Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed(kimi.ai)
1066 points by Jowsey | 655 comments
Kimi Code documentation page on model configuration, introducing K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed and covering model IDs, plans, switching, and third-party API setup.
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OBS Studio 33(github.com)
431 points by pentagrama | 155 comments
GitHub release notes for OBS Studio 33.0.0, covering a CEF update, plugin loading overhaul, snapping improvements, bug fixes, and developer API changes.
No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector(apollo.com)
501 points by the-mitr | 557 comments
Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok's Daily Spark note with charts arguing AI has shown no revenue, margin, or productivity payoff outside the Mag 7 tech firms.
I don't understand quantum physics (2018)(southampton.ac.uk)
367 points by rramadass | 296 comments
Index page for Douglas Ross's introductory article on quantum physics, with PDF chapters covering wave-particle duality, uncertainty, superposition, and interpretations.
Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab(blog.roku.com)
292 points by cxr | 205 comments
Roku developer blog post announcing that its developer docs, sample apps, SDK and tooling repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab, with guidance on updating URLs.
FreeDNS(freedns.afraid.org)
343 points by esher | 89 comments
Homepage of FreeDNS (afraid.org), a free and premium DNS hosting service offering dynamic DNS, static DNS, subdomain and domain hosting.
Google illegally cut down 250K trees in Finland for data center(nypost.com)
213 points by rustybolt | 164 comments
New York Post report that Google cleared about 250,000 trees in northern Finland for data centers before environmental approval, prompting Finnish authorities to suspend work.
TornadoVM 7 Enables GPU-Native Workloads from Java Applications(infoq.com)
85 points by pjmlp | 17 comments
InfoQ news article on TornadoVM 7.3, an open-source framework for running Java code on GPUs, covering its FFM backend, CUDA library integration, multi-GPU support and jitLLM.
We should be more ambitious with the software we build(danluu.com)
849 points by ltratt | 728 comments
Dan Luu essay arguing that advancing AI coding models let developers build more ambitious software, citing pgrust, a regex engine, ripgrep fork, and board game AI projects.
One Must Fall 2097 Remastered(github.com)
38 points by hmm37 | 21 comments
GitHub repository for a TypeScript/WebGL2 remaster of the 1994 robot fighting game One Must Fall 2097, with HD art, mods, LAN play and desktop/browser builds.
Apple Music 404 Not Found(music.apple.com)
903 points by frizlab | 265 comments
Apple Music's 404 Not Found page, which features an interactive classic iPod as a hidden easter egg.
Twelve years of distributed SQLite(philipotoole.com)
365 points by otoolep | 62 comments
Philip O'Toole's blog post recounting the history of distributed SQLite since he launched rqlite in 2014, covering dqlite, Litestream, LiteFS, libSQL/Turso, cr-sqlite and Cloudflare D1.
Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month(scientificamerican.com)
337 points by mooreds | 101 comments
Scientific American article on Northwestern physicists trapping a single positron for a month to enable quantum measurements of its magnetic moment.
The Goose Programming Language(aardappel.github.io)
561 points by bobbydigitales | 346 comments
An X post by John Carmack praising Wouter van Oortmerssen's Goose programming language for its multiple data stacks, relative references, and binary structure validation.
The Goose Programming Language(aardappel.github.io)
155 points by andsoitis | 54 comments
Homepage for Goose, a memory-safe systems programming language with no heap, garbage collector, or lifetime annotations that compiles to C.
Evolving Threat: http2shell is an RCE in Node, Python, and more(nitter.click)
154 points by cowlevel | 85 comments
A Nitter mirror of an Aikido Security post about http2shell, an HTTP/2-related remote code execution vulnerability affecting Node, Python and others; the page shows only a bot-check link.
Dream-1(dreamlabs.ai)
143 points by GaggiX | 68 comments
Dream Labs announces Dream-1, a World Action Model offered via public API that controls unseen robots on unseen tasks zero-shot, alongside a $90M seed round.
Listen and read USA nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, heard on 11175 kHz(missileer.watch)
172 points by liotier | 115 comments
Missileer.watch is a site that streams 11175 kHz HFGCS shortwave audio, transcribes US nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, and explains the network and launch capsules.
The St. Helena 5 pence coin shows Jonathan, a roughly 190 year old tortoise(de.numista.com)
132 points by schleck8 | 44 comments
A Numista catalog page for the St. Helena 5 pence coin depicting Jonathan the tortoise, blocked here by a reCAPTCHA check.
Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone(blog.calif.io)
1060 points by pavel_lishin | 658 comments
Calif Newsletter post presenting video demos of iPhone exploits, including Signal and iMessage 1-click attacks on iPhone 18 Pro, revealed at Hexacon in Paris.
Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS(grapheneos.social)
570 points by privacyishuman | 213 comments
A GrapheneOS Mastodon post explaining banking app compatibility on GrapheneOS, noting about a dozen banks now explicitly permit it, with a link to a compatibility list.
Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology(steveblank.com)
249 points by sblank | 279 comments
Steve Blank blog post arguing that Musk's restriction of Starlink for Ukraine pushed European policymakers to seek replacements for American technology to protect their sovereignty.
How close can pure functional programming get to C?(rtfeldman.com)
268 points by stmonty | 94 comments
Richard Feldman's blog post benchmarking roc-deflate, a pure Roc DEFLATE library, against C's libdeflate, finding it under 10% slower, and describing Roc-specific optimizations.
CVE Tracker(cve.0xosprey.com)
204 points by Group_B | 71 comments
An interactive dashboard charting published CVE counts over time from the CVEProject cvelistV5 data, with monthly and yearly projections.
Neural chip decodes interactions between brain regions(actu.epfl.ch)
131 points by giuliomagnifico | 47 comments
EPFL news article on LogSync, a low-power implantable neural chip that measures cross-region brain synchrony to classify cognitive and emotional states for adaptive deep brain stimulation.
Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you(edjefferson.com)
1672 points by sohkamyung | 253 comments
Local Wikipedia is a web app that shows geocoded Wikipedia articles about places within roughly a half-hour walk of a chosen location.
Broccoli2Shell: Brotli decoder RCE in Node.js, Python and more(broccoli2shell.com)
384 points by theanonymousone | 200 comments
Aikido blog post explaining CVE-2026-111497, a critical Brotli decoder out-of-bounds write affecting Node.js, Python, and HTTP libraries, with patch versions and workarounds.
The Quake Fan who built the map editor everybody uses(funcarena.com)
156 points by klaussilveira | 18 comments
An interview on func_arena with Kristian Duske, creator of the TrenchBroom Quake map editor, covering its history, rewrites, Qt switch, CSG challenges and linked groups.
Glymphatic clearance to alleviate brain edema and Alzheimer's pathology in mice(science.org)
30 points by ersinesen | 7 comments
Open-access Science Advances research article showing 40.68 MHz ultrashort wave stimulation enhances glymphatic clearance in mice, reducing TBI edema and Alzheimer's deficits.
America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?(apricitas.io)
474 points by gnabgib | 495 comments
Apricitas Economics post analyzing the loss of over 200k US jobs in media, film, and the arts over four years and how much generative AI may be responsible.
Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech(block.xyz)
498 points by dsr12 | 188 comments
Block's AI research lab announces Dessa, a full-duplex speech-to-speech model trained only on human conversation audio, with demo recordings and a waitlist.
Why is AI generated language so hard to understand?(arxiv.org)
194 points by canjobear | 167 comments
arXiv paper analyzing psycholinguistic features that make AI-generated text harder to understand, attributing it to optimization for information density.
ThinkRail from JetBrains(thinkrail.ai)
31 points by wilsonjholmes | 23 comments
Landing page for ThinkRail, an open-source agentic IDE from JetBrains InnovationHub using git-worktree workspaces, the pi coding agent, and a spec graph.
Show HN: Argus- open source security platform to protect against agentic attacks(github.com)
11 points by thomasunise | 1 comments
GitHub repository for Argus, an open-source agentic security operations platform with an evidence graph, swarm-aware detections, governed AI agents, and an approval-gated action broker.
Bringing uv and ty together(astral.sh)
303 points by Ravencentric | 111 comments
Astral blog post announcing experimental uv-ty integration, adding PEP 723 script support in ty and a unified `uv check` command for type checking projects.
Appreciating the beauty of all your body's scars and scratches(1000awesomethings.com)
69 points by surprisetalk | 43 comments
A 1000 Awesome Things blog post by Neil Pasricha celebrating the scars and blemishes on your body as reminders of your life story.
SpeedCrunch 1.1(speedcrunch.org)
220 points by LordNibbler | 49 comments
Homepage for SpeedCrunch 1.1, a free open-source high-precision scientific calculator for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Small Programs and Languages(ratfactor.com)
183 points by andsoitis | 28 comments
A personal blog card by Dave (ratfactor) on the appeal of tiny programs and small programming languages like Forth, Lisp, Tcl, and Lua, with examples of minimal implementations.
The Real Kevin Bacon(pudding.cool)
355 points by xnx | 91 comments
An interactive Pudding visual essay using a network graph of film co-stars to explore the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game and which actors are truly most central.
A practical guide to AI image generation, from diffusion to agents(danielball.com)
270 points by westsmith | 88 comments
A personal guide to AI image generation covering history, how diffusion and multimodal models work, costs, prompting, and integrating image APIs into code and agents.
Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22(eff.org)
474 points by hn_acker | 245 comments
EFF blog post urging Canadians to oppose Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, which expands surveillance powers and metadata retention and is now before the Senate.
PHP Foundation 'under-funded' with one full-time staff member, director says(reuters.com)
98 points by firesteelrain | 56 comments
Reuters article reporting that the PHP Foundation is under-funded with only one full-time staff member, according to its director; page showed a device verification screen.
Free Software Is a Failure(paritybit.ca)
7 points by gum_wobble | 6 comments
Blog essay by Jake Bauer arguing that the copyleft Free Software movement and the GPL fail at their stated goals and harm the broader FOSS ecosystem.
Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office(computerworld.dk)
168 points by lowkeyokay | 156 comments
Computerworld Denmark article reporting that the Danish Ministry of Digitalisation quietly ended its pilot testing Collabora as an open-source alternative to Microsoft Office.
How to run a city builder on 16 MHz(larstofus.com)
79 points by rex64 | 23 comments
Blog post explaining how the original SimCity ran on a 16 MHz 386SX by spreading simulation work across frames, with similar examples from Assetto Corsa and Lumen.
Symbolic Learning in Python and Julia(github.com)
59 points by alex_hirner | 11 comments
GitHub repository for PySR, an open-source library for symbolic regression and equation discovery in Python with a Julia backend.
Full Disk Encryption on Fedora with TPM2(apalrd.net)
24 points by speckx | 36 comments
A blog post and video tutorial explaining LUKS full disk encryption on Linux and enrolling TPM2-bound keys with systemd-cryptenroll on Fedora.
I Built a Stereo Vision Board for Hardware Hackers(rootkitlabs.com)
121 points by machinehum | 19 comments
A blog post describing the design of a low-cost stereo vision board built on the Rockchip RV1103 SoC, covering the PCB, Buildroot Linux, and SAD-based depth processing.
Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads(theverge.com)
315 points by JustSkyfall | 163 comments
Verge news article reporting that Google's updated privacy policy allows Gmail, Drive, and Photos data shared with AI features to be used for personalized ads.
C vs. C#: racing VLC's Gaussian blur(martinfinkel.com)
118 points by martz | 40 comments
Blog post benchmarking VLC's Gaussian blur filter in C against a C# port via .NET Native AOT, across line-by-line, algorithmically optimized, and AVX2 SIMD versions.
Show HN: Corgi, a helpful {agent, terminal} multiplexer(corgi.computer)
95 points by eiopa | 25 comments
Landing page for Corgi, a terminal multiplexer for managing AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex, with activity tracking, token usage, and worktrees.
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One Man's Pan Am 747 Replica [video](youtube.com)
47 points by Teever | 4 comments
YouTube video from Coolest Thing about Anthony Toth, who recreated a full 1970s Pan Am Boeing 747 cabin replica, first in his garage and later in a warehouse.
Cecilia Berdichevsky, Clementina expert (1961)(en.wikipedia.org)
31 points by fedecaccia | 2 comments
Wikipedia biography of Cecilia Berdichevsky, an Argentine computer scientist who programmed the Ferranti Mercury computer "Clementina" from 1961.
AI-Assisted Paper on Z-Library Cites a TorrentFreak Article That Doesn't Exist(torrentfreak.com)
80 points by TangerineDream | 37 comments
TorrentFreak article reporting that an AI-assisted peer-reviewed paper on Z-Library cites a nonexistent TorrentFreak article and other unfindable sources.
The Importance of Limitations for Creativity and Learning (2023)(ratfactor.com)
111 points by andsoitis | 36 comments
A personal wiki card by Dave Gauer arguing that limitations, like simple tools, story structure, and small budgets, foster creativity and learning.
GPU-unlock: FP/BF16 instruction issue rate on Nvidia 3000's cards(github.com)
319 points by fragebogen | 74 comments
GitHub repo for a Linux kernel module that unlocks full FP16/BF16 tensor instruction issue rates on Nvidia RTX 3000-series GA10x cards before the Nvidia driver loads.
Apple Security Research Device(security.apple.com)
160 points by neom | 99 comments
Apple's program page for the Security Research Device, a specially fused iPhone loaned to qualified researchers for iOS security research, with guidelines and application details.
Rise of collagen-eating microbes may help explain gaps in the fossil record(cam.ac.uk)
52 points by gmays | 5 comments
University of Cambridge news article on research suggesting the spread of collagen-degrading enzymes to aerobic bacteria explains the decline of soft-bodied fossils after the Ediacaran.
Rune 1.3: adds TypeScript, a Helix editor, Kitty graphics and OSC-7501(rune.build)
50 points by ernestrc | 12 comments
Release announcement for Rune 1.3, an open-source editor/terminal adding a graphics pipeline, TypeScript support, a Helix editor preset, headless mode, and OSC 7501 status.