Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore

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Google is overhauling its Search to use AI, but users are skeptical and some are looking for alternatives. Alternative search engines like Kagi, DuckDuckGo, and Startpage offer ad-free or AI-free options.

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.

Magnifica Humanitas (Encyclical Letter)

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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.

Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few

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Pope Leo XIV warns that AI risks widening inequality and undermining human dignity in his new encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas". He calls for stricter regulations and broad participation in shaping AI's future to prevent its dominance over humanity.

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

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Build and deploy AI on iMessage to reach people at scale while maintaining quality, trust, and personalized interaction. Real iMessage. Outbound and inbound flow over Apple’s iMessage protocol with the blue-bubble UX your customers already trust. We fall back to SMS only if a recipient isn’t on iMessage, and we surface that distinction in the API so you always know which channel a message ...

2026 HIPAA Security Rule Update

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The 2026 HIPAA Security Rule is finalized and requires annual security risk assessments, universal encryption of ePHI, multi-factor authentication, regular vulnerability scanning, and detailed compliance documentation. Healthcare organizations must prepare now to meet the new requirements, which will be enforced starting in late 2026 or early 2027, and will require significant changes to ...

Hive (YC S14) is hiring sr back-end developers (CA/US remote OK)

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.

Leave Me Behind

The author learned Android development in 2014 and spent a decade honing his skills, creating apps with real-world benefits. He cherishes the human connections made during his journey, not just the outcomes.

Pope Leo: opaque AI run by few firms risks "New Forms of Dehumanization"

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Pope Leo warned that AI must be regulated to prevent "new forms of dehumanization" and not be controlled by a few powerful companies. He called for robust legal frameworks and oversight to ensure AI benefits humanity, not just profit.

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.

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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Geometric editor with slash command autocomplete

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.

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.

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.

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.

Notes about reading messages with the Python email packages

The user is blocked due to an old browser version or suspicious user agent. They can contact the author to resolve the issue or use a different browser like archive.org.

I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph

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I used to live on a quiet hill with a great view of the city, but now I live downtown and work with databases. I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph by hand, learning to control line weight and style, and now I appreciate the process and art of hand-drawn data visualization.

A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned

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Researchers at Tohoku University discovered a new method to reduce aerodynamic drag by up to 43.6 percent using distributed micro-roughness. This technology, called DMR, delays the transition from laminar to turbulent flow, reducing frictional drag.

Jira Is Turing-Complete

Jira's automation language is Turing-complete due to a Minsky register machine reduction. It uses two counters and finite instructions to simulate any computation.

Bug 1950764: Work Around Crash on Intel Raptor Lake CPU

Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”

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Microsoft released source code for the 86-DOS 1.00 kernel and PC-DOS 1.00 kernel, along with utilities like CHKDSK. The code was transcribed from paper printouts by the DOS Disassembly Group, a team of historians and preservationists.

Rising seas will swallow New Orleans. People need to start relocating now

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New Orleans may be surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico by the end of this century due to rising seas. The city must start relocation planning now to avoid chaos and become a model for sustainable development.

The Cost of Safetyism

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We're overprotecting our kids due to a culture of safetyism, which prevents them from developing essential life skills like autonomy, resilience, and emotional regulation. By giving kids more freedom and allowing them to navigate discomfort, we can help them build confidence and self-determination.