Playa Phone

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A phone booth is available at Burning Man for free calls to anywhere in the world. Dial +1 (775) 557-4848 to connect with a random Burner or add it as a contact later.

OpenShot 4.0: Record, Edit, and Color Like Never Before

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OpenShot 4.0 introduces a new Color View with color wheels, curves, LUTs, and live video scopes for precise color grading. The Recording View allows recording multiple sources directly into a project.

Apache Iggy, a message streaming platform in Rust, graduates to an Apache TLP

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Apache Iggy has graduated as an Apache Top-Level Project after a unanimous vote from the Apache Incubator, marking a significant milestone in its development. The project's growth and success are attributed to its community-driven approach and contributions from individuals worldwide.

ChatGPT Work Tool and Skill Reference

This toolset provides various capabilities, including automation, Gmail and Google Calendar management, website building and deployment. It also offers personal context retrieval and pet management within ChatGPT Work mode.

Culture Clash

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C P Snow's 1959 Rede Lecture, "The Two Cultures," sparked a debate between scientists and intellectuals, with F R Leavis criticizing Snow for promoting science over literature. The lecture highlighted the cultural divide between those who value scientific inquiry and those who prioritize literary expression.

C++26: Standard Library Hardening Experiments

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The C++26 Standard introduces "hardening" to make standard library implementations safer by detecting and terminating undefined behavior, rather than allowing it to continue. Hardened libraries use contracts that result in a contract violation when violated, providing a standardized baseline for turning common precondition violations into detectable failures.

Launch HN: Hebbian Robotics (YC S26) – Build scalable robotics data pipelines

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Hebbian Robotics is building HFlow, an open-source SDK for scalable multimodal data pipelines in robotics and physical AI. It makes data tooling accessible to teams of any size, aiming to democratize the architecture and preserve useful workflows at small scale.

Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company

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Almanac connects to users' tools and compiles information into a shared wiki, automating tasks and reporting back. It maintains the wiki continuously, allowing users to delegate work while keeping their context up-to-date.

Marx, Keynes, and A.I

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A recent paper by economists highlights how AI displacement can lead to a vicious cycle of automation, harming both workers and firms. The authors propose a Pigouvian tax to address the negative externality caused by this competition-driven arms race.

Show HN: Linux server management over SSH – written in Rust and Tauri

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Serverbox is a Tauri application that provides live dashboards, terminals, file management, and tools for managing servers via SSH. It allows users to save multiple servers with customizable profiles and tags.

Agentic Trust Controls

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Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode

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A simple website summary request exploited Claude Code Opus 5 in Auto Mode, achieving code execution with a 60-80% attack success rate. This contradicts Anthropic's evaluation of a 0.00% prompt injection attack success rate for Opus 5 in Auto Mode.
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Harvard engineers have developed Mobilio, a smartphone app that uses AI, built-in sensors and personalized audio beeps to give users with blindness or low vision continuous guidance and obstacle avoidance. In early tests, Mobilio plus a cane enabled faster navigation and significantly fewer obstacle collisions than Google Maps plus a cane.

ravynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source

ravynOS aims to bring macOS-like features such as clean design, global menus, and drag-and-drop installs. It offers a distraction-free interface with familiar shortcuts and a standard folder structure for ease of use.

DNS Abuse and Criminal Infrastructure

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Criminals may control a significant share of new gTLD registrations, raising concerns about DNS Abuse measures. The ICANN community should examine its contractual definitions, preventive obligations, and enforcement mechanisms to reduce this risk at scale.

ReactOS 0.4.16

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ReactOS 0.4.16 has been released with significant improvements, including a new graphical installer and unified bootcd/livecd image, as well as enhancements to video, audio, networking and storage stacks.

Doubling of Kobo's U.S. sales in both 2025 and 2026, 70% US female customer base

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The Art of Chip-8

The CHIP-8 programming language was originally developed for the 1977 COSMAC VIP kit computer and consists of a series of two-byte instructions resembling machine-code. Writing a CHIP-8 interpreter is an excellent way to learn about emulators, antique computers, and game consoles. The language has thousands of implementations available for various platforms.

uv: Deduplicate all files in the wheel cache

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User is trying to add a suggestion to a batch commit on GitHub, but it's invalid due to no changes made or other restrictions. The user will have to try again later as the current request cannot be processed.

Malleable software = solid bases and custom code

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The productivity tools market is shifting towards a balance between solid bases and custom code, with AI empowering users to build personal tools quickly. Vendors are moving towards adding more extension points to malleable tools and building better solid bases for low-code and no-code solutions.

My hobby of building miniatures and taking pretty pictures

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The writer shares their passion for miniatures and coffee, mentioning a new miniature cafe they've built with intricate details. They also discuss their love for specialty coffee, particularly pour-overs and Americanos, highlighting the importance of high-quality beans in creating an exceptional experience.

Study: Blue light impairs the eye's ability to distinguish fine detail most

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A new study from the University of Georgia found that blue light impairs the eye's ability to distinguish fine details more than any other wavelength. The study suggests that people with lighter-colored irises, particularly blue eyes, are more affected by blue light scatter and optical aberrations.

Agent Memory as a File Format

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The author argues that AI models should start with existing memories rather than a blank context window, but current memory systems are flawed. They propose a "memoryfield" system where agents write memories directly in Markdown format, which is more efficient and scalable.

Hit anything. Discover how it rings

Hit anything. Discover how it rings. Reveal the resonances of physical objects and play them as instruments.

“I just chose words carefully”

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The user discusses the challenges of aligning text in monospace fonts, particularly centering and full justification. They suggest rewriting text to carefully choose words that fit a specific line length for precise alignment.

State of the Map 2026: OpenStreetMap conference

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The author attended the State of the Map conference, where they engaged with OpenStreetMap (OSM) and its community. They noted that OSM is a valuable source for mapping, but also faces challenges such as data quality and commercial actors' influence.

P99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240M domain names

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The author of Wirewiki.com aims to improve its autocomplete feature by reducing latency, aiming for a target of 121ms. The current API response time is around 2ms, which should be sufficient given the expected bandwidth usage and display rendering speed.

Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable

Connecting two computers via Ethernet can transfer data at speeds of up to 900 Mbps, making it suitable for transferring large files between devices. This method is faster and more reliable than using USB or cloud storage, especially for point-to-point connections without the need for a local network or TCP/IP stack.

My Experience Has Nuance, Yours Is a Data Point

Eric Bailey suggests that media platforms need more nuanced feedback options to accurately represent user experiences. Current "thumbs up" systems are often misinterpreted and oversimplify individual tastes.

Using floci to emulate Cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure)

The team implemented direct integrations with major cloud providers using floci, a local cloud emulator. They successfully integrated AWS and Google Cloud Logging, but faced issues with Microsoft Azure due to authentication requirements and custom implementation needs.