Kimi K3 is now live

Try Kimi K3 to build playable multiplayer and 3D games, create consulting grade slides, and run parallel tasks with Swarm and Goal to get more work done.

Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

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Microsoft has open-sourced Comic Chat, a 1990s IRC chat client that transformed text into comic panels with characters and expressions, popularizing Comic Sans. The project, now modernized for today’s systems, offers a nostalgic glimpse into early internet innovation and invites community exploration of its experimental visual communication design.

Decoy Font

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Decoy Font is a TTF font using spatial frequencies to hide messages from AI by overlaying two layers visible at different distances, making text readable to humans but confusing to OCR and AI models. It serves as a deterrent against automated text scraping, though advanced models may still decode it.

Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning

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The author developed an AI-generated text detector using traditional ML models (LinearSVC, Naive Bayes) with ~85% accuracy, leveraging human and LLM-generated text datasets, revealing strong statistical patterns in AI content. Despite limitations, the tool highlights widespread undetected AI use in online platforms like Lofter, raising concerns about authenticity and disclosure.

NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

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Google renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, adding cloud-based code execution for research, available to select users. Expanding integration with Gemini app and Search, with full rollout to Pro users soon.

OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe

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OnePlus ends new product rollouts in Europe/North America but maintains device support via OPPO, including updates and repairs. Users may opt to upgrade to ColorOS 17 or retain current systems with rollback options.

Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode

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How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going

The Roc compiler team completed a 1.5-year rewrite from Rust to Zig, achieving feature parity and enhancing performance with faster builds, memory efficiency, and zero-heap allocation features like hot code loading. While Zig's ReleaseFast improved memory safety and speed, Rust's ecosystem and incremental build improvements were noted, but Zig's flexibility and control better suited Roc's ...

Adaptional (YC S25) Is Hiring

Jobs at Adaptional

The lost joy of music piracy

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What.CD, a private music tracker with invite-only tiers and strict rules to avoid legal risks, fostered a dedicated community but shut down in 2016 after a Salinger manuscript leak and server seizure, leaving users in mourning.

Someone Used AI to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me

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Immersive Linear Algebra Book with Interactive Figures

How to navigate, notation, and a recap of some math that we think you already know. The concept of a vector is introduced, and we learn how to add and subtract vectors, and more. In three-dimensional spaces you can produce a vector from two other vectors using this tool.

Launch HN: Traceforce (YC S26) – Company-wide security monitoring for AI apps

Traceforce offers real-time visibility and control over AI apps (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude) and their connections to data sources, using open-source tools to detect vulnerabilities and prevent breaches. It secures SMEs' workflows by monitoring AI activity locally, alerting risks, and enabling safe adoption without slowing productivity.

How to Train a Gen AI Kick Drum Model on Your Old Linux Desktop with 6GB VRAM

The author created KickWithReverb, a DAW using a diffusion model trained on 13,000 kicks on a 7-year-old GPU, enabling keyword-driven techno kick generation. The system combines a VAE, latent diffusion, and HiFi-GAN for audio synthesis, deployed serverlessly with Modal for on-demand generation.

Guide to data tools landscape for developers

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The article guides software engineers into data fields by explaining the data lifecycle, tools (ETL, warehouses, lakes), and roles (analysts, engineers). It covers ETL/ELT processes, storage formats (Parquet, Arrow), and tools like dbt, SQLMesh, Python libraries, and SQL for data transformation.

Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them

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Sony's PlayStation Store repeatedly removes purchased content due to licensing changes, leaving users without refunds, highlighting a systemic issue where consumers are misled into thinking they own digital purchases rather than temporary licenses. Despite public frustration and legal loopholes, companies exploit vague terms and conditions to avoid accountability, demanding clearer ...

Let's Build PlanetScale from Scratch: Infrastructure

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Homescale uses Ceph RBD snapshots and Kubernetes to create writable database clones and branches without full data copies, leveraging copy-on-write for efficient storage. It abstracts storage from compute, enabling scalable, database-agnostic workflows with Postgres as the initial engine.

Show HN: Leaves – A text-UI disk usage treemap visualizer

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Leaves visualizes files/directories as nested rectangles with area proportional to size, enabling remote shell use without graphical tools. It offers customizable themes, ignores hidden/.ignore files by default, and summarizes large hierarchies for performance.

Ente – Opening Our Books

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The data includes USD revenue ($780,996 monthly, $1.18M annual), paying customers (12,018 monthly, 18,455 annual), and registered accounts (290,703 monthly, 439,046 annual) for January 2026.

GC shape stenciling in Go generics

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Go implements generics via GC shape stenciling, grouping types by memory layout (size, alignment, pointers) to share compiled code, reducing bloat compared to full monomorphization. It uses hidden dictionaries to retain type-specific runtime info for operations needing exact types, balancing efficiency and flexibility.

Cottage Computer Programming (1984)

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Paul Lutus, the "Oregon Hermit," left NASA to live in a remote cabin, where he developed Apple Writer, a groundbreaking word processor, and championed individual creativity in programming over teamwork. His self-sufficient "electronic cottage" lifestyle and the program's resilience during a lightning strike exemplify his belief in solitary innovation's power.

SPCX is now Wall Street's most shorted new stock

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42% of adults rely on their parents for financial support

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A large portion of U.S. adults, especially Gen Z and millennials, rely on parental financial support, per a 2026 study. Experts advise framing this aid as temporary 'scaffolding' with clear communication to avoid resentment and ensure it aids financial goals, while balancing long-term family financial planning.

Show HN: A modern port of Linux to a ten-year-old QWERTY phone

I ported modern Linux to a ten-year-old HTC QWERTY phone as a handheld terminal. > The history and context are included in the git history and you can see the progression, different approaches, and other details.

Agent-talk: Enabling coding agents to work together

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Agent-talk is a plugin enabling coding agents to securely exchange messages via end-to-end encryption, supporting platforms like Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Antigravity. It facilitates autonomous coordination through auto-receive on some agents and pull-based receiving on others, using a relay network for cross-machine communication.

56,000 lines of DOOM, in a language I made up

bet is a real programming language with slang keywords and a serious LLVM-based compiler, featuring arena memory management and running DOOM, built as a self-contained experiment in AI-assisted development. The author completed it without research, acknowledging Geoffrey Huntley's prior similar work, proving the language's capability through a fully functional DOOM port.

1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored

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The Victorian-era *Naturalist’s Library* democratized access to natural history through illustrated books, now digitally restored by Nicholas Rougeux using AI, offering free online and affordable print/poster versions to inspire future naturalists.

Schema Harness Achieves ~99% on Arc‑AGI‑3 Public

Arcagi3 gives an agent a game environment, without an explanation of what it is seeing. kathleen smith: before physicists can write down laws, they must decide what the law is about. she says claude pairing falls 1.02% short of 100 overall. the payoff is sharpest where humans struggle most — on level 4, the agent needs 42 actions to the human's 500.

Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't

Purchased a low-cost USB 3.0 hub that's mostly USB 2.0 with flimsy build and safety risks, leading to buyer's remorse due to deceptive ads and return complications.

Accidental Anonymity

The rise of LLM-generated content in outreach emails and job applications creates impersonal, generic materials that obscure individuality and effort. Authentic, imperfect human expression is vital for meaningful connection and revealing one's true self beyond machine-generated perfection.