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Everything I own, owned

Turning Claude loose on the firmware of five USB and WiFi peripherals, and finding a command shell in a microphone, a defeatable webcam activity LED, and unauthenticated memory writes over the network.

Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive

How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs

European Union's new packaging rules threaten to kill the world of makers and micro-entrepreneurs, putting jobs, livelihoods and an entire ecosystem of innovation at risk.

Show HN: Vanilla OS 3 Reunion – Immutable and Reproducible Operating System

Vanilla OS is an operating system built with simplicity in mind. It's fast, lightweight, beautiful and ready for all your daily tasks.

Agent Is Not the Model

Software development blog of Joe Wright

I built a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with me

How Varkos was built: a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with you, follows complex instructions and evolves through shared experiences.

SeL4 security proofs now complete on AArch64

How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer

How listening broadly turns everyday problems into useful project ideas.,How listening broadly turns everyday problems into useful project ideas.

Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online

When Anna's Archive suffered widespread downtime this month, users feared another legal enforcement action.

FDA clears blood test to aid evaluation for Alzheimer's disease

The blood-based biomarker test is based on technology developed at WashU Medicine by Randall Bateman, MD, and David Holtzman, MD.

Executable Is a SQLite Database

I have been probably obsessed with two things in the last few years: Nix as a tool to explore innovative ideas that require the capability to rebuild the world and replacing ELF with SQLite as an executable format. You might have noticed that these two ideas are well suited to each other.

Woman stranded in Spain after UK's eVisa system mistakes her for twin sister

Nidia Webb, who is legally settled in UK, falls foul of ‘known issue’ with Home Office’s digitised immigration process

Why older tech is sometimes safer from hackers

The fear of hacking has made some people turn to other forms of technology ignored by new generations of cyber criminals.

Hot Chips 2026: Applying High Bandwidth Flash (HBF)

Machine learning workloads have an insatiable appetite for DRAM capacity. Flash memory is cheaper per gigabyte of capacity than DRAM. Could it offer a way out?

Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

Xiaomi is the Chinese tech giant. Their phones compete with iPhones. Their new CPU roughly matches Apple cores on single threaded tasks, and is much faster in multithreaded execution. Of course, Apple may soon announce their next processor, so this edge may not last long. And,Image

Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future

The firm’s investment portfolio is full of companies that have exploited legal loopholes, created disturbing products, and broken the law. 

I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch

Someone asked what I'd do if I were 17. I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch, and then train ones as powerful as I could with whatever hardware I could get access to.

OCR It – pull text out of un-copyable documents for your LLM

Chrome extension: pin a screen region once, then hotkey your way through a paginated document. OCR runs 100% offline via bundled Tesseract. - thiagotigaz/ocr-it

Fast drilldown dashboards from a single Parquet file