Migrating to the EU

User is moving services from non-EU countries to EU providers due to global politics and improved data protection. They've switched to European alternatives for email, hosting, DNS, Git repositories, and VPN services.

POSSE – Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere

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POSSE (Publish Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere) is a strategy for publishing content on your own site and then syndicating it to other platforms, allowing you to maintain ownership and control over your content while reaching a wider audience. By using POSSE, you can reduce dependence on third-party services, improve search engine rankings, and provide a clear link back to the original ...

Bombadil: Property-based testing for web UIs by Antithesis

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Property-based testing for web UIs, autonomously exploring and validating correctness properties, finding harder bugs earlier - antithesishq/bombadil

Attractive students no longer receive better results as classes moved online

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GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

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GitHub has experienced several outages this month, including issues with Actions, notifications, and Copilot. The company's overall uptime has been poor, dropping below 90 percent at one point in 2025.

General Motors Is Assisting with the Restoration of a Rare EV1

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General Motors is supporting the restoration of a rare 1996 EV1 electric vehicle, VIN 212, which was purchased at auction for over $100,000 and is being restored by a YouTube channel and private collector. The restoration is part of GM's recognition of the EV1's 30th anniversary and will help return the vehicle to driving condition and public visibility by November 2026.

PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading

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The PC Gamer article has a cluttered interface with multiple ads and popups, including a 37MB initial load. The website continues to download new ads, totaling almost half a gigabyte in five minutes.

Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids

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Alison Bennett, a mom in Los Angeles, bought a Tin Can phone for her 8-year-old daughter to chat with friends without a mobile phone. The phone runs off WiFi and has parental controls, allowing kids to communicate with approved contacts during approved hours.

The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon

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The author appeared on a German gaming podcast, Stay Forever, to discuss the technology behind RollerCoaster Tycoon. The game's creator, Chris Sawyer, wrote it in Assembly, a low-level language that allowed for high performance.

Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter? (2024)

The user created a low-budget electromagnetic fault injection (EMFI) tool using a piezo-electric lighter and an antenna wire to induce memory errors in a laptop's DDR bus, then used this tool to write a local-privilege-escalation exploit for CPython. The user then used a similar EMFI tool to create a reliable exploit for Linux, allowing them to gain root access by corrupting page tables and ...

Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated

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The user argues that while AI helps with precision in coding, it also creates an illusion of precision, which can lead to bugs and complexity issues when scaled up. The user believes that good code is not just about producing working software, but also about creating beautiful, well-structured abstractions that help master complexity, and that AI will be a boon for coding, not a replacement for it.

The future of version control

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Manyana is a project that presents a coherent vision for the future of version control using CRDTs, which provide eventual consistency and informative conflict markers. It offers a better design for version control, including permanent line ordering, informative conflicts, and preserved history, making it a promising proof for CRDT-based version control.

Fyn: An uv fork with new features, bug fixes, stripped telemetry

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fyn is a fast Python package manager built on uv's foundation, offering improved features and bug fixes. It manages project dependencies and environments with support for lockfiles, workspaces, and more.

Show HN: The King Wen Permutation: [52, 10, 2]

The 64 hexagrams of the I Ching have two canonical orderings: the binary natural order (0–63) and the King Wen sequence (~1000 BCE). Treating the map between them as a permutation in S₆₄, its cycle decomposition yields [52, 10, 2] with zero fixed points. 81% of hexagrams are locked in a single cycle. This structure has not been previously reported in the literature.

Jazz CRJ9 at New York on Mar 22nd 2026, collision with fire truck on runway

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A Jazz Canadair CRJ-900 collided with a fire truck on runway 04 at New York La Guardia airport on Mar 22nd 2026. The accident resulted in the deaths of the captain and first officer, and injuries to 41 people.

Why I love NixOS

The user loves NixOS for its deterministic and reproducible package manager, allowing them to define and rebuild their operating system from a single source of truth. This approach makes experimentation cheap and safe, and the user appreciates its stability, predictability, and coherence across platforms.

The way CTRL-C in Postgres CLI cancels queries is incredibly hack-y

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When you press Ctrl-C in psql to cancel a query, the client sends an unencrypted CancelRequest message to the Postgres server, which can be intercepted and used to cancel other queries. This is a security risk, but it can be mitigated by using Postgres 18 or later, specifying min_protocol_version=3.2, or using a VPN.

Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline

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Project NOMAD is a free, open source offline server that runs on any computer, providing access to knowledge, AI, and maps without internet. It's a self-hosted solution for digital independence, offering a complete library and AI assistant for learning, navigation, and more.

An Unsolicited Guide to Being a Researcher [pdf]

• Don’t do overview slides, it’s bad practice. • What function do they serve? • Why does anyone need to know what order you’re going to present things in. • Just tell people the key idea upfront. • There’s no key idea here though. • Also a lot of bullet points are bad • Slides should have maybe a sentence of text at most There is no one valid goal for a student to have. There are many that ...

Dataframe 1.0.0.0

Polars library has reached v1 after 2 years of work, featuring a typed API, Apache Arrow integration, and connectors for large data lakes. The library is now fast and supports data exploration, querying, and integration with AI agents for type-guided data analysis.

Flash-MoE: Running a 397B Parameter Model on a Laptop

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Researchers built a 397 billion parameter AI model in 24 hours using C, Objective-C, and Metal shaders on a MacBook Pro. The model runs at 4.4+ tokens/second with production-quality output, using a custom Metal compute pipeline and 48GB RAM.

GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) is hiring Back end Engineers

GoGoGrandparent is a digital platform helping older adults stay independent at home by adapting on-demand APIs into a concierge-style experience. The company is hiring engineers to join its fully remote team and make a meaningful impact on people's lives.

You are not your job

Jacob, a software consultant, discusses how people's identities are tied to their jobs, but this is changing with automation and AI, making it essential to focus on relationships and presence rather than technical skills. He encourages readers to reevaluate their sense of self and find value in being present and connecting with others, rather than just their job titles.

Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website

Walmart ended its Instant Checkout deal with OpenAI due to low conversion rates. It will now use its own chatbot, Sparky, to offer a seamless shopping experience within ChatGPT.

What young workers are doing to AI-proof themselves

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The LCA problem revisited [pdf]

GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information

GrapheneOS remains available internationally without requiring personal information or an account, and it will continue to support Pixel 6a devices until at least July 2027. GrapheneOS has a long-term partnership with Motorola to support their future devices, improving their security to meet GrapheneOS requirements.

Building an FPGA 3dfx Voodoo with Modern RTL Tools

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The user successfully implemented an FPGA reimplementation of the Voodoo 1 graphics card using SpinalHDL, which allowed them to describe, simulate, and debug the complex design. The user used netlist-aware waveform queries in conetrace to identify and fix a bug that was caused by a stack of small hardware-accuracy mismatches rather than a single catastrophic failure.

Five years of running a systems reading group at Microsoft

The user started a reading group at Microsoft in 2021 focused on database internals, which evolved into the Microsoft Systems Reading Group covering various computer science topics, and has been successful due to consistency, organic growth, and collaboration. The group's format, which includes guided reading series and a relaxed atmosphere, has led to valuable connections and learning ...

Ordered dithering with arbitrary or irregular colour palettes (2023)

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The user discusses various methods of image dithering, including ordered dithering and error-diffusion dithering, and their applications to colour palettes of arbitrary or irregular colour distributions. The user also explores more advanced techniques such as N-candidate dithering, barycentric interpolation, and Delaunay triangulation for improving the quality of dithered images.