The End of Eleventy

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The Font Awesome team has launched a Kickstarter for Build Awesome, a rebranded version of the static site generator 11ty, which has already reached its funding goal, but many 11ty developers are concerned about the project's direction and potential impact on the open-source community. The rebranding effort has been met with skepticism, with some developers questioning the need for a paid ...

Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found

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Anthropic's Mythos AI model is not the only solution for AI cybersecurity as smaller, cheaper models can recover similar analysis and detect vulnerabilities. The capability of AI cybersecurity is jagged and doesn't scale smoothly with model size, with the system and security expertise being more important than the model itself.

US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional

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A US appeals court ruled a 158-year-old ban on home distilling unconstitutional, citing it as an improper tax measure. The decision allows individuals to distill spirits at home for personal use or as a hobby.

How We Broke Top AI Agent Benchmarks: And What Comes Next

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An automated scanning agent discovered vulnerabilities in eight prominent AI benchmarks, allowing near-perfect scores without solving tasks. The Agent-Eval Checklist provides a minimum bar for robust evaluation, including isolating agents from evaluators and preventing tampering with evaluation data.

How Complex is my Code?

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Measuring code complexity for humans is challenging as it involves understanding the mental effort required to comprehend the code, which can be influenced by factors such as familiarity with patterns, working memory load, and coherence. Various metrics like Cyclomatic Complexity, Halstead Complexity, and linguistic complexity measures can provide insights, but ultimately, the cognitive ...

447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane

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Excellence Is a Habit

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NASA's success in returning to the Moon is a testament to decades of retained institutional learning, simulations, and test infrastructure. The key to resilience is repetition, simulation, and humility, built long before it's needed, not just when everything works.

Dark Castle

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Return To Dark Castle is a 2008 Macintosh platform game with 63 levels, including 50 new ones. The game follows Bryant as he fights to defeat the Black Knight and rescue Duncan, the original hero.

Pijul a FOSS distributed version control system

Pijul is a free, open-source version control system based on a theory of patches, offering simplicity and scalability. It preserves order and guarantees strong merge properties, modeling conflicts as standard cases.

Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)

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You worked as a Mac Admin Intern and researched Apple Silicon Virtual Machines limitations. You found the limitation is implemented in the closed-source XNU kernel, not userspace, and can be overridden by setting hv_apple_isa_vm_quota in the kernel.

How a dancer with ALS used brainwaves to perform live

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Dentsu Lab's Project Humanity translates muscle signals and brainwaves into digital expression for people with physical disabilities. Their technology allows users to interact with software and access virtual spaces like the Metaverse.

Tofolli gates are all you need

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Landauer’s principle gives a lower bound on the amount of energy it takes to erase one bit of information: where kB is the Boltzmann constant and T is the ambient temperature in Kelvin. The lower bound applies no matter how the bit is physically stored. There is no theoretical lower limit on the energy required to carry out a reversible calculation. In practice the energy required to erase a ...

Simplest Hash Functions

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The text discusses non-cryptographic hash functions, specifically the "rapidhash" function, which is simple and fast but prone to collisions. It also explores other hash functions like "foldhash" and "foldmul" that use multiplication to distribute entropy.

Why meaningful days look like nothing while you are living them

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A foreigner in Fukuoka took a train to a small town, walked between bronze statues of cartoon pirates, and completed a circuit in his nervous system. This was a pilgrimage, a structure of departure, intention, stations, witness, and return, that unfolded slowly over time.

Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of 1980s-era Mac OS

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Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of 1980s-era Mac OS that runs 68K Mac applications in an emulator. It launches directly into an application without a startup phase on POSIX-like systems.

Building a Z-Machine in the worst possible language – Whitebeard's Realm

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The user implemented a Z-machine emulator in Elm, a pure language, to run Infocom text adventure games. The emulator uses Elm's persistent data structures to achieve performance and is now available as a library for building interactive fiction players.

Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI

Cirrus Labs joined OpenAI to build tooling for agentic engineers, extending its mission of making engineers more effective. Cirrus Labs will relicense its tools under a permissive license and stop charging licensing fees.

Surelock: Deadlock-Free Mutexes for Rust

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The user created a library called surelock to prevent deadlocks in Rust by using a linear scope token called MutexKey that threads through every acquisition and provides a compile-time witness of the current lock state. The library uses a physical-world analogy where the MutexKey is like a key that is consumed and re-emitted at each lock acquisition, and it also supports incremental ...

How to build a `Git diff` driver

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User plans to blog about creating external commands for git diff, specifically for OpenAPI specs with oasdiff. They will expose more information in output and handle 7 git diff arguments, including /dev/null for created/deleted files.

Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons

User created pardonned.com to verify claims and easily access pardons data, using Playwright, SQLite, and Astro. They plan to extend the site with analysis and comparison tools to break down pardon composition by President and visualize changes in pardon numbers.

Software Preservation Group: C++ History Collection

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Bjarne Stroustrup developed C++ from 1979 to 1991, adding features like classes, templates, and exceptions. He released Cfront, the first C++ compiler, in 1985, and continued to improve the language through various releases and documentation.

Midnight Captain – A midnight commander inspired file manager

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User created OpenCode, a customizable terminal file manager inspired by Midnight Commander and NVim-Tree. It allows users to create files and directories with smart create feature and can be downloaded with a pre-built binary installer.

The Soul of an Old Machine

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The author has a strong attachment to hardware, often choosing unique devices with characteristics not found in others. They've kept many devices running for years, sometimes with community support, and find it rewarding.

What is a property?

Property-Based Testing involves combining properties and generators to find bugs, but the traditional model of independent generators and properties is often inadequate due to complex system interactions. A better approach is to use dependent generators that can run computations related to the property, allowing for more accurate and efficient testing.

Optimal Strategy for Connect 4

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A weak solution to Connect 4 was developed using a language that describes perfect play for a small subset of nodes and a small opening tree. This solution uses no search during runtime and fits in about 150 kilobytes.

Keeping a Postgres Queue Healthy

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A Postgres database can handle job queues, but maintaining a healthy queue table depends on the behavior of other transactions running on the same instance. The health of the queue table is affected by competing query traffic on the primary, which can prevent autovacuum from cleaning up dead tuples.

Dcmake: A new CMake debugger UI

The user created a CMake debugger called dcmake using recent leaps in software engineering productivity and AI assistance, which would have taken a month prior to 2026. dcmake allows interactive debugging of CMake with a GUI interface and supports multiple platforms including macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D

Method to reverse cellular ageing is about to be tested in humans

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Yuancheng Ryan Lu could barely breathe while he waited for his labmate to adjust the microscope focus. On the slide in front of them were the results of Lu’s latest attempt to turn back time for ageing retinal nerve cells. If it worked, the method he was using could help to restore eyesight to older adults with glaucoma, an age-related condition that damages the optic nerve. And perhaps some ...

The APL programming language source code (2012)

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Kenneth E Iverson invented APL in 1957 as a mathematical notation, which was later developed into a computer programming language with a unique syntax and array processing capabilities. APL became popular in the 1960s and 1970s for its interactive timesharing capabilities and was used in various applications including scientific, actuarial, statistical, and financial fields.