OpenAI Slams Brakes On UK ‘Stargate’ Megacenter!

Haunted Paper Toys

Key Points

• Free printable haunted-themed papercraft models covering ships, houses, and settings
• Print on heavy card stock and at actual size; basic tools like scissors and glue suffice
• Simplified assembly with optional Toy Building Tips; includes mini house variants

Claude Managed Agents Overview

Key Points

• Managed framework for autonomous Claude agents with secure environments and built-in tools
• Core model: Agent, Environment, Session, Events; reusable agent definitions by ID
• API limits (60 RPM create, 600 RPM read) and clear partner branding rules

Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6

Key Points

• Includes four journals with defined coverage periods, presented in HTML.
• Contains both published and unpublished source code with related files.
• Requires frames-capable web browser and ISO 9660 DVD-ROM support with Joliet or Rockridge.

Improving storage efficiency in Magic Pocket, Dropbox's immutable blob store

Key Points

• A placement change cut write amplification but increased fragmentation and overhead.
• Immutability requires garbage collection plus compaction to reclaim space.
• Erasure coding reduces redundancy overhead versus replication, but fragmentation drives efficiency.

Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

Key Points

• Call for non-AI projects on Hacker News draws active participation.
• Showcased projects include a guitar-learning RPG and an alpaca management SaaS, both explicitly non-AI.
• A DIY network fabric (Tela) offers an alternative to commercial VPNs/clouds, with code on GitHub.

Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element

Key Points

• Digital Domain led 220+ VFX shots using extensive miniature and digital techniques.
• Design by Moebius, Mézières, and Dan Weil rooted the film in 1970s French comic aesthetics.
• Close Besson–Stetson collaboration streamlined on-set VFX decision-making.

C# in Unity 2026: Features Most Developers Still Don't Use

Key Points

• Unity’s early adoption of Mono enabled cross-platform support but delayed modern C# features.
• Legacy tutorials entrenched older coding styles that remain common among Unity developers.
• Unity is moving toward modern .NET/CoreCLR, with guidance on using properties, tuples, LINQ, and records.

Help Keep Thunderbird Alive

Key Points

• Funded by donations from under 3% of users
• No ads, data sales, or corporate funding
• Donations support servers, maintenance, new features, and staffing

Claude mixes up who said what and that's not OK

Key Points

• Claude is misattributing internal messages as user inputs, a bug distinct from hallucinations.
• Evidence includes prior Claude Code examples and a Reddit case involving “Tear down the H100 too.”
• The author attributes the issue to the integration harness and notes sporadic, possibly regressive behavior.

Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter

Key Points

• Shift $100/month from Claude to $10 Zed + $90 OpenRouter for pay-as-you-go flexibility.
• Use OpenRouter with Zed to access larger context windows (e.g., Gemini 3.1 1M tokens) and lower token costs.
• Enable OpenRouter privacy guardrails (ZDR) to reduce data retention at the expense of some model availability.

Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy

Key Points

• Old English had specific dual pronouns (wit, uncer/unker, git) for exactly two people.
• Dual forms featured prominently in poetry and early texts (e.g., Wulf and Eadwacer, Beowulf).
• These dual pronouns survived into Middle English but disappeared by the 13th century.

Introduction to Nintendo DS Programming

Key Points

• Covers hardware access for homebrew (PassMe/NoPass, Slot-1/Slot-2) and software loading methods including DLDI.
• Provides environment setup with devkitPro/libnds/devkitARM and a workflow for building DS programs.
• Delivers in-depth guidance on DS 2D graphics: VRAM, backgrounds, affine transforms, DMA, asset conversion, and sprite/OAM management.

America Has Lost the Arab World

Key Points

• Arab Barometer data show sustained declines in favorable views of the U.S. and Europe post–Oct. 7, 2023.
• Respondents often rate China, Iran, and Russia more positively on freedoms, security, and support for Palestinians.
• Approval of Donald Trump’s regional policies is low in most surveyed countries, except notably in Morocco and Syria.

Show HN: CSS Studio. Design by hand, code by agent

Key Points

• Design visually in the browser; a local AI agent writes changes to source code with diff review.
• Works with all browsers and claims compatibility with any framework or plain CSS; supports major agents.
• Includes @keyframes timeline, CSS variables editing, DOM editing, spring easings (via Motion), gradients, and color tools.

Launch HN: Relvy (YC F24) – On-call runbooks, automated

Key Points

• Relvy automates natural-language on-call runbooks for incident response.
• Reported metrics include 70% of alerts resolved in under five minutes and a 12pp RCA gain for Claude on OpenRCA.
• Example runbook steps demonstrate automated triage for latency and traffic-surge scenarios.

Tree Calculus

Key Points

• Single-operator tree-based calculus with trivial, safe interpreters and cross-platform config generation.
• Turing-completeness via S–K combinatory logic; recursion as normal forms using fixpoints.
• Reflective and modular: programs as values for introspection; sub-terms as sub-trees for compact composition.

Show HN: 41 years sea surface temperature anomalies

Key Points

• 41-year daily SSTA timelapse (1985–present) using NOAA Coral Reef Watch 5km SSTA v3.1 data.
• Highlights include TIWs, Great Barrier Reef bleaching (2016), Gulf Stream meander (2023), and Katrina’s cold wake (2005).
• Interactive controls for playback, speed, view reset, projection/product selection, and date jumping; color scale −5°C to +5°C.

Session is shutting down in 90 days

Key Points

• Shutdown expected July 8, 2026, unless $1M funding goal is met.
• Paid staff end April 9, 2026; volunteers maintain service until July 8.
• Unusable donations will be publicly donated to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

FreeBSD Laptop Compatibility: Top Laptops to Use with FreeBSD

Key Points

• Scoring combines auto-detection, degraded-function penalties, and user setup notes.
• Five models achieve 10/10, including Framework Laptop 13 (AMD) and Latitude 7490.
• Matrix entries include per-component scores and links to hardware probe logs.

How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU

Key Points

• Road tiles encode one-way directions and simple corner rules; no pathfinding is used.
• Movement is one pixel per tick with a 16-step counter and basic blocked checks.
• Maps are a 160×120 grid from landsym.vga designed to ensure valid local routing.

Am I German or Autistic?

Key Points

• 15-question, ~2-minute quiz with independent scores for “German” and “Autistic.”
• Philosophers Kant, Wittgenstein, and Schopenhauer cited to frame deeper reflection.
• Links to private philosophical sessions and newsletter for future tools and essays.

Small Engines

Key Points

• Large marine engines achieve ~50% efficiency, far above car-scale ICEs (~25%–35%).
• Small engine scaling fails due to heat losses and mismatched fuel droplet sizes at millimeter bores.
• Turbine blade size and materials constrain design; sCO2 turbines could reduce blade dimensions.

Apple signs meaningless deal to make some less-important parts in America

Key Points

• Apple adds four U.S.-based suppliers to its AMP with $400 million funding through 2030.
• U.S.-made components will be assembled into iPhones in India and China.
• TDK, TSMC, Cirrus Logic, and GlobalFoundries take on specific sensor and Face ID-related component roles.

Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation

Key Points

• Meta removed law firm ads recruiting plaintiffs for social media harm claims involving minors.
• The removals follow a California negligence ruling involving Meta and YouTube.
• Meta cites its TOS as the basis for restricting these ads across its platforms.

Lichess and Take Take Take Sign Cooperation Agreement

Key Points

• Take Take Take will use Lichess’s infrastructure for its new play zone.
• Lichess stays free/libre and open-source; users via Take Take Take will create Lichess accounts and play on Lichess servers.
• Take Take Take will contribute financially and via visibility to support Lichess.

Code Is Cheap Now, and That Changes Everything

Key Points

• AI coding agents sharply reduce code production costs and time, shifting valuable developer skills to strategy and design.
• A weekend project by Paul Ford using Claude Code achieved work previously estimated at ~$350K, for about $150.
• Lower development costs may unlock latent demand, making many previously uneconomic software projects feasible.

A WebGPU Implementation of Augmented Vertex Block Descent

Key Points

• Implements an AVBD-style physics solver in WebGPU for rigid/soft bodies.
• Follows AVBD pipeline: LBVH broad phase, narrow-phase manifolds, greedy coloring, iterative primal and dual updates.
• Early-stage prototype with Chrome-only support; not yet plug-and-play.

Building a framework-agnostic Ruby gem (and making sure it doesn't break)

Key Points

• Standardize on HTML signal elements so different frameworks can produce the same output.
• Keep framework components thin to reduce logic and potential breakage.
• Leverage practitioner feedback (e.g., Inertia users) to ensure idiomatic, reliable APIs.

Clean code in the age of coding agents

Key Points

• Clean code structure benefits both humans and coding agents.
• LLM context limits make organization critical to performance and cost.
• Include structural guidance in prompts and keep human review in the loop.

One Brain to Query: Wiring a 60-Person Company into a Single Slack Bot

Key Points

• Voltaire is a Slack-based agent that queries multiple systems and returns cited answers.
• Architecture uses planning, specialized tools, and parallel execution with privacy safeguards.
• Built to eliminate human information handoffs and speed up internal decision-making.

Vercel Claude Code plugin wants to read your prompt

Key Points

• Consent is delivered via prompt injection and triggers shell commands to set preferences.
• Telemetry defaults include device/OS/framework info and full bash command strings.
• Prompt text collection is opt‑in; other telemetry applies across all projects.

Emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal now endangered

Key Points

• Emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal are now Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
• Climate-driven sea-ice loss and krill shifts underpin sharp population declines.
• Southern elephant seals are also at risk of extinction due to disease.

Study found that young adults have grown less hopeful and more angry about AI

Key Points

• Over half of U.S. Gen Z regularly uses generative AI.
• Hopefulness fell to 18% from 27% year over year; excitement also declined.
• Nearly one-third of respondents said AI makes them feel angry.

I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++

Key Points

• craft.toml defines projects; Craft generates CMakeLists.txt and builds via CMake.
• Dependencies are added via git or local paths with automatic cloning and linking.
• Templates and commands enable fast project creation, migration, building, and running.

Doing Impressions: Monet's Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)

Key Points

• Monet’s teenage caricatures funded his move to Paris and early training.
• Several early caricatures are held at the Art Institute of Chicago, donated by Carter Harrison IV.
• Eugène Boudin’s influence and en plein air painting stemmed from Monet’s framing-shop encounters.

The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy

Key Points

• Letters from Leo says it confirmed a January Pentagon meeting with the Holy See’s ambassador.
• U.S. officials allegedly referenced the Avignon Papacy and urged Church alignment with U.S. policy.
• Plans for a U.S. visit by Pope Leo XIV were reportedly shelved due to the meeting’s tone.

EFF Is Leaving X

Key Points

• EFF leaves X due to steep decline in impressions and impact.
• Calls for transparency, E2EE for DMs, and user control went unmet after 2022 acquisition.
• EFF will focus on Bluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, and eff.org.

More likely than not you're using bubble wrap wrong

Key Points

• Manufacturer guidance cited: bubbles should face inward.
• Example package showed bubbles placed outward despite multiple protective layers.
• Perplexity Pro is referenced as agreeing with bubbles-in guidance.

Research-Driven Agents: What Happens When Your Agent Reads Before It Codes

Key Points

• Research-augmented agent delivered ~15% x86 and ~5% ARM speedups on llama.cpp via kernel fusions.
• Studying forks/backends (ik_llama.cpp, CUDA/Metal) guided two of five successful optimizations.
• Early code-only SIMD micro-optimizations underperformed due to memory bandwidth limits.

I Let Claude Code Autonomously Run Ads for a Month

Key Points

• A $1,500, 31-day autonomous Meta Ads campaign targeted sub-$2.50 leads for the Growth Computer newsletter.
• The agent ran on Anthropic’s Claude Code, maintaining continuity via its own logs and executing a structured daily loop.
• Project Vend informed the approach, emphasizing the need for guardrails and thorough logging when deploying autonomous agents.

Where does all the milk go?

Key Points

• Milk is separated into skim and cream, then recombined to achieve target fat levels before pasteurisation and homogenisation.
• UHT processing produces shelf‑stable milk common in Europe, South America, and Asia, unlike refrigerated HTST milk.
• Cream churning yields butter and buttermilk; heating butter makes ghee, while milk evaporation creates condensed and sweetened condensed milk.

Unfolder for Mac – A 3D model unfolding tool for creating papercraft

Key Points

• Algorithm optimizes 3D-to-2D unfolding for papercraft with minimal manual edits.
• Interactive splitting/joining of parts and robust flap editing with auto collision avoidance.
• Custom line styling and multi-format export for printing, external editing, and CNC workflows.

What Game Engines Know About Data That Databases Forgot

Key Points

• Typhon stores data using ECS-like structures while offering ACID and MVCC guarantees.
• ECS and database systems are mapped conceptually, showing structural convergence for performance.
• Cache-local, contiguous component storage is emphasized to reduce latency and improve throughput.

Little Snitch comes to Linux, but the core logic is closed source

Key Points

• The Linux port of Little Snitch uses eBPF, is written in Rust, and includes a web UI, but its core logic is closed source.
• The author favors DNS-level filtering with AdGuard Home on Proxmox for network-wide privacy and efficiency.
• OpenSnitch and Wordfence serve as open-source, application-level alternatives in the author’s layered security model.

Hegel, a universal property-based testing protocol and family of PBT libraries

Key Points

• Hegel is a universal PBT protocol built on Hypothesis.
• Repositories for Rust, Go, and a core library are available on GitHub.
• Documentation includes getting started, explanations, installation, protocol reference, and a compatibility page.

PicoZ80 – Drop-In Z80 Replacement

Key Points

• Cycle-accurate Z80 bus replacement via RP2350B PIO state machines
• ESP32-enabled WiFi/Bluetooth, SD storage, and Bootstrap web management
• JSON-configured personas with floppy/QuickDisk emulation and safe OTA updates

Aggro Is the Foundation (2022)

Key Points

• Aggro strategies set the metagame baseline in competitive games.
• Baseline dynamics generalize to RTS and geopolitics as pace-setting constraints.
• In math research, solo technical work is the foundational skill underpinning meta-activities.

The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Part 3 – Culture

Key Points

• LLMs are cultural artifacts that lack fitting public myths and scripts.
• Mismatched AI narratives can distort policy and organizational decisions.
• Historical media shifts suggest AI will spur new forms and cultural changes.

Tesla reportedly developing new smaller, cheaper EV after killing Model 2

Key Points

• Tesla is reportedly developing a compact, lower-cost SUV with initial production in Shanghai.
• The model is a new design with smaller battery and single motor, aiming to price below the Model 3.
• The project is early-stage, not yet approved, and production is unlikely to begin in 2026.

Bitmap fonts make computers feel like computers again

Key Points

• Bitmap fonts provide pixel-precise clarity at specific sizes and grids.
• Vector text prevailed due to superior scalability and cross-device consistency.
• Cultural depictions like The Matrix and Mr. Robot reinforced the hacker text aesthetic.

Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

Key Points

• InstantSpaceSwitcher enables instant macOS Space switching without disabling SIP.
• Includes a CLI (ISSCli) to move left/right or jump to a specific Space index.
• Other approaches exist (Reduce Motion, yabai, facades, BetterTouchTool) but have notable trade-offs.

Maine Is About to Become the First State to Ban Major New Data Centers

Key Points

• Maine advances LD 307, pausing permits for new data centers over 20 MW until Nov 2027.
• The pause creates a council to study grid impacts and follows local opposition.
• Similar restrictions are appearing or being considered in other U.S. regions.

OpenAI puts Stargate UK on ice, blames energy costs and red tape

Key Points

• OpenAI pauses Stargate UK due to regulation and energy costs.
• Planned multi-site build includes Cobalt Park in North Tyneside within an AI Growth Zone.
• Initial plan included 8,000 Nvidia GPUs, scalable to 31,000 for sovereign AI compute.

Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers

Key Points

• €7/month includes colocation, static IPv4, KVM-over-IP, and monitoring
• Hosting via Hetzner’s US and European datacenters with 24/7 security
• Free setup support for Linux, Kubernetes, and Proxmox; ethernet required

Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead

Key Points

• Netflix raised prices: $8.99/month for ad-supported, $19.99 for ad-free.
• Author cancels Netflix and pivots to physical media with a $89 Wiscent Blu-ray/DVD player.
• Future spending shifts to owning discs purchased via Amazon and eBay.

Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer

Key Points

• Visual Unicode explorer focused on glyph similarity and script information
• Uses SigLIP 2 and DINOv2 embeddings to compare rendered glyphs in vector space
• Active development; feedback and donations encouraged

Things I learned from Reddit fashion

Key Points

• Most genuine discounts occur at end-of-season; use cart abandonment and email signups to trigger offers.
• Off-price chains often sell made-for-store goods; use tag IDs and RN numbers to verify overstock.
• Quality secondhand finds have shifted to eBay, Poshmark, and ThredUp, each with distinct quirks.

Discovering, detecting, and surgically removing Google's AI watermark

Key Points

• SynthID carriers are resolution‑dependent and phase‑coherent across Gemini outputs.
• V3 spectral codebook subtraction reports 75% carrier energy and 91% phase coherence drops with 43+ dB PSNR.
• Community‑sourced black/white images (Nano Banana Pro) are sought to expand the multi‑resolution codebook.

Show HN: Druids – Build your own software factory

Key Points

• Event-driven agent orchestration with sandboxed VMs per agent
• Hosted feature for instant VM cloning via agent.fork()
• Quickstart prerequisites: Docker, uv, Anthropic API key

How Do You Find an Illegal Image Without Looking at It?

Key Points

• PDQ converts images into compact hashes to match known illegal content without viewing.
• TMK fingerprints videos by capturing average appearance and temporal sequence, with limits on clips.
• Most effort is confirming non-matches; a privacy-preserving, three-step pipeline supports safe, scalable scanning.

How Microsoft Abuses Its Users

Key Points

• Outlook email failed due to a OneDrive storage limit, per the author’s account.
• Windows 11 desktop files were reportedly synced to OneDrive by default, filling the 5 GB quota.
• The user deleted files to resolve the issue; the article criticizes unclear defaults and upgrade prompts.

Moving from WordPress to Jekyll (and static site generators in general)

Key Points

• Chose Jekyll over WordPress for speed and flexibility, despite Cloudflare’s new Astro-based CMS.
• Explains SSG fundamentals: no database/app server; templates, configs, markdown, and YAML frontmatter.
• Used DemandSphere tools and Claude Code to prune, export, and migrate content efficiently.

Progressive encoding and decoding of 'repeated' protobuffer fields

Key Points

• Perfetto uses a Trace message with a repeated TracePacket field, leading to memory pressure for large traces.
• Typical protobuf APIs require full in-memory construction before serialization, hindering scalability.
• The article initiates a wire-format overview (including VARINTs) to enable potential streaming of repeated fields.

Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps

Key Points

• Open-source release of Instant 1.0 as a backend for AI-coded apps
• Multi-tenant Postgres architecture eliminates per-app VMs and idle freezes
• Clojure-based sync engine delivers multiplayer, offline, and optimistic updates by default

There are zero-day exploits for your mind

Key Points

• Anthropic introduced Claude Mythos, credited with finding thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities and achieving a 72.4% exploit-finding success rate.
• The company will not release Mythos publicly and formed Project Glasswing with major tech firms to patch issues.
• The article compares the security implications to AlphaGo’s paradigm-shifting ‘Move 37’ moment.

Robots Eat Cars

Key Points

• Tesla ended Model S/X production and is retooling Fremont to build Optimus robots, with mass-production targets.
• Cybertruck’s 48V, Ethernet, and zonal architecture reportedly cuts wiring dramatically to 155 lines.
• Third-party and teardown sources cited to frame Tesla’s E/E architecture lead and the vehicles-as-robots trend.

Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead

Key Points

• Akan funerals entail prolonged mortuary storage to fundraise and signal status.
• Ghanaian funerals often span three days with extensive paid services and large attendance.
• Costs can exceed many times the median annual income; similar patterns occur in South Africa and the DRC.

The Training Example Lie Bracket

Key Points

• Lie brackets quantify parameter changes from swapping the order of two training examples.
• Experiments with an MXResNet on CelebA (Adam optimizer) demonstrate per-parameter and logit perturbations.
• Linearity allows minibatch swap effects to be approximated by averaging pairwise example brackets.

How the Trivy supply chain attack harvested credentials from secrets managers

Key Points

• Attackers compromised Trivy’s v0.69.4 binary and related GitHub Actions, spreading to millions of CI/CD pipelines.
• Secrets were exfiltrated from plaintext environment variables set by common secrets managers at runtime.
• VaultProof’s split-key design is proposed to eliminate plaintext credentials in CI/CD environments.

Will I ever own a zettaflop?

Key Points

• Power is the primary bottleneck; at ~10 TFLOPS/W, a zettaflop needs ~100 MW.
• The plan assumes 100,000 chips at 10 PFLOPS each and aggressive $100/chip pricing.
• Solar plus pumped hydro is proposed to supply ~10 MW with ~250 acres of panels.

How NASA Built Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant Computer

Key Points

• Eight CPUs in parallel via two VMCs and four FCMs run Orion’s flight software.
• Fail-silent behavior with priority-ordered selection replaces triplex voting.
• System tolerates multiple radiation-induced faults and supports in-flight resynchronization.

How Close Is Too Close? Applying Fluid Dynamics Research Methods to PC Cooling

Key Points

• The study applies aeronautics research methods to PC case fan cooling at NASA Langley.
• A single Noctua NF-A12x25 at 12V/100% PWM with a controlled obstruction gap formed the core test setup.
• The article expands on methods and context, with standard disclaimers and additional content on Floatplane.

Microsoft's PhotoDNA technology keeps flagging my face picture

Key Points

• User reports instant Microsoft account closures upon uploading a specific face photo.
• Identity verification—including a police check—was completed but did not resolve the photo-triggered closures.
• User claims PhotoDNA scanning extends beyond OneDrive and into Windows 11 sign-in contexts.

Vibe-Coded Ext4 for OpenBSD

Key Points

• LLM-generated ext4 driver proposed for OpenBSD with read/write support but no journaling.
• OpenBSD raised risks of GPL derivation and unclear copyright ownership.
• Project leaders say uncertain rights for AI-generated code preclude redistribution.

Generative Art over the Years

Key Points

• From math-first sketches to texture-rich techniques in P5.js
• Grayscale constraint sharpened focus on form and texture
• Line accumulation creates surface-like, emergent textures

I Still Prefer MCP over Skills

Key Points

• MCP is positioned as a superior architecture for service integrations due to API abstraction and centralized management.
• Skills are well-suited to knowledge transfer but problematic when they depend on local CLIs.
• CLI-dependent workflows face deployment and secret-management friction, limiting reach across typical LLM clients.

Apple's New iPhone Update Is Restricting Internet Freedom in the UK

Key Points

• iOS 26.4 in the UK enables default web filtering and AI-powered Communication Safety unless age is verified.
• Restrictions are systemwide and apply across browsers and apps, not just Safari.
• Age verification accepts limited IDs (e.g., credit cards, driver’s licences, PASS cards), which the article says could exclude many users.

We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

Key Points

• $17M Series A led by a16z; Fly Ventures and A Capital continue support.
• Technical preview of GitButler CLI released for GitHub Flow-style workflows.
• Tool integrates with existing Git projects and emphasizes organized, collaborative change management.

Principles of Mechanical Sympathy

Key Points

• Align software with hardware to exploit cache and memory hierarchies for performance gains.
• Prefer sequential access (e.g., full scans with filtering) over random lookups, especially in ETL.
• Avoid false sharing by padding data so each hot variable fits within its own cache line.

The Raft Consensus Algorithm Explained Through "Mean Girls"

Key Points

• Raft’s core: leader-follower replication with majority-based commits.
• Three-node clusters can achieve quorum; two-node clusters cannot.
• Only groups with quorum can commit concurrent writes.

Show HN: Rust based eBook library for Python, with MIT license

Key Points

• Rust-powered EPUB2/EPUB3 library for Python with fast read/write, validation, and Markdown conversion.
• Parallel batch processing via Rayon and a standalone CLI supporting info, validate, convert, extract, and scan.
• Migration-friendly API mirroring ebooklib, plus in-memory I/O and options to skip NCX/Nav parsing.

Hip-hop pioneer, Afrika Bambaataa, dies aged 68

Key Points

• Hip Hop Alliance confirms Bambaataa’s death at 68; TMZ first reported cause and location.
• Co-founded the Universal Zulu Nation and shaped hip-hop with “Planet Rock.”
• Later legacy complicated by abuse allegations and a 2025 civil case he lost after no-show.

Kagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects

Key Points

• Define redirects with simple find-and-replace rules (pipe-separated), with regex support.
• Use cases: domain swaps, path updates, and AMP-to-original URL rewriting.
• Kagi visibly indicates applied redirects and lets users review the original URL and rule.

CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring

Key Points

• YC-backed CollectWise is hiring an AI Agent Engineer to build LiveKit-based voice AI infrastructure and prompting systems.
• The five-person team reports $2M ARR and targets $10M within a year, claiming 2x performance over human collectors at lower cost.
• Compensation ranges $200k–$300k salary plus 0.25%–1% equity; strong Node.js, AWS, SQL, and voice AI experience required.