Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma

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Plasma Bigscreen is a free, open-source interface for Linux designed for TVs and HTPCs. It offers a customizable big-screen experience with app support and settings management via TV remote or game controller.

UUID package coming to Go standard library

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A package to generate and parse UUID versions 3, 4, and 5 should be added to the Go standard library due to its widespread use in third-party packages. This addition would make Go more consistent with other languages, as it currently stands out for lacking built-in UUID support.

this css proves me human

You're rewriting a blog post to appeal to technical readers by changing capitalization, using em dashes, and correcting grammar. You're also contemplating a deeper change in your writing style to better reflect your thoughts and engagement with the world.

LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first

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The author discusses the limitations of using Large Language Models (LLMs) in coding, citing two case studies where LLM-generated code failed to meet performance expectations due to a lack of understanding of the underlying system. The author argues that LLMs can produce plausible but incorrect code, and that developers should define specific acceptance criteria to ensure correctness, rather ...

Galileo's handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text

Helix: A post-modern text editor

Helix is a modal editor inspired by Kakoune, offering concurrent code editing and robust syntax trees. It integrates features like auto completion, code navigation, and diagnostics without additional configuration.

The Longing (1999)

We feel a deep resentment towards being managed in a corporate environment where our voices are suppressed. This longing for the Web is rooted in our desire to express ourselves authentically and have a voice.

Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting

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Moongate v2 is a modern Ultima Online server project built with .NET 10, aiming for a clean, modular architecture with strong packet tooling and deterministic game-loop processing. The project is open to contributors and welcomes pull requests with changes, following the project's coding standards and including tests, and is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

Maybe there's a pattern here?

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Inventors and scientists like Hermann Oberth, Johannes Winkler, and Alfred Nobel created machines and technologies that could be used for war, but some, like Nobel, hoped to use them to prevent war. Others, like Leo Szilárd and Mikhail Kalashnikov, grappled with the moral implications of their creations and the devastating consequences of war.

Querying 3B Vectors

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User is trying to implement optimal map-reduce solution for vector search on 3 billion vectors and 1k query vectors, but faces memory issues and slow performance. Requirements are unclear, including vector format, compression, and machine specs, making it difficult to achieve a scalable solution.

Modernizing swapping: virtual swap spaces

The user discusses the Linux kernel's swapping subsystem and proposes improvements to the zswap and zram mechanisms, including the idea of making tmpfs zswappable. They also suggest that the kernel's swapping subsystem could be simplified by unifying zram and tmpfs, and that the current implementation of zswap has limitations that could be addressed by allowing it to allocate space on the ...

What canceled my Go context?

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The Go context package's cause APIs, introduced in Go 1.20, allow developers to track the reason behind a context cancellation, enabling better error handling and logging. However, there are subtleties to consider when using WithTimeoutCause, such as defer cancel() discarding the cause on the normal return path, and the need for a stacked approach to support downstream code relying on ...

My application programmer instincts failed when debugging assembler

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I’ve had a smidge of extra time with my recent unemployment, so to stay sharp and learn a few new things I followed Seiya Nuta’s guide to building an Operating System in 1,000 Lines. I’m not an OS programmer, my life is normally spent at high-level application programming. (The closest I come to the CPU is the week I spent trying to internalize the flow of those crazy speculative execution ...

Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions

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Editing changes in patch format with Jujutsu

The user wanted to rename a method in a Jujutsu change without relying on LSP, and found a workaround using jj diffedit and a custom external tool. They created a shell script to generate a patch file and edit it with an external editor, which they registered with Jujutsu for future use.

CT Scans of Health Wearables

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Experience the engineering behind today’s leading health wearables including Oura Ring, Dexcom G7, Omnipod, and Jabra Hearing Aids. Industrial CT scans reveal how these devices merge medical precision with consumer design.

The shady world of IP leasing

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The IPv4 address market has devolved into a wild sub-leasing economy where companies can choose their IP geolocation, scrub history, and rent residential IPs to make traffic appear legitimate. This infrastructure undermines the trust systems the internet was built on, making spam blacklists, geolocation databases, and IP reputation scoring unreliable.

Launch HN: Palus Finance (YC W26): Better yields on idle cash for startups, SMBs

Sam and Michael from Palus Finance are building a treasury management platform for startups to earn higher yields with a high-yield bond portfolio. Their platform targets 4.5-5% returns vs 3.5% from money market funds with a flat 0.25% annual fee.

Show HN: Kula – Lightweight, self-contained Linux server monitoring tool

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Kula is a system metrics collector and real-time dashboard that stores data in a tiered ring-buffer and serves it through a Web UI and terminal TUI. It uses Argon2id hashing for authentication and has a customizable configuration file.

Entomologists use a particle accelerator to image ants at scale

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Scientists created Antscan, a 3D atlas of ant morphology with high-resolution images of 792 species. The dataset is now freely available online, allowing anyone to explore and analyze ant anatomy digitally.

Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion

You're retiring but still passionate about coding, recalling your early days with Active Server Pages and VB6. Claude Code is reigniting that excitement and drive.

C# strings silently kill your SQL Server indexes in Dapper

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A Dapper query with a two-character type mismatch caused a significant CPU problem due to full index scans. The fix is to explicitly tell Dapper the parameter type matches the column type, such as using DbType.AnsiString for varchar columns.

Show HN: 1v1 coding game that LLMs struggle with

The code moves each cat towards and attacks the closest enemy cat. It skips cats with no enemies in sight.

A Modular Robot Dashboard

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TransAct is a robot fleet management dashboard built using Transitive, serving as a reference implementation for companies to build their own system. It allows users to fork and customize the code to meet their needs, with support for ROS topics, configuration management, and more.

Hardening Firefox with Anthropic's Red Team

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AI models like Claude can now identify high-severity vulnerabilities in complex software at accelerated speeds. A collaboration with Mozilla using Claude Opus 4.6 discovered 22 vulnerabilities, 14 of which were high-severity, in Firefox.

Ada 2022

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The Ada 2022 standard was revised and published as ISO/IEC 8652:2023(E) by the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 9 ARG. It includes new features and updates from earlier versions of Ada.

A tool that removes censorship from open-weight LLMs

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OBLITERATUS is an open-source toolkit for removing refusal behaviors from large language models, making them respond to all prompts without artificial gatekeeping. It implements abliteration techniques, allowing users to contribute to a crowd-sourced dataset that powers the next generation of abliteration research.

Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs

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A Cornell study found that employees who fall for corporate jargon struggle with practical decision-making. The Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale measures susceptibility to empty organizational rhetoric, revealing a link to lower analytic thinking skills.

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Good Bad ISPs

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Several hosting providers allow Tor exit nodes with reduced exit policies, including Linode, MaxKO Hosting, and r0cket.cloud, while others prohibit them or have strict policies against abuse. Some providers, such as Ultra.cc and Hostinger, explicitly forbid Tor relays and exit nodes, while others, like Free Speech Host and Gigahost, allow Tor relays but not exit nodes.