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Music Decoy: A Tiny macOS App That Stops Apple Music From Auto-Launching
Music Decoy is a lightweight macOS utility that prevents the system Music app from opening when the Play key is pressed, a Bluetooth headset connects, or a call
One World Flag: A Transparent Banner With a Blue Dot for Planet Earth
The One World Flag is an art and identity project centered on a simple design: a blue sphere representing Earth set against a transparent background that takes
OpenAI Files Confidential S-1 Draft With SEC, Signaling IPO Path
OpenAI has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the first formal step toward a public off
OpenCV 5 Lands With Rebuilt DNN Engine and 80% ONNX Operator Coverage
OpenCV 5 marks the library's first major release in years, centered on a rewritten deep neural network engine that lifts ONNX operator coverage from roughly 22%
Performative-UI: A React library parodying modern design trope clichés
A new Show HN project called Performative-UI offers a React component library built around the recurring visual and interaction tropes that have come to define
Postgres 19 Finally Adds Query Hints — Just Don't Call Them That
After two decades of insisting it would never happen, Postgres 19 ships query hints through two new contrib modules: pg_plan_advice and pg_stash_advice. The com
Researchers Flag 450+ Manipulated Antibody Images in Thermo Fisher's Catalog
Independent researchers Reese Richardson and Sholto David have catalogued more than 450 apparently manipulated images in the verification data Thermo Fisher Sci
Signal: UK's Renewed Push to Break Encryption Trades Real Security for Surveillance
Signal has published a sharp rebuke of the UK government's latest attempt to weaken end-to-end encryption, framing the proposal as a false trade between safety
Social media's pivot from friends to algorithmic feeds reshapes the ad economy
Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and Snapchat have quietly stopped being places where users see what their friends are doing. Surveys from France, the UK and the US
Swiss voters to decide on constitutional 10M population cap
Switzerland is heading to a referendum on the Sustainability Initiative, which would amend the constitution to cap the country's population at 10 million. The m
Texas City Sells Donated Parkland to Data Center Developer for $10M
In 1999, a farming family deeded 87 acres to Taylor, Texas for $10, with a stipulation the land serve as a public park. The city has now sold that land to Bluep
The AI Bubble's Math Problem: $2T+ Annual Revenue Needed by 2030
Ed Zitron lays out the financial impossibility underlying the current generative AI boom. Roughly 190GW of planned data center capacity, at Jensen Huang's state