Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma

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Plasma Bigscreen is a free, open-source interface for Linux designed for TVs and HTPCs. It offers a customizable big-screen experience with app support and settings management via TV remote or game controller.

UUID package coming to Go standard library

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A package to generate and parse UUID versions 3, 4, and 5 should be added to the Go standard library due to its widespread use in third-party packages. This addition would make Go more consistent with other languages, as it currently stands out for lacking built-in UUID support.

Can a wealthy family change the course of a deadly brain disease?

this css proves me human

You're rewriting a blog post to appeal to technical readers by changing capitalization, using em dashes, and correcting grammar. You're also contemplating a deeper change in your writing style to better reflect your thoughts and engagement with the world.

LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first

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The author discusses the limitations of using Large Language Models (LLMs) in coding, citing two case studies where LLM-generated code failed to meet performance expectations due to a lack of understanding of the underlying system. The author argues that LLMs can produce plausible but incorrect code, and that developers should define specific acceptance criteria to ensure correctness, rather ...

Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has ignited a passion again

You're retiring but still passionate about coding, recalling your early days with Active Server Pages and VB6. Claude Code is reigniting that excitement and drive.

Maybe There's a Pattern Here?

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Inventors and scientists like Hermann Oberth, Johannes Winkler, and Alfred Nobel created machines and technologies that could be used for war, but some, like Nobel, hoped to use them to prevent war. Others, like Leo Szilárd and Mikhail Kalashnikov, grappled with the moral implications of their creations and the devastating consequences of war.

C# strings silently kill your SQL Server indexes in Dapper

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A Dapper query with a two-character type mismatch caused a significant CPU problem due to full index scans. The fix is to explicitly tell Dapper the parameter type matches the column type, such as using DbType.AnsiString for varchar columns.

Galileo's handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text

Hardening Firefox with Anthropic's Red Team

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AI models like Claude can now identify high-severity vulnerabilities in complex software at accelerated speeds. A collaboration with Mozilla using Claude Opus 4.6 discovered 22 vulnerabilities, 14 of which were high-severity, in Firefox.

Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting

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Moongate v2 is a modern Ultima Online server project built with .NET 10, aiming for a clean, modular architecture with strong packet tooling and deterministic game-loop processing. The project is open to contributors and welcomes pull requests with changes, following the project's coding standards and including tests, and is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

The Shady World of IP Leasing

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The IPv4 address market has devolved into a wild sub-leasing economy where companies can choose their IP geolocation, scrub history, and rent residential IPs to make traffic appear legitimate. This infrastructure undermines the trust systems the internet was built on, making spam blacklists, geolocation databases, and IP reputation scoring unreliable.

Show HN: 1v1 coding game that LLMs struggle with

// This is an example code to help you get started. // First challenge: create a function to calculate distances // so that you move towards and pew only the closest cats. // ====================================================== // Learn more details in the Documentation/How to play. for (let cat of my_cats) { if (cat.sight.enemies.length == 0) continue; let enemy = ...

Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions

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Show HN: Kula – Lightweight, self-contained Linux server monitoring tool

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Kula is a system metrics collector and real-time dashboard that stores data in a tiered ring-buffer and serves it through a Web UI and terminal TUI. It uses Argon2id hashing for authentication and has a customizable configuration file.

Launch HN: Palus Finance (YC W26): Better yields on idle cash for startups, SMBs

Sam and Michael from Palus Finance are building a treasury management platform for startups to earn higher yields with a high-yield bond portfolio. Their platform targets 4.5-5% returns vs 3.5% from money market funds with a flat 0.25% annual fee.

A Modular Robot Dashboard

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TransAct is an example of the kinds of robot fleet management dashboards/cloud portals/mission control centers/robot operating centers you can build using Transitive. It serves three purposes: serve as a reference implementation that we invite you to fork and build on if you are just starting out building your own system. We believe that robotics companies face a make-vs-buy dilemma and our ...

CT Scans of Health Wearables

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Experience the engineering behind today’s leading health wearables including Oura Ring, Dexcom G7, Omnipod, and Jabra Hearing Aids. Industrial CT scans reveal how these devices merge medical precision with consumer design.

What canceled my Go context?

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The Go context package's cause APIs, introduced in Go 1.20, allow developers to track the reason behind a context cancellation, enabling better error handling and logging. However, there are subtleties to consider when using WithTimeoutCause, such as defer cancel() discarding the cause on the normal return path, and the need for a stacked approach to support downstream code relying on ...

Entomologists use a particle accelerator to image ants at scale

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Scientists created Antscan, a 3D atlas of ant morphology with high-resolution images of 792 species. The dataset is now freely available online, allowing anyone to explore and analyze ant anatomy digitally.

A tool that removes censorship from open-weight LLMs

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OBLITERATUS is an open-source toolkit for removing refusal behaviors from large language models, making them respond to all prompts without artificial gatekeeping. It implements abliteration techniques, allowing users to contribute to a crowd-sourced dataset that powers the next generation of abliteration research.

Ada 2022

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The Ada 2022 standard was revised and published as ISO/IEC 8652:2023(E) by the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 9 ARG. It includes new features and updates from earlier versions of Ada.

Astra: An open-source observatory control software

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Astra (Automated Survey observaTory Robotised with Alpaca) is an open-source observatory control software for automating and managing robotic observatories. It integrates seamlessly with ASCOM Alpaca for hardware control. Web Interface — Manage your observatory from any browser, use cloudflared or similar to access outside your network

Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs

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A Cornell study found that employees who fall for corporate jargon struggle with practical decision-making. The Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale measures susceptibility to empty organizational rhetoric, revealing a link to lower analytic thinking skills.

Good Bad ISPs

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Several hosting providers allow Tor exit nodes with reduced exit policies, including Linode, MaxKO Hosting, and r0cket.cloud, while others prohibit them or have strict policies against abuse. Some providers, such as Ultra.cc and Hostinger, explicitly forbid Tor relays and exit nodes, while others, like Free Speech Host and Gigahost, allow Tor relays but not exit nodes.

Art Bits from HyperCard

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HyperCard was a 90s hypermedia system that influenced the web and included sample stacks like "Art Bits" with clip art. A user has collected over 700 clip art images from "Art Bits" for public use.

Multifactor (YC F25) Is Hiring an Engineering Lead

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We're hiring an Engineering Lead to own technical execution, shape engineering culture, and define development practices for a world-class engineering org. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of software engineering experience, strong systems-level building skills, and experience designing and shipping backend systems.

Analytic Fog Rendering with Volumetric Primitives (2025)

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The user discusses a technique for rendering fog with varying density using the Beer-Lambert Law and ray-marching, and provides examples of radial functions and their antiderivatives to calculate the density along a given ray. The technique can be used to create complex fog or smoke-like effects and can be combined with particle systems or boolean operations to achieve dynamic or animated fog effects.

Show HN: Claude-replay – A video-like player for Claude Code sessions

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Claude Code sessions can be shared interactively with claude-replay, converting logs into HTML replays. The tool generates a single self-contained HTML file with customizable themes and redacts sensitive information.

Game about Data of America

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