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ZX Spectrum System Tour: Sound

ZX Spectrum System Tour: Sound

🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Now that the shooting gallery is done and dusted, it’s time to turn to a piece of our initial tour of the ZX Spectrum that has been left untouched: sound. There isn’t a whole lot new here compared to what has come before on other platforms, but that in turn means that the core principles of our solutions to it arrive pre-baked; we’ll just have to add the Spectrum-specific frosting. The mainline Spectrum systems offer two sound options: A 1-bit beeper under software control.…
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Introducing the Billable Usage API: programmatic cost visibility for Cloudflare

Introducing the Billable Usage API: programmatic cost visibility for Cloudflare

✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Agents Week is about the shift already underway: agents write code, deploy Workers, and provision infrastructure on your behalf. That shift changes what you need to see. If a program is spending money in your Cloudflare account, you need to know what it's spending; throughout the day, per product, in a shape another program can consume. The dashboard is the right answer for humans. It's not the right answer for automation.So we're launching a new Billable Usage API for self-serve accounts: a single endpoint that…
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help wanted – lake hope

🚀 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: I am very sorry that the software that I created and put online for free, without any warranty, explicit or implied, has not met your expectations. You are entitled to a full refund. I have taken the liberty to initiate it. You should already have it.No, I am not changing my project’s license from AGPLv3-or-later to MIT. I am very sorry that “impacts” your ability to use my package in your “product.” No, I don’t care about my “reach.” Feel free to take back that…
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MirrorCode: What’s the largest software project AI can complete on its own? | Epoch AI

MirrorCode: What’s the largest software project AI can complete on its own? | Epoch AI

🔥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: AI has made rapid progress on software engineering benchmarks in the past few years. However, most such benchmarks tend to focus on shorter tasks like fixing bugs or implementing individual features. MirrorCode is our benchmark, co-developed with METR, to test AI models on long-horizon coding tasks. In a MirrorCode task, AI models are tasked with reimplementing an entire program end-to-end, without access to the original source code. AI-generated solutions must match the original program’s output exactly on end-to-end tests, including held-out tests. MirrorCode’s 25 target…
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Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email?

Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email?

✨ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email? Previous: Apple unpublished old Mac OS X release notes Articles index Jeff Johnson (My apps, PayPal.Me, Mastodon) August 3 2026 I use iCloud only for testing the iCloud sync feature of my App Store apps. As I mentioned in my recent blog post Apple account email address disclosure via Mail app, I don’t have an iCloud email account. As you can see in my screenshots below, iCloud is disabled in System Settings for…
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Flock’s CEO Finally Faced Me After My Wrongful Stop. Here’s What I Learned

Flock’s CEO Finally Faced Me After My Wrongful Stop. Here’s What I Learned

✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. Millions of people have seen the story of Flock cameras tracking me in a $155,000 Range Rover and subsequently four police officers surrounding my wife and me in a parking lot. Human error was involved, but Flock cameras working off the company’s AI tech compounded everything at an exponential rate. Now on the latest episode of The Drivecast, Flock Safety Founder and…
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Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video

Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video

✨ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: MiniMax H3 dropped today with open weights, and it’s natively supported in ComfyUI as of this morning. Day zero.This is a next-generation open-weights video model. Feed it text, images, video, or audio and it generates video with real stereo sound, up to 2K, up to 15 seconds a clip. It is MiniMax’s third-generation video model, following Hailuo 01 and Hailuo 02, and the first the company has released with open weights.Try on Comfy CloudText-to-video — prompt only.Image-to-video — bring an image to life.First-and-last-frame — control…
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ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children

ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children

🔥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: On March 13, 2025, Hugo Moreno-Mendez arrived at the McLennan County Probation Department in Waco, Texas, expecting a routine probation check-in. Instead, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were waiting to arrest him.According to a criminal complaint reviewed by WIRED, officers drove Moreno-Mendez to a nearby ICE field office. There, one deportation officer after another approached him with the same demand.Open your mouth.One officer tried to take his fingerprints and swab the inside of his cheek for DNA. He refused. Then another tried. Then a third.…
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SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?

SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?

✨ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Over the past few days, a newly created GitHub repo (programmervuln/cveadvisory-) published a batch of SQLite vulnerability advisories (as part of other 50+ CVEs which we believe are also LLM slop except from one). NVD quickly flagged these as critical, and CISA's ADP agreed. But when JFrog security researchers dug in to verify, the claims fell apart: The cited code didn't even exist in those versions or referenced unrelated logic. When testing the PoC payloads they didn’t work (not triggering any crash). None of…
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Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code — Ankur Sethi’s Lab Notebook

🔥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Despite what I said in April, I'm still using coding assistants on my personal projects.Using them to one-shot entire features leaves me unsatisfied and disoriented, but I do enjoy using them to fast-forward through the boring parts of my projects.However, allowing my coding assistant to roam free in my projects leaves me with a colossal amount of cognitive debt. I might hate the idea of poring over the Django documentation to figure out how to add tagging to my website, but I still fundamentally…
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