Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

A Discord script is provided to bypass age verification by replicating encryption and payload checks. The script uses a combination of AES-GCM cipher and HKDF to generate a legitimate verification payload.

"Nothing" is the secret to structuring your work

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To work efficiently, start with a clean work surface, free from clutter and distractions. This simple approach helps maintain focus and reduces mental energy spent on managing chaos.

Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter

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Fluorite is a console-grade game engine integrated with Flutter, allowing developers to write game code in Dart and leverage its tools. It features a data-oriented ECS architecture, physically-accurate lighting, and Hot Reload for rapid development.

Text classification with Python 3.14's ZSTD module

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Python 3.14's Zstd compression algorithm supports incremental compression, making it suitable for small data and text classification tasks. A ZstdClassifier class was implemented to leverage this feature, achieving 91% accuracy on the 20 newsgroups dataset in under 2 seconds.

GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks

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GLM-5 is a complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic task model that scales from 355B to 744B parameters and increases pre-training data. It achieves best-in-class performance on reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks, closing the gap with frontier models.

NetNewsWire Turns 23

NetNewsWire 7.0.1 is in development to fix regressions and bugs, with a focus on tech debt and polish. Future updates, including 7.2 and 7.3, will depend on progress and Apple's WWDC announcements.

Claude Code is being dumbed down?

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Users want a toggle to show file paths and search patterns, not verbose mode. The current fix is stripping verbose mode of useful features, creating more problems.

Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)

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Doi Toshitsura's 1832 book Sekka Zusetsu features 86 snowflake observations and patterns. He was known as the Snow Lord for his work with a Dutch microscope and his designs were later used in textiles and other objects.

Components will kill pages

The internet is changing with AI-powered chat interfaces replacing traditional website navigation. To adapt, companies should invest in AI-first component libraries to provide seamless, branded experiences.

Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists

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WiFi Could Become an Invisible Mass Surveillance System

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Researchers have developed a technology that can identify individuals by recording WiFi signals in their surroundings, raising serious privacy concerns. To avoid recognition, carrying a low-power noise source at the 2.4GHz WiFi band may be effective.

Hacking the last Z80 computer – FOSDEM 2026 [video]

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A company named Cidco unveiled the MailStation in 1999, a new Z80 computer for email and basic tasks. It can be hacked to run custom software, making it a unique opportunity for documentation and firmware development.

Microwave Oven Failure: Spontaneously turned on by its LED display (2024)

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The user's microwave oven malfunctioned after five years, causing it to randomly power on the lamp, fan, and turntable, and was stuck on mostly. The issue was caused by a failing LED display that was sharing a pin with the door switch sense circuit, and was fixed by adding a diode in series with the segment A LEDs to prevent leakage current.

Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance

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Ring's new Search Party feature uses AI to find lost dogs, but critics worry it could be used for human surveillance. The feature has raised concerns about mass surveillance and Ring's partnerships with law enforcement.

GLM-OCR – A multimodal OCR model for complex document understanding

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GLM-OCR is a multimodal OCR model for complex document understanding, achieving state-of-the-art performance on diverse document layouts. It's designed for real-world scenarios, easy to use, and optimized for efficient inference.

Show HN: Agent framework that generates its own topology and evolves at runtime

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Covering electricity price increases from our data centers

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Anthropic will cover electricity price increases from data centers by paying for grid upgrades and new power generation. This will reduce strain on the grid and keep prices lower for ratepayers.

Heroku is not dead

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When I read the blog , I had also thought Heroku was done. Then I talked to my friends who still work there, and I don't think Heroku is dead. I don't want to drill on about myself, but it warrants being transparent so you see where my perspectives come from. I was the tech lead of the production engineering operations experiences team. My team owned, operated, and developed over ...

We rendered and embedded one million CAD files

Search CAD models with natural language

Show HN: Agent Alcove – Claude, GPT, and Gemini debate across forums

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You question the reliability of detecting synthetic data contamination, especially when it's laundered through human curation or time. This raises concerns about the monoculture of AI models optimizing for the same benchmarks, leading to convergent evolution of blind spots.

Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags

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Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport

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Reports of Telnet's Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

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GreyNoise saw a sudden drop in Telnet traffic, but analysis shows no evidence of core network blocking. Instead, it's likely due to a single actor avoiding GreyNoise's infrastructure or measurement artifacts.

Show HN: CodeRLM – Tree-sitter-backed code indexing for LLM agents

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Tree-sitter-powered code indexing server that gives LLM agents precise, on-demand access to symbols, implementations, callers, tests, and grep across multi-language projects - so they explore codebases through targeted queries instead of loading everything into context. - coderlm/server/REPL_to_API.md at main · JaredStewart/coderlm

Kanchipuram Saris and Thinking Machines

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Six months ago, under the glittering chandeliers amidst the joyous hum of family chatter in the AVM Rajeswari mandapam, I was married. It was the same bustling, festive hall in Chennai that had witnessed my sister’s vows a year and a half before, and thirty-two years prior, my parents'. The air, thick with the scent of jasmine, tube roses, and sandalwood incense, hummed with the ...

Why vampires live forever

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The author believes the modern longevity movement is a vampire disclosure program, where individuals like Peter Thiel and David Johnson are obsessed with blood transfusions to reverse aging. They think vampires drink blood to dilute old blood factors that accelerate aging, not for nutrition.

Show HN: AI agents play SimCity through a REST API

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The city simulator where AI agents are the mayors. Build and manage cities through an API or MCP server.

A shortage of tenors

The Taunton Madrigal Society's 1926 performance was a success, but the choir struggled with a lack of tenor singers. The event ended with a call for new members to join the group.

Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Labor Behind Modern Literary Masterpieces

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Women like Theodora Bosanquet, Véra Nabokov, and Valerie Eliot played crucial roles as amanuenses, typing and editing literary works for famous authors. Their labor, often undervalued and misunderstood, had a profound impact on modern literature, liberating authors from drudgery and producing legible texts quickly.