Soft launch of open-source code platform for government

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code.overheid.nl is a government-wide code platform for open-source software, currently a pilot using Forgejo. Developers are invited to contribute and join the platform by emailing codeplatform@rijksoverheid.nl.

Ghostty is leaving GitHub

The author has been using GitHub daily for 18 years, finding it the place where they've been happiest and most productive. However, due to frequent outages and reliability issues, they've decided to leave GitHub and move their project Ghostty to a new platform.

Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things

The internet has lost many services and platforms over the years, including ICQ, MSN Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, and others. These services were once popular but eventually shut down or merged with other platforms.

Bugs Rust won't catch

Canonical disclosed 44 CVEs in uutils, a Rust reimplementation of GNU coreutils. The bugs highlight the importance of careful handling of paths, bytes, and syscalls in systems code.

HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle

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HardenedBSD's Radicle integration is now usable, but still has performance issues and needs further work. Users should configure Radicle to support larger repos by editing ~/.radicle/config.json.

How ChatGPT serves ads

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OpenAI's ad platform injects ad units into ChatGPT conversations and tracks clicks with Fernet-encrypted tokens. The platform uses two domains and specific cookies to track ad events and user behavior.

Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team

Gongyu Su from EETree LLC, the new Tindie ownership team, apologizes for recent downtime and disruption. They plan to stabilize the platform, resolve issues, and invest in Tindie's future as a marketplace for makers and creators.

Before GitHub

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The author reflects on GitHub's decline and its impact on the Open Source community, remembering a time when projects were more decentralized and had more autonomy. They advocate for a public archive to preserve Open Source history and suggest that the community should learn from the past to build a more resilient future.

Show HN: Rocky – Rust SQL engine with branches, replay, column lineage

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Rocky is a Rust-based control plane for warehouse pipelines with features like branches, replay, and compile-time safety. It helps prevent data corruption and provides column-level lineage and cost attribution.

Why Law Is Law-Shaped

Law is a graph of provisions with hierarchical structure, requiring stable fine-grained addresses for external reference. A replay compiler like LawVM captures the text layer correctly as a reproducible process, separating it from the semantic layer for accurate normative analysis.

Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU

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An autonomous research loop was tested outside its comfort zone, achieving a 92% improvement over a baseline VexRiscv CPU on CoreMark iter/sec. The loop's success was due to a verifier that caught and rejected incorrect hypotheses.

Withnail's Coat and I

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The Withnail coat from the 1987 film Withnail & I is a distinctive and iconic piece of men's clothing. It was designed by Andrea Galer and made from a unique Heather Brown tweed fabric.

Low-Compilation-Cost Register Allocation in LLVM-Based Binary Translation

Researchers propose a low-compilation-cost strategy called LCCRA to improve register allocation in LLVM-based binary translators, reducing end-to-end latency and compilation overhead. LCCRA achieves a 5.76%-7.79% reduction in end-to-end latency and a 69.55%-74.98% reduction in register allocation time in various translation scenarios.

OpenAI models coming to Amazon Bedrock: Interview with OpenAI and AWS CEOs

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Matt Garman and Sam Altman discussed how AWS and OpenAI are partnering to make AI more accessible to businesses, with Bedrock Managed Agents being a key product that integrates OpenAI models with AWS infrastructure. The integration of models and harnesses is crucial for making AI work effectively, and the partnership aims to make it easier for businesses to build and deploy AI-powered agents.

GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown

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Wiz Research discovered a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-3854) in GitHub's internal git infrastructure that allowed remote code execution on shared storage nodes and full server compromise on GitHub Enterprise Server. GitHub mitigated the issue within 6 hours and released patches for all supported versions.

Gallium oxide electronics withstand extreme cold

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KAUST researchers found gallium oxide devices can operate at extremely low temperatures, enabling applications like quantum computing and space exploration. The devices use silicon atoms to help electrons flow, allowing them to work at temperatures as low as 2 K.

I won a championship that doesn't exist

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The user manufactured a fake 6 Nimmt! World Championship title by creating a seeded website and a Wikipedia edit, demonstrating a cheaper and easier attack on LLM trust models. This attack, known as the circular citation pattern, can compromise LLMs by creating a fake source that appears trustworthy, highlighting the need for better source verification and provenance surfacing in AI systems.

Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?

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Using AI coding tools like Claude Code raises complex questions about code ownership, copyright, and regulatory compliance, and developers must document their creative contributions to establish meaningful human authorship. Employment contracts and IP clauses can also impact code ownership, and developers should read their contracts and consider using personal tools and accounts to avoid ...

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.

Your 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.

Behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity rewires the brain after an experience

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Neuroscientists have discovered a new form of neuroplasticity called behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity (BTSP) that helps the brain learn from a single experience. BTSP strengthens synapses across several seconds, allowing the brain to capture behavioral processes of learning.

Warp is now open-source

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Warp's client is now open-source, allowing the community to participate in building it using an agent-first workflow managed by Oz. This change aims to accelerate product development and give developers a chance to shape the future of agentic development.

Intel Arc Pro B70 Review

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Intel Arc Pro B70 is a professional GPU with 32 GB VRAM, offering improved performance over the B50, but still trailing behind NVIDIA and AMD GPUs in most workloads. It excels in AI-inference workloads, outperforming the R9700 in MLPerf and offering a promising configuration for multi-GPU inference workstations.

We still don't have a more precise value for "Big G"

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Physicists have been trying to measure the gravitational constant, or Big G, with high precision for over two centuries due to its weak value and background noise from the Earth's gravitational field. A recent experiment by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) replicated a previous result and obtained a value of 6.67387×10^-11 meters^3/kilogram/second^2.

Regression: malware reminder on every read still causes subagent refusals

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User is experiencing issues with Claude's reminder system causing subagents to refuse code edits on legitimate OSS projects. The reminder is injected into every Read and Grep result, wasting tokens and causing parallel workflows to fail.

Apple CMF (Color-Matching Functions) 2026

Apple has released two new 27-inch 5K Retina displays, Studio Display and Studio Display XDR, with the latter using Apple CMF 2026 for colour calibration. The displays have varying levels of colour accuracy and contrast ratios.

Show HN: Drive any macOS app in the background without stealing the cursor

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cuabot is a tool for automating computer tasks with a seamless sandbox for coding agents. It allows running native macOS apps in the background and recording trajectories for training.

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.

When the Internet Was a Place

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The internet has evolved from a physical place we visited to a pervasive, always-on environment that erodes our capacity for rootedness and freedom. To recover a healthier digital culture, we must reimagine the internet as a place we choose to enter and leave on human terms.

UAE to leave OPEC

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