Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)

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OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

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Anubis is a server protection system using Proof-of-Work to prevent aggressive AI scraping. It requires modern JavaScript features, so disable JShelter or similar plugins for this domain.

CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps

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CoMaps is a GPS app for abroad trips without mobile data, offering private navigation and search. It's an open-source project built by a community contributing to OpenStreetMap and Codeberg.

GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse

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The author discusses the shift in AI economics, specifically the difference between training and inference costs in AI models. They argue that inference costs are where the real money lies, with providers like OpenAI and Anthropic charging high prices for their models.

Dolosse – a South African invention used over the world

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Dolosse are large, heavy blocks used in coastal management to prevent erosion and dissipate wave force. They were invented in South Africa but the inventors received no payment or recognition.

9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin, TX

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The team ships hardware on software tempo, focusing on real deployment, short iteration loops, and hands-on ownership of specs. They prioritize user needs, iterating based on data and affordability, not just roadmaps.

How to sequence your own DNA at home

You sequenced your genome 5 times at home using an Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION, taking two months to set up and costing a significant amount. The genome is a reference layer, and analyzing it with tools like VEP and gnomAD provides information on gene expression but is not yet diagnosis-level.

Small AI Models Gain Traction In places with unreliable networks

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Adebayo Alonge created a handheld device called RxScanner that uses AI to identify counterfeit medication in Africa. He later developed a smaller, low-power version that can run on an Android phone, enabling it to work in areas without broadband or electricity.

Historic Photos of NASA's Cavernous Wind Tunnels

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Throughout the 20th century, NASA made extensive use of wind tunnels to test and refine designs for airplanes, spacecraft, and many other vehicles and structures.

Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID

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A 19-year-old hacker's arrest revealed Microsoft can track Windows PCs through a "Global Device ID" with no easy opt-out, sparking surveillance fears. Microsoft's device ID can associate with third-party services and track online activity, raising concerns about potential abuse for surveillance purposes.

The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth

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New material for volume 4 will first appear in beta-test form as fascicles of approximately 128 pages each, issued approximately twice per year. the first finder of any error in my books receives 0x$1.00 ($2.56), deposited to their account at the bank of san serriffe - if you find an error, i'll fix it. a citation to the original text is included in the index of each volume unless

Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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To use the reMarkable Paper Pro with riddle, you need developer mode and a launcher installed. You can use remagic to set it up with one command.

Ternlight – 7 MB embedding model that runs in browser (WASM)

On-device sentence embeddings — engine, weights, and tokenizer in 7 MB of WASM. Search the React docs entirely on your CPU.

Show HN: Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron)

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WhimFiles is a native macOS file manager that filters files by type, date, and size, and allows dual-pane browsing and fuzzy search. It offers batch rename, folder size calculation, and a command palette for streamlined local file management.

A global workspace in language models

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Researchers discovered a "J-space" in language models like Claude, a mental workspace that allows the model to think about concepts without writing them down. The J-space is a collection of internal neural patterns that can be read and influenced, and it plays a key role in the model's reasoning and decision-making.

Not Dark Yet

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Bob Dylan's life and career were marked by a period of spiritual searching and creative revitalization in the 1990s, which led to the release of his critically acclaimed album Time Out of Mind in 1997. This album, along with subsequent works such as Love and Theft and Modern Times, showcased Dylan's continued exploration of American history, culture, and identity, cementing his status as a ...

Resetting Xbox

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XBOX is undergoing a significant restructuring with 3,200 job cuts and 4 studios leaving management. The goal is to simplify and refocus on growth, with a new COO and streamlined operations.

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In Praise of Observational Evidence

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Scottish doctor John Arbuthnot presented a proof for God's existence in 1710, but Pierre-Simon Laplace later concluded the probability of birthing a boy is higher than one in two.

AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit

The AMD Ryzen AI Halo is a mini-PC with a Zen 5 AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor, 128 GB of unified LPDDR5x-8000 memory, and a 2 TB M.2 SSD, priced at $3,999.99 USD, offering a "batteries included" software experience with AMD's AI Playbooks and curated configurations.

Pruning RAG context down to what the answer actually needs

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Kapa added a pruner to its AI assistants to reduce context and cost by 68% and 34% respectively, while preserving 96% of recall. The pruner uses a small LLM to grade chunks against a five-level scale, dropping chunks below a threshold.

Linux on the Atari Jaguar

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The user attempted to port Linux to the Atari Jaguar console, which has a 68000 processor without an MMU, and encountered several challenges including memory footprint, compiler issues, and toolchain setup. After overcoming these obstacles with the help of the linuxmd project and buildroot, the user successfully compiled and ran a Linux kernel on the Jaguar, with a custom initramfs and busybox.

Dropping in on Gottfried Leibniz (2013)

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Leibniz's father died when he was 6 and a library began to define his lifelong way of thinking about all sorts of things. despite all this effort, 'he still wanted to generalize from it,' says dr. david sullivan teese, author of "the mind of leibeniz" technology as it is developing has potential for positive escapism and individual accomplishment,

OpenSSH 10.4/10.4p1 Released

OpenSSH 10.4 was released on 2026-07-06 with security fixes and general bugfixes. It includes experimental support for a composite post-quantum signature scheme.

OfficeCLI: Office suite for AI agents to read and edit Microsoft Office files

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OfficeCLI is a binary that gives AI agents full control over Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. It installs automatically with a single line of code and allows agents to create, read, and edit documents with high fidelity.

Learning to code is still worthwhile

The author, Steve, believes everyone should learn to code for educational value, not just vocational gain, and shares his personal experience of discovering math through programming. He aims to spread the joy of programming through Val Town, a platform for writing and deploying code.

Rotman Lens

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A Rotman lens is a passive electronic component used for beamforming in radio frequency applications, allowing multiple antenna beams to be formed without phase shifters. It consists of input and output ports with different phase shifts, enabling beam shaping in various directions.

Januscape: Guest-to-Host Escape in KVM/x86 [CVE-2026-53359]

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Januscape is a KVM escape vulnerability that lets a guest escape to the host in a KVM/x86 environment, threatening guest-host isolation. It can be triggered with guest-side actions alone and can be used for DoS or RCE attacks on the host.

Kani: A Model Checker for Rust

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Kani is a model checker for Rust that provides correctness guarantees for properties like functional correctness and absence of runtime panics. It compiles proof harnesses from Rust's MIR into a verification engine, automatically checking safety properties with no user annotation.

NSA and IETF: Fairness

The NSA has been pushing for the adoption of weak encryption standards, including solo ML-KEM, to make systems exploitable. The current vote in the IETF TLS WG is regarding an NSA-driven push for an IETF RFC on solo ML-KEM in TLS.