Internet Archive Switzerland

209 hggh 2026-05-09 12:36:46 UTC internetarchive.ch Llama Share 24

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

6 msephton 2026-05-09 15:03:46 UTC stonetools.ghost.io Prefix Share 1

During the "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" years of home computing, up to around 1995, a lot was thrown and a lot failed to stick. Sometimes clumps would form that appeared to have the combined friction necessary to maintain wall grip, each holding the other up. But, like Mitch Hedberg's observation of belts and belt loops, it was difficult to discern who was ...

Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

1265 anonymousiam 2026-05-08 19:36:46 UTC reclaimthenet.org Llama Share 458

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

109 rbanffy 2026-05-09 09:36:46 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 36

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.

Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

291 pretext 2026-05-09 05:36:46 UTC twitter.com/trq212 Full Share 181

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A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

477 _alternator_ 2026-05-09 04:36:46 UTC gowers.wordpress.com Llama Share 334

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 ...

How LEDs are made (2014)

56 smig0 2026-05-09 11:36:46 UTC learn.sparkfun.com Llama Share 6

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.

Mythical Man Month

254 ingve 2026-05-09 01:36:46 UTC martinfowler.com Llama Share 158

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

101 rawgabbit 2026-05-09 06:36:46 UTC apnews.com Llama Share 52

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

399 atgctg 2026-05-08 23:36:46 UTC moq.dev Llama Share 111

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)

49 d_tr 2026-05-09 09:36:46 UTC flow.byu.edu Llama Share 31

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.

The FCC Wants Your ID Before You Get a Phone Number

40 delichon 2026-05-09 14:36:46 UTC reclaimthenet.org Llama Share 33

The FCC approved a proposal requiring telecom providers to verify customers' identities before activating service to stop robocalls. This move could end the era of anonymous phone numbers and affect prepaid services, which often rely on cash payments without ID.

David Attenborough's 100th Birthday

753 defrost 2026-05-08 15:36:46 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 146

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)

34 tangus 2026-05-09 10:36:46 UTC kutilek.de Llama Share 1

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.

Removing fsync from our local storage engine

23 zzsheng 2026-05-09 12:36:46 UTC fractalbits.com Llama Share 10

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.

What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting

124 Tomte 2026-05-09 05:36:46 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 26

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

Killswitch: Per-function short-circuit mitigation primitive

47 signa11 2026-05-09 09:36:46 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

Read Programming as Theory Building

38 birdculture 2026-05-09 13:36:46 UTC codeutopia.net Llama Share 4

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)

304 homebrewer 2026-05-08 21:36:46 UTC wiisfi.com GoogleT5 Share 84

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

Forking the Web

66 wrxd 2026-05-09 11:36:46 UTC dillo-browser.org Llama Share 59

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.

AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures

370 speckx 2026-05-08 18:36:46 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

378 willmeyers 2026-05-08 16:36:46 UTC webdesignmuseum.org Llama Share 116

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.

Show HN: Free tool to mark points and polygon regions

6 magikMaker 2026-05-09 13:36:46 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. 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. Drop in an image, click to drop points, drag to draw bezier curves, and export clean ...

The React2Shell Story

187 mufeedvh 2026-05-08 23:36:46 UTC lachlan.nz Llama Share 30

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

244 christhecaribou 2026-05-08 19:36:46 UTC cnbc.com Llama Share 171

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.

An Introduction to Meshtastic

471 ColinWright 2026-05-08 15:36:46 UTC meshtastic.org Llama Share 171

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.

Teaching Claude Why

216 pretext 2026-05-08 18:36:46 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 106

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.

You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)

199 MrBruh 2026-05-08 20:36:46 UTC ze3tar.github.io Llama Share 121

A Linux kernel vulnerability in io_uring's ZCRX subsystem allows an attacker to write to adjacent slab memory, corrupting a refcount, leading to a heap read, KASLR break, and modprobe_path overwrite. This can be exploited to gain uid=0.

GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch

11 Georgelemental 2026-05-09 14:36:46 UTC cyberinsider.com Llama Share 0

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.

Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+?

107 mad 2026-05-08 23:36:46 UTC sigops.org Llama Share 27

Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle to model complex systems, producing specs that recite textbook protocols rather than actual implementations. They excel in syntax but fail in conformance and invariant phases.