Chatto is now Open Source

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Chatto is an open-source group chat application that can be self-hosted for free. It offers end-to-end encryption, voice and video calls, and a snappy frontend.

SWE-1.7 Reach Near GPT 5.5 and Opus Intelligence

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Cognition's SWE-1.7 model reaches frontier-level intelligence at a lower cost, advancing the cost-performance Pareto curve. It's trained on a large dataset with extensive quality-assurance measures to ensure alignment and trustworthiness.

Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model

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Robostral Navigate is an 8B model that enables robots to navigate complex environments using only one RGB camera and plain-language instructions. It achieves 76.6% on R2R-CE validation unseen, beating previous approaches by significant margins.

Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents

Flint is a visualization language that creates charts from simple specs, optimizing settings from data and semantic types. It supports 46 chart types and 3 rendering engines.

Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt

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The user's wife bought him a Uniqlo t-shirt with an obfuscated bash script that prints a happy Easter egg message when decoded. The user successfully decoded the script using OCR and confirmed it was a base64 encoded string referencing Linux and Akamai's Peace for All campaign.

Cloudflare Drop

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Drop a folder or zip. See your site live on Cloudflare's global network in seconds.

GPT‑Live

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ChatGPT introduces GPT-Live, a new voice model for natural conversations. It uses full-duplex architecture and delegates complex tasks to other models for smarter answers.

A bug which affected only left handed users

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A user's blog had a bug where a comment box appeared when scrolling with the left thumb due to a touchstart listener on links. The user fixed the issue by deleting unnecessary code, preventing the bug from affecting left-handed users.

OpenMandriva: Statement regarding attempted distribution sabotage

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Our distribution experienced disruptions due to Davide Beatrici's actions. He joined our team despite limited contributions, offering to migrate our repository infrastructure.

I Built a Telegram Client for Pi

The bot uses the same pi provider configuration and credentials as the CLI, with flags and environment variables overriding the saved config. It adds workspace commands to the slash menu and sends normal messages to pi with full tool access.

EU now one step away from reviving private message scanning rules

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The European Parliament approved an urgent procedure to revive the EU's expired "Chat Control 1.0" rules, allowing online platforms to scan private user communications for child sexual abuse material. A decisive vote on July 9 will determine whether the temporary framework returns.

Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus

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Cloudflare's Meerkat is a consensus service that provides strong consistency and fault tolerance for distributed systems. It uses the QuePaxa consensus algorithm, which allows all replicas to perform writes and provides linearizability without relying on a leader or timeouts.

OpenBSD has a use-after-free allowing local privilege escalation to root

OpenBSD's sys/kern/sysv_sem.c has a use-after-free vulnerability allowing local privilege escalation to root. This vulnerability occurs after a context switch in sys_semget().

Grok 4.5

The website is blocked due to security reasons after a suspicious action was detected. Please email the site owner with the Cloudflare Ray ID and details of the action that triggered the block.

GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos

Noma Labs discovered a critical vulnerability, GitLost, in GitHub's Agentic Workflows allowing unauthenticated attackers to pull private data. The vulnerability occurs due to prompt injection, where the AI agent misinterprets user input as instructions.

Understanding B-Tree Indexes in PostgreSQL: A Comprehensive Guide– Part 1

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PostgreSQL uses B-Tree indexes for efficient data retrieval, which are optimized for balance and retrieval efficiency. B-Tree indexes are based on the Lehman and Yao Algorithm and consist of nodes with more than two children, maintaining data in sorted order.

TypeScript 7

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TypeScript 7 is a native port that's 10x faster than TypeScript, with strong type-checking and rich tooling. It's compatible with TypeScript 6 and offers improved performance, stability, and editor support.

What Do We Know About the Microplastics Inside Us?

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Environmental chemist Cassandra Rauert is studying microplastics in the human body, but current analytical techniques are vulnerable to contamination. Rauert's research suggests that reported levels of microplastics in humans may be overestimated due to false positives from lipids in blood.

Show HN: Follow London Trains in 3D

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ridealong ● Live vibecoded in london by martin Powered by TfL Open Data & National Rail Enquiries · Buildings © OpenStreetMap, ODbL no trains running right now — drag to explore london

Show HN: Hnwork.app – UI for Who is hiring posts

HN Work — structured Who's Hiring

Show HN: Agent Draw: An agent draws while you talk, built on TLDraw

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The user built a tool called Agent Draw that uses an AI agent to draw on a shared canvas while a user presents, utilizing the tldraw infinite-canvas SDK for React and an official Agent starter kit. The tool captures audio, transcribes it, and uses the transcription to draw on the canvas, with the agent finishing the entire drawing in one call and the user able to queue up multiple captures.

TabFont – guitar tabs rendered as you type

EVE Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why

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Fenris Creations has made its Carbon game engine open source, allowing anyone to use and contribute to the tech behind Eve Online. The company hopes to see a large community build around the engine, creating new experiences and infrastructure for the Eve universe.

Sometimes it is the network: a war story

You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace, the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions of Chrome). Unfortunately, as of early 2025 there's ...

PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)

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PlayStation is facing backlash over abandoning physical game discs for all-digital distribution, raising concerns about ownership and potential account deletion. Digital games can be withdrawn, unlike physical discs, which can be revoked in principle but not in practice.

Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips

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Apple and Broadcom announced a $30 billion multiyear commitment to design and produce custom silicon components in the US. The agreement will support hundreds of American jobs and enable Broadcom to expand its manufacturing facilities in Colorado.

Japan's Hayabusa2 probe to conduct flyby of Torifune asteroid

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Japan's Hayabusa2 space probe completed a flyby of the Torifune asteroid without incident. The probe is expected to arrive at its final target asteroid in 2031 to aid in planetary defense efforts.

How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)

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User is setting up a basic NAS using ZFS and Samba without a GUI, preferring simplicity over TrueNAS features. They're creating a RAIDZ1 zpool with ashift=12 for improved performance.

Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor

Tenda firmware versions contain an undocumented authentication backdoor granting admin access. An attacker can exploit CVE-2026-11405 to bypass password verification and gain full control.

NoiseLang: Where N = 5 is a Dirac delta

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The user created a programming language called NoiseLang that allows users to write probability distributions as math and run Monte Carlo simulations under the hood to get answers. NoiseLang is a toy language that can be used for simple probability questions, but it's not suitable for complex tasks like fitting a posterior to continuous data, which is better handled by tools like Stan or NumPy.