GitHub's new dashboard experience now the default

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GitHub's new dashboard experience is now the default view, offering a focus on key work and easy access to needed information. Users can switch back to the previous preview if desired and provide feedback in the Community discussion.

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Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility

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A federal judge blocked Utah's attempt to outlaw VPNs due to a law requiring adult websites to block users using them. The court ruled that the law is unconstitutional as it imposes an impossible technical requirement on businesses and people outside of Utah.

cp: -r or -R?

The GNU coreutils used to have a difference between -r and -R options, but this was 34 years ago. Today, both options behave similarly due to their merger in 2002.

Apple Pass Designer

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Use Apple's Pass Designer or a preferred design tool to create custom pass designs, editing in real-time for iPhone and Apple Watch previews. The preview mirrors iOS and watchOS rendering for accurate customer experience.

Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city

Former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin showcased his sprawling Minecraft world, "Tomlinburgh", with 20,000 concurrent viewers. The video featured densely populated buildings and communities designed by Tomlin over a 12-year period.

An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows

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Kagi is ending development of Orion for Linux and Windows, but open-sourcing the code so the community can carry it forward. The company will focus on Orion for macOS and iOS instead.

Cloudflare OHTTP gateway

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Cloudflare launches an OHTTP Gateway, a paid add-on that enables developers to receive encrypted HTTP requests without seeing user IP addresses. This allows for more privacy-preserving experiences and is designed to work with existing Cloudflare infrastructure.

A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting

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This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4)

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The author successfully booted Asahi Linux on their M4 Mac mini, overcoming several challenges including SPTM and WFI issues. They contributed to the mainline Linux kernel by providing a solution for preventing crashes due to WFI instructions.

Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers

Barcodes are about to go extinct

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From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4

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DwarfStar 4 is a narrow C inference engine for high-memory Mac, CUDA and ROCm machines supporting DeepSeek V4 and V4.1 Flash models with text and vision models. It provides a CLI, HTTP APIs, native agent and local cache sharing the same model state.

FLUX 3 Image

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The user wants to generate an image with FLUX 3, a multimodal model for video, audio, images and actions. They provide a scene prompt that describes a glowing concrete dome rising from a twilight bay, with various elements such as surfers, dancers, and animals in the background.

Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video]

With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now

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Researchers from Carnegie Mellon, MIT, and others created an AI called Ataraxos that beat the world's top Stratego player in 15 games. The AI used a unique approach to learn strategy by thinking ahead and sampling plausible moves rather than iterating through every possible arrangement.

Muse Gadgets

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Muse gadgets are open-source devices built by hackers for fun, with side effects including bricked boards and voided warranties. Users can grab an SDK token and start building their own projects or join the community Discord to share ideas and get support.

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Scientists invent underwater umbrellas to protect coral reefs

Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS

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Apple will introduce additional controls to limit Full Disk Access, ensuring users grant apps explicit permission before accessing sensitive data. This change aims to protect user privacy and prevent malicious use of this feature.

Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas

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AI painters created artworks in the style of famous artists like Caspar David Friedrich and Edward Hopper without using images as references. They generated paintings by writing code that simulates oil paint, with some even creating their own unique styles and themes.

One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash

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The author attempted to use only one efficient open model for the whole of September, but ended up using 1B tokens and exceeding their budget due to various issues. They learned valuable lessons about model selection, infrastructure availability, and experimentation.

Sites in ChatGPT

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Create websites, dashboards, games, slide decks, and apps with ChatGPT Sites. Describe your idea, refine it through conversation, and share it.

The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]

John von Neumann was a renowned mathematician who made significant contributions to various fields, including quantum physics, logic, and computer science. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential mathematicians of the 20th century.

Make Tmux the OS

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The author discusses the need for a new desktop UX that can adapt to changing screen real estate and task-oriented workflows, citing limitations of current OS designs. They propose a system based on tasks, where windows and browser tabs are organized around these tasks, with features like scrollable tiles and privacy flags.

The Nintendo 64 Partner-N64 Development Kit

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The Partner-N64 is a development kit for the Nintendo 64, providing real-time debugging features and allowing developers to test games on actual cartridges. It requires a specially modified N64 console to work correctly, with modifications including tie-lines that connect signals from the cartridge slot connector to the CPU.

Venice’s failed war against Constantinople led to the first bond market

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The birth of the bond market began in 1171 when Venice's Doge Vitale II Michiel forced citizens to lend money for a war fleet, promising 5% interest payments. This loan became tradable and helped solidify links between citizens and the state.

Show HN: Offrun – manage every coding agent from one workspace

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Offrun allows agents to work on your Mac with your credentials, using git worktrees to isolate changes. It retries with exponential backoff and jitter, ensuring tests wait for uploads to complete.

Billions of triangles redux

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NVIDIA released an updated vk_lod_clusters open-source sample featuring a new Zorah scene with clustered raytracing and hierarchical LOD pipeline, allowing for efficient rendering of highly detailed scenes. The scene's geometry was reduced from 1.6B triangles to ~3.26B triangles after applying various compression schemes, including meshlet codec and vertex filters.

Gemini ending free use of Flash and Pro models

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