Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed

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Kimi K3.1 Pro is a new model that offers substantial improvements in coding, 3D creation, financial research, and agentic capabilities with a 1-million-token context window. It delivers consistent gains across various benchmarks and outperforms proprietary models like GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5.

Evolving Threat: http2shell is an RCE in node, Python, and more

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Apple Music 404 Not Found

The page you’re looking for can’t be found. Explore new music, playlists, and artists on Apple Music.

CVE Tracker

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Daily count of published CVE records since 1999, rebuilt every day from the official CVE list.

Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone

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Below is a series of demos we revealed at Hexacon in Paris today. Everything will be released in due time.

Dessa: the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built

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Block, Inc. collects user information for various purposes including measuring usage and sending useful information, while also sharing data with affiliates and third parties. Users can access, delete or correct their personal information by contacting Block's privacy team.

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

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If there are fewer than 25 things close to you, it takes the closest 25 things within about 6 miles. If there are more than 500 things only the closest 500 will be included.

The Real Kevin Bacon

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The "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" game reveals Samuel L. Jackson as the center of Hollywood, but a new generation may surpass him. A simulation predicts Chloë Grace Moretz as the next potential center, with 10% winning over simulations.

Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22

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Canada's Parliament is debating Bill C-22, a surveillance bill that could compromise millions of Canadians' privacy and security. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association urges Canadians to sign its petition opposing the bill, which has already passed the House of Commons.

Show HN: Corgi, a helpful {agent, terminal} multiplexer

Friendly helper for your agents.

Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads

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Google's updated privacy policy allows sharing data for better AI recommendations, potentially leading to more personalized ads. Users can opt-out by disconnecting apps from Search's Personal Intelligence features or disabling personalized recommendations.

No Source Code? No Problem

IP: 57.151.143.178, RAY: a4f52c0daf949007

Bringing uv and ty together

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Astral's uv and ty tools are now integrated, enabling unified support for Python scripts in the CLI and editor. This integration aims to create an integrated toolchain that uses a shared understanding of projects to enable new capabilities.

Rune 1.3: adds TypeScript, a Helix editor, Kitty graphics and OSC-7501

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Rune 1.3 is released with community contributions, fixing usability issues and adding new features such as a new graphics pipeline, Kitty graphics protocol support, and TypeScript Tier 1 support. The release also includes various bug fixes and improvements to the editor, terminal, and agent functionality.

Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines

White noise machines and air purifiers can improve office privacy and sleep quality. A small, affordable air purifier is a better option for most users than a white noise machine, offering improved air cleaning capabilities.

A whirlwind tour of systemd-nspawn containers (2025)

The author discusses using systemd-nspawn containers for self-hosted LLMs and Open WebUI, providing a lightweight alternative to Docker. They explain the process of setting up systemd-nspawn containers and how to use them in various scenarios.

A Bicycle Journey Across Brazil to Find a Vanishing Savanna

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Environmental historian Natascha Otoya traveled through Brazil's Cerrado region to raise awareness about its decline. Her documentary film showcases the biome's biodiversity and highlights the impact of land conversion on local ecosystems.

Rise of collagen-eating microbes may help explain gaps in the fossil record

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Researchers from the University of Cambridge found that microbes evolved collagen-eating enzymes, allowing soft tissues to be preserved in exceptional detail. This discovery may explain why fossils from the late Ediacaran Period are often well-preserved despite lacking hard body parts.

DNS: A Replacement for Finger

Securing our frontier model training environment

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Researchers strengthened their containment for internal frontier-model training and evaluation, using strongest models to red-team boundaries. They implemented defense in depth with layers of protection to maintain containment even if individual controls fail.

Animations for System Builders

The author shares examples of how animations can help understand system behavior, including a Raft cluster losing writes due to storage layer issues and etcd experiencing garbage collection problems. These real-world examples illustrate that even simple systems can exhibit metastable failures.

Show HN: Impossible Machines: declaratively program the physical world

Impossible Machines works best in landscape, where there’s room to explore the mechanism.

German court calls Google aerial imagery 'spying'

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A German court ruled Google is breaking privacy laws by showing property images on Google Earth and Maps without permission. The ruling will be appealed, with Google claiming its aerial imagery provides a public service.

Reforming English Spelling

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The English Spelling Society aims to reform English spelling, citing examples of inconsistencies and proposing a minimalist approach. The society seeks support from teachers, foreigners teaching English as a second language, media outlets, and popular culture influencers.

Show HN: Swurf – Swipe through the real web

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Swurf shows you one real website at a time. Swipe to the next. It learns what you like, never repeats a page, and needs no account.

I turned my TV into a Game Boy Color with a Pokemon town as my home screen

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I turned my TV into a Game Boy Color with a Pokemon town as my home screen. Walk into a building to open an app. Want to change a setting? Beat the gym leader first. Opus 5.5 is the goat.

LISP Comes of Age (1980)

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UUIDv7 doesn't have the properties you think it does

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The UUIDv7 ID format provides some useful properties, including uniqueness and rough ordering, but its timestamp field can be inaccurate due to clock jumps or system restarts. This inaccuracy may lead to out-of-order IDs and potential issues with data consistency.

The Missed Opportunities of Sonic 06 (2025)

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The author analyzed Sonic 06's rendering and found various issues, including poor performance, flat areas, and missing features like bump maps. The game uses multiple shader variants with different feature levels, which were disabled for performance reasons.

WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal

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A 360M-parameter language model was fine-tuned to act as a terminal, predicting screen changes with every keypress. It can create files, run applications and remember user input for a few commands later.