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Dolosse – a South African invention used over the world

Key Points

• Dolosse are South African-designed concrete structures used to protect coastal infrastructure from wave damage.
• Coega deepwater harbour in Port Elizabeth uses nearly 30,000 dolosse on a 2.5km breakwater.
• The article says the inventors were not paid or credited and did not patent the design because of their employment status.

Lago (YC S21) Is Hiring for Our GTM Team

Key Points

• Lago lists six open roles across Engineering and GTM.
• Most jobs are full-time remote roles for candidates in Europe.
• Lago positions itself as an AI-native billing platform for flexible pricing management.

Kernel Anti-Cheat Is an Overreach

Key Points

• Kernel anti-cheat is described as closed-source ring-0 software with extensive access to Windows systems.
• The article details ownership of major anti-cheat platforms, including links to Tencent, Saudi PIF, Microsoft, and Canal+.
• It says cheating persists despite these systems and highlights BattlEye as a less invasive alternative design.

Inkfield

Key Points

• The tool renders and stylizes a sample scene using multiple display modes including Gaussian splats, glyphs, hatching, and flow lines.
• Users can control look, lighting, lens, focus, camera motion, and orientation through an inspector-based interface.
• Export options include PNG, SVG, frame sequences, and video, with diagnostics available for render inspection.

YC CEO says he ships 37K LoC/day AI code. A developer looked under the hood

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• Garry Tan said he and AI agents were shipping 37,000 lines of code per day across five projects.
• A front-end review of Tan’s site found high asset weight, many server requests, and multiple production inefficiencies.
• The article argues that AI can accelerate code generation faster than humans can review it, making quality control essential.

In Praise of Observational Evidence

Key Points

• The article argues that observational evidence can be scientifically powerful, especially with very large datasets.
• Historical examples from Arbuthnot and Laplace show early use of statistical analysis on observational records.
• RCTs remain important, but the article says their advantages do not always outweigh the scale and practicality of observational methods.

Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID

Key Points

• Microsoft records tied a Windows Global Device ID to alleged hacking-related web activity in a US criminal case.
• The complaint says GDID persistently identifies a Windows installation across certain Microsoft services and changes only after a Windows reinstall.
• The article raises broader privacy questions about whether similar identifier-based tracking exists on other platforms.

The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth

Key Points

• The series is recognized by *American Scientist* as one of the century’s top physical-science monographs.
• Authorized PDF editions are recommended because they preserve math formatting and include advanced navigation features.
• The page lists publication details for Volume 1, an MMIX fascicle, and several international translations.

Dropping in on Gottfried Leibniz (2013)

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• The article centers on a visit to Leibniz’s archive in Hanover and examines original manuscripts.
• It presents Leibniz’s diverse work as unified by a drive to formalize and systematize knowledge.
• It outlines his early life, education, and transition from academic study to advisory work for courts and rulers.

Show HN: Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron)

Key Points

• WhimFiles is a native macOS file manager designed around real-time filtering and fast navigation.
• It includes dual-pane browsing, fuzzy folder search, tabs, previews, and mounted-volume access.
• The app also provides built-in batch renaming, image conversion, ZIP compression, and undo support for file operations.

Historic Photos of NASA's Cavernous Wind Tunnels

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• NASA Langley’s 16-foot transonic wind tunnel operated from 1939 to 2004 and handled airflow from about 150 to 1,000 mph.
• The article explains how guide vanes in large wind tunnels maintained uniform airflow through enclosed high-speed loops.
• Mary Jackson advanced from NACA’s computing section to engineering work and became NASA’s first Black female engineer in 1958.

Why migrants come to Germany for work and then leave again

Key Points

• The IAB found migrants leave Germany for multiple reasons, especially family factors, discrimination and administrative barriers.
• Migrants who leave are often younger, newer to Germany and less proficient in German; 60% return home while 40% move to other countries.
• The article identifies bureaucracy and inadequate German-language preparation as major obstacles to retaining skilled foreign workers.

Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)

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• 34 researchers were approved under the Dutch Tulp Fund after its first round of institutional nominations.
• The fund has a €50 million budget, with €25 million from OCW and a matching €25 million from NWO.
• Most selected researchers are currently in the US, and their work covers strategic fields such as AI, quantum, vaccines, energy, and health.

9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin, TX

Key Points

• 9 Mothers is hiring nine onsite roles in Austin for counter-drone system development.
• The company emphasizes rapid hardware iteration, range testing, telemetry, and operator feedback.
• Open positions cover hardware, robotics, perception, and embedded platform engineering.

PostgreSQL Benchmark: AWS RDS vs. Self-Hosted on Hetzner (2026)

Key Points

• Hostim led the write-heavy PostgreSQL benchmark, while Hetzner led the read-only benchmark at the same 2 vCPU / 4 GB size.
• The tests used PostgreSQL 16, pgbench, matched instance sizes, separate load generators, and a dataset sized to fit in RAM.
• The article highlights that default tuning, storage commit path, burstable CPU behavior, and high-availability costs all affect real-world comparisons.

Not Dark Yet

Key Points

• Bob Dylan nearly died in 1997 from histoplasmosis, a fungal infection linked to bird and bat droppings.
• The article presents Dylan’s post-1978 career as a period of uneven output, public unease, and mixed critical reception.
• It argues that work seen by many as evidence of decline may instead have been part of an ongoing artistic refinement.

Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors

Key Points

• The study analyzed 19,450 European company domains and found US vendors dominate or lead in five of seven sampled markets.
• Cloudflare is the largest internet-facing website infrastructure vendor in every country included in the study.
• The methodology tracks serving vendors via DNS and autonomous systems, not the actual geographic location of origin hosting.

98% Isn't Much

Key Points

• A 98% success or support rate may still be too low for essential user-facing functions.
• General browser-support statistics can differ sharply from the browser profile of a specific website’s audience.
• The article uses nested CSS to show why site-specific analytics and graceful degradation matter in frontend engineering.

Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal

Key Points

• Dua Lipa opened a permanent banned-books collection called the Manifesto Library at Livraria Lello in Porto.
• The library is part of BABELL – City of Books and includes nearly 100 titles grouped by four themes.
• The article links the project to Lipa’s Service95 Book Club and notes her upcoming role curating the 2026 London Literature Festival.

StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time

Key Points

• StreetComplete finds missing nearby OpenStreetMap data and shows it as quests.
• Users complete quests by visiting locations and answering simple questions.
• Contributions are added directly to OpenStreetMap in the user’s own name without another editor.

Mark Zuckerberg's biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4T

Key Points

• Meta disclosed possible penalties of $1.4 trillion tied to state lawsuits over alleged addictive design of Facebook and Instagram for minors.
• An August trial in Oakland will cover both state consumer protection claims and federal COPPA-related allegations from 29 states.
• The case is part of broader litigation pressure on major social media platforms, with related claims also targeting Snap, YouTube and TikTok.

C++ Details of Asymmetric Fences

Key Points

• The article explains asymmetric thread fences through C++ proposal P1202R0 and their role in optimizing concurrent algorithms.
• It identifies Folly implementations of hazard pointers, RCU, and ThreadPoolExecutor as practical examples of the pattern.
• A modified Dekker’s example is used to show, via the C++ memory model, why both threads cannot observe `0` after sequentially consistent fences.

Sodium-ion "salt" batteries will revolutionize electric-vehicle and grid storage

Key Points

• Sodium-ion batteries are being positioned as a cheaper alternative to lithium-ion batteries for EVs and grid storage.
• Changan demonstrated an EV in -32°C conditions in northern China to show cold-weather performance.
• The Nevo AO6 is expected to launch later this year using CATL’s new sodium-ion battery generation.

Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1

Key Points

• The author says HN data shows "Who wants to be hired" posts now get about 2x more comments than "Who’s hiring" posts.
• The post says the comparable ratio was around 0.25 in 2022, indicating a reversal over time.
• The article offers possible AI-related and market explanations but does not claim a definitive cause.

Show HN: Shellular – run Claude Code, Codex, Pi from your phone

Key Points

• Shellular is introduced as a phone-based tool for running developer workflows.
• It supports agents, terminals, a code editor, and browser DevTools.
• The title highlights support for Claude Code, Codex, and Pi on mobile.

Ask HN: Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas?

Key Points

• The post asks for reliable search engines for mathematical formulas.
• approach0.xyz is reported as offline.
• searchonmath.com and search.mathweb.org are described as ineffective due to irrelevant results or abandoned/offline resources.

Show HN: PostgreSQL performance and cost across 23 EC2 instance types

Key Points

• The post benchmarks PostgreSQL cost and performance across 23 EC2 instance types.
• Users can find the cheapest instance-and-disk configuration that meets a selected throughput and data-size target.
• In the example shown, m8g.large on gp3-baseline is the cheapest setup meeting 33,000 RPS at 1 GB, costing $82/month.

Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament

Key Points

• The European Parliament approved an urgency motion to revisit the Chat Control extension before the summer break.
• The expired regulation had enabled voluntary scanning of private communications by major tech companies for child abuse material.
• Second-reading voting rules make renewed rejection harder than reinstatement, while researchers have warned about AI scan error rates and privacy risks.

A System of Systems for the Selection of Optimal Climate Change Decisions

Key Points

• The paper proposes a closed-loop climate-policy framework using Model Predictive Control to optimize emissions reductions from 2025 to 2100.
• It reports keeping temperature anomaly near 1.5°C by 2100 while limiting mid-century overshoot.
• A neural-network-based second phase translates desired emissions pathways into policy action sets.

Microsoft Fire IdTech Team at Id Software

Key Points

• The article reports that most or all idTech developers at id Software were fired.
• The reported cuts are tied to a larger Xbox restructuring affecting about 3,200 roles through FY27.
• The article cites public posts from Asha Sharma, Scott Miller, and Michael Maynard as supporting details.

Better Auth is joining Vercel

Key Points

• Better Auth announced it is joining Vercel.
• The founder built Better Auth to address gaps in existing auth tooling for multi-tenant and cross-framework use cases.
• The project grew from a September 28 launch through a three-month beta period to version 1.0 by the end of November 2024.

But Nothing Has Changed on Our Side

Key Points

• A common incident-response pattern is that teams initially report no changes, but root-cause analysis later finds a relevant change.
• A writer framework upgrade reduced file sizes and increased file counts, which raised cloud object storage GET requests and costs.
• An automatic Java runtime update and an AI-assisted feature deployment are presented as additional examples of non-obvious production failure triggers.

China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes

Key Points

• Yang Youlin was sentenced to death for taking more than 2.2 billion yuan in bribes over about 30 years.
• He was also convicted of embezzlement, abuse of power and money laundering linked to contracts, land transfers and financing.
• The article frames the case within Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign and notes that such white-collar death sentences are rare but not unprecedented in China.

Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k

Key Points

• The article maps 334 government-owned homes under $100,000 from HUD, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac listings.
• It says 38 states had at least one such listing, with the highest counts in Illinois, Texas, Pennsylvania, Missouri, and Ohio.
• The article emphasizes that these properties are sold as-is and may require title checks, repairs, and specialized financing or purchase steps.

Weighing smoke: why AI visibility dashboards are mostly useless

Key Points

• The article says AI visibility dashboards are expanding rapidly despite questionable measurement validity.
• Cited studies found that repeated identical prompts to AI systems often produce materially different brand lists and rankings.
• The article concludes there is currently no reliable way to measure or track AI-search visibility consistently.

Reducing Doom Loops with Final Token Preference Optimization

Key Points

• Antidoom targets the single token that starts a repetitive inference loop using FTPO.
• On LFM2.5-2.6B, looped completions on hard math and coding prompts dropped from 10.2% to 1.4%.
• The article links doom loops to overtrained tokens, context reinforcement, and low-temperature or greedy decoding.

Jim's TrueType QR Code Font

Key Points

• The font converts bracket-delimited printable ASCII text into QR codes while preserving readable surrounding text.
• The repo provides three generated `.ttf` files with different QR capacities and includes a browser demo and build outputs.
• The proof-of-concept depends on OpenType GSUB shaping and includes programmatic QR logic such as Reed-Solomon parity and module placement.

Amazon Without the Knockoffs

Key Points

• Knockoff filters suspected pseudo-brand listings from Amazon search results and works across Amazon marketplaces.
• The extension performs brand appraisal locally in the browser using a 5,000-plus brand register and heuristic scoring for unknown names.
• Users can adjust strictness, hide sponsored listings, and override results with personal trust or block lists.

GitHub Freno: cooperative, highly available throttler service

Key Points

• freno throttles cooperative clients based on backend health, especially MySQL replication lag.
• It is highly available, uses Raft for coordination, and supports dynamic backend discovery via HAProxy.
• It is intended for operations like migrations and bulk updates, using HTTP checks to decide whether writes should proceed.

MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released

Key Points

• MacSurf 1.68 brings native modern web browsing to PowerPC Mac OS 9 systems without a proxy.
• The release switches from Duktape to macQJS, enabling native ES2023 JavaScript support on Classic Mac OS.
• It also fixes major usability issues including login persistence, text editing behavior, and a long startup delay.

Automating AI Away

Key Points

• The article argues that LLMs should be embedded within deterministic tools and workflows rather than trusted alone.
• Beagle SCM is presented as an example system where LLM actions can be scripted, constrained, and gradually automated.
• The author contrasts probabilistic LLM behavior with deterministic tools like Ragel to show where formal automation is more reliable.

30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format

Key Points

• 30papers.com offers a beginner-friendly presentation of a rumored machine learning paper list linked to Ilya Sutskever and John Carmack.
• The website currently includes 27 papers, not a complete list of 30.
• The project openly asks readers to help locate the full canonical version of the list.

Sites that block AI training crawlers mostly ignore the answer time bots

Key Points

• Most dateable GPTBot rules in the study were created during a late-2023 surge following GPTBot's launch and the New York Times lawsuit against OpenAI.
• Sites continued updating robots.txt files after that period, but mostly to add more rules for training crawlers rather than answer-time bots.
• The article says emerging systems from Cloudflare and x402 point toward charging for real-time AI page fetches, while current public rules largely do not address that use case.

Software Bonkers

Key Points

• The author says Claude Code enabled them to build multiple custom software tools over the past year.
• Examples include a custom social platform and membership tools for searchable video archives and chapter generation.
• The newest project is a local multi-currency accounting system designed for cross-border personal business operations.

Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler

Key Points

• PgDog was built to preserve Postgres features that often break under standard connection pooling.
• It tracks and restores per-client SET state using a built-in SQL parser and query pipelining.
• It also supports LISTEN/NOTIFY in transaction-pooled setups while preserving transactional behavior.

Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained

Key Points

• Chat Control 1.0 expired on 4 April 2026 but is being fast-tracked for revival through a formally new law with identical content.
• Chat Control 2.0 remains stalled in trilogue over suspicionless scanning and whether end-to-end encrypted communications can be included.
• The article emphasizes that contradictory news stems from two separate EU legislative tracks moving in parallel.

Midtown Manhattan blocks evacuated after beams buckling at construction site

Key Points

• A structural failure threat at 235 E. 42nd Street prompted a multi-block evacuation in Midtown Manhattan.
• Officials said floors 21 through 26 were affected and engineers moved ahead with temporary shoring.
• No injuries were reported, but nearby buildings and streets were evacuated and closed as a precaution.

Computational Balloon Twisting: The Theory of Balloon Polyhedra [pdf]

Key Points

• The paper defines a graph-theoretic and algorithmic framework for balloon twisting and balloon polyhedra.
• It provides optimization results for minimizing balloon count or total length and proves an equal-length variant is NP-complete.
• The work is motivated by applications in mathematics education and reconfigurable inflatable architectural structures.

New Literalism Comes for Museums

Key Points

• The article says museums are increasingly adopting a simplified, highly legible exhibition style it calls “New Literalism.”
• It uses KAWS, Picasso-related programming, MoMA, and SFMOMA as examples of this curatorial approach.
• It argues that donor, funding, and public-risk pressures incentivize museums to choose recognizable, low-ambiguity exhibitions.

Astro 7.0

Key Points

• Astro 7.0 focuses on speed with a Rust-based compiler, Rust content pipeline, and queue-based rendering engine.
• The framework now uses Vite 8 and Rolldown, with Astro reporting 15% to 61% faster builds in benchmarks.
• The release adds Advanced Routing, stabilized route caching, experimental CDN cache providers, and AI-oriented dev tooling.

A new runtime for k and q: l

Key Points

• l is introduced as a new runtime for k4, q, and qSQL that runs existing code unchanged.
• The runtime uses compressed vectors, SIMD, and automatic parallelism to reduce data movement and improve performance.
• The article claims full qSQL database compatibility, including joins, partition logic, and common data structures.

Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro

Key Points

• Kokoro can run local, multilingual text-to-speech on CPU without using the GPU.
• Kokoro-FastAPI provides a containerized deployment with a web UI and OpenAI-compatible speech API.
• Benchmark results show workable CPU-only synthesis performance across both old and newer processors.

Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 the time and tokens

Key Points

• Docx-CLI lets AI agents edit .docx files with comments and tracked changes while preserving Word formatting.
• The article reports better task success, lower token use, and faster runtime than direct OOXML-based workflows.
• All 36 Docx-CLI benchmark outputs reportedly opened in Word on the first try, versus 5 failures in the default workflow.

Notes on Software Quality

Key Points

• The article defines software quality as the absence of problems and says testing plus expert review are practical evaluation methods.
• It argues that leadership, culture, and organizational willingness strongly shape how much quality a team can achieve.
• It says quality becomes harder at scale and identifies appearance, association, cost, and performance as universal quality signals.

Fixing analog audio on the $2.58 HDMI-to-VGA adapter

Key Points

• A cheap HDMI-to-VGA adapter’s analog audio output produced severe noise, prompting PCB-level troubleshooting and modification.
• The author repaired damage on an older ICY-Box converter by tracing and reconstructing its I2C connections.
• The article concludes that a ground loop involving the Nintendo Switch headphone output likely caused amplified 60 Hz hum in the audio chain.

AI Meets Cryptography 1: What AI Found in Cloudflare's Circl

Key Points

• zkSecurity says its AI audit pipeline found seven confirmed vulnerabilities in Cloudflare’s CIRCL library, all now fixed.
• The article presents zkao as an AI audit agent built to continuously find and validate security issues in codebases.
• Human reviewers still validated exploitability and disclosure, even though AI generated the initial candidate findings.

Decrypting View State Messages

Key Points

• The article centers on deriving final IIS/ASP.NET machine keys from recovered autogen key material to decrypt encrypted view state.
• It covers both legacy and modern ASP.NET crypto configurations and contrasts their decryption complexity.
• It identifies the autogen key as a 1024-byte blob generated in `System.Web.HttpRuntime::SetAutogenKeys()` and stored in the registry or an LSA secret.

Ask HN: Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall?

Key Points

• The Ask HN post reports stargazer pages returning 404 to logged-out GitHub users.
• The post asks whether GitHub is starting to require login for some public functions or pages.
• A cited GitHub statement says stargazer and watcher lists are being restricted due to spam-related misuse.

Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop

Key Points

• Rowboat is an open-source, local-first AI coworker that builds a persistent knowledge graph from work data.
• Its memory is stored as editable, Obsidian-compatible plain Markdown on the user's machine.
• It supports multiple integrations, optional tool extensions, and both local and hosted model setups.

Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

Key Points

• Davit is a native macOS GUI for Apple’s container platform on Apple silicon, with no Docker Desktop required.
• It connects directly to Apple’s container daemon over XPC and offers container, image, volume, network, and settings management.
• The app can install Apple’s signed container platform without admin rights and provides a guided workflow to run a demo container.

Show HN: Halo – open-source, tamper-evident runtime evidence for AI agents

Key Points

• Halo creates tamper-evident, hash-chained runtime logs for AI agent actions.
• The package includes recording, verification, witnessing, and reporting tools with an open record format.
• The article says external witnessing is needed to address completeness, not just integrity, of agent audit records.

Herdr: One terminal to rule them all

Key Points

• Herdr runs coding agents in persistent terminal sessions that can be reattached from any terminal over SSH.
• The tool is positioned as an agent-aware alternative to standard terminal multiplexers and GUI-bound agent managers.
• Herdr includes a CLI/socket API for automation and a plugin ecosystem for additional workflow features.

Re: I'm Begging You to Leave Your AI Note-Taker at Home

Key Points

• The article responds to Joan Westenberg’s criticism of AI note-takers in meetings and catch-ups.
• The author recounts refusing AI recording during a physiotherapy appointment and says manual note-taking was used instead.
• The post argues that informal conversations generally do not require full AI transcription and documentation.

All Cars Sold in the EU Now Require a Camera Aimed at Your Face

Key Points

• EU law will require driver-facing ADDW cameras in all new cars sold from July 7, 2026.
• The system tracks gaze with an infrared camera and warns drivers after set distraction thresholds.
• The article says privacy and data-retention rules remain unclear despite a stated closed-loop processing requirement.

Camera with transparent display launches for the equivalent of $29

Key Points

• The Godox C100 combines a transparent information display with photo and video capture.
• It stores media on microSD up to 128 GB and uses USB-C instead of Wi‑Fi or Bluetooth for transfers.
• The camera also functions as a light meter for exposure measurement, including use with analog cameras.

IEEE Rolls Out Large Language Models Training Course

Key Points

• The article says LLMs are becoming core components of engineering workflows and digital infrastructure.
• It stresses that developers need technical understanding of transformers, reliability, and security to use LLMs effectively.
• IEEE has launched a five-course training program focused on the engineering foundations of large language models.

Men's average testosterone levels have halved in last 50 years

Key Points

• Researchers reported a 54% decline in men’s total testosterone between 1972 and 2019 across six longitudinal studies.
• The analysis covered 118,593 individuals from five countries, and every included study showed a decline.
• The article says obesity and diabetes are major possible explanations, while environmental factors are also being investigated.

Why Vancouver is always a stand-in for San Francisco in movies and TV shows (2021)

Key Points

• Vancouver frequently stands in for San Francisco in films and TV shows set in the Bay Area.
• The city’s visual similarities, including Victorian homes and coastal fog, help it resemble San Francisco on screen.
• Established production infrastructure and tax credits of 10% to 35% make Vancouver attractive to filmmakers.

GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup

Key Points

• GAO says DOE’s cleanup office often specifies solutions too early in large project planning.
• Early solution selection and regulatory constraints can limit cheaper viable alternatives.
• GAO recommends outside independent experts for mission-need reviews before solutions are committed.

We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code

Key Points

• The service targets AI-generated codebases that work but have become difficult to extend and maintain.
• It offers free analysis, fixed-price refactoring, and payment tied to hitting a predefined code-reduction target.
• Deliverables include a reduced codebase, QA checklist, and guardrails such as CLAUDE.md, lint rules, and CI checks.

First Principles of Model Routing

Key Points

• Model pools should contain clearly differentiated models rather than multiple near-equivalent frontier models.
• The article recommends small routing pools by default and adding models only when their roles are well defined.
• Routing quality should be improved with internal benchmarks and reevaluation of historical user-specific requests.

An interactive explorer for Benford's Law across real datasets

Key Points

• Benford’s Law predicts that 1 is the leading digit in many datasets about 30% of the time, not 11%.
• The article links this pattern to logarithmic scaling and data that spans multiple orders of magnitude.
• It traces the law’s history through Simon Newcomb, Frank Benford, and Theodore Hill.

Show HN: Fortress – a stealth Chromium so your agents stop getting blocked

Key Points

• Fortress claims to evade browser fingerprint detection by patching Chromium internals in C++ instead of using JavaScript stealth scripts.
• It is designed to work as a drop-in CDP browser for Playwright, Puppeteer, and related automation tools.
• The article cites benchmark-style proof points from CreepJS, Sannysoft, BrowserScan, and Cloudflare Turnstile.

Honey, We Bought an AI Story

Key Points

• Bona Books says suspected AI-generated fiction made it into the selection process for its 2025 anthology *Wrath Month*.
• The publisher describes significant operational disruption, including lost time and new verification procedures.
• Two accepted stories tied to pseudonymous authors are identified in the article as part of the case.

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Video Lectures

Key Points

• Twenty lectures present the full SICP course as delivered in July 1986 for Hewlett-Packard employees.
• The videos were professionally produced by Hewlett-Packard Television and are available under a commercially compatible Creative Commons license.
• The lectures follow the 1985 first edition of SICP but remain useful for second-edition readers because the course themes and sequence are unchanged.

A 13th-Century Enumeration Algorithm, Ignored for 700 Years

Key Points

• The article interprets Aboulafia’s Tserouf as a systematic algorithm for enumerating permutations.
• In the three-letter case, the sequence is grouped by initial letter and constrained by mirror and head-holding rules.
• The method scales recursively through a rotation operation that moves the first letter to the end.

Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 years

Key Points

• Canada’s only watchmaking school was founded after WWII and now trains professional watchmakers for the market.
• The school is full at 20 students and has a waiting list, indicating continued demand for the program.
• Companies such as TAG Heuer, Rolex, and Birks contact the school to recruit future employees.

Show HN: Chiptune Radio

Key Points

• Chiptune Radio is a 24/7 Twitch stream dedicated to chiptune and demoscene-influenced music.
• The project is operated by Aleph Void, LLC as a side project.
• Its music is based on or inspired by classic hardware such as the SID, NES APU, and Game Boy audio channels.

Show HN: Free Mermaid Diagram Editor

Key Points

• Moxie Docs released a free Mermaid diagram editor with live preview and SVG/PNG export.
• The tool supports all core Mermaid diagram types and shares diagrams through URL-encoded links without server storage.
• Optional GitHub integration lets Moxie generate and refresh architecture diagrams and searchable docs from repositories.

Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor

Key Points

• CVE-2026-11405 affects multiple Tenda firmware versions and allows administrative access without valid credentials.
• The backdoor is implemented in /bin/httpd and uses a fallback password retrieved from sys.rzadmin.password.
• No patch was available in the article, so mitigation focused on disabling remote management and reducing exposure.

Git Hash Chain Malleability

Key Points

• A paper claims signed Git commits can be altered into distinct, differently hashed commits that still verify successfully.
• Three malleation techniques are described across ECDSA, OpenPGP-based signatures, and S/MIME/CMS encoding.
• The issue could affect dependency pinning, commit-based policy enforcement, and reproducible-build systems that rely on commit hashes.

Scheme Is a Hoot

Key Points

• The author used Hoot to compile Scheme code to WebAssembly for browser execution.
• The project now supports both native Guile and browser-based WASM, with automated tests in both environments.
• A prototype and source code have been published, with possible future experiments involving Zig and Scheme.

Is The Economist Always Wrong?

Key Points

• The Economist used GPT-5.5 to evaluate about 7,000 editorials and identify roughly 1,400 falsifiable forecasts.
• Its reported finding is that highly contrarian predictions were less accurate than conventional or moderately unconventional ones.
• The article cites misses in oil forecasting and hits including calls on Vladimir Putin’s continued rule and Bitcoin’s staying power.

Show HN: Ghostmeet – Self-hosted meeting transcription and summaries

Key Points

• Ghostmeet performs browser-tab audio transcription locally with Whisper and keeps audio on-device.
• Summaries are optional and send only transcript text to the Claude API using the user’s own key.
• The tool supports major web meeting platforms but does not support native Zoom or Teams desktop apps.

Pure-Python symbolic regression that rediscovered Kepler's law from 8 data point

Key Points

• GP_ELITE is a pure-Python symbolic regression package focused on interpretable formulas for small experimental datasets.
• The article showcases rediscovery of Kepler’s Third Law and a battery degradation model with high reported validation accuracy.
• Reported technical features include hold-out validation, island-based genetic programming, ε-lexicase selection, and benchmarked performance on physics equations.

LineageOS Statistics

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• LineageOS reports 1,464,951 active installs, with 74% on unofficial builds.
• waydroid_x86_64 is the top-listed device target with 232,319 installs.
• The United States leads the visible country ranking, ahead of China and Brazil.

Show HN: Neil the Seal Game

Key Points

• Players control a one-tonne teenage seal in Battery Point.
• The article lists keyboard and mouse controls for movement, actions, and camera operation.
• The objective is to cause disruption and complete mischief goals to become a "Viral Sensation."

How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS

Key Points

• The guide proposes a minimal NAS stack based on Debian 12, OpenZFS, and Samba.
• It highlights ZFS portability by explaining that pools can be recovered on another machine with `zfs import`.
• The first setup steps focus on identifying disks and mapping persistent device IDs before pool creation.

Copy That Floppy – Cambridge guide for preserving data from fragile floppy disks

Key Points

• The guide covers long-term imaging of 8-inch, 5.25-inch, 3.5-inch, and 3-inch floppy disks.
• It is aimed at practitioners with existing digital preservation knowledge and focuses on imaging rather than file extraction.
• It was developed through the Future Nostalgia project and builds on community workshops and earlier floppy-preservation resources.

The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work"

Key Points

• The article distinguishes between worker-directed automation and worker-subordinated automation to explain differing AI coding outcomes.
• It places vibe coding in a historical tradition of end-user software creation tools.
• It concludes that personal software and production code are fundamentally different categories with different risks.