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A triangle whose interior angles sum to zero
johndcook.com

John - In hyperbolic geometry, the sum of a the interior angles of a triangle can be any value less than π. If the sum is zero the triangle has area π.

Fabric Project
github.com/Fabric-Project

Node Creative Coding / 3D / Image Processing tool inspired by Quartz Composer - Fabric-Project/Fabric

Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship
kerrick.blog

Kerrick Long - I haven't published since April because I've been afraid. What was I afraid of? In this post I detail every single thing I've avoided admitting on this blog.

A first look at Django's new background tasks
roam.be

Django 6.0 introduces a built-in background tasks framework in `django.tasks`. But don't expect to phase out Celery, Huey or other preferred solutions just yet.

Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight
airbus.com

Analysis of a recent event involving an A320 Family aircraft has revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical. Read more.

Flight disruption warning as Airbus requests modifications to 6k planes
bbc.com

The European aerospace giant said it had found that intense radiation from the Sun could corrupt data crucial to flight controls.

Ask HN: What is the purpose of all these AI spam comments?
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Airbus A320 Fly by wire corrupted by radiation in flight
viewfromthewing.com

Gary Leff - Aviation insiders say an airworthiness directive may soon require software updates across the Airbus A320 fleet after investigators linked a JetBlue incident—where the aircraft entered a sudden uncommanded descent—to a faulty ELAC computer. Any grounding is expected to be short and staggered, with airlines updating the systems plane-by-plane to avoid major disruption.

Electron vs. Tauri
dolthub.com

Eric Richardson - Electron is the most popular framework for building desktop apps using web technologies. In this article, we'll discuss a newer alternative, Tauri, and weigh some of the pros and cons between the two frameworks.

How good engineers write bad code at big companies
seangoedecke.com

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The original ABC language, Python's predecessor (1991)
github.com/gvanrossum

The original ABC language (Python's predecessor), from 1991 - gvanrossum/abc-unix

Effective harnesses for long-running agents
anthropic.com

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Show HN: Pulse 2.0 – Live co-listening rooms where anyone can be a DJ
473999.net
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Livestream music with 1 click

How wealth dies
surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com

THE NOTIONAL VALUE TRAP Foreword Just as growth in the “real” economy of material products and services has been decelerating towards contraction, so aggregates of financial wealth have carried on …

Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
blog.tymscar.com

Imgur started blocking UK users. Rather than installing a VPN on every device, I set up a network-wide proxy that tunnels Imgur traffic through a VPN automatically.

28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset
clickhouse.com

Dataset containing 28+ million Hacker News postings & their vector embeddings

Molly: An Improved Signal App
molly.im

Molly is an improved Signal app for Android

JSON Schema Demystified: Dialects, Vocabularies and Metaschemas
iankduncan.com

An accessible guide to understanding the confusing terminology around JSON Schema. What are schemas, dialects, vocabularies, and metaschemas, and how do they all fit together?

Show HN: An LLM-Powered Tool to Catch PCB Schematic Mistakes
netlist.io
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Catch PCB schematic mistakes before fabrication

Anti-patterns while working with LLMs
instavm.io
C++ Web Server on my custom hobby OS
oshub.org

OSHub Team - Demo After a long break from working on my hobby operating system, I finally got back into it and finished a very important milestone: a working ...

Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism
lux-magazine.com

Internet surveillance has killed eroticism. We need privacy to reclaim it.

Apple and Intel Rumored to Partner on Mac Chips
macrumors.com

While all Macs are now powered by Apple's custom-designed chips, a new rumor claims that Apple may rekindle its partnership with Intel, albeit in a new and limited way. Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo today said Intel is expected to begin shipping Apple's lowest-end M-series chip as early as mid-2027.

So you wanna build a local RAG?
blog.yakkomajuri.com
Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker
objectiveunclear.com

Objective Unclear - Real-time 3D visualization of aircraft flight paths. Watch live flights with stunning ribbon trails across the sky.

Lobsters Interview
susam.net
Stellantis Is Spamming Owners' Screens with Pop-Up Ads for New Car Discounts
thedrive.com

Caleb Jacobs - Pushing "marketing notifications" for loyalty cash is a bold move when you're taking over existing customers' screens.

True P2P Email on Top of Yggdrasil Network
github.com/JB-SelfCompany

True P2P Email on top of Yggdrasil Network. Contribute to JB-SelfCompany/Tyr development by creating an account on GitHub.

AI Adoption Rates Starting to Flatten Out
apolloacademy.com

Torsten Sløk - Data from the Census Bureau and Ramp shows that AI adoption rates are starting to flatten out across all firm...

Credit report shows Meta keeping $27B off its books through advanced geometry
stohl.substack.com

Ryan Stohl - FSG LLC’s preliminary rating explains how a data center and selective eyesight create a perfectly legal accounting miracle.

Don't tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to (2016)
blog.plover.com

From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus

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Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?
dub.uu.nl

Can Dutch higher education part ways with Microsoft? The sector is trying to break free, and alternatives are being explored here and there. At the same time, more and more tasks are being completed by Microsoft tools.

Swedish publishers file police report against Meta's Zuckerberg for fraud
sverigesradio.se

Sveriges Radio - Swedish publisher's association Utgivarna has filed a police report in Sweden against Facebook and Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg.The reason is fake ads ...

Petition to formally recognize open source work as civic service in Germany
openpetition.de

Open-Source-Software bildet heute das Fundament großer Teile der digitalen Infrastruktur – in Verwaltung, Wirtschaft, Forschung und im täglichen Leben. Selbst im aktuellen Koalitionsvertrag der Bundesregierung wird Open-Source-Software als elementarer Baustein zur Erreichung digitaler Souveränität genannt. Dennoch wird die Arbeit, die tausende Freiwillige dafür leisten, in Deutschland steuer- und förderrechtlich nich

A trillion dollars (potentially) wasted on gen-AI
garymarcus.substack.com

Gary Marcus - The machine learning community is finally waking up to the madness, but the detour of the last few years has been costly.

A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z
nealstephenson.substack.com

Neal Stephenson - A friend made me aware of a reading list from A16Z containg recommendations for books, weighted towards science fiction since that’s mostly what people there read.

OpenAI won't make money by 2030 and needs another $207B, HSBC estimates
fortune.com

Nick Lichtenberg - What company has a consumer base representing 44% of the world’s adult population and a $620 billion data center bill? OpenAI five years from now.

The mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl that may eat radiation
bbc.com

Mould found at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster appears to be feeding off the radiation. Could we use it to shield space travellers from cosmic rays?

A Tale of Four Fuzzers
tigerbeetle.com
Switzerland: Data Protection Officers Impose Broad Cloud Ban for Authorities
heise.de

Stefan Krempl - According to the Data Protection Conference, federal offices may only use US hyperscalers like AWS, Google, or Microsoft to a limited extent.

Cats became our companions way later than you think
bbc.co.uk

In true feline style, cats took their time in deciding when and where to join us on the sofa.

Africa's forests have switched from absorbing to emitting carbon
phys.org
Google denies 'misleading' reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
theverge.com

Jay Peters - Google says “we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”

EU Council Approves New "Chat Control" Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance
reclaimthenet.org
The Math of Why You Can't Focus at Work
justoffbyone.com

Interruptions, recovery time, and task size: three numbers that determine if you'll get real work done. Interactive visualizations show the math behind bad days.

A Repository with 44 Years of Unix Evolution
spinellis.gr
Tech Titans Amass Multimillion-Dollar War Chests to Fight AI Regulation
wsj.com
SQLite as an Application File Format
sqlite.org
GrapheneOS Moving Out of France
xcancel.com

We no longer have any active servers in France and are continuing the process of leaving OVH. We'll be rotating our TLS keys and Let's Encrypt account keys pinned via accounturi. DNSSEC keys may also be rotated. Our backups are encrypted and can remain on OVH for now. Our App Store verifies the app store metadata with a cryptographic signature and downgrade protection along with verification of the packages. Android

Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras
github.com/NullPxl
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Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras. Ray-BANNED - NullPxl/banrays

How to use Linux vsock for fast VM communication
popovicu.com

Uros Popovic - Discover how to bypass the network stack for Host-to-VM communication using Linux Virtual Sockets (AF_VSOCK). This article details how to use these sockets to build a high-performance gRPC service in C++ that communicates directly over the hypervisor bus, avoiding TCP/IP overhead entirely.

Tiger Style: Coding philosophy (2024)
tigerstyle.dev

Simon Klee - A coding philosophy focused on safety, performance, and developer experience.

Beads – A memory upgrade for your coding agent
github.com/steveyegge

Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent. Contribute to steveyegge/beads development by creating an account on GitHub.

Migrating to Positron, a next-generation data science IDE for Python and R
posit.co

Posit Team - We share migration guide for users transitioning from VS Code and RStudio to Positron.

Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file
pocketbase.io

Open Source backend in 1 file with realtime database, authentication, file storage and admin dashboard

China's BEV trucks and the end of diesel's dominance
cleantechnica.com

Michael Barnard - China’s electric heavy truck boom signals a freight transition as low cost BEVs outpace diesel and gas across short haul markets. Exports are rising.

Shor's algorithm: the one quantum algo that ends RSA/ECC tomorrow
blog.ellipticc.com

ilias - One algorithm. One quantum computer. Every RSA key, every ECC key, every Bitcoin wallet you ever created becomes readable or forgeable in minutes. This isn't sci-fi. This is math.

The VPN panic is only getting started
theverge.com

Dominic Preston - Could age restrictions come to VPNs next?

How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)
bbc.com

Charles M Schulz drew his beloved Peanuts strip for 50 years until he retired on 14 December 1999. By then, the unassuming cartoonist had built a billion-dollar empire.

Bird flu viruses are resistant to fever, making them a major threat to humans
medicalxpress.com
ML-KEM Mythbusting
keymaterial.net

What is this? There have been some recent concerns about ML-KEM, NIST’s standard for encryption with Post-Quantum Cryptography, related standards of the IETF, and lots of conspiracy theories …

Vsora Jotunn-8 5nm European inference chip
vsora.com

Jotunn 8 The UltimateAI Chip Where efficiency meets innovation The magic number 0 /tflops This is Jotunn 8 Introducing the World’s Most Efficient AI Inference Chip In modern data centers, success means deploying trained models with blistering speed, minimal cost, and effortless scalability. Designing and operating inference systems requires balancing key factors such as high […]

250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland
energy-storage.news

Cameron Murray - Polar Night Energy and Lahti Energia have partnered for a project using 'Sand Battery' technology for a district heating network in Finland.

A programmer-friendly I/O abstraction over io_uring and kqueue (2022)
tigerbeetle.com
FileZilla Pro "Perpetual License" – A Warning to All Users
github.com/x011

FileZilla Pro Download. Contribute to x011/FileZilla-Pro-Download development by creating an account on GitHub.

Underrated reasons to be thankful V
dynomight.net

dynomight - even more

LinkedIn is loud, and corporate is hell
ramones.dev

A rollercoaster with no finish (yet!)

DeepSeekMath-V2: Towards Self-Verifiable Mathematical Reasoning [pdf]
github.com/deepseek-ai
AI CEO – Replace your boss before they replace you
replaceyourboss.ai
Cherry gives up German production and wants to sell core division
heise.de

Mark Mantel - German manufacturer Cherry is in crisis. The peripherals division could go to another company.

The input stack on Linux: An end-to-end architecture overview
venam.net

Let's explore and deobfuscate the input stack on Linux. Our aim is to understand its components and what each does. Input handling can be divided into two parts, separated by a common layer. We’ll try to make sense of all this, one thing at a time, with a logical and coherent approach.

Seagate achieves 6.9TB storage capacity per platter
tomshardware.com

Seagate is squeezing as much capacity out of its HAMR technology as it can

Pakistan says rooftop solar output to exceed grid demand in some hubs next year
reuters.com
10 years of writing a blog nobody reads
flowtwo.io

flow2 | Blog post: 'On 10 Years of Writing a Blog Nobody Reads' in Personal

The VanDersarl Blériot: a 1911 airplane homebuilt by teenage brothers (2017)
historynet.com

Amy Chan - Fabricated by teenage brothers in 1911, this unique homebuilt is once again airworthy. Despite its shortcomings, the Blériot XI was one of the great

Same-day upstream Linux support for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
qualcomm.com

Initial kernel and subsystem support for new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 posted for review. Learn what’s in the patches and how you can start working with them.

GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack
about.gitlab.com

Malware driving attack includes "dead man's switch" that can harm user data.

Protect Public School Students from Surveillance of Off-Campus Speech
eff.org

Sophia Cope - EFF filed an amicus brief in Arizona federal court arguing that public school students need private digital spaces beyond their school’s reach to speak freely, without the specter of constant school surveillance and punishment.

Steam censors LGBTQ+ content on behalf of the Russian Government
videogamesindustrymemo.com

George E. Osborn - When Roskomnadzor calls, Valve answers

We're losing our voice to LLMs
tonyalicea.dev

We are losing something precious in the age of LLMs: our unique voices.

Don't be a scary old guy: My 40s survival strategy with charm
devas.life

Hi, it’s Takuya. Last week I had my birthday and turned 41 (November 19th). When I was younger, I could never really picture what life in my 40s would look like. It’s this vague age where you don’t have a clear image of how you’re supposed

Show HN: SyncKit – Offline-first sync engine (Rust/WASM and TypeScript)
github.com/Dancode-188
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🔄 A powerful, type-safe sync engine for building real-time collaborative applications. Local-first, CRDT-based, with zero-config offline support. - Dancode-188/synckit

Show HN: Runprompt – run .prompt files from the command line
github.com/chr15m
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Tiny script to run .prompt files. Contribute to chr15m/runprompt development by creating an account on GitHub.

Crypto investors face tax crackdown as 70% non-compliant
thepost.co.nz
TPUs vs. GPUs and why Google is positioned to win AI race in the long term
uncoveralpha.com

UncoverAlpha - I am publishing a comprehensive deep dive, not just a technical overview, but also strategic and financial coverage of the Google TPU.

Show HN: MkSlides – Markdown to slides with a similar workflow to MkDocs
github.com/MartenBE
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Use mkslides to easily turn markdown files into beautiful slides using the power of Reveal.js! - MartenBE/mkslides

The current state of the theory that GPL propagates to AI models
shujisado.org

When GitHub Copilot was launched in 2021, the fact that its training data included a vast amount of Open Source code publicly available on GitHub attracted significant attention, sparking lively de…

AGI is not possible even in 10 years
medium.com
Arthur Conan Doyle explored men’s mental health through Sherlock Holmes
theconversation.com

Note: This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. It includes links to external sites that may earn a commission for

New research highlights a shortage of male mentors for boys and young men
psypost.org

Eric W. Dolan - Approximately one in three young men lacks an adult male to consult for help with school or relationships. New survey data indicates this "mentorship gap" is most pronounced for boys living in lower-income families.

Ray Marching Soft Shadows in 2D (2020)
rykap.com

Ryan Kaplan - Software Engineer at Figma. Previously at Dropbox. Studied Math/CS at Brown University.

Mixpanel Security Breach
mixpanel.com

Insights for digital builders

The Nerd Reich – Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy
simonandschuster.com
Linux Kernel Explorer
reverser.dev

reverser.dev - Interactive Linux kernel source code browser with guided learning paths.

Last Issue of "ECMAScript News"
ecmascript.news
Show HN: Era – Open-source local sandbox for AI agents
github.com/BinSquare
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Open source local sandboxing for running AI generated code. - BinSquare/ERA

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$96M AUD revamp of Bom website bombs out on launch
bbc.com

Nicknamed the Bom, the country's weather agency has been heavily criticised over a recent redesign.

Music eases surgery and speeds recovery, study finds
bbc.com

A new study finds patients who listen to music during surgery wake faster and need fewer painkillers.

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