Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

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A hacker breached Romania's cadastre agency, wiping the country's land registry database after a failed extortion attempt. The hack has brought the real-estate market to a standstill.

Airport Simulator

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The sky (and your endurance) is the limit!

Stop Using OpenCode

The user thoroughly criticizes OpenCode, an AI coding agent, for its numerous security and usability issues, including poor permission handling, broken prompt caching, and lack of protection for early reads. The user argues that OpenCode's design is fundamentally flawed and that using it can lead to trivial exploitation or accidental wiping of machines, and suggests that local LLMs are also ...

Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25

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A security researcher used a large language model called Sol to discover a pre-authentication SQL injection vulnerability in WordPress, which can be escalated to a full-blown RCE. The researcher found that Sol was able to chain together several creative exploitation techniques, including recursive batch calls and cache abuse, to produce a full exploit chain in just over 10 hours.

ECC and DDR5

ECC RAM corrects errors in memory before reaching the CPU, using Hamming codes to detect and correct single-bit errors. ECC RAM is recommended for systems storing important data, as it can prevent data corruption and lost time due to RAM hardware errors.

The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel

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The US is requiring EU countries to share biometric data and personal information for traveller screening, with the EU negotiating a Framework Agreement to set exchange modalities. The EU is being pressured into excessive US demands, potentially compromising European and third-country nationals' rights and data protection.

We're Squandering LEDs' Potential to Save Our Night Skies

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The author explores how artificial light at night affects cities, citing excessive lighting as a problem that disrupts human health and ecological balance. LEDs offer a solution, but their potential is often wasted due to outdated thinking and a failure to control and coordinate lighting levels.

Inertia-1: An Open Exploration to a Unified Motion Foundation Model

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Inertia-1 brings motion models under one roof, studying the full lifecycle of motion data, sensing, objectives, and scale in a controlled space. It finds a unified representation that adapts across placements, devices, and tasks with practical rules of thumb for sampling rates and window lengths.

Perfection Is Not Over-Engineering

"We don't want to do perfect." "We don't want to build the perfect solution." I've heard versions of that line more times than I can count, delivered as if "perfect" were a dirty word. And I understand the caution — over-engineering burns teams, and people have learned to treat anything that smells like perfection as the same risk. Over-engineering is ...

Satan's 19th-Century Bank Note (2017)

Establishing a secure connection... Request ID: 774332ca61b27800fe8ad2a558456a69

Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s

The user, an SRE, bought an abandoned bowling center and replaced the expensive scorekeeping system with an open-source alternative using ESP32 and Raspberry Pi for under $400 per lane-pair. This project, called OpenLaneLink, aims to make bowling more affordable and reduce vendor lock-in by providing an open hardware and software stack.

Sensing warm and cool: how the body detects temperature changes

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University of Queensland researchers found that most skin temperature sensitive nerve cells can sense both cool and warmth, challenging a widely accepted view. This new understanding could help explain thermal dysfunction in people with spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, and ageing.

Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight

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Moonshine allows remote PC gaming with isolated streaming sessions and keyboard, mouse, and controller inputs. It requires a Linux system and a VPN for secure internet streaming.

What does the Riemann zeta function have to do with the distribution of primes?

Riemann was able to find an even more precise formula computing the number of prime numbers less than a number (n). the size of xrho depends only on how big s is, so if you have 0, then y = n - p / r h = 1...! equating logarithms with primes can be done in

Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt

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A Dutch archaeological team led by Dr. Carina van den Hoven discovered a tomb in the Theban necropolis, believed to belong to an individual named Paser from the Ramesside period. The team plans to continue studying and documenting the tomb to determine its historical significance and preserve its architectural and artistic features.

Moist Towelette Museum

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The user received various moist towelettes from different people, including a Lufthansa refreshment towel, a Zeiss lens cleaning towelette, and Star Trek cleansing towelettes. They also visited the Moist Towelette Museum in East Lansing, Michigan, and learned how to make their own towelettes using white paper towels and a liquid mixture.

LoRA Speedrun – a public wall-clock leaderboard for fine-tuning techniques

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The goal is to fine-tune Qwen2.5-1.5B to ≥ 57% on GSM8K in ≤ 6m 05s on a single L40S using LoRA. The competition uses a frozen task, hardware, and leaderboard with wall-clock records, and anyone can attempt and verify records with free compute credits.

Codex is wearing out our devices

User is blocked from accessing data due to empty or non-descriptive User-Agent. To resolve, change User-Agent to unique and descriptive string or try default setting.

Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now

Claude Code uses a preview of Bun v1.4.0, a not-yet-released version, indicating its use in production. This suggests Bun in Rust is being run on millions of devices.

Eliminating Go bounds checks with unsafe

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Bound checks elimination (BCE) is a robust optimization technique in Go that reduces instructions and branches, improving performance by lowering cache misses and register pressure. When conventional methods fail, using unsafe pointer arithmetic can eliminate bound checks, but requires the programmer to prove their necessity, making it a high-risk, high-reward approach.

Orion Browser by Kagi

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Orion browser offers native WebKit speed, absolute privacy, and limitless customization with zero-telemetry browsing and ad-blocking. It supports Safari, Chrome, and Firefox extensions and is 100% funded by users with no ads or third-party deals.

Show HN: Stacks – an hourly card solitaire about building four gardens

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매시간 새 동식물 숫자 덱에 도전하고 연쇄와 같은 종 네 장 수확으로 별을 얻는 카드 게임.

What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard

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The creator of Jamcorder, a simple automated piano recording device, found the hardest part of building it was the software, not the hardware, which took over 3 years to develop. The experience suggests that hardware development is not as difficult as its reputation, and with proper planning, it's possible to successfully ship a hardware product at a medium scale.

1-Bit LLM in the Browser

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This web app uses WebGPU to display a realistic 3D bonsai tree that you can rotate and explore directly in the browser. No files or inputs are needed—just open the page to see the tree rendered in ...

Xiaomi-Robotics-1

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Xiaomi-Robotics-1 combines large-scale embodiment-free pre-training with real-robot data to create a strong robot foundation model. It achieves state-of-the-art results on four simulation benchmarks and adapts to new tasks from minimal data.

Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3

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The Minecraft snapshot has switched to SDL3 for window management, input, and platform integration, and added new item components for custom furnace fuels and technical changes for signs, world generation, and loot tables. Several bug fixes and changes have been made, including improvements to fullscreen mode, debug overlay, and loot table types, as well as fixes for various issues such as ...

Modder Makes GTA: Vice City Playable Inside GTA 3 Inside GTA: San Andreas

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Ever find yourself playing 2004’s Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas thinking, “I wish I could be playing a different Grand Theft Auto right now. At the same time. Golly, I wish I could be playing three Grand Theft Autos simultaneously.” Well, fantastic news, you. A modder figured out how to get the previous installations working as a texture within the game, turning Grand Theft Auto III into ...

The Zen of Parallel Programming

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The connection between parallel programming and human life lies in the need for communication, synchronization, and coordination to achieve useful work. Honest communication and synchronization within oneself can prevent internal contention and allow for wholehearted activity.

Airbus Takes Flight from AWS

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Airbus is moving 900 applications to Scaleway, a French cloud services provider, to put critical systems and data under European control. This move shows digital sovereignty is a real commercial driver, but Airbus faces challenges in migrating supply chain management and AI systems.

Bananas sprout in Rayleigh Garden UK after 15 years

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Bananas may become more common in British gardens due to warmer summers and milder winters. Tropical plant enthusiasts have successfully grown bananas in the UK, using techniques like creating a microclimate effect to protect from frost.