The State of GPL Propagation to AI Models

47 jonymo 2025-11-27 13:00:44 UTC shujisado.org Llama Share 7

The theory of GPL propagation to AI models, where GPL code in training data propagates to the model, remains an indeterminate problem with ongoing lawsuits and no clear judicial precedent. The theory could be ratified by the judiciary if the plaintiffs win in ongoing lawsuits, but it has serious detrimental effects and many experts argue against it.

Arthur Conan Doyle explored men’s mental health through Sherlock Holmes

84 PikelEmi 2025-11-27 11:00:44 UTC scienceclock.com Llama Share 59

Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories explored male vulnerability and mental health issues, often portraying men struggling with emotional turmoil, fear, and shame. Doyle's works humanized male characters, showing that vulnerability does not equate to weakness, but rather a strength that can fuel genius.

Linux Kernel Explorer

274 tanelpoder 2025-11-27 07:00:44 UTC reverser.dev Full Share 40

The kernel isn't a process—it's the system. It serves user processes, reacts to context, and enforces separation and control.

Penpot: The Open-Source Figma

460 selvan 2025-11-27 03:00:44 UTC github.com/penpot Llama Share 96

Penpot is an open-source design tool for collaboration between designers and developers. It offers features like design tokens, CSS Grid Layout, and real-time collaboration.

Ray Marching Soft Shadows in 2D (2020)

119 memalign 2025-11-27 08:00:44 UTC rykap.com Llama Share 18

The author explains how a graphics project uses a distance field to generate shadows, and implements a technique called ray marching to improve performance. The technique involves advancing along a ray by a distance proportional to the distance from the closest shape.

Music eases surgery and speeds recovery, study finds

115 1659447091 2025-11-27 05:00:44 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 42

Researchers in Delhi found that playing calming music to patients under general anaesthesia reduced their need for anaesthetic drugs and improved recovery. The study suggests that music can help patients wake up more quickly and clearly.

Interactive λ-Reduction

62 jy14898 2025-11-27 08:00:44 UTC deltanets.org Full Share 17

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DIY NAS: 2026 Edition

254 sashk 2025-11-27 03:00:44 UTC blog.briancmoses.com Llama Share 122

The user built a DIY NAS server, the DIY NAS: 2026 Edition, with a Topton N22 motherboard, JONSBO N4 case, and TrueNAS 25.10.0.1 operating system, aiming to provide a capable homelab machine with a small footprint. The build features six drive bays, an integrated low-power CPU, and a focus on power efficiency, with the user considering auctioning off the build on eBay due to rising component prices.

AGI is not possible even in 10 years

34 MindBreaker2605 2025-11-27 13:00:44 UTC medium.com/@anwarzaid76 Llama Share 11

Researchers predict AGI will take at least a decade, possibly longer, due to fundamental limitations in current AI systems. Scaling and infrastructure won't solve these problems, requiring new architectures and approaches to achieve true intelligence.

Willis Whitfield: A simple man with a simple solution that changed the world

106 rbanffy 2025-11-27 05:00:44 UTC sandia.gov Llama Share 37

Willis Whitfield, a physicist at Sandia, invented the laminar-flow clean room in 1961. His design, which uses filtered air to sweep particles to the floor, is still used today in various industries.

Mixpanel Security Breach

79 jaredwiener 2025-11-27 08:00:44 UTC mixpanel.com Llama Share 66

Mixpanel detected a smishing campaign on November 8th, 2025, and took steps to contain and secure impacted user accounts. Affected customers were proactively communicated with, while unaffected customers received no action required notification.

G0-G3 corners, visualised: learn what "Apple corners" are

69 dgroshev 2025-11-27 06:00:44 UTC printables.com Full Share 39

The owner of this website (www.printables.com) has banned the autonomous system number (ASN) your IP address is in (8075) from accessing this website.

Technical Deflation

18 0x79de 2025-11-27 11:00:44 UTC benanderson.work Llama Share 9

Deflation in economics and technology refers to a decrease in prices or ease of development, leading to delayed purchases and reduced spending. This concept is causing startups to delay building new features or products, waiting for future technological advancements to make it easier and cheaper.

S&box is now an open source game engine

351 MaximilianEmel 2025-11-26 20:00:44 UTC sbox.game Llama Share 120

s&box engine is now open source under MIT license, allowing users to view, modify, and use its code for their own projects. The team has made several improvements, including fixing terrain issues, implementing texture rotation, and rewriting memory allocation code.

C64 Burrow.BAS

10 ibobev 2025-11-27 12:00:44 UTC basic-code.bearblog.dev Llama Share 1

User figured out how to embed Commodore 64 BASIC listings into blog posts. They combined two one-line programs from the 1985 Run magazine to create a visual demo.

Gemini CLI Tips and Tricks for Agentic Coding

316 ayoisaiah 2025-11-26 19:00:44 UTC github.com/addyosmani Llama Share 106

Gemini CLI is an open-source AI assistant that brings the power of Google's Gemini model directly into your terminal, allowing you to perform various tasks such as coding, debugging, and content generation through natural language prompts. The tool supports features like custom commands, memory addition and recall, checkpointing, and external integrations with Google Docs, Sheets, and Drive, ...

Coq: The World's Best Macro Assembler? [pdf] [2013]

95 addaon 2025-11-27 05:00:44 UTC nickbenton.name Llama Share 33

We formalize a subset of the x86 architecture in Coq, using dependent types and notation to give it a concise and readable semantics. The model includes a concrete representation of bits, bytes, and memory, and supports conventional assembly code syntax inside Coq.

Closest Harmonic Number to an Integer

18 ibobev 2025-11-27 10:00:44 UTC johndcook.com Llama Share 2

The user wants to find the value of n such that the harmonic number Hn is closest to a given integer m, and they provided a Python code to efficiently compute Hn and find the nearest harmonic number to m. The code uses an asymptotic approximation for large n and a binary search approach to find the value of n without trying too many possible values.

Running Unsupported iOS on Deprecated Devices

175 OuterVale 2025-11-26 23:00:44 UTC nyansatan.github.io Llama Share 75

The user successfully ported iOS 6 to an iPod touch 3 by modifying the iBoot and DeviceTree, and creating a custom kernelcache with kexts from iOS 6. They also implemented an iBoot exploit and patched various components to make the port work on the iPod touch 3.

Last Issue of "ECMAScript News"

36 Klaster_1 2025-11-27 07:00:44 UTC ecmascript.news Llama Share 9

ECMAScript News is ending after 368 issues due to financial losses. The newsletter will stop publishing but may be revived by Axel in a new form in 2026.

Functional Data Structures and Algorithms: a Proof Assistant Approach

78 SchwKatze 2025-11-27 03:00:44 UTC fdsa-book.net Llama Share 10

The book introduces data structures and algorithms for functional languages with a focus on proofs, covering both correctness and running time analysis. It uses inductive proofs and is machine-checked by Isabelle, with evolving content.

A Fast 64-Bit Date Algorithm (30–40% faster by counting dates backwards)

353 benjoffe 2025-11-26 17:00:44 UTC benjoffe.com Llama Share 81

A new fast date conversion algorithm is presented, achieving a significant speed gain by counting years backwards and using a year-modulus-bitshift technique. The algorithm is accurate over a period of ±1.89 trillion years and uses only 4 multiplications, making it suitable for processing full UNIX 64-bit time.

Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from Earth

970 ashishgupta2209 2025-11-26 15:00:44 UTC scienceclock.com Llama Share 335

Voyager 1 is about to reach 16.1 billion miles away from Earth, taking 24 hours for a radio signal to reach it. It's the most distant human-made object, traveling at 11 miles per second since 1977 and sending data until the 2030s.

Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg

711 todsacerdoti 2025-11-27 02:00:44 UTC ziglang.org Llama Share 621

The author is leaving GitHub due to its decline in quality and aggressive AI integration, switching to Codeberg for their project Zig. They ask donors to move from GitHub Sponsors to Every.org.

How/why to sweep async tasks under a Postgres table

72 ostler 2025-11-27 04:00:44 UTC taylor.town Llama Share 23

The user advocates for using a database as the central system for handling tasks and workflows, prioritizing transaction guarantees and reversibility. This approach eliminates errors and makes error-handling nicer, allowing for parallel processing and adequate randomness.

Fara-7B: An efficient agentic model for computer use

141 maxloh 2025-11-26 20:00:44 UTC github.com/microsoft Llama Share 57

Fara-7B is Microsoft's first agentic small language model for computer use, achieving state-of-the-art performance with 7 billion parameters. It completes tasks efficiently, averaging 16 steps per task, and enables on-device deployment with reduced latency and improved privacy.

C100 Developer Terminal

93 matthewsinclair 2025-11-27 00:00:44 UTC caligra.com Llama Share 93

Caligra is a new computer company focused on creative technical work and innovation. Its goal is to help users shape the future through technical advancements.

Can you take an ox to Oxford?

25 surprisetalk 2025-11-27 07:00:44 UTC alexwlchan.net Llama Share 38

An ox-drawn cart is exempt from Oxford's congestion charge because it's not a motor vehicle, as it's not mechanically propelled. The charge is enforced by cameras scanning number plates, and ox-drawn carts don't have plates.

Show HN: Era – Open-source local sandbox for AI agents

32 gregTurri 2025-11-27 06:00:44 UTC github.com/binsquare Llama Share 10

Install era agent and dependencies with brew, then follow platform-specific setup for great devX and security. Use the CLI to run untrusted code in microVMs with 200ms launch time.

Essence and accident in language model-assisted coding

3 ingve 2025-11-27 12:00:44 UTC sicpers.info Prefix Share 0

In 1986, Fred Brooks posited that there was “no silver bullet” in software engineering—no tool or process that would yield an order-of-magnitude improvement in productivity. He based this assertion on the division of complexity into that which is essential to the problem being solved, and that which is an accident of the way in which we solve the problem. In fact, he considered artificial ...