Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs

Darkbloom is a decentralized AI inference network connecting idle Apple Silicon machines to demand, reducing costs by up to 70% and giving operators 95% of revenue. It ensures end-to-end encryption and operator anonymity, eliminating data extraction risks.

FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account

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You're looking for a direct contact at Google's Gmail team to report a spammer issue. You've tried the abuse form but want to reach a human employee for a solution.

Sal Khan's AI revolution hasn't happened yet

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Sal Khan's AI-powered tutoring chatbot, Khanmigo, has seen limited adoption by students, who often use it to find answers rather than learn. Khan Academy officials are reimagining their product to pair AI with human systems, acknowledging AI's limitations in driving massive learning gains.

RedSun: System user access on Win 11/10 and Server with the April 2026 Update

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The Red Sun vulnerability repository. Contribute to Nightmare-Eclipse/RedSun development by creating an account on GitHub.

Moving a large-scale metrics pipeline from StatsD to OpenTelemetry / Prometheus

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Airbnb migrated its metrics pipeline from StatsD to OpenTelemetry and Prometheus, collecting all metrics first to focus on technical challenges. The new pipeline uses a dual-write strategy, OTLP for internal services and Prometheus for OSS workloads, with a centralized aggregation tier for cost savings and scalability.

A Look into NaviDial, Japan's Legacy Phone Service

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NaviDial is a service in Japan where businesses and public services charge callers for calls, often resulting in high costs for those who need help the most. To avoid these costs, international residents in Japan can look for alternative numbers, use text-based support, or ask for a callback when calling from a mobile phone.

The paper computer

The user wants to combine physical and virtual worlds to reduce screen time and distractions, allowing for flexibility and convenience. They envision a future where technology helps people work and interact without constant screen interaction.

Stop Using Ollama

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Ollama, a popular local LLM tool, has been criticized for obscuring its reliance on llama.cpp, a C++ inference engine created by Georgi Gerganov, and for its own inferior performance and compatibility issues. Users are advised to move away from Ollama and use llama.cpp or other open-source alternatives that provide better performance, compatibility, and transparency.

Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now

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Anthropic's Mythos LLM is highly capable at computer security tasks, completing a simulated corporate network attack in 3 out of 10 attempts. Security may be reduced to a simple equation of spending more tokens than attackers to harden a system.

ChatGPT for Excel

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Ask ChatGPT to build full spreadsheets, get insights across tabs and formulas, and update workbooks in real time so projects move forward faster. Available globally for ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, Edu, Teachers, and K-12 users, and for ChatGPT Pro and Plus users outside the EU.

I made a terminal pager

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The user built a reusable viewport component in Go for text navigation in terminal applications and used it to create a terminal pager called lore, which they now daily drive as their terminal pager. The viewport component supports features like text wrapping, search, and selection, and is designed to be performant even with large amounts of text.

Introduction to spherical harmonics for graphics programmers

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Spherical harmonics are a set of special polynomials that can be used to approximate any continuous function defined on a sphere. They are an orthonormal basis for the space of continuous functions on a sphere, meaning that any function can be expressed as an infinite weighted sum of spherical harmonics.

IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark

We measure IPv6 connectivity among Google users, showing deployment and reliability issues in various regions. Regions with high IPv6 deployment have fewer issues, while those with low deployment experience significant problems.

Cal.com is going closed source

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Cal.com is moving to closed source due to increasing security risks from AI-powered vulnerability scanning. They're releasing a modified open source version, Cal.diy, under the MIT license for developers and hobbyists.

Fast and Easy Levenshtein distance using a Trie

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The user compares two methods for finding the closest matching word in a large dictionary using Levenshtein distance, with the second method using a trie data structure being over 300 times faster than the first. The second method has a runtime of O(max word length * number of nodes in the trie), making it more efficient for large dictionaries.

Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data

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Google handed over Amandla Thomas-Johnson's data to ICE without notifying him, breaking a nearly decade-long promise to users. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has asked California and New York Attorneys General to investigate Google for deceptive trade practices.

Too much discussion of the XOR swap trick

The XOR swap trick is not useful in most programming situations due to compiler optimization. It can be useful in assembly code when swapping values in registers without spare registers.

Rewriting a 20-year-old Python library

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Way back in 2005, lots of people (ordinary people, not just people who work in tech) used to have personal blogs where they wrote about things, rather than using third-party short-form social media sites. I was one of those people (though I wasn’t yet blogging on this specific site, which launched the following year). And back in 2005, and even earlier, people liked to have comment sections ...

North American English Dialects

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1. Click on the map to enlarge it, selecting either the U. S. or Canada. 3. Click on a state or province to listen to audio or video samples for each location. The following page is interesting, and was pointed out to me by several people, although it really has no direct correlation to the data presented here: gizmodo.com/the-most-common-languages-spoken-in-the-u-s-state-by-1575719698. Adj. ...

Show HN: Libretto – Making AI browser automations deterministic

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Libretto is a toolkit for building robust web integrations with a live browser and CLI. It helps maintain browser integrations to common software and is open-sourced for easier use.

Retrofitting JIT Compilers into C Interpreters

yk is a system that automatically converts C interpreters into JIT compiling Virtual Machines with minimal code changes, offering better performance while retaining full compatibility with reference implementations. yk uses meta-tracing to record and optimise the interpreter's actions, allowing it to inline code and achieve significant performance improvements with minimal manual effort.

The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew

McDonald's Japan website has limited allergen information in Japanese, covering 28 ingredients. English menus and ordering are available through their app and some restaurant locations.

Stealth signals are bypassing Iran’s internet blackout

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Iran imposed a near-total communications shutdown in January 2026, cutting off 90 million people from the world and each other. Toosheh, a satellite-based system, delivered real-time updates and uncensored news to Iran during the blackout, providing a lifeline to those starved of trusted information.

PiCore - Raspberry Pi Port of Tiny Core Linux

piCore is a Raspberry Pi port of Tiny Core Linux, a customizable system with a small footprint and recent kernel. It runs entirely in RAM and offers flexibility and community support.

Show HN: Hiraeth – AWS Emulator

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Hiraeth is a local AWS emulator for fast integration testing, targeting SQS with a local HTTP endpoint and SQLite state. It's intended for local development and test environments, not production use.

Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds

Bloomberg delivers business and financial information worldwide. A New York jury found Live Nation Entertainment illegally monopolized the live events industry.

Agent - Native Mac OS X coding ide/harness

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Agent! is a free macOS app that uses AI to automate tasks, control apps, and build code without requiring coding knowledge. It supports 17 LLM providers, including Apple Intelligence, and offers features like hotword-anchored dictation, built-in Xcode integration, and secure file management.

US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) no attorney-client privilege for AI chats [pdf]

The Gemini app is now on Mac

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Gemini app now available on macOS as a native desktop experience, allowing users to get help instantly with a keyboard shortcut. The app brings AI assistance to users' work, enabling them to share screens, generate content, and more.

CRISPR takes important step toward silencing Down syndrome’s extra chromosome

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