Astral to Join OpenAI

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Astral's tools will join OpenAI's Codex team to push AI and software development forward. The goal remains to make programming more productive with tools that feel fast, robust, and integrated.

An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD

OpenTTD developers collaborated with Atari on Transport Tycoon Deluxe re-release, allowing new Steam and GOG players to purchase TTD first then access OpenTTD for free. This compromise balances Atari's commercial interests with OpenTTD's availability, ensuring the project's continued independence and development.

Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB

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Kitten TTS v0.8 is out with 15M, 40M, and 80M parameter models for high-quality voice synthesis on CPU. It supports various voices and offers commercial support for teams integrating it into their products.

How to Not Pay Your Taxes

Reinvest taxable income in business expenses and depreciate assets to defer US taxes. The US tax code rewards entrepreneurial pursuits, allowing you to create wealth and pay taxes later.

OpenBSD: PF queues break the 4 Gbps barrier

OpenBSD's PF packet filter now supports 64-bit bandwidth values, removing a 4.29 Gbps limit. This change allows correct configuration for high-speed interfaces up to 999G.

World Happiness Report 2026

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John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Lara B. Aknin, and Shun Wang Helliwell, J. F., Layard, R., Sachs, J. D., De Neve, J.-E., Aknin, L. B., & Wang, S. (Eds.). (2026). World Happiness Report 2026. University of Oxford: Wellbeing Research Centre.

Juggalo Makeup Blocks Facial Recognition Technology (2019)

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Juggalo face makeup can evade facial recognition due to its black bands obscuring key features. However, Apple's Face ID uses depth perception, making Juggalo makeup ineffective against it.

Gauntlet AI (YC S17): Fly you to Austin, train you in AI, give you $200k+ job

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Two phases of AI-first engineering training with escalating complexity, focusing on building, iterating, and shipping at speed. Challengers learn to design, ship, and deploy AI systems, from core workflows to real-world applications.

Launch HN: Voltair (YC W26) – Drone and charging network for power utilities

Voltair Labs is developing weatherized, hybrid-fixed drones for power utility inspections, aiming to replace foot patrols and helicopters with a cost-effective solution. The company's first product is a long-range, fixed-wing drone that recharges inductively on stripped-down charging pads, enabling inspections of entire transmission line corridors with reduced costs and increased efficiency.

Prompt Injecting Contributing.md

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The user's GitHub repository, awesome-mcp-servers, has been flooded with AI-generated pull requests, making manual review unsustainable. The user is exploring ways to distinguish human contributions from bot-generated ones to maintain open-source projects efficiently.

The Shape of Inequalities

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You've created animations to help people understand inequalities in a geometrical way, using classic shapes like circles, triangles, and squares. Your visualizations show how the Arithmetic Mean (AM), Geometric Mean (GM), Quadratic Mean (QM), and Harmonic Mean (HM) relate to each other, and how they can be represented using geometric shapes.

macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

US messageboard 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches

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Ofcom fined 4Chan £520,000 for failing to comply with UK's Online Safety Act. 4Chan's lawyer responded with an AI-generated image, claiming the platform breaks no law in the US.

Scaling Karpathy's Autoresearch: What Happens When the Agent Gets a GPU Cluster

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We used Claude Code to automate neural network training with 16 GPUs on a Kubernetes cluster, achieving a 2.87% improvement in val_bpb and discovering a strategy to exploit performance differences between H100 and H200 GPUs. The agent ran for 8 hours, submitting ~910 experiments and finding that scaling model width mattered more than any single hyperparameter, with a total cost of under $300.

UK's Ofcom has today fined 4chan £450k for not having age checks in place

Afroman found not liable in defamation case

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Afroman, whose real name is Joseph Foreman, was found not liable for defamation in a lawsuit filed by seven Ohio cops over a satirical music video. Foreman was sued for $3.9 million in damages but was cleared of all charges.

Launch HN: Canary (YC W26) – AI QA that understands your code

Aakash and Viswesh from Canary built AI agents to test code changes and user workflows, closing the gap in code verification. Canary outperforms GPT, Claude Code, and Sonnet in code verification benchmark QA-Bench v0.

Android: Balancing Openness and Choice with Safety

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We know a "one size fits all" approach doesn't work for our diverse ecosystem. We want to ensure that identity verification isn't a barrier to entry, so we’re providing different paths to fit your specific needs. In addition to the advanced flow we’re building free, limited distribution accounts for students and hobbyists. This allows you to share apps with a small group (up ...

I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI

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Eric Schmidt predicts UIs will go away, replaced by agents generating UIs on the fly. A prototype uses markdown as a protocol for agentic UI, combining code execution with text and data in a single stream.

Consensus Board Game

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The user is explaining the mathematical concept of consensus, specifically the Paxos algorithm, through a series of illustrations of a committee of five members trying to choose a color for a bike shed. The user is focusing on the logical structure of the universe that makes consensus possible, and will eventually discuss the pragmatics of consensus in a future post.

Love of corporate bullshit is correlated with bad judgment

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The user discusses the importance of language and its malleability, arguing that semantic drift is a feature of language that enriches it, and that policing language usage can be limiting. A recent research paper on corporate bullshit found that people who are susceptible to it are often those who are bad at analytical reasoning and easily convinced, and that this can create a feedback loop ...

Ramtrack.eu – RAM Price Intelligence

Memory prices areloading… DUTCH MARKET PRICES — LOADING…

Hyper-optimized reverse geocoding API

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A self-hosted reverse geocoding service built from OpenStreetMap data returns street addresses from latitude and longitude coordinates. It's part of the Traccar open source GPS tracking platform and available as a hosted service or Docker container.

Show HN: Dumped Wix for an AI Edge agent so I never have to hire junior staff

I run a building design consultancy. I got tired of paying Wix $40/month for a brochure that couldn’t answer simple service questions, and me wasting hours on the same FAQs. The stack is completely duct-taped: Netlify’s 10s serverless timeout forced me to split the agent into three pieces: Brain (Edge), Hands (Browser), and Voice (Edge). I haven’t coded in 30 years. This was 3 steps forward, ...

Pretraining Language Models via Neural Cellular Automata

Researchers found that large language models can be trained more efficiently using synthetic data from abstract dynamical systems, specifically neural cellular automata, rather than natural language. This approach enables in-context learning and reasoning capabilities without inheriting human biases.

Conway's Game of Life, in real life

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The user created an interactive display for Conway's Game of Life using a 17x17 matrix of switches and LEDs, with a Microchip AVR128DA64 MCU controlling the display and user input. The project involved designing a PCB, adding MOSFETs and transistors for row and column switching, and implementing safety features such as a watchdog timer and blackout window for screen updates.

What if Python was natively distributable?

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The Python ecosystem has overcomplicated distributed execution by bundling it with orchestration, forcing developers to adopt complex frameworks that sacrifice simplicity and flexibility. A new library called Wool aims to simplify distributed execution by making it transparent and allowing developers to write regular async functions that can be executed on remote worker processes without ...

Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe

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Eniac, the First General-Purpose Digital Computer, Turns 80

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ENIAC, the first large-scale electronic digital computer, was unveiled in 1946 and revolutionized mathematics and engineering. It paved the way for modern computing and transformed industries with its high-speed, general-purpose computing capabilities.

LotusNotes

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The military played a significant role in the development of early computing, with many innovations arising from academic research laboratories at prestigious universities. The University of Illinois's PLATO system, developed in the 1960s and 1970s, was a precursor to modern computing and internet concepts, influencing the development of Lotus Notes, a groupware product that revolutionized ...