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America's Expanding Domestic Surveillance

The article discusses the expansion of domestic surveillance programs in the United States, highlighting growing concerns about privacy and civil liberties. It examines how government agencies are inc...

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fast16 | High-Precision Software Sabotage 5 Years Before Stuxnet

SentinelLabs researchers have uncovered fast16, a sophisticated cyber sabotage framework dating back to 2005 that targeted high-precision calculation software by patching code in memory to manipulate ...

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California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws

California will start issuing traffic tickets to autonomous vehicles that break traffic laws, marking a significant regulatory step for self-driving technology. The policy holds operators accountable ...

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Do_not_track

A new privacy-focused tool called 'Do_not_track' has gained significant attention on Hacker News with 132 points and 52 comments. The service appears to offer enhanced online tracking protection, refl...

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NHS Goes To War Against Open Source

NHS England is preparing to remove most of its open source repositories, citing security concerns related to AI vulnerability scanners like Mythos. A former government open source advocate criticizes ...

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stackless coroutines for gamedev in ~200 lines of C++

Vittorio Romeo presents a lightweight, stackless coroutine library for game development that addresses key limitations of C++20 coroutines. The ~200-line implementation offers allocation-free operatio...

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Reducing ML-KEM-768 encapsulation key sizes by 24 octets

A method is proposed to reduce ML-KEM-768 public key sizes by 24 octets by compressing polynomial coefficients more efficiently, leveraging techniques from NTRU Prime. This optimization addresses prac...

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AI-generated actors and scripts are now ineligible for Oscars

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has officially banned AI-generated actors and scripts from Oscar eligibility, requiring human performers and authors. This comes amid growing AI use in ...

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NetHack 5.0.0

NetHack 5.0.0 has been released, marking a significant update to the classic roguelike game with new features and improvements. The release has garnered substantial attention on Hacker News, reflectin...

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Dav2d

Dav2d is an AV1 decoder developed by VideoLAN, gaining attention on Hacker News with 264 points and 89 comments. The project represents a significant open-source implementation for decoding the modern...

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Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings

Roblox stock dropped 18% as increased spending on child safety measures negatively impacted bookings and financial performance. The company's earnings report highlighted the trade-off between user pro...

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Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine

Open Design is a project that enables developers to use AI coding agents as design engines, allowing for automated generation of UI/UX components and layouts. It has gained significant attention on Ha...

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How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?

The article explores the performance and size optimization of macOS virtual machines, providing benchmarks and insights into how efficiently macOS can run in a virtualized environment. It discusses pr...

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PEP 661 – Sentinel Values, accepted 5 years later

PEP 661 has been officially accepted after 5 years, introducing standardized sentinel values for Python 3.15. The proposal addresses the common need for unique placeholder values distinct from None in...

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Why TUIs are back

Terminal User Interfaces (TUIs) are experiencing a resurgence as developers seek immediate feedback and avoid the complexity of constantly-changing native GUI frameworks. The article draws parallels t...

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Agentic Coding is Burning Me Out

A developer shares their experience with agentic coding fatigue, arguing that AI-generated code disrupts the natural problem-solving rhythm of traditional programming. The author describes how LLMs pr...

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fabrica - A terminal-based minimal coding agent harness

Fabrica is a new terminal-based coding agent built in Rust that provides an interactive TUI for AI-assisted programming. It supports multiple AI providers including Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, an...

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A Letter from Dijkstra on APL(1982)

A 1982 letter from computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra critiques APL's polarizing nature, arguing that its influence on programmers' thinking styles—rather than usability—drives both admiration and ave...

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Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community

The article critiques how modern open-source platforms like GitHub have transformed maintainer roles into unpaid labor with bureaucratic burdens. It contrasts this with earlier open-source models that...

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Kirigami forms and configurations

Kirigami, the KDE UI framework, has introduced a new 'Forms' submodule to modernize form layouts beyond the traditional FormLayout. The new API provides a more flexible, card-based structure while mai...

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Libera Bot/LLM policy update

Libera Chat is updating its bot policy to address unsupervised LLM usage on its network, citing privacy concerns and incidents of data disclosure. The new rules will require explicit permission from c...

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Infrasound waves stop kitchen fires, but can they replace sprinklers?

Sonic Fire Tech demonstrates an AI-driven infrasound system that extinguishes kitchen fires by vibrating oxygen molecules away from flames. The startup aims to commercialize this acoustic suppression ...

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Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015)

This 2015 article from Microsoft's Raymond Chen explains the historical reasons why Windows maintains both TMP and TEMP environment variables. The duplication stems from legacy compatibility with diff...

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Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?

Noctua explains the technical and manufacturing challenges behind the delayed release of black-colored fan versions, detailing the complexities in material selection, production processes, and quality...

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Screw you Realtek

A homelab user details persistent issues with Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 NICs in Kubernetes nodes, initially resolving soft-hangs by switching from the in-kernel r8169 driver to the out-of-tree r8...

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The age of fast food

The article presents an analogy comparing AI coding to fast food - convenient for short-term tasks but unsustainable for complex development. It warns against over-reliance on AI for serious programmi...

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Protect Your Shed

A software engineer reflects on the value of maintaining personal side projects alongside enterprise work, arguing that personal projects help sustain engineering passion while enterprise work teaches...

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Farewell, Jeeves: Ask.com shuts down

Ask.com, the search engine and Q&A service formerly known as Ask Jeeves, has officially shut down after 30 years of operation. The platform, which pioneered natural language queries, was acquired by I...

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Musely secures $360M from General Catalyst without giving up equity

DTC healthcare brand Musely has secured $360 million in non-dilutive funding from General Catalyst, meaning the company did not give up equity. The capital will be used to aggressively expand customer...

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Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed

A research roundup highlights six intriguing but overlooked scientific stories, including studies on soda can crushing mechanics, dolphin swimming efficiency, and fungal communication via urine. These...

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Playing Esoteric Ebb is like rolling the dice with a great DM

Esoteric Ebb is a new CRPG inspired by Disco Elysium, featuring a fantasy D&D setting where players explore a mystery through dialogue, internal character debates, and dice-based decisions. The game e...