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I replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue with a live LLM by hacking GameCube memory
Picture Tom Nook greeting you with a sentence nobody at Nintendo wrote. That is what “animal crossing llm” usually points to: an experimental fan…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,220 posts.
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Open Source SDR Ham Transceiver Prototype
The future is here: LinHT booted up successfully for the first time. We believe that Software Defined Transceivers will be the next big trend in amateur radio.
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Hypervisor in 1k Lines
Write your first hypervisor from scratch, in 1K LoC.
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How Ruby executes JIT code
Where does JIT-compiled code live? How does Ruby switch between bytecode and native execution? Why does TracePoint slow everything down? This post answers the JIT questions most Ruby developers have but rarely see explained.
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Immunotherapy drug clinical trial results: half of tumors shrink or disappear
The researchers demonstrate that an engineered antibody improves a class of drugs that has struggled to make good on its early promise.
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Memory Integrity Enforcement
Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) is the culmination of an unprecedented design and engineering effort spanning half a decade that combines the unique strengths of Apple silicon hardware with our advanced operating system security to provide industry-first, always-on memory safety protection across our devices …
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Apple Debuts iPhone 17
Apple today announced iPhone 17, featuring the new Center Stage front camera, a 48MP Fusion Main camera, and a new 48MP Fusion Ultra Wide camera.
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iPhone Air
Apple today debuted the all-new iPhone Air, the thinnest iPhone ever made, with pro performance.
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Tomorrow's emoji today: Unicode 17.0
Trombone emoji skanking it's way into our hearts …
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The value of bringing a telephoto lens
Learn darktable step-by-step and dive deep into…2025122 points131 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details
They usually aren't light, and they certainly aren't small, but the unique perspective a telephoto lens brings makes it an indispensable part of your kit, even when traveling. Let's review some shots taken with a telephoto to see how we can justify its size and weight.
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An attacker’s blunder gave us a look into their operations
An attacker installed Huntress onto their operating machine, giving us a detailed look at how they’re using AI to build workflows, searching for tools like Evilginx, and researching targets like software development companies.
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Building a DOOM-like multiplayer shooter in pure SQL
CedarDB is a database system that delivers unmatched performance for transactions and analytics, from small writes to handling billions of rows. Built on cutting-edge research to power today’s tools and tomorrow’s challenges.
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We all dodged a bullet
That NPM attack could have been so much worse.
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A new experimental Go API for JSON
Go 1.25 introduces experimental support for encoding/json/jsontext and encoding/json/v2 packages.
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Claude now has access to a server-side container environment
Describe what you need and get back ready-to-use spreadsheets, documents, presentations, and PDFs instead of just text responses. Update: Now generally available for paid plans with net network and egress controls (October 21, 2025).
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How to use Claude Code subagents to parallelize development
Updated 2026-07-10 for the agent-teams era. Originally published September 2025. A subagent in Claude Code is a separate agent your session spawns to do a...
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Weird CPU architectures, the MOV only CPU (2020)
I like CPU architectures, especially weird, interesting and unusual ones. For example, the Intel iAPX 432 is still something I would love to play around with. Recently, I realized that a working CPU can be made with just a simple Move instruction. For this to work, everything needs to be memory mapped. The ALU…
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Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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YouTube is a mysterious monopoly
Yesterday I saw this Bluesky post from Adrian Black. He runs Adrian’s Digital Basement, a retro computer repair channel I really enjoy. In the post, he points out a trend I didn’t know about: YouTube views seem to have fallen off a cliff recently.
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Strong Eventual Consistency – The Big Idea Behind CRDTs
Missing the Forest for the Sequence Trees.
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No adblocker detected
Internet ads are horrible: They waste your time, and the industry behind them is actively making the internet a worse place. Payouts are so small that the only way to survive is to turn your site into an ad-filled hellhole with no real substance. (see: Modern social media )
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I don't like curved displays
where my words occasionally escape /dev/null
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Racintosh Plus – Rackmount Mac Plus
I own a Macintosh Plus from 1986, I found it in the mid 2000's on my college campus on a free-to-a-good-home shelf (Mad Marc's shelf in the chemistry building) in great shape and with its mouse, keyboard, and an HD-20 external hard disk drive. That silly computer has been on the journey with me ever since, leaving…
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Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG
Explore how to recreate Apple's stunning Liquid Glass effect using CSS, SVG Displacement Maps, and refraction calculations.
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The elegance of movement in Silksong
Pain never felt this good
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YouTube views are down (don't panic)
September 15 update: @YouTubeInsider confirmed that the issue is related to viewers who have adblockers enabled—YouTube's been in an arms race with ad blocking tools, and the fallout is a substantial cut in counted views for creators who have a large audience watching from desktop. Many YouTube content creators…
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Chat Control Must Be Stopped
Chat Control is back to undermine everyone's privacy. There's an important deadline on October 14th, 2025. We must act now to stop it!
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iPhone dumbphone
I used Apple Configurator to turn my iPhone into a dumb phone. I can only access the apps and websites I want to use, and it’s feeling great!