Show HN: I built a small app for FSI German Course
You hear German before you read it. Every unit opens with a dialogue broken into build-ups. You hear ”good” then ”morning” then ”Good morning, Mr. Becker.” Fragment by fragment until the full sentence clicks. Your ear picks up the accent before you’ve had time to think about it.
Inside Nepal’s Fake Rescue Racket
In Nepal, helicopter rescue on high altitude is, by any measure, a genuine lifesaving operation. At high altitude, where oxygen thins and weather changes without warning, the ability to airlift a stricken trekker to Kathmandu within hours has saved countless lives. But threaded through that legitimate system, exploiting its urgency, its opacity, and its distance […]
Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU
Open source. Private. Ready in minutes on any PC. Chat What can I do with 128 GB of unified RAM? Load up models like gpt-oss-120b or Qwen-Coder-Next for advanced tool use. What should I tune first? You can use –no-mmap to speed up load times and increase context size to 64 or more. Image Generation […]
Enabling Codex to Analyze Two Decades of Hacker News Data
The entirety of Hacker News, stored in parquet files, is approximately 10GB in size. I was interested in analyzing the dataset and, in the fashion of the contemporary zeitgeist, in doing so with Codex. With Modolap, Codex can analyze it well. After simply adding the skill with npx, the first topic of interest was mention […]
Baby’s Second Garbage Collector
how is garbbage collected how langauge get memory A very confused programming neophyte Thirteen years ago, in two thousand thirteen, Baby’s First Garbage Collector was born. Now he’s grown up. He’s outgrown his shallow kiddie pool and his paddles. He’s entering puberty. Soon he’ll be in college. They grow up so fast. Bob Nystrom wasn’t […]
Significant Raise of Reports
Posted Mar 31, 2026 17:11 UTC (Tue) by wtarreau (subscriber, #51152) Parent article: Vulnerability Research Is Cooked (sockpuppet.org) On the kernel security list we’ve seen a huge bump of reports. We were between 2 and 3 per week maybe two years ago, then reached probably 10 a week over the last year with the only […]
IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm
Collaboration aims to advance new technologies that expand infrastructure choice while preserving mission-critical environments Apr 2, 2026 ARMONK, N.Y., April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a strategic collaboration with Arm to develop new dual‑architecture hardware that helps enterprises run future AI and data intensive workloads with greater flexibility, reliability, and security. […]
Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it
A couple of weeks ago, we noticed something odd on Suga. New users were signing up but not doing anything, they weren’t creating an org, a project, or a deployment, they just left an account sitting there. Most new users interact with the product pretty quickly, and we report on activity stats to try and […]
Email obfuscation: What works in 2026?
Last updated: January 30, 2026 Here are some of the best techniques for keeping email addresses hidden from spammers—along with the statistics on how likely they are to be broken. 1 Plain text These techniques protect an email address written out in plain text (e.g. “[email protected]”). Ideally, you should be using multiple techniques in combination, […]
Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
If Valve’s latest Steam Survey monthly figures are accurate, Steam on Linux enjoyed a very wild month of March. Steam on Linux is now above the 5% threshold and more than twice the size of the Steam on macOS marketshare. Steam on Linux ended 2025 at around a 3.5% marketshare, dipped a bit in January, […]