Epic Games announces Lore version control system

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Lore is a centralized, content-addressed version control system that represents repository state as Merkle trees and an immutable revision chain, optimized for binary-first storage, deduplication, and sparse/on-demand data hydration at scale.

Want your images back? Sure... That'll be $5!

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User had to pay $5 to download childhood images from Photobucket. They felt tricked into a monthly subscription and regret paying the fee.

Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users

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French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation

French science communicator Étienne Klein had his doctor's title revoked after a 20-month investigation found plagiarism in his 1999 Ph.D. thesis. Klein, a physicist and popular science writer, had faced accusations of plagiarism since 2016 but continued to work with prestigious publishing houses and media outlets.

Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD

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Adam New's CADAM generates CAD models in seconds from plain language descriptions. It exports models as OpenSCAD, STL, SCAD, or DXF, showcasing parametric designs for various parts and machines.

GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis

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GLM-5.2 is the leading open weights model with a score of 51 on the Intelligence Index v4.1, surpassing MiniMax-M3 and DeepSeek V4 Pro. It uses 43k output tokens per task, but is less token-efficient compared to peers.

Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball

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Open Ribbie marketing siteNYM at CINKC at WSH, 5:05 PMMIA at PHI, 5:05 PMDET at HOU, 6:10 PMSD at STL, 6:15 PMTB at LAD, 7:10 PM

Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff

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Brands struggle to achieve AI visibility, with consumers unable to name a single company doing it well. The website is key to balancing AI data extraction and human experience.

Agentic coding deserves more than a chat box bolted onto VS Code

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Polypore is a language and OS agnostic IDE with dockable panels and a sandboxed architecture. It updates automatically and supports plugins through a shared contract and MCP server.

RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method

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The QUERY method is a safe and idempotent HTTP request that allows a client to ask a server to perform a query operation without changing the target resource's state. It is used to initiate a server-side query and can be cached like GET requests.

MicroUI – A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C

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The library is a lightweight UI framework that generates drawing commands for custom controls and UI elements. It's free and open-source under the MIT license, accepting bug reports and pull requests.

Hacker News but for Independent Blogs

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5028 independent, personal blogs. One front page. Ranked by votes and freshness, shaped by you.

AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less

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The author discusses the rapid advancements in AI-generated code and its implications on software engineering, arguing that discipline and understanding of the system are more important than code itself. They believe that AI will augment human capabilities, not replace them, and that the future of software engineering will be shaped by the ability to encode knowledge and understanding into the system.

Show HN: Inkwash, a watercolor sketching app and explanation

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The user created an interactive watercolor painting app called Inkwash using Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 model, which simulates water and ink behavior. The app uses WebGL2 and allows users to draw and paint with a stylus or finger.

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GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17

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Running local models is good now

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The user has been using local models since their release and has seen significant improvements in accuracy and speed, particularly with the Gemma 4 family, allowing for agentic coding and tasks like refactoring code and writing unit tests. The user is excited about the potential of local models but notes that they still have limitations, such as slow inference and small context windows, and ...

Show HN: Deconvolution – a Rust image deconvolution and restoration crate

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Recovering images from blur depends on a point-spread function, stable frequency-domain utilities, and careful regularization. deconvolution provides known-PSF restoration, blind workflows, PSF/OTF conversion, preprocessing helpers, simulation fixtures, and ndarray APIs. use deconvolution::psf::basic::gaussian2d; use deconvolution::spectral::{wiener_with, Wiener}; fn main() -> ...

Why stdx is not on crates.io

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The author of stdx is questioning the relevance of centralized package repositories like crates.io due to added complexity and insecurity. They propose a simpler, secure-by-design system where package managers point to source code repositories instead.

Show HN: High-Res Neural Cellular Automata

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Researchers improved Neural Cellular Automata by combining it with a lightweight decoder to produce high-resolution outputs in real-time. This hybrid model preserves NCAs' self-organizing behavior while reducing training time and memory requirements.

Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone

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Conversations with others produce better thinking by forcing precision and correcting thought direction. This is because human reasoning evolved as a social tool for constructing arguments, not for solo thinking.

Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields

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The website Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields documents vanished or abandoned airfields with their unusual histories. It was created in 1999 and celebrated its 25th anniversary in April 2024.

Open-source React UI and D-pad focus engine for Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Readouts, lists, timers, comms and launch screens, plus the world-anchored set (DirectionArrow, Compass, Pin) a watch kit can't do. Premium surfaces tuned for a 600×600 lens, never washed-out blur. Arrow keys and the Neural Band move a focus ring to the nearest target, a superset of Meta's .focusable, tuned for a 600×600 lens. The same code runs on your desk and on the glasses. Vendor ...

GLM 5.2 Performance Benchmarks

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GLM-5.2 (max) scores 51 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, placing it well above average. It costs $1.40 per 1M input tokens and $4.40 per 1M output tokens.

Show HN: Capacitor Alarm Clock

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This project is a safer, more practical capacitor alarm inspired by ElectroBOOM's video, with a user interface and web interface for settings. It uses voltage regulators that may heat up and recommends using a buck converter for higher input voltages.

The Rise and (Potential) Fall of Letterboxd

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Letterboxd is a social platform where users share film preferences through curated guides and movie reviews, attracting a younger audience and reshaping modern movie culture. The site's user base is at risk of being exploited by investors, prompting a crowdfunding campaign to place it under a public trust.

Map Clustering Is Not My Favorite

The author is criticizing map clustering, which was used to show many points on a map without overwhelming browsers. However, with modern mapping technology, this is no longer necessary.

Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress (1.5mil users)

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The US Department of Defense is using generative AI tools to write reports for Congress, saving time and staff hours. However, concerns arise about AI-generated errors and lack of human oversight in these reports, which are crucial for congressional oversight.

Subterranean fungi networks more than 100 quadrillion km in length

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Scientists have created a global map of subterranean fungi networks that stretch 110 quadrillion kilometers, crucial for plant life and climate regulation. However, agricultural practices like tilling and fertilizers threaten these networks, which are essential for storing carbon and distributing nutrients.

Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time

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When identifying IIS servers, use Google dorks like "aspnet_client" and "ext:aspx" to locate targets, then use tools like httpx and nuclei to gather information and enumerate potential vulnerabilities. Techniques like shortname enumeration, path traversal, and HTTP Parameter Pollution can be used to discover and exploit IIS-specific vulnerabilities, such as RCE via deserialization and stored ...