Cloudflare Flagship

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Flagship is Cloudflare's feature flag service that controls application visibility without redeploying code. It integrates with OpenFeature and supports Workers, Node.js, and browsers.

That Methyl Methacrylate Tank

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BadHost – CVE-2026-48710: Starlette Host-Header Auth Bypass

A vulnerability in Starlette versions less than 1.0.1 allows attackers to forge request URLs and bypass path-based authentication middleware, affecting thousands of FastAPI and Starlette applications. To mitigate this, update Starlette to version 1.0.1 or later, use a reverse proxy, or prefer endpoint-based authentication instead of path-based middleware.

The Melancholy of Slaying Monsters

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The Structural Barriers to AI Lawyers

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The profession runs on documents. Contracts, briefs, motions, discovery requests, regulatory filings. Every billable hour leaves a paper trail. And unlike medicine, where AI must contend with the complexity of biological systems, or finance, where microsecond arbitrage advantages disappear instantly, legal work operates on human timescales with human language. A contract dispute from 1982 ...

What Gets Kept

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A glass ashtray—the kind you used to find often in American households—was recently on exhibit in the second-floor gallery of the Grolier Club. It was in a display case, ashes and all. If you had seen it on a coffee table, you might have thought that the smoker had just left the room, and could still be somewhere close by. But the ashes were fifty-six years old; they must have dropped from a ...

A few interesting modern pixel fonts

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Designers created pixel fonts like Analog Mono, Coral Pixels, and Two Slice to evoke nostalgia and visual interest. Geist Pixel is a functional pixel font designed for real usage, solving problems like scaling and typographic rigor.

I built a Git-tracked book production pipeline

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The author discusses the importance of story and writing quality in fiction, then shares their process for formatting and publishing their Christian historical novels. They use Microsoft Word, Adobe InDesign, and Calibre to create print and electronic versions of their books.

A history of obituaries in American newspapers

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Obituaries have evolved from short death notices to detailed records of a person's life, reflecting changing societal values and technological advancements. Their history spans over two millennia, influenced by factors like printing technology, social class, and war, ultimately becoming a personal remembrance of the deceased.

The worst job interview I ever had

The writer had a bad job interview experience at a mental health startup where they were asked invasive personal questions, making them feel emotionally drained and judged. The writer suggests reconsidering the approach to evaluating cultural fit to avoid making candidates feel vulnerable.

IBM Confidential: System/360 File Organization [video]

Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia

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The Wikimedia Foundation fired its longtime lead developer and disbanded a team that listened to volunteers, prompting a potential strike by Wikipedia editors. The Foundation has $296 million in reserves and a profitable AI revenue stream, but its actions have sparked a confrontation with global implications.

A portentous reunion

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The author attended their 30th college reunion and noticed a trend of anxiety about AI's impact on the future. They reminisced about their old game BattleTris, which they created in college, and with the help of AI, they were able to revive it and play it again after 20 years.

What I've Learned (So Far) Building Online Mini Games with Elixir and Swift

The user discusses their social arcade project Migo Games built with Elixir, Phoenix, and Swift, leveraging AI for development. They praise Elixir's scalability and fault tolerance, and appreciate AI's ability to reduce bloat in software.

Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale

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Minicor builds and maintains desktop automations for teams to focus on deals and product shipping. It adapts to UI changes and edge cases with 93-96% click accuracy.

Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines on a laptop

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Rosalind is a Rust genomics engine with a compact memory footprint, running whole-genome workloads in under 100 MB RAM. It achieves deterministic replay and O(√t) working memory, ideal for clinical diagnostics, outbreak monitoring, and education.

Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence

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Tunecat: Simple Internet Radio

There is a demo instance serving Classical Music Mix (CC Public Domain Mark 1.0) for #chat on a very chaotic IRC network. Consider openssl req -x509 -new -newkey ed25519 -sha256 -nodes -out tunecat.pem -keyout tunecat.pem and registering a NickServ account with CertFP. Use the provided opusify script to pre-transcode all your songs to Opus 128 kbps.

Show HN: Posthorn, self-hosted mail without the mail server

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Posthorn is a unified outbound mail layer for self-hosted projects, simplifying mail integration with transactional providers like Postmark, Resend, Mailgun, and AWS SES. It acts as a bridge between apps and providers, reducing duplication and complexity.

C array types are weird

The author discusses how arrays in C decay to pointers, which can be confusing, and proposes a strict separation of arrays and pointers to make the language easier to learn. They also explore how arrays can be treated as pointers and propose a new operator, @, to create an array from a pointer, and discuss the implications of this on the language.

TSDuck: Open-source toolkit for MPEG-TS analysis and manipulation

TSDuck is a digital television and video streaming tool for test, monitoring, and integration, supporting various standards and formats. It is an open-source, cross-platform C++ library and command-line tool with a modular architecture and plugin system.

The Forgotten Art of the LAN Party (2023)

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In 2001, a group of friends fit three computers and a network switch into a 1984 Ford Laser for a LAN party at a friend's house. LAN parties allowed for low latency gaming and social interaction, but their popularity declined with the rise of high-speed internet and online gaming platforms.

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down

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Drew Houston is stepping down as Dropbox CEO, transitioning to executive chairman role, while Ashraf Alkarmi will take over as co-CEO. Houston will focus on AI entrepreneurship after nearly two decades at Dropbox.

Splinter Cell veteran says realistic modern lighting has screwed up stealth game

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Celebrated game designer Clint Hocking says realistic modern lighting makes stealth games harder due to harder to read lighting conditions. He suggests developers need to think deeply about using modern lighting techniques for a pure stealth experience.

Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud”

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A customer committed friendly fraud by disputing a legitimate order for Ciglue, a cigar glue product, and was granted the dispute despite evidence of delivery. Stripe did not take action against the customer despite being provided with evidence of chargeback abuse.

The Steinwinter Supercargo

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The Steinwinter Supercargo is a retro-futuristic truck designed by Manfred Steinwinter in 1983 with a modular platform and low profile for efficiency. It was a flop due to handling issues and reliability problems, but appeared in several films and TV shows before disappearing from public view.

Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country

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Erin Brockovich created a map to track data centers across the US, showing 33 operational, 44 under construction, and 27 proposed. The map reveals growth, conflict, and uncertainty as data center demand rapidly increases.

Sonny Rollins, jazz saxophonist, has died

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Sonny Rollins, the legendary jazz saxophonist known as the Saxophone Colossus, died at 95 in Woodstock, NY. He left a lasting legacy in jazz with his improvisational skills and iconic albums like Saxophone Colossus and Way Out West.

What color is your function? (2015)

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The author discusses how many programming languages, including JavaScript, have a problem with asynchronous code, which can be thought of as "red functions" that can only be called by other "red functions". This problem is solved by languages like Go, which use threads to eliminate the distinction between synchronous and asynchronous code.

Where does next-token prediction leave us?

AI maximalists celebrate its potential to replace human work, but this may be a class issue, as those who benefit from AI have a cushion of wealth and safety. The true cost of AI is the loss of human bargaining power, creativity, and joy, as people become nodes in a system that prioritizes profit over people.