Ursa Ag, a small Canadian manufacturer, is selling tractors with remanufactured 1990s diesel engines and no electronics for half the price of comparable machines. The company's simple, mechanical design is appealing to farmers who want to avoid modern complexity and high costs.
The user discusses Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux (WSL9x), a hack that allows running Linux on Windows 9x without virtualization. It uses Windows 9x's VMM services to run Linux cooperatively with the Windows kernel.
Qwen3.6-27B is a 27-billion-parameter multimodal model that surpasses previous-generation models on major coding benchmarks. It is natively multimodal, supports both vision-language thinking and non-thinking modes, and is available for self-hosting and through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API.
A Firefox-based browser vulnerability allows websites to derive a unique identifier from IndexedDB database ordering, linking activity across origins. Mozilla has fixed the issue in Firefox 150 and ESR 140.10.0.
Apple fixed a bug that allowed deleted messages to be retained on iPhones due to notifications being stored in the device's database. This issue was exploited by the FBI using forensic tools, raising concerns among privacy activists about authorities accessing deleted data.
User is recreating Hokusai's 36 views of Mount Fuji as 1-bit pixel art on old Macintosh computers for nostalgia and flow state. They use Aldus SuperPaint 3.0 on Quadra 700 or PowerBook 100 to create authentic 512x342 pixel images.
GitHub CLI sends pseudoanonymous telemetry to help improve the product by understanding feature usage. You can review the telemetry implementation and opt-out using environment variables or configuration options.
Google introduces TPU 8t and TPU 8i, two custom chips for AI training and inference, designed to power supercomputers and drive cutting-edge model development. The 8th generation TPUs deliver scale, efficiency, and capabilities for training, serving, and agentic workloads.
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Researchers investigated the "Over-Editing" problem where AI models rewrite code unnecessarily, making it harder for humans to review and understand. They found that reinforcement learning can improve the editing behavior of AI models, making them more faithful and minimal, without degrading their general coding ability.
The Free Universal Construction Kit is a set of adapters that allows children's construction toys to work together, promoting creative play and hybrid designs. The Kit is a grassroots remedy for proprietary toy systems, available for free download and 3D printing.
The concept of Cognitive Debt, introduced by Margaret-Anne Storey, highlights three layers of system health: Technical debt in code, Cognitive debt in people, and Intent debt in artifacts. As LLMs become more prevalent, experts like Ajey Gore and David Cassel discuss the need for verification and reorganization around judging the output of LLMs rather than solely focusing on writing code.
User is frustrated with AI saturation and lack of personal learning from AI-generated content. They prefer to block AI at the browser level and dislike generative AI's impact on communication channels.
User analyzed 500 Show HN pages for AI design patterns, finding 21% with heavy slop, 46% mild, and 33% clean. The results suggest most sites are uninspired rather than AI-generated.
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Flickr remains a unique online community for photography enthusiasts, offering robust features and a sanctuary from algorithm-driven content. Its Pro subscription provides benefits like unlimited storage, ad-free galleries, and exclusive savings, justifying the cost for many users.
Paraloid B-72 is a durable, non-yellowing acrylic resin used as an adhesive for conserving and restoring ceramic and glass objects. It is strong, flexible, and can be mixed with solvents to alter its properties, making it suitable for various applications.
Zed now allows parallel agent orchestration with a new Threads Sidebar for control and monitoring. The Threads Sidebar offers instant access to common operations and helps developers stay organized with multiple projects and agents.
I recently started using a folding bike, a Brompton, which has greatly improved my commuting experience. It's convenient, durable, and cost-effective, paying for itself in just 28 weeks.
Penn State researchers led by William Brune documented corona discharges in nature for the first time, observing them on trees during thunderstorms in Florida. The phenomenon, which cleans the air by producing hydroxyl, was captured using a custom-built telescope system and has implications for forest health and atmospheric cleansing.
The evolution of concurrency abstractions, from threads to callbacks to promises to async/await, has improved the local experience of writing async code but introduced new costs and complexities at the global level, such as function coloring and ecosystem fragmentation. Each solution solved a problem but introduced new structural costs, and language designers are now reevaluating the approach ...
Archaeologists discovered a papyrus fragment of Homer's The Iliad in a Roman-era mummy in Egypt's Oxyrhynchus necropolis. The excavation also uncovered mummies, wooden coffins, and ancient artifacts, providing insights into burial traditions in Bahnasa during the Greek and Roman eras.
GPS uses satellites to measure distance by timing signal delays, then uses multiple satellites to pinpoint location. The system accounts for clock errors, gravity, and speed to provide accurate positions within a few meters.
US authorities are investigating the deaths and disappearances of at least 11 scientists with ties to NASA, nuclear research, and classified defense programs. The cases span multiple agencies and companies, including SpaceX and Blue Origin, and have raised concerns about a potential national security threat.
Matt Godbolt wrote an article on why x86 compilers use xor eax, eax to zero a register, citing its compactness. However, sub eax, eax is a viable alternative with similar execution time and better flag behavior, but xor won due to swarming and special CPU detection.
A new study found that the 988 national suicide prevention hotline led to an 11 percent drop in US suicides among young people from 2022 to 2024. States with high hotline usage saw an 18.2 percent reduction in suicides compared to expected rates.
Meta is installing surveillance software on employees' work computers to gather data for AI model development. The tool will record keystrokes, mouse movements, and screenshots of employees' work activities.
San Diego rents have decreased by 5.6% for 1-bedroom and 7.5% for 2-bedroom apartments. The city's increased housing supply is credited with helping to keep rents from increasing.
NAEP long-term trend assessments showed 13-year-old students' average reading scores declined 4 points and math scores declined 9 points from 2020.
Two photographers captured 304 humpback whales in a single day off South Africa's west coast, the highest number ever recorded. The humpback population is recovering after a global whaling moratorium in 1986, with sightings of super-groups increasing rapidly.
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DuckDB v1.5.2 is a patch release with bugfixes, performance improvements, and support for DuckLake v1.0 lakehouse format. It includes a new WebAssembly shell and a test suite collaboration with Jepsen.
Workspace agents are shared AI tools that handle complex tasks and workflows within an organization's permissions and controls. They can be built and customized to automate tasks, gather context, and follow team processes, freeing up time for higher-value work.
Agent Vault is an open-source credential broker that eliminates credential exfiltration risk by injecting credentials at the network layer. It works with any agent, including custom Python/TypeScript agents and coding agents like Claude Code.
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China's CATL unveiled a new lithium-iron phosphate battery, Shenxing 3.0, with faster charging speeds and improved cold-weather performance. It can charge from 10 to 98 percent in 6 minutes and 27 seconds, outperforming BYD's Blade 2.0 in similar conditions.
A questionnaire-based system estimates body measurements with high accuracy, outperforming photo-based methods without requiring a photo. The system uses a physics-aware loss and a small MLP trained on a synthetic dataset to predict 58 Anny body parameters with a mean error of 0.3 cm and 0.3 kg.
Columnar data storage has trade-offs with row-oriented data, offering faster data access for specific columns but slower row modification and access. It can be viewed as a form of extreme database normalization or a data format abstraction that queries are logically blind to.
To accurately display FPS, use a rolling window of frames from the last second and precise timers, calculating the average processing time and then the FPS value from that. This approach provides a smooth and consistent FPS counter that is less affected by individual frame processing times and can be easily extended to track other performance metrics.
The practice of surveillance pricing, where companies charge different prices based on personal data, has become widespread and is enabled by market failures and information asymmetries. To address this issue, legislation such as the Stop AI Price Gouging and Wage Fixing Act of 2025 and the One Fair Price Act of 2025 aim to eliminate surveillance pricing and provide enforcement mechanisms, ...
Uber's ledger system on DynamoDB was a costly failure due to high write costs and storage expenses. The company eventually migrated to its own internal ledger, LSG, built on top of DocStore, after realizing the mistake.
The Linux kernel is removing the amateur radio protocol implementation and drivers due to unmaintained code and increasing security-bug reports from large language models. This removal aims to reduce the number of things to review and increase kernel security.
Researchers found that converting 3.2% of US corn-for-ethanol farmland to solar energy could increase US solar output and reduce ecological pressures. This modest conversion could yield the same energy as all corn ethanol farming does annually in the US.
Meta is installing software on US employees' computers to track keystrokes and mouse movements to train its AI. Employees are upset and cannot opt out of the program, but Meta says it's for improving AI models and has safeguards in place.
Sam Altman's World is partnering with Tinder and Zoom to require users to undergo biometric scans to prove they're human, offering incentives like free boosts on Tinder. This invasive verification method may become mandatory, with users facing penalties for non-compliance, despite concerns over data security and public trust.
The International Energy Agency declared 2025 the first year of solar's dominance, with solar production outpacing rising demand and leading to the "Age of Electricity." Solar generated over 2,700 terawatt-hours last year, more than double its output from three years earlier.
Iran claims US military operations against it used compromised Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet, and MikroTik equipment. US has confirmed cyber operations against Iran's communications infrastructure but hasn't addressed specific allegations.
An Indian man created a fake MAGA influencer, "Emily Hart," using AI-generated images to scam conservative men online, making thousands of dollars a month. He used the money to fund his medical studies and emigrate to the US, calling his followers "super-dumb" for falling for the scam.
Lute provides a standalone runtime for Luau with built-in APIs for common tasks. It allows for general-purpose programming outside of game engines, similar to Node.js or Deno.
The user discusses various ways to speed up PCR, including reducing cycles, making faster polymerases, and using photonic PCR, but concludes that these methods may not be effective due to limitations in ramp rates and switching costs. Some users suggest alternative approaches, such as bespoke PCR machines, dynamic control of reaction components, and enzyme engineering, which could potentially ...
Broccoli is a tool that automates engineering workflows using AI teammates, powered by Claude and Codex, and runs on Google Cloud. It requires a Google Cloud project, GitHub App, Linear API key, and other secrets to be set up manually or using the Codex deployment skill.
The Teams TypeScript SDK allows you to integrate your existing HTTP server with Teams by registering a messaging endpoint and handling incoming requests. The SDK provides a pattern for integrating with Express, LangChain, and Azure Foundry, and can be used with other HTTP servers and frameworks.
A man's body was discovered after a week, with his laptop's motherboard short-circuited by his deliquescent tissue. His father, a musician and data hoarder, taught him to protect files, but his own phone's fall led to data loss.
Google's eighth-generation TPUs (TPU 8t and TPU 8i) are designed for scalability, reliability, and efficiency, addressing the needs of AI workloads like world models and reasoning-heavy architectures. The new TPUs offer improved performance, power efficiency, and price-performance, with TPU 8t optimized for training and TPU 8i for serving and high-concurrency reasoning.
Anker has developed a custom AI chip called Thus, which will be integrated into its Soundcore earbuds first. The Thus chip is smaller, more energy-efficient, and can handle complex computations, improving call audio quality in noisy environments.
Christopher Priest's biography of JG Ballard explores the writer's unique vision shaped by his childhood in Shanghai and experiences in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. Priest's work, completed by his partner Nina Allan, provides a complex and poignant account of Ballard's life and work.
Francis Bacon's empiricism led to a technological capitalism that shaped the US, but his philosophy also fostered a metaphysics that prioritized power over mystery. Bacon's legacy, including his predictions in "The New Atlantis," highlights the tension between science and scientism.
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Desmond Morris, a 98-year-old English zoologist, died near Dublin after a career of writing and presenting about animal behavior. His book "The Naked Ape" argued that humans are just another species of ape, shaped by ancient genes and primal instincts.
You challenge a friend to a 100,000 block Tetris game where you pick the blocks. The worst strategy is choosing the same block repeatedly, but a winning strategy is to alternate between S and Z blocks.
William James, a psychologist and philosopher, was a talented visual artist who contributed to the development of data visualization in the 19th century. His work, along with that of Francis Galton and W.E.B. Du Bois, highlights the importance of handmade data visualization and the role of creativity in thinking.
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Kuri is a lightweight browser automation tool with a single 464 KB binary, optimized for agent integration and token economy. It offers a standalone fetcher, interactive terminal browser, and scriptable CLI for Chrome automation.
Nate Sheaffer, a neon artist, saves New Orleans' historic signs by refurbishing and designing new pieces at his shop Big Sexy Neon. He uses century-old techniques to create sustainable and long-lasting neon art, preserving the city's unique aesthetic.
The hyperbolic tangent function tanh is approximated using various methods including Taylor series, Padé approximants, splines, and bitwise manipulation techniques like K-TanH and Schraudolph to achieve fast and accurate results. These methods are particularly useful in neural networks and audio signal processing where speed and accuracy are crucial.
Tech startups are bragging about spending large amounts on AI compute, calling it a marker of growth and success. This "tokenmaxxing" trend is about replacing human workers with AI, but its financial sustainability and potential disasters are left unaddressed.
Knot theorists have developed tools called invariants to distinguish between knots, but most are either very strong or easy to compute, not both. Researchers Daniel Bar-Natan and Roland van der Veen have created a new knot invariant that is both strong and easy to compute.
OpenAI's workspace agents automate workflows, freeing teams to focus on higher-impact work. Agents use company tools to gather info and take action, following approved processes and governance.
Community groups in Monterey Park, California, and the surrounding areas organized against data centers, citing environmental concerns and lack of transparency from local governments. Organizers in the Imperial Valley, California, also protested against a proposed data center, highlighting the region's history of environmental injustices and the need for public input in decision-making processes.
The Electronic Shelf Label (ESL) system uses infrared communication to update prices and product information, with a proprietary protocol that encodes data in the time between pulses. The ESL system consists of a management server, base stations, transceivers, and ESLs, with a unique ID barcode on each tag that is used to identify and update the tag's information.
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Adobe's subscription model and prioritization of profit over innovation led to a decline in software quality and customer disrespect. The company's recent focus on AI features seems to be a desperate attempt to stay relevant, rather than addressing long-standing issues with their software.
The US is at a crossroads in the Iran war, with Palantir pushing for AI dominance and military control. Palantir's manifesto promotes war and surveillance, while its CEO Alexander Karp dismisses concerns about AI's role in genocide.
This is a Mac app that uses Apple Silicon for speech recognition. It's private and doesn't upload data to the cloud.
Larry McMurtry's life and work were deeply rooted in Texas, where he grew up listening to stories of the American West. His novels and screenplays often deconstructed the myths of the West, revealing the complexities and absurdities of its history and culture.
Data arm of TORCH FOOTBALL BETA → Every 2025 FBS player, plotted by hometown — 15,450 college football players on a single map. Filter by team, conference, state, or position; hit to put two side-by-side. Search for a player to fly to his city. Each popup carries his recruit rating, 2025 stats, and — if he just heard his name called — his 2026 NFL Draft pick.
Ars Technica uses generative AI tools in its workflow, but only with human oversight and standards. The site's editorial text is written by humans, and AI output is never treated as an authoritative source.
Book prices have increased over time, but when adjusted for inflation, they are actually lower than expected. Publishers face high costs and low profit margins, making it difficult to cut prices without harming authors and the publishing industry.
ENIAC's 80th anniversary marks the first general-purpose digital computer's contributions beyond military applications. ENIAC's creators, John Mauchly and Kathleen "Kay" McNulty, wove together computing, storytelling, and prediction in their work.
Olive CSS is a vanilla CSS framework inspired by Tailwind, written in Lisp, easy to learn and hack. It's free software with customizable features and a drop-in replacement for Tailwind.
Anthropic removed Opus 4.6 after releasing Opus 4.7, causing customer dissatisfaction and confusion. Users are considering alternatives due to increased costs and restrictive policies, such as the $20 Codex subscription.
OpenAI releases Privacy Filter, a small model for detecting and redacting PII in text, designed for high-throughput privacy workflows and context-aware detection. It achieves state-of-the-art performance on the PII-Masking-300k benchmark and can be fine-tuned for different data distributions and privacy policies.