TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs (🔥 Score: 151+ in 3 hours)
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micahflee
Despite misleading marketing, Israeli company TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs
Despite their misleading marketing, TeleMessage, the company that makes a modified version of Signal used by senior Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs from its customers.
In this post I give a high level overview of how the TeleMessage fake…
In this post I give a high level overview of how the TeleMessage fake…
Why does Switzerland have so many bunkers? (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
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The Dial
Why Does Switzerland Have So Many Bunkers? — The Dial
Inside the underground civilian shelters.
FTC bans hidden fees for live events and short-term rentals, effective May 12 (🔥 Score: 158+ in 1 hour)
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TechCrunch
FTC bans hidden fees for live events and short-term rentals, effective May 12 | TechCrunch
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday released new documentation detailing its new "Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees." The rule, set to take The U.S. Federal Trade Commission released a FAQ document clarifying its rule hidden fees for live events…
India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/world/asia/india-pakistan-attacks.html (https://archive.ph/Bph7S)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/asia/india-pakistan-kashmir-conflict-hnk-intl
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/live-blog/2025-05-06/india-strikes-pakistan-after-kashmir-attack (https://archive.ph/eypzA)
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cwyneele13qt
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/world/asia/india-pakistan-attacks.html (https://archive.ph/Bph7S)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/asia/india-pakistan-kashmir-conflict-hnk-intl
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/live-blog/2025-05-06/india-strikes-pakistan-after-kashmir-attack (https://archive.ph/eypzA)
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cwyneele13qt
Reuters
India strikes Pakistan over Kashmir tourist killings
India attacked Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir on Wednesday and Pakistan said it had shot down five Indian fighter jets in the worst fighting in more than two decades between the nuclear-armed enemies.
Show HN: Sheet Music in Smart Glasses (Score: 152+ in 12 hours)
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Hi everyone, my name is Kevin Lin, and this is a Show HN for my sheet music smart glasses project. My video was on the front page on Friday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43876243, but dang said we should do a Show HN as well, so here goes!
I’ve wanted to put sheet music into smart glasses for a long time, but the perfect opportunity to execute came in mid-February, when Mentra (YC W25) tweeted about a smart glasses hackathon they were hosting - winners would get to take home a pair. I went, had a blast making a bunch of music-related apps with my teammate, and we won, so I got to take them home, refine the project, and make a pretty cool video about it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j36u2i7PKKE).
The glasses are Even Realities G1s. They look normal, but they have two microphones, a screen in each lens, and can be even made with a prescription. Every person I’ve met who tried them on was surprised at how good the display is, and the video recordings of them unfortunately don’t do them justice.
The software runs on AugmentOS, which is Mentra’s smart glasses operating system that works on various 3rd-party smart glasses, including the G1s. All I had to do to make an app was write and run a typescript file using the AugmentOS SDK. This gives you the voice transcription and raw audio as input, and text or bitmaps available as output to the screens, everything else is completely abstracted away. Your glasses communicate with an AugmentOS app, and then the app communicates with your typescript service.
The only hard part was creating a Python script to turn sheet music (MusicXML format) into small, optimized bitmaps to display on the screens. To start, the existing landscape of music-related Python libraries is pretty poorly documented and I ran into multiple never-before-seen error messages. Downscaling to the small size of the glasses screens also meant that stems and staff lines were disappearing, so I thought to use morphological dilation to emphasize those without making the notes unintelligible. The final pipeline was MusicXML -> music21 library to render chunks of bars to png -> dilate with opencv- > downscale -> convert to bitmap with Pillow -> optimize bitmaps with imagemagick. This is far from the best code I’ve ever written, but the LLMs attempt at this whole task was abysmal and my years of Python experience really got to shine here. The code is on GitHub: https://github.com/kevinlinxc/AugmentedChords.
Putting it together, my typescript service serves these bitmaps locally when requested. I put together a UI where I can navigate menus and sheet music with voice commands (e.g. show catalog, next, select, start, exit, pause) and then I connected foot pedals to my laptop. Because of bitmap sending latency (~3s right now, but future glasses will do better), using foot pedals to turn the bars while playing wasn’t viable, so I instead had one of my pedals toggle autoscrolling, and the other two pedals sped up/temporarily paused the scrolling.
After lots of adjustments, I was able to play a full song using just the glasses! It took many takes and there was definitely lots of room for improvement. For example: - Bitmap sending is pretty slow, which is why using the foot pedals to turn bars wasn’t viable. - The resolution is pretty small, I would love to put more bars in at once so I can flip less frequently. - Since foot pedals aren’t portable, it would be cool to have a mode where the audio dictates when the sheet music changes. I tried implementing that with FFT but it was often wrong and more effort is needed. Head tilt controls would be cool too, because full manual control is a hard requirement for practicing.
All of these pain points are being targeted by Mentra and other companies competing in the space, and so I’m super excited to see the next generation! Also, feel free to ask me anything!
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6u2MC
Hi everyone, my name is Kevin Lin, and this is a Show HN for my sheet music smart glasses project. My video was on the front page on Friday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43876243, but dang said we should do a Show HN as well, so here goes!
I’ve wanted to put sheet music into smart glasses for a long time, but the perfect opportunity to execute came in mid-February, when Mentra (YC W25) tweeted about a smart glasses hackathon they were hosting - winners would get to take home a pair. I went, had a blast making a bunch of music-related apps with my teammate, and we won, so I got to take them home, refine the project, and make a pretty cool video about it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j36u2i7PKKE).
The glasses are Even Realities G1s. They look normal, but they have two microphones, a screen in each lens, and can be even made with a prescription. Every person I’ve met who tried them on was surprised at how good the display is, and the video recordings of them unfortunately don’t do them justice.
The software runs on AugmentOS, which is Mentra’s smart glasses operating system that works on various 3rd-party smart glasses, including the G1s. All I had to do to make an app was write and run a typescript file using the AugmentOS SDK. This gives you the voice transcription and raw audio as input, and text or bitmaps available as output to the screens, everything else is completely abstracted away. Your glasses communicate with an AugmentOS app, and then the app communicates with your typescript service.
The only hard part was creating a Python script to turn sheet music (MusicXML format) into small, optimized bitmaps to display on the screens. To start, the existing landscape of music-related Python libraries is pretty poorly documented and I ran into multiple never-before-seen error messages. Downscaling to the small size of the glasses screens also meant that stems and staff lines were disappearing, so I thought to use morphological dilation to emphasize those without making the notes unintelligible. The final pipeline was MusicXML -> music21 library to render chunks of bars to png -> dilate with opencv- > downscale -> convert to bitmap with Pillow -> optimize bitmaps with imagemagick. This is far from the best code I’ve ever written, but the LLMs attempt at this whole task was abysmal and my years of Python experience really got to shine here. The code is on GitHub: https://github.com/kevinlinxc/AugmentedChords.
Putting it together, my typescript service serves these bitmaps locally when requested. I put together a UI where I can navigate menus and sheet music with voice commands (e.g. show catalog, next, select, start, exit, pause) and then I connected foot pedals to my laptop. Because of bitmap sending latency (~3s right now, but future glasses will do better), using foot pedals to turn the bars while playing wasn’t viable, so I instead had one of my pedals toggle autoscrolling, and the other two pedals sped up/temporarily paused the scrolling.
After lots of adjustments, I was able to play a full song using just the glasses! It took many takes and there was definitely lots of room for improvement. For example: - Bitmap sending is pretty slow, which is why using the foot pedals to turn bars wasn’t viable. - The resolution is pretty small, I would love to put more bars in at once so I can flip less frequently. - Since foot pedals aren’t portable, it would be cool to have a mode where the audio dictates when the sheet music changes. I tried implementing that with FFT but it was often wrong and more effort is needed. Head tilt controls would be cool too, because full manual control is a hard requirement for practicing.
All of these pain points are being targeted by Mentra and other companies competing in the space, and so I’m super excited to see the next generation! Also, feel free to ask me anything!
iOS Kindle app now has a ‘get book’ button after changes to App Store rules (Score: 151+ in 7 hours)
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The Verge
Amazon now has a ‘Get book’ button in its iOS Kindle app
A welcome upgrade.
Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools (Score: 153+ in 8 hours)
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GitHub
system_prompts_leaks/claude.txt at main · asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks
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VVVVVV Source Code (Score: 154+ in 7 hours)
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GitHub
GitHub - TerryCavanagh/VVVVVV: The source code to VVVVVV! http://thelettervsixtim.es/
The source code to VVVVVV! http://thelettervsixtim.es/ - TerryCavanagh/VVVVVV
EPA Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
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NY Times
E.P.A. Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program
Employees were told that the popular energy efficiency certification program would be “de-prioritized and eliminated,” according to documents and a recording.
FTC rule on unfair or deceptive fees to take effect on May 12 (Score: 150+ in 22 hours)
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FAQ: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/rule-unfair-...
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FAQ: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/rule-unfair-...
Federal Trade Commission
FTC Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees to Take Effect on May 12, 2025
Staff of the Federal Trade Commission published Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) designed to pro
Jury orders NSO to pay $167M for hacking WhatsApp users (Score: 154+ in 8 hours)
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Ars Technica
Jury orders NSO to pay $167 million for hacking WhatsApp users
The verdict is a major victory for opponents of exploit sellers.
Bloat is still software's biggest vulnerability (2024) (Score: 150+ in 11 hours)
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IEEE Spectrum
Why Bloat Is Still Software’s Biggest Vulnerability
A 2024 plea for lean software
Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC (🔥 Score: 158+ in 1 hour)
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mfkl
Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC
VLC for Unity integration
Old Timey Code and Old Timey Mono Fonts (❄️ Score: 151+ in 3 days)
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GitHub
GitHub - dse/old-timey-mono-font
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CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use (🔥 Score: 156+ in 2 hours)
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The JetBrains Blog
CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use | The CLion Blog
CLion, a JetBrains IDE, is now free for non-commercial use! Learn more in the blog post.
DoorDash to acquire Deliveroo (Score: 151+ in 1 day)
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CNBC
DoorDash to buy British food delivery firm Deliveroo for $3.9 billion in overseas push
British food delivery firm Deliveroo on Tuesday said it has agreed to a takeover offer from American rival DoorDash that values the company at £2.9 billion.
Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor (Score: 158+ in 8 hours)
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zed.dev
Zed: The Fastest AI Code Editor
From the Zed Blog: Zed is now the world's fastest AI code editor.
So Much Blood (Score: 153+ in 6 hours)
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DYNOMIGHT
So much blood
but how much exactly?
Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O (🔥 Score: 154+ in 2 hours)
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pganalyze
Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O
Postgres 18 introduces Asynchronous I/O (AIO) that can dramatically improve read performance, especially in the cloud. Learn how these changes and the new io_method setting work and see why our benchmark results show that io_uring is the recommended setting…
The DEA is now abandoning body cameras (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
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ProPublica
The DEA Once Touted Body Cameras for Their “Enhanced Transparency.” Now the Agency Is Abandoning Them.
An internal email obtained by ProPublica said the agency made the change to be “consistent” with a Trump executive order. But at least two other federal law enforcement agencies are still requiring body cameras.