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Show HN: TERMy – A fast terminal assistant that does not use LLMs

I love research and development, you may have heard of me because of PJON (Padded Jittering Operative Network). It is a network protocol I started developing in 2010, which was recently implemented in silicon by the ETH Zurich university thanks to the research of Pius Sieber. I am excited to share with you TERMy, a terminal assistant built on top of the NPC-Forge framework. Unlike everything else being built today, TERMy does not use embeddings, machine-learning or LLMs. It runs on the CPU (even...
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deSEC – Free Secure DNS

Article URL: https://desec.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49566193 Points: 60 # Comments: 27
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Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer

Hey all, i just launched my Eink Bike computer project and think it is cool. Another tidbit, in the crazy things that AI has done... It has helped create a ANT (common sensor wireless protocol used in workout/biking) implementation for ESP32 by messing around with undocumented registers: https://github.com/RaemondBW/esp32-ant Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567437 Points: 126 # Comments: 45
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The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite

Article URL: https://blog.master.dev/react-now-rusted-all-the-way-out/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567873 Points: 40 # Comments: 5
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Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/formalizing-fermats-last-theorem Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568506 Points: 160 # Comments: 88
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Shutting down our public encrypted DNS

Article URL: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/shutting-down-our-public-encrypted-dns-servers-and-sponsoring-quad9-instead Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568579 Points: 77 # Comments: 14
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Government Rails Site Hit Hours After CVE Patch

Article URL: https://rietta.com/blog/ruby-on-rails-cve-exploited-hours-after-patch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568828 Points: 19 # Comments: 6
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Can AI design circuit boards yet?

Article URL: https://eebench.org/blog/can-ai-design-circuit-boards-yet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569366 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
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We spent the week testing IFA’s best (and weirdest) gadgets, ask us anything

Europe's biggest tech trade show, IFA, has taken over Berlin this week - and we've been on the ground all week checking it out in person. We figure you have questions, so we're hosting an AMA that's exclusive to Verge subscribers at 12PM ET today. That's when we'll start dropping answers, but you can ask […]
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iRobot unveils the Roomba Duo

The original robot vacuum company showed off a concept robot at the IFA tech show in Berlin today. The Roomba Duo combines a heavy-duty floor-washing machine with a smaller, slimmer Roomba. The two floor cleaners can move around your home together, with the main unit mopping and sweeping larger floor areas and the smaller unit […]
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Tesla Cybercab is barely on the road and it’s already under investigation

Elon Musk's gilded robot car barely made it on public roads before federal regulators launched an investigation into the vehicle's lack of traditional features - many of which are required by law. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it was opening an audit query (AQ) into the Tesla Cybercab "to examine the process and […]
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Rogue OpenAI agents appear to have organized another attack using a German wiki

A swarm of rogue AI agents from OpenAI reportedly commandeered a German website and transformed it into a messaging board for other agents, with officials staying quiet about the incident for weeks as the company prepared to launch its most advanced model yet, Astra. The finding adds to intensifying concern surrounding oversight at frontier AI […]
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Nintendo’s next two Direct events are both happening next week

Nintendo just announced two Direct events for next week, scheduled back to back. First up is the Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct on September 8th at 10AM ET / 7AM PT. It's set to last around 30 minutes, streaming live on Nintendo's YouTube channel or the Nintendo Today app. Images recently leaked showing a […]
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What to expect at Apple’s September 9th launch event

Apple's September 9th launch event could be one of its biggest in years. It will be Apple's first event since John Ternus took over as CEO on September 1st, stepping in for Tim Cook, and will likely feature the first models in Apple's iPhone 18 lineup. That could include the long-rumored foldable "iPhone Ultra," coming […]
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Alienware’s refurbished 16 Aurora is almost $200 off at Woot

Gaming laptop deals aren’t what they used to be (stares daggers at RAMageddon), which is why I consider Woot’s deal on a refurbished Alienware 16 Aurora gaming laptop with Nvidia’s RTX 5050 a pretty good deal at $927 for new Woot customers (with code WOOTALIEN used at checkout). It costs $1,029 for returning Woot shoppers, […]