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Can I Buy Your KV Cache?

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2606.13361: Can I Buy Your KV Cache?

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Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter

TrueType is a widely used vector font standard for rendering text in web pages, PDFs, operating systems, and applications. Familiar fonts like Helvetica, Garamond, and Monaco are all built on TrueType outlines. The format specifies a hinting interpreter intended to help outlines rasterize faithfully on low-resolution displays. Modern high-resolution displays enable beautiful typography from outlines alone, but TrueType fonts that need hinting to render legibly remain in use and we continue to support them. Font parsers process data from untrusted sources, making the TrueType hinting interpreter a security-critical attack surface. To make the format more resilient on Apple platforms, we rewrote its hinting interpreter from C to memory-safe

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EV demand up 50% in France and Germany since Iran war

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Mmorpg World of ClaudeCraft, vibe coded with Fable 5

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Congress Just Rushed Through a Disastrous Copyright Office Overhaul

In a voice vote earlier this week, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 6028, the “Legislative Branch Agencies Clarification Act.” The legislation is presented as a technical reorganization of some government agencies, but it’s much more than that. H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S....,In a voice vote earlier this week, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 6028, the “Legislative Branch Agencies Clarification Act.” The legislation is presented as a technical reorganization of some government agencies, but it’s much more than that. H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S....

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How to setup a local coding agent on macOS

Running Gemma 4 26B-A4B and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B locally with llama.cpp, MTP speculative decoding, multimodal support, and PI as a coding agent.

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Cosmodial Sky Atlas

A free, offline-first stargazing web app — the live sky from where you stand, from naked-eye views down to a telescope eyepiece.

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Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates

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A PDF that changes based on how its read

An idea for PDFs that render normally for humans while exposing clean markdown structure to extractors and LLMs in the same file.

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Launch HN: BitBoard (YC P25) – Analytics Workspace for Agents

Connect your data, build with your agent, share with your team. BitBoard turns AI analyses into durable, traceable dashboards.

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Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end

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Show HN: Turn your name into a tree in an infinite procedural shanshui landscape

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Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg

depthfirst's production autonomous security agent discovered 21 zero-day vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, after intensive security analysis by Google and Anthropic. Moving beyond theoretical analysis, our agent produces concrete, reproducible PoC inputs to confirm its findings at a fraction of the costs ($1k vs. $10k). Several of the findings had been sitting latent for 15 to 20 years. We explored the exploitability of the issues and developed a PoC demonstrating a RCE exploit primitive.

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CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers

New CRISPR Technique Selectively Shreds Cancer Cells, Including “Undruggable” Cancers - Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI)

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Introduction to UEFI HTTP(s) Boot with QEMU/OVMF

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"Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"

Can ChatGPT replace translators? A freelance translator shares a funny Ottawa story about AI translation, professional judgment and why human expertise still matters.

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Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware

NEW: malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware. Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals... so that their spyware wouldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner. Cleanest practical example I can think of for why over-indexing on first order https://t.co/WLxe0LWo8s

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Renault: Electric motors with no rare earths

As a pioneer of electric motors using no rare earths, Renault Group is unique on the automotive market, a position reasserted for strategic reasons.

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Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself

At first, scientists thought Earth’s water came from comets. Then, asteroids. Now, they wonder if Earth’s water is homegrown.

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Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine

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On this day

Elon Musk becomes the first US$ trillionaire in history.

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Top Stories from Hacker News

Can I Buy Your KV Cache?

Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter

EV demand up 50% in France and Germany since Iran war

Mmorpg World of ClaudeCraft, vibe coded with Fable 5

Congress Just Rushed Through a Disastrous Copyright Office Overhaul

How to setup a local coding agent on macOS

Cosmodial Sky Atlas

Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates

A PDF that changes based on how its read

Launch HN: BitBoard (YC P25) – Analytics Workspace for Agents

Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end

Show HN: Turn your name into a tree in an infinite procedural shanshui landscape

Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg

CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers

Introduction to UEFI HTTP(s) Boot with QEMU/OVMF

"Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"

Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware

Renault: Electric motors with no rare earths

Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself

Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine

On this day

Elon Musk becomes the first US$ trillionaire in history.

Air India Flight 171, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, crashes shortly after takeoff into the B. J. Medical College, Ahmedabad, India, killing 241 out of 242 onboard as well as 19 on the ground. This marked the first fatal crash and hull loss of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

A fire in a residential building in Mangaf, Kuwait City kills at least 50 people.

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is inaugurated as the second president of Kazakhstan.

United States President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un of North Korea hold the first meeting between leaders of their two countries in Singapore.

Forty-nine civilians are killed and 58 others injured in an attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, United States; the gunman, Omar Mateen, is killed in a gunfight with police.

Between 1,095 and 1,700 Shia Iraqi people are killed in an attack by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant on Camp Speicher in Tikrit, Iraq. It is the second deadliest act of terrorism in history, only behind 9/11.

A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide-ranging local and international protests.

Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force, Kosovo Force (KFor), enters the province of Kosovo in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

An election takes place in Nigeria and is won by Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola. Its results are later annulled by the military government of Ibrahim Babangida.

In modern Russia's first democratic election, Boris Yeltsin is elected as the President of Russia.

Kokkadichcholai massacre: The Sri Lankan Army massacres 152 minority Tamil civilians in the village of Kokkadichcholai near the Eastern Province town of Batticaloa.

Russia Day: The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.

Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 046, a McDonnell Douglas MD-81, crashes short of the runway at Libertador General José de San Martín Airport, killing all 22 people on board.

The Central African Republic's former emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.

Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate, U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

A nuclear disarmament rally and concert is held in New York City.

The first of the Indiana Jones film franchise, Raiders of the Lost Ark, is released in theaters.

Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man-powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross.

State of Uttar Pradesh v. Raj Narain: Judge Jagmohanlal Sinha rules against Indira Gandhi in a case on her election to the Indian Parliament, and that she should be banned from holding any public office, triggering a political crisis.

The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws that prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.

Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.

NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi, by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith during the civil rights movement.

The film Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, is released in US theaters. It was the most expensive film made at the time.

Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him at the time the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church. In 2017, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, aged ten and nine at the time of their deaths, are declared as saints.

An Air France Douglas DC-4 crashes near Bahrain International Airport, killing 46 people.

World War II: Battle of Carentan: American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division secure the town of Carentan, Normandy, France.

The Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). Around 1,180 Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot.

Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.

World War II: Thirteen thousand British and French troops surrender to General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.

Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.

The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.

A ceasefire is negotiated between Bolivia and Paraguay, ending the Chaco War.

Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons against the Tambov Rebellion, bringing an end to the peasant uprising.

Massacre of Phocaea: Turkish irregulars slaughter 50 to 100 Greeks and expel thousands of others in an ethnic cleansing operation in the Ottoman Empire.

The Reichstag approves new legislation continuing Germany's naval expansion program, providing for construction of 38 battleships over a 20-year period. Germany's fleet would be the largest in the world.

New Richmond tornado: The ninth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.

Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.

American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their position at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.

Beginning of the Invasion of Algiers: Thirty-four thousand French soldiers land 27 kilometers west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch.

Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to Isma'il Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that Sudanese kingdom.

The earliest form of bicycle, the dandy horse, is driven by Karl von Drais.

War of 1812: Capture of USRC Surveyor.

Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Ballynahinch.

The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.

American War of Independence: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.

French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne and 25 of his men are killed by Māori in New Zealand.

French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg: James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, commences.

Thomas Willett is appointed the first mayor of New York City.

First Anglo-Dutch War: The Battle of the Gabbard begins, lasting until the following day.

The Westminster Assembly is convened by the Parliament of England, without the assent of Charles I, in order to restructure the Church of England.

The city of Helsinki, Finland (belonging to Sweden at the time) is founded by King Gustav I of Sweden.

Hundred Years' War: On the second day of the Battle of Jargeau, Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk.

Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War: Parisians slaughter sympathizers of Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, along with all prisoners, foreign bankers, and students and faculty of the College of Navarre.

Peasants' Revolt: In England, rebels assemble at Blackheath, just outside London.

At the instigation of Louis IX of France, an inter-faith debate, known as the Disputation of Paris, starts between a Christian monk and four rabbis.

The Ghurid general Qutb ud-Din Aibak founds the Delhi Sultanate.

Constantine IX Monomachos is crowned as Byzantine Emperor, one day after his marriage to Empress Zoe Porphyrogenita.