Webtagr - Technology News Summarizer

Popular：

Virtualization DNS security formal verification reachability analysis compiler errors macro conflict web extension development framework Bitmap Graphics API inconsistencies All Tags

Unearthing Hidden Gems on Hacker News

2025-08-29

This tool helps you discover recently posted, high-effort content on Hacker News that hasn't received much attention. It searches the HN API's Ask, Show, and New feeds for posts from the last 3-7 days, ranking them by a 'Passion Score'. This score balances text length against engagement (votes and comments), highlighting substantial posts with minimal recognition – perfect for finding insightful contributions the community might have missed.

(pj4533.com)

Misc content discovery underrated posts

Wear OS Air Mouse: Bluetooth HID Device Emulator

2025-08-29

Wear OS Air Mouse: Bluetooth HID Device Emulator

This project showcases the new Bluetooth HID Device API in Android P, implementing a simple air mouse and cursor keys emulator on a Wear OS device. Connect to laptops and desktops running Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, macOS, or Android TV without extra software – just a Bluetooth receiver is needed. Utilizing the Google VR library for orientation tracking ensures a stable and reliable air mouse experience.

(github.com)

Development Bluetooth HID Air Mouse

Adafruit's Credit Card-Sized Retro Computer: Fruit Jam

2025-08-30

Adafruit's Credit Card-Sized Retro Computer: Fruit Jam

Adafruit has launched the Fruit Jam, a credit card-sized mini computer powered by the RP2350 chip, capable of running classic Macintosh systems via the uMac emulator. This $39.95 development board supports System 2.0 up to System 7.5.5, boasts 720p video output (DVI), audio, and USB keyboard/mouse connectivity. Featuring an ESP32-C6 wireless module and extensive GPIO and expansion options, the Fruit Jam is perfect for retro emulation, educational projects, and lightweight standalone computing. But hurry, stock is limited!

(www.cnx-software.com)

Hardware Retro Computer

Synology's Hostile Policies Drive Longtime User Away

2025-08-29

Synology's Hostile Policies Drive Longtime User Away

Longtime Synology user Raindog308 announces he's switching brands due to Synology's increasingly restrictive policies. These include artificial limits on concurrent Samba connections and a new requirement to purchase Synology-branded hard drives, even though those drives offer shorter warranties than alternatives like WD Black. He's considering building a TrueNAS server or exploring options from UGREEN, Buffalo, or other vendors.

(lowendbox.com)

Hardware

Spacetime Hopfion Crystals: A Topological Revolution in Optics

2025-08-30

Spacetime Hopfion Crystals: A Topological Revolution in Optics

A joint Singapore-Japan research team has designed a method for creating spacetime hopfion crystals. Hopfions are three-dimensional topological textures whose internal "spin" patterns weave into closed, interlinked loops. The team used structured beams of two different colors to build and control hopfion lattices, with patterns repeating periodically in both space and time. This research opens new avenues for high-density, robust information processing in photonics, promising applications in high-dimensional encoding, resilient communications, and novel light-matter interactions.

(www.sciencedaily.com)

Tech topological photonics hopfions spacetime crystals

Hugo: My Static Site Generator Nightmare

2025-08-31

I used to love Hugo, a static site generator, for its speed, simplicity, and ease of use. However, with continuous updates, it's become increasingly complex and has repeatedly broken backward compatibility. My recent attempt to write a blog post resulted in Hugo updates causing my site build to fail, costing me hours of troubleshooting. I don't care about Hugo's internals; I just want a working blog. Therefore, I'm abandoning Hugo, seeking alternatives, and plan to compile an older, unchanging version myself.

(commaok.xyz)

Development backward compatibility

dlclose Failure: A Weird Interplay Between Rust and C++ Libraries

2025-08-30

This post recounts a perplexing debugging story: when using `dlclose` to unload a dynamic library, libA was successfully unloaded, but its dependency, libB, unexpectedly remained in memory. Investigation revealed the root cause was thread local storage (TLS) destructors registered in libB. Because the threads didn't exit, these destructors weren't executed, preventing libB from unloading. Enabling logging resolved the issue because the logging library also used TLS, preventing libA from unloading and thus maintaining consistent shared state between libA and libB. This case highlights the importance of understanding `dlclose` behavior and the impact of TLS destructors, recommending the use of the `LD_DEBUG` environment variable for debugging dynamic link libraries.

(kishoreganesh.com)

Development dynamic linking

Build Your Own CLI Coding Agent: A Practical Guide with Pydantic-AI and MCP

2025-08-29

This article details how the author built a command-line coding agent using the Pydantic-AI framework and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). By integrating the Claude model, test runners, a code execution sandbox, documentation search, and AWS tools, the agent enables code testing, debugging, documentation lookup, and code modification, significantly boosting development efficiency. The author highlights the importance of MCP in extending agent capabilities and the benefits of building a custom agent to fit specific project needs. Ultimately, the agent acts as an intelligent programming partner, collaborating with developers to write, debug, and test code.

(martinfowler.com)

Development

Thunder Compute: DevRel Engineer Wanted – Build the Future of Affordable GPU Cloud

2025-08-29

Thunder Compute: DevRel Engineer Wanted – Build the Future of Affordable GPU Cloud

Thunder Compute, a rapidly growing seed-funded startup (approaching Series A), is hiring a DevRel Engineer. We're a small, highly effective team building the cheapest and easiest GPU cloud for developers. This role is fully owning DevRel – building community, creating demos and tutorials, gathering product feedback, and reporting directly to the CEO. High autonomy, high impact, and you'll help define our DevRel function from the ground up. Requires excellent writing, community building experience, and strong coding skills (Python preferred). GPU/AI experience a plus.

(www.ycombinator.com)

Startup GPU Cloud

Cloudflare's Signed Agents: A Path to a Closed Web?

2025-08-29

Cloudflare's Signed Agents: A Path to a Closed Web?

Cloudflare's new "signed agents" system, pitched as a safety measure, is argued to be a dangerous path towards a closed web. The system functions like an allowlist, deciding which agents can access the web, contradicting the open nature of the internet. The author advocates for open, portable, and company-independent authentication based on verifiable chains of delegation and request-level proof, rather than a single company's control. The article draws parallels to historical events, highlighting how open standards consistently beat closed plugins, and calls for an open, verifiable, and decentralized authentication system to manage the increasing number of web agents, ensuring the openness and innovation of the internet. The author even offers to open-source a first cut of their proposed solution.

(positiveblue.substack.com)

Tech open standards

Google's AI Summaries: A Publisher's Nightmare?

2025-08-30

Google's AI Summaries: A Publisher's Nightmare?

Google's new AI-generated summaries in search results often pull content, diverting traffic away from websites. Publishers face a dilemma: blocking summaries reduces visibility, while allowing them means surrendering content control. While EU and UK investigations are underway, effective workarounds remain scarce. The article outlines several options, including the `max-snippet:0` and `nosnippet` meta tags, and the `data-nosnippet` attribute, but none are perfect. Ultimately, it labels this a classic 'dark pattern' design, heavily disadvantaging publishers, and calls for regulatory intervention.

(www.teruza.com)

Tech dark pattern

Draft Texts from Your Computer Keyboard

2025-08-29

Draft Texts from Your Computer Keyboard

Tired of typing long texts on your phone's tiny keyboard? This browser-based tool lets you draft and send SMS and iMessages using any computer keyboard. Simply type your message, and it generates a QR code you can scan with your phone to send. Supports multiple recipients (comma-separated), and international codes are recommended but not always required. Even if you don't know the recipient's number, scan the QR code and fill in the recipients on your phone using autocomplete. All data processing happens within your browser; nothing is sent to a server. Give it a try!

(sethmlarson.dev)

Development

Michael Larabel: 20 Years of Linux Hardware Benchmarking

2025-08-30

Michael Larabel, founder and principal author of Phoronix.com, has been enriching the Linux hardware experience since 2004. He's penned over 20,000 articles covering Linux hardware support, performance, graphics drivers, and more. Larabel is also the lead developer behind the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software, significantly contributing to the Linux ecosystem.

(www.phoronix.com)

Tech

The VC Bubble Bursts: A Looming Winter?

2025-08-28

An analysis based on SEC Form D filings reveals an impending VC bubble burst. By tracking the number of Form Ds containing phrases like "Fund I", "Fund II", etc., the author shows that VC fund raising peaked in Q3 2022 before sharply declining. This is linked to the surge in VC funds during low-interest rate periods and the rise of "SPV-as-a-service" companies. The author predicts a significant decrease in available VC funding, driven by the typical 10-year lifespan of funds and a 2-4 year deployment period, now passing its peak. This coincides with the AI investment boom, leading to inflated valuations. The author concludes that future funding will drastically decrease, valuations will fall, many companies will struggle, and the AI hype cycle will cool.

(tj401.com)

Startup

Unofficial Apple Developer Documentation to Markdown Converter

2025-08-29

This unofficial tool converts single Apple Developer pages to Markdown on demand. It doesn't crawl, spider, or bulk download; it respects authentication and security measures; and it implements rate limiting to avoid overloading Apple's servers. Content is cached briefly for performance (around 30 minutes), but no permanent archives are kept. All copyrights remain with Apple. Each converted page links back to the original. Use is subject to Apple's Terms of Use and applicable law.

(sosumi.ai)

Development Apple Developer converter

Google's Android Sideloading Restrictions: A Pragmatic Balancing Act?

2025-08-30

Google's Android Sideloading Restrictions: A Pragmatic Balancing Act?

Google's upcoming restrictions on Android sideloading, requiring developer registration, spark a debate between security and freedom. The author argues that while banks and game developers have legitimate reasons to restrict app usage on rooted devices, Google's move might stifle open-source and small developers, questioning its effectiveness in combating fraudulent apps. The piece concludes by posing several questions, pondering the balance between user safety and software freedom.

(shkspr.mobi)

Tech sideloading

Midday's AI-Powered Reconciliation Engine: Automating the Tedious Task

2025-08-29

Midday's AI-Powered Reconciliation Engine: Automating the Tedious Task

Midday has developed an automated financial reconciliation engine that leverages multi-dimensional matching and vector embeddings to achieve high accuracy and efficiency. The engine preprocesses and enriches data, using 768-dimensional embeddings to understand the semantic meaning of transactions and receipts. An adaptive thresholding system and machine learning algorithms further refine accuracy over time, based on user feedback. The result? Businesses save hours weekly on reconciliation, freeing up time for strategic tasks. This automation also paves the way for advanced financial analysis.

(midday.ai)

Development financial automation

Ditching Website Analytics: Reclaiming Our Digital Humanity

2025-08-30

Ditching Website Analytics: Reclaiming Our Digital Humanity

This article argues that website analytics, a tool born from military and surveillance technologies, strips away the human element of online interaction. The author recounts their experience abandoning analytics on their personal blog, concluding that the data provided offered little practical value while simultaneously surveilling readers. Instead, the author advocates for a return to more intentional and less automated communication, fostering smaller, closed communities where genuine connection trumps data-driven optimization.

(www.thisdaysportion.com)

Misc website analytics online community

Failing My Anthropic Interview (Again): A Reflection

2025-08-29

The author recounts two failed interviews with Anthropic, the first due to a simple mistake, the second due to not being good enough. The post details the author's disappointment and self-reflection, exploring the tension between authenticity and fitting a company culture. The author concludes by embracing the setback and encouraging perseverance.

(taylor.town)

Misc job interview

F-Stack: A High-Performance Open-Source Network Framework Based on DPDK

2025-08-30

The rapid advancement of Network Interface Cards (NICs) has exposed the performance bottleneck of Linux kernel data packet processing. To meet the internet's demand for high-performance network processing, kernel bypass technologies like DPDK, NETMAP, and PF_RING have gained prominence. F-Stack is a high-performance open-source network framework built on DPDK. It utilizes the Linux kernel only for control flow, processing all data streams in user space. This avoids performance bottlenecks caused by kernel packet copying, thread scheduling, system calls, and interrupts. F-Stack includes a user-space TCP/IP stack (based on FreeBSD 11.0 stable), POSIX APIs (Socket, Epoll, Kqueue), a programming SDK (Coroutine), and interfaces for applications like Nginx and Redis, aiming for superior network processing performance.

(www.f-stack.org)

Development Kernel Bypass

Heat Death Hypothesis: End or Continuation?

2025-08-30

Heat Death Hypothesis: End or Continuation?

This article explores the heat death hypothesis, the theory that the universe will eventually reach maximum entropy, leading to the demise of all order. The article argues this hypothesis may be based on a misunderstanding of the second law of thermodynamics. The universe is not a closed system; its continuous expansion, and the existence of dark energy, suggest that entropy increase may not lead to the complete collapse of cosmic order. Some scientists believe that the complexity of the universe may be constantly increasing, with life playing a key role. By continuously utilizing free energy in the universe, life maintains its organization and creates more complexity. Therefore, the future of the universe is not doomed to end but has the possibility of continuous evolution.

(www.noemamag.com)

Tech heat death cosmic evolution

37signals Ditches Docker Hub and ECR for Self-Hosted Harbor Registry

2025-08-31

37signals Ditches Docker Hub and ECR for Self-Hosted Harbor Registry

37signals, the creators of Basecamp and HEY, migrated from external container registries like Docker Hub and Amazon ECR to a self-hosted Harbor registry. Driven by cost concerns (bandwidth overages and subscription fees), performance issues (slow pull times impacting deployments), security risks, and a desire for greater independence, they chose Harbor for its ease of setup, rich feature set, and open-source nature. The article details their single-server deployment outside Kubernetes, S3 storage configuration, multi-instance setup, replication strategy, and the process of migrating images from Docker Hub. The result? Significant cost savings (around $5k/year), improved performance (15-second deployment reduction, 25-second image pull reduction), and enhanced security.

(dev.37signals.com)

Development container registry

Zellij's Web Terminal: Bringing Your Terminal to the Browser

2025-08-31

Zellij's Web Terminal: Bringing Your Terminal to the Browser

Zellij, a terminal workspace and multiplexer, recently released a built-in web client, allowing users to connect to background terminal sessions via a browser. This post details the construction of the Zellij Web Terminal, including technology choices, architecture design, and challenges faced. It uses a client/server architecture with bidirectional communication via WebSockets between the browser and the Zellij server. Built with Rust and axum, the web server prioritizes security and ease of use. Future plans for Zellij include expanding the web interface to support features like native UI component rendering and the merging of multiple terminal sessions.

(poor.dev)

Development terminal multiplexer web client

The Evolution of the Chapter: From Malory's Morte d'Arthur to Austen's Age

2025-08-31

The Evolution of the Chapter: From Malory's Morte d'Arthur to Austen's Age

This essay explores the history of novel chapter divisions and their evolution. It begins with the revelation that the chapter breaks in Malory's 15th-century *Morte d'Arthur* weren't his, but additions by the printer Caxton, altering the text's rhythm and tension. The essay traces the evolution of chapters from medieval times to the 18th century, where their function shifted from simple text segmentation to a complex tool shaping narrative pacing and reader experience. Analyzing various authors' uses of chapters – including Sterne, Fielding, Equiano, and Goethe – the essay reveals the interplay between chapter form, narrative strategies, social change, and reader subjectivity. Ultimately, it argues that chapter divisions aren't merely technical devices, but profound constructions of time and narrative experience.

(sydneyreviewofbooks.com)

Design literary history chapter

Intel Xeon 7: Can 18A and 3D Packaging Turn the Tide?

2025-08-29

Intel Xeon 7: Can 18A and 3D Packaging Turn the Tide?

With AMD holding over 40% revenue and 27% shipment share of the x86 server CPU market in the first half of 2025, Intel is betting on its Xeon 7 processors (Clearwater Rapids and Clearwater Forest), launching in 2026, to regain ground. These CPUs leverage the 18A process, 2.5D EMIB interconnect, and Foveros 3D stacking—technologies first deployed (with delays) in the datacenter with the ill-fated Ponte Vecchio. The success of Xeon 7 hinges on stemming AMD's momentum and countering the rise of hyperscaler's custom Arm server CPUs. While the energy-efficient E-core variants have a niche market, they aid Intel in refining its 18A process and 3D packaging. This article details the architecture of the Clearwater Forest E-core processor, including its improved RibbonFET transistors, PowerVia backside power delivery, and 3D packaging, and analyzes its performance potential.

(www.nextplatform.com)

Hardware

Efficient Rubik's Cube Solving via Learned Representations: No Hand-Crafted Heuristics Needed

2025-08-29

Classical AI separates perception (spatial representation learning) from planning (temporal reasoning via search). This work explores representations capturing both spatial and temporal structure. Standard temporal contrastive learning often fails due to spurious features. The authors introduce Contrastive Representations for Temporal Reasoning (CRTR), using negative sampling to remove these features and improve temporal reasoning. CRTR excels on complex temporal tasks like Sokoban and Rubik's Cube, solving the latter faster than BestFS (albeit with longer solutions). Remarkably, this is the first demonstration of efficiently solving arbitrary Rubik's Cube states using only learned representations, eliminating the need for hand-crafted search heuristics.

(princeton-rl.github.io)

AI Temporal Reasoning Contrastive Learning

LLMs: Opportunities and Challenges Await

2025-08-29

Before a short break, the author shares some thoughts on the current state of LLMs and AI. He points out flaws in current surveys on LLMs' impact on software development, arguing they neglect the varied workflows of LLM usage. The author believes the future of LLMs is unpredictable, encouraging experimentation and shared experiences. He also discusses the inevitability of an AI bubble and the 'hallucination' characteristic of LLMs, stressing the importance of asking questions multiple times for validation. Finally, the author warns of the security risks posed by LLMs, particularly the vulnerabilities of agents operating within browsers.

(martinfowler.com)

AI

From Multi-Head to Latent Attention: A Deep Dive into Attention Mechanisms

2025-08-30

From Multi-Head to Latent Attention: A Deep Dive into Attention Mechanisms

This article explores the evolution of attention mechanisms in natural language processing, from the initial Multi-Head Attention (MHA) to more advanced variants like Multi-Latent Head Attention (MHLA). MHA weighs important words in context by calculating query, key, and value vectors; however, its computational and memory complexity grows quadratically with sequence length. To address this, newer approaches like MHLA emerged, improving computational speed and scalability without sacrificing performance – for example, by using KV caching to reduce redundant calculations. The article clearly explains the core concepts, advantages, and limitations of these mechanisms and their applications in models like BERT, RoBERTa, and Deepseek.

(vinithavn.medium.com)

AI

London Underground Launches 'Headphones On' Campaign

2025-08-30

Transport for London (TfL) has launched a new 'Headphones On' campaign urging passengers to use headphones on public transport to avoid disturbing others. The campaign follows research showing 70% of surveyed commuters are disrupted by loud music and calls. Posters will be displayed across the Elizabeth line now, and expanded to buses, the DLR, Overground, Underground, and trams from October.

(www.theverge.com)

Misc etiquette headphones

China's Display Dominance: 75% Global Capacity Share Projected by 2028

2025-08-26

Counterpoint Research's latest report projects China to control a staggering 75% of global display capacity by 2028, solidifying its dominance. The report forecasts a 4% CAGR for China's capacity, while South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan are expected to see declines. LCD TV/IT will remain the leading application, but OLED mobile/IT is poised for the fastest growth. While BOE will maintain its lead, its growth will slow; Tianma is predicted to be a major disruptor with strong growth from TM18 and TM19.

(display.counterpointresearch.com)

Tech display panels

← Previous 1 2 … 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 … 562 563 Next →