How encryption for Cinema Movies works (Score: 152+ in 19 hours)
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Serverless Industries
How DCI Movie Delivery and Encryption works
The Cinema Industry is using its own standards for creating and distributing movies in a secure way. The DCI (Digital Cinema Initiatives) specification defines everything from file formats and encryption to the projection systems itself.
Crows can recognize geometric regularity (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
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phys.org
Crows can recognize geometric regularity
A trio of animal physiologists at the University of Tübingen, in Germany, has found that at least one species of crow has the ability to recognize geometric regularity. In their study published in the ...
Fake images that fooled the world (❄️ Score: 150+ in 1 week)
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the Guardian
‘It never happened – but the picture says it did’: 28 fake images that fooled the world
From the pope in a puffer to the Princess of Wales and family, baby Hitler to Mussolini on horseback, people have always manipulated photographs, whether for political power, image control – or just for fun …
Reworking 30 lines of Linux code could cut power use by up to 30 percent (Score: 152+ in 9 hours)
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IEEE Spectrum
Data Centers Can Slash Power Needs With One Coding Tweak
By changing only thirty lines of Linux kernel code, these engineers saved up to 30% of energy costs for certain applications. 30 for 30!
Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature (Score: 151+ in 5 hours)
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MOND←TECH MAGAZINE
Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature
Free-standing function call syntax considered kind of suboptimal.
Inside ArXiv (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
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WIRED
Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science
Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.
LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
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Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the first month on record (Score: 156+ in 8 hours)
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Ember
Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the first month on record | Ember
Record-high solar and wind bring the US to a clean power tipping point.
Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue (🔥 Score: 159+ in 2 hours)
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GitHub
GitHub - nari-labs/dia: A TTS model capable of generating ultra-realistic dialogue in one pass.
A TTS model capable of generating ultra-realistic dialogue in one pass. - nari-labs/dia
Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii (🔥 Score: 159+ in 1 hour)
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FTC takes action against Uber for deceptive billing and cancellation practices (🔥 Score: 159+ in 2 hours)
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Federal Trade Commission
FTC Takes Action Against Uber for Deceptive Billing and Cancellation Practices
The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit today against Uber, alleging the rideshare and delivery company charged consumers for its Uber One subscription service without their consent, failed to
A new form of verification on Bluesky (Score: 154+ in 4 hours)
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Bluesky
A New Form of Verification on Bluesky - Bluesky
We’re introducing a new layer of verification — a user-friendly, easily recognizable blue check. Additionally, independent organizations can verify accounts directly through our Trusted Verifiers feature.
Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life (🔥 Score: 150+ in 2 hours)
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GitHub
GitHub - ericjenott/Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with solar power, ultra low power consumption, and ultra long battery life.
E-ink IBM XT clone with solar power, ultra low power consumption, and ultra long battery life. - GitHub - ericjenott/Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with solar power, ultra low power consumption, and ...
How I use Kate editor (Score: 152+ in 1 day)
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akselmo.dev
How I use Kate Editor
Gamedev, FOSS, programming, stuff.
AI assisted search-based research works now (Score: 151+ in 12 hours)
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Simon Willison’s Weblog
AI assisted search-based research actually works now
For the past two and a half years the feature I’ve most wanted from LLMs is the ability to take on search-based research tasks on my behalf. We saw the …
Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move (❄️ Score: 161+ in 2 days)
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ServeTheHome
Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move
According to reports, Synology plans to restrict features to its own branded hard drives with the new 2025 Plus models. This is bad
Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black hole (Score: 150+ in 11 hours)
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phys.org
Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black hole
A team of astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute, working with one colleague from the University of St Andrews' Center for Exoplanet Science and another from the European Southern Observatory, ...
Launch HN: Magic Patterns (YC W23) – AI Design and Prototyping for Product Teams (Score: 150+ in 18 hours)
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Alex and Teddy here. We’re launching Magic Patterns (https://www.magicpatterns.com), an AI prototyping tool that helps PMs and designers create functional, interactive designs and websites. There’s a demo video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK8C_tQBwIU, as well as video walkthroughs of specific examples at https://www.magicpatterns.com/docs/documentation/tutorials/v...
While other tools help with “AI-assisted coding,” we have been quietly focused on “AI-assisted designing.” With Magic Patterns you can visually communicate your idea, get hands on feedback from customers, and test new features.
Teddy and I are best friends and former frontend engineers turned founders. We arrived at Magic Patterns after several pivots—always in the design tooling space, but different products that all struggled to get usage. We started working on Magic Patterns after an internal hackathon. Teddy built a UI library catalog and I messed around with GPT 3.5. We thought it’d be fun to combine the two: an AI component generator. Describe whatever you want, and get back a React component!
That started to take off and we gained users, but it wasn’t developers using the tool. Instead, it was PMs, designers, and leadership who could finally communicate their ideas. They use it to test new ideas quickly, get feedback from customers, and improve communication with internal teams. Also, hobbyists (and programmers who aren’t designers) use us to create designs and UIs that they wouldn’t be able to otherwise.
We use Sonnet 3.5 and 3.7, and leverage a fine-tuned model for fast-applying edits. The most challenging part is determining the most relevant context to feed to the LLM. We attempt to solve this with our click to update feature and by letting users define a brand preset, or default prompt.
Unlike other tools in this space, we’re specifically focused on (1) product teams—we're realtime and collaborative; and (2) frontend only—we don't spin up a database or backend because we aren't solving "idea to fullstack app."
A common workflow is a product manager building an interactive prototype and then passing it off to a designer for more polish or directly to engineers. Many teams are even skipping Figma entirely now, telling us that it feels like an unnecessary middleman. Teams are instead generating clickable prototypes, collaborating directly with stakeholders, and using that as the mockup.
With Magic Patterns, you can: - Collaborate with your team on our infinite canvas; - Match your existing designs by creating reusable components directly; - Brainstorm features and flows. (The latter is what we use it for internally.)
We started as a way to build small, custom components, but now people are one-shotting entire
websites and hosting them with us, or building dashboards that they share internally or in customer demos. People have sold $10k/mo contracts with Magic Patterns designs!
Small business owners—everyone from fishermen to driving instructors to hotel managers—are using us to build their websites and then hosting them with us. Example sites built by Magic Patterns include https://getdealflow.ai/ and https://joinringo.com/. It’s amazing how people who couldn’t have done that before are now able to, and super gratifying to us to be empowering people in this way.
You can get started with our docs here: https://www.magicpatterns.com/docs/documentation/get-started..., and you can try the actual product. Simply go to https://www.magicpatterns.com and prompt for any UI you want.
Today no login is required, just click “Coming from Hackernews?” and you’ll get 5 messages free to try. Once you hit the limit, you’ll then be prompted to login. Plans start at $19/mo for another 100 messages a month (https://www.magicpatterns.com/pricing).
We’re stoked to be sharing with HN today and are open to all feedback!
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6t9AS
Alex and Teddy here. We’re launching Magic Patterns (https://www.magicpatterns.com), an AI prototyping tool that helps PMs and designers create functional, interactive designs and websites. There’s a demo video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK8C_tQBwIU, as well as video walkthroughs of specific examples at https://www.magicpatterns.com/docs/documentation/tutorials/v...
While other tools help with “AI-assisted coding,” we have been quietly focused on “AI-assisted designing.” With Magic Patterns you can visually communicate your idea, get hands on feedback from customers, and test new features.
Teddy and I are best friends and former frontend engineers turned founders. We arrived at Magic Patterns after several pivots—always in the design tooling space, but different products that all struggled to get usage. We started working on Magic Patterns after an internal hackathon. Teddy built a UI library catalog and I messed around with GPT 3.5. We thought it’d be fun to combine the two: an AI component generator. Describe whatever you want, and get back a React component!
That started to take off and we gained users, but it wasn’t developers using the tool. Instead, it was PMs, designers, and leadership who could finally communicate their ideas. They use it to test new ideas quickly, get feedback from customers, and improve communication with internal teams. Also, hobbyists (and programmers who aren’t designers) use us to create designs and UIs that they wouldn’t be able to otherwise.
We use Sonnet 3.5 and 3.7, and leverage a fine-tuned model for fast-applying edits. The most challenging part is determining the most relevant context to feed to the LLM. We attempt to solve this with our click to update feature and by letting users define a brand preset, or default prompt.
Unlike other tools in this space, we’re specifically focused on (1) product teams—we're realtime and collaborative; and (2) frontend only—we don't spin up a database or backend because we aren't solving "idea to fullstack app."
A common workflow is a product manager building an interactive prototype and then passing it off to a designer for more polish or directly to engineers. Many teams are even skipping Figma entirely now, telling us that it feels like an unnecessary middleman. Teams are instead generating clickable prototypes, collaborating directly with stakeholders, and using that as the mockup.
With Magic Patterns, you can: - Collaborate with your team on our infinite canvas; - Match your existing designs by creating reusable components directly; - Brainstorm features and flows. (The latter is what we use it for internally.)
We started as a way to build small, custom components, but now people are one-shotting entire
websites and hosting them with us, or building dashboards that they share internally or in customer demos. People have sold $10k/mo contracts with Magic Patterns designs!
Small business owners—everyone from fishermen to driving instructors to hotel managers—are using us to build their websites and then hosting them with us. Example sites built by Magic Patterns include https://getdealflow.ai/ and https://joinringo.com/. It’s amazing how people who couldn’t have done that before are now able to, and super gratifying to us to be empowering people in this way.
You can get started with our docs here: https://www.magicpatterns.com/docs/documentation/get-started..., and you can try the actual product. Simply go to https://www.magicpatterns.com and prompt for any UI you want.
Today no login is required, just click “Coming from Hackernews?” and you’ll get 5 messages free to try. Once you hit the limit, you’ll then be prompted to login. Plans start at $19/mo for another 100 messages a month (https://www.magicpatterns.com/pricing).
We’re stoked to be sharing with HN today and are open to all feedback!
Haskelling My Python (❄️ Score: 151+ in 3 days)
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unnamed.website
Haskelling My Python
Reimplementing Haskell lazy infinite lists using Python generators
Attacking My Landlord's Boiler (Score: 155+ in 6 hours)
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blog.videah.net
Attacking My Landlord's Boiler - videah's blog