Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics

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Ratty is a GPU-rendered terminal emulator with a spinning rat cursor, multiple 3D presentation modes and support for inline 3D graphics. Inspired by TempleOS and built with Rust and Ratatui.

Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix mult from Gflop/s to Tflop/s

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The author optimizes a handwritten matrix multiplication code in Swift for training a Large Language Model (LLM) on Apple Silicon, exploring various techniques such as SIMD, AMX, and Metal to achieve performance comparable to C. The author concludes that while Swift can achieve similar performance to C, it requires more complex and unwieldy code, and that the fastest CPU instruction on Apple ...

Killed by Apple

Killed by Apple A graveyard of the products, services, and features Apple left behind.

Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler

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Google and Apple are expanding hardware-based attestation to lock out non-approved devices and OSes, presented as a security feature but actually anti-competitive.

Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message

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You created a Google account with an Italian SIM tied to your ID, then enabled 2FA and saved recovery codes. Google likely keeps a record of your used phone numbers but can't verify your account with a reassigned number.

Local AI needs to be the norm

The trend of relying on cloud-hosted AI models for features in applications is creating fragile, invasive, and broken software that invades user privacy and depends on external vendors. Developers should instead use local AI models on-device to transform user-owned data, ensuring faster, private, and trustworthy results without the need for cloud dependencies.

Amália and the Future of European Portuguese LLMs

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The Portuguese government invested 5.5 million euros in AMÁLIA, a large-scale LLM for European Portuguese. The model's architecture is based on EuroLLM, but with modifications to increase European Portuguese data.

Venom and Hot Peppers Offer a Key to Killing Resistant Bacteria

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Researchers at UNAM developed three new antibiotics from scorpion venom and habanero peppers to combat tuberculosis and bacterial resistance. The antibiotics showed efficacy against tuberculosis and Staphylococcus aureus, with potential to treat other infections.

Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house

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A restaurant executive accused of DUI by Illinois State Trooper Kevin Bradley discovered his missing laptop was tracked to Bradley's house. Bradley was suspended for one day after an internal investigation found he had violated state police policies.

Building a web server in aarch64 assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning

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The author built a web server called ymawky in AArch64 assembly for macOS to understand how a web server works and to strip away convenience layers. The project involved parsing HTTP requests, handling edge cases, and implementing security features such as request timeouts and path sanitization in a low-level and manual way.

I'm going back to writing code by hand

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The user built a GPU-aware Kubernetes dashboard called k10s using vibe-coded sessions with Claude, but the project's architecture collapsed due to AI-generated code that lacked constraints and view isolation. The user learned that AI-assisted coding requires explicit architecture design, view isolation, and concurrency rules to prevent complexity and data races, and is rewriting k10s in Rust ...

Create a 90s GeoCities style website in seconds (Python)

geocities-boilerplate is a CLI tool that generates a retro 1990s-style website with neon colors and animations. It can be installed and run with various methods including pipx, pip, npm, and deno.

Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory

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You've successfully set up a local model on your 24GB Macbook Pro using LM Studio, which runs reasonably well with a 128K context window and enables thinking. This local model, Qwen 3.5 9B (Q4), is useful for research, planning, and basic tasks, but requires more guidance and interaction than SOTA models.

The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)

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The article discusses James Burke's 1978 TV series "Connections" which explores the evolution of science and technology. A memorable clip from the series shows Burke explaining how a thermos flask can store gases that ignite to launch a rocket.

The OpenAI Deployment Company

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OpenAI launches the OpenAI Deployment Company to help organizations build and deploy AI systems. The company acquires Tomoro, bringing 150 experienced engineers to aid in AI deployment.

Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer

Press the phone firmly against the guitar body and pluck a string. Each axis trace shows raw vibration; |a| is the combined magnitude. Pitch is detected from the strongest axis (alias-corrected to the actual string frequency).

An AI coding agent, used to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs

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The user warns that relying on AI coding agents for speed boosts without reducing maintenance costs can lead to permanent productivity loss and indenture. To avoid this, AI must decrease maintenance costs in proportion to the speed boost, or else it's a temporary gain for permanent loss.

Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan

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A highly targeted social engineering campaign is using Obsidian note-taking app to deliver a previously undocumented RAT named PHANTOMPULSE to finance and crypto professionals. The attack relies on tricking users into enabling community plugins, which then executes code to deploy the RAT with advanced capabilities, including Ethereum blockchain-based C2 server address resolution.

Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES

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A security incident occurred due to a compromised dependency in the JavaScript ecosystem, affecting approximately 4.2 million machines. The incident was resolved after a cryptocurrency worm inadvertently patched the malware.

Classification of Amino Acids

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Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability

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The author of curl received a report from Mythos, an AI model, that found five potential security vulnerabilities, but after review, only one was confirmed. The author believes the hype around Mythos was primarily marketing and it didn't find issues significantly better than other AI tools.

Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career

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Some software engineers think AI use makes them less intelligent by not learning tasks, but this is a bad argument. They should adapt to AI like construction workers do to heavy lifting, even if it's detrimental to their long-term cognitive abilities.

European Money Pours into Palantir

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European banks and asset managers have increased their investments in Palantir by 60% despite its links to human rights violations. The combined stake in Palantir is now worth $27 billion, with major banks like Norges Bank and Barclays holding significant shares.

7 lines of code, 3 minutes: Implement a programming language (2010)

The lambda calculus is a minimalist, higher-order functional programming language that is equivalent to the Turing machine and can be implemented in various programming languages including JavaScript, Python, and Ruby. It achieves Turing-equivalence through Church encodings and the Y combinator, and its interpreter can be designed using the eval/apply pattern, which scales to much bigger languages.

The Adventure Family Tree

'classic adventure' is a collection of games from the early 1980s. the game was developed by willie crowther and don woods for the 9845 pc series - but no source has been found for this version of the program. there are also several versions of tads polyadventure, which are rolled into one package. only 28 out of more than 121 versions have no known source. &#

How Fast Does Claude, Acting as a User Space IP Stack, Respond to Pings?

Claude Code developed a command to act as a user space IP stack, responding to pings with a properly formed ICMP echo reply. However, it took 45 seconds for Claude to respond to a ping due to its slow processing speed.

Bliss (Photograph)

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Charles O'Rear took a photograph of a green rolling hill in January 1996 near the Napa-Sonoma county line, California. The photograph, titled Bliss, was used as the default wallpaper for Microsoft's Windows XP operating system and has been viewed by billions of people worldwide.

All Those A.I. Note Takers? They're Making Lawyers Nervous

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First tunnel element of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel immersed

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The Fehmarnbelt Tunnel, set to be the longest immersed tunnel in the world, has successfully immersed its first segment. Engineers from Europe are working together to complete the 18-kilometre tunnel by 2026.

Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

The user is working on multiple projects including a tool to help write statements of work with AI, a puzzle game, a video cloud platform, and a search engine alternative called Uruky. They are also developing a tabletop simulator called Orpheus, a task manager, and vibecoded games, and are seeking feedback and help with their projects.