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Show HN: Eyesite - experimental website combining computer vision and web design
blog.andykhau.com
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Andy Khau - Development journal of eyesite.

Microsoft Office migration from Source Depot to Git
danielsada.tech

Daniel Sada - Part 7 of my software journey, getting to know developer experience.

Show HN: The Roman Industrial Revolution that could have been
thelydianstone.com
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The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers
ztoz.blog
Social media use increases depression in preteens, not vice versa
medicalxpress.com

As rates of depression and suicide in youth spike, experts are asking whether social media makes kids depressed—or do depressed kids simply spend more time on social media?

The first big AI disaster is yet to happen
seangoedecke.com

The first public passenger locomotive, Locomotion No. 1, began service in September 1825. The first mass-casualty railway disaster happened seventeen years…

Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub
github.com/AasishPokhrel

We wanted to congratulate you on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub! ➜ curl -s https://api.github.com/repositories/1000000000 { "id": 1000000000, "node_id": "R_kgDOO5rKAA", "name": "sh...

Institutional Books: A 242B token dataset from Harvard Library's collections
arxiv.org

Large language models (LLMs) use data to learn about the world in order to produce meaningful correlations and predictions. As such, the nature, scale, quality, and diversity of the datasets used to train these models, or to support their work at inference time, have a direct impact on their quality. The rapid development and adoption of LLMs of varying quality has brought into focus the scarcity of publicly availabl

Chatterbox TTS
github.com/resemble-ai

SoTA open-source TTS. Contribute to resemble-ai/chatterbox development by creating an account on GitHub.

Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole
port.ac.uk

In this blog, Professor Enrique Gaztanaga from the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth, puts forward a new theory about how the Universe was created.

EchoLeak – 0-Click AI Vulnerability Enabling Data Exfiltration from 365 Copilot
aim.security

The first weaponizable zero-click attack chain on an AI agent, resulting in the complete compromise of Copilot data integrity

Darwin Godel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents
arxiv.org

Today's AI systems have human-designed, fixed architectures and cannot autonomously and continuously improve themselves. The advance of AI could itself be automated. If done safely, that would accelerate AI development and allow us to reap its benefits much sooner. Meta-learning can automate the discovery of novel algorithms, but is limited by first-order improvements and the human design of a suitable search space.

Farmers fuming over California's ban on driverless tractors, other robots
nbcbayarea.com

From flame-wielding robots to driverless tractors, autonomous technology is fueling a robot revolution across America’s farmlands.

Show HN: Spark, An advanced 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer for Three.js
sparkjs.dev
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An advanced 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer for THREE.js

Brian Wilson has died
pitchfork.com

Madison Bloom - The beloved musician had been living with a neurocognative disorder akin to dementia

Markdown Ninja: markdown-first CMS for bloggers, minimalists and startups.
github.com/bloom42

Markdown-first CMS for bloggers, minimalists and startups. Open Source alternative to Substack, Mailchimp and Netlify - https://markdown.ninja - bloom42/markdown-ninja

Dolly Parton's Dollywood Express
thetransitguy.substack.com

Hayden Clarkin - What Dollywood says about the state of America's Transit

Medical aid in dying, my health, and so on
blog.the-brannons.com
Ultra Ethernet Specification v1.0 [pdf]
ultraethernet.org
Disney and Universal Sue Midjourney for Copyright Infringement
nytimes.com
V-JEPA 2 world model and new benchmarks for physical reasoning
ai.meta.com
AI at Amazon: A case study of brittleness
surfingcomplexity.blog

A year ago, Mihail Eric wrote a blog post detailing his experiences working on AI inside Amazon: How Alexa Dropped the Ball on Being the Top Conversational System on the Planet. It’s a great …

Show HN: RomM – An open-source, self-hosted ROM manager and player
github.com/rommapp
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A beautiful, powerful, self-hosted rom manager and player. - rommapp/romm

Bypassing GitHub Actions policies in the dumbest way possible
blog.yossarian.net
Monero vs. ZCash: A Comprehensive Comparison of the so-called "Privacy coins"
monero.forex

Trevor Baaddi - In the realm of privacy-focused cryptocurrencies, Monero (XMR) and ZCash (ZEC) stand out as two of the most widely recognized projects.

X's Sales Pitch: Give Us Your Ad Business or We'll Sue
wsj.com
S5cmd: Parallel S3 and local filesystem execution tool
github.com/peak

Parallel S3 and local filesystem execution tool. Contribute to peak/s5cmd development by creating an account on GitHub.

DeskHog, an open-source developer toy
posthog.com

It's a developer toy that brings developers joy. Open-source. 3D-printed. Palm-sized.

Mapbox Geospatial MCP Server
github.com/mapbox

Mapbox Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. Contribute to mapbox/mcp-server development by creating an account on GitHub.

OpenPlanetData – Free Daily Planet OSM PBF and GOL Indexed Snapshots
openplanetdata.com
Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application
ikuyo.kenrick95.org
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Plan your next trip!

Menstrual tracking app data is gold mine for advertisers that risks women safety
cam.ac.uk

Cambridge researchers urge public health bodies like the NHS to provide trustworthy, research-driven alternatives to platforms driven by profit.

Firefox OS's story from a Mozilla insider not working on the project (2024)
ludovic.hirlimann.net
US ambassador to Israel:US no longer pursuing goal independent Palestinian state
theguardian.com

Mike Huckabee suggested any future Palestinian state should be carved out of ‘a Muslim country’

Steve Jobs would have fired everyone
twitter.com
Show HN: DIY virtual HDMI monitor using "AR" glasses
github.com/mgschwan
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Virtual display with Viture Pro XR glasses using hdmi in on an OrangePi - mgschwan/viture_virtual_display

Show HN: S3mini – Tiny and fast S3-compatible client, no-deps, edge-ready
github.com/good-lly
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👶 Tiny S3 client. Edge computing ready. No-dep. In Typescript. Works with @cloudflare @minio @backblaze @digitalocean @garagehq - good-lly/s3mini

EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR (2021)
shkspr.mobi

Terence Eden - Welcome to acronym city! The Court of Appeal of Brussels has made an interesting ruling. A customer complained that their bank was spelling the customer's name incorrectly. The bank didn't have support for diacritical marks. Things like á, è, ô, ü, ç etc. Those accents are common in many languages. So it was a little surprising that the bank didn't support them. The bank refused to spell their c…

Left-Pad (2024)
azerkoculu.com
AlphaWrite: AI that improves at writing by evolving its own stories
tobysimonds.com

Toby Simonds - You can try AlphaWrite out here Code Repository: AlphaWrite on GitHub

Why Koreans ask what year you were born
bryanhogan.com

Bryan Hogan - Why age is crucial in Korea, affecting language, respect, and social relationships. What is Korean & international age?

Introducing stronger dependencies on systemd
blogs.gnome.org

PSA for systemd-free distros about work they'll need to do to continue running GNOME

I need your help. This channel is set for deletion [video]
youtube.com
What MS-DOS Can Do That Linux Can't
webarchive.me
Airlines Don't Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS
wired.com

Joseph Cox - A contract obtained by 404 Media shows that an airline-owned data broker forbids the feds from revealing it sold them detailed passenger data.

It's the end of observability as we know it (and I feel fine)
honeycomb.io

Austin Parker - The history of observability tools over the past decade has been about a pretty simple concept, but LLMs bring the death of that paradigm.

Fine-tuning LLMs is a waste of time
codinginterviewsmadesimple.substack.com

Devansh - People think they can use Fine-Tune for Knowledge Injection. People are Wrong

Modern Minimal Perfect Hashing: A Survey
arxiv.org

Given a set $S$ of $n$ keys, a perfect hash function for $S$ maps the keys in $S$ to the first $m \geq n$ integers without collisions. It may return an arbitrary result for any key not in $S$ and is called minimal if $m = n$. The most important parameters are its space consumption, construction time, and query time. Years of research now enable modern perfect hash functions to be extremely fast to query, very space-e

The Gentle Singularity
blog.samaltman.com

We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be. Robots...

Google offers buyouts to employees across the company, including Search
cnbc.com
Chatbots are replacing Google's search, devastating traffic for some publishers
wsj.com
Show HN: I made a 3D printed VTOL drone
tsungxu.com
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Tsung Xu - With no background in CAD, 3D printing or aerodynamics modeling

Show HN: A “Course” as an MCP Server
mastra.ai
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Learn how to build powerful AI agents with Mastra. Master tools, memory, and MCP integration to create sophisticated AI applications.

OpenAI o3-pro
help.openai.com
Another Crack in the Chain of Trust: Uncovering (Yet Another) Secure Boot Bypass
binarly.io

Binarly uncovers CVE-2025-3052: a Secure Boot bypass affecting most UEFI devices, enabling attackers to run unsigned code before OS load.

A Family of Non-Periodic Tilings, Describable Using Elementary Tools
arxiv.org

We present a construction of a family of non-periodic tilings using elementary tools such as modular arithmetic and vector geometry. These tilings exhibit a distinct type of structural regularity, which we term modulo-staggered rotational symmetry. The construction is self-contained and does not rely on previous tiling theories or systems.

Launch HN: Vassar Robotics (YC X25) – $219 robot arm that learns new skills
news.ycombinator.com
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Detection of hidden cellular GPS vehicle trackers
researchgate.net
Xeneva Operating System
github.com/manaskamal

The Xeneva Operating System. Contribute to manaskamal/XenevaOS development by creating an account on GitHub.

Show HN: MidWord – A Word-Guessing Game
midword.com
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Android 16 is here
blog.google

Here’s a look at the new features coming to Android 16.

Low-background Steel: content without AI contamination
blog.jgc.org

Somehow I forgot to blog my site: https://lowbackgroundsteel.ai/ . I created it back in March 2023 as a clearinghouse for online resources t...

OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%
twitter.com
A Blacklisted American Magician Became a Hero in Brazil
wsj.com
Show HN: Chili3d – A open-source, browser-based 3D CAD application
news.ycombinator.com
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Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
inkandswitch.com

The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.

Launch HN: BitBoard (YC X25) – AI agents for healthcare back-offices
news.ycombinator.com
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Dubious Math in Infinite Jest (2009)
thehowlingfantods.com

Administrator - The Howling Fantods - David Foster Wallace News and Resources Since March 97

Multigres: Vitess for Postgres
supabase.com

Today we are welcoming Sugu, the co-creator of Vitess, to the Supabase team. He is joining Supabase to build Multigres: Vitess for Postgres.

Always On, Always Connected, Always Searching, Always Distracted
leejo.github.io
Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI
mistral.ai

Stands to reason.

Plato got virtually everything wrong (2018)
prospectmagazine.co.uk

Julian Baggini - Big brain, big mistakes

Show HN: PyDoll – Async Python scraping engine with native CAPTCHA bypass
github.com/autoscrape-labs
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Pydoll is a library for automating chromium-based browsers without a WebDriver, offering realistic interactions. - GitHub - autoscrape-labs/pydoll: Pydoll is a library for automating chromium-base...

Finding Atari Games in Randomly Generated Data
bbenchoff.github.io

Brian Benchoff - Discovering Atari Games in Randomly Generated Data

Spoofing OpenPGP.js signature verification
codeanlabs.com

CVE-2025-47934 allows attackers to spoof arbitrary signatures and encrypted emails that appear as valid in OpenPGP.js. The only requirement is access to a single valid signed message from the target author ("Alice"). Since this undermines the core principle of PGP and impacts integrating applications directly, we strongly recommend updating OpenPGP.js to version v5.11.3, v6.1.1, or newer.

Teaching National Security Policy with AI
steveblank.com

The videos embedded in this post are best viewed on steveblank.com International Policy students will be spending their careers in an AI-enabled world. We wanted our students to be prepared for it.…

Mikeal Rogers has died
b.h4x.zip
Faster, easier 2D vector rendering [video]
youtube.com
The curious case of shell commands, or how "this bug is required by POSIX" (2021)
notes.volution.ro

About the fatal perils and traps of many modern tools that handle "shell commands" as passed through `system(3)` or `sh -c`. Or, how by the end of 2020, we still haven't given up on shell's equivalent "SQL building", or how shell's equivalent "SQL injection" still thrives in our engineering world... Plus a `glibc` bug, then a Linux man pages bug, then a POSIX specification bug...

Apple Fails to Clear a Low Bar on AI
wsj.com
Show HN: High End Color Quantizer
github.com/big-nacho
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off the charts color quantization 🎨. Contribute to big-nacho/patolette development by creating an account on GitHub.

"Localhost tracking" explained. It could cost Meta €32B
zeropartydata.es

Jorge García Herrero - You just can't finish off Zuckerberg.

WWDC25: macOS Tahoe Breaks Decades of Finder History
512pixels.net

Stephen Hackett - Something jumped out at me in the macOS Tahoe segment of the WWDC keynote today: the Finder icon is reversed. You can see that in the image below. On the left is macOS Sequoia, and on the right is macOS Tahoe: I know I am going to sound old and fussy, but Apple needs to […]

Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle
istories.media

The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services. An investigation by IStories

The Danish Ministry of Digitalization Is Switching to Linux and LibreOffice
politiken.dk

For første gang bliver suverænitet en prioritet i regeringens, kommunernes og regionernes fælles strategi for digitalisering.

Denmark: Minister for Digitalization wants to phase out Microsoft
nordjyske.dk

Digitaliseringsminister Caroline Stage (M) vil gøre op med afhængigheden af amerikanske techgiganter.

Mozilla shuts down even more Firefox services
neowin.net

Mozilla has announced the shutdown of several Firefox services as it shifts its focus and resources back to the core Firefox browser.

Heroku Is Down
status.heroku.com
Europe needs digital sovereignty – and Microsoft has just proven why
tuta.com

Call to action: Businesses already offer great European alternatives for digital sovereignty, authorities must start adopting them now!

Show HN: A MCP server and client implementing the latest spec
github.com/hemanth
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A comprehensive Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementing the latest specification. - hemanth/paws-on-mcp

Ada Continues to Climb in June Tiobe Index and PYPL
forum.ada-lang.io
Reinforcement Pre-Training
arxiv.org

In this work, we introduce Reinforcement Pre-Training (RPT) as a new scaling paradigm for large language models and reinforcement learning (RL). Specifically, we reframe next-token prediction as a reasoning task trained using RL, where it receives verifiable rewards for correctly predicting the next token for a given context. RPT offers a scalable method to leverage vast amounts of text data for general-purpose RL, r

World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says
bbc.co.uk

Hundreds of millions of people are not able to have the number of children they want, the UN warns.

Successful people set constraints rather than chasing goals
joanwestenberg.com

A few years ago, I sat across from a friend at a late dinner. He was telling me about his new promotion, the big title, the bonus, the corner office. I remember watching his face as he described it. He looked like someone describing a story he’d once believed

Micrographia (1665) [pdf]
arhipa.org
Scientific Papers: Innovation or Imitation?
johndcook.com

Wayne Joubert - Reactions to pioneering scientific publications often focus only on the small details of the discovery. We would do better by looking at the bigger picture.

AI Saved My Company from a 2-Year Litigation Nightmare
tylertringas.com

After 2+ years and a tremendous waste of energy and money, my firm Calm Company Fund resolved a lawsuit against us on very favorable terms. What started as one of the most challenging periods of my life became an unexpected masterclass in using AI to level the playing field against well-funded opponents. If you’re an... Continue reading →

Apple has announced its final version of macOS for Intel
tedium.co

After two decades, Apple has announced its final version of MacOS for Intel. Guess that means Hackintoshing is done, too.

Discrete Mathematics: An Open Introduction [pdf]
discrete.openmathbooks.org
Implementing DOES> in Forth, the entire reason I started this mess
boston.conman.org

Sean Conner - Implementing DOES> in Forth, the entire reason I started this mess

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