Guerrilla London Bus Ads Mock Kylie Jenner's Meta Glasses Campaign

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Meta and Kylie Jenner's camera glasses faced privacy backlash, with EHE's "They Live"-inspired ad critiquing real-world surveillance. Extended recording and misuse by some users highlight gaps in privacy laws.

If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe

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The article argues that recreating native HTML elements like buttons from scratch is a Sisyphean task due to their complex accessibility requirements, such as keyboard navigation and ARIA roles, which are inherently handled by native elements. It emphasizes using semantic HTML to avoid maintenance burdens and ensure user expectations are met.

Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

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The company released Inkling, a 975B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 41B active parameters, supporting text, images, audio, and video, alongside Inkling-Small (12B active) for efficient customization via Tinker. Trained on 45T tokens, Inkling offers controllable reasoning, safety features, and is available on platforms like Hugging Face and Tinker, with partnerships for deployment and ...

Making 768 servers look like 1

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Scaling relational databases beyond a few terabytes requires sharding to distribute data and queries across multiple servers, overcoming bottlenecks in write throughput and backup efficiency. Tools like Neki and Vitess act as intelligent proxies, routing traffic to the correct shards and abstracting complexity for applications.

SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions

SQLite is praised for its embedded use and self-contained design but faces challenges with ROWID reuse, flexible typing leading to data validation issues, and concurrency limitations. Solutions like strict tables, WAL mode, and an edition system for updated defaults are proposed to address these issues while maintaining compatibility.

Grok Build is open source

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Grok Build is SpaceXAI's terminal-based AI coding agent with a TUI for codebase interaction, file editing, shell commands, and task management, supporting macOS, Linux, and Windows. It uses Rust, offers CLI installation, and is Apache 2.0 licensed with third-party notices.

G# – A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics

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G# is a modern .NET language that brings Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics to the CLR.

Bluesky Trademarks ATProto

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Bluesky acquired the "ATPROTOCOL" trademark to protect the atproto community from legal threats, ensuring free use while defending against misuse. Licensing is optional for most, mandatory for branding, and future ownership may shift to an independent governance body.

Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf]

The article reflects on the 1980s shift from proprietary to open-source software, crediting Richard Stallman's advocacy for free knowledge-sharing as foundational to tech progress. It warns that AI's increasing closure risks stifling innovation and transparency, urging open access to models and data to preserve scientific and societal advancement.

High-Bandwidth Flash offers efficient storage for model weights

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LLMs drive demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM/DRAM), prompting new fabrication plans. High Bandwidth Flash (HBF), using stacked NAND, aims to offer cost-effective, read-optimized storage for AI inference, with Sandisk and SK Hynix advancing its standardization.

Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources

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My Throw Decides My Aim

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The author personifies an AI as a blues singer in a data center, exploring how LLMs generate coherent yet unintentional responses, blending existential themes with technical processes like token generation and distillation. (249 characters)

The Tokio/Rayon Trap and Why Async/Await Fails Concurrency

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Async/await simplifies writing asynchronous code but hides concurrency complexity, causing operational issues like latency spikes and OOM crashes. Project Tina addresses this by enforcing deterministic, bounded thread-per-core concurrency with explicit state management and predictable scheduling.

CatchCat – Pokémon Go for Cats, IRL

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CatchCat is a real-world cat-collecting game for Android/iOS where players use their camera to verify real cats, earning unique digital keepsakes with stats and tiers. Community sightings appear on a map for exploration, and competitive "Alley Clash" matches are upcoming, all with privacy-focused on-device detection and optional in-app purchases.

1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored

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The Victorian-era *Naturalist’s Library* democratized access to natural history through illustrated books, now digitally restored by Nicholas Rougeux using AI, offering free online and affordable print/poster versions to inspire future naturalists.

Launch HN: Coasty (YC S26) – An API for computer-use agents

Coasty automates tasks via managed VMs, workflows, and primitives, with autonomous runs for single goals and workflows for multi-task programs. API keys control access, billing tracks usage, and BYOK allows custom models.

LLM Networking with MikroTik

The author uses LLMs to streamline MikroTik network setups, leveraging their efficiency while cautioning against errors, and shares tips like REST API use, CAPsMAN, and MAC-Telnet for smoother, version-controlled configurations. Networking's complexity is acknowledged, balancing LLMs' chaotic help with meticulous testing and documentation.

Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU

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A 13-year-old HP server with Ivy Bridge Xeons runs Google's 26B-parameter Gemma 4 model at ~5 tokens/second via CPU-optimized code, overcoming AVX2 instruction set limitations with custom patches. The project highlights adapting modern AI to legacy hardware through engineering, not just subscriptions, enabling local inference on outdated systems.

Metal-Organic Frameworks, Chemistry's New Miracle Materials (2018)

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Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), ultra-porous materials with vast surface areas, excel at trapping gases, harvesting water from arid air, and delivering drugs. Pioneered by Omar Yaghi, they offer scalable, solar-powered solutions for water scarcity, carbon capture, and medicine, with over 20,000 variants now enabling diverse environmental and medical applications.

Job queues are deceptively tricky

The author explores job queues' scheduling complexities, comparing wholesale vs. incremental Git repo repacking strategies and concurrency limits. They emphasize system design principles like limits, fault models, and pessimistic assumptions to build resilient, predictable workflows.

Command Line Interface Guidelines

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This open-source guide modernizes UNIX principles for CLI design, focusing on human-centric usability, composability, and clear documentation. It provides actionable best practices for intuitive interfaces, error handling, and output formatting to improve accessibility and efficiency.

Show HN: One More Letter

One More Letter is a daily word game where every round adds one letter and rearranges them into a new answer.

The Last Picture Show: A Conversation with George Lucas

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In a rare interview, the Star Wars creator and cinema technology pioneer opens up about what could prove to be his most personal and grandest legacy of all, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. On a mild morning in Cannes, not long after receiving an honorary Palme d’Or from Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas is thinking about a patio. “I remember one of the times I was here,” he says, ...

Open Source, Free Tier Capable Whispr Using Cloudflare AI

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Voice-to-text tool that captures speech, transcribes it via Whisper, and formats the output with an LLM. Press a hotkey, speak, release — formatted text lands in your clipboard and is auto-pasted into whatever you were typing in. Whisper transcribes, LLM formats, result is copied to clipboard and auto-pasted into the originating app cd worker pnpm install wrangler secret put VOICEBOX_TOKEN # ...

Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel

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Misfits Attic announced *Duskers 2.0*, funded by Max McGuire’s Stray Signal, during PC Gamer’s event, expanding the survival game’s narrative with moral choices and deeper gameplay. EGG’s community-driven funding model, supporting indie developers like Tim through prototypes and partnerships, highlights a new era of collaborative game development.

Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly

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The Gecko engine compiled to WebAssembly. The real Firefox interface, rendering entirely inside this browser tab. GPU acceleration WebGL-based rendering for web content. Enable JIT Experimental JS → WASM JIT. Expect bugs. Wisp server WebSocket proxy that tabs load web content through. Networking in the browser powered by Puter.js

Brainless: Shadcn components that look like Claude Code, Codex and Grok

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Claude Code, Codex, and Grok interfaces as shadcn components.

Nul Characters in Strings in SQLite

SQLite permits NUL characters in strings but CLI tools truncate output at the first NUL, causing confusion. Use BLOB casting or SQL expressions to detect/remove embedded NULs.

Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Software Engineers

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