De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance?

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De-dollarization is a trend where countries reduce their use of US dollars in trade and financial transactions, potentially shifting global economic power. This shift could lead to a broad depreciation of US financial assets and upward pressure on real yields.

Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction

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The Nvidia stock price is predicted to close below $100 on any day in 2026 with a probability of 10%. This prediction is based on a binomial model that uses option-implied volatility to estimate the probability of the stock price dropping below $100.

IP Addresses Through 2025

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The Internet's IPv4 address space is being depleted, with the total allocated address pool contracting by 237 thousand addresses in 2025, and the remaining available pool expected to last for several years. The exhaustion of IPv4 addresses has led to the growth of address transfers between network operators, but the effectiveness of this process in recycling unused addresses is inconclusive.

The Unix Pipe Card Game

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This is a card game for teaching kids how to combine unix commands through pipes. This game assumes the parent knows the basic unix commands: cat, grep, tail, head, wc, sort, uniq. The parent should show also show those commands in action the computer as well, if you do not have any UNIX system you can use jslinux in your browser. Buy now: €5,00 EUR [ soldout ] If you want to play the more ...
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In March 1770, as Boston boiled with outrage over the killing of five colonists by British soldiers, John Adams did something few could comprehend: he volunteered to defend the enemy. Adams believed that the very idea of liberty depended on ensuring that even the reviled had counsel; that a free country could not exist without an independent and impartial bar willing to defend the despised. ...

I'm addicted to being useful

The author is a software engineer who loves their job despite its stress and dysfunction, driven by an addiction to being useful. They believe many engineers share this compulsion, and it's essential to harness it effectively.

The Startup Graveyard

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The Zen of Reticulum

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Linux kernel framework for PCIe device emulation, in userspace

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PCIem is a Linux framework creating virtual PCIe devices for driver testing without hardware. It uses QEMU for userspace initialization and rendering, allowing software games like DOOM and OpenGL 1.X games to run.

Show HN: Ocrbase – pdf → .md/.json document OCR and structured extraction API

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The code uses OCR models to convert PDFs into structured data at scale. It creates an OCR client, processes a document, and logs the result as markdown.

Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations

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Postgresql now supports virtual generated columns. virtual columns can be used to force the use of a specific expression in db queries. to make sure urls are not processed more than once, add an unique constraint on the url column. this will ensure that the exact url is used in the query. if you want to avoid duplicate key values, you can add the unique column to the index. the virtual column ...

A Pro Meticulously Restores a Damaged Oil Painting [video]

Level S4 solar radiation event

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Channel3 (YC S25) Is Hiring

Channel3 is building a database of internet products using AI to structure messy data. The team plans to become the central node of agentic commerce, powering AI transactions and taking a cut of GMV.

IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service (1999)

This memo defines an experimental protocol for IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service. It proposes using birds as carriers with different service levels.

Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results

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Apple is testing a new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and search results by removing the blue background around sponsored results. This change may increase ad click-through rates but potentially mislead users into not recognizing paid placements.

Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack

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Reticulum is a cryptography-based networking stack for building local and wide-area networks with readily available hardware, offering end-to-end encryption and initiator anonymity. It allows anyone to be their own network operator, creating independent, inter-connectable, and autonomous networks.

Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)

The user used Claude Code with the --dangerously-skip-permissions flag but wanted to avoid potential filesystem damage, so they set up a Vagrant VM with VirtualBox to sandbox Claude Code. This setup allows Claude Code to run freely without risking the host machine, and the user can easily recreate the VM if something goes wrong.

Benchmarking a Baseline Fully-in-Place Functional Language Compiler [pdf]

The FIP (fully-in-place) calculus is a mechanism that enables safe in-place updates while minimizing unnecessary memory allocations, and it has been successfully implemented in the Koka language. A new language called StaFip was designed and implemented to validate the promising results of Koka, and it shows that a language employing the FIP calculus in a garbage collection-free environment ...

Increasing the performance of WebAssembly Text Format parser by 350%

A WAT parser was rewritten from scratch to increase performance by 350%, replacing a parser combinator library with a hand-written parser. Optimizations included caching tokens, using lazy locks, and avoiding unnecessary UTF-8 checks to improve speed and efficiency.

Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries

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What came first: the CNAME or the A record?

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A routine update to 1.1.1.1 caused DNS resolution failures due to a subtle shift in CNAME record ordering. The issue was resolved by reverting the change and proposing a new standard to clarify CNAME ordering in DNS responses.

Nuudel: Non-Tracking Appointment Tool

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Dieser Dienst wird vom gemeinnützigen Digitalcourage e.V. für Sie kostenlos angeboten. Unterstützen Sie den Betrieb und unsere Arbeit für eine lebenswerte Welt im digitalen Zeitalter als Fördermitglied!

Kiss Launcher – fast launcher for Android

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Blazingly fast launcher for Android

3D printing my laptop ergonomic setup

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The user has been designing and iterating on their ergonomic laptop setup for health reasons, using a 3D printer to create custom parts. They've made several versions, each with its own set of problems and benefits.

Nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs

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NanoLang is a modern language transpiling to C for native performance with a clean syntax. It uses a 3-stage bootstrap and supports self-hosting and LLM-friendly design.

The coming industrialisation of exploit generation with LLMs

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The user ran experiments with Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.2 agents to develop exploits for a zeroday vulnerability in QuickJS, achieving over 40 distinct exploits across 6 scenarios, and concludes that LLMs will industrialise exploit development, making token throughput the limiting factor for state or group's cyber capabilities. The user suggests evaluating models against real, hard targets using ...

Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025)

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The Nano Texture display is great for reducing glare in various lighting conditions, making it ideal for outdoor use and environments with intense lighting. However, it requires more maintenance to keep clean and may not be suitable for those with chaotic environments or who don't mind glare.

Squishy Go

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Black and White Player, take turns placing stones. You can also pass your turn if you want.

Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling

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Prediction markets are integrating into mainstream media, allowing people to bet on news events, but their accuracy and trustworthiness are unclear. This trend risks blurring the line between news and gambling, potentially misleading people and influencing real-world events.