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PGSimCity turns PostgreSQL internals into an interactive 3D city

PGSimCity is an educational project that renders the PostgreSQL engine as an explorable 3D 'city,' aiming to make the database's internal machinery visible and

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Russian Drones Repeatedly Breach Romanian Airspace During Strikes on Ukraine

Romania's Ministry of National Defence reported another airspace violation on July 27, when its radar network picked up an aerial target at 09:29 roughly 25 km

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Show HN: A browser-based, physically accurate black hole for your room

A Hacker News "Show HN" submission points to blackhole.plav.in, an interactive demo that renders a black hole billed as physically accurate and placeable in the

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Sunflowers: A Minesweeper Inverse Whose Solver Guarantees the Difficulty

Sunflowers is a browser-based logic puzzle billed as a 'reverse Minesweeper': instead of avoiding hidden mines, you plant flowers to satisfy numeric clues. Its

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Vercel's scriptc compiles TypeScript to native binaries with no JS engine

Vercel Labs has released scriptc, a compiler that turns ordinary TypeScript into small, self-contained native executables — no Node, no V8, and no embedded Java

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Vigilantes Are Smashing Flock License-Plate Cameras in a DIY War on Surveillance

A loosely organized protest movement is physically disabling Flock Safety's automated license plate readers (ALPRs) across the US. These solar-powered, pole-mou

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28.9M-parameter LLM runs on an $8 ESP32 by keeping most of itself in flash

A developer has fit a 28.9-million-parameter language model onto an ESP32-S3, an $8 microcontroller, and gets it generating text at about 9 tokens per second en

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Anthropic cut 80% of Claude Code's system prompt for its newest models

Anthropic says it stripped more than 80% of Claude Code's system prompt when targeting its latest models—Opus 5 and Fable 5—without measurable regression on cod

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Brolly Serves the Weather as Pure Plain Text — No JS, No Clutter

Brolly is a minimalist weather service that renders forecasts entirely in plain text, trading the usual dashboard of animated icons and interactive maps for som

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Debian Puts LLM Contributions to a Vote, With One Proposal Calling for a Ban

The Debian project is holding a General Resolution to decide how, or whether, large language models can be used in its work, with competing proposals (A through

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DeepSeek halts $1.5B raise after leaked call exposes US compute gap

DeepSeek has verbally suspended a planned second funding round — targeting at least ¥10B ($1.5B) at a roughly ¥480B ($71B) pre-money valuation — after a transcr

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"Did They Ghost You?" turns interview silence into a public record

Did They Ghost You? is a web tool aimed at job seekers who go through an interview process and then hear nothing back — the increasingly common phenomenon of em

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