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JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Management Catalog of Novel Operating Systems Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes Getting AI to write good SQL XTool – Cross-platform Xcode replacement A Linux kernel developer plays with Home Assistant: general impressions A Critical Look at "A Critical Look at MCP." Thoughts on thinking A Research Preview of Codex New high-quality hash measures 71GB/s on M4 Show HN: Fahmatrix – A Lightweight, Pandas-Like DataFrame Library for Java MIT asks arXiv to withdraw preprint of paper on AI and scientific discovery Popcorn: Run Elixir in WASM Rustls Server-Side Performance MCP: An in-depth introduction Show HN: Merliot – plugging physical devices into LLMs I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA Hunting extreme microbes that redefine the limits of life Coding agent in 94 lines of Ruby Show HN: KVSplit – Run 2-3x longer contexts on Apple Silicon ClojureScript 1.12.42 Show HN: Visual flow-based programming for Erlang, inspired by Node-RED X X^t can be faster Implementing a RISC-V Hypervisor Fixrleak: Fixing Java Resource Leaks with GenAI A Linux kernel developer plays with Home Assistant: case studies The first year of free-threaded Python Publisher: The Malloy Semantic Model Server WebGL Gray-Scott Explorer (2012) Java at 30: Interview with James Gosling30 heise online News
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Verizon darf Frontier kaufen – weil Diversitätsprogramme gestrichen wurden Negativpreis an der Börse: Stromanbieter zahlen Kunden Geld Warum MCP die KI-Nutzung auf den Kopf stellt Neue App misst Feinstaubbelastung beim Radfahren und Gehen heise-Angebot: iX-Workshop: Einführung in die SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) Developer Snapshots: Kleinere News der Woche Platform Engineering: Vom Regenbogenteam zur reiferen Plattform US-Autoritarismus und die Techabhängigkeiten der EU Lichtspiele und die Freiheit über den Wolken: Die Bilder der Woche 19 Podcast: Was passiert, wenn man den Akku eines E-Autos leer fährt | c’t uplink Top 10: Das beste City-E-Bike für die Stadt – schon ab 789 Euro gut xAI: Systemprompt von Grok wurde manipuliert ARM gibt "Cortex" auf World Press Photo entzieht Nick Ut Anerkennung für "Napalm Girl" Mobilfunkstreit: Verwaltungsgericht rügt Untätigkeit der Bundesnetzagentur Zweiter Tag der Pwn2Own Berlin: Sandkistenausbrüche und KI-Exploits Bitcoins: Finger weg! VisionOS 3, XR Expo und Spatial-Kamera im Eigenbau | TNBT-Podcast heise+ | heise+ Update vom 16. Mai 2025: Lesetipps fürs Wochenende Oliver Blume lehnt seinen von VW-Aktionären geforderten Rückzug bei Porsche ab CPU-Marktanteile: ARM übersteigt erstmals 10 Prozent Roborock Saros 10 im Test: Superflacher Saugroboter klettert, wischt und saugt Forerunner 570 und 970: Garmin mit neuen Sportuhren E-BAR: Am MIT entwickelter Pflegeroboter unterstützt beim Gehen und Aufstehen KI-Update: Manipulation bei Grok, KI mit Selbstkorrektur, KI-Molekularforschung Computex: Seltenheit: Acer bringt 14-Zoll-Notebook mit mattem OLED-Display Auch für iPhones: Superschneller Sparspeicher "Mobile HBM" Spiele-Linux Nobara 42: Umzug auf Fedora-42-Basis und Brave-Browser Xring01: Xiaomi setzt jetzt auf eigene Smartphone-Prozessoren An Schulen der Stadt Bremen sind Handys ab Juni verboten24 /r/Technology
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Promise to Kill DEI, and Trump’s FCC Will Approve Anything. Verizon's $20 billion deal to buy Frontier got approved once the company agreed to end DEI programs. Tesla limits investors’ ability to sue over breach of fiduciary duties It’s Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System | Thanks to a new breed of chatbots, American stupidity is escalating at an advanced pace. The Trump Memecoin Dinner Winners Are Getting Rid of Their Coins Grok’s white genocide fixation caused by ‘unauthorized modification’ Programmers bore the brunt of Microsoft's layoffs in its home state as AI writes up to 30% of its code China signs deal with Russia to build a power plant on the moon — potentially leaving the US in the dust Tesla's Robotaxi Rollout Looks Like A Disaster Waiting To Happen Jeff Bezos makes his most ghoulish deal yet — Remember Jamal Khashoggi? YouTube’s AI is going to start showing ads at the absolute worst time for viewers | The site has announced plans to target viewers when they’re most engaged – meaning right when you’re at the edge of your seat watching a video, you could be forced to ensure a round of commercials. Major VPN Providers Ordered to Block Pirate Sports Streaming Sites CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers Scientists May Have Found a Massive Ocean of Water Deep Beneath Mars’ Surface Spotify is sorry that it revealed how many people listen to your podcast The Tesla Cybertruck Is No Longer The Best-Selling EV Truck In America | Demand for the angular electric pickup has continued to falter in the first quarter, making room for a new king. Trump agrees deal for UAE to build largest AI campus outside US Meta argues enshittification isn’t real in bid to toss FTC monopoly trial TikTok to launch meditation feature as it faces slew of lawsuits alleging it’s harming kids’ mental health FAA has used eBay, 3D printers to replace parts for aging systems, transportation secretary says The Kids Online Safety Act Will Make The Internet Worse For Everyone Apple Says Fortnite for iOS Isn't Blocked Worldwide, Just the U.S. Former FBI Director James Comey takes down Instagram post after conservative uproar Attack claimed by pro-Ukraine hackers reportedly erases a third of Russian court case archive Verizon’s $20 billion Frontier acquisition wins FCC approval26 /r/space: news, articles and discussion
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All Space Questions thread for week of May 11, 2025 Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew With Duct Tape, Dies at 95 (Gift Article) Japan has a plan to beam energy down to Earth from space Former ISS Commander Terry Virts: Space United Us. Putin Tore Us Apart. The top fell off Australia’s first orbital-class rocket, delaying its launch US and China need a space hotline for orbital emergencies, experts say Giant young star is growing by 2 Jupiter masses every year, new study shows Starship's IFT-9 is now scheduled for May 27th India and Japan gear up for joint Chandrayaan-5 mission Perseverance Mars rover becomes 1st spacecraft to spot auroras from the surface of another world NASA Just Detected Ice in Another Star System for the First Time | The young star is surrounded by a disk containing "itsy-bitsy dirty snowballs," researchers revealed. Landing on the Moon is an incredibly difficult feat − 2025 has brought successes and shortfalls for companies and space agencies I’m a Caltech Scientist who discovered the Moon’s mantle is warmer on the nearside than the farside AMA NASA picks Rocket Lab to launch shoebox-sized Aspera space telescope in 2026 Space Forge raises $30 million to develop satellites for space-based manufacturing | UK startup sets record for largest Series A in space tech If the universe is expanding faster than light and galaxies are moving further away from each other, does that mean that at some point our observable universe will only be the local group? Roughly how long would it take for this to happen? Perseverance watches moonrise on Mars | Space photo of the day for May 16, 2025 Is there any cosmic threat that could wipe out life on our planet all of sudden? Space mission discovers 'bullet-like' winds shooting from a supermassive black hole Old NASA photo/memorabilia question. Cyber careers in space industry Martian resource potential and challenges for future human activities Varda 3 lands in Australia as expected Gilmour Space Eris test flight scrubbed after fairing separates on the pad First ultraviolet data collected from NASA's Europa Clipper mission Observations detect a perfectly shaped supernova remnant22 PC Gaming
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Tech Support and Basic Questions Thread - May 17, 2025 Weekly Game Suggestions Thread - May 16, 2025 Star citizen devs rollback micro transactions after massive controversy The 'deprofessionalization of video games' was on full display at PAX East Stellar Blade PC Version Detailed: SHIFT UP Addresses DRM, Mods, And Region Lock Concerns The First Berserker: Khazan missed sales targets, but Nexon says the Soulslike RPG was still a success because it got us to care about the 20-year-old action series it wants to globalize MindsEye - Official Gameplay Teaser Trailer Artist accuses PlayStation game maker Bungie of lifting her work - Interview with Fern Hook, AKA N2 Bloomberg: Video Game Makers Turn Back to Kickstarter in Tough Funding Climate Stellar Blade PC Port blocked on Steam in over 100 countries despite not requiring a PSN account. Vampire survival chaos, base building, co-op mayhem and a shot of Brotato - Broventure: The Wild Co-op throws you and your friends into non-stop monster fighting. Grab your friends who are ready to go all the way, gear up and fight for survival - the game is out now! Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon will be delisted from Steam on May 19th. My game Arctico is about peaceful polar exploration, you can pet your dogs! Bungie Responds to Marathon ‘Art Theft’ Claims After 12 years of solo dev, I'm finally releasing my game Zefyr on Steam on June 2, 2025! It's a super feel-good & nostalgic odyssey with a PS2 style. Climb everywhere, sail on a turtle, confront or avoid pirates & cure animals. Wishlist to support me! Thank you so much. @antire.al on Bluesky: "the Marathon alpha released recently and its environments are covered with assets lifted from poster designs i made in 2017." Weekend PC Game Deals: Zombies to slay, creatures to collect, fresh bundles, and more Netflix Taps Bullet Train Director for Long-Awaited Gears of War Film Nvidia’s original customers are feeling unloved and grumpy Excited to show a new trailer for our game, Cursemark. It's a exploration roguelike, inspired by the original Zelda, Demon Souls, and Hades. Star Citizen's latest controversy - locking access to a new feature that allows you to boost your ships performance statistics using computer 'blades' behind the cash shop. Dead Island 2 is free on the Epic Games Store.25 Formula 1
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2025 Emilia-Romagna GP - Free Practice 2 Discussion Ask r/Formula1 Anything - Daily Discussion Thread I am in disbelief at the comments Yuki is receiving all over his instagram. First Jack now this. Colapinto NEEDS to speak out strongly on his instagram Jack Doohan's Instagram story Max verstappen radio message One last time at Imola A notable problem for Leclerc during FP1 in Imola: his helmet doesn't stay on properly. He has to hold it in place with his hand. Pierre Gasly damaged his car's front wing and floor when he hit a rabbit during first practice at Imola Norris off social media as title race heats up McLaren thinks its F1 rivals are looking in the wrong places [F1 via IG] team boss meal [ESPN F1 via IG] Max was asked how he'd feel about Lily wanting to be a racing driver when she grows up Max holding the loose nut Top 3 in Imola FP2 Lewis hamilton on his critics:"99% or 100% of them don't know what I have been through to get where I'm today, I find myself having to just remind myself: I have won seven world titles. I have won more than any other driver in history. I have to remind myself that I also have done great things" [Andrew Benson] Aston Martin say both cars will run with the latest upgrade package for the rest of the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix weekend, after Lance Stroll ran the new spec and Fernando Alonso the old on Friday [Autosport] Max Verstappen confirmed he did set a GT3 lap record at the Nurburgring as Franz Hermann Car 16 referred to the Stewards: Tyre Operating Procedures Red Flag! Gabriel Bortoleto has crashed into the wall! And End the FP1 FP2 Classification for the 2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. RED FLAG! Isack goes off in a spin, bringing out the yellow flag, but has beached his car in an attempt to return to the track F1's Imola tyre choice likely to increase McLaren's advantage - Russell Ferrari fined €5000 for tire pressure changes on Car 16 Ferrari's braking issues 'a lottery' says Hamilton Hulk's summer helmet.25 programming
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Insane malware hidden inside NPM with invisible Unicode and Google Calendar invites! What the first 2 Years as a Software Engineer Taught Me (Beyond Just Code) What’s one time YAGNI didn’t apply—and you were glad you built it early? The 3 Mental Models That Helped Me Actually Understand Cloud Architecture (Not Just Pass Exams) Senior devs aren't just faster, they're dodging problems you're forced to solve Detecting malicious Unicode Beware the Complexity Merchants UIBeam v0.2 is out!: A lightweight, JSX-style HTML template engine for Rust The Language That Never Was I created a train traffic simulator Microsoft support for "Faster CPython" project cancelled A leap year check in three instructions Ground control to Major Trial - Abusing trials with OSS Better Java Builds with the Mill Build Tool (GeeCon Krakow 2025) OpenJDK talks about adding a JSON API to the Java Standard Library What are flaps in squeak? Beginner coding Deploy Angular or React apps to Cloudflare Pages using GitHub Actions New Community-Driven GitHub Repo for Mobile System Design Resources! I Don't Need Another Scrum Master, Get Me a Technical Coach! • Emily Bache A5HASH 5.16: 128-bit hash version update: now much faster than rapidhash and wyhash on Zen5 (48GB/s) and Apple Silicon (32GB/s). 64-bit and 128-bit hash function in the same API. Passes SMHasher3 tests. Likely singularity-level solution - at the limits of math. Free assets collection (ressources for frontend dev and designers) The best new features and fixes in Python 3.14 Is software architecture set in stone? 10 System Design Trade-offs25 Open Source on Reddit
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A $130M company faked trials for 10 years instead of running free Open Source Growling-Cat: An Open Source Screaming Frog Alternative Skylos: Another dead code finder, but its better and faster. Source, Trust me bro. DASH: An Open-Source Solution for Local Governments Profile Keeper: Your Ultimate Hub for Managing Online Identities & Essential Sites I’ve released version 1.0 of NeoNuGet, a Neovim plugin for managing NuGet packages. I built SwiftThemeKit — a design system SDK for SwiftUI (with theming, tokens, and components) Looking for an app that track new song & album releases from Music Artists Open source Wakatime alternative for code time tracking Tablecruncher is now open source – a fast CSV editor with a commercial past [Updated with new CLI] port.pub v0.2: Publish your local HTTP server to the Internet 🚀 Just launched EnvGuard! Type-safe environment variable validation for Python (Pydantic) & Node.js Looking for a car dataset SafeLine Is A Beautiful Open Source WAF For Your Web App We're building EcoWise — a browser extension that audits your website’s carbon footprint 🌱 Would love your thoughts! Sourcebot vs. OpenGrok | Open source code search tool comparison OSS Trust / Security Center SSH Client Manager: Easily choose Servers to connect to from the Terminal Announcing SpytoRec: An Open-Source Python CLI for Recording & Organizing Personal Spotify Streams Open source, trustworthy keystroke visualizer for Windows 11 [Q2 2025] Generative font modification software💧LivingPath open source web based timeline video editor I build an package that prefetches data based on predicted user intent, not on hover. - ForesightJS Open-source browser screen recorder for bug reporting (fully client-side) Open-source agents with built-in MCPToolkit support23 Rock, Paper, Shotgun
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What are we all playing this weekend? Here's a demo for Blades Of Fire, the new action-RPG from the Lords Of Shadow team The Precinct review The spirit of Far Cry 2 still burns in Rescue Ops, a sandbox firefighting sim with huge wilderness maps Labyrinth Of The Demon King might be the perfect PS1-style horror RPG Bungie used an artist's work without permission in Marathon GTA 6 release won't be delayed again now that it has a "specific date", assures Take-Two boss Legacy Of Kain with parkour? Sure, go on then "PlayStation are great" says Arrowhead's CEO, but whatever the Helldivers 2 devs are making next, it's fully self-funded Here's a morbid one: Kojima has a USB stick full of ideas for Kojima Productions to use after he dies The original Stalker trilogy is getting a free upgrade that brings in reworked lighting, full controller support, and more Yet another Persona 5 spinoff is launching next month, this time a gacha game with a new group of Phantom Thieves The first look at Kingdom Hearts 4 in three years isn't a trailer, but a JPEG of Mickey Mouse is better than nothing The medieval dice game you play in Kingdom Come: Deliverance is now a retro Arthurian roguelite This roguelite has a brilliant twist on Warhammer Quest's dungeon crawling, and it's out today I keep forgetting I'm supposed to actually pay my Battle Brothers Gennady is a slimy anti-Mario platformer in which you harvest larvae and turn into a squirrel EA employees "upset and confused" at return to office mandate Ubisoft push back "some of our biggest" games and announce further cost-cutting after a "challenging" year Get in the car, loser, we're going on an Internet Roadtrip with a thousand backseat drivers Hideo Kojima proposes a game where the protagonist forgets abilities if players take too long a break Pathologic 3 devs defend choice to cut the plague town's open world to bits FBC: Firebreak is a great time, for a shooter with terrible guns20 Ars Technica - All content
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RFK Jr’s plan to ban fluoride supplements will “hurt rural America,” dentists say Spotify caught hosting hundreds of fake podcasts that advertise selling drugs The empire strikes back with F-bombs: AI Darth Vader goes rogue with profanity, slurs Google to give app devs access to Gemini Nano for on-device AI From birth to gene-edited in 6 months: Custom therapy breaks speed limits OpenAI introduces Codex, its first full-fledged AI agent for coding Forgive me, Volvo, I was wrong: The 2025 V60 Cross Country review Carnivorous crocodile-like monsters used to terrorize the Caribbean Meta argues enshittification isn’t real in bid to toss FTC monopoly case The 2025 VW Tiguan caters to US tastes at an affordable price Nintendo says more about how free Switch 2 updates will improve Switch games xAI says an “unauthorized” prompt change caused Grok to focus on “white genocide” Drop Duchy is a deck-building, Tetris-like, Carcassonne-esque puzzler Rocket Report: How is your payload fairing? Poland launches test rocket. The top fell off Australia’s first orbital-class rocket, delaying its launch FBI warns of ongoing scam that uses deepfake audio to impersonate government officials After latest kidnap attempt, crypto types tell crime bosses: Transfers are traceable Microsoft’s Surface lineup reportedly losing another of its most interesting designs Tesla changes lease policy, didn’t use old cars as robotaxis Telegram bans $35B black markets used to sell stolen data, launder crypto20 Science – Ars Technica
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From birth to gene-edited in 6 months: Custom therapy breaks speed limits Carnivorous crocodile-like monsters used to terrorize the Caribbean The top fell off Australia’s first orbital-class rocket, delaying its launch Renewable power reversing China’s emissions growth New twist on marshmallow test shows power of a promise A dangerous E. coli strain has emerged; a small mutation may explain its rise Beyond qubits: Meet the qutrit (and ququart) A privately developed Australian rocket is ready for a historic launch Federal agencies continue terminating all funding to Harvard Dutch scientists built a brainless soft robot that runs on air Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US A star has been destroyed by a wandering supermassive black hole Rocket Report: Rocket Lab to demo cargo delivery; America’s new ICBM in trouble Trump just made it much harder to track the nation’s worst weather disasters Belief in fake news linked to problematic social media use Genetically engineered bacteria break down industrial contaminants Dangerous clear-air turbulence is worsening due to global warming Trump administration cuts off all future federal funding to Harvard Only elites used hallucinogens in ancient Andes society On cusp of storm season, NOAA funding cuts put hurricane forecasting at risk20 Gaming – Ars Technica
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The empire strikes back with F-bombs: AI Darth Vader goes rogue with profanity, slurs Nintendo says more about how free Switch 2 updates will improve Switch games Drop Duchy is a deck-building, Tetris-like, Carcassonne-esque puzzler Valve takes another step toward making SteamOS a true Windows competitor New Switch 2 specs show large performance dip in undocked mode Doom: The Dark Ages is surprisingly playable on the Steam Deck Nintendo warns that it can brick Switch consoles if it detects hacking, piracy Don’t look now, but a confirmed gamer is leading the Catholic Church Doom: The Dark Ages review: Shields up! Nvidia GeForce xx60 series is PC gaming’s default GPU, and a new one is out May 19 How long will Switch 2’s Game Key Cards keep working? Why Google Gemini’s Pokémon success isn’t all it’s cracked up to be The Last of Us packs new characters and new revelations into its latest episode Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts Epic Games Store completely eliminates revenue fees for smaller developers Grand Theft Auto VI gets pushed back to May 26, 2026 “Older than Google,” this Elder Scrolls wiki has been helping gamers for 30 years Gaming news site Polygon gutted by massive layoffs amid sale to Valnet Microsoft raises prices on Xbox hardware, says “some” holiday games will be $80 Fortnite will return to iOS as court slams Apple’s “interference“ and ”cover-up“16 OSnews
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“TCF” cookie consent popups violate GDPR; OSNews wants to stop using cookie popups too once we get enough Patreons Rust celebrates ten year anniversary with Rust 1.87.0 release Accessibility on Linux sucks, but GNOME and KDE are making progress Xiaomi joins Google Pixel in making its own smartphone chip Oracle releases first “enthusiast” Solaris release in three years, promises more regular updates Silicon Valley developers need to unionise E-COM: the $40 million USPS project to send email on paper Microsoft blinks, extends Office support for Windows 10 by three years Cracking the Dave & Buster’s anomaly Crosscompiling for OpenBSD arm64 Linux removes support for the 486, and now I’m curious what that means for Vortex86 processors A brief history of the numeric keypad A brief history of the BSD Fast FileSystem Microsoft unveils the new Start menu for Windows 11 users Chromium to use “AI” to combat the spam notifications it helped create Xtool: cross-platform Xcode replacement for Linux, Windows, and macOS15 Slashdot
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NASA Resurrects Voyager 1 Interstellar Spacecraft's Thrusters After 20 Years FDA Clears First Blood Test To Help Diagnose Alzheimer's Disease Microsoft's Command Palette is a Powerful Launcher For Apps, Search Walmart Prepares for a Future Where AI Shops for Consumers UK Needs More Nuclear To Power AI, Says Amazon Boss Linux Swap Table Code Shows The Potential For Huge Performance Gains Apple's New CarPlay 'Ultra' Won't Fix the Biggest Problem of Phone-Connected Cars MIT Asks arXiv To Take Down Preprint Paper On AI and Scientific Discovery OpenAI Launches Codex, an AI Coding Agent, In ChatGPT Meta Argues Enshittification Isn't Real Verizon Secures FCC Approval for $9.6 Billion Frontier Acquisition Charter To Buy Cox For $21.9 Billion Amid Escalating War With Wireless Covid-19 Spikes in Hong Kong, Singapore as New Wave Spreads Data Shows Boys and Young Men Are Falling Behind Apple Denies Blocking 'Fortnite' From EU Stores in Epic Dispute