Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras

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You're developing a device to detect hidden cameras in smart glasses. Your current approaches include using BLE advertisements and IR reflections to fingerprint devices.

Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file

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Open Source backend in 1 file with realtime database, authentication, file storage and admin dashboard

How to make precise sheet metal parts (photochemical machining) [video]

A Repository with 44 Years of Unix Evolution

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The evolution of the Unix operating system is made available as a version-control repository, covering the period from its inception in 1972 as a five thousand line kernel, to 2015 as a widely-used 26 million line system. The repository contains 659 thousand commits and 2306 merges. The repository employs the commonly used Git system for its storage, and is hosted on the popular GitHub ...

Moss: a Rust Linux-compatible kernel in 26,000 lines of code

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moss is a modern kernel with async/await model and binary compatibility with Linux userspace applications. It uses libkernel for architecture-agnostic logic and has a comprehensive test suite.

How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)

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Charles M Schulz drew Peanuts for 50 years, creating a billion-dollar empire with his timeless characters. He modestly said his strip dealt with everyday problems, but it charmed both children and adults worldwide.

Vsora Jotunn-8 5nm European inference chip

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Our high-performance inference solutions balance speed, efficiency, and scalability for optimal AI performance. They help businesses stay competitive and drive growth with lower operational costs and a commitment to sustainability.

Same-day upstream Linux support for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

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Qualcomm Technologies posted initial support for its Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 to the Linux developer community. The patches enable advanced features like dynamic voltage and frequency scaling, display, and camera capabilities.

How to use Linux vsock for fast VM communication

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The user experimented with vsock for VM communication, using gRPC and Bazel for a reproducible project. They created a hermetic environment within a VM and issued commands via RPC from the host using vsock and gRPC.

Implementing Bluetooth LE Audio and Auracast on Linux Systems

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LE Audio is a modern Bluetooth audio architecture that overcomes classic Bluetooth limitations with lower power consumption and latency. It provides a modular framework of profiles working together for various use cases.

Tech Titans Amass Multimillion-Dollar War Chests to Fight AI Regulation

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Beads – A memory upgrade for your coding agent

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Beads is a lightweight memory system for coding agents, using a graph-based issue tracker with hash-based IDs to prevent collisions. It provides a centralized database via git, allowing agents to query and update a shared database across machines.

250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland

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Polar Night Energy and Lahti Energia partnered for a 2MW sand battery project in Finland, reducing fossil emissions by 60% annually. The project will supply heat to Lahti Energia's district network and participate in grid balancing markets.

GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack

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GitLab's Vulnerability Research team has identified a large-scale supply chain attack involving a destructive malware variant spreading through the npm ecosystem. The malware contains a "dead man's switch" mechanism that threatens to destroy user data if its propagation and exfiltration channels are severed.

Physicists drive antihydrogen breakthrough at CERN

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A programmer-friendly I/O abstraction over io_uring and kqueue (2022)

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The author discusses improving I/O performance by using io_uring and kqueue APIs to submit requests to the kernel for readiness and completion events, allowing for batching and amortizing system call overhead. A central dispatcher is built to handle I/O requests and completion events, providing a simple API for scheduling I/O and passing callbacks for event completion.

EU Council Approves New "Chat Control" Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance

European governments have taken another step toward reviving the EU’s controversial Chat Control agenda, approving a new negotiating mandate for the Child Sexual Abuse Regulation in a closed session of the Council of the European Union on November 26. The measure, presented as a tool for child protection, is once again drawing heavy criticism for its surveillance implications and the way it ...

Quake Engine Indicators

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The user discovered four indicators in Chocolate Quake netcode: TURTLE, DISC, RAM, and NET, which were likely intended for developers and map designers to diagnose performance issues. These indicators show up on screen when the framerate drops below 10fps, HDD access is slow, the engine evicts surfaces from cache, or a client hasn't received packets from the server in 300ms.

Migrating to Positron, a next-generation data science IDE for Python and R

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Positron is a next-generation IDE for data science with features like a data explorer, interactive console, and AI assistance. It supports R and Python, has a familiar interface, and is extensible with thousands of VSX extensions.

Maxduino Review: Tape Cassette Emulator for Multiple Retro Computers

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MAXduino is a digital tape emulator for various retro computers, supporting TAP, TZX, WAV files, and more. It's a cost-effective solution for loading digital files onto multiple retro machines, including ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and MSX.

Feedback doesn't scale

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As a team grows, feedback becomes harder to process due to the lack of personal relationships and context. Leaders must build systems and processes to filter and synthesize feedback at scale.

Memories of .us

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The user reminisces about their elementary school days and shares their experience with a chess-enthusiast teacher who created a large chess board in the schoolyard. They then discuss the history of the Domain Name System (DNS) and how it has evolved over time, including the failed attempt to implement a hierarchical naming system in the US with RFC 1480.

Shor's algorithm: the one quantum algo that ends RSA/ECC tomorrow

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Peter Shor's algorithm can break RSA and elliptic curve cryptography by solving factoring and discrete logarithm problems in polynomial time. This makes all current public-key cryptography vulnerable to quantum computers, which can decrypt previously encrypted data.

Comparing xeus-Haskell and ihaskell kernels

For developers integrating Haskell into data science workflows or interactive documentation, the Jupyter notebook is the standard interface. Currently, there are two primary ways to run Haskell in Jupyter: IHaskell and xeus-haskell. While both achieve the same end user experience (executing Haskell code in cells) their internal architectures represent fundamentally different engineering ...

Designing a Mechanical Calculator

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The user designed a modular mechanical calculator with a simple design, but encountered several challenges, including gear misalignment and slipping. They eventually created a working version using involute gears and a new fastening system with rotating pegs.

Indie, alone, and figuring it out

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Going indie offers freedom but also loneliness, pressure, and constant decision-making. It's a demanding yet rewarding experience that requires handling multiple roles and responsibilities.

Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

HN community members share gratitude for the site's enduring quality and meaningful discussions despite some decline in discourse. They appreciate the community's refuge from online absurdity and thank founders for creating this space.

Experimenting with Robin Hood Hashing

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User implemented Robin Hood hashing for a hash table and compared it to unordered_map, finding a 2x performance advantage. The implementation's performance is influenced by CPU cache and data locality, making it viable for lookup caches.

TPUs vs. GPUs and why Google is positioned to win AI race in the long term

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Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is a custom ASIC designed for AI tasks, offering better performance per watt and cost-effectiveness compared to Nvidia GPUs. The TPU's unique systolic array architecture and Google's optimized ecosystem make it a significant competitive advantage for Google Cloud's business.

DeepSeekMath-V2: Towards Self-Verifiable Mathematical Reasoning [pdf]

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