Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer

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Jimi Hendrix created groundbreaking sound using a modular analog signal chain with pedals and a Marshall amplifier. He used a systematic approach to manipulate the nonlinear complexities of the system for maximum expression.

First Website (1992)

http://info.cern.ch - home of the first website

Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules

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Google's API keys, initially intended for public services like Maps, can now access sensitive Gemini endpoints without warning. This allows attackers to access private data and charge LLM-usage to affected accounts.

RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs

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HP's CFO said RAM costs have risen 100 percent and now account for 35 percent of PC bill of materials due to a memory shortage. HP is raising PC prices and offering lower RAM specs to meet demand without depleting its limited memory supply.

Making MCP cheaper via CLI

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MCP overcharges by dumping entire tool catalogs upfront, while CLI and Anthropic's Tool Search use lazy loading to reduce costs. CLI is cheaper and works with any model, while Tool Search is Anthropic-only and more expensive.

How will OpenAI compete?

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OpenAI faces challenges in maintaining a competitive lead in AI due to the rapid development of similar models by other companies. The company's user base is large but has limited engagement and is fragile.

Show HN: ZSE – Open-source LLM inference engine with 3.9s cold starts

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ZSE is a tool for running large language models with minimal memory footprint, providing smart recommendations based on available memory. It supports various formats including HuggingFace, safetensors, and .zse, with fast cold starts and efficient memory usage.

Artist who “paints” portraits on glass by hitting it with a hammer

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Simon Berger uses a hammer to crack and strike glass, creating unique sculptures that explore material depth and transparency. His artistic journey began with painting and carpentry, leading to glasswork inspired by car windshields and human faces.

Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Windows Insiders receive Notepad and Paint updates with new features including Markdown support, a Notepad welcome experience, and AI-powered coloring book in Paint. Users can provide feedback in the Feedback Hub under Apps > Notepad or Apps > Paint.

Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective

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Buses in the US have close stop spacing, slowing them down and reducing ridership. Optimizing stop spacing can speed up buses, increase ridership, and save resources.

The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830)

Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better

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Respectify is a tool that teaches users why their comments are wrong and lets them edit before posting. It promotes a respectful community by filtering out negative comments and highlighting positive ones.

Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance

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The US government is pressuring Anthropic to allow their AI technology to be used in surveillance and autonomous weapons, despite the company's public stance against these uses. Anthropic should stand firm and refuse to compromise their principles, as public and corporate expectations are for them to uphold their stated values.

Gauss's Weekday Algorithm, Visualized

Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855), one of the greatest mathematicians in history, devised a compact formula to determine the weekday of January 1st for any given year. Found in a handwritten note among his papers, it was first published posthumously in 1927. The formula is valid from 1583 onward — the first full year of the Gregorian calendar. Enter a year above to see it in action.

PA bench: Evaluating web agents on real world personal assistant workflows

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PA Bench is a benchmark designed to evaluate the ability of computer-use agents to complete realistic, long-horizon personal assistant workflows involving multiple web applications. It focuses on tasks that require agents to interact, reason, and act across applications under deterministic and verifiable conditions.

Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs

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Researchers used LLMs to identify individuals from anonymous online posts with high precision, posing significant privacy concerns. To mitigate this, platforms should restrict data access and LLM providers should implement stronger safety guardrails.

The First Fully General Computer Action Model

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We designed FDM-1, a computer use model that can learn unsupervised from the internet and train on 11 million hours of video data. FDM-1 is the first model to scale computer action models with long-context training and can perform tasks like CAD and driving a car.

The Om Programming Language

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The Om language is a proof of concept at an early stage, requiring additional operations and optimizations before it can be useful. It is a concatenative language with prefix notation, using a unique panmorphic type system where all data values are represented as operands.

An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop

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AI-generated 3D models are flawed with wobbly silhouettes, illegible text, and poor UV maps. They lack structure and require manual editing, making them impractical for e-commerce product configurators.

Show HN: OpenSwarm – Multi‑Agent Claude CLI Orchestrator for Linear/GitHub

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OpenSwarm orchestrates multiple Claude Code instances as autonomous agents. It picks up Linear issues, runs Worker/Reviewer pair pipelines to produce code changes, reports progress to Discord, and retains long-term memory via LanceDB vector embeddings. Autonomous Pipeline - Cron-driven heartbeat fetches Linear issues, runs Worker/Reviewer pair loops, and updates issue state automatically ...

Quasi-Zenith Satellite System

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The Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) is a Japanese regional navigation satellite system developed to enhance GPS in Asia-Oceania, with a focus on Japan. It provides highly precise and stable positioning services, compatible with GPS.

Dissecting the CPU-memory relationship in garbage collection (OpenJDK 26)

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The traditional pause time metric for measuring garbage collection (GC) performance is no longer sufficient due to the increasing complexity of modern GC algorithms and the decoupling of pause time from machine resources. A new Java API and unified logging mechanism in OpenJDK 26 provide a precise and internal accounting of the collector's work, enabling developers to understand the ...

Learnings from 4 months of Image-Video VAE experiments

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Researchers built an Image-Video VAE to compress images and videos into a compact latent space for diffusion models, but found that better compression doesn't always track with VAE stability or downstream generation quality. They discovered that over-optimizing reconstruction quality can hurt the model's chance to disentangle data into a semantically meaningful space, and that aligning the ...

Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats

Our AI engine creates customized venue lists in seconds, vetting properties for reliability and quality. Venue partners respond to requests within 24 hours with our smart quote system.

How to fold the Blade Runner origami unicorn (1996)

GNU Texmacs

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GNU TeXmacs is a free editing platform for technical documents with a wysiwyg interface. It offers a user-friendly framework for editing text, math, graphics, and more, with export options to PDF and Postscript.

Trellis AI (YC W24) is hiring deployment lead to accelerate medication access

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Trellis builds AI agents to automate healthcare operations, providing patients with life-saving medicine access. The company is backed by top investors and seeks a detail-oriented professional for a client-facing role.

The Hydrogen Truck Problem Isn't the Truck

Hydrogen fuel cell trucks work commercially but face significant efficiency and infrastructure gaps compared to battery electric vehicles. They require 2.5-3x more renewable electricity to deliver the same work.

Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go

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gotreesitter is a Go implementation of tree-sitter that outperforms the CGo binding, supporting incremental parsing and query execution. It includes 205 grammars and supports language detection, highlighting, and tagging.

The Misuses of the University

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A history professor at Johns Hopkins University is jaded by the university's 150th anniversary celebration, feeling that it's more about prestige and rankings than academic values. He's concerned about the university's finances, donor influence, and the impact of new buildings and programs on the institution's core mission.