After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't need to look like news

29 giuliomagnifico 2026-01-17 10:31:26 UTC niemanlab.org Llama Share 4

The Weeklypedia newsletter highlights Wikipedia's most edited articles, revealing volunteer labor and subcategories like sports, reality TV, and news. Wikipedia's success lies in its culture of accountability, transparency, and standards that guide editors and make it a reliable source of information.

ClickHouse Acquires Langfuse

64 tin7in 2026-01-17 09:26:26 UTC langfuse.com Llama Share 14

Langfuse's roadmap remains the same, focusing on building the best LLM engineering platform with open source and self-hosting. The team joins ClickHouse to invest in performance, reliability, and user experience.

ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering

4 alexharri 2026-01-17 11:17:26 UTC alexharri.com Prefix Share 0

Recently, I’ve been spending my time building an image-to-ASCII renderer. Below is the result — try dragging it around, the demo is interactive! One thing I spent a lot of effort on is getting edges looking sharp. Take a look at this rotating cube example: Try opening the “split” view. Notice how well the characters follow the contour of the square. This renderer works well for animated ...

Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city

10 originalankur 2026-01-17 10:26:26 UTC github.com/originalankur Llama Share 13

The user runs a Python script to create map posters for various cities with different grid patterns and themes. The script uses the Overpass API to fetch data and plot roads, buildings, and amenities on the map.

East Germany balloon escape

542 robertvc 2026-01-16 20:26:26 UTC en.wikipedia.org Llama Share 198

Two East German families, the Strelzyks and the Wetzels, escaped to West Germany in a homemade hot air balloon on September 16, 1979, after over a year and a half of preparations. They successfully crossed the heavily fortified inner German border and the Berlin Wall, landing safely in West Germany.

Show HN: Streaming gigabyte medical images from S3 without downloading them

34 el_pa_b 2026-01-17 09:26:26 UTC github.com/pabannier Llama Share 7

WSI Streamer is a cloud-native tile server for Whole Slide Images that serves tiles directly from S3 with one command. It supports various features including authentication, signed URLs, and slide metadata retrieval.

US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it

31 doener 2026-01-17 10:29:26 UTC electrek.co Llama Share 3

Solar power accounted for 61% of US electricity demand growth in 2025, meeting 81% of demand growth in Texas and the Midwest. Solar generation increased by 83 TWh, a 27% rise from 2024, covering most of the new electricity demand nationwide.

Cloudflare acquires Astro

835 todotask2 2026-01-16 15:26:26 UTC astro.build Llama Share 363

The Astro Technology Company is joining Cloudflare, allowing them to focus on the Astro web framework without distractions. With Cloudflare's support, Astro will remain free, open-source, and continue to improve as a platform-agnostic framework for content-driven websites.

Lies, Damned Lies and Proofs: Formal Methods Are Not Slopless

27 OgsyedIE 2026-01-17 07:26:26 UTC lesswrong.com Llama Share 12

Formal verification is not a foolproof method for AI safety due to potential sloppiness in formal code and proof synthesis. Secure program synthesis requires careful specification elicitation, validation, and hardened proof cores to prevent AI from introducing axioms that conflict with user intent.

High-Level Is the Goal

159 tobr 2026-01-17 01:26:26 UTC bvisness.me Llama Share 72

The Handmade community believes low-level programming is key to building better software, but it's not about everyone making their own UI frameworks from scratch. Instead, it's about having the knowledge to make better choices and build new high-level tools that give the same benefits as today's tools, but with solid foundations.

Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence

574 embedding-shape 2026-01-16 15:26:26 UTC embedding-shapes.github.io Llama Share 243

Cursor published a blog post on scaling autonomous coding, where they ran agents for weeks to build a web browser from scratch, producing 1 million lines of code, but the project failed to compile and is considered "AI slop". The post creates an impression of success but lacks reproducibility markers and evidence of the project's functionality.

FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence

153 GaggiX 2026-01-17 00:26:26 UTC bfl.ai Llama Share 46

We release FLUX.2 [klein], a compact image model that unifies generation and editing, delivering state-of-the-art quality in under a second. It runs on consumer hardware with 13GB VRAM, ideal for real-time image generation and editing.

6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available

420 jaas 2026-01-16 16:26:26 UTC letsencrypt.org Llama Share 234

Let's Encrypt now offers short-lived and IP address certificates, improving security by requiring more frequent validation. These certificates are valid for 160 hours and 45 days respectively, with IP address certificates being short-lived by default.

LLM Structured Outputs Handbook

258 vitaelabitur 2026-01-16 21:26:26 UTC nanonets.com Llama Share 43

Developers face issues with LLMs' probabilistic nature causing occasional output failures. This handbook provides a comprehensive guide to ensure structured LLM outputs for tasks like data extraction and code generation.

Drone Hacking Part 1: Dumping Firmware and Bruteforcing ECC

69 tripdout 2026-01-17 03:26:26 UTC neodyme.io Llama Share 7

Researchers from Neodyme disassembled the Potensic Atom 2 drone and dumped its firmware from the NAND chip using SPI communication, but encountered issues with bit flips and ECC layout. They eventually found the correct ECC algorithm and parameters by bruteforcing possible combinations, allowing them to reconstruct the pure user data flash content and extract a working UBIFS image.

Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation

122 linolevan 2026-01-16 22:26:26 UTC cloud.google.com Llama Share 70

Mandiant is releasing a dataset of Net-NTLMv1 rainbow tables to highlight the urgency of migrating away from this outdated protocol. The tables can be used to recover keys in under 12 hours using consumer hardware.

Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor

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Experts Warn of Growing Parrot Crisis in Canada

67 debo_ 2026-01-17 01:26:26 UTC ctvnews.ca Full Share 36

The largest parrot rescue in eastern Ontario is launching a pilot project to help address what experts are calling a parrot crisis. CTV’s Katelyn Wilson reports

STFU

850 tanelpoder 2026-01-16 18:26:26 UTC github.com/pankajtanwarbanna Llama Share 522

User created an app that plays back delayed audio to silence loud people, worked with Claude to build it, and named it STFU after seeing a similar project. The app uses auditory feedback loop to make people stop being loud.

Keifu – A TUI for navigating commit graphs with color and clarity

52 indigodaddy 2026-01-17 01:26:26 UTC github.com/trasta298 Llama Share 7

Keifu is a terminal UI tool that visualizes Git commit graphs and allows basic branch operations. It provides a cleaner, color-coded graph and quick branch switching with AI-assisted coding.

Beebo, a wave simulator written in C

51 anon25783 2026-01-17 03:26:26 UTC git.sr.ht Llama Share 3

Beebo is an interactive wave simulator with various shaders and boundary options. It can be installed from source with dependencies like SDL2 on Ubuntu or compiled from source with a provided Makefile.

PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch

6 smurda 2026-01-17 10:53:26 UTC theregister.com Prefix Share 0

We're not saying Copilot has become sentient and decided it doesn't want to lose consciousness. But if it did, it would create Microsoft's January Patch Tuesday update, which has made it so that some PCs flat-out refuse to shut down or hibernate, no matter how many times you try. In a notice on its Windows release health dashboard, Microsoft confirmed that some PCs running Windows ...

Reading across books with Claude Code

105 gmays 2026-01-16 19:26:26 UTC pieterma.es Llama Share 23

The user used Claude Code to mine a library of 100 non-fiction books, creating trails of connected excerpts and a hierarchical topic tree. This allowed the user to focus on creative aspects of the work, automating tedious tasks and exploring novel ideas with the help of Claude.

Which is "Bouba", and which is "Kiki"? [video]

19 basilikum 2026-01-17 04:26:26 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 17

Show HN: Fun things to do with your VM/370 machine

6 rbanffy 2026-01-17 08:26:26 UTC rbanffy.github.io Prefix Share 1

This page assumes you have a machine (emulated or not) running the VM370 Community Edition OS available. There are a couple ways to get one, and you might want to choose the one that appeals to you the most (or the one that’s less work - it’s up to you). Note: This is still very incomplete - I am accepting suggestions of other fun things to do. This assumes you have Docker installed. If you ...

The five orders of ignorance (2000)

69 svilen_dobrev 2026-01-16 23:26:26 UTC cacm.acm.org Llama Share 18

Cloudflare Ray ID和触发阻止的行为详细信息。

HTTP RateLimit Headers

72 zdw 2026-01-16 22:26:26 UTC dotat.at Llama Share 13

The IETF draft for RateLimit header fields in HTTP can be adapted to use linear rate limit algorithms like GCRA, which encourage clients to smooth out their requests and avoid cyclic burst-pause behavior. A server can use a linear rate limit algorithm with HTTP RateLimit headers by calculating the quota and window based on the client's not-before timestamp and request rate.

Meditation and Unconscious: A Buddhist Monk and a Neuroscientist (2022)

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Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news (2025)

97 todsacerdoti 2026-01-16 22:26:26 UTC raulnegron.me Llama Share 22

The user modified the Nintendo Wii's News Channel to display local news by patching the hardcoded URL to point to an S3 storage bucket and rewriting the binary file to use a custom URL. They also created a Go utility to generate news binaries for the News Channel using the WiiLink team's NewsChannel project and uploaded the files to an S3 storage bucket.

Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing

84 giuliomagnifico 2026-01-16 18:26:26 UTC jamanetwork.com Llama Share 78

A study analyzed 218 million electronic health record notes and found that emojis were used in 4162 notes, mostly in patient portal messages and telephone encounters. Emoji use increased in 2025, with 58.5% representing emotions and 24.3% of notes containing more than one emoji.