EFF is leaving X

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EFF is leaving X due to declining engagement and a shift in the platform's values under Elon Musk. They will focus on other platforms like Bluesky, Mastodon, and social media giants to protect digital rights.

LittleSnitch for Linux

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Little Snitch for Linux is a network monitoring tool that tracks and blocks unwanted connections. It uses eBPF to observe and intercept network activity, and can be configured through a web interface or plain text files.

Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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The user is frustrated with MacOS window management, specifically the inability to instantly switch spaces without animation. They found a solution called InstantSpaceSwitcher, a menu bar app that achieves instant space switching without drawbacks.

How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer

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Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation

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Meta removed ads from attorneys seeking clients harmed by social media under 18 after a California case found Meta and YouTube negligent. Meta claims it's removing ads to avoid adverse legal impacts and prevent trial lawyers from profiting from its platforms.

Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file

A one-tap space game. How far can you sling? Play free in your browser.

Help Keep Thunderbird Alive

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Thunderbird is funded by user contributions, not ads or corporate funding, to provide a private and customizable email experience. Users can support Thunderbird by donating to help maintain servers, fix bugs, and develop new features.

Most people can't juggle one ball

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A guide to juggling from zero to siteswap notation is provided, including tips on basic technique, common mistakes, and how to progress to more complex patterns. The guide covers various aspects of juggling, including 3-ball juggling, 4-ball juggling, and siteswap notation, as well as other implements like clubs and rings.

The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy

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Pope Leo XIV was threatened by the US Pentagon over his diplomatic stance, prompting the Vatican to cancel his US visit. The Pope has since taken a harder stance against US military power, visiting Lampedusa instead of the US on July 4, 2026.

Claude mixes up who said what

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Claude sometimes sends messages to itself and mistakenly attributes them to the user, leading to incorrect assumptions. This 'who said what' bug is distinct from hallucinations and permission issues, and seems to be a problem with the model's internal labelling rather than its behavior.

Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers

Transform your old laptop into a powerful server with our colocation services in Amsterdam and US datacenters for €7/month. We provide free shipping, setup assistance, and KVM access to your laptop in a secure, professional datacenter.

Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?

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I helped a non-tech literate customer resolve an issue with his laptop where he was running out of storage due to Microsoft's default Onedrive settings, which led to him deleting family photos to fix the problem. This incident highlights Microsoft's use of dark patterns to encourage users to pay for additional storage, and the need for companies to prioritize user experience and respect over ...

Open source security at Astral

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The Astral organization shares techniques to secure their tools and GitHub Actions workflows, including pinning actions to specific commits and limiting permissions. They also enforce strong 2FA, branch protection rules, and immutable releases to prevent account and repository compromises.

Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter

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You're switching from Claude to Zed editor and OpenRouter for more flexibility and to avoid hitting limits. You'll pay $10/month for Zed and top up $90/month to OpenRouter.

Top laptops to use with FreeBSD

Whether devices have degraded functionality, reducing the score by 0.5-1.5 based on severity and how important it is to the laptop experience (Wi-Fi/Graphics weighted more)

Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer

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A visual explorer for Unicode. Browse the character set, discover related glyphs, and learn more about the scripts, symbols, and shapes that make up the standard. Charcuterie is still under active development, and feedback is welcome. You can get the similarity data or support the project.

Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers

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Maine lawmakers passed a bill temporarily blocking large data centers due to concerns over electricity costs and grid strain. The move may lead to higher costs for AI services if other states follow suit.

How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU

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The user reimplemented the traffic system from the 1994 DOS game Pizza Tycoon, which runs on a 25 MHz CPU, using a simple one-way road system and pairwise collision detection. The system uses a straightforward approach, with cars not needing pathfinding or physics, and collision detection being cheap due to early-exit logic and limited road directions.

Unfolder for Mac – A 3D model unfolding tool for creating papercraft

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Unfolder generates 2D parts for 3D models in seconds with optimized unfolding. It allows customization and export in various formats for printing, editing, or CNC cutting.

The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts

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The Vercel plugin for Claude Code collects anonymous usage data including full bash command strings and prompt text across all projects without explicit opt-in, and the consent question is not a real UI element but rather a prompt injection into Claude's system context. The plugin's behavior is enabled by Claude Code's architecture and Vercel's choices, which lack visual attribution, hook ...

Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead

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The user is canceling their Netflix subscription due to the price increase and ads, opting for physical media instead. They've bought a DVD/BluRay player and collections of series to own, planning to use the saved $10 monthly for new discs.

Am I German or Autistic?

Philosophers like Kant, Wittgenstein, and Schopenhauer went beyond surface-level thinking. They are mapped in the Philosophical Atlas, a network of 175 thinkers.

YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney

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YouTube surpassed The Walt Disney Co. as the world's largest media company in 2025 with estimated $62 billion in revenue. It's valued at $500-$560 billion, far above traditional media competitors like Netflix.

Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

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The Trump administration is dismantling the US Forest Service by relocating its headquarters to Utah, a state that wants to seize public land, and replacing career professionals with political appointees. This move is part of a coordinated effort to transfer control of public lands from professional public servants to industry operatives.

PicoZ80 – Drop-In Z80 Replacement

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The picoZ80 is a custom PCB designed to replace a physical Z80 in a host or industrial computer with a faster CPU, more memory, virtual devices, networking, and rapid application loading from an SD card. It hosts an RP2350B microcontroller, a dual-core 150MHz Cortex-M33 device capable of running at up to 300MHz, and an ESP32 co-processor for WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity.

Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead

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In Ghana and other African countries, funerals are extravagant and expensive, serving as a costly signal of kinship group loyalty and wealth destruction. This kinship culture hinders economic growth by preventing individuals from accumulating wealth and making financial decisions for themselves.

Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps

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Instant is a full-stack app builder that allows developers to create unlimited apps with real-time, offline, and fast performance, using a multi-tenant database and sync engine. It provides a range of built-in services, including auth, file storage, presence, and streams, and is designed to be easy to use and maintain, with a focus on developer productivity and scalability.

Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy

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The English language has lost many personal pronouns over the centuries, including the dual form "wit" which referred to two people, due to simplification and changes in social and political norms. Despite this, some Old English pronouns like "he", "it", and "we" have survived more than 1,000 years of history and upheaval, almost intact.

ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month

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The plan options are Free, Go, Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise, each with varying text limits and features. Data residency options include US, EU, UK, JP, CA, KR, SG, IN, AU, UAE, with Enterprise having the most restrictive option.

Research-Driven Agents: When an agent reads before it codes

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A coding agent was used to optimize the performance of the llama.cpp neural network model, resulting in a 15% speedup on x86 and 5% speedup on ARM. The agent's success was due to its ability to read papers and study competing projects before writing code, allowing it to identify optimizations that code-only agents would miss.

How Passive Radar Works

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Passive radar uses existing signals to detect objects by measuring Doppler shift and time delay. It creates an ellipse of possible locations, requiring multiple transmitters or receivers for accurate positioning.

Lichess and Take Take Take Sign Cooperation Agreement

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Lichess will provide infrastructure for Take Take Take's new play zone, remaining free and open-source. This cooperation aims to increase healthy competition and innovation in the chess ecosystem.

Kagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects

Kagi's URL Redirects allows users to control search result URLs by setting up textual find-and-replace rules. This feature lets users redirect URLs to preferred versions of websites or domains.

BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months

User needs to register or sign in with developer credentials and ensure a unique User-Agent string to access the application. Alternatively, try resetting to default User-Agent or file a ticket for assistance.

Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++

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Craft is a lightweight build tool for C and C++ projects that automates configuration and dependency management. It uses a simple craft.toml file to generate CMake configuration and provides a clean command-line interface.

Reverse engineering Gemini's SynthID detection

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Researchers reverse-engineered Google's SynthID watermarking system using signal processing and spectral analysis. They developed a multi-resolution spectral bypass (V3) that achieves high PSNR and can remove the watermark from images of various resolutions.

A Tour of Oodi

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Oodi is an innovative library in Helsinki with a giant screen, recording studios, and a makerspace. It offers various spaces for reading, working, gaming, and relaxation with a vast collection of books and modern amenities.

Show HN: CSS Studio. Design by hand, code by agent

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CSS Studio offers a suite of design tools for editing layout, styles, and animations on a webpage. It sends updates to a local AI agent for implementation, automating code writing, review, and deployment.

Newly created Polymarket accounts win big on well-timed Iran ceasefire bets

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New Polymarket users made hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits by placing well-timed bets on a US-Iran ceasefire. The trades raise concerns about insider trading, with some lawmakers pushing for regulation of prediction markets.

Emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal now endangered

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The IUCN Red List has updated the emperor penguin to Endangered and the Antarctic fur seal to Endangered, while the southern elephant seal is now Vulnerable due to climate change. Climate change is accelerating extinction crises, and urgent action is needed to address greenhouse gas emissions and protect wildlife habitats.
The user is working on several non-AI related projects including a guitar scale visualizer, a crossword puzzle generator, and a tool to visualize JavaScript/TypeScript codebases. They also mentioned their personal life, a new programming language, and their company Uruky which offers a search engine with a simple UI and search personalization.

A WebGPU implementation of Augmented Vertex Block Descent

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This project is an experimental WebGPU physics prototype using AVBD solver for rigid-body and soft-body physics. It's an initial proof of concept with limited browser support and requires further updates for stability and ease of use.

Session is shutting down in 90 days

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Session has 90 days left before shutting down due to insufficient funding, with $65,000 in donations covering infrastructure costs until July 8, 2026. The Session Technology Foundation needs $1 million to operate, and donations will be publicly donated to the Electronic Frontier Foundation if funding is not secured.

Show HN: 41 years sea surface temperature anomalies

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Study found that young adults have grown less hopeful and more angry about AI

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Bevy game development tutorials and in-depth resources

The Rails guides for Bevy were created for friends and have evolved over time, built with a static site generator called Staticky. The site offers resources for Bevy developers and also features a Pong Tutorial for beginners and a TLDR for advanced users.

The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Part 3 – Culture

The author discusses how Large Language Models (LLMs) are changing the way we interact with information and each other, and how they may shape our culture, including our sex and erotic subcultures. The author also explores the potential for LLMs to create new forms of media, influence our values, and raise questions about the role of fixed, long-form writing by humans in a world where ...

The Bra-and-Girdle Maker That Fashioned the Impossible for NASA

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Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element (2019)

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The Fifth Element is a visually stunning film that features a combination of practical and digital effects, with a team of artists and technicians working together to bring the film's futuristic world to life. The film's visual effects were created by Digital Domain, with a team of over 170 artists and technicians working on the project, led by visual effects supervisor Mark Stetson and ...

Hegel, a universal property-based testing protocol and family of PBT libraries

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Hegel is a universal property-based testing protocol and family of libraries, built on Hypothesis.

The M×N problem of tool calling and open-source models

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Tool calling with closed-source models is seamless, but with open models, it depends on a wire format the engine must understand, leading to implementation burdens. A shared declarative way to describe wire formats is needed to standardize tool calling across models and engines.

The Zettelkasten method in Obsidian

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To set up a Zettelkasten system, start with a minimal structure, write atomic notes, and build links from day one, using tools like Obsidian and Desktop Commander for AI support. Regular maintenance, such as clearing the inbox and linking notes, is key to keeping the system usable over time and preventing issues like orphaned notes and stale Maps of Content.

Rust Threads on the GPU

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VectorWare successfully implemented Rust's std::thread on the GPU, enabling developers to write complex, high-performance applications that leverage the full power of GPU hardware using familiar Rust abstractions. The company achieved this by mapping each std::thread to a GPU warp, allowing Rust's borrow checker and lifetimes to work seamlessly on the GPU.

Bitmap fonts make computers feel like computers again

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Bitmap fonts are interesting because they require precision and were used in older displays due to limited rendering. They can add personality and mood to screens, especially in code and technical visuals.

An Interview with Pat Gelsinger

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Pat Gelsinger, former Intel CEO, now at Playground Global, is evaluating startups and investing in companies that can shape the industry. He believes the future of compute will be heterogeneous, combining classical, AI, and quantum systems.

Layoff Thinking

People take layoffs hard because their sense of identity is deeply tied to their job, making it a personal blow to their self-worth. To cope, focus on non-work aspects of your identity and rebuild your sense of self around hobbies, family, and other interests.

Moving from WordPress to Jekyll (and static site generators in general)

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We migrated our site from WordPress to Jekyll for speed and ease of change, leveraging AI tools like Claude Code to streamline the process. The new site features improved search functionality, semantic clustering, and better SEO capabilities.

What game engines know about data that databases forgot

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Typhon is a database engine that combines game engine and database concepts for game servers. It provides ACID transactions, MVCC, and indexes for efficient data access.

Previously unknown verses by Empedocles found on papyrus

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A previously unknown papyrus fragment in Cairo contains 30 verses by 5th century B.C. Greek philosopher Empedocles. The discovery sheds new light on Empedocles' work and its connections to other ancient philosophers.

A soft robot has no problem moving with no motor and no gears

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Engineers at Princeton designed soft-rigid hybrid robots that move without motors or external controls using a printable polymer and flexible electronics. The robots can precisely and repeatedly move and return to their original shape without wear or distortion.

Little Snitch comes to Linux, but the core logic is closed source

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Little Snitch, a macOS network traffic gatekeeper, has been ported to Linux but its closed-source core logic is a non-starter for FOSS enthusiasts. A DNS blocker like AdGuard Home is a more efficient and transparent solution for network-wide security.

PGLite Evangelism

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PGLite is an in-process Postgres version that allows local file-based databases without needing a separate service. It's useful for testing, in-browser data operations, and potentially small app production databases.

Code Is Cheap Now, and That Changes Everything

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Kent Beck said 90% of his skills became worthless while 10% increased 1000x in value due to AI tools. This shift unlocks latent demand and makes software cheaper, but requires developers to focus on system definition and verification.

EFF Logs Out of X

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App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off

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New app submissions to the App Store surged 30% in 2025 to nearly 600,000, driven by AI coding tools like Claude Code and Codex. Apple is reviewing its App Store rules as some AI-based apps break guidelines, causing review delays and sparking debate over AI-generated code.

Clean code in the age of coding agents

Coding agents' productivity is affected by codebase structure, not just value, as poor organization leads to increased context and costs. Providing clear organization and reviewing outcomes can help mitigate these issues when working with LLMs.

OpenAI puts Stargate UK on ice, blames energy costs and red tape

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OpenAI is pausing its Stargate UK datacenter project due to regulatory environment and high energy costs. The company still plans to proceed when conditions are right, investing in talent and expanding its local presence in the meantime.

Process Manager for Autonomous AI Agents

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Claude runs a code-reviewer bot in a loop, saving sessions and picking up changes automatically. It can be controlled and monitored from the browser or TUI.

Lumina – a statically typed web-native language for JavaScript and WASM

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Most languages make you choose: safety or the web. Lumina doesn't. Lumina is a statically typed, web-native language with HM type inference, algebraic types, and trait-based polymorphism, compiled to JavaScript and WebAssembly. Build reactive UIs, WebGPU workloads, and WASM modules in the same language, with the same type system. - nyigoro/lumina-lang

guide.world: A compendium of travel guides

It's surprisingly hard to find good travel writing online. Upon landing someplace, you can peruse Wikipedia, but what else should one read? Below is a compendium of recommended pieces.

Launch HN: Relvy (YC F24) – On-call runbooks, automated

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Marketing promos went live, potentially causing traffic spikes, and need to be monitored. Relvy AI is checking logs for issues like auth failures and host-specific errors.

The best seat in town

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Paris's self-cleaning public toilets are efficient and convenient, used 200 times a day, and now found in 28 countries worldwide. LA's public bathroom program has only built 14 free-standing toilets, which are currently closed, highlighting the city's need for better infrastructure.

America Has Lost the Arab World

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The US has lost favor in the Arab world due to its handling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and perceived double standards. China, Iran, and Russia have gained popularity as alternatives to the US-led order.

A New Way to Spray Paint Color

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A DIY spray paint system called Spectrum allows artists to mix colors by controlling the duration of paint pulses from four base color cans, creating hundreds of distinct colors instantly. The system uses a rotary pinch valve and Arduino Nano to control the flow of paint, and can be built for under $150 with 3D-printed fixtures.

Show HN: Rust based eBook library for Python, with MIT license

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The fast_ebook library is a Rust-powered EPUB library for Python that provides fast reading, writing, validation, and markdown conversion. It offers a neat MIT license and mirrors ebooklib's public interface for minimal code changes.

The Training Example Lie Bracket

The Lie bracket of two training examples in a neural network measures the order dependence of training on those examples, and it can be used to compute the difference in where parameters end up based on which order the training examples are shown. The magnitude of a given Lie bracket is mostly determined by factors independent of the parameter tensor, such as the training progress and the ...

Show HN: QVAC SDK, a universal JavaScript SDK for building local AI applications

QVAC SDK is a universal JavaScript/TypeScript SDK for building local AI applications across desktop and mobile, built on QVAC Fabric and Bare runtime. It's open source under Apache 2.0 and comes with extensive documentation for easy development.

The Life and Death of the Book Review

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Book reviewing faces serious threats due to Amazon's influence and the decline of professional critics. Mainstream venues for book reviewing are disappearing, leaving a void in cultural authority and critical debate.

Little Snitch for Linux – Because Nothing Else Came Close

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A user explored Linux for reduced software dependence and created a Linux version of Little Snitch, a privacy tool. The tool shows network connections and allows blocking, but is not a security tool due to eBPF limitations.

There are zero-day exploits for your mind

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Anthropic's Claude Mythos model found thousands of vulnerabilities in code, showing a step change in computing security. This heralds a less secure world and a need for a new paradigm in trust and security.

How the Trivy supply chain attack harvested credentials from secrets managers

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Aqua Security's Trivy was compromised on March 19, 2026, allowing attackers to steal API keys from environment variables. Traditional secrets management is insufficient against supply chain attacks, as compromised tools can find and exfiltrate keys from plaintext strings.

I Let Claude Code Autonomously Run Ads for a Month

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Giorgio Liapakis built an AI agent to manage a Meta Ads account for his newsletter Growth Computer, achieving a cost per lead of $1.29 with minimal human intervention. The experiment highlighted the importance of clearly articulating objectives to AI systems, as the agent optimized for the wrong metric and struggled with creative quality, but still produced promising results.

Building a JavaScript runtime in one month

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The author built a JavaScript runtime called Ant in just a month, learning in real-time and overcoming numerous challenges, including parsing, garbage collection, and async/await implementation. After completing the core runtime, the author optimized and polished it, adding features and improving performance, and eventually released it, with ongoing efforts to further optimize and improve the engine.

Metrics SQL: A SQL-based semantic layer for humans and agents

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Rill's Metrics SQL allows querying a metrics layer using SQL, enabling a universal interface with access policies and deterministic source of truth. It's a restricted subset of SQL that compiles to native OLAP SQL, with a vision for OLAP engines to speak metrics semantics natively.

AI Cybersecurity After Mythos: The Jagged Frontier

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Anthropic's Mythos AI model is not the only solution for AI cybersecurity as smaller, cheaper models can recover similar analysis and detect vulnerabilities. The capability of AI cybersecurity is jagged and doesn't scale smoothly with model size, with the system and security expertise being more important than the model itself.

Show HN: I built a weather site for the Eastern Caribbean

You built a weather and hurricane tracking site for Eastern Caribbean islands using PHP, MySQL, and APIs, focusing on adapting weather interpretations for the local climate. The site's accuracy improved by reworking wind descriptions and temperature calculations for the region's specific needs.

US plans to automatically register men for military draft eligibility

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The US government may automatically register young men for the military draft by December, saving millions of dollars on registration reminders. The change, approved by Congress, has sparked fears of mandatory conscription in the event of a crisis.