China’s New Rare Earth and Magnet Restrictions Threaten US Defense Supply Chains
In advance of President Donald Trump’s upcoming visit to South Korea later this month—where he is expected to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping for the first time since 2019—China announced that it has expanded its restrictions on rare earth and permanent magnet exports. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce’s Announcement No. 61 of 2025 implements the […]
Show HN: rift – a tiling window manager for macOS
Rift is a tiling window manager for MacOS that focuses on performance and usability. multiple layout styles Tiling (i3/sway-like) Binary Space Partitioning (bspwm-like) Menubar icon that shows all of the workspaces and the layouts within click to see the menu bar icon MacOS-style mission control that allows you to visually navigate between workspaces click to […]
LineageOS 23
23 – Primetime Release Hey there! Welcome back! This last year has been a whirlwind to say the least, but we have remained dedicated to bringing an updated LineageOS based on Android 16 to the masses! We’ve been hard at work rebasing all of our changes and features since Android 16’s release in June. Android […]
Vancouver Stock Exchange: Scam capital of the world (1989) [pdf]
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Google blocks Android hack that let Pixel users enable VoLTE anywhere
Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Google’s October 2025 update has broken the Pixel IMS app, a tool many used to enable VoLTE and VoWiFi on imported Pixel phones in unsupported regions. The app exploited a loophole that allowed it to override carrier settings, which Google has now patched and designated as a high-severity vulnerability […]
Paper2Video: Automatic Video Generation from Scientific Papers
Abstract:Academic presentation videos have become an essential medium for research communication, yet producing them remains highly labor-intensive, often requiring hours of slide design, recording, and editing for a short 2 to 10 minutes video. Unlike natural video, presentation video generation involves distinctive challenges: inputs from research papers, dense multi-modal information (text, figures, tables), and the […]
Meta Superintelligence’s surprising first paper
Long awaited first paper from Meta Superintelligence Labs is not a model layer innovation. What does this mean? TL;DR MSI’s first paper, REFRAG, is about a new way to do RAG. This slightly modified LLM converts most retrieved document chunks into compact, LLM-aligned chunk embeddings that the LLM can consume directly. A lightweight policy (trained […]
Heroin Addicts Often Seem Normal
At least, they did to me ten years ago I recently saw an online suggestion that to treat hard drug addiction, you could provide drugs publicly at government facilities, conditional on (inpatient) treatment afterward. The idea being that (extreme) drug addicts have very high time preference, and so will accept a hit now at any […]
Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?
Google Wave. Edit: you asked why. I first saw it at SELF where Chris DiBona showed it to me and a close friend. It was awesome. Real time translation, integration of various types of messaging, tons of cool capabilities, and it was fully open source. What made it out of Google was a stripped down […]
Datastar response to allegations
Next → Context # A recent blog post titled HTMX, Datastar, greedy developer and several Hacker News threads raised concerns about Datastar Pro, pricing, and whether features were “moved behind a paywall”. Here’s what has changed, who Pro is for, and how to achieve some of the same things with the free version. The facts […]