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Future of OSU Open Source Lab in Jeopardy 6 by aendruk | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Google Play sees 47% decline in apps since start of last year 13 by GeekyBear | 2 comments on Hacker News.

It's School time: Adventures in hacking an old Kindle 8 by FlyingSnake | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Why Momentum Works (2017) 11 by vector_spaces | 0 comments on Hacker News.

DMCA Notices Can Silence Critics but Complaints by the Public Put All at Risk 22 by hn_acker | 0 comments on Hacker News.

CONL: "Markdown" for your config files 9 by Timothee | 4 comments on Hacker News.

The Seven-Year Rule 15 by thecosas | 8 comments on Hacker News.

Differential Coverage for Debugging 4 by todsacerdoti | 0 comments on Hacker News.

PyGraph: Robust Compiler Support for CUDA Graphs in PyTorch 3 by mfiguiere | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I reverse engineered top websites to build an animated UI library 12 by armedin | 1 comments on Hacker News. Looking at websites such as Clerk, I began thinking that design engineers might be some kind of wizards. I wanted to understand how they do it, so I started reverse-engineering their components out of curiosity. One thing led to another, and I ended up building a small library of reusable, animated components based on what I found. The library is built in React and Framer Motion. I’d love to hear your feedback

The Cost of AI Coding 13 by Sharpie4679 | 3 comments on Hacker News.

I started a devblog about mixing SwiftUI and C++ to make a Twitch app 21 by Swifcheese | 2 comments on Hacker News.

How I use Kate editor 55 by todsacerdoti | 5 comments on Hacker News.

First hormone-free male birth control pill enters human trials 54 by Teever | 73 comments on Hacker News.

Syncing Keyhive 4 by erlend_sh | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ssl.com: DCV bypass and issue fake certificates for any MX hostname 49 by xPaw | 10 comments on Hacker News.

An Image of the Australian Desert Illuminates Satellite Pollution 12 by surprisetalk | 1 comments on Hacker News.

There's Life Inside Earth's Crust 5 by jprohov | 0 comments on Hacker News.

The Good Karma Kit 3 by jedeusus | 0 comments on Hacker News.

An experiment that turned back biological time 7 by jsomers | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes 40 by voxadam | 12 comments on Hacker News.

OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal 87 by mfiguiere | 25 comments on Hacker News.

Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes mass user cancellations 4 by scaredpelican | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator 22 by filiph | 9 comments on Hacker News.

Censors Ignore Unencrypted HTTP/2 Traffic (2024) 8 by ArinaS | 1 comments on Hacker News.

The Whimsical Investor 8 by fi-le | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Crystal, the most accurate U.S. gov't data search tool 11 by ajigarjian | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi everyone! We're relaunching Crystal, which lets you search and analyze 300k+ government datasets using plain English. For example, prompting "Air quality since 2020 in NYC" will find the most relevant datasets for you. We find it's way better than any search tool out there today, like data.gov. We're hoping anyone who uses public data as a resource, like researchers, consultants, journalists, etc. will find it helpful. Crystal is straightforward - it's in alpha, so there's only a few queries per person, and the app itself is in its infancy. We're invested in making this better for people, and we'd love feedback + beta signups - you can provide either via https://ift.tt/GtKr6Zv or down below! If you'd like to partner with us more closely or have other thoughts, please email us at cedric@crystal.info or ari@crystal.info

Exwm: Emacs X Window Manager 8 by tosh | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Apache ECharts + Leaflet + shadcn for data viz 11 by hughess | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: memEx, a personal knowledge base inspired by zettlekasten and org-mode 12 by shibaobun | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft 54 by rntn | 63 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Lunon – Instant model switching across LLMs 7 by johnmcelhone | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN! We built Lunon to make LLM development way less of a headache. Ever wanted to see how different models handle the same prompt without all the setup hassle? That's what we fixed. Our API lets you compare Claude, GPT, Mistral and others in real-time with just a few lines of code. No more complex infrastructure or managing multiple API connections - we handle all that boring stuff behind the scenes. Plus, you can cut costs by intelligently routing requests to the right model for each task. Use the powerful (expensive) models only when you really need them. If you're building with LLMs and tired of the integration headaches, would love to hear feedback!

Trustworthy AI Without Trusted Data 12 by gnabgib | 0 comments on Hacker News.

How a $2k 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured 16 by jaredwiener | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Suffering-Oriented Programming (2012) 17 by whalesalad | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Justice Dept. scales back crypto cases in line with Trump administration memo 17 by planb | 142 comments on Hacker News.

How to Recognize Woodpeckers by Their Drumming Sounds 9 by jamesriso | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Preparation Kept Bomb Threats from Disrupting the 2024 Elections 12 by hn_acker | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Solving a "Layton Puzzle" with Prolog 13 by Tomte | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Scaffold Level Editor 14 by mwkaufma | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Choviva: Chocolate replacement with less CO2 emissions 12 by bill38 | 17 comments on Hacker News.

Charging electric vehicles 5x faster in subfreezing temps 8 by gnabgib | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Gumroad's Interestingly Timed "Open-Source" Play 66 by pier25 | 14 comments on Hacker News.

Jeff Geerling won't connect his dishwasher to your stupid cloud [video] 11 by nikodunk | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Open Source Coalition Announces 'Model-Signing' to Strengthen ML Supply Chain 6 by m463 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: iPhone 2005 weird "Blob Keyboard" simulator 23 by juliendorra | 6 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, I teach tech design history, and one of the key stories I cover is the development of the original iPhone keyboard by Ken Kocienda. Reading about it in his book "Creative Selection" is great, but I wanted my students (and now you!) to actually feel this step in the process. So, I built a web simulator of the "Blob Keyboard", Kocienda's very first attempt at a touchscreen keyboard that actually works, from September 2005: Try the Blob Keyboard: https://ift.tt/LldnWcU... - Tap for the middle letter - Swipe left or right for the side letters More on the github repo: https://ift.tt/1idqJZB The Blob Keyboard prototype emerged during a UX crisis for iPhone team (their software keyboard just didn't work at all, fingers being too big, and the Newton failure loomed over them), highlighting how innovation is rarely a straight path. It was developed o...

Germany's 'Deutschlandticket' helps environment – study 39 by rustoo | 12 comments on Hacker News.

The End of Sierra as We Knew It, Part 1: The Acquisition 44 by cybersoyuz | 6 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Hatchet v1 – a task orchestration platform built on Postgres 16 by abelanger | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN - this is Alexander from Hatchet. We’re building an open-source platform for managing background tasks, using Postgres as the underlying database. Just over a year ago, we launched Hatchet as a distributed task queue built on top of Postgres with a 100% MIT license ( https://ift.tt/ehnyGEJ ). The feedback and response we got from the HN community was overwhelming. In the first month after launching, we processed about 20k tasks on the platform — today, we’re processing over 20k tasks per minute (>1 billion per month). Scaling up this quickly was difficult — every task in Hatchet corresponds to at minimum 5 Postgres transactions and we would see bursts on Hatchet Cloud instances to over 5k tasks/second, which corresponds to roughly 25k transactions/second. As it turns out, a simple Postgres queue utilizing FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED doesn’t cut it at this scale. Af...

Bikes in the Age of Tariffs 5 by bobchadwick | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Hacking the Call Records of Millions of Americans via the Verizon iOS app 16 by voxadam | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Qwen-2.5-32B is now the best open source OCR model 10 by themanmaran | 1 comments on Hacker News. Last week was big for open source LLMs. We got: - Qwen 2.5 VL (72b and 32b) - Gemma-3 (27b) - DeepSeek-v3-0324 And a couple weeks ago we got the new mistral-ocr model. We updated our OCR benchmark to include the new models. We evaluated 1,000 documents for JSON extraction accuracy. Major takeaways: - Qwen 2.5 VL (72b and 32b) are by far the most impressive. Both landed right around 75% accuracy (equivalent to GPT-4o’s performance). Qwen 72b was only 0.4% above 32b. Within the margin of error. - Both Qwen models passed mistral-ocr (72.2%), which is specifically trained for OCR. - Gemma-3 (27B) only scored 42.9%. Particularly surprising given that it's architecture is based on Gemini 2.0 which still tops the accuracy chart. The data set and benchmark runner is fully open source. You can check out the code and reproduction steps here: - https://ift.tt/I1QJAq3... - https://ift....