Renault: Electric motors with no rare earths

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Renault Group is a pioneer in electric motors without magnets, using electrically excited synchronous motors (EESM) technology. Their range includes 5A, 5AL, 6A, 6AM, and 6AK motors with outputs from 57 to 160 kW.

CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers

Researchers at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco have developed a CRISPR-based approach to selectively destroy cancer cells with a specific mutation in the p53 tumor suppressor gene. This method, called RNA-triggered chromatin shredding, can target "undruggable" cancers and potentially open up new targets for cancer therapy.

Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter

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Apple rewrote the TrueType hinting interpreter from C to memory-safe Swift to improve security and performance, achieving a 13% speed increase and exact compatibility with the C implementation. The Swift interpreter's design and optimizations, such as using noncopyable structures and Span, demonstrate the language's ability to balance safety, ergonomics, and performance, making it suitable ...

Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game

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A daily hole of mini golf. Same hole for everyone, new one at midnight Pacific.

How to setup a local coding agent on macOS

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User upgraded Gemma 4 to MTP, achieving 72.2 tokens/second on an Apple M1 Max. MTP draft model improved performance by 24% with optimal settings found to be 3 draft tokens.

Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg

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Depthfirst's autonomous security agent discovered 21 zero-day vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, including 8 with assigned CVEs, using a specialized security agent that analyzes code and generates concrete, reproducible PoC inputs. The agent found a heap buffer overflow in FFmpeg's AV1 RTP depacketizer that can be triggered by a single 183-byte packet, allowing an attacker to redirect execution and ...

Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware

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Malware developers added nuclear and biological text to spyware to evade AI security scanners. This highlights the need for balance between safety and functionality in AI models.

Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates

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The House passed H.R. 6028, a bill that would change the US Copyright Office's structure and make it more political. The bill would transfer power from the Library of Congress to the Register of Copyrights, a presidential appointee.
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/architect: Reduce Fable tokens by 80%, Fable orchestrates/reviews, Codex builds

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Claude Fable is an architect that designs and judges slices, while GPT-5.5 Codex is a builder and researcher that does engineering and web research in parallel. The system uses flat-rate subscriptions and does not require API keys.

"Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"

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A freelance translator in Ottawa prioritizes work over gym classes due to tight deadlines. She explains to a Director General that AI translation tools like ChatGPT are not a replacement for human translators, requiring constant coaching and double-checking.

Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end

User trying to generate decent-looking programs with AI, found a "Qt style" trick that works for them, and wants feedback on its effectiveness and potential for other styles. They've successfully translated personal software to "Qt style" with AI tools like Codex.

Launch HN: BitBoard (YC P25) – Analytics Workspace for Agents

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Generate dashboards and analysis in BitBoard using AI chat or coding agents to create connected assets. Store connections, queries, and code for reproducible analysis and collaborate with teams in the browser.

Introduction to UEFI HTTP(s) Boot with QEMU/OVMF

The user successfully booted a UEFI HTTP(S) setup using Qemu and OVMF, but encountered issues with certificate validation due to a security level mismatch. The problem was resolved by either upgrading the server's TLS certificate or patching the OVMF firmware to match the default security level.

Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself

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Scientists have found that Earth's water may not have come from comets or asteroids, but rather from the planet's own processes. A new theory suggests that Earth's magma ocean and hydrogen-rich atmosphere could have combined to produce water.

SkillSpector

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Security scanner for AI agent skills. Detect vulnerabilities, malicious patterns, and security risks before installing agent skills. AI agent skills (used by Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, etc.) execute with implicit trust and minimal vetting. Research shows that 26.1% of skills contain vulnerabilities and 5.2% show likely malicious intent. 64 vulnerability patterns across 16 categories: ...

Adaptive PDFs

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A PDF can store both visual and structured data. By using a specific property in the PDF spec, a document can be created that renders visually the same but extracts clean markdown text when read by machines.

If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort

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Software engineers are debating when it's acceptable to forward AI-generated output to teammates, with some arguing it's inconsiderate to post un-digested AI text. Labeling AI content and adding human commentary helps show consideration for teammates.

Most Beautiful Will Ever Made (1936)

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A man named Charles Lounsberry wrote a beautiful will while in a lunatic asylum, leaving children the outdoors, lovers their imaginary world, and adults memories and poetry. His will was published in "The Doonion" and admired for its kindness and beauty.

Show HN: Turn your name into a tree in an infinite procedural shanshui landscape

Pan and zoom a procedurally generated infinite landscape. Every name becomes a tree.

Maxproof

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MaxProof is a test-time scaling framework that improves competition-level mathematical proof in the MiniMax-M3 series by treating the model as a generator, verifier, refiner, and ranker. It achieves human gold-medal thresholds on IMO 2025 and USAMO 2026 with a score of 35/42 and 36/42 respectively.

There Is Life Before Main in Rust

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The author discusses the concept of "life before main" in Rust, where initialization happens before the main function is called, and explains how to use linker sections to register data and perform initialization in a single-threaded, highly-consistent environment. Linker sections allow for arbitrary aggregation and co-location of related data across the binary, and can be used to avoid ...

I Am Not a Reverse Centaur

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The user is concerned about the increasing number of contributions to their open source projects made with Large Language Models (LLMs), which they see as a threat to human involvement and interaction. They have implemented a new policy where they only accept contributions from real people, and reject those generated solely by LLMs, to maintain a more human-centered approach to coding.

Enhance RAW image processing with Core Image [video]

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Harness the power of version 9 of the Core Image RAW processing APIs to dramatically improve image quality in your apps, with improved sharpness and more defined color, while using the Apple Neural Engine for optimal performance. Take advantage of the CIRAWFilter API to let your users edit RAW photos by changing exposure, noise reduction, sharpness, contrast and more. And explore new ...

Hazel (YC W24) Is Hiring a Full Stack Engineer

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Hazel is hiring a full stack engineer to deploy and scale AI for government procurement, requiring a TS/SCI clearance and experience with AWS, Python, and React. The role involves architecting and building Hazel's platform, working with customers, and delivering innovative solutions in a classified environment.

AMD Stiffs Researcher $10k Bug Bounty

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AMD refused $10,000 bounty to researcher Paul LaRosa despite fixing HTTP vulnerability in Windows auto-updater Finding a critical security vulnerability should get you rewarded, not stiffed. AMD’s auto-updater was downloading software over insecure HTTP connections, letting network attackers slip malicious code onto your system during routine updates. The researcher who found this remote code ...

I Think They [Anthropic] Are Lying to You [video]

WASI 0.3

WASI 0.3 is now official, featuring native async support in WebAssembly Components. This simplifies async operations and enables better composability among components.

Show HN: StackScope – I crawled over 40k indie launches to see what they ship

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StackScope analyses the tech stacks of new product launches. See what frameworks, hosting, analytics and tools sites use. Detect AI-built sites. Track technology trends.