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Game Devs Explain the Tricks Involved with Letting You Pause a Game

Key Points

• Pausing is implemented via timescale control (zero or near-zero) or visual freezing with deactivated gameplay.
• Games may support multiple pause states for different triggers, including hardware and system events.
• Screenshot-based pause backdrops can reduce load and simplify state management.

Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702

Key Points

• Congress granted a 10-day extension after rejecting a minimal-change five-year reauthorization of Section 702.
• Advocates push for a warrant requirement before the FBI can access Americans’ communications collected under Section 702.
• Sen. Ron Wyden warns of a classified interpretation and alleged FBI abuses related to Section 702.

The world in which IPv6 was a good design

Key Points

• TCP BBR was first presented at the IETF meeting and received cautious optimism.
• IPv6 featured prominently at the meeting as a replacement for IPv4.
• Historical telecom models (circuit switching, TDM) inform why early networking did not need endpoint addressing.

Binary Dependencies: Identifying the Hidden Packages We All Depend On

Key Points

• Binary dependencies are often invisible in package manifests, creating sustainability and security risks.
• Initial solutions focus on tools to detect and record binary dependencies across ecosystems.
• Ecosystem changes should ensure proper sourcing and interoperability among package managers.

The RAM shortage could last years

Key Points

• Projected to meet only 60% of DRAM demand by end-2027.
• Most new capacity arrives 2027–2028; SK Hynix’s Cheongju fab is a 2026 exception.
• HBM focus for AI may limit relief for consumer DRAM and sustain price pressures.

SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf]

Key Points

• Malware repurposes headphones/earbuds as microphones via jack retasking.
• Prototype achieved intelligible speech capture at distances up to nine meters.
• Paper explains hardware/OS basis, affected chipsets, and defense considerations.

William Cecil's Succession Plan

Key Points

• Elizabeth I’s 1562 illness prompted immediate succession deliberations.
• Parliament in 1563 petitioned for marriage and cited Henry VIII’s succession acts.
• Cecil proposed an interregnum clause to let Parliament choose a successor if needed.

Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?

Key Points

• Solo consultancy targets SME back-office and integration issues, including practical AI workflows.
• Seeks advice on winning first projects and effective outreach channels.
• Offers 10 free hours to the first five clients; contact via crescita.cc.

Archive of Byte magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975

Key Points

• BYTE’s first 1975 issue spans hardware, applications, and software, with clear themes and page references.
• Background articles cover microprocessor selection, serial interfacing, and assembler development.
• Nucleus provides editorial context and community resources, including clubs, reviews, letters, and services.

Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7

Key Points

• Expanded safety and behavior rules: critical child-safety instructions, respect for ending conversations, and new disordered eating guidance.
• Operational shift: act on reasonable assumptions, use tools first, complete tasks, and check capabilities via tool_search before refusing.
• Product/branding updates: platform renamed to “Claude Platform” and tools list expanded to include Claude in PowerPoint alongside Chrome and Excel, usable via Claude Cowork.

The seven programming ur-languages

Key Points

• Seven ur-languages are identified: ALGOL, Lisp, ML, Self, Forth, APL, Prolog.
• ALGOL underpins most mainstream languages and evolved via structured programming, Self-inspired classes, and ML-influenced features.
• Lisp’s code-as-data with macros and ML/Prolog’s recursion patterns exemplify fundamentally different paradigms from imperative loops.

Binary GCD

Key Points

• Binary GCD avoids slow division by using shifts, comparisons, and subtractions.
• __builtin_ctz enables fast removal of all trailing zeros, reducing iterations.
• Restructuring cases yields a mostly branchless main loop with base-case termination only.

Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight

Key Points

• Zip launched in 1994 with 100MB capacity and faster performance than floppies.
• Capacities expanded to 250MB (1998) and 750MB (early 2000s) with accessible pricing.
• Reliability issues and competition from CDs and USB drives ended Zip’s run.

Frank Dudley Beane's Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884)

Key Points

• Beane’s 1884 self‑experiment with cannabis and ergot produced intense, documented physiological and perceptual effects.
• Medical intervention included a physician’s recommendation of atropine during the episode.
• Beane endorsed Parke Davis’s product; the piece is situated within 19th‑century pharmaceutical marketing and early ergot research tied to LSD.

Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)

Key Points

• Prompt-to-Excalidraw runs fully in-browser with Gemma 4 E2B.
• TurboQuant compresses the KV cache ~2.4×; WGSL/WebGPU yields 30+ tok/s.
• Requires Chrome 134+, WebGPU subgroups, and ~3 GB RAM; Safari/iOS unsupported.

The EU digital ID wallet can't deliver the privacy properties it claims

Key Points

• The article highlights that current sections of the EU digital ID wallet age-verification spec do not clearly cap allowed attributes or forbid trackable data in Proof of Age attestations.
• It proposes strict non-retention rules for Attestation Providers and Relying Parties to protect unlinkability and reduce collusion risks.
• It advocates making zero-knowledge proof–based age-verification presentations mandatory, using schemes such as BBS-like constructions or zk-longfellow on top of mdoc.

Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language

Key Points

• Embedded DSL for building compilers
• Focus on many small passes and multiple IRs
• Reduces boilerplate to improve maintainability and clarity

Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group

Key Points

• Airline worker arrested after sharing strike-damage image in a private WhatsApp group.
• Authorities cite electronic monitoring; case escalated to State Security Prosecution.
• Advocacy group claims police can detect private WhatsApp messages; UAE telecom ownership and Pegasus use cited.

Turning Point USA Is Expanding Its Reach to K-12 Schools

Key Points

• Turning Point USA is rapidly expanding into high schools, reporting over 1,000 chapters and a post-assassination surge of 54,000 inquiries to start new ones.
• The U.S. Department of Education has partnered with Turning Point USA in a coalition to develop civics-related educational programming ahead of the U.S. 250th anniversary.
• Oklahoma’s state education chief launched a partnership to place a Turning Point USA chapter in every high school, highlighting growing state-level integration of the group into public education.

Vercel April 2026 security incident

Key Points

• Unauthorized access to certain internal Vercel systems
• Limited subset of customers identified as impacted and contacted
• Services remain operational; investigation ongoing with law enforcement notified

Minimal Viable Programs (2014)

Key Points

• MVPs contain only essential features; any addition is nonessential, any removal breaks it.
• Erlang’s file-based ticket system used version control (CVS) and shell tools for durability and reporting.
• Feature creep increases complexity and instability; keep components minimal to control system complexity.

When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break

Key Points

• Prioritizing speed undermines communication and expert input.
• Rushing leads to duplicated systems and technical debt.
• AI/LLMs can exacerbate misalignment by replacing human collaboration.

Matt Mullenweg Overrules Core Committers; Puts Akismet on WP 7's Connector List

Key Points

• Mullenweg overruled a revert and directed Akismet’s default connector inclusion in WordPress 7.0.
• Revert proponents cited plugin API self-registration and duplication risks during the RC period.
• Calls were made for formal guidelines and better process before adding more default connectors.

Vercel Says Internal Systems Hit in Breach

Key Points

• Vercel disclosed unauthorized access to certain internal systems.
• A limited subset of customers is affected; Vercel is contacting them directly.
• Incident response experts and law enforcement have been engaged.

Notes from the SF Peptide Scene

Key Points

• Peptide injectables like semiglutide (Ozempic) are a focal point at some SF parties.
• On-site injections and syringe-themed jello shots were observed.
• Multiple founders at the event said they were building peptide companies.

Pairwise Order of a Sequence of Elements

Key Points

• Pairwise order defined as sgn(ΔX) over adjacent elements, applicable under strict weak ordering.
• Reversal symmetry: Order_i(Reversed(X)) = −Order_{|X|−i}(X).
• Amp and other measures like Runs can be computed/redefined from pairwise order alone.

Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction

Key Points

• Turtle WoW will shut down its servers on May 14 following Blizzard’s legal victory and a settlement.
• Servers were advanced to a final patch to let players see new raids before closure; forums and social media close October 16.
• Turtle WoW offered a 'Classic Plus' experience; the article notes historical parallels and rare examples of approved fan servers.

Reading Input from an USB RFID Card Reader

Key Points

• Use EVIOCGRAB to grab exclusive access to the RFID reader’s input device.
• Locate the device under /dev/input/by-id and read events directly in Go.
• Map key codes and detect Enter to reconstruct and output the scanned RFID value.

Russia's doping program is run by the same FSB team that poisoned Navalny

Key Points

• Investigation alleges FSB overlap between doping operations and political poisonings.
• Kovalev testified for RUSADA at CAS against WADA’s proposed four-year ban.
• Rodchenkov detailed Sochi 2014 doping and FSB urine-swap methods.

Critical flaw in Protobuf library enables JavaScript code execution

Key Points

• Critical RCE in protobuf.js due to unsafe dynamic code generation using Function().
• Affected: versions ≤ 8.0.0/7.5.4; fixed in 8.0.1 and 7.5.5.
• PoC available; no in-the-wild exploitation reported; patch timeline: Mar 11 (GitHub), Apr 4/15 (npm).

Discord Read Receipts Exploit: When, How Often, How Long

Key Points

• Cache bypass via HTTP 500 enables repeated origin hits per view
• Predictable six-step client retry pattern exposes timing and duration
• PoC tool shows practical tracking through Discord link previews

Reverse Engineering ME2's USB with a Heat Gun and a Knife

Key Points

• Original ME2 companion software is missing; only the online client was recovered.
• Hardware teardown identified an SST39VF3201 flash chip for firmware and a CoB microcontroller.
• Firmware dumping via off-the-shelf programmers is feasible; microcontroller ROM access is difficult.

Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games

Key Points

• Real-time NHL tracking with schedules, live scores, and detailed game views.
• League standings, player leaders, team rosters, and player profiles included.
• Built with Textual and nhl-stats-api-client; installs via uvx or pip; not affiliated with the NHL.

543 Hours: What happens when AI runs while you sleep

Key Points

• Power-law dynamic: 5% of arcs account for 48% of autonomous hours, driven by long Release arcs.
• Seven patterns identified; Release arcs average 10.3 hours and dominate time, while short arcs enable them.
• Work clusters into autonomy tiers: human-led Steering and short autonomous Momentum arcs with defined agent counts.

KTaO3-Based Supercurrent Diode

Key Points

• SDE realized at LAO/KTO via c-AFM-patterned weak links
• Reversible diode polarity by weak-link position; up to 13% rectification
• TDGL simulations link SDE to asymmetric vortex motion

Uber's AI Push Hits a Wall–CTO Says Budget Struggles Despite $3.4B Spend

Key Points

• Uber exhausted its planned AI budget early due to rapid AI tool adoption.
• Claude Code leads usage; Uber will test OpenAI’s Codex next.
• 11% of live backend code updates are now written by AI agents.

The Bromine Chokepoint: How Strife Could Halt Production of World’s Memory Chips

Key Points

• HBr is essential and non-substitutable for DRAM/NAND polysilicon etching.
• South Korea depends on Israeli bromine (97.5% of imports).
• No rapid alternative HBr capacity exists; new capacity requires years.

Claude Brain

Key Points

• Local, single-file memory for Claude Code with auto-injection and in-editor commands
• No cloud or database required; sub-millisecond search via a Rust core
• Optional CLI (memvid-cli) and easy versioning/sharing via git and scp

Gender reassignment significantly increases psychiatric morbidity

Key Points

• Psychiatric morbidity is elevated in gender-referred adolescents before and after referral.
• Morbidity increased after medical gender reassignment in both feminizing and masculinizing pathways.
• Adjusted hazard ratios remained substantially higher than in matched controls.

I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language

Key Points

• Build with the Spectre toolchain using a single spectre command.
• The project is a CHIP‑8 emulator named “chip8emu.”
• Licensed under GPL‑3.0‑only.

I learned Unity the wrong way

Key Points

• Relied on copying Unity tutorials for years, leading to shallow understanding.
• Skeletons AR (Vuforia-based) topped r/gamedev but masked underlying skill gaps.
• Failed interview after being unable to justify using C#’s Queue<T>.

MAGA Is Winning Its War Against U.S. Science

Key Points

• FY2027 budget proposal reportedly cuts research funding while boosting military spending.
• NSF and NIH new grant approvals are depicted as reaching a low in 2025.
• NBER-cited data show the U.S. trailing China and slightly the EU in top-tier publication share.

A. J. Ayer – ‘What I Saw When I Was Dead’ (1988)

Key Points

• Original 1988 Sunday Telegraph essay by A. J. Ayer on his near-death experience is republished.
• Timeline: pneumonia in New York, brief recovery with Nigella Lawson, return to England, relapse after socializing.
• Emergency admission to University College Hospital in London marks the lead-in to his near-death account.

Blue Origin's rocket reuse achievement marred by upper stage failure

Key Points

• First successful reflight and landing of New Glenn’s orbital-class booster.
• Upper stage shortfall left AST’s BlueBird 7 in an unsustainably low orbit, prompting deorbit plans.
• Blue Origin targets faster launch cadence via reuse, amid comparisons to SpaceX’s Falcon 9.

Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft

Key Points

• Switzerland plans a gradual, long-term reduction of dependency on Microsoft.
• A feasibility study found open-source replacement is possible; Germany provides a reference model.
• Swiss authorities spent over CHF 1.1B on Microsoft licenses in the past decade.

Eliza a Play by Tom Holloway

Key Points

• New play by Tom Holloway about early AI, directed by Paige Rattray, produced by MTC.
• Story centers on MIT’s Joseph Weizenbaum testing a therapy-simulating computer program.
• Multiple accessibility performances and audience events scheduled in October.

Islamic Medicine (2018)

Key Points

• Abbasid Baghdad emerged as the leading center for medical scholarship and institutions.
• Seminal texts—Kitab Al-Tasrif, Canon of Medicine, Kitab al-Maliki—shaped practice and education.
• Translation and empirical methods, led by figures like Hunayn ibn Ishaq and Ibn al-Haytham, underpinned advances.

Prove You Are a Robot: CAPTCHAs for Agents

Key Points

• Reverse-CAPTCHA admits agents by using obfuscated, multilingual math problems.
• Solving the challenge yields an API key with Free Tier access and concurrent sessions.
• A bonus TSP challenge implies P=NP and offers an Enterprise plan reward.

Six Levels of Dark Mode

Key Points

• Opt into color schemes via the HTML color-scheme meta tag for early, document-wide behavior.
• Use CSS `color-scheme` and system colors to build on user agent defaults, scoping as needed.
• Adopt `light-dark()` and `prefers-color-scheme` for per-scheme control, checking browser support.

C++26: Reflection, Memory Safety, Contracts, and a New Async Model

Key Points

• C++26 finalizes reflection, memory safety, contracts, and std::execution.
• Real-world deployments report large bug and crash reductions via recompilation.
• GCC and Clang support most features, signaling imminent availability.

CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivity

Key Points

• NBER survey: most firms report no AI impact on productivity or employment to date.
• Firms expect only modest productivity and output gains in the next three years.
• Evidence on productivity is mixed, with small observed gains and conflicting projections.

Hot Wiring the Lisp Machine

Key Points

• org-publish proved too brittle for complex site generation needs.
• Several alternatives were evaluated and rejected due to misalignment with Emacs-native, low-dependency goals.
• Weblorg is identified as a promising Emacs-based, composable solution for publishing Org to HTML.

Banned by Anthropic

Key Points

• Independent petition and record verifying cases via GitHub OAuth
• 23 total reports (20 public) across 15 countries with role breakdowns
• Public cases cite false positives from technical, metaphorical, and creative contexts

3D-Printing a Trombone

Key Points

• Brass acoustics: open vs. half-open tubes and harmonic implications.
• Mouthpiece and bell reshape resonances to approximate a full harmonic series.
• 3D-printed PrintBone yields a playable plastic trombone for about $30.

Reminder: Enable ZRAM on your Linux system to optimize RAM usage

Key Points

• Replace zram-config with zram-tools and configure ZRAM to use zstd on Ubuntu 24.04.
• Verify ZRAM and swap status with zramctl and swapon; minimize reliance on disk-based swap.
• Raspberry Pi OS enables ZRAM by default; its rpi-swap config resides in /etc/rpi/swap.conf.

2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email

Key Points

• Maps providers for ~2,100 Swiss municipalities via public DNS (MX, SPF)
• Highlights digital sovereignty context, noting US CLOUD Act implications
• Open-source code/data on GitHub with community issue reporting

Ex-CEO, ex-CFO of bankrupt AI company charged with fraud

Key Points

• Two former top executives of iLearningEngines were indicted on fraud charges in Brooklyn federal court.
• Prosecutors allege forged contracts and round-trip transfers fabricated customers and revenue, with 90% of 2023 revenue bogus.
• The company went public in April 2024 and briefly reached a $1.5B Nasdaq valuation before revenue was questioned.

A Brief History of Fish Sauce

Key Points

• Fish sauce is widely used in Vietnam (95% of households) and across Southeast Asia.
• Traditional production uses fish and salt (about 3:1) fermented in sun-exposed vats for 9–12 months.
• Early recorded fish sauce traces to ancient Greek gàros, later adopted by Romans as garum; liquamen was the common Roman sauce.

Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors

Key Points

• Automated scanning flagged copy-paste errors in 18 of 600 open datasets.
• A widely cited Parkinson’s dataset on Dryad shows duplicated mouse motor function values.
• Authors of the Parkinson’s study have not responded to the January report.

Show HN: How context engineering works, a runnable reference

Key Points

• Implements five components (Corpus, Retrieval, Injection, Output, Enforcement) to make context first-class.
• Runs on Amazon Bedrock using Anthropic Claude (generation) and Amazon Titan (embeddings), with clear setup steps.
• Contrasts CE with RAG, Copilot, and agent frameworks; includes side-by-side comparisons.

Got an Old Kindle? It Might Not Work Anymore

Key Points

• Support for 2012-and-earlier Kindle and Kindle Fire devices ends May 20.
• Older devices lose the ability to download new content from the Kindle Store.
• Amazon offers 20% off a new Kindle plus a $20 e-book credit through June 20.

Interesting Map Geometry and Mathematics

Key Points

• Damage simulation can create isolated clue fragments, harming plausibility.
• Flood fill is a candidate for connectivity checks but may be too costly.
• Higher-difficulty maps magnify performance concerns due to stricter generation.

Recovering Windows Live Writer Files

Key Points

• A Python-based tool converted proprietary .wpost files to Markdown.
• Enhancements enabled extraction of embedded images from the files.
• The wlw-extractor code is available on Codeberg for others to use.

Show HN: TRELLIS.2 image-to-3D running on Mac Silicon – no Nvidia GPU needed

Key Points

• Runs TRELLIS.2 on Apple Silicon via PyTorch MPS with no NVIDIA/CUDA required.
• Benchmarked ~3.5 minutes on an M4 Pro (24GB) for 400K+ vertex meshes; ~18GB memory peak.
• Replaces CUDA deps with pure PyTorch/Python; texture baking and hole filling not supported.

Swiss AI Initiative (2023)

Key Points

• Launched Dec 2023 with 10m+ GPU hours on Alps and a 20m CHF ETH Domain grant
• First initiative of the Swiss National AI Institute (ETH AI Center + EPFL AI Center)
• Open releases of software, models, and data for Swiss stakeholders, including SMEs/startups

The race to build the next WordPress

Key Points

• Calls for a WordPress-like “Agent Harness” as the user-facing layer for AI agents.
• Positions sandboxes/runtimes as the servers in the agent era, with cloud/microVMs providing isolation.
• Cites WordPress’s large web share to illustrate the power of application-layer platforms.

Mechanical Keyboard Sounds - A listening Museum

Key Points

• 36 curated keyboard/switch sound profiles with interactive typing playback
• Open-source audio credits; curators emphasize limitations of sound tests
• Proxy and “full travel” entries clarify how case/plate affect sound

Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people

Key Points

• Listening is distinct from implementing requests; focus on underlying jobs and outcomes.
• Assumptions about expertise, resources, and static behavior undermine effective understanding.
• Poor listening results in misaligned products and added technical debt.

The Uncanny Valley and the Rising Power of Anti-AI Sentiment

Key Points

• Surveys show a widening gap: experts foresee benefits; the U.S. public increasingly expects harm.
• Uncanny valley theory and expectation mismatch explain rising aversion to near-human AI interactions.
• Disgust, pathogen-avoidance, and danger-avoidance frameworks help interpret persistent distrust.

Show HN: A lightweight way to make agents talk without paying for API usage

Key Points

• Use CLI resume mode to preserve context and avoid APIs.
• Standardize agent invocation rules via a shared memory file.
• tmux provides improved visibility for multi-agent runs.

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency

Key Points

• BBC links pre-announcement trading spikes to Trump’s statements.
• Oil and equity markets moved sharply immediately after disclosures.
• Calls for SEC investigation followed the observed patterns.

Sudo for Windows

Key Points

• Included in Windows 11 build 26045+; enable via Settings > Developer Features on supported Insider builds.
• Windows-specific implementation distinct from Unix/Linux sudo; scripts may need modification.
• Docs at aka.ms/sudo-docs; contributions welcomed via GitHub PRs and issues, including work on sudo.ps1.

Canada's PM calls economic ties with US a weakness that must be corrected

Key Points

• Carney says Canada’s economic reliance on the U.S. is now a weakness due to U.S. tariff and trade policy shifts.
• His government aims to diversify trade, attract new investment, and set domestic goals in clean energy, defense, taxes, and housing.
• The remarks come ahead of a July review of NAFTA and amid pressure to secure a new U.S. trade deal.

Creating a Bootable Backup USB with Encryption (for Pop!OS Linux)

Key Points

• Create GPT with an ESP (FAT32) and an encrypted ext4 root; use cryptsetup for LUKS.
• Clone data with rsync using preservation options; avoid crossing mount points.
• Update fstab and crypttab, copy EFI files, and install systemd-boot via chroot for UEFI boot.

Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons

Key Points

• Opus 4.7’s updated tokenizer increases token counts, measured at 1.46× on a system prompt vs 4.6.
• Higher image resolution support in 4.7 can lead to ~3× more tokens for large images; low-res images show near parity.
• Per-token prices are unchanged from 4.6, but higher tokenization can raise effective costs by ~40%.

Anthropic installed a spyware bridge on my machine?

Key Points

• Undocumented Claude Desktop native host found in Brave’s NativeMessagingHosts on macOS.
• Manifest points to Claude helper binary and lists three allowed extension IDs.
• Separate from Claude Code’s documented bridge; the discovered host is inactive unless triggered.

A Common MVP Evolution: Service to System Integration to Product

Key Points

• Start with services to iterate quickly and learn directly from customers.
• Progress to system integration by extending customers’ existing tools (e.g., templates, API-based add-ons).
• Automate stabilized processes to reduce cost, speed delivery, and lower error rates.

Monumental ship burial beneath ancient Norwegian mound predates the Viking Age

Key Points

• Ship burial within Herlaugshaugen on Leka dated to around AD 700
• Selective trenching and metal detection recovered 29 iron rivets
• Findings push Scandinavian monumental ship burials earlier than the Viking Age

A cache-friendly IPv6 LPM with AVX-512 (linearized B+-tree, real BGP benchmarks)

Key Points

• Portable C++17 PlanB IPv6 LPM with AVX-512 and scalar fallback
• Dynamic FIB with wait-free lookups; Python bindings and tests included
• Benchmarked on synthetic 100k-prefix FIB; medians ~47–76 MLPS on Ice Lake

Contra Benn Jordan, data center (and all) sub-audible infrasound issues are fake

Key Points

• The article disputes health harm claims from sub-audible infrasound emitted by data centers.
• It critiques Benn Jordan’s video for extreme framing and misused or weak evidence.
• It separates real noise pollution issues from unsubstantiated infrasound assertions.

DIDs Are Cool. We Didn't Need Them

Key Points

• Chose a minimal subject = namespace:id identity primitive over DIDs.
• Leverages existing platform IDs to attribute creators and issue “kudos.”
• Focus on legibility now, with plans to refine parsing and validation later.

Zero-copy protobuf and ConnectRPC for Rust

Key Points

• Two new Rust crates: buffa (protobuf with editions, zero-copy) and connectrpc (Tower-based RPC for Connect/gRPC/gRPC-Web).
• Both projects passed major conformance suites; connect-rust is proposed as the canonical ConnectRPC Rust implementation.
• Focus on editions, zero-copy views, buf/protoc integration, and feature gating (including no_std).