Regressive JPEGs

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The post explains how JPEG progressive scans can be used to progressively display low‑frequency data, and how the author exploits this by concatenating multiple scans (mostly DC‑only) to create a pseudo‑animation that works in browsers up to about 90 frames. Although this trick bypasses the usual 9‑scan limit and avoids ghosting, it has no real practical use because timing must rely on ...

AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion

AWS users reported massive unexpected billing estimates (up to $595B) due to a billing console bug, causing panic and infrastructure shutdowns. The incident highlights urgent need for AWS to improve error communication and billing accuracy.

Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work

Celebrating 15 years, Recurse Center began as a YC 2010 startup, pivoting from failed ventures to a self-directed programming retreat, driven by Hacker News (HN) for growth. Though not a billion-dollar venture, it's impacted over 3,000 programmers, with HN as a key applicant source and catalyst for the founder's work—thanking HN!

Porting nanochat to a TPU: what carries over from PyTorch, and what breaks

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Karpathy's nanochat normally runs on an 8×H100 GPU node, and several ports of it to JAX already exist. Among them, my aim was to keep the config and architecture as close to nanochat as possibl...

Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux

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I revived an ASUS Eee PC 1000HE, noting its weak Atom N280 CPU and 1 GB DDR2 RAM, and installed Arch Linux 32 to run a lightweight LXQt desktop, detailing partitioning, networking, and swap setup. After upgrading RAM to 2 GB, I still faced performance limits due to the aging HDD and CPU, but the machine now serves as a modest server or media device.

In-toto: A framework to secure the integrity of software supply chains

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in-toto is designed to ensure the integrity of a software product from initiation to end-user installation. It does so by making it transparent to the user what steps were performed, by whom and in what order. An open metadata standard that you can implement in your software’s supply chain.

First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star

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Researchers discovered the first atmosphere on an Earth-like rocky planet, LHS 1140b, in a star's habitable zone, detecting helium but noting other gases might exist, marking progress in the search for extraterrestrial life. While not confirming life, this finding, alongside studies of planets like K2-18b and TRAPPIST-1, highlights ongoing efforts to identify habitable worlds beyond our solar system.
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TP-Link Kasa Spot EC71 indoor cameras have multiple vulnerabilities, including fleet-wide RSA key exposure, unsalted MD5 credential storage, and unauthenticated GPS exposure.

The Zilog Z80 has turned 50

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The Zilog Z80, launched 50 years ago in 1976, became a foundational 8-bit processor for early computers and embedded systems, influencing CP/M and spawning clones like the GameBoy’s LR35902, while its industrial use persisted until 2024. The author’s DIY Z80 projects and exploration of its evolution from the 8080 highlight its technical legacy, from simplified interfacing to advanced features ...

Learning a few things about running SQLite

Using SQLite with Django revealed performance issues resolved by `ANALYZE`, but concurrency challenges during deletions caused crashes, prompting consideration of Postgres for scalability. Despite backup efforts and small-scale success, SQLite's limitations highlight the need for better database management as projects grow.

Waldi: A quiet place to write, and to be read

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Live at waldi.blog — reading is open to everyone; writing is by invitation while the founding writers shape the place. Waldi is a multi-tenant blogging platform for people who miss blogs — one Go binary and Postgres, server-rendered html/template pages, and a single Tiptap editor island. Every writer gets username.<base-domain> (or a domain of their own); the same binary serves every ...

Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark

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Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter model, claims top performance in benchmarks, open weights by July 2026, and high pricing ($3/$15 per million tokens), outperforming peers in code tasks but costing 25 cents for a complex SVG generation test.

I started a “dirt notebook”

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User has a habit of over-organizing notebooks, making it hard to take new notes. To break this cycle, they started a "dirt notebook" with poor paper quality and cheap pens to write down random thoughts without structure.

Stenchill: 3D Printable Solder Paste Stencil Generator

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Barbatronic is a French robotics creator who shares hardware tutorials on YouTube and Twitch, and has a community of makers and hackers. He integrates Stenchill, a stencil for precise solder paste deposits, into his fabrication workflow.

Show HN: IKEA Complexity Index

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Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search (2024)

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The post discusses implementing a static search tree (S+ tree) for high-throughput searching of sorted data, optimizing it to its limits, and adding batching to improve throughput. The S+ tree is a data structure that supports queries returning the smallest element of vals that is at least q, or u32::MAX if no such element exists, and is optimized for throughput, with the goal of making ...

Battery packs: Let's talk about crates, baby

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Battery packs are curated set of crates arranged around a common theme. they are meant to address one of the most common things new rust adopters hear - picking crate choices... eric saunders: letting anybody create 'battery packs' is in contrast to the previous ideas for an "extended standard library for rust," he says, and it is intended to tackle some of ru

Vāgdhenu: A Sanskrit Chanting TTS System

A free app for the complete rmad bhgavatam — all 12 skandhas. recitations from the shipped deployments are available for download here. search any verse in any script, traditional indices, works fully offline. free, no ads. code courtesy of iisb. indian institute of science, bengaluru. for more information, visit http://www.iist.edu/

An Update on Igalia's Layer Based SVG Engine in WebKit (Reducing Layer Overhead)

Lbse was bootstrapped upstream, patch after patch, for almost four years. a project of this size needs sustained funding to move forward, and for ages that funding was not there, says sam taylor, co-author of the technical design document for the libsvg engine - he's now working on it again with the help of dr.saul mccarthy

Lego building instructions through time

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Open Book Touch: open-source e-reader

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Open book touch is a small, beautiful, completely open source e-book reader. the device slips into your pocket and disappears until you unlock it to read. it runs readable firmware (on esp-idf/freertos) that you can understand and hack on. backers get their devices before anyone else can spin up clones. if you back the project, you'll get your device in early 2027. funding ends on august

Painting the sides of railroad rails white to reduce derailment

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Union Pacific is painting rails white to reflect sunlight, cutting rail temperatures by about 20°F and reducing heat‑related derailments. The move, first in the U.S. and proven in Europe, is part of a safety strategy that lowered derailment rates 19% in 2025.

DrDroid (YC W23) Is Hiring

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DrDroid in Bengaluru builds AI agents to automate triage, debugging, and remediation for platform teams. Backed by Accel and Y-Combinator W23, they seek devs passionate about tools that improve engineering workflows.

The state of open source AI

Open-source AI models are gaining traction globally, offering cost-effective, customizable solutions across sectors like healthcare, finance, and agriculture, with growing adoption by developers and enterprises. They enable ownership, interoperability, and resilience against vendor lock-in, though challenges in operational tooling and trust persist.

Show HN: Find someone in the dark – light them or light yourself? (Three.js)

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Sweep searchlight: the rescuer moves through an expanding search pattern and must illuminate the missing person. Raise beacon: the rescuer stays put while a mobile missing person tries to recognize and approach an omnidirectional light. The page imports Three.js from a pinned CDN URL, so the first load needs internet access. Run the Monte Carlo comparison after each change. Both strategies ...

Topcoat: The full full-stack framework for Rust

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Topcoat is a Rust framework for building fullstack apps with simplicity and productivity. It renders markup on the server and uses a macro system for HTML and Rust control flow.

Show HN: A zoomable timeline of 4M Wikipedia events

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Explore the timeline of everything, from the Big Bang to the present day, and beyond. Discover the history of the universe, life on Earth, and human civilization in a new and interactive way.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s first home

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Frank Lloyd Wright's Oak Park Home and Studio (1889-1909) in Illinois, where he designed Prairie-style masterpieces like the Robie House, is a preserved National Historic Landmark showcasing his early architectural evolution. Restored by the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust since 1974, the site offers guided tours of his living and workspaces, reflecting his innovative design philosophy.

Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse

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Nurses who spend more than 15 minutes on a call routinely face criticism from kaiser management. the california nurses association begins negotiating statewide contract with kaiser this month. two-thirds of surveyed nurses said their own assessments had at some point disagreed with an ai prediction. six out of 10 respondents said they don't trust their employer to prioritize patient safety ...

Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it)

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Consultants tackle entrenched problems, often revealing systemic issues where solutions shift, perpetuate, or create new problems due to flawed incentives. Success requires balancing problem-solving with strategic prioritization and recognizing that some issues persist because they benefit certain stakeholders.