Show HN: Sosumi.ai – Convert Apple Developer docs to AI-readable Markdown
Disclaimer: This is an unofficial, independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Apple Inc. “Apple”, “Xcode”, and related marks are trademarks of Apple Inc. This service is an accessibility-first, on‑demand renderer. It converts a single Apple Developer page to Markdown only when requested by a user. It does not crawl, spider, or […]
Gun Maker Sig Sauer Citing National Security to Keep Documents from Public
The secrecy battle over the Army’s Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) for Sig Sauer’s P320 has followed Glasscock v. Sig Sauer to the Eighth Circuit. A media intervenor is now asking the appellate court to keep key records open—and their brief places Practical Shooting Insights (this site) squarely in the middle of the […]
Ripple – A TypeScript UI framework that takes the best of React, Solid, Svelte
Currently, this project is still in early development, and should not be used in production. Ripple is a TypeScript UI framework that takes the best parts of React, Solid and Svelte and combined them into one package. I wrote Ripple as a love letter for frontend web – and this is largely a project that […]
The day Return became Enter (2023)
Marcin Wichary December 2023 / 3,100 words / 35 photos Originally published as a booklet accompanying Shift Happens In the popular imagination, the transition from the world of typewriters to the universe of computers was orderly and simple: at some point in the 20th century, someone attached a CPU and a screen to a typewriter, and that turned it into […]
Meta might be secretly scanning your phone’s camera roll
Why is Facebook cloud-processing my device’s camera roll? Meta is uploading and analyzing your camera roll photos and videos, even ones you haven’t posted, in its cloud in order to generate AI-powered suggestions like collages, monthly recaps, themed albums, or AI-restyled versions of your images. Where is this feature being tested? Meta has confirmed the […]
Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy
Today, we’re rolling out updates to our Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy that will help us deliver even more capable, useful AI models. We’re now giving users the choice to allow their data to be used to improve Claude and strengthen our safeguards against harmful usage like scams and abuse. Adjusting your preferences is easy […]
What the interns have wrought, 2025
Yet again, we’re at the end of our internship season, and so it’s time to summarize what the interns were up to! This year, I was recommended a real bumper crop of exciting projects to include. It’s kind of crazy how many great intern projects are out there. To mention a few that I’m not […]
An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia
Since I love collecting questionable analogies for LLMs, here’s a new one I just came up with: an LLM is a lossy encyclopedia. They have a huge array of facts compressed into them but that compression is lossy (see also Ted Chiang). The key thing is to develop an intuition for questions it can usefully […]
The Synology End Game
I’ve been a Synology fan for many years. I used to roll my own NAS servers for home, but eventually decided that quieter, more energy-friendly dedicated NAS solutions were a better path forward. I don’t use a lot of their on-board apps, just basic file storage. Right now I’ve got a DS920, a DS418, and […]
PSA: Libxslt is unmaintained and has 5 unpatched security bugs
On 6/16/25 15:12, Alan Coopersmith wrote: BTW, users of libxml2 may also be using its sibling project, libxslt, which currently has no active maintainer, but has three unfixed security issues reported against it according to https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Releng/security/-/wikis/2025#libxml2-and-libxslt 2 of the 3 have now been disclosed: (CVE-2025-7424) libxslt: Type confusion in xmlNode.psvi between stylesheet and source nodeshttps://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/-/issues/139 […]