1. Firm boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100k up to staggering $4.5M (www.tomshardware.com)
Existing licensees are grandfathered.
3. How to Make a Sliding, Self-Locking, and Predator-Proof Chicken Coop Door (2020) (www.backyardchickens.com)
This article is here to help you make your very own DIY vertical sliding, self-locking, and predator-proof chicken coop door. Simple and effective coop door that any experience level can build easily. Easy list to reference and affordable tools...
4. Age Verification on Systemd and Flatpak (cybrkyd.com)
How will this work, I wonder
5. Big-Endian Testing with QEMU (www.hanshq.net)
6. New Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs (arstechnica.com)
Both GDDRHammer and GeForge hammer GPU memory in ways that compromise the CPU.
7. Show HN: TinyOS – A minimalist RTOS for Cortex-M written in C (github.com)
Contribute to cmc-labo/tinyos-rtos development by creating an account on GitHub.
8. The True Shape of Io's Steeple Mountain (www.weareinquisitive.com)
Popular images of the Jovian moon Io’s famed Steeple Mountain turn out to be misinformed. How the Inquisitive team figured that out, and what Steeple Mountain really looks like!
9. Show HN: Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile (thottingal.in)
Your laptop has ripgrep, installed via cargo install. ruff is there too, via uv tool install. golangci-lint came from go install. bash-language-server was npm i -g. Neovim was a tarball download. Kitty was a curl script.
Six months later you get a new machine, or you just want to upgrade or reinstall. What do you even have installed? How did you install each one? Which version? Good luck.
This is a small system that answers those questions — a single Makefile that declares every tool you care about, grouped by purpose, with one command to install anything.
Six months later you get a new machine, or you just want to upgrade or reinstall. What do you even have installed? How did you install each one? Which version? Good luck.
This is a small system that answers those questions — a single Makefile that declares every tool you care about, grouped by purpose, with one command to install anything.
10. Category Theory Illustrated – Types (abuseofnotation.github.io)
11. Show HN: TurboQuant for vector search – 2-4 bit compression (github.com)
Contribute to RyanCodrai/turbovec development by creating an account on GitHub.
12. Maze Algorithms (www.astrolog.org)
13. You can now run a full Linux operating system inside a 6mb PDF (twitter.com)
14. Async Python Is Secretly Deterministic (www.dbos.dev)
15. The open web isn't dying. We're killing it (ouvre-boite.com)
16. A Few Good Magazines From the 70s and 80s (www.bi6.us)
Good Magazines from the 1970s and 1980s.
17. Solana Drift Protocol drained of $285M via fake token and governance hijack (anonhaven.com)
A fake token worth a few thousand dollars turned into a $285 million drain on Drift Protocol in 12 minutes. Attackers hijacked governance through durable nonces and social engineering. TRM Labs and Elliptic point to North Korea.
18. I Built an SMS Gateway with a $20 Android Phone – Jonno.nz (jonno.nz)
Turn any Android phone into a programmable SMS gateway for your SaaS — no per-message fees, no carrier contracts, no vendor lock-in.
20. Vector Meson Dominance (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
I’m only now learning about ‘vector meson dominance’—a big idea put forth by Sakurai and others around 1960. Here’s a family of 9 mesons called the ‘vector nonet…
21. The Beginning of Programming as We'll Know It (bitsplitting.org)
In the wake of AI coding assistants like Claude and Codex, which can seemingly perform the equivalent of a day's work in a matter of minutes, many of us are wondering if the human role of "computer programmer" is coming to an end. Will the AI bots one day do all the programming for us?Maybe so, bu
22. The Joy of Numbered Streets (humantransit.org)
I enjoy Europe as much as the next urbanist, but years of living and traveling there never uprooted one of my most unpopular opinions: Streets numbered in sequential order are a wonderful thing for the cities that have them. I was recently in Bogotá, Colombia and found that, while the city is as overwhelming as […]
23. Intel Assured Supply Chain Product Brief (www.intel.com)
This product brief outlines Intel's innovative approach to enhancing transparency and security within the semiconductor supply chain. This document addresses the critical need for integrity in the supply chain, particularly in the face of increasing risks from counterfeit components and firmware attacks. It introduces Intel® ASC as a modern solution designed to provide a digitally attestable chain of custody for each chip, ensuring the provenance and security of processors used in data centers, servers, and PCs.
24. Working on Products People Hate (www.seangoedecke.com)
25. H.264 Streaming Fees: What Changed, Who's Affected, and What It Means (www.streamingmedia.com)
Via
26. Why free stuff makes us irrational (thehustle.co)
When something is free, people feel a positive glow — and standard cost-benefit analyses go out the window.
27. Tor Alva: The Tallest 3D-Printed Building in the World (cacm.acm.org)
28. Mercurial Dyson – a plan for the disassembly of planet Mercury (github.com)
MercuryAscended - a plan for the disassembly of planet Mercury as fast as possible - RokoMijic/MercurialDyson
29. Show HN: Ismcpdead.com – Live dashboard tracking MCP adoption and sentiment (ismcpdead.com)
A lightweight tracker monitoring the health and adoption of MCP (Model Context Protocol) as a technology standard. Updated daily.
30. United States Code (federal laws) in Git (github.com)
United States Code as a Git repository — check the commit history, view diffs. Data starts in 2013. - nickvido/us-code