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151. Show HN: Free Alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue
Free and open source alternative to Wispr Flow / Superwhisper / Monologue / etc - zachlatta/freeflow
152. Gemini can now create music
Lyria 3 is now available in the Gemini app. Create custom, high-quality 30-second tracks from text and images.
153. Billionaires Gone Wild
Understanding the oligarchs’ power grab and the dire threat to American democracy
154. Drinking 2-3 cups of coffee a day tied to lower dementia risk
Caffeinated tea also found to slow cognitive decline in study.
155. The Final Bottleneck
AI speeds up writing code, but accountability and review capacity still impose hard limits.
156. I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
Attached: 4 images Q: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? What do you think the LLM output was? Please; review the output. #ai #LLM #ai
157. Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database
158. The End of the Office
I write this filled with sadness.
159. Looks: A Halide Mark III Preview
Today launched a public preview of Halide Mark III, the next generation of our flagship photography app. It's still a work in progress, but we're ready to start sharing what we've worked on for the past year through a series of app updates alongside posts like this. Today, we're diving into Looks.
160. Write Transactions Are a Footgun with Rust's SQLx and SQLite
Originally published as "Write Transactions are a Footgun with SQLx and SQLite"
161. Suicide Linux (2009)
162. Show HN: 2D Coulomb Gas Simulator
163. Show HN: Simple org-mode web adapter
A simple view into your org roam notes with editing, backlinks, and rendered math. - SpaceTurth/Org-Web-Adapter
164. Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it
165. Running My Own XMPP Server
Notes from setting up Prosody in Docker for federated messaging, with file sharing, voice calls, and end-to-end encryption.
166. Western Digital is sold out of hard drives for all of 2026
Will HDDs follow RAM and SSDs when it comes to price increases?
167. Most people are individually optimistic, but think the world is falling apart
Most people are personally optimistic, but socially pessimistic. This can be a drag on collective progress.
168. Chess engines do weird stuff
169. UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment
Discord have belatedly confirmed that they're working with Persona, an identity detection firm backed by a fund directed by Palantir chairman Peter Thiel.
170. Git is a file system. We need a database for the code
GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
171. A Brief History of Xenopus
From early experiments on fertility and embryonic development to becoming the first cloned eukaryote from an adult cell, Xenopus frogs have had an outsized influence on the life sciences.
172. PascalABC.net
The new generation Pascal programming language that combines simplicity of classic Pascal, a great number of modern extensions and broad capabilities of Microsoft .NET Framework
173. Radio host David Greene says Google's AI podcast tool stole his voice
174. LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop
A 6502 based laptop design. Contribute to TechPaula/LT6502 development by creating an account on GitHub.
175. How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a 'mind' is
Networks of molecules in our body behave as though they have goals and desires. Understanding this phenomenon could solve the origins of life and mind in one fell swoop
176. Reversed engineered game Starflight (1986)
Reverse engineered game Starflight (1986). Contribute to s-macke/starflight-reverse development by creating an account on GitHub.
177. (Ars) Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations
We are reinforcing our editorial standards following this incident.
178. My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker
I recently got a smart sleep mask from Kickstarter. I was not expecting to end up with the ability to read strangers' brainwaves and send them electric impul...
179. Building a model that visualizes strategic golf
A way to actually see the ideas hidden in golf course architecture.
180. Hilbert Map of IPv6 address space
Inspired by xkcd's version. Data provided by IANA. Address space represented along a Hilbert Curve, using the hilbert-chart D3 component. See also the IPv4 version or the AS numbers version. Data Dependencies