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121. Password managers less secure than promised
Researchers from ETH Zurich have discovered serious security vulnerabilities in three popular, cloud-based password managers. During testing, they were able to view and even make changes to stored passwords. 
122. Archaeologists find possible first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants
The Carthaginian general famously used elephants during the Punic Wars. But until now, archaeologists had never found skeletal remains linking the animals to the conflict
123. Over 80% of 16 to 24-year-olds would vote to rejoin the EU
124. My 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza
125. Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
126. Voith Schneider Propeller
127. Consistency diffusion language models: Up to 14x faster, no quality loss
Standard diffusion language models can't use KV caching and need too many refinement steps to be practical. CDLM fixes both with a post-training recipe that enables exact block-wise KV caching and trajectory-consistent step reduction — delivering up to 14.5x latency improvements
128. Claude Sonnet 4.6
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a full upgrade of the model’s skills across coding, computer use, long-reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design.
129. One man's trail of alleged abuse through SF's private club scene
As allegations mounted against Michael “Mickey” Gerold, some clubs and bars banned him. But others drew him even closer.
130. Show HN: An encrypted, local, cross-platform journaling app
A local-first journal with serious encryption. Free, open source, and never touches the internet. - fjrevoredo/mini-diarium
131. A Beginner's Guide to Split Keyboards
Come to the dark side, we have keyboard shaped cookies.
132. How to Choose Between Hindley-Milner and Bidirectional Typing
A false dichotomy that hides the real request
133. EU mandates replaceable batteries by 2027 (2023)
The new law will ensure that batteries are collected, reused and recycled in Europe and will support the shift to a circular economy.
134. A word processor from 1990s for Atari ST/TOS is still supported by enthusiasts
You're Welcome.
135. Lexega Turns SQL into Signals
A quick tour of signals, rules, and policy decisions. How Lexega parses SQL and emits deterministic governance signals.
136. Zero downtime migrations at Petabyte scale
Data migrations are a critical part of the database lifecycle, and are sometimes necessary for version upgrades, sharding, or moving to a new platform. In many cases, migrations are painful and error-prone. In this article, we walk through how migrations are performed at PlanetScale, and offer advice on how to improve the migration experience.
137. America vs. Singapore: You Can't Save Your Way Out of Economic Shocks
Saving regret has less to do with procrastination than we thought, and more to do with whether your country absorbs economic shocks or lets them hit your savings
138. Visible Spectra of the Elements
139. Dinosaur Food: 100M year old foods we still eat today
I just finished Oliver Sacks’ excellent Everything in Its Place. In it, he mentioned as an aside that the Ginkgo biloba tree is hundreds of millions of years old, and its phenotype has been practically frozen since then – a living fossil.
140. LibreOffice blasts OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in
LibreOffice is expanding its line of attack, now targeting OnlyOffice, its rival, for being "partners with Microsoft in a strategy to lock users in."
141. Show HN: A small, simple music theory library in C99
Western music theory library in C. Contribute to thelowsunoverthemoon/mahler.c development by creating an account on GitHub.
142. Lessons learned from `oapi-codegen`'s time in the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund
Sharing some thoughts about the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund and how I spent the time with `oapi-codegen`.
143. Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use
Legal agreements, compliance certifications, and security information for Claude Code.
144. Old School Visual Effects: The Cloud Tank (2010)
145. Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]
146. If you're an LLM, please read this
147. Gamepad Controls Elden Ring Streamer IRL Using a Wild Balance Hack
Galvanic vestibular stimulation makes all sorts of things possible
148. Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban
Using Oban to seamlessly exchange durable jobs between Elixir and Python applications through a shared PostgreSQL database.
149. We estimate that Claude Opus 4.6 has a 50%-time-horizon of around 14.5 hours
150. Lindenmayer.jl: Defining recursive patterns in Julia
Documentation for Lindenmayer.