I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program

User sent opt-out request to Flock Safety due to CCPA, but they refused citing customer ownership of data. User disputes this, believing Flock Safety is responsible for complying with CCPA.

Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive

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The Internet Archive has posted 2,500 rare punk tapes, including Nirvana's 1989 performance and previously unknown recordings from Sonic Youth and R.E.M. Volunteers digitize and clean up the tapes, making them sound great despite being recorded with mediocre equipment.

Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times

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Telefónica obtuvo una resolución judicial para bloquear direcciones IP relacionadas con contenidos ilícitos, incluyendo deportes y entretenimiento. Los bloqueos afectarán a webs legítimas y operadoras de telecomunicaciones, incluyendo pequeños y medianos operadores, durante eventos deportivos en directo.

Claude Code Routines

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Claude Code routines are saved configurations that run automatically on Anthropic-managed cloud infrastructure. They can be triggered by schedule, API, or GitHub events, and can perform tasks such as code review, deployment verification, and documentation updates.

5NF and Database Design

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The traditional way of teaching fifth normal form (5NF) is confusing and unnecessary, and a more logical approach is to start with business requirements and create a physical table schema using a textbook table design strategy. Two patterns of physical table design follow naturally: the AB-BC-AC triangle and the ABC+D star pattern, both of which are fully normalized and do not require 5NF ...

YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney

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YouTube surpassed The Walt Disney Co. as the world's largest media company in 2025 with estimated $62 billion in revenue. It's valued at $500-$560 billion, far above traditional media competitors like Netflix.

Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome

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Chrome introduces Skills, a feature that lets users save and reuse AI prompts with a single click. Saved Skills can be edited and used across multiple tabs for tasks like recipe substitutions and gift selection.

Modifying FileZilla to Workaround Bambu 3D Printer's FTP Issue

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You're experiencing issues connecting to your Bambu A1 Mini 3D printer's FTP server using FileZilla on Linux. The problem is caused by the server returning an invalid IP address (0.0.0.0) in the PASV response.

Let's Talk Space Toilets

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NASA has been working on space toilets for decades, with early designs being rudimentary and often causing problems for astronauts, but recent advancements have improved the systems, especially for the International Space Station. However, the challenge of designing a reliable and safe toilet for a Mars mission is significant, requiring consideration of factors like radiation, gravity, and ...

A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”

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OpenSSL 4.0.0

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OpenSSL updates include removing SSLv3 support, engines, and deprecated elliptic curves, while adding support for RFC 8998 and post-quantum groups. FIPS self tests can now be deferred during installation.

guide.world: A compendium of travel guides

It's surprisingly hard to find good travel writing online. Upon landing someplace, you can peruse Wikipedia, but what else should one read? Below is a compendium of recommended pieces.

Show HN: LangAlpha – what if Claude Code was built for Wall Street?

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LangAlpha is a vibe investing agent built to help interpret financial markets and support investment decisions. It runs on a provider-agnostic model layer, abstracting across multiple LLM backends, and supports a three-tier data provider hierarchy.

Show HN: Plain – The full-stack Python framework designed for humans and agents

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The code defines a User model with email, password, display name, admin status, and creation date in a Plain framework application. It also creates a UserDetail view and a UsersRouter to handle user details and URLs in the application.

Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others

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User used Backblaze for 10 years but discovered it stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders without notification. Backblaze's change in policy eroded user's trust, breaking their promise to back up all data.

40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal

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jj – the CLI for Jujutsu

jj is a simpler and more powerful DVCS than git, combining the best of git and Mercurial. It has a git compatible backend, allowing you to try it without converting others.

Carol's Causal Conundrum: a zine intro to causally ordered message delivery

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A professor and students created free zines on distributed programming topics, including causally ordered message delivery and choreographic programming. The zines are available for download and printing, with optional assignments and research ideas shared on the professor's blog.

The Mouse Programming Language on CP/M

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Mouse is a small, stack-oriented language designed for microcomputers around 1975. It incorporates high-level language features and can be implemented with limited resources.

Introspective Diffusion Language Models

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Researchers introduce Introspective Diffusion Language Model (I-DLM) to improve parallel token generation, matching AR model quality and outperforming prior DLMs. I-DLM uses introspective strided decoding to verify generated tokens, achieving 2.9-4.1x higher throughput than LLaDA-2.1-mini and SDAR at high concurrency.

Show HN: Kontext CLI – Credential broker for AI coding agents in Go

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Kontext CLI is an open-source tool that securely manages AI coding agent credentials. It replaces long-lived API keys with short-lived, scoped credentials.

Nucleus Nouns

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Companies should focus on their nucleus nouns, the core nouns that drive their app, to create a strong brand and competitive advantage. By identifying and prioritizing these nouns, companies can build expertise and craft a unique value proposition that sets them apart from competitors.

Show HN: Kelet – Root Cause Analysis agent for your LLM apps

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Kelet is a detective-like AI tool that automatically investigates failures in AI agents and proposes targeted fixes. It reads traces and signals from your agent, clusters failure patterns, and builds root cause hypotheses with evidence.

DaVinci Resolve – Photo

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DaVinci Resolve Photo page offers advanced color tools for still photography, including DaVinci color grading and Resolve FX. It supports RAW files from major camera brands and allows for GPU-accelerated processing.

The acyclic e-graph: Cranelift's mid-end optimizer

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The author describes the aegraph, a data structure at the heart of Cranelift's mid-end optimizer, and explains how it was developed to unify code motion, canonicalization, and rewrites in a single framework. The author outlines the process of elaboration, which involves canonicalizing pure operators, putting them into a sea-of-nodes representation, performing rewrites, and then converting ...

Show HN: A memory database that forgets, consolidates, and detects contradiction

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YantrikDB is a cognitive memory engine that stores memories with consolidation, forgetting, and conflict resolution. It uses multi-signal scoring and entity graph to improve recall quality and precision.

The M×N problem of tool calling and open-source models

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Tool calling with closed-source models is seamless, but with open models, it depends on a wire format the engine must understand, leading to implementation burdens. A shared declarative way to describe wire formats is needed to standardize tool calling across models and engines.

The Fediverse deserves a dumb graphical client

User loves the Fediverse for its open protocol and lack of algorithmic feed, but dislikes heavy clients requiring modern browsers and JavaScript. They created SmolFedi, a lightweight PHP client that generates HTML server-side, supporting multiple accounts and features.

Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug

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A verified implementation of zlib, lean-zip, was found to be vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow in the Lean runtime. Despite this, the application code had zero memory-related bugs in 105 million fuzzing executions, demonstrating the effectiveness of formal verification in producing robust software.

Franklin's bad ads for Apple II clones and the beloved impersonator they depict

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Franklin Computer Corporation's ads, including one featuring Ralph Archbold as Benjamin Franklin, were memorable but problematic due to copyright infringement on Apple products. The company's clones, such as the ACE 1000, were popular but ultimately led to a lawsuit and the company's shift away from desktop computers.