Want your images back? Sure... That'll be $5!

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User had to pay $5 to download childhood images from Photobucket. They felt tricked into a monthly subscription and regret paying the fee.

Epic Games announces Lore version control system

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Lore is a centralized, content-addressed version control system that represents repository state as Merkle trees and an immutable revision chain, optimized for binary-first storage, deduplication, and sparse/on-demand data hydration at scale.

GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis

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GLM-5.2 is the leading open weights model with a score of 51 on the Intelligence Index v4.1, surpassing MiniMax-M3 and DeepSeek V4 Pro. It uses 43k output tokens per task, but is less token-efficient compared to peers.

Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff

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Brands struggle to achieve AI visibility, with consumers unable to name a single company doing it well. The website is key to balancing AI data extraction and human experience.

RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method

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The QUERY method is a safe and idempotent HTTP request that allows a client to ask a server to perform a query operation without changing the target resource's state. It is used to initiate a server-side query and can be cached like GET requests.

MicroUI – A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C

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The library is a lightweight UI framework that generates drawing commands for custom controls and UI elements. It's free and open-source under the MIT license, accepting bug reports and pull requests.

French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation

One of France’s most famous science communicators has been stripped of his doctor’s title after a 20-month university investigation found evidence that he plagiarized in his Ph.D. thesis. Étienne Klein, a physicist at the Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) who has published more than 30 books and hosts a weekly radio show about science, has faced accusations of plagiarism ...

Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users

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Why stdx is not on crates.io

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First, a big thank you to everyone who took the time to read the announcement post and star the stdx repo on GitHub, or even better, purchased one of my books to support my Open Source work. Launching a project is always hard and it's highly motivating to see that I'm not the only one who wants to see something similar to Go's standard library brought to Rust. Thank you! While the ...

Hacker News but for Independent Blogs

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5025 independent, personal blogs. One front page. Ranked by votes and freshness, shaped by you.

AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less

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The author discusses the rapid advancements in AI-generated code and its implications on software engineering, arguing that discipline and understanding of the system are more important than code itself. They believe that AI will augment human capabilities, not replace them, and that the future of software engineering will be shaped by the ability to encode knowledge and understanding into the system.

GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17

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Show HN: High-Res Neural Cellular Automata

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Researchers improved Neural Cellular Automata by combining it with a lightweight decoder to produce high-resolution outputs in real-time. This hybrid model preserves NCAs' self-organizing behavior while reducing training time and memory requirements.

Running local models is good now

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The user has been using local models since their release and has seen significant improvements in accuracy and speed, particularly with the Gemma 4 family, allowing for agentic coding and tasks like refactoring code and writing unit tests. The user is excited about the potential of local models but notes that they still have limitations, such as slow inference and small context windows, and ...

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Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields

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The website Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields documents vanished or abandoned airfields with their unusual histories. It was created in 1999 and celebrated its 25th anniversary in April 2024.

Show HN: Inkwash, a watercolor sketching app and explanation

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The user created an interactive watercolor painting app called Inkwash using Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 model, which simulates water and ink behavior. The app uses WebGL2 and allows users to draw and paint with a stylus or finger.

ICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants' Tax Identifiers from a Data Broker

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ICE purchased a $10 million contract for ITIN data from Thundercut Technology LLC, potentially skirting a court order. The data is for undocumented people's tax identifiers, which ICE has been trying to access for over a year.

Show HN: Capacitor Alarm Clock

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This project is a safer, more practical capacitor alarm inspired by ElectroBOOM's video, with a user interface and web interface for settings. It uses voltage regulators that may heat up and recommends using a buck converter for higher input voltages.

GLM 5.2 Performance Benchmarks

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GLM-5.2 (max) scores 51 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, placing it well above average. It costs $1.40 per 1M input tokens and $4.40 per 1M output tokens.

The Rise and (Potential) Fall of Letterboxd

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Letterboxd is a social platform where users share film preferences through curated guides and movie reviews, attracting a younger audience and reshaping modern movie culture. The site's user base is at risk of being exploited by investors, prompting a crowdfunding campaign to place it under a public trust.

Map Clustering Is Not My Favorite

The author is criticizing map clustering, which was used to show many points on a map without overwhelming browsers. However, with modern mapping technology, this is no longer necessary.

Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time

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When identifying IIS servers, use Google dorks like "aspnet_client" and "ext:aspx" to locate targets, then use tools like httpx and nuclei to gather information and enumerate potential vulnerabilities. Techniques like shortname enumeration, path traversal, and HTTP Parameter Pollution can be used to discover and exploit IIS-specific vulnerabilities, such as RCE via deserialization and stored ...

TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP

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To make a GET request in a minimal Docker container, use bash to open a TCP socket with /dev/tcp and write the request by hand. This method works for plaintext HTTP but not HTTPS, and is a bash feature not available in all shells.

Subterranean fungi networks more than 100 quadrillion km in length

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Scientists have created a global map of subterranean fungi networks that stretch 110 quadrillion kilometers, crucial for plant life and climate regulation. However, agricultural practices like tilling and fertilizers threaten these networks, which are essential for storing carbon and distributing nutrients.

Show HN: I built 184 free browser tools – PDF, image, dev, AI tasks, no upload

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brevio offers 166+ free tools for PDFs, images, text, finance, development, and health — all processing runs locally in your browser. No file upload, no server, no account required. Privacy by design.

Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress (1.5mil users)

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The US Department of Defense is using generative AI tools to write reports for Congress, saving time and staff hours. However, concerns arise about AI-generated errors and lack of human oversight in these reports, which are crucial for congressional oversight.

Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity

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Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes, refused to license his characters for merchandise due to artistic integrity concerns. He fought a six-year battle with his syndicate, Universal Press Syndicate, before they agreed to his terms.

Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?

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Tim Ferriss shares his concerns about the impact of AI on the self-help and non-fiction book industry, citing a 57% drop in print sales of his own books since the launch of LLMs like ChatGPT. He believes that the trend will continue and that the industry will need to adapt by focusing on long-form content, personal connections, and unique experiences that AI cannot replicate.

GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands

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Researchers at TNO, SURF, and NFI are building a Dutch language model, GPT-NL, with strong governance, transparency, and public values. This independent model strengthens the Netherlands' digital autonomy and provides a foundation for responsible AI applications.