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SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format

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ProgramBench: Can Language Models Rebuild Programs from Scratch?

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.03546: ProgramBench: Can Language Models Rebuild Programs From Scratch?

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Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA

Today at Next ‘26, we’re launching Google Cloud Fraud Defense, the trust platform for the agentic web and the next evolution of reCAPTCHA.

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The Vatican's Website in Latin

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Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like

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Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem

Tilde turns running AI agents and pipelines on real data into a transactional, auditable operation. Compose GitHub, S3, and Drive as one versioned filesystem. Roll back any run with one command. Every network call audited.

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Appearing productive in the workplace

AI can produce work that looks expert without being expert. The failure arrives in two shapes, and both are reshaping the workplace.

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Permacomputing Principles

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Programming Still Sucks

Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this Guy always asks some variant of the same question: aren't you worried AI is taking your job? I glance around and see a few faces turning around toward us, rolling their eyes ever so slightly before returning to their previous conversation. Yes, this question again.

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Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE

Motivation # I wanted to test out the new Unsloth models for Qwen3.6 and Gemma4 on my gaming PC. llama.cpp on Windows is tedious to compile, and I have littered my Windows installation with too many toolchains already. Python venvs, Mingw, Cuda, UCRT64 & WSL to name a few. Windows still does not feel developer friendly to me. I think I’m ok with it being a frontend for Steam’s Big Picture mode. I didn’t want to disturb my Windows setup that I use for gaming. Windows has a nasty habit of breaking GRUB on updates. UEFI fixes that to some extent, but it’s a pain to maintain the UEFI entries manually and change them every time the kernel updates. One of the best benefits of using the method described here is that GRUB is al

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Show HN: Hallucinopedia

An encyclopedia of a universe that does not exist until you visit it.

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RSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google

Yeah yeah, I know, data-point of 1. I recently read Susam's blog post where they said that "most of the traffic to my personal website still comes from web feeds" - I wondered if that was true for my site. I've been writing this blog for a while. I've never much bothered with "aggressive" SEO - I have a fairly semantic layout, all my reviews have metadata, and stuff like that - but I'm not…

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Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

Modders, start your engines. - With the rather excellent Steam Controller now on its way to the lucky few that managed to order one, Valve has released a ful...

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From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth

Updates and articles from the Val Town team

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What I Learned Making an App for My Family

An adventure in making a utility

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The Mathematical Dance Inside Plant Cells

The sunlight-collecting organelles known as chloroplasts solve a packing problem: how to optimize photosynthesis without sustaining damage from dangerously intense rays.

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Chevrolet Performance eCrate package (400v/200hp)

Upgrade your project car to electric with Chevrolet's eCrate system, featuring a 400V motor and 66 kWh battery for superior performance and reliability.

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Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader

Firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper display reader. Contribute to crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Pen pal programs endure in a digital age

A recent trip to New Zealand to visit her pen pal of 40 years made an Associated Press reporter from New Hampshire wonder about the history of programs that bring strangers together to write letters.

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Building the TD4 4-Bit CPU

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On this day

The Indian Army and the Indian Air Force conduct surgical strikes code-named Operation SINDOOR on terrorist hideouts in Pakistan in response to the Pahalgam Attack that killed 26 people.

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Top Stories from Hacker News

SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format

ProgramBench: Can Language Models Rebuild Programs from Scratch?

Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA

The Vatican's Website in Latin

Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like

Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem

Appearing productive in the workplace

Permacomputing Principles

Programming Still Sucks

Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE

Show HN: Hallucinopedia

RSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google

Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth

What I Learned Making an App for My Family

The Mathematical Dance Inside Plant Cells

Chevrolet Performance eCrate package (400v/200hp)

Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader

Pen pal programs endure in a digital age

Building the TD4 4-Bit CPU

On this day

The Indian Army and the Indian Air Force conduct surgical strikes code-named Operation SINDOOR on terrorist hideouts in Pakistan in response to the Pahalgam Attack that killed 26 people.

2023 Tanur boat disaster, At least 22 people are killed when a boat carrying tourists capsizes in Tanur, Malappuram, Kerala, India.

American businessman Nick Berg is beheaded by Islamist militants. The act is recorded on videotape and released on the Internet.

An EgyptAir Boeing 737-500 crashes on approach to Tunis–Carthage International Airport, killing 14 people.

A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.

Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.

Pope John Paul II travels to Romania, becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.

Kosovo War: Three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft inadvertently bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.

In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.

Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40 billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.

Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February.

Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay raise.

Space Shuttle program: The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission, STS-49.

Three employees at a McDonald's Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first "fast-food murder" in Canada.

A fire and explosion occurs at a fireworks factory at Sungai Buloh, Malaysia, killing 26.

Canadian Patrick Morrow becomes the first person to climb each of the Seven Summits.

Pacific Airlines Flight 773 is hijacked by Francisco Gonzales and crashes in Contra Costa County, California, killing 44.

Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.

Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Viet Minh victory (the battle began on March 13).

The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.

The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress.

Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded.

World War II: Last German U-boat attack of the war, two freighters are sunk off the Firth of Forth, Scotland.

World War II: During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Imperial Japanese Navy light aircraft carrier Shōhō; the battle marks the first time in naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.

World War II: The Norway Debate in the British House of Commons begins, and leads to the replacement of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with Winston Churchill three days later.

Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.

The stand-off between criminal Francis Crowley and 300 members of the New York Police Department takes place in his fifth-floor apartment on West 91st Street, New York City.

The 7.1 Mw Salmas earthquake shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Up to three-thousand people were killed.

Polish–Soviet War: Kyiv offensive: Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kyiv only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.

Treaty of Moscow: Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.

World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,199 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.

The Republic of China accedes to 13 of the 21 Demands, extending the Empire of Japan's control over Manchuria and the Chinese economy.

In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector—a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.

American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards.

The world's oldest surviving clipper ship, the City of Adelaide is launched by William Pile, Hay and Co. in Sunderland, England, for transporting passengers and goods between Britain and Australia.

The Cambridge Chronicle, America's oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history.

Greece's independence is recognized by the Treaty of London.

World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria. The performance is conducted by Michael Umlauf under the composer's supervision.

French Revolutionary Wars: A French force attempting to dislodge a small British garrison on the Îles Saint-Marcouf is repulsed with heavy losses.

French Revolution: Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic.

HMS Victory is launched at Chatham Dockyard, Kent. She is not commissioned until 1778.

Pontiac's War begins with Pontiac's attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British.

The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville.

Stockholm's medieval castle Tre Kronor is destroyed by fire. It is replaced in the 18th century by the current Royal Palace.

Battle of Vrtijeljka between rebels and Ottoman forces.

Inaugural celebrations begin at Louis XIV's new Palace of Versailles.

State funeral of James VI and I (1566–1625) is held at Westminster Abbey.

The Burning of Edinburgh by an English army is the first action of the Rough Wooing.

The Siege of Málaga commences during the Spanish Reconquista.

In Avignon, France, Cardinal Pierre Roger is elected Pope and takes the name Clement VI.

In France, the Second Council of Lyon opens; it ratified a decree to regulate the election of the Pope.

The Crusader army of emperor Frederick Barbarossa defeats an army of the Rum Seljuks in the battle of Philomelion.

The Seljuk emirs of Mosul and Mardin defeat the Crusader States of Antioch and Edessa.

In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses, twenty years after its construction. Justinian I immediately orders that the dome be rebuilt.

The Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus breaks out after his arrival at Antioch.

On this day

The Indian Army and the Indian Air Force conduct surgical strikes code-named Operation SINDOOR on terrorist hideouts in Pakistan in response to the Pahalgam Attack that killed 26 people.

The 7.1 Mw  Salmas earthquake shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Up to three-thousand people were killed.

The 7.1 Mw  Salmas earthquake shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Up to three-thousand people were killed.