libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months

The libexpat project has ended its security vacation and the maintainer will be paid to work on it for 6 months. They will prioritize fixing vulnerabilities and appreciate help from the community in finding and reporting further issues.

After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x Product Are Restricted

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Korean investors shifted $1 billion into US leveraged ETFs like SOXL, KORU, and TSLL after government raised investment barriers for domestic single-stock leverage products. Domestic single-stock leveraged product trading plummeted after the government implemented stricter regulations.

Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage

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Pi is a coding harness that chooses minimalism, coming with only 4 tools and a system prompt under 1,000 tokens, making it cheaper and more performant. Its design allows for extensibility and self-editability, producing industry-leading results even before adding extensions, as seen in case studies with Databricks and Shopify.

Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI

The website is using Cloudflare security and blocked my action, possibly due to a trigger like a certain word or SQL command. I was trying to perform an action when this page came up, and the Cloudflare Ray ID is needed to report the issue to the site owner.

Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation

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Shieldstral is a 3B multimodal safety classifier that adapts to context with a policy-adaptive approach, answering questions like content safety and harm. It matches larger models on text safety and sets a new state of the art on multimodal moderation with a single interface for text and images.

IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay

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WebKit-based browsers on iOS and macOS can bypass proxy settings through three features: DNS prefetching, WebAuthn Related Origin Requests, and WebTransport. These leaks expose users' real network and IP addresses, affecting Apple's iCloud Private Relay and all iOS Tor browsers, including Psylo.

Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest

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The author is excited about the new stateless MCP 2.0 specification, which simplifies the protocol and reduces complexity. They've built several MCP tools, including mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp, and plan to integrate MCP into their LLM tool.

DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023)

TMD, a column-major data processing platform, can leverage DuckDB's vectorized SQL execution engine for efficient large dataset processing. The integration enables functional data science solutions on laptops, reducing the need for expensive distributed solutions.

Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones

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A custom color picker based on a color space was created to represent human skin tones digitally, aiming to identify a broad and inclusive range of colors that correspond to plausible skin tones. The color space was developed using principal component analysis and manual fitting of spherical equations to a dataset of labeled skin tones, resulting in a color picker with three independent ...

Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice

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This paper compares Zigbee and Matter over Thread, two IoT protocols, and finds that Zigbee is more responsive in small-scale deployments, while Matter over Thread is more scalable and robust in multi-hop scenarios. The results highlight distinct trade-offs between the two protocols.

In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years

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Elise Cawley, a brilliant mathematician, was a loving wife and mother who lit up her husband's life with her intellect, love, and energy for 36 years. She was a forceful intellect, kind and sweet, with a deep love for truth, beauty, and her family, and her legacy will be remembered through her remarkable life and work.

Show HN: Maple-Preview – ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone

DeepGrove is an independent AI research lab building efficient language models that run anywhere.

Bugtraq Is Back

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Bugtraq, a full disclosure mailing list, has been revived with the same mission of researcher-first, no corporate filter. The list aims to preserve cybersecurity history and knowledge by archiving valuable work and research.

Rio-vt and librio: Rio's terminal engine, now embeddable

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For a while now Rio's terminal core has been tangled up with its renderer, its config, and the app around it. That made it hard for anyone (including me) to reuse the parts that took years to get right: the VT state machine, the grid, scrollback, selection, search, and the image protocols. With Rio 0.5 that changes. The engine is now split into clean, embeddable layers, and I want to walk ...

AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol

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Artificial intelligence is powering 55% of reported cybercrime in Africa, allowing criminals to launch faster and more convincing attacks. Cybercrime-related financial losses have risen sharply to $484 million, with online scams and AI-powered fraud being the most common forms.

Flowise Is Shutting Down

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Flowise is winding down operations due to developers increasingly relying on new coding agents for complex tasks. The Flowise GitHub repository will be moved to Public Archive status, allowing users to fork the code and maintain their own updates.

Video2NAND – Abusing video codecs for great computational power

We will use the VP8 video codec to simulate combinatorial logic by abusing its prediction mechanisms. We will build up a set of composable "gadgets" to construct arbitrary logic circuits using key-frames and prediction modes.

Gallium: Why the US Cannot Produce Precision Missiles and Fully-Functional F-35s

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Kudos, again, to Kevin Wamsley of Inside China Business. Based on his latest podcast (see below) I did some additional digging. The substance of his video briefing is shocking and alarming, at least for US policymakers and weapons manufacturers. There is a single thread running from the empty nose cones of America’s newest stealth fighters to the laboratories where China is building the ...

Waymo in Dallas

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Waymo is now offering fully autonomous rides to everyone in Dallas through its app. The service aims to provide safe and reliable transportation options for locals and tourists alike.

We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars

The user needed to center a div on a webpage with a sidebar, but the div was offset due to the sidebar's width. They used JavaScript and pointer events to calculate the correct position, creating a tool called center to automatically center elements on any webpage.

I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel

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Godox Transparent Viewfinder Camera C100

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The Godox C100 camera features a transparent viewfinder and built-in light meter for effortless shooting, stripping away complexity and pressure. It doubles as a sleek external light meter and connects to phones via Type-C for instant preview and sharing.

Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed

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To make case folding fast, GitHub engineers removed an optimization and implemented a branchless, vectorizable loop that folds ASCII characters in place, achieving speeds of over 45 GiB/s. They also created a compact, 1776-byte table that uses byte-space arithmetic to fold non-ASCII characters without decoding, outperforming other case folding solutions and a naive hash map.

There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]

Show HN: SIMD Viterbi Decoder in Rust

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The fec crate supports various forward error correction codes including convolutional codes and Reed-Solomon codes. It provides a Rust implementation for decoding and encoding these codes with optional SIMD acceleration.

From boiling lead and black art: The history of mathematical typography (2017)

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I’ve always felt like constructing printed math was much more of an art form than regular typesetting. Someone typesetting mathematics is less a “typist” and more an artist attempting to render abstract data on a two-dimensional surface. Mathematical symbols are themselves a language, but they are fundamentally a visual representation of human-conceived knowledge—knowledge that would be too ...

Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)

The SEC limits automated tool requests to prevent equitable access issues and excessive searches. Users can declare their traffic and follow best practices at sec.gov/developer to avoid request limitations.

Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead

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truemetrics is a tech-driven company solving last mile delivery issues with smartphone-based mapping technology. They're seeking a commercial leader to drive growth from €1M to €10M+.

When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation

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Researchers analyzed 60 language model benchmarks and found nearly half exhibit saturation, with rates increasing with age. Expert-curation, not public test data, impacts resilience to saturation.

Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc

An Xbox outage blocked users from playing both digital and disc-based games. The author prefers PC gaming because it allows for maintaining access to games despite digital issues.