France is taking state actions against GrapheneOS
GrapheneOS, a privacy-focused mobile operating system, has released a new version with improved security features, including hardware-backed cryptography and enhanced application sandboxing. The update aims to provide users with a more secure and privacy-preserving smartphone experience.
Nano Banana Pro
Google's Nano Banana Pro is a new edge AI device that offers powerful computing capabilities in a compact, energy-efficient design. The article highlights the device's potential applications in various industries, such as robotics, smart homes, and intelligent sensors.
Run Docker containers natively in Proxmox 9.1 (OCI images)
This article explains how to run Docker containers natively in Proxmox 9.1, a popular virtualization platform, using the Proxmox container management system. It provides step-by-step instructions for configuring Proxmox to support Docker containers and managing them within the Proxmox environment.
Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
Google has announced a new Quick Share feature for Android, providing users with a seamless way to share files and content between Android devices. The feature aims to offer a similar experience to Apple's AirDrop, allowing for easy and efficient cross-device file transfers.
New Glenn Update – Blue Origin
Blue Origin has announced upgrades to its New Glenn rocket, including new subcooled propellant components and improved engines, which are expected to enhance the rocket's performance and capabilities.
New OS aims to provide (some) compatibility with macOS
RavynOS is an open-source, lightweight, and customizable Linux distribution designed for older hardware and embedded systems. It aims to provide a modern and efficient computing experience while maintaining a low resource footprint.
GitHut – Programming Languages and GitHub (2014)
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Data-at-Rest Encryption in DuckDB
NTSB Preliminary Report – UPS Boeing MD-11F Crash [pdf]
The Lions Operating System
Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles
The article discusses a security vulnerability in Okta's implementation of the OAuth 2.0 protocol in NextJS applications, which could allow attackers to gain unauthorized access to user accounts. The vulnerability was discovered and responsibly disclosed by the author, leading to a fix by Okta.
Microsoft makes Zork open-source
The Zork text adventure game has been made open-source by Microsoft, allowing developers to use the game's assets and code for new projects. This move comes as part of Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the company that previously owned the rights to Zork.
Readonly Characters Are a Big Deal
The article discusses the concept of read-only characters in programming languages, exploring their advantages and challenges. It examines how read-only characters can improve code maintainability and security by preventing unintended modifications.
Launch HN: Poly (YC S22) – Cursor for Files
Hello world, this is Abhay from Poly (https://poly.app). We’re building an app to replace Finder/File Explorer with something more intelligent and searchable. Think of it like Dropbox + NotebookLM + Perplexity for terabytes of your files. Here’s a quick demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsqCySU4Ln0.
Poly can search your content in natural language, across a broad range of file types and down to the page, paragraph, pixel, or point in time. We also provide an integrated agent that can take actions on your files such as creating, editing, summarizing, and researching. Any action that you can take, the agent can also take, from renaming, moving, tagging, annotating, and organizing files for you. The agent can also read URLs, youtube links, and can search the web and even download files for you.
Here are some public drives that you can poke around in (note: it doesn’t work in Safari yet—sorry! we’re working on it.)
Every issue of the Whole Earth Catalogue: https://poly.app/shared/whole-earth-catalogues
Archive of old Playstation Manuals: https://poly.app/shared/playstation-manuals-archive
Mini archive of Orson Welles interviews and commercial spots: https://poly.app/shared/orson-welles-archive
Archive of Salvador Dali’s paintings for Alice in Wonderland: https://poly.app/shared/salvador-dali-alice-in-wonderland
To try it out, navigate to one of these public folders and use the agent or search to find things. The demo video above can give you an idea of how the UI roughly works. Select files by clicking on them. Quick view by pressing space. Open the details for any file by pressing cmd + i. You can search from the top middle bar (or press cmd + K), and all searches will use semantic similarity and search within the files. Or use the agent from the bottom right tools menu (or press cmd + ?) and you can ask about the files, have the agent search for you, summarize things, etc.
We decided to build this after launching an early image-gen company back in March 2022, and realizing how painful it was for users to store, manage, and search their libraries, especially in a world of generative media. Despite our service having over 150,000 users at that point, we realized that our true calling was fixing the file browser to make it intelligent, so we shut our service down in 2023 and pivoted to this.
We think Poly will be a great fit for anyone that wants to do useful things with their files, such as summarizing research papers, finding the right media or asset, creating a shareable portfolio, searching for a particular form or document, and producing reports and overviews. Of course, it’s a great way to organize your genAI assets as well. Or just use it to organize notes, links, inspo, etc.
Under the hood, Poly is built on our advanced search model, Polyembed-v1 that natively supports multimodal search across text, documents, spreadsheets, presentations, images, audio, video, PDFs, and more. We allow you to search by phrase, file similarity, color, face, and several other kinds of features. The agent is particularly skilled at using the search, so you can type in something like “find me the last lease agreement I signed” and it can go look for it by searching, reading the first few files, searching again if nothing matches, etc. But the quality of our embed model means it almost always finds the file in the first search.
It works identically across web and desktop, except on desktop it syncs your cloud files to a folder (just like google drive). On the web we use clever caching to enable offline support and file conflict recovery. We’ve taken great pains to make our system faster than your existing file browser, even if you’re using it from a web browser.
File storage plans are currently at: 100GB free tier, paid tier is 2TB at $10/m, and 1c per GB per month on top of the 2TB. We also have rate limits for agent use that vary at different tiers.
We’re excited to expand with many features over the following months, including “virtual files” (store your google docs in Poly), sync from other hosting providers, mobile apps, an MCP ecosystem for the agent, access to web search and deep research modes, offline search, local file support (on desktop), third-party sources (WebDAV, NAS), and a whole lot more.
Our waitlist is now open and we’ll be letting folks in starting today! Sign up at https://poly.app.
We’d also love to hear your thoughts (and concerns) about what we’re building, as we’re early in this journey so your feedback can very much shape the future of our company!
AI Is Writing Its Own Kernels, and They Are 17x Faster
The article discusses the development of an auto-completion system for programming code using machine learning techniques. It highlights the challenges in creating such a system and the potential benefits it can offer to programmers in terms of improving productivity and reducing coding errors.
Free interactive tool that shows you how PCIe lanes work on motherboards
MoboMaps is a web-based platform that allows users to create and share interactive maps, visualize data, and collaborate on mapping projects. The platform offers a range of features, including geospatial analysis, data integration, and real-time updates, to help users effectively communicate spatial information.
Adversarial poetry as a universal single-turn jailbreak mechanism in LLMs
Show HN: F32 – An Extremely Small ESP32 Board
As part of a little research and also some fun I decided to try my hand at seeing how small of an ESP32 board I can make with functioning WiFi.
OOP is shifting between domains, not disappearing
The article explores the role of actors in storytelling, discussing how they bring characters to life through their performance, interpretation, and emotional delivery, ultimately shaping the audience's experience and understanding of the narrative.
Kagi Assistants
Kagi introduces its AI assistant, designed to provide personalized recommendations and insights by understanding users' unique preferences and context. The article highlights the assistant's capabilities in areas such as research, writing, and task planning.
Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC
GeoaCron is an interactive world history atlas that allows users to explore events, empires, and civilizations throughout time on a dynamic global map. It provides a comprehensive visual representation of historical developments, enabling users to gain a deeper understanding of the past.
Show HN: My hobby OS that runs Minecraft
Astral OS, a newly launched operating system, has announced support for running Minecraft on its platform. This integration aims to provide a seamless and optimized Minecraft experience for users of the Astral OS ecosystem.
Go Cryptography State of the Union
This article explores the potential future state of the world in 2025, examining developments in technology, society, and politics. It discusses advancements in artificial intelligence, renewable energy, and global cooperation, while also highlighting potential challenges such as inequality, climate change, and geopolitical tensions.
Freer Monads, More Extensible Effects (2015) [pdf]
What's in a Passenger Name Record (PNR)? (2013)
The article discusses the use of Passenger Name Records (PNRs) by government agencies, highlighting how this data can be used to track individuals' travel and movements. It explores the privacy concerns and debates around the collection and use of PNR data for security and law enforcement purposes.
Ask HN: How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs?
I polished a Markov chain generator and trained it on an article by Uri Alon and al (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7963340/).
It generates text that seems to me at least on par with tiny LLMs, such as demonstrated by NanoGPT. Here is an example:
jplr@mypass:~/Documenti/2025/SimpleModels/v3_very_good$
./SLM10b_train UriAlon.txt 3
Training model with order 3...
Skip-gram detection: DISABLED (order < 5)
Pruning is disabled
Calculating model size for JSON export...
Will export 29832 model entries
Exporting vocabulary (1727 entries)...
Vocabulary export complete.
Exporting model entries...
Processed 12000 contexts, written 28765 entries (96.4%)...
JSON export complete: 29832 entries written to model.json
Model trained and saved to model.json
Vocabulary size: 1727
jplr@mypass:~/Documenti/2025/SimpleModels/v3_very_good$ ./SLM9_gen model.json
Aging cell model requires comprehensive incidence data. To obtain such a large medical database of the joints are risk factors. Therefore, the theory might be extended to describe the evolution of atherosclerosis and metabolic syndrome. For example, late‐stage type 2 diabetes is associated with collapse of beta‐cell function. This collapse has two parameters: the fraction of the senescent cells are predicted to affect disease threshold . For each individual, one simulates senescent‐cell abundance using the SR model has an approximately exponential incidence curve with a decline at old ages In this section, we simulated a wide range of age‐related incidence curves. The next sections provide examples of classes of diseases, which show improvement upon senolytic treatment tends to qualitatively support such a prediction. model different disease thresholds as values of the disease occurs when a physiological parameter ϕ increases due to the disease. Increasing susceptibility parameter s, which varies about 3‐fold between BMI below 25 (male) and 54 (female) are at least mildly age‐related and 25 (male) and 28 (female) are strongly age‐related, as defined above. Of these, we find that 66 are well described by the model as a wide range of feedback mechanisms that can provide homeostasis to a half‐life of days in young mice, but their removal rate slows down in old mice to a given type of cancer have strong risk factors should increase the removal rates of the joint that bears the most common biological process of aging that governs the onset of pathology in the records of at least 104 people, totaling 877 disease category codes (See SI section 9), increasing the range of 6–8% per year. The two‐parameter model describes well the strongly age‐related ICD9 codes: 90% of the codes show R 2 > 0.9) (Figure 4c). This agreement is similar to that of the previously proposed IMII model for cancer, major fibrotic diseases, and hundreds of other age‐related disease states obtained from 10−4 to lower cancer incidence. A better fit is achieved when allowing to exceed its threshold mechanism for classes of disease, providing putative etiologies for diseases with unknown origin, such as bone marrow and skin. Thus, the sudden collapse of the alveoli at the outer parts of the immune removal capacity of cancer. For example, NK cells remove senescent cells also to other forms of age‐related damage and decline contribute (De Bourcy et al., 2017). There may be described as a first‐passage‐time problem, asking when mutated, impair particle removal by the bronchi and increase damage to alveolar cells (Yang et al., 2019; Xu et al., 2018), and immune therapy that causes T cells to target senescent cells (Amor et al., 2020). Since these treatments are predicted to have an exponential incidence curve that slows at very old ages. Interestingly, the main effects are opposite to the case of cancer growth rate to removal rate We next consider the case of frontline tissues discussed above.
ArkA – A minimal open video protocol (first MVP demo)
Red Alert 2 in web browser
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Mozilla says it's finally done with Onerep
Mozilla has announced that it will no longer support the OneRep security tool, which was designed to help users manage their online reputation. The article discusses the reasons behind this decision and the potential impact on users.
Two recently found works of J.S. Bach presented in Leipzig [video]
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