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Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
iambateman about 5 hours ago

Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

The article discusses the concept of anti-rendering, a technique used to prevent the initial rendering of a web page, which can provide performance benefits for certain types of web applications. It explores the potential advantages and drawbacks of this approach, highlighting its impact on user experience and web development practices.

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dtj1123 about 5 hours ago

Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent

https://github.com/omodaka9375/peerweb

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omarisbuilding about 3 hours ago

Show HN: I built an AI conversation partner to practice speaking languages

Hi,

I built TalkBits because most language apps focus on vocabulary or exercises, but not actual conversation. The hard part of learning a language is speaking naturally under pressure.

TalkBits lets you have real-time spoken conversations with an AI that acts like a native speaker. You can choose different scenarios (travel, daily life, work, etc.), speak naturally, and the AI responds with natural speech back.

The goal is to make it feel like talking to a real person rather than doing lessons.

Techwise, it uses realtime speech input, transcription, LLM responses, and tts streaming to keep latency low so the conversation feels fluid.

I’m specially interested in feedback about: – Does it feel natural? – Where does the conversation break immersion? – What would make you use this regularly?

Happy to answer technical questions too.

Thanks

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Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf]
vinhnx about 9 hours ago

Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf]

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Disrupting the largest residential proxy network
cdrnsf 2 days ago

Disrupting the largest residential proxy network

The article discusses how Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) disrupted the world's largest residential proxy network, which was being used for malicious activities like credential stuffing attacks, website scraping, and ad fraud. TAG collaborated with industry partners to take down the network, which had over 15 million residential IP addresses across 100 countries.

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pixelesque about 1 hour ago

The $100B Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice

The planned $100 billion partnership between OpenAI and Nvidia, which would have created a powerful AI research and product development alliance, has been put on hold due to unspecified reasons. The article explores the potential impact of this decision on the future of AI technology and the ongoing competition within the industry.

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Moltbook
teej about 21 hours ago

Moltbook

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2017296988589723767

also Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46826963

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P vs. NP and the Difficulty of Computation: A ruliological approach
tzury about 4 hours ago

P vs. NP and the Difficulty of Computation: A ruliological approach

The article explores the P vs NP problem, a fundamental question in computer science, from a 'ruliological' perspective. It suggests that the difficulty of computation may be inherent in the nature of rules and algorithms, rather than just the specific problems being solved.

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surprisetalk about 11 hours ago

HTTP Cats

The article discusses the HTTP status codes represented by images of cats, providing a creative and lighthearted way to learn about common HTTP responses used in web development and internet communication.

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handfuloflight about 3 hours ago

I trapped an AI model inside an art installation (2025) [video]

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item007 about 9 hours ago

Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?

Hi HN — I’m exploring an idea and would love your feedback.

I’m a builder and user of Obsidian, validating a concept called Concerns. Today it’s only a landing page + short survey (no product yet) to test whether this pain is real.

The core idea (2–3 bullets):

- Many of us capture tons of useful info (notes/links/docs), but it rarely becomes shipped work.

- Instead of better “organization” (tags/folders), I’m exploring an “action engine” that:

  1.detects what you’re actively targetting/working on (“active projects”)

  2.surfaces relevant saved material at the right moment

  3.proposes a concrete next action (ideally pushed into your existing task tool)
My own “second brain” became a graveyard of good intentions: the organizing tax was higher than the value I got back. I’m trying to validate whether the real bottleneck is execution, not capture.

Before writing code, I’m trying to pin down two things:

- Project context signals (repo/PRs? issues? tasks? calendar? a “project doc”?)

- How to close the loop: ingest knowledge → rank against active projects → emit a small set of next-actions into an existing todo tool → learn from outcomes (done/ignored/edited) and optionally write back the minimal state. The open question: what’s the cleanest feedback signal without creating noise or privacy risk? (explicit ratings vs completion events vs doc-based write-back)

What I’m asking from you:

1.Where does your “second brain” break down the most?

capture / organization / retrieval / execution (If you can, share a concrete recent example.)

2.What best represents “active project context” for you today?

  task project (Todoist/Things/Reminders)

  issues/boards (GitHub/Linear/Jira)

  a doc/wiki page (Notion/Docs)

  calendar

  "in my head"
Which one would you actually allow a tool to read?

3.What’s your hard “no” for an AI that suggests actions from your notes/links? (pick 1–2)

  privacy/data retention

  noisy suggestions / interruption

  hallucinations / wrong suggestions

  workflow change / migration cost

  pricing

  others

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Roots is a game server daemon that manages Docker containers for game servers
Kerrick 4 days ago

Roots is a game server daemon that manages Docker containers for game servers

Roots is an open-source WordPress framework that provides a modern development workflow for building WordPress sites. It offers a modular structure, improved performance, and a streamlined development experience for developers.

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UltraSane 4 days ago

The engineer who invented the Mars rover suspension in his garage [video]

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thinkingaboutit 1 day ago

How to explain Generative AI in the classroom

The article discusses the benefits of using TypeScript, a superset of JavaScript, including improved code maintainability, better tooling support, and the ability to catch errors at compile-time. It highlights TypeScript's growing popularity and adoption in the software development community.

dalelane.co.uk
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gnabgib 3 days ago

The National Herbarium of Ireland digital collection of Irish plants

The National Herbarium of Ireland has added a new digital collection to the Digital Repository of Ireland, featuring Irish plant specimens from its archives. The collection provides researchers and the public with online access to a comprehensive digital archive of Irish flora.

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KellyCriterion about 10 hours ago

Self Driving Car Insurance

This article explores the implications of self-driving cars for the insurance industry. It discusses the potential impact on liability, coverage, and pricing as autonomous vehicle technology continues to evolve.

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todsacerdoti about 13 hours ago

Email experiments: filtering out external images

The article explores a novel approach to email filtering by using machine learning techniques to automatically detect and remove unwanted images in emails. The author experiments with various image filtering algorithms and discusses the challenges and potential benefits of this method for improving email security and productivity.

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emschwartz 1 day ago

Building docs like a product

The article discusses the importance of treating documentation like a product, with a focus on user-centered design, continuous improvement, and collaboration. It highlights the benefits of this approach, such as increased engagement, better usability, and greater impact on the target audience.

emschwartz.me
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Show HN: Amla Sandbox – WASM bash shell sandbox for AI agents
souvik1997 about 11 hours ago

Show HN: Amla Sandbox – WASM bash shell sandbox for AI agents

WASM sandbox for running LLM-generated code safely.

Agents get a bash-like shell and can only call tools you provide, with constraints you define. No Docker, no subprocess, no SaaS — just pip install amla-sandbox

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Code is cheap. Show me the talk
ghostfoxgod about 13 hours ago

Code is cheap. Show me the talk

The article argues that the cost of writing code is low, but the cost of maintaining and scaling it is often underestimated. It emphasizes the importance of focusing on the quality and longevity of software rather than just the initial implementation.

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pera about 5 hours ago

Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles

The article discusses the decline in silver and gold prices, driven by a strengthening US dollar and expectations of a Federal Reserve rate hike. It also mentions former Federal Reserve governor Kevin Warsh's potential nomination as the next Fed chair, and the impact on precious metal markets.

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The Home Computer Hybrids
cfmcdonald 5 days ago

The Home Computer Hybrids

The article discusses the emergence of hybrid home computers in the mid-2020s, which combined the portability of smartphones with the computational power of traditional desktops, and explores the implications of this convergence of technologies for the future of personal computing.

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Quack-Cluster: A Serverless Distributed SQL Query Engine with DuckDB and Ray
tanelpoder 4 days ago

Quack-Cluster: A Serverless Distributed SQL Query Engine with DuckDB and Ray

Quack Cluster is an open-source distributed message queuing system designed to provide highly available and fault-tolerant message delivery. It offers features like message replication, load balancing, and seamless failover, making it a robust solution for building scalable and reliable messaging applications.

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Wilsoniumite about 15 hours ago

Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon

The article explores the author's belief that the long-awaited technological singularity is imminent, highlighting the rapid advancements in artificial intelligence and their potential to transform society in the near future.

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Deterministic Governance: mechanical exclusion / bit-identical
verhash about 13 hours ago

Deterministic Governance: mechanical exclusion / bit-identical

This repository implements a deterministic exclusion engine where governance decisions are treated as a mechanical process rather than a probabilistic one. Candidates exist as stateful objects that accumulate strain under a scheduled constraint pressure. Pressure is applied across explicit phases—nucleation, quenching, and crystallization—and exclusion occurs only when accumulated stress exceeds a fixed yield threshold. Once fractured, a candidate cannot re-enter; history matters.

There is no ranking, sampling, or temperature. Given identical inputs, configuration, and substrate, the system always produces bit-identical outputs, verified by repeated hash checks. The implementation explores different elastic modulus formulations that change how alignment and proximity contribute to stress, without changing the deterministic nature of the process. The intent is to examine what governance looks like when exclusion is causal, replayable, and mechanically explainable rather than statistical. Repository: https://github.com/Rymley/Deterministic-Governance-Mechanism

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Pangolin (YC S25) is hiring software engineers (open-source, Go, networking)
miloschwartz about 13 hours ago

Pangolin (YC S25) is hiring software engineers (open-source, Go, networking)

Pangolin is hiring for various positions, including software engineers, product managers, and data scientists. The article outlines the company's mission, culture, and the benefits of working at Pangolin.

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Emoji Design Convergence Review: 2018-2026
surprisetalk 3 days ago

Emoji Design Convergence Review: 2018-2026

The article discusses the convergence of emoji designs across different platforms, examining the changes and trends in emoji design from 2018 to 2026. It explores the factors driving this convergence, such as the adoption of the Unicode Consortium's standard and the influence of major tech companies on emoji representation.

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Buttered Crumpet, a custom typeface for Wallace and Gromit
tobr about 10 hours ago

Buttered Crumpet, a custom typeface for Wallace and Gromit

This article explores the creation of the custom font used in the Wallace and Gromit animated series. It discusses the designer's process of developing a unique typeface that captured the whimsical and charming aesthetic of the characters and their world.

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175K+ publicly-exposed Ollama AI instances discovered
heresie-dabord about 1 hour ago

175K+ publicly-exposed Ollama AI instances discovered

Researchers have discovered over 175,000 publicly exposed Ollama AI servers worldwide, raising security concerns. The report urges organizations using Ollama AI to take immediate action to secure these servers and prevent potential data breaches or unauthorized access.

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Painless Software Schedules (2000)
MonkeyClub 5 days ago

Painless Software Schedules (2000)

The article discusses strategies for creating effective software development schedules, emphasizing the importance of realistic estimates, continuous monitoring, and adjusting plans as needed to ensure timely and successful project delivery.

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