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CodeSizer: Why is that binary so big?
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Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle
Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/clever-hacker-fits-537-000-domains-in-a-tiny-usd5-esp32-ad-blocking-dongle-firmware-uses-only-around-50kb-of-ram-and-can-answer-blocked-lookups-in-10-milliseconds Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48968348 Points: 19 # Comments: 6
Git email patch review addon for Thunderbird
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UAC-0145 Uses ClickFix CAPTCHAs to Infect Ukrainian Devices wih Malware
Russian state-sponsored threat actors have been observed leveraging the infamous ClickFix strategy to trick Ukrainian targets into infecting their own machines with data-stealing malware. According to the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA), the activity has been attributed to UAC-0145, a sub-cluster within Sandworm, an advanced hacking unit affiliated with GRU, Russia's
DRIVE – Operational Excellence for AI-accelerated engineering
Article URL: https://www.cortex.io/drive Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48968067 Points: 12 # Comments: 6
Bananas sprout in Rayleigh Garden UK after 15 years
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg8edqq5g5o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48968063 Points: 24 # Comments: 15
Shake Blog
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SonicWall SMA Zero-Days Exploited Before Disclosure to Gain Root Access
A previously undocumented threat actor has been attributed to the exploitation of recently disclosed SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series VPN appliances as zero-days prior their public disclosure since June 22, 2026. Cybersecurity company Volexity is tracking the activity under the moniker UTA0533. The discovery was made following an incident response investigation earlier this
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Skred is now a MIDI aware synth and drum machine construction kit
https://youtu.be/c6hJb0CYRmo?si=FhJRNCzNSdtMAiC- This video has a step-by-step demo of using Skred v0.50.0 as a synth and drum machine construction kit. The video shows a little of MIDI connection stuff too. For a MIDI "keyboard" here, I used a program called VMPK since it's on-screen and show what I hit versus how if affects Skred, but a real attached MIDI input device works too. Skred works on Linux, macOS, and MSWindows. There are precompiled versions of the CLI livecoding shell on GitHub under username octetta and repo pulp... look at the releases there for SKRED 0.50.0 to match functionality shown here. https://github.com/octetta/pulp MIT / open source Timecodes... 0:00 Start Skred and test audio/Skope 0:43 Create a basic saw wave synth voice 1:52 Setup MIDI and use VMPK as the input 3:32 Fatten the synth with an additional square wave 4:49 Detune the voices 5:43 Add glide to one of the voices 6:40 Show the delay line per "track" 8:44 Add "calculator" drums via k-synth 9:50 Create
Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3
Article URL: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-26-3-snapshot-4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48967256 Points: 124 # Comments: 74
I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned
Article URL: https://en.andros.dev/blog/0b8e451e/i-joined-the-indieweb-heres-what-i-learned/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48966984 Points: 59 # Comments: 32
The death and rebirth of my home server
Article URL: https://sgt.hootr.club/blog/home-server-rebirth/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48966769 Points: 68 # Comments: 38
What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard
Article URL: https://chipweinberger.com/articles/20260719-hardware-is-not-so-hard Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48966713 Points: 208 # Comments: 104
Google's AlphaEvolve Reaches General Availability with Evolutionary Code Optimization as a Service
Google's AlphaEvolve reached general availability on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, turning the DeepMind research project into an evolutionary code optimization service. Evaluators run client-side so code never leaves the customer's infrastructure. Klarna doubled ML training throughput; practitioners note it only works where a measurable evaluation function exists. By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/19/claude-code-in-bun-in-rust/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48966569 Points: 166 # Comments: 221
Boys' ADHD symptoms linked to addictive social media use in new study
Article URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/boys-adhd-symptoms-linked-to-addictive-social-media-use-in-new-study/ar-AA287LY0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48966131 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon
Article URL: https://twitter.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2078759124914098291 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48966120 Points: 119 # Comments: 58
More emulation goodness, an Intel Itanium (IA-64) emulator that boots Windows
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The Mighty Big Array of Finn Jensen LA8YB
Article URL: https://la0by.darc.de/LA8YB_EME_MBA.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48965914 Points: 23 # Comments: 6
Perforce charges $500 for training training videos.. and it's AI narrated
Article URL: https://training.perforce.com/learn/courses/535/p4-helix-core-user-basic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48965886 Points: 16 # Comments: 29
Ollama: All Aboard Open Models
Article URL: https://ollama.com/blog/all-aboard-open-models Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48965880 Points: 32 # Comments: 12
OpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k
Article URL: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/33972/files Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48965850 Points: 146 # Comments: 66
The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering – Mastering Complexity(2014) [pdf]
Article URL: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-6-011-the-art-of-insight-in-science-and-engineering-mastering-complexity-fall-2014/3bca850386a3005c22134fa62fb3bad5_MITRES_6-011F14_art_insfin.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48965719 Points: 35 # Comments: 3
AWS Introduces CloudFormation Express Mode for Faster Infrastructure Deployments
AWS has recently introduced CloudFormation express mode, a deployment option that can reduce infrastructure deployment times by marking stack operations complete once resource configuration is applied, rather than waiting for full resource stabilization. By Renato Losio
Scrying the AMD GFX1250 LLVM Tea Leaves
Article URL: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/scrying-the-amd-gfx1250-llvm-tea Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48965161 Points: 26 # Comments: 0
LLM-Integrated Multivariable Calculus Course
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FDA approves new kind of cholesterol pill
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I built a browser-based P2P file transfer tool using WebRTC
Article URL: https://airdows.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48964424 Points: 23 # Comments: 14
Software and AI - Plotting vs. Pantsing
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