Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found

1003 dominicq 2026-04-11 17:16:23 UTC aisle.com Llama Share 273

Anthropic's Mythos AI model is not the only solution for AI cybersecurity as smaller, cheaper models can recover similar analysis and detect vulnerabilities. The capability of AI cybersecurity is jagged and doesn't scale smoothly with model size, with the system and security expertise being more important than the model itself.

The End of Eleventy

135 ValentineC 2026-04-12 02:16:23 UTC brennan.day Llama Share 78

The Font Awesome team has launched a Kickstarter for Build Awesome, a rebranded version of the static site generator 11ty, which has already reached its funding goal, but many 11ty developers are concerned about the project's direction and potential impact on the open-source community. The rebranding effort has been met with skepticism, with some developers questioning the need for a paid ...

US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional

85 Jimmc414 2026-04-12 05:16:23 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 45

A US appeals court ruled a 158-year-old ban on home distilling unconstitutional, citing it as an improper tax measure. The decision allows individuals to distill spirits at home for personal use or as a hobby.

Tofolli gates are all you need

19 ibobev 2026-04-12 04:16:23 UTC johndcook.com Llama Share 0

Landauer's principle sets a lower bound on erasing one bit of information, but reversible circuits can still provide practical efficiency gains. Reversible circuits like the Toffoli gate can be used to compute any Boolean function, including NAND, but may require more input and output.

How We Broke Top AI Agent Benchmarks: And What Comes Next

344 Anon84 2026-04-11 19:16:23 UTC rdi.berkeley.edu Llama Share 88

An automated scanning agent discovered vulnerabilities in eight prominent AI benchmarks, allowing near-perfect scores without solving tasks. The Agent-Eval Checklist provides a minimum bar for robust evaluation, including isolating agents from evaluators and preventing tampering with evaluation data.

How Complex is my Code?

95 speckx 2026-04-11 23:16:23 UTC philodev.one Llama Share 18

Measuring code complexity for humans is challenging as it involves understanding the mental effort required to comprehend the code, which can be influenced by factors such as familiarity with patterns, working memory load, and coherence. Various metrics like Cyclomatic Complexity, Halstead Complexity, and linguistic complexity measures can provide insights, but ultimately, the cognitive ...

Dark Castle

172 evo_9 2026-04-11 20:16:23 UTC darkcastle.co.uk Llama Share 22

Return To Dark Castle is a 2008 Macintosh platform game with 63 levels, including 50 new ones. The game follows Bryant as he fights to defeat the Black Knight and rescue Duncan, the original hero.

447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane

195 iliatoli 2026-04-11 20:16:23 UTC zenodo.org Full Share 99

Access to this resource has been blocked due to unusual traffic from your network. If you believe this is a mistake, please contact support@zenodo.org with the reference information below.

Simplest Hash Functions

27 ibobev 2026-04-12 03:16:23 UTC purplesyringa.moe Llama Share 18

The text discusses non-cryptographic hash functions, specifically the "rapidhash" function, which is simple and fast but prone to collisions. It also explores other hash functions like "foldhash" and "foldmul" that use multiplication to distribute entropy.

Pijul a FOSS distributed version control system

127 kouosi 2026-04-11 20:16:23 UTC pijul.org Llama Share 22

Pijul is a free, open-source version control system based on a theory of patches, offering simplicity and scalability. It preserves order and guarantees strong merge properties, modeling conflicts as standard cases.

Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)

186 krackers 2026-04-11 21:16:23 UTC khronokernel.com Llama Share 128

You worked as a Mac Admin Intern and researched Apple Silicon Virtual Machines limitations. You found the limitation is implemented in the closed-source XNU kernel, not userspace, and can be overridden by setting hv_apple_isa_vm_quota in the kernel.

How a dancer with ALS used brainwaves to perform live

31 1659447091 2026-04-12 02:16:23 UTC electronicspecifier.com Llama Share 2

Dentsu Lab's Project Humanity translates muscle signals and brainwaves into digital expression for people with physical disabilities. Their technology allows users to interact with software and access virtual spaces like the Metaverse.

Building a Z-Machine in the worst possible language – Whitebeard's Realm

21 techbelly 2026-04-12 03:16:23 UTC whitebeard.blog Llama Share 1

The user implemented a Z-machine emulator in Elm, a pure language, to run Infocom text adventure games. The emulator uses Elm's persistent data structures to achieve performance and is now available as a library for building interactive fiction players.

Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of 1980s-era Mac OS

231 zdw 2026-04-11 16:16:23 UTC v68k.org Llama Share 60

Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of 1980s-era Mac OS that runs 68K Mac applications in an emulator. It launches directly into an application without a startup phase on POSIX-like systems.

Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI

258 seekdeep 2026-04-11 13:16:23 UTC cirruslabs.org Llama Share 125

Cirrus Labs joined OpenAI to build tooling for agentic engineers, extending its mission of making engineers more effective. Cirrus Labs will relicense its tools under a permissive license and stop charging licensing fees.

Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons

419 vidluther 2026-04-11 07:16:23 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 231

User created pardonned.com to verify claims and easily access pardons data, using Playwright, SQLite, and Astro. They plan to extend the site with analysis and comparison tools to break down pardon composition by President and visualize changes in pardon numbers.

Surelock: Deadlock-Free Mutexes for Rust

201 codetheweb 2026-04-11 15:16:23 UTC notes.brooklynzelenka.com Llama Share 66

The user created a library called surelock to prevent deadlocks in Rust by using a linear scope token called MutexKey that threads through every acquisition and provides a compile-time witness of the current lock state. The library uses a physical-world analogy where the MutexKey is like a key that is consumed and re-emitted at each lock acquisition, and it also supports incremental ...

How to build a `Git diff` driver

105 zdw 2026-04-11 18:16:23 UTC jvt.me Llama Share 12

User plans to blog about creating external commands for git diff, specifically for OpenAPI specs with oasdiff. They will expose more information in output and handle 7 git diff arguments, including /dev/null for created/deleted files.

Why meaningful days look like nothing while you are living them

25 momentmaker 2026-04-12 03:16:23 UTC pilgrima.ge Llama Share 10

A foreigner in Fukuoka took a train to a small town, walked between bronze statues of cartoon pirates, and completed a circuit in his nervous system. This was a pilgrimage, a structure of departure, intention, stations, witness, and return, that unfolded slowly over time.

Software Preservation Group: C++ History Collection

18 quuxplusone 2026-04-12 02:16:23 UTC softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org Llama Share 2

Bjarne Stroustrup developed C++ from 1979 to 1991, adding features like classes, templates, and exceptions. He released Cfront, the first C++ compiler, in 1985, and continued to improve the language through various releases and documentation.

Who was "Not Even Wrong" first? [2023]

5 bookofjoe 2026-04-12 05:16:23 UTC math.columbia.edu Prefix Share 2

I recently heard from John Minkowski, whose father Jan Minkowksi was a student of Pauli’s in the late 1940s. He asked if I knew what the specific context of Pauli’s “Not Even Wrong” comment was, and I told him I didn’t. I referred to this early blog post, which explains that Karl von Meyenn (editor of Pauli’s correspondence) had pointed me to a biographical memoir about Pauli by Rudolf ...

The Soul of an Old Machine

49 mskalski 2026-04-11 23:16:23 UTC skalski.dev Llama Share 10

The author has a strong attachment to hardware, often choosing unique devices with characteristics not found in others. They've kept many devices running for years, sometimes with community support, and find it rewarding.

High-Level Rust: Getting 80% of the Benefits with 20% of the Pain

20 maxloh 2026-04-12 00:16:23 UTC hamy.xyz Llama Share 8

The user is searching for a perfect programming language and has considered F#, TypeScript, and C# but feels they are settling. They've researched Rust and found it's a strong contender except for its development experience.

What is a property?

69 alpaylan 2026-04-11 20:16:23 UTC alperenkeles.com Llama Share 19

Property-Based Testing involves combining properties and generators to find bugs, but the traditional model of independent generators and properties is often inadequate due to complex system interactions. A better approach is to use dependent generators that can run computations related to the property, allowing for more accurate and efficient testing.

Optimal Strategy for Connect 4

286 marvinborner 2026-04-11 08:16:23 UTC 2swap.github.io Llama Share 31

A weak solution to Connect 4 was developed using a language that describes perfect play for a small subset of nodes and a small opening tree. This solution uses no search during runtime and fits in about 150 kilobytes.

Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D

316 coolwulf 2026-04-11 17:16:23 UTC flight-viz.com Full Share 58

The APL programming language source code (2012)

65 tosh 2026-04-11 18:16:23 UTC computerhistory.org Llama Share 21

Kenneth E Iverson invented APL in 1957 as a mathematical notation, which was later developed into a computer programming language with a unique syntax and array processing capabilities. APL became popular in the 1960s and 1970s for its interactive timesharing capabilities and was used in various applications including scientific, actuarial, statistical, and financial fields.

Keeping a Postgres Queue Healthy

93 tanelpoder 2026-04-11 17:16:23 UTC planetscale.com Llama Share 25

A Postgres database can handle job queues, but maintaining a healthy queue table depends on the behavior of other transactions running on the same instance. The health of the queue table is affected by competing query traffic on the primary, which can prevent autovacuum from cleaning up dead tuples.

New synthesis of astronomical measurements shows Hubble tension is real

57 anigbrowl 2026-04-11 19:16:23 UTC noirlab.edu Llama Share 13

Astronomers have made the most precise measurement yet of the Universe's expansion rate, confirming a persistent mismatch that could point to new physics. The result, 73.50 kilometers per second per megaparsec, is higher than predicted by the standard model of cosmology.

The Problem That Built an Industry

121 ShaggyHotDog 2026-04-11 14:16:23 UTC ajitem.com Llama Share 44

The 60-year-old infrastructure that handles 4.5 billion flights annually uses Transaction Processing Facility (TPF), an IBM mainframe operating system designed for high-volume transactions. This system, despite being outdated, still outperforms modern alternatives in terms of throughput and latency, making it a testament to the importance of choosing the right tool for the job.