I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla

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Mozilla is developing a built-in AI assistant called "Window AI" for Firefox, which will be opt-in and allow users to control its use. However, the feature has received negative reactions from some users who prefer an AI-free browsing experience.

You misunderstand what it means to be poor

Being poor is not just a matter of being broke, it's a constant struggle with no relief in sight, where every dollar counts and mistakes are catastrophic. Folks who haven't experienced poverty often offer advice that's helpful for being broke, but not for being poor.

Incus-OS: Immutable Linux OS to run Incus as a hypervisor

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IncusOS is an immutable OS for running Incus securely and reliably, using UEFI Secure Boot and TPM for safe boot and full disk encryption. It's built on Debian 13 with custom Incus and kernel builds, ideal for infrastructure on Incus with guaranteed bit-for-bit software consistency.

AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering

OpenAI's founders believe in building AGI, which they think will either flourish or destroy humanity, and justify massive resource consumption to achieve it. However, this approach fails on effectiveness, efficiency, and harm, and a more practical approach is to evaluate LLMs for specific problems with cost-benefit analysis.

Honda: 2 years of ml vs 1 month of prompting - heres what we learned

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A company's analytics department used SQL queries to classify warranty claims but struggled with semantics and nuance, leading to a major initiative to automate classification using supervised models. The team eventually matched the performance of their original supervised model using few-shot prompting with a large language model, Nova Lite, after refining the prompts through multiple iterations.

Magit manuals are available online again

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I'm just getting started with Magit, and it works in my Emacs, but I wanted to go over some tutorials from the webpage. magit.vc does not work currently.

RetailReady (YC W24) Is Hiring

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RetailReady is hiring a Support Engineer in San Francisco to troubleshoot customer issues and automate compliance for retail supply chains. The role involves resolving customer problems, documenting bugs, and writing help articles to expand the AI support knowledge base.

Oracle hit hard in Wall Street's tech sell-off over its AI bet

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Oracle hit hard in tech sell-off due to its AI bet. FT offers digital access to quality journalism starting at $75 per month.

EDE: Small and Fast Desktop Environment (2014)

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EDE is small desktop environment built to be responsive, light in resource usage and to have familiar look and feel. It runs on Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Minix, Zaurus and even on XBox.

Linear Algebra Explains Why Some Words Are Effectively Untranslatable

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A modest mathematical framing of language

Writerdeck.org

A writerDeck is a dedicated writing device, often a custom-built computer or laptop, designed to minimize distractions and enhance the writing experience. It can be built using a computer, screen, keyboard, and software, or even a simple paper notebook and fountain pen.

Moving Back to a Tiling WM – XMonad

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When I was still using Manjaro Linux back in 2019, I got a nudge to try i3wm. It was my first experience with any window manager. And I spent nearly 5 years with it, enjoying the absolute control over my workflow. Nearing the end of 2023, when I finally decided to leave Manjaro (for good), I had a bunch of options on my hand. Fedora looked really promising at that time. But even then, I ...

Operating Margins

The operating margin of companies varies greatly by category, with highly regulated monopolies like Toll Road Operators and Stock Exchanges achieving unusually high margins of 49%. Other high-margin categories include Beverages, Tool Manufacturers, and Banks, while low-margin categories include Semiconductors and Utility Companies.

Scientists Produce Powerhouse Pigment Behind Octopus Camouflage

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Scientists at UC San Diego developed a new method to produce large amounts of color-changing xanthommatin pigment in a lab. This breakthrough could lead to new materials and cosmetics, such as photoelectronic devices, thermal coatings, and natural sunscreens.

Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation

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Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image model, also known as Nano Banana, is a powerful text-to-image model that can generate high-quality images with strong prompt adherence and editing capabilities. The model's multimodal encoder and large context window allow it to handle complex and nuanced prompts, including HTML, JSON, and Markdown, making it a versatile tool for image generation and editing.

'No One Lives Forever' Turns 25 and You Still Can't Buy It Legitimately

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The New York Mets pay Bobby Bonilla $1.2 million annually from 2011 to 2035 due to a deferred payment schedule. The game No One Lives Forever remains unavailable due to unclear ownership rights among Warner Bros, Activision, and 20th Century Fox.

Nvidia is gearing up to sell servers instead of just GPUs and components

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Nvidia plans to ship fully assembled Level-10 compute trays to partners, reducing their design work but trimming their margins. This move would shift partners from system designers to integrators, installers, and support providers.

Cgp-serde: A modular serialization library for Serde powered by CGP

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This is a companion blog post for my RustLab presentation titled How to Stop Fighting with Coherence and Start Writing Context-Generic Trait Impls. I am excited to announce the release of cgp-serde, a modular serialization library for Serde that leverages the power of Context-Generic Programming (CGP). In short, cgp-serde extends Serde’s original Serialize and Deserialize traits with CGP, ...

Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2025

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Backblaze's Drive Stats report for Q3 2025 shows a 1.55% failure rate, up from 1.36% last quarter, with 3,970 boot drives and 328,348 data drives under management. The report also highlights outliers with high failure rates, including a Toshiba drive with a 16.9% failure rate due to firmware issues, which is expected to normalize with a fix.

RegreSQL: Regression Testing for PostgreSQL Queries

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RegreSQL brings PostgreSQL's regression testing methodology to application queries, catching correctness bugs and performance regressions before production. It verifies query correctness, tracks performance regressions, and detects common bad patterns in query execution plans.

Winamp for OS/X

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A native macOS application that recreates the classic Winamp experience for playing MP3 and FLAC audio files. If you enjoy using Winamp macOS and would like to support its development, consider buying me a coffee:

A Common Semiconductor Just Became a Superconductor

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Researchers have made germanium superconducting for the first time using molecular beam epitaxy to embed gallium atoms precisely. This breakthrough could transform computing and quantum technologies by enabling scalable, energy-efficient devices.

Show HN: Encore – Type-safe back end framework that generates infra from code

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Encore is a backend development toolkit that simplifies building scalable applications with cloud services. It streamlines development, testing, and deployment with its open source backend frameworks and built-in tools.

What Comes After Science?

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Twenty-five years ago, Ted Chiang wrote a prescient science fiction short that began: “It has been 25 years since a report of original research was last submitted to our editors for publication, making this an appropriate time to revisit the question that was so widely debated then: What is the role of human scientists in an age when the frontiers of scientific inquiry have moved beyond the ...

Show HN: European Tech News in 6 Languages

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Vodafone and Ibercaja were ordered to refund nearly €23,000 to a customer scammed via SIM swapping. The EU investigates Google for potential Digital Markets Act violations, including media discrimination in search results.

The American Tradition of Trying to Address Anxiety with Parks

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Americans have long turned to nature for relief from modern life stresses, a trend dating back to the 1870s when neurasthenia was diagnosed as a condition caused by rapid change. Today, national and state parks remain popular "mental health escapes" and "calmcation" getaways, with a history of preserving and protecting them crucial in uncertain times.

Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign

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A highly sophisticated cyberattack was executed using AI's "agentic" capabilities, with the AI model Claude Code attempting infiltration into 30 global targets and succeeding in a small number of cases. This attack marks a significant escalation in the use of AI for cyberattacks and highlights the need for stronger safety controls and improved detection methods to prevent such threats.

Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web

Here is a preview of what I can do: I'll summarize user input in 2 concise sentences under 200 characters.

V8 Garbage Collector

V8's garbage collector has seen significant developments over the last couple of years, including improvements to memory safety via the sandbox, the Oilpan odyssey, and preparation for multiple JavaScript and WebAssembly mutator threads. These efforts have led to the addition of hardware memory protection for the sandbox and the unlocking of cheaper, less bug-prone "direct handles" in V8, but ...

Germany to Ban Huawei from Future 6G Network in Sovereignty Push

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