THE HACKER NEWS

Vaslo
6 hours ago
My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant
I have been watching HomeAssistant’s progress with assist for some time. We previously used Google Home via Nest Minis, and have switched to using fully local assist backed by local first + ...
2 HOURS AGO
WEK
Speed at the cost of quality: Study of use of Cursor AI in open source projects
7 HOURS AGO
VRGANJ
MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security
7 HOURS AGO
OCAMOSS
Comparing Python Type Checkers: Typing Spec Conformance
5 DAYS AGO
ZDW
On The Need For Understanding
5 HOURS AGO
MOOREDS
Event Publisher enables event integration between Keycloak and OpenFGA
A DAY AGO
ITEM
The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure
6 HOURS AGO
WSLH
'Pokémon Go' players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30B images
7 HOURS AGO
JOHNCOLE
Bringing Semiconductors to Kazakhstan
A DAY AGO
TJOHNELL
LLMs can be exhausting
hahahacorn
an hour ago
Jemalloc un-abandoned by Meta
Meta recognizes the long-term benefits of jemalloc, a high-performance memory allocator, in its software infrastructure. We are renewing focus on jemalloc, aiming to reduce maintenance needs and mo…
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jryio
2 hours ago
Language Model Teams as Distrbuted Systems
Large language models (LLMs) are growing increasingly capable, prompting recent interest in LLM teams. Yet, despite increased deployment of LLM teams at scale, we lack a principled framework...
jshen96
2 hours ago
Launch HN: Chamber (YC W26) – An AI Teammate for GPU Infrastructure
AI agents that autonomously monitor, debug, and optimize your GPU fleet across clouds. Reduce compute costs, improve utilization, and accelerate ML research. Backed by Y Combinator....
masterpos
7 hours ago
Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg
A simple terminal UI for video trimming. Contribute to emin-ozata/lazycut development by creating an account on GitHub....
enz
8 hours ago
Why I love FreeBSD
A personal reflection on my first encounter with FreeBSD in 2002, how it shaped the way I design and run systems, and why its philosophy, stability, and community still matter to me more tha...
zdw
21 hours ago
Cert Authorities Check for DNSSEC from Today
About 14 years ago I set up DNSSEC . I've been running it on all of my domains ever since, without issue. First using bind9 and then later using PowerDNS......
PaulHoule
8 hours ago
Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies
IntroductionWhile corruption exists in both democracies and autocracies, its social consequences may differ fundamentally across regime types. Democratic nor......
gertjandewilde
4 hours ago
Apideck CLI – An AI-agent interface with much lower context consumption than MCP
TL;DR: MCP tool definitions can burn 55,000+ tokens before an agent processes a single user message. We built the Apideck CLI as an AI-agent interface instead:an ~80-token agent prompt repla...
https://www.apideck.com/blog/mcp-server-eating-context-window-cli-alternative
finniananderson
4 days ago
Home Assistant waters my plants
My first foray into home automations, Zigbee and irrigation systems....
antics
4 days ago
Lies I was told about collaborative editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs
tartoran
39 minutes ago
Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car
Khaled Bani Odeh's parents and two brothers were shot dead as they drove home from a shopping trip in the occupied West Bank....
ssijak
6 hours ago
AirPods Max 2
The ultimate over-ear listening experience — in five vibrant colors and with up to 1.5x more Active Noise Cancellation than the previous generation....
rhodey
5 hours ago
Show HN: Hecate – Call an AI from Signal
AI Assistant you can video call. Contribute to rhodey/hecate development by creating an account on GitHub....
htdt
3 hours ago
Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games
Claude Code skills that build complete Godot 4 projects from a game description - htdt/godogen...
carlos-menezes
8 hours ago
MM120, a pharmaceutical form of LSD, shown to reduce anxiety symptoms (2025)
Generalized anxiety disorder affects millions, often trapping sufferers in cycles of fear and isolation that conventional medications barely relieve. At UCSF, neuroscientist Jennifer Mitchel...
opengrass
a day ago
Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance
The decades-long battle over lawful access entered a new phase yesterday with the introduction of Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act. This bill follows the attempt last spring to bury lawful a...