Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming

The rules emphasize measuring performance before optimizing, using simple algorithms and data structures, and prioritizing data organization for efficient programming.

Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer

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UVR Karaoke separates vocals from instrumentals and scores singing in real-time with adjustable volume and lyrics alignment. It supports various file formats, controllers, and platforms, with GPU acceleration and automatic video audio extraction.

Pandas Exercises for Data Analysis (Interactive)

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This is an interactive version of the popular 101 pandas exercises. the first run may take a few seconds to initialize. # task: bin np series to 10 groups of equal size import pandas as pd ser = df. how to get the row number of second largest value of 'taste' for 'banana'? # task: find the positions of numbers that are multiples of 3 from s

JPEG Compression

JPEG uses a human perceptual bias to separate brightness from color, reducing color detail without degrading visual fidelity. It applies the discrete cosine transform, quantizes coefficients, and uses entropy coding to store a compact image description.

Federal Cyber Experts Called Microsoft's Cloud "A Pile of Shit", yet Approved It

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ProPublica found that Microsoft's cloud product, GCC High, was authorized by the government despite security concerns and lack of proper documentation. The government's cybersecurity evaluators had "lack of confidence" in assessing the system's overall security posture.

A Tiny Camera Revealed a Hidden Passage in the Great Pyramid

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Egyptian archaeologists discovered a hidden 9-meter long corridor in the Great Pyramid of Khufu using muography and non-invasive tools. The corridor's position suggests it may have helped redirect weight from above or relate to a deeper, unmapped space inside the pyramid.

Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts

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A 3D printed guided missile system was created for $96 by Alisher Khojayev, using off-the-shelf parts and microprocessors. The system is roughly 5,000 times cheaper than military-grade units, highlighting the potential of 3D printing in producing strong, weapons-grade parts.

Write up of my homebrew CPU build

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The user built a prototype of a computer called WCPU-1 using a breadboard and encountered several issues including backwards LEDs, floating address lines, and EEPROM glitches, but eventually got it working at 1 MHz with 256 bytes of RAM. The user plans to create a final version of the computer on a single PCB, remove the Arduino, and add features such as an overflow flag and debouncing ...

Mistral AI Releases Forge

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Mistral AI's Forge system allows enterprises to build AI models grounded in their proprietary knowledge, enabling them to train models on internal data and align AI with their unique operations. Forge supports continuous adaptation and enables organizations to build models that reflect institutional intelligence, operate within their domain context, and evolve alongside their knowledge and processes.

A ngrok-style secure tunnel server written in Rust and Open Source

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A ngrok-style secure tunnel server written in Rust. Expose local services through a public server over encrypted WebSocket connections with TLS termination, HTTP/TCP proxying, a live dashboard, Prometheus metrics, and audit logging. You can use rustunnel without running your own server. We operate a public edge server at edge.rustunnel.com that you can connect to immediately. The integration ...

A Decade of Slug

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The Slug Algorithm, developed in 2016, renders fonts directly from Bézier curves on the GPU, achieving high-quality results and robustness. The algorithm's patent has been dedicated to the public domain, allowing anyone to freely implement it without a license.

Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild

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Researchers at Google and cybersecurity firms found a new iPhone hacking technique called DarkSword that can steal data from hundreds of millions of vulnerable iOS devices. The technique was used by Russian hackers who left the full code online, making it easily reusable by other hackers.

Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'

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A hacker revealed a "Bliss" exploit that can hack the Xbox One, a previously "unhackable" console. The hack uses voltage glitching to compromise the console's security, allowing for unsigned code loading and game decryption.

Celebrating Tony Hoare's mark on computer science

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Tony Hoare was a renowned computer scientist who made significant contributions to the field, including the Quicksort algorithm and Hoare logic.

(Media over QUIC) on a Boat

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MoQ is a protocol that allows for efficient live streaming by splitting streams into tracks and only transmitting them when subscribed to, making it ideal for bandwidth-constrained environments. It also supports prioritization, path migration, and multi-path extensions to ensure reliable and scalable live streaming.

How the Eon Team Produced a Virtual Embodied Fly

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Researchers created a virtual fly using a brain model and a virtual body, demonstrating how an embodied brain controls a virtual body. The model shows how the fly navigates, eats, and grooms itself, but has limitations and simplifications.

The pleasures of poor product design

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Katerina Kamprani created The Uncomfortable, a project featuring deliberately inconvenient everyday objects, to express herself and have fun. The project has evolved over 15 years, with Kamprani creating around 50 designs, mostly digital renderings, and a few real-world prototypes.

Ndea (YC W26) is hiring a symbolic RL search guidance lead

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Ndea is hiring researchers/engineers for deep learning in search guidance, focusing on neuro-symbolic AI. To apply, send an email with impressive work, relevant experience, or referrals to [email protected].

Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track

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The CPython JIT project has achieved its performance goals for macOS AArch64 and x86_64 Linux, with 11-12% and 5-6% speedups respectively. The project's success is attributed to a combination of luck, the right people, and effective software engineering practices, including breaking down complex problems and encouraging new contributors.

Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system

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GSD is a meta-prompting system for Claude Code and other AI tools that helps build projects consistently and efficiently. It uses context engineering and spec-driven development to ensure high-quality results.

More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your own firmware

Various development boards and microcontrollers are described including ESP32, ESP32-S3, and RK3588 with features such as WiFi, Bluetooth, and sensor networks. These boards support various applications including smart home, IoT, and wearable devices with options for programming and customization.

Show HN: Pgit – A Git-like CLI backed by PostgreSQL

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pgit is a Git-like CLI backed by PostgreSQL that outcompresses git gc --aggressive on 12 out of 20 repositories while making the entire history SQL-queryable. An AI agent produced a full codebase health report on Neon's repo in under 10 minutes using pgit's SQL interface and built-in analyses.

Show HN: Sub-millisecond VM sandboxes using CoW memory forking

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A user uses the ZeroBoot API to execute a Python script that prints random numbers. The API uses Firecracker to boot a VM and pre-load the runtime, with a working prototype but not production-ready.

Using calculus to do number theory

Kurt Hensel used calculus to solve a number theory problem by improving an approximate solution to a polynomial equation modulo 125. He applied Newton's method to find a solution modulo 25 and then upgraded it to a solution modulo 125.

Have a fucking website

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Websites are essential for businesses and creators as they provide control and permanence, unlike social media platforms that can change rules or delete accounts. Having a website allows you to own your content and reach clients directly through email, which is less susceptible to being taken away.

Unsloth Studio

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Unsloth Studio is a no-code web UI for training, running, and exporting open models locally. It supports multi-GPU inference, various models, and data recipes, with a beta version available for testing.

A tale about fixing eBPF spinlock issues in the Linux kernel

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The developers of Superluminal, a CPU profiler, encountered a kernel freeze issue while capturing performance data on a Fedora 42 machine with kernel 6.17.4-200, which they were able to reproduce on a physical machine. After narrowing down the issue to a minimal eBPF repro, they discovered that the freeze was caused by an interaction between two eBPF programs using the rqspinlock, which ...

It Took Me 30 Years to Solve This VFX Problem – Green Screen Problem [video]

Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks

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Electron microscopy shows ‘mouse bite’ defects in semiconductors

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Cornell researchers used high-resolution 3D imaging to detect atomic-scale defects in computer chips. This method could improve debugging and fault-finding in modern electronics, including phones, AI data centers, and quantum computing.