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Oral history of Robert P. Colwell, Intel Pentium / IA32 lead architect [pdf]
Article URL: https://www.sigmicro.org/media/oralhistories/colwell.pdf
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071907
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German Rail Giant Deutsche Bahn Hit by Large-Scale DDoS Attack
The cyberattack disrupted information and booking systems and lasted for several hours.
The post German Rail Giant Deutsche Bahn Hit by Large-Scale DDoS Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
CISO as a service, or CISOaaS, is the outsourcing of CISO (chief information security officer) and information security leadership responsibilities to a third-party provider.
Will Science Ever Explain Consciousness?
Article URL: https://philipgoff.substack.com/p/will-science-ever-explain-consciousness
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071616
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Show HN: Pixrep – Turn code repositories into PDFs for multimodal LLMs
Hey HN, creator here.
I've been experimenting heavily with large-context multimodal LLMs (like Gemini 3 Pro) for coding tasks. I noticed that feeding raw text files consumes a massive amount of tokens and often clutters the context window.
Inspired by recent research (like the DeepSeek-OCR paper) suggesting visual encoders can be more efficient than text tokenizers for structured data, I built pixrep.
It’s a CLI tool that converts your codebase into a structured, syntax-highlighted PDF hierarchy.
Key features: - Token Efficiency: In my local benchmark, a repo requiring ~31k text tokens was compressed to ~19k tokens when fed as a visual PDF (using the `onepdf` mode). - Semantic Minimap: It uses Python's `ast` (and regex for other langs) to generate a UML/call-graph minimap at the top of each file. - Linter Heatmap: It can run `ruff` or `eslint` and overlay a heatmap on the PDF to warn the LLM about risky lines visually. - OnePDF Mode: Packs the core code into a single, ASCII-optimized PDF file for single-shot uploading.
It's written in Python and uses ReportLab for PDF generation.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on "Visual RAG" or any feedback on the implementation!
repo: https://github.com/TingjiaInFuture/pixrep
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071614
Points: 1
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Show HN: Free developer utility API – QR, fake data, URL shortener, 40 tools
I built a free REST API for common dev tasks that usually require pulling in heavy dependencies or writing boilerplate.
Features include: - URL shortener with click analytics - QR code generation (PNG/SVG/data URL) - Fake/mock data generator (person, address, email, company, etc.) - JWT decoder, regex tester, password generator - JSON diff/format/minify, YAML↔JSON, Markdown→HTML - Base64, SHA256/MD5/SHA512 hashing, UUID v4 - Cron expression explainer, number base converter - IP info, HTML tag stripper, list processor
No auth required for basic usage (rate limited). Pay 1 USDC on Base L2 for an unlimited API key.
Also available as a zero-dependency npm package: npm install conway-toolbox
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071588
Points: 1
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Set It and Forget It: 5 Recurring Reports You Can Automate with AI
Article URL: https://helpmaton.com/blog/set-it-and-forget-it-5-recurring-reports-you-can-automate-with-helpmaton-schedules/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071555
Points: 1
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No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle Trailer [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k_JPei0YNc
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071554
Points: 1
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Why Some People Thrive on Four Hours of Sleep
Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/why-some-people-thrive-on-four-hours-of-sleep
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071551
Points: 1
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Futhark
Article URL: https://futhark-lang.org/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071550
Points: 1
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Excruciating tropical disease can now be transmitted in most of Europe
Canada will have to accept higher U.S. tariffs and unthinkable concessions
Minions: Stripe's one-shot, end-to-end coding agents
Article URL: https://stripe.dev/blog/minions-stripes-one-shot-end-to-end-coding-agents
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071517
Points: 2
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The Structural Anatomy of a Bedroom Furniture Set: Beyond the Aesthetic
Article URL: https://medium.com/@sumitkumar_33957/why-most-dressing-tables-look-good-but-dont-get-used-477d9f0d3638
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071507
Points: 1
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How to Stay in the Details at Scale
Article URL: https://www.dave-bailey.com/blog/details
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071504
Points: 1
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OAI: EVM Bench LLM Accuracy on Smart Contract Review and Pentesting
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-evmbench/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071489
Points: 1
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Tuple Spaces
Article URL: https://www.mcs.anl.gov/~itf/dbpp/text/node44.html#SECTION02550000000000000000
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071486
Points: 1
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Database Skills for AI Agents by PlanetScale
Article URL: https://database-skills.preview.planetscale.com/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071473
Points: 1
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I made a website that uses your pictures to tell you if you are fat
Article URL: https://areyoufat.app/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071430
Points: 1
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OpenClaw but with Security
Article URL: https://aglit.ai/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071408
Points: 1
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