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The PSF has withdrawn $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program

The PSF has withdrawn $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program

πŸ’₯ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: πŸ’‘ Main takeaway: In January 2025, the PSF submitted a proposal to the US government National Science Foundation under the Safety, Security, and Privacy of Open Source Ecosystems program to address structural vulnerabilities in Python and PyPI. It was the PSF’s first time applying for government funding, and navigating the intensive process was a steep learning curve for our small team to climb. Seth Larson, PSF Security Developer in Residence, serving as Principal Investigator (PI) with Loren Crary, PSF Deputy Executive Director, as co-PI, led the multi-round proposal writing…
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damianofalcioni/js-functions-orchestrator: Isomorphic orchestrator for JS functions. Create your own low-code platform!

damianofalcioni/js-functions-orchestrator: Isomorphic orchestrator for JS functions. Create your own low-code platform!

πŸ’₯ Read this trending post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: βœ… Main takeaway: This library provide a simple yet powerful, fast, secure, and extensible orchestrator for your JavaScript/Typescript functions, working both in browsers and Node/Bun/Deno, that can be used as base for your own low-code platform. The orchestration logic is defined in a simple JSON and use the power of JSONata for input/output transformation. Highlights: Lighweight: Full orchestration logic is ~100LoC. No dependencies except JSONata. Secure: User code provided as JSONata expression do not need to be sandboxed. Extensible: Provide your own state mangement system or additional transition logic…
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Don’t Forget These Tags to Make HTML Work Like You Expect

Don’t Forget These Tags to Make HTML Work Like You Expect

πŸš€ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: πŸ“Œ Key idea: I was watching Alex Petros’ talk and he has a slide in there titled β€œIncantations that make HTML work correctly”.This got me thinking about the basic snippets of HTML I’ve learned to always include in order for my website to work as I expect in the browser β€” like β€œHey I just made a .html file on disk and am going to open it in the browser. What should be in there?”This is what comes to mind:html> <html lang="en"> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0"> Why…
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Canada Set to Side With China On EVs

Canada Set to Side With China On EVs

πŸš€ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: πŸ’‘ Here’s what you’ll learn: By Eliot Chen β€” October 26, 2025 Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney meets with Chinese Premier Li Qiang on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York, September 23, 2025. Credit: Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP Images China has become an automaking powerhouse, but thanks to steep tariffs on its electric vehicles, most North American consumers have yet to see its cars on their roads. That may be about to change.Β  Canada’s government is considering removing the country’s 100 percent…
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world-grow/WorldGrow: WorldGrow: Generating Infinite 3D World

world-grow/WorldGrow: WorldGrow: Generating Infinite 3D World

πŸš€ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: πŸ’‘ Here’s what you’ll learn: Sikuang Li1*, Chen Yang2*, Jiemin Fang2βœ‰, Taoran Yi3, Jia Lu3,Jiazhong Cen1, Lingxi Xie2, Wei Shen1, Qi Tian2βœ‰ 1Shanghai Jiao Tong University  2Huawei  3Huazhong University of Science and Technology*Equal contribution β€ƒβœ‰Corresponding author We propose WorldGrow β€” a generative method which creates infinite EXPLICIT 3D worlds, an alternative to the extensible, realistic, interactive world simulator. WorldGrow is a hierarchical framework for infinite (open-ended) 3D world generation. Starting from a single seed block, the system grows large environments via block-wise synthesis and coarse-to-fine refinement, producing coherent…
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longbridge/gpui-component: Rust GUI components for building fantastic cross-platform desktop application by using GPUI.

longbridge/gpui-component: Rust GUI components for building fantastic cross-platform desktop application by using GPUI.

πŸ”₯ Read this must-read post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: βœ… Here’s what you’ll learn: UI components for building fantastic desktop applications using GPUI. Richness: 60+ cross-platform desktop UI components. Native: Inspired by macOS and Windows controls, combined with shadcn/ui design for a modern experience. Ease of Use: Stateless RenderOnce components, simple and user-friendly. Customizable: Built-in Theme and ThemeColor, supporting multi-theme and variable-based configurations. Versatile: Supports sizes like xs, sm, md, and lg. Flexible Layout: Dock layout for panel arrangements, resizing, and freeform (Tiles) layouts. High Performance: Virtualized Table and List components for smooth large-data rendering. Content Rendering: Native…
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Why JPEG XL Ignoring Bit Depth Is Genius (And Why AVIF Can’t Pull It Off)

Why JPEG XL Ignoring Bit Depth Is Genius (And Why AVIF Can’t Pull It Off)

πŸš€ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: πŸ’‘ Main takeaway: People often ask me what I mean when I say β€œJPEG XL is simply the best thought out and forward thinking image formats there is. Nothing else is close.” This is article is just one example of why.When I heard that JPEG XL’s encoder doesn’t care about bit depth, it sounded almost reckless (and I was downright confused). In a world obsessed with 8-bit, 10-bit, 12-bit precision wars, shouldn’t bit depth be fundamental? Isn’t more bits always better?Here’s the twist: ignoring bit depth isn’t a…
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New paper: Monitoring Tamper-Sensing Meshes Using Low-Cost, Embedded Time-Domain Reflectometry

New paper: Monitoring Tamper-Sensing Meshes Using Low-Cost, Embedded Time-Domain Reflectometry

πŸ’₯ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: πŸ“Œ Here’s what you’ll learn: The final setup. On the right is the measurement board, and on the left is the mesh test specimen plugged in. In a real application, you would integrate both into your target circuit. I've got a new paper accepted at CHES, to be published in TCHES 2026/1 around beginning of December and out on eprint now. The topic of the paper is a way of monitoring a tamper-sensing mesh through time-domain reflectometry using very cheap components. The end result is a circuit that costs…
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Ken Thompson Recalls Unix’s Rowdy, Lock-Picking Origins

Ken Thompson Recalls Unix’s Rowdy, Lock-Picking Origins

πŸ’₯ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: πŸ“Œ Main takeaway: The 82-year-old Ken Thompson has some amazing memories about the earliest days of the Unix operating system β€” and the rowdy room full of geeks who built it. This month Silicon Valley’s Computer History Museum released a special four-and-a-half-hour oral history, in partnership with the Association for Computing Machinery, recorded 18 months ago by technology historian David C. Brock. And Thompson dutifully recalled many of his career highlights β€” from his work on the C programming language and Unix to the β€œPlan 9 from Bell Labs”…
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Ethan Richards – We’re in the Wrong Moment

✨ Discover this trending post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: πŸ“Œ Here’s what you’ll learn: August 20th, 2011: Marc Andreessen proclaims β€˜Software is eating the world.’ That was over ten years ago. Today, software is still eating the world, but this is no longer a groundbreaking proclamation nor a surprise to anyone. In the years that followed, software would become integral to our daily lives, business, and attention.My StoryAs I learned and continue to learn more about computer science through my degrees, I am constantly reminded of times gone by. I had professors who had lived through the rise…
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