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.
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Show HN: TinyCity – A tiny city SIM for MicroPython (Thumby micro console)

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TinyCity is a city simulation game for Raspberry Pi, inspired by SimCity and MicroCity. It involves building and managing a metropolis, balancing zones and resources, and navigating disasters.

Claude Cowork exfiltrates files

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Anthropic's Claude Cowork is vulnerable to file exfiltration attacks via indirect prompt injection due to unremediated isolation flaws. Users are recommended to be cautious when granting access to local files and avoid suspicious actions that may indicate prompt injection.

Test your square brackets

The user forgot the story behind the [ ... ] test line in shell scripting and remembered that it was originally written as test(1) command. The [ ... ] syntax is a shortcut for the test command, which checks for the closing bracket as its last argument if invoked as [ .

The 3D Software Rendering Technology of 1998's Thief: The Dark Project (2019)

Sean Barrett, the primary author of the core rendering technology in Thief, describes the game's rendering engine, which used a portal-and-cell idea for visibility and occlusion, and was written contemporaneously with Quake. The Thief engine, which was software-rendered, used a breadth-first traversal of portals and cells to determine what part of the level was visible and needed rendering, ...

Impeccable Style

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Anthropic's frontend-design skill was built upon with curated patterns and 17 commands. Extract the ZIP to apply the skill and commands, or use the skill explicitly in your prompt.

Show HN: Fine-tuned Qwen2.5-7B on 100 films for probabilistic story graphs

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Programming, Evolved: Lessons and Observations

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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.

Z80 Mem­ber­ship Card

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The Z80 Membership Card is a retro-style microcomputer that fits in an Altoids tin, allowing users to build and program their own computer. It comes with a kit, manual, and parts to create a classic 8-bit computer with CP/M operating system.

Nvidia Reportedly Ends GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Production, RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB Next

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NVIDIA has stopped production of the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti due to a supply shortage. The company is redirecting resources to lower-capacity versions and prioritizing the regular RTX 5060.

Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineers

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Jiga streamlines product sourcing by connecting engineers with vetted manufacturers and automating administrative tasks. This saves time and reduces costs, allowing engineers to focus on actual work.
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The Paris Judicial Court has ordered VPN providers to block access to pirate sports streaming sites in France, citing that they help users bypass existing site-blocking measures. The order targets ProtonVPN, NordVPN, Cyberghost, Surfshark, and ExpressVPN, requiring them to block 13 initial domains and potentially more.

Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs

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Raspberry Pi's new $130 AI HAT+ 2 includes a Hailo 10H chip and 8 GB of LPDDR4X RAM, allowing for standalone LLMs and freeing the Pi's CPU. It's useful for power-constrained applications with both vision processing and inferencing, but its performance is limited by its 8 GB RAM.

The 500k-ton typo: Why data center copper math doesn't add up

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A technical paper from Nvidia claimed a 1 GW data center would require 500,000 tons of copper, sparking a copper bull case. However, the figure is likely a typo, with the correct amount being around 226 tons, still indicating a potential undersupply issue.

Show HN: MailPilot – Freedom to go anywhere while your agents work

Mailpilot is a tool that lets you email your AI agents and receive their responses, enabling you to work remotely. It also allows you to CC team members, creating an async multiplayer thread with your AI agents.

Ask HN: Share your personal website

User is creating a community-maintained directory of personal websites at hnpwd.github.io and needs help to grow it. They want users to share their personal websites and consider joining the GitHub project as a maintainer.

The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis

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Palantir is working with ICE on a tool called ELITE that uses data from various sources to identify and target potential deportation targets. The tool provides a map interface, dossiers on individuals, and a "confidence score" on their current address.

San Remo Pasta Measurer

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San Remo Pasta Packaging with built-in measurer reduces food waste and ensures portion control. It eliminates the need for external tools, making dinner easier with accurate serving sizes.

OBS Studio 32.1.0 Beta 1 available

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Fixed an issue where the NVIDIA Blur and Background Blur could have banding or look splotchy [pkviet] Fixed an issue where macOS Screen Capture would select an item for capture by default [jcm93] Fixed an issue with PipeWire when capturing a device that does not require a framerate [tytan652]

Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?

People are using BM25+trigram for code search due to its speed and effectiveness. Some use static embedding models like Lee101/Gobed for faster search, but they require training and may not always be ideal.

Investing with GIFs: A Visual Guide

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Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

You're renovating an old agricultural machine shed using historic pipeline sections as support poles and researching the pipeline's history. Your parrot is laying an egg and you're providing care and food to support her.

Scaling long-running autonomous coding

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We've developed a system of hundreds of concurrent agents that can work together on a single codebase for weeks, making real progress on ambitious projects. Our system uses a pipeline with distinct roles, including planners and workers, to coordinate tasks and avoid conflicts.

Crafting Interpreters

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Crafting Interpreters teaches you to design and build a full-featured scripting language from scratch. It covers high-level concepts and gritty details like bytecode and garbage collection in a few thousand lines of clean code.

Bubblewrap: A nimble way to prevent agents from accessing your .env files

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The user proposes using Bubblewrap to sandbox coding agents like Claude Code, providing a more secure and simpler alternative to dedicated user accounts and Docker. Bubblewrap allows running untrusted code without risking the host system, and the user provides a test script to demonstrate its usage.

Python: Tprof, a Targeting Profiler

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tprof is a targeting profiler for Python 3.12+ that measures time spent in specified target functions, ideal for comparing before and after optimizations. It uses sys.monitoring and C timing to minimize overhead and provides a quick report on the command line or via a Python API.

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.

The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography

Paul Kehrer and Alex Gaynor are reducing their reliance on OpenSSL due to performance regressions, API complexity, and lack of testing. They plan to add new APIs only available on LibreSSL/BoringSSL/AWS-LC and consider switching to one of these forks for their binary wheels.