Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode

Use Xcode's CLI tools (xcodebuild, notarytool) and XcodeGen to automate Mac/iOS app builds, avoiding Xcode GUI entirely via scripts like release.sh. LLMs like Claude Code streamline setup, handle certificate management, and generate workflows for signing, notarization, and deployment without manual GUI steps.

Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor

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Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer surpasses Whisper models and its legacy API, achieving 3.5-4x lower word error rates and 3x faster processing on M2 Pro, making it the top on-device English transcription engine for current Apple devices. It supports fewer languages than Whisper but offers superior accuracy and speed for English, prompting Inscribe to prioritize it for compatible languages while ...

An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold

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Emily Eden, a 19th-century British artist, captured India's diverse people and landscapes in detailed sketches during her 1830s travels, later published and exhibited in Delhi. Her work, blending colonial context with cultural observation, remains a rare artistic record of India's pre-Victorian era.

What are Forward Deployed Engineers, and why are they so in demand? (2025)

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Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) are emerging as a critical hybrid role in AI startups, blending software engineering, sales, and platform work to integrate AI solutions, originating from Palantir and now adopted by companies like OpenAI and Ramp. FDEs bridge customer needs and product development by embedding with clients, contributing to core engineering, and driving innovation through ...

N+1

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N+1, once a vibrant Brooklyn-based journal known for sharp polemics and first-person essays by talents like Elif Batuman, has declined in recent years, losing its distinctive voice and edge to newer rivals like The Drift, which now emulates its mission but lacks its narrative flair. While still offering thoughtful content, its current issues feel less cohesive and provocative compared to its ...

The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed

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Silpheed's Mega-CD FMV optimized tile reuse, 16-color palettes, and tilemap compression to deliver cinematic video despite 90s hardware limits, with reverse-engineering uncovering 7.5fps compression and ASIC tricks for efficient playback.

Linux on the Sega 32X. Who needs hardware synchronization primitives anyway?

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The author ported Linux to the Sega 32X to enhance board bringup skills, overcoming hardware limitations via SDK examples, FPGA flash carts, and custom synchronization solutions like Peterson's algorithm. Challenges included cross-compilation fixes, memory constraints, and implementing inter-CPU communication, resulting in a functional albeit slow Linux system with a console display.

The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes

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Mawlynnong, India, transformed by tourism, bans visitors on Sundays

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Mawlynnong, India's cleanest village, bans tourists on Sundays to prioritize community life and worship, balancing tourism-driven growth with cultural preservation. The Sunday closure allows residents to maintain hygiene standards and traditions, reflecting a shift from daily tourism reliance to reclaiming authentic village life.

Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended

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The domain t.me, registered with GoDaddy since 2010 and expiring in 2035, uses privacy protection via Domains By Proxy. It has multiple EPP status restrictions and Google's name servers, with DNSSEC unsigned.

TFTP Honey Pot Results

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A TFTP honey pot over 35 days captured mostly infosec company scans (e.g., Palo Alto, Censys) probing for TFTP servers via file requests like "a" or "pxelinux.0," revealing automated server identification efforts rather than malicious exploitation. Despite varied patterns, most traffic aimed to detect TFTP server presence, with limited CVE exploitation attempts observed.

Samsung Health app threatens data deletion if users opt out AI training

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Samsung requires users to consent to health data use for AI training to retain access, risking deletion otherwise, and introduces AI features like Vitals and Heart Health Score to analyze biometrics and fitness metrics.

Show HN: Jacquard, a programming language for AI-written, human-reviewed code

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Jacquard is a FriendMachine research project for effect-tracking, probabilistic programming, and structural identity in a small language with a test framework (Warp). Version 0.1 includes a repair demo using Bayesian inference and is a non-production prototype with OCaml tools and C backend.

SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineers (SF)

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Replacing outdated systems with an AI-native platform for defense/aerospace supply chains, this role involves building integrated systems with legacy environments. Senior Software Engineers need full-stack project experience, SQL proficiency, and problem-solving skills to drive autonomous operations.

Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources

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Show HN: I implemented a neural network in SQL

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A 28x28 image model uses flattened indices, skips zero-weight rows, and computes pre-activation layers (z = W @ a + b) with gradient updates (weight/bias - lr * gradient). Trained parameters are stored as xarrays, preserving layer shapes and biases per output dimension.

Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser

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The tool automates converting YouTube videos to PDF tablature by sampling frames, using AI to detect and crop tab regions, deduplicating by bar numbers, and compiling into a PDF with the video title as metadata. It requires no configuration and outputs to out/<video-title>.pdf.

Ancient Roman Board Game

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Ludus Coriovalli, an ancient Roman asymmetric board game featuring four Hounds blocking two Hares, was reconstructed via AI and wear analysis of a 2,000-year-old stone in the Netherlands. A 2025 Antiquity study confirmed its rules by linking play patterns to a cooperative blocking game design.

Show HN: Hackney – Compare Uber, Lyft, Waymo, and Robotaxi Prices

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The ultimate ride app. See prices from Uber and Lyft.

A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

Ride the Yamanote line through a voxel Tokyo synced to Japan's real clock, weather, and seasons. A lofi bed plays while N5 sentences are read aloud and drift by as subtitles β€” an ambient Japanese study room you just press play into. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡―πŸ‡΅πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡«πŸ‡·38 countries

Show HN: BillAI Bass, an AI-Powered Big Mouth Billy Bass Using Strands Agents

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A pi can be turned into an ai assistant. the fish can lip-sync to its own voice and flap its tail if it wants to emphasize itself. you talk to the pi, it talks back β€” head swiveling, mouth lip synchronizing, tail flapping for emphasis. this project was created with help from claude code and you can use any ai helper to help you get through. point the mic away from the speaker

The 4-Bitter Lesson: Balancing Stability and Performance in NVFP4 RL

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Researchers developed a stable NVFP4 quantization method for RL training, addressing throughput-stability tradeoffs via dequantized gradients and 4/6 scaling, enabling efficient large-scale model training while preserving accuracy. Open-sourced solutions include optimized implementations across frameworks like TransformerEngine and SGLang.

Show HN: Nobie – an Excel-compatible runtime for agents and humans

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Every formula, every pixel, calculated the same as Excel. Your files are always standard .xlsx β€” open them in Excel anytime, no surprises.

A Study of Microsoft's Early 2026 Rollout of Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI

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Organizations adopting agentic CLI tools should prioritize social network-driven adoption, as Microsoft's 2026 study found first use spread via peer networks, retention linked to coding activity, and adopters merged 24% more pull requests. These tools' impact persisted over four months, suggesting they enhance output beyond novelty, necessitating peer visibility in rollout strategies.

Collaboration Networks in Brazilian Computer Science

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This study applies network science to analyze Brazilian computer science collaboration networks using OpenAlex data, revealing that international collaborations (led by the US and Portugal) yield higher citations and varied subfield engagement. Findings highlight structural insights into research impact, suggesting policy implications for fostering cross-border partnerships.

Show HN: Sigwire – a live TUI switchboard for every signal on your Linux box

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Sigwire uses kernel tracepoints and BPF to monitor real-time signal activity, showing sender/target, type, delivery status, and EINTR interruptions. It aggregates bursts, filters signals, and tracks handler execution and syscall interruptions system-wide.

The Origins of Heikki's Garden of Flowers

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An archive of ~2500 pictorial typography and letterpress works spanning four centuries, images composed entirely of type ornaments, characters, and rule. The history of ASCII art before computers.

Robust Secret Storage in Networks

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A framework for distributed secret storage optimizes robustness by balancing survivability and security via minimal information-carrying subgraphs (MICS). Semi-local methods and a spin Hamiltonian mapping enable efficient, scalable solutions without global network knowledge.

Benchmarking 15 β€œE-Waste” GPUs with Modern Workloads

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Decommissioned NVIDIA GPUs (K80, P100, V100) are benchmarked for homelab use, showing viable performance despite age and inefficiency. Docker-based testing reveals multi-GPU setups can deliver strong results for projects like streamarize, though power costs and outdated drivers remain challenges.

Show HN: Sx 2.0 – Share AI skills with your team through a Dropbox folder

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sx 2.0 is out: a native app for Mac, Windows, and Linux that lets anyone share AI skills with their team, no git and no terminal required. A few months ago I wrote that there’s an npm-shaped hole in the AI tooling stack. Your best AI users build up skills, MCP configs, and commands that multiply their output, and that knowledge stays trapped on their machines because there’s no clean way to ...