ChatGPT Images 2.0

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ChatGPT Images 2.0 introduces a state-of-the-art image generation model with improved text rendering, multilingual support, and advanced visual reasoning.

Making RAM at Home [video]

SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables

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A Vercel OAuth supply chain compromise exposed customer secrets at platform scale due to a compromised third-party OAuth application and Vercel's environment variable model. The incident highlights the risk of OAuth trust relationships bypassing traditional defenses and amplifying blast radius.

San Diego rents declined more than 19 of 20 top US markets after surge in supply

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San Diego rents have decreased by 5.6% for 1-bedroom and 7.5% for 2-bedroom apartments. The city's increased housing supply is credited with helping to keep rents from increasing.

The Mystery in the Medicine Cabinet: Acetaminophen, ibuprofen, and what to know

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Acetaminophen is generally safer than ibuprofen for most people, but both have risks, especially if taken incorrectly. Official sources don't clearly state this due to complexity and fear of giving medical advice, prioritizing safety labels over comparative safety information.

Laws of Software Engineering

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Complex systems evolve from simple ones and have inherent irreducible complexity. Understanding technology and managing it are often mutually exclusive, and quantifiable things can be measured for better outcomes.

Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Senior Engineer

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A data engineer shared honest insights after 10 years of experience. He believes technology stacks don't matter, but certain tools are good at specific jobs.

CrabTrap: An LLM-as-a-judge HTTP proxy to secure agents in production

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CrabTrap is an HTTP proxy that secures AI agents by blocking or approving requests in real time. It allows for editing and adding rules to intercept and log decisions made by the proxy.

Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

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A fully searchable, cross-referenced, and annotated digital edition of the 1910–1911 Encyclopædia Britannica — 40,000+ articles across 28 volumes.

Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM

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The author compared Windows Server 2025 on Intel and ARM systems, finding ARM to be faster due to consistent performance and lower latency. ARM's steady execution timing benefits virtualized environments, but Intel's peak performance is still ideal for workloads requiring high throughput.

Stephen's Sausage Roll remains one of the most influential puzzle games

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Stephen's Sausage Roll, a sokoban game, released 10 years ago, has influenced modern puzzle games with its meticulous design and tough difficulty. It has inspired many developers, including Alan Hazelden, Patrick Traynor, Gwen Frey, Corey Martin, and Joseph Mansfield, to create their own puzzle games.

Diverse organic molecules on Mars revealed by the first SAM TMAH experiment

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(CN) — NASA’s Curiosity rover has found a new set of organic molecules on Mars, including compounds scientists say are linked to the building blocks of life. The discovery comes from a chemical experiment carried out for the first time on another planet and suggests Mars can preserve complex organic material for billions of years. Scientists say the rover identified more than 20 organic ...

Framework Laptop 13 Pro

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The Framework Laptop 13 Pro features Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors, up to 64GB of memory, and 8TB of storage. It's designed for Linux compatibility with a haptic touchpad and customizable ports.

A printing press for biological data

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After having written long-form essays over a weirdly diverse number of areas of the life-sciences, I am increasingly confident in my status as someone who knows a little about a lot of things. But every now and then, you meet someone who casually reveals to you an entire subfield who, up until your conversation with them, you’d never even thought of before. This happened to me when I met ...

Cal.diy: open-source community edition of cal.com

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Cal.diy is a self-hosted, open-source scheduling platform that allows users to manage their own scheduling infrastructure without commercial dependencies. It requires advanced knowledge of server administration and database management, and users must carefully review installation and configuration steps.

Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training

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Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans

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GitHub Copilot's Individual plans are changing to protect existing customers by pausing new sign-ups, tightening usage limits, and adjusting model availability. These changes aim to ensure a predictable experience for existing users while a more sustainable solution is developed.

I'm Sick of AI Everything

User is frustrated with AI saturation and lack of personal learning from AI-generated content. They prefer to block AI at the browser level and dislike generative AI's impact on communication channels.

FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX

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US authorities are investigating the deaths and disappearances of at least 11 scientists with ties to NASA, nuclear research, and classified defense programs. The cases span multiple agencies and companies, including SpaceX and Blue Origin, and have raised concerns about a potential national security threat.

Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero

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TagTinker is a Flipper Zero app for infrared ESL protocol study and controlled experiments on authorized hardware. It's licensed under GPL-3.0 and intended for educational research only.

Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?

It appears that Anthropic has removed Claude Code from its $20-a-month pro subscription based on its pricing page. Anyone able to confirm who has a $20 plan? claude.com/pricing

Hunting a 34 year old pointer bug in EtherSlip (DOS Networking)

A few weeks ago I was revisiting my instructions for running a SLIP connection between a DOS PC and Linux. If you are not familiar with SLIP it stands for Serial Line Internet Protocol, and it lets you run TCP/IP over a PC serial port. TCP/IP is much faster over Ethernet, but a serial port can work too. There are several packet drivers for DOS that let you make SLIP connections. One that I ...

Global growth in solar "the largest ever observed for any source"

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The International Energy Agency declared 2025 the first year of solar's dominance, with solar production outpacing rising demand and leading to the "Age of Electricity." Solar generated over 2,700 terawatt-hours last year, more than double its output from three years earlier.

Optimizing Tail Sampling in OpenTelemetry with Retroactive Sampling

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Retroactive sampling reduces outbound traffic, CPU, and memory usage by sending only necessary attributes to the collector and buffering raw data on edge agents. It uses an on-disk FIFO queue to reduce memory pressure and can be implemented in OpenTelemetry collector to optimize bandwidth, CPU, and memory usage.

Trellis AI (YC W24) Is hiring engineers to build self-improving agents

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Trellis AI automates healthcare operations with AI agents processing billions in therapies annually. The company is backed by YC and seeks a developer to build production-grade AI systems for healthcare decision-making.

Running a Minecraft Server and More on a 1960s Univac Computer

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The user successfully ran a Minecraft server on a 1960s UNIVAC 1219B computer with only 90kb RAM, achieving their goal of running real, complex programs on the ancient machine. They accomplished this by writing a RISC-V emulator in UNIVAC assembly, optimizing it for speed, and using a combination of fuzz testing, LLMs, and manual debugging to overcome technical limitations and hardware issues.

Zindex – Diagram Infrastructure for Agents

Agents create and edit diagrams with durable state, using a structured pipeline with validation and multiple render targets. The engine handles geometry, enabling incremental updates and inspectable steps for diagrams like architecture and workflows.

Theseus, a Static Windows Emulator

The user discusses the challenges of Windows emulation and proposes a new approach called static binary translation, which involves compiling x86 code into native machine code ahead of time using a compiler. This approach has several benefits, including improved performance, easier development, and the ability to use native debugging tools, but also has technical and cultural challenges, such ...

Show HN: VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files

Browser-based video tools offer private processing, resizing, and compression for social media platforms. They support audio extraction, effects, and mixing for various workflows.