Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed offline products

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Microsoft Office 2019 for Mac will stop editing and saving files on July 13, 2026, due to a license-validation certificate expiration. Users can update to build 16.83 to avoid this change, but Office 2019 users have no update path.

Domain expertise has always been the real moat

Agentic AI tools have changed software development by allowing non-experts to produce correct outputs without understanding the underlying code. The most valuable professionals now have both technical skills and deep domain knowledge to verify the correctness of generated code.

Anyone can build a platform now. Almost nobody can get people to find it

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The author of ClaudeFolio, a platform built with AI coding tools, is struggling with distribution despite having a clean design and working features, highlighting the shift from building to distribution as the main challenge for solo founders. To overcome this, the author emphasizes the importance of developing distribution skills, such as content creation, community engagement, and patience, ...

I found a seashell in the middle of the desert

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A person found a rock resembling a seashell in the Alghat desert, Saudi Arabia, and attempted to identify the shell's shape using a dataset of 7894 species and 59244 images. They used Principal Component Analysis to reduce the shape's dimensions from 256 to 2.

Shantell Sans

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Shantell Sans is a variable font created by Shantell Martin and Stephen Nixon, inspired by her handwriting and Comic Sans. It offers a wide range of styles, from friendly to high-energy, and supports over 380 languages.

Accenture to acquire Ookla

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Accenture acquires Ookla to strengthen network intelligence and experience with data and AI for enterprises. The acquisition will help clients optimize mission-critical Wi-Fi and 5G networks.

wolfSSL releases a new product; wolfCOSE a zero alloc C embbedded COSE stack

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wolfCOSE is a lightweight C library implementing CBOR and COSE using wolfSSL as the crypto backend. It supports all six COSE message types with a minimal build size of 7.5 KB.

Jef Raskin, the Visionary Behind the Mac (2013)

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Jef Raskin founded the Macintosh project at Apple, leading to the development of the graphical user interface. He aimed for simplicity and user-friendliness, but the Mac has become increasingly complex over time.

Cheese Paper: a text editor specifically designed for writing

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Cheese Paper is a text editor for writing fiction that supports syncing and stores notes with each scene in a minimal file format. It's an open-source project with a simple file format and customizable themes.

Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog

The Zig project has made significant progress in 2026, including improvements to the ELF linker, incremental compilation, and the build system, which has made zig build faster and more efficient. The project has also made changes to the standard library, including preferring the Native API over Win32 and deleting redundant code from the libc subproject, which has improved compilation speed ...

Voxel Space (2017)

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In 1992, Comanche used a 2.5D Voxel Space engine with a 1024x1024 height and color map for rendering. The engine used a simple painter algorithm to draw vertical lines based on height and color data.

Parallel Reconstruction of Lawful TLS Wiretapping

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A TLS certificate renewal vulnerability in acme.sh allowed a certificate authority to issue a certificate, enabling wiretapping of jabber.ru. The vulnerability was exploited due to a remote code execution flaw in acme.sh, which was later patched.

OpenRouter raises $113M Series B

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OpenRouter secured $113M in Series B funding led by CapitalG, with participation from major tech companies. The funding will be used to scale infrastructure and deepen enterprise capabilities for AI production workloads.

Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team

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openrsync is a BSD-licensed rsync implementation compatible with modern rsync protocol 27, primarily designed for OpenBSD but also portable to other UNIX systems. It uses a subset of rsync's command-line arguments and is part of the rpki-client project.

Racket v9.2 is now available

Racket release includes fixes for match form, Typed Racket, and Scribble, as well as improvements to foreign interface and documentation. New contributors are welcome to join the community and help with the project.

Dusklight – GC Twilight Princess Decompiled

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Dusklight is a classic adventure game with fixes and improvements, available on PC and mobile. It offers authentic and modern gameplay options with higher resolutions and frame rates.

Design Engineering Magazine

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The author emphasizes the importance of quality in product design, citing a shift from speed to exceptional craftsmanship. They share their expertise on building great interfaces through their website and magazine, Interfaces.

Show HN: 500 years of Joseon court omens as an observability dashboard

The Joseon court — the dynasty that ruled Korea for five centuries (1392–1897) — watched and recorded eclipses, comets, droughts, floods, and tiger incursions as signs bearing on the Mandate of Heaven: Heaven's read on whether the dynasty should stand. This console logs those readings as operational telemetry — every entry a real record from the 朝鮮王朝實錄.

Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele in Conversation (2018)

The website is using Cloudflare security and blocked my action, possibly due to a trigger like a certain word or SQL command. I was trying to perform an action when this page came up, and the Cloudflare Ray ID is needed to report the issue to the site owner.

Microcode inside the Intel 8087 floating-point chip: register exchange

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The 8087 floating-point chip uses microcode to implement its instruction set, with 1648 micro-instructions controlling the chip's operations. The FXCH instruction, which exchanges two floating-point registers, is implemented with 14 micro-instructions that handle various conditions and exceptions.

Pandoc Templates

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Pandoc templates for PDF, LaTeX, HTML and Word. Easily convert documents with customizable templates for reports, articles, and more.

90% of the T Distribution

William Sealy Gosset, also known as Student, improved beer at Guinness by inventing new statistics. He created the Student's t distribution to correct for uncertainty in standard deviation estimation.

Rotary GPU: Exploring Local Execution for Large MoE Models Under Limited VRAM

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Researchers developed Rotary GPU to make large language models accessible on smaller hardware resources, addressing deployment concerns in constrained environments. The approach achieved 21.06 tokens per second on a consumer laptop, suggesting further investigation into deployment accessibility is warranted.

Zig: Build System Reworked

The Zig project has made several improvements including faster build times, incremental compilation, and better type resolution. These changes aim to make the development experience more efficient and user-friendly, with features like faster error messages and improved dependency management.

C++ CLI for folder encryption with AES-256-GCM and USB-based key loading

I built a Linux CLI tool that encrypts and decrypts folders using AES-256-GCM. It also hides file and folder names and stores the mapping in an encrypted file. If this is a learning exercise, cool! If this is a real thing, it needs a lot of work. Lots of failure modes, errors that are not being handled, sometimes exceptions, sometimes swallowing and printing to stdout, very inconsistent ...

The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)

AV2 is a next-generation video coding specification from AOMedia offering superior compression efficiency and support for AR/VR, split-screen delivery, and wider visual quality range. It provides a comprehensive specification document and reference software for implementation.

Tsplat – Run Gaussian splatting in your terminal

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Tsplat renders 3d gaussian splatting scenes directly in your terminal. written in rust and is cpu only for now, doesn't require gpu or display servers and it even works over ssh. you need an inria 3dgs scene. you can think of it as a fuzzy colored blob. if you want to see the rendered scene, you can use the command line to open the console
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The user implemented a basic fluid simulation in Godot using Navier Stokes equations, including density advection, diffusion, and velocity advection, and also implemented boundary conditions and pressure correction to remove incompressibility artifacts. The user explained the process in a blog post, including code snippets and explanations of the algorithms used, and noted that the simulation ...

Werner Herzog in conversation with Paul Cronin (2014)

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Werner Herzog discusses his film Grizzly Man, about Timothy Treadwell, a man who lived with bears in Alaska. Herzog found Treadwell's footage fascinating and powerful, despite his delusional acts.

Show HN: Open Envelope – an open schema for defining AI agent teams

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Envelope is an open standard for defining AI teams, allowing builders to describe their teams in a declarative format that can be read and written by any runtime. By adopting this standard, Envelope aims to become the canonical marketplace for AI teams, driving adoption and ecosystem growth without giving away its business.