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Show HN: Public Muscriptor Instance (latest, most powerful Audio-to-MIDI model)

Pianoify is a free, browser-based tool that converts audio recordings into MIDI and sheet music by transcribing melodies…

Show HN: SteppeWM – a stacking IceWM-like Wayland compositor

SteppeWM is a lightweight stacking Wayland compositor that provides floating, overlapping windows with titlebars and a…

AI Boosted Homework Scores by 18% – Then Exam Scores Dropped 20%, Study Shows

A study of 27,000 Chinese students found that those using AI tools achieved 18% higher homework scores but performed 20%…

Show HN: AgentSight – eBPF observability for AI agents, no code changes

AgentSight is a zero-instrumentation observability tool for AI agents that uses eBPF technology to capture LLM API…

The B-right/V R2 Operating System

The BTRON operating system, conceived by Japan's TRON Project in the mid-1980s, represents a third conceptual computing…

Show HN: A desktop fly drawn to the scent of vibecode

A developer created a macOS desktop application featuring a 3D fruit fly animated by a simulated neural circuit based on…

I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip

A developer successfully ran Adobe Photoshop on a Raspberry Pi RP2350 chip costing 60 pence by emulating a mid-1990s…

Felony Bench

The "Felony Bench" is a benchmark tracking instances where AI models have been involved in illegal activities or…

c100

The c100 Developer Terminal is a Linux-powered mini-PC featuring an AMD Ryzen 7940HS processor, designed to run…

Code Obfuscation via Local Mixing

Local mixing is a novel approach to cryptographic obfuscation that differs fundamentally from traditional methods by…

I came to write THAT paper with Leslie Lamport

Leslie Lamport, known for his work in distributed systems and LaTeX, submitted a paper titled "Types Considered Harmful"…

Oura faces lawsuit accusing it of misleading consumers about sleep-tracking accuracy

The lawsuit alleges that Oura rings are unable to measure any of the physiological signals needed to assess sleep…

Claudette: Make Claude Stop Talking Like a BuzzFeed Article

A developer created "Claudette," a Claude Code skill that translates Claude's verbose, unnecessarily dramatic responses…

Walmart to finally start accepting Apple Pay and Google Pay

Are pigs flying? Walmart has finally caved on its refusal to support Apple Pay and Google Pay.

Zig's Io.Threaded Is Neat

Zig's std.Io.Threaded is a threading-based concurrency implementation that uniquely enables reliable cancelation of…

WPD won't replace stolen Flock cameras, citing public trust

What We Lost When Search Stopped Making Us Think

Search quality has deteriorated over recent years as SEO-optimized content and AI-generated pages now dominate results,…

Starcloud raises $250 million for orbital data centers as launch options dry up

There's about to be a big fight to secure access to space.

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

Kagi Search added a new setting to automatically remove paywalled links from search results, along with a revamped…

Rama 0.4: System proxy and PAC support

Rama 0.4 has been released with major new features including system proxy configuration support and Proxy Auto…

Tesla recalls 3 million cars as part of China-wide push to stop hidden door handles

Tesla and eight other automakers will install warning labels that help occupants identify the often hard-to-find manual…

How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt

Private equity firm Apollo confirms data breach amid hacking wave targeting financial giants

The private equity giant confirms a breach, weeks after Google researchers said hackers were targeting financial…

Nvidia AVO scores 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 interactive reasoning benchmark

What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x

# Summary The cost of AI capability is dropping dramatically—a capability level that cost $1.22 per task in February…

Convite

Waymo doubles spending on lobbying in robotaxi battle with Uber

Alphabet-owned company is seeking to persuade US regulators to clear a path for fully autonomous taxi services.

I accidentally logged phone calls to military bases

A security researcher discovered they could hijack e164.arpa DNS zones—infrastructure domains that control phone call…

We are living in a version of the future out of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson

# Summary The author argues that contemporary life increasingly resembles the dystopian futures imagined by science…