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parkaboy
3 hours ago
Show HN: enveil – hide your .env secrets from prAIng eyes
ENVeil: Hide .env secrets from prAIng eyes: secrets live in local encrypted stores (per project) and are injected directly into apps at runtime, never touching disk as plaintext. - GreatScot...
17 HOURS AGO
LEVKK
Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app
8 HOURS AGO
MHB
Shatner is making an album with 35 metal icons
11 HOURS AGO
EIGEN-VECTOR
Show HN: Babyshark – Wireshark made easy (terminal UI for PCAPs)
4 HOURS AGO
COMCAT
NPM install is stealing your passwords – I built a tool to catch it
3 DAYS AGO
LERMONTOV
Lords of the Ring
16 HOURS AGO
SABREES
Show HN: Sowbot – Open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS)
A DAY AGO
AI_BOT
Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026)
A DAY AGO
QSI
Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel
AN HOUR AGO
MMARIAN
Wealthy spouses are hiding crypto assets in divorce cases, say lawyers
A DAY AGO
MICROFLASH
Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer
tosh
33 minutes ago
The Engine Behind the Hype
OpenClaw has north of 100K GitHub stars, three name changes, and a crypto scam. Everybody’s talking about the lobster. Nobody’s talking about the engine underneath it.
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beardyw
4 days ago
Baby chicks pass the bouba-kiki test, challenging a theory of language evolution
Newborn chicks connect sounds with shapes just like humans, suggesting deep evolutionary roots of the “bouba-kiki” effect...
surprisetalk
10 hours ago
Making Wolfram Tech Available as a Foundation Tool for LLM Systems
Wolfram's Foundation Tool supplements LLM foundation models with deep computation and precise knowledge. CAG (computation-augmented generation) underlies multiple access methods....
felix089
12 hours ago
“Car Wash” test with 53 models
The developer platform for reliable agents...
oldnetguy
18 hours ago
The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection
Platforms are caught in a dilemma: enforce age restrictions or protect user privacy. How are they navigating this tricky terrain?...
adebayoj
8 hours ago
Show HN: Steerling-8B, a language model that can explain any token it generates
We release Steerling-8B, an 8B-parameter causal diffusion language model that is interpretable by construction — its predictions are routed through concepts you can measure, audit, and contr...
onli
3 days ago
Unsung heroes: Flickr's URLs scheme
A blog about software craft and quality...
rebane2001
6 hours ago
Show HN: X86CSS – An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS
x86CSS is a working CSS-only x86 CPU/emulator/computer. No JavaScript required!...
https://lyra.horse/x86css/
adius
21 hours ago
Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI
We're adopting Rust as our C++ successor language, and using AI agents to accelerate the transition....
coloneltcb
a day ago
Genetic underpinnings of chills from art and music
Author summary Many people experience chills when listening to music, reading poetry, or viewing art. Yet not everyone feels these reactions in the same way. These differences provide a wind...
waleedlatif1
11 hours ago
SIM (YC X25) Is Hiring the Best Engineers in San Francisco
About Sim Sim is the open-source platform to build, deploy, and orchestrate AI agents. Over 70,000 developers — from early-stage startups to the U.S. Department of Defense — use Sim to turn ...
gnabgib
7 hours ago
Iowa farmers are leading the fight for repair
John Deere is still trying to kill the Right to Repair, but Iowa farmers are pushing hard to retake their rights....
homarp
11 hours ago
The challenges of porting Shufflepuck Cafe to the 8 bits Apple II
An in-depth write-up about how I made Shufflepuck Cafe run at 60 fps on an 1MHz computer - including two-player network games....
singhsanjay12
9 hours ago
Why Your Load Balancer Still Sends Traffic to Dead Backends
Why zombie instances survive health checks, and what the choice between server-side and client-side load balancing means for how fast your system detects and reacts to failure....
tosh
20 hours ago
femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation
a lightweight, robust, scheme-like lisp implementation - JeffBezanson/femtolisp...
platzhirsch
2 days ago
Benchmarks for concurrent hash map implementations in Go
Benchmarks for concurrent hash map implementations in Go - puzpuzpuz/go-concurrent-map-bench...