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LG monitors may automatically install software promoting McAfee subscriptions without user consent. Users can block this behavior by enabling a Windows Group Policy setting to prevent automatic downloads of device-associated applications.

Regressive JPEGs

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The post explains how JPEG progressive scans can be used to progressively display low‑frequency data, and how the author exploits this by concatenating multiple scans (mostly DC‑only) to create a pseudo‑animation that works in browsers up to about 90 frames. Although this trick bypasses the usual 9‑scan limit and avoids ghosting, it has no real practical use because timing must rely on ...

GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization

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Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)

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A FastCompany article noticed a trend in AI company logos resembling swirling hexagons or circular shapes with central openings, often compared to anatomical features. This conformity in design may be due to risk aversion and the pressure to look legitimate, stifling innovation and visual creativity in the tech industry.

What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph

Mayor Mamdani Says Landlords Can't Use AI Images to Advertise

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New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani is cracking down on deceptive landlord practices, including AI-generated images in real estate listings. He released a "Rental Ripoff Report" requiring landlords to disclose AI-altered listings and expanding tenant rights.

If You Build It, They Will Come

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To join a new social group, organize events that align with their core activity, as there's often a demand for social events that exceeds supply. By doing so, you'll be noticed by other organizers and can build connections and friendships within the group.

The Kimi K3 Moment

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The user compared Kimi K3 and Claude, finding them to be nearly identical in performance but vastly different in price. The user believes US AI policy has failed, allowing a Chinese model to outperform restricted American models.

EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application

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EU companies must keep unsold clothes and shoes in use by selling, donating or repairing them, with destruction allowed only in specific cases. Companies must report and keep records of discarded items, with fines for non-compliance, to reduce waste and support a more circular economy.

Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal help?

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Fable 5 outperformed GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-hard optimization problem, producing the best solution with high consistency. The /goal feature, which changes the control loop and search path, sometimes improved and sometimes worsened performance, highlighting its complexity.

Gleam Is Now on Tangled

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⭐️ A friendly language for building type-safe, scalable systems!

Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide

To create a separate environment for Claude Code on a spare Mac, follow a step-by-step guide to set up a fresh local account, install necessary tools, and configure SSH and computer use. This setup allows for remote control of the spare Mac from a main Mac or phone, enabling tasks like research, development, and browser control with Claude Code.

Elixir-lang.org has a new design

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Elixir is a programming language that helps developers write clear and maintainable code, focusing on data and domain, with features like immutability and a gradual type system. It scales vertically and horizontally, excelling at real-time systems and supporting teams with diverse needs.

Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds

The website is using Cloudflare security and blocked my action, possibly due to a trigger like a certain word or SQL command. I was trying to perform an action when this page came up, and the Cloudflare Ray ID is needed to report the issue to the site owner.

The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal

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The Rekursiv, a custom silicon chip designed in the 1980s, was right about many things, including memory safety, garbage collection, and persistence, but was ahead of its time and failed due to economics. Now, with the commodity curve dead and new technologies emerging, the Rekursiv's ideas are being rediscovered and implemented in modern silicon, making it a relevant case study for ...

Show HN: IKEA Complexity Index

"ease rating" = average ease-of-assembly rating (1–5, higher = easier) left by reviewers on ikea.com. "~" ratings are averaged across combo products.

Codex Resets

OpenAI has been resetting usage limits for Codex and ChatGPT Work multiple times due to various issues such as increased traffic, reliability problems, and optimization issues. The resets aim to allow users to continue experimenting and building with the platforms.

Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

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The Hardcore IndieWeb approach emphasizes complete control and independence over your online content by hosting it on your own server and managing it with basic HTML and text editing skills. By doing so, you can freely move your website to any host, avoid dependencies on third-party services, and maintain full ownership of your online presence.

British runner Josh Kerr breaks world record for mile which stood for 27 years

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I started a “dirt notebook”

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User has a habit of over-organizing notebooks, making it hard to take new notes. To break this cycle, they started a "dirt notebook" with poor paper quality and cheap pens to write down random thoughts without structure.

Fake food delivery site for the dopamine

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Steam Machine: Between 12k and 15k Units Sold per week

Valve's Steam Machine is selling around 12k to 15k units per week, with estimated 12-month sales of 600k to 750k units. This suggests a niche device with demand likely to slow down naturally after the initial launch period.

Typing Speed Test, but for Developers

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Classic Amiga titles, free to download

The website offers a vast collection of 32-bit home computing content including games, demos, and utilities from the Amiga scene. It features various user group compilations and disk magazines from around the world, spanning thousands of files.

Qubes OS Security in the Public Record

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Researchers analyzed 109 Qubes Security Bulletins from 2011-2025 and found persistent upstream dependence in Qubes security issues. The study shows a stable but not quiet Qubes public advisory record, with most issues attributed to upstream components like Xen and CPU architecture.

REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500

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A new truck is being built with reliability as the top priority, featuring a naturally aspirated gas engine, body-on-frame design, and mechanical 4WD. It will be designed, certified, and assembled in America, with a focus on transparency and community involvement.

Stenchill: 3D Printable Solder Paste Stencil Generator

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Barbatronic is a French robotics creator who shares hardware tutorials on YouTube and Twitch, and has a community of makers and hackers. He integrates Stenchill, a stencil for precise solder paste deposits, into his fabrication workflow.

Show HN: Q3Edit – Edit and play Quake 3 maps in the browser

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Open, edit, and save real .map files — brushes, patches, entities, and terrain in a TypeScript + WebGL2 editor, with BSP compilation by id Software's original q3map compiled to WebAssembly. One click launches your compiled map in browser-native ioquake3.

Our Approach to Bioresilience: Isomorphic Labs and Google DeepMind

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We're working to prevent AI misuse and ensure its safe use in biosecurity by partnering with governments, scientists, and experts to build a more resilient world. Our AI models and agents are being made available to trusted partners to support prevention, detection, and response to infectious diseases and future outbreaks.
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Young adults are poor despite every metric which suggests otherwise

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The author argues that millennials and zoomers are struggling due to structural changes in the economy and society, including rising costs of essential goods and services, and a lack of social capital that previous generations took for granted. This has led to a "measurement failure" where official statistics show economic progress, but the lived reality for families is one of financial ...

Moonstone: Modern, cross-platform Lua runtime and package manager written in Zig

Moonstone — the modern, content-addressed package manager and deterministic environment orchestrator for Lua.

Mac gaming is finally getting the overpowered upgrade it deserves

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Apple's Game Porting Toolkit 4 beta has significantly improved performance for demanding Windows games on Mac, with GTA V seeing a 66% increase in frames per second. This suggests that Apple's translation technology is catching up with hardware capabilities, making the Mac a more viable gaming platform.

A grumpy screed about AI in software engineering

Software engineers are experiencing a decline in job satisfaction due to the increasing use of AI code generation, making their work feel like a "slog". Opting out of AI use is professionally nonviable, and non-AI projects may only remain a niche.

LG ThinQ Terms of Use

You installed the LG ThinQ app to remotely control your appliances but after discovering aggressive terms of use, you removed your account and appliances from the network. The terms require arbitration for disputes, grant LG broad rights to user content, and limit liability.

Harness Engineering

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Harness engineering improves agent output by shaping the environment around it, focusing on context and tools. It makes organizational judgment cumulative by incorporating lessons, feedback, and user responses into retrievable context and executable constraints.

Judge a book by its first pages

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Ishmael sets sail with little money and no shore interests, while Emma Woodhouse lives a comfortable life with her father and governess.

Co-evolution of self-replication and function in a digital primordial soup

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Researchers created a digital environment where self-replication emerged alongside problem-solving capabilities in Z80 assembly programs. The results show that self-replication and problem-solving co-evolved, with environmental demands shaping the physical architecture of self-replication.

Real-Time LuaTeX: Recompiling Large Documents in 1ms [pdf]

Researchers have developed a system called texlode that allows for real-time editing of LaTeX documents by recompiling only the edited paragraph, achieving O(1) latency. This approach adapts LaTeX's batch-mode architecture to support interactive editing, making it possible for authors to have both typographic quality and interactive feedback.

Traders are increasingly betting against SpaceX just weeks after IPO

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SpaceX and the myth of independent Wall St research

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Heresy (2022]

The concept of heresy has made a comeback in modern society, where certain opinions can lead to punishment, similar to the medieval era, and is often used to silence dissenting voices. This resurgence is driven by intolerant people and ideologies that promote moral purity, such as the aggressively conventional-minded, who seek to enforce orthodoxy and suppress free expression.

Credit Card Points Are a Transfer from the Broke to the Comfortable

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Credit card rewards are funded by interest paid at 25.2% APR and fees, mostly by those who carry a balance. The system benefits sophisticated users at the expense of naive users, with $15.1 billion annually flowing from less to more educated people and poorer to richer areas.

The Fermi Paradox, Percolation, and Inbreeding

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The author connects cheetahs' genetic bottlenecks to interstellar colonization, suggesting that repeated colonization creates a similar loss of genetic diversity, making colonists vulnerable to extinction. This could explain the Fermi Paradox, as colonizers may not be able to adapt to new environments.

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making

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The author believes that many companies are undergoing mass psychosis due to their heavy investment in AI, leading to irrational decisions and a lack of honest conversations about its effectiveness. The author argues that the current AI hype has created a culture of fear and frustration, where leaders are reluctant to speak honestly about their beliefs, and employees are evaluated on gameable ...

Israeli ministers announce plans for illegal settlements in Gaza and West Bank

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Israel's defence minister plans to establish three 'Nahal' outposts in Gaza, expanding control over 65% of the territory. The move violates a Trump-era ceasefire deal and is part of a pre-election push to expand settlements in the occupied West Bank.

PSA about abuse of cat(1) command. Don't abuse cats

grep can open files by itself. Piping a single file through cat spawns an entire process whose only job is to copy bytes to a program that already knew how to read them.

Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey

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IMAXXING is a service that alerts users to good seats for The Odyssey's nationwide IMAX 70mm run. It uses a watch window and checks seat availability at selected theaters, sending alerts when good seats become available.

What's the deal with all the random weekly quota resets for agents lately?

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The author is frustrated with frequent weekly quota resets on their Codex subscription, which they feel is a waste of money and disrupts their plans. They believe the resets are likely intended to prevent power users from experimenting with competing models.

Gap in Mochizuki's proof of ABC confirmed by Lean

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Researchers at the press conference discussed Mochizuki's IUT theory, stating the argument from Theorem 3.11 to Corollary 3.12 is unformalizable. LANA provided a simplified analysis of the IUT theory for the general public, comparing it to the 2018 Scholze-Stix report.

In Germany if you say a restaurant is just ok they send the gestapo after you

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in germany if you say a restaurant is just ok they send the gestapo after you

ECHR confirms ethical veganism is a protected philosophical belief

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The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Switzerland violated the rights of two vegans by not providing them with consistent vegan meals in detention facilities. This confirms that ethical veganism is a protected philosophical belief in Europe, following similar rulings in the UK and Italy.

Frozen 2 should be Rated R

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The user argues that movies have become desensitized to death and mass threat, normalizing it as a plot point, which can have a negative impact on our collective psyche. They propose that movies should give events the weight they deserve, rather than normalizing death and mass threat, to create a healthier collective understanding of the world.

AI Bubble vs. Dot Com Crash. History Is Repeating