CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s

Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI

A new experimental way to code with AI

How to compromise your system with a job interview

The current situation on the IT job market is hard. So you are lucky when a recruiter on LinkedIn reaches out to you having a suitable match for a new position based on your prior experience. It might not be what it seems at a first glance.

HTML Can Do That

HTML has been gobbling up swathes of what used to be JavaScript’s remit. This page lists a bunch of dynamic functionality that we can now achieve with just HTML.

Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns

Live coding environment for making algorithmic patterns

SpacetimeDB: A Short Technical Review

Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence

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Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device

Can a small transformer autocomplete MIDI performances in real time?

The August 17 outage, and the work ahead

An update on the August 17 outage and the steps we're taking to improve reliability.

Linux 7.2

Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit, Chromium/Blink and Firefox expertise found in the consulting business, including many reviewers and committers. Igalia designs, develops, customises and optimises GNU/Linux-based solutions for companies across the globe. Our work and contributions are present in many projects such as GStreamer, Mesa 3D, WebKit, Chromium, etc.

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Consumer Rights Wiki

The community-built wiki documenting anti-ownership, anti-consumer practices ranging from right-to-repair restrictions, planned obsolescence, subscription traps, & digital rights issues.

Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload

A compromised release of the popular Rust crate arrayref pulled in a typosquatted proc-macro1 whose build script downloads and runs a remote binary at compile…

I Analyzed 163K Lines of Kuzu's Codebase. Here's Why Apple Wanted It

I Analyzed 163K Lines of Kuzu’s Codebase. Here’s Why Apple Wanted It. How a 10-person startup built the graph engine Apple’s on-device AI strategy was missing. I spent the last week reading …

Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring

The Opportunity Sixtyfour turns a single name, email, or domain into a full, verified picture of a person or company — by sending AI agents out to research the open web the way a sharp analyst would, then checking and scoring what they find. You'll build real parts of that: the agents that reason and gather evidence, the systems that run them at scale, and the product people use to see the results. How We Work We spend most of our time — call it 80% — understanding the problem deeply, planning, and designing the system before a line gets written. Getting the design right is the hard part and the best part. We hold a high bar, we stay on the edge of what's possible, and everything we ship has to hold up at scale. If you love the part of e

Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)

A new way to think about brainpower.

AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint

I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers

OR: an apology to my English teachers

Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM

Clean up Claude 5's token vomit with a separate LLM. Save your tokens, Claude 5 is hopeless - zachahn/vomit

Watching TikTok and Instagram deactivates the cognitive control network: Study

Scientists discover what TikTok and Instagram Reels do to your brain, revealing temporary changes in key regions linked to cognitive control.