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Amid Increased Scrutiny, ICE Detention and Deportation Data Goes Dark
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Claude Is Not a Compiler
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Over 400 Linux CVEs published in the last 24 hours alone
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PCjs Machines
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Garzed – my garden waters itself off soil-moisture sensors
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The Great Steam Deck Crash of 2026: How the New Pricing Decreased Demand by 80%
Following our recent article estimating the volume of Steam Machines currently sold on the market, I wanted to also go back to another very interesting piece of data and question: has the change of price of the Steam Deck in May 2026 had a
New US homeownership measure puts people first
The homeownership rate in the United States is reported to be 65 percent. But this commonly cited data point on homeownership is actually the owner-occupancy rate, which tells us how many housing units are occupied by an owner. While owner
GitHub suddenly rejected my SSH key (the fix was a.pub file?)
1 minute read Today, git pull stopped working on my main laptop. Permission denied (publickey), out of nowhere. I had changed nothing, the key was still registered on GitHub, and pulling the same repository from another laptop (with another
Netflix Earnings, Is Netflix Washed?, Additional Notes
Netflix's earnings were fine, and befitting a mature company whose most exciting days are likely behind them.
Linux kernel will support $ORIGIN, sort of
For some reason, during TacoSprint 2026 I decided to see if we could tackle relocatable binaries in Nix. I enjoy these lofty goals to push Nix and the surrounding ecosystem forward. I am bold if not stupid. I left the last earlier post with
Modula-3 History Collection on Computer History Museum
Modula-3 History Collection Paul McJones, editor paul@mcjones.org https://mcjones.org/dustydecks/ Last updated 5 July 2026 Abstract This is an annotated collection of documents, source code, and other materials concerning the birth, develop
Reverse-engineering is cheap now
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Show HN: Ex Situ – open-source spatial index of displaced cultural artifacts
Hi, I designed and developed a spatial index that maps museum artefacts as connecting arcs/hyperlinks from their origin site to institutional location/sources. The Index specifically looks at western/euro-american institutions and maps their collection categorised by them under Islamic art, Asian/African art, ethnological collections, Middle East, South America etc. Started as my MA thesis in 2022, kept building since, mostly solo with a little funding. Fully open source, self-hosted, AGPL-3.0, Next.js + Deck.gl on the frontend, Strapi backend, Python ETL pulling from museum open-access APIs. Currently indexing over 100k artifacts from all over the world, across 8 collections (Met, V&A, SMB Berlin). Recently added an md export so researchers can download provenance data for a filtered set of artifacts. The infrastructure is conceptualized as an indexer, not a hoster. Even images are kept as URLs pointing to the source institutions. It's connective tissue between archives that were never designed to speak to each other, with an origin-first search UI concept. The data model is on purpose flat, to avoid encoding problematic taxonomies, and routes researchers directly to the source giving responsibility to the source institutions rather than duplicating institutional data. It indexes the relationship between origin sites and destination collections. Coming from a design background, taking this project from prototype to production app has been incredibly rewarding, but honestly it’s getting a little bit overwhelming to scale alone. I would love community’s feedback on performance scaling, any code contributions, data pipelines for missing museum apis or general feedback. Repo: Live:
Show HN: Ex Situ – Open-source spatial index of displaced cultural artifacts
Hi, I designed and developed a spatial index that maps museum artefacts as connecting arcs/hyperlinks from their origin site to institutional location/sources. The Index specifically looks at western/euro-american institutions and maps their collection categorised by them under Islamic art, Asian/African art, ethnological collections, Middle East, South America etc. Started as my MA thesis in 2022, kept building since, mostly solo with a little funding. Fully open source, self-hosted, AGPL-3.0, Next.js + Deck.gl on the frontend, Strapi backend, Python ETL pulling from museum open-access APIs. Currently indexing over 100k artifacts from all over the world, across 8 collections (Met, V&A, SMB Berlin). Recently added an md export so researchers can download provenance data for a filtered set of artifacts. The infrastructure is conceptualized as an indexer, not a hoster. Even images are kept as URLs pointing to the source institutions. It's connective tissue between archives that were never designed to speak to each other, with an origin-first search UI concept. The data model is on purpose flat, to avoid encoding problematic taxonomies, and routes researchers directly to the source giving responsibility to the source institutions rather than duplicating institutional data. It indexes the relationship between origin sites and destination collections. Coming from a design background, taking this project from prototype to production app has been incredibly rewarding, but honestly it’s getting a little bit overwhelming to scale alone. I would love community’s feedback on performance scaling, any code contributions, data pipelines for missing museum apis or general feedback. Repo: Live: Comments URL: Points: 15 # Comments: 2
Running Doom on Our Custom CPU and Going Viral
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Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech?
Given the expansion of the fed/state/local/corporate surveillance net, do you find yourself expressing yourself less freely on the internet than you did five years ago? Comments URL: Points: 9 # Comments: 4
Show HN: Turn casual photos into professional headshots with AI
A while back I needed an ID photo for something urgent. The only way to get one was to find a photo studio, book a time, and wait around for it to be printed, and just one set cost about $13 (converted from my local currency). With how far AI has come, I felt like this should be easier and cheaper by now. So, I built Portraify. It turns 1–3 casual photos into professional headshots, and also does US passport photos and 1-inch / 2-inch ID photos. The thing I cared most about was likeness. A headshot or an ID photo is only useful if it actually looks like you, otherwise there's no point. So the AI is tuned to reproduce the real you, no beautifying, no de-aging. It also checks your input photos before generating (lighting, sharpness, face visibility), so you don't waste a generation on a photo that was never going to work. I know people care a lot about uploading their face to some random AI tool, so to be clear: input photos are processed in memory and discarded after generation. They're never persisted or used for training. Generated portraits are stored so you can re-download them. One thing to know before you try: it needs a signup (no card) and you get 3 free generations. Let me know if there's anything that could be improved, or anything that doesn't work well in real-world use. Happy to answer any questions.
Ramp Router
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Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public
The ACLU documents how an automatic license plate reader company has lied about its operations, signaling a need for reputable governments to avoid working with Flock Safety. During a city council meeting in a suburb of Wisconsin in April,
Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
joshuaboniface Offline Posts: 118 Threads: 27 Joined: 2023 Jun Reputation: 24 Country: 10 hours ago (This post was last modified: 10 hours ago by joshuaboniface. Edited 2 times in total.) Hello everyone. Effective yesterday, Anthony and I d
Opaque, Interoperable Passkey Records (and a Go API)
Passkeys are the most important thing happening in information security right now because they are the only principled solution to the overwhelming effectiveness of phishing attacks. Just like memory safety is the only principled solution t
Donation Controversy
We would like to address the recent controversy about one of the owners of Mullvad making a donation to a Swedish political party. It was a private donation from Daniel the individual. Mullvad or its parent and sister companies did not endo
My falling-out with the rationalist community
This is an article I resisted writing for a long time. I didn’t pull the trigger in the mid-2010s, in the glory days of the SF Bay Area rationalist movement. I resisted the urge after the arrest of the rationalist-aligned financier, Sam Ban
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