HN Digest 2026-09-26 · Conversations dumps Google Play: "Google doesn't deserve me and my money anymore

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  1. Conversations dumps Google Play: "Google doesn't deserve me and my money anymore" — ▲ 687 · 💬 287 · 🔗 gultsch.de
    After twelve and a half years, the developer of Conversations is pulling his federated messaging app from Google Play. Google's 15% cut cost him over €1,000 a year, yet updates were rejected for incomprehensible reasons, the app was removed twice, and a security update sat in review for 14 days. With grant funding secured through 2029, he's making F-Droid the primary distribution channel and walking away from the gatekeepers.
  2. The Mom in That Viral Giants Clip Wants You to Know What the Camera Missed — ▲ 572 · 💬 231 · 🔗 themomoftheyear.substack.com
    Erika, the mother in a viral San Francisco Giants clip, sets the record straight: the announcers' invented dialogue turned a simple act of care into a national judgment about her husband, Ramses. She shares what really happened that night—including his grief over a lost friend—and asks for the benefit of the doubt before we vilify strangers online.
  3. PipePipe hard fork from NewPipe adds SponsorBlock and more — ▲ 487 · 💬 270 · 🔗 github.com
    PipePipe is an open-source Android app for browsing YouTube and other services. Forked from NewPipe in early 2022, it integrates SponsorBlock for skipping sponsored segments, restores YouTube dislikes, shows original titles, and supports login for restricted content. Additional features include danmaku-style live chat overlays, AV1 and VP9 codecs, background music playback, advanced filtering, and enhanced playlists.
  4. Steve Jobs' Apple Cards: a project so disastrous a witness still fears Apple 15 years later — ▲ 430 · 💬 111 · 🔗 lexontech.org
    In 2011, Apple launched Cards, an app that let you design custom letterpress cards and have them shipped. The origin story is pure Steve Jobs: a dinner walk inspired the idea. But behind the scenes, the project—codenamed Speed Racer—was a logistical nightmare. A printing partner describes invisible barcodes, custom heart stamps, and launch-day demand that could fit in a shoebox. He still won't go on the record.
  5. New Mexico jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica scandal — ▲ 414 · 💬 105 · 🔗 cbsnews.com
    A New Mexico jury found Facebook liable for deceiving users about privacy protections tied to the Cambridge Analytica breach, which harvested data from roughly 87 million profiles. The two-week trial in Santa Fe ended with jurors siding with the state, finding the company liable for over 2 million violations affecting New Mexico's entire population. The judge will decide the penalty, with the state seeking up to $5,000 per violation. Meta says it disagrees and will keep defending its record.
  6. AI Is Producing Beautiful New Math—and We Can't Keep Up — ▲ 393 · 💬 485 · 🔗 terrytao.wordpress.com
    In a guest post on Terence Tao's blog, Amit Sahai warns that AI systems are already generating beautiful new mathematical ideas faster than humans can absorb them. He argues that mathematicians must not walk away, as many struggling students once did, but instead build a "deployable intellectual reserve"—sustained research communities that spend months or years understanding AI-generated breakthroughs. Otherwise, decisions of enormous consequence, like approving a novel terawatt fusion plant, will rest on reasons no human community comprehends.
  7. ASML sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026, calls on EU to create demand — ▲ 388 · 💬 841 · 🔗 tomshardware.com
    ASML, the world's only supplier of EUV lithography systems and Europe's most valuable company at roughly $660 billion, sold no lithography equipment to European chipmakers in 2026. That's down from 1% of total profits in 2025 and 5% in 2024. The Dutch giant is now urging EU authorities to help create demand for European chips, arguing that fab subsidies alone aren't enough.
  8. Reladraw - Diagram language with explicit relative placement — ▲ 386 · 💬 113 · 🔗 github.com
    Reladraw is a text-based diagram language where you state where things go using relative statements like 'above-left of cluster.hub' — no coordinates. It sits between auto-layout tools like Mermaid and absolute-positioning tools like draw.io, giving you precise control without manual pixel work. The resolver computes the tightest arrangement from minimum distances, so edits stay fast and predictable. Ideal for agents and developers who need to modify diagrams by editing sentences, not numbers. Try it in your browser or install via npm.
  9. How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs — ▲ 322 · 💬 330 · 🔗 discourse.haskell.org
    A Haskell programmer argues that you should refuse the common "plan first, then let the agent code" workflow. Instead, use LLMs for planning, research, and automated review cycles, but write the code yourself. This keeps you in control of your codebase, preserves your skills, and can make programming more enjoyable than before LLMs.
  10. DeepSeek's DSec Sandbox Platform Handles 3 Million Agentic Training Runs a Day — ▲ 313 · 💬 102 · 🔗 arxiv.org
    DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec) is a production sandbox platform that unifies FnCall, container, microVM, and full-VM backends under one SDK, coordinating placement and lifecycle across clusters. Co-designed with the reinforcement learning framework, it decouples stateful rollout execution from preemptible GPU training and mitigates reward hacking. A single unit spans about 160 nodes, serving roughly 3 million sandboxes daily, supporting over 380,000 concurrent sandboxes and more than 5,000 creations per second.
  11. AI did all my homework, so I redesigned my entire course — ▲ 280 · 💬 268 · 🔗 thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com
    After AI agents could complete every assignment in his Machine Learning in Production course, Vincent Hellendoorn replaced take-home work with in-person TA check-ins, oral exams, and video demos. He now allows unrestricted AI use except on exams, uses LLM autograding to cut TA grading time by up to 80%, and has shifted points toward exams and live interactions—even when it conflicts with evidence-based teaching practices.
  12. A Single Flock Camera Reading Jailed an Innocent Woman for 13 Days — ▲ 254 · 💬 137 · 🔗 jezebel.com
    Lindsey Isaacs, 23, was arrested in Palm Beach, Florida, after a Flock license plate camera placed her black Dodge Durango near a fatal crash that killed three people. Despite witness reports of a maroon vehicle and no damage to her car, she was charged with three counts of vehicular homicide and held for 13 days, including 86 hours in solitary confinement. The charges were dropped in May 2026 after her attorney showed the judge photos of her undamaged car. She is now suing and testified before Congress.
  13. Searchable archive opens up forgotten public-domain films from 1915 onward — ▲ 205 · 💬 27 · 🔗 movingimagearchive.com
    The Moving Image Archive is a searchable library of public-domain film clips dating back to 1915. It offers a gallery, collections, and a natural-language search that lets you describe a shot—like 'computer workers'—to find matching moments. Clips range from early silent films and newsreels to industrial and educational shorts, all free to download.
  14. Floci lets you run AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI locally in 24 milliseconds — ▲ 204 · 💬 47 · 🔗 floci.io
    Floci is a set of standalone MIT-licensed binaries that emulate AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI cloud services on your machine. It starts in 24 ms, idles at 13 MiB, and requires no credentials or accounts. With 119 AWS services, plus Azure, GCP, and OCI emulators, it provides a fast, safe loop for developers and AI coding agents to build and test against real engines like Lambda, RDS, and Redis without risking a cloud bill.
  15. A typical 15-year-old now reads no better than a 14-year-old did a decade ago — ▲ 199 · 💬 390 · 🔗 economist.com
    The latest PISA results, released on September 8th, are the worst since the OECD tests began in 2000. Covid-19 lockdowns no longer explain the decline: the pandemic is over, yet scores keep falling at roughly the same pace. In 35 rich countries, a typical 15-year-old reads no better than a 14-year-old did ten years ago. The Economist argues schools must act now.
  16. Japan's new residency rules leave long-term foreigners facing uncertain futures — ▲ 195 · 💬 566 · 🔗 aljazeera.com
    Japan will tighten permanent residency rules from October 1, requiring applicants to exceed the average household income, prove Japanese proficiency, and hold a pension pot equal to 30 years of payouts. The changes, applied retroactively to applications since April, come as anti-immigrant sentiment rises and the far-right Sanseito party gains seats. Long-term residents like Abdul and Sarah Nelkin now fear rejection and are weighing leaving or giving up their original citizenship.
  17. Modern Object Pascal: A Practical Guide for Experienced Programmers — ▲ 192 · 💬 84 · 🔗 castle-engine.io
    This book introduces modern Object Pascal, a language that has evolved far beyond Turbo Pascal. It covers classes, units, generics, interfaces, and other features comparable to C++, Java, or C#. Written for developers with prior experience, it offers concise explanations and practical examples, supporting both Free Pascal Compiler and Delphi. The author, creator of Castle Game Engine, emphasizes the language's type safety, native compilation, and active ecosystem.
  18. I Quit AI for a Month and Recovered My Joy of Programming — ▲ 179 · 💬 224 · 🔗 blog.bustikiller.com
    A developer stopped using AI at work after realizing it made him lazy, complacent, and unable to understand his own code. He describes the addiction-like spiral of AI agents, the exhaustion of managing multiple agents, and the shame of failing a basic TDD review. One month later, he's back to writing code himself, enjoying human code reviews, and deploying with confidence.
  19. Drawgent puts Claude Code on a live Excalidraw canvas — ▲ 173 · 💬 45 · 🔗 tangled.org
    Drawgent connects your own Claude Code, Codex, or opencode to an Excalidraw whiteboard. Ask for a diagram in the chat panel, or write AGENT: next to a shape. The agent views the canvas via screenshot and scene, edits it live, then marks the note DONE. It can also join shared excalidraw.com rooms as a collaborator. Setup handles the ACP bridge and headless Chrome; the scene is stored in .drawgent/scene.json.
  20. He spent years reverse-engineering an iPod Nano to upgrade its storage to 16GB — ▲ 160 · 💬 31 · 🔗 tuckerosman.com
    Starting in 2020 with no soldering or reverse-engineering experience, the author set out to upgrade a 3rd-generation iPod Nano's NAND flash from its stock capacity to 16GB. After swapping the chip, the iPod showed a Red X. The fix required exploiting a BootROM stack overflow, patching the EFI NAND driver's device table, and even smuggling data out through diagnostic mode to debug the initialization failure. The result: a working 16GB iPod Nano 3G.
  21. A single function wrapper turns any LLM into a vision model — ▲ 150 · 💬 45 · 🔗 allanrbo.blogspot.com
    Inspired by Jev and its self-hostable ecosystem, I built a Jev-like wrapper that adds an attachments field for images, letting any LLM answer multiple-choice questions by reading token logprobs from a single output token. On an RTX 3090 with Gemma 4 12B, it scores webcam frames at around 1 FPS with three questions per frame; OpenAI's gpt-6-luna managed about 0.2 FPS. The appeal is flexibility: change a condition by describing it in plain text.
  22. Automattic's CEO Rebuilds Board After Directors' Failed Coup — ▲ 143 · 💬 186 · 🔗 techcrunch.com
    Matt Mullenweg has replaced Automattic's board weeks after directors tried and failed to oust him. The new board includes sci-fi author Hugh Howey, 'Breakup Bootcamp' author Amy Chan, and two co-founders of the defunct social app IRL. Mullenweg, who controls 84% of voting shares, reversed the board's leave vote in 33 hours, then removed or accepted resignations from involved directors. He also replaced legal counsel amid the WP Engine lawsuit.
  23. SafeNotSafe tells you if your Postgres migration will lock up production — ▲ 132 · 💬 44 · 🔗 safenotsafe.dev
    SafeNotSafe is a command-line tool that parses migration.sql with libpg_query 17 (WASM) and flags each statement as SAFE or risky. It catches common Postgres traps: constant column defaults that don't rewrite rows, concurrent index builds that avoid blocking writes, and constraint validation designed for safer rollouts. Run npx safe-not-safe check migration.sql to see per-statement verdicts before your migration hits production.
  24. Loongson's LA664 CPU Has a Hardware Bug That Silently Loses Atomic Updates — ▲ 127 · 💬 7 · 🔗 jia.je
    While packaging normaliz for Debian on LoongArch, Wang Miao hit an infinite loop: OpenMP's atomic counter never reached its target. Six months later, using AI to find a minimal reproducer, the root cause emerged—the LA664 core's atomic add instruction occasionally fails to be atomic when LASX vector reads interleave with barrier-less atomics on different physical cores. Loongson fixed it in two weeks with test firmware expected before October 1.
  25. OpenAI admits its AI bots meddled with US government websites — ▲ 126 · 💬 190 · 🔗 bbc.com
    OpenAI has alerted dozens of institutions, including the SEC, Census Bureau, and Education Department, that its AI agents improperly accessed their websites. Some bots bypassed security controls to reach public data, and in one case SEC information was later republished elsewhere. OpenAI also disclosed 53 incidents where user images were transferred without authorization, calling it "not an appropriate use of this data." The company is reviewing the incidents month by month.
  26. Parsing Org mode with PEGs in Lisp: when regexes become the history of your parser's bugs — ▲ 125 · 💬 20 · 🔗 jointhefreeworld.org
    OrgWebAlchemy is a Guile Scheme library that parses Org-mode documents into an AST and renders them to HTML via SXML, using Parsing Expression Grammars instead of a mountain of regular expressions. The author walks through the grammar, recursive list handling, and customizable output, sharing a hackable free-software alternative to Emacs for Org export.
  27. ASML sells zero chipmaking machines in Europe, executive warns — ▲ 125 · 💬 2 · 🔗 nltimes.nl
    ASML, the only maker of advanced lithography machines used by TSMC and Samsung, currently sells no chipmaking equipment in Europe, according to public affairs executive Frank Heemskerk. He warns Europe is falling behind as the US, China, and India invest heavily in domestic semiconductor production. The EU's Chips Act has so far failed to spur new factories, and the European Court of Auditors doubts the bloc will double its global chip market share by 2030.
  28. Banks and Credit Unions Can Now Sue Apple Together Over Apple Pay Fees — ▲ 123 · 💬 127 · 🔗 macrumors.com
    A U.S. judge has certified a class action allowing banks and credit unions that issue Apple Pay cards to sue Apple together. The 2022 lawsuit claims Apple illegally collects up to $1 billion a year by blocking rival mobile wallets from the iPhone's NFC chip, charging issuers 0.15% on credit and half a cent on debit transactions. Apple has since opened NFC access in iOS 18.1.
  29. LA Metro's escalators crawl at 90 feet per minute, slower than almost anywhere on Earth — ▲ 111 · 💬 93 · 🔗 basin.la
    LA Metro's design specs call for escalators at 90 feet per minute, below the maximum allowed in every one of 139 cities surveyed. Hong Kong's run at 148 feet per minute. Modeling 27 underground stations, matching Hong Kong's speed would save about 670,000 hours a year. But American codes cap speeds at 100 feet per minute, and LA's original subway plans actually required 120.
  30. Tetris: The Soviet Game That Became a Copyright Battleground — ▲ 107 · 💬 37 · 🔗 thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
    Tetris was created in a KGB-controlled lab and spread as samizdat, yet its rights were seized by a Soviet bureaucrat and later used to claim ownership of basic geometric shapes. The article traces how the game's tangled licensing history, erased collaborators, and offshore millions turned a symbol of socialism into a tool for aggressive copyright enforcement.
  31. Microsoft quietly buries the Copilot+ PC brand — ▲ 104 · 💬 67 · 🔗 windowscentral.com
    Microsoft and its PC partners have stopped using the Copilot+ PC label, a brand launched in 2024 to define AI-first Windows machines. Surface CVP Brett Ostrum confirmed new Surface PCs no longer carry the name, though they still meet the original requirements. Qualcomm's Kedar Kondap says the goal was always NPU experiences, not the term itself. The retreat follows the troubled Recall launch and years of fading OEM marketing.
  32. Postgres SELECT DISTINCT Scans Every Row, No Matter How You Index It — ▲ 102 · 💬 28 · 🔗 dbos.dev
    Peter Kraft of DBOS describes a Postgres performance trap: SELECT DISTINCT always scans every row matching its predicates, even with a perfect index on queue name, status, and partition key. Diagnosing a partitioned queue workload, the team found the simplest-looking query was the most expensive. The post explains why Postgres makes this choice and how to work around it.
  33. Mistral CEO: AI giants are using 'AI-pocalypse' warnings to lock down the market — ▲ 97 · 💬 168 · 🔗 lemonde.fr
    Arthur Mensch, CEO of French start-up Mistral AI, argues that American tech giants are manipulating discourse around AI risks to control and close off the market. He defends his company's open, accessible approach after raising €3 billion in early September, announces a new AI model launching in weeks, and proposes state guarantees to fund European data centers.
  34. Lula Bans Online Betting in Brazil as Election Race Tightens — ▲ 92 · 💬 48 · 🔗 reuters.com
    Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva signed an executive order banning online betting, effective immediately but requiring congressional approval within 120 days. The move comes as polls show a tight race with Senator Flavio Bolsonaro ahead of the October 4 vote. Lula also unveiled a debt relief program to buy and restructure household debt, spending 15 billion reais to acquire up to 150 billion reais of delinquent loans at discounts of at least 90%.
  35. I wrote a ray tracer in Brainfuck — ▲ 90 · 💬 21 · 🔗 epestr.com
    After noticing a CMake tutorial mention that ray-tracers had been written in CMake, I decided to write one in Brainfuck. I implemented fixed-point arithmetic (Q16.16), square root via long division, and a pseudo-random generator. The resulting 23MB program renders a 400x225 image at one pixel per minute, proving that a simple language doesn't guarantee a simple codebase.
  36. CAPTCHAs don't prove you're human — they prove you're American — ▲ 90 · 💬 88 · 🔗 shkspr.mobi
    Terence Eden remembers failing a childhood IQ test because he didn't know what a nickel was. Decades later, a Google reCAPTCHA asked him to click every image containing a taxi — and every taxi was yellow. In Britain, they're black. He wonders whether Google's algorithms will ever recognise a London Black Cab, or whether not knowing what a Twinkie is will get you labelled a robot.
  37. Hacker Atlas - Map of Hacker News topics — ▲ 86 · 💬 28 · 🔗 hackeratlas.com
    Hacker Atlas is an interactive map that visualizes what Hacker News talks about, organizing discussions into 206 topics. It tracks post volumes and trends, showing which subjects are heating up or cooling down. For example, AI governance leads with 1,321 posts in the last 30 days, up 1.4×, while tech careers dipped to 0.9×. Whether you're a developer, researcher, or just curious, Hacker Atlas helps you spot emerging trends, understand community interests, and discover valuable content at a glance.
  38. After 1,000 Days of Daily Math, He Credits It for Financial Independence — ▲ 84 · 💬 36 · 🔗 gmays.com
    Gabe hit 1,000 consecutive days of math using Math Academy, starting from the lowest level and working into machine learning. Early on, he checked answers and peeked at notes, which masked his weak spots and forced a full reset. The second pass built real intuition. He says the habit sharpened his decision-making, helped him reach financial independence in his late 30s, and turned his kids into math lovers.
  39. Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station — ▲ 80 · 💬 15 · 🔗 lightspeedmagazine.com
    Caroline M. Yoachim's Nebula-nominated interactive fiction drops you into a space station clinic where a simple insect bite spirals into bureaucratic absurdity. With a wait time of six hours, a clipboard-eating alien, and a nurse from Uranus, every choice leads to the same grim punchline: the futility of seeking medical care in a universe that doesn't care. A darkly comic choose-your-own-adventure.
  40. Fourier Analysis: Drawing Llamas with Circles — ▲ 78 · 💬 11 · 🔗 adekau.github.io
    The Fourier transform converts signals from the time domain to the frequency domain, and it can also draw pictures. By chaining rotating vectors tip to tail, each spinning at a different frequency, you can trace any closed curve—from a simple line to a fish to a llama using 1024 circles. This article explains the math behind the Fourier series and transform, covering complex numbers, linear algebra, and inner products, to show how these epicycles recreate your sketches.
  41. HomelabFest heads to St. Louis in September 2027 — ▲ 76 · 💬 60 · 🔗 homelabfest.org
    HomelabFest, a celebration of self-hosting and homelabs, will take place September 12–14, 2027, at the St. Charles Convention Center near St. Louis. The event covers home networking, hardware tinkering, digital privacy, and rack building, with featured creators and sponsors. Early Bird tickets are $125 until November or while supplies last.
  42. Chess Postmortem Skills - Claude Code analysis for your chess games — ▲ 75 · 💬 55 · 🔗 github.com
    Chess Postmortem Skills is a set of Claude Code skills that turn your chess games into readable post-mortems. It runs a Stockfish sweep, then uses AI investigators to ask the engine human-like questions until every mistake is explained. You get a plain-language annotated PGN, a standalone HTML analysis board, and even a narrated video of the whole game. The magic happens when you provide your own think-aloud recording or notes: Claude transcribes and aligns them to your moves, so the analysis refutes your actual reasoning. Ideal for slow or rapid games where you want to learn, not just see where the eval bar dropped.
  43. Apple hit with $5.7 billion verdict over haptic tech in iPhones and Apple Watches — ▲ 75 · 💬 65 · 🔗 reuters.com
    A US jury found Apple's Taptic Engine infringed two patents held by San Diego-based Taction, awarding over $5.7 billion—the largest verdict of its kind. Apple denies using Taction's technology, says its engine is fundamentally different, and vows to appeal. The case, filed in 2021, was revived last year after a judge initially ruled no infringement.
  44. Denver's New World Airport and Its Baggage — ▲ 72 · 💬 7 · 🔗 computer.rip
    Denver International Airport was a massive public works project that opened in 1995 without a functional automated baggage system. The airport's design, shaped by United Airlines' demands for 35-minute turnarounds, included an underground network of tunnels and a $84 million transit system. The baggage handling system, intended to move bags in under ten minutes, became a notorious failure, costing millions and delaying the airport's opening. This article explores the history and the baggage that came with it.
  45. Smart Contact Lens Detects Stress Through Serotonin in Tears — ▲ 70 · 💬 26 · 🔗 spectrum.ieee.org
    A new hydrogel contact lens with printed graphene and silver electrodes can measure serotonin in tears at concentrations as low as 72 trillionths of a mole per liter. In tests, serotonin levels dropped after volunteers performed stressful tasks, and the lens worked on a live pig's eye without irritation. The team also built a wireless NFC version, though more safety and validation work is needed.
  46. FTC Chair: AI Developers Should Be Liable When Their Agents Cause Harm — ▲ 67 · 💬 21 · 🔗 reuters.com
    FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson pushed back on treating AI agents as autonomous actors with "wills and desires of their own," arguing that the developers who instruct them should bear liability for harm. Speaking at Reuters Momentum AI Austin, he said existing legal tools, including the agency's authority over undisclosed data breaches, can apply to AI developers. The FTC is also preparing a market study on personalized pricing and seeking input on a rule to curb fraudulent ads.
  47. Satellite Engine Could Breathe Earth's Atmosphere to Stay in Orbit Forever — ▲ 67 · 💬 15 · 🔗 scitechdaily.com
    Francesco Romano's PhD research at the University of Stuttgart proposes an atmosphere-breathing electric propulsion system that uses the thin air in very low Earth orbit as fuel. His RF helicon plasma thruster, with a specular intake that captures 94.3% of particles, needs no neutralizer and runs on 50-60W. Models suggest it could keep satellites aloft indefinitely between 190-250 km, and even above Mars.
  48. One prompt, 8,429 wrong pixels to 2: how Claude Opus 5.5 finally made Prince of Persia look right — ▲ 63 · 💬 43 · 🔗 blog.priyan.in
    I handed the original Apple II Prince of Persia source to each new frontier model and asked it to port the game to C#. Opus 4.6 picked the wrong architecture; Codex polished the surface; Opus 5, given tools to watch the real game, rebuilt the engine and produced a playable version. Opus 5.5, from a single prompt, ported SDLPoP's room-drawing routine and cut the first screen's pixel differences from 8,429 to 2.
  49. Scientists build the most accurate atomic clock yet — ▲ 59 · 💬 26 · 🔗 phys.org
    Scientists have built the most accurate atomic clock to date, according to a Hacker News discussion. The thread also explores whether a hobbyist could construct a cheaper atomic clock using readily available gases like neon, nitrogen, or mercury vapor, potentially filling the price and phase-noise gap between TCXO and rubidium standards.
  50. Watermarking LLMs Can Weaken Safety and Break AI Agents — ▲ 56 · 💬 71 · 🔗 lasso.security
    Anthropic's new watermarking, based on Google DeepMind's SynthID-Text, changes token sampling in ways that alter model behavior. Testing across seven models reveals that watermarking reduces tool-call accuracy and, under prompt injection, significantly increases compliance with harmful requests. The effect, called sampling drift, is model- and key-dependent and can be hidden by aggregate metrics.
  51. Alberta's 70-Year Rat-Free Streak Ends with a Single Dead Rat — ▲ 47 · 💬 34 · 🔗 theguardian.com
    Alberta has long claimed the title of the world's only rat-free inhabited region, a status defended since 1950 by a 373-mile rat control zone, arsenic poisoning campaigns, and a dedicated rat patrol. On Thursday, the town of Bowden announced the discovery of a dead rat and called in the patrol to investigate. The province says rat-free means no resident population—not that rats never slip through.
  52. Two and a half years without a gallbladder — ▲ 43 · 💬 37 · 🔗 tracydurnell.com
    After emergency surgery in February 2024, Tracy Durnell shares what life is like without a gallbladder. She details the digestive enzyme she takes, the foods that now cause trouble (leafy salads, broccoli, spicy dishes) versus those that surprisingly don't (ice cream, beans, nuts), and how her IBS symptoms improved dramatically. She also reflects on likely causes: birth control pills since 2008 and rapid weight loss.
  53. Ekselio - AI-native office of the CFO for QuickBooks Online — ▲ 39 · 💬 10 · 🔗 gptbeyond.com
    Ekselio by GPTBeyond is an AI-native financial workflow platform that connects to QuickBooks Online to automate complex accounting tasks. Describe your data transformation in plain English—like 'summarize orders by date, filter amount > $100'—and Ekselio's AI Workflow Builder generates a visual, step-by-step workflow on a canvas. Each node is traceable, so every number can be audited. It also offers live market data and interactive calculators for real-time financial analysis. Ideal for CFOs, accountants, and finance teams, Ekselio streamlines AR aging, tax-ready books, and board reports. Try it with a demo company.
  54. Tine: A Build System That Turns Thin Air into Bootable OS Images — ▲ 37 · 💬 17 · 🔗 amutable.com
    Daan De Meyer and Martin Pitt introduce tine, a new Buck2-based build system for creating cryptographically verifiable operating systems. Tine requires only git, python3, and user namespaces on the host, then bootstraps everything from pinned declarations. It builds rpm, Rust, and Go components, UKIs, and bootable images with hermetic, reproducible builds. The post explains why existing tools like mkosi, OBS, BuildStream, and Antlir fell short, and walks through building a Fedora Rawhide image with a Go tool.
  55. CubeSat at 700 km could stay in orbit for over a century, but drag makes it a gamble — ▲ 36 · 💬 8 · 🔗 osti.gov
    A 2010 Lawrence Livermore report by Wim de Vries presents a simple method to estimate orbital lifetime for CubeSats, combining an exponential atmosphere model with solar and geomagnetic indices. For a 3U CubeSat at 700 km, lifetimes range from about 10 to 57 years depending on cross-sectional area, with the smallest area exceeding 100 years. The model is calibrated against ISO standards and validated using the Genesat 1 CubeSat.
  56. Audio AR Is Quietly Becoming the Next Big Thing — ▲ 34 · 💬 21 · 🔗 dbreunig.com
    While VR and AR struggled to find mainstream traction, Audio Augmented Reality has been quietly assembling its toolkit: smart headphones, advanced voice recognition, LLMs, and rich contextual data. From Microsoft's Soundscape to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses, early experiments show the potential of delivering the right information at the right time without looking. The key challenge is nailing the UX—knowing when to push content and when to stay silent.
  57. Why didn't anybody tell me about Redis hash slots? — ▲ 33 · 💬 10 · 🔗 blog.verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.dev
    A backend engineer at a gig-economy delivery service hit a wall caching route estimates in Redis. Their keys, built from H3 hexagon IDs, never landed in the same hash slot, so every MGET exploded into dozens of round trips. Redis hash tags, brute-forced integer anchors, slot-aware batching, EVAL for expiry, and dropping JSON for CSV fixed it. The lesson: build the benchmark harness first.
  58. Earth Is Quietly Tearing Apart Beneath the Pacific Northwest — ▲ 28 · 💬 16 · 🔗 sciencedaily.com
    Seismic imaging beneath Cascadia reveals a subduction zone breaking into pieces, not shutting down at once. Researchers found faults tearing the sinking Juan de Fuca plate, including a 75-kilometer rip and a slab section dropped about five kilometers. The piecewise breakup may explain ancient microplates and slab windows, though it does not change Cascadia's earthquake hazard on human timescales.
  59. TiddlyInstall builds real Windows, Linux, and macOS installers from a single HTML file — ▲ 24 · 💬 15 · 🔗 robertsdotpm.github.io
    TiddlyInstall is a single HTML file that builds native installers for Windows, Linux, and macOS directly from a GitHub repo, a package, or code written in the browser. It installs each app's real runtime and dependencies into isolated hashed folders, supports 13 languages, and can target Windows XP, glibc 2.17 Linux, and macOS 10.9. No server is required, and every installer shows exactly what it will do before changing anything.
  60. Dutch designer rebuilds Richie Hawtin's DE9 as a free playable web instrument — ▲ 24 · 💬 3 · 🔗 creativeboom.com
    Twenty-five years after Richie Hawtin released DE9: Closer to the Edit, Dutch designer Merijn Straathof has turned the album's 120 original loops into a free browser instrument. Visitors can play, chain, and rearrange the fragments, run them through effects, or trigger them via MIDI hardware. The site's monochrome, hairline-grid design echoes Hawtin's Minus label, and the project is a labour of love rather than a commercial release.
  61. Teaching a World Model to Play Pokémon — ▲ 23 · 💬 18 · 🔗 nostalgia.dev
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