Internet Archive Switzerland

310 hggh 2026-05-09 12:30:51 UTC internetarchive.ch Llama Share 41

Internet Archive Switzerland is a non-profit foundation in St. Gallen, Switzerland, aiming for universal access to all knowledge. It preserves digital information and collaborates with partners to rescue vulnerable collections and build the Gen AI Archive.

PipeDream on the Acorn Archimedes

42 msephton 2026-05-09 15:30:51 UTC stonetools.ghost.io Llama Share 13

The user explores the RISC OS operating system and PipeDream productivity suite, highlighting their unique features and quirks, including the three-button mouse, drag-and-drop file management, and customizable keyboard shortcuts. Despite the system's elegance and ease of use, the user finds it disorienting and frustrating at times, particularly with the word processing and database functions, ...

The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism

92 ColinWright 2026-05-09 14:30:51 UTC matduggan.com Llama Share 47

The user reflects on the early days of the internet and how the ideology of cyberlibertarianism, which emphasized individual freedom and deregulation, led to the creation of a platform that prioritizes profit over people and has devastating consequences. The user argues that it's time to face the facts that this ideology has failed and that we need to evolve and find a new ethical code to ...

Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

1332 anonymousiam 2026-05-08 19:30:51 UTC reclaimthenet.org Llama Share 483

Google's new reCAPTCHA system requires Android users to run Google Play Services to prove they're human, excluding de-Googled phones. This move establishes a precedent for accessing basic web content, favoring Google's ecosystem control over user data consent.

LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate

191 rbanffy 2026-05-09 09:30:51 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 66

Large Language Models (LLMs) degrade documents during long workflows, corrupting 25% of content on average. Current LLMs are unreliable delegates, introducing severe errors that silently corrupt documents over time.

Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

332 pretext 2026-05-09 05:30:51 UTC twitter.com/trq212 Full Share 206

Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot. Some privacy related extensions may cause issues on x.com. Please disable them and try again.

Removing fsync from our local storage engine

50 zzsheng 2026-05-09 12:30:51 UTC fractalbits.com Llama Share 38

A custom-built single-node KV storage engine was designed to avoid fsync calls for PUT and DELETE operations by using preallocated files, O_DIRECT writes, and a journal with aligned commits to ensure durability on SSDs. The engine achieved higher throughput and lower latency compared to ext4 and O_DIRECT+fsync configurations in a 4KB random-write benchmark on AWS i8g.2xlarge local NVMe.

How LEDs are made (2014)

79 smig0 2026-05-09 11:30:51 UTC learn.sparkfun.com Llama Share 10

The author visited YunSun factory in China and learned about the LED manufacturing process, including die production, wire bonding, and epoxy molding. The factory uses a combination of manual and automated processes, with multiple suppliers involved in the tool-chain, making it difficult to create custom LEDs.

A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

510 _alternator_ 2026-05-09 04:30:51 UTC gowers.wordpress.com Llama Share 366

A mathematician used ChatGPT 5.5 Pro to improve the upper bound on a problem in additive number theory from exponential to polynomial in time, with the AI producing a result that was almost certainly correct according to a human expert. The mathematician suggests that the era of human mathematicians solving problems independently may be coming to an end, and that the future of mathematics ...

Introduction to Beaver Triples

6 badcryptobitch 2026-05-09 16:30:51 UTC stoffelmpc.com Prefix Share 1

You and your friends are planning to go out to dinner. Typically, you are the friend in the friend group that pays for everyone else's meals. But recently, the market isn't doing to well recently. So, everyone needs to start paying up. However, not all of the homies are ballin' because well, the market isn't doing too well and one of them is still a student. But, just because ...

Mythical Man Month

282 ingve 2026-05-09 02:30:51 UTC martinfowler.com Llama Share 173

Fred Brooks managed IBM's System/360 in the 1960s and wrote influential book The Mythical Man-Month in 1975. The book emphasizes conceptual integrity in system design, simplicity, and straightforwardness to avoid communication issues and ensure effective work.

America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy

124 rawgabbit 2026-05-09 06:30:51 UTC apnews.com Llama Share 68

Bob Shaw, CEO of Shaw Industries, clashed with 3M executives in 2000 over Scotchgard reformulation due to environmental concerns. Shaw's company and others continued using PFAS alternatives despite warnings and health risks.

OpenAI’s WebRTC problem

415 atgctg 2026-05-08 23:30:51 UTC moq.dev Llama Share 126

The user strongly advises against using WebRTC for voice AI due to its limitations and trade-offs, such as introducing artificial latency and aggressively dropping packets. The user suggests using QUIC instead, which offers better performance and scalability, and provides a detailed explanation of how QUIC can be used for load balancing and connection management.

Building the TD4 4-Bit CPU

31 zdw 2026-05-09 13:30:51 UTC jayakody2000lk.blogspot.com Llama Share 10

The TD4 is a 4-bit CPU built from 74-series TTL logic ICs, featuring 12 instructions and a 16-byte ROM. It's a simple, educational tool for understanding computer architecture, with a straightforward build process and no firmware or calibration required.

Making Julia as Fast as C++ (2019)

61 d_tr 2026-05-09 09:30:51 UTC flow.byu.edu Llama Share 42

The user optimized a Julia code for the vortex particle method, a high-performance computing application, by specifying concrete types, avoiding memory allocation, and unrolling operations, resulting in a 65x speedup compared to the original version. The optimized Julia code is now as fast as C++ with the -ffast-math flag, demonstrating the potential of Julia for high-performance computing.

GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch

103 Georgelemental 2026-05-09 14:30:51 UTC cyberinsider.com Llama Share 25

GrapheneOS has released an update to fix a VPN bypass vulnerability that leaks a user's real IP address even with Android's VPN protections enabled. The update disables a QUIC connection feature and includes the May 2026 Android security patch level and other security improvements.

David Attenborough's 100th Birthday

779 defrost 2026-05-08 17:30:51 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 150

Sir David Attenborough turns 100, receiving birthday messages from the royal couple and many celebrities. A special concert at the Royal Albert Hall celebrates his life and legacy.

Reviving the IBM Selectric Composer Fonts (2023)

45 tangus 2026-05-09 10:30:51 UTC kutilek.de Llama Share 5

The IBM Selectric Composer used a 9-unit grid for its type elements, but this caused issues with letter widths, particularly with the Univers typeface, which was adapted for the machine. A digitization of the Univers typeface was created by scaling scans of the original type elements and applying a rounded corners filter to maintain the typeface's friendly impression.

What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting

143 Tomte 2026-05-09 05:30:51 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 33

Joseph Dwyer studied cosmic events before researching lightning on Earth. He discovered that lightning initiation requires extreme events, not just electricity.

Show HN: Mochi.js: bun-native high-fidelity browser automation library

9 ccheshirecat 2026-05-09 14:30:51 UTC mochijs.com Prefix Share 3

mochi.js is a Bun-native, raw-CDP browser automation framework. Pass a seed and a profile; get a relationally-coherent fingerprint that survives a getParameter(0x9245) probe. JIT-friendly inject payload, Chromium-native fetch (real Chrome JA4 by definition), behavioral synth on top of Bezier+Fitts. Leaves no crumbs. Where Playwright and Puppeteer leave fingerprints, mochi.js leaves nothing ...

Killswitch: Per-function short-circuit mitigation primitive

61 signa11 2026-05-09 09:30:51 UTC lwn.net GoogleT5 Share 13

Af_alg_sendmsg() is the highest-level entry into the af_alg +sent path. engaging it with retval '-eperm' causes every send attempt to return -eperm to userspace; no caller ever sees +half-initialised state. +* inline functions, freed __init symbols, and anything compiled away cannot

Show HN: Free tool to mark points and polygon regions

15 magikMaker 2026-05-09 13:30:51 UTC tack.pics Llama Share 3

Tack is a free browser-based tool for marking points and polygons on images, allowing export in JSON, YAML, or HTML. It runs offline and keeps images local, suitable for game developers, level designers, and data labelers.

Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)

317 homebrewer 2026-05-08 21:30:51 UTC wiisfi.com GoogleT5 Share 88

A mid-range wi-fi 6 router supporting (1) 44 mimo [7], (2) all dfs channels, (3) 160 mhz (he160) wide channels is. if you are not right next to the router, your actual speed will be around 900 mbps 100 for 22 mimo and 650 for wi-fi 5 - edward s. lewis. says unless you

AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures

386 speckx 2026-05-08 18:30:51 UTC jefftk.com Llama Share 155

A security vulnerability was discovered and shared publicly after an initial attempt at a closed disclosure, highlighting a tension between coordinated and immediate disclosure. AI-assisted vulnerability detection is making long embargoes obsolete and shortening the time to detection.

Read Programming as Theory Building

62 birdculture 2026-05-09 14:30:51 UTC codeutopia.net Llama Share 10

Reading Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" helped the author understand that programming is about building a mental model of a program, its requirements, and how they relate to everything around it. This theory helps explain why writing good software is hard and how various activities like writing clean code, documentation, and automated tests are connected to communicating the ...

Cartoon Network Flash Games

390 willmeyers 2026-05-08 17:30:51 UTC webdesignmuseum.org Llama Share 119

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.

An Introduction to Meshtastic

480 ColinWright 2026-05-08 17:30:51 UTC meshtastic.org Llama Share 175

Meshtastic is a community-driven, open-source project using LoRa radios for long-range off-grid communication. It forms a mesh network allowing multiple users to receive messages, with each device supporting one user at a time.

The React2Shell Story

194 mufeedvh 2026-05-08 23:30:51 UTC lachlan.nz Llama Share 39

A professional hacker discovered a critical remote code execution vulnerability, "React2Shell," in the React framework, which affected millions of websites, and reported it to Meta on November 30th 2025. The hacker, fueled by curiosity and frustration, spent days learning about the Flight protocol and eventually found a way to exploit it, leading to the development of the React2Shell exploit chain.

The context window has been shattered: Subquadratic debuts a 12M token window

26 gmays 2026-05-09 15:30:51 UTC thenewstack.io Llama Share 4

Subquadratic claims its model can handle 12 million tokens, running 52 times faster than dense attention and scoring 83 on MRCR v2. The company's Subquadratic Selective Attention architecture scales linearly in compute and memory with context length.

AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved

249 christhecaribou 2026-05-08 19:30:51 UTC cnbc.com Llama Share 178

Amazon Web Services experienced a thermal issue at a Virginia facility causing operational issues. The outage affected trading platforms like FanDuel and Coinbase, with full recovery expected to take several hours.