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Luxe Game Engine
luxeengine.com

A lovingly crafted cross platform game engine, try the preview!

Ask HN: Is ageism in tech still a problem?
news.ycombinator.com
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100 years of Zermelo's axiom of choice: What was the problem with it? (2006)
research.mietek.io
OxCaml - a set of extensions to the OCaml programming language.
oxcaml.org
Show HN: Tattoy – a text-based terminal compositor
tattoy.sh
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Tattoy is a text-based terminal compositor

Show HN: Qrkey – Offline private key backup on paper
github.com/Techwolf12
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qrkey is a command-line tool for generating and recovering QR codes from files for offline private key backup. - Techwolf12/qrkey

Ask HN: How do I give back to people helped me when I was young and had nothing?
news.ycombinator.com
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Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents Against Prompt Injections
simonwillison.net

Simon Willison - This new paper by 11 authors from organizations including IBM, Invariant Labs, ETH Zurich, Google and Microsoft is an excellent addition to the literature on prompt injection and LLM security. …

Meta Invests $14.3B in Scale AI to Kick-Start Superintelligence Lab
nytimes.com
Anker is recalling over 1.1M power banks due to fire and burn risks
theverge.com

Andrew Liszewski - Stop using it immediately.

The Missing Manual for Signals: State Management for Python Developers
bui.app

A practical guide to reactive state management in Python Introduction I maintain reaktiv. When I demo it to Python teams, I get the same response: "Why do I need this? I can just call functions when things change." Fair question. Python has excellent patterns for coordinating state changes. You can

The European public DNS that makes your Internet safer
dns0.eu

A free, sovereign and GDPR-compliant recursive DNS resolver with a strong focus on security to protect the citizens and organizations of the European Union.

xAI accused of pollution over Memphis supercomputer
politico.com

Hearing scheduled for Friday as residents receive anonymous leaflets that downplay pollution dangers

Andrew Ng says vibe coding is a bad name for a real and exhausting job
businessinsider.com

Lee Chong Ming - Andrew Ng says when he vibe codes for a day, he's "frankly exhausted" by the end.

If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014)
joshworth.com
Slow and steady, this poem will win your heart
nytimes.com

A.O. Scott ponders the specific gravity and unlikely grace of Kay Ryan’s “Turtle.” And we have a game to help you memorize it.

Show HN: I wrote a BitTorrent Client from scratch
github.com/piyushgupta53
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A BitTorrent client implementation in Go. Contribute to piyushgupta53/go-torrent-client development by creating an account on GitHub.

Zero-Shot Forecasting: Our Search for a Time-Series Foundation Model
parseable.com
Rendering Crispy Text on the GPU
osor.io

Rubén Osorio López - Rubén Osorio’s blog

Three Algorithms for YSH Syntax Highlighting
github.com/oils-for-unix

Vim syntax highlighting for Oils. Contribute to oils-for-unix/oils.vim development by creating an account on GitHub.

Urban Design and Adaptive Reuse in North Korea, Japan, and Singapore
governance.fyi

Dave Deek - An interview with Architect Calvin Chua

Jemalloc Postmortem
jasone.github.io

The jemalloc memory allocator was first conceived in early 2004, and hasbeen in public use for about 20 years now. Thanks to the nature of open source software licensing,jemalloc will remain publicly available indefinitely. But active upstream development has come to anend. This post briefly desc...

Israel launches strikes against Iran, Defense Minister says
cnn.com

Helen Regan - Israel has launched what it called were “preemptive strikes” against Iran and a state of emergency has been declared in Israel, according to Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz.

Cloudflare service outage June 12, 2025
blog.cloudflare.com

Today, June 12, 2025, Cloudflare suffered a significant service outage that affected a large set of our critical services, including Workers KV, WARP, Access, Gateway, Images, Stream, Workers AI, Turnstile and Challenges, AutoRAG, and parts of the Cloudflare Dashboard.

Major sugar substitute found to impair brain blood vessel cell function
medicalxpress.com

Erythritol may impair cellular functions essential to maintaining brain blood vessel health, according to researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder. Findings suggest that erythritol increases oxidative stress, disrupts nitric oxide signaling, raises vasoconstrictive peptide production, and diminishes clot-dissolving capacity in human brain microvascular endothelial cells.

The Case for Software Craftsmanship in the Era of Vibes
zed.dev

From the Zed Blog: Working toward genuine, quality software in an era where code production is not the constraint anymore.

Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot
rys.io

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak - Many people who focus on information security, including myself, have long considered Telegram suspicious and untrustworthy. Now, based on findings published by the investigative journalism outlet ISt

A Dark Adtech Empire Fed by Fake CAPTCHAs
krebsonsecurity.com
The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull and a bitter feud over humanity's origins
theguardian.com

The long read: When fossilised remains were discovered in the Djurab desert in 2001, they were hailed as radically rewriting the history of our species. But not everyone was convinced – and the bitter argument that followed has consumed the lives of scholars ever since

Sen. Padilla is forcefully removed from Noem's news conference and handcuffed
apnews.com

Democratic U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla of California has been forcefully removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s news conference in Los Angeles and handcuffed by officers as he tried to speak up about immigration raids that have led to protests in California and elsewhere.

US Senator Alex Padilla forcibly removed from Kristi Noem news conference
nbclosangeles.com

Sen. Alex Padilla was forcibly removed from a news conference Thursday morning with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

Humans have nasal respiratory fingerprints
cell.com
Worldwide power grid with glass insulated HVDC cables
omattos.com

Moving electricity around the world has huge financial and environmental benefits. Unfortunately, current power transmission systems are both lossy and expensive to build. This post explores an alternative design for cables to make undersea power transmission substantially cheaper.

Being full of value‑added shit
feld.com

Brad Feld - My morning started early with a 6:30 a.m. drive to Denver to give a talk about Give First: The Power of Mentorship, which Erik Mitisek had organized for a group of […]

Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure
tailscale.com

Securely connect to anything on the internet with Tailscale. Built on WireGuard®️, Tailscale enables you to make finely configurable connections, secured end-to-end according to zero trust principles, between any resources on any infrastructure.

Everything Is Down
news.ycombinator.com
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Firebase Global Outage
status.firebase.google.com
Cloudflare was down
cloudflarestatus.com
Spaceballs 2 Will See Rick Moranis Return as Dark Helmet
ign.com

Moviemaking icon Mel Brooks and Amazon MGM Studios have published a special trailer to announce that Spaceballs 2 is moving full steam ahead with plans to premiere in 2027.

NPM: Issues with package install, package publish, and login
status.npmjs.org
GCP Outage
status.cloud.google.com
Ask HN: Is Firebase Down?
news.ycombinator.com
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NASA Is Worth Saving
caseyhandmer.wordpress.com

Casey Handmer June 2025 Download a printable PDF. NASA was founded in 1958 in response to Sputnik and the emerging necessity of a robust, government supported space exploration and technology devel…

Show HN: ChatToSTL – AI text-to-CAD for 3D printing
huggingface.co
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Builder.ai did not "fake AI with 700 engineers"
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com

Gergely Orosz - Building a system where hundreds of devs simulate being an AI would have been silly in 2024. Also: stock vesting changes at NVIDIA and Anthropic, a reminder on how vibe-coded apps are wonky, and more

China's digging out of a crisis, but America's luck is wearing thin – Ken Rogoff
dwarkesh.com

Dwarkesh Patel - A debt shock is coming for both China and the US.

Google Pixels are no longer the AOSP reference device
9to5google.com

Abner Li - With the launch of Android 16 earlier this week, Google did not release the Pixel hardware repos and device trees...

Sorcerer (YC S24) raises $3.9M to launch more weather balloons
axios.com
Solving LinkedIn Queens with SMT
buttondown.com

For sure easier than solving it in SAT!

US-backed Israeli company's spyware used to target European journalists
apnews.com

New revelations that spyware made by a U.S-backed Israeli company was used against at least three European journalists have raised concerns about abuse of commercial spyware even in democratic countries.

You can now legally walk with drinks on SF's Valencia St
missionlocal.org

Daniela Xitlaly Sandoval - San Francisco’s new Valencia Street entertainment zone lets patrons legally carry drinks on the sidewalk between 16th and 21st streets, Sunday through Thursday. This first-of-its-kind pilot encourages outdoor socializing without special events, supporting local bars and nightlife with safety measures in place.

macOS Tahoe brings a new disk image format
eclecticlight.co

ASIF disk images are new in Tahoe, and promise to be space efficient, as they’re sparse files, and almost as fast as the disk they’re stored on. Ideal for VMs and general use.

Researchers confirm two journalists were hacked with Paragon spyware
techcrunch.com

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai - The confirmation of two hacked victims further deepens an ongoing spyware scandal that, for now, appears largely focused on the Italian government.

Trump's NASA cuts would destroy decades of science and wipe out its future
latimes.com

Trump's proposed 50% cut in NASA's science budget would turn the agency into an empty shell. Who's behind this?

iPhone 11 emulation done in QEMU
github.com/ChefKissInc

Apple Silicon devices emulated on QEMU, currently only iPhone 11. - ChefKissInc/QEMUAppleSilicon

Why does my ripped CD have messed up track names? And why is one track missing?
akpain.net

A delve into CD ripping and metadata

Seedance 1.0
seed.bytedance.com
Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft – and people are paying anyway
techcrunch.com

Sean O'Kane - A new analysis done by ride-hailing aggregator Obi shows Waymos cost more especially on shorter trips. They also have longer wait times.

The $11T gap between White House and economists on Trump's 'big, beautiful' bill
finance.yahoo.com

An array of economists have reached a similar conclusion: Trump's signature legislation comes with a price tag in the neighborhood of $3 trillion. They're all wrong, the White House says.

The Problem with AI Welfare
substack.com

Substack - Anthropic worries whether LLMs feel happy when generating text. This is not only nonsensical, but dangerous for human welfare.

VisionOS 26 keeps pushing Apple's newest platform toward the future
sixcolors.com

My visionOS 26 persona. The side of my head really does look like that! If visionOS and the Vision Pro are all about charting a course to the future of wearable devices in front of our eyes, Apple …

Show HN: Tool-Assisted Speedrunning the Boring Parts of Animal Crossing (GCN)
github.com/hunterirving
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hack Animal X-ing with a Pi Pico and a GameCube Keyboard Controller - hunterirving/pico-crossing

Show HN: McWig – A modal, Vim-like text editor written in Go
github.com/firstrow
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Contribute to firstrow/mcwig development by creating an account on GitHub.

CP/M 2.2, CP/M 3.0, CP/M-86, Concurrent CP/M-86 listings by Digital Research
bitsavers.org
2025 State of AI Code Quality
qodo.ai

Learn more about the insights we've gathered from 600+ developers on how generative AI is shaping developer experience, trust, productivity and code quality across the SDLC.

Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust
tritium.legal
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A receipt printer cured my procrastination
laurieherault.com

Laurie Hérault - Why can I focus for hours on a game but procrastinate on simple tasks? I finally cracked the code using thermal receipt printer and game design.

My Mac contacted 63 different Apple owned domains in an hour, while not is use
appaddict.app

During a one hour period today, my computer contacted 63 different Apple domains while i was not logged on and using it. I have been trying to minimize to the extent possible the reach of big tech into my life. A full 25% of the DNS queries from one of my computers (M2 MBA with macOS 15.4) are to Apple owned domains - even though my DNS provider (NextDNS) blocks Apple's native telemetry. Additionally, since I do not

First Boeing 787 Dreamliner Crash
nytimes.com
Brazil's Supreme Court makes social media liable for user content
economictimes.indiatimes.com

A majority of Brazil's Supreme Court justices support holding social media firms like Meta, X, and Microsoft liable for illegal user posts. The measure, still pending final votes, would allow lawsuits and fines, overturning current law. Congress could still intervene with new legislation to reverse the decision.

Show HN: Herobot – Open-source AI chatbot for WhatsApp, Instagram and more
github.com/herobot-id
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Herobot is your 24/7 customer service assistant that helps you manage multi-channel customer conversations effortlessly. - herobot-id/herobot

Next.js 15.1 is unusable outside of Vercel
omarabid.com

TBD

Maximizing Battery Storage Profits via High-Frequency Intraday Trading
arxiv.org

Maximizing revenue for grid-scale battery energy storage systems in continuous intraday electricity markets requires strategies that are able to seize trading opportunities as soon as new information arrives. This paper introduces and evaluates an automated high-frequency trading strategy for battery energy storage systems trading on the intraday market for power while explicitly considering the dynamics of the limit

Pentagon Has Been Pushing Americans to Believe in UFOs for Decades, New Report
gizmodo.com

Lucas Ropek - The government wants you to believe.

Agentic Coding Recommendations
lucumr.pocoo.org

Current recommendations of agentic coding.

Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more than 240 onboard
theguardian.com

A plane has reportedly crashed near Ahmedabad Airport on Thursday. Smoke billows is seen emanating from Adani airport premises near Meghani.

Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice
heise.de

Martin Holland - All employees at the Danish Ministry of Digital Affairs are to work without Microsoft. Instead, Linux and LibreOffice will be used, says the minister.

How much EU is in DNS4EU?
techlog.jenslink.net

This is another post that started after several toots on mastodon. Most of the things presented here were already tooted by other people, but I think this is a good chance to write a mini tutorial about what to look at. We’ll use DNS, whois, BGP and your favourite search engine. What is DNS4EU? To quote the web page: Supported by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA), the European Union’s DNS4EU secure-

Build a minimal decorator with Ruby in 30 minutes
remimercier.com

A while ago, I needed to add some view-related instance methods to a model. Decorators are my go-to pattern to handle this kind of logic. So, I built a minimal decorator from scratch, added a bunch of extra behaviors, only to end up abstracting all of that away. Follow along!

Sam Altman's Lies About ChatGPT Are Growing Bolder
gizmodo.com

Kyle Barr - Would you believe OpenAI if it told you AI is fine for the planet, actually?

DNS4EU, an EU-based DNS resolution service
helpnetsecurity.com

Zeljka Zorz - DNS4EU, an EU-based DNS resolution service created to strengthen European Union's digital sovereignty, has become reality.

Navy backs right to repair after $13B carrier goes half-fed
theregister.com

: Army joins in push to break vendor grip on military maintenance

AOSP project is coming to an end
reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight
Expanding Racks [video]
youtube.com
In case of emergency, break glass
morrick.me

A few observations after Apple’s introduction of the Liquid Glass user interface at the WWDC25 keynote.

Amiga 4000T: The Best Amiga in the World
forgottencomputer.com
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 Canadian C++ Conference
cppnorth.ca

CppNorth, C++ Conference in Toronto July 20-23, 2025

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.

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