Ladybird Browser adopts Rust

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Ladybird is rewriting parts in Rust for better safety guarantees and ecosystem support. The first target was LibJS, Ladybird's JavaScript engine, which was translated from C++ in two weeks with zero regressions.

Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel

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Brian Lucey, a professor at Trinity College Dublin, was removed as editor from 5 journals after 12 papers he co-authored were retracted due to a conflict of interest. Lucey was accused of running a citation cartel and selling papers through his consultancies, which may have been used to circulate ecosystem funds or consultancy payouts.

VTT Test Donut Lab Battery Reaches 80% Charge in Under 10 Minutes [pdf]

Independent charging performance tests were conducted on solid-state battery cells supplied by a customer. The tests involved charging the cells at 5C and 11C rates and measuring capacity, energy, cell temperature, and charging times.

Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38%

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Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics

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MicroVision aims to produce a solid-state lidar sensor for under $200, a price drop that could make lidar affordable for advanced driver-assistance systems. This move could alter the calculus of autonomous-car design by lowering the cost of precise three-dimensional sensing.

I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard

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The user built a custom family dashboard system called Timeframe, combining calendar, weather, and smart home data, to create a healthy relationship with technology in their home. After several prototypes and iterations, they settled on a real-time e-paper display system using a Boox Mira Pro and Home Assistant as the primary data source.

Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer

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Companies are still using outdated 1950s plastics like EPS, causing environmental harm and commercial burdens. Mushroom Packaging, made from natural mycelium, offers a sustainable alternative that matches EPS's protective qualities and cost.

Facebook's Fascination with My Robots.txt

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Facebook's crawler is repeatedly accessing a user's self-hosted Forgejo instance's robots.txt file, likely due to a loop issue. The user suspects a technical error at Meta's end, wasting bandwidth and energy globally.

0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix

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Wildfire Games releases 0 A.D. version 28, "Boiorix", a free open-source real-time strategy game of ancient warfare. The game features a new Germanic faction, improved text rendering, and various bug fixes.

A NASA Engineer Discovered a World of Semi Truck Aerodynamics by Accident

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NASA engineer Edwin J. Saltzman noticed aerodynamic effects on his bike from passing trucks and created a test van to reduce drag, achieving a 52% reduction. His research led to common features on semi trucks, including aerodynamic fairings and rounded corners, improving fuel efficiency.

I Donut Believe – Presenting Third Party Results (Donut Lab)

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Donut Lab commissioned VTT to test its solid-state battery's performance and characteristics. The results show exceptional charging capability and stable thermal behavior at high charge rates.

Pipelined Relational Query Language, Pronounced "Prequel"

PRQL is a modern language for transforming data

SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing (2025)

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Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok

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Loops is a federated, open-source social media platform giving power back to creators and communities. It offers a chronological feed, creator tools, and community features without ads or invasive tracking.

Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable

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The CIA World Factbook archive contains 36 years of data on 281 entities with 1,061,341 fields. It's a searchable, queryable database following ICD 203 standards, not affiliated with the CIA or US Government.

Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies

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Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026)

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Interactive AI timeline tracking 169+ Large Language Models from 2017 to 2026. Explore the history of ChatGPT, GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, LLaMA, Mistral, DeepSeek and every major LLM ever released.

Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring Interns in AI for Summer 2026 in Austria

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My journey to the microwave alternate timeline

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The user explores the alternate timeline where microwave ovens replaced stoves, using Marie T. Smith's 1985 cookbook Microwave Cooking for One. They test various recipes, finding some successful and others problematic, and discuss the potential reasons why microwave cooking never reached its full potential in the real world.

QRTape – Audio Playback from Paper Tape with Computer Vision (2021)

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The user created a system called QRTape that stores high-quality audio on a paper tape using QR codes and computer vision, replacing complex mechanical tape transports with a simple paper and cardboard design. The system uses a webcam to read the QR codes, which are encoded with audio data using the Opus codec, and can play back audio with decent quality.

What I Learned After Building 3 TV Apps Coming from Mobile

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Developing TV apps requires a different mindset than mobile apps due to unique user interactions, hardware constraints, and performance expectations. TV apps succeed when they prioritize navigation clarity, focus, and simplicity, rather than trying to adapt mobile designs.

Pinterest is drowning in a sea of AI slop and auto-moderation

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Pinterest users, especially artists, are unhappy with the site's increasing reliance on AI, citing issues with AI-powered moderation, AI-generated art, and the labeling of hand-drawn art as AI modified. This has led to frustration and a loss of trust in the platform.

Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums

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A software engineer discovered a major security flaw in DJI's robot vacuum system, allowing him to access live camera feeds and control over 10,000 devices worldwide. DJI has since fixed the issue, but experts warn that similar vulnerabilities could become harder to detect as more households adopt smart home devices.

Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw

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Google AI Ultra account restricted without warning, possibly due to Gemini model integration via OpenClaw OAuth. Paid account holder seeks resolution, already emailed support but awaiting response.

The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler

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Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours, in 2025

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The author built a web crawler to crawl 1 billion pages in 24 hours, achieving a cost of $462, and found that the state of the art has changed with more dynamic and heavier content on the web, but still accessible through HTML-only crawling. The author's design used a cluster of 12 highly-optimized nodes, each containing all crawler functionality, and identified parsing as a major bottleneck ...

Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love

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HN users consistently underestimated the success of various startups, including Dropbox, GitHub, Uber, Airbnb, Stripe, Instacart, Figma, Tailwind CSS, Warp, Bun, ChatGPT, Cursor, Windsurf, and Claude Code, often dismissing them as unviable or too complex. Despite initial skepticism, these startups went on to achieve significant success, with some reaching valuations of over $100 billion and ...

Six Math Essentials

You're working with Quanta Books on "Six Math Essentials" covering fundamental math concepts, scheduled for Oct 27, with preorder available. The book is expected for readers of various ages, with sample pages to be released after proofing and design.

What I learned designing a barebones UI engine

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The user created a custom UI framework in PyGame for rapid experimentation with a focus on simplicity and iteration speed, which evolved into a more complex architecture with a tree-based node system and layout engine. The framework now supports features like asynchronous operations, event listeners, performance optimizations, and UI stages, but the user plans to add more functionality such ...

How to train your program verifier

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A3-python is a verifier framework that uses AI to generate formal verification tools for Python, leveraging advances in symbolic model checking and Hilbert's Stellensatz theorems to identify bugs in real-world codebases. The framework combines AI-driven code synthesis with formal methods to create a scalable and effective verification tool that can be applied to mainstream languages like Python.