The Age Verification Trap, Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection

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Regulators are pushing social media platforms to verify users' ages, but this creates a technical problem: collecting personal data to prove age. Platforms are using intrusive verification systems that often conflict with data-privacy laws.

Ladybird Browser adopts Rust

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Ladybird is rewriting parts in Rust for better safety guarantees and ecosystem support. The first target was LibJS, Ladybird's JavaScript engine, which was translated from C++ in two weeks with zero regressions.

The peculiar case of Japanese web design

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The user analyzed 2,671 images of popular websites worldwide using AI to identify web design patterns and found that Japan's web design is relatively unique in its concentration of lighter-colored and denser design. The user explored possible causes including writing systems, cultural differences, and technology, concluding that Japan's web design trajectory has been influenced by its unique ...

Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel

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Brian Lucey, a professor at Trinity College Dublin, was removed as editor from 5 journals after 12 papers he co-authored were retracted due to a conflict of interest. Lucey was accused of running a citation cartel and selling papers through his consultancies, which may have been used to circulate ecosystem funds or consultancy payouts.

Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics

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MicroVision aims to produce a solid-state lidar sensor for under $200, a price drop that could make lidar affordable for advanced driver-assistance systems. This move could alter the calculus of autonomous-car design by lowering the cost of precise three-dimensional sensing.

Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer

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Companies are still using outdated 1950s plastics like EPS, causing environmental harm and commercial burdens. Mushroom Packaging, made from natural mycelium, offers a sustainable alternative that matches EPS's protective qualities and cost.

I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard

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The user built a custom family dashboard system called Timeframe, combining calendar, weather, and smart home data, to create a healthy relationship with technology in their home. After several prototypes and iterations, they settled on a real-time e-paper display system using a Boox Mira Pro and Home Assistant as the primary data source.

A simple web we own

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Today the Web and Internet is owned and controlled by large for profit corporations and a few governments1. Corporate ownership combined with government policies has left us as tenant and product. It has given us a surveillance economy and enshittification2. What happens when ownership and control of hardware and software shifts from the domain of corporations to a world where a significant ...

0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix

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Wildfire Games releases 0 A.D. version 28, "Boiorix", a free open-source real-time strategy game of ancient warfare. The game features a new Germanic faction, improved text rendering, and various bug fixes.

femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation

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Femtolisp is a fast, self-contained Scheme dialect with a bytecode compiler and VM, written in the language itself. It prioritizes elegance, simplicity, and reliability with a small core of features and proper tail recursion.

SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing (2025)

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Emulating Goto in Scheme with Continuations

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In his 1968 letter, A case against the GO TO statement (known only by that name), Dijkstra said “[t]he go to statement as it stands is just too primitive, it is too much an invitation to make a mess of one’s program.” Unfortunately, scheme programmers aren’t given that invitation. That’s no fair! Fortunately, scheme has a procedure, call/cc, that we can use to emulate the style of control ...

Pipelined Relational Query Language, Pronounced "Prequel"

PRQL is a modern language for transforming data

Benchmarks for concurrent hash map implementations in Go

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Disclaimer: I'm the author of xsync, one of the libraries benchmarked here. I did my best to keep this benchmark neutral and fair to all implementations. If you spot any issues or have suggestions for improvements, please open an issue. Since Go 1.24, sync.Map is backed by a HashTrieMap — a concurrent hash trie with 16-way branching at each level. Reads are lock-free via atomic pointer ...

What Is a Centipawn Advantage?

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A centipawn advantage is a measure of a chess engine's evaluation of a position, with 100 centipawns corresponding to a 50% chance of winning, and can be converted to Elo difference using a graph. The centipawn system models draws separate from wins and losses, unlike the Elo system, and is used to estimate probabilities of each outcome in a chess game.

Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok

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Loops is a federated, open-source social media platform giving power back to creators and communities. It offers a chronological feed, creator tools, and community features without ads or invasive tracking.

Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable

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The CIA World Factbook archive contains 36 years of data on 281 entities with 1,061,341 fields. It's a searchable, queryable database following ICD 203 standards, not affiliated with the CIA or US Government.

Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring Interns in AI for Summer 2026 in Austria

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Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026)

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Interactive AI timeline tracking 194+ Large Language Models from 2017 to 2026. Explore the history of ChatGPT, GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, LLaMA, Mistral, DeepSeek and every major LLM ever released.

Don't host email yourself – your reminder in 2026

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The author warns against running a self-hosted email server, citing the difficulty of maintaining a good reputation with major email providers. They recommend using a transactional email service to ensure deliverability.

Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies

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Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38%

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First, They Came for the Journalists

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Hundreds of journalists are forced into exile each year, from every corner of the world. As authoritarianism and censorship rise, reporters are among the first to feel the pressure — pushed out of their homes and separated from the careers, sources and communities they’ve built. The number of journalists forced into exile is rising. In Latin America alone, more than 900 journalists were ...

My journey to the microwave alternate timeline

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The user explores the alternate timeline where microwave ovens replaced stoves, using Marie T. Smith's 1985 cookbook Microwave Cooking for One. They test various recipes, finding some successful and others problematic, and discuss the potential reasons why microwave cooking never reached its full potential in the real world.

Microspeak: Escrow

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As a product is nearing release, the release management selects a build and declares it to be the escrow build. The metaphor is that this build has been placed into the hands of an imaginary third party for eventual release to customers provided certain requirements are met. Those requirements are that the product survive a period of concerted testing and self-host usage to build confidence ...

VTT Test Donut Lab Battery Reaches 80% Charge in Under 10 Minutes [pdf]

Independent charging performance tests were conducted on solid-state battery cells supplied by a customer. The tests involved charging the cells at 5C and 11C rates and measuring capacity, energy, cell temperature, and charging times.

Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours, in 2025

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The author built a web crawler to crawl 1 billion pages in 24 hours, achieving a cost of $462, and found that the state of the art has changed with more dynamic and heavier content on the web, but still accessible through HTML-only crawling. The author's design used a cluster of 12 highly-optimized nodes, each containing all crawler functionality, and identified parsing as a major bottleneck ...

Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums

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A software engineer discovered a major security flaw in DJI's robot vacuum system, allowing him to access live camera feeds and control over 10,000 devices worldwide. DJI has since fixed the issue, but experts warn that similar vulnerabilities could become harder to detect as more households adopt smart home devices.

How in the Hell Did Joann Fabrics Die While Best Buy Survived? It Wasn't Amazon

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Walk into a Best Buy today and the experience is fine-ish. The floors tend to be clean. The displays work. A blue-shirted employee can probably point you toward the right laptop, and if you’re lucky, the one who helps you actually knows the difference between the models. The Geek Squad desk may or may not have a line. The store-within-a-store sections for Samsung and Apple are slick and ...

What I Learned After Building 3 TV Apps Coming from Mobile

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Developing TV apps requires a different mindset than mobile apps due to unique user interactions, hardware constraints, and performance expectations. TV apps succeed when they prioritize navigation clarity, focus, and simplicity, rather than trying to adapt mobile designs.