Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption

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Making Graphics Like it's 1993

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The user is developing a side-project called Catlantean 3D, a traditional raycaster first-person shooter with a 256-color palette, aiming to recreate the feeling of early 90s games while using modern tools. The user has implemented various techniques to achieve this, including asset creation, lighting, and animation, and is planning to release the game on Steam in Q1 2027.

Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers

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Microsoft's Azure and AI development tools were hacked, allowing hackers to steal users' passwords and sensitive credentials. The company has temporarily removed some repositories, notified affected customers, and is continuing to investigate the breach.

'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon Employees Mock the Company's AI on Slack

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Amazon employees have a Slack channel for memes where the mock and commiserate about the company’s faulty AI coding product.

Launch HN: Transload (YC P26) – Measuring freight items with CCTV

Hi HN — we’re Julius, Jago, and Nils, and we’re building transload (transload.io). transload helps LTL trucking companies measure freight dimensions using the security cameras already installed in their terminals. Instead of sending shipments through a dedicated dimensioning station, we measure them automatically as they move through the normal dock workflow. In LTL trucking, dimensions ...

Can LLMs Beat Classical Hyperparameter Optimization Algorithms?

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Researchers compared LLM-based and classical hyperparameter optimization methods on a small language model. A hybrid approach, Centaur, combining classical CMA-ES with an LLM achieved the best results, suggesting LLMs are most effective as a complement to classical optimizers.

Biff.core: system composition for Clojure web apps

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The user has released the first library, biff.core, which provides system composition and interfaces for Biff projects. This library includes init functions that allow for clean extraction of logic and late binding, making it easier to manage project structure and dependencies.
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Researchers compared retrieval strategies in Large Language Model agents, finding grep generally yields higher accuracy than vector retrieval. However, accuracy still depends on agent architecture and tool-calling paradigm.

Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs

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GentleOS/32 is a retro OS for tinkering with old hardware, requiring i386 CPU, 4MB RAM, and VGA display. It supports standard PC devices and has a 16-bit spin-off, GentleOS/16, targeting 80186 devices.

OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision

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OpenCV 5 is a major release that modernizes the library with a new DNN engine, improved ONNX support, and hardware acceleration. It brings significant performance improvements, better language support, and a redesigned Hardware Acceleration Layer for faster image processing.

Using Optical Aberrations to Distinguish Real Astronomical Transients

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Researchers found that transient images on Palomar sky surveys show coma aberration patterns, ruling out plate artifacts as an explanation. This supports hypotheses that transients have a physical origin rather than being instrumental effects.

Unified Controllable and Faithful Text-to-CAD Generation with LLMs

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Researchers propose PR-CAD, a framework that unifies text-to-CAD generation and editing for controllable and faithful modeling. PR-CAD achieves state-of-the-art results and improves CAD modeling efficiency through a reinforcement learning-enhanced reasoning framework.

FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones by Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers' IDs

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The FCC plans to require telecoms to store personal info like ID numbers and addresses for all phone customers, alarming privacy advocates. This change aims to combat scammers but could impact low-income people, domestic abuse survivors, and those seeking anonymity.

Show HN: Gravity – interactive solar-system simulator, from Newton to Einstein

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Emerge Career (YC S22) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Marketer

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We are looking for a growth marketer to lead student acquisition at Emerge Career, a company that provides second chances to low-income adults through workforce development. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in growth marketing, expertise in at least one core channel, and experience building AI-powered marketing workflows.

A giant star may have destroyed itself in one of the rarest explosions

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Forever Young: how one molecule can lock plants in a youthful state (2025)

Biologist Scott Poethig discovered a single molecule, miR156, that locks plants in a youthful state, a phenomenon called neoteny. This finding has big implications for conservation, horticulture, and more, as it could help scientists tailor plants to different needs and environments.

The Effective Sample Size

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Reweighting data to correct covariate shift reduces bias but increases variance, which is measured by the effective sample size (n_eff). n_eff represents the number of usable data points after reweighting, and it's a diagnostic control signal in off-policy reinforcement learning.

Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models

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Apple overhauls Apple Intelligence with Google Foundation Models, enabling on-device AI capabilities and multimodal support. Users can opt out of Google integration, but it's unclear if this can be completely disabled.

Adopting the Parallel DWARF linker in dsymutil

dsymutil is a tool that optimizes DWARF debug info by deduplicating types across compilation units. A parallel DWARF linker was built to speed up dsymutil, but it had non-determinism issues.

Thi.ng – open-source building blocks for computational design and art

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This site is a precursor to a semantic graph of projects, assets, and relationships, offering a tag cloud to explore 350 projects. The primary focus is on data-driven tooling for TypeScript and browser-based tech, with a broader aim at various programming approaches and languages.

Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers

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Rockstar developers and AI tools can create messy codebases that are hard to understand and maintain. To avoid this, lead the engineering and guide AI tools to generate high-quality, understandable code.

SAT-Physical Thermodynamic Framework: treating constraints as a thermal system

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GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.

An introduction to functional analysis for science and engineering

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This tutorial introduces functional analysis for physical problems, covering infinite sets of continuous functions and their approximations. It develops key concepts, including Hilbert spaces, operators, and eigenfunctions, with a focus on practical applications in physical science and engineering.

xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab

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xAI partnered with Anthropic and Google, providing them with huge capacity, and the revenue flows into SpaceX ahead of its IPO. This deal gives xAI a competitive advantage in datacentre buildout and helps alleviate compute shortages for Anthropic and Google.

Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes

Corrupting a ZFS File on Purpose

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The user demonstrates how to intentionally corrupt a file in a ZFS pool to test self-healing and understand the data layout, using tools like zinject and zdb to simulate corruption and inspect the data. The user explains the process of finding the physical location of a block on disk, including handling compression and raidz layouts, to gain a deeper understanding of how ZFS stores and retrieves data.

Job: Head of Stonehenge

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English Heritage is a charity that cares for over a million objects and historic sites in England, aiming to connect people to the past and each other. They are seeking a Head of Stonehenge to lead a team and deliver exceptional visitor experiences while driving financial performance.

Siri AI

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Apple Intelligence is a helpful AI integrated into Apple devices for personal needs, protecting user privacy through on-device processing. It uses Private Cloud Compute for complex requests while maintaining user data security.

Solar Energy Saves Europeans $135M a Day

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Europe's solar power has saved over $135 million a day by reducing fossil fuel costs. Renewable energy is becoming more dominant, with $2.2 trillion expected to flow into clean energy this year.