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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Animating Quines for Larva Labs
🔸The author met John Watkinson from Larva Labs and was asked to animate their new project, Quine, a generative art project that embeds code within procedurally-generated pixel art. The author used canvas to animate the quine generation process, creating a printing and scanning animation that visualizes the concept of code within the art.
26 Dec 2025
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🔸The author met John Watkinson from Larva Labs and was asked to animate their new project, Quine, a generative art project that embeds code within procedurally-generated pixel art. The author used canvas to animate the quine generation process, creating a printing and scanning animation that visualizes the concept of code within the art.
26 Dec 2025
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How to Reproduce This Book with LaTeX
🔸This is the repository for the e-book "How to Reproduce this Book Exactly with LaTeX - A Self-contained Tutorial on Writing Mathematical Notes" and its .tex files. Again, feel free to open an issue if you have any problems or suggestions about the book! This book will be regularly updated! To do: Add a subsection for setting up an appendix.
26 Dec 2025
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🔸This is the repository for the e-book "How to Reproduce this Book Exactly with LaTeX - A Self-contained Tutorial on Writing Mathematical Notes" and its .tex files. Again, feel free to open an issue if you have any problems or suggestions about the book! This book will be regularly updated! To do: Add a subsection for setting up an appendix.
26 Dec 2025
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The Algebra of Loans in Rust
🔸Rust borrow-checking restricts access to borrowed places until the borrow expires. New reference types like &own and &uninit are being considered to improve borrow-checking.
26 Dec 2025
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🔸Rust borrow-checking restricts access to borrowed places until the borrow expires. New reference types like &own and &uninit are being considered to improve borrow-checking.
26 Dec 2025
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Nadri’s musings
The Algebra of Loans in Rust
The heart of Rust borrow-checking is this: when a borrow is taken, and until it expires, access to the borrowed place is restricted. For example you may not read from a place while it is mutably borrowed.
Geometric Algorithms for Translucency Sorting in Minecraft [pdf]
🔸Translucency sorting in Minecraft is challenging due to the need to order quads by depth for correct rendering. This work presents a solution using topological visibility graph sorting and partition tree sorting, improving visual correctness and performance.
26 Dec 2025
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🔸Translucency sorting in Minecraft is challenging due to the need to order quads by depth for correct rendering. This work presents a solution using topological visibility graph sorting and partition tree sorting, improving visual correctness and performance.
26 Dec 2025
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Questions engineers should ask future employers in interviews
🔸The article discusses a "Reverse Interview" checklist to determine if a company's culture and work environment align with an engineer's values and needs. The checklist includes questions about project ownership, code reviews, on-call policies, bug handling, technical challenges, and career growth to ensure a good fit for both the engineer and the company.
26 Dec 2025
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🔸The article discusses a "Reverse Interview" checklist to determine if a company's culture and work environment align with an engineer's values and needs. The checklist includes questions about project ownership, code reviews, on-call policies, bug handling, technical challenges, and career growth to ensure a good fit for both the engineer and the company.
26 Dec 2025
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Hardware Touch, Stronger SSH
🔸To prevent malware from stealing or abusing SSH keys, use touch-verified SSH with a hardware security key like YubiKey or Apple's Touch ID, which requires physical touch for authentication. This setup is inexpensive and low-impact, and can be achieved with tools like Secretive for macOS and FIDO2-enabled OpenSSH.
26 Dec 2025
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🔸To prevent malware from stealing or abusing SSH keys, use touch-verified SSH with a hardware security key like YubiKey or Apple's Touch ID, which requires physical touch for authentication. This setup is inexpensive and low-impact, and can be achieved with tools like Secretive for macOS and FIDO2-enabled OpenSSH.
26 Dec 2025
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ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests
🔸Slow down, you're making too many requests. Please retry again in 5 seconds. Error code: cloud_10_secs_limit.
26 Dec 2025
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🔸Slow down, you're making too many requests. Please retry again in 5 seconds. Error code: cloud_10_secs_limit.
26 Dec 2025
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Timestamps for chats in ChatGPT
I’ve been working in a single chat for close 9-10 months now, with some separate chats opened once in a while. Now I want to write up a chronological overview of what I’ve been up to and when these past 10 months and I fully expected “the timestamps in the…
I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13
🔸The author is a laptop enthusiast who has upgraded and modified various laptops over the years, including a Samsung NC10 Netbook and a 2011 Macbook Pro. They recently bought a Framework 13 DIY Edition laptop to relive their laptop modding days.
26 Dec 2025
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🔸The author is a laptop enthusiast who has upgraded and modified various laptops over the years, including a Samsung NC10 Netbook and a 2011 Macbook Pro. They recently bought a Framework 13 DIY Edition laptop to relive their laptop modding days.
26 Dec 2025
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Codex vs. Claude Code (Today)
🔸The author compares Claude Code and Codex, two AI tools, and concludes that the choice between them depends on individual working styles. Codex is preferred for its high-quality results, while Claude Code is favored for its customizable environment and hands-on approach.
26 Dec 2025
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🔸The author compares Claude Code and Codex, two AI tools, and concludes that the choice between them depends on individual working styles. Codex is preferred for its high-quality results, while Claude Code is favored for its customizable environment and hands-on approach.
26 Dec 2025
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An 11-qubit atom processor in silicon with all fidelities from 99.10% to 99.99%
🔸Phosphorus atoms in silicon represent a promising platform for quantum computing. their nuclear spins exhibit coherence times over seconds1,2 with high-fidelity readout and single-qubit control3; here, we address this challenge with an 11-quadbit processor composed of two multi-nuclear spin registers linked by means of electron exchange interaction. to the best of our knowledge, the peak ...
26 Dec 2025
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🔸Phosphorus atoms in silicon represent a promising platform for quantum computing. their nuclear spins exhibit coherence times over seconds1,2 with high-fidelity readout and single-qubit control3; here, we address this challenge with an 11-quadbit processor composed of two multi-nuclear spin registers linked by means of electron exchange interaction. to the best of our knowledge, the peak ...
26 Dec 2025
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Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
🔸User read various books including 'The Changing World Order', 'The Gulag Archipelago', 'Translation State', 'Luminous', 'When We Were Real', 'A Moveable Feast', 'The Count of Monte Cristo', 'The Stranger', 'Infinite Powers', 'Frankenstein', 'Wuthering Heights', and 'The Craft'. They also read many non-fiction articles and research papers.
26 Dec 2025
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🔸User read various books including 'The Changing World Order', 'The Gulag Archipelago', 'Translation State', 'Luminous', 'When We Were Real', 'A Moveable Feast', 'The Count of Monte Cristo', 'The Stranger', 'Infinite Powers', 'Frankenstein', 'Wuthering Heights', and 'The Craft'. They also read many non-fiction articles and research papers.
26 Dec 2025
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Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out
🔸Using git as a database is appealing due to its version history and review workflow but it inherits filesystem limitations and becomes slow with large repositories. Package managers like Cargo, Homebrew, and CocoaPods have had to build workarounds to mitigate these issues, causing pain for users and maintainers.
26 Dec 2025
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🔸Using git as a database is appealing due to its version history and review workflow but it inherits filesystem limitations and becomes slow with large repositories. Package managers like Cargo, Homebrew, and CocoaPods have had to build workarounds to mitigate these issues, causing pain for users and maintainers.
26 Dec 2025
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Andrew Nesbitt
Package managers keep using git as a database, it never works out
Git repositories seem like an elegant solution for package registry data. Pull requests for governance, version history for free, distributed by design. But as registries grow, the cracks appear.