The Three Pillars of JavaScript Bloat

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The e18e community has seen significant growth and performance-focused contributions, but this has led to "dependency bloat" in npm trees due to redundant, outdated, or unmaintained packages. To address this, maintainers and consumers should work together to identify and remove unnecessary packages, using tools like e18e, npmx, and module-replacements to clean up dependency trees.

Tinybox – Offline AI device 120B parameters

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We are hiring full time software engineers and looking for contributions to tinygrad, a deep learning framework. We also sell a computer called the tinybox, a powerful computer for deep learning with low price and high quality.

Some things just take time

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The author believes that instant gratification is replacing the value of time and effort in software development and business, leading to short-lived projects and relationships. They argue that true quality and community are built over years, not weeks or months.

Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM

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Everything runs in the browser. Your media stays local with the File System Access API β€” nothing leaves your machine.

Chest Fridge (2009)

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The user's chest fridge consumes 0.1 kWh a day and costs $5 a year to use. They question why mediocre fridges are made and used despite being energy inefficient and wasting at least 1 kWh of energy a day.

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Boomloom: Think with your hands

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The Boss is a simple, intuitive weaving tool with 5 bars that create different weave structures and patterns. It's a great option for beginners and those with limited space, offering endless creative possibilities.

Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator

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Floci is a free, open-source local AWS emulator with no account or feature gates. It can be used with any AWS region and credentials, and is an alternative to LocalStack's community edition.

Electronics for Kids, 2nd Edition

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The book "Electronics for Kids" is praised for its engaging and accessible approach to teaching electronics and circuitry. Reviewers commend its hands-on projects and clear explanations that make STEM topics enjoyable for kids.

Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control

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Age verification is expanding beyond adult websites into mainstream services, changing the internet from open access to permissioned access. This shift raises concerns about identity control, data collection, and the potential for misuse of age verification systems.

Bayesian statistics for confused data scientists

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The main difference between Bayesian and frequentist statistics is how they interpret probability, with Bayesian statistics considering parameters as uncertain and data as fixed, and frequentist statistics considering parameters as fixed and data as random. Bayesian statistics is particularly well-suited for modeling uncertainty in data and can be used to fit complex models with uncertain ...

Grafeo – A fast, lean, embeddable graph database built in Rust

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Grafeo is a fast graph database with vectorized execution and low memory footprint, supporting multiple query languages and data models. It can be embedded or run as a standalone server with REST API and web UI, supporting various programming languages and AI integrations.

Alpha Micro AM-1000E and AM-1200

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I've mentioned previously my great affection for Alpha Microsystems hardware, which are rather obscure computers nowadays, but back in the 1980s and 1990s were fairly sophisticated 68000-based multiuser systems that turned up in all kinds of vertical markets. For example, my first Alpha Micro (an Eagle 300) came from a party supplies store, my Eagle 450 was in a 9-1-1 emergency dispatch ...

Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons

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User dislikes macOS Tahoe's menu icons, finds them distracting and inconsistent. They appreciate a change that removes icons, but wish Apple would offer a setting to disable them in future updates.

Trivy ecosystem supply chain briefly compromised

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A threat actor compromised credentials to publish malicious Trivy releases, stealing secrets from affected pipelines. Users must rotate exposed secrets and remove affected artifacts.

It's Their Mona Lisa

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The newsletter discusses the National Gallery of Art's portrait of Ginevra de' Benci, one of only four portraits by Leonardo da Vinci of women, and how it's often referred to as "America's Mona Lisa."

Show HN: Termcraft – terminal-first 2D sandbox survival in Rust

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Termcraft is a side-on terminal game with classic survival progression and block-survival elements. It has client/server code but is still experimental and not a public mode yet.

Common Lisp Development Tooling

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The article aims to provide a map of the Common Lisp development environment stack, explaining each layer from the fundamental problem of development environments to the editor that ties everything together. It covers six layers: operating system and hardware, compiler (SBCL), build system (ASDF), package manager (Quicklisp), per-project isolation (Qlot), and editor (SLIME, SLY, SLIMV, Vlime, ...

Sashiko: An agentic Linux kernel code review system

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Sashiko is a Linux kernel code review system that uses AI to evaluate proposed changes and identify bugs. It's an open-source project that augments human reviewers, not replacing them, with a 53.6% success rate in identifying historical bugs.

Thinking Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning

How Invisalign became the biggest user of 3D printers

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Align Technology, the company behind Invisalign, is undergoing a major manufacturing overhaul to directly 3D print aligners, which could lower costs and make treatment more affordable. The company's manufacturing veteran, Joe Hogan, expects decades of growth ahead and believes that 3D printing will entrench Align as the world's biggest user of 3D printers.

The paddle wheel aircraft carriers of Lake Michigan

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The US Navy used two converted luxury passenger ships, USS Wolverine and USS Sable, as aircraft carriers in World War Two. They were coal-powered and operated on the Great Lakes, primarily for training pilots in carrier landings.

How Ford burned $12B in Brazil (2021)

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Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords

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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will echo asterisks at sudo password prompts, a change from traditional blank void. Users can revert to silent prompt via a single configuration change in the sudoers file.

Training Center for Maneuvering on Manned Model Ships

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School dedicated to captains and pilots, we offer maneuvering training courses on scale models in real-life conditions.

Show HN: Atomic – Self-hosted, semantically-connected personal knowledge base

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Atomic is a knowledge management system that stores data as markdown notes and can be queried through a chat interface. It can be set up using the API server and web frontend.

A digital resource for studying the graffiti of Herculaneum and Pompeii

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The Ancient Graffiti Project is a digital resource for studying handwritten inscriptions from the early Roman empire, offering insights into daily life and Roman society. It provides maps, translations, and summaries of ancient wall-inscriptions for scholars and the public.

Sandboxing: Foolproof Boundaries vs. Unbounded Foolishness (2025)

ZJIT removes redundant object loads and stores

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ZJIT's load-store optimization pass surpasses YJIT's performance on a microbenchmark, taking 2ms per iteration compared to YJIT's 5ms. This optimization removes redundant loads and stores in HIR, utilizing a lightweight abstract interpretation to ensure soundness and minimize computation.

Meta's Omnilingual MT for 1,600 Languages

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