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Show HN: Helios – what plug-in solar could generate for any address in Britain

Plug-in solar panels (no electrician needed) have just become legal in the UK and will go on sale soon.

Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team

Openrsync is a BSD-licensed implementation of rsync developed by the OpenBSD team that is compatible with modern rsync…

He Bought a Hard Drive He Thought Was New, but When He Plugged It in He Found 800 GB of Data Worth Thousands of Dollars

Reddit user All-Seeing_Hands bought a supposedly new 1TB SSD that arrived preloaded with 800GB of music-production…

Pandoc Templates

This article catalogs various Pandoc templates that enable users to convert Markdown files into professionally formatted…

AI Boom Could Leave Global Markets Exposed When Spending Slows

The artificial intelligence rally continues to fuel markets, corporate spending, and investor optimism worldwide.

Zig: Build System Reworked

Zig's build system has been reworked to move all package management functionality from the compiler into a separate…

The SLAX Scripting Language: An Alternate Syntax for XSLT

Macsurf, "modern" web browser for macOS 9

MacSurf is a native web browser for classic macOS 9 that brings modern web capabilities—including CSS3, JavaScript, and…

Company accidentally blows $500M on Claude AI in one month

OpenRCT2 v0.5.1 "Swamp Castle" released Last version to support Windows 7

OpenRCT2 v0.5.1 "Swamp Castle" has been released with numerous bug fixes and feature additions including new plugin…

Visa Invests in Replit to Bring Secure Payments Into AI Agents and Apps

Visa has invested in Replit as the companies work to bring secure payment tools into AI-built applications and software…

Perry Compiles TypeScript directly to executables using SWC and LLVM

Perry is a TypeScript compiler that generates native executables for multiple platforms (macOS, iOS, Android, Linux,…

Show HN: VT Code – open-source terminal coding agent in Rust

VT Code is an open-source Rust-based coding agent designed for autonomous, long-running workflows with OS-native…

Founders seize on Indian court ruling to revive criticism of Google’s ad business

The ruling drew support from founders, while lawyers said it could force platforms to revisit how they handle…

Movwin: My (Unpublished) TUI Framework

The author has created Movwin, an unpublished Python-based TUI (terminal user interface) framework built on ncurses,…

I went to the so-called ‘steroid Olympics,’ to understand why Silicon Valley is obsessed with peptides

The Enhanced Games — a singular sporting competition where a majority of the athletes were on performance enhancing…

Ember.js 7.0

Ember.js v7.0 has been released, featuring only deprecation removals and bugfixes while establishing v6.12 as the new…

Bias Compounds, Variance Washes Out

Stochastic rounding, which introduces random unbiased errors that cancel out over time, enables low-precision BF16…

MCP Is Dead

# Summary The article argues that MCP (Model Context Protocol) is impractical for production use because it consumes…

Show HN: Free activity calendar for schools, sports clubs, and organizations

FreeCal is a free calendar platform designed for schools, sports clubs, and organizations to manage and share activities…

Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption)

Hey everyone,I previously introduced an open source private home security camera in 2024, which uses OpenMLS for…

Free full BGP feed. IPv4 and IPv6

A network operator is offering free access to full European BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) feeds for both IPv4 and IPv6…

SpaceX awarded $6.45B in Space Force contracts ahead of IPO

SpaceX already generated one-fifth of its 2025 revenue from government contracts, the company revealed in its IPO filing.

Coders are refusing to work without AI — and that could come back to bite them 

While AI is helping coders produce code faster, it may not be producing better code, researchers warn.

EV Stupidity Checklist

# Summary The article criticizes modern electric vehicles for abandoning reliable, time-tested automotive design…

A Trillion Characters

"Trillion Characters" is a real-time collaborative typing experiment built with Datastar, a lightweight JavaScript…

The Last Technical Interview

The California State Assembly Has Passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'

The California State Assembly has passed AB 1921, the 'Protect Our Games Act,' which requires digital game publishers to…

Show HN: Tiny-vLLM – high performance LLM inference engine in C++ and CUDA

Tiny-vLLM is an educational high-performance LLM inference engine written in C++ and CUDA that implements core…