Flipper One – we need your help

682 sandebert 2026-05-21 11:45:27 UTC blog.flipper.net Llama Share 315

Flipper One is a massive open-source project that aims to create a truly open Linux hardware platform with full mainline Linux kernel support, expandable hardware, and a custom GUI framework. The project is seeking community help to overcome technical and financial challenges, and contributors can participate in various sub-projects, including hardware, software, and user interface development.

Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)

76 asenna 2026-05-21 14:45:27 UTC blog.simbastack.com Llama Share 25

The author is a hacker who splits his year between the Maasai Mara and Silicon Valley, struggling to edit his massive video archive. He built a custom indexer using Claude Code and DaVinci Resolve to make his archive queryable in English.

Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines

204 rbanffy 2026-05-21 11:45:27 UTC blog.changs.co.uk Llama Share 88

Python 3.15.0b1 introduces features like lazy imports, tachyon profiler, and improved asyncio with TaskGroup cancellation. New features also include ContextDecorator improvements, threading utilities, and enhancements to collections.Counter and json.load/json.loads.

Michael Keating has died

45 speckx 2026-05-21 14:45:27 UTC bigfinish.com Llama Share 25

Michael Keating, a renowned British actor, died at 79, best known for his role as Vila Restal in Blake's 7. He had a long and varied career in theatre and television, reprising his iconic role in Big Finish audio productions.

We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot

449 sofumel 2026-05-21 10:45:27 UTC blog.google Llama Share 377

Google is testing new ad formats with Gemini models to provide helpful answers and connect people with businesses. The formats include Conversational Discovery ads, Highlighted Answers, AI-powered Shopping ads, and Business Agent for Leads, designed to make decision-making easier and more confident.

Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored

139 pseudolus 2026-05-21 11:45:27 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 49

On July 16, 1945, the world entered the nuclear age with the Trinity test, a massive explosion above a New Mexico desert. The test captured on film and witnessed by scientists and soldiers was an awe-inspiring, blindingly bright event.

Launch HN: Runtime (YC P26) – Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on a team

10 gustrigos 2026-05-21 16:09:27 UTC runtm.com Llama Share 0

Runtime is a platform that connects environments, automates tasks, and provides live visibility into every session, allowing teams to build, deploy, and manage coding agents from a single dashboard. It offers customizable sandboxes, integrations, and guardrails, and can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud, with policies and audit logs following the team across both.

Mounting Git commits as folders with NFS

29 pvtmert 2026-05-21 14:45:27 UTC jvns.ca Llama Share 13

The user created a project called git-commit-folders that allows users to explore their Git repository as a filesystem where every commit is a folder, aiming to give users intuition on how Git works under the hood. The project uses FUSE, NFS, and WebDav to mount the filesystem, but the user encountered several issues, including duplicated code, NFS stale file handle errors, and performance ...

Who Wins and Who Loses in Prediction Markets? Evidence from Polymarket

80 vcf 2026-05-21 13:45:27 UTC papers.ssrn.com Full Share 52

FatGid: FreeBSD 14.x kernel local privilege escalation

52 WhyNotHugo 2026-05-21 12:45:27 UTC fatgid.io Llama Share 13

The kernel has a buffer overflow vulnerability in kern_setcred_copyin_supp_groups due to incorrect sizeof(*groups) calculation. This allows an attacker to corrupt the r12 register and indirectly control the td_proc pointer.

Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch

267 ssiddharth 2026-05-21 14:45:27 UTC 0xsid.com Llama Share 143

Google's new Antigravity update unexpectedly replaced the user's preferred IDE with a conversational prompt box, breaking their workflow. The user had to completely purge their system and reinstall the legacy IDE to restore functionality, losing their chat history and settings in the process.

Vivaldi 8.0

221 OuterVale 2026-05-21 07:45:27 UTC vivaldi.com Llama Share 154

Vivaldi 8.0 offers a unified design with more control, capability, and choice, featuring a new look and improved interface. The browser includes six preset layouts and a wide range of customizable settings to adapt to individual preferences.

Show HN: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking

73 bojta-lepenye 2026-05-21 14:45:27 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 4

Bojta Lepenye thanks Hashcat developers and shares his 4-year experience in password cracking, documenting it in his book available on Amazon.

Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK

138 shideneyu 2026-05-21 09:45:27 UTC github.com/helvesec Llama Share 66

RMUX is a Rust multiplexer for the agentic era, offering detachable, scriptable, and inspectable sessions with a tmux-compatible CLI and native Ratatui integration. It's a fresh public preview with 90 tmux-compatible commands implemented, but bugs are expected.

Cekura (YC F24) Is Hiring

0 2026-05-21 12:45:27 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Cekura is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to work with technical customers, helping them use the platform to improve AI agents. The role involves embedding with customers, automating product insights, and driving product direction.

AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale

557 speckx 2026-05-21 13:45:27 UTC axelk.ee Llama Share 415

AI companies profit from learned results without compensating original authors. Lazy website authors copy tutorials from the internet and pass them off as their own, often ranking higher in Google search results.

We Reverse-Engineered Docker Sandbox's Undocumented MicroVM API

19 yakkomajuri 2026-05-21 15:45:27 UTC rivet.dev Llama Share 1

Docker has introduced Docker Sandboxes using microVMs for secure isolation of untrusted code. Docker's microVM API allows for secure execution of workloads like AI coding agents and user-submitted scripts.

Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can

126 speckx 2026-05-21 14:45:27 UTC osnews.com Llama Share 83

Bitwarden users should consider migrating their passwords due to the company's new CEO and changes in values and pricing. Using an open format like KeePass can ensure password ownership and independence from proprietary services.

A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide

116 cdrnsf 2026-05-21 13:45:27 UTC wired.com Llama Share 26

US lawmakers plan to introduce an amendment to ban automated license plate readers for non-tolling purposes, affecting state and local programs nationwide. The amendment, sponsored by Reps Scott Perry and Jesús García, would restrict federal highway funding recipients from using ALPRs for anything other than tolling.

IBM invented semiconductor manufacturing automation

48 rbanffy 2026-05-21 10:45:27 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 1

Bill Harding envisioned a fully automated wafer-fabrication line in 1970 to produce integrated circuits in under a day. He led Project SWIFT, achieving a 5-hour turnaround time, a feat that has never been equaled despite advancements in technology.

What Do Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Mean?

80 baruchel 2026-05-21 09:45:27 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 36

Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorems proved that no formal system of mathematics can be complete, leaving some true statements unprovable. This has implications for physics, where a discrete space-time may be necessary to avoid undecidability.

London Mayor Blocks Palantir

8 ZiiS 2026-05-21 16:37:27 UTC theguardian.com Prefix Share 1

A £50m Met police deal with the controversial US tech company Palantir has been blocked by the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, with City Hall citing a “clear and serious breach” of procurement rules. Scotland Yard had been in talks, revealed by the Guardian last month, to use Palantir’s AI technology to automate intelligence analysis in criminal investigations. But Khan intervened on Thursday to ...

What Is Happening to Publishing?

5 benbreen 2026-05-21 15:45:27 UTC resobscura.substack.com Prefix Share 0

Notes on the history of technology, medicine, science, art, drugs, and empire. Also: AI in research and teaching. By subscribing, you agree Substack's Terms of Use, and acknowledge its Information Collection Notice and Privacy Policy. The big news in the world of writing today is the controversy over the award of a Commonwealth Foundation Short Story Prize to a story called “The Serpent ...

Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers

372 kageroumado 2026-05-21 00:45:27 UTC github.com/kageroumado Llama Share 92

Phosphene is a macOS app that plays video files as desktop and lock-screen wallpaper. It uses Apple's private WallpaperExtensionKit framework for gapless looping and power-aware playback.

Flipper One Tech Specs

484 gregsadetsky 2026-05-20 18:45:27 UTC docs.flipper.net Llama Share 160

The Flipper One has 8 cores, 4 high-performance and 4 efficiency, up to 2.2 GHz. It has various interfaces including PCIe, USB, SATA, and more.

The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf]

244 bambax 2026-05-21 00:45:27 UTC gwern.net GoogleT5 Share 43

A l t h e ruler-and-compass program can be used to draw arcs from points i and j. m c s y r o n d g p u k w f x v - q, 5, z / b'0 ; th ere is no need for

An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

1331 tedsanders 2026-05-20 19:45:27 UTC openai.com Llama Share 960

An AI system has autonomously resolved the planar unit distance problem, a longstanding open problem in combinatorial geometry. The proof uses algebraic number theory to create unit-length differences among points in the plane.

No Slop Grenade

272 napolux 2026-05-21 09:45:27 UTC noslopgrenade.com Llama Share 169

Redis offers persistence, complex data operations, and native sharding, but is more complex. Memcached is simpler, faster for basic caching, but lacks persistence and flexibility.

Haskell Foundation 2026 Update

162 azhenley 2026-05-21 02:45:27 UTC discourse.haskell.org Llama Share 58

José, the longest-serving executive director, is stepping down in June 2026, and the Board is restructuring the Haskell Foundation to focus on technical work and member engagement. The Foundation will have a new committee and a part-time role for financial sustainability, with a reduced Board composition.

DOS Zone

322 rglover 2026-05-20 23:45:27 UTC dos.zone Full Share 73

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