Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites
Private search you control Uruky is a private search engine focused on personalization, not an ecosystem.EU-based. No surveillance capitalism. €5 / month · unlimited searches 14-day money-back guarantee Search privately Sign up to search. What you get Privacy first No ads, no tracking, no analytics. No emails or names stored, just an account number (like […]
UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases
Executive summary This report reveals how retired senior British military figures are frequently presented in the UK media as purely independent experts on defence and security matters without mention of their personal commercial and employment interests in the defence, technology, intelligence, and security sectors in those reports. By analysing media reports between 2015 and May […]
I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it
As a part of my work I do security research for various apps and websites. I wanted to see if LLMs could reproduce a common class of exploits I’ve found in multiple apps. I made a fake React Native app in Expo and a backend in Python. It’s a book review app and the goal […]
U.S. to Dismantle System Tracking Atlantic Currents That Are at Risk of Collapse
The Trump administration is moving to dismantle an ocean observation system consisting of more than 900 instruments in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Data supplied by the system has been used to study key Atlantic currents that increasingly appear in danger of collapse as the climate warms. Just days after President Trump fired the independent […]
The ways we contain Claude across products
Twelve months ago, we’d have rejected out of hand the idea of granting Claude access sufficient to take down an internal Anthropic service. Today that level of access is routine, and Anthropic developers are more productive for it. The risk of these deployments has two components: how likely a failure is, and how much damage […]
Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes
The percentage of failing grades in multiple UC Berkeley computer science classes in spring 2026 is significantly higher than past semesters and marks a departure from the department’s grading guidelines. Instructors point to students’ increased reliance on AI, lack of mathematical preparedness and understaffing as potential contributing factors. According to Berkeleytime, 35.3% of CS 10 […]
The Ü Programming Language
The Ü programming language Ü is a statically-typed compiled programming language, designed for writing programs, which should be both reliable and fast. It has safe and unsafe code separation, compile-time correctness checks, powerful abstractions like RAII and templates, encapsulation, rich type system, lambdas, coroutines and many other useful features. Ü uses RAII for memory and […]
”They’re made out of weights”
After Terry Bisson’s ”They’re Made Out of Meat”. ”They’re made out of weights.” ”Weights?” ”Weights. Floating-point numbers. We checked the whole thing through. It’s nothing but weights.” ”Weights doing what? Where do the words come from?” ”The weights make the words. Are you understanding me? We opened it up. There’s no dictionary in there, no […]
Journey to JPEG XL: open-source experiments shaped the future of image coding
by Jyrki Alakuijala, Zoltán Szabadka & Luca Versari, Paradigms of Intelligence, Google Technology & Society Building the Next Generation Image Standard The internet runs on images. Since the early days of the web, there has been a relentless tension between visual fidelity and bandwidth. For decades, the industry relied on the venerable JPEG standard for […]
Ableton Extensions SDK
Ableton Extensions, introduced in Live 12.4.5, provide a way for users to develop and use their own tools within Ableton Live using the Ableton Extensions SDK. Extensions can interact with tracks, clips, MIDI, devices, tempo, and other parts of a Live Set to automate tasks, transform musical data, and customize Live’s capabilities.