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The divergence theorem turns mesh volume into a single O(n) triangle loop

Alyssa Rosenzweig derives a fast method for computing the volume of a closed, triangulated 3D mesh by applying the divergence theorem. Volume is normally a trip

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tech-cultureai

The Grift Economy Ate the Internet — and LLMs Will Make It Worse

Stephen Diehl argues that online predation has shifted from a fringe abuse of the network to its core operating logic. Where a scammer once had to hunt for a vi

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open-sourcedevops

TurboKV: async Rust key-value store ships tunable durability and unusually candid benchmarks

TurboKV is a new embedded key-value database written in Rust, distributed as the `turbokv` crate (v0.6) and built to run on top of Tokio. It offers the feature

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privacypolicy

US designates privacy collective behind noblogs.org a 'global terrorist'

On August 26, 2026, the US State Department named Autistici/Inventati — the volunteer-run Italian collective that operates noblogs.org — a Specially Designated

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open-sourcedevops

vphone-cli boots a virtual iPhone on Apple Silicon using PCC research VM tech

A new open-source tool, vphone-cli, spins up a fully virtualized iPhone on Apple Silicon Macs by tapping the same Virtualization.framework path that underpins A

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xkcd #3290 'Trade': a webcomic, not a news story

The source is an xkcd comic (#3290, titled "Trade"), not a reported article. The submitted text contains none of the comic's actual content — only xkcd's standa

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tech-cultureopen-source

Afterglow emulates After Dark screen savers on macOS — no ROMs, no classic Mac OS

Afterglow is a purpose-built emulator that revives Berkeley Systems' After Dark screen savers — the Flying Toasters, swimming fish, and surreal desktop antics t

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cybersecurityai

AI agents now weaponize bug rumors faster than maintainers can patch

An OCaml cohttp maintainer describes patching a path-traversal flaw in version 6.3.0 and watching automated scanners probe his live server for that exact bug wi

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vulnerabilityai

AI-built fuzzer surfaces divide-by-zero crash in FFmpeg's VPK demuxer

Researcher Darío Clavijo used a fuzzer he assembled largely with AI assistance — a 'vibecoded' tool — to find an integer divide-by-zero in FFmpeg's VPK demuxer

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aiopen-source

Anthropic previews Model Hardware Standard to let AI agents run lab and factory gear

Anthropic has opened a limited research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a specification that lets AI agents discover, operate, and coordinate phys

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aiopen-source

Claude's fingerprints now mark ~40% of 'human' GitHub pull requests

Louis Abraham's Show HN is an interactive chart built on a daily scrape of about 1,000 GitHub pull requests. Across roughly 461,000 PRs and 51 million words col

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open-sourceai

Experiential: open-source LLM gateway that turns your traces into a custom router

Experiential is an open-source, self-hostable gateway that sits in front of large language models and exposes a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint (it also speak

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