Domain expertise has always been the real moat

Agentic AI tools have changed software development by allowing non-experts to produce correct outputs without understanding the underlying code. The most valuable professionals now have both technical skills and deep domain knowledge to verify the correctness of generated code.

I found a seashell in the middle of the desert

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A person found a rock resembling a seashell in the Alghat desert, Saudi Arabia, and attempted to identify the shell's shape using a dataset of 7894 species and 59244 images. They used Principal Component Analysis to reduce the shape's dimensions from 256 to 2.

Accenture to acquire Ookla

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Accenture acquires Ookla to strengthen network intelligence and experience with data and AI for enterprises. The acquisition will help clients optimize mission-critical Wi-Fi and 5G networks.

Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog

The Zig project has made significant progress in 2026, including improvements to the ELF linker, incremental compilation, and the build system, which has made zig build faster and more efficient. The project has also made changes to the standard library, including preferring the Native API over Win32 and deleting redundant code from the libc subproject, which has improved compilation speed ...

Jef Raskin, the Visionary Behind the Mac (2013)

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Jef Raskin founded the Macintosh project at Apple, leading to the development of the graphical user interface. He aimed for simplicity and user-friendliness, but the Mac has become increasingly complex over time.

wolfSSL releases a new product; wolfCOSE a zero alloc C embbedded COSE stack

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wolfCOSE is a lightweight C library implementing CBOR and COSE using wolfSSL as the crypto backend. It supports all six COSE message types with a minimal build size of 7.5 KB.

OpenRouter raises $113M Series B

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OpenRouter secured $113M in Series B funding led by CapitalG, with participation from major tech companies. The funding will be used to scale infrastructure and deepen enterprise capabilities for AI production workloads.

Show HN: 500 years of Joseon court omens as an observability dashboard

The Joseon court — the dynasty that ruled Korea for five centuries (1392–1897) — watched and recorded eclipses, comets, droughts, floods, and tiger incursions as signs bearing on the Mandate of Heaven: Heaven's read on whether the dynasty should stand. This console logs those readings as operational telemetry — every entry a real record from the 朝鮮王朝實錄.

Voxel Space (2017)

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In 1992, Comanche used a 2.5D Voxel Space engine with a 1024x1024 height and color map for rendering. The engine used a simple painter algorithm to draw vertical lines based on height and color data.

Dusklight – GC Twilight Princess Decompiled

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Dusklight is a classic adventure game with fixes and improvements, available on PC and mobile. It offers authentic and modern gameplay options with higher resolutions and frame rates.

Parallel Reconstruction of Lawful TLS Wiretapping

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A TLS certificate renewal vulnerability in acme.sh allowed a certificate authority to issue a certificate, enabling wiretapping of jabber.ru. The vulnerability was exploited due to a remote code execution flaw in acme.sh, which was later patched.

Microcode inside the Intel 8087 floating-point chip: register exchange

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The 8087 floating-point chip uses microcode to implement its instruction set, with 1648 micro-instructions controlling the chip's operations. The FXCH instruction, which exchanges two floating-point registers, is implemented with 14 micro-instructions that handle various conditions and exceptions.

Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team

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openrsync is a BSD-licensed rsync implementation compatible with modern rsync protocol 27, primarily designed for OpenBSD but also portable to other UNIX systems. It uses a subset of rsync's command-line arguments and is part of the rpki-client project.

Show HN: Open Envelope – an open schema for defining AI agent teams

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Listed on SchemaStore — VS Code, JetBrains, and any SchemaStore-aware editor will validate *.envelope.json files automatically, no configuration needed. The Envelope team definition — the structure that describes agents, roles, hierarchy, escalation paths, required secrets, and adapters — is published as a formal, versioned open source specification. Anyone can read it, validate against it, ...

Pandoc Templates

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Pandoc templates for PDF, LaTeX, HTML and Word. Easily convert documents with customizable templates for reports, articles, and more.

Design Engineering Magazine

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The author emphasizes the importance of quality in product design, citing a shift from speed to exceptional craftsmanship. They share their expertise on building great interfaces through their website and magazine, Interfaces.

Werner Herzog in conversation with Paul Cronin (2014)

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Werner Herzog discusses his film Grizzly Man, about Timothy Treadwell, a man who lived with bears in Alaska. Herzog found Treadwell's footage fascinating and powerful, despite his delusional acts.

Hormuz crisis side effect: a sharp rise in container shipping rates

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Container shipping costs have doubled since the Iran war began, with bunker fuel costs up 68% and spot rates increasing 59-66% on major routes. Importers are paying more for ocean transport due to the Hormuz crisis, with carriers passing on fuel costs and expecting further rate increases.

Zig: Build System Reworked

The Zig project has made several improvements including faster build times, incremental compilation, and better type resolution. These changes aim to make the development experience more efficient and user-friendly, with features like faster error messages and improved dependency management.
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The user implemented a basic fluid simulation in Godot using Navier Stokes equations, including density advection, diffusion, and velocity advection, and also implemented boundary conditions and pressure correction to remove incompressibility artifacts. The user explained the process in a blog post, including code snippets and explanations of the algorithms used, and noted that the simulation ...

It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle

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Researchers created a virtual bicycle simulator to study how humans and computers learn to ride a bicycle and found that humans use inertial cues and leaning actions that are missing from the simulation. They designed a two-neuron network that can control the bicycle's heading and leaning, and successfully tested it on a virtual bicycle, but future directions include having the system learn ...

Shakespeare’s World – I thought this would be simple but

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User analyzed Shakespeare's plays for place references, extracting 288 places and 2,685 quotes from 38 plays. They created an interactive map with MapLibre, using Stamen's Watercolour tiles, and added search functionality to explore quotes and places.

Tsplat – Run Gaussian splatting in your terminal

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tsplat renders 3D Gaussian Splatting scenes directly in your terminal using Unicode half-blocks or any supported graphics protocol. written in rust and is CPU only for now, doesn't require GPU or display servers and it even works over SSH You need an INRIA 3DGS .ply scene. The pretrained garden scene is a good first test: tsplat path/to/scene.ply # Raise or remove the default 200 k splat ...

IXI's autofocusing lenses are almost ready to replace multifocal glasses

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IXI's autofocus glasses automatically switch between prescriptions using cameraless eye tracking and liquid crystal lenses. They can track eye movements, blinking, and gaze direction, and are designed to help people with age-related farsightedness.

Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism

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The Pope's encyclical warns against unregulated AI development and outdated concepts like "just war". He also calls for fact-checked journalism, multilateral diplomacy, and apologizes for the papacy's past slavery condemnation.

EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated

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GPTZero discovered that Ernst & Young's 2025 report "Points of Attack" contains fake citations and inaccurate claims, which are being spread through newspapers, blog posts, and AI search overviews. The company's Hallucination Check tool identified the fake citations and highlights the dangers of "vibe citing" in research and consulting reports.

What are locusts and what happened to them?

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Show HN: Helios – what plug-in solar could generate for any address in Britain

Plug-in solar panels will be available in the UK soon, allowing you to generate electricity without installation fees or planning permission. Enter your postcode and details to estimate energy generation and potential savings.

Stateless Actors

An actor with no state can still be useful for isolating data and ensuring work is done on a specific thread, like a NetworkClient that decodes JSON responses. However, it may also indicate a misunderstanding or unnecessary complexity, and should be used intentionally with clear trade-offs.

AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers

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Workers are experiencing a unique form of grief due to AI-driven job displacement, which threatens their professional identity and autonomy. This grief is structurally suppressed, and the standard grief model breaks down in the AI case, making recovery harder than in previous industrial transitions.