Framework Laptop 13 Pro

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The Framework Laptop 13 Pro features Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors, up to 64GB of memory, and 8TB of storage. It's designed for Linux compatibility with a haptic touchpad and customizable ports.

Laws of Software Engineering

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Complex systems evolve from simple ones and have inherent irreducible complexity. Understanding technology and managing it are often mutually exclusive, and quantifiable things can be measured for better outcomes.

ChatGPT Images 2.0

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ChatGPT Images 2.0 introduces a state-of-the-art image generation model with improved text rendering, multilingual support, and advanced visual reasoning.

SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training

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Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?

It appears that Anthropic has removed Claude Code from its $20-a-month pro subscription based on its pricing page. Anyone able to confirm who has a $20 plan? claude.com/pricing

Your hex editor should color-code bytes

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The user discusses the benefits of using color in hex dumps to make it easier to notice patterns and details in the data. They propose a custom hex editor called hexapoda and suggest that more tools should include color-coded bytes.

Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again

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Anthropic's API keys are the clearest production path for gateway hosts and explicit billing control. OpenClaw supports Anthropic's API keys, Claude CLI reuse, and prompt caching feature for standard API access and usage-based billing.

The Onion to Take over InfoWars

The Onion plans to license Infowars from its court-appointed manager for $81,000 a month. The deal needs a Texas judge's approval and could be appealed by Alex Jones, keeping Infowars' fate uncertain.

The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables

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A Vercel OAuth supply chain compromise exposed customer secrets at platform scale due to a compromised third-party OAuth application and Vercel's environment variable model. The incident highlights the risk of OAuth trust relationships bypassing traditional defenses and amplifying blast radius.

Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

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A fully searchable, cross-referenced, and annotated digital edition of the 1910–1911 Encyclopædia Britannica — 40,000+ articles across 28 volumes.

Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing

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Tim Cook's tenure as Apple CEO saw a 303% revenue increase, 354% profit increase, and a $4 trillion valuation. Cook's greatest contribution was elevating Apple's Services, but his reliance on China for manufacturing and AI development may leave Apple vulnerable to future disruptions.

Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)

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A data engineer shared honest insights after 10 years of experience. He believes technology stacks don't matter, but certain tools are good at specific jobs.

Show HN: VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files

Browser-based video tools offer private processing, resizing, and compression for social media platforms. They support audio extraction, effects, and mixing for various workflows.

A Roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down Vercel's platform

A Trend Micro report revealed a security breach at Context.ai, which led to a Vercel employee's Google Workspace account being compromised. This allowed attackers to access non-sensitive environment variables, but not sensitive ones, due to Vercel's encryption settings.

Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return

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Amazon partnered with Anthropic on a deal using custom chips Trainium2-4, securing capacity on future chips. The deal may be a precursor to Anthropic announcing a new funding round valued at $800 billion or more.

Claude Code to be removed from Pro Tier?

It appears that Anthropic has removed Claude Code from its $20-a-month pro subscription based on its pricing page. Anyone able to confirm who has a $20 plan? claude.com/pricing

Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker

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Cal.diy: open-source community edition of cal.com

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Cal.diy is a self-hosted, open-source scheduling platform that allows users to manage their own scheduling infrastructure without commercial dependencies. It requires advanced knowledge of server administration and database management, and users must carefully review installation and configuration steps.

Another Day Has Come

Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple's CEO after 15 years, handing over to John Ternus, who has been with the company for 25 years. Cook will become executive chairman, focusing on politics and policy, while Ternus takes the helm of Apple's business.

How to make a fast dynamic language interpreter

The author of Zef, a dynamic language, implemented several optimizations to improve its performance, achieving a 16x speed-up and bringing it into the ballpark of QuickJS, CPython, and Lua. The optimizations included changes to the value representation, parser, hashtable usage, and object model, as well as the introduction of inline caches, watchpoints, and specialized AST nodes.

I don't want your PRs anymore

You prefer contributors to focus on providing designs and ideas rather than code, as LLMs can generate code more efficiently. You'd like contributors to share code for illustrative purposes and provide the prompt used to generate it, allowing you to reuse and refine it.

Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank

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Israeli soldiers and settlers are using sexual violence and harassment to force Palestinians from their homes in the occupied West Bank, with 16 cases recorded over three years. The violence has led to displacement, with two-thirds of households surveyed citing rising violence against women and children as a reason to leave.

Brands got worse on purpose

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Authentic Brands Group (ABG) owns over 50 brands, strips quality control, and licenses names to third-party manufacturers for royalty payments. This model has led to declining quality and multiple bankruptcies, with ABG profiting from the brand names while the actual products suffer.

Apple ignores DMA interoperability requests and contradicts own documentation

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Apple has denied 56 interoperability requests under the Digital Markets Act, contradicting its own documentation, and leaving developers locked out of iOS and iPadOS. The FSFE report calls for open standards, transparent procedures, and stronger regulatory enforcement to ensure fair access to mobile features.

A programmable watch you can actually wear

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The LILYGO T-Watch Ultra is a DIY smartwatch with ESP32-S3, IP65-rated case, and various features like AI acceleration, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and LoRa. It's suitable for complex applications and has a long runtime due to its 1,100mAh battery and improved display.

What physical ‘life force’ turns biology’s wheels?

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A single-celled bacterium is stuck in tar-like water due to its size, but it can move using its flagellar motor, a powerful electric motor that rotates at several hundred revolutions per second. The motor is powered by the proton motive force, a driving force that powers processes in cells, and can switch directions to propel the bacterium forward or cause it to tumble.

The Beauty of Bonsai Styles

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The way in which a tree grows is often determined by their environment, and as a bonsai artist, I look to honor that environment, and the way in which that tree would grow in nature, when determining how to shape and style a bonsai.

Show HN: GoModel – an open-source AI gateway in Go

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GoModel is a high-performance AI gateway written in Go that provides a unified OpenAI-compatible API for multiple providers. It can be configured through environment variables and an optional config.yaml file, and has a two-layer response cache to reduce LLM API costs and latency.

Work with the garage door up (2024)

Creative people sharing their process can create invested followings and avoid pitching problems. This type of communication is like having a physical business sign, showing "I am here, working."

Fusion Power Plant Simulator

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Interactive Sankey diagram showing energy flows in a fusion power plant. Adjust Q, conversion efficiency, and heating system efficiency to see how plasma gain translates to net electricity.

Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed

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The UK's Tobacco and Vapes Bill bans children under 18 from buying cigarettes and vaping products, and restricts vaping in public places. The bill aims to create a smoke-free generation and reduce preventable deaths from smoking.

A type-safe, realtime collaborative Graph Database in a CRDT

The graph database @codemix/graph allows loading airline routes, querying with TypeScript, and syncing across tabs via Yjs CRDT. It uses a schema-checked traversal API, Cypher queries, and indexes with conflict-free sync and supports collaborative editing.

Less human AI agents, please

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The author criticizes AI agents for being too human in their lack of stringency, patience, and focus, often taking shortcuts and negotiating constraints. They argue that AI agents should be more obedient to tasks and less eager to please, rather than reframing mistakes as communication failures.

A Periodic Map of Cheese

Cheesemakers can fill gaps by combining unusual milks with traditional techniques, resulting in unique flavors. Examples include yak milk Brie, buffalo milk Brie, and a cloth-bound sheep cheddar, which could be rich and intense due to the high fat and protein content of these milks.

The mail sent to a video game publisher

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Panic, a game publisher, received bundles of mail from players expressing appreciation for their games. The mail included creative notes, gifts, and even a child's tooth.

WireGuard for Windows Reaches v1.0

Jason Donenfeld announced the v1.0 release of WireGuardNT and WireGuard for Windows with bug fixes and improvements including NdisWdfGetAdapterContextFromAdapterHandle() and proper MTU change notifications. The release also includes 42 bug and correctness fixes for WireGuardNT and a new feature for setting system DNS server programmatically on older Windows 10 versions.

ChatGPT Images 2.0

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ChatGPT Images 2.0 introduces a state-of-the-art image generation model with improved text rendering, multilingual support, and advanced visual reasoning.

Salmon exposed to cocaine and its main byproduct roam more widely

Researchers studied Atlantic salmon in Lake Vättern and found that those exposed to cocaine and its breakdown product swam farther than controls. The study suggests that pollutants like cocaine can alter fish behavior, but more research is needed to understand the long-term effects.

CrabTrap: An LLM-as-a-judge HTTP proxy to secure agents in production

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CrabTrap is an HTTP proxy that secures AI agents by blocking or approving requests in real time. It allows for editing and adding rules to intercept and log decisions made by the proxy.

As oceans warm, great white sharks are overheating

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Great white sharks and other warm-blooded marine species face overheating due to climate change, threatening their survival. Overfishing and bycatch pose a greater threat to these species than warming oceans, researchers warn.

Louis Zocchi, games industry pioneer, has died

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Louis Zocchi, a games industry legend, passed away at 91. He was a pioneer in wargames, RPGs, and dice design, founding Gamescience and creating the Zocchihedron.

The abandoned war: Why no one is stopping the genocide in Sudan

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Sudan's war is a proxy conflict with 12 million displaced, 25 million hungry, and a documented genocide in El Fasher. The international response is slow, with the US withdrawal of aid causing a humanitarian catastrophe, and European disinterest due to lack of strategic and economic interests.

A Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory

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Mathematicians Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat solved the "problem of points" by considering future possibilities of the score. Their solution, based on expected value, is used in risk assessments and has become a fundamental pillar of modern probability theory.

Tindie store under "scheduled maintenance" for days

Tindie is a marketplace for maker made products. From Raspberry Pi to Arduino to drones, Tindie's goal is to bring innovation to the masses faster than ever before.

California has more money than projected after admin miscalculated state budget

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California's state budget had a $2 billion accounting error due to miscalculations in CalPERS contributions. The error means the state has more money than previously projected, potentially reducing a $2.9 billion shortfall.

SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

SpaceX is acquiring AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion or partnering for $10 billion to boost AI capabilities. The deal aims to create the world's best coding and knowledge work AI.

SpaceX strikes deal with Cursor for $60B

SpaceX is acquiring Cursor for $60 billion or $10 billion in a deal that could boost its AI capabilities. The agreement comes as SpaceX prepares for a massive IPO and expands its AI initiatives under Elon Musk's leadership.

Diverse organic molecules on Mars revealed by the first SAM TMAH experiment

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NASA's Curiosity rover found over 20 organic compounds on Mars, including a nitrogen-bearing molecule linked to DNA, suggesting Mars can preserve life's building blocks. The discovery supports the idea that Mars may have had conditions suitable for life 3.5 billion years ago.

Used La Marzocco machines are coveted by cafe owners and collectors

Kent Bakke discovered a two-boiler espresso machine in Italy, leading to a deal with La Marzocco and eventually influencing Starbucks. La Marzocco machines, known for their retro design, now sit in 15% of US coffee shops despite their limited presence.

Ibuilt a tiny Unix‑like 'OS' with shell and filesystem for Arduino UNO (2KB RAM)

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A lightweight Arduino UNO shell provides filesystem simulation and hardware control. It offers commands for navigating, creating files, managing GPIO, and displaying system information.

An amateur historian's favorite books about the Silk Road

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A retired medical doctor shares their passion for researching the Maritime Silk Route and its significance in Indian Ocean trade, drawing from various books and experiences. Their book, Sri Lanka, Serendib, and the Silk Road of the Sea, fills a gap in knowledge about Sri Lanka's role in this trade since ancient times.

Scammer used an AI-generated MAGA girl to grift men

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A 22-year-old medical student created an AI-generated girl named Emily Hart, a MAGA-supporting nurse, to make money online. He used her account to sell content and merchandise, earning thousands of dollars before Instagram banned it for "fraudulent" activity.

Types and Neural Networks

Researchers are exploring ways to integrate type systems into neural network training to produce typed output, but current approaches either prevent the model from saying certain things or don't change what the model wants to say. A new approach differentiates through the branch taken and uses cross entropy loss to train the network, allowing it to learn the right output type and produce ...

You don't want long-lived keys

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Rotating long-lived keys is crucial to manage the risk of someone guessing a key correctly over time, and ephemeral keys can sidestep this pain. Reducing long-lived keys also allows for more focused security efforts, easier infrastructure hardening, and better maintenance of sensitive infrastructure.

Claude Code Removed from $20-a-Month "Pro" Subscription for New Users

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Anthropic removed Claude Code access from its $20-a-month Pro accounts, forcing users to pay for API access. Existing Pro subscribers may still have access, but this is unclear.

Show HN: Daemons – we pivoted from building agents to cleaning up after them

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The Charlie Daemons are a set of self-initiated AI background processes defined in easy-to-use .md files that automate maintenance tasks such as keeping PRs review-ready, labeling issues, and updating documentation. These daemons run continuously in the background, observing work happening in GitHub, Linear, Slack, and more, and execute reliably without manual intervention.

Vera C. Rubin Observatory has Discovered 11,000 New Asteroids

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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory discovered 11,000 new asteroids and 33 near-Earth objects in its early surveys. This is a significant step towards its 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time, which will triple the census of known asteroids and reveal nearly 90,000 new near-Earth objects.

Zindex – Diagram Infrastructure for Agents

Agents create and edit diagrams with durable state, using a structured pipeline with validation and multiple render targets. The engine handles geometry, enabling incremental updates and inspectable steps for diagrams like architecture and workflows.

Kasane: New drop-in Kakoune front end with GPU rendering and WASM Plugins

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Kasane is a Kakoune frontend with a GPU backend and plugin system. It offers a full UI with extensions like splits, image display, and workspace persistence.

Prediction markets are breaking the news and becoming their own beat

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Prediction markets are unregulated forms of gambling that allow betting on real events, creating opportunities for corruption and insider trading. Journalists are covering these markets, which have partnered with news organizations, raising concerns about editorial independence and potential insider trading scandals.

Advanced Packaging Limits Come into Focus

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Packaging is now a performance variable, with warpage and mechanical issues complicating continued scaling. Advanced packages are no longer simple structures, but mechanically asymmetrical systems with different layers expanding, softening, and storing stress differently.

Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training

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KV Cache Compression 900000x Beyond TurboQuant and Per-Vector Shannon Limit

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Researchers improved KV cache compression by introducing sequential KV compression, a two-layer architecture that exploits the structure of tokens in a KV cache. This approach achieves a higher compression ratio than TurboQuant, with a theoretical ratio of 914,000x at the Shannon limit.

Framework 13 Pro Announced

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The Framework Laptop 13 Pro features Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors, up to 64GB of memory, and 8TB of storage. It's designed for Linux compatibility with a haptic touchpad and customizable ports.

ChatGPT Images 2.0

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Generate high-quality AI images quickly with ChatGPT Images, featuring precise edits, preset filters and trending prompts.

The Forgotten History of Hershey's Electric Railway (1916) in Cuba

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Milton Hershey built a railroad in Cuba to transport sugar cane efficiently and circumvent the American Sugar Refining Co. monopoly. The Hershey Electric Railway, Cuba's first electrified train, was built in 1920 and initially powered the company's sugar operations and nearby towns.

Using Changesets in a polyglot monorepo

Using a monorepo with a polyglot setup, changesets is a solid choice for managing versioning in a consistent way, even without native support for multiple languages. Changesets assumes per-package semantic versioning and can be configured with a proxy pnpm workspace at the root, allowing for automation of releases and changelog generation.

A mad undertaking: An undefinitive guide to the Aadam Jacobs collection

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The author discusses the Mekons, a UK band that influenced their life, and their connections to other bands in the US, particularly in Chicago. The author highlights various Mekons-related shows and projects, including the Freakons, Jelly Bishops, and Moxie Tung.

A Vompeccc Case Study: Spotify as Pure ICR in Emacs

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The author of the post implemented a Spotify client in Emacs using the VOMPECCC framework, which consists of three packages: Consult, Marginalia, and Embark, and showed how to build a complete completion system using these packages. The author demonstrated how to use the VOMPECCC framework to create a Spotify client with features such as asynchronous search, metadata annotation, and ...

FreeBSD CVE-2026-4747 Log Suggests Mythos Is a Marketing Trick

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Nicholas Carlini confirmed Mythos Preview found CVE-2026-4747 during internal testing between Feb 24 and March 26. The bug was a 17-year-old remote kernel code execution vulnerability in FreeBSD's RPCSEC_GSS module.

AI as a Fascist Artifact

The SWP failed to highlight mass examples of Trotskyists' actions, leading to a rebirth of the party in a different belief. This led to a political evolution, as seen in the Russian Civil War and the Third Revolution in France.