Radicle: The Sovereign Forge

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Radicle is a decentralized, open-source code collaboration platform built on Git, allowing users to control their data and workflow. It enables censorship-resistant collaboration, local-first functionality, and easy data migration with a modular stack and various interfaces.

Booting from a vinyl record (2020)

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A person created a bootable record for a PC using a record player, amplifier, and custom ROM. The record contains a 64K RAM drive with a FreeDOS kernel and loads through the PC's cassette interface.

AI is a horse (2024)

It is way slower and less reliable than a train but can go more places You have to tell it where to turn even if it might guess right sometimes You have to keep it on the road even if it usually stays on the road

Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go

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Whosthere is a Go-based LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI that performs unprivileged scans using mDNS, SSDP, and ARP. It can be configured via a YAML file and provides a friendly way to discover devices on your network.
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The user received a newsletter for Lumo despite opting out and Proton Support initially denied it was a Lumo email. The user believes Proton and GitHub are abusing their services by ignoring opt-out requests.

I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video]

Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities

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Evolving Programmable Search Engine Programmable Search Engine helps hundreds of partners – from academic institutions to retail websites – ...

Flying with Photons: Rendering Novel Views of Propagating Light

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This synthesized flythrough shows a pulse of light traveling through a coke bottle. The whole event spans roughly 3ns, which is 100 million times less than it takes us to blink. Light can be seen scattering off liquid, hitting the ground plane, focusing on the cap and reflecting to the back. We present an imaging and neural rendering technique that seeks to synthesize videos of light ...

What has Docker become?

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Docker Inc has struggled to find its place in 2026 after creating the containerization standard everyone uses. The company has pivoted from orchestration to developer tools to AI and security, but its business model remains unclear.

The cleaner: One woman’s mission to help Britain’s hoarders

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Jo Powell, director of Hoarder Clean Up UK, helps clients clear cluttered homes, often due to mental health issues or trauma. She understands the emotional struggle, having experienced grief and hoarding tendencies herself.

Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC

Replacing Protobuf with Rust to go 5 times faster

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PgDog, a PostgreSQL proxy, improved performance by replacing Protobuf with direct C-to-Rust bindings, resulting in a 5x improvement in parsing queries and a 10x improvement in deparsing. The team used an LLM to automate the process of replacing Protobuf with Rust structs, which led to a 25% improvement in pgbench benchmarks.

The state of modern AI text to speech systems for screen reader users

Modern text to speech technology for blind users has not changed in 30 years due to differing needs. Current AI-based systems are unsuitable for screen readers due to dependency bloat, accuracy issues, slow speed, and lack of control.

AI Usage Policy

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GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers

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Gptzero's hallucination check tool uncovered 50 halluzinated citations in papers under review for iclr 2026. these neurips papers have already been accepted, presented live, and effectively published. a submission tsunami fueled by generative ai, paper mills and publication pressure has strained these conferences' review pipelines to the breaking point. the following table shows the ...

Show HN: S2-lite, an open source Stream Store

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S2-lite uses SlateDB with object storage for durability and can run on AWS S3 or Tigris. It's a single-node binary with no external dependencies.

Microsoft mishandling example.com

Microsoft's Autodiscover service has incorrectly routed the IANA-reserved example.com domain to Sumitomo Electric Industries' mail servers since at least February 2020. This misconfiguration was manually added to Microsoft's database and has existed for nearly six years.

Presence in Death

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Tibetans believe tukdam bodies signify consciousness, but scientists struggle to prove this through biophysical means. They seek to understand the unusual preservation of these bodies, but cultural sensitivity and the sacredness of death hinder research.

Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B

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I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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User was banned from AI platform Claude for using it as a disabled organization to automate tasks, which triggered security measures. User received a credit note and is reframing their project to avoid similar issues in the future.

Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?

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The user was debugging a high-performance game over ssh and found that stock ssh was sending unnecessary packets to obscure keystroke timing, causing significant overhead. They were able to disable this feature by not advertising the [email protected] extension in the go ssh library, resulting in a 50% drop in CPU usage.

Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation

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Qwen3-tts is a series of powerful speech generation capabilities developed by. it offers comprehensive support for voice clone, voice design, and natural language-based voice control. the base model capable of 3-second rapid voice-clone from user audio input; can be used for fine-tuning (ft) other models.,: "i don’t even know why... i just felt" ''

Variation on Iota

We need to find the location of each item in a list of lists given a list of items, considering non-scalar items and returning the sublist index where the item is found. Solutions include using the outer product of membership, flat array indexing, and the Where function with interval index, with the latter being the most efficient for large lists.

Is liberal democracy in terminal decline?

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Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"

A user on Slashdot questioned Douglas Adams about the perceived nihilism in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, specifically Arthur Dent's character. The user suggested a cultural divide between England and the US in viewing failure as a heroic trait.

Tesla fined for repeatedly failing to help UK police over driving offences

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Tesla has been convicted 18 times in UK courts for failing to identify drivers involved in road traffic offences. The company has been ordered to pay over £20,000 in fines and costs for repeatedly ignoring police requests.

TI-99/4A: Leaning More on the Firmware

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The user is working on a project to master the TI-99/4A home computer's graphics chip and sound capabilities using the Graphics Programming Language (GPL) and has made progress on adding animated sprites and implementing collision detection. The user has also encountered some challenges and limitations with the GPL and the TI-99/4A's sound system, but has found ways to work around them and ...

Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020)

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Medieval city builders often deviate from historical accuracy, featuring linear growth and unrealistic scenarios, but incorporating realistic elements like flood valleys and tithe collection could enhance realism. A more historically accurate game would involve planning settlements, managing resources, and dealing with threats like disease, war, and social unrest.

Your app subscription is now my weekend project

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User created several apps using vibecoding, replacing paid tools like Wispr Flow, Loom, and Typora. This shift suggests a change in the industry, making standalone apps less viable as separate products.