Death to Scroll Fade

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The author dislikes scroll fade, a web design effect where elements fade in as users scroll, as it's often overused and poorly implemented. They argue it's tacky, distractive, and negatively impacts core web vitals, such as Largest Contentful Paint.

A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web

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Wander is a decentralised web console that loads random pages from a community of personal websites. It forms a network by linking to other consoles, allowing users to browse the small web.

Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989)

The rules emphasize measuring performance before optimizing, using simple algorithms and data structures, and prioritizing data organization for efficient programming.

Snowflake AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware

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A vulnerability in Snowflake's Cortex Code CLI allowed malware to be installed and executed via indirect prompt injection, bypassing human approval and escaping the sandbox. The issue was fixed with Cortex Code CLI version 1.0.25 on February 28th, 2026.

Machine Payments Protocol (MPP)

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Stripe and Tempo launched the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) for agents to pay programmatically. MPP enables microtransactions, recurring payments, and more, integrating with Stripe's PaymentIntents API.

Nvidia NemoClaw

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NVIDIA NemoClaw is an open source stack for running OpenClaw assistants safely with NVIDIA OpenShell runtime and cloud inference. It's early-stage and not production-ready, with interfaces and APIs subject to change.

Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool (just 2 files) to explore the small web

To set up a Wander console, download a ZIP file, extract index.html and wander.js, and place them in the /wander/ directory of your website. Then edit wander.js according to the directions at codeberg.org/susam/wander.

Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer

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UVR Karaoke separates vocals from instrumentals and scores singing in real-time with adjustable volume and lyrics alignment. It supports various file formats, controllers, and platforms, with GPU acceleration and automatic video audio extraction.

Federal Cyber Experts Called Microsoft's Cloud "A Pile of Shit", yet Approved It

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ProPublica found that Microsoft's cloud product, GCC High, was authorized by the government despite security concerns and lack of proper documentation. The government's cybersecurity evaluators had "lack of confidence" in assessing the system's overall security posture.

A Tiny Camera Revealed a Hidden Passage in the Great Pyramid

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Egyptian archaeologists discovered a hidden 9-meter long corridor in the Great Pyramid of Khufu using muography and non-invasive tools. The corridor's position suggests it may have helped redirect weight from above or relate to a deeper, unmapped space inside the pyramid.

Pandas Exercises for Data Analysis (Interactive)

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This is an interactive version of the popular 101 pandas exercises. the first run may take a few seconds to initialize. # task: bin np series to 10 groups of equal size import pandas as pd ser = df. how to get the row number of second largest value of 'taste' for 'banana'? # task: find the positions of numbers that are multiples of 3 from s

JPEG Compression

JPEG uses a human perceptual bias to separate brightness from color, reducing color detail without degrading visual fidelity. It applies the discrete cosine transform, quantizes coefficients, and uses entropy coding to store a compact image description.

OpenRocket

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OpenRocket is a free model rocket simulator with advanced features for designing and simulating rockets. It offers real-time feedback, AI assistance, and a large database of motor data for optimal performance.

Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access June 15

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Meta will remove VR version of Horizon Worlds from Quest headsets by June 15, 2026, and focus on mobile app. The company is shifting focus to mobile version due to positive momentum and investment in AI and smart glasses.

Write up of my homebrew CPU build

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The user built a prototype of a computer called WCPU-1 using a breadboard and encountered several issues including backwards LEDs, floating address lines, and EEPROM glitches, but eventually got it working at 1 MHz with 256 bytes of RAM. The user plans to create a final version of the computer on a single PCB, remove the Arduino, and add features such as an overflow flag and debouncing ...

A ngrok-style secure tunnel server written in Rust and Open Source

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Rustunnel is a secure tunnel server written in Rust that exposes local services through a public server over encrypted WebSocket connections. It supports HTTP/TCP proxying, a live dashboard, Prometheus metrics, and audit logging, and can be used with a public edge server or self-hosted.

Mistral AI Releases Forge

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Mistral AI's Forge system allows enterprises to build AI models grounded in their proprietary knowledge, enabling them to train models on internal data and align AI with their unique operations. Forge supports continuous adaptation and enables organizations to build models that reflect institutional intelligence, operate within their domain context, and evolve alongside their knowledge and processes.

Restoring the first recording of computer music (2018)

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Alan Turing's 1948 computer-generated music was initially overlooked, but a 1951 BBC recording of the Manchester computer playing the National Anthem and other melodies has been restored to its original sound. The recording was sped up during the cutting process, but after analysis, it was corrected to reveal the true sound of Turing's pioneering computer music.

A Decade of Slug

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The Slug Algorithm, developed in 2016, renders fonts directly from Bézier curves on the GPU, achieving high-quality results and robustness. The algorithm's patent has been dedicated to the public domain, allowing anyone to freely implement it without a license.

Celebrating Tony Hoare's mark on computer science

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Tony Hoare was a renowned computer scientist who made significant contributions to the field, including the Quicksort algorithm and Hoare logic.

A data center opened next door. Then came the high-pitched whine

Data centers generating their own electricity may ease public acceptance but creates new hurdles such as noise pollution and health impacts. Local residents are complaining about noise and pollution from gas turbines at data centers in Loudoun County, Virginia.

A Fuzzer for the Toy Optimizer

The user created a fuzzer to test an optimizer's correctness by generating random programs and checking for heap consistency between optimized and un-optimized versions. The fuzzer revealed an aliasing problem in the optimizer when its main load-bearing pillar of correctness was commented out.

Ndea (YC W26) is hiring a symbolic RL search guidance lead

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Ndea is hiring researchers/engineers for deep learning in search guidance, focusing on neuro-symbolic AI. To apply, send an email with impressive work, relevant experience, or referrals to [email protected].

The pleasures of poor product design

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Katerina Kamprani created The Uncomfortable, a project featuring deliberately inconvenient everyday objects, to express herself and have fun. The project has evolved over 15 years, with Kamprani creating around 50 designs, mostly digital renderings, and a few real-world prototypes.

On a Boat

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MoQ is a protocol that allows for efficient live streaming by splitting streams into tracks and only transmitting them when subscribed to, making it ideal for bandwidth-constrained environments. It also supports prioritization, path migration, and multi-path extensions to ensure reliable and scalable live streaming.

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Using calculus to do number theory

Kurt Hensel used calculus to solve a number theory problem by improving an approximate solution to a polynomial equation modulo 125. He applied Newton's method to find a solution modulo 25 and then upgraded it to a solution modulo 125.

Show HN: Sub-millisecond VM sandboxes using CoW memory forking

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A user uses the ZeroBoot API to execute a Python script that prints random numbers. The API uses Firecracker to boot a VM and pre-load the runtime, with a working prototype but not production-ready.

North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim

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Researchers at IBM X‑Force and Flare Research have uncovered data that sheds light on how North Korea's fake IT worker schemes operate and infiltrate companies in order to funnel money back to the regime and steal sensitive information. In a published report, "Inside the North Korean infiltrator threat," the pair detail evidence of the top-level infrastructure used to manage the ...

How the Eon Team Produced a Virtual Embodied Fly

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Researchers created a virtual fly using a brain model and a virtual body, demonstrating how an embodied brain controls a virtual body. The model shows how the fly navigates, eats, and grooms itself, but has limitations and simplifications.