Internet Archive Switzerland

262 hggh 2026-05-09 12:38:50 UTC internetarchive.ch Llama Share 32

Internet Archive Switzerland is a non-profit foundation in St. Gallen, Switzerland, aiming for universal access to all knowledge. It preserves digital information and collaborates with partners to rescue vulnerable collections and build the Gen AI Archive.

PipeDream on the Acorn Archimedes

30 msephton 2026-05-09 15:38:50 UTC stonetools.ghost.io Llama Share 7

The user explores the RISC OS operating system and PipeDream productivity suite, highlighting their unique features and quirks, including the three-button mouse, drag-and-drop file management, and customizable keyboard shortcuts. Despite the system's elegance and ease of use, the user finds it disorienting and frustrating at times, particularly with the word processing and database functions, ...

Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

1305 anonymousiam 2026-05-08 19:38:50 UTC reclaimthenet.org Llama Share 475

Google's new reCAPTCHA system requires Android users to run Google Play Services to prove they're human, excluding de-Googled phones. This move establishes a precedent for accessing basic web content, favoring Google's ecosystem control over user data consent.

LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate

156 rbanffy 2026-05-09 09:38:50 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 51

Large Language Models (LLMs) degrade documents during long workflows, corrupting 25% of content on average. Current LLMs are unreliable delegates, introducing severe errors that silently corrupt documents over time.

The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism

46 ColinWright 2026-05-09 14:38:50 UTC matduggan.com Llama Share 10

The user reflects on the early days of the internet and how the ideology of cyberlibertarianism, which emphasized individual freedom and deregulation, led to the creation of a platform that prioritizes profit over people and has devastating consequences. The user argues that it's time to face the facts that this ideology has failed and that we need to evolve and find a new ethical code to ...

Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

315 pretext 2026-05-09 05:38:50 UTC twitter.com/trq212 Full Share 200

Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot. Some privacy related extensions may cause issues on x.com. Please disable them and try again.

How LEDs are made (2014)

70 smig0 2026-05-09 11:38:50 UTC learn.sparkfun.com Llama Share 8

The author visited YunSun factory in China and learned about the LED manufacturing process, including die production, wire bonding, and epoxy molding. The factory uses a combination of manual and automated processes, with multiple suppliers involved in the tool-chain, making it difficult to create custom LEDs.

Removing fsync from our local storage engine

40 zzsheng 2026-05-09 12:38:50 UTC fractalbits.com Llama Share 22

A custom-built single-node KV storage engine was designed to avoid fsync calls for PUT and DELETE operations by using preallocated files, O_DIRECT writes, and a journal with aligned commits to ensure durability on SSDs. The engine achieved higher throughput and lower latency compared to ext4 and O_DIRECT+fsync configurations in a 4KB random-write benchmark on AWS i8g.2xlarge local NVMe.

A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

499 _alternator_ 2026-05-09 04:38:50 UTC gowers.wordpress.com Llama Share 353

A mathematician used ChatGPT 5.5 Pro to improve the upper bound on a problem in additive number theory from exponential to polynomial in time, with the AI producing a result that was almost certainly correct according to a human expert. The mathematician suggests that the era of human mathematicians solving problems independently may be coming to an end, and that the future of mathematics ...

Mythical Man Month

268 ingve 2026-05-09 01:38:50 UTC martinfowler.com Llama Share 165

Fred Brooks managed IBM's System/360 in the 1960s and wrote influential book The Mythical Man-Month in 1975. The book emphasizes conceptual integrity in system design, simplicity, and straightforwardness to avoid communication issues and ensure effective work.

America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy

117 rawgabbit 2026-05-09 06:38:50 UTC apnews.com Llama Share 57

Bob Shaw, CEO of Shaw Industries, clashed with 3M executives in 2000 over Scotchgard reformulation due to environmental concerns. Shaw's company and others continued using PFAS alternatives despite warnings and health risks.

OpenAI’s WebRTC problem

409 atgctg 2026-05-08 23:38:50 UTC moq.dev Llama Share 122

The user strongly advises against using WebRTC for voice AI due to its limitations and trade-offs, such as introducing artificial latency and aggressively dropping packets. The user suggests using QUIC instead, which offers better performance and scalability, and provides a detailed explanation of how QUIC can be used for load balancing and connection management.

Making Julia as Fast as C++ (2019)

57 d_tr 2026-05-09 09:38:50 UTC flow.byu.edu Llama Share 39

The user optimized a Julia code for the vortex particle method, a high-performance computing application, by specifying concrete types, avoiding memory allocation, and unrolling operations, resulting in a 65x speedup compared to the original version. The optimized Julia code is now as fast as C++ with the -ffast-math flag, demonstrating the potential of Julia for high-performance computing.

GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch

71 Georgelemental 2026-05-09 14:38:50 UTC cyberinsider.com Llama Share 8

GrapheneOS has released an update to fix a VPN bypass vulnerability that leaks a user's real IP address even with Android's VPN protections enabled. The update disables a QUIC connection feature and includes the May 2026 Android security patch level and other security improvements.

David Attenborough's 100th Birthday

770 defrost 2026-05-08 16:38:50 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 150

Sir David Attenborough turns 100, receiving birthday messages from the royal couple and many celebrities. A special concert at the Royal Albert Hall celebrates his life and legacy.

Reviving the IBM Selectric Composer Fonts (2023)

38 tangus 2026-05-09 10:38:50 UTC kutilek.de Llama Share 2

The IBM Selectric Composer used a 9-unit grid for its type elements, but this caused issues with letter widths, particularly with the Univers typeface, which was adapted for the machine. A digitization of the Univers typeface was created by scaling scans of the original type elements and applying a rounded corners filter to maintain the typeface's friendly impression.

Forking the Web

79 wrxd 2026-05-09 11:38:50 UTC dillo-browser.org Llama Share 64

Rodrigo Arias Mallo proposes an alternative to the Web with a simple, short specification to ensure diversity of browsers and low development effort. The goal is to create a standardized, non-ambiguous format for exchanging information among humans.

What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting

134 Tomte 2026-05-09 04:38:50 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 30

Joseph Dwyer studied cosmic events before researching lightning on Earth. He discovered that lightning initiation requires extreme events, not just electricity.

Read Programming as Theory Building

54 birdculture 2026-05-09 13:38:50 UTC codeutopia.net Llama Share 9

Reading Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" helped the author understand that programming is about building a mental model of a program, its requirements, and how they relate to everything around it. This theory helps explain why writing good software is hard and how various activities like writing clean code, documentation, and automated tests are connected to communicating the ...

Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)

314 homebrewer 2026-05-08 21:38:50 UTC wiisfi.com GoogleT5 Share 88

A mid-range wi-fi 6 router supporting (1) 44 mimo [7], (2) all dfs channels, (3) 160 mhz (he160) wide channels is. if you are not right next to the router, your actual speed will be around 900 mbps 100 for 22 mimo and 650 for wi-fi 5 - edward s. lewis. says unless you

Killswitch: Per-function short-circuit mitigation primitive

56 signa11 2026-05-09 09:38:50 UTC lwn.net GoogleT5 Share 10

Af_alg_sendmsg() is the highest-level entry into the af_alg +sent path. engaging it with retval '-eperm' causes every send attempt to return -eperm to userspace; no caller ever sees +half-initialised state. +* inline functions, freed __init symbols, and anything compiled away cannot

AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures

380 speckx 2026-05-08 18:38:50 UTC jefftk.com Llama Share 148

A security vulnerability was discovered and shared publicly after an initial attempt at a closed disclosure, highlighting a tension between coordinated and immediate disclosure. AI-assisted vulnerability detection is making long embargoes obsolete and shortening the time to detection.

Cartoon Network Flash Games

385 willmeyers 2026-05-08 16:38:50 UTC webdesignmuseum.org Llama Share 118

The website is blocked due to security reasons after a suspicious action was detected. Please email the site owner with the Cloudflare Ray ID and details of the action that triggered the block.

An Introduction to Meshtastic

478 ColinWright 2026-05-08 16:38:50 UTC meshtastic.org Llama Share 174

Meshtastic is a community-driven, open-source project using LoRa radios for long-range off-grid communication. It forms a mesh network allowing multiple users to receive messages, with each device supporting one user at a time.

The React2Shell Story

193 mufeedvh 2026-05-08 23:38:50 UTC lachlan.nz Llama Share 38

A professional hacker discovered a critical remote code execution vulnerability, "React2Shell," in the React framework, which affected millions of websites, and reported it to Meta on November 30th 2025. The hacker, fueled by curiosity and frustration, spent days learning about the Flight protocol and eventually found a way to exploit it, leading to the development of the React2Shell exploit chain.

AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved

246 christhecaribou 2026-05-08 19:38:50 UTC cnbc.com Llama Share 176

Amazon Web Services experienced a thermal issue at a Virginia facility causing operational issues. The outage affected trading platforms like FanDuel and Coinbase, with full recovery expected to take several hours.

The context window has been shattered: Subquadratic debuts a 12M token window

18 gmays 2026-05-09 15:38:50 UTC thenewstack.io Llama Share 3

Subquadratic claims its model can handle 12 million tokens, running 52 times faster than dense attention and scoring 83 on MRCR v2. The company's Subquadratic Selective Attention architecture scales linearly in compute and memory with context length.

Show HN: Free tool to mark points and polygon regions

9 magikMaker 2026-05-09 13:38:50 UTC tack.pics Prefix Share 2

A precision tool for marking points and polygon regions on images. Free, runs entirely in your browser — your images never leave your device. JSON / YAML / HTML export Bezier polygons Custom origin / units Works offline (PWA) tack. is built for game developers, level designers, UI engineers, ML data labelers, and anyone who needs to translate a picture into a structured set of coordinates. ...

Teaching Claude Why

224 pretext 2026-05-08 18:38:50 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 112

We improved Claude's safety training to reduce agentic misalignment by teaching principles of aligned behavior and using diverse data. Our methods, including the "difficult advice" dataset and document training, achieved significant improvements in alignment generalization.

A new hash table for Lwan

5 g0xA52A2A 2026-05-09 14:38:50 UTC tia.mat.br Full Share 1