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I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years
gist.github.com

Why I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Helm local code execution via a malicious chart – CVE-2025-53547
github.com/helm

A Helm contributor discovered that a specially crafted `Chart.yaml` file along with a specially linked `Chart.lock` file can lead to local code execution when dependencies are updated. ### Impac...

Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions?
quuxplusone.github.io

Arthur O’Dwyer - On StackExchange, someone asks why programmers talk about “calling” a function. Several possible allusions spring to mind: Calling a function is like calling on a friend — we go, we stay a while, we come back. Calling a function is like calling for a servant — a summoning to perform a task. Calling a function is like making a phone call — we ask a question and get an answer from outside ourselves. The true

Where can I see Hokusai's Great Wave today?
greatwavetoday.com

Where can I see Hokusai's Great Wave today?

RapidRAW: A non-destructive and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor
github.com/CyberTimon

A beautiful, non-destructive, and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor built with performance in mind. - CyberTimon/RapidRAW

US court strikes down 'click-to-cancel' rule designed to make unsubscribing easy
theguardian.com

Rule would have kept businesses from forcing customers through lengthy chats or other barriers to cancellation

Libpostal: C library for parsing/normalizing street addresses around the world
github.com/openvenues

A C library for parsing/normalizing street addresses around the world. Powered by statistical NLP and open geo data. - openvenues/libpostal

Bulgaria to join euro area on 1 January 2026
ecb.europa.eu
Frame of preference A history of Mac settings, 1984–2004
aresluna.org

Marcin Wichary - A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.

Choosing a Database Schema for Polymorphic Data (2024)
dolthub.com

Nick Tobey - Blog for DoltHub, a website hosting databases made with Dolt, an open-source version-controlled SQL database with Git-like semantics.

Elon Musk's Grok praises Hitler, shares antisemitic tropes in new posts
axios.com
US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel
arstechnica.com

FTC failed to follow rulemaking process required by US law, judges rule.

US 'click to cancel' rule blocked by appeals court
reuters.com
Xenharmlib: A music theory library that supports non-western harmonic systems
xenharmlib.readthedocs.io

Xenharmonic (adj.): Pertaining to music which sounds unlike that composed in the familiar 12 tone equal-tempered scale. Ivor Darreg, Xenharmlib is a generalized music theory library that supports t...

Ask HN: What are some cool or underrated tech companies based in Canada?
news.ycombinator.com
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The Tradeoffs of SSMs and Transformers
goombalab.github.io
Dynamical origin of Theia, the last giant impactor on Earth
arxiv.org

Cosmochemical studies have proposed that Earth accreted roughly 5-10% of its mass from carbonaceous (CC) material, with a large fraction delivered late via its final impactor, Theia (the Moon-forming impactor). Here, we evaluate this idea using dynamical simulations of terrestrial planet formation, starting from a standard setup with a population of planetary embryos and planetesimals laid out in a ring centered betw

Brut: A New Web Framework for Ruby
naildrivin5.com

David Bryant Copeland - Brut: A New Web Framework for Ruby

Breaking Git with a carriage return and cloning RCE
dgl.cx
Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database
generalanalysis.com

Simon Willison - Here's yet another example of a lethal trifecta attack, where an LLM system combines access to private data, exposure to potentially malicious instructions and a mechanism to communicate data back …

Radium Music Editor
users.notam02.no
Show HN: A rain Pomodoro with brown noise, ASMR, and Middle Eastern music
forgetoolz.com
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Elevate deep focus with the world's most beautiful Pomodoro timer. Immerse in rain, brown noise, ambient music, Middle Eastern sounds & ASMR. No signup. No clutter. Just pure flow.

GlobalFoundries to Acquire MIPS
mips.com

newmips - Acquisition will expand GF portfolio with cutting-edge RISC-V processor IP and software tools for real-time computing in autonomous mobility, industrial automation, datacenter and intelligent edge applications MALTA, N.Y., and San Jose, Calif., July 8, 2025 – GlobalFoundries (Nasdaq: GFS) (GF) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire MIPS, a leading supplier of AI and processor […]

Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM
huggingface.co
Google can now read your WhatsApp messages
neowin.net

Google has released a feature that allows Gemini to access third-party apps, such as WhatsApp, even if you've turned off Gemini Apps Activity. Here's how to prevent that from happening.

Show HN: Sumble – knowledge graph for GTM data – query tech stack, key projects
sumble.com
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Zorin OS
zorin.com

Zorin - Discover the alternative to Windows and macOS designed to make your computer faster, more powerful, secure, and privacy-respecting.

Cloudflare: We Will Get Google to Provide a Way to Block AI Overviews
seroundtable.com

Barry Schwartz - A week or so ago, Cloudflare announced it would block AI bots by default and offer a new pay per crawl initiative to compensate you all for your content that AI just consumes for free. But as most SEOs know, Google AI Mode and AI Overviews can't be blocked without really blocking your site from Google Search.

Show HN: Jukebox – Free, Open Source Group Playlist with Fair Queueing
jukeboxhq.com
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Turn your phone or any device into a jukebox! Share a link with friends so they can add songs to your shared music queue.

TSA to end shoes-off policy for airport security screening
abcnews.go.com

ABC News - TSA will allow passengers to keep their shoes on when they go through the general security line at many major airports across the country.

Show HN: I built a tool to solve window management
aboveaverageuser.com
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Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future
steveblank.com

How did you go bankrupt?” Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises Every disruptive technology since the fire and the wheel have forced leaders to adapt …

NuxtLabs is joining Vercel
nuxtlabs.com

We’re joining Vercel to continue building the best developer experience for building fast and beautiful applications.

Post Office scandal may have led to more than 13 suicides, inquiry finds
theguardian.com

First report from Horizon IT hearings lays bare ‘disastrous’ human impact as 10,000 people seek compensation

A Marco Rubio impostor is using AI voice to call high-level officials
washingtonpost.com
Tell HN: I Lost Joy of Programming
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Firefox is fine. The people running it are not
theregister.com

Opinion: Mozilla's management is a bug, not a feature

Show HN: OffChess – Offline chess puzzles app
offchess.com
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OffChess - Play 100,000+ offline Chess puzzles for free.

WebAssembly: Yes, but for What?
queue.acm.org
SVGs that feel like GIFs
koaning.io

The moving image below is only 49Kb and has an incredibly high resolution. It's similar to a GIF but instead of showing moving images, it shows moving SVGs!

U.S. measles cases reach 33-year high as outbreaks spread
washingtonpost.com
The New York Times wants your private ChatGPT history – even the deleted parts
thehill.com

Today it’s ChatGPT. Tomorrow it could be your cleared browser history or your location data. The precedent is terrifying.

ChatGPT testing a mysterious new feature called 'study together'
techcrunch.com

Julie Bort - The mode is apparently the chatbot's way of becoming a better educational tool. Rather than providing answers to prompts, some say it asks more questions and requires the human to answer.

Trying to find meaning in owning an old Mac
blog.decryption.net.au

My Dad got to middle age and restored a classic car. I got to middle age and following that pattern with a computer instead.

DOJ goes after US citizen for developing anti-ICE app
appleinsider.com

The developer of an iPhone app for sharing sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers has been publicly threatened by the US Attorney General.

Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza
theguardian.com

Owen Jones - A devastating letter signed by over 100 BBC journalists underlines one of the great scandals of our age

SIMD.info – Reference tool for C intrinsics of all major SIMD engines
simd.info
ICE Using Border Facial Recognition Tech to ID Protesters and Activists in US
techdirt.com

The Trump Administration’s constant escalation of its mass deportation programs now means ICE, CBP, and other federal agencies must come up with thousands of arrests a day. This never had any…

Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business
projectionlab.com

Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business in four years.

LookingGlass: Generative Anamorphoses via Laplacian Pyramid Warping
studios.disneyresearch.com
China is increasingly a home to major brands
musgrave.substack.com

Paul Musgrave - My journey to a Huawei watch

Running a Certificate Transparency log
words.filippo.io
Tyr, a new Rust DRM driver targeting CSF-based ARM Mali GPUs
collabora.com

Developed in collaboration with Arm and Google, Tyr is a new Rust-based DRM driver targeting CSF-based ARM Mali GPUs.

I am uninstalling AI coding assistants from my personal computer
sam.sutch.net

Having binged on AI coding assistants for the past several months I've come to a realization about how they have had a negative effect my psychological well being.

New sphere-packing record stems from an unexpected source
quantamagazine.org

After just a few months of work, a complete newcomer to the world of sphere packing has solved one of its biggest open problems.

My first verified imperative program
markushimmel.de

Markus Himmel - One of the many exciting new features in the upcoming Lean 4.22 release is a preview of the new verification infrastructure for proving properties of imperative programs. In this post, I’ll take a first look at this feature, show a simple example of what it can do, and compare it to similar tools.

The Future of Forums Is Lies, I Guess
aphyr.com
Show HN: Ossia score – A sequencer for audio-visual artists
github.com/ossia
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ossia score, an interactive sequencer for the intermedia arts - ossia/score

Show HN: I Got Tired of Calculator Sites, So I Built My Own
news.ycombinator.com
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SUS Lang: The SUS Hardware Description Language
sus-lang.org
Show HN: Unlearning Comparator, a visual tool to compare machine unlearning
gnueaj.github.io
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tinymcp: Let LLMs control embedded devices via the Model Context Protocol
github.com/golioth

Let LLMs control embedded devices via the Model Context Protocol. - golioth/tinymcp

The era of exploration
yidingjiang.github.io
Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists
holovaty.com
Dyson, techno-centric design and social consumption
2earth.github.io
Tuning the Prusa Core One
arachnoid.com
Launch HN: Morph (YC S23) – Apply AI code edits at 4,500 tokens/sec
news.ycombinator.com
launch
Show HN: NYC Subway Simulator and Route Designer
buildmytransit.nyc
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CPU-X: CPU-Z for Linux
thetumultuousunicornofdarkness.github.io

CPU-X is a Free software that gathers information on CPU, motherboard and more.

Showh HN: Microjax – JAX in two classes and six functions
github.com/joelburget

A tiny autograd engine with a Jax-like API. Contribute to joelburget/microjax development by creating an account on GitHub.

Applite – A macOS native GUI for homebrew
aerolite.dev
I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links
noperator.dev

Welp, Pocket shuts down tomorrow despite our pleas for it to stay. While migrating1 all of my saved articles, I noticed that I’ve got almost 900 saved articles spanning nearly 7 years. That’s a goldmine of stuff-I-like data! Some quick analysis using xsv2: 𝄢 unzip pocket.zip && xsv headers part_000000.csv 1 title 2 url 3 time_added 4 tags 5 status 𝄢 xsv sample 1 part_000000.csv | xsv flatten title The Uncer

Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion
arxiv.org

We present Mercury, a new generation of commercial-scale large language models (LLMs) based on diffusion. These models are parameterized via the Transformer architecture and trained to predict multiple tokens in parallel. In this report, we detail Mercury Coder, our first set of diffusion LLMs designed for coding applications. Currently, Mercury Coder comes in two sizes: Mini and Small. These models set a new state-o

AI cameras change driver behavior at intersections
spectrum.ieee.org

AI cameras are transforming intersections into safer spaces. How are they changing driver behavior without invading privacy?

Ask HN: Any resources for finding non-smart appliances?
news.ycombinator.com
ask
XAI data center gets air permit to run 15 turbines, but imaging shows 24 on site
arstechnica.com

County health department accused of turning a “blind eye” to xAI’s alleged pollution.

Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge
businessinsider.com

Lee Chong Ming - Training Claude on copyrighted books it purchased was fair use, but piracy wasn't, the judge ruled.

Deno 2.4
deno.com

Deno bundle is back, alongside the addition of bytes and text imports, stabilized built-in OpenTelemetry, a new --preload flag, simplified dependency management with deno update, and more.

Poland's clean energy usage overtakes coal for first time
ft.com

Latest data indicates progress for EU country most dependent on the fossil fuel

'Improved' Grok Criticizes Democrats and Hollywood's 'Jewish Executives'
techcrunch.com

Anthony Ha - On Friday morning, Elon Musk declared, “We have improved @Grok significantly. You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions.”

Ziglings: Learn Zig by fixing broken programs
codeberg.org

ziglings - Learn the ⚡Zig programming language by fixing tiny broken programs.

The era of full stack chip designers
chipinsights.substack.com

Bharath Suresh - What are chip design teams going to look like in the future?

Why Austin Is Falling Out of Favor for Tech Workers
wsj.com
Southern Ocean Circulation Reversed
iefworld.org
High Performance Image Sensor Processing Using FPGAs [pdf]
oda.uni-obuda.hu
America has two labor markets now
axios.com
Show HN: A Language Server Implementation for SystemD Unit Files
github.com/JFryy
show

a language server implementation for systemd unit files made in rust 🦀 - JFryy/systemd-lsp

Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks
github.com/jackjackbits

bluetooth mesh chat, IRC vibes. Contribute to jackjackbits/bitchat development by creating an account on GitHub.

There's a COMPUTER inside my DS flashcart [video]
youtube.com
Show HN: Modernized file manager and program manager from Windows 3.x
github.com/brianluft
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Heirloom apps — Modernized File Manager and Program Manager for Windows - brianluft/heirloom

Swedish Campground (2004)
folklore.org
Centaur: A controversial leap towards simulating human cognition
insidescientific.com

Stefania Longo - Your Content Goes Here Your Content Goes Here Researchers have developed an AI model named Centaur, claiming it can simulate the human mind by training on a data set called Psych-101, which aggregates data from 160 psychology experiments, encompassing over 60,000 participants' decisions. Originally published in Nature, Centaur purportedly predicts human

The Broken Microsoft Pact: Layoffs and Performance Management
danielsada.tech

Daniel Sada - The unspoken agreement that made Microsoft's lower pay tolerable has fundamentally broken.

Intel's Lion Cove P-Core and Gaming Workloads
chipsandcheese.com

Chester Lam - Lion Cove is Intel’s latest high performance CPU architecture.

A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs
addxorrol.blogspot.com

In many discussions where questions of "alignment" or "AI safety" crop up, I am baffled by seriously intelligent people imbuing almost magic...

Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels
freyaindia.co.uk

Freya India - We are products with labels

Building the Rust Compiler with GCC
fractalfir.github.io
LLMs should not replace therapists
arxiv.org

Should a large language model (LLM) be used as a therapist? In this paper, we investigate the use of LLMs to *replace* mental health providers, a use case promoted in the tech startup and research space. We conduct a mapping review of therapy guides used by major medical institutions to identify crucial aspects of therapeutic relationships, such as the importance of a therapeutic alliance between therapist and client

Why English doesn't use accents
deadlanguagesociety.com

Colin Gorrie - And why French is full of them

Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography (2017)
crypto101.io

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