Kimi K3 is now live

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Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

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Microsoft has open-sourced Comic Chat, a 1990s IRC chat client that transformed text into comic panels with characters and expressions, popularizing Comic Sans. The project, now modernized for today’s systems, offers a nostalgic glimpse into early internet innovation and invites community exploration of its experimental visual communication design.

Decoy Font

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Decoy Font is a TTF font using spatial frequencies to hide messages from AI by overlaying two layers visible at different distances, making text readable to humans but confusing to OCR and AI models. It serves as a deterrent against automated text scraping, though advanced models may still decode it.

NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

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Google renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, adding cloud-based code execution for research, available to select users. Expanding integration with Gemini app and Search, with full rollout to Pro users soon.

OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe

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OnePlus ends new product rollouts in Europe/North America but maintains device support via OPPO, including updates and repairs. Users may opt to upgrade to ColorOS 17 or retain current systems with rollback options.

Immersive Linear Algebra Book with Interactive Figures (2015)

How to navigate, notation, and a recap of some math that we think you already know. The concept of a vector is introduced, and we learn how to add and subtract vectors, and more. In three-dimensional spaces you can produce a vector from two other vectors using this tool.

Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning

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The author developed an AI-generated text detector using traditional ML models (LinearSVC, Naive Bayes) with ~85% accuracy, leveraging human and LLM-generated text datasets, revealing strong statistical patterns in AI content. Despite limitations, the tool highlights widespread undetected AI use in online platforms like Lofter, raising concerns about authenticity and disclosure.

The lost joy of music piracy

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What.CD, a private music tracker with invite-only tiers and strict rules to avoid legal risks, fostered a dedicated community but shut down in 2016 after a Salinger manuscript leak and server seizure, leaving users in mourning.

How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going

The Roc compiler team completed a 1.5-year rewrite from Rust to Zig, achieving feature parity and enhancing performance with faster builds, memory efficiency, and zero-heap allocation features like hot code loading. While Zig's ReleaseFast improved memory safety and speed, Rust's ecosystem and incremental build improvements were noted, but Zig's flexibility and control better suited Roc's ...

Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode

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How to Train a Gen AI Kick Drum Model on Your Old Linux Desktop with 6GB VRAM

The author created KickWithReverb, a DAW using a diffusion model trained on 13,000 kicks on a 7-year-old GPU, enabling keyword-driven techno kick generation. The system combines a VAE, latent diffusion, and HiFi-GAN for audio synthesis, deployed serverlessly with Modal for on-demand generation.

Optimizing Lua string literals to save 400 bytes

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Yuki discusses Lua code compression techniques for ComputerCraft, addressing disk space limits via self-decompressing archives. Challenges include handling raw strings and escaping characters to preserve data integrity while minimizing size.

Adaptional (YC S25) Is Hiring

Jobs at Adaptional

Show HN: Leaves – A text-UI disk usage treemap visualizer

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Leaves visualizes files/directories as nested rectangles with area proportional to size, enabling remote shell use without graphical tools. It offers customizable themes, ignores hidden/.ignore files by default, and summarizes large hierarchies for performance.

Guide to data tools landscape for developers

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The article guides software engineers into data fields by explaining the data lifecycle, tools (ETL, warehouses, lakes), and roles (analysts, engineers). It covers ETL/ELT processes, storage formats (Parquet, Arrow), and tools like dbt, SQLMesh, Python libraries, and SQL for data transformation.

Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them

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Sony's PlayStation Store repeatedly removes purchased content due to licensing changes, leaving users without refunds, highlighting a systemic issue where consumers are misled into thinking they own digital purchases rather than temporary licenses. Despite public frustration and legal loopholes, companies exploit vague terms and conditions to avoid accountability, demanding clearer ...

Schema Harness Achieves ~99% on Arc‑AGI‑3 Public

ARC-AGI-3 challenges agents to learn game mechanics without explicit rules, requiring hypothesis-driven exploration. Schema, using program-based state modeling and joint mechanism discovery, boosts performance to 98.98% on Public sets with Claude Opus and Fable, surpassing prior frontier models.

Launch HN: Traceforce (YC S26) – Company-wide security monitoring for AI apps

Traceforce offers real-time visibility and control over AI apps (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude) and their connections to data sources, using open-source tools to detect vulnerabilities and prevent breaches. It secures SMEs' workflows by monitoring AI activity locally, alerting risks, and enabling safe adoption without slowing productivity.

Ente – Opening Our Books

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The data includes USD revenue ($780,996 monthly, $1.18M annual), paying customers (12,018 monthly, 18,455 annual), and registered accounts (290,703 monthly, 439,046 annual) for January 2026.

Let's Build PlanetScale from Scratch: Infrastructure

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Homescale uses Ceph RBD snapshots and Kubernetes to create writable database clones and branches without full data copies, leveraging copy-on-write for efficient storage. It abstracts storage from compute, enabling scalable, database-agnostic workflows with Postgres as the initial engine.

German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks

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Soofi S, a German-focused open MoE model trained on 27 trillion tokens, outperforms peers in German/English benchmarks using a hybrid architecture and efficient compute, developed by a European consortium prioritizing sovereignty and open-source principles. Critics debate its "overtraining," but the team argues MoE scaling laws differ from traditional models, enabling high performance with ...

Human Canaries: Remembering the Munitionettes

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Cottage Computer Programming (1984)

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Paul Lutus, the "Oregon Hermit," left NASA to live in a remote cabin, where he developed Apple Writer, a groundbreaking word processor, and championed individual creativity in programming over teamwork. His self-sufficient "electronic cottage" lifestyle and the program's resilience during a lightning strike exemplify his belief in solitary innovation's power.

Agent-talk: Enabling coding agents to work together

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Agent-talk is a plugin enabling coding agents to securely exchange messages via end-to-end encryption, supporting platforms like Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Antigravity. It facilitates autonomous coordination through auto-receive on some agents and pull-based receiving on others, using a relay network for cross-machine communication.

56,000 lines of DOOM, in a language I made up

bet is a real programming language with slang keywords and a serious LLVM-based compiler, featuring arena memory management and running DOOM, built as a self-contained experiment in AI-assisted development. The author completed it without research, acknowledging Geoffrey Huntley's prior similar work, proving the language's capability through a fully functional DOOM port.

GC shape stenciling in Go generics

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Go implements generics via GC shape stenciling, grouping types by memory layout (size, alignment, pointers) to share compiled code, reducing bloat compared to full monomorphization. It uses hidden dictionaries to retain type-specific runtime info for operations needing exact types, balancing efficiency and flexibility.

AttoChess, a complete, playable chess program for 16-bit x86 DOS in 278 bytes

01 · Display The original renders the position into a separate buffer: it walks the board, transforms each square into a printable character, stores it, appends a $ terminator, and prints the whole string with DOS function 09h (int 21h). That path costs a buffer pointer setup, the copy loop's store, the terminator write, and, because the buffer lives after the board, a reserved board ...

1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored

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The Victorian-era *Naturalist’s Library* democratized access to natural history through illustrated books, now digitally restored by Nicholas Rougeux using AI, offering free online and affordable print/poster versions to inspire future naturalists.

CD Sales Growth Outpaced Vinyl in the First Half of 2026

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CD sales surged 16% in 2026, outpacing vinyl, driven by K-pop and Gen Z's nostalgia for older music. Physical formats, including cassettes, rose 7.8%, with retailers like Target/Walmart capitalizing on collectible editions and fan demand.

Show HN: A modern port of Linux to a ten-year-old QWERTY phone

I ported modern Linux to a ten-year-old HTC QWERTY phone as a handheld terminal. > The history and context are included in the git history and you can see the progression, different approaches, and other details. The fact this phone is 15 years old and has seen minimal obvious replacements is such a shame. I love this work!