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Why does aluminum foil have one shiny side and one with a matte finish?

Key Points

• Shiny vs. matte sides result from a final paired rolling pass.
• Side orientation has no effect on foil performance in use.
• Aluminum foil replaced tinfoil, though the old term persists.

Building SQLite with a small swarm

Key Points

• ~19k LOC Rust SQLite-like engine built by coordinating Claude, Codex, and Gemini, with 282 unit tests passing.
• High coordination overhead (54.5% of commits) managed via locks and disciplined merging; success credited to oracle testing and strong module boundaries.
• Replication scripts and prerequisites provided; coalescer existed but was underused during development.

Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found

Key Points

• Two research teams propose different locations for Luna 9’s landing site.
• Anatoly Zak highlights that only one of the claims can be correct.
• Early lunar spacecraft sites are often uncertain; future missions may clarify.

Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve

Key Points

• Cache reads can dominate costs in long LLM conversations, reaching 50% at ~27.5k tokens in one example and 87% by the end.
• exe.dev gateway data (250 Shelley conversations) shows median input ~285 tokens and output ~100 tokens, with wide variability.
• For long runs, cost scales with tokens × number of LLM calls, highlighting the importance of minimizing unnecessary calls.

1,300-year-old world chronicle unearthed in Sinai

Key Points

• Early 8th-century Christian chronicle identified and dated to AD 712–713.
• Digitisation and open-access platforms enabled detailed analysis of an incomplete manuscript.
• The chronicle covers key seventh-century events and will receive a critical edition and translation.

picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code

Key Points

• 500-line Tcl-like interpreter in C, now archived on GitHub
• Hand-written parser and evaluator with interpolation and substitutions
• Supports procedures, control flow, recursion, scoping, and basic built-ins

Show HN: Solving Sudoku reasoning via Energy Geometric models

Key Points

• Three-phase CUDA pipeline with curvature-guided scheduling and automatic instance routing via Γ.
• Mathematical framework defines curvature (K_loc), information value (V), and an energy functional guiding geodesic-like solution paths.
• Reported throughput of ~270K puzzles/sec and large speedups over Python CPU and named baselines.

Designing a 36-key custom keyboard layout (2021)

Key Points

• Compact keyboards rely on layers in custom firmware to replace missing keys.
• Around 36 keys is presented as a practical lower bound for normal English typing.
• Miryoku showcases a 36-key design with six layers and home row modifiers, requiring tuning.

MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings

Key Points

• The Unicode MessageFormat Standard is a stable, approved part of CLDR and recommended for adoption.
• The normative specification is published in Unicode TR35; the repo hosts the editor’s copy.
• Some “u:” namespace functions are in Draft, with feedback and contributions welcomed under a CLA.

Hard problems in social media archiving

Key Points

• Social media’s scale makes comprehensive archiving infeasible, necessitating selection.
• Institutional archives require clear policies and boundaries to manage scope and fairness.
• Contextual and interconnected posts complicate decisions about what to preserve.

Vim-pencil: Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing

Key Points

• Supports both soft wraps and hard line breaks with auto-detection and wrap-aware navigation.
• Pure Vimscript, dependency-free plugin integrating with Conceal and Vim autoformat.
• Simple installation and buffer-scoped commands for initialization and mode control.

Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it

Key Points

• Claude Code v2.1.20 collapses file activity details by default, hiding filenames.
• Anthropic repurposed verbose mode to reveal file paths for reads/searches.
• The default condensed view remains despite developer pushback.

Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents

Key Points

• Open weights released for Qwen3.5-397B-A17B with hybrid linear attention + sparse MoE architecture.
• Only 17B of 397B parameters are active per forward pass, improving inference efficiency.
• Hosted Qwen3.5-Plus on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio offers a 1M context window and built-in tool use.

Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code

Key Points

• Serverless OCR deployed with Modal and FastAPI using an NVIDIA A100.
• Reproducible container built on CUDA 11.8 with pinned ML libraries.
• Model loaded once per container and batched inference used for high throughput.

Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD

Key Points

• WD’s 2026 HDD capacity is fully allocated, per CEO Irving Tan.
• Most capacity is committed to seven large customers; some deals extend into 2027–2028.
• Consumer revenue is about 5% of WD’s total amid enterprise- and AI-driven demand.

The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself

Key Points

• Paragon’s spyware dashboard was briefly exposed via LinkedIn, revealing operational details.
• Citizen Lab’s John Scott-Railton labeled the incident an OPSEC failure and examined possible app access.
• Graphite uses zero-click exploits to achieve OS-level access and is sold to state agencies; Paragon was reportedly acquired for $900M.

Show HN: I generated a "stress test" of 200 rare defects from 7 real photos

Key Points

• 200-image CC0 dataset of broken insulators generated from seven real samples for validation/testing
• Procedural variations cover lighting and backgrounds; labels provided in COCO/YOLO formats
• Aims to benchmark and improve recall on rare failure modes in structural inspection

Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database

Key Points

• HMCTS ordered Courtsdesk’s archive wiped due to alleged unauthorised data sharing.
• Courtsdesk was approved in 2020 and used by 1,500+ journalists across 39 outlets.
• HMCTS says press access to court listings and records remains available.

Running My Own XMPP Server

Key Points

• DNS SRV records and A/CNAME setup for XMPP clients, federation, uploads, and conferences
• TLS certificates via Let’s Encrypt using Certbot with Cloudflare DNS challenge and automated renewal
• Docker Compose deployment of Prosody with ports, volumes, and mobile-friendly modules (smacks, cloud_notify)

Ghidra by NSA

Key Points

• Ghidra is a multi-platform SRE framework with extensive analysis and scripting capabilities.
• Users must review Security Advisories due to known vulnerabilities in certain versions.
• Installation and build steps require JDK 21, Gradle, Python, and platform-specific toolchains; extensions are supported via GhidraDev and VS Code.

iOS 27 'Rave' Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life

Key Points

• iOS 27 (code‑named “Rave”) targets internal cleanup and efficiency for speed and battery gains.
• UI changes will be modest compared with iOS 26’s Liquid Glass overhaul.
• Some chatbot‑style Siri features are delayed to iOS 27 amid prep for 2026 device launches.

What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You

Key Points

• Bluehood passively reveals presence patterns from Bluetooth broadcasts.
• WhisperPair (CVE-2025-36911) exposes critical risks in Bluetooth audio devices.
• Many devices and privacy apps rely on Bluetooth, limiting user control over broadcasting.

The Sideprocalypse

Key Points

• The author argues indie side‑project SaaS is no longer viable due to platform gatekeeping and distribution limits.
• Quality and performance optimizations are portrayed as less impactful than distribution and alignment with incumbents.
• AI boosterism is criticized, with claims that code’s marginal value is falling despite prominent AI tools.

How DSQL makes sure sequences scale

Key Points

• DSQL introduces sequence support with examples for creation and identity columns using CACHE.
• Sequences can be a hot key in distributed systems; DSQL uses per-backend caching to scale.
• Larger CACHE values boost performance but may cause gaps if a backend crashes.

UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment

Key Points

• Discord’s UK trial with Persona allows up to 7 days of data storage.
• Policy is live in the UK and Australia; global rollout starts early March.
• Discord updated, then removed, an FAQ disclaimer; archived version exists.

planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary

Key Points

• Bootstraps a Forth interpreter from a ~1KB hand-written ELF binary for i386-linux.
• Builds with xxd and make; includes C and Python alternatives and test targets.
• Documents extensive built-in words and shows usage via bootstrap.fs with examples.

Intermittent fasting may make little difference to weight loss, review finds

Key Points

• Intermittent fasting showed little to no short-term weight-loss advantage over standard advice or no advice.
• Evidence quality was limited, with small, less robust studies reducing confidence in some comparisons.
• Further research is needed on health outcomes beyond weight and across different populations.

Show HN: Simple org-mode web adapter

Key Points

• Lightweight Python-based local web app for Org-mode notes with a three-pane UI.
• Rescans notes on each request, resolves links/backlinks, and supports editing via POST.
• No authentication or encryption; configure via config.yaml and CLI flags.

Richard Carrington's first portrait has been found

Key Points

• First known photograph of Richard Carrington identified by RAS archivist Kate Bond.
• Carrington’s 1859 solar flare observation linked to the most intense geomagnetic storm on record.
• Club membership and Maull & Polyblank studio records helped validate the portrait’s existence.

Looks: A Halide Mark III Preview

Key Points

• Public preview of Halide Mark III is live; access via the in-app “③” toggle after updating.
• “Looks” is the first highlighted feature, intended to provide distinctive, out-of-the-box aesthetics.
• Further Mark III features and details will be released gradually through updates and posts.

Show HN: Maths, CS and AI Compendium

Key Points

• Six chapters are available now; eleven more are planned across AI and systems topics.
• Developed over seven years, the content emphasizes intuition and real-world context.
• Hosted on GitHub with a formal citation and open contributions via issues and PRs.

WebMCP Proposal

Key Points

• WebMCP defines a JavaScript API to expose web app tools to AI agents.
• It adds a modelContext to Navigator and specifies ModelContext methods for tool management.
• The spec is a community-group draft, not on the W3C Standards Track.

I guess I kinda get why people hate AI

Key Points

• The author now worries AI may threaten future employability, a shift from earlier techno‑optimism.
• Historical examples (Luddites, ATMs) are used to argue technology often transforms rather than eliminates jobs.
• The 2017 “Attention Is All You Need” paper is cited as a turning point ushering in the LLM era.

History of AT&T Long Lines

Key Points

• AT&T Long Lines used microwave relay towers to replace vulnerable coaxial cable for long-distance service.
• The first coast-to-coast automated DDD call was made on August 17, 1951 via the Long Lines network.
• Post-1984 divestiture, Long Lines stayed central to AT&T until Southwestern Bell’s 2005 acquisition created the “new” AT&T.

Privilege Is Bad Grammar

Key Points

• Executives’ emails in high-profile leaks often appear informal and error-prone.
• The author contrasts junior-level email meticulousness with senior leaders’ terse, emoji-laden replies.
• The article frames this disparity as a form of “grammar privilege” tied to power.

Castlevania and Bloodstained developer Shutaro Ida dies aged 52

Key Points

• Shutaro Ida died at 52 on February 10, 2026, after battling pancreatic cancer.
• Ida was a key Castlevania contributor and Creative Director on Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night.
• ArtPlay will continue development of Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement to honor his vision.

Use Protocols, Not Services

Key Points

• Centralized platforms are easy targets for regulatory enforcement and identity mandates.
• Decentralized protocols lack a single control point, enabling policy diversity and user migration.
• Email’s SMTP exemplifies protocol-based resilience and provider portability.

Robert Duvall Dead at 95

Key Points

• Death confirmed by wife Luciana Duvall via Facebook; he died peacefully at home at 95.
• Duvall’s career included nearly 100 films and seven Oscar nominations, with a Best Actor win for Tender Mercies (1983).
• Cause of death and memorial plans had not been released as of the latest update (2/16/26, 2:13 p.m. ET).

"I Was a Director at Amex When They Started Replacing Us with $30K Workers" [video]

Key Points

• American Express opened a 1,000,000 sq ft office in Gurugram, India, its largest to date.
• Simmons’s teams built lending and BNPL web apps under “AI-powered innovation.”
• He alleges a systematic replacement of American tech workers with offshore hires.

Docker Swarm vs. Kubernetes in 2026

Key Points

• 10-year production experience with Docker Swarm reports strong reliability and low operational cost.
• Autoscaling is framed as Kubernetes’ primary advantage; the article provides a Swarm autoscaler alternative.
• YAML/configuration and cost comparisons suggest Swarm can be simpler and cheaper for many use cases.

Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files

Key Points

• Jemini targets Epstein-related records with task-based search and exploration.
• Functions include flight log queries, email topic searches, court document reading, and Amazon purchase lookups.
• A clear disclaimer advises users to verify AI-generated responses.

Show HN: 2D Coulomb Gas Simulator

Key Points

• Simulates a 2D log-gas with pairwise Coulomb repulsion under confinement.
• Uses energy minimization to approximate the Fekete configuration, not finite-temperature sampling.
• References a 2017 result: boundary density follows an erfc distribution.

Show HN: Nerve: Stitches all your data sources into one mega-API

Key Points

• Nerve unifies multiple data sources into a single mega-API.
• Its query engine joins and merges structured data across internal and external sources.
• Supports OAuth 2.0 and includes auth test endpoints for credential verification.

Wero – Digital payment wallet, Made in Europe

Key Points

• Transfers complete in under 10 seconds.
• Service operates 24/7, including nights and weekends.
• Available to most bank customers in Belgium, France, and Germany.

"token anxiety"; or, a slot machine by any other name

Key Points

• Companies are pushing AI coding agents despite uncertain productivity benefits.
• The article cites research suggesting AI use can reduce skill retention.
• Agent-driven workflows may foster addictive, gambling-like engagement and intensify work culture.

How Not to Answer the Salary Question

Key Points

• Defer salary discussions until late in the process or after an offer.
• Use an industry-standard range response to maintain flexibility.
• Research and cite market data to support your position.

14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight

Key Points

• Miura-ori folds tested by a student supported up to 10,000× their own weight (about 200 pounds).
• Experiments covered 54 variants, 108 trials, and three paper types with controlled folding via a scoring machine.
• Miura-ori has established aerospace uses; new “bloom patterns” show continued innovation in deployable structures.

STM32G431 Analogue TV Transmitter

Key Points

• Used a Philips PM5145 generator with AM input and harmonics to reach 48.25 MHz for initial RF video tests.
• Generated a ~48 MHz carrier from an STM32G431 by high-speed op-amp input mux switching on a NUCLEO-G431KB board.
• Identified that STM32G431 DACs can operate up to ~15 MHz in unbuffered mode for higher-speed video modulation.

Fff.nvim – Typo-resistant code search

Key Points

• Rust-backed, typo-resistant fuzzy file picker for Neovim with sub-10 ms searches on large codebases.
• Requires Neovim 0.10.0+ and Rustup nightly; install via lazy.nvim or vim.pack (with NixOS option).
• Configurable layout/preview, lazy initialization, and optional image previews via snacks.nvim.

Visual Introduction to PyTorch

Key Points

• PyTorch’s origins and governance: built on Torch by Meta AI and now under the Linux Foundation.
• Clear demonstrations of tensor initializers and their differing behaviors, including rand vs randn and zeros vs empty.
• Guidance on numerically representing words, images, and 3D meshes as tensors for model training.

Suicide Linux (2009)

Key Points

• The concept converts any mistyped command into rm -rf /, wiping the system.
• Community implementations exist as a Debian package and a Docker image.
• Suggestions include using verbose flags and exploring single-file deletion variants.

Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers

Key Points

• Synchronization barriers deterministically reproduce race conditions.
• Read-modify-write patterns can cause lost updates under concurrency.
• Barrier placement between read and write forces the exact interleaving needed to test.

State of Show HN: 2025

Key Points

• Dataset includes all Show HN posts since Hacker News launched.
• Hierarchical topic modeling categorized themes and trends over years.
• Findings include macroeconomic signals and evidence of AI-driven voting/fraud.

The Long Tail of LLM-Assisted Decompilation

Key Points

• Similarity-based function selection outperformed difficulty-based prioritization in the long tail.
• Coddog’s opcode-level Levenshtein distance complemented a handcrafted similarity metric.
• Specialized tools (gfxdis.f3dex2, decomp-permuter) enhanced LLM-driven decompilation.

Neurons outside the brain

Key Points

• The nervous system performs significant local processing in the gut, heart, and spinal cord.
• Gut has ~500M neurons with predominantly afferent connections to the brain and extensive sensory capabilities.
• Spinal cord modulates pain via dorsal horn gating, per gate control theory (1965).

Turing Labs (YC W20) Is Hiring – GTM Sales Hacker

Key Points

• Turing Labs is hiring a GTM Sales role focused on scaling its AI solution.
• The AI platform accelerates food product formulation from months to days.
• They cite contracts and retention with major brands as proof of traction.

Show HN: Free Alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue

Key Points

• Free, open-source Mac app using Groq APIs for transcription and context-aware post-processing.
• Works on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs with simple Fn-key activation and automatic paste.
• No server or data retention; only Groq API calls leave the device; MIT-licensed.

AI optimism is a class privilege

Key Points

• Personal experience with an AI roast tool led to concerns about AI-enabled harm.
• Deepfakes are highlighted as a powerful vector for bullying and harassment.
• The article argues AI optimism often reflects class privilege amid polarized public views.

Chiplets Get Physical: The Days of Mix-and-Match Silicon Draw Nigh

Key Points

• Cadence’s keynote at Chiplet Summit 2026 will focus on modular multi-die designs for AI, edge, and physical AI.
• “Physical AI” refers to AI processing at the edge; aerospace and defense have unique requirements.
• Chiplets aim to enable open, mix-and-match multi-die systems, contrasting with proprietary traditional approaches.

Study: Self-generated Agent Skills are useless

Key Points

• Curated skills raise pass rates by 16.2pp on average.
• Self-generated skills provide no average performance benefit.
• Focused skills (2–3 modules) outperform comprehensive documentation.

Show HN: Wildex – we built Pokémon Go for real wildlife

Key Points

• Camera-based wildlife ID with collection and local rarity tiers
• v2.0 adds improved AI, UI updates, danger ratings, and ‘Wildboy’
• Privacy labels include tracking and linked location/contact/user content

Kim Dotcom says Palantir allegedly hacked

Key Points

• Kim Dotcom alleges an AI agent-enabled hack granted super-user access to Palantir.
• He claims evidence of broad surveillance, weapons-related work for Ukraine with the CIA, and AI targeting in Gaza.
• He says he will help publicize the claims and that data may be given to Russia and/or China, without providing evidence.

Camera that captures photos to cassette tape

Key Points

• Images are encoded as Martin M1 SSTV audio and stored on cassette tapes via ESP32-CAM.
• RP2040 (Raspberry Pi Pico) decodes playback audio to reconstruct images, with robustness improvements for tape instability.
• Features include USB serial image export, TFT display viewing, and multiple physical control modes.

LCM: Lossless Context Management [pdf]

Key Points

• LCM-augmented Volt outperforms Claude Code on OOLONG across 32K–1M tokens using Opus 4.6.
• LCM structures recursion via hierarchical summary DAGs and operator-level primitives like LLM-Map.
• The approach targets context bottlenecks and context rot, prioritizing reliability and production readiness.

10 years building vertical software: are we cooked?

Key Points

• Software/services stocks fell sharply; major data providers saw significant declines.
• Anthropic launched industry-specific plugins for Claude’s Cowork AI agent.
• LLMs and chat interfaces may reduce UI-driven lock-in and onboarding costs in vertical SaaS.

Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox

Key Points

• Shell sandbox: isolated Ubuntu microVM with dev tools, no pre-installed agent.
• Credential proxying keeps Anthropic API keys out of the sandbox via a sentinel.
• Step-by-step setup to run NanoClaw and manage the sandbox lifecycle.

Building a model that visualizes strategic golf

Key Points

• The project extends strokes gained to include positional and angular strategy.
• A flat, featureless hole serves as the distance-only benchmark.
• Strokes-to-hole heatmaps visualize expected outcomes by position.

PascalABC.net

Key Points

• Free, multi-paradigm Pascal language and IDE on .NET with modern features and .NET library access.
• Robust educational tooling: Robot, Drawman, and 1,100+ auto-checked tasks for teaching programming.
• Cross-platform command-line compiler (Windows/.NET and Linux/Mono), LGPLv3-licensed, widely used in Russian education.

Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary

Key Points

• Digitized diaries (1927–1945) of USFS ranger Reuben P. Box detail forestry work and daily life.
• OCR and AI tools (Mistral OCR, Anthropic Claude) enabled transcription, summaries, and indexing.
• Key historical highlights include the 1931 Mud Creek Fire, 1932 arson cases, and WWII forest watches.

Rise of the Triforce

Key Points

• Sega, Nintendo, and Namco co-developed the GameCube-based Triforce arcade platform.
• Triforce adds AM boards and a modified IPL/Segaboot workflow to adapt GameCube hardware for arcades.
• Arcade decline accelerated as home consoles matched 3D capabilities, prompting strategic shifts.

Nvidia with unusually fast coding model on plate-sized chips

Key Points

• First production OpenAI model on non-Nvidia hardware (Cerebras), tuned for fast coding.
• Throughput exceeds 1,000 tokens/sec (~15× predecessor) with a 128k-token context window.
• Research preview via ChatGPT Pro and IDE/CLI tools; vendor benchmark claims lack independent validation.

Show HN: Journey – A Custom 2D ECS Game Engine Written in Rust and WGPU

Key Points

• Custom Rust-based 2D engine with ECS, using wGPU and compiling to WebAssembly.
• ECS design and a custom System Runner address Rust borrow safety while maximizing data locality.
• Manual graphics pipeline setup: buffers, bind groups, uniform buffers, and WGSL shaders across desktop and web backends.

Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

Key Points

• Investigators used room details—outlets, furniture, and brickwork—to narrow Lucy’s location.
• Facebook declined to assist despite being contacted for help scanning photos.
• Brick experts identified a specific brick type, providing a critical geographical lead.

Hear the "Amati King Cello", the Oldest Known Cello in Existence

Key Points

• Oldest known cello, crafted by Andrea Amati for King Charles IX, survives and is playable.
• Extensive 1801-era reductions and modifications transformed the original “basso” into a modern-sized cello.
• CT scan analysis documents these changes; further details available via The Strad and Google Arts & Culture.

AI is destroying Open Source, and it's not even good yet

Key Points

• Ars Technica retracted a story due to AI-fabricated quotes involving Scott Shambaugh.
• Curl’s Daniel Stenberg ended bug bounties as useful reports fell from ~15% to ~5%, citing AI-generated noise.
• GitHub added an option to disable pull requests to combat low-quality automated contributions.

Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI

Key Points

• FastTab replaces KDE Plasma’s slow Gallery switcher on X11 with a Zig/OpenGL daemon for instant switching.
• Claude helped produce a detailed spec and milestone plan, enabling a working prototype in days.
• The author advises pseudocode/Mermaid-focused specs and a git-centric workflow for safe AI-driven iteration.

What every compiler writer should know about programmers (Anton Ertl, 2015) [pdf]

Key Points

• UB-based compiler optimizations yield small benchmark gains but can break working production code.
• Ertl’s C⋆/“C”/Cbench distinction highlights a mismatch between programmer practice and compiler targets.
• Programmer-driven source-level optimizations can provide larger performance improvements than UB-based compiler tactics.

Facing a demographic catastrophe, Ukraine is paying for troops to freeze sperm

Key Points

• Ukraine funds and regulates free sperm/egg freezing for active-duty soldiers, begun by private clinics in 2022.
• Law amended to allow posthumous use with prior consent and free storage up to three years after death.
• Kyiv’s state fertility center started enrolling in January and expects demand to increase.

DBASE on the Kaypro II

Key Points

• Kildall’s BIOS and CP/M enabled portable microcomputer OSes and led to DRI’s US $120M sale to Novell.
• dBASE II dominated microcomputer databases (~70% market share in 1984) and shaped the xBase ecosystem.
• A Kaypro II emulation in MAME replicates CP/M-era hardware to run dBASE II v2.4.

Why Affordability and the Vibecession Are Real Economic Problems

Key Points

• Real incomes are up since 2019, but consumer sentiment remains near historic lows.
• Affordability concerns persist due to an “essentials squeeze” where key costs outpace overall inflation.
• Returning to pre‑inflation price levels is unrealistic; policy should target specific pressure points.

A Deep Dive into Apple's .car File Format

Key Points

• .xcassets compile into .car files with Xcode and are used across Apple platforms.
• The author reverse-engineers .car internals and offers a browser-based WebAssembly parser/demo.
• assetutil can output a JSON dump of .car contents, including version and key-format metadata.

Long-term unemployment is becoming 'a status quo' in today's job market

Key Points

• Long-term unemployment now accounts for about 1 in 4 unemployed people (1.8 million).
• Headline job growth continues, but hiring has cooled since 2022; only 181,000 jobs were added in 2025.
• Experts cite labor market stagnation as firms trim over-hiring and workers stay put.

Portable 1MV X-ray system combines Cockcroft–Walton with Van de Graaff dome

Key Points

• Combines Cockcroft–Walton multiplication with a Van de Graaff dome for 1 MV portable x‑ray generation.
• Laser-triggered micro-cathode enables precise, on-demand flash radiography with flexible timing.
• Offered in two versions: a 150-pound commercial model and a larger national security model.