Knuth Reward Check

A user found an error in Donald Knuth's book "Computer Modern Typefaces" and was confirmed by Knuth, receiving a check. The user initially waited months to report the error, even dismissing their own claim from a university genius.

Grieving the Loss of Details

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The author feels undervalued in the industry due to the shift towards valuing programmers for high-level design and abstraction, rather than low-level details. They struggle with adapting to new technologies like LLMs that prioritize abstractions over hands-on expertise.

Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier

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Talorys is a free, open-source personal AI assistant that runs on Cloudflare and provides tasks, notes, memories, reminders and routines without server or database access. It stores data in a single SQLite-backed Durable Object and has no telemetry or analytics code.

OpenSCAD the Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller

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Rampart: Browser native on-device PII radaction

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Rampart is an open-source browser-based tool that removes personal info from chat messages before sending. It combines deterministic rules and machine learning to protect user privacy in real-time.

Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0

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Microsoft is introducing Execution Containers (MXC) to help run and manage agents more securely, providing a policy-driven execution layer for untrusted code or dynamically generated workloads. MXC limits what the agent workload can access by containing the scope of the impact if something goes wrong.

Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers

Bitwarden Dual License Model

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Bitwarden will release commercially licensed apps, but GPLv3 OSS version remains open source. Both versions will have the same features and updates.

REA Reverse – Engineer Anything

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REA is used to inspect and understand programs, allowing users to explain, change or rebuild them. REA helps analyze code and settings by reading the script's update function and speed settings in a running game.

Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen

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A Telegram link can be used to inject malicious commands, allowing an attacker to steal files from a victim's account by clicking on the link. The attack exploits a vulnerability in Telegram Desktop's handling of URLs and file paths.

I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall

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Homeowners want to see their home values rise, but also lower property taxes, which can lead to higher housing costs and benefit existing homeowners. Reforms shifting tax burden from homes to commercial properties may reduce local public services and increase wealth for current homeowners.

Triple-A Minesweeper

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Sweep to survive in the action-packed, AAA reboot of the classic puzzle game.

Anthropic discloses 2 months old fake tip to police among new rogue AI incidents

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PVX-001: open-source Covid-19 vaccine starts Phase 1 trial

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PopVax has started a Phase I clinical trial for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate PVX-001, designed to protect against future variants of SARS-CoV-2. The vaccine uses an mRNA-encoded VLP display architecture and is stored at refrigerator temperatures for up to 9 months.

FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review

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The FDA is proposing to expand a loophole allowing toxic chemicals in food, despite concerns from advocates that it could lead to serious health issues. The proposed rule would exempt substances with "no appreciable risk" to human health, but critics argue this definition is flawed and ignores cumulative effects of multiple toxins.

`123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach

Denmark's CPR system has been breached, exposing 8.8 million people's information, prompting authorities to recommend alternative methods of verification. The government is launching a security review and increasing penalties for assault cases where the victim dies and the offender has previous convictions.

Eye of Sauron: Long-Range Hidden Spy Camera Detection (2024)

Chernobyl particles reveal unexpectedly stable nuclear fuel after 40 years

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AI Is Throwing a Roadside Picnic

WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the workload

The author compared WSL 2.6.3.0 and WSL 3.0.2.0, finding a +61% memory bandwidth surge and -11% scheduler & IPC latency in the new version, with some improvements also seen in basic syscall transition and kernel overhead reduction of ~16%.

Apple/macOS silently removed from official Unix registry

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UNIX certification ensures a stable, portable, and cost-effective environment for various platforms. It provides a trusted industry standard for open systems, ensuring portability and global interoperability.

Whooping Cranes Learned to Migrate by Following Costumed Pilots

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Operation Migration successfully led 186 captive-raised whooping cranes from Wisconsin to Florida in ultralight aircraft for 15 years, but the program was shut down due to low chick survival rates. The method helped the birds survive, but hindered their ability to become good parents.

Can you use autoregressive diffusion to generate market data?

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A research intern built a diffusion model for market data, finding that fully continuous models don't work due to the discrete nature of market events. The model uses flow matching and atom smoothing to better capture the blend of continuous and discrete features in market data.

Tom Brown used GOP ties to broker a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal

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Noto means "no tofu": fixing dotted circles in Myanmar text

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A customer's S'gaw Karen content was showing weird dotted circles in Firefox, but a fix for 43 scripts has been implemented in the CMS. The fix uses Google's Noto fonts as fallbacks and only loads them when needed.

Cloudflare acquires Deno

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The Deno team is joining Cloudflare to further develop a shared platform for building servers, combining compute, storage, and communication capabilities. This move will simplify server software development and make it more accessible to users.

Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded

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News carrier-explode 2.0 has an improved backend, and users can contribute to decoders. The API provides JSON data or daily CC0 datasets for comparing carriers' features across different versions and networks.

Compiling Rust to readable C with Eurydice

Eurydice is a Rust compiler project that converts Rust code to clean C code, useful for high-assurance software and environments with a C compiler but no working Rust compiler. It preserves the structure of the code while removing constructs that exist in Rust but not in C.

Clinical trial of a prion disease drug candidate begins enrolling participants

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What mathematicians should know about the Lean Theorem Prover: reliability & AI

Thomas Hales discusses the importance of formal proof in mathematics, highlighting Lean as a powerful tool for automating this process. He notes that recent autoformalization projects have made significant progress in formalizing various mathematical theorems and theories.