Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau

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The US Department of Commerce banned noise infusion from statistical products, targeting differential privacy, which adds noise to protect data privacy. This move may lead to less accurate or more vulnerable data, impacting researchers and demographic studies.

GLM 5.2 Is Out

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GLM-5.2, an open-source AI model, is now available to all users. It supports long-horizon tasks and is a step towards making frontier intelligence accessible to everyone.

Every Frame Perfect

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UI should be polished and consistent, with every frame mattering to build trust with users. A well-designed UI should look good in all states, not just start and end.

Pyodide 314.0: Python packages can now publish WebAssembly wheels to PyPI

Pyodide now supports PEP 783, allowing Python packages to be published directly to PyPI and installed at runtime, reducing the burden on maintainers and enabling faster startup times. This release also includes several breaking changes, such as a new versioning scheme, removal of certain libraries, and updates to the ssl and hashlib modules.

Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer's master switch

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Thousands of oncologists gave a standing ovation at a Chicago conference for daraxonrasib, a drug that almost doubles pancreatic cancer survival times. This breakthrough could impact Amazon and NASA's plans.

Running DOS on Behringers DDX3216 with a DIY x86-Bios from Scratch

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The ddx3216 uses a 64k x 8bit rom-chip. the reset-vector has to be placed at 0xffff0 to make it compatible with the new cpu-cpecifications. so i searched for better solutions and found the picorom and onerom projects - and how to use them!... and if you have any questions, feel free to contact me :

GameBoy Workboy

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Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models

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Resurrecting a Soaked, corroded, and damaged Commodore SX‑64 (2025)

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The user bought a damaged SX-64 at a 2025 VCFSW show, which had water damage and rust, requiring extensive repairs. After careful restoration, the machine was revived, and the user plans to pass it on to someone who will appreciate its history and continue its journey.

Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases

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Codex for open source

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Codex supports open-source maintainers with tools for real workflows, reducing coding and review load. Selected maintainers receive API credits and ChatGPT Pro for six months.

The adder at the heart of Intel's 8087 floating-point chip

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The Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor uses a 69-bit adder to perform arithmetic operations, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and square root. The adder is divided into blocks of four bits, each using a Manchester carry chain and a carry-skip circuit to optimize performance.

Appreciating Exif

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Exif is a metadata format that stores image information like orientation, timestamp, and camera settings, and it's usually found in JPEG files near the beginning in an APP1 marker segment. Exif is optional and can be stripped, but it's often used by photo apps, websites, and asset-management systems to sort, search, and display images.

A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones

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Researchers at UC San Diego are building a 2,000-phone computing cluster to reduce carbon emissions from computing. The cluster will provide low-cost, low-carbon cloud computing for researchers and students, reducing the need for newly-manufactured hardware.

Show HN: I built 80 mini-games using Fable before it was shut down

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This is a limited beta — so everything is free for you. Every premium pack, mode and subscription tier is already unlocked, no payment and no account needed. I build this on my own, so honest feedback really helps — if you have a minute, I'd appreciate a note in the Hacker News thread where you found me. Have fun!

C47/R47 Calculators

The C47 project is a maintained calculator emulator running on SwissMicros DM42 hardware with a custom bezel. It has extensive documentation and a community-driven wiki, with open-source code on GitLab.

RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8

User upgraded from RTX 5080 to a refurbished RTX 3090 for AI experiments. They successfully set up both cards on an Asus Prime X570-Pro motherboard, achieving 80+ tokens/sec with Qwen 3.6 model quantized at q8.

Derbyshire Police officer accused of using AI to 'create evidence'

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A Derbyshire Police officer is under investigation for allegedly using AI to create evidence in multiple cases, accused of perverting justice. The officer has been removed from frontline duties pending the outcome.

AI coding at home without going broke

Three ways to do AI coding at home without company spending are self-hosting, renting open source models, and blending frontier subscriptions with API rates. The best approach is a mix of expensive models for planning and cheap ones for filling in details.

The experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt

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A frontend ticket was incorrectly assigned to the user, who had to explain to the design team that the issue with Arabic text rendering was due to the lack of shaping engines in the web, not a bug in the stylesheet. The user then went on to explain the history of Arabic typography, the importance of shaping engines, and the challenges of rendering Arabic text on the web, including the use of ...

Orthodox C++ (2016)

Orthodox C++ is a minimal subset of C++ that avoids unnecessary modern features for simplicity and portability. It uses C-like code and avoids complex features like exceptions, STL, and metaprogramming for easier understanding and maintenance.

AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed

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TensorZero is a unified API gateway for LLM providers, offering performance, incremental adoption, and compatibility with major providers. It enables companies to optimize complex LLM applications with production metrics and human feedback.

Rust-like compiler pipeline to resolve Matlab language semantics

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If you have only seen MATLAB from the outside, it is easy to think of it as a matrix-oriented scripting language: arrays, plots, numerical routines, and a prompt where engineers try things quickly. That is all true, and it is also why MATLAB is still relevant: it is one of the languages engineers and scientists are taught to think in when they learn applied math, simulation, controls, signal ...

The state of building user interfaces in Rust

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Several Rust GUI frameworks exist, including Azul, CXX-Qt, Leptos, and Ribir, offering various features and performance. These frameworks aim to provide fast, cross-platform, and native GUI development for desktop, web, and mobile applications.

The MilkV Jupiter 2/SpacemiT K3 (RISC-V vector compute)

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The Radxa MilkV Jupiter 2 is a RISC-V SBC with 16 cores, 32GB RAM, and a PowerVR GPU, offering a smooth first boot experience and decent performance for general-purpose tasks. However, its AI capabilities are limited by memory bandwidth and can only handle small models, but it's still a promising platform for RISC-V development.

Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes

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Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI collaboration

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Paca is a self-hosted project management platform that enables AI agents and humans to collaborate as equal teammates in a Scrum team. It offers a configurable and extendable workflow, data model, and UI via plugins.

What Happens to an Economy When It's Too Hot to Work?

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Show HN: I am building a map of people who lived in the Roman Empire

The map visualizes EDCS inscriptions with extracted personal names, allowing zooming and filtering by name, province, or date. Name extraction is 80-85% accurate, with errors that can be reported using the Flag this entry button.

Human Routers of Machine Words

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When I open a link, say on Hacker News, and I see a blog post or a GitHub README obviously written by AI, I feel a few things. I feel offended, because it’s like I’ve been tricked, like the author thinks I’m a rube who won’t notice or mind. I feel sad at how common this experience is, how many people are happy to dump their sewage on the commons and sign their name on it. And I feel contempt ...