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.

Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions

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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.

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.

Open Camera is a FOSS Camera App for Android

Open Camera is a free, open-source Android camera app with manual controls and features like geotagging and RAW file support. It requires Android 5.0 or later and uses Google's Material Design icons under Apache license.

Why it takes you and an elephant the same amount of time to poop

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The ancient Chinese practiced copromancy, the diagnosis of health based on the shape, size and texture of feces. So did the Egyptians, the Greeks and nearly every ancient culture. Even today, your doctor may ask when you last had a bowel movement and to describe it in exquisite detail. Sure, it's uncomfortable to talk about. But that's where science comes in, because what we don't ...

Apache Otava

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Otava performs statistical analysis of performance test results stored in CSV files, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, or Graphite database. It finds change-points and notifies about possible performance regressions.

Payphone Go

Open in Google Maps ↗ 📍 This address is verbatim from the California Public Utilities Commission. The pin on the map is a best guess. It might be a little off. Or phone might not even be there anymore. The first person to call from a payphone can leave a voicemail that gets posted here.

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.

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

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.

Triplet Superconductor

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Scientists may have found a long-sought triplet superconductor, NbRe, which could dramatically improve quantum computers and spintronic technology. If verified, it could lead to the most energy-efficient technologies ever developed.

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.

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.

LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor

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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.

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.

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.

Global warming has accelerated significantly

Recent analysis found that global warming has accelerated after 2015, exceeding previous 10-year periods. Adjusted data account for natural variability factors like El Niño, volcanism, and solar variation.

Show HN: A trainable, modular electronic nose for industrial use

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A digital nose called Sniphi captures real-time scent data using sensors and AI-powered analysis. It can be integrated with existing Microsoft environments and deployed as intelligent sensors for instant identification and automated actions.

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.

Supertoast tables

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A startup, Hatchet, used Postgres for data storage but faced issues with large jsonb data filling up disk space. They developed a "write-and-swap" approach to offload infrequently accessed data to S3, reducing costs and improving performance.

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.

Paul Brainerd, founder of Aldus PageMaker, has died

We might all be AI engineers now

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The author is having more fun than ever building systems with AI, where the models do the heavy lifting and they do the thinking. They're shipping high-quality software in hours, not days, and debugging is on steroids with AI agents executing their problem-solving instincts.

It took four years until 2011’s iOS 5 gave everyone an emoji keyboard

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In 2008, iPhone users had to hack their devices to access emoji, with some developers creating apps that enabled the feature by toggling a hidden preference. It took until 2011 for Apple to include emoji support in iOS 5, but the early workaround was discovered by developer Steven Throughton-Smith in 2008.

70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023)

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Bruno Schröder, a German mining engineer, collected over 70,000 books in his secret library, which he built and organized himself. After his passing in 2022, his massive book collection remains unsold due to its size and the difficulty of registering antique books for sale.

Xous security focused open source on 22nm custom silicon

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A new release for the Xous ecosystem includes a custom chip, Baochip-1x, and updates to the kernel, libraries, and bootloader. The release is mostly for developers, with no changes relevant to Precursor users, who can safely skip applying it.

System76 on Age Verification Laws

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The author reflects on their childhood obsession with orderliness sparked by road trips and limited access to information, contrasting it with their child's ability to easily access knowledge and technology. The author argues that laws restricting minors' access to technology are ineffective and limit their potential.

The Brand Age

The Swiss watch industry faced a crisis in the 1970s due to Japanese competition, exchange rate changes, and quartz movements, but survived by transforming into luxury brands. This shift led to a new era where branding and design conflicted, with brands prioritizing visibility over quality and design.