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UK offshore wind prices come in 40% cheaper than gas in record auction
electrek.co

Michelle Lewis - The UK awarded 8.4 GW of offshore wind projects at prices far below gas and nuclear, saving consumers nearly £1.7 billion a year.

JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3
github.com/juicedata

JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3. - juicedata/juicefs

‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid
werd.io

"Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground."

Dutch experts warn US takeover of DigiD platform poses security risks
nltimes.nl

Dutch privacy advocates, legal scholars and technology experts are demanding immediate transparency from the Ministry of Economic Affairs over the planned acquisition of Solvinity, the Dutch company that operates the platform underlying DigiD, by the U.S. multinational Kyndryl, citing risks to national security, de Volkskrant reports.

Zuck#: A programming language for connecting the world. And harvesting it
jayzalowitz.github.io

The Zucc (definitely human) - A PHP-inspired esoteric programming language. STEAL_DATA, SENATOR_WE_RUN_ADS, PIVOT_TO_METAVERSE. Move fast and break things.

Denmark's struggle to break up with Silicon Valley
politico.eu

From a media blockade to “nationalizing” government software, Denmark has become a laboratory for resisting U.S. Big Tech. But is the price of sovereignty too high?

CVEs affecting the Svelte ecosystem
svelte.dev
Italy's privacy watchdog, scourge of US big tech, hit by corruption probe
reuters.com
Supply Chain Vuln Compromised Core AWS GitHub Repos & Threatened the AWS Console
wiz.io

Wiz Research discovered CodeBreach, a critical vulnerability that risked the AWS Console supply chain. Learn how to secure your AWS CodeBuild pipelines.

GitHub Incident
githubstatus.com
Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?
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Americans Overwhelmingly Support Science, but Some Think the U.S. Is Lagging
scientificamerican.com

Claire Cameron - A new report finds that a majority of Americans think the U.S. should be a world leader in science, but Democrats increasingly believe other countries are catching up

Design and Implementation of Sprites
fly.io

So that we may educate as well as horrify: the internals of our new Sprites execution platform.

European military personnel arrive in Greenland as Trump says US needs island
bbc.com

France says a 15-strong French military contingent has arrived and more forces will be there in the coming days.

Found: Medieval Cargo Ship – Largest Vessel of Its Kind Ever
smithsonianmag.com

Sonja Anderson - Spotted off the coast of Denmark, the "Svaelget 2" is a cog, a kind of large trading vessel used in the Middle Ages. Experts say the 600-year-old discovery is "exceptionally well-preserved"

Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage
culpium.com

Tim Culpan - [Exclusive] A 15-year relationship helped TSMC grow and Apple leap ahead of rivals. Nvidia is stealing the spotlight, but Apple's importance is not over.

OBS Studio 32.1.0 Beta 1 available
github.com/obsproject

32.1 New Features Added new Audio Mixer [Warchamp7] Added new Add Source dialog [Warchamp7] Added WebRTC Simulcast Support [Sean-Der] Added missing undo/redo actions for scene items [cg2121] Scal...

The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis
404media.co

Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground.

Nvidia Reportedly Ends GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Production, RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB Next
techpowerup.com

NVIDIA has reportedly stopped production of its mid-range GeForce RTX 5070 Ti graphics card, according to ASUS, one of the largest PC manufacturers. ASUS shared exclusive information with Hardware Unboxed, revealing that NVIDIA has created a supply shortage for the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, effectively e...

I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows
theverge.com

Stevie Bonifield - One year on Linux, two distros, a few tears, four desktop environments, and zero regrets about leaving Windows.

Show HN: TinyCity – A tiny city SIM for MicroPython (Thumby micro console)
github.com/chrisdiana
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TinyCity is a city simulation game inspired by SimCity for MicroPython - chrisdiana/TinyCity

Programming, Evolved: Lessons and Observations
github.com/kulesh

dotfiles. Contribute to kulesh/dotfiles development by creating an account on GitHub.

25 Years of Wikipedia
wikipedia25.org
French Court Orders Popular VPNs to Block More Pirate Sites, Despite Opposition
torrentfreak.com
Danish Armed Forces expand their presence and continue exercises in Greenland
fmn.dk

The geopolitical tensions have spread to the Arctic. The Government of Greenland, and the Danish Ministry of Defence have therefore decided to continue the Danish Armed Forces’ increased exercise activity in Greenland, in close cooperation with NATO allies. From today, there will be an expanded military presence in and around Greenland – in close cooperation with NATO allies. The purpose is to train the ability to op

The 500k-ton typo: Why data center copper math doesn't add up
investinglive.com

Nvidia made a mistake in a technical paper and everyone ran with it

Germany's Merz Admits Nuclear Exit Was Strategic Mistake
clashreport.com

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has acknowledged that Germany’s decision to abandon nuclear energy was a “serious strategic mistake” and criticized the country’s current energy transition as the most expensive in the world.

Banning Things for Other People Is Easy
dogdogfish.com

Matt - Australia has moved to require social media companies to prevent under 16s from holding an account, and there’s always talk of us following suit in the UK. I want to talk a little today about why I think that’s a bad idea.

The 3D Software Rendering Technology of 1998's Thief: The Dark Project (2019)
nothings.org
Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and Solar Buildout
e360.yale.edu
Python: Tprof, a Targeting Profiler
adamj.eu
Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs
jeffgeerling.com

Today Raspberry Pi launched their new $130 AI HAT+ 2 which includes a Hailo 10H and 8 GB of LPDDR4X RAM. With that, the Hailo 10H is capable of running LLMs entirely standalone, freeing the Pi's CPU and system RAM for other tasks. The chip runs at a maximum of 3W, with 40 TOPS of INT8 NPU inference performance in addition to the equivalent 26 TOPS INT4 machine vision performance on the earlier AI HAT with Hailo 8.

Have Taken Up Farming
dylan.gr
To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI
passo.uno

Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti - Hey you, Yes, you, who are thinking about not hiring a technical writer this year or, worse, erased one or more technical writing positions last year because of AI. You, who are buying into the promise of docs entirely authored by LLMs without expert oversight or guidance. You, who unloaded the weight of docs on your devs’ shoulders, as if it was a trivial chore. You are making a big mistake. But you can still undo t

Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app
github.com/cjpais

A free, open source, and extensible speech-to-text application that works completely offline. - cjpais/Handy

The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible
creepylink.com

Make your links look as suspicious as possible

Bubblewrap: A nimble way to prevent agents from accessing your .env files
patrickmccanna.net
Is passive investment inflating a stockmarket bubble?
economist.com
Ask HN: What is the best way to provide continuous context to models?
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Furiosa: 3.5x efficiency over H100s
furiosa.ai

Furiosa RNGD Server is an enterprise-ready turnkey appliance designed to bring world-class performance to any on-prem or private cloud deployment.

New Safari developer tools provide insight into CSS Grid Lanes
webkit.org

You might have heard recently that Safari Technology Preview 234 landed the final plan for supporting masonry-style layouts in CSS.

Anthropic Explicitly Blocking OpenCode
gist.github.com

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

EU-US relationship is 'disintegrating,' says Germany's vice chancellor
politico.eu

While Chancellor Friedrich Merz has been cautious in responding to Trump’s Greenland rhetoric, Lars Klingbeil is taking a far harder line.

Billion-Dollar Idea Generator
pivotgpt.ceo
Apple: You (Still) Don't Understand the Vision Pro
stratechery.com

The first live sporting event was broadcast in the Vision Pro, and it’s a big disappointment. The experience could be amazing, but Apple actively ruins it.

US, for first time in 50 years, experienced negative net migration in 2025
abcnews.go.com

ABC News - The U.S. experienced negative net migration in 2025 for the first time in at least half a century, according to a report released by the Brookings Institution.

Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?
news.ycombinator.com
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ChromaDB Explorer
chroma-explorer.com

Chroma Explorer - A beautiful, native desktop application for exploring and managing your ChromaDB vector databases.

Crafting Interpreters
craftinginterpreters.com
Scaling long-running autonomous coding
cursor.com

Wilson Lin - We've been experimenting with running coding agents autonomously for weeks at a time.

The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography
cryptography.io
Germany joins European partners with troop deployment to Greenland
reuters.com
Sun Position Calculator
drajmarsh.bitbucket.io
The Influentists: AI hype without proof
carette.xyz

Why we are losing technical rigor to social hype

GOG's new owner can't stand Windows either: 'It's such poor-quality software '
pcgamer.com

He's just like me, for real.

Microsoft keeps reinstalling Copilot, so I found a way to rip it out for good
howtogeek.com

You can get rid of all those stubborn AI components for better privacy and performance.

Wind power slashed 4.6B euros off electricity bills in Spain last year
surinenglish.com

Cristina Cándido - The sector has called for the unblocking of projects and the promotion of measures to comply with the national energy and climate plan

Claude Cowork exfiltrates files
promptarmor.com

Claude Cowork is vulnerable to file exfiltration attacks via indirect prompt injection as a result of known-but-unresolved isolation flaws in Claude's code execution environment.

Every country should set 16 as the minimum age for social media accounts
afterbabel.com

Jon Haidt - Four features of strong age-limit policies for countries ready to follow Australia’s brave lead

US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says
reuters.com
The string theory hype machine will never die
math.columbia.edu

The string hype machine will never die. This week we have Press releases from RPI and Northeastern tell us Scientists Use String Theory to Crack the Code of Natural Networks and How String Theory H…

Ask HN: How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access?
news.ycombinator.com
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US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says
reuters.com
Verizon outages reported across U.S.
firstcoastnews.com

Verizon said it's working to resolve outages, which are affecting the eastern half of the country.

Native ZFS VDEV for Object Storage (OpenZFS Summit)
zettalane.com
Jeff Bezos hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud
windowscentral.com

Amazon's Jeff Bezos once revealed how he thinks of local PC hardware as antiquated, ready to be replaced by cloud options. Will DRAM prices make it come true?

Show HN: Tabstack – Browser infrastructure for AI agents (by Mozilla)
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Show HN: Sparrow-1 – Audio-native model for human-level turn-taking without ASR
tavus.io
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Sparrow-1 is a specialized, multilingual audio model for real-time conversational flow and floor transfer. It predicts when a system should listen, wait, or speak, enabling response timing that mirrors human conversation rather than simply responding as fast as possible.

Remember when you owned stuff?
doctorow.medium.com
Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
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So, you’ve hit an age gate. What now?
eff.org

Erica Portnoy - This blog also appears in our Age Verification Resource Hub: our one-stop shop for users seeking to understand what age-gating laws actually do, what’s at stake, how to protect yourself, and why EFF opposes all forms of age verification mandates. Head to EFF.org/Age to explore our resources and...

Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales
electrek.co

Fred Lambert - The Tesla Cybertruck program is in shambles. The latest data indicate production is running at roughly 10% of its planned...

Show HN: Grsh – A high-performance shell for FreeBSD written in Rust
grimreaper.icu
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Potenzia il tuo sistema con GRSH e DIR. Strumenti moderni per sviluppatori FreeBSD e macOS.

US freezes visas for 75 nations
english.mathrubhumi.com

US State Department to halt visa processing for 75 countries citing `public charge` risks.

Ask HN: Share your personal website
news.ycombinator.com
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4k tons of potatoes to be given away for free in Berlin
the-berliner.com

The Berliner - Berliner Morgenpost and Ecosia are giving away an enormous crop of potatoes for free to Berliners to save them from waste.

Project SkyWatch (a.k.a. Wescam at Home)
ianservin.com

Ian Servin - How I converted a cheap PTZ camera into a high-performance DIY optical aircraft tracker using OpenCV, Kalman filters, and PID control.

Sorry, Eh
pluralistic.net
Tesla moving Full Self-Driving to a monthly subscription
cnbc.com
How have prices changed in a year? NPR checked 114 items at Walmart
npr.org

We found the effects of tariffs and extreme weather, relief (finally!) in the egg cooler, plus one case of shrinkflation.

The unbearable frustration of figuring out APIs
blog.ar-ms.me
GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source
blog.greg.technology

Listen to me.

Epic fined €1.1M over manipulating children through in app purchases
nos.nl

Volgens de Autoriteit Consument en Markt worden kinderen in het spel gemanipuleerd om geld uit te geven.

How much of my observability data is waste?
usetero.com

After a decade in observability, I kept bumping into one question no vendor would answer: how much of your data is waste?

Show HN: A 10KiB kernel for cloud apps
github.com/ReturnInfinity
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BareMetal for the private/public cloud. Contribute to ReturnInfinity/BareMetal-Cloud development by creating an account on GitHub.

Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB
starlink.com
Show HN: Xoscript
xoscript.com
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Find a pub that needs you
ismypubfucked.com

Ben Guerin - Pubs are under pressure from rising costs, taxes, and business rates. Find out how your local is affected and show up for them.

How Iran Switched Off the Internet
ft.com

Tehran went from ‘halal internet’ to near-total blackout but activists have smuggled in Starlink devices to get information out

Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK
bbc.com

There will still be digital checks on those starting a new job, but people will not need to hold a digital ID.

Denmark sends military reinforcements to Greenland
dr.dk

En fortrop fra Forsvaret er ankommet til Grønland, erfarer DR.

Show HN: Digital Carrot – Block social media with programmable rules and goals
digitalcarrot.app
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Maggots, an efficient source of protein
smithsonianmag.com

Mary Roach - Inexpensive to raise and insatiably hungry for trash, black soldier fly larvae are already on the menu for livestock, pets and, maybe soon, people

FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home
theguardian.com

Agents searched Hannah Natanson’s Virginia home and seized devices in inquiry tied to a classified materials case

Never-before-seen Linux malware is "more advanced than typical"
arstechnica.com

VoidLink includes an unusually broad and advanced array of capabilities.

Show HN: Nori CLI, a better interface for Claude Code (no flicker)
github.com/tilework-tech
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A CLI built for agentic development. Contribute to tilework-tech/nori-cli development by creating an account on GitHub.

Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?
news.ycombinator.com
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Edge of Emulation: Game Boy Sewing Machines (2020)
shonumi.github.io

Emulating the unknown: Controlling Sewing Machines with a Game Boy

SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
sparkfun.com
Show HN: Webctl – Browser automation for agents based on CLI instead of MCP
github.com/cosinusalpha
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Browser automation via CLI — for humans and agents - cosinusalpha/webctl

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