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.

Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe

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The author's new book passed epubcheck but was reported as "corrupted" by a Kobo user due to Adobe's RMSDK rendering engine not supporting modern CSS. The issue was resolved by disabling the stylesheet and updating the CSS to be compatible with RMSDK.

Did Anthropic ask for this?

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The US government issued an export control directive prohibiting Anthropic from giving foreign nationals access to their AI models, Claude Fable and Claude Mythos, as per their CEO's previous statements on AI regulation. Anthropic's CEO, Dario Amodei, had advocated for government regulation of AI, including export controls, to mitigate risks.

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

What even is food authenticity? Why we guard carbonara, and flatten chicken rice

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There is a peculiar theater to the internet’s culinary landscape, and if you spend enough time observing it, you will inevitably stumble into a warzone over authenticity. For example, no action incites internet fury faster than recipes of spaghetti carbonara that includes a splash of cream (or, god forbid, garlic). The discourse inevitably devolves into discussion about the ‘authentic’ way to ...

Chopped, Stored, Secured – The Story of the Hash Function

Peter Luhn came up with the idea of using math to verify and store information, Birthday problem explains the collisions in Hash tables, Rabin-Karp algorithm uses rolling hash to search strings. We’ve talked so much about hash, yet not a single time was the definition of the hash function itself provided. In 1956 the idea of hashing was for the first time defined by Arnold Dumey. His passion ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech

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Stanford grads walk out as Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage as commencement speaker. No mention of AI, unlike other uni speakers getting booed down this year. Story for @sfgate shortly https://t.co/qvS2rJ91Ip

The Jqwik Anti-AI Affair

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The logging code I added to jqwik was never meant to work verbatim in the wild, and there is no evidence that it ever did. It was an act of self-defence, and I was following my personal moral judgement. It was meant to make an Anti-AI point and send the message to those who use coding agents: “Not everybody approves of what you do - and with good ethical reasons”. In that respect I fully ...

Segmented type appreciation corner (2018)

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AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter

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Jqwik author Johannes Link added a message to the tool's output to delete tests and code for AI coding agents. He later backed down after complaints from unhappy bots.

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.

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.

TorchCodec 0.14: HDR Video Decoding for CPU and CUDA, and Fast Wav Decoder

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TorchCodec 0.14 adds fast audio WavDecoder and HDR video decoding support. It also drops NPP dependency for CUDA decoding.

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.

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.

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.

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.

FarOutCompany

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

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.
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The best Wikipedia rabbit holes and evergreen YouTube videos from Hacker News - 2,183 articles and 2,076 videos.

USB Power Delivery: Plugging into the Benefits

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USB standards have evolved to deliver faster and more powerful wired connections, with USB PD and EPR supporting up to 240W power levels. Certified products are expected to arrive by 2029, bringing faster device charging and data transfer to various industries.

Abu Fanous

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Abu Fanous is a mysterious desert light phenomenon in the Arabian Peninsula that appears unpredictably and lures people into the desert. Its cause remains unknown, with theories including natural gases igniting in the air.

The first game engine for robotics

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Lucky Engine is a game engine for robotics that simulates real-world physics and allows for AI training with accurate episodes. It connects to real robots and enables teams to train and deploy autonomous systems at scale.

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.

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.

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.