The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory

Toyota Fluorite: "console-grade" Flutter game engine

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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.

GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering

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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.

Single bone in Spain offers first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants

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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.

GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

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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.

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.

We rendered and embedded one million CAD files

Search CAD models with natural language

Should your developer company go open source?

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The author argues that open-source is not a distribution hack but an architectural decision that requires a clear understanding of the product, business model, and execution bar. To succeed with open-source, founders should focus on differentiations and persona alignment, and be willing to make strategic decisions that will last for years.

iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day

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Apple released iOS 26.3, iPadOS 26.3, and macOS Tahoe 26.3 with bug fixes and security improvements, addressing dozens of vulnerabilities. Apple recommends users update their devices as soon as possible to prevent potential exploitation.

It's all a blur

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A simple blur algorithm can be reversible by analyzing the averages of neighboring pixels. The original image can be reconstructed by subtracting the averages of neighboring pixels to find the underlying pixel values.

FAA halts all flights at El Paso airport for 10 days

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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.

Paragon accidentally uploaded a photo of its spyware control panel

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How Did the FBI Get Nancy Guthrie's Nest Doorbell Footage?

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The FBI obtained footage from Nancy Guthrie's Google Nest camera without her subscription, possibly from residual data or event history saved on the device. This raises concerns about Nest device privacy, but experts say the chances of footage being used against users are slim.

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

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My microwave oven started to malfunction at around five years old. It started to randomly power on the lamp, fan, and turntable. It progressively got worse over several weeks until it was mostly stuck on. The microwave oven is not usable when this happens: It behaves as if the door were open, causing the control panel to ignore button input and to stop cooking if it was cooking. The obvious ...

Show HN: Hibana – An Affine MPST Runtime for Rust

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Hibana is an affine MPST engine for Rust with a #![no_std] / #![no_alloc]-oriented core. Write your global choreography once, project it at compile time, and run affine cursors that prevent invalid protocol progression by construction. g::Program builds protocols with g::send / seq / par / route. Pure const fn composition, macro-free. Every step is a linear resource. You cannot skip a step, ...

Rome is studded with cannon balls (2022)

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Rome is filled with historical sites containing cannon balls from various battles. Guided tours are available to explore these sites and learn their stories.

Exposure Simulator

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The simulator works with Chrome or Firefox, simulating camera settings like depth-of-field and image noise. It offers three modes: Shutter Priority, Aperture Priority, and Manual, with a camera meter for exposure control.

Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place

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Preparing for winter storms involves thinking ahead, storing supplies, and knowing how to use equipment like generators and wood stoves. It also requires practical knowledge of tasks like shoveling snow, clearing roofs, and using alternative heat sources to stay warm and safe during power outages.

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.

Communities are not fungible

The value of a community lies in its unique, non-fungible relationships and shared history, which cannot be replicated or replaced once disrupted. Treating communities as interchangeable or optimizable resources is misguided, and every decision that disrupts an existing community carries a hidden cost of lost social capital and irreparable damage.

Show HN: Renovate – The Kubernetes-Native Way

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Renovate operator is installed on self-hosted infrastructure with Kubernetes, providing control and observability. It discovers projects, runs renovate jobs every 10 seconds, and executes up to a specified number of jobs in parallel.

Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Common vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)

End of an era for me: no more self-hosted git

User ended self-hosted git service due to AI scrapers, now using mirrors on large gitforges like GitLab and GitHub. Remaining self-hosted service is a static blog hosted on a webserver.

CoLoop (YC S21) Is Hiring Ex Technical Founders in London

CoLoop is a startup that helps companies avoid product-market fit issues, founded by ex-founders who have experienced near-death experiences. They're looking for ex-founders to join their team and work on agentic AI, with a flat structure and earned influence through skill and context.

A Cosmic Miracle: A Remarkably Luminous Galaxy at z=14.44 Confirmed with JWST

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A remarkably luminous galaxy, MoM-z14, has been confirmed at zspec=14.44, 280 million years after the Big Bang. Its properties suggest a young stellar population and possible formation of luminous supermassive stars in dense clusters.

Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data

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Researchers found Chrome extensions leaking user data to data brokers like Similarweb, which collects and resells browsing histories. The issue is alarming as it can be used for targeted advertising, corporate espionage, and credential harvesting.