Magnifica Humanitas

967 theletterf 2026-05-25 11:11:59 UTC vatican.va Llama Share 424

The Church calls for a shared discernment process to navigate the challenges of emerging technologies and build a more just world. Christians must choose between constructing a Tower of Babel or rebuilding Jerusalem, prioritizing human dignity and communion over profit and self-sufficiency.

Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout

52 Cider9986 2026-05-25 18:11:59 UTC mullvad.net Full Share 9

Below are the servers with the new mitigation applied.

California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash

91 rbanffy 2026-05-25 18:21:59 UTC tomshardware.com Llama Share 38

California lawmakers may exempt most open-source operating systems from age-verification requirements. The proposed amendment would exclude software distributed under open-source licenses from the Digital Age Assurance Act.

C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers

102 xngbuilds 2026-05-25 15:11:59 UTC lemon.rip Llama Share 27

C code often relies on non-standard behaviors and language extensions to work around bugs and gaps in different compilers and libraries. Many codebases attempt to support various environments through preprocessor checks and guards, but these attempts are often finicky or broken.

Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage

35 garygao 2026-05-25 16:11:59 UTC trychert.com Llama Share 124

Twilio's Chert delivers peer-to-peer iMessage threads with blue bubbles, read receipts, and tapbacks, offering higher open and reply rates than A2P SMS. It exposes a REST API and webhooks for integration with CRMs, sales tools, and data stores.

Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks

203 jruohonen 2026-05-25 14:11:59 UTC krebsonsecurity.com Llama Share 50

Dutch authorities arrested two men, Andrey Nesterenko and Youssef Zinad, for violating sanctions law by aiding Russia's cyberattacks. They were arrested for their roles in operating MIRhosting and WorkTitans, which provided infrastructure for pro-Russian cyberattacks.

IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry

109 rbanffy 2026-05-25 10:11:59 UTC futurumgroup.com Llama Share 37

IBM's Anderon foundry receives $1 billion in CHIPS incentives to establish a 300mm quantum wafer fabrication facility. The funding structure creates a two-tier quantum ecosystem, favoring superconducting silicon architectures over competing modalities.

Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers

0 2026-05-25 18:19:59 UTC jobs.ashbyhq.com Full Share

Weave Jobs

Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It

133 rickcarlino 2026-05-25 08:11:59 UTC rickcarlino.com Llama Share 48

Gnutella is a decentralized file-sharing protocol that scaled to millions of users in the early 2000s, but its popularity declined as the internet and user behavior changed. Despite being largely forgotten, Gnutella remains operational today, thanks to its robust design and ability to adapt to new technologies and challenges.

CPPL: A Circuit Prompt Programming Language

9 chrsw 2026-05-25 16:11:59 UTC arxiv.org Prefix Share 0

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in register-transfer level (RTL) design automation, but direct RTL generation remains difficult to validate, optimize, and integrate with compiler-based hardware design flows. Hardware compiler infrastructures such as CIRCT provide typed intermediate representations, legality checks, and optimization passes, yet current LLMs struggle to emit raw ...

Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006)

277 kelseyfrog 2026-05-25 03:11:59 UTC pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Llama Share 132

Didgeridoo playing reduced daytime sleepiness and apnoea-hypopnoea index in patients with moderate obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome. It also improved sleep quality for partners.

Microsoft pulls plug on plans for 244-acre data center in Caledonia (2025)

132 cdrnsf 2026-05-25 13:11:59 UTC tmj4.com Llama Share 107

Microsoft has abandoned plans for a data center in Caledonia, Wis, after community pushback from residents. The company remains interested in investing in Southeast Wisconsin and will work with local leaders to find a new site.

Alaska's oil revival sparks a new energy rush Into the Arctic

13 Brajeshwar 2026-05-25 18:21:59 UTC fortune.com Llama Share 8

Alaska's oil industry is experiencing a resurgence due to new discoveries and regulatory changes. The state's crude potential is greater than expected, with companies investing in projects like the Willow oil project and Pikka field.

He Lost It at the Movies

22 tintinnabula 2026-05-25 15:11:59 UTC theideasletter.org Llama Share 10

A.S. Hamrah is a film critic known for his idiosyncratic and often combative style, which reflects his disdain for commercial interests and mainstream culture. His writing often prioritizes his own opinions and emotions over clear critical philosophy or accurate descriptions, leading to a sense of frustration and confusion in readers.

Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web

474 pantelisk 2026-05-24 21:11:59 UTC audiomass.co Llama Share 105

AudioMass is a free, open source web-based audio editor running in the browser with no plugins required. It supports various audio operations and effects, with key shortcuts using Shift + key combos.

DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost

663 Alifatisk 2026-05-24 19:11:59 UTC esengine.github.io Llama Share 266

Reasonix is a terminal-based AI coding agent for DeepSeek, engineered for prefix-cache stability. It's a free, MIT-licensed project with a paid DeepSeek API key.

The analog computer museum's online library

15 nill0 2026-05-25 16:11:59 UTC analogmuseum.org GoogleT5 Share 0

A scan of the ra 770 manual can be found here for download. the manual describes the so-called "integromat" - the last electromechanical differential analyzer. this manual was written by konrad zuse and is based on his 1975 thesis on analog computing 'in the real world' if you are interested in analog computers, you can find it here. i have also included the schematics of several of my own computers

The physicists who convinced Fermilab to send Brazil's emails

40 maguay 2026-05-25 11:11:59 UTC buttondown.com Llama Share 15

Brazil's introduction to Western networks was hampered by local telecoms and government control, but a few copper wires laid across the Gulf of Mexico in 1991 broke the impasse. Demi Getschko and his team successfully brought the Internet to Brazil, despite being slower than others, by sticking with Fermilab and persevering through setbacks.

The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month

8 sparkling 2026-05-25 18:38:59 UTC eualternative.eu Prefix Share 0

So you are building something on the side and don't want to burn through your hard earned euros. You'd like to spend close to nothing on infrastructure until you have proof anyone wants what you are making. How close to zero can you actually get on a 100% EU infrastructure stack? We only list providers that, at the time of writing this post, offer a permanent* free tier, not just a ...

Migrating from Go to Rust

414 jabits 2026-05-24 19:11:59 UTC corrode.dev Llama Share 401

Go developers considering Rust are often motivated by correctness guarantees, runtime tradeoffs, and developer ergonomics, rather than performance. Rust's type system and borrow checker provide stronger guarantees and more explicit control over runtime behavior, but can be more verbose and require a different mindset.

Bytecode VMs in surprising places (2024)

111 azhenley 2026-05-25 07:11:59 UTC dubroy.com Llama Share 37

Bytecode VMs are used in various places including SQLite, Linux kernel's eBPF, DWARF debug information, WinRAR file format, and TrueType font specification. These VMs are used for executing SQL statements, network packet filtering, debugging, data transformation, and rendering, among other tasks, often providing a flexible and efficient way to execute complex operations.

AI errno(2) values

92 zdw 2026-05-25 09:11:59 UTC netmeister.org Llama Share 18

This C header file defines custom error codes for AI-related issues. The codes cover various problems such as hallucination, system compromise, and excessive marketing.

Show HN: Geomatic – A command-driven geometry studio enabled with autodiff

55 nivter 2026-05-25 09:11:59 UTC tinyvolt.com Full Share 13

Geometric editor with slash command autocomplete

White Rabbit – sub-nanosecond synchronization for large distributed systems

169 michaelsbradley 2026-05-25 00:11:59 UTC ohwr.org Llama Share 38

White Rabbit provides sub-nanosecond accuracy and picoseconds precision for large distributed systems with deterministic data delivery. CERN is recruiting FPGA and hardware designers to work on White Rabbit switch v4 and other projects.

2026 HIPAA Security Rule Update

79 mooreds 2026-05-25 14:11:59 UTC medcurity.com Llama Share 67

The 2026 HIPAA Security Rule is finalized and requires annual security risk assessments, universal encryption of ePHI, multi-factor authentication, regular vulnerability scanning, and detailed compliance documentation. Healthcare organizations must prepare now to meet the new requirements, which will be enforced starting in late 2026 or early 2027, and will require significant changes to ...

Notes about reading messages with the Python email packages

46 ankitg12 2026-05-25 07:11:59 UTC utcc.utoronto.ca Llama Share 4

The user is blocked due to an old browser version or suspicious user agent. They can contact the author to resolve the issue or use a different browser like archive.org.

I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph

635 dougdude3339 2026-05-24 19:11:59 UTC dougmacdowell.com Llama Share 97

I used to live on a quiet hill with a great view of the city, but now I live downtown and work with databases. I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph by hand, learning to control line weight and style, and now I appreciate the process and art of hand-drawn data visualization.

A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned

217 littlexsparkee 2026-05-24 21:11:59 UTC wired.com Llama Share 108

Researchers at Tohoku University discovered a new method to reduce aerodynamic drag by up to 43.6 percent using distributed micro-roughness. This technology, called DMR, delays the transition from laminar to turbulent flow, reducing frictional drag.

Bug 1950764: Work Around Crash on Intel Raptor Lake CPU

158 luu 2026-05-25 00:11:59 UTC phabricator.services.mozilla.com Full Share 52

Jira Is Turing-Complete

283 vinhnx 2026-05-25 04:11:59 UTC seriot.ch Llama Share 132

Jira's automation language is Turing-complete due to a Minsky register machine reduction. It uses two counters and finite instructions to simulate any computation.