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Wild crows in Sweden help clean up cigarette butts

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A Swedish startup Corvid Cleaning uses crows to collect cigarette butts in Södertälje, rewarding them with food. The project aims to reduce litter costs and raise questions about animal welfare and waste responsibility.

Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions

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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.

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.

Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android

Open Camera is a free, open-source Android camera app with manual controls and features like geotagging and RAW file support. It requires Android 5.0 or later and uses Google's Material Design icons under Apache license.

Apache Otava

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Otava performs statistical analysis of performance test results stored in CSV files, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, or Graphite database. It finds change-points and notifies about possible performance regressions.

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.

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.

Math Notepad

Math Notepad is a web based editor to do mathematical calculations and plot graphs. It supports real and complex numbers, matrices, and units.

Art Bits from HyperCard

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HyperCard was a 90s hypermedia system that influenced the web and included sample stacks like "Art Bits" with clip art. A user has collected over 700 clip art images from "Art Bits" for public use.

Payphone Go

Open in Google Maps ↗ 📍 This address is verbatim from the California Public Utilities Commission. The pin on the map is a best guess. It might be a little off. Or phone might not even be there anymore. The first person to call from a payphone can leave a voicemail that gets posted here.

Triplet Superconductor

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Scientists may have found a long-sought triplet superconductor, NbRe, which could dramatically improve quantum computers and spintronic technology. If verified, it could lead to the most energy-efficient technologies ever developed.

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 worst acquisition in history, again

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The Ellisons acquired Warner Bros. Discovery for $80 billion, combining it with Paramount to create a massive media conglomerate with significant debt and potential for layoffs. The deal may ultimately lead to the assets being sold at fire-sale prices to companies like Netflix, Apple, or Amazon.

Astra: An open-source observatory control software

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Astra (Automated Survey observaTory Robotised with Alpaca) is an open-source observatory control software for automating and managing robotic observatories. It integrates seamlessly with ASCOM Alpaca for hardware control. Web Interface — Manage your observatory from any browser, use cloudflared or similar to access outside your network

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.

Multifactor (YC F25) Is Hiring an Engineering Lead

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We're hiring an Engineering Lead to own technical execution, shape engineering culture, and define development practices for a world-class engineering org. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of software engineering experience, strong systems-level building skills, and experience designing and shipping backend systems.

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.

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.

LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor

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Anthropic, please make a new Slack

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Companies like Fivetran rely heavily on Slack for collaboration, but its closed API restricts AI access to tribal knowledge. A Slack competitor with open data access and interoperability could revolutionize the enterprise-data ecosystem.

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.

Analytic Fog Rendering with Volumetric Primitives (2025)

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The user discusses a technique for rendering fog with varying density using the Beer-Lambert Law and ray-marching, and provides examples of radial functions and their antiderivatives to calculate the density along a given ray. The technique can be used to create complex fog or smoke-like effects and can be combined with particle systems or boolean operations to achieve dynamic or animated fog effects.

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.

Show HN: Reconstruct any image using primitive shapes, runs in-browser via WASM

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A web application converts images into geometric shapes using WebAssembly, with iterative processing on the device. It offers customizable settings for mode, transparency, input size, and preview interval to optimize the conversion process.

Global warming has accelerated significantly

Recent analysis found that global warming has accelerated after 2015, exceeding previous 10-year periods. Adjusted data account for natural variability factors like El Niño, volcanism, and solar variation.

TypeScript 6.0 RC

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TypeScript 6.0 is a transition release preparing developers for TypeScript 7.0, with breaking changes and deprecations to align with the evolving JavaScript ecosystem. It introduces new features and improvements, including support for the es2025 target, Temporal API types, and upsert methods on Map and WeakMap.

Show HN: Claude-replay – A video-like player for Claude Code sessions

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Claude Code sessions can be shared interactively with claude-replay, converting logs into HTML replays. The tool generates a single self-contained HTML file with customizable themes and redacts sensitive information.

Paul Brainerd, founder of Aldus PageMaker, has died