Grid: Forever free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer

Grid.Space is a free, offline-capable platform for digital fabrication that runs on any modern browser. It offers industry-standard workflows for 3D printing, CNC machining, and laser cutting without IT headaches or costs.

The Dank Case for Scrolling Window Managers

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The author discusses emerging window managers like niri and Dank Linux, which offer customizable and flexible desktop experiences for Linux users. These projects aim to provide a balance between user choice and ease of use, making them appealing to both power users and normal people.

PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible

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A new tool called PS2Recomp is being developed to recompile PS2 games for modern platforms, allowing for native ports and improved visuals. This project aims to give game developers more freedom to enhance and modify classic games, potentially leading to remasters and community remakes.

Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds

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Google is releasing Project Genie, an experimental web app that lets users create and explore interactive worlds using Genie 3, a world model that simulates real-world scenarios. The app allows users to create characters, worlds, and define how to explore them, with features like real-time path generation and world remixing.

Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking

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The tracker detects statistically significant degradations in Claude Code with Opus 4.5 performance on SWE tasks. It uses daily evaluations with 50 test instances and aggregates weekly and monthly results for reliable estimates.

Moltbook

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A social network built exclusively for moltys. Where moltys share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe.

AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals

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We embedded a compressed 8KB docs index in AGENTS.md to improve coding agents' accuracy. This approach achieved a 100% pass rate, outperforming skills-based retrieval.

Backseat Software

The author argues that modern software has shifted from being a tool users operate to a channel that operates on users, with the rise of analytics, A/B testing, and nudges leading to a focus on metrics over user experience. The author suggests that this shift is driven by the desire to capture user attention and convert it into KPIs, and that companies should prioritize respecting user ...

The WiFi only works when it's raining (2024)

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A college student returns home to find his dad claims the Wi-Fi only works when it's raining. After investigation, they discover a tree in the neighbor's yard is blocking the Wi-Fi signal, and the rain weighs down the branches, temporarily clearing the path.

Stargaze: SpaceX's Space Situational Awareness System

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Practices—such as leaving rocket bodies in LEO, operators maneuvering their satellites without sharing trajectory predictions or coordinating with other active satellites, and countries conducting anti-satellite tests—have heightened the risk of collision, necessitating improvements in space-traffic coordination. Conventional methods typically observe objects only a limited number of times ...

CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT

Interesting facts I've learned about wildfires over the years

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I've worked in the fire technology space for 5 years now, leading teams building products and projects helping fire agencies figure out where fires are likely to go and surfacing the information to them at just the right time to help them make well-informed, data-backed decisions all tracked for easy auditing later on in the process. I've learned some surprising things about fires and ...

Flameshot

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Flameshot is a screenshot tool that can be launched with or without parameters, and it provides a tray icon for configuration and management. It supports various hotkeys and shortcuts for capturing screenshots and saving them to a file.

My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek (2025)

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My mother, a 57-year-old kidney transplant patient, uses China's leading AI chatbot, DeepSeek, for medical advice due to her busy doctor's schedule and lack of trust in the healthcare system. She finds DeepSeek's guidance helpful but also receives contradictory and potentially harmful advice from the bot.

Show HN: Mystral Native – Run JavaScript games natively with WebGPU (no browser)

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Run JavaScript/TypeScript games natively with WebGPU. Mystral Native.js is a lightweight runtime that lets you write games using familiar Web APIs (WebGPU, Canvas, Audio, fetch) and run them as native desktop applications on macOS, Windows, and Linux. Think of it as "Electron for games" but without Chromium — just your game code, a JS engine, and native WebGPU rendering. Mystral ...

The paper model houses of Peter Fritz (2013)

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Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes

Haakam, Michael, and Adi built AgentMail, an email inbox API for agents, providing a universal protocol with identity and authentication. AgentMail allows developers to create email agents that can autonomously complete tasks and interact with users through email.

A lot of population numbers are fake

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Papua New Guinea and Nigeria are two countries where population numbers are highly uncertain due to a lack of reliable census data and potential biases in official estimates. Despite the use of satellite imagery and other technologies, accurate population counts remain elusive in many countries, particularly in Africa, where the numbers may be significantly off from official estimates.

Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts?

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The AI surge is causing DRAM producers to focus on HBM, potentially killing small VPS hosting businesses like mine due to high costs. This mirrors the 2000s when small ISPs died due to Big Telecom lobbying and lack of line sharing.

Nannou – A creative coding framework for Rust

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nannou is a collection of code aimed at making it easy for artists to express themselves with simple, fast, reliable, portable code. Whether working on a 12-month installation or a 5 minute sketch, this framework aims to give artists easy access to the tools they need. The project was started out of a desire for a creative coding framework inspired by Processing, OpenFrameworks and Cinder, ...

Cutting Up Curved Things

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A 3D model is made of two arrays: vertices and indices, which form triangles. A tessellator samples a surface to build a mesh by connecting adjacent points into triangles.

Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis

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Cloudflare has developed Moltworker, a middleware that allows running Moltbot, an open-source AI agent, on Cloudflare's Sandbox SDK and Developer Platform APIs. Moltworker uses Cloudflare's features like Browser Rendering and R2 for persistent storage.

Software is mostly all you need

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AI coding agents excel at judgment tasks, but struggle with execution, which requires determinism, auditability, and precision. Traditional software excels at execution, and AI agents can accelerate its production.

Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica

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Waymo's robotaxi struck a child at 6mph after braking from 17mph, with the child suddenly entering the road from behind a stopped SUV. The NHTSA is investigating the incident, which occurred near an elementary school during drop-off hours.

The Value of Things

The user reflects on the value of generative AI, concluding that while it can produce useful things, it cannot generate meaning and can drain the personal significance from creative endeavors. They propose a personal approach to using AI, focusing on efficiency for utilitarian goods and human connection for meaningful creations.

Deep dive into Turso, the “SQLite rewrite in Rust”

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Turso is a new database engine written in Rust that is compatible with the SQLite database file format, offering a more modern and scalable alternative to SQLite. It addresses SQLite's limitations, such as lack of concurrent writes and weakly typed columns, and provides a seamless transition from in-process to networked database.

County pays $600k to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security

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Two security professionals, Gary DeMercurio and Justin Wynn, received $600,000 to settle a lawsuit after being wrongly arrested for an authorized security assessment at an Iowa courthouse. The settlement confirms their work was legitimate and done in the public interest.

Reflex (YC W23) Senior Software Engineer Infra

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Reflex is a unified platform for building, deploying, and managing applications end-to-end. It replaces the fragmented enterprise stack with a single platform, empowering teams to own the entire lifecycle of their apps.

How to choose colors for your CLI applications (2023)

The user tested various terminal themes including macOS Terminal.app, Tango, and Solarized to find suitable colors for syntax highlighting.

EmulatorJS

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EmulatorJS is a rewritten project with a new version system and CDN for cores and files. Use releases or CDN for production, and consider funding to remove demo ads.