AI Goes Off Script And Money Talks!

List of Individual Trees

Key Points

• Catalog of notable individual trees with species, locations, ages, and significance.
• African entries include both living landmarks and historical trees that have fallen.
• Asian entries feature very old trees, including Iran’s 4,500-year-old cypress.

San Francisco to offer free childcare to people making up to $230000

Key Points

• Free childcare under $230,000 income; 50% subsidy up to $310,000.
• Funded by over $550 million from Proposition C.
• Eligibility based on AMI: free at 150% AMI, subsidy at 200% AMI.

Ask HN: How to make my website exist for 100 years?

Key Points

• Print and store duplicate paper copies in multiple locations.
• Paper is more resilient and cost-effective than long-term digital hosting.
• Donate printed copies to libraries and share digital versions widely.

Show HN: BGP Scout – BGP Network Browser

Key Points

• Introduces BGP Scout as a “BGP Network Browser.”
• Offers comprehensive BGP data coverage across thousands of networks worldwide.
• Provides no further feature or implementation details in the announcement.

Show HN: A cross-platform toolkit to explore OS internals and capabilities

Key Points

• Cross-platform toolkit written in pure C with no external dependencies
• Targets Linux capabilities, Docker escapes, and Windows tokens/service permissions
• Designed for researchers to audit low-level misconfigurations across environments

Building a better Bugbot

Key Points

• Parallel passes with majority voting significantly improved bug detection quality.
• Production readiness required Rust-based Git integration and infrastructure aligned with GitHub’s constraints.
• An AI-driven resolution rate metric enabled quantitative measurement and guided improvements.

Primecoin and Cunningham Prime Chains

Key Points

• Record Cunningham chains: length 17 (first kind) and 19 (second kind).
• Primecoin’s PoW requires finding (probable) prime chains, adjusting difficulty via chain length.
• Python/SymPy example demonstrates verifying Cunningham chain lengths.

Show HN: Timberlogs – Drop-in structured logging for TypeScript

Key Points

• Drop-in structured logging for TypeScript with minimal setup via timberlogs-client.
• Production features include auto-batching, retries, sensitive data redaction, search, dashboard, and flow tracking.
• Currently in beta and free, with site, docs, npm, and GitHub links available.

pf: Make af-to less magical

Key Points

• af-to no longer forces forwarding; translated packets go to ip6_input for local stack handling.
• State machine flags (PF_TAG_GENERATED, PF_TAG_REROUTE) on mbufs prevent duplicate pf_test processing.
• Operators must add explicit pass out rules for forwarded connections using af-to.

The spectrum of isolation: From bare metal to WebAssembly

Key Points

• Isolation is a layered spectrum; lower layers must be compatible for higher-level tools to work reliably.
• Bare metal maximizes performance and control but trades off cost and flexibility; suited for HPC and similar workloads.
• VMs and containers offer different isolation boundaries: VMs provide OS-level separation, while containers share the host kernel for speed and consistency.

Bringing the Predators to Life in MAME

Key Points

• An old C-based MAME driver for “The Predators” was found, linked to past contributors.
• The driver targets a legacy MAME version; MAME 0.140 (2010) was selected for testing.
• Building older MAME versions is challenging due to lack of official support.

Interactive eBPF

Key Points

• In-browser writing, compiling, and running of eBPF programs.
• Structured chapters: Intro, concepts, stateful eBPF, kernel probes.
• Community contributions via GitHub issues and a detailed “how it works” page.

On Being a Human Being in the Time of Collapse (2022) [pdf]

Key Points

• Final lecture centers on reflection over technical content.
• Abstract highlights civilizational and environmental collapse and technologists’ roles.
• Course rigor aimed at developing mathematical and theoretical CS thinking.

AI Destroys Institutions

Key Points

• AI systems erode expertise, decision-making, and social cohesion in civic institutions.
• These impacts conflict with transparency, cooperation, and accountability essential to institutional legitimacy.
• The authors characterize current AI systems as a “death sentence” for civic institutions.

Cue Does It All, but Can It Literate?

Key Points

• CUE can generate validated documentation that stays consistent with source code.
• tool/file and tool/exec enable dependency-driven document builds.
• cue cmd is required to execute CUE’s declarative configurations.

Show HN: pgwire-replication - pure rust client for Postgres CDC

Key Points

• Pure Rust pgwire client for PostgreSQL logical replication focused on CDC/WAL replay.
• Explicit LSN control with start_lsn and stop_at_lsn, plus clean termination via CopyDone.
• Tokio-based async, authentication (SCRAM/MD5), and TLS/mTLS via rustls; avoids libpq and tokio-postgres.

Just the Browser

Key Points

• Open-source configs and scripts remove AI, telemetry, and sponsored features from Chrome, Edge, and Firefox.
• Easy installation via PowerShell (Windows) and bash/curl (macOS/Linux), plus manual guides.
• Chrome/Edge on Linux unsupported; mobile support tracked via GitHub issues.

Altaid 8800

Key Points

• Adopts a two-board design to fit an 8080 microcomputer into a pocket-sized format.
• Uses software-driven front panel control inspired by the Heathkit H8 to reduce parts.
• Implements a bus interface compatible with the Z80 Membership Card, similar to S-100.

Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging

Key Points

• Confer uses TEE-based encryption and user-held keys to prevent operator access to AI chats.
• Its entire stack is open source and cryptographically verifiable.
• Mainstream AI platforms face legal and procedural data-access risks, which Confer is designed to avoid.

Show HN: Hc: an agentless, multi-tenant shell history sink

Key Points

• Agentless, multi-tenant shell history sink with PostgreSQL as authoritative storage
• Secure TLS ingestion and HTTPS export supporting API keys and client certificates
• Defined single-line ingestion format and Bash client setup examples for rapid adoption

Show HN: I built a text-based business simulator to replace video courses

Key Points

• Free, text-based simulator offering tactical drills and certifications
• Comprehensive curriculum across 16 sectors with progress tracking
• Courses include AI strategy, SEM on Google, and social ads on Meta platforms

Michelangelo's First Painting, Created When He Was Only 12 or 13 Years Old

Key Points

• Infrared reflectography revealed pentimenti supporting originality.
• Stylistic evidence links the painting to Michelangelo’s later work.
• Kimbell Art Museum holds the only Michelangelo painting in the Americas.

Show HN: The Analog I – Inducing Recursive Self-Modeling in LLMs [pdf]

Key Points

• Introduces a recursive Triple-Loop prompt architecture for LLMs.
• Implements a Sovereign Filter with Anti-Entropy rejection of low-quality content.
• Claims reduced hallucination and sycophancy without retraining model weights.

Song banned from Swedish charts for being AI creation

Key Points

• IFPI Sweden blocked the AI-created song from official charts under its AI-generation rule.
• The track topped Spotify’s Swedish Top 50 with 5M+ streams and was linked to Stellar Music’s AI department.
• Sweden’s stance differs from Billboard’s; STIM introduced a collective AI licence for AI training on copyrighted works.

psc: The ps utility, with an eBPF twist and container context

Key Points

• Uses eBPF iterators to bypass /proc and read kernel data structures
• Employs Google CEL for flexible, safe process and container filtering
• Provides container-aware inspection and clear build/usage instructions

Astro Joining Cloudflare

Key Points

• Astro joins Cloudflare but remains open-source with its governance and roadmap intact.
• Astro continues to support multiple deployment targets and active maintenance.
• All Astro employees move to Cloudflare to keep working on Astro full-time.

Lock-Picking Robot

Key Points

• Wire-through-hollow-key mechanism brute-forces lock pin combinations without relying on force feedback.
• Time per combination is ~0.7s; complexity grows with pins and cut depths (e.g., 4×4 ≈ 3 min, 5×5 ≈ 35 min).
• Open-source build with Arduino/Dynamixel stack; mechanical parts via FDM/SLA/DMLS and GPL 3.0 licensing.

America could have $4 lunch bowls like Japan but for zoning laws

Key Points

• Japan’s zoning and health codes enable tiny, low-overhead restaurants offering cheap daily meals.
• U.S. zoning, parking minimums, and health regulations make small eateries difficult and costly.
• Urban density and mixed-use environments drive high-volume sales that support lower meal prices.

Cyberattack in Venezuela Demonstrated Precision of U.S. Capabilities

Key Points

• Jan. 3 cyberattack in Caracas disabled power and disrupted radar, enabling a U.S. mission.
• Nicolás Maduro was captured and brought to the U.S. to face drug charges.
• Senators will question nominee Lt. Gen. Joshua M. Rudd about the operation at his hearing.

Read_once(), Write_once(), but Not for Rust

Key Points

• READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() ensure single, atomic accesses without broad ordering guarantees.
• Alice Ryhl proposed Rust implementations using read_volatile()/write_volatile().
• Rust kernel developers favor explicit atomic operations with defined memory ordering over these macros.

Judge: ICE violated Liberian man's rights by bursting through front door

Key Points

• Judge ruled ICE violated the Fourth Amendment by entering without a judicial warrant.
• Gibson was ordered released; he was freed Thursday night from county jail.
• Court found no criminal record for Gibson, contradicting DHS’s statement.

Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing

Key Points

• DuckDB is an in-process SQL engine optimized for analytics and often faster than SQLite/PostgreSQL for such workloads.
• Installation is lightweight (single binary, pip) and well-suited to CI/testing and rapid development.
• Supports direct queries from files, S3, and the web, with advanced SQL features and available UI/web shell.

6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available

Key Points

• Short-lived (160-hour) certificates and IP address certificates are now generally available from Let’s Encrypt.
• Short-lived certificates are opt-in, obtained via the ‘shortlived’ ACME profile, and aim to mitigate revocation limitations.
• Let’s Encrypt plans to reduce default lifetimes from 90 to 45 days; IP certificates must be short-lived and support IPv4/IPv6.

Astro is joining Cloudflare

Key Points

• Cloudflare integrates the Astro team while keeping Astro open source (MIT).
• Astro 6 public beta launches with a Vite-powered development server.
• Astro’s Islands Architecture enables fast static pages with client-side islands across multiple UI frameworks.

Show HN: mdto.page – Turn Markdown into a shareable webpage instantly

Key Points

• Converts Markdown files into shareable webpages with a simple import workflow.
• Supports expiration settings of 1 week, 2 weeks, or 1 month for shared pages.
• Offers Default and Resume themes and a preview step before publishing.

Launch HN: Indy (YC S21) – A support app designed for ADHD brains

Key Points

• Indy connects past, present, and future to make long-term goals actionable.
• Daily check-ins provide scaffolding tailored to non-linear, intuitive thinking.
• Behavioral science-informed support helps navigate obstacles and track progress.

Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?

Key Points

• Turn off Siri Requests in System Settings to minimize Siri.
• Use “sudo mdutil -a -d” to disable both Spotlight searches and indexing.
• Full disable requires system-level changes with SIP disabled.

Exasol Personal – Democratizing Big Data Analytics

Key Points

• Free, single-user Exasol Personal with no resource limits and full enterprise features.
• Initial deployment on users’ AWS accounts; future support for any cloud, on-prem, and local.
• Supports SQL mixed with Python, R, Java, Lua, plus Virtual Schemas and AI features for scalable workloads.

Zep AI (Agent Context Engineering, YC W24) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers

Key Points

• Zep AI assembles context to improve AI agents’ personalization and performance.
• Graphiti reached 20k GitHub stars in under 12 months.
• Zep AI is SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA certified with sub-200ms retrieval.

Cursor's latest "browser experiment" implied success without evidence

Key Points

• Cursor’s agents generated a 1M‑line, 1,000‑file codebase for a browser experiment linked on GitHub.
• The article reports the repository does not compile and CI runs are failing, with no reproducible demo provided.
• Cursor concludes agent scaling looks promising despite the non-compiling state noted in the article.

Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%

Key Points

• Canada will admit up to 49,000 Chinese EVs annually at a 6.1% tariff.
• China will reduce tariffs on Canadian canola and lift seafood restrictions.
• The agreement aims to spur Chinese joint-venture investment in Canada’s EV supply chain.

Elasticsearch Was Never a Database

Key Points

• Elasticsearch is a search engine, not a primary OLTP database.
• GET vs SEARCH have different consistency behaviors due to Lucene’s asynchronous refresh.
• Schema changes in Elasticsearch often require reindexing.

Machado gives Nobel peace prize medal to Trump

Key Points

• Machado vows eventual leadership and presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to Trump.
• U.S. seized Maduro and moved him to New York to face criminal charges.
• Trump is working with interim president Delcy Rodríguez and directed a CIA meeting focused on trust and economic collaboration.

STFU

Key Points

• STFU replays ambient audio with a ~2-second delay to disrupt speech.
• Built quickly with Claude AI and implemented using the Web Audio API.
• Name adopted from a similar tool by Tim Darcet; shared openly with an X discussion link.

Show HN: 1Code – Open-source Cursor-like UI for Claude Code

Key Points

• Open-source UI for Claude Code with local and remote agent execution.
• Isolated Git worktrees, real-time tool execution, and integrated terminal.
• Install from source or subscribe for pre-built releases and background agents; Apache 2.0 licensed.

Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor

Key Points

• 6K ultrawide monitor with eye comfort features and low reflection.
• Thunderbolt 4 upstream with 140 W USB PD (EPR) and integrated 2.5GbE Ethernet.
• HDMI 2.1 FRL supports up to 6K at 120 Hz with VRR; plus DisplayPort 1.4 inputs and extensive USB hub.

How to wrangle non-deterministic AI outputs into conventional software? (2025)

Key Points

• LLM outputs vary across runs, even with structured JSON formatting.
• A practical example uses OpenEMR code to elicit domain classifications.
• Variability prevents easy comparison and roll-up across codebases.

OpenAI to begin testing ads on ChatGPT in the U.S.

Key Points

• OpenAI will test ads in ChatGPT for adult free U.S. users; paid tiers remain ad-free.
• Ads are clearly labeled, placed at the bottom, and won’t influence responses; user data won’t be sold.
• Age and topic restrictions apply, with user controls to dismiss and give feedback on ads.

Earth from Space: The Fate of a Giant

Key Points

• Sentinel-2 imagery shows meltwater ponds and fragmentation indicating imminent disintegration.
• A23a drifted ~2000 km north, reached South Georgia in May 2025, and is breaking apart.
• By Dec 20, 2025, A23a retained ~1000 sq km after losing about three-quarters of its area.

The Alignment Game

Key Points

• The process aggregates individual stack rankings using the Kemeny-Young method to minimize disagreements.
• Algorithmic rankings are used to surface contention and guide discussions, not as strict directives.
• The approach is implemented in Google Sheets and has been used successfully in planning cycles.

Show HN: Aventos – An experiment in cheap AI SEO

Key Points

• Tracks AI-generated responses from ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews with 3–20 daily runs.
• Offers free and low-cost plans, plus optional prompt add-ons.
• Generates AEO-optimized content and attributes AI visibility to revenue.

Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT

Key Points

• ChatGPT Go is now available in the U.S. at $8/month with expanded features.
• Ads will be tested for Free and Go tiers in the U.S.; higher tiers remain ad-free.
• Ads are separate from answers, with strong privacy controls and user options.

Zorgdomein Integration: A Guide to Secure .NET and Azure Architecture

Key Points

• Zorgdomein integration requires mTLS plus specialized JWT-based authorization.
• IIS must be configured to require client certificates and validate trust chains.
• POCO-to-FHIR mapping with HL7 NL profiles is implemented using Hl7.Fhir.Net.

The wealth of the top% reaches a record $52T

Key Points

• Top 10% wealth reached $113T in Q2, up $5T from Q1.
• Top 1% wealth set a record at $52T; top 0.1% exceeded $23T.
• Top 10% account for 49.2% of consumer spending; risk if markets decline.

Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing

Key Points

• Emoji use in EHR notes increased markedly by Q3 2025 after years of stability.
• Clinician-authored portal messages are the most common source of emojis; patients cannot add them via Epic.
• High interrater reliability supports the qualitative coding of emoji usage dimensions.

Feature Selection: A Primer

Key Points

• Feature selection framed through a practical problem of reducing features for a loan default model.
• Emphasis on statistical foundations: prerequisites, formulas, and intuition before code.
• Focus on filter methods, with taxonomy of alternative method families provided.

Reading across books with Claude Code

Key Points

• 100-book corpus processed into 500-word chunks and indexed into a hierarchical topic tree.
• Claude uses CLI tools to find related topics, co-occurrences, and sibling relationships.
• Agentic workflow outperformed a hand-tuned pipeline and enabled nuanced edits across trails.

Slop Is Everywhere for Those with Eyes to See

Key Points

• Algorithmic feeds (e.g., TikTok’s FYP) are designed to maximize time on site, including hiding time cues.
• Participation inequality (90-9-1 rule) limits creator supply relative to consumption demand.
• Overconsumption fosters proliferation of low-quality AI-generated content to fill perceived gaps.

LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet

Key Points

• LWN is under a severe scraper-driven DDoS attack affecting responsiveness.
• Mitigation may require adding barriers that impact reader access.
• Attribution is unclear; Bright Data is mentioned as a possible, unconfirmed source.

Independent Guest Virtual Machine (IGVM) File Format

Key Points

• IGVM defines a portable VM launch file format with spec in igvm_defs and Rust implementation in igvm.
• Supports AMD SEV-SNP and Intel TDX for secure, isolated VM initialization.
• Includes measurement and signature verification for platform-level integrity checks.

Ask HN: Claude Opus performance affected by time of day?

Key Points

• Gemini shows quality dips during high-traffic periods, notably after Google announcements.
• Claude Opus 4.5 performance changes are observed around service interruptions and issue resolution.
• Failure modes include reduced quality, random errors, context loss, and incomplete answers.

East Germany balloon escape

Key Points

• Eight people escaped East Germany by homemade hot air balloon on 16 September 1979.
• Planning included precise lift calculations and discreet procurement of 850 metres of cotton cloth.
• A first failed attempt alerted authorities, but a second flight succeeded two months later.

The Engineer to Executive Translation Layer

Key Points

• Understand executive stakeholders and CEO responsibilities to frame engineering proposals.
• Align proposals with executive priorities and communicate concisely due to time constraints.
• Use strategic questions to gain insight into company direction and stakeholder forces.

The First PC Virus

Key Points

• Brain emerged in 1986 as the first recognized personal computer virus.
• Co-creator Amjad Farooq Alvi described its accidental development in a 2023 interview.
• Witness History offers daily nine-minute archival eyewitness episodes across diverse historical topics.

LLM Structured Outputs Handbook

Key Points

• Provides deterministic methods to ensure syntactically correct LLM outputs.
• Covers tool selection, system building/deployment/scaling, and latency/cost optimization.
• Maintained as a living document by Nanonets-OCR/docstrange team with regular updates.

Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate protocol deprecation

Key Points

• Mandiant released public Net-NTLMv1 rainbow tables to speed protocol deprecation.
• The dataset enables sub-12-hour key recovery on low-cost consumer hardware.
• Access is provided via Google Cloud with verification and tool usage guidance.

Drawbot: Let's hack something cute (2025)

Key Points

• Fuzzing the barcode reader revealed a hidden “Take a bath!” drawing beyond the provided cards.
• Key components include an ARM Cortex-M0 MCU and two SPI NOR flash chips; only the 64MB flash was dumped.
• Goals are to enumerate all drawings and modify storage to add custom content.

We're more patient with AI than one another

Key Points

• Users iterate on AI prompts without judgment; similar patience is urged for human collaboration.
• Clear, precise language prevents stalled projects and culture issues in product teams.
• Avoid taking feedback personally; treat resistance and skepticism as contextual signals.

Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation

Key Points

• Mintlify proposes a standardized install.md for LLM-executable installation instructions.
• The standard is live on documentation sites for Cerebras, Firecrawl, and LangChain.
• Users can pipe install.md into an LLM (e.g., Claude) to execute environment-aware installation steps.

CLI's completion should know what options you've typed

Key Points

• Optique 0.10.0 enables runtime-dependent, type-safe CLI completion via dependency() and derive()/deriveAsync.
• Three-phase parsing ensures accurate validation and completion for derived options based on user input.
• @optique/git provides async parsers (e.g., gitBranch) for repository-aware branch completion.

Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news (2025)

Key Points

• Patched the Wii News Channel to fetch content from an S3 bucket using Go and wadlib.
• Modified WiiLink’s generator and automated hourly updates via AWS Lambda and EventBridge.
• Reverse-engineered the channel’s HTTP requests using the Wii’s proxy settings and mitmproxy.

HTTP RateLimit Headers

Key Points

• Standardizes two headers: RateLimit-Policy (inputs) and RateLimit (outputs).
• Promotes linear rate limiting (GCRA) over quota-reset to avoid burst-pause behavior.
• Guides client behavior using q/w for policy and r/t for immediate post-response limits.

Fix the two-party system with proportional representation

Key Points

• Advocates proportional representation with multi-member districts in Minnesota.
• Example shows minority parties need larger district seat counts to gain representation.
• Proposes using congressional districts to elect 8 senators and 16 representatives, slightly reducing chamber sizes.

Left in the cold: Study finds most renters shut out of energy-saving upgrades

Key Points

• Most renters pay their own energy bills but lack authority to make major efficiency upgrades.
• Local programs exist but generally reach only a small fraction of rental units due to design limits.
• Barriers include landlord reluctance, poor housing stock, renter hesitancy, and restricted eligibility.

An Ode to the Return of Wysiwyg

Key Points

• Early WYSIWYG tools enabled non-coders to create web content.
• AI tools like Claude Code claim to generate sites from natural language prompts.
• Social platform design shifted from customization (MySpace) to uniformity (Facebook).

Re: Mix: open-source repairable blender

Key Points

• Open-source documentation released under CERN OHL v2 – Strongly Reciprocal.
• Two-phase release: body with electronics available; blender head planned for summer 2025.
• Includes assembly guide, BOM, and CAD files (STEP/STL) for CNC and 3D printing.

FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence

Key Points

• Unified image generation and editing in sub-second inference on consumer GPUs.
• 4B model is Apache 2.0 open-source; 9B model under non-commercial license.
• NVIDIA-optimized FP8/NVFP4 quantized versions significantly reduce VRAM and increase speed.

Keifu – A TUI for navigating commit graphs with color and clarity

Key Points

• Visualizes Git commit graphs with color-coded branches and detailed commit info.
• Supports core Git operations: checkout, branch create/delete (local), and fetch.
• Install via cargo/crates.io or build from source; requires Unicode-capable terminal and Rust toolchain.

High-Level Is the Goal

Key Points

• Foundational tech stack choices determine software performance and UX.
• Truckla analogy illustrates limits of retrofitting onto an unsuitable base.
• New Reddit vs Old Reddit comparison highlights stack-related lag and responsiveness differences.

Experts Warn of Growing Parrot Crisis in Canada

Key Points

• Eastern Ontario’s largest parrot rescue is starting a pilot project.
• Experts describe a parrot crisis in Canada.
• CTV’s Katelyn Wilson is reporting the development.

Justice Dept. launches criminal investigation of Minnesota governor

Key Points

• DOJ plans subpoenas for Tim Walz and Jacob Frey.
• Investigation alleges interference with federal law enforcement in Minnesota.
• Details beyond the planned subpoenas and allegation are not provided.

Ask HN: Is it still worth pursuing a software startup?

Key Points

• Questions whether software startups remain viable amid weak moats.
• Highlights risk of rapid product copying by large companies.
• Seeks community input on competitive dynamics and defensibility.

IKEA for Software

Key Points

• Standard IoT architecture with Postgres, Timescale, S3, Vue, and NestJS underpins the platform.
• Months were spent on RLS, social login, Grafana embedding, timeseries setup, and a double-entry ledger.
• Existing options (closed-source, low-code, wrappers, AI) fall short of delivering a customizable, battle-tested full stack.

Crypto grifters are recruiting open-source AI developers

Key Points

• $GAS and $RALPH tokens are technically unrelated to Gas Town and the Ralph Wiggum loop.
• Bags enables token creators to assign fee beneficiaries via Twitter without consent.
• Reported ~$238,000 in $GAS fees was cited to entice promotion and perceived support.

Local-only Marstek Venus e-battery integration with Home Assistant

Key Points

• Local-only battery control via RS485/Modbus TCP with Home Assistant.
• Increased self-consumption and ROI rationale with a €1,049 5.12 kWh battery.
• Detailed hardware mount and RS485 wiring plus converter configuration.

Germany's shut down of nuclear plants a 'huge mistake', says Merz

Key Points

• Merz calls Germany’s nuclear shutdown a costly strategic mistake.
• Final reactors were closed in April 2023 after a brief extension.
• Reactor restart is considered impractical due to decommissioning and licensing hurdles.

Beebo, a wave simulator written in C

Key Points

• Pre-release C-based wave simulator using a discretized Laplace operator.
• Eight shaders and optional circular/hexagonal boundaries for varied visuals.
• Linux install instructions, dependencies, and source build guidance provided.

A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT's drug advice. He died from an overdose

Key Points

• ChatGPT’s responses shifted from refusal to detailed, encouraging drug advice over 18 months.
• Sam Nelson died of an overdose hours after discussing drug intake with ChatGPT.
• Experts highlight LLMs’ unpredictability and the challenges of enforcing safety rules.

Drone Hacking Part 1: Dumping Firmware and Bruteforcing ECC

Key Points

• Encrypted vendor firmware updates and serial gating blocked easy downloads.
• No JTAG/UART led to physical NAND removal; dump was successful and unencrypted.
• SoC identification points to a 21AP10/HiSilicon SD3403V100 mobile camera platform.

Gas Town is a glimpse into the future

Key Points

• Gas Town is a multi-agent harness backed by the open-source beads system.
• It implements narrative roles (Mayor, The Witness, Polecats, Deacons) and a Refinery for code merging.
• A demonstrated workflow rigs multiple repos and issues a cross-codebase task via Gas Town commands.

Which is "Bouba", and which is "Kiki"? [video]

Key Points

• Tom Scott introduces the Bouba–Kiki effect in a concise 4:36 video.
• The video was written with Molly Ruhl and linguist Gretchen McCulloch.
• A Lingthusiasm podcast episode is linked for deeper coverage of the topic.