GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard

We're well into the process of converting the Messaging app included in GrapheneOS into a modern app. We'll be making a new release later today with a completely overhauled user interface written in Android Compose. We've made a massive amount of other improvements and bug fixes beyond that too.

Show HN: Mador – Make any DOM reactive with a tiny 80-line Proxy state tuple

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Mador is a reactive state management library that binds to existing DOM, using native ES modules and tracking dependencies for efficient updates. It works without components or virtual DOM, modifying the provided DOM directly.

Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes

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A C interpreter for a subset of Python syntax is created, fitting within 1024 bytes. It uses recursive descent parsing and minimal state to execute code without intermediate representations.

Your intellectual fly is open (2025)

The author criticizes excessive use of Large Language Models (LLMs) on LinkedIn, citing poor writing quality and loss of authenticity. They urge users to write their own content, as LLM-generated posts can be easily recognizable and undermine the reader's trust.

Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight

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Isar Aerospace successfully delivered satellites into orbit on its second flight, becoming the first European commercial space company to do so. The mission marked a new era for the global space industry with sovereign access to space from Continental Europe.

Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings

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A new method translates text embeddings without paired data, achieving high cosine similarity across different models and architectures. This approach preserves the geometry of unknown embeddings, posing a security risk to vector databases.

Black Hole of Los Alamos Seller of surplus nuclear research materials (2011)

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NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for NetBSD-9

NetBSD 9.5 is the final release from the NetBSD 9 stable branch, featuring security and stability fixes since April 2024. Users on this branch are urged to update to a more recent release like NetBSD 11.0 or 10.2 for support.

Babylonian Lamb Stew with Beets (1750–1730 BCE)

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Heat lamb mixture with beer and water, then serve with steamed bulgur and naan-bread. Toast seeds to make flour, ferment dough for 12 hours, bake into flatbread, then top stew with crushed bread and cilantro.

It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis

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Anubis is a security measure to prevent AI scraping, causing temporary downtime. To access the website, disable plugins like JShelter that block modern JavaScript features.

Asahi Linux on M3

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Asahi Linux now supports Macs with M3 series SoCs, offering most features like webcam and USB support. However, full DCP support and 3D acceleration are not available yet due to ongoing work.

Research carried out using NetBSD

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Researchers and organizations have utilized NetBSD for various projects, including satellite networks, IPv6 implementation, network security, and high-speed data transfer. These efforts demonstrate NetBSD's scalability and performance in different environments.

Political meddling at the Census Bureau damages the US statistical system

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The US Census Bureau and other statistical agencies are facing increasing political interference, with the latest events including a brief on noncitizen voting that fell short of standards and an order to end noise infusion methods for privacy protection. This undermines trust in the data-driven decisions made by policymakers and businesses.

A/I shuts down – Stay human

The Autistici/Inventati collective is shutting down due to designation as a global terrorist organization, prioritizing user safety over continued operation. The group will provide instructions on backing up content and technical recommendations before discontinuing services.

Reverse engineering the storage format for an undocumented database

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The team successfully parsed the CronosPro database files by recovering the schema and adjusting the parser to handle KOD encoding and field definitions correctly. They used statistical analysis and the Hungarian algorithm to determine the correct KOD table, allowing accurate decoding of the data.

Show HN: VODForge – a free local desktop UI for YouTube video/playlist downloads

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VODForge is a desktop app that converts YouTube videos and playlists to MP4 or MP3 with quality, queue, and metadata controls. It uses yt-dlp and FFmpeg underneath and offers a free public build for macOS 12+ and Windows 10/11.

Electronic skin for prosthetics to sense temperature and pressure

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Researchers at Washington State University developed an electronic skin for prosthetics that can detect pressure and temperature, potentially helping amputees regain feeling. The customizable system is more accurate and reliable than current commercial glove sensors, with the potential to improve tasks performed by amputees.

Opalite Health (YC W26) Is Hiring – Founding GTM

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Opalite is hiring a GTM sales hire to build enterprise sales motion for real-time medical interpretation in hospitals and health systems. The ideal candidate will own the full sales cycle, develop outbound strategies, and bring customer insights back into product strategy.

Vidact – a compiler that turns React into direct DOM operations

Vidact compiles a subset of React 19 for build time, excluding class components and third-party packages. It generates server-side markup that can be hydrated by the client, producing a single description of the component.

Doomscrolling Ourselves to Death

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The author discusses how declining literacy rates, particularly among teenagers and adults, are linked to the rise of television and smartphones. This shift has led to a decline in critical thinking and analytical skills, resulting in a more superficial culture.

M-DISC – DVD/Blu-ray compatible discs that may last up to 1000 years

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M-DISC is a type of archival media designed to last up to 1000 years, using a glassy carbon material that resists oxidation and has a high melting point. The technology was developed by Millenniata, Inc., which went bankrupt in 2016 but its assets were later sold to Yours.co.

D2 Is Non-Profit

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D2, an open-source IDE and layout algorithm, is now fiscally sponsored by Hack Club after its for-profit company shut down. The project will continue to evolve with AI-driven development, focusing on quality over features.

An Alien Mind

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Researchers are concerned about the rapid growth of reasoning language models, which could lead to machines surpassing human intelligence and posing significant risks. They believe that broader interventions are needed to ensure alignment with human values.

Windows 11's "special" developer edition looks like another marketing misfire

A Week of Bug Reporting

If you use software regularly, and have your wits about you, you will often realise that you’ve encountered a bug — in other words, that the software has done (or not) something that it shouldn’t (or should have). When this happens, the vast majority of people moan to the nearest bystander about how incompetent the people behind the software are and then carry on with whatever they were doing ...

Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI

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Researchers at OpenAI are developing an automated AI researcher to accelerate progress in deep learning and alignment, with a goal of achieving full Researcher System Integrity (RSI) by 2028. The system is already showing significant acceleration in research tasks, but careful alignment and safety measures are necessary to ensure beneficial AGI development.
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X Corp sent cease and desist letters to Nitter project on 24 August 2026. The project will continue following legal advice, with more details to be announced soon.

Show HN: Sol, my macOS music player and jukebox app, is now free and open source

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Sol is a free, open-source media player with no subscription or trial fees, offering features like metadata editing and smart playlists. It supports various file formats and has a user-friendly interface for browsing and playing music collections.

Hackers have withdrawn ~4k BTC (~$320M) from the Liquid Federation wallet

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Liquid Federation is investigating a security incident where ~4,000 BTC were withdrawn via SideSwap PAK without key compromise. The network is paused as bridges are disabled and exchanges have paused LBTC transactions.

IBM Quantum Nighthawk R2

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IBM Quantum Nighthawk r2 is the company's fastest quantum processor, capable of executing over 100,000 circuits per second. It achieves this through a new dissipative reset gadget that actively cools qubits to their ground state, reducing initialization error and idle time between circuit executions.