Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

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Marfa Public Radio creates a sleep podcast reading boring documents to fundraise for the station. Listeners can donate at marfapublicradio.org/donate to keep the station awake.

Wayfinder Router: deterministic routing of queries between local and hosted LLM

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Wayfinder is a prompt router that decides whether to send a prompt to a local or cloud model based on its structure and wording. It reads the shape of a prompt and difficulty cues in the wording to determine the routing decision.

Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C

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The MWCC GC/2.0 compiles and diffs code, requiring exact byte matches. It's a decompilation challenge for GameCube PowerPC assembly into C, graded by a Metrowerks CodeWarrior GC/2.0 compiler.

AMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup Guide

Configure a two-node AMD Strix Halo cluster with Intel E810 (RoCE v2) for distributed vLLM inference using Tensor Parallelism. Set up static IPs, MTU, and trust the interface in the firewall, then install the toolbox and run the cluster with Ray and RCCL.

Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days

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A repository consolidates former PoC repos with identical tracked files. It preserves vulnerability research for 12 repos with 96 tracked entries, for good-faith open-disclosure.

OpenRA

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OpenRA playtest features new random map generators for Red Alert, Tiberian Dawn, and Dune 2000. The update includes balance overhauls, difficulty adjustments, and UI improvements for map-making.

Choosing a Public DNS Resolver

Encrypted DNS options like DoH and DoT add latency but often have similar whole-page load times as plain DNS. However, they provide better security and some providers have minor overhead.

Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs

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I created it because I wanted a very, very simple way to post entries to a blog by using a public folder on my server, without any special requirements and dependencies. Works on GNU/Linux, OSX and BSD. You can see a sample here: read the initial blog post. That page was 100% generated using bashblog, no additional tweaking. Download the code and copy bb.sh into a public folder (for example, ...

Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly

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The Independent is a trusted news outlet that provides in-depth reporting on various topics, including reproductive rights and climate change, without paywalls. Ford has rehired hundreds of human workers to address quality issues caused by AI adoption, planning to use AI in conjunction with human oversight.

Ancient Tablets Show Markets Worked 4k Years Before Economists Explained Them

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Ancient merchants in Kanesh, Turkey, practiced modern commercial behavior 4,000 years ago, with defined partners, profit-sharing, and liquidity penalties. Their economy, based on trust, prices, and individual decisions, worked without a central authority or theory, contradicting the idea that markets require expert supervision.

Fintech Engineering Handbook

Fintech systems require careful handling of money to prevent errors and ensure trust. Key patterns include idempotency, deduplication, reconciliation, and event sourcing to maintain accurate and reliable financial records.

Space Shuttle Endeavour's 20-story vertical display

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The case for physical media ownership

Digital purchases are often revocable licenses, not actual files, and can be removed by stores without notice. Physical media, such as discs and books, cannot be remotely erased and can be owned, resold, and lent indefinitely.

Regular expressions that work "everywhere"

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Regular expressions vary across tools, but a subset of features work everywhere, including . ^ $ [...] * \w \W \s \S \1 - \9 \b \B ? + | {n,m} (...) capturing.

WAL-RUS: a Rust Rewrite of WAL-G for PostgreSQL Backups

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ClickHouse Cloud built WAL-RUS, a Rust-based Postgres backup tool for predictable memory usage. WAL-RUS is compatible with WAL-G and reduces memory consumption by over 70% while maintaining archival throughput.

AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design

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Wireless technology relies on radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) that are difficult to design due to their complex electromagnetic properties. Researchers have developed AI algorithms that can design RFICs more efficiently and effectively than human designers, potentially revolutionizing the field.

Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

The user created a "Town Square" feature on their website, allowing visitors to see each other as stick figures and interact. They've open sourced it and made it available for others to integrate into their sites.

Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models

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Sakana AI launched Fugu, a frontier AI model, in Tokyo, targeting Japanese businesses and government agencies to reduce export control exposure. The move comes as the US government's ban on Anthropic's models drags on, with local alternatives like Sakana and China's 360 filling the gap.

Turning music into a chore is how I became a musician

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The author took a 3-month sabbatical in 2020 to finish an album, which transformed their music-making process into a repeatable routine. They learned to focus on quantity over quality, releasing 4 songs as an EP and many more over the following year.

Enhancing X11 Application Security with LXC

To add an extra layer of security to a web browser or Electron-based IM application, use LXC to isolate the application from the host system. This involves creating an unprivileged container with network capabilities and mapping UIDs and GIDs to unused host IDs.

The Shape of the System - Engineering for Bounded Cognition

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The human mind can only hold about four things at once, and even that is a narrow beam of attention that misses much of what is happening around it. This limited capacity is the root of many software problems, but it can also be the key to good engineering, which is about shaping systems to work with the way minds actually work.

Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo. That Should Terrify You

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The US government denied Polestar authorization to sell cars in the US from 2027, citing its Chinese ownership, despite its sister brand Volvo being granted the same authorization. This move sets a precedent for the government to pick and choose which automakers can operate in the US, sparking concerns about the future of free market and capitalism.

Suspicious Discontinuities (2020)

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Discontinuities in tax policies, subsidies, and other systems can lead to people behaving in ways that are not optimal, such as losing money to reduce taxes or manipulating grades. Smoothing out these discontinuities can help mitigate these issues, and techniques like randomization can be used to achieve this.

Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada

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Response to AI slop is from Robin Williams

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The movie Good Will Hunting highlights the difference between expertise and wisdom, with the character Will having knowledge but lacking experience, while Sean has lived through life's challenges. This moment emphasizes the importance of lived experiences in creating meaningful work.

Show HN: Metaspec: The DpANS3R Common Lisp Spec in S-Expr and HTML Format

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DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]

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DeepSpec: a full-stack codebase for training and evaluating speculative decoding algorithms - DeepSpec/DSpark_paper.pdf at main · deepseek-ai/DeepSpec

IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet

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Browse, filter and live-preview open webcams from around the world.

Post-Mythos Cybersecurity: Keep calm and carry on

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Mythos, a powerful AI model, has raised concerns about its potential to automate zero-day exploits, but its actual impact may be overstated. Existing cybersecurity measures, such as zero trust principles and AI-assisted vulnerability management, can still be effective in protecting against AI-assisted attacks.

How do you keep Web MIDI from crashing a 1983 synthesizer?

Writing Web MIDI code for 8-bit CPUs from the 1980s is a timing nightmare due to buffer overflow caused by modern computers sending data too fast. To safely control data flows, use chunking and pacing to limit blocks and wait for the vintage CPU to write data.