Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

200 miniBill 2026-07-18 11:27:02 UTC velvetshark.com Llama Share 60

A FastCompany article noticed a trend in AI company logos resembling swirling hexagons or circular shapes with central openings, often compared to anatomical features. This conformity in design may be due to risk aversion and the pressure to look legitimate, stifling innovation and visual creativity in the tech industry.

Regressive JPEGs

438 vitaut 2026-07-18 03:27:02 UTC maurycyz.com OpenAI Share 45

The post explains how JPEG progressive scans can be used to progressively display low‑frequency data, and how the author exploits this by concatenating multiple scans (mostly DC‑only) to create a pseudo‑animation that works in browsers up to about 90 frames. Although this trick bypasses the usual 9‑scan limit and avoids ghosting, it has no real practical use because timing must rely on ...

LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent

180 baranul 2026-07-18 10:27:02 UTC videocardz.com Llama Share 96

LG monitors may automatically install software promoting McAfee subscriptions without user consent. Users can block this behavior by enabling a Windows Group Policy setting to prevent automatic downloads of device-associated applications.

The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal

34 Kudos 2026-07-18 09:27:02 UTC negroniventurestudios.com Llama Share 4

The Rekursiv, a custom silicon chip designed in the 1980s, was right about many things, including memory safety, garbage collection, and persistence, but was ahead of its time and failed due to economics. Now, with the commodity curve dead and new technologies emerging, the Rekursiv's ideas are being rediscovered and implemented in modern silicon, making it a relevant case study for ...

AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion

1219 nprateem 2026-07-17 13:27:02 UTC news.ycombinator.com Qwen Share 716

AWS users reported massive unexpected billing estimates (up to $595B) due to a billing console bug, causing panic and infrastructure shutdowns. The incident highlights urgent need for AWS to improve error communication and billing accuracy.

Qubes OS Security in the Public Record

27 sciences44 2026-07-18 09:27:02 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 3

Researchers analyzed 109 Qubes Security Bulletins from 2011-2025 and found persistent upstream dependence in Qubes security issues. The study shows a stable but not quiet Qubes public advisory record, with most issues attributed to upstream components like Xen and CPU architecture.

Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work

656 nicholasjbs 2026-07-17 20:27:02 UTC news.ycombinator.com Qwen Share 76

Celebrating 15 years, Recurse Center began as a YC 2010 startup, pivoting from failed ventures to a self-directed programming retreat, driven by Hacker News (HN) for growth. Though not a billion-dollar venture, it's impacted over 3,000 programmers, with HN as a key applicant source and catalyst for the founder's work—thanking HN!

Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal help?

8 couAUIA 2026-07-18 11:27:02 UTC charlesazam.com Prefix Share 3

Blog TL;DR: I gave Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol the same unpublished NP-hard optimization problem, with and without their native /goal mode. Fable 5 is an absolute beast; /goal is not a game changer. Context: This is an operations research problem originally submitted to students at a hackathon. I spent a week years ago writing C++ to solve it, so I have a useful human baseline. Fable 5 was ...

Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux

138 parksb 2026-07-18 03:27:02 UTC parksb.github.io OpenAI Share 89

I revived an ASUS Eee PC 1000HE, noting its weak Atom N280 CPU and 1 GB DDR2 RAM, and installed Arch Linux 32 to run a lightweight LXQt desktop, detailing partitioning, networking, and swap setup. After upgrading RAM to 2 GB, I still faced performance limits due to the aging HDD and CPU, but the machine now serves as a modest server or media device.

What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph

62 secretslol 2026-07-18 11:27:02 UTC data.stackexchange.com Full Share 67

First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star

472 neversaydie 2026-07-17 14:27:02 UTC bbc.com Qwen Share 279

Researchers discovered the first atmosphere on an Earth-like rocky planet, LHS 1140b, in a star's habitable zone, detecting helium but noting other gases might exist, marking progress in the search for extraterrestrial life. While not confirming life, this finding, alongside studies of planets like K2-18b and TRAPPIST-1, highlights ongoing efforts to identify habitable worlds beyond our solar system.

Waldi: A quiet place to write, and to be read

22 waaldev 2026-07-18 08:27:02 UTC github.com/waaldev Llama Share 10

Waldi is a multi-tenant blogging platform that guarantees readers for new writers and prioritizes private, unhurried writing. It's built on Go and Postgres, with a single editor and server-rendered pages.

In-toto: A framework to secure the integrity of software supply chains

47 Erenay09 2026-07-18 05:27:02 UTC in-toto.io Full Share 5

in-toto is designed to ensure the integrity of a software product from initiation to end-user installation. It does so by making it transparent to the user what steps were performed, by whom and in what order. An open metadata standard that you can implement in your software’s supply chain.

The Zilog Z80 has turned 50

242 st_goliath 2026-07-17 20:27:02 UTC goliath32.com Qwen Share 95

The Zilog Z80, launched 50 years ago in 1976, became a foundational 8-bit processor for early computers and embedded systems, influencing CP/M and spawning clones like the GameBoy’s LR35902, while its industrial use persisted until 2024. The author’s DIY Z80 projects and exploration of its evolution from the 8080 highlight its technical legacy, from simplified interfacing to advanced features ...

Show HN: IKEA Complexity Index

80 gregsadetsky 2026-07-18 04:27:02 UTC ikea.greg.technology Full Share 41

single-pdf products only

TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years

152 BadChemical 2026-07-17 22:27:02 UTC github.com/badchemical Llama Share 52

TP-Link Kasa Spot EC71 indoor cameras have multiple vulnerabilities, including fleet-wide RSA key exposure, unsalted MD5 credential storage, and unauthenticated GPS exposure.

Learning a few things about running SQLite

272 surprisetalk 2026-07-17 18:27:02 UTC jvns.ca Qwen Share 73

Using SQLite with Django revealed performance issues resolved by `ANALYZE`, but concurrency challenges during deletions caused crashes, prompting consideration of Postgres for scalability. Despite backup efforts and small-scale success, SQLite's limitations highlight the need for better database management as projects grow.

Responsive Design Calculator

3 ingve 2026-07-18 11:27:02 UTC redblobgames.com Prefix Share 0

A few weeks ago I got distracted when I discovered — to my horror — that occasionally the font size on my site was 1.24924375rem instead of the desired 1.25rem. Of course nobody would notice this. But I was annoyed with myself and wanted to figure out why. My site is very old. When I started my site, people used desktop computers, mostly with 640✕480 or 800✕600 monitors. I designed my content ...

Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark

359 droidjj 2026-07-17 14:27:02 UTC simonwillison.net Qwen Share 189

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter model, claims top performance in benchmarks, open weights by July 2026, and high pricing ($3/$15 per million tokens), outperforming peers in code tasks but costing 25 cents for a complex SVG generation test.

I started a “dirt notebook”

78 herbertl 2026-07-18 01:27:02 UTC pinewind.bearblog.dev Llama Share 69

User has a habit of over-organizing notebooks, making it hard to take new notes. To break this cycle, they started a "dirt notebook" with poor paper quality and cheap pens to write down random thoughts without structure.

Porting nanochat to a TPU: what carries over from PyTorch, and what breaks

47 tucan9389 2026-07-18 06:27:02 UTC github.com/tucan9389 Full Share 9

Karpathy's nanochat normally runs on an 8×H100 GPU node, and several ports of it to JAX already exist. Among them, my aim was to keep the config and architecture as close to nanochat as possibl...

Steam Machine: Between 12k and 15k Units Sold per week

14 ekianjo 2026-07-18 11:27:02 UTC boilingsteam.com Llama Share 2

Valve's Steam Machine is selling around 12k to 15k units per week, with estimated 12-month sales of 600k to 750k units. This suggests a niche device with demand likely to slow down naturally after the initial launch period.

Revisiting Yliluoma's ordered dither algorithm

12 ibobev 2026-07-18 08:27:02 UTC 30fps.net Llama Share 1

The article discusses various ordered dithering algorithms, including Joel Yliluoma's 2011 algorithm, and presents new simplified variants, comparing their results to a state-of-the-art algorithm. The article also introduces the "EMA" color selection algorithms, which are faster and comparable in quality to the original Yliluoma-2 algorithm and Thomas Knoll's algorithm.

Stenchill: 3D Printable Solder Paste Stencil Generator

60 radeeyate 2026-07-18 01:27:02 UTC stenchill.com Llama Share 18

Barbatronic is a French robotics creator who shares hardware tutorials on YouTube and Twitch, and has a community of makers and hackers. He integrates Stenchill, a stencil for precise solder paste deposits, into his fabrication workflow.

Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search (2024)

148 lalitmaganti 2026-07-17 20:27:02 UTC curiouscoding.nl Llama Share 9

The post discusses implementing a static search tree (S+ tree) for high-throughput searching of sorted data, optimizing it to its limits, and adding batching to improve throughput. The S+ tree is a data structure that supports queries returning the smallest element of vals that is at least q, or u32::MAX if no such element exists, and is optimized for throughput, with the goal of making ...

Vāgdhenu: A Sanskrit Chanting TTS System

190 subinalex 2026-07-17 23:27:02 UTC prathosh.in Llama Share 47

The app provides free access to the complete Śrīmad Bhāgavatam with synced audio and karaoke highlighting in 10 Indian scripts. It also includes a Sanskrit chant tutor that scores and corrects user recitations using a trained model.

Battery packs: Let's talk about crates, baby

32 MeetingsBrowser 2026-07-18 04:27:02 UTC smallcultfollowing.com Llama Share 17

Battery packs are curated sets of crates that help new Rust adopters find high-quality dependencies without spending time researching alternatives. Anyone can create a battery pack, which can be published as a crate and used to recommend libraries and templates for specific use cases.

DrDroid (YC W23) Is Hiring

0 2026-07-18 01:27:02 UTC ycombinator.com OpenAI Share

DrDroid in Bengaluru builds AI agents to automate triage, debugging, and remediation for platform teams. Backed by Accel and Y-Combinator W23, they seek devs passionate about tools that improve engineering workflows.

An Update on Igalia's Layer Based SVG Engine in WebKit (Reducing Layer Overhead)

55 bkardell 2026-07-18 01:27:02 UTC blogs.igalia.com Llama Share 4

The Layer Based SVG Engine (LBSE) has made significant progress in recent years, with its integration into WebKit and the addition of various features such as clipping, masking, and filters. However, the engine still requires further development to meet its performance goals, and a recent change to conditional layer creation has introduced a new compositing problem that needs to be addressed.

Painting the sides of railroad rails white to reduce derailment

115 zdw 2026-07-17 20:27:02 UTC up.com OpenAI Share 67

Union Pacific is painting rails white to reflect sunlight, cutting rail temperatures by about 20°F and reducing heat‑related derailments. The move, first in the U.S. and proven in Europe, is part of a safety strategy that lowered derailment rates 19% in 2025.