Emacs 31 Is Around the Corner: The Changes I'm Daily Driving

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The author shares new features in Emacs 31, a pre-release version, that make the editor more efficient and user-friendly. These features include improved tree-sitter support, a markdown mode, and various usability enhancements.

Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants

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The Federal Palace in Bern is bustling with activity as the National Council and Council of States debate various important issues during their summer session. The agenda includes the 13th AHV pension, the armed forces, federal finances, and the construction of new nuclear power plants.

Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS

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ENAS offers a private, local storage platform with performance, scalability, and simplicity, eliminating costly licensing and proprietary hardware. It integrates with UniFi for centralized management, secure access, and multi-site backup orchestration without recurring software costs.

I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware

The user found 10,000 GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware by analyzing commit patterns and using a script to filter repositories. The script found 10,000 repositories that matched the pattern of being updated every few hours with a link to a zip archive in the readme file, but the user believes there should be many more due to GitHub's large repository count.

Launch HN: TesterArmy (YC P26) – Agents that test web and mobile apps

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TesterArmy is a service that uses AI to test websites and mobile apps by navigating pages and interacting with UI like a human. It integrates with GitHub and other pipelines for automatic testing and reporting.

What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000

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The user praises Windows 2000's UI for its clear, concise design and consistent visual clues, which made it easy to use and understand. They lament the loss of these visual clues in modern UIs, which often rely on flat design and unclear interactive elements.

Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at 90% lower cost

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Universities and hospitals are conducting late-stage clinical trials with lower costs, repurposing existing drugs for new uses. This "hidden" research system offers affordable treatments with huge potential, operating outside of the patent system.

Midjourney Medical

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Midjourney is building a machine to reimagine healthcare and body relationships with a new kind of medical imaging. The goal is to make regular health scans accessible and affordable for everyone, potentially preventing 30% of deaths and 50% of healthcare costs.

Has W Social switched to closed source?

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The user is fascinated by W Social, a microblogging platform that claims to be Europe's alternative to X, but has discrepancies between its public image and reality. The European Commission's migration of its ATproto accounts to W Social is concerning due to W Social's lack of transparency and potential reliance on Bluesky's infrastructure.

Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course

CS 6120 is a PhD-level Cornell CS course on programming language implementation covering universal compilers and research topics. The course involves reading papers and open-source hacking tasks using LLVM and an educational IR.

How Alberta Eradicated Rats

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Alberta, a Canadian province, has been rat-free for over 70 years despite being surrounded by infested areas. Its success is due to a proactive rat control program that began in the 1950s, focusing on a narrow border zone and using a combination of surveillance, education, and targeted poisoning.

Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further

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Modos Flow is a 13.3-inch color e-paper monitor with higher resolution and touch input, improving on the Paper Monitor Dev Kit. The Flow's crowdfunding campaign is live on Crowd Supply, with cofounders discussing engineering and lessons learned from their crowdfunding journey.

Dwarf Fortress in the Browser

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Dwarf Fortress can be played in a web browser with audio by running a Docker container on a remote Linux host and streaming it over noVNC with audio via HTTP. The setup uses SSH tunneling, Docker Compose, and Icecast to provide a secure and low-latency experience with features like backup and pause functionality.

DeepSeek Introduces Vision

A website that lists websites to submit your website to

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A hand-picked directory of website submission sites. Find the best places to submit your website, startup, or product, earn quality backlinks, and rank higher across search engines and AI answers. The canonical company profile. Investors, journalists, and aggregators pull from it, so a complete profile pays off well beyond the link. Show HN your project. A front-page hit is one of the ...

Migrate from OpenClaw

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hermes claw migrate imports OpenClaw setup into Hermes, collapsing multi-provider setups to one OAuth login. It shows a full preview before making changes and resolves various config key formats.

Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool

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The author, a software business founder, shares their experience with local AI models, specifically Qwen 27B, and its limitations, including infinite loops and hallucination risk, despite its potential value for certain tasks and workflows. They highlight the importance of proper tuning, agent skills, and normalizing results with cloud models to get the most out of local AI, and emphasize the ...

Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly

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Microsoft's new Outlook for Windows has a notification problem where clicking a notification takes 10 seconds to open the email, compared to 5 seconds when opening Outlook directly. The issue is due to the app's WebView2 architecture, which is a Chromium-based rendering engine that slows down the notification process.

.gitignore Isn't the Only Way to Ignore Files in Git

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Git has three levels of file ignoring: .gitignore, .git/info/exclude, and ~/.config/git/ignore. These files allow ignoring files at repository, per-repo, and machine levels respectively.

We built a persistent agent memory layer on Elasticsearch with 0.89 recall

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Agent Builder is now available and uses a persistent memory layer for agents, which is built on Elasticsearch and structured around three categories from cognitive science: episodic, semantic, and procedural memory. The memory system includes features such as hybrid recall with reranking, supersession for contradictions, and per-user Document-Level Security (DLS) isolation, and is designed to ...

Unity vs. Floating Point

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System.MathF is generally faster than UnityEngine.Mathf due to direct float-native implementations. However, it's not supported by Burst.

Image Toolbox (T8RIN)

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ImageToolbox is a free image editing tool with AI capabilities for cropping, filtering, and enhancing photos. It's licensed under Apache 2.0 and available for download.

Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache

The Varnish Cache FOSS project changed its name to Vinyl Cache in March 2026, with a new project identity and governance model. Varnish Software created a new downstream project called Varnish Cache, governed by the company, which is not considered the continuation of the former Varnish Cache FOSS project.

Seven Perfect Shuffles Randomize a Deck of Cards. But How Many Sloppy Ones?

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Mathematicians Mark Sellke, Jialu Shi, and Jiamin Wang proved a cutoff phenomenon exists for riffle shuffling with less precise cuts. Their work extends the 1992 proof by Dave Bayer and Persi Diaconis to more realistic shuffling scenarios.

US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks

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AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs

AMD has quietly removed the Transparent Secure Memory Encryption (TSME) feature from lower-end CPUs, leaving users potentially vulnerable to physical attacks. The company has not officially acknowledged the change, leaving it unclear whether it was an intentional policy decision or an unintentional regression.

I hate compilers

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Sogen – High-performance Windows and Linux userspace emulator

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The emulator operates at syscall level for Windows and Linux binaries, saving and restoring state for quick resume. It's designed for researchers to control process execution with precise control and scripting capabilities.

Clojure Hosted on Go

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Glojure is a Clojure interpreter hosted on Go, providing easy access to Go libraries. It's in early development with bugs and limited performance, but used in hobby projects and a subset of the Clojure library.

Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability

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Lore is a centralized, content-addressed version control system that represents repository state as Merkle trees and an immutable revision chain, optimized for binary-first storage, deduplication, and sparse/on-demand data hydration at scale.