EU Open Sources Ten-Year Network Development Planning Tools

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Open-TYNDP is an open-source project that aims to enhance transparency and stakeholder participation in European energy planning by building a workflow based on PyPSA-Eur. It's under active development and not yet feature-complete.

5k Restaurant Menus, Years 1880-1920

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Explore the Buttolph Collection from the New York Public Library's archive of historic menus

The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)

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A Polish user reported a bug on Medium where Ś wouldn't appear when typed. The issue was caused by Medium blocking CtrlS to prevent browser save dialogs, but Polish users use AltS to type Ś.

A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex

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What feature would you like to see? A mechanism to explicitly mark files/paths that the agent must not read or send to the model, at both repository and global levels (e.g., a repo-local .codexignore plus a global ignore file). Example: ...

Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast

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Flock Security cameras, which track individuals and vehicles, have proliferated across the US, sparking public backlash due to security vulnerabilities and misuse by law enforcement. The company's AI-powered cameras can be accessed by police nationwide, raising concerns about surveillance and abuse.

Do Babies Dream of Baby Sheep?

The author's wife has childhood amnesia, unable to recall her early years, while the author has vivid memories from around 6-8 months old. He questions the authenticity of his memories, but talking to his parents confirms some details, suggesting a possible link between emotional experiences and memory consolidation.

EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors

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Dr Patrick Breyer warns of a double-attack on secure messaging in the EU, with President Roberta Metsola pushing for mass surveillance and EU governments rushing a new scanning mandate. Citizens can email EU lawmakers and government representatives through fightchatcontrol.eu to stop this threat.

Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

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Marfa Public Radio creates a sleep podcast reading boring documents to fundraise for the station. Listeners can donate at marfapublicradio.org/donate to keep the station awake.

Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers

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Michigan Senate Bill 948, the Workplace Employee Boundaries Act, aims to protect workers from constant availability demands. It would prevent employers from requiring employees to access work-related matters outside assigned hours.

DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded

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A bug in shell32.dll was initially blamed for a large number of crashes in a third-party program. However, the actual cause was a rogue force-unload of a DLL, which led to a recursive crash loop and stack overflow.

The origins of the school system aimed to produce independent, critical thinkers

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Wilhelm von Humboldt created the world's first education system and modern research university around 200 years ago. His philosophy of education, Bildung, focuses on reaching one's potential and developing individual capabilities through critical thinking and self-cultivation.

The MUMPS 76 Primer – anniversary edition

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MUMPS is a programming language and database system created in 1966 for hospital information systems. It has a built-in hierarchical database with a schema-free, ordered key-value store.

California legislature agrees to upload driver's licenses to national database

Withdrawing its opposition under behind-the-scenes pressure from Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawless threats from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the California legislature has agreed to fund and revise state law to authorize the upload of information about all driver’s licenses and ID cards issued by the state to the private SPEXS national ID database operated by the American ...

Google limits Meta's use of its Gemini AI models

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Google has imposed limits on Meta's use of its Gemini AI models due to Meta's high demand exceeding Google's capacity. Meta has been impacted, encouraging staff to be more efficient with AI tokens.

Bringing Swift to the Apple ][

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The user created SwiftII, a Swift-flavored mini development environment for the original Apple II, using heavy AI assistance in their spare time. The project involved building a compiler, interpreter, and tools like a file selector and text editor, with a focus on fitting as much of Swift into the Apple II as possible while still reading like Swift on sight.

AMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup Guide

Configure a two-node AMD Strix Halo cluster with Intel E810 (RoCE v2) for distributed vLLM inference using Tensor Parallelism. Set up static IPs, MTU, and trust the interface in the firewall, then install the toolbox and run the cluster with Ray and RCCL.

Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days

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A repository consolidates former PoC repos with identical tracked files. It preserves vulnerability research for 12 repos with 96 tracked entries, for good-faith open-disclosure.

Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs

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Bashblog is a simple script to create a blog by posting entries to a public folder on a server. It works on GNU/Linux, OSX, and BSD.

Austria Lobbies EU to Host Anthropic After US Access Curbs

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Choosing a Public DNS Resolver

Encrypted DNS options like DoH and DoT add latency but often have similar whole-page load times as plain DNS. However, they provide better security and some providers have minor overhead.

Wayfinder Router: deterministic routing of queries between local and hosted LLM

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Wayfinder is a prompt router that decides whether to send a prompt to a local or cloud model based on its structure and wording. It reads the shape of a prompt and difficulty cues in the wording to determine the routing decision.

Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C

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The MWCC GC/2.0 compiles and diffs code, requiring exact byte matches. It's a decompilation challenge for GameCube PowerPC assembly into C, graded by a Metrowerks CodeWarrior GC/2.0 compiler.

A stray "j" ruined my evening

User created a link shortener script, but noticed issues with Gurk, a Signal TUI, when copying links ending in 'j'. The issue was due to ANSI newline delimiter being translated as 'j' at the end of links.

Engineering for Bounded Cognition

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The human mind can only hold about four things at once, and even that is a narrow beam of attention that misses much of what is happening around it. This limited capacity is the root of many software problems, but it can also be the key to good engineering, which is about shaping systems to work with the way minds actually work.

Mobile Web Computing Before Smartphones. (University of Liverpool, ~2010) [pdf]

WAP was a mobile internet technology introduced in 1998, but it failed to live up to expectations in Europe due to slow connections and poor user experience. It was more successful in Asia and paved the way for future mobile computing advancements.

Regular expressions that work “everywhere”

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Regular expressions vary across tools, but a subset of features work everywhere, including . ^ $ [...] * \w \W \s \S \1 - \9 \b \B ? + | {n,m} (...) capturing.

Space Shuttle Endeavour's 20-story vertical display

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WAL-RUS: a Rust Rewrite of WAL-G for PostgreSQL Backups

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ClickHouse Cloud built WAL-RUS, a Rust-based Postgres backup tool for predictable memory usage. WAL-RUS is compatible with WAL-G and reduces memory consumption by over 70% while maintaining archival throughput.

Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

The user created a "Town Square" feature on their website, allowing visitors to see each other as stick figures and interact. They've open sourced it and made it available for others to integrate into their sites.

Turning music into a chore is how I became a musician (2022)

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The author took a 3-month sabbatical in 2020 to finish an album, which transformed their music-making process into a repeatable routine. They learned to focus on quantity over quality, releasing 4 songs as an EP and many more over the following year.