IPv8 Proposal

IPv8 is a managed network protocol suite that transforms network operation, security, and monitoring. It resolves address exhaustion and is 100% backward compatible with IPv4.

Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs

Darkbloom is a decentralized AI inference network connecting idle Apple Silicon machines to demand, reducing costs by up to 70% and giving operators 95% of revenue. It ensures end-to-end encryption and operator anonymity, eliminating data extraction risks.

The paper computer

The user wants to combine physical and virtual worlds to reduce screen time and distractions, allowing for flexibility and convenience. They envision a future where technology helps people work and interact without constant screen interaction.

FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account

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You're looking for a direct contact at Google's Gmail team to report a spammer issue. You've tried the abuse form but want to reach a human employee for a solution.

Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now

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Anthropic's Mythos LLM is highly capable at computer security tasks, completing a simulated corporate network attack in 3 out of 10 attempts. Security may be reduced to a simple equation of spending more tokens than attackers to harden a system.

A Look into NaviDial, Japan's Legacy Phone Service

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NaviDial is a service in Japan where businesses and public services charge callers for calls, often resulting in high costs for those who need help the most. To avoid these costs, international residents in Japan can look for alternative numbers, use text-based support, or ask for a callback when calling from a mobile phone.

RedSun: System user access on Win 11/10 and Server with the April 2026 Update

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The Red Sun vulnerability repository. Contribute to Nightmare-Eclipse/RedSun development by creating an account on GitHub.

Introduction to spherical harmonics for graphics programmers

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Spherical harmonics are a set of special polynomials that can be used to approximate any continuous function defined on a sphere. They are an orthonormal basis for the space of continuous functions on a sphere, meaning that any function can be expressed as an infinite weighted sum of spherical harmonics.

ChatGPT for Excel

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Ask ChatGPT to build full spreadsheets, get insights across tabs and formulas, and update workbooks in real time so projects move forward faster. Available globally for ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, Edu, Teachers, and K-12 users, and for ChatGPT Pro and Plus users outside the EU.

I made a terminal pager

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The user built a reusable viewport component in Go for text navigation in terminal applications and used it to create a terminal pager called lore, which they now daily drive as their terminal pager. The viewport component supports features like text wrapping, search, and selection, and is designed to be performant even with large amounts of text.

Why Sal Khan's AI revolution hasn't happened yet, according to Sal Khan

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Chalkbeat Ideas is a new section featuring reported columns on the big ideas and debates shaping American schools. Sign up for the Ideas newsletter to follow our work. Three years ago, as Khan Academy founder Sal Khan rolled out an AI-powered tutoring chatbot, he predicted a revolution in learning. “For a lot of students, it was a non-event,” Khan told me recently about his eponymous chatbot, ...

Airbnb discloses a billion-series Prometheus metrics pipeline

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A production-tested approach for moving a large-scale metrics pipeline from StatsD to OpenTelemetry and Prometheus. When migrating to a new monitoring system, you’ll want to frontload the work to collect all your metrics. This exposes bottlenecks at full write scale and unblocks the migration of assets which require real data for validation, such as dashboards and alerts. Collecting all your ...

Cal.com is going closed source

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Cal.com is moving to closed source due to increasing security risks from AI-powered vulnerability scanning. They're releasing a modified open source version, Cal.diy, under the MIT license for developers and hobbyists.

God sleeps in the minerals

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User visited the Unearthed: Raw Beauty exhibition at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and shared a snapshot. The exhibition's title "God Sleeps in the Minerals" is a poetic expression of the beauty of minerals.

Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data

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Google handed over Amandla Thomas-Johnson's data to ICE without notifying him, breaking a nearly decade-long promise to users. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has asked California and New York Attorneys General to investigate Google for deceptive trade practices.

Stealth signals are bypassing Iran’s internet blackout

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Iran imposed a near-total communications shutdown in January 2026, cutting off 90 million people from the world and each other. Toosheh, a satellite-based system, delivered real-time updates and uncensored news to Iran during the blackout, providing a lifeline to those starved of trusted information.

Fast and Easy Levenshtein distance using a Trie

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The user compares two methods for finding the closest matching word in a large dictionary using Levenshtein distance, with the second method using a trie data structure being over 300 times faster than the first. The second method has a runtime of O(max word length * number of nodes in the trie), making it more efficient for large dictionaries.

Show HN: Hiraeth – AWS Emulator

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Hiraeth is a local AWS emulator for fast integration testing, targeting SQS with a local HTTP endpoint and SQLite state. It's intended for local development and test environments, not production use.

Show HN: SmallDocs - A CLI and webapp for private Markdown reading and sharing

Hi HN, I’d like to introduce you to SmallDocs (https://sdocs.dev). It's an open-source CLI + webapp to instantly and 100% privately preview, share and optionally style markdown files. (Code: https://github.com/espressoplease/SDocs) The more we work with command line based agents the more `.md` files are part of our daily lives. Their output is great for agents to produce, but a little bit ...

The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew

McDonald's Japan website has limited allergen information in Japanese, covering 28 ingredients. English menus and ordering are available through their app and some restaurant locations.

Retrofitting JIT Compilers into C Interpreters

yk is a system that automatically converts C interpreters into JIT compiling Virtual Machines with minimal code changes, offering better performance while retaining full compatibility with reference implementations. yk uses meta-tracing to record and optimise the interpreter's actions, allowing it to inline code and achieve significant performance improvements with minimal manual effort.

Too much discussion of the XOR swap trick

The following post involves far too much discussion of the XOR swap trick. I suspect many readers already know some of this, so feel free to skip over some early sections if you like! If you already know what the XOR swap trick is, you can skip straight to the part where we see if it’s useful. XOR is short for Exclusive OR (we use the X, instead of EOR, because X is cooler). XOR has a lesser ...

PiCore - Raspberry Pi Port of Tiny Core Linux

piCore is a Raspberry Pi port of Tiny Core Linux, a customizable system with a small footprint and recent kernel. It runs entirely in RAM and offers flexibility and community support.

Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds

Bloomberg delivers business and financial information worldwide. A New York jury found Live Nation Entertainment illegally monopolized the live events industry.

US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) no attorney-client privilege for AI chats [pdf]

Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight

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Anna's Archive, a shadow library, was sued by Spotify and major labels for copyright infringement after backing up Spotify data. A US judge awarded $322 million in damages and a permanent injunction to shut down the site's domains.

The Gemini app is now on Mac

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Gemini app now available on macOS as a native desktop experience, allowing users to get help instantly with a keyboard shortcut. The app brings AI assistance to users' work, enabling them to share screens, generate content, and more.

CRISPR takes important step toward silencing Down syndrome’s extra chromosome

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Agent - Native Mac OS X coding ide/harness

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Agent! is a free macOS app that uses AI to automate tasks, control apps, and build code without requiring coding knowledge. It supports 17 LLM providers, including Apple Intelligence, and offers features like hotword-anchored dictation, built-in Xcode integration, and secure file management.

Adaptional (YC S25) is hiring AI engineers

Adaptional is building AI for insurance, aiming to replace manual data entry and outdated software with a modern platform. As a founding engineer, you'll build AI agents, work with top insurance companies, and solve complex problems in a highly regulated industry.