Is The Economist Always Wrong?

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The Economist's predictions have been criticized for being inaccurate, but an AI model found that they were right more often than wrong, especially when they were neither too conventional nor too daring. The magazine's record shows that it has made some accurate predictions, such as the rise of Bitcoin and the spread of covid-19, but also some incorrect ones, like the peak in global oil demand.

GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup

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Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor

Tenda firmware versions contain an undocumented authentication backdoor granting admin access. An attacker can exploit CVE-2026-11405 to bypass password verification and gain full control.

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Video Lectures (1986)

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Twenty video lectures by Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman present a 1986 course on computer programming. The lectures follow the first edition of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs and remain useful for students using the second edition.

Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 years

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The École national d'horlogerie in Trois-Rivières, Canada, teaches watchmaking to 20 full-time students with a focus on jewelry making and specialized skills. The school may have to move due to a primary school's need for more space, posing a challenge in transporting its millions of tiny pieces.

Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro

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Kokoro is a local speech generation model that produces realistic speech in multiple languages without compromising privacy. It can synthesize speech on a local machine using a CPU, with a container image available for easy setup and use.

StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time

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Help improve OpenStreetMap with StreetComplete! This app finds missing map data in your vicinity and displays it on a map as quests. Solve each quest by visiting the location on-site and answering a simple question to update the map. The info you enter is directly added to OpenStreetMap in your name, without the need to use another editor.

Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained

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Two EU "Chat Control" laws are moving through institutions in parallel, one expired and the other being revived. The laws aim to regulate digital platforms' detection and reporting of child sexual abuse material, with disagreement over scanning of private communications.

We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12

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We're extending access to Claude Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12.

Show HN: Chiptune Radio

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Chiptune Radio is a Twitch stream featuring music from classic sound hardware. It's a continuous broadcast of nostalgic tunes by Aleph Void, LLC.

Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

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Davit is a container management app for macOS that directly interacts with Apple's container daemon. It offers features like live monitoring, interactive shells, and customizable settings.

Herdr: One terminal to rule them all

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Recomputing on every PTY chunk causes mid-frame repaints. Handoff suite passes, including server replacement and long-lived workloads.

30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format

The user provided a list of various research papers, blog posts, and articles related to deep learning, neural networks, and artificial intelligence, covering topics such as variational autoencoders, convolutional networks, recurrent neural networks, and transformer models. These resources aim to explain complex concepts in deep learning and provide practical examples and implementations for ...

A better way to tie gym shorts (or any drawstring) [video]

Pure-Python symbolic regression that rediscovered Kepler's law from 8 data point

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GP_ELITE is a Python library for symbolic regression that discovers mathematical formulas from data. It's suitable for small datasets and provides robustness against outliers.

An interactive explorer for Benford's Law across real datasets

Benford's Law describes the distribution of leading digits in naturally occurring numbers, with digit 1 appearing about 30% of the time and digit 9 less than 5%.

l: A new runtime for k and q

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l is a new engine built for modern memory, using compressed vectors, SIMD, and parallelism to run k4, q, and qSQL unchanged. It moves fewer bytes, making it fast, and automatically picks the execution path with no annotations.

Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera

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Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop

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Rowboat is a desktop AI coworker with a built-in knowledge graph that indexes work and allows collaboration with AI. It includes email client, notes, browser, code mode, and workspaces for different projects.

Scheme Is a Hoot

You're learning Scheme and using Hoot to compile it to the Web, overcoming challenges with its instability and documentation. You've successfully set up your code to run on native Guile and WASM via Hoot, with tests running in both environments.

Jim's TrueType QR Code Font

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This repo generates experimental OpenType fonts that turn bracketed text into QR codes while preserving readability. The fonts are generated from Liberation Sans Regular and licensed under the SIL Open Font License.

First Principles of Model Routing

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Develop 4 principles for model routing: keep models distinct, keep the model pool small, use real-world benchmarks, and evaluate past decisions. This helps make informed routing decisions and optimize model performance.

Show HN: Free Mermaid Diagram Editor

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Moxie generates architecture diagrams from source code and refreshes them on every merge. It connects to GitHub and exports diagrams as SVG or PNG with one click.

IEEE Rolls Out Large Language Models Training Course

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Large language models are changing engineering practice with their ability to orchestrate complex tasks, but require technical expertise to implement and secure effectively. To use LLMs effectively, developers must understand their internal logic and core principles to ensure reliability and avoid risks like hallucinations.

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Notes on Software Quality

Quality is a result of ability and appetite, where organisations have people who can produce high quality and allow quality to be achieved.

AI Meets Cryptography 1: What AI Found in Cloudflare's Circl

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zkSecurity's AI audit pipeline, zkao, found seven real bugs in Cloudflare's CIRCL experimental cryptography library, including a critical float64 precision loss in threshold RSA and a complete access-control break in attribute-based encryption, all of which are now fixed upstream. The AI's severity ratings were inconsistent, overrating some bugs and underrating others, highlighting the need ...

Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again

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Researchers found that emigration from Germany is driven by multiple factors including family reasons and discrimination. Public policy can influence contributing factors such as bureaucracy and language acquisition.

Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler

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PgDog is a Postgres proxy that scales connections without requiring trade-offs like connection poolers do. It preserves features like SET commands and LISTEN/NOTIFY, making it a more reliable option for scaling Postgres.

Fixing analog audio on the $2.58 HDMI-to-VGA adapter

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The user purchased an ultra-cheap HDMI-to-VGA DAC to connect their Nintendo Switch to a CRT monitor and external speakers, but encountered serious noise problems due to the DAC's audio output. After extensive troubleshooting and modifications, including designing a low-pass filter to reduce switching noise and swapping the analog audio channels, the user was able to achieve a functional audio ...