Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

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Valve released CAD files for the Steam Controller and Puck, allowing modders to create custom accessories. The files are under a Creative Commons license for non-commercial use, with commercial entities needing to contact Valve directly.

Appearing Productive in the Workplace

Generative AI is creating a new form of "slop" in workplaces, where workers rely on tools to produce work without understanding its quality. This leads to a loss of judgment and expertise, as humans become conduits for AI-generated output rather than evaluators of its quality.

The bottleneck was never the code

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Coding agents have reduced the cost of software development, but increased the importance of context and collaboration. Effective use of agents requires externalizing context and maintaining organizational coherence, which is a harder challenge than individual productivity gains.

From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth

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The user's company Val Town switched from Clerk to Better Auth for authentication due to reliability and rate limiting issues with Clerk, which caused site outages and complexity. Better Auth provided a more reliable and customizable solution, allowing Val Town to regain control over user sessions and data.

Show HN: Hallucinopedia

Hallucinopedia is an encyclopedia covering unusual topics with equal seriousness. It features articles on obscure events, scientific disciplines, and cultural phenomena.

Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent Sandbox with a Transactional, Versioned Filesystem

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Tilde provides a versioned filesystem for autonomous AI agents, ensuring safe use with real data and logging every action. It's built on lakeFS, a battle-tested data versioning layer for managing billions of objects.

Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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Cloudflare and Stripe partnered to allow coding agents to provision Cloudflare accounts, subscriptions, and domains without human intervention. Agents can now deploy apps to production with zero friction for the end user.

StarFighter 16-Inch

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This laptop features a true matte display, haptic trackpad, and open firmware options for customization. It also includes a removable webcam, wireless switch, and durable ceramic coating for a secure and long-lasting experience.

Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer

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Try the Templatical drag-and-drop email editor in this interactive playground. Build, preview, and export email templates directly in your browser.

CARA 2.0 – “I Built a Better Robot Dog”

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The user built CARA 2.0, an upgraded version of their quadrupedal robot CARA 1.0, with a goal of making it low-cost and durable, and achieved a significant reduction in cost while retaining dynamic functionality. The user rewound the motors to increase torque, modified the motor controller firmware, and redesigned the robot's leg and frame to improve its performance and aesthetics, ultimately ...

What makes a good smartphone camera?

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Smartphone camera quality is affected by various factors including sensor size, noise, and exposure, with sensor size being the most important factor in determining image detail. To take better photos, clean the lens, use enough light, and avoid over-reliance on software processing, such as AI-enhanced features, which can compromise image quality.

Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10

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The user set up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10 by following a specific VM configuration and installing the Sun Ray Server Software package, which required a period-accurate Java Runtime Environment and Apache Tomcat. The user then configured the Sun Ray server to use ISC DHCP, installed the needed libraries for hotdesking, and set up the TFTP root for the DTUs to pull their ...

Google tools for customizing searches

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Google's search results are filtered through an algorithm that prioritizes advertisers and may not always provide accurate information, so it's essential to use advanced search operators and techniques to find reliable sources. Alternative search engines like Kagi, DuckDuckGo, and Startpage offer different features and approaches to searching, and understanding how to use them effectively can ...

The Thinking Plant's Man (2025)

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Jagadish Chandra Bose demonstrated plant sensitivity and nervous system in 1926, showing electrical signals in plants. His work was initially met with skepticism and controversy, but recent research supports his findings, establishing plant neurobiology as a new field.

Colombia hosts talks on exiting fossil fuels as global energy crisis deepens

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Countries from over 50 nations gather in Colombia to discuss transitioning away from fossil fuels, amid growing frustration with slow global climate talks. The meeting aims to develop a global road map to phase out oil, gas, and coal, but major emitters like China, US, and India are not participating.

Knitting bullshit

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The user discusses "knitting bullshit" as a type of discourse that lacks connection to truth and reality, exemplified by AI-generated podcast episodes and animated films that celebrate knitting without providing accurate information or engaging with the craft's history and practices. The user argues that this type of content degrades the knitting community and industry by parasitizing and ...

Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server

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You've released a full reverse-engineering of the 1998 Ultima Online demo server, translating 5,000 functions from MSVC x86 to portable C99. The result is an almost perfect replica of a 1998 Ultima Online server with some differences and new features.

Coverage Cat (YC S22) Seeks Fractional Engineer to build AI Growth Toolkit

The company is hiring for an organic growth engineer role, excluding applicants from 11 US states. The job involves designing AI tools and implementing in-person canvassing efforts to grow the company's AI-native insurance broker.

CNN founder Ted Turner, a pioneer of cable TV news, dies at 87

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Ted Turner, a media mogul and philanthropist, died at 87 after a life of revolutionizing television news and building a media empire. He founded CNN, a pioneering 24-hour news network, and was a devoted philanthropist, conservationist, and activist.

Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors

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Researchers created metal tags with unique frequencies for smart home sensing and activity recognition. The tags can be attached to various objects to track activities, monitor usage, or trigger timers.

Multi-stroke text effect in CSS

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User tried replicating a retro multi-stroke text effect using CSS text-stroke property, but achieved desired result by varying text-stroke-width for stacked elements. Browsers automatically draw outlines of characters with different stroke widths, but performance is poor, especially with large font sizes.

245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping

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Micron Technology announced the 245TB Micron 6600 ION SSD, the world's highest capacity commercially available SSD. It reduces rack space by 82% and power consumption by half compared to HDD-based deployments.

Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like

The author discussed the convergence of vibe coding and agentic engineering, realizing that relying on AI tools for coding can blur the lines between responsible and irresponsible use. They value proven solutions over perfect documentation and tests.

Wolfenstein 3D for Gameboy Color on custom cartridge (2016)

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The user designed and built a Gameboy cartridge for Wolfenstein 3D using a custom PCB and a KE04 processor, implementing features such as ROM bank switching, RAM banks, and a password system. The project was completed with the addition of music, sound playback, and a HUD, and the user is now focusing on software development and testing the cartridge.

YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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Users are frustrated with YouTube's unreliable feeds in feed readers and lack of effort to surface links to these feeds. They want to follow their favorite creators without relying on the platform's algorithms and homepage feeds.

RAM prices are forcing companies to choose higher prices, worse specs, or both

Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

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We've partnered with SpaceX and other companies to increase our compute capacity, allowing us to raise usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API. This includes doubling rate limits for Pro and Max plans, removing peak hour limits, and raising API rate limits for Claude Opus models.

Egg Intake and the Incidence of Alzheimer's Disease in Adventist Health Study-2

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Virtual violin produces realistic sounds

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MIT engineers developed a "computational violin" that simulates the physics of a violin's sound. The tool can help luthiers design and tweak a violin's sound before it's built.
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on users' devices without consent, violating Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive and GDPR principles of lawfulness, fairness, and transparency. The model's environmental cost is significant, with estimated CO2-equivalent emissions ranging from 6,000 to 60,000 tonnes per model push, depending on the number of devices affected.