Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston

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Apple is expanding its Houston factory operations, creating thousands of jobs and producing Mac mini in the US for the first time. The company will also expand AI server manufacturing and open an Advanced Manufacturing Center for hands-on training.

I'm helping my dog vibe code games

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The user trained their 9-pound cavapoo Momo to create games using Claude Code by routing her keyboard input through a Raspberry Pi and providing automated feedback tools. With a well-crafted prompt and strong guardrails, Momo's keyboard mashing produced playable games, demonstrating that the bottleneck in AI-assisted development is the quality of feedback loops, not the quality of ideas.

Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times

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The user turned an old Kindle into a live bus feed display by jailbreaking it, installing custom apps, and setting up a server to generate and serve bus data as an image. They created a custom KUAL app to control when the dashboard is displayed and added a feature to exit dashboard mode by pressing the menu button.

Show HN: Moonshine Open-Weights STT models – higher accuracy than WhisperLargev3

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Moonshine Voice is a speech-to-text framework that offers fast, private, and accurate live voice interfaces with low latency, supporting multiple languages and platforms. It provides a high-level API for developers to build voice applications with features like transcription, speaker identification, and command recognition, making it easy to integrate voice interfaces into applications.

How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week

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Cloudflare engineers rebuilt Next.js from scratch using AI and Vite, creating vinext, a drop-in replacement that deploys to Cloudflare Workers with a single command. Vinext builds production apps up to 4x faster and produces client bundles up to 57% smaller.

Pi – a minimal terminal coding harness

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Pi is a minimal terminal coding harness with powerful defaults and extensibility. It adapts to workflows with TypeScript extensions, skills, and themes, and can be extended or installed with third-party packages.

Nearby Glasses

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The Nearby Glasses app warns you when smart glasses are nearby by detecting Bluetooth signals from specific manufacturers. It uses company ID codes to identify devices, but may produce false positives due to similar devices.

Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment

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Emdash is a tool for parallel development and testing with multiple agents, supporting 21+ CLI providers. It securely connects to remote machines and stores app state locally, with optional GitHub features.

I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978

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The author, a 10-year-old boy, invented a roller coaster model called the Quadrupuler with four loops and sent it to Disneyland, receiving a positive response from Disney Imagineering. This early validation gave him a resilient spirit that has guided him through various inventions and a career in acting.

Manjaro website off-line again due to lapsed certificate

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Manjaro website is offline due to expired HTTPS certificate. This is the third time the site has gone down due to certificate renewal issues.

Hugging Face Skills

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Hugging Face Skills are self-contained folders for AI/ML tasks like dataset creation and model training. They are interoperable with major coding agent tools like OpenAI Codex and Google DeepMind's Gemini CLI.

Looks like it is happening

User speculates about AI-generated papers flooding hep-th submissions, citing rising numbers on arXiv. User asks someone to analyze AI-generated papers and their impact on hep-th submissions.

Optophone

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The optophone is a device invented in 1913 that scans text and generates tones to identify letters for the blind. It improved from one word per minute to 60 words per minute with later models.

Build Your Own Forth Interpreter

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The challenge is to build a Forth-like interpreter that can run a subset of the Forth language, including generating the Fibonacci sequence and FizzBuzz, and can be built as a CLI tool or in-browser interpreter. The interpreter should support various features such as stack manipulation, word definition, conditionals, loops, and running code from a script file.

IRS Tactics Against Meta Open a New Front in the Corporate Tax Fight

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Steel Bank Common Lisp

SBCL is a high-performance, open-source Common Lisp compiler with a permissive license. It provides an interactive environment with debugging tools and runs on various platforms including Linux and Windows.

Dream Recorder AI – a portal to your subconscious

Verge (YC S15) Is Hiring a Director of Computational Biology and AI Scientists/Eng

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Cell Service for the Fairly Paranoid

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We installed a single turnstile to feel secure

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A large company acquired our company and prioritized security, installing key card readers and turnstiles. However, the implementation caused chaos and inefficiency, highlighting the importance of real security through proper engineering and authentication.

Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware

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Diode is a 3D hardware simulator capable of simulating arduinos, integrated circuits, capacitors, transistors and much more.

Show HN: Tag Promptless on any GitHub PR/Issue to get updated user-facing docs

Prithvi and co-founder Frances launched Promptless, an AI teammate that drafts doc updates based on workflows. Promptless 1.0 addresses learnings from the last year with features like automatic screenshot updates and improved writing quality.

Show HN: Chaos Monkey but for Audio Video Testing (WebRTC and UDP)

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This is a distributed chaos engineering platform for load testing video conferencing systems with WebRTC participants and network chaos spikes. It provides metrics and tools for testing and monitoring system resilience under degraded conditions.

IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report

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Israeli soldiers fired nearly 1,000 bullets at 15 Palestinian aid workers in southern Gaza on March 23, 2025, killing them in a massacre. The investigation by Earshot and Forensic Architecture found that the soldiers executed some aid workers at point blank range and that the Israeli military's internal inquiry did not recommend any criminal action.

The history of knocking on wood

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Notes on the history of technology, medicine, science, art, drugs, and empire. Also: AI in research and teaching. By subscribing, you agree Substack's Terms of Use, and acknowledge its Information Collection Notice and Privacy Policy. My younger daughter, Nava, turned two last week. Among her favorite phrases are “No, Nava do it” and “what da HECK.” Her favorite music, by a wide margin, ...

Show HN: Recursively apply patterns for pathfinding

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Extending C with Prolog (1994)

Prolog is a declarative programming language that excels at pattern matching and search, making it ideal for AI applications and expert systems. A C-Prolog interface allows Prolog code to access C services, enabling the creation of complex applications with a declarative logic.

The Missing Semester of Your CS Education – Revised for 2026

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The Missing Semester course teaches students to master essential CS tools like the command-line, text editors, and version control systems. It also covers AI-enabled tools and techniques integrated into each lecture.

λProlog: Logic programming in higher-order logic

Prolog is a logic programming language with strong logical foundation supporting modular programming, abstract datatypes, and higher-order programming. It has various implementations including ELPI and Teyjus, with ongoing development and applications in meta-programming.

Proposal: Add "AI generated" as a flag reason

The user suggests implementing a flag for LLM-generated content to replace current immune responses of adding a vibecoding tag or flagging as spam. This would help identify and remove low-value AI-generated content, improving the site's quality and user experience.