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Reverse engineering my Coway air purifier to ditch the cloud

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A user reverse-engineered a Coway air purifier to control it without the cloud service, using techniques like man-in-the-middle (MitM) and artificial intelligence. The device can now be controlled through Home Assistant, eliminating the need for the cloud service.

Apify Security Incident

Apify's internal systems were accessed by an unauthorized third party on November 9-10, but access was cut off and the incident is still under investigation. Affected users will be notified individually if their account or data was compromised.

A technical vision for the Haskell ecosystem

The Haskell Foundation's technical leadership committee has been successfully bootstrapped and is now fully operational. The foundation seeks companies, contractors, and volunteers to support its initiatives and proposals.

Jensen Huang resigns

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned amid scandal over alleged extramarital affairs and ties to a Chinese spy, sending shares plummeting. The company has named Colette Kress as interim CEO and will consider internal and external candidates to replace him.

Why Zig over C for Systems Programming

The author compares Zig to C, highlighting how Zig addresses common issues with C, such as resource cleanup and error handling. The author prefers writing new code in Zig due to its safety features and compile-time checks that catch many errors that would occur at runtime in C.

Lonewolf 0.3 – A standalone XMPP server written in Rust

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Lonewolf v0.3.0 adds certificate-authenticated federation and more desktop client features, but remains a pre-1.0 server with full XMPP compliance on the roadmap. It supports bidirectional connections and various extensions like Stream Limits Advertisement and Private XML Storage.

Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026 (1960)

J Neyman discussed a mathematical theory of populations as clusters in 1957. eLetters is a forum for scholarly commentary on the article, with specific submission guidelines.

Palmfrets, Minnesota guitarist's invention, strikes a new chord

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Ben Ranson, a musician from Minnesota, invented "palmfrets" which allows guitarists to play bass lines or melodies using their palm. The invention uses a special set of frets and technique called palmfretting, adding a new way for guitarists to play the instrument.

AI unlocks Gödel's notebooks, said to contain hundreds of proved theorems

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Kurt Gödel left behind 1,009 pages of densely written text containing hundreds of proved theorems that were unknown until AI model Claude deciphered them. The workbooks reveal Gödel's groundbreaking ideas in logic and mathematics, including his incompleteness theorems and a proof for the independence of the axiom of choice.

Brazil's Caixa insurer breach exposes names and tax IDs of all 7.6M customers

Caixa Seguridade reports a cybersecurity incident affecting its technology environment, exposing 7.6 million customers' data including names and CPF numbers. No financial or authentication data was compromised, but affected customers are being notified with recommended protective measures against fraud.
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IceWM

IceWM is a fast and customizable window manager for the X Window System, focusing on simplicity and user-friendliness. It offers various features like taskbar, pager, keyboard shortcuts, and theme support across multiple Linux distributions.

Elevated errors on claude.ai, Claude Code, and platform.claude.com

Claude's Status Page - Elevated errors on claude.ai, Claude Code, and platform.claude.com.

Rust 1.100

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Rust 1.100.0 is released, featuring the stable never type (!) and various other improvements including allocator_api stabilization, core::mem::DropGuard, zero-sized types in unsafe code, and Cargo's min-publish-age aware dependency resolution.

Brave Search API now accepts agentic payments via the x402 protocol

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The Brave Search API now supports instant, pay-as-you-go payments via the open x402 payment protocol. Users can query the search index without creating an account or selecting a plan by transferring USDC stablecoin to their agent's wallet.

EU Digital Identity Wallet rollout: every EU state on one board

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The Scorecard evaluates countries' eIDAS wallet progress, with grades describing published evidence. The European Commission's pilot overview shows Ukraine testing EUDI wallets and cross-border uses since April 2023.

Switcher (2004)

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The author created a high-resolution scanner for the Macintosh called Thunderscan, and later developed an application switcher utility that was initially intended to be part of the Mac OS. The author worked with Microsoft on this project before deciding to develop it independently.

CERN Built the Large Hadron Collider's Next-Gen Magnets

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CERN's Large Hadron Collider is upgrading to the High-Luminosity LHC, which will collide more particles at nearly the speed of light. The new collider requires compact and high-quality magnets made from niobium and tin, requiring new materials and manufacturing techniques.

Show HN: My $300 embroidery machine needed a subscription, so I built my own app

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ZigZag is a visual embroidery editor built in Rust for performance, allowing users to create and edit designs alongside AI agents. The app supports various file formats and can export designs to multiple embroidery machines or send them directly to a Brother Skitch over Bluetooth.

AI Is Destroying the Trust Between Writers and Readers

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North Korean hackers used fake video calls in $400M crypto hack, says FBI

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North Korea's hackers have stolen over $400 million in cryptocurrency using fake video calls to steal identities, targeting those in the crypto and web3 sectors. The scheme, called FaceStealer, has victimized over 900 people in the last 18 months.

Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Orchestrator

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Google is releasing Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Orchestrator, a dynamic model pairing for efficient task execution. These tools aim to improve quality, efficiency, and latency in coding and agentic workflows.

Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software Still the Same? [video]

Former Nvidia CEO Huang had a relationship with a second employee, sources say

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Dwarf planet candidate appears which takes roughly 280 years to orbit our sun

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Astronomers have discovered a new dwarf planet candidate, 2026 ED138, in the distant solar system. The object is estimated to be between 370-930 miles across and orbits the sun every 281 years.

Edge0-145B: Frontier AI Capabilities on Your Own Computer

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The Edge0-145B model is the world's first open-source on-device AI model with 145 billion parameters, allowing coding, reasoning, and agent capabilities to rival cloud models. It enables local use on laptops without corresponding cloud-model token or API fees.

US test reactor cleared for operations

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Oklo's Groves-1 test reactor in Texas has been cleared for unrestricted operations by the US Department of Energy, allowing it to advance into its research and testing phase. This clears the way for Oklo to prepare teams and systems needed to support future nuclear projects.

Service degradation on Microsoft 365

I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices

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This project, smolmaxxing, unlocks the capability of devices like TVs and old phones by finding the biggest language model each device can run. It achieves this by customizing kernels, memory usage, and weight streaming on devices with limited resources. The results show that a 2B model runs faster than larger models on a Xiaomi TV Box S.