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MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today

https://blog.decryption.net.au/posts/macpaint.html
424•decryption•6h ago•83 comments

OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google

https://www.theverge.com/openai/705999/google-windsurf-ceo-openai
812•rcchen•18h ago•523 comments

The fish kick may be the fastest subsurface swim stroke yet (2015)

https://nautil.us/is-this-new-swim-stroke-the-fastest-yet-235511/
71•bookofjoe•3h ago•48 comments

Malware found in official gravityforms plugin indicating supply chain breach

https://patchstack.com/articles/critical-malware-found-in-gravityforms-official-plugin-site/
118•taubek•8h ago•21 comments

Stone–Wales Transformations

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2025/07/12/stone-wales-transformation/
9•chmaynard•1h ago•1 comments

ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/07/a-language-model-built-for-the-public-good.html
552•andy99•20h ago•84 comments

First malaria treatment for babies approved for use

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c89e872jdjxo
70•toomuchtodo•4d ago•14 comments

Faking a JPEG

https://www.ty-penguin.org.uk/~auj/blog/2025/03/25/fake-jpeg/
312•todsacerdoti•16h ago•69 comments

Commodore 64 Ultimate

https://www.commodore.net
44•peterkelly•6h ago•18 comments

Preliminary report into Air India crash released

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx20p2x9093t
319•cjr•19h ago•599 comments

Sieve (YC X25) is hiring researchers to build large video datasets for AI labs

https://sievedata.com/about/jobs
1•mvoodarla•3h ago

Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/upgrading-m4-pro-mac-minis-storage-half-price
391•speckx•1d ago•243 comments

Show HN: DesignArena – crowdsourced benchmark for AI-generated UI/UX

https://www.designarena.ai/
5•grace77•31m ago•0 comments

Fundamentals of garbage collection (2023)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/garbage-collection/fundamentals
89•b-man•3d ago•21 comments

Building Watson: An Overview of the DeepQA Project (2010)

https://ojs.aaai.org/aimagazine/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/2303
5•sandwichsphinx•3d ago•0 comments

jank is C++

https://jank-lang.org/blog/2025-07-11-jank-is-cpp/
259•Jeaye•22h ago•85 comments

Only on Nantucket: The Curious Case of the "Stolen" Mercedes

https://nantucketcurrent.com/news/only-on-nantucket-the-curious-case-of-the
13•brigham•3d ago•21 comments

Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer [pdf]

https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237.pdf
104•sebgan•13h ago•15 comments

Incus – Next-generation system container, application container, and VM manager

https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/
70•motorest•11h ago•34 comments

Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface

https://patternproject.substack.com/p/from-the-mac-to-the-mystical-bill
440•cainxinth•1d ago•268 comments

New Date("wtf") – How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?

https://jsdate.wtf
182•OuterVale•7h ago•99 comments

Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNJCfif1dPY
249•sandslash•2d ago•65 comments

Leveraging Elixir's hot code loading capabilities to modularize a monolithic app

https://lucassifoni.info/blog/leveraging-hot-code-loading-for-fun-and-profit/
85•ronxjansen•4d ago•11 comments

Dict Unpacking in Python

https://github.com/asottile/dict-unpacking-at-home
109•_ZeD_•3d ago•42 comments

OpenAI delays launch of open-weight model

https://twitter.com/sama/status/1943837550369812814
196•martinald•14h ago•142 comments

Reverse proxy deep dive

https://medium.com/@mitendra_mahto/cross-posted-from-https-startwithawhy-com-reverseproxy-2024-01-15-reverseproxy-deep-dive-html-c3443dc3e0e5
51•miggy•4d ago•14 comments

ICANN fumes as AFRINIC offers no explanation for annulled election

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/afrinic_election_annulled_why/
99•rntn•5h ago•23 comments

Repasting a MacBook

https://christianselig.com/2025/07/repaste-macbook/
239•speckx•1d ago•116 comments

Increasing the Fidelity of Qubit Operations

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-61126-0
5•zahirbmirza•3d ago•1 comments

Show HN: I built a toy music controller for my 5yo with a coding agent

https://github.com/jeffmccune/sonoserve
25•JeffMcCune•4d ago•14 comments
Open in hackernews

ICANN fumes as AFRINIC offers no explanation for annulled election

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/afrinic_election_annulled_why/
99•rntn•5h ago

Comments

JdeBP•4h ago
Thanks to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44517053 and https://techdirt.com/2025/07/09/litigious-company-demands-re... I now know what The Register was being so surprisingly careful about.
mkj•4h ago
Who are cloud innovation's IP address range customers?
harvey9•3h ago
Other articles suggest data centers outside of Africa
mkj•2h ago
Is that legal?
MaxPock•2h ago
Some corrupt employee sold millions of IPs to this guy and he's been reselling them outside of Africa .
jfengel•1h ago
Is that covered by any actual law? Is some government entity responsible? Or is it just an anarchy breaking down?
lagniappe•1h ago
Its Africa
lazide•1h ago
No one wants to get a sovereign country involved in these issues if they can avoid it, because that is an even more giant can of worms. Because then it’s ’whose laws again?’.

And all these matters cross every international boundary as a matter of course.

Unfortunately, it is also enabling this particular situation.

jfengel•25m ago
Ah. It sounds like another case where the Internet was built assuming a fair bit of goodwill on behalf of its users. Until we realized that it means that the worst 0.01% now have access to everyone in the world.
ethan_smith•2h ago
Cloud Innovation primarily leases their AFRINIC-allocated IPv4 addresses to entities outside Africa, including datacenters and hosting companies in Asia and Europe, which is precisely what sparked the original legal disputes with AFRINIC over resource utilization policies.
oncallthrow•1h ago
Dubious/bulletproof hosting companies
this15testing•4h ago
it's all this guy: https://heng.lu/

who is very outspoken against IPv6 adoption because he wants to capitalize on his v4 holdings. THE END.

I don't know if I've heard a sentence from him that isn't a threat of legal action for something

Y_Y•3h ago
But he earned those addresses by the sweat of his brow! He's entitled to whatever the market will bear and more, because numbers aren't free!
Loughla•3h ago
I don't know who that guy is, but if he's against IPv6, why does he say;

>promotes accountable leadership, fair market practices, and adoption of the next generation of IPv6 addresses.

viraptor•3h ago
Why is NK called Democratic People's Republic if it's not? The marketing copy can say whatever it needs to.
sethops1•1h ago
And America isn't a democracy, it's a Republic.
yndoendo•33m ago
When the Presided of the USA is no longer bound by the Constitution, written law, it is no longer.
evanjrowley•2h ago
I learned about him yesterday via this article. It also frames into context articles I've seen in the past about AFRINIC's IPv4 space being lost to foreigners. https://medium.com/@emmanuelvitus/afrinic-hope-hijack-and-th...

A couple months ago he gave a talk Why Buying IP Addresses is a Scam in Washington DC. It's a lot of complaining about who owns IP addresses: https://youtu.be/dAqXo5DB42E?si=7RpoUFXM3KXziN-Y

It appears the entire channel and Number Resource Society is just a front for his own opinions: https://m.youtube.com/@numberresourcesociety

alright2565•4m ago
How does his YouTube channel have:

1) 6.3M subscribers

2) <5k views on about half their videos

3) 10M+ views on a random selection of their dullest videos?

pityJuke•1h ago
As someone entirely unfamiliar with everything here: can ICANN actually do anything to resolve this situation, and I imagine, ideally retrieve the IPs from this unsavoury individual?
oncallthrow•1h ago
AFRINIC is an utterly incompetent organisation and should be disbanded. Its resources should be managed by one of the other RIRs.
betaby•1m ago
Well, that was the case before 2004.
huslage•1h ago
I’ve posted about this saga on LinkedIn a bunch of times and received a cease and desist every time. These people are rent seeking fools who are holding African addresses hostage for profit.