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The MUMPS 76 Primer – anniversary edition

The MUMPS Primer is an anniversary edition tutorial covering the 1976 standard of MUMPS, a programming language created…

A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex

A GitHub issue requests a feature for OpenAI's Codex that would allow developers to explicitly exclude sensitive files…

Kids act would require age checks to get online

Congress is preparing to vote on the KIDS Act, a sweeping package that includes the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and…

One million passports leaked online

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DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded

A stack overflow in a third-party application was attributed to shell32.dll, but investigation revealed the actual cause…

Can China build its own ASML?

Armadillo – A DNS Server in Gleam for Homelab Use

Armadillo is a self-hosted DNS server written in Gleam that allows users to configure local domain resolution across…

Indian payments chief thinks AI will be heavily involved in next era of digital payment growth

Dilip Asbe said that newer UPI apps could be more competitive with a viable commercial model

Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs

Bashblog is a lightweight Bash script that enables users to create and manage blogs by simply running commands in a…

Wayfinder Router: deterministic routing of queries between local and hosted LLM

Wayfinder is a local-first model router that intelligently directs queries between local and cloud-based LLMs using…

Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience

A researcher successfully built a custom octocopter and trained a reinforcement learning policy to maintain flight even…

Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly

Ford rehired over 350 veteran engineers after its heavy reliance on AI-driven quality control systems failed and cost…

Response to AI slop is from Robin Williams

Robin Williams' monologue from Good Will Hunting illustrates the fundamental problem with AI-generated content and…

Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C

Over the past few months I've been heavily involved in the decompilation community.

AMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup Guide

This guide provides instructions for setting up a two-node AMD Strix Halo cluster using Intel E810 RDMA networking to…

I built a 10 inch mini rack from aluminium extrusions

WAL-RUS: a Rust Rewrite of WAL-G for PostgreSQL Backups

ClickHouse Cloud has developed WAL-RUS, a Rust-based rewrite of the WAL-G backup tool for PostgreSQL, to address memory…

Apple Neural Engine: Architecture, Programming, and Performance

A comprehensive technical guide reverse-engineers Apple's Neural Engine, the fixed-function matrix accelerator embedded…

Codeberg Is Down

Australia to double maximum penalty for platforms in breach of social media ban

Children under the age of 16 have been prevented from 10 key social media platforms in Australia since December 2025.

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Choosing a Public DNS Resolver

The article provides a guide for selecting a public DNS resolver, featuring an interactive tool that filters options…

Show HN: Starglyphs - A constellation puzzle game based on Euler paths

I am a big Dragon Age fan and sunk hundreds of hours into Inquisition.

Instagram is testing more ways to customize ‘Your Algorithm’

Instagram users could soon see more ways to tune their content.

Enhancing X11 Application Security with LXC

This article provides a technical guide for isolating X11 applications like web browsers using LXC (Linux Containers) on…

'Careless People' author claims Meta surveilled her for 12mos to enforce silence

Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Meta executive whose memoir "Careless People" contains damaging allegations about CEO Mark…

Show HN: Kiso, an open-source publishing engine for Open Knowledge Format

Kiso is an open-source publishing engine that converts Open Knowledge Format (OKF) bundles into static websites…

SoftBank’s CEO isn’t the only one with questions about Elon Musk’s orbital data center hype

Not everyone is buying Elon Musk’s vision for orbital data centers.