VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

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User is trying to apply a suggestion to a GitHub conversation but is encountering various errors such as no code changes, deleted lines, and pull request queue. The suggestion cannot be applied at this time due to these restrictions.

A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury

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Ian Duncan, a Mercury engineer, discusses how Haskell helps maintain a large and complex codebase by encoding operational knowledge into types, making the safe path easy and the wrong thing difficult. He shares lessons learned from Mercury's experience with Haskell, including the importance of containing mutation, encoding incantations in types, and using durable execution frameworks like ...

Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS

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The author spent six years developing a custom mapping experience for the Apple Watch, culminating in Pedometer++ 8's watchOS mapping support.

This Month in Ladybird - April 2026

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Ladybird browser made significant improvements in April, including faster JS-to-JS calls, improved HTML parsing, and enhanced UI features. The browser also fixed various bugs and added new features, such as a new Linux frontend, improved caching, and better performance on various websites.

Dav2d

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Anubis is a server protection system using Proof-of-Work to prevent aggressive AI scraping. It requires modern JavaScript features, so disable JShelter or similar plugins for this domain.

Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago

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Neanderthals in central Germany 125,000 years ago extracted fat from bones by crushing and heating them, indicating complex resource management. This discovery pushes back the timeline for this behavior by tens of thousands of years, showing Neanderthals were adaptable and efficient in their food strategies.

Do_not_track

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Users can opt out of telemetry data collection by setting a standard environment variable. This variable should be checked by tools that collect telemetry or make non-essential network requests.

Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement

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Clojurists Together is funding 5 projects in Q2 2026, including improvements to Malli, SciNoj, Clojure LLM, Gloat, and PluMCP. These projects aim to enhance performance, usability, and functionality in various areas such as data analysis, AI, and native compilation for Clojure.

Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade

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Global battery demand is surging, with 14 million end-of-life batteries expected by 2040. Europe is positioning itself to lead the circular battery economy with innovation and policy support.

Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters

A daily update captures Hacker News comments on AI-assisted coding models, selecting relevant posts and analyzing sentiment with Gemini. Results are logged to a Google Sheet for auditing and debugging.

Dabbling in Erlang, part 2: A minimal introduction (2013)

Erlang is a functional programming language where variables are bound to values and cannot be changed, and pattern matching is used for data extraction and control flow. The language features lists, guards, functions as first-class citizens, and list comprehensions, making it efficient for common operations and allowing for concise and readable code.

Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him

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Ben Gawiser won a $10,600 judgment against Tesla for failing to deliver its Full Self-Driving software. Gawiser used small claims court to get a refund after Tesla's software stopped working properly and failed to deliver level 5 autonomy.

When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?

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The author discusses the Turing Test and its implications for machine consciousness, citing the ability of large language models like ChatGPT to pass the test and raise questions about their potential consciousness. The author argues that if these machines are not conscious, then what is consciousness for.

A Physics Engine with Incremental Rollback for Multiplayer Games

Easel's new custom-built physics engine supports large worlds by only snapshotting and rolling back changed objects. This allows for more complex games with thousands of objects.

Little Magazines Are Back

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The WSJ Opinion's Free Expression on Substack highlights the resurgence of print culture, with many magazines and newspapers returning to print after initially going digital-only. A new quarterly magazine, Portico, joins this trend, featuring literary subjects and serious arts and letters.

Voice-AI-for-Beginners – A curated learning path for developers

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A curated learning path for building real-time voice AI agents is provided, covering topics from first STT call to scaling production telephony, with resources tagged as beginner, intermediate, or advanced. The path includes tutorials, guides, and papers on voice AI architecture, streaming STT, TTS, LLM, VAD, turn detection, and production concerns, as well as evaluation, ethics, and security ...

A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm

If the input was a polynomial, the resulting function is still rational function with high probability. the number of physical qubits required to attack 256-bit elliptic-curve cryptography is around 25,000, says sam taylor, head of google's security team - but it'd be much smaller compared to existing quantum computers, he adds. google has no obligation to publish the paper

NetHack 5.0.0

NetHack 5.0 is a game update with bug fixes and architectural improvements. It allows cross-compiling and replaces certain compilers with Lua alternatives.

How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?

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A macOS VM on a Mac mini M4 Pro with macOS 26.4.1 runs at 98% of host speed, with GPU performance at 95%. A MacBook Neo can run a usable macOS VM with 2 virtual cores and 4 GB of memory.

The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox

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The agent harness runs outside the sandbox for multi-user agents, allowing shared skills and memories in a database, and uses virtualization to route tool calls to the sandbox or database. This approach keeps the API surface the same as the model was trained on and avoids the need for custom tools like memory_read.

Barman – Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL

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Barman is an open-source tool for PostgreSQL disaster recovery written in Python. It allows remote backups of multiple servers to reduce risk and aid recovery.

California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws

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California DMV introduces new rules for autonomous vehicles, allowing police to issue citations to manufacturers for traffic law violations. The rules require AV companies to respond to emergency calls within 30 seconds and penalize them for entering active emergency zones.

Waymo Drives Off with South Bay Man's Luggage

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A Waymo rider in Sunnyvale had his luggage left behind when the car drove off without opening the trunk. Waymo wants him to pay for shipping or take two complimentary rides to retrieve it from the depot in SF.

Modern C++ Programming: Busato

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The course is an open-access C++ programming course for those familiar with C and object-oriented programming, covering advanced C++ concepts and real-world examples. It's licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International and can be used for educational purposes.

Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings

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Roblox's new child safety features weighed on bookings numbers, causing shares to plummet 18% after first-quarter earnings. The company faces over 140 lawsuits and has settled with two states for $23.2 million over child exploitation concerns.

Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction

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Researchers found a single direction in chat models that enables refusal of harmful instructions. They developed a method to disable this refusal with minimal effect on other capabilities.

The USB Situation

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I use a MacBook Pro with a Studio Display, connecting via a braided cable that handles video, power, and other Display connections. The cable's speed is limited by the port type, not the cable itself, so I recommend using a Thunderbolt 5 cable for faster speeds.

Welcome to Hell Developer

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A user's bike ride syncing issue led to reverse engineering a Wahoo ELEMNT Bolt v3's Bluetooth packets and Android APK. A Python script was created to unlock a hidden developer mode by sending a three-byte packet over Bluetooth.

Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine

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Open Design is an open-source alternative to Claude Design, offering a local-first, web-deployable, and Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) design engine. It uses 31 composable skills and 72 brand-grade design systems.

Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies

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Uber plans to equip human drivers' vehicles with sensor kits to collect data for autonomous vehicles. The goal is to democratize the data, but its commercial value may give Uber significant leverage over the sector.