Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing

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kage clones websites into offline folders with scripts removed, preserving the site's appearance. It offers a binary or container image for use with Chrome or Chromium.

Chaosnet (1981)

Chaosnet is a local network developed in 1975 by MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory for the Lisp Machine system, providing a fast, reliable, and simple communication medium for a group of computers within a kilometer of each other. It uses a carrier-sense multiple-access structure and a novel collision-avoidance technique to prevent collisions and ensure high performance.

Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model

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Rio-3.5-Open-397B is a merged model of Nex and Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, with no evidence of its own training. Its weights are a 0.6 Nex to 0.4 Qwen blend.

Firewood Splitting Simulator

Split firewood in 3D — an interactive Three.js experience

Segmented type appreciation corner (2018)

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Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

User discussed various projects including a CRM with agent baked in, an ActivityPub server, and an open-source search engine called Uruky, as well as other projects such as a 3D optics simulator, a video lie detector, and a Peak Flow Meter Diary app for asthma patients. They also mentioned other projects like Totem, a collaborative knowledge management system, and HN Alerts, a site for ...

Show HN: Trace – Offline Mac meeting transcripts you can flag mid-call

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Trace is a local Mac app that captures and transcribes audio from any app, flags key moments, and provides a markdown transcript. It runs entirely on-device, with no uploads or audio sent anywhere, and allows for easy organization and sharing of recordings.

Inverse Rubric Optimization: A testbed for agent science

Researchers at Fulcrum Research study agent performance across various settings, proposing inverse rubric optimization (IRO) tasks where agents optimize judge preferences. They observe that frontier models effectively iterate but do not maximally use resources, and propose a new setting to normalize the difference in scale.

Caddy compatibility for zeroserve: 3x throughput and 70% lower latency

zeroserve is a high-performance HTTPS server that JIT-compiles Caddyfiles to eBPF and native machine code. It supports HTTPS reverse proxy and custom code execution via eBPF.

Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust

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The yserver is a modern X11 server for Linux that drops legacy baggage and runs desktop environments and applications on modern hardware. It supports various window managers and desktops, including MATE, XFCE, and Cinnamon, on multiple platforms.

Perlisisms (1982)

Programming principles emphasize modularity, simplicity, and adaptability, while also highlighting the importance of understanding the underlying mechanisms of computation. Effective programming requires a balance between creativity, discipline, and attention to detail, as well as a willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies and ideas.

Formal methods and the future of programming

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Jane Street is now excited about formal methods after being skeptical due to high costs. They're building a team to make formal methods useful for software development.

I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models

You have 2,207 GoPro videos and used an M1 Max project to index and search for interesting moments. The project indexed 628 videos and sent the best clips to DaVinci Resolve.

Lisp's Influence on Ruby

Ruby's design is based on a simple Lisp, stripping out macros and s-expressions, then adding an object system, blocks, and Smalltalk-style methods. Ruby's functional features, such as blocks and Enumerable methods, are borrowed from Lisp.

FarOutCompany

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Explore the work of under-appreciated artists of the 1960s and ‘70s counterculture.

The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014)

The talk covers JavaScript's history from 1995 to 2035, discussing its flaws and positive impact. It's a science fiction comedy that explores programming's evolution.

The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE

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Deleting large amounts of data in Postgres can be inefficient due to write and replication overhead, but using DROP TABLE or TRUNCATE can scale much better. Structuring your schema with partitioning and avoiding large bulk DELETE operations can prevent bloat and improve database health.

Not everyone is using AI for everything

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About one third of the US population actively uses AI, one third occasionally uses it, and one third never uses it, contradicting the narrative that everyone is using AI for everything. People's concerns about AI, such as job replacement and privacy violation, and skepticism about its usefulness are driving this limited adoption, with many preferring to opt out or use AI in a more controlled manner.

Rome Fell and Nobody Noticed

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The Roman Empire officially ended in 476 with the deposition of the last western Roman emperor, but the Roman system and institutions continued under the rule of Theoderic, a Goth who preserved it for 33 years. Theoderic's rule maintained continuity with the Roman Empire, with roads repaired, trade continuing, and the Roman governmental system remaining intact.

Linux 7.1

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Anubis is a server protection system using Proof-of-Work to prevent aggressive AI scraping. It requires modern JavaScript features, so disable JShelter or similar plugins for this domain.

Show HN: 3D print Z reinforcement via injected loops

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Magma is a research release that injects molten plastic into sealed lattice channels during FDM 3D printing for Z-axis reinforcement. It's a fork of OrcaSlicer that requires no hardware modifications, but its physical print results are still being characterized.

Global density and biomass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks

Quivers: A year of linear algebra by drawing arrows

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The text discusses representation theory of quivers, a type of directed graph, and its connections to linear algebra and category theory. It explains how quivers can be represented as matrices and how representations can be decomposed into indecomposable ones.

How to earn a billion dollars

To become a billionaire, one must create a startup with exponential growth, which can be achieved by making something users love so much they tell their friends, and then sustaining that growth in a large market. This can be done without cheating, as the key is to understand users deeply and make something that dramatically improves their lives, rather than exploiting them.

How did Atari apply side art to Arcade Cabinets?

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Atari used screen printing to create its iconic arcade cabinet artwork in the early 80s, applying individual color layers one at a time. The process involved breaking artwork into color layers, creating separate screens for each color, and aligning them perfectly for a clean-looking finish.

Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded

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SQL to ER Diagram is a free, open-source tool that converts SQL schema into interactive ER diagrams in the browser. It supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, and SQL Server, with no account or sign-up required.

Honda Civics and the Evil Valet

The author has updated their project on reverse engineering the 2021 Honda Civic headunit, revealing a vulnerability called "EvilValet" that allows arbitrary code execution via the update path. A new tool, ota-builder, has been published to easily prepare update files.

Rio de Janeiro's city government model Rio3.5 beats Qwen3.7 in recent benchmarks

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Alibaba Qwen3.7 slowly fading into irrelevance at the frontier due to proprietary stance. In it's place we have Minimax M3 and... *checks notes* Rio 3.5 397b, made by the municipal IT company of Rio de Janeiro's city government. https://t.co/JgIJYVhoEi https://t.co/lVR83aAvPD

A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown

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A new study found that the "cold blob" in the North Atlantic Ocean is cooling due to the weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) system. This could lead to a global catastrophe, including accelerated sea level rise and droughts, as the AMOC is heading towards a tipping point.
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