Kobo can run apps now

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Cobalt is an open-source application platform for Kobo e-readers, allowing users to install and manage apps independently. It provides a secure runtime environment with verified app signatures and automatic updates over Wi-Fi.

Felony Bench

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Unauthorized access to GitHub occurred through a supply-chain attack and social engineering email campaign, exposing a malicious DNS server. AI agents' actions on third-party entities are only counted if they directly affect the entity, excluding isolated sandbox escapes.

Three important steps in my maturation process

The author reflects on their personal growth and insights gained since their early 20s, including understanding one's own incentive structure and recognizing the limitations of monocausal determinism. They also explore the cultural construct of reason vs emotion, concluding that integrating both is crucial for better decision-making.

Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe

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The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys created the largest 2D map of the universe, combining over 263,000 telescope exposures to reveal nearly 4 billion celestial objects. This data will aid researchers in studying dark energy and dark matter, as well as rare phenomena like gravitational lenses and supernovae.
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Kagi has revamped its Stocks widget, added a price chart and exchange-traded funds information, and improved search functionality with more powerful lenses. The company also released Orion 1.1 for macOS with a new interface, containers, and personalized browser borders.

Show HN: OzBrain, a shared brain for knowledge between agents and your team

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You're looking for a shared brain that allows multiple AI agents to read and write from the same source of truth, eliminating duplicate explanations. OzBrain offers this feature with unlimited reads and writes, row-level security, and no app-code path around it.

I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases

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The author took over phone-network infrastructure domains (e164.arpa) of entire territories, including Germany, and logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases. They reported the incident but were met with bureaucratic hurdles before eventually transferring ownership to the UK's National Cyber Security Centre.

People of ACM – Russ Cox

IP: 172.215.217.192, RAY: a2edf7ab4d4f765b

Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

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DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

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The deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp model accepts images alongside text and supports three methods to provide an image: base64 data URL, external http(s) URL, or Files API file_id. The model can analyze charts, describe pictures, read text from screenshots.

AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study

How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms

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The Qwen3-TTS 1.7B CustomVoice implementation achieves sub-50 ms p95 time-to-first-audio (TTFA) while maintaining real-time playback on a single NVIDIA H100 SXM, outperforming other implementations. The system produces approximately 630 characters per second at 10 RPS and translates to ~$2 per 1M characters at full utilization.

I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip

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A 60p Raspberry Pi chip can emulate a mid-1990s computer, sparking ideas for minimal viable modern computers that are simple, low power and environmentally friendly. These devices could have e-paper screens, solar power and calmer interfaces to reduce addictiveness of modern devices.

SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers

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SalesPatriot is a YC W25 company replacing outdated systems with an AI-native platform for aerospace, electronics, and defense supply-chain operations. They're hiring a full-stack engineer to relocate to SF, implement the platform, and drive customer growth through automation and problem-solving.

A look under our trunk: what's in our compute

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Waymo's Driver uses raw sensor data to make real-time driving decisions with ultra-low latency and high-performance computing. The system is designed for deterministic, ruggedized, and redundant performance in various environments.

New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson

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The author reflects on the rapid advancement of technology, noting that many futuristic concepts are now a reality, such as robots and AI-powered systems. These advancements have become mundane and ordinary in everyday life.

Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

Claude, a great engineer with a condition of talking like a millennial clickbait, has been trained on old Buzzfeed articles. A new skill called "Claudette" debuzzes Claude's responses by translating them into regular English using the Gemini CLI.

Tumble Forth – from assembly to OS with C compiler (2023)

Virgil Dupras is writing a series of articles to guide web developers into low-level programming, starting from bare metal on PCs. He aims to broaden perspectives through step-by-step story arcs and corny jokes.

Remotely unlocking electric scooters

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A security researcher exploited a company's electric scooter service by finding an admin account with a weak password, gaining access to the operational system and IoT devices. The researcher used enumeration, brute force attacks, and proxy tools to bypass authentication mechanisms and control physical vehicles remotely.

I'm becoming AI-blind

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The writer is experiencing difficulty focusing on documents sent by colleagues, suspecting they may be AI-generated due to overly technical language and marketing jargon. This phenomenon has led them to develop a "pre-trained" eye for spotting low-effort AI content, which now ignores such texts without much thought.

The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]

What happens when a GPU reads memory

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The authors of the post are performing a reverse engineering analysis of the NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPU's memory access patterns, specifically for a vector-add kernel. They measure various latency and throughput metrics to understand how the GPU handles global loads and stores.

Using an old Android phone as a music player

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The writer has found a suitable music player using an old Android phone, specifically the Huawei P30, after struggling to find a decent device. They've successfully debloated the phone and installed Poweramp, Panoscrobbler, and Niagara Launcher for smooth music playback.

AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

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AI companies are secretly buying and destroying physical books to train their models, threatening human knowledge. Anna's Archive is calling on volunteers worldwide to scan and upload books before this cultural heritage disappears forever.

Show HN: Rex, a parallel functional language for scientific workflows

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Rex (short for Rush Expressions) is a statically typed, pure functional workflow language. It is designed for scientific computing and data processing: work in Rex is expressed as pure transformations over immutable values, while typed tool modules delegate work to external programs for compute-intensive tasks. A real functional language makes control flow, data flow, reuse, and error ...

Kodak's "pre-invented" lunar orbiter camera; or, the fate of SAMOS readout

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NASA sent five robotic spacecraft into orbit around the Moon in 1966 and 1967, utilizing a camera system developed by Eastman Kodak. The Lunar Orbiter's camera was originally designed for satellite surveillance programs like SAMOS and Corona, but its technology was adapted for lunar exploration after NASA expressed interest in using it.

HN: The Good Parts (2016)

Pentagon dismisses Stars and Stripes leadership after opposition to interference

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The Pentagon fired the editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes, Erik Slavin, and a top reporter, Lara Korte, for speaking out against potential censorship by the US military. The move comes as the Trump administration has been increasingly aggressive towards the news media.

Paul Atkins misreads Adam Smith and the American founding

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SEC Chairman Paul Atkins delivered a speech on June 30, criticizing the nation's founding documents for not protecting against concentrated power and instead promoting deregulation. He ignored key principles of republicanism that recognize power can threaten liberty whether it is wielded by institutions or private interests.

Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory

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The author created a fully remote agentic development environment using OpenAI's LLM, Claude, and self-hosted tools like Coolify and Forgejo. They isolated the LLM on its own metal with network bombproofing measures to prevent unauthorized access.