Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop

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LocalSend is a free, open-source app for secure local file sharing and messaging over a network without an internet connection. It uses HTTPS encryption and a REST API for secure communication between devices.

Microsoft VibeVoice: Open-Source Frontier Voice AI

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VibeVoice is an open-source AI framework for speech synthesis and recognition, supporting multiple languages and long-form audio processing. It includes models for text-to-speech and automatic speech recognition, with features like speaker tracking and customized hotwords.

Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage

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Lumara is an app tracking solar activity, lunar phases, and space weather in real-time from NASA data. It uses Jean Meeus's algorithms and fetches imagery directly from NASA servers, with no data collection.

Deep under Antarctic ice, a long-predicted cosmic whisper breaks through

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OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership

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Tools For Humanity announced a partnership with Bruno Mars, but it was later revealed to be a case of mistaken identity. The company is actually partnering with Thirty Seconds to Mars on their 2027 European tour.

Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

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Researchers have created a 13B vintage language model called talkie-1930-13b-base trained on 260B tokens of historical pre-1931 English text to simulate conversations with people from the past. The model's performance is compared to its modern counterpart, with talkie underperforming in some standard LM evaluations but showing similar performance on core language understanding and numeracy tasks.

UAE Leaves OPEC and OPEC+

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I Spent My Sabbatical Building a Power Meter for Sledgehammers

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The founder built a power meter for sledgehammer strikes, called Intensity Pad, during a paid month off from Shopify. The project aimed to make a fundamental human movement, core flexion, more measurable and trainable.

Period tracking app has been yapping about your flow to Meta

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A woman's period tracking app, Flo, shared her sensitive health data with Meta without consent, violating her trust and potentially selling her data for commercial gain. This highlights a bigger issue in non-medical health tracking software, where there's too much gray area around consent when it comes to selling user health information to advertisers.

The predictable failure of the QDay Prize

The QDay Prize competition failed due to a "Falling With Style-style trick" submission that used random calls instead of quantum calls. This highlights the need for a blameless post-mortem to improve future competitions.

UAE to leave OPEC in blow to oil cartel

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Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Test your color perception with this interactive test.

WASM is not quite a stack machine

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Wasm is not a pure stack machine due to its lack of stack manipulation operations. It can be viewed as a register machine with operations generalized to compound expressions.

Voice Modems

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The design of modern cellphones' audio architecture is a legacy of the original Hayes Smartmodem, which introduced a standardized control interface between modems and computers in the 1980s. The Smartmodem's influence led to the development of voice modems in the 1990s, which allowed computers to make and receive voice calls using AT commands and standardized protocols like V.253.

The World's Most Complex Machine

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ASML, a Dutch company, dominates the market for lithography machines used in semiconductor manufacturing. Its machines are crucial for producing the world's smallest chips.

GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes

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GitHub Copilot code review will be billed as AI Credits under a new usage-based model starting June 1, 2026. Private repository reviews will consume GitHub Actions minutes from existing plans, with excess usage billed at standard rates.
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The author discusses a series of open source supply chain incidents caused by GitHub Actions features behaving as documented, but with unintended consequences. These incidents include credential harvesting, cache poisoning, and malicious package publishing.

An Update on GitHub Availability

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GitHub experienced two recent incidents due to rapid growth in software development and has started increasing capacity by 10X with a goal of substantially improving reliability and failover. The company is prioritizing availability, reducing unnecessary work, improving caching, and isolating critical services to prevent similar incidents in the future.

Pgrx: Build Postgres Extensions with Rust

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PGRX is a Rust framework for developing PostgreSQL extensions, supporting various platforms and PostgreSQL versions. It provides a safe and idiomatic way to interact with PostgreSQL internals.

Phone is about to stop being yours

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Google is imposing a developer verification requirement on Android, which critics say is a move to consolidate power and control over the open ecosystem. This change could effectively make Google the gatekeeper for all apps on certified Android devices.

GTFOBins

GTFOBins is a curated list of Unix-like executables that can be used to bypass local security restrictions in misconfigured systems.

Tiled Words 6 Month Update

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User wanted to make games since childhood, but struggled to create a successful game as an adult. However, their game Tiled Words surpassed expectations with thousands of daily players and an award, allowing them to release new puzzles daily and engage with a supportive community.

Mo RAM, Mo Problems (2025)

The author built a Quake PC with 384 MiB of RAM, but performance suffered due to the 430FX chipset's 64M cache limit. Removing excess RAM restored performance, revealing a common issue with Windows 95 and NT loading from the top down.

In Kannauj, perfumers have been making monsoon-infused mitti attar for centuries

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Can You Find the Comet?

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A comet is visible in the night sky, but it's hard to see due to its proximity to the Sun. It will be best viewed from southern hemisphere skies in coming weeks before fading into interstellar space.

Meetings are forcing functions

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Organizations can use standing meetings to maintain progress on complex projects with multiple stakeholders. By reviewing previous to-dos, it creates pressure to make progress and accountability among team members.

Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal

Microsoft and OpenAI dropped exclusive deal allowing OpenAI to pursue deals with other cloud-computing companies. Microsoft will no longer pay revenue share on OpenAI products resold on its cloud.

Easyduino: Open Source PCB Devboards for KiCad

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The Easyduino project is an open-source effort to create PCB designs for popular microcontrollers using KiCad. It aims to unify software and conventions across devboards like Arduino, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi.

Networking changes coming in macOS 27

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Apple is warning of two significant changes in macOS 27: removal of AFP support and a requirement for TLS 1.2 connections to certain servers. These changes may impact enterprise users and those with Time Capsules or NAS systems that don't support SMB3.

High Performance Git

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The book explains Git's performance costs through its layers, including objects, refs, index, and history traversal. It's written for engineers to keep Git fast as repositories grow, covering diagnosis, configuration, and recovery.