Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

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Valve released CAD files for the Steam Controller and Puck, allowing modders to create custom accessories. The files are under a Creative Commons license for non-commercial use, with commercial entities needing to contact Valve directly.

UK businesses brace for jet fuel rationing

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British businesses face soaring travel costs and disrupted supply chains due to a deepening jet fuel crisis triggered by the Strait of Hormuz closure. Goldman Sachs warns that commercial fuel inventories in Britain could fall to critically low levels within weeks, risking formal rationing measures.

Appearing productive in the workplace

Generative AI is creating a new form of "slop" in workplaces, where workers rely on tools to produce work without understanding its quality. This leads to a loss of judgment and expertise, as humans become conduits for AI-generated output rather than evaluators of its quality.

Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like

The author discussed the convergence of vibe coding and agentic engineering, realizing that relying on AI tools for coding can blur the lines between responsible and irresponsible use. They value proven solutions over perfect documentation and tests.

Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA

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Google Cloud launched Google Cloud Fraud Defense, a platform to verify bots, humans, and AI agents, securing digital interactions and commerce. It measures and controls agentic activity, preventing evolving threats and securing customer journeys to accelerate business growth.

From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth

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The user's company Val Town switched from Clerk to Better Auth for authentication due to reliability and rate limiting issues with Clerk, which caused site outages and complexity. Better Auth provided a more reliable and customizable solution, allowing Val Town to regain control over user sessions and data.

The bottleneck was never the code

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Coding agents have reduced the cost of software development, but increased the importance of context and collaboration. Effective use of agents requires externalizing context and maintaining organizational coherence, which is a harder challenge than individual productivity gains.

Learning the Integral of a Diffusion Model

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Flow maps are a way to speed up sampling from diffusion models by predicting any point on a path from any other point on that same path, rather than just the tangent direction at each point. They can be used for faster sampling, more efficient reward-based learning, and improved sampling steerability, but training a flow map is significantly more involved than training a diffusion model.

David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House

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The Trump administration has shifted its AI oversight policy, demanding federal review of AI models before release, due to concerns over national security and geopolitical stability. David Sacks, a former AI and crypto czar, lost influence in the administration after his pro-industry agenda alienated Trump's base and Republican allies.

Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem

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Tilde provides a versioned filesystem for autonomous AI agents, ensuring safe use with real data and logging every action. It's built on lakeFS, a battle-tested data versioning layer for managing billions of objects.

Inkscape 1.4.4

Show HN: Hallucinopedia

Hallucinopedia is an encyclopedia covering unusual topics with equal seriousness. It features articles on obscure events, scientific disciplines, and cultural phenomena.

A Theory of Deep Learning

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Deep learning works by memorizing noise and signal, with the signal channel allowing generalization and the reservoir containing memorized noise. A new theory explains generalization and provides a way to train directly on population risk, eliminating overfitting and suggesting more efficient model architectures.

Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader

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CrossPoint Reader is an open-source firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper display reader, offering EPUB reading with multi-language support. It's built using PlatformIO and targets the ESP32-C3 microcontroller, aiming to unlock the device's potential.

Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC

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I like reinventing wheels. At least I do when it comes to making things like art , craft, food, or code. It’s how I learn. And it’s how I can shape tools or work to fit my own mind. I think because my background is in art, and because I didn’t formally learn Computer Science, despite the fact that I teach it, my software has a bit of a handmade feel to it. As a case in point, I’ve built my ...

Ted Turner has died

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Ted Turner, a media mogul and philanthropist, died at 87 after a life of revolutionizing television news and building a media empire. He founded CNN, a pioneering 24-hour news network, and was a devoted philanthropist, conservationist, and activist.

Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer

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Try the Templatical drag-and-drop email editor in this interactive playground. Build, preview, and export email templates directly in your browser.

Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, no extensions

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php-fts is a self-contained full-text search engine written in pure PHP with no dependencies. It provides solid full-text search with ranked results, filters, and tolerant matching for projects with minimal and portable stacks.

Following the Text Gradient at Scale

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When you get feedback on your work, it usually tells you what went wrong and how to fix it. But existing reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms throw most of that information away; it compresses potentially rich feedback into a single number, a reward1, then tries to learn by correlating rewards with actions across hundreds or thousands of attempts. We do this because our algorithms were ...

Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

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We've partnered with SpaceX and other companies to increase our compute capacity, allowing us to raise usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API. This includes doubling rate limits for Pro and Max plans, removing peak hour limits, and raising API rate limits for Claude Opus models.

Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10

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The user set up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10 by following a specific VM configuration and installing the Sun Ray Server Software package, which required a period-accurate Java Runtime Environment and Apache Tomcat. The user then configured the Sun Ray server to use ISC DHCP, installed the needed libraries for hotdesking, and set up the TFTP root for the DTUs to pull their ...

Mickey Mouse is watching you: Disneyland deploys facial recognition

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Disneyland uses facial recognition technology at some entrance lanes to prevent fraud and streamline re-entry, allowing guests to opt out. The technology raises concerns about privacy and surveillance, with critics warning of a precedent for widespread facial scanning.

What makes a good smartphone camera?

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Smartphone camera quality is affected by various factors including sensor size, noise, and exposure, with sensor size being the most important factor in determining image detail. To take better photos, clean the lens, use enough light, and avoid over-reliance on software processing, such as AI-enhanced features, which can compromise image quality.

Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software

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Apple's App Store is struggling to review adaptive software that changes at runtime, while OpenAI's ChatGPT directory distributes software that adapts to user needs. The App Store's premise of holding still software is expiring as adaptive software becomes the norm.

Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors

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Researchers created metal tags with unique frequencies for smart home sensing and activity recognition. The tags can be attached to various objects to track activities, monitor usage, or trigger timers.

Coverage Cat (YC S22) Seeks Fractional Engineer to Build AI Growth Toolkit

The company is hiring for an organic growth engineer role, excluding applicants from 11 US states. The job involves designing AI tools and implementing in-person canvassing efforts to grow the company's AI-native insurance broker.

Virtual violin produces realistic sounds

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MIT engineers developed a "computational violin" that simulates the physics of a violin's sound. The tool can help luthiers design and tweak a violin's sound before it's built.

SoundOff: Low-Cost Passive Ultrasound Tags

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Researchers developed SoundOff, a low-cost, passive ultrasound system for smart home sensing. It uses wearable devices to detect unique ultrasonic emissions from tags on furniture, enabling non-intrusive monitoring.

Going Full Time on Open Source

The user has built a successful open-source tool, mise, and is now maintaining it full-time through a company, en.dev, to ensure sustainability. They are seeking support through memberships, sponsorships, and consulting services to continue developing mise and other tools.

Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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Cloudflare and Stripe partnered to allow coding agents to provision Cloudflare accounts, subscriptions, and domains without human intervention. Agents can now deploy apps to production with zero friction for the end user.