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2026 Summer Session: Parliament Lifts Ban on New Nuclear Power Plants

2026 Summer Session: Parliament Lifts Ban on New Nuclear Power Plants

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Until June 19, the Federal Palace in Bern will once again be bustling with activity. Numerous important issues will be on the agenda during the summer session of the National Council and Council of States. No time? blue News summarizes for you From June 1 to 19, 2026, the Federal Parliamentโ€™s summer session will take place at the Federal Palace.Topics up for debate include the 13th AHV pension, the armed forces, and federal finances.blue News is providing updates from the Federal Palace here in this…
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Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk โ€“ dfdx labs

Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk โ€“ dfdx labs

๐Ÿš€ Check out this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The finished setup in action: setting up a chessboard via teleoperation. Visible are the different camera feeds, the human operator, and the sensed robot state; the operator can switch between cameras. Robotics research has become cheap and accessible enough that small teams, and even individuals, can now do meaningful research on real hardware. There are two reasons for this. First, capable robot hardware has become dramatically more affordable: the physical setup below uses an industrial-grade arm, two cameras, and a full teleoperation setup while…
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Let’s Encrypt Community Support

Let’s Encrypt Community Support

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Welcome to Let's Encrypt Community Support 1 88793 August 7, 2015 Unable to activate using HTTP 4 196 June 19, 2026 EudaCertMgr - ACME client + selfsigned distribution solution 8 213 June 19, 2026 Nginx server sending wrong intermediate chain 14 145 June 18, 2026 Incomplete Certificate Chain (YE2 Intermediate CA) on Sophos Firewall Let's Encrypt Certificates 2 176 June 17, 2026 Chain validation issues with YE/YR under Linux distributions 11 1115 June 17, 2026 SSL Issue for Controller 4 68 June 17, 2026 Certificate…
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Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette

Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette

๐Ÿš€ Read this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette 18th June 2026 Today we launched a new plugin for Datasette, datasette-apps, with this launch announcement post on the Datasette project blog. That post has the what, but Iโ€™m going to expand on that a little bit here to provide the why. The TL;DR Datasette Apps are self-contained HTML+JavaScript applications that run in a tightly constrained sandbox hosted on your Datasette application. They can use JavaScript to run read-only SQL queries against data in Datasette, and can…
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The Most Powerful Open-Weight Model Yet โ€” and the Brutal Reality of Running It Locally

The Most Powerful Open-Weight Model Yet โ€” and the Brutal Reality of Running It Locally

๐Ÿš€ Read this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Every few weeks the "best open model" crown changes hands. This week it's GLM-5.2, from the Chinese lab Z.ai โ€” and unusually, the claim has teeth: it sits at #1 on the independent Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. It's also MIT-licensed, has a million-token context, and ships with a genuinely clever architecture trick. So should you download it? That's where this gets interesting โ€” because the full weights are 1.51ย TB, and "run it locally" means something very specific here. We haven't run it ourselves; what follows…
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Migrating from GNU stow to chezmoi

Migrating from GNU stow to chezmoi

โœจ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Iโ€™ve been managing my dotfiles with GNU stow for a few years. I even wrote a piece with a corny title about that setup back in 2023. Stow served me well, but managing symlinks across multiple devices slowly became a pain in the butt.So I started looking around for a better tool and even considered writing my own. Then a colleague pointed me to chezmoi , and so far Iโ€™m liking it a lot. It does everything I need, and Iโ€™ve started tracking my agent…
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Update on Ocean Observatories Initiative | NSF

Update on Ocean Observatories Initiative | NSF

โœจ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The U.S. National Science Foundation appreciates the concerns raised by the range of stakeholders that have informed us they rely on data from the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). Effective immediately, NSF will not proceed with further removal or descoping of equipment from the remaining arrays and will continue operations including planned maintenance. While the Endurance Array has been removed from the water, we are developing plans to redeploy the equipment after servicing.Moving forward, NSF will issue a Dear Colleague Letter to collect input from stakeholders…
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Solving the “Zork” mystery

Solving the “Zork” mystery

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Solving the "Zork" mystery 19 May 2026 - ...and finishing the game while at it. It's been two years since my last Zork adventure and I finally got time to finish it. But before I restored my last save, I checked my blog notes and there was one "opened issue" which I wanted to address. I glossed over problematic trivia about Zork which says, that "zork" was a jargon word for unfinished program in MIT Dynamic Modeling Group back in 70's. I also pointed out,…
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Enterprise-Managed Authorization: Zero-touch OAuth for MCP

Enterprise-Managed Authorization: Zero-touch OAuth for MCP

โœจ Read this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The Enterprise-Managed Authorization extension is now stable. Organizations can centrally manage authorization for MCP servers and end-users can access all connected MCP servers through a single log in. The extension is being adopted by Anthropic, Microsoft, Okta and a growing number of MCP servers.The Enterprise-Managed Authorization (EMA) extension is now stable. Weโ€™ve heard from the community that authorization and repeated consent prompts from connected MCP servers is one of the biggest pain points when it comes to managing connectivity in enterprise environments. This extension helps…
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I told them forced consent was unlawful. Five years later it cost Elkjop โ‚ฌ1.8 million โ€” That Privacy Guy!

I told them forced consent was unlawful. Five years later it cost Elkjop โ‚ฌ1.8 million โ€” That Privacy Guy!

๐Ÿš€ Explore this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Back in the summer of 2021 I was a member of the Elgiganten Kundklubb, the customer club the Elkjop group runs across the Nordics, and like a lot of members I was buried under marketing emails. So I did the obvious thing and went looking for a way to switch them off. What I found instead was the problem that has taken five years to put right - the only way to stop the marketing was to cancel my membership of the club altogether. I…
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