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I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy Efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, has died Getting good results from Claude Code Engineer restores pay phones for free public use Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally? How we replaced Elasticsearch and MongoDB with Rust and RocksDB Hacking Diffusion into Qwen3 for the Arc Challenge Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 shortlist The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers Unmasking the Sea Star Killer Little-known leguminous plant can increase beef production by 60% (2022) Window Activation Fire hazard of WHY2025 badge due to 18650 Li-Ion cells How to safely escape JSON inside HTML SCRIPT elements A robust, open-source framework for Spiking Neural Networks on low-end FPGAs Open SWE: An open-source asynchronous coding agent Build durable workflows with Postgres Poltergeist: File watcher with auto-rebuild for any language or build system Apple's history is hiding in a Mac font Dial-up Internet to be discontinued Telefon Hírmondó Why building a self-hosted SaaS is harder My DIY modular charging station HRT's Python fork: Leveraging PEP 690 for faster imports How attention sinks keep language models stable The Day Novartis Chose Discovery30 heise online News
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Für Erhalt der Gesundheitskarten-PIN: Gematik lässt Identverfahren zu TechStage | Testsieger: Die beste elektrische SUP-Pumpe mit und ohne Akku im Test Wachstum bei United Internet – Investitionen drücken aufs Ergebnis Dobrindt will mehr digitale Ermittlungsbefugnisse: CCC & Co. protestieren massiv Digitaler Behördenfunk: Neue Schwachstellen bei Tetra – Verschlüsselung versagt heise+ | Der Kampf eines US-Makers gegen Trumps Zölle Framework Desktop im Test: Das KI-Monster? Black Hat: KI als Schwachstellen-Scout und Lücke in Spectre-Schutz Intel-CEO Lip-Bu Tan äußert sich zu Rücktrittsforderungen Microsoft schaltet Funktionen in älteren Office-Versionen ab Fintiv verklagt Apple wegen angeblichem Technologie-Diebstahl bei Apple Pay Buchungsportale: Wenn Kassenpatienten unfreiwillig zu Selbstzahlern werden Tesla stellt hauseigenes KI-Projekt Dojo ein Varjo zeigt Kampfjet-Simulator mit Mixed-Reality-Cockpit Linux-tauglich: RISC-V-Einplatinencomputer für unter 40 Euro Windows 10 ESU: Microsoft zwingt Anwender zum Account trotz Lizenzkauf Die Ära Tim Cook: Goldene Zeiten für Apple? | Mac & i-Podcast Cowboy: Beim belgischen E-Bike-Startup scheint es zu brennen Top 10: Balkonkraftwerk mit Speicher im Test – nachrüsten oder im Set Let’s Encrypt hat OCSP-Server abgeschaltet IAA: Tesla kommt nicht auf die IAA nach München KI-Update: Chat GPT-5, KI-Übersetzer, KI und Unis, KI-Schuld, Nvidia und China Komet oder künstlicher Ursprung? Neue Daten zu 3I/ATLAS befeuern Debatte Ende des Preiskampfs: Chinesen kauften im Juli weniger Autos heise+ | heise+ Update vom 8. August 2025: Lesetipps fürs Wochenende heise-Angebot: iX-Intensiv-Workshop: VMware vSphere 7 und 8 einrichten und administrieren 40 Jahre Amiga: Das Quiz rund um die Kult-Maschine iPhone 18: Apple lässt Samsung offenbar dreilagige Bildsensoren herstellen Trotz Apple-Milliarden: Trumps Traum vom US-iPhone bleibt wohl eine Illusion CoreCard: Wie eine kleine Firma das Kreditkartengeschäft für Apple umkrempelte23 /r/Technology
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Trump administration threatens to take Harvard's patents “Magic” Cleaning Sponges Found to Release Trillions of Microplastic Fibers Net neutrality advocates won’t appeal loss, say they don’t trust Supreme Court | Advocates say Supreme Court shows "hostility toward sound legal reasoning." ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit Machine | CEO Sam Altman says it's like having a superpower, but GPT-5 struggles with basic questions. ChatGPT users are not happy with GPT-5 launch as thousands take to Reddit claiming the new upgrade ‘is horrible’ “This Is What We Voted For!” MAHA World Celebrates mRNA News (Experts Say It Will Kill People) YouTube will begin using AI for age verification next week Conservative trolls are finding new ways to flood social media with disinformation Alzheimer's Breakthrough: Lithium Reverses Memory Loss in Mice Apple CEO Tim Cook’s $100 billion commitment to U.S. manufacturing came with a gift for Trump: a glass 'Made in USA' plaque mounted on 24-karat gold New executive order puts all grants under political control Stunning new data reveals 140% layoff spike in July, with almost half connected to AI and ‘technological updates’ Exposed: fake 'new' hard drives sold on Amazon were hiding recycled parts from over a decade ago Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT. "For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT." Far more environmental data is being deleted in Trump's second term than before Volunteers fight to keep ‘AI slop’ off Wikipedia Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes | Safeguards? What safeguards? When a journalist uses AI to interview a dead child, isn’t it time to ask what the boundaries should be? Pornhub hits back after cybersecurity expert issues 'dangerous' age verification warning Astronaut Jim Lovell, famed Apollo 13 commander, dies at 97 | Lovell was also the first astronaut to go to space four times and part of the Apollo 8 crew, the first to launch on the Saturn V rocket and first to orbit the moon. Prohibition never works, but that didn't stop the UK's Online Safety Act So Long to Tech’s Dream Job: It’s the shut up and grind era, tech workers said, as Apple, Google, Meta and other giants age into large bureaucracies. Americans, Be Warned: Lessons From Reddit’s Chaotic UK Age Verification Rollout27 Open Source on Reddit
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LinuxFr.org joins the OSI: strengthening the francophone community Open source projects looking for contributors – post yours How can gpt-oss be called "Open Source" and have a Apache 2.0 license? seeking a universal social music connector Himnet - The Human-in-the-Middle Network Open source Linux GUI for compressing PDFs ? Self promo aside, where do you find great open source projects? ChoacuryOS moved to TeamChoacury We just acquired a popular open-source Unity tool – and the creator joined our tiny startup (AI + gamedev) Developer-friendly, open-source GDPR compliance API Free newsletter to discover open source and privacy focused apps The Q3 2025 grant applications deadline is near GASM: First SE(3)-invariant AI for natural language → geometry (runs on CPU!) Can someone take a look at my repository and tell me if i'm on the right track with my organization? MemU: Let AI Truly Memorize You Toolbox: WASM powered no backend Image/Video/OfficeDoc manipulation tool focused on privacy and performance. PolyUploader - Upload files to 130+ hosts simultaneously Help with copyright and AGPLv3 Looking for a lightweight FOSS widget for Android that will monitor resources like HWInfo64 or Task Manager I created beginner-friendly tasks for anyone interested in open source GPT-5 one shotted this… Heliboard dictionaries page flagged by antivirus Two open-source projects for planetary restoration & next-gen education — looking for contributors 🌍📚 An open source budget App for devs? NO CODE model merging app - mix merge mash it up use the app anyway you want customize anyway you want- When Is a Project “Original” in Open Source? (Contest Submission Raises Deeper Questions) A Simple NBP (Nationa Bank Of Poland) API Wrapper In C++26 /r/space: news, articles and discussion
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All Space Questions thread for week of August 03, 2025 Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, dies at age 97 Why can't we "ship of Theseus" the ISS? Scientists find oldest-known black hole in the universe: 'This is about as far back as you can practically go' Acting NASA Administrator Reflects on Legacy of Astronaut Jim Lovell - NASA Star trail time exposure from the ISS, with Moon, satellites, cities, and stars. Mark Kelly: My Fix for NASA US-French SWOT Satellite Measures Tsunami After Massive Quake Image reveals unprecedented view of the third interstellar object observed passing through our solar system Best NEW/UPDATED Space Docs/series? Cosmos: Which To Watch? The mystery of 'dark comets' prowling our Solar System Out of this world research: UGA analyzes and names new meteorite ALMA observations reveal dual fragmentation modes in high-mass star-forming cloud Astronomers have identified the most distant black hole ever confirmed, present 500 million years after the Big Bang 36 billion solar masses: Cosmic Horseshoe galaxy harbors what may be the most massive black hole ever detected NASA’s Butch Wilmore retires from astronaut corps after spending 9 unexpected months in space Italian Space Agency will put experiments on the first Starships heading to Mars, making them the first starship customer for Mars A 'mysterious giant' behind binary black holes? Astronomers uncover first evidence of a third compact object NASA Rewrites the Rules for Developers of Private Space Stations NASA’s Webb Finds New Evidence for Planet Around Closest Solar Twin Crew-10 poised for return to Earth after months at ISS Lanyue lander successfully completes comprehensive landing and takeoff test, marking critical milestone for Chinaâs manned lunar exploration: CMSA More on Avi Loeb and Comet 3I/ATLAS NASA selects shuttle orbiter to move to Houston - the move could cost over $300 million Exotic 'lava worlds' are a hot new frontier in exoplanet science21 Rock, Paper, Shotgun
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Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists is a surreal tactical RPG journey into mythical underworlds from Six Ages' devs Ok is not ok, good is bad, great is the new great and BioShock 4 is coming out, as Take-Two boss stops short of claiming that up is down How payment networks control the definition of acceptable sex in videogames Jump gaps and ruin lives in 1000 Deaths, an offbeat 3D platformer about making decisions for jerks Battlefield 6's beta been treating you to infinite loading screens? EA are on the case I love this keyboard and mouse combo, and now they're on sale at Amazon Classic shooters Heretic and Hexen re-released as an "enhanced" bundle with cross-platform multiplayer and mod support Rally Point: This year's low-intensity strategy game for when it's too hot is... two! Of them. Two games. Microsoft have halted development on Just Cause devs' 70s co-op smuggler Contraband The big laptop back-to-school roundup: Every hot discount that's live at Dell, HP and Lenovo Folk Emerging is a fascinating 4X strategy game about prehistoric nomads that ends where Civilization begins Is This Seat Taken? I hope not, because the sitting-themed logic puzzler is out now Apex Legends' latest go at a compressed battle royale forgets the journeying spirit at the genre's heart Promise Mascot Agency update adds Tony Hawk-level truck rail grinding I didn't know I needed, and new difficulty modes Zangief basically gets his own game in Hades-style wrestling roguelike Realm Of Fame Sony are confident Marathon will release by March 2026 and that their live service transition is paying off Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 follows Battlefield 6's lead, will also require secure boot on PC Microsoft equipped Israel’s "indiscriminate" Palestinian surveillance operation with Azure cloud tech, claims report With Battlefield 6 beta queues stretching around the block, a "substantial increase in server capacity" should just have helped Elden Ring Nightreign is getting an "endless mode" with special relics and "magmafied" bosses, claim dataminers This Lenovo gaming laptop with a 5070 is now under $1,300 with a huge back-to-school discount25 PC Gaming
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Tech Support and Basic Questions Thread - August 06, 2025 Weekly Game Suggestions Thread - August 08, 2025 Cheaters Already Spotted in Battlefield 6 Open Beta, Despite Secure Boot Requirement Rod Fergusson Departs Blizzard, Diablo Franchise Former Blizzard president predicts Battlefield 6 is going to 'boot stomp' Black Ops 7 because Call of Duty has become 'lazy' Russ Vought is behind the latest push threatening anime, manga, and games worldwide Does anyone else feel like "Ohh, I can't wait to play that on release" only to feel "nah, I'll pick it up on sale" the moment it drops? Batman: Arkham Knight gets a HD Texture Pack Mod 'Call of Duty: Black Ops 7' will require TPM 2.0, Windows Secure Boot — Activision testing Ricochet anti-cheat update in upcoming season Titan Quest 2 - Road Map and FAQ SECTOR ZERO – Demo Now on Steam | Portal-inspired Physics-Based Puzzle Adventure with a Reverse-Horror Twist BioShock 4 Is 'Going to Come Out,' Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick Promises: 'That I Can Say Hand on Heart, Without Question' Grand Theft Auto Series Has Sold Around 455 Million Units King's Blade - Launch Trailer PAC-MAN WORLD 2 Re-PAC - Official Graphics Comparison Trailer Illumination of Mansion Demo is on itch.io & Steam Page is Live Now Digital Foundry Leaves IGN, Now Fully Independent - So What Happens Next? Shards of the Realm — XCOM-Inspired Strategy/Tactical RPG Now Fully Released! BREAKING: Xbox is canceling Contraband, announced in 2021 from Avalanche Studios (Just Cause), after four years of radio silence, sources tell Bloomberg News. This news arrives weeks after a mass layoff in which Xbox canceled several other big titles. Heretic + Hexen on Steam Are you ready for the ultimate chase? Our debut Storm Chasing simulator title 'Project Storm'! Mafia: The Old Country is now available on Steam Steam's fight against Visa, Mastercard, and censorship is only getting messier DOOM Eternal – Community Mods Now Available Battlefield 6 Open Beta goes Live Now26 Formula 1
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2025 Hungarian GP - Day After Debrief Ask r/Formula1 Anything - Daily Discussion Thread F1 and other category graphics Which driver you thought would never win WDC [@McLaren] Debriefing Spa, Budapest and celebrating our hard work in the first half of the season What unique mannerism/habit did you observe from the drivers? F1 movie income per person in selected countries (highlighted blue are Grand Prix countries) Ferrari targeting second in 2025, first into the future - Vasseur What Makes Max Verstappen One Of The F1 Greats? | Behind The Charge Happy 72nd birthday Nigel Mansell! Would you increase pre season testing (in a cost realistic way)? How does the dirty air and downforce mechanic effect wet racing ? FIA Launches Pioneering Medical Guidelines to Support Driver Health and Wellbeing Revealed: Two teams approached George Russell world drivers championship without McLaren Just wanted to post this here Formula One Group Sees Revenue Boost From Apple’s ‘F1’ Movie 75 years of innovation: How F1 has evolved since 1950 and where it's headed What are the technical reasons behind McLaren’s dominance in such a short period of time Mid-season leaders vs Champions from the same year since summer break was introduced. Out of 16 seasons so far, mid season leader became champion 10 times (62.5%) [OT] Former Jumbo supermarkets director, WEC LMP2 Pro-Am champion and Max Verstappen sponsor Frits van Eerd has been sentenced to 2 years in prison for money laundering, corruption and forgery Who is the “Failed Prodigy” of F1 ? [Red Bull] World First! Jumping Over A Moving F1 Car People who's favourite driver retired/lost his seat did you stopped watching it or started supporting someone else or just what happened ? Can you tell what happened afterwards Not even one day in Austria and I see this 2025 Mid-Season Driver Ratings25 programming
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HTTP is not simple Keep API work local: Why offline-first beats cloud-based tools PEP 802 – Display Syntax for the Empty Set Does AI Actually Boost Developer Productivity? (100k Devs Study) - Yegor Denisov-Blanch, Stanford You don't really need monads HTTP/1.1 must die: the desync endgame Live coding sucks Zero-day flaws in authentication, identity, authorization in HashiCorp Vault The how and why of GitHub to Codeberg The enshittification of tech jobs GPT-5 Released: What the Performance Claims Actually Mean for Software Developers Run third-party tools inside Docker Arenas in Rust Preventing ZIP parser confusion attacks on Python package installers Making a D&D Game for the Game Boy with C Sending Recruiters a Game Boy Instead of a Resume More shell tricks: first class lists, jq, and the es shell Impartial Pipes: a partial functions PHP library for the upcoming pipe operator. Learn C by Building Projects – From FizzBuzz to Neural Networks! Moving Past Agile A Fast, Growable Array With Stable Pointers in C Jujutsu support in Reviewboard Writing a storage engine for Postgres: An in-memory table access method Jepsen: Capela dda5892 Understanding not just Clojure's comp function by re-implementing it20 Ars Technica - All content
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James Lovell, the steady astronaut who brought Apollo 13 home safely, has died For giant carnivorous dinosaurs, big size didn’t mean a big bite Texas prepares for war as invasion of flesh-eating flies appears imminent Apple brings OpenAI’s GPT-5 to iOS and macOS Green dildos are raining down on WNBA courts. Why? Crypto memecoins, of course. Review: The Sandman S2 is a classic tragedy, beautifully told Net neutrality advocates won’t appeal loss, say they don’t trust Supreme Court It’s getting harder to skirt RTO policies without employers noticing Adult sites are stashing exploit code inside racy .svg files Toymaker suddenly drops lawsuit against “Sylvanian Drama” TikToker Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified ChatGPT users hate GPT-5’s “overworked secretary” energy, miss their GPT-4o buddy Google and Valve will kill “Steam for Chromebooks” experiment in January 2026 Texas politicians warn Smithsonian it must not lobby to retain its space shuttle National Academies to fast-track a new climate assessment Ford switches gears, will push smaller EVs over full-size pickup and van Rocket Report: Firefly lights the markets up; SpaceX starts selling trips to Mars New executive order puts all grants under political control FCC Democrat: Trump admin is declaring “Mission Accomplished” on broadband20 Science – Ars Technica
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For giant carnivorous dinosaurs, big size didn’t mean a big bite Texas prepares for war as invasion of flesh-eating flies appears imminent National Academies to fast-track a new climate assessment New executive order puts all grants under political control Stone tools may hint at ancestors of Homo floresiensis Did a rival tribe kill and eat their neighbors 5,700 years ago? Cockatoos know 30 distinct dance moves Some AI tools don’t understand biology yet Titan sub implosion caused by absolutely bonkers “toxic workplace environment” Analysis: The Trump administration’s assault on climate action Four radioactive wasp nests found on South Carolina nuclear facility With Trump’s cutbacks, crew heads for ISS unsure of when they’ll come back Research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed The military’s squad of satellite trackers is now routinely going on alert Vast majority of new US power plants generate solar or wind power Peacock feathers can emit laser beams $15 billion in NIH funding frozen, then thawed Tuesday in ongoing power war Making Roman concrete produces as much CO2 as modern concrete Australia’s first orbital-class rocket stalled seconds after liftoff EPA plans to ignore science, stop regulating greenhouse gases20 Gaming – Ars Technica
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Google and Valve will kill “Steam for Chromebooks” experiment in January 2026 Review: Framework Desktop is a mash-up of a regular desktop PC and the Mac Studio Citing “market conditions,” Nintendo hikes prices of original Switch consoles The King Is Watching condenses kingdom-building strategy to a single screen Nvidia announces end of GPU driver updates for GeForce 10-series, Windows 10 Not (just) seeing red: Virtual Boy emulator adds full color support Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter Once a relative haven for adult games, itch.io begins removing explicit titles Julian LeFay, “the father of The Elder Scrolls,” has died at 59 After 5 years in development, the Assassin’s Creed TV series is happening Samsung’s Odyssey 3D monitor delivers great visuals, limited game support Steam cracks down on some sex games to appease payment processors YouTuber faces jail time for showing off Android-based gaming handhelds Mac graphics settings for Cyberpunk 2077 aim for console-like simplicity Donkey Kong Bananza is a worthy successor to Super Mario Odyssey’s legacy Nintendo discontinues cost-saving game vouchers for Switch Online players Ars Technica and GOG team up to bring you a pile of our favorite games Samsung and Epic Games call a truce in app store lawsuit The Last of Us co-creator Neil Druckmann exits HBO show What’s wrong with AAA games? The development of the next Battlefield has answers.16 OSnews
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“Why I prefer human-readable file formats” If you don’t like current macOS, why not keep using Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks? Zen80: a Z80 emulator written in Go Google ends Steam for Chromebook effort Developing your first KDE application Age verification: what’s the harm? That time Microsoft forgot the southern hemisphere’s seasons are opposite to the northern hemisphere’s Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.0 with Debian 13 released Writing a Rust GPU kernel driver: a brief introduction on how GPU drivers work Windows NT 4.0 set us on the path to Windows NT desktop dominance Replacing an Amiga’s brain with Doom Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives Orbitiny Desktop 1.0 Pilot 4 released Introduction to Qubes OS when you do not know what it is A real PowerBook: the Macintosh Application Environment on a PA-RISC laptop “AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning”15 Slashdot
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Smartwatches Offer Little Insight Into Stress Levels, Researchers Find Net Neutrality Advocates Won't Appeal Loss Millions Flock To Grow Virtual Gardens In Viral Roblox Game UK Courts Service 'Covered Up' IT Bug That Lost Evidence Red Teams Jailbreak GPT-5 With Ease, Warn It's 'Nearly Unusable' For Enterprise Apollo 13 Astronaut Jim Lovell Dies At 97 ChatGPT Is Bringing Back 4o AI Industry Horrified To Face Largest Copyright Class Action Ever Certified South Korea Postpones Decision To Let Google Maps Work Properly - Again The FCC Will Review Emergency Alert Systems in the US China Tells Brokers To Stop Touting Stablecoins To Cool Frenzy How Intel's CEO Helped Create China's Chip Industry Google Ending Steam for Chromebook Support in 2026 Frequent Nightmares Predict Early Death More Strongly Than Smoking or Obesity, Study Finds The Troubling Decline in Conscientiousness