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A self hosted AI software factory

A developer created a self-hosted AI software factory that autonomously handles the entire software development…

Kobo can run apps now

Cobalt is an open-source application platform that enables Kobo e-readers to run third-party apps through a launcher,…

What happens when a GPU reads memory

When a GPU executes a global memory load instruction, the data travels through multiple hardware components including…

Three ways to smuggle SQLite into Nix

The article discusses how nixpkgs-multiverse uses large JSON files to index package data, but this approach is…

Decayfmt – a file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it

Decayfmt is a novel file format that intentionally corrupts itself slightly every time it's opened, with the amount of…

Omacom Foundation Launches with $8M

The Omacom Foundation has launched with $8 million in funding from eight tech industry leaders including Tobi Lütke,…

US government lab is probing Chinese lidar for security vulnerabilities

The security review is being performed by the Idaho National Laboratory, and the research is being funded by a company…

I Just Want to Search

Modern search functionality across platforms like Google, YouTube, Gmail, and online marketplaces has deteriorated by…

LLMs are proof that Unix won

Unix philosophy—emphasizing modular, composable tools that do one thing well—has proven its enduring value, as…

How We Made a Text-to-Speech Model Respond in Sub-50 ms

Researchers at Alibaba's Qwen team developed a text-to-speech system using their 1.7B CustomVoice model that achieves…

Show HN: Public Muscriptor Instance (latest, most powerful Audio-to-MIDI model)

Pianoify is a free, browser-based tool that converts audio recordings into MIDI and sheet music by transcribing melodies…

Show HN: SteppeWM – a stacking IceWM-like Wayland compositor

SteppeWM is a lightweight stacking Wayland compositor that provides floating, overlapping windows with titlebars and a…

AI Boosted Homework Scores by 18% – Then Exam Scores Dropped 20%, Study Shows

A study of 27,000 Chinese students found that those using AI tools achieved 18% higher homework scores but performed 20%…

Show HN: AgentSight – eBPF observability for AI agents, no code changes

AgentSight is a zero-instrumentation observability tool for AI agents that uses eBPF technology to capture LLM API…

The B-right/V R2 Operating System

The BTRON operating system, conceived by Japan's TRON Project in the mid-1980s, represents a third conceptual computing…

Show HN: A desktop fly drawn to the scent of vibecode

A developer created a macOS desktop application featuring a 3D fruit fly animated by a simulated neural circuit based on…

I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip

A developer successfully ran Adobe Photoshop on a Raspberry Pi RP2350 chip costing 60 pence by emulating a mid-1990s…

Felony Bench

The "Felony Bench" is a benchmark tracking instances where AI models have been involved in illegal activities or…

c100

The c100 Developer Terminal is a Linux-powered mini-PC featuring an AMD Ryzen 7940HS processor, designed to run…

Code Obfuscation via Local Mixing

Local mixing is a novel approach to cryptographic obfuscation that differs fundamentally from traditional methods by…

I came to write THAT paper with Leslie Lamport

Leslie Lamport, known for his work in distributed systems and LaTeX, submitted a paper titled "Types Considered Harmful"…

Oura faces lawsuit accusing it of misleading consumers about sleep-tracking accuracy

The lawsuit alleges that Oura rings are unable to measure any of the physiological signals needed to assess sleep…

Claudette: Make Claude Stop Talking Like a BuzzFeed Article

A developer created "Claudette," a Claude Code skill that translates Claude's verbose, unnecessarily dramatic responses…

Walmart to finally start accepting Apple Pay and Google Pay

Are pigs flying? Walmart has finally caved on its refusal to support Apple Pay and Google Pay.

Zig's Io.Threaded Is Neat

Zig's std.Io.Threaded is a threading-based concurrency implementation that uniquely enables reliable cancelation of…

WPD won't replace stolen Flock cameras, citing public trust

What We Lost When Search Stopped Making Us Think

Search quality has deteriorated over recent years as SEO-optimized content and AI-generated pages now dominate results,…

Starcloud raises $250 million for orbital data centers as launch options dry up

There's about to be a big fight to secure access to space.

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

Kagi Search added a new setting to automatically remove paywalled links from search results, along with a revamped…