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The article discusses Waymo's development of the Waymo World Model, a new simulation platform for autonomous driving that aims to improve the safety and performance of self-driving cars by creating a highly realistic virtual environment to test and train AI systems.

Litebox is an open-source library from Microsoft that provides a lightweight, customizable, and accessible lightbox experience for web applications. It offers a range of features, including support for images, videos, and iframes, as well as keyboard accessibility and responsive design.

The article on Sheldon Brown's website provides a wealth of information on bicycle repair, maintenance, and cycling-related topics. It covers a wide range of subjects, from basic bike setup to advanced repair techniques, making it a comprehensive resource for cyclists of all levels.

This article provides an overview of neural networks, a type of machine learning algorithm inspired by the human brain. It explores the basic structure, training, and applications of neural networks in various fields, such as image recognition, natural language processing, and predictive analytics.

The article discusses the author's experience with suspicious ads on the Apple News platform, highlighting concerns about the prevalence of scam advertisements and the need for greater scrutiny and regulation of digital advertising on platforms like Apple News.

This article discusses the steps involved in a fraud investigation, including gathering evidence, conducting interviews, and analyzing financial records. It provides an overview of the process that law enforcement and financial institutions use to detect and investigate fraudulent activities.

The article discusses a hacking incident that occurred in 1995, where a group of hackers gained unauthorized access to a government agency's computer system. It explores the motivations and techniques used by the hackers, as well as the aftermath and implications of the breach.

The article explores the concept of the 'free monad', a powerful abstraction in functional programming that allows for the construction of complex programs from simpler building blocks. It discusses the theoretical foundations and practical applications of the free monad, providing insights into its versatility and flexibility.

Researchers at Caltech have invented a new method to add page numbers to DNA sequences, enabling more efficient data storage and retrieval in DNA-based information systems. This novel approach could significantly enhance the scalability and practicality of DNA data storage technologies.

The article discusses a proposed bill in New York that would require news outlets to include disclaimers on articles generated by artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The bill aims to increase transparency and inform readers about the use of AI in news production.

The article chronicles the author's personal journey in adopting and integrating AI technologies into their workflow, highlighting the challenges, benefits, and lessons learned along the way as they navigated the complexities of AI adoption within their own professional and creative practices.

The article discusses how various Unix operations, such as file system modifications, environment variable changes, and process management, can be performed in an atomic and transactional manner, ensuring that the operations are either fully completed or rolled back, providing consistency and reliability.

The website 'Animated Engines' provides interactive visualizations and detailed information about various types of engines, including internal combustion engines, steam engines, and more. It offers an educational and interactive way for users to learn about the fundamental principles of engine design and operation.

The article provides an overview of the Domain Name System (DNS), explaining how it translates human-readable domain names into IP addresses, enabling internet users to access websites and online services. It covers the basic functions and components of the DNS hierarchy, as well as the importance of DNS for the smooth operation of the internet.

The article explores the evolution of car door handles, tracing their design changes from simple handles to more integrated and aerodynamic solutions, driven by technological advancements and changing consumer preferences.

The article discusses Tencent's research into AI systems that can understand and interact with human language, with a focus on developing advanced language models that can engage in natural conversations and assist with a variety of tasks.

This article covers the development of a C compiler by Anthropic engineers. It discusses the challenges and design decisions involved in building a robust and efficient compiler, including parsing, type checking, code generation, and optimization.

Hey HN, I built an automated system that tracks malicious Chrome/Edge extensions daily.

The database updates automatically by monitoring chrome-stats for removed extensions and scanning security blogs. Currently tracking 1000+ known malicious extensions with extension IDs, names, and dates.

I'm working on detection tools (GUI + CLI) to scan locally installed extensions against this database, but wanted to share the raw data first since maintained threat intelligence lists like this are hard to find.

The automation runs 24/7 and pushes updates to GitHub. Free to use for research, integration into security tools, or whatever you need.

Happy to answer questions about the scraping approach or data collection methods.

The article describes the creation of a neon-style digital clock, detailing the hardware components, software, and the overall design process. It provides instructions for building a similar clock using an Arduino board, addressable LED strips, and other electronic parts.

The article discusses a solution called Shrinkwrap, a tool that helps manage dependencies in web development projects. Shrinkwrap ensures consistent and reproducible builds by locking down the exact version of each dependency, providing a reliable way to install the same set of dependencies across different environments.

Anthropic announces the release of Claude, a large language model with improved capabilities in language understanding, generation, and reasoning. Claude Opus 4.6 introduces several enhancements, including better long-form coherence, more consistent persona, and improved factual accuracy.

The article explains a technique for extracting and reconstructing PDF files from raw, encoded email attachments, using the Epstein case as an example. It details the process of decoding the data and reversing the encoding to recover the original PDF documents.

The article discusses the nature of plasma, the fourth state of matter, and its various applications in science and technology, including in the fields of medicine, energy, and materials science.

I'm a software engineer who keeps getting pulled into DevOps no matter how hard I try to escape it. I recently moved into a Lead DevOps Engineer role writing tooling to automate a lot of the pain away. On my own time outside of work, I built Artifact Keeper — a self-hosted artifact registry that supports 45+ package formats. Security scanning, SSO, replication, WASM plugins — it's all in the MIT-licensed release. No enterprise tier. No feature gates. No surprise invoices.

Your package managers — pip, npm, docker, cargo, helm, go, all of them — talk directly to it using their native protocols. Security scanning with Trivy, Grype, and OpenSCAP is built in, with a policy engine that can quarantine bad artifacts before they hit your builds. And if you need a format it doesn't support yet, there's a WASM plugin system so you can add your own without forking the backend.

Why I built it:

Part of what pulled me into computers in the first place was open source. I grew up poor in New Orleans, and the only hardware I had access to in the early 2000s were some Compaq Pentium IIs my dad brought home after his work was tossing them out. I put Linux on them, and it ran circles around Windows 2000 and Millennium on that low-end hardware. That experience taught me that the best software is software that's open for everyone to see, use, and that actually runs well on whatever you've got.

Fast forward to today, and I see the same pattern everywhere: GitLab, JFrog, Harbor, and others ship a limited "community" edition and then hide the features teams actually need behind some paywall. I get it — paychecks have to come from somewhere. But I wanted to prove that a fully-featured artifact registry could exist as genuinely open-source software. Every feature. No exceptions.

The specific features came from real pain points. Artifactory's search is painfully slow — that's why I integrated Meilisearch. Security scanning that doesn't require a separate enterprise license was another big one. And I wanted replication that didn't need a central coordinator — so I built a peer mesh where any node can replicate to any other node. I haven't deployed this at work yet — right now I'm running it at home for my personal projects — but I'd love to see it tested at scale, and that's a big part of why I'm sharing it here.

The AI story (I'm going to be honest about this):

I built this in about three weeks using Claude Code. I know a lot of you will say this is probably vibe coding garbage — but if that's the case, it's an impressive pile of vibe coding garbage. Go look at the codebase. The backend is ~80% Rust with 429 unit tests, 33 PostgreSQL migrations, a layered architecture, and a full CI/CD pipeline with E2E tests, stress testing, and failure injection.

AI didn't make the design decisions for me. I still had to design the WASM plugin system, figure out how the scanning engines complement each other, and architect the mesh replication. Years of domain knowledge drove the design — AI just let me build it way faster. I'm floored at what these tools make possible for a tinkerer and security nerd like me.

Tech stack: Rust on Axum, PostgreSQL 16, Meilisearch, Trivy + Grype + OpenSCAP, Wasmtime WASM plugins (hot-reloadable), mesh replication with chunked transfers. Frontend is Next.js 15 plus native Swift (iOS/macOS) and Kotlin (Android) apps. OpenAPI 3.1 spec with auto-generated TypeScript and Rust SDKs.

Try it:

  git clone https://github.com/artifact-keeper/artifact-keeper.git
  cd artifact-keeper
  docker compose up -d

Live demo: https://demo.artifactkeeper.com Docs: https://artifactkeeper.com/docs/

I'd love any feedback — what you think of the approach, what you'd want to see, what you hate about Artifactory or Nexus that you wish someone would just fix. It doesn't have to be a PR. Open an issue, start a discussion, or just tell me here.

https://github.com/artifact-keeper

The article discusses the merits and challenges of the idea that we live in a computer simulation, exploring philosophical and scientific perspectives on the topic. It examines the implications of this hypothesis and the ongoing debate around its feasibility and testability.

The article discusses AMD's recent advancements in the semiconductor industry, highlighting their competitive edge over Intel with their Ryzen and EPYC processor lines, and their plans to continue innovating and expanding their market share in the coming years.