MAI-Cyber 1

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Microsoft has announced MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a compact security model that delivers world-class performance at 50% of the cost of leading models, and Perception, an agentic security system for continuous monitoring and patching. The combined system, MDASH, uses MAI-Cyber-1-Flash to efficiently handle 90% of tasks, enabling the use of more costly models for exceptionally hard tasks, resulting in ...

Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace

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Kimi K3 is a 2.8T-parameter model with native vision capabilities and a 1-million-token context window, designed for frontier intelligence across long-horizon coding, knowledge work, and reasoning. It is the world's first open 3T-class model, released under the Kimi K3 License for research, deployment, and further innovation.

Glue bonds to nonstick surfaces and wipes clean with ethanol

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Researchers developed a small-molecule glue called CyclicFP-fmoc that bonds strongly to nonstick surfaces and can be easily removed with ethanol. The adhesive combines high strength, ductility, and washability, making it reusable and recyclable.

Canceling "Hey"

If you don't know, "Hey" is a somewhat popular email client, created by industry legend DHH. I found Hey to work really well for me and really liked it. It costs $99/year, and I've been a loyal customer for four years, meaning I've given them $396 in total. Whether it's wolves or gypsies, you can't just let the problems get out of hand. You have to act. You have to ...

The computer that helped win World War II

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In 1941, British codebreakers discovered a new German encryption system called Tunny, which was more advanced than Enigma, and they built a machine called Colossus to break the code. Colossus, the world's first large-scale programmable electronic digital computer, was built by engineer Tommy Flowers and helped the Allies decipher encrypted messages, saving countless lives and shortening World War II.

Show HN: FeyNoBg – Automatic background removal model and training library

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FeyNoBg is a state-of-the-art model for automatic background removal that outperforms or closely matches the best published results on eight benchmarks. It's based on BiRefNet and uses a library called NoBg for training and running the model.

Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)

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Misago's current implementation has issues with duplicated code and complexity. It can be simplified by using a JavaScript framework with server-side rendering like Next.js or Remix.run, and focusing on an API with React.js UI.

UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring remote AE's to help make buildings cheaper

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We’re looking for talented and motivated people who can help us build easy-to-use compliance and product research tools. Learn about our culture and explore open positions.

Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website

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Decathlon is the first German retailer to use Wero, a European payment scheme that routes payments directly between bank accounts in real time. Wero aims to reduce processing costs and increase loyalty for retailers like Decathlon, but still lacks in-store point of sale functionality.

Exploiting Volvo/Eicher's fleet platform to gain control over all users/vehicles

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A vulnerability was found in My Eicher's APIs, allowing hackers to gain high-level access and account takeover, potentially controlling hundreds of vehicles. The vulnerability was discovered in 2025 and fixed in November 2025, but not before exposing sensitive data of 275k vehicles and 115k customers.

Show HN: Running PrismML's Bonsai inside DRAM by breaking DDR4 timing rules

Researchers are developing on-device AI models to ensure user privacy and reduce cloud inference costs. A new architecture, CaSA, performs ternary LLM inference directly inside DRAM, bypassing the memory bus and addressing thermal throttling and battery drain issues.

Libsm64: Mario 64 as a library for use in external game engines

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This project provides a shared library for SM64 movement and rendering code, allowing Mario to be easily integrated into existing game engines or systems. The library loads official SM64 ROMs at runtime for asset extraction and can be built and used with SDL2 and GLEW libraries.

Beckett the Prophet

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The narrator at the YMCA notices a woman in a sailor's shirt and blue jeans who always circles the gym with weights, and her routine makes him uneasy. He reflects on Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot, which seems to mirror the woman's repetitive actions and the world's sense of waiting and uncertainty.

Paged Out #9 [pdf]

Paged Out! magazine Issue #9 is now available with over 70 items, articles, and artwork, and the editorial team is working on Issue #10 with a call for papers deadline of September 30, 2026. The magazine is also introducing a Patreon page to support its financial goals and making past issues available for purchase through Lulu.com.

Magnolias are so old that they're pollinated by beetles, not bees (2025)

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Magnolia flowers have been around for over 100 million years and rely on beetles for pollination due to their ancient origins. The flowers' large, bowl-shaped petals and strong scent attract beetles, which transfer pollen as they search for food.

Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf]

Open Frontier Intelligence. Contribute to MoonshotAI/Kimi-K3 development by creating an account on GitHub.

First Robotic Satellite Servicer Launched

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How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going?

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The author questions the value of Anthropic's acquisition of Bun and the company's large valuation, citing a lack of release tags and increasing open pull requests. The author suspects that the cost of the rewrite is higher than claimed, with potential off-the-books expenses and ongoing Anthropic employee involvement.

VLC for Unity now supported on Linux

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The website uses Anubis to protect against aggressive AI scraping, which adds a Proof-of-Work load to make scraping more expensive. Users with plugins like JShelter need to disable them for this domain to access resources.

Building a Fast Lock-Free Queue in Modern C++ from Scratch

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The user discusses the limitations of using a standard library queue in a multi-threaded environment and the need for a lock-free queue that can handle high-frequency trading systems, real-time game engines, and other demanding applications. They outline the design of a lock-free queue using a linked list and compare-and-swap (CAS) operations, but note that this approach has several ...

Show HN: Infrawrench – a tool to manage cloud and svcs with workflows and chat

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Connect to 25+ cloud providers and manage hundreds of resource types from a single unified interface. Infrawrench discovers your infrastructure automatically and keeps it in sync every 30 seconds. Launch full SSH terminals to any server directly from Infrawrench. No external client needed. On desktop, connections run locally. In the cloud web app, sessions are proxied securely through our ...

Should you wash your solar panels?

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The user cleaned their 16-panel solar farm and saw a 2-5% increase in power output, worth £60-150 per year. They plan to upgrade the solar farm but are hesitant due to a change in feed-in tariff rules that would reduce their benefits.

Towards a Theory of Bugs: The Ruliology of the Unexpected

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The author explores the concept of bugs in software and their ubiquity, discussing how even simple programs can exhibit computational irreducibility and unpredictability, making it difficult to guarantee bug-free behavior. The author uses examples from Turing machines and cellular automata to illustrate the challenges of predicting program behavior and the importance of computational ...

Modern email can be built from borrowed parts

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The user proposes a new mail system called HMTP (Hypertext Mail Transfer Protocol) that uses HTTP and replaces SMTP's design flaws, focusing on discovery, verification, delivery, and encryption over HTTP. HMTP uses standardized technologies like WebFinger, ActivityPub, Webmention, Ed25519, and HPKE to provide a secure, decentralized, and scalable mail system with features like first-contact ...

The Birth of the American 12-string Guitar (2013)

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Carl Brown invented a 10-string "harp-guitar" in 1896, which was later manufactured by the Gordon and Wurlitzer companies, and Rene Grunewald's firm also produced a similar instrument. The 10-string harp-guitar was marketed as a practical and useful instrument for beginners, with a tone resembling a mandolin and guitar, and was considered a radical improvement over the standard guitar.

Shay Locomotives

AI companies spend record sums on Washington lobbying

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PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works

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PGSimCity is an independent, non-commercial educational visualization of PostgreSQL internals. It is not affiliated with, sponsored, endorsed, or approved by Electronic Arts Inc. SimCity is a trademark of Electronic Arts Inc. Early, unreviewed prototype. It almost certainly contains inaccuracies in both the model and explanations. Found one? Open an issue or send a pull request.

The Proof Machine (2016)

The Incredible Proof Machine is a visual tool for creating proofs in various logics, allowing users to drag and drop blocks and connect them properly to achieve a complete proof. It is free software with plans to save progress on a server in a future version, allowing users to contribute to its development.

Elevated errors on Claude Opus 5

This incident affected: claude.ai, Claude API (api.anthropic.com), Claude Code, and Claude Cowork.