Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]

Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption

If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know

Anthropic's Claude Fable policy turns coding assistants into non-neutral infrastructure for product companies.

The LD_DEBUG environment variable (2012)

Originally published 23 April 2012, updated 10 September 2019 (add link to troubleshooting tool), updated 18 October 2019 (moved to Jekyll), updated 3 April 2023 with links to other tools

Show HN: Resonate – Low-latency, high-resolution spectral analysis

by Alexandre R.J. François

Ultrafast machine learning on FPGAs via Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

Making Graphics Like it's 1993

Personal website and blog.

FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs

The FCC wants to legally force telecoms to collect new and renewing customers’ government issued identity number and physical address, impacting everyone from the privacy-conscious to domestic abuse survivors. “We never thought that would happen here.”

Flat Datacenter Networks at Scale at Amazon

Test-case reducers are underappreciated debugging tools

A giant star may have destroyed itself in one of the rarest explosions

Astronomers may have discovered one of the clearest examples yet of a rare "pair-instability" supernova. It is a catastrophic explosion thought to completely destroy some of the most massive stars in the universe, leaving behind no remnant. The paper outlining the properties of this rare explosion was posted to the arXiv preprint server on May 15.

AI misidentification results in wrongful arrest; man seeks justice

Jalil Richardson, a Charlotte resident, spent months incarcerated in Florida and North Carolina after being misidentified by artificial intelligence facial recognition technology for a vehicle theft he did not commit.

Upcoming breaking changes for NPM v12

CEOs Who Think AI Replaces Their Employees Are Just Bad CEOs

In the last three months I've had people forward me four separate examples of a CEO losing his or her mind over AI. What's been striking to me is the similarity in each case: It would be an "all hands" email in which the CEO talks up how amazing LLM tools are and saying that…

Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers

Microsoft shut down dozens of GitHub code repositories for Azure and AI coding tools after a reported hack.

Exif Smuggling

A Proof-of-Concept using Cache Smuggling + Exif data to passively download a second stage payload - signalblur/exifsmugglingpoc

OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision

OpenCV 5 is here! A massive modernization brings a graph-based DNN engine, over 80% ONNX coverage, hardware acceleration, LLM/VLM support, and a faster Python-first core. Learn why this isn't just an incremental update.

Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with Agents

We used agents to port all of Git to library-first, memory-safe Rust and it passes the entire C Git test suite.

Claude Fable 5

Today we’re launching Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.