The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting How to Code

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The US defense industry's reliance on obsolete technology and lack of skilled workers led to production delays and shortages during the Ukraine war. The industry's focus on cost-cutting and optimization has left it vulnerable to crises.

Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem

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A 23-year-old man named Liam Price used ChatGPT Pro to solve a 60-year-old math problem left by Paul Erdos. The AI's solution, which was posted online, appears to be original and may have broader applications in mathematics.

Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?

GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline

A new version of GnuPG, 2.5.19, is available with several new features and bug fixes. It is recommended to update to this version before the old 2.4 series reaches end-of-life in two months.

USB Cheat Sheet (2022)

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A USB cheat sheet was created to clarify USB terms and save time. It covers USB versions, lane striping and bonding, and wire configurations for different USB speeds.

Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019)

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The article explains how floating point numbers work, including their representation in base-2 scientific notation, and how they are encoded into binary format using the IEEE 754 standard. It also discusses the limitations and quirks of floating point numbers, including rounding errors, subnormals, and the behavior of NaNs and infinities.

Tip: Web requests should not be measured in Hz [Hertz]

The scene describes a moment of tension and pain as Thezea struggles to breathe, while Sartha and Jonathan discuss a legend and the Party's hold. A dark presence looms, and they decide to keep the wolves separated.

Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day

Headspace app is silently appearing on iPhone 13 Pro around 1pm EST daily. Reports of similar issue on Reddit suggest it may be a widespread iOS issue.

Quirks of Human Anatomy

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The human body has many quirks and flaws, such as a blind spot in the eye, a narrow birth canal, and a vulnerable nervous system, which are a result of evolutionary compromises and mistakes. Despite these flaws, humans and other animals have developed remarkable adaptations and solutions to overcome them, such as the development of the brain and the ability to process visual information.

Mahjong: A Visual Guide

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A mahjong set has 136 tiles with 34 unique designs, four of each, and honor tiles. A winning hand is 4 sets + 1 pair, totaling 14 tiles, with the pair called the "eyes".

Terra API (YC W21) Hiring: Applied AI Strategist(Health Intelligence)

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Apply to Terra API with a single profile, using market research to identify sharp opportunities in AI × health. Analyze user needs, product patterns, and market trends to inform Terra's roadmap and GTM strategy.

The route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement

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Jon Peterson discusses the history of wargames and their evolution into tabletop role-playing games, highlighting key figures and innovations such as Georg Venturini and the Reisswitzes' Kriegsspiel. The conversation also touches on the influence of wargaming on modern tabletop games, including Dungeons & Dragons, and the ongoing debate about the role of rules and agency in game design.

APL is more French than English

Professor Alan J. Perlis discusses his experience with APL, a programming language that he finds elegant and expressive. He notes that APL's unique properties, such as its ability to express complex ideas in a concise manner, make it a valuable tool for programming.

Flickr: The first and last great photo platform

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Flickr remains a unique online community for photography enthusiasts, offering robust features and a sanctuary from algorithm-driven content. Its Pro subscription provides benefits like unlimited storage, ad-free galleries, and exclusive savings, justifying the cost for many users.

OpenAI Privacy Filter

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OpenAI releases Privacy Filter, a small model for detecting and redacting PII in text, designed for high-throughput privacy workflows and context-aware detection. It achieves state-of-the-art performance on the PII-Masking-300k benchmark and can be fine-tuned for different data distributions and privacy policies.

The Free Universal Construction Kit

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The Free Universal Construction Kit is a set of adapters that allows children's construction toys to work together, promoting creative play and hybrid designs. The Kit is a grassroots remedy for proprietary toy systems, available for free download and 3D printing.

EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs

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The EU Age Verification app is a reference implementation with several problems, including a fallback to normal KYC providers, attestation lock-in to Google or Apple devices, and weaker cryptography than advertised. The app's design relies on wallet behavior for unlinkability, not cryptographic guarantees.

Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish

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The user tested Claude Code with a personal project, a shim between YouTube Music and OpenSubsonic API, and found it helpful in implementing the project from scratch. The user was able to get a working service in a short evening, but still has concerns about relying too much on AI coding assist and losing skills.

I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boards

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Task management service based on the Kanban methodology. Helps decompose the task pipeline and speeds up all stages of your work export default { application_host: "https://ooko.local", // the address of the website where your service will work license: "demo", // free license for 50 users and 50 projects db_board: "/var/opt/ooko/db-board", // directory for data files ...

The Joy of Folding Bikes

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I recently started using a folding bike, a Brompton, which has greatly improved my commuting experience. It's convenient, durable, and cost-effective, paying for itself in just 28 weeks.

America's Geothermal Breakthrough

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The US geothermal energy sector is expanding with support from the government and innovations in enhanced geothermal technologies. Companies like Fervo Energy are leading the way with new projects and technologies to access geothermal resources.

Rediscovering the Handcart

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The handcart is a simple, low-tech vehicle that offers a large advantage over carrying a load on your back or dragging it over the ground, requiring minimal effort to push and no gasoline, electricity, or batteries. It can be used for various purposes, including transporting cargo, serving as a mobile office, and even as a nomadic home, making it a very democratic and versatile vehicle.

Math Is Hard – OpenBSD Stories

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The VAX architecture had a simple exception model with traps and faults, but the kernel had to skip the instruction in case of a fault to prevent a signal loop, which was not possible due to the hardware design. A fix was implemented in 2002 to add a skip_opcode function to compute the address of the next opcode, effectively skipping the offending instruction, and it was later carried over to OpenBSD.

Optimizing Datalog for the GPU

Hokusai and Tesselations

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Reviving BrowserID in 2026

You're building WKID, a BrowserID-style identity provider for your personal projects. WKID is a lightweight, federated, and private IdP that uses email domains for authentication, allowing you to control your own authentication flows.

The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024)

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The Super Nintendo had various enhancement chips, including the SA-1, CX4, and GSU-1, which improved performance and added features to games. These chips were used in a total of 72 games.

The Knight Programming Language

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The Knight Programming Language. Contribute to knight-lang/knight-lang development by creating an account on GitHub.

Simulacrum of Knowledge Work

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Report quality is often judged by superficial measures like writing style, not actual content. This can lead to reliance on AI-generated work, where appearance of quality is prioritized over actual value.

AGPLv3§74 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware Like OnlyOffice

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A company, Ascensio System SIA, added a restriction to their software, Onlyoffice, licensed under AGPLv3, requiring users to display their trademarked logo. This restriction is considered a "further restriction" that users can remove under AGPLv3§7¶4.