Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout

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Below are the servers with the new mitigation applied.

California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash

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California lawmakers may exempt most open-source operating systems from age-verification requirements. The proposed amendment would exclude software distributed under open-source licenses from the Digital Age Assurance Act.

Magnifica Humanitas

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The Church calls for a shared discernment process to navigate the challenges of emerging technologies and build a more just world. Christians must choose between constructing a Tower of Babel or rebuilding Jerusalem, prioritizing human dignity and communion over profit and self-sufficiency.

C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers

C code often relies on non-standard behaviors and language extensions to work around bugs and gaps in different compilers and libraries. Many codebases attempt to support various environments through preprocessor checks and guards, but these attempts are often finicky or broken.

Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training

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Norway's National Library is developing a sovereign AI model trained in Norwegian language using 2 PB of Huawei storage. The project aims to create a locally trained AI that understands Norway's history, news, and culture, which a globally trained English-speaking AI would not know.

Japan's New Hypersonic Engine Could Make 2-Hour Flights to the US a Reality

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Japanese engineers have successfully tested a ramjet engine for a Mach-5 hypersonic aircraft, a key step towards commercial passenger service by the 2040s. The test could lead to flights from Tokyo to Los Angeles taking around two hours, slashing transit time and transforming long journeys into day trips.

Toshifumi Suzuki, founder of Seven-Eleven Japan, has died

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Toshifumi Suzuki revolutionized Japan's retail sector by introducing franchising and transforming the convenience store industry with Seven-Eleven Japan. He implemented innovative data systems and streamlined distribution, improving productivity and profitability.

Jensen–Shannon Divergence

The Jensen-Shannon divergence is a method of measuring the similarity between two probability distributions, based on the Kullback-Leibler divergence, and is symmetric and always has a finite value. It is bounded by 0 and 1 for two discrete probability distributions.

Everyone Against Us (2023)

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A former Cook County public defender, Allen Goodman, describes the injustices he witnessed in the US justice system. He worked in the Cook County public defender's office from 1996 to 2004, handling cases from Chicago's North and West Sides.

The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month

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You can build a EU infrastructure stack close to zero cost using providers like Hetzner Cloud and Netcup for cheap compute. Several EU providers offer free tiers for email, analytics, uptime monitoring, forms, and payment processing to help you save money.

Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers

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Weave Jobs

Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage

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Twilio's Chert delivers peer-to-peer iMessage threads with blue bubbles, read receipts, and tapbacks, offering higher open and reply rates than A2P SMS. It exposes a REST API and webhooks for integration with CRMs, sales tools, and data stores.

Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks

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Dutch authorities arrested two men, Andrey Nesterenko and Youssef Zinad, for violating sanctions law by aiding Russia's cyberattacks. They were arrested for their roles in operating MIRhosting and WorkTitans, which provided infrastructure for pro-Russian cyberattacks.

IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry

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IBM's Anderon foundry receives $1 billion in CHIPS incentives to establish a 300mm quantum wafer fabrication facility. The funding structure creates a two-tier quantum ecosystem, favoring superconducting silicon architectures over competing modalities.

CPPL: A Circuit Prompt Programming Language

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CPPL is a compiler-mediated design framework that uses LLMs for hardware generation, making it statically checkable and reliable. It improves functional correctness and reduces synthesis complexity compared to direct Verilog and CIRCT IR generation.

Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006)

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Didgeridoo playing reduced daytime sleepiness and apnoea-hypopnoea index in patients with moderate obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome. It also improved sleep quality for partners.

Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It

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Gnutella is a decentralized file-sharing protocol that scaled to millions of users in the early 2000s, but its popularity declined as the internet and user behavior changed. Despite being largely forgotten, Gnutella remains operational today, thanks to its robust design and ability to adapt to new technologies and challenges.

Alaska's oil revival sparks a new energy rush Into the Arctic

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Alaska's oil industry is experiencing a resurgence due to new discoveries and regulatory changes. The state's crude potential is greater than expected, with companies investing in projects like the Willow oil project and Pikka field.

Microsoft pulls plug on plans for 244-acre data center in Caledonia (2025)

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Microsoft has abandoned plans for a data center in Caledonia, Wis, after community pushback from residents. The company remains interested in investing in Southeast Wisconsin and will work with local leaders to find a new site.

Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web

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AudioMass is a free, open source web-based audio editor running in the browser with no plugins required. It supports various audio operations and effects, with key shortcuts using Shift + key combos.

He Lost It at the Movies

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A.S. Hamrah is a film critic known for his idiosyncratic and often combative style, which reflects his disdain for commercial interests and mainstream culture. His writing often prioritizes his own opinions and emotions over clear critical philosophy or accurate descriptions, leading to a sense of frustration and confusion in readers.

DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost

Reasonix is a terminal-based AI coding agent for DeepSeek, engineered for prefix-cache stability. It's a free, MIT-licensed project with a paid DeepSeek API key.

Migrating from Go to Rust

Go developers considering Rust are often motivated by correctness guarantees, runtime tradeoffs, and developer ergonomics, rather than performance. Rust's type system and borrow checker provide stronger guarantees and more explicit control over runtime behavior, but can be more verbose and require a different mindset.

AI errno(2) values

This C header file defines custom error codes for AI-related issues. The codes cover various problems such as hallucination, system compromise, and excessive marketing.

Bytecode VMs in surprising places (2024)

Bytecode VMs are used in various places including SQLite, Linux kernel's eBPF, DWARF debug information, WinRAR file format, and TrueType font specification. These VMs are used for executing SQL statements, network packet filtering, debugging, data transformation, and rendering, among other tasks, often providing a flexible and efficient way to execute complex operations.

The analog computer museum's online library

A scan of the ra 770 manual can be found here for download. the manual describes the so-called "integromat" - the last electromechanical differential analyzer. this manual was written by konrad zuse and is based on his 1975 thesis on analog computing 'in the real world' if you are interested in analog computers, you can find it here. i have also included the schematics of several of my own computers

The physicists who convinced Fermilab to send Brazil's emails

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Brazil's introduction to Western networks was hampered by local telecoms and government control, but a few copper wires laid across the Gulf of Mexico in 1991 broke the impasse. Demi Getschko and his team successfully brought the Internet to Brazil, despite being slower than others, by sticking with Fermilab and persevering through setbacks.

Yoti age checks share facial photos and device fingerprints with third parties

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Show HN: Geomatic – A command-driven geometry studio enabled with autodiff

Geometric editor with slash command autocomplete

White Rabbit – sub-nanosecond synchronization for large distributed systems

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White Rabbit provides sub-nanosecond accuracy and picoseconds precision for large distributed systems with deterministic data delivery. CERN is recruiting FPGA and hardware designers to work on White Rabbit switch v4 and other projects.