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Bohemia Interactive: Cold War Assault Remastered Source Code on GitHub

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• Bohemia Interactive released the Poseidon engine and game source code for Arma: Cold War Assault Remastered on GitHub.
• The codebase was modernized to C++20 with CMake and Clang and supports Windows x64 and Linux x64.
• Source code, trademarks, and game assets are governed separately under GPL, trademark restrictions, and APL-SA respectively.

Wikipedia Workers in Britain set global first by seeking union recognition

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• UK-based Wikimedia Foundation employees requested formal union recognition through UTAW-CWU.
• The article describes the effort as the first union recognition move by Wikipedia workers globally.
• The campaign has support from more than 1,000 Wikimedia volunteers and community members, and the UK is WMF’s largest employment location outside the US.

Show HN: Nimic – Pure Python as a systems language with AOT compilation

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• Nimic lets valid Python code transpile to Nim for ahead-of-time compilation.
• The project combines a ctypes-based type system with an AST-based Python-to-Nim transpiler.
• It defines Python syntax conventions and decorators that map directly to Nim semantics.

Shall We Play a Coordination Game?

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• The article defines security as a product and business enabler tied to organizational outcomes.
• It argues that security should cooperate with DevOps to support software delivery performance.
• It uses game theory concepts to explain barriers to cooperation between security and engineering teams.

Aisle Discovers 6 New CVEs in Curl, Including the Oldest Issue Ever Reported

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• AISLE says it found 6 of the 18 CVEs fixed in curl 8.21.0.
• The article highlights CVE-2026-8932 as a curl flaw dating back to 2001.
• Several reported issues are said to affect embedded libcurl users rather than only the curl CLI.

Lies, Damn Lies and Database Benchmarks

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• The article says database benchmarks can be misleading when different systems are compared under one fixed workload and scoring method.
• It describes ClickBench's setup: one large web-analytics dataset, 43 analytical queries, and separate cold and hot measurements.
• It argues that cold-run comparisons are not fully equivalent between self-hosted and managed cloud databases because restart and cache-clearing controls differ.

Dolphin Emulator Progress Release 2606

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• Dolphin Release 2606 adds Game Boy Player support after a feature request that had remained open for more than 16 years.
• The release also brings RetroAchievements support to Wii games and improves compatibility for The Key of Avalon on Triforce hardware.
• The article explains that Game Boy Player emulation is difficult because it requires emulating Game Boy Advance hardware and its communication with the GameCube.

Words, Words, Words

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• Puchner argues that writers’ resistance to AI is understandable but can limit understanding of language and creativity.
• He reports stronger anti-AI sentiment in North America than in India, China, and Korea, based on teaching experience and research.
• After years of experimenting with AI, he says he is cautiously optimistic about its value for people working with language and ideas.

LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach

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• A breach at third-party firm Klue exposed LastPass customer contact, support, and sales-related data.
• LastPass said password vaults were not affected in this incident.
• The company revoked Klue access, rotated API tokens, notified law enforcement, and warned customers about phishing risks.

Puzzling Success of Overparameterization: Lottery Tickets or Escape Dimensions?

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• The article argues the lottery-ticket analogy is misleading for explaining overparameterized neural networks.
• It says subnetworks cannot be treated as isolated because perturbing the rest of the network can cause winning tickets to fail.
• It proposes that wider networks help optimization by adding dimensions and reducing the relative prevalence of bad minima.

You can't unit test for taste

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• *In the Long Run* is adding a scalable points-of-interest feature to its virtual route maps using GeoNames data.
• The implementation stack combines Python, Apache Parquet, and DuckDB, with Claude used as an AI coding and planning assistant.
• The initial pipeline joins and filters GeoNames files to keep potentially interesting locations while excluding less useful records like administrative divisions.

Apple announces significant price increases for MacBooks, iPads, more

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• Apple raised prices on multiple products, including MacBooks and iPads, while leaving iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods pricing unchanged.
• The company said the increases are driven by sharply higher component costs, especially for memory and storage.
• Apple linked part of the pressure to memory demand for AI servers and said some Amazon listings had not yet updated to the new prices.

Why Does Everyone Hate AI?

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• A recent Pew survey is cited as evidence that many Americans believe AI will be harmful to society.
• The article contrasts this with earlier positive public attitudes toward the internet, computers, and tech companies.
• It attributes part of the backlash to apocalyptic industry messaging and to AI being imposed on workers and consumers.

Countries are competing to see which can carry out mass surveillance the best

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• The article argues that state mass surveillance violates privacy and human rights and contrasts it with targeted surveillance under court oversight.
• The United States is highlighted as a major example, with references to CIA and Defense Department statements and NSA infrastructure in Utah.
• Snowden’s 2013 disclosures and Section 702 of FISA are presented as the key evidence and legal basis for broad US surveillance.

Show HN: Turn native language audio into flashcards and shadowing practice

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• LingoChunk offers curated language-learning content with no signup required.
• Users can select episodes to listen to and read along with.
• The service provides Anki decks that include native audio.

The Disappearance of Japan's Animators

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• Japan’s anime market has surged, but labor shortages are threatening future growth.
• Overseas demand and streaming have sharply increased pressure on studio capacity.
• The article links today’s animator shortage to decades of cost-cutting and weakened training systems.

Show HN: Secs-man, a secrets manager you can (not) rely on

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• secs-man is built around recoverable secret backups that should remain accessible without the original tool.
• The project relies on a minimal recovery stack centered on terminal tools, coreutils, and age.
• Installation is repository-based, and remote-machine support requires a separate secs-man-ssh script.

Where every major LLM stands politically

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• The article compares six major AI models using repeated responses to the same political and social questions with web search disabled.
• It says four of the six models lean left of center on its political map.
• It includes rankings, disagreement analysis, self-report versus measured comparisons, and methodology links.

Tell HN: OpenAI has started putting ads on paid programs

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• The title alleges OpenAI has started showing ads on paid programs.
• The article content mainly compares the situation to a fictional subscription-based medical service.
• In the example, rising prices and intrusive ads are imposed on a user dependent on the service for survival.

UN hypocrisy in AI Environmental demands

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• The article supports the UN’s warnings about AI’s environmental impact.
• It alleges the UN website uses Google ad-tech and third-party tracking without consent.
• It argues the UN should align its own web practices with its privacy and accountability principles.

Federal agents track down woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE

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• ICE agents gave a Syracuse poll worker a warning letter over an Instagram account or post they said threatened federal agents.
• Gonyea said the issue stemmed from a January post naming ICE agent Jonathan Ross, based on prior news reporting.
• The notice warned of possible federal and state prosecution, and Gonyea said agents had copies of her posts and identification.

Ask HN: What surprised you about Estonia e-Residency and running an Estonian OÜ?

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• The post seeks firsthand experiences with Estonia’s e-Residency program and operating an Estonian OÜ.
• It asks about practical issues such as compliance, taxes, banking, payments, and recurring costs.
• It also examines remote operation, possible travel needs, and whether experienced users would choose the setup again.

Zig's New BitCast Semantics and LLVM Back End Improvements

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• Zig is changing LLVM backend integer lowering for arbitrary-width integers to use ABI-sized storage in memory.
• The old `@bitCast` behavior became problematic when integer storage rules changed and caused illegal behavior in tests.
• Accepted proposal `#19755` provides new `@bitCast` semantics that support broader backend simplification through the Legalize pass.

Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments

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• The tool charts 18 years of Hacker News mentions for topics, tools, and people.
• It uses live date histograms over 45 million posts and comments built on Upstash Redis Search.
• Users can inspect and filter the underlying stories and comments behind each trend line.

Lianda and the Long March

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• Yang Xiao retraced the 1938 student route from Changsha to Kunming, drawing attention to Lianda’s wartime relocation.
• The article describes the 1938 march as both physically difficult and culturally rich, with vivid examples from student participants.
• Lianda is presented as a significant wartime academic institution whose legacy extended to major Chinese intellectual and scientific figures.

SoftBank 2026 AGM [pdf]

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• The presentation is a legal and investor-information document, not a securities solicitation.
• It contains forward-looking statements and warns that actual outcomes may differ materially.
• It identifies key risks tied to funding, investments, SoftBank Corp., Arm, regulation, IP, and litigation.

As banks close accounts, experts point to immigration crackdown

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• 20,682 consumers filed CFPB complaints about sudden bank account closures between December 2025 and May 2026.
• The article links the rise in closures to banks responding to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
• Experts say banks are increasing monitoring and audits under stricter compliance expectations.

Tw-fade: pure CSS scroll-driven edge masking

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• tw-fade is presented as a pure CSS method for scroll-driven edge masking.
• The demonstration covers both horizontal and vertical scrollable content.
• Fade indicators appear only when more content is available and disappear at the edges.

Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

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• Microsoft's support documentation now lists October 12, 2027 as the end date for Windows 10 ESU.
• Windows 10 reached end of life at the end of 2025, but ESU continues security-only updates beyond that point.
• ESU was historically a paid business offering, but Windows 10 brought it to regular consumers.

Deno 2.9

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• Deno 2.9 launches deno desktop, an experimental tool for packaging web-based projects as native desktop apps.
• deno install now supports npm, pnpm, yarn, and Bun lockfiles, simplifying migration from existing JavaScript projects.
• Desktop apps can target OS-native webviews or a Chromium-based CEF backend and ship as standalone binaries across major desktop platforms.

Besimple AI (YC P25) Is Hiring

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• Besimple AI is hiring for a Strategic Projects Lead focused on audio data collection and annotation.
• The company says it builds data and benchmark infrastructure for voice AI across languages and accents.
• The role combines project execution with product feedback and platform improvement responsibilities.

IBM Debuts First Sub-1 Nanometer Chip Technology

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• IBM announced a 0.7 nm sub-1 nanometer chip technology based on a new 3D nanostack architecture.
• The chip is said to integrate nearly 100 billion transistors, about twice the density of IBM’s 2021 2 nm chip.
• IBM reported projected gains of up to 50% performance or 70% energy efficiency, plus 40% SRAM scaling in related research.

OS9Map

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• OS9Map brings OpenStreetMap browsing to Mac OS 9 systems.
• It includes smooth panning, Nominatim-based search, and location bookmarks.
• The app requires Mac OS 9, PowerPC hardware, 16 MB RAM minimum, and internet access via Open Transport TCP/IP.

Physicists Track and Trap the Elusive Neutrino

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• The first confirmed neutrino detection was achieved in 1956 near the Savannah River Plant by Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines.
• The solar neutrino problem emerged when the Homestake experiment found only one-third of the expected neutrinos from the Sun.
• Later experiments showed neutrinos oscillate between three flavors, implying they have mass and enabling modern neutrino astronomy.

A Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time

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• PHerc. 1667 was virtually unwrapped and read end to end without physical opening.
• The method combined X-ray scanning, digital reconstruction, flattening, and machine learning to reveal ink.
• Additional results include ink confirmation in PHerc. Paris 4 and identification of PHerc. 139 as Philodemus, On Gods, Book 8.

European Commission lines up Amazon and Microsoft for cloud gatekeeper status

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• The European Commission preliminarily wants Azure and AWS designated as DMA gatekeepers in cloud services.
• The Commission cited EU market scale, lock-in effects, switching costs, and ecosystem power as reasons for scrutiny.
• Microsoft and AWS oppose the move, while supporters say fast remedies are needed to improve choice and competition.

I built a GPU back end for Emacs

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• A GPU backend for Emacs was built for macOS with Metal and for GNU/Linux with OpenGL.
• The project preserved Emacs’s existing redisplay engine by adding a separate graphics driver abstraction.
• The implementation emphasized pixel-level output matching using automated screenshot comparison tools.

Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour

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• Oxide offers a browser-based 3D Explorer for its cloud computer.
• Users can inspect hardware components including sleds, switches, and shelves.
• A guided tour explains system operation and provides help for common tasks.

Advanced Nintendo Entertainment System (ANES) – NES Modded to Use 2 PPUs

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• ANES documents an NES hardware mod that adds a second RP2C02 PPU.
• The project lists graphical gains including more colors, more sprites, and parallax scrolling.
• The repository includes a bill of materials, schematics, and step-by-step installation instructions.

How to get your first customers [video]

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• The article says the first 10 customers rarely come from prospecting tools alone.
• It emphasizes networks, in-person outreach, and non-scalable tactics for early sales.
• Max Kolysh uses YC founder stories to explain how to find buyers and convert conversations into customers.

52-hertz whale

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• The 52-hertz whale is an unidentified whale tracked only by hydrophone recordings in the North Pacific.
• Its call frequency is distinct from blue and fin whale vocalizations, making it a unique subject in marine bioacoustics.
• Research using declassified U.S. Navy SOSUS data has helped scientists monitor its migration and persistence over decades.

The annotated PyTorch training loop

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• The article explains a full PyTorch training loop step by step.
• It identifies common silent bugs caused by misordering operations such as device transfer, zeroing gradients, and clipping.
• It clarifies how `Dataset` and `DataLoader` work together to feed batches into model training.

Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion

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• OpenKnowledge is a local-first, open source markdown editor and LLM wiki with Claude, Codex, and Cursor integrations.
• It offers WYSIWYG markdown editing and git-powered sharing and auto-sync for collaboration.
• The project supports macOS desktop and CLI-based local web use on Linux and Intel Macs, with Windows not yet supported.

Show HN: Persona.js – a vanilla-JS agent UI library with native WebMCP (MIT)

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• Persona.js is a framework-free TypeScript AI chat widget with WebMCP, streaming, voice, multimodal, and plugin support.
• It is backend-agnostic and integrates with any SSE-capable backend through a defined Persona SSE protocol.
• The project includes live demos, npm packages, and example integrations across multiple frameworks, runtimes, and AI SDKs.

The anxiety of the perfect loaf: the illusion of culinary precision

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• The article argues that variable conditions in baking can make flexible instructions more accurate than fixed flour measurements.
• It describes modern precision baking tools as formalized versions of older culinary knowledge and intuition.
• It traces the rise of standardized recipes to the 19th and early 20th centuries and names Eliza Acton and Fannie Farmer as key figures.

The Doorman's Fallacy in Action

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• The article uses a brunch experience to illustrate the "Doorman Fallacy" in restaurant service.
• A QR-only menu and QR-based bill splitting created scanning delays and payment confusion for a group of six.
• The author argues that cost-saving automation can reduce customer experience even when the overall outing remains positive.

The Customer Who Almost Killed Slack, Stripe, and Airbnb

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• The article says large early customers can redirect startups away from their original product vision.
• Airbnb is described as rejecting a corporate housing-oriented customer deal during a financially fragile period.
• Slack is described as resisting enterprise feature demands that the article says would have changed the product’s target user.

Un-0: Generating Images with Coupled Oscillators

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• Un-0 is an image generator based on simulated coupled oscillators rather than standard GPU-executed deep networks.
• The article reports FID 6.74 on class-conditional ImageNet 64×64.
• Unconventional AI released weights and code and positions the work as a step toward far more energy-efficient AI computing.

An oral history of Bank Python (2021)

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• The article portrays Bank Python as a proprietary Python ecosystem used inside major investment banks.
• Its fictional example system, Minerva, relies on Barbara, a global hierarchical object store for business data and application state.
• Barbara uses replicated rings, local strong consistency, and overlay namespaces to support bank-wide data access.

Parallel Parentheses Matching

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• The article compares a sequential stack-based algorithm with a parallel prefix-sum formulation for balanced-parentheses checking.
• The parallel method maps parentheses to `+1` and `-1`, then validates balance using the final sum and minimum prefix value.
• The Futhark implementation improves span to `O(log n)` but introduces practical GPU overhead through multiple CUDA kernels.

Om Malik, 1966-2026

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• Om Malik’s family announced that he died on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital.
• The notice says he had a long heart-related health journey and was surrounded by family and friends.
• Readers are invited to share remembrances and are directed to his About page and Wikipedia for more information.

The last Romans are still around

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• The article says Roman identity persisted after the fall of the Roman state in several modern communities.
• Romanians and Romansh speakers are presented as groups preserving Roman-derived names and Latin-linked languages.
• Romeika and Urum communities are tied to the Eastern Roman tradition centered on Constantinople.

GloriousEggroll's Proton has been rebased on Proton 11

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• GE-Proton11-1 rebases the custom Proton fork onto Proton 11 bleeding-edge.
• The release adds new optional compatibility features, audio controls, monitor-detection improvements, and several game-specific patches.
• A major video playback overhaul replaces the quartz-to-gstreamer path with quartz-to-winedmo-to-ffmpeg and removes gstreamer from the build.

RRB-Trees: Efficient Immutable Vectors (2012) [pdf]

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• RRB-Trees extend immutable vectors with efficient concatenation, splits, and insert-at operations in O(log N) time.
• The paper builds on existing 32-way branching immutable vector designs used in Clojure and Scala.
• The proposed structure is motivated by parallel processing needs and is described as applicable beyond Scala.

OpenAI Leans Toward Waiting Until Next Year for IPO

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• OpenAI is reportedly leaning toward delaying its IPO until next year.
• Advisers cite SpaceX’s volatile post-IPO trading and weak market conditions as reasons for caution.
• OpenAI has confidentially filed IPO paperwork but has not committed to a public listing timeline.

A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events

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• The game simulates operating-system management through process, memory, and I/O gameplay.
• The project includes documented workflows for running, testing, building, sandboxing, and automation.
• It is open source under GNU GPL v3+ with separate licenses and credits for game assets.

Migrating from Proxmox to NixOS and Incus

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• The author migrated a homelab from Proxmox to NixOS with Incus.
• NixOS is presented as solving reproducibility problems exposed by imperative driver management on Pop!_OS.
• The article uses hardware-fix persistence and HTPC use on an Intel NUC as examples of the new setup’s advantages.

The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy

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• Australia’s under-16 social media ban took effect in December 2025, but the article says research indicates limited impact on youth platform use.
• Compliance with age-verification rules can require biometric data, government ID checks, or other sensitive personal information.
• The article raises concerns about third-party verification providers, unclear data-retention timelines, and increased privacy-breach risk.

Om Malik taught Silicon Valley to read itself

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• Om Malik died at 59 on June 24, according to a family post on On my Om.
• The article says he helped define Silicon Valley’s fast, founder-accessible and technically literate blog-era media model.
• It presents GigaOm’s rise from personal blog to venture-backed media company as central to Malik’s legacy and to the broader story of startup media.

CAD vs. CAD Tournament

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• The 2026 Summer Open is scheduled for April 2026, and registration is closed.
• Competitors can generally use any CAD tool that supports density input, accurate modeling, and mass calculation.
• Qualification depends on verified leaderboard times, and every qualifying run requires video submission.

Military branches restore flu shot requirement after virus swept through base

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• Military branches reinstated flu shot requirements after a major outbreak at Lackland Air Force Base.
• At least 222 recruits were sickened and four were hospitalized during the outbreak.
• The reversal followed a recent Pentagon decision that had made flu shots optional for service members.

The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (2nd Ed)

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• The second edition updates a major reference work on garbage collection and automatic memory management.
• It covers both traditional and advanced techniques, including parallel, concurrent, incremental, and real-time collectors.
• The book adds new chapters and is supported by extensive online bibliographic and e-book resources.

Om Malik – Silicon Valley Has an Empathy Vacuum (Nov 2016)

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• The article argues Silicon Valley lacks empathy for people disrupted by technological and economic change.
• Malik links post-election tech debates to broader concerns about fake news, big data, and platform influence.
• He frames Trump’s election and Brexit as signals of frustration among people who feel left behind by globalization.

What is the mechanical world picture?

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• The article analyzes several definitions of the “mechanical world picture” in early modern thought.
• Dijksterhuis argues that neither the machine metaphor nor hidden mechanisms alone fully explain mechanistic philosophy.
• Newton’s gravity is used as a key example showing that accepted mechanistic explanations did not always identify an underlying mechanism.

Record type inference for dummies

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• The article introduces anonymous records and explains how they appear across several programming languages and JSON.
• It contrasts named record declarations in languages like Haskell with anonymous record support in TypeScript, C#, and PureScript.
• It builds a minimal foundation for type inference using expression and type syntax trees plus simple literal inference rules.

Experiments in Sports Seismology for the World Cup

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• PNSN installed seven total seismic sensors at Lumen Field to record crowd-induced shaking.
• The stadium will host six World Cup matches as Seattle Stadium, and live seismic data will be shared during those matches.
• PNSN has conducted similar sports seismology deployments during past Seahawks playoff games and Mariners postseason games.

A data race that doesn't compile

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• The article explores using Rust’s type system to reject unsafe parallel reducer designs at compile time.
• A Python Redux-like control layer for industrial energy systems struggled with high-frequency telemetry and reducer bottlenecks.
• Independent subsystem reducers suggest a parallel execution model if state-slice boundaries can be enforced safely.

Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity

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• The adapter’s performance depends on whether the host Framework port truly supports USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 bandwidth.
• Installing Realtek’s Windows driver improved throughput from roughly 7 Gbps to about 9.4+ Gbps in testing.
• Sustained operation made the module hot enough that the author recommends avoiding lap use.

AI children's books, body horror edition

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• The author purchased an Amazon bestselling AI-generated children’s encyclopedia after previously cataloging about 220 similar books.
• The article argues children’s encyclopedias are a prime target for AI publishing because they sell well and are often bought as gifts.
• The purchased book contained multiple disturbing visual errors, which the author says show current AI-generated educational books remain unreliable.

Eyewitness at the Triangle (1911)

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• The article states that the Triangle Waist Factory fire occurred in New York City on March 25, 1911.
• It reports that 146 people died within 18 minutes of the fire breaking out.
• The site provides original source materials from the ILR School’s Kheel Center for education, research, perspective, and commemoration.

Overfitted a 900KB Transformer to Compress a 100MB CSV into 7MB

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• A 900KB transformer is trained to memorize a single file and predict the next byte for compression.
• Reported results are about 7MB for a 100MB NYC taxi CSV and about 21MB for a 100MB enwik9 slice.
• The current implementation is slow, requiring separate training plus lengthy compression and decompression times on AMD 7800XT hardware.

Libre Barcode Project

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• Libre Barcode Project supports barcode fonts for Code 39, Code 128, and EAN/UPC.
• The fonts can display barcodes with or without text beneath the code.
• A Code 128 encoder is provided and kept at its legacy URL for compatibility.

No-One Escapes the Permanent Underclass

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• The article assumes AI will become capable of doing all cognitive and physical work better and more cheaply than humans.
• It argues this would eliminate most jobs and create a permanent underclass with little or no social mobility.
• It claims that even wealthy owners, AI lab shareholders, and governments could be disempowered if machines take over real control.

What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant

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• More than 6,000 public email attacks failed to make the AI assistant reveal the secrets.env file.
• The assistant used a short anti-prompt-injection policy and later processed each email in a fresh context to reduce batch effects.
• The experiment produced operational lessons, including Gmail suspension, API costs over $500, sponsor support, and the importance of model choice.

Doing a masters while working in Spain

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• The author combined a part-time role at Adevinta with an in-person advanced computing master’s in Barcelona.
• The program emphasized theoretical computer science but used practical forms of assessment such as projects and presentations.
• The degree took 2.5 years and was described as highly stressful despite reduced course load and part-time work.

Honesty gets Emacs patch rejected

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• The article describes months of Emacs performance work on macOS involving instrumentation, benchmarks, and analysis of memory and regexp behavior.
• The author says GLM 5.2 helped identify and draft a promising optimization patch that was then reviewed and tested by the author.
• The patch was rejected under GNU policy because it was disclosed as LLM-assisted work.