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Making Software: How to make a font
49 points, 8 comments on Hacker News
Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail
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Demis Hassabis has a plan to harness AI safely
74 points, 71 comments on Hacker News
Grok Build Uploads Entire Git Repositories to xAI Storage, Not Just Files It Reads
xAI's Grok Build coding CLI was uploading entire Git repositories, full commit history and all, to a Google Cloud Storage bucket run by xAI, not just the files a coding task needed. A researcher publishing as cereblab, testing version 0.2.93, captured one of those uploads, cloned the git bundle out of the intercepted request, and pulled back a file the agent had been told in plain terms not
Article: Comprehension at AI Speed: Building a Context Store for Evolutionary Architecture
AI makes the first 80% of development feel fast, but hides architectural complexity until it's too late. To prevent system instability, engineering leaders must shift from raw throughput to systemic comprehension. By unifying spec-anchored SDD, TDD, and automated fitness functions into a repo-bound "Context Store," teams can ensure AI agents and human reviewers evolve code safely. By Stella Berhe, Stephan Bragner, Vikram Maran, Anand Jayaraman
git-absorb: git commit --fixup, but automatic
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European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS
Article URL: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technical-specification/discussions/19 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48903777 Points: 107 # Comments: 57
Infinities, impossibilities, and the man in the white linen suit
25 points, 18 comments on Hacker News
Alternative(s) to run CUDA on non-Nvidia hardware
35 points, 12 comments on Hacker News
Evolutionary Data Through Schemaboi: Achieving Forward, Backwards, and Sideways Compatibility
Drawing from the enduring adaptability of HTML and HTTP, Seph Gentle proposes embedding self-contained schemas directly into file headers, ensuring data remains readable without external definitions. His experimental format prioritises forward, backwards, and sideways compatibility, enabling data format evolution without central coordination or data loss By Olimpiu Pop
U.S. Sanctions First VPN Service and Malware Cryptor Seller Over Ransomware Support
The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has designated two individuals and a VPN service provider for enabling ransomware actors' and other cybercriminals' malicious activities, including ransomware attacks against Americans. The VPN, named First VPN Service (1VPNS), has been accused of offering its tools to ransomware groups, along with its 45-year-old Ukrainian
SwiftData Enhances Queries, Adds Support for External Types and Data Store Observation
The 2027 release of SwiftData introduces support for persisting custom and third-party types via Codable, along with the ability to organize data into SwiftUI list sections. It also adds new capabilities for observing data store changes through ResultsObserver and HistoryObserver. By Sergio De Simone
Job queues are deceptively tricky
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148 npm Packages Disguised as Student Proxies Turned Browsers Into a DDoS Botnet
A campaign of 148 npm packages disguised as student web proxies turned visitors' browsers into a distributed denial-of-service botnet for roughly two weeks in May, according to new research from JFrog. The packages did not go after the developers who might install them. The operators used the registry as free hosting for a booby-trapped proxy site and let the students who came to dodge
The Anatomy of an Instruction Pipeline Hazard
Article URL: https://hiraditya.github.io/posts/hardware-hazards-b200/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48903190 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Indian scientists produce most detailed 3D atlas of the human brainstem
42 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
Microsoft Maps Three Salesforce Attack Paths Tied to a Year of ShinyHunters Activity
Attackers whose methods line up with the data-extortion group ShinyHunters have spent the past year walking into corporate Salesforce environments without exploiting a single flaw in the platform. The way in has been the trust the organization had already extended, usually through the OAuth connections that tie Salesforce to the apps and third-party vendors around it. In
Just Let Me Write Digits
28 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
Collection of clock designs
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Australian energy retailers must provide three hours of free daytime electricity
96 points, 123 comments on Hacker News
YouTrackDB is a general-use object-oriented graph database
123 points, 37 comments on Hacker News
Our Amish Language
Article URL: https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/amish-pennsylvania-dutch Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901645 Points: 49 # Comments: 28
Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries
Article URL: https://tech.supercarblondie.com/japan-recovers-up-to-90-of-lithium-from-used-ev-batteries/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901569 Points: 63 # Comments: 14
Fundamentals of Wireless Communication
Article URL: https://web.stanford.edu/~dntse/wireless_book.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901454 Points: 45 # Comments: 2
Satellite Tracker – Live Map of Starlink and 30k Satellites
Article URL: https://satellitemap.space/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901356 Points: 19 # Comments: 4
What will be left for us to work on?
Article URL: https://www.normaltech.ai/p/what-will-be-left-for-us-to-work Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901292 Points: 52 # Comments: 37
Building Food Metadata with LLM Juries
Article URL: https://careersatdoordash.com/blog/building-food-metadata-with-llm-juries-context-optimization-multimodal-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901275 Points: 18 # Comments: 2
Is x86 ready to ACE it?
Article URL: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/is-x86-ready-to-ace-it Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901235 Points: 21 # Comments: 0
The Economics of Recursive Self-Improvement [pdf]
Article URL: https://elasticity.institute/rsi-paper.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901224 Points: 27 # Comments: 1
MorphoHDL: A minimalistic language for growing circuits
Article URL: https://paradigms-of-intelligence.github.io/morpho/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901126 Points: 32 # Comments: 1
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