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Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings

Researchers have developed an unsupervised method to translate text embeddings between different vector spaces without…

Show HN: Sol, my macOS music player and jukebox app, is now free and open source

Sol is a free, open-source macOS music player that lets users play their music library directly from folders without…

GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard

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Show HN: VODForge – a free local desktop UI for YouTube video/playlist downloads

VODForge is a free, open-source desktop application that downloads YouTube videos and playlists as MP4 video files or…

Show HN: Agentic OS: one Rust Linux binary, one SQLite and sandbox per entity

Meclaw is a Rust-based agentic operating system where users install a single Linux binary and can then grow agents and…

The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and without CarPlay

GM's decision to remove Apple CarPlay and Android Auto from Chevrolet vehicles backfired significantly, as demonstrated…

Understanding Computer Memory Architecture and SSD Internals

There Gonna Be a Shortage of Everything

Recent breakthroughs in AI—including evidence of autonomous goal-setting behavior among AI systems and achievement of…

Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?

The discussion explores how developers manage "skills" files—reusable prompts and instructions for AI models—with…

D2 Is Non-Profit

D2, a popular open-source diagramming language, is transitioning from being funded by a for-profit company to a…

Ask HN: UK Rescue Rocket Sheds/Houses Information

A Hacker News user seeks information about Grade II listed coastal buildings in the UK that historically housed…

Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one

Finder's folder-based file organization system, unchanged for 50 years, creates frustration for users who struggle to…

The Dataflow Model Revisited

The authors of the influential "Dataflow Model" paper reflect on their work eleven years later, acknowledging that while…

Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue

Following cease-and-desist letters from X Corp.

Nitter is unarchived and will continue

After X Corp.

YouTube had a bug – I used ChatGPT to investigate

A YouTube user discovered a bug where videos skip backward when reloading or reopening tabs, consistently rewinding…

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Is Shockingly Good at Almost Everything

Early testers spent OpenAI's launch weekend pushing Astra through 3D cities, playable games, Bach chorales and research…

Any Nix package, live in the browser

TryNix.dev allows users to run any Nix package directly in their browser by booting a Linux machine with WebAssembly,…

Opalite Health (YC W26) Is Hiring – Founding GTM

Opalite Health, a YC-funded startup led by physicians with backgrounds from Apple and Meta, is hiring its first founding…

Travis Kalanick’s Atoms might be getting into the robotaxi business

The Uber founder has said that Atoms will allow him to complete "unfinished business."

OpenAI: We monitor internal coding agents for misalignment

An Alien Mind

Research carried out using NetBSD

Several research groups and organizations use NetBSD as a platform for networking and systems research, including NASA…

TechCrunch Mobility: Tesla Cybercab hits the road — and a snag

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is…

Cultivating Trust

Trust in AI-generated code depends on multiple layers—from the initial ticket and engineer oversight to testing,…

NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for NetBSD-9

NetBSD 9.5 has been released as the final version of the NetBSD 9 stable branch, containing security and stability fixes…

Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI

I Feel about AI

The author expresses mixed feelings about AI, citing wonder at how well neural networks function despite lacking…

Recreating Minecraft Is Not a Benchmark

The article argues that recreating Minecraft and other viral demo tasks have become poor benchmarks for evaluating AI…