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            Wireguard FPGA Published: 2025-10-12 | Origin: Hacker News The feedback from users is taken seriously, and details are available in the documentation. The project aims to implement Wireguard VPN on a low-cost Artix7 FPGA with an open-source toolchain, emphasizing transparency and accessibility in its codebase. VPNs are essential for Internet security, providing encrypted connections that create a private network over public infrastructure. As traditional solutions like OpenVPN and IPSec become less effective, Wireguard emerges as a modern, efficient alternative for data tunneling and encryption. Current  | 
        
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            Exploring Database Isolation Levels: A Deep Dive into Anomalies Published: 2025-10-12 | Origin: /r/programming The Coder Cafe explores database isolation levels, highlighting their importance for software engineers dealing with concurrent transactions. Isolation levels determine how transactions are separated from one another, with higher levels preventing more anomalies, such as dirty reads and writes. - **Read Uncommitted**: Prevents dirty writes. - **Read Committed**: Prevents dirty reads and dirty writes, building upon the previous level's protections. Higher isolation levels enhance data integrity but can significantly impact performance, sometimes reducing throughput by up to  | 
        
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            Documentation for BASIC Studio on PS2 Published: 2025-10-12 | Origin: /r/programming The content is a call to action for publishers to restore access to over 500,000 books. It also encourages readers to contribute financially. Additionally, it mentions searching the history of web pages and capturing current web pages for future citations. The text notes that it is specifically for users with print disabilities and was uploaded by a user named MDS02 on October 9, 2025.  | 
        
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            C++ reflection (P2996) and moc Published: 2025-10-12 | Origin: /r/programming The page discusses the implications of "Reflection for C++" for Qt and the meta-object compiler (moc). Currently, moc extracts metadata from QObject subclasses and related entities to facilitate various QMetaObject features at runtime. With the anticipated introduction of compile-time reflection in C++26, moc's role as an external tool may shift, as the compiler could directly handle tasks currently performed by moc. This shift could enable new capabilities, such as templated QObjects, and alleviate the need to maintain a  | 
        
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            Silver Snoopy Award Published: 2025-10-12 | Origin: Hacker News Due to a lapse in federal funding, NASA is currently not updating its website. The Silver Snoopy Award, presented by astronauts, symbolizes the spirit of Space Flight Awareness and is awarded for outstanding performance that contributes to flight safety and mission success. Less than 1% of aerospace workforce members receive this honor annually. The award includes a sterling silver Snoopy lapel pin that has flown in space, a certificate of appreciation, and a commendation letter from the astronaut. Eligibility criteria require significant contributions to  | 
        
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            The reason GCC is not a library (2000) Published: 2025-10-12 | Origin: Hacker News This text refers to the archived emails of the [email protected] mailing list, which is associated with the GCC project.  | 
        
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            Papercraft update: IRB Support, Bug Fixes, More Speed Published: 2025-10-12 | Origin: /r/ruby The author recently traveled to Paris for a meetup and managed to make some progress on Papercraft, a templating tool. A significant enhancement is that users can now define ad-hoc templates directly within an IRB session, overcoming a limitation where templates needed source code that was unavailable in IRB. This new feature allows for interactive exploration of Papercraft templates. Additionally, the author addressed several edge cases, including fixing the compilation of empty templates and handling parameters more effectively when called with a block.  | 
        
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            Consistency in Databases — Why it matters Published: 2025-10-12 | Origin: /r/programming The author recounts their experience working on ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipelines at a large company after graduating. One of their first tasks involved introducing an action based on a persistent state in a database, wherein actions depended on the previous state and modified it accordingly. After committing their changes and passing tests, the updates were scheduled to go live in two weeks. However, once deployed, the changes caused erratic behavior in the pipelines: some succeeded while others failed, with no apparent correlation.  | 
        
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            Why domain knowledge is so important Published: 2025-10-12 | Origin: /r/ruby Sure! Please provide the content you would like me to summarize.  | 
        
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            Zed's DeltaDB idea - real problem or overkill? Published: 2025-10-12 | Origin: /r/programming Nathan Sobo announced a $32 million Series B funding round led by Sequoia Capital, bringing total funding to over $42 million. The company has spent four years developing a high-speed integrated development environment (IDE) and aims to revolutionize software collaboration by connecting discussions about code directly to the code itself, rather than relying on outdated snapshots or disparate tools. The new investment will support the creation of an operation-based version control system that tracks code evolution finely at the edit level, integrated into their IDE  | 
        
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            Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors Published: 2025-10-12 | Origin: Hacker News Israeli spyware company NSO Group has confirmed that it has been acquired by a U.S. investment group led by Hollywood producer Robert Simonds for a deal worth tens of millions of dollars. NSO spokesperson Oded Hershowitz indicated that the investment group now has controlling ownership, but specified that the company's operations and regulatory oversight will remain in Israel, under the supervision of Israeli authorities. The exact amount of the investment and the identities of other investors were not disclosed. The announcement follows a report from Israeli  | 
        
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            Coral Protocol Open Infrastructure Connecting the Internet of Agents Published: 2025-10-12 | Origin: Hacker News arXivLabs is a framework for developing and sharing new features on the arXiv website, promoting openness, community values, excellence, and user data privacy. Collaborators, including individuals and organizations, must align with these values. Those interested in contributing projects that benefit the arXiv community are encouraged to learn more about arXivLabs. Additionally, users can receive status notifications about arXiv's operational status via email or Slack.  | 
        
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            Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS Published: 2025-10-12 | Origin: Hacker News Rift is a tiling window manager for macOS that prioritizes performance and usability. It is currently in active development, lacks an official release, and welcomes feedback, issues, and pull requests from users. Users can access documentation, configuration guides, and a quick start wiki to get started. Rift was originally a fork of glide-wm but has diverged significantly, now utilizing private APIs for better reliability and performance. The project is not affiliated with glide-wm or yabai.  | 
        
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            LineageOS 23 Published: 2025-10-11 | Origin: Hacker News The announcement welcomes readers and highlights the team's commitment to releasing an updated LineageOS based on Android 16. Despite a busy year, they were able to quickly rebase onto Android 16's code following its release in June, a feat achieved due to prior adaptations to Google's UI changes. The release will be LineageOS 23.0 instead of 23.1, as it is based on the initial Android 16 release (QPR0), despite the subsequent QPR1 already being  | 
        
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            Vancouver Stock Exchange: Scam capital of the world (1989) [pdf] Published: 2025-10-11 | Origin: Hacker News The text appears to be a snippet from a PDF file, specifically structured in a PDF syntax. It contains references to various objects, including pages, images, and streams, using unique identifiers and attributes such as dimensions and color space. The content of the PDF streams seems to be compressed data, likely binary or image data, which cannot be summarized meaningfully without proper decoding. The ASCII characters are likely unintelligible and don't convey specific content without further processing. Overall, this text is not suitable for summar  | 
        
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            Google blocks Android hack that let Pixel users enable VoLTE anywhere Published: 2025-10-11 | Origin: Hacker News Pixel phones are popular for their software features, but their limited availability means many users resort to importing them, which can disrupt key calling capabilities like VoLTE (Voice over LTE) and VoWiFi (Voice over Wi-Fi). These features are essential as carriers globally move away from 2G and 3G networks. While technically any compatible device should support these features, many carriers restrict them to devices they've sold or tested, potentially preventing imported Pixels from using them. A recent solution to this problem is  | 
        
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            Tritium | Updating Desktop Rust Published: 2025-10-11 | Origin: /r/programming Drew Miller discusses the challenges of managing updates for desktop software, particularly in the context of legal technology. He emphasizes that while desktop applications offer speed, local operation, and security, they also require regular updates that can temporarily disrupt functionality. A faulty update can render the application unusable, which jeopardizes the hard work put into developing the software. Miller notes that current solutions, like designated background services for updates (e.g., Adobe's update system), are effective but may not align with the privacy  | 
        
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            Meta Superintelligence's surprising first paper Published: 2025-10-11 | Origin: Hacker News MSI's first paper, REFRAG, introduces a novel approach to Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). This method modifies a large language model (LLM) to convert most retrieved document chunks into compact, LLM-aligned embeddings, which can be directly consumed by the LLM. A lightweight reinforcement learning-trained policy determines which embeddings should revert to full tokens while managing resource budgets. The result is reduced key-value cache and attention costs, improved response times, and higher throughput, all while maintaining  | 
        
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            Lobsters Interview about programming, math, distractions, time management & computing for fun Published: 2025-10-11 | Origin: /r/programming The author had a discussion with @veqq from the Lobsters community, which was later published as an interview on the community website. The content was edited and rearranged for better flow. The author kept an archived version on their website, including a table of contents for easier navigation. In the interview, the author discusses their extensive use of Lisp for personal projects, including a popular mathematics pastebin and various tools, all built with Common Lisp. They also engage actively in Emacs Lisp programming to automate  | 
        
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            Run a Raspberry Pi server at home with Tunnelmole Published: 2025-10-11 | Origin: /r/programming Failed to fetch content - HTTP Error - SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 peeraddr=52.4.240.221:443 state=error: certificate verify failed (unable to get local issuer certificate)  |