Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation

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Motorola announced new consumer and enterprise solutions at Mobile World Congress, including a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation for enhanced security. The company introduced Moto Secure and Moto Analytics to expand its B2B ecosystem with advanced security and operational insights.

/e/OS is a complete "deGoogled", mobile ecosystem

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e/OS is an open-source mobile OS with auditable privacy, offering a "deGoogled" Android experience with no Google services accessing personal data. It comes with a set of carefully selected default apps and features like tracker detection and ad blocking.

Microslop Manifesto

Microsoft's AI-generated content floods search results with fabricated information, distracting users from core functionality. AI-generated content proliferates, drowning out human voices and collapsing the signal-to-noise ratio.

U.S. science agency moves to restrict foreign scientists from its labs

How to talk to anyone and why you should

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The author reflects on the decline of casual conversations with strangers in public spaces due to social anxiety and overreliance on technology. They argue that this loss of human interaction is a significant issue affecting people of all ages.

Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)

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The user prefers making games without commercial game engines, finding it more fun and less overhead, and has developed a custom workflow using C# and open-source libraries like SDL and ImGui. They believe that making games "from scratch" is not an impossible task, especially with the state of open-source frameworks and libraries, and encourages others to try it if it sounds fun.

Microsoft bans the word "Microslop" on its Discord, then locks the server

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Microsoft's Copilot Discord server blocks the term "Microslop" due to its negative connotation. Users found ways to bypass the filter, leading to restricted access and a containment mode in the server.

Show HN: Omni – Open-source workplace search and chat, built on Postgres

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Omni is a unified search platform connecting multiple apps with full-text and semantic search capabilities. It uses a single Postgres database and sandboxed containers for secure AI analysis.

Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternative

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The Jolla Phone is a new device honoring the 2013 original, with modern specs and European privacy thinking. It runs Sailfish OS, allowing native and Android apps, with no data harvesting or tracking.

Go-Native Durable Execution

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The author of a Go library for durable workflows discusses the challenges of reconciling compile-time type safety with a single interface for workflow and step functions, and how they used Go's context.Context to achieve this. The library, durable.Context, exposes methods to invoke user functions as workflows or steps, leveraging Go context to propagate metadata and handle cancellation and deadlines.

If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?

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git-memento records AI coding sessions as Git notes, allowing for auditing and amendment of commits. It supports multiple sessions and can sync notes with a remote repository.

Mondrian Entered the Public Domain. The Estate Disagrees

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The Mondrian Trust claims Piet Mondrian's 1930 painting is still protected citing dual copyrights and Spanish law. However, U.S. law and copyright experts confirm the painting entered the public domain on January 1, 2026.

Neocaml – Rubocop Creator's New OCaml Mode for Emacs

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Neocaml is a new Emacs package for OCaml programming that features TreeSitter-powered modes and integration with an OCaml toplevel. It provides features like font-locking, indentation, and comment commands, and can be used with Eglot and other packages for a more complete development experience.

Computer-generated dream world: Virtual reality for a 286 processor

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The user is simulating a 286 processor using a Raspberry Pi and MCP23S17 IO expander. They successfully booted the processor and ran simple assembly code.

Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse Engineering

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By subscribing, you agree Substack's Terms of Use, and acknowledge its Information Collection Notice and Privacy Policy. Throughout this series, “we” refers to maderix (human) and Claude Opus 4.6 (by Anthropic) working as a pair. The reverse engineering, benchmarking, and training code were developed collaboratively — human intuition driving the exploration, AI reasoning through the data ...

WebMCP is available for early preview

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WebMCP provides a standard way for websites to expose structured tools, enabling AI agents to interact with them quickly and precisely. This allows agents to perform tasks like booking flights, filing support tickets, and navigating complex data with increased speed and reliability.

Right-sizes LLM models to your system's RAM, CPU, and GPU

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llmfit is a terminal tool that right-sizes LLM models to your system's hardware and recommends suitable models based on quality, speed, fit, and context dimensions. It supports multi-GPU setups, MoE architectures, and dynamic quantization selection.

How to record and retrieve anything you've ever had to look up twice

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The author forgot how to watermark a document after two years of not doing it and wasted time relearning the process. They recommend documenting multi-step processes to avoid this issue.

An interactive intro to Elliptic Curve Cryptography

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Elliptic curve cryptography uses a mathematical structure based on the geometry of curves to provide a one-way function for key exchange and digital signatures with much smaller keys than traditional RSA or Diffie-Hellman systems. The Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) key exchange and Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) provide secure key agreement and signatures with ...

Squidcasa/midipipe: ALSA Sequencer to plain text and back

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midipipe(1) is a Linux program that accepts MIDI events in a plain text format on stdin, and sends them to a MIDI device or client using the ALSA sequencer API, and vice versa. It keeps a persistent client, so while you can send a single message like in this example, you can also continuously stream messages in or out, which is where midipipe shines. Use it in your shell scripts, or really ...

Show HN: Timber – Ollama for classical ML models, 336x faster than Python

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Timber compiles trained models into native C and serves them over a local HTTP API. It supports models like XGBoost and CatBoost, and can auto-detect model types.

Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.

Process-Based Concurrency: Why Beam and OTP Keep Being Right

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The BEAM runtime provides a coherent architecture for concurrent systems with isolated state, message passing, and supervision hierarchies, making it a correct solution for building fault-tolerant systems. Its properties, such as preemptive scheduling and per-process GC, give soft real-time guarantees and make it naturally suited for AI agent systems and real-time applications.

Libxml2 Enterprise Edition (AGPL, from the previous maintainer)

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This software is released under AGPL version 3 and requires Autotools, a C compiler, and iconv function for build and conversion.

Everett shuts down Flock camera network after judge rules footage public record

Tove Jansson's criticized illustrations of The Hobbit (2023)

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Tove Jansson illustrated the Swedish translation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit in 1960. Her unique illustrations focused on landscapes and locations, differing from the traditional depiction of Tolkien's characters.

Show HN: Web Audio Studio – A Visual Debugger for Web Audio API Graphs

The Web Audio API allows developers to create interactive node graphs and visualize audio signal chains in real-time. It provides templates for various audio techniques, including sine waves, FM synthesis, and spatialization.

Evolving descriptive text of mental content from human brain activity

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Researchers have made significant progress in decoding brain signals to translate thoughts into text, with a study at Stanford University achieving 74% accuracy in real-time inner speech. This breakthrough could revolutionize communication for people with impaired speech capabilities and eventually transform human interaction with the world around us.

Pluralism and the Modern Poet

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William James delivered eight lectures at Oxford, titled "The Present Situation in Philosophy," which were a success but sparked controversy due to his criticism of intellectualism.

Enable CORS for Your Blog

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Public RSS feeds are blocked by browsers due to CORS, but feed readers and crawlers are unaffected. Adding CORS headers to server responses fixes the issue, making feeds compatible with all readers.