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Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display I Asked Four Former Friends Why We Stopped Speaking-Here's What I Learned (2023) Part 1: A Deep Dive into Rust and C Memory Interoperability Open IP Camera Firmware Facts will not Save You - AI, History and Soviet Sci-Fi Gigabyte removes PCIe 5.0 support from B650 motherboards in latest BIOS update Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives Software needs an "independent auditor" Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers My Ideal Array Language Century-Old Stone “Tsunami Stones” Dot Japan's Coastline (2015) Show HN: Tiny logic and number games I built for my kids Show HN: Kimu – Open-Source Video Editor How we built Bluey’s world Scientists shine a laser through a human head GHz spiking neuromorphic photonic chip with in-situ training Lidar-based GIS map of New Hampshire stone walls Show HN: Mathpad – Physical keypad for typing 100+ math symbols anywhere Drawafish.com Postmortem: Whoops Perfecting anti-aliasing on signed distance functions ScreenCoder: An intelligent UI-to-code generation system The Toyota Corolla of programming Customizing tmux and making it less dreadful Do LLMs identify fonts? Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down So you want to parse a PDF? Genetic correlates of social stratification in Great Britain (2019) [pdf] New quantum state of matter found at interface of exotic materials Every Visual Workflow Tool Is Just Excel for Developers Who Gave Up Writing a good design document30 heise online News
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Klappe – die Erste: Apple verklagt Kinokette "Apple Cinemas" Fahrprofil im Visier: Wie Carsharing-Anbieter ihre Nutzer überwachen Tesla verpasst Chance, sich von Elon Musk zu trennen heise+ | Quizauflösung: Fehlersuche mittels ICMP-Rückmeldungen Auf Festival erprobt: Toilettenkabine wird telemedizinische Versorgungsstation KI-Chatverlauf zurücksetzen senkt CO₂-Ausstoß "Pfizergate": Wichtige SMS von Ursula von der Leyen wurden gelöscht Albrecht DR 52 BA im Test: Günstiger & guter DAB+-Adapter für Stereoanlage Abnehm-App: Bei "Fastic" konnte unwissentlich auch die Geldbörse erschlanken Spotify hebt international die Preise an heise+ | Wie weit Elektroautos auf der Langstrecke kommen: 21 Modelle im Vergleich Die Produktwerker: Product Backlog Management ist mehr, als man denkt Material 3 Expressive: Google verteilt Telefon-App mit neuem Design heise+ | Kurz erklärt: Network as a Service (NaaS) KI-Update: KI-Persönlichkeit, ChatGPT, Supercomputer mit Wasserkraft, Fische TypeScript 5.9 sorgt für minimalistische tsconfig.json-Dateien Intel legt 3,5 Jahre alte Prozessoren neu auf heise-Angebot: iX-Workshop: Fortgeschrittene Kubernetes-Administration für Profis EU stimmt Ausbau von Autobahn 643 aus Gründen des Umweltschutzes nicht zu Apple zur Vision Pro: Weiter "Volle Konzentration" auf Augmented Reality Langsame KI-Umsetzung bei Apple: Firmenspitze setzt intern auf Beruhigung Bildungsminister Teuber für datengestützte Schulentwicklung und Kompetenzfokus Kurz erklärt: Das steckt hinter dem Modewort KI-Agenten Elektroauto: Wie nachhaltig BMW beim kommenden iX3 werden möchte heise-Angebot: Risikomanagement und Resilienz in der IT-Sicherheit: IT-Sicherheitstag Dortmund Apple-Läden: Retail-Kette baut um, deutscher Ausbau stockt Apple soll nun doch an ChatGPT-Konkurrenten arbeiten – für Suchanfragen Digitalminister Wildberger will DSL nicht so schnell aufgeben Sicherheitsupdate: Phishingangriffe auf IBM Operational Decision Manager möglich "Watching You": Dokumentarfilm zeigt die Welt von Palantir und Alex Karp23 /r/Technology
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Airbnb guest says host used AI-generated images in false $9,000 damages claim | Airbnb initially sided with host before reversing decision Mastercard denies pressuring game platforms, Valve tells a different story Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet North Korean spies posing as remote workers have infiltrated hundreds of companies, says CrowdStrike Spotify is raising Premium prices outside the US | Emails will be going out to impacted customers ‘over the next month.’ Marvel Rivals will now automatically record all in-game voice chats to "shield the community" from toxic behaviour AI is doing job interviews now—but candidates say they'd rather risk staying unemployed than talk to another robot Court cancels consumer-friendly click-to-cancel rule Spotify raises subscription prices This AI didn’t just simulate an attack - it planned and executed a real breach like a human hacker Perplexity accused of scraping websites that explicitly blocked AI scraping Tested: Microsoft Recall can still capture credit cards and passwords, a treasure trove for crooks Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives Mystery packages with QR codes spark new wave of scams | 73% of Americans scan QR codes without checking their source Why India’s IT sector is shedding jobs ‘The brain responds like it’s a physical injury’: Why posting photos of friends on social media without their consent sparks rifts ‘Too far, too fast’: BP’s painful retreat from the renewables it once championed, selling off clean energy assets Alphabet’s Rise Propels CEO Sundar Pichai to $1 Billion Fortune In Trump’s Washington, Palantir is winning big GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming" China deploys breakthrough super steel alloy CHSN01 to build nuclear fusion generation reactor Scientists have discovered a way to make quantum entanglement reversible, something long thought to be impossible, via a quantum entanglement battery device Thousands of private ChatGPT conversations found via Google search after feature mishap | Users shocked as personal conversations were discoverable on Google27 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 Built a moderately successful aGPLv3 repo, thinking of “closed sourcing” it. FOSS that has no telemetry/spyware/bloatware that is basically a gift to humanity? "good first issue" tags are a gamechanger Self-hosted uptime monitor for your websites Schemix — A PyQt6 Desktop App for Engineering Students Media Downloader is a Qt/C++ front end to yt-dlp, youtube-dl, gallery-dl, lux, you-get, svtplay-dl, aria2c, wget and safari books lost my vaultwarden backup Can open source operating systems navigate a potential device level age verification? Discord vs. Slack for dev & open source communities? Offline AI NPCs for education — built in Godot, powered by Gemma 3n, fully open source I created an app to run local AI as if it were the App Store Does anybody know of a free open-source text-to-speech reader? Building a CLI tool to fix my biggest git frustration: lost commit context Youtube Playlist Link Extractor Razen-Studio - A Code Editor (Beta) for Android build with HTML + Css + Js! Ghost’s official Twitter account teasing Ghost 6.0, probably announced tomorrow. What feature would you like? Want to get into open-source with Spring Boot + Angular — any beginner-friendly project recommendations? Learn C by Building Projects – From FizzBuzz to Neural Networks! Awake – Open-Source Smart Alarm Clock with Custom Dismissal Challenges Deployed Canvas 2d Update 11: Opensource sonos alternative on vintage speakers, based on raspberry pi Community for de-OS(ing) commercial products? Self hosted interface for an API I made a text to speech reader for Mac using Google's AI. ChatBox - GPL licensing and transparency issues on free software26 /r/space: news, articles and discussion
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All Space Questions thread for week of August 03, 2025 The James Webb Telescope may have found primordial black holes I photographed 3 galaxies at once from the ISS what are these “?” stars? Here is a photo of Saturn that I took yesterday morning with my telescope 3 powerful solar flares erupt in less than 24 hours, ending weeks of calm on the sun (video) Giant, free-floating planets may form their own planetary systems Starry night through my iPhone 16 Pro with Andromeda in the background Rocket Ranch by Max Evans Lunar Module Pilot Jim Irwin is seen with the Lunar Roving Vehicle, with Mount Hadley in the background. Taken by Commander David Scott on 31 July 1971. M31 - Andromeda The Shape of Constellation Leo in Three Dimensions by the Space Telescope Science Institute When will your state next be visited by a total solar eclipse? [OC] Another year gone by and another photo of the lone kahikatea under the stars Shooting star caught in Topares, Spain Twelve years of Kappa Cygnids by Petr Horálek What do you think? Water recycling is paramount for space stations and long-duration missions − an environmental engineer explains how the ISS does it Finally captured one of my best astrophotography shots so far: the Blue Horsehead Nebula Spaceflight recap, week 31 Stop juggling 4 apps to plan the night sky — I made a simple go/no-go tool. Thoughts? The Moon Last Night. A good video about the challenges of living in Space The moon thru a friends telescope Starlink Group 10-30 ISS cupola miniature23 Rock, Paper, Shotgun
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Wheel World, let me build weirder bikes 2K comment on reports Bioshock 4 is in trouble: "we have a good game, but we are committed to delivering a great one" 70 seconds makes all the difference under the new Marvel Rivals approach to rage-quitters You can get an RTX 5070 GPU for under $550 right now at Amazon if you're a Prime member Fatekeeper looks like a spiritual successor to Dark Messiah, but where's the kick? Another Skyblivion dev diary shows off the new dungeons and expanded cities Oblivion Remastered never bothered with This week in PC games: a new Mafia, a bustling Homeworld homage, a cosmic lighthouse and some strange jigsaws Valve point to Mastercard restrictions as the payment firm deny influencing adult game removals The Sunday Papers What are we all playing this weekend? Save over $800 on an NVIDIA RTX 5070 PC from Lenovo, now under $1,400 You can save hundreds on this Alienware Aurora R16 with an RTX 5080 in the back to school sales I'm still strapped to a rolling office chair with a ticking timer in a huge scary building Dell's impressive Back-to-School deals include big savings on XPS models and more Graham Smith is leaving RPS, come say goodbye Battlefield 6's PC specs don't look too lofty despite all the booms, and Steam players won't need the pesky EA App After three deafening hours of its multiplayer, Battlefield 6 sure looks like a Battlefield game Finishing Skyblivion is a new dev diary series about the last leg of the Oblivion remake mod's run to release Major payment firm behind Itch adult game cull say they themselves face "restrictions" from another banking firm In praise of one-job RPGs, the greatest antidote to FOMO Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag voice actor claims Ubisoft threatened to sue him over remake tease I was a fool for skipping Widelands, the only game as good as The Settlers Praise the Kiryu, Steam's latest Client Beta update will finally let you sort Like A Dragons and Yakuza into the right order23 PC Gaming
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Tech Support and Basic Questions Thread - August 03, 2025 What Are You Playing Thread - August 04, 2025 The Battlefield 6 open beta preload will be available from August 4 at 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 4pm BST Steam data reveals PC gamers shifting from Windows to Linux Ryzen 7 9800X3D left Core i9-14900K in the dust in Battlefield 6 early streamer tests — both systems included an RTX 5080, but the 3D V-Cache system was roughly 30% faster Battlefield 6 Open Beta Trailer 'We fought hard:' Raven QA union secures contract after three years of bargaining BioShock 4 fails to impress at internal 2K review resulting in leadership shake-up and revamped narrative Community Update #35 Baldur's Gate 3 Turns Two GOG: In 24 hours, one million people have claimed the FreedomToBuy games and shown their support. For people who had difficulties claiming the games, we’re expanding the action by a few hours; take action quickly. CPU/GPU Scaling: Ryzen 7 5800X3D (RTX 5090, 5080, RX 9070 & 9060 XT) [Hardware Unboxed] Atelier Ryza Secret Trilogy Deluxe Pack - First Trailer Titan Quest 2 becomes #2 top selling game on steam, with "Very Positive" reviews COMMUNITY UPDATE - OPEN BETA AND THE ROAD TO LAUNCH Bucking the trend of triple-digit installs, EA confirms Battlefield 6's file size can be as low as 55 gigs: 'You will be able to pick and choose which components of the game you install' The Final Stretch Towards Release | Skyblivion Development Diary 6 Shutter Story is a horror game where you examine a family's photo album for signs of the paranormal. New VIRTUA FIGHTER Project | Combat Gameplay First Look - Training Stage MONSTER HUNTER STORIES 3: TWISTED REFLECTION on Steam TEXNOPLAZM - Early Access Launch Trailer Friendship Simulator: experience couch split-screen gaming as if you had friends. (inspired by Zuckerberg’s dystopian reality where we’d rather befriend AIs than humans) Epic War Collection on Steam Battlefield’s biggest Open Beta ever goes LIVE for two weekends only, Aug 9-10 and 14-17. You can pre-load the game as early as August 4 at 15:00 UTC (8AM PT) and start playing during the Open Beta.23 Formula 1
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2025 Hungarian GP - Day After Debrief Ask r/Formula1 Anything - Daily Discussion Thread Alex Brundle's theory on Leclerc's Ferrari problem at Hungary Charles Leclerc on Lewis Hamilton's poor Hungarian GP: "I have no doubt it's a one-off" Ferrari focused on Leclerc after his DNF in Spain 2020, leaving Vettel to manage his own race and stretch used softs for 36 laps Hungary 2025 saw McLaren win their 200th F1 Grand Prix, only the second team to ever do so, after Ferrari. Aston Martin F1 tech chief Cardile finally allowed to start after Ferrari dispute This is how Charles's 27 (in list of most poles, he's in 11th) poles stack up in respect to finishing positions. 5 wins. 7 times in P2. 6 times in P3. 4 times in P4. 3 DNFs, 1 DNS and 1 DNQ. And a poor attempt to summarise his race “How’d I lose so much ground?” Full radio from Hamilton’s point-less Hungary slog How Driving An F1 Car Affects Heart Rate Of A Normal Person McLaren: Oscar Piastri's late lunge in F1 Hungarian GP remained within our principles Lewis Hamilton reiterates F1 commitment after driver change suggestion to Ferrari Longest radio message I've seen Lando Norris wins the 2025 Hungarian Grand Prix Fernando Alonso and Hide The Pain Harold pose for what might be the most random image I've seen in a while. Charles [Post-Race]: In the car I didn't have all the information, now I have. We had an issue from lap 40 on the chassis. From that moment I was just a passenger. I'm disappointed, but these are the races. At least I know what happened in the background [Stake F1 Team KICK Sauber] P6 IN HUNGARY! A career best result for Gabriel Bortoleto — his best ever qualifying AND race finish! Alonso has a 14 cars drs train Max Verstappen just went 4 races in a row without a podium, the last time it happened was 7 years, 3 months and 26 days ago at the 2018 Bahrain Grand Prix. Following the 2025 Hungarian GP, Charles Leclerc has only managed to convert his pole to race win in only 1 (2024 Monaco GP) out of the last 16 races where he took pole position. Red Bull disputes Max Verstappen claim over prospect of further 2025 F1 victories McLaren now has won 200 Grands Prix in Formula 1! Russell suspects Ferrari were "close to being illegal" with Leclerc's car25 programming
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How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast DrawAFish.com Postmortem: Suffering from success and the dangers of vibe coding Trust in AI coding tools is plummeting How to Create Unbreakable Job Security: A Software Developer's Guide to Making Yourself Indispensable Read That F*cking Code! Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills The State of Software Development in 2025 Do not Kick against the Pricks Assuming as Much as Possible – Andrew Reece – BSC 2025 Taming Eventual Consistency—Applying Principles of Structured Concurrency to Distributed Systems My Ideal Array Language .NET Bounty Program now offers up to $40,000 in awards Coderspae.com – eSports for Coders (Live Battles, Tournaments, Real-Time Duels) Oxidizing Fedora 🦀 No Customer Left Behind: A Self-balancing Task Scheduler Day 12: combineLatest vs zip vs withLatestFrom — Merging Streams in RxJS The Surgical Update: From JSON Blueprints to Flawless UI N+1 query problem : what it is, why it hurts performance, and how to fix it Ordinal Folding Index: A Computable Metric for Self-Referential Semantics On Skill-Debt Let's make a game! 297: The 'Regroup' order A free goldmine of tutorials for the components you need to create production-level agents Extensive open source resource with tutorials for creating robust AI agents Language Stability vs. Program Stability Idempotency in 1 diagram and 144 words Why Observability Isn’t Just for SREs (and How Devs Can Get Started)20 Ars Technica - All content
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F1 in Hungary: Strategy and fast tire changes make all the difference Four radioactive wasp nests found on South Carolina nuclear facility Idaho has become the wild frontier of vaccination policy and public health These are the best streaming services you aren’t watching BMW’s next EV is its most sustainable car yet—here’s why Five children see HIV viral loads vanish after taking antiretroviral drugs With Trump’s cutbacks, crew heads for ISS unsure of when they’ll come back At $250 million, top AI salaries dwarf those of the Manhattan Project and the Space Race RIP Corporation for Public Broadcasting: 1967–2026 Under RFK Jr, CDC skips study on vaccination rates, quietly posts data on drop Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict Ukraine rescues soldier via drone delivery of complete e-bike The curious case of Russia’s charm offensive with NASA this week Delta denies using AI to come up with inflated, personalized prices ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations Research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed Citing “market conditions,” Nintendo hikes prices of original Switch consoles Google releases Gemini 2.5 Deep Think for AI Ultra subscribers Backpage survivors will receive $200M to cover medical, health bills20 Science – Ars Technica
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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 gases The case for memes as a new form of comics Trump promised a drilling boom, but US energy industry hasn’t been interested The first company to complete a fully successful lunar landing is going public Trump admin. is muffling CDC’s flagship health journal, report finds Fermented meat with a side of maggots: A new look at the Neanderthal diet Ars spoke with the military’s chief orbital traffic cop—here’s what we learned 20 years after Katrina, New Orleans remembers Robots eating other robots: The benefits of machine metabolism This aerogel and some sun could make saltwater drinkable Widely panned arsenic life paper gets retracted—15 years after brouhaha20 Gaming – Ars Technica
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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. Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds With 1.2.2 update, Civilization VII tries to win back traditionalists15 Slashdot
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What Happens To Your Data If You Stop Paying for Cloud Storage? Delta's Dynamic AI Pricing Plan Sounds Different Now Microsoft Used China-Based Engineers to Support Product Recently Hacked by China Perplexity is Using Stealth, Undeclared Crawlers To Evade Website No-Crawl Directives, Cloudflare Says Fujifilm Is Raising Camera Prices By Up To $800 How McKinsey Lost Its Edge Is AI Causing Tech Worker Layoffs? It's Complicated With Flight of Six More Tourists to Space, Blue Origin Carries 75th Passenger Disney Struggles With How to Use AI - While Retaining Copyrights and Avoiding Legal Issues How Napster Inspired a Generation of Rule-Breaking Entrepreneurs 'A Black Hole': America's New Graduates Discover a Dismal Job Market Hyundai's Electric Car Sales Surged 50% Over July 2024 Winners Announced in 2025's 'International Obfuscated C Code Competition' N6 (Hexanitrogen) Synthesized for the First Time - Twice As Energy Dense As TNT Vortex's Wireless Take On the Model M Keyboard: Cover Band Or New Legend?16 OSnews
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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” The X11 SECURITY extension from the 1990s PatchworkOS: a 64bit non-POSIX OS where everything is a file Vibe-coding your profession into irrelevance Wayback 0.2 released Microsoft cancels a Windows 11 variant you’ve most likely forgotten exists “Hello world” in Bismuth “I tried Servo, the undercover web browser engine made with Rust” Kyvos: GUI frontend for easy AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS emulation using Qemu NVIDIA extends Windows 10 support for RTX GPUs by one year Vivo’s BlueOS: written in Rust, similar to HarmonyOS? Why are you (still) using OpenBSD? Microsoft clicks their heels once more, allows hate-speech on LinkedIn