Espionage Against the European Parliament

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Stelios Kouloglou, a former European Parliament member, was hacked with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware twice, in October 2022 and March 2023, while investigating spyware abuses. The infections likely captured non-public information about committee activities, breaching EU parliamentary confidentiality.

SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine

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SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. - searxng/searxng

AI First: How the Federal Government Is Prioritizing AI over People and Planet

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• Winston Yau, Matt Haugen, Jesse Goldstein, Dustin Mulvaney, Hannah Story Brown, Kenny Stancil, Sarah Knuth The recent explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) and the construction of data centers threatens to swallow the US economy and transform society. The stock market and its AI-driven rally has dazzled investors with an endless wave of asset price appreciation. Yet despite all of its ...

Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally

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User has $2k to spend on local machine intelligence and $40k for top-of-the-line. They have 4x RTX Pro 6000s and built a DDR4 system to host them.

FreeBSD ate my RAM

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The user investigated why memory usage reported by fastfetch and btop differed on FreeBSD, discovering that the discrepancy was due to btop's incorrect handling of the ARC cache and filesystem metadata buffer cache. The user contributed patches to btop and htop to improve their memory usage reporting, and also submitted a PR to fastfetch, which was later merged with improvements.

Costco is the anti-Amazon

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Amazon's complex logistics model may not be the most efficient or socially beneficial, while Costco's simpler model offers lower costs and better worker treatment. A public grocery store model, inspired by Costco and the military commissary system, could provide cheaper groceries for New Yorkers with lower overhead.

Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring a Marketing Lead to Shift FinOps Left

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Marketing Lead at Infracost will develop and execute marketing strategies, manage the marketing function, and drive customer acquisition. The role requires 5+ years of B2B marketing experience, strong project management, and a bias toward action in a fully remote US and Canada timezone-based team.

Show HN: Updated my landing page with Fable (retro pixel style)

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Guildly gives you a small team that plans, builds, and ships together. You set the direction and approve what matters. Who it's for Real problems for the people building today. Just you or a whole team. Guildly turns scattered AI tools into one that actually works together. Right now that means a dozen windows and you as the human switchboard. Not anymore. ✓ One workspace instead of five ...

Pet projects are getting too big to pet

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The author's pet project has evolved from a small, hobby-like endeavor to a complex, ambitious undertaking that requires new skills and a different mindset. The author is now learning to navigate a rapidly changing field and is unsure what the future holds for their craft and the industry as a whole.

Kagi Changelog (July 2): Heads, tails, and an AI toggle

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Kagi has made several updates to its search engine and browser, including adding a toggle to disable widgets, improving the Kagi Assistant experience, and launching the Orion 1.1 update for macOS. The company has also introduced a new Search API, expanded its Small Web ecosystem, and partnered with various organizations to promote privacy and security.

Factories are just rooms

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You spoke to a year group about manufacturing, sharing your experience making an AI clock and showing them various stages of design and production. You aim to normalize hands-on learning and inspire kids to become makers and inventors.

Show HN: Mcpsnoop – Wireshark for MCP (transparent proxy and live TUI)

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mcpsnoop is a transparent proxy that shows real tool calls between AI client and MCP servers live in the terminal. It wraps your server command and displays every JSON-RPC frame in a live UI for debugging.

Hunting a 16-year-old SQLite WAL bug with TLA+

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SQLite fixed a long-standing bug in WAL checkpointing that could lead to database corruption. The dqlite team used TLA+ to model SQLite's behavior and found that dqlite is not affected by the bug due to its stricter locking mechanism.
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Ekiti's rocky terrain hampers 21st-century commerce due to poor network connections. Starlink's satellite-internet service has improved the government's connection, offering a glimpse into Africa's urban future.

Show HN: ContextCodeCache in Rust

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Tool that scans a project and generates a ContextCodeCache - a .ccc directory holding a compact, machine-readable map of every source file: its constants, functions (with return types and doc summaries), intra-file call graph, and marker notes (TODO/FIXME/...). It is designed to give agents a cheap, always-fresh index of a project. Requires Rust ≥ 1.77 (the tree-sitter 0.25 stack; some ...

PostgreSQL and the OOM killer: Why we use strict memory overcommit

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Enabling strict memory overcommit in Linux protects PostgreSQL from catastrophic OOM kills by preventing shared memory corruption. A kernel bug in Linux 6.5 caused inflated committed memory, but a fix was applied, allowing strict overcommit to be safely enabled.

Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror

Wordgard is an open-source JavaScript library for in-browser rich-text editors with a powerful programming interface. It's customizable and free to use under the MIT license, but commercial users are expected to contribute to its maintenance.

My dad helped build North America's oat supply chain: Can it be remade?

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The US oat market declined due to agricultural policies favoring corn and soybeans, leading to a shift to importing oats from Canada. A supply chain was built to import Canadian oats, which has proven resilient but may need to be remade to prioritize US soil health and Corn Belt communities.

Valve open-source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own

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Valve has made the Steam Machine's e-ink display open source under the MIT license, allowing anyone to create their own "Inkterface". JSAUX plans to release pre-built versions of the display.

A peek into Reddit's anti-spam internals

Reddit's spam filter system, which includes spamurai, uses various methods to detect and remove spam content. The system can see internal removal reasons, but only sitewide admins can view them.

60% Fable cost cut by converting code to images and having the model OCR it

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pxpipe compresses Claude Code requests by rendering bulky context as images, reducing input tokens by ~25k to ~2.7k. This results in a ~59-70% lower end-to-end bill.

Applied Category Theory Course (2018)

This is a course based on Fong and Spivak's book Seven Sketches in Compositionality: An Invitation to Applied Category Theory, taught by John Baez and turned into nice webpages by Simon Burton. © 2018 John Baez

Half-Baked Product

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A founder builds an oven company with a flawed MVP that fails to deliver on its promises, despite raising millions of dollars in funding. The company struggles to execute its vision due to poor engineering, sales, and management decisions.

Holes

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Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?

You're frustrated with LLMs for programming, feeling stuck in a prompt-response loop. Researchers are exploring alternative models like the tab model, which may offer a more fluid coding experience.

The Fall and Rise of Screwworm

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Screwworms, a flesh-eating parasite, have returned to the US after decades of eradication. The parasite was previously eliminated through a program that dropped millions of sterile male flies in infested areas.

Best Simple System for Now (2025)

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The author proposes a middle path called the Best Simple System for Now (BSSN), which balances simplicity and robustness by focusing on the current needs of a product. This approach prioritizes simplicity over future-proofing and encourages iterative delivery to reduce risk and increase return on investment.

Flexible metaprogramming with Rhombus

Rhombus is a new programming language that combines Racket's metaprogramming capabilities with a simple Python-like syntax. It aims to be a flexible and extensible language for real-world use.

Farmer, marketer at odds over sales of white nectarines

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A California farmer, Cesar Mora, is giving away his nectarine harvest due to a legal battle with Giumarra Brothers Fruit Co over exclusive rights to the 'Monalise' variety. Mora claims Giumarra threw away half of his nectarines in 2020 and sold them to Taiwan in 2022, breaching their contract.

International chess federation sanctions Kramnik

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FIDE's EDC imposed a one-year ban on Vladimir Kramnik for violating FIDE's Ethics Code and Disciplinary Code. Kramnik must also serve 12 months of unpaid service for the benefit of the chess community.