Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS

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Ghost Pepper is a free, 100% local macOS app for speech-to-text transcription. It runs entirely on Apple Silicon, requiring Accessibility permission for functionality.

Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents

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Git, VMs, deployments, and execution β€” unified infrastructure for code you didn't write. The platform for AI app builders and workflow engines.

A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines

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The author has changed their position on the urgency of rolling out quantum-resistant cryptography due to recent progress in quantum computers, with experts predicting a deadline of 2029, and believes it's now unacceptable to delay the rollout. The author recommends deploying post-quantum key exchange and signatures immediately, and abandoning hybrid classic and post-quantum authentication schemes.

Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once

Government surplus auctions sell billions of dollars worth of items annually, including vehicles, equipment, and seized assets. GovAuctions aggregates listings from major platforms into one searchable interface, allowing users to browse and bid on deals.

German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups

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Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin, a 31-year-old Russian, is identified as the elusive hacker UNKN who led ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil. He and another Russian extorted nearly $2 million euros in cyberattacks causing over 35 million euros in economic damage.

What being ripped off taught me

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I was hired to help finish an AR bus tour project in Beijing, but the team was in disarray with no version control, poor coding practices, and unrealistic expectations. They failed to pay me $35k after I worked 24 days straight to fix their project.

Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?

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OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman was fired by the board after allegations of deception, but was reinstated after a public backlash and pressure from employees. The board's decision to fire Altman was motivated by concerns about his trustworthiness and ability to lead the company.

Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates

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Claude's performance in complex engineering tasks degraded starting in February due to reduced thinking depth caused by the rollout of thinking content redaction. This led to quality issues, including reduced research effort, increased edit-first behavior, and production of wrong output.

HackerRank (YC S11) Is Hiring

HackerRank is transforming developer hiring with AI agents, seeking a Field Development Engineer to help customers implement a new hiring process. The role requires technical fluency and strong communication skills to bridge product and customer teams.

Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division

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The novel "Antimemetics Division" by qntm is a cosmic horror story about a team fighting invisible threats to reality. It explores the concept of information as a substrate of reality and the fragility of human memory and identity.

Show HN: Hippo, biologically inspired memory for AI agents

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AI agents forget everything between sessions. Existing solutions just save everything and search later. That's a filing cabinet, not a brain. Your memories are also trapped. ChatGPT knows things Claude doesn't. Cursor rules don't travel to Codex. Switch tools and you start from zero. Multi-tool developers. You use Claude Code on Monday, Cursor on Tuesday, Codex on Wednesday. ...

Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game

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Anubis is a server protection system using Proof-of-Work to prevent aggressive website scraping. It requires modern JavaScript features and may be disabled by plugins like JShelter.

Show HN: Tusk for macOS and Gnome

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Features Sponsor Tusk is free and open source. If it's useful to you, consider sponsoring its development.

The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok

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The Claude team's source code leak is due to excessive dogfooding, where they're trying to avoid looking at the code's internal workings. This leads to poor quality software, as AI coding tools can't fix issues without human guidance.

Sky – an Elm-inspired language that compiles to Go

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Sky is an experimental programming language that combines go's pragmatism with elm&39's elegance to create a simple, fullstack language. the compiler auto-wires component messages when the naming convention is followed -- no manual forwarding needed in update! the current compiler (v0.7.x) uses any for function parameters and returns. eight compiler source files were refactored to ...

Ah, peptides. where to begin?

Agent Reading Test

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The Agent Reading Test is a benchmark that evaluates AI coding agents' ability to read web content by giving them realistic documentation tasks and scoring their performance based on canary tokens encountered. The test has 20 points, with each canary token found earning 1 point and correct answers to qualitative questions earning 1 point each, with a typical score range of 14-18 out of 20 for ...

Show HN: TTF-DOOM – A raycaster running inside TrueType font hinting

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TrueType fonts have a built-in virtual machine for grid-fitting glyphs. It's got a stack, storage slots, arithmetic, conditionals, function calls - and it turns out it's Turing-complete. I wanted to see if I could get it to render 3D graphics. The font file contains a DDA raycasting engine written in TrueType bytecode. The glyph "A" has 16 vertical bar contours, and the ...

Show HN: Anos – a hand-written ~100KiB microkernel for x86-64 and RISC-V

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This is not yet an operating system, but definitely has reached "toy kernel" status, since it now supports user mode preemptive multitasking on up to 16 CPUs, provides enough kernel support to run functioning device drivers in userspace, and runs on real hardware πŸ₯³. Anos is a modern, opinionated, non-POSIX operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like ...

The Last Quiet Thing

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The watch costs twelve dollars and has basic functionality since 1989. It doesn't track health or require maintenance, unlike modern devices that need constant updates and attention.

Eighteen Years of Greytrapping – Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off?

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The author has been running a greytrapping experiment on their mail server since 2007, which has grown to over 22 million spamtraps, surpassing the population of Norway. The author shares their experience and insights on running a mail server, greylisting, and greytrapping, and hopes to encourage others to set up their own mail services using tools like OpenBSD and PF.

Root Persistence via macOS Recovery Mode Safari

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Two macOS Recovery Mode vulnerabilities were discovered: one allows arbitrary writes to system partitions (CVSS 8.5) and the other unrestricted file reads (CVSS 4.6). Both were fixed in macOS Tahoe 26.3.

Show HN: Docking – extensible Linux dock in Python

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Docking is a customizable, open-source Linux dock application written in Python. It offers a modular widget system, cross-desktop environment support, and extensibility.

AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart

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Little created AI singer Eddie Dalton, inventing his look, sound, and videos, and is releasing music through iTunes and YouTube. Despite high chart rankings, Eddie Dalton's sales are low, with only 6,900 tracks sold, raising questions about the authenticity of his success.

A macOS bug that causes TCP networking to stop working after 49.7 days

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A hidden expiration date exists in macOS due to a 32-bit unsigned integer overflow in the XNU kernel, causing TCP connections to freeze after 49 days of continuous uptime, resulting in port exhaustion and system failure. The only current fix is a reboot, but a targeted workaround is being developed to address the issue without requiring a full system restart.

NYC Families Need over $125,000 in Income to Live in Any Borough

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Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed

Adobe modifies hosts file to detect Creative Cloud installation. They use this method due to Chrome blocking Local Network Access.

SOM: A minimal Smalltalk for teaching of and research on Virtual Machines

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SOM is a virtual machine with various implementations and optimizations, used for teaching and research in object-oriented programming. It has been used in several universities and has been the basis for other projects such as Resilient Smalltalk and OOVM.

Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built something different

Three established ways to use zooming in web interfaces are Prezi, impress.js, and Zumly, each serving different purposes and making different tradeoffs. Zumly is a framework-agnostic zooming library that dynamically mounts and unmounts views during transitions, offering an alternative to traditional page navigation.

Reducto releases Deep Extract

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Deep Extract is a new agent harness approach to extraction that verifies and corrects its own output until results are accurate. It's particularly powerful for long documents with complex extraction tasks, achieving 99-100% field accuracy.