A Tiny Boltzmann Machine (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ux37
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Lua for Elixir (❄️ Score: 151+ in 2 days)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6upQX
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Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom (🔥 Score: 156+ in 3 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uxsm
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I Don't Like NumPy (🔥 Score: 153+ in 3 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uxuz
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Baby Is Healed with First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment (🔥 Score: 157+ in 2 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uxS6
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California sent residents' personal health data to LinkedIn (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ux8q
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Show HN: Lumier – Run macOS VMs in a Docker (Score: 150+ in 1 day)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uu3A
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Hey HN, we're excited to share Lumier (https://github.com/trycua/cua/tree/main/libs/lumier), an open-source tool for running macOS and Linux virtual machines in Docker containers on Apple Silicon Macs.
When building virtualized environments for AI agents, we needed a reproducible way to package and distribute macOS VMs. Inspired by projects like dockur/windows (https://github.com/dockur/windows) that pioneered running Windows in Docker, we wanted to create something similar but optimized for Apple Silicon. The existing solutions either didn't support M-series chips or relied on KVM/Intel emulation, which was slow and cumbersome. We realized we could leverage Apple's Virtualization Framework to create a much better experience.
Lumier takes a different approach: it uses Docker as a delivery mechanism (not for isolation) and connects to a lightweight virtualization service (lume) running on your Mac. This creates true hardware-accelerated VMs using Apple's native virtualization capabilities.
With Lumier, you can:
- Launch a ready-to-use macOS VM in minutes with zero manual setup
- Access your VM through any web browser via VNC
- Share files between your host and VM effortlessly
- Use persistent storage or ephemeral mode for quick tests
- Automate VM startup with custom scripts
All of this works natively on Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4) - no emulation required.
To get started:
1. Install Docker for Apple Silicon: https://desktop.docker.com/mac/main/arm64/Docker.dmg
2. Install lume background service with our one-liner:

  /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/trycua/cua/main/libs/lume/scripts/install.sh)"

3. Start a VM (ephemeral mode):

  docker run -it --rm \
  --name lumier-vm \
    -p 8006:8006 \
    -e VM_NAME=lumier-vm \
    -e VERSION=ghcr.io/trycua/macos-sequoia-cua:latest \
    -e CPU_CORES=4 \
    -e RAM_SIZE=8192 \
    trycua/lumier:latest

4. Open http://localhost:8006/vnc.html in your browser. The container will generate a unique password for each VM instance - you'll see it in the container logs.
For persistent storage (so your changes survive container restarts):
mkdir -p storage
docker run -it --rm \
--name lumier-vm \
-p 8006:8006 \
-v $(pwd)/storage:/storage \
-e VM_NAME=lumier-vm \
-e HOST_STORAGE_PATH=$(pwd)/storage \
trycua/lumier:latest
Want to share files with your VM? Just add another volume:
mkdir -p shared
docker run ... -v $(pwd)/shared:/shared -e HOST_SHARED_PATH=$(pwd)/shared ...
You can even automate VM startup by placing an on-logon.sh script in shared/lifecycle/.
We're seeing people use Lumier for:
- Development and testing environments that need macOS
- CI/CD pipelines for Apple platform apps
- Disposable macOS instances for security research
- Automated UI testing across macOS versions
- Running AI agents in isolated environments
Lumier is 100% open-source under the MIT license. We're actively developing it as part of our work on C/ua (https://github.com/trycua/cua), and we'd love your feedback, bug reports, or feature ideas.
We'll be here to answer any technical questions and look forward to your comments!

The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use (🔥 Score: 157+ in 3 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uy92
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6uy92

Harvard Law paid $27 for a copy of Magna Carta. It's an original (Score: 152+ in 5 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uxVy
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Show HN: Min.js style compression of tech docs for LLM context (Score: 150+ in 11 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ux2M
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A leap year check in three instructions (🔥 Score: 150+ in 3 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uyxN
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NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix (🔥 Score: 155+ in 3 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uyQN
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Ollama's new engine for multimodal models (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uyXH
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6uyXH

BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries, and nobody cares (🔥 Score: 150+ in 1 hour)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uzmX
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Initialization in C++ is bonkers (2017) (Score: 150+ in 12 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uyte
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6uyte

Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua (Score: 150+ in 11 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uyRR
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6uyRR

After months of coding with LLMs, I'm going back to using my brain (🔥 Score: 157+ in 2 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uzNn
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A $130M company faked trials instead of running our free OSS (🔥 Score: 183+ in 46 minutes)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uA2E
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Tek – A music making program for 24-bit Unicode terminals (Score: 150+ in 17 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uydd
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6uydd

Material 3 Expressive (❄️ Score: 156+ in 2 days)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uqLa
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6uqLa