SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine

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SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. - searxng/searxng

Espionage Against the European Parliament

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Stelios Kouloglou, a former European Parliament member, was hacked with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware twice, in October 2022 and March 2023, while investigating spyware abuses. The infections likely captured non-public information about committee activities, breaching EU parliamentary confidentiality.

Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally

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User has $2k to spend on local machine intelligence and $40k for top-of-the-line. They have 4x RTX Pro 6000s and built a DDR4 system to host them.

Costco is the anti-Amazon

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Amazon's complex logistics model may not be the most efficient or socially beneficial, while Costco's simpler model offers lower costs and better worker treatment. A public grocery store model, inspired by Costco and the military commissary system, could provide cheaper groceries for New Yorkers with lower overhead.

FreeBSD ate my RAM

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The user investigated why memory usage reported by fastfetch and btop differed on FreeBSD, discovering that the discrepancy was due to btop's incorrect handling of the ARC cache and filesystem metadata buffer cache. The user contributed patches to btop and htop to improve their memory usage reporting, and also submitted a PR to fastfetch, which was later merged with improvements.

Pet projects are getting too big to pet

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The author's pet project has evolved from a small, hobby-like endeavor to a complex, ambitious undertaking that requires new skills and a different mindset. The author is now learning to navigate a rapidly changing field and is unsure what the future holds for their craft and the industry as a whole.

Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring a Marketing Lead to Shift FinOps Left

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Marketing Lead at Infracost will develop and execute marketing strategies, manage the marketing function, and drive customer acquisition. The role requires 5+ years of B2B marketing experience, strong project management, and a bias toward action in a fully remote US and Canada timezone-based team.

Factories are just rooms

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You spoke to a year group about manufacturing, sharing your experience making an AI clock and showing them various stages of design and production. You aim to normalize hands-on learning and inspire kids to become makers and inventors.

Kagi Changelog (July 2): Heads, tails, and an AI toggle

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We're also planning to add this option to onboarding, so new users can personalise their Kagi experience from the start. It's finally here! We believe that Kagi's application of AI should always be useful - there when you'd like it, and never when you don't, and always respecting your privacy. This took us some time to navigate the right way to communicate this option. We ...

Hunting a 16-year-old SQLite WAL bug with TLA+

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SQLite fixed a long-standing bug in WAL checkpointing that could lead to database corruption. The dqlite team used TLA+ to model SQLite's behavior and found that dqlite is not affected by the bug due to its stricter locking mechanism.

Show HN: Mcpsnoop – Wireshark for MCP (transparent proxy and live TUI)

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mcpsnoop is a transparent proxy that shows real tool calls between AI client and MCP servers live in the terminal. It wraps your server command and displays every JSON-RPC frame in a live UI for debugging.

PostgreSQL and the OOM killer: Why we use strict memory overcommit

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Enabling strict memory overcommit in Linux protects PostgreSQL from catastrophic OOM kills by preventing shared memory corruption. A kernel bug in Linux 6.5 caused inflated committed memory, but a fix was applied, allowing strict overcommit to be safely enabled.

Oak: Git for Agents

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Oak is a new version control system designed for agent workflows, solving Git's problems with parallel sessions and large files. It offers faster performance, lazy mounts, and content-defined chunking, while preserving familiar Git concepts.

Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror

Wordgard is an open-source JavaScript library for in-browser rich-text editors with a powerful programming interface. It's customizable and free to use under the MIT license, but commercial users are expected to contribute to its maintenance.

My dad helped build North America's oat supply chain: Can it be remade?

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The US oat market declined due to agricultural policies favoring corn and soybeans, leading to a shift to importing oats from Canada. A supply chain was built to import Canadian oats, which has proven resilient but may need to be remade to prioritize US soil health and Corn Belt communities.

Valve open-source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own

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Valve has made the Steam Machine's e-ink display open source under the MIT license, allowing anyone to create their own "Inkterface". JSAUX plans to release pre-built versions of the display.

60% Fable cost cut by converting code to images and having the model OCR it

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pxpipe compresses Claude Code requests by rendering bulky context as images, reducing input tokens by ~25k to ~2.7k. This results in a ~59-70% lower end-to-end bill.

Farmer, marketer at odds over sales of white nectarines

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A California farmer, Cesar Mora, is giving away his nectarine harvest due to a legal battle with Giumarra Brothers Fruit Co over exclusive rights to the 'Monalise' variety. Mora claims Giumarra threw away half of his nectarines in 2020 and sold them to Taiwan in 2022, breaching their contract.

A peek into Reddit's anti-spam internals

Reddit's spam filter system, which includes spamurai, uses various methods to detect and remove spam content. The system can see internal removal reasons, but only sitewide admins can view them.

Half-Baked Product

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A founder builds an oven company with a flawed MVP that fails to deliver on its promises, despite raising millions of dollars in funding. The company struggles to execute its vision due to poor engineering, sales, and management decisions.

Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?

You're frustrated with LLMs for programming, feeling stuck in a prompt-response loop. Researchers are exploring alternative models like the tab model, which may offer a more fluid coding experience.

Best Simple System for Now (2025)

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The author proposes a middle path called the Best Simple System for Now (BSSN), which balances simplicity and robustness by focusing on the current needs of a product. This approach prioritizes simplicity over future-proofing and encourages iterative delivery to reduce risk and increase return on investment.

Flexible metaprogramming with Rhombus

Rhombus is a new programming language that combines Racket's metaprogramming capabilities with a simple Python-like syntax. It aims to be a flexible and extensible language for real-world use.

The Fall and Rise of Screwworm

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Screwworms, a flesh-eating parasite, have returned to the US after decades of eradication. The parasite was previously eliminated through a program that dropped millions of sterile male flies in infested areas.

Holes

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Show HN: Topics, Not Feeds

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More Political Ads at Lowest Unit Rates? – Supreme Court Allows Candidates and Parties to Coordinate, and an FCC Media Bureau Notice Says Coordinated Ad Buys Should be Given LUC While most of us are enjoying our 4 th of July holidays, we thought it important to publish this article, stemming from a Supreme Court decision last week, right away as broadcasters in many states are or soon will be ...

Why Being Overqualified Is a Risk

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In this issue, you'll configure a coding agent to use local models, but first, you'll discover why managers view overqualified candidates as a hiring risk. If you've applied for a role that you're overqualified for, there's a good chance you won't get the job. Most jobs don't want you to be overqualified. Some people think "overqualified" means "too old ...

The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 1: SimEverything

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The author praises gamers for preserving gaming history, but notes that their efforts can create a distorted view of the past. Games like SimCity and Myst are often overlooked in favor of more popular titles, but had significant influence on the gaming industry.

America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report

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In 1926, America was a nation of contrasts, with rural areas stuck in the past and urban areas experiencing rapid change, technological advancements, and social upheaval. Despite progress in many areas, Americans were anxious about the future, fearing technological unemployment, the rise of the machine, and the decline of traditional values.

Supersonic flight returning to US after half-century ban

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The FAA may repeal the 1970s ban on supersonic flight over US territory due to technological advances that minimize noise impacts. Companies like Boom Supersonic and Spike Aerospace are developing quieter supersonic aircraft for luxurious transatlantic flights.