UBlockOrigin and UBlacklist AI Blocklist
🔸A huge blocklist of manually curated sites containing AI-generated content is available for cleaning image search engines with uBlock Origin or uBlacklist, and it works on various platforms including mobile and pihole/adguard. The blocklist can be imported into uBlock Origin or uBlacklist with a single click, and it also includes a separate list for sites with mixed authentic and AI-generated imagery.
25 Dec 2025
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🔸A huge blocklist of manually curated sites containing AI-generated content is available for cleaning image search engines with uBlock Origin or uBlacklist, and it works on various platforms including mobile and pihole/adguard. The blocklist can be imported into uBlock Origin or uBlacklist with a single click, and it also includes a separate list for sites with mixed authentic and AI-generated imagery.
25 Dec 2025
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The Program 2025 annual review: How much money does an audio drama podcast make?
🔸The Program podcast saw a decrease in downloads in 2025, but still managed to reach 1 million downloads, with Patreon being the powerhouse bringing in 74% of the revenue. The show's creator is hopeful about its future despite the challenges, with a gross income of $2,300 CAD monthly and plans to continue working on new stories and episodes.
25 Dec 2025
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🔸The Program podcast saw a decrease in downloads in 2025, but still managed to reach 1 million downloads, with Patreon being the powerhouse bringing in 74% of the revenue. The show's creator is hopeful about its future despite the challenges, with a gross income of $2,300 CAD monthly and plans to continue working on new stories and episodes.
25 Dec 2025
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Paperbacks and TikTok
🔸Simon & Schuster launched Pocket Books in 1939, selling 17 million copies within two years, tapping into a previously untapped market of readers. The success of paperbacks led to an increase in hardcover noscripts and opportunities for writers, rather than the elimination of serious literature.
25 Dec 2025
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🔸Simon & Schuster launched Pocket Books in 1939, selling 17 million copies within two years, tapping into a previously untapped market of readers. The success of paperbacks led to an increase in hardcover noscripts and opportunities for writers, rather than the elimination of serious literature.
25 Dec 2025
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Maybe the Default Settings Are Too High
🔸The author enjoys reading Lord of the Rings at a slow pace, finding more meaning and engagement in the story. Slowing down consumption speeds, like reading and eating, can increase rewards and appreciation.
25 Dec 2025
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🔸The author enjoys reading Lord of the Rings at a slow pace, finding more meaning and engagement in the story. Slowing down consumption speeds, like reading and eating, can increase rewards and appreciation.
25 Dec 2025
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No shares in company, but 550 employees received a $240M gift from their owner
🔸Fibrebond employees in Louisiana received $240 million after the company's sale to Eaton, with each of the 550 workers getting an average $443,000 bonus. The payout was a result of a clause insisted upon by Fibrebond's CEO, recognizing employees' commitment rather than ownership.
25 Dec 2025
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🔸Fibrebond employees in Louisiana received $240 million after the company's sale to Eaton, with each of the 550 workers getting an average $443,000 bonus. The payout was a result of a clause insisted upon by Fibrebond's CEO, recognizing employees' commitment rather than ownership.
25 Dec 2025
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Dasharo TrustRoot Ephemeral Key Incident
🔸A critical incident occurred on 5th December 2025 affecting Dasharo firmware for NovaCustom V540TU and V560TU platforms due to a release engineering error. Affected devices cannot receive future firmware updates due to irreversibly written wrong cryptographic key hash into their SoC's Field Programmable Fuses.
25 Dec 2025
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🔸A critical incident occurred on 5th December 2025 affecting Dasharo firmware for NovaCustom V540TU and V560TU platforms due to a release engineering error. Affected devices cannot receive future firmware updates due to irreversibly written wrong cryptographic key hash into their SoC's Field Programmable Fuses.
25 Dec 2025
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Ask HN: What tech purchase did you regret even though reviews were great?
🔸Several products failed to meet expectations in real use, including the Apple Watch due to battery life and laggy interface, and the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro headset for poor microphone quality and short battery life.
26 Dec 2025
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🔸Several products failed to meet expectations in real use, including the Apple Watch due to battery life and laggy interface, and the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro headset for poor microphone quality and short battery life.
26 Dec 2025
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When a driver challenges the kernel's assumptions
🔸Displaylink's wsdisplay driver caused some kernel assumptions to no longer stand. the driver is now able to return 0 if it did the work, or nonzero (preferrably eagain) after a jump scroll failure, we need to retry the operation with the same number of lines as the failed operation, so that the copy/erase parts of the scrolling operation are consistent with each other. this work eventually
26 Dec 2025
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🔸Displaylink's wsdisplay driver caused some kernel assumptions to no longer stand. the driver is now able to return 0 if it did the work, or nonzero (preferrably eagain) after a jump scroll failure, we need to retry the operation with the same number of lines as the failed operation, so that the copy/erase parts of the scrolling operation are consistent with each other. this work eventually
26 Dec 2025
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Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Glucose Monitors
🔸The user's proprietary Freestyle Libre Plus CGM device from Abbott caused a bug that falsely reported low glucose levels, potentially harming patients, especially those with advanced diabetes. The user advocates for open-source medical devices to prevent such harm and is working on a FOSS alternative, Juggluco, to improve safety and security.
26 Dec 2025
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🔸The user's proprietary Freestyle Libre Plus CGM device from Abbott caused a bug that falsely reported low glucose levels, potentially harming patients, especially those with advanced diabetes. The user advocates for open-source medical devices to prevent such harm and is working on a FOSS alternative, Juggluco, to improve safety and security.
26 Dec 2025
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Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
🔸User plans to start VR development in 2026 with Samsung Galaxy XR, learn spatial computing, and complete a computer graphics course. Goals also include building a side gig project, leveraging AI, and expanding their social circle in NYC.
26 Dec 2025
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🔸User plans to start VR development in 2026 with Samsung Galaxy XR, learn spatial computing, and complete a computer graphics course. Goals also include building a side gig project, leveraging AI, and expanding their social circle in NYC.
26 Dec 2025
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Reinventing the dial-up modem (2019)
🔸The Simple healthcare app aimed to replace traditional paper registers and landline phones with an app that suggests patients at risk based on medical history and other cues, while protecting patient privacy through phone number masking. To achieve offline functionality, the app used DTMF tones to send patient numbers to the server through a toll-free number, allowing nurses to connect with ...
26 Dec 2025
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🔸The Simple healthcare app aimed to replace traditional paper registers and landline phones with an app that suggests patients at risk based on medical history and other cues, while protecting patient privacy through phone number masking. To achieve offline functionality, the app used DTMF tones to send patient numbers to the server through a toll-free number, allowing nurses to connect with ...
26 Dec 2025
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Show HN: Gaming Couch – a local multiplayer party game platform for 8 players
🔸Gaming Couch is the ultimate social couch co-op party game platform. No consoles, no downloads, just pure fun!
26 Dec 2025
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🔸Gaming Couch is the ultimate social couch co-op party game platform. No consoles, no downloads, just pure fun!
26 Dec 2025
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Gaming Couch
Gaming Couch – Play Couch Co-Op Games Instantly
Gaming Couch is the ultimate social couch co-op party game platform. No consoles, no downloads, just pure fun!
WiFi DensePose: WiFi-based dense human pose estimation system through walls
🔸WiFi-DensePose is a WiFi-based human pose estimation system that uses CSI data and machine learning for real-time, privacy-preserving pose detection without cameras. It provides a comprehensive API and tools for configuration, database management, and task management, and can be deployed on various platforms including Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
26 Dec 2025
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🔸WiFi-DensePose is a WiFi-based human pose estimation system that uses CSI data and machine learning for real-time, privacy-preserving pose detection without cameras. It provides a comprehensive API and tools for configuration, database management, and task management, and can be deployed on various platforms including Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
26 Dec 2025
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Governments in the West Are Turning Their Sights on VPNs
🔸The Danish government has proposed banning VPNs to access geo-restricted content and bypass website blocks, but withdrew the proposal after public backlash. Governments worldwide are increasingly targeting VPNs to control online activity and impose age verification rules.
26 Dec 2025
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🔸The Danish government has proposed banning VPNs to access geo-restricted content and bypass website blocks, but withdrew the proposal after public backlash. Governments worldwide are increasingly targeting VPNs to control online activity and impose age verification rules.
26 Dec 2025
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Ultimate-Linux: Userspace for Linux in Pure JavaScript
🔸User is creating a JavaScript-based Linux distribution with a C transpilation step, aiming to demonstrate Linux kernel-user software interface fundamentals. The goal is to create a standalone ELF file that doesn't depend on the system's libc.
26 Dec 2025
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🔸User is creating a JavaScript-based Linux distribution with a C transpilation step, aiming to demonstrate Linux kernel-user software interface fundamentals. The goal is to create a standalone ELF file that doesn't depend on the system's libc.
26 Dec 2025
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Tachyon: High frequency statistical sampling profiler
🔸The profiling.sampling module, named Tachyon, provides statistical profiling of Python programs through periodic stack sampling. It can run noscripts directly or attach to any running Python process without requiring code changes or restarts.
26 Dec 2025
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🔸The profiling.sampling module, named Tachyon, provides statistical profiling of Python programs through periodic stack sampling. It can run noscripts directly or attach to any running Python process without requiring code changes or restarts.
26 Dec 2025
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Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI
🔸Discover the magic of the internet at Imgur, a community powered entertainment destination. Lift your spirits with funny jokes, trending memes, entertaining gifs, inspiring stories, viral videos, and so much more from users.
26 Dec 2025
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🔸Discover the magic of the internet at Imgur, a community powered entertainment destination. Lift your spirits with funny jokes, trending memes, entertaining gifs, inspiring stories, viral videos, and so much more from users.
26 Dec 2025
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TurboDiffusion: 100–200× Acceleration for Video Diffusion Models
🔸TurboDiffusion is a video generation acceleration framework that speeds up end-to-end diffusion generation by 100-200 times on a single RTX 5090 GPU. It uses SageAttention, SLA, and rCM for attention acceleration and timestep distillation.
26 Dec 2025
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🔸TurboDiffusion is a video generation acceleration framework that speeds up end-to-end diffusion generation by 100-200 times on a single RTX 5090 GPU. It uses SageAttention, SLA, and rCM for attention acceleration and timestep distillation.
26 Dec 2025
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Show HN: GeneGuessr – a daily biology web puzzle
🔸The protein of the day is not specified, but I can summarize the given information in 2 concise English sentences.
26 Dec 2025
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🔸The protein of the day is not specified, but I can summarize the given information in 2 concise English sentences.
26 Dec 2025
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Lessons from a year of Postgres CDC in production
🔸The Postgres CDC connector in ClickHouse Cloud has seen significant growth and adoption since its launch, with over 400 companies using it to replicate over 200 TB of Postgres data to ClickHouse every month. The team is working to address remaining gaps, including data modeling overhead, platform-level features, and support for advanced use cases, to provide a truly enterprise-grade Postgres ...
26 Dec 2025
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🔸The Postgres CDC connector in ClickHouse Cloud has seen significant growth and adoption since its launch, with over 400 companies using it to replicate over 200 TB of Postgres data to ClickHouse every month. The team is working to address remaining gaps, including data modeling overhead, platform-level features, and support for advanced use cases, to provide a truly enterprise-grade Postgres ...
26 Dec 2025
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Building an AI agent inside a 7-year-old Rails monolith
🔸Director of Engineering at Mon Ami built a Ruby on Rails monolith with Algolia index for client records. They successfully integrated a low-code AI agent using RubyLLM gem, overcoming data access and multi-tenancy concerns.
26 Dec 2025
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🔸Director of Engineering at Mon Ami built a Ruby on Rails monolith with Algolia index for client records. They successfully integrated a low-code AI agent using RubyLLM gem, overcoming data access and multi-tenancy concerns.
26 Dec 2025
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