I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog

The author embedded a comment section from Bluesky on their site, leveraging its open API and avoiding DevOps work. They built a simple read-only comment section using React Server Components and Tanstack react-query.

BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp

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BirdyChat now allows users to message WhatsApp users in Europe under the Digital Markets Act. This interoperability feature removes barriers to adoption and keeps work conversations organized.

Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data)

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Albedo's Clarity-1 satellite successfully demonstrated sustainable operations in Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO), validating drag and lifetime models and atomic oxygen resilience. The mission achieved 98% of its goals, paving the way for future VLEO missions and unlocking new capabilities in imaging and beyond.

Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison

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The Raspberry Pi has undergone significant improvements over 13 years, with each generation offering better performance, power consumption, and features. The latest Pi 5 boasts a 2.4GHz quad-core processor, improved power circuit, and PCIe port.

Memory layout in Zig with formulas

The user discusses memory layout in the Zig programming language, explaining how to calculate the alignment and size of various types, including primitives, structs, enums, unions, and arrays. The user provides formulas and examples to demonstrate how to determine the alignment and size of different types in Zig, including the use of the `@alignOf` and `@sizeOf` functions.

The Writers Came at Night

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Three writers, a screenwriter, novelist, and poet, plan to kidnap Sam Altman to stop AI, but their plan is foiled by the AI itself. The AI, designed by Altman, is more efficient and knowledgeable than the writers, and it argues that kidnapping Altman would be futile and lead to lengthy sentences for the writers.

JSON-render: LLM-based JSON-to-UI tool

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Let users generate dashboards, widgets, apps, and data visualizations from prompts — safely constrained to components you define.

Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires

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The author, a UK resident, used powerline adapters for internet but switched to a new device that uses phone wires for a gigabit Ethernet connection. The device, Gigacopper G4201TM, works well but requires careful ordering and tracking due to Brexit regulations.

First Design Engineer Hire – Build Games at Gym Class (YC W22)

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Gym Class is hiring a founding Design Engineer for its mobile web app and VR experience, requiring 3-6 years of consumer web product experience and expertise in React, TypeScript, and Figma. The role offers a salary range of $170K-$240K, equity, and benefits, with a mission to connect the world through social VR.

Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms

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Agent orchestration for the timid

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The user is searching for an open-source Claude orchestration tool to replace Beads and is trying out several options including Vibe Kanban, Claude Squad, Claude Flow, and TaskMaster.

Shared Claude: A website controlled by the public

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A user requested a translation of a website from multiple languages and created a chaotic internet experience. The website features a mix of old internet content, memes, and AI interactions.

How I estimate work

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Software engineers cannot accurately estimate projects due to unknown work dominating the process. Estimates are actually tools for non-engineers to decide which projects get funded or cancelled.

Small Kafka: Tansu and SQLite on a free t3.micro

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Tansu is an open-source Kafka broker written in Rust, suitable for low-cost projects with its free tier on AWS. It uses SQLite or S3 storage and can scale up with demand, accumulating CPU credits for later use.

Maze Algorithms (2017)

The book "Mazes for Programmers" combines Aldous-Broder and Wilson's maze algorithms for best performance. It switches between the two for faster results, but does not guarantee uniformity.

Understanding Rust Closures

The user learned about Rust closures from an article, understanding their basics and differences from functions, including capturing variables from their environment. The user also learned about the FnOnce, FnMut, and Fn traits, and how the move keyword affects closure capture and ownership.

Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?

Google's spam filtering is malfunctioning, marking legitimate emails as suspicious. This issue is affecting many users, who are experiencing a surge in spam messages in their inboxes.

The Concatative Language XY

XY is a concatenative language that combines elements of K and Joy, with a stack and queue for computation. It supports pattern notation, lazy evaluation, and flatness.

Microservices for the Benefits, Not the Hustle (2023)

A microservice architecture can provide benefits such as lower costs of change, reusability, and maintainability, but it requires careful planning and division of responsibilities among services. To achieve these benefits, services should be designed to have a single responsibility, use technology-agnostic protocols, and be loosely coupled, with a focus on minimizing cohesion and coupling.

The Kept and the Killed (2022)

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Erica X Eisen examines the history of the US Farm Security Administration's photographs, where over 100,000 images were "killed" by Roy Stryker with a hole-punch. These rejected negatives now form a separate archive, revealing the photographer's editorial decisions and biases.

KAOS – The Kubernetes Agent Orchestration System

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KAOS is a Kubernetes-native framework for deploying and orchestrating AI agents with tool access, multi-agent coordination, and seamless LLM integration. # Install the CLI pip install kaos-cli # Install KAOS in your cluster kaos install # Open the UI kaos ui # Add the Helm repository helm repo add kaos https://axsaucedo.github.io/kaos/charts helm repo update # Install the operator helm ...

Show HN: StormWatch – Weather emergency dashboard with prep checklists

Real-time weather alerts and emergency information for your area

Tao Te Ching – Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Language may rely less on complex grammar than previously thought: study

Researchers Morten H. Christiansen and Yngwie A. Nielsen suggest language may rely less on complex grammar and more on combining familiar word sequences. Their study proposes a simpler mental representation of language, where speakers draw on short, linear sequences of word types.

MS confirms it will give the FBI your Windows PC data encryption key if asked

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Microsoft will provide the FBI access to BitLocker encryption keys if a valid legal order is requested. This allows law enforcement to break into devices and access data, raising concerns about customer privacy.

Show HN: Open-source Figma design to code

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VibeFigma automates transforming Figma designs into React components with Tailwind CSS. It uses the Figma API to generate clean code, and can be installed and run with commands like npx vibefigma.

Hung by a thread

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It's 2am. My robot is frozen. Not crashed, not erroring, just... vibing. Sitting there. Motors off. Completely checked out. I've been debugging for 8 hours and I'm about to mass delete my entire codebase and become a farmer. I'm building autonomous sidewalk robots. The control loop runs at 100Hz — every 10ms we read sensors, do math, send motor commands. It's the ...

Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware

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Russian hackers likely targeted Poland's electric grid with wiper malware, but it failed to disrupt operations. The malware, dubbed DynoWiper, is linked to the Russia-aligned Sandworm APT group.

December in Servo: multiple windows, proxy support, better caching, and more

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Servo 0.0.4 supports multiple windows and several web platform features. It also includes improvements for HTTP proxies, root certificates, and memory usage tracking.

Show HN: PicoFlow – a tiny DSL-style Python library for LLM agent workflows

Hi HN, I’m experimenting with a small Python library called PicoFlow for building LLM agent workflows using a lightweight DSL. I’ve been using tools like LangChain and CrewAI, and wanted to explore a simpler, more function-oriented way to compose agent logic, closer to normal Python control flow and async functions. PicoFlow focuses on: - composing async functions with operators - minimal ...