LinkedIn Scans 6,278 Browser Add-Ons!

Who Is That Knocking at My (SSH) Door?

Key Points

• A hardened server with SSH key-only access still received hundreds of automated login attempts in one week.
• The author used fail2ban to curb repeated SSH failures, resulting in over 100 blocked IP addresses.
• Attempted usernames reflected common defaults, OS-specific guesses, and names tied to enterprise software and devices.

Scott Aaronson on quantum: "Will you heed my warnings NOW?"

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• Aaronson says he was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2026.
• He co-authored a Coinbase-convened position paper on the quantum threat to cryptocurrencies.
• He says experts he trusts now believe cryptographically relevant fault-tolerant quantum computers could be possible around 2029.

A 25-Year-Fight over a 2-Second Sample

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• A two-second Kraftwerk sample used in *Nur Mir* led to a copyright case that began in 1999 and lasted over 25 years.
• The ECJ first ruled that sampling could be lawful if unrecognizable, but lower courts found Pelham’s sample recognizable and infringing.
• A later ECJ ruling held the sample was protected as “pastiche,” likely ending the dispute and shaping EU sampling law.

Mozilla's Opposition to Chrome's Prompt API

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• Mozilla argues Prompt API adoption could make web applications depend on model-specific quirks.
• The article says developers may identify models and branch behavior or block unsupported ones.
• Mozilla also objects to Google-linked usage policy requirements, saying they undermine model neutrality.

"Parse, don't validate" through the years with C++

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• The article uses date parsing to demonstrate the “parse, don’t validate” approach in C++.
• A simple `sscanf`-based parser can accept malformed input and return misleading partial results.
• The proposed solution is a constrained `Birthdate` type that encodes date validity at construction time.

DataCenter.FM – background noise app featuring the sound of the AI bubble

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• DataCenter.FM is an interactive audio generator themed around AI data-center sounds.
• The interface models data-center variables and warning states through controls and labels.
• The project credits its creator and sound designer, and provides source and licensing details.

Why isn't AMD's MI300X competitive?

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• SemiAnalysis says MI300X did not realize its on-paper advantages over H100 and H200 in real training workloads.
• The report attributes the gap mainly to AMD software issues, bugs, and QA shortcomings rather than hardware specs alone.
• The benchmarking process involved months of testing, vendor feedback, and delayed publication to allow AMD bug fixes.

Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE

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• Granite 4.1 8B reportedly matches or exceeds IBM’s earlier 32B MoE model on several benchmarks.
• IBM says the model family was trained on 15 trillion tokens using a five-phase training plan with changing data mixes.
• The article attributes the gains largely to data quality controls, including LLM-as-Judge filtering before fine-tuning.

A Primer on Bézier Curves – So What Makes a Bézier Curve?

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• The article presents a free online book and ebook about Bézier curves.
• The resource covers both mathematical and programming aspects of Bézier curves and their practical uses.
• Pomax asks individuals and companies to support the ongoing maintenance of the site through donations or sponsorship.

1.4 GW: battery storage at former Grohnde nuclear power plant

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• Up to three large BESS projects are planned at the Emmerthal energy cluster beside the former Grohnde nuclear plant.
• GESI and FRV have disclosed projects totaling 1.47 GW and 6.24 GWh, already surpassing the former plant’s 1.36 GW net output.
• Despite nearby HVDC corridors, the batteries would connect via AC infrastructure because no converter station is planned at Emmerthal.

How to Disable Firefox's New Emoji Picker

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• Firefox 150 introduced an emoji picker on Ctrl + ., which conflicts with 1Password’s default shortcut.
• The article recommends disabling the feature through about:config.
• The required setting is widget.gtk.native-emoji-dialog, which should be set to false.

GCC 16 has been released

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• GCC 16 removes the old JSON diagnostics format and recommends SARIF for machine-readable diagnostics.
• The release expands optimization features, including LTO, speculative devirtualization, and vectorization improvements.
• OpenMP and OpenACC support were extended with new memory, API, and standards-related capabilities.

Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants

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• Belgium has halted the decommissioning of its nuclear power plants.
• The government and ENGIE are in exclusive talks over a potential acquisition of all seven reactors and related assets and liabilities.
• The decision reverses Belgium’s earlier nuclear phase-out policy and comes amid energy security concerns and reliance on gas imports.

I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

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• BidProwl says it aggregates 28 government auction sources and 75,070 live listings across all 50 states.
• The platform refreshes listings twice daily and assigns deal scores based on price, bid velocity, and time left.
• It links users to original auction sources rather than handling bids directly.

For the first time in history, more Americans are moving to EU than vice versa

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• The article says more Americans are moving to the EU than Europeans are moving to the US for the first time in recorded data.
• It reports that the ratio favored the US by 4:1 in the early 2000s and crossed parity around 2022.
• It warns that the comparison uses non-equivalent metrics: US permanent green cards versus EU first-time residence permits, which are often temporary.

My Stratum-0 Atomic Clock

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• The original O-1 desk clock uses GPS timing, but it drifts when GPS is unavailable because it falls back to a quartz oscillator.
• The article explains atomic clocks as stable frequency references and contrasts their cost and size across lab and commercial systems.
• DARPA-backed chip-scale atomic clock development led to products such as Symmetricom's SA.45s CSAC.

Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs

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• Meta ended its Sama contract after workers alleged they reviewed graphic smart-glasses footage.
• Sama denied Meta's claim that it failed to meet standards and said 1,108 jobs would be cut.
• UK and Kenyan regulators moved to examine privacy concerns related to Meta's glasses and human review practices.

I Built a WebAssembly Runtime in 5 Days

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• A bootstrapped hardware startup built Badwater to reduce infrastructure costs for signing, activation, and OTA workflows.
• WebAssembly and WASI Preview 2 were chosen for sandboxing and direct in-sandbox networking support.
• A Wasmtime-Tokio runtime conflict was fixed by moving execution to `spawn_blocking`, enabling successful HTTPS calls from the sandbox.

The Science Behind Honey's Eternal Shelf Life (2013)

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• Ancient Egyptian tomb discoveries are used as evidence that honey can remain preserved for thousands of years.
• Honey resists spoilage because it is low in moisture, hygroscopic, and naturally acidic.
• Bees add key protective factors by drying nectar and introducing glucose oxidase, which helps produce hydrogen peroxide.

The FCC is about to ban 21% of its test labs today. I mapped them all

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• The article maps 591 FCC-recognized test labs across 28 countries involved in US hardware certification.
• Only 67 labs are also Telecommunication Certification Bodies, allowing testing and certification in one step.
• Independent verification found 414 active labs, 54 expired labs, and 123 whose accreditation status was not yet independently verified.

How an Oil Refinery Works

Key Points

• Oil remains foundational to both global energy use and chemical manufacturing.
• Crude oil varies by molecular composition and sulfur content, leading to heavy/light and sweet/sour classifications.
• Refineries use processes led by distillation to separate and upgrade crude into useful products.

You can beat the binary search

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• The article proposes SIMD Quad as an alternative to binary search for sorted arrays of 16-bit integers.
• The method uses quaternary interpolation across 16-element blocks and SIMD to test all values in a selected block in parallel.
• Roaring Bitmap membership checks are presented as the practical use case motivating the optimization.

Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

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• Theo claimed on X that Claude Code refuses requests or bills extra if a recent commit mentions OpenClaw.
• He said the issue appeared in an empty repository while using Claude Code directly.
• The X post received high engagement, but the article content does not include independent verification.

Show HN: I wrote a DOOM clone in my own programming language

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• Cubedoom is a raycasting-based arena shooter written entirely in the Spectre Programming Language.
• The project was built to test Spectre’s array features and C interoperability, using SDL2 and SDL2_Image.
• Spectre v0.0.5 adds C translation support, experimental LLVM and C99 backends, and compile-time improvements.

Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones

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• Japan’s defense minister said the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force is already using AirKamuy’s cardboard drones as targets.
• AirKamuy says each AirKamuy 150 costs about $2,000, assembles in five to 10 minutes, and can fly about 50 miles or 80 minutes.
• The drone was described as mainly intended for counter-drone operations, with possible use for carrying small supplies or munitions.

Because It Doesn't Have To

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• The article says internet protocols like IP work effectively without guaranteeing delivery at every layer.
• TCP is presented as a retry-based mechanism that seeks delivery while still permitting failure reporting.
• The article argues that machine learning models benefit from probabilistic outputs, using softmax and output distributions to handle complexity.

Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga

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• A Spanish parliamentary commission approved a non-binding initiative to curb indiscriminate IP blocking linked to anti-piracy rulings.
• The reform is expected to be pursued through amendments to the Digital Services Act package in Congress.
• The proposal emphasizes proportionality, graded enforcement, and protections for third parties and legitimate services affected by blocking orders.

Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and a cron scheduler – inside your SQLite file

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• honker adds queues, streams, pub/sub, and scheduling directly inside a SQLite database file.
• The article emphasizes atomic transactions between business writes and enqueued jobs in the same SQLite database.
• Its wakeup mechanism is based on polling SQLite’s PRAGMA data_version once per millisecond with one poller per database.

Show HN: FusionCore: ROS 2 sensor fusion that outperforms robot_localization

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• FusionCore is presented as a ROS 2 sensor fusion SDK combining IMU, wheel odometry, and GPS for mobile robot localization.
• The article positions it as a replacement for deprecated robot_localization and compares it against both robot_localization and fuse.
• The post includes concrete setup details, test commands, lifecycle usage, WSL2 notes, and documented input/output ROS topics.

A 1960s art school experiment that redefined creativity

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• A 1964 study of 31 art students identified different creative approaches during the same still-life task.
• Researchers distinguished fast execution from a more exploratory “problem-finding” process.
• The article says problem-finding was linked to greater originality and stronger later creative success.

SatoshiGuesser – Roll for Bitcoin

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• Each spin generates a random Bitcoin private key locally and checks its derived address against about 22,000 Satoshi-attributed wallets.
• The app uses packaged Bloom-filter and wallet-table data, with no blockchain connection, API, or telemetry.
• The project is a single-page web app with cryptographic derivation, autospin, synthesized audio, test hooks, and a Node 22+ build workflow.

The Whistleblower Who Uncovered the NSA's 'Big Brother Machine'

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• Mark Klein told EFF he knew how the NSA was tapping internet traffic at an AT&T facility in San Francisco.
• EFF lawyers concluded Klein’s materials showed mass, untargeted domestic surveillance by the NSA.
• The article links the surveillance context to post-9/11 legal changes, especially the Patriot Act.

Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library

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• `lightning` versions 2.6.2 and 2.6.3 on PyPI were published with malicious code in a supply chain attack.
• The malware steals secrets and can spread further by infecting npm packages when publish credentials are available.
• The article recommends rescanning projects, checking advisories, auditing for listed IOCs, and rotating exposed credentials.

Largest Digital Human Rights Conference Suddenly Canceled

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• Zambia first postponed RightsCon days before it was scheduled to begin in Lusaka.
• The government cited national procedures, diplomatic protocols, and unresolved clearances for some participants.
• Access Now later confirmed the event was fully canceled both in Zambia and online.

10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home

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• The author upgraded a home network from 2.5Gb/s toward 10Gb/s using a staged approach.
• Uncertainty about the apartment’s in-wall cable type led to testing 10Gb/s first inside the study.
• A MikroTik switch, Asus 10Gb/s PCIe card, DAC cables, and an existing TRENDnet switch formed the new study backbone.

I scraped 1.94M Airbnb photos for opium dens, pet cameos, and messy kitchens

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• The article says it analyzed public Airbnb listing data from 119 cities across four quarterly snapshots.
• It used CLIP and Claude Haiku Vision to score and verify 1.7 million listing photos and to rerank reviews.
• The workload ran on Burla with about 1,700 CPU workers and 20 A100 GPUs, and occupancy was summarized with bootstrap confidence intervals.

I built a Game Boy emulator in F#

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• The author built a Game Boy emulator in F# after first learning fundamentals through From NAND to Tetris and a CHIP-8 emulator project.
• The emulator supports both desktop and web through a minimal core/frontend interface for video, audio, input, and instruction stepping.
• Its architecture mirrors Game Boy hardware and uses a single-threaded stepper to keep CPU, graphics, audio, and timing components synchronized.

Show HN: TRiP – a complete transformer engine in C built from scratch just by me

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• TRiP is a C-based educational transformer engine covering inference, training, tokenization, chat, and vision.
• It supports Llama 2, Gemma, PaliGemma, and GPT-2, plus SafeTensors and other checkpoint formats.
• The project uses a minimal toolchain with make and notes that float32 outperforms bf16 and float16 on current CPUs.

CopyFail Was Not Disclosed to Distros

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• CVE-2026-31431 was introduced in Linux 4.14 and fixed in 6.18.22, 6.19.12, and 7.0.
• Sam James said older-branch backporting was difficult because the fix did not apply cleanly and involved API changes.
• He stated distributions were not notified in advance because the issue was not brought to the linux-distros mailing list.

Kubereboot/Kured: Kubernetes Reboot Daemon

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• Kured automates Kubernetes node reboots when the OS indicates a reboot is needed.
• It ensures safe rollout by locking so only one node reboots at a time and by cordoning and draining nodes first.
• The project provides documentation and community support through kured.dev and CNCF channels.

How Semiconductors Were Made in America

Key Points

• The post is based on a 2026 talk in Almaty about semiconductor history and America.
• The article links semiconductor origins to Edison, Menlo Park, and Bell Labs.
• It says Shockley-led talent spinouts helped drive the development of Silicon Valley.

Recovering files from beyond the grave using PhotoRec

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• The article documents a real-world file recovery attempt using PhotoRec from the TestDisk bundle.
• It explains the functional difference between TestDisk and PhotoRec and why only PhotoRec was used.
• The scan recovered more than 16,000 files in over five hours before stopping due to insufficient USB storage.

If Apple makes an iPad Neo, it's all over

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• Google is reportedly adding a Play Store badge for tablet-optimized and foldable-ready apps.
• The article says this highlights Android’s unresolved tablet app optimization problem.
• Apple is presented as the tablet market leader, with 51.5% share cited from StatCounter.

Full-Text Search with DuckDB

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• DuckDB supports full-text search through an installable `fts` extension rather than as a default feature.
• Current DuckDB FTS features include stemming, stop-word removal, accent normalization, and BM25-based ranking.
• The article identifies limitations such as missing built-in highlighting and compares DuckDB with PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch.

A statement from members of the Toki Pona community

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• The statement reports community concern about Toki Pona creator Amatullah’s wellbeing and behavior over the past year.
• Community members say they tried to support her and later believed some behavior resembled psychosis, while stressing they are not mental health experts.
• The article reports formal governance and website domain changes, including her removal from an association presidency and new community sites at sitelenpona.net and tokipona.net.

Does Postgres Scale?

Key Points

• A single PostgreSQL server reached up to 144,000 writes per second in the benchmark.
• The article identifies WAL flushing, not CPU or IOPS saturation, as the main write bottleneck.
• For simple durable workflows, the benchmark reports up to 43,000 workflows per second on one server.

The Human Creativity Benchmark – Evaluating Generative AI in Creative Work

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• The Human Creativity Benchmark separates agreement-based and taste-based evaluation signals in creative AI assessment.
• The paper argues that disagreement among professional evaluators is meaningful in creative domains and should not always be resolved away.
• Contra Labs says current generative models often produce technically competent but homogenized output, limiting their value in creative workflows.

Reverse Engineering SimTower

Key Points

• towers.world is a live collaborative clone of SimTower.
• The author used reaper and Ghidra to attempt LLM-based reverse engineering of the original binary.
• The effort exposed limits of current AI tools in producing a full, accurate clean-room specification for complex legacy software.

Follow-up to Carrot disclosure: Forgejo

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• The follow-up details moderation removals, criticism, and debate after the earlier Forgejo disclosure.
• The author says the episode led some organizations to reassess Forgejo’s security posture and role.
• The author ultimately sent Forgejo’s security team an apology, recommendations, and proof-of-concept exploit material.

The Church Rock Uranium Mill Spill

Key Points

• The Church Rock spill was a radioactive release caused by a uranium mill tailings dam failure in New Mexico.
• The article attributes the event to containment-system weaknesses, including structural and geological factors.
• It covers the spill’s response, environmental effects, and cleanup efforts.

LinkedIn scans for 6,278 extensions and encrypts the results into every request

Key Points

• The article alleges LinkedIn has tracked browser extensions for years and expanded the list to 6,278 entries by April 2026.
• It says the scanning likely relies on automated analysis of Chrome extension manifests and web-accessible resources.
• The article claims the practice is undisclosed in LinkedIn's privacy policy and can be linked to identified user profiles.

Rivian allows you to disable all internet connectivity

Key Points

• Rivian allows all vehicle connectivity to be disabled, stopping data from leaving the vehicle.
• Disabling connectivity also limits navigation, lane keeping assistance, and over-the-air updates.
• Canada gets an in-car settings toggle, while other markets require Rivian Service to disable the eSIM.

The upsell game – Vercel upselling tactics revealed

Key Points

• A sample Vercel invoice shows many separate charges beyond the Pro base plan fee.
• The article details plan differences across usage limits, add-ons, and spend-cap behavior.
• Examples in the article show how team size and usage can raise a nominal $20 plan to a materially higher monthly bill.

American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were

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• Millennial fathers spend substantially more time on childcare than earlier generations of American dads.
• The article says fathers have shifted time away from office work and television toward childcare.
• It links the trend to women’s workforce participation and changing household structures, while noting cross-cultural and historical variation in fatherhood.

Show HN: Pu.sh – a full coding-agent harness in 400 lines of shell

Key Points

• Pu.sh is presented as a full coding-agent harness in 400 lines of shell.
• The tool avoids npm, pip, and Docker.
• Its stated requirements are curl, awk, and an API key.

Hackers are actively exploiting a bug in cPanel and WHM

Key Points

• CVE-2026-41940 in cPanel and WHM allows remote authentication bypass and full admin access.
• The flaw affects all supported versions, and security agencies and vendors are urging immediate patching.
• Hosting providers including Namecheap, HostGator, and KnownHost reported mitigation or evidence of exploit attempts.

Apple reports second quarter results

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• Apple reported $111.2 billion in Q2 FY2026 revenue and $2.01 diluted EPS, both up sharply year over year.
• The company said it set March-quarter records for total revenue, iPhone revenue, operating cash flow, and EPS, while Services hit a new all-time high.
• Apple raised its dividend by 4% to $0.27 per share and authorized an additional $100 billion stock buyback.

New mechanical panoramic film camera from Jeff Bridges

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• WideluxX is a new mechanical panoramic film camera using a rotating lens and single continuous exposure.
• It shoots on standard 35mm film and is designed to fit established analog workflows.
• The design draws from the original Widelux F8 while updating materials, manufacturing, and repairability.

Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey

Key Points

• Claude Opus 4.7 identified Kelsey Piper from a 125-word unpublished writing sample, according to the article.
• Piper argues that this capability could weaken practical online anonymity even when users avoid account-linked personalization.
• She says repeat tests in Incognito Mode, on another computer, and via the API produced the same result.

SimpleX Channels, SimpleX Network Consortium and Community Crowdfunding

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• SimpleX v6.5 adds SimpleX Channels, a beta public publishing feature designed for participation privacy.
• The company plans a SimpleX Network Consortium and Foundation to govern protocols and licensing independently of a single company.
• SimpleX says it will combine community crowdfunding with a commercial model to fund the network while protecting neutrality.

Compositing and Blending – Exploring the math and intuition behind blend modes

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• The article explains browser compositing as the process of combining source and backdrop layers pixel by pixel.
• It distinguishes recompositing from repainting and links that distinction to browser rendering performance.
• It introduces the 12 Porter-Duff operators as the mathematical basis for combining colors and opacity in overlapping images.

Snowball Earth may hide a far stranger climate cycle than anyone expected

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• The study proposes cyclic freezing and warming during the Sturtian instead of one continuous Snowball or Slushball state.
• Standard carbon-cycle timing and oxygen depletion create problems for a single 56-million-year frozen Earth model.
• Weathering of the Franklin Large Igneous Province may have driven repeated CO2 drawdown and deglaciation limit cycles.

A Milestone in Formalization: The Sphere Packing Problem in Dimension 8

Key Points

• A new paper reports a formalization milestone for the sphere packing problem in dimension 8.
• The article places the work in the historical context of Kepler’s 1611 conjecture and Hales’s later proof.
• The formalization effort is intended to support future research through reusable proof libraries and methods.

AI discovery reveals DNA isn’t locked away in cells after all

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• The study reports that most nucleosomes contain partially accessible DNA rather than being fully closed.
• Researchers used the AI-based IDLI method, built on SAMOSA, to detect internal nucleosome structure from sequencing data.
• The team identified 14 nucleosome states tied to gene activity and observed similar patterns across mouse and human cell systems.

The Accidental Ancestor – How Verifying Numbers Shaped Modern Hashing

Key Points

• The article explains how the Luhn algorithm generates and verifies check digits using modulo-10 arithmetic.
• It states that the method detects all single-digit errors and most adjacent transpositions, but not many two-digit changes.
• The article connects Hans Peter Luhn’s work to later developments in hashing and early hash-table concepts.

$500M for Virtual Biology Initiative, Funded by Zuckerbergs

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• Biohub committed $500 million over five years to launch the Virtual Biology Initiative.
• The initiative aims to generate open multi-modal biological data and develop technologies for predictive models of the cell.
• Biohub named major research institutions, consortia, NVIDIA, and Renaissance Philanthropy as collaborators or partners.

The Internet Is Falling Down- CPanel/WHM Authentication Bypass CVE-2026-41940

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• CVE-2026-41940 is described as an authentication bypass affecting all supported cPanel & WHM versions.
• The article cites in-the-wild zero-day exploitation and lists patched versions released by cPanel.
• watchTowr's analysis focuses on session-handling code changes, especially in Session.pm and the saveSession function.

Maladaptive Frugality

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• The article uses an iPhone repair incident to illustrate how excessive thrift can become counterproductive.
• It links the author’s spending habits to childhood lessons and family influences tied to Hong Kong and later life in Canada.
• It argues that frugality is beneficial only when balanced against quality of life, opportunity cost, and practical needs.

OpenWarp

Key Points

• OpenWarp adds Bring Your Own Provider support on top of Warp while preserving the existing terminal experience.
• It supports six native API protocols through the genai adapter and allows mixing Base URL, API key, and model settings.
• The project uses minijinja for dynamic instruction rendering and is available to clone and build locally.

Show HN: What happens when you load a webpage (Interactive)

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• The guide divides webpage loading into seven phases and visualizes cold versus warm request paths.
• Browser checks, DNS, TCP, TLS, CDN/origin routing, and rendering each affect end-to-end latency differently.
• The article says rendering is often the biggest bottleneck and that reducing payload size is the cheapest optimization.

The Hearts of the Super Nintendo

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• The SNES uses two master clock sources: one for CPU/PPU timing and one for the audio subsystem.
• A trimmer capacitor tunes the main oscillator to the documented 21.47727 MHz system clock.
• Multiple internal clocks are derived from the two masters through divider circuits, producing fifteen clocks in total.

Show HN: Winpodx – run Windows apps on Linux as native windows

Key Points

• Winpodx runs Windows apps on Linux as separate native-looking Linux windows using a background Windows container and FreeRDP RemoteApp.
• Version 0.3.0 adds a localhost bearer-authenticated HTTP agent, removes PowerShell flashing on app launch, and introduces new health-check tooling.
• The project is positioned as a zero-config alternative in the Windows-on-Linux space and is explicitly differentiated from Wine.

I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers

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• local.vibe replaces memorized localhost ports with `.vibe` hostnames and automatic routing.
• The tool provides HTTPS, process monitoring, and a dashboard for managing local services.
• It is an open-source, macOS-only Go project with agent-accessible setup and HTTP API support.

Roboticist-Turned-Teacher Built a Life-Size Replica of Eniac

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• Tom Burick and his students built a full-scale ENIAC replica at PS Academy for the computer’s 80th anniversary.
• The article traces Burick’s path from self-taught teenage roboticist to founder of White Box Robotics and later educator.
• Burick’s career was shaped by mentorship, hands-on engineering, and alternative problem-solving methods linked to his dyscalculia.

New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome

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• A Rome manuscript dated 800–830 contains the third oldest surviving text of Caedmon’s Hymn.
• The poem appears in Old English within the main Latin text, unlike the two older surviving copies.
• The discovery, made by Trinity College Dublin researchers, highlights both the value of digitisation and early medieval links between England and Italy.