Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain

142 speckx 2026-05-13 15:21:49 UTC fredchan.org Llama Share 28

To get a free locality domain in the US, you need to be a US citizen or resident, or have a US-based organization, and register with a delegated manager for your locality. You'll need to set up nameservers with Amazon Lightsail and fill out the Interim .US Domain Template to register your domain.

Why I'm leaving GitHub for Forgejo

325 jorijn 2026-05-13 13:21:49 UTC jorijn.com Llama Share 173

I moved my code from GitHub to a self-hosted Forgejo instance due to concerns about Microsoft's ownership and control of GitHub, as well as the company's increasing reliance on AI and potential data collection practices. The Dutch government made a similar decision, and I chose Forgejo for its fully open-source nature and ability to maintain digital autonomy, despite some migration friction ...

I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe

600 monokai_nl 2026-05-13 12:21:49 UTC monokai.com Llama Share 413

The user migrated their digital infrastructure to European-based services to achieve digital sovereignty, choosing tools like Proton Mail, Scaleway, and Lettermint for email, hosting, and transactional email.

Open Source Resistance: keep OSS alive on company time

26 mikemcquaid 2026-05-13 15:21:49 UTC ossresistance.com Llama Share 8

Companies that rely on open source software should allow maintainers to work on it during work hours without needing permission. This is not a new idea, but rather treating open source maintenance as part of infrastructure work, not a hobby.

S-100 Virtual Workbench

9 rbanffy 2026-05-13 15:53:49 UTC grantmestrength.github.io Prefix Share 1

Intel 8080A processor running at a configurable clock rate. Supports all standard 8080 instructions, memory-mapped I/O, RST interrupts, and HOLD/HLDA bus arbitration. Zilog Z80 processor — fully compatible with the 8080 instruction set, plus extended instructions (IX/IY registers, CB/DD/ED/FD prefixes), two interrupt modes, and block operations. Static read/write memory occupying a ...

Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15

101 curiousgal 2026-05-13 12:21:49 UTC discuss.python.org Llama Share 24

Python 3.14 and 3.15 will revert to the generational GC due to memory pressure issues. 3.14 will release an early patch 3.14.5 and 3.15 may release an extra alpha 9.

Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC

19 andsoitis 2026-05-13 15:21:49 UTC github.com/nooga Llama Share 1

The game generates new content and mechanics each run, with an inverted power curve and a reality engine that's difficult to control. The game features a unique blend of survival and strategy, with a focus on experimentation and chaos.

An idiot's guide to lead optimisation for proteins

69 magni121 2026-05-13 12:21:49 UTC magnusross.github.io Llama Share 2

Protein design involves generating new molecules that perform a specific function, and lead optimisation is a crucial step in improving the function of an existing template molecule. A machine learning-based system, such as the Cradle pipeline, uses a transformer-based protein language model to predict protein sequences and function, and can be fine-tuned to make more relevant suggestions for ...

Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter

146 dmitrygr 2026-05-13 09:21:49 UTC dmitry.gr Llama Share 23

A complete reverse engineering, documentation, emulation, and preservation of all Fisher-Price/Mattel Pixter device series and almost all the games was achieved, including the discovery of a 16-bit virtual machine that executes most simple opcodes in a dozen cycles or so. The Pixter Color device was found to use a unique audio system that involves a Melody Chip, which is controlled using a ...

Dutch suicide prevention website shares data with tech companies without consent

205 giuliomagnifico 2026-05-13 13:21:49 UTC nltimes.nl Llama Share 145

The Dutch suicide prevention hotline 113 shared visitor data with third parties without consent, including Google and Microsoft, violating GDPR. Stichting 113 temporarily disabled data sharing tools after being confronted with the issue.

New stainless steel can survive conditions for hydrogen production in seawater

211 HardwareLust 2026-05-13 07:21:49 UTC sciencedaily.com Llama Share 86

A team at the University of Hong Kong developed a new "super steel" that resists corrosion in seawater, making it suitable for green hydrogen production. The steel uses a double-protection mechanism and could replace costly titanium parts, reducing production costs by 40 times.

50K Tahoe residents need power as utility eyes redirecting lines to data centers

39 cdrnsf 2026-05-13 15:21:49 UTC fortune.com Llama Share 13

Lake Tahoe faces an energy crisis as NV Energy will stop supplying power after May 2027 to serve data centers. Liberty Utilities must find a new power source for 49,000 California customers in less than a year.

Nailing jelly to a wall: is it possible? (2005)

31 microsoftedging 2026-05-13 14:21:49 UTC greem.co.uk Llama Share 7

A person tried to nail jelly to a wall using nails and a plank of wood. The jelly broke off the wall due to its weak structural integrity.

Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers

600 Murfalo 2026-05-12 22:21:49 UTC github.com/fulu-foundation Full Share 263

Contribute to FULU-Foundation/OrcaSlicer-bambulab development by creating an account on GitHub.

Substrate (YC S24) Is Hiring a Technical Success Manager

0 2026-05-13 12:21:49 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Substrate is hiring a Technical Success Manager to help healthcare clients with AI native BPO, focusing on RCM and reimbursement. The role requires deep technical understanding and client relationship ownership.

Heritability of human life span is ~50% when heritability is redefined

17 surprisetalk 2026-05-13 15:21:49 UTC dynomight.net Llama Share 9

The heritability of lifespan is estimated to be around 40% when extrinsic mortality is adjusted to modern levels, according to a mathematical model that simulates the lifespans of twins in a hypothetical world without non-aging related deaths. The model suggests that heritability would be higher in a world with lower extrinsic mortality, but the actual value depends on the level of extrinsic ...

Using OR-Tools CP-SAT for Scheduling Problems

49 akutlay 2026-05-13 11:21:49 UTC atalaykutlay.com Llama Share 10

The user is trying to improve maintenance scheduling in Akamai's cloud infrastructure, particularly for disruptive maintenance on hypervisor hosts, and found Google's OR-Tools library to be a strong fit for solving this complex problem. The user explains how OR-Tools' CP-SAT solver can model scheduling problems more intuitively and efficiently than Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) solvers, ...

Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation Without Heuristics

263 matt_d 2026-05-13 05:21:49 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 63

Elevator translates x86-64 executables to AArch64 without debug info or assumptions. It produces separate translations for each byte interpretation, enabling testing and validation before deployment.

Googlebook

876 tambourine_man 2026-05-12 18:21:49 UTC googlebook.google Full Share 1452

Meet Googlebook: A new kind of laptop designed for Gemini Intelligence. Built with heavyweight power and perfectly in sync with your Android Phone. Sign up for updates and stay in the know.

Web Server on a Nintendo Wii

71 adunk 2026-05-13 11:21:49 UTC wii.sjmulder.nl Llama Share 15

User runs a web server on a Nintendo Wii with NetBSD 10.1, serving IPv6 clients directly and proxying IPv4 clients through another server. They use a Realtek 8153 chip USB Ethernet adapter for networking.

Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model

575 HenryNdubuaku 2026-05-12 18:21:49 UTC github.com/cactus-compute Llama Share 165

Gemini 3.1 was distilled into a 26m Simple Attention Network, Needle, for consumer devices. Needle outperforms other models in single-shot function calls but may be finicky and less effective in conversational settings.

Kickstarter Is Forced to Ban Adult Content by Payment Processors

103 stalfosknight 2026-05-13 15:27:49 UTC kotaku.com Llama Share 88

Kickstarter updated its "Mature Content" guidelines to prohibit violent, derogatory, and photo-realistic content. The change may be due to pressure from payment processor Stripe, which partially owns by Palantir Chairman Peter Thiel and X proprietor Elon Musk.

The limits of Rust, or why you should probably not follow Amazon and Cloudflare

36 randomint64 2026-05-13 15:21:49 UTC kerkour.com Llama Share 15

The author of Black Hat Rust book argues that Rust's ecosystem is fragmented and its rapid releases cause more problems than benefits.

Fragnesia Made Public as Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

8 mikece 2026-05-13 16:02:49 UTC phoronix.com Prefix Share 0

Following last week's disclosure of the Dirty Frag vulnerability for the Linux kernel, which only finished being patched up in mainline on Monday, Fragnesia is now public as a similar local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability. Announced today on the open-source security mailing list by V12 Security is Fragnesia as a local privilege escalation exploit that is of the same vulnerability ...

The Boring Part of Bell Labs (2025)

96 surprisetalk 2026-05-13 08:21:49 UTC acesounderglass.com Llama Share 13

Craig worked at Bell Labs for a year and then started his PhD in statistics, where he spent four summers working at Bell Labs and became interested in piecewise linear regression and design of experiments. He used his knowledge of design of experiments to help a large chemical company in Great Britain solve a problem with their fertilizer production, and also worked on various projects at ...

Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise

722 nilirl 2026-05-12 16:21:49 UTC nair.sh Llama Share 308

Senior developers worry about complexity, while others want to reduce uncertainty. They should communicate solutions in terms of uncertainty reduction, not complexity management.

How to make your text look futuristic (2016)

438 _vaporwave_ 2026-05-12 20:21:49 UTC typesetinthefuture.com Llama Share 56

The article discusses six rules to create a futuristic movie title, including adding an italic slant, curvy and angular shapes, consummate Vs, combined letters, removing text segments, and adding noise textures. These rules are demonstrated in various movie titles such as Blade Runner, Battlestar Galactica, and Star Wars.

CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq

354 chizhik-pyzhik 2026-05-12 18:21:49 UTC lists.thekelleys.org.uk Llama Share 187

CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious dnsmasq security vulnerabilities. Patches are available and a new stable release, dnsmasq-2.92rel2, has been made with the fixes applied.

Scrcpy v4.0

321 xnx 2026-05-12 21:21:49 UTC github.com/genymobile Llama Share 48

New scrcpy release migrates to SDL3 for active maintenance and new features like aspect-ratio locking. It includes improvements like dynamic display resizing, better quality settings, and clearer disconnections.

When “idle” isn't idle: how a Linux kernel optimization became a QUIC bug

145 sbulaev 2026-05-13 00:21:49 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 26

A bug in the CUBIC congestion controller caused it to permanently pin the congestion window at its minimum and never recover from a congestion collapse event, resulting in a self-perpetuating recovery trap. The bug was fixed by changing just three lines of code to measure the idle duration from when bytes_in_flight actually transitioned to zero, rather than the last packet sent.