Are We Idiocracy Yet?

In a dystopian future, the US has become a chaotic, entertainment-driven society where politics, education, and healthcare have been severely compromised. Corporations have replaced institutions, and people are increasingly desensitized to violence and absurdity.

We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code

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Researchers found a 57-year-old bug in the Apollo Guidance Computer's gyro control code that could have caused a lunar mission failure. The bug, a resource lock leak, was discovered using a behavioural specification language and was previously undetected despite extensive scrutiny of the code.

Every GPU That Mattered

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49 graphics cards. 30 years. From Quake to Cyberpunk. The complete visual history of every GPU that mattered.

My Experience as a Rice Farmer

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The user spent January-July 2025 helping with their wife's family rice farm in rural Japan, learning about the process from preparation to planting. Japan's rice farming system faces challenges due to aging farmers, limited income, and automation, potentially leading to a decline in rural communities.

Blackholing My Email

In 2002, a unique series of events led to my email address [email protected] being blackholed to prevent our broadband account from being terminated due to excessive spam. The account was eventually removed and is now non-existent, but it's unclear if it still receives email worms.

Identify a London Underground Line just by listening to it

Can you identify London Underground lines just by their sound? 10 questions, 10 lines. How well do you know the Tube?

Germany Power Prices Turn Deeply Negative on Renewables Surge

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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.

Three hundred synths, 3 hardware projects, and one app

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MIDI Guide, a comprehensive MIDI dataset, was created from an abandoned app project and has grown to over 300 instruments from 98 manufacturers. The project's community-driven growth and use in various hardware and software projects has made it a valuable resource for musicians and synth enthusiasts.

Breaking the console: a brief history of video game security

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Video game security has always been a moving target, as consoles evolved to full-blown computing platforms locked down with layers of protection β€” but for every lock ever invented, there has always been someone determined to pick it. Being a video game fan myself, I never gave much thought to any of this until I became an engineer and started diving into security. Consoles are embedded ...

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.

Solod – A subset of Go that translates to C

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So is a subset of Go that translates to C with zero runtime and manual memory management. It supports Go syntax, type safety, and tooling for systems programming in C.

Second Revision of 6502 Laptop

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You're revising your LT6502 laptop, a work in progress, with recent updates including graphics and text on screen. Changes include a slimmer design, updated memory map, and code modifications for keyboard and modem 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.

Peptides: where to begin?

Apollo Guidance Computer restoration videos

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The Virtual AGC Website is a comprehensive resource for AGC information, featuring recovered and scanned materials from various sources. It offers documentation, videos, and software for those interested in AGC hardware and software, including core memory and DSKY screen emulation.

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.

Show HN: AdaShape-3D modeler for intuitive 3D printing parts / Windows 11

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AdaShape is a modeler for printable shapes that runs on any Windows 11 PC with an SSD, requiring no GPU or workstation. It offers features like parametric solver, immutable project history, and shape ops for easy design and collaboration.

Floating point from scratch: Hard Mode

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Half a decade ago I decided that I was going to implement some floating point arithmetic. Back then it seemed approachable enough, after all, floating points are ubiquitous. How hard can it really be ? My experience until that point had been: given enough time and effort is spent bashing my brain against a problem, I can generally figure things out. This is how I faced the most complete ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Show HN: Hippo, biologically inspired memory for AI agents

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Hippo is a shared memory layer across AI agents that captures and consolidates memories, allowing for context to carry over between sessions. It uses a two-speed storage system, decay, retrieval strengthening, and other mechanisms to help agents learn from their experiences.

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

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Anos is a modern, non-POSIX operating system for x86_64 PCs and RISC-V machines, currently supporting user mode preemptive multitasking on up to 16 CPUs. It has a custom toolchain and supports UEFI boot on real hardware.

Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute

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Anthropic signed a new agreement with Google and Broadcom for next-generation TPU capacity to power its frontier Claude models. This expansion will help serve extraordinary demand from customers worldwide and strengthen American computing infrastructure.

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 ...