adopts OneCLI Agent Vault

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NanoClaw adopted OneCLI as its default credential and proxying layer for secure agent access. OneCLI's Agent Vault provides fine-grained controls and policies to limit agent access and prevent potential damage.

Go Naming Conventions: A Practical Guide

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The Go programming language has strict naming conventions for identifiers, packages, and functions to ensure code readability and consistency, including using camelCase for unexported identifiers and PascalCase for exported ones. Following these conventions, such as avoiding non-ASCII letters and not repeating package names in function names, can make code more predictable and easier to ...

Arm releases first in-house chip, with Meta as debut customer

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Arm, a UK-based company, is making its own chips for the first time, unveiling the AGI CPU. Meta is the first to sign on, securing up to 5% of its $115 billion capex for the chips.

Show HN: Gridland: make terminal apps that also run in the browser

Gridland is a framework for building terminal apps using OpenTUI and React. It allows for cross-platform development between browser and terminal.

WolfGuard: WireGuard with FIPS 140-3 cryptography

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WolfGuard is a FIPS-compliant refactor of WireGuard with identical usage. It consists of a kernel module and a configuration tool.

Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Deployment 2026 Guide [pdf]

This document provides guidelines for securing the Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure to protect against malicious activities and misuse, and to utilize DNS as a foundational layer of security control across the organization. The guidelines include recommendations for blocking harmful traffic, filtering out malicious categories of traffic, and using DNS as an information source to ...

FCC has banned the import of all new foreign-made routers here's what you can do

March, 19-21: God is a comedian

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The US is sending 5,000 Marines to seize Kharg Island, despite Iran's mined Strait of Hormuz and a war that's crashed the global oil market. The US is also lifting sanctions on Iran to buy its oil, while bombing it, in a move that's causing widespread confusion and economic chaos.

Optimizing a lock-free ring buffer

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A ring buffer is a fixed-size queue that stores data in a circular fashion, allowing a producer to write and a consumer to read data in a first-in-first-out order. Implementing a ring buffer can be optimized for thread safety and performance by using atomics, manual memory ordering, and caching to reduce cache misses and improve throughput.

Detecting file changes on macOS with kqueue

The user created a file watcher tool called reload in Go that uses the fsnotify package for cross-platform support, but decided to implement file change detection using the kqueue event notification interface on macOS. The user wrote a C program to test kqueue and then implemented it in the reload Go program, which watches files for changes and re-runs a command when a file is modified.

I created my first AI-assisted pull request

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You contributed to Chroma, the Hugo syntax highlighter, using AI tooling, but felt like a fraud due to impostor syndrome. You're concerned that the industry's emphasis on speed and AI-assisted work is eroding the value of craftsmanship and personal identity in coding.

Microsoft blocks trick to unlock native NVMe driver, but workarounds still exist

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Microsoft has blocked a registry trick that enabled native NVMe support on Windows 11 PCs. Users can still enable native NVMe through ViVeTool, but with potential compatibility risks.

Show HN: Create a full language server in Go with 3.17 spec support

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The Go library for building Language Server Protocol servers handles JSON-RPC framing, message dispatch, and LSP type definitions, allowing developers to focus on language logic. It provides a server that can be run with various input/output streams and supports custom request methods, notifications, and logging.

Welcome to FastMCP

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FastMCP is a standard framework for building MCP applications, handling schema, validation, and documentation automatically. It connects clients to servers and gives tools interactive UIs, used by 70% of MCP servers across languages.

EMachines never obsolete PCs: More than a meme

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eMachines launched a "Never Obsolete" campaign in 1999 with computers priced at $399-$699, claiming they would never be obsolete despite having outdated specs. The campaign was ironic and humorous, especially considering the company's eventual demise.

Sunsetting the Techempower Framework Benchmarks

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TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks are sunsetting after over a decade of helping developers understand performance. The project's impact remains in its repository and history, inspiring a community-driven approach to measurement.

io_uring, libaio performance across Linux kernels and an unexpected IOMMU trap

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The performance of io_uring improves significantly on newer Linux kernels, with the fastest configuration being 1.4x faster on newer kernels compared to older kernels. However, a performance regression was observed between kernels 5.4 and 5.15 for both libaio and non-polled io_uring, which was caused by Intel IOMMU being enabled by default between releases.

Meta Partners with Arm to Develop New Class of Data Center Silicon

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Meta and Arm are partnering to develop custom CPUs for AI workloads and general computing. The first release, Arm AGI CPU, is designed for efficient performance and will be available to the broader AI ecosystem.

Maxell MXCP-P100 – wireless cassette player

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This player combines 80's nostalgia with modern wireless tech, delivering high-fidelity sound from cassette collections. It offers up to 11 hours of Bluetooth playtime and fast USB-C charging.

The case for becoming a manager

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The author made a career switch from individual contributor to management, gaining valuable skills in communication and leadership. Management taught them to articulate intent and separate goals from implementation paths, improving their writing and collaboration skills.

My heuristics are wrong. What now?

Tech leaders must update their heuristics to match changing technology. They should build, own, and get hands dirty to learn and update their knowledge.

Cuba's Fragile Power Grid Finds a Powerful New Partner

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Cuba's power grid collapsed under a US oil blockade, lasting 29 hours, but China's energy support may deepen ties between the two nations. Cuba's energy transition to renewables, backed by China, faces funding challenges but provides a strategic alliance for China near the US.

Can It Resolve DOOM? Game Engine in 2k DNS Records

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A proof-of-concept project successfully stored and executed the classic game DOOM entirely using DNS infrastructure by uploading base64-encoded chunks of the game into thousands of TXT records. This demonstrates how DNS can be abused as a global, distributed storage and delivery channel, with implications for malware staging, covert payload distribution, and forensic evasion.

Fast regex search: indexing text for agent tools

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The author discusses various techniques for indexing textual data to speed up regular expression searches, including inverted indexes, suffix arrays, and sparse n-grams, and presents a novel approach using a hash function to minimize the amount of posting lookups. The author also explains why they are building and querying the indexes in the users' machines, citing reasons such as latency, ...

Power consumption of Game Boy flash cartridges (2021)

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The user tested various flash cartridges for the Game Boy, including genuine and reproduction carts, and found that some flash carts can consume less power than genuine carts, while others consume significantly more. The best widely available flash cartridge is the Everdrive GB X5, which is a massive improvement over the original Everdrive GB, while the EZ-FLASH Junior was disappointing and ...

Local Bernstein theory, and lower bounds for Lebesgue constants

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The author uploaded a paper on local Bernstein theory and lower bounds for Lebesgue constants, motivated by a problem of Erdős on Lagrange interpolation. The paper modifies classical Bernstein-type inequalities to obtain localized versions.

SpaceStarCarz KoolWheelz Paper Models

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Scale Paper Models designed and sold. Custom commissions, build support, free models, custom paper model Tees.

Box of Secrets: Discreetly modding an apartment intercom with Matter

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The user and their friend Hazel hacked into their friend Frank's apartment complex's intercom system to unlock the gate using Apple Home. They used an ESP32 relay board, a Matter library in Rust, and a rectifying regulator to create a discreet device that could unlock the gate with a tap on Frank's phone.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

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The chicken joke evolved from an anti-joke to a game of courage, symbolizing the human search for meaning in seemingly meaningless things. It connects motor vehicles, mathematics, and misery, revealing a complex web of life.

We're Saying Goodbye to Sora

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Solving Semantle with the Wrong Embeddings

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A solver for the word game Semantle was built using relative rankings of guesses rather than exact cosine similarities, making it more robust to different embedding models. This solver uses a probabilistic approach to adjust candidate word probabilities based on constraints, allowing it to find the target in 100-200 guesses in a different embedding space.

Ubisoft's death by a thousand cuts

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Ubisoft's Red Storm Entertainment studio will cease game development, but remain open for engine work and services, resulting in 105 job losses. This is part of Ubisoft's efforts to reduce costs by €500 million by 2028 through studio closures and job cuts.

US bans new foreign-made consumer Internet routers

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The FCC added foreign-made consumer-grade routers to a list of insecure equipment, citing security gaps exploited by malicious actors. New foreign-made routers must now be approved by the FCC, requiring disclosure of foreign investors and a plan to bring manufacturing to the US.

Type Construction and Cycle Detection

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Go's type checker verifies that types and operations are valid at compile time, and a recent improvement in Go 1.26 has made the type checker more stable by systematically detecting cycle errors involving incomplete types. This improvement has addressed several compiler panics and provides a deeper understanding of the complexity of type checking in Go.

Swift 6.3 Released

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Swift 6.3 introduces new features and improvements, including C interoperability, module selectors, and attributes for compiler optimizations. It also includes a preview of Swift Build, improvements to Swift Testing, and the first official release of the Swift SDK for Android.

Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features

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Walmart now requires a Walmart account for setup and smart TV features on select new Vizio TVs. This move further integrates Vizio with Walmart's ad business, which saw triple-digit growth in advertising.

MagicAudio – Free Noise, Echo and Background Music Remover

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Our AI noise remover automatically cleans audio and video files by detecting and removing background noise without affecting the original voice. It's completely free, no sign-up required, and works instantly with no usage limits.

TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression

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Researchers developed TurboQuant, a vector quantization algorithm that reduces memory usage without sacrificing AI model performance. It achieves high compression with zero accuracy loss, ideal for key-value cache compression and vector search.

Systemd has not implemented age verification

Systemd is under attack by a trolling campaign claiming it implements age verification or requires personal data, but this is a lie. The optional "date of birth" field is for desktop environments to use as they see fit, not for centralized control.

systemd has not implemented age verification

Systemd is under attack by a trolling campaign claiming it implements age verification or requires personal data, but this is a lie. The optional "date of birth" field is for desktop environments to use as they see fit, not for centralized control.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says 'I think we've achieved AGI'

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang claims they've achieved artificial general intelligence, a term that denotes AI surpassing human intelligence. He believes AGI is now a reality, citing the success of OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent platform.

The Interactive Lost Place Map

Our Lost Place Map is an interactive database for urban exploration, featuring thousands of abandoned places globally. It helps enthusiasts discover and document forgotten history while ensuring a safe exploration experience.

Show HN: Antimatter – Match the opposites (Mahjong solitaire mechanic)

v1.05Exploring mahjong solitaire meets antonym matching.20 puzzles to kick the tires.Based on 23,791 antonym pairs, across 102,754 words.Built using Linguabase by Michael Douma

Thoughts on LLMs – Psychological Complications

We tend to attribute human-like qualities to LLMs due to language limitations and our innate tendency to see patterns. This leads to a flawed analysis of their capabilities.

Pool spare GPU capacity to run LLMs at larger scale

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Mesh-llm is a tool that pools spare GPU capacity to run large language models at scale. It automatically distributes models across nodes for efficient computation.