The Atari Jaguar Runs Linux
The Atari Jaguar Runs Linux Go to Source Among the many forgotten might-have-beens of the games console world, the Atari Jaguar occupies a special place. It was the final gasp of Atari Corporation, the Jack Tramiel-era incarnation of...
How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS
Article URL: https://neil.computer/notes/how-to-setup-minimal-zfs-nas-without-truenas/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48827325 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
Microsoft intros tech that rebuilds dead PCs without requiring local copies of Windows
Microsoft intros tech that rebuilds dead PCs without requiring local copies of Windows Go to Source Microsoft has introduced a new offering called “Cloud rebuild” that makes it possible to re-image a Windows PC without a physical copy...
Google Gemini Killed Perplexity AI
Article URL: https://fatjoe.com/blog/perplexity-ai-stats/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48826756 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
Ranked worst to best: 13 flavors of Pure Leaf iced tea
Article URL: https://www.tastingtable.com/1866292/pure-leaf-iced-tea-flavors-ranked/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48826572 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
SN 1086: The Apex Agentic Adversary – Visual Prompt Injection Strikes
From the sudden retirement of Internet pioneer Vint Cerf to the unstoppable advance of "apex agentic adversaries," get a front-row seat to the unfolding security revolution and its massive real-world stakes. Why Fable5's re-release has disappointed. Opera becomes the...
It’s Now Imperative That You Copy That Floppy
In the early 1990s, Don’t Copy That Floppy was an anti-piracy campaign that attempted to connect with computer-savvy youth through the power of hip-hop. While somewhat difficult to imagine given our current draconian Digital Rights Management (DRM) hellscape, warning...
Show HN: Chiptune Radio
I built a chiptune song generator and its broadcasting algorithmically generated chiptune music. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48826094 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
This free Android app makes sharing files across Windows, Mac, and iOS so easy for me
If you're looking for an effortless way of transferring files from Android to your other devices, Blip is my app of choice.
An interactive explorer for Benford’s Law across real datasets
Article URL: https://vatsalbakshi.com/blog/benfords-law/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48825816 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
I spent a week with Sony’s $3,500 Bravia TV – the True RGB display is the real deal
Outfitted with Sony's new Micro RGB panels, the Bravia 9 II is well on its way to usurping its OLED cousin's supremacy.
FrankenMarkdown
Article URL: https://franken-markdown.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48825234 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
Meta built an AI detection tool to ID images and video created with its new models
Meta's new AI detector has rate limits for some reason.
GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup
Article URL: https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-108193 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48824826 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Windows is watching: Anti-piracy tool fingers Scattered Spider suspect
Your Windows is watching you. The US Justice Department's complaint against Peter Stokes for alleged involvement in the Scattered Spider hacking group offers a reminder that it's difficult to hide online activity from Microsoft's operating system (or any other)....
It’s Full Steam Ahead for This Motorized Canoe
In some parts of Canada, you’ll rarely hear someone use the phrase “whatever paddles your canoe” instead of the more usual “whatever floats your boat”– and apparently, at least for one Swede, that’s steam power. The video, linked and embedded below, is a detailed tour...
Samsung unveils Galaxy Z Fold 8 deal for $1,230 off ahead of July Unpacked – how to qualify
Samsung Unpacked will take place later this month in London, and all eyes are on the Galaxy Glasses.
The next Samsung Galaxy Unpacked launch is happening on July 22
The next Samsung Galaxy Unpacked launch is happening on July 22.
Final extension: Startup Battlefield Australia applications now close July 20
If you're building something ambitious, this is a fast track to the people who can move your startup forward.
Meta rolls out Muse, a new AI image generator
The new image-generating model has numerous use cases, including advertising, decorating and creator-based opportunities.
The Real Divide in the AI Economy Isn’t Human vs. Machine
Every other day, headlines come your way saying AI scalped yet another thousand heads in big tech. For an average IT person, the anxiety is understandable because of how opinions around you have been circulating recently. Unemployment, mass rejections, and low demand...
Six Data Grid Implementations Later, I Finally Learned to Build Components Right
Drawing on six implementations of the same data grid, the article argues that the most durable UI pattern is separating behavior from presentation through headless architecture. It shows how explicit contracts, rather than framework-specific abstractions, improve...
The Thin-Consumer Pattern: Moving .NET Jobs from Hangfire to RabbitMQ Without Rewriting Them
Replacing a background-job system sounds scary because the jobs do real work — sending email, dispatching webhooks, re-fetching content. Get the migration wrong and you drop a customer's email or fire a webhook twice. It doesn't have to be scary. When I moved every...
5 Security Mistakes That Kill Healthcare AI Startups
AI agents go beyond chatbots: they perceive a task, reason through clinical and payer rules, take an action inside the EHR or payer system, then verify the result. The best fits in healthcare operations are high-volume, rule-governed tasks like eligibility checks,...
I Built a Free AI Website That Makes Prompting Easier
AI models have become remarkably capable. The problem is that most people still can't get good results from them. The gap isn't intelligence — it's input. Getting a useful response from any large language model requires communicating your preferences, assumptions,...
Building an AI Dream Analysis Engine, Part 1: Designing the NLP Pipeline
Can artificial intelligence understand dreams? Not in the mystical sense—but it can analyze language, recognize patterns, detect emotions, and organize dream narratives into meaningful psychological insights. Dream interpretation has fascinated humanity for thousands...
Here’s Why Code Review Is Having Trouble Scaling to the AI Era
Code review was built for a world where the supply of code was bounded by how fast a person could write it. That world is over, and the tools built to keep pace with the new one are real, working, and still measuring the wrong thing.
Building a Low-Latency AI Tutoring Platform With FastAPI and WebSockets
As Generative AI shifts from a novelty into a core component of modern software engineering, Educational Technology (EdTech) platforms are facing a massive infrastructure bottleneck. Standard consumer-grade AI chatbots rely heavily on traditional HTTP request-response...
Everyone Is Chasing AI Benchmarks, Almost Nobody Is Measuring Truth
1. The AI Benchmark Obsession Every model release follows the same script now. A new number shows up next to MMLU. Another one next to HumanEval, GSM8K, SWE-Bench, and LiveCodeBench. The lab puts out a blog post, the chart shows their bar just a bit taller than the...
Why RSS Still Beats APIs for Content Distribution
Using a real-world content site as a case study, the article argues that RSS remains the superior choice for public content syndication. It compares RSS with custom APIs across integration, caching, automation, SEO, and maintenance, concluding that APIs should be...