OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor

Helg Bredow and Stefan Fritsch made commits to OpenBSD/arm64, enabling it to run as a guest OS under Apple Hypervisor. Their changes fixed issues with display and network support, making OpenBSD work on Apple Silicon Mac models.

Cloudflare threatens Italy exit over €14M fine

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Cloudflare threatens to exit Italy over a €14 million fine, revealing Europe's fragile digital infrastructure. The dispute highlights the power dynamics between American tech giants and European nations seeking digital sovereignty.

Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage

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TSMC's CEO CC Wei told Apple it needs to pay a large price rise, and Apple may no longer be TSMC's largest client. Nvidia's strong demand for AI chips has narrowed Apple's lead, and TSMC's revenue growth is driven by AI and HPC.

Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice

Our mission is to build and democratize artificial general intelligence through open science.

Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure

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A deep dive into the Internet Archive's custom tech stack.

Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark

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Briar یک برنامه پیام رسان امن و خصوصی برای فعالان، روزنامه نگاران و هر کسی است که نیاز به ارتباط امن با دیگران دارد. این برنامه از طریق بلوتوث یا وای‌فای همگام سازی می کند و در صورت وجود اینترنت از طریق شبکه تور همگام سازی می کند.

Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected

Instant Linux boxes via SSH with no signup or complexity, pay only for what you use. Account balance is $18.50 with remaining hours for running and idle boxes.

Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?

People are struggling with loneliness and isolation, and some feel that traditional solutions such as joining groups or using social media are not effective. Various ideas have been proposed to address this issue, including creating physical social networks, volunteering, and intentionally building community, but some people feel that these solutions are not easy or functional.

My Gripes with Prolog

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The author is adding Answer Set Programming and Logic Constraint Programming to Logic for Programmers and is re-experiencing pain points with Prolog. Prolog's custom string operators and lack of functions hinder its usability.

JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3

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JuiceFS is a high-performance POSIX file system for cloud-native environments, storing data in Object Storage and metadata in various databases. It provides strong consistency, shareability, and outstanding performance, supporting various applications and big data platforms.

Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout

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China installed over half of global wind and solar energy last year, with massive buildouts across the country. Photographer Weimin Chu captured the shift with drone photos, featured in an award-winning Greenpeace exhibition.

Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them

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The author praises Opus 4.5's capabilities but notes that Claude still struggles with creating good abstractions.

Data is the only moat

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Building AI products in "easy to solve" areas like customer support may not be sustainable due to model providers' dominance. The "hard to solve" quadrant, where complex workflows require significant investment, may see the next phase of growth and revenue generation.

SETI Home Flags 100 Signals After Sorting 12B Others

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SETI@home, a crowd-sourced project, analyzed 12 billion signals from space, narrowing it down to 100 candidates. Researchers now use China's FAST telescope to verify these signals, but so far, no evidence of extraterrestrial life has been found.

Go-legacy-winxp: Compile Golang 1.24 code for Windows XP

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go-legacy-win7 is a Go fork for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 support. It maintains classic go get behaviour and provides a stable Go environment for legacy systems.

Show HN: Gambit, an open-source agent harness for building reliable AI agents

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Gambit helps build reliable LLM workflows with typed "decks" and clear inputs/outputs. It provides a UI for debugging and observability.

CVEs affecting the Svelte ecosystem

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Patches have been released for 5 vulnerabilities in devalue, svelte, @sveltejs/kit, and @sveltejs/adapter-node. Upgrade to non-vulnerable versions and follow security guidelines to prevent DoS, SSRF, and XSS attacks.

Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork

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OpenWork is a native desktop app that simplifies OpenCode workflow. It manages plugins through the Skills tab, using the same opencode.json format as the OpenCode CLI.

Show HN: Reversing YouTube’s “Most Replayed” Graph

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The user attempted to reverse-engineer YouTube's "most replayed" graph feature, designing a personal project to replicate the bug and eventually discovering that the graph is calculated on the client-side using JavaScript and Cubic Bézier curve commands. The user found that the graph's distinctive dips are created by the Cubic Bézier curve commands, which smooth out the data points to create ...

Aviator (YC S21) is hiring to build multiplayer AI coding platform

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Aviator is creating AI-powered tools to boost software engineering productivity, already used by industry leaders like Slack and Figma. The platform aims to supercharge engineers with AI, not replace them, enabling small teams to achieve complex tasks in minutes.

First impressions of Claude Cowork

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Simon Willison discusses Claude Cowork, a new feature from Anthropic that allows users to run coding agents in a filesystem sandbox, and Fly's new product Sprites.dev, which provides stateful sandbox environments for running coding agents and untrusted code in a secure sandbox. He also shares his thoughts on the ethics and legality of using generative AI to automate tasks and create ...

All 23-Bit Still Lifes Are Glider Constructible

A still life is strict when all its islands are necessary to maintain the stability of the pattern. we gave explicit syntheses for all 1,646,147 (strict)still lifes today, by giving explicit synthesis steps for each still-life we found - from shinjuku to tetris... and we got some interesting results!'mr. component' would assemble as many complete pairings as possible and dump the resulting

Use of Bayesian methodology in clinical trials of drug and biological products [pdf]

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Why senior engineers let bad projects fail

As a senior engineer, it's essential to be strategic about when to speak up about bad projects, considering factors like expertise, proximity, team impact, and company scale. Effective influence requires saving your "counsel" for critical moments, being humble, and knowing when to intervene, rather than constantly trying to fix everything.

What a Programmer Does (1967) [pdf]

I Built a 1 Petabyte Server from Scratch [video]

25 Years of Wikipedia

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Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia with 65 million articles in 300 languages, updated by 250,000 volunteers. It remains one of the most-visited websites, providing reliable knowledge to everyone.

Supply Chain Vuln Compromised Core AWS GitHub Repos & Threatened the AWS Console

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Wiz Research discovered a critical vulnerability in AWS CodeBuild that allowed attackers to take over key GitHub repositories, including the AWS JavaScript SDK. AWS promptly remediated the issue and implemented global hardening measures to prevent similar attacks.

Found: Medieval Cargo Ship – Largest Vessel of Its Kind Ever

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Researchers in Denmark discovered a 600-year-old, 92-foot-long medieval cargo ship called Svaelget 2, the largest of its kind ever found. The ship's well-preserved state provides a unique opportunity to understand medieval trade and life on board massive trading ships.

Playing Arcade Mahjong at Home? Or is it just a Mirage?

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A lot of the things i've looked at on this blog have never left japan. one thing that really stands out is that janputer used dedicated buttons for mahjong games. while the bar was definitely different, it still existed, and japan has its own moral pushes. some of these games are, shall we say, racier than others. but most are emulated very well in mame today. if you want to play