Steam Machine

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The SUPPORT sign has multiple language options for users to choose from. Users can report translation problems for any language.

British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres

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British Columbia moved to year-round Pacific Daylight Savings Time, permanently setting UTC-7. Storing UTC values in columns can lead to incorrect local time calculations due to time zone rule changes.

Walt Disney Company is the most successful at monetizing human nostalgia

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The Walt Disney Company started as a moonshot factory under Walt's leadership, taking risks on projects like Snow White and Disneyland. This approach led to artistic achievements and the accidental creation of the modern "flywheel" business model.

My Mathematical Regression

https://blog.dahl.dev/img/problem15.png
User found an old Python project with a problem15.txt file, imagining a naive brute force approach followed by memoization and dynamic programming to solve it. User is impressed by past self's coding skills but feels nostalgic and a bit sad about the contrast between past and present abilities.

Deno Desktop

https://docs.deno.com/runtime/desktop/index.png
Deno desktop turns web projects into self-contained desktop apps with small binaries and full Node compatibility. It bundles code, Deno runtime, and web rendering engine into redistributable binaries for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance

https://hustvl.github.io/Moebius/image_assets/tab2.png
Moebius achieves high-quality inpainting with 0.22B parameters, 15x inference speedup, and on-par/surpassing 10B-level models in 6 benchmarks. It's a task-specific specialist that's smarter, lighter, and faster than bloated generalists.

Show HN: Oak – Git replacement designed for agents

https://oak.space/oak/oak/cover
Oak is an open-source version control system for agents, developed as a Cargo workspace with a reusable VCS library and command-line client. It's in public beta, with a prebuilt binary available for macOS and Linux.
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A blogger used a 1962 photo in a 2009 post without permission, but the court ruled in favor of fair use due to transformative use and lack of commercial benefit. The court dismissed the copyright infringement claim, despite the plaintiff's licensing program for the photo.

Optocam Zero: a Pi Zero based digital camera made using off the shelf components

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Optocam Zero is a Raspberry Pi Zero based compact digital camera made using off the shelf components. I designed Optocam Zero to have a very compact, carry everywhere and have fun sort of camera. As I was inspired by Kodak charmera and similar toy cameras, I wanted it to be feel playful, enjoyable and be intuitive to use. I also aimed to make it relatively easy to build so that others can ...

Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration (2025)

Linux users with Secure Boot enabled may face issues due to a Microsoft key set to expire in September. This could prevent Linux installation media from booting on systems without the new Microsoft UEFI CA 2023 key.

Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs

https://opengraph.githubassets.com/72f38007450b7f68974919593bfa17192748af36068c7a059266bf3ba917f21e/openai/codex/issues/28224
Codex SQLite logs are the main continuous writer, consuming 640 TB/year and potentially a full SSD drive in less than a year. Filtering categories like TRACE logs and telemetry logs can remove 96% of retained log bytes.

Finding the Best Dog Treat with Statistics

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The user conducted an experiment to determine Bebop's favorite treat using the Bradley-Terry model, which assigns a strength score to each treat based on pairwise comparisons. The results show that Pur Luv Chicken (Treat E) is Bebop's current champion, but Treat A is a close second and requires more trials to confirm the result.

Charge Robotics (YC S21) Is Hiring Software and Hardware Engineers

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Charge Robotics Jobs

Nintendo Wii U games running from a 1980's Bernoulli disk [video]

DisplayMate

DisplayMate is the Industry Standard of Excellence for Image and Picture Quality DisplayMate produces a complete set of state-of-the-art proprietary test and calibration patterns together with expert information, advice and guidance to setup, calibrate, tweak, optimize, test, evaluate and improve the image and picture quality and color and gray scale accuracy of all Monitors, Projectors and ...

GLM 5.2 vs. Opus

https://techstackups.com/img/comparisons/glm-5.2-vs-opus/cover.jpg
GLM-5.2 is a strong open model that can perform long-horizon tasks at a fraction of the cost of closed models like Claude Opus 4.8, but it's text-only and can't verify its work visually. GLM-5.2 is suitable for tasks that are mostly text and logic, while Opus is better for tasks that require correctness, polish, and visual judgment, and GLM-5.2 should be kept in the arsenal due to its ...

Canada is looking to build up to 10 new nuclear reactors over the next 15 years

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Canada plans to build up to 10 new nuclear reactors and double uranium exports by 2050 to meet its goal of doubling the electrical grid's capacity. The strategy aims to establish Canada as a reliable uranium export partner and use nuclear energy as a geopolitical lever.

Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation

The author's family is pledging $400,000 to the Zig Software Foundation, bringing their total support to $700,000. They respect Zig's technical progress, community approach, and unique philosophy, despite having differing opinions on some policies.

Jobs and Software Is Fucked

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A 10-year software engineer, laid off in June 2025, is frustrated with the job market, citing unfair AI-powered filters and a lack of dignity in the hiring process. They refuse to give in to AI coding, valuing their skills and dignity as a software engineer.

Die analysis of the 8087 math coprocessor's fast bit shifter (2020)

http://static.righto.com/images/8087-shifter/die-labeled-w450.jpg
The 8087 floating-point coprocessor was introduced in 1980 by Intel, making floating-point operations up to 100 times faster. It was a huge benefit for applications such as AutoCAD and flight simulators.

The text in Claude Code’s ā€œExtended Thinkingā€ output

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Claude Code's reasoning logs are incomplete and indirect, containing a signature and no text. The "extended-thinking" output is a summary, not the actual thinking process, and is not accessible for auditing.

Prompt Injection as Role Confusion

https://role-confusion.github.io/assets/figures/text-stream-2.png
Researchers found that Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle to distinguish between their own thoughts and external commands due to a flaw in how they perceive roles, which are used to structure the model's internal representation of text. This flaw allows attackers to create new attacks, including CoT Forgery, which injects fake reasoning into a message or output, and can be used to steal ...

Mexican government unveils a prototype for a new homegrown, ultra-affordable EV

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum unveiled the Olinia Uno, a 6-passenger EV that can travel 77 miles on a single charge. The car is part of Mexico's Plan MƩxico to boost the economy and manufacturing sector, with a goal of making Mexico one of the world's 10 largest economies.

Japanese symbols that speak without words

https://arun.is/.netlify/images?url=_astro%2Fmon.BtGYKqsG.jpg&w=1440&h=960&q=100&dpl=6a39944c88709e000835c1ec
In modern life, we are surrounded by symbols that guide our everyday movements. When I’m driving, the red octagonal sign on the street reminds me to stop even before I read the word on the sign. And similarly, other street signs signal their meaning through their shape and their color far more than the exact lettering on them. And still, in my life here in the United States, words are still ...

Memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon

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Buyers are turning to older DDR2 and DDR3 memory products due to global shortages, driving up prices. DDR2 contract prices are expected to rise by 55-60% in Q2 2026 and 35-40% in Q3.

Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site

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Help I accidentally a wigglegram

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You created a script to use perceptual hashing to find similar images in your camera roll, automatically identifying potential wigglegrams. The script calculates the hamming distance between image pairs to find a threshold, helping to distinguish between intentional and accidental shots.

Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center

Chevron Corporation's forward-looking statements may differ from actual results due to various risks and uncertainties. These risks include changing oil prices, government policies, and global economic conditions.

Alan Greenspan has died

NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say

NSF is cutting 20-30% from hundreds of traditional basic science programs to fund a new $1.5 billion initiative called X-Labs. X-Labs aims to turn NSF-funded discoveries into new products and industries, but critics say it's being funded at the expense of other programs.