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Fox to buy Roku

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TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)

Tinywind is a pixel-art pirate sailing game in your browser. Outsail the Royal Navy across 7 islands with real sailing physics — beam reach, tack, jibe, broadside. Free to play, no install, 5-minute voyages.

235 points

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Your ePub Is fine

Adobe isn’t exactly a beloved company these days. People begrudgingly use their stuff, because the Creative Suite is an industry standard (read: monopoly) or there are simply no worthwhile alternatives,...

841 points

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Iroh 1.0

Iroh 1.0 is out. Now is the time to build.

548 points

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Memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++

CVE is a database used for categorizing and reporting security vulnerabilities in software. There are various kinds of vulnerabilities that can be reported. Some of them are caused simply by bugs in the program logic (like a recent CVE reported in Cargo), but some of the most nasty ones are caused by memory unsafety, which can easily lead to exploits. In this post I want to focus on the latter kind of CVEs, how they are reported, especially in libraries, and how it differs between Rust and C or C++.

52 points

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Copper transport drug restores memory and clears toxic Alzheimer's proteins

151 points

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How TimescaleDB compresses time-series data

TimescaleDB compression with hypercore - columnar storage with up to 98% ratio in PostgreSQL. segmentby/orderby configuration and a benchmark for IoT and time-series.

36 points

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My Homelab AI Dev Platform

Self-hosting OpenCode Web for GitOps style homelab changes.

111 points

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Making glass-to-metal seals for homemade vacuum tubes

79 points

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Game Engine White Papers Commander Keen

20 points

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Boot Naked Linux

33 points

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Show HN: machine0 – Persistent NixOS VMs You Control from the CLI

Persistent NixOS & Ubuntu VMs, tools pre-installed. Dedicated CPU/RAM, static IPs & per-minute billing.

39 points

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Typst 0.15.0

Changes in Typst 0.15.0

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Show HN: Fata – Spaced repetition to fight skill rot from AI coding

You can't direct what you don't understand. fata builds the full-stack fundamentals to lead a coding agent through frontend, backend, and the technical design that holds up in production.

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CrankGPT

CrankGPT — a human-powered, fully local, fully private AI. Crank to power offline AI models that run anywhere.

460 points

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Hetzner Price Adjustment

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Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?

A sourced model and short report: can Europe train a sovereign frontier AI model on the public compute it already owns, while gigawatt datacenters wait years for grid power? - sammysltd/euromesh

59 points

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Apple Foundation Models

Use Claude on Apple platforms through the Foundation Models framework with the Claude for Foundation Models Swift package.

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On this day

A bomb explodes on a bus in the Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least 25 people and wounding 22 others.

2013

Top Stories from Hacker News

Fox to buy Roku

TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)

Your ePub Is fine

Iroh 1.0

Memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++

Copper transport drug restores memory and clears toxic Alzheimer's proteins

How TimescaleDB compresses time-series data

My Homelab AI Dev Platform

Making glass-to-metal seals for home­made vacuum tubes

Game Engine White Papers Commander Keen

Boot Naked Linux

Show HN: machine0 – Persistent NixOS VMs You Control from the CLI

Typst 0.15.0

Show HN: Fata – Spaced repetition to fight skill rot from AI coding

CrankGPT

Hetzner Price Adjustment

Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?

Apple Foundation Models

On this day

A bomb explodes on a bus in the Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least 25 people and wounding 22 others.

The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonates a powerful truck bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, devastating the city centre and injuring 200 people.

The United States Supreme Court rules in United States v. Álvarez-Machaín that it is permissible for the United States to forcibly extradite suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the United States for trial, without approval from those other countries.

In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century, killing over 800 people.

The Ariane 4 rocket is launched on its maiden flight.

After the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, the first democratic elections take place in Spain.

Cathay Pacific Flight 700Z is destroyed by a bomb over Pleiku, Vietnam (then South Vietnam) and kills 81 people.

World War II: The United States invades Saipan, capital of Japan's South Seas Mandate.

In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government in North America.

World War II: Operation Aerial begins: Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.

Following the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, Northern Schleswig is transferred from Germany to Denmark.

John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight when they reach Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.

A fire aboard the steamboat SS General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.

One of the deadliest tsunamis in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.

American Civil War: The Second Battle of Petersburg begins.

Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the "Northwestern Boundary Dispute" between American and British/Canadian settlers.

The Oregon Treaty extends the border between the United States and British North America, established by the Treaty of 1818, westward to the Pacific Ocean.

The looting of Safed commences.

In the Auspicious Incident, the Janissary mutiny against Sultan Mahmud II is defeated and the Janissary corps is disbanded as a result.

New Hampshire approves the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifying the document.

Virginia colonists finish building James's Fort, to defend against Spanish and Native American attacks.

Mary, Queen of Scots, and her new husband Bothwell are confronted by disgruntled Scottish nobles in the encounter at Carberry Hill. The stand-off ends with the surrender of queen Mary.

Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther in Exsurge Domine.

In a decisive battle at Onon River, the Mongol forces of Oljei Temur were decimated by the Chinese armies of the Yongle Emperor.

Ottoman Interregnum: Süleyman Çelebi defeats his brother Musa Çelebi outside the Byzantine capital, Constantinople.

The Ottomans under Sultan Murad I defeat a Serb army under Lazar of Serbia in the battle of Kosovo. Both leaders are killed in the battle.

At the Battle of Rozgony, King Charles I of Hungary wins a decisive victory over the family of Palatine Amade Aba.

The Tiepolo conspiracy, seeking to seize power in the Republic of Venice, is thwarted after bloody street clashes in Venice. The suppression of the revolt will lead to the creation of the Council of Ten.

The Byzantine Empire and the Republic of Venice conclude a treaty. Apart from agreeing on a ten year truce, the Venetians are alloted a commercial quarter in Constantinople and are restored to earlier privileges.

With the death of Frederick II, Duke of Austria, the Babenberg dynasty ends in Austria.

Northern Crusades: Danish victory at the Battle of Lindanise (modern-day Tallinn) establishes the Danish Duchy of Estonia.

King John of England puts his seal to Magna Carta.

The naval Battle of Fimreite is won by the Birkebeiner pretender Sverre Sigurdsson. Sigurdsson takes the Norwegian throne and King Magnus V of Norway is killed.

Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy.

Louis II is crowned as king of Italy at Rome by pope Sergius II.

Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.

On this day

A bomb explodes on a bus in the Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least 25 people and wounding 22 others.

The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonates a powerful truck bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, devastating the city centre and injuring 200 people.

The United States Supreme Court rules in United States v. Álvarez-Machaín that it is permissible for the United States to forcibly extradite suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the United States for trial, without approval from those other countries.

In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century, killing over 800 people.

The Ariane 4 rocket is launched on its maiden flight.

After the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, the first democratic elections take place in Spain.

Cathay Pacific Flight 700Z is destroyed by a bomb over Pleiku, Vietnam (then South Vietnam) and kills 81 people.

World War II: The United States invades Saipan, capital of Japan's South Seas Mandate.

In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government in North America.

World War II: Operation Aerial begins: Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.

Following the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, Northern Schleswig is transferred from Germany to Denmark.

John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight when they reach Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.

A fire aboard the steamboat SS General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.

One of the deadliest tsunamis in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.

American Civil War: The Second Battle of Petersburg begins.

Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the "Northwestern Boundary Dispute" between American and British/Canadian settlers.

The Oregon Treaty extends the border between the United States and British North America, established by the Treaty of 1818, westward to the Pacific Ocean.

The looting of Safed commences.

In the Auspicious Incident, the Janissary mutiny against Sultan Mahmud II is defeated and the Janissary corps is disbanded as a result.

New Hampshire approves the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifying the document.

Virginia colonists finish building James's Fort, to defend against Spanish and Native American attacks.

Mary, Queen of Scots, and her new husband Bothwell are confronted by disgruntled Scottish nobles in the encounter at Carberry Hill. The stand-off ends with the surrender of queen Mary.

Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther in Exsurge Domine.

Making glass-to-metal seals for homemade vacuum tubes

Making glass-to-metal seals for homemade vacuum tubes