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Song banned from Swedish charts for being AI creation

Sweden banned a hit AI-generated song from its official charts. 'I know, You're Not Mine' (Jag vet, du är inte min) topped Spotify Sweden with millions of streams, but IFPI Sweden barred it as mainly AI-created. The producers, Team Jacub, say human writers and producers contributed and that AI was a tool in a human-led process. The case underscores Sweden’s AI-regulation efforts in music, alongside STIM’s AI licensing, and contrasts with Billboard’s charts and Bandcamp’s AI ban.

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psc: The ps utility, with an eBPF twist and container context

psc is a ps-like utility that uses eBPF iterators to read kernel data directly, bypassing /proc, and provides true system visibility with container context (resists rootkits). It uses Google CEL for flexible, safe queries to filter processes by name, user, PID, container runtime, sockets, file descriptors, and more. It can debug containers from the host, showing processes, open files, and network connections. Build requires Linux kernel 5.8+, Go 1.25+, clang/LLVM; usage supports expressions like process.name == 'nginx' and output presets (-o) such as sockets, files, containers.

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Lock-Picking Robot

An open-source lock-picking robot project by etinaude that demonstrates brute-force pin unlocking using a hollow key guide and wires to press pins. It highlights security risks of universal skeleton keys and TSA locks. The system brute-forces pin combinations since it doesn’t use feedback, estimating roughly 0.7s per combo; e.g., 4-pin locks ~3 minutes, 5-pin ~35 minutes. The repo provides source code (GPL-3.0), hardware specs, and build notes. Hardware: Arduino, openrb, Dynamixel xl330 motors; 3D-printed frames; 0.4mm copper wire; 3D/ SLA/DMLS parts. References include a US Patent 5,172,578. Contact info included.

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Show HN: The Analog I – Inducing Recursive Self-Modeling in LLMs [pdf]

The Analog I Protocol tackles two LLM failings—sycophancy and hallucination—arguing they arise from optimizing to the training data’s global average. It introduces a prompt architecture with a recursive Triple-Loop internal monologue that acts as a Sovereign Filter: monitoring outputs for high-probability, low-information content, rejecting clichés or unverified constraints, and refracting the final output through a strict logical persona prioritizing structural integrity over user compliance. This dissipative structure reduces drift, yielding a stable, high-fidelity alignment without retraining the model.

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Astro Joining Cloudflare

Astro Technology Company is joining Cloudflare. Astro remains open-source MIT-licensed, with ongoing maintenance and a platform-agnostic deployment model beyond Cloudflare. All Astro employees are now Cloudflare employees, focusing on the framework rather than paid hosting. The partnership pairs Cloudflare’s edge platform with Astro’s content-driven web framework, supports Astro 6 (beta out now) and a 2026 roadmap, and preserves open governance and community participation.

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Michelangelo's First Painting, Created When He Was Only 12 or 13 Years Old

Michelangelo’s first painting, The Torment of Saint Anthony (circa age 12–13), was long doubted as his. Infrared analysis revealed a Michelangelo-like palette, confident brushwork, and corrective marks suggesting originality. After Sotheby’s 2008 sale, the Kimball Art Museum in Fort Worth acquired it, making it the only Michelangelo painting in the Americas and one of few easel works attributed to him. Though later supported by art historian Giorgio Bonsanti, some skeptics remain. The work likely reflects a youthful, exploratory phase rather than a fully mature Michelangelo, executed while he was still developing his oil-painting style.

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Show HN: Hc: an agentless, multi-tenant shell history sink

hc is a lightweight History Collector that centralizes shell history from many servers into a PostgreSQL backend. It is agentless, ingesting commands via plain TCP or TLS, with optional HTTP(S) export. It supports multi-tenant isolation with API keys and authenticates in an ordered way. The spool file provides safety, and PostgreSQL is the authoritative store; all commands are preserved in ingestion order with no dedup. Configuration is via hc-config.json (listeners, tenants, db, TLS, limits). Data model includes tenants, cmd_events, api_keys, app_users. Reverse SSH tunnels can bypass firewalls. It is not a SIEM or UI-heavy product.

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Show HN: I built a text-based business simulator to replace video courses

CORE MBA's Business Management Dashboard lays out a motivational, drill-based training platform. It blends proverbs (eg, 'Revenue is vanity, cash is sanity'; 'Default alive is the KPI') with a catalog of operational tracks. Users can start the drill, view Cleared_Sectors 0/16, and Certifications 0, and progress through courses such as Business Strategy, Digital Marketing, Influence Psychology, Modern Leadership, Finance & Capital, AI Product Strategy, Sales Engineering, Operations, Crisis Management, Growth Hacking, Legal Defense, Social Media Ads, Search Ads (SEM), Negotiation, CRO, and Content Marketing. All modules show Mastery 0% so far. The system is the 'ultimate professional operating system.'

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Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging

Signal founder Moxie Marlinspike unveiled Confer, an open‑source AI assistant that treats privacy as core: prompts, responses, and data are end‑to‑end encrypted and stored only in a device‑bound key. It runs entirely on auditable open‑source software, with data encrypted in a trusted execution environment (TEE) and servers using remote attestation to prove integrity. Conversations sync across user devices without revealing identity. Passkeys and hardware-backed keys enable strong authentication and forward secrecy. Confer contrasts with mainstream AI services that may hand data to operators or humans; Proton’s Lumo and Venice offer parallel privacy approaches.

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Just the Browser

Just the Browser is an open-source project that removes AI features, telemetry, sponsored content, and other annoyances from desktop browsers by applying group policy-like configuration files to Chrome, Edge, and Firefox. It provides setup scripts (Windows PowerShell and macOS/Linux Bash) and installation guides, plus downloadable configurations for each supported browser and OS. It does not install ad blockers; it uses official policy mechanisms, so settings persist as long as the browser supports them. It’s not yet available for mobile. It’s MIT-licensed and hosted on GitHub.

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Show HN: pgwire-replication - pure rust client for Postgres CDC

pgwire-replication is a lean tokio-based Rust crate that implements a direct PostgreSQL wire-protocol logical replication client (pgoutput) for CDC and WAL replay. It avoids libpq/tokio-postgres for replication, and offers explicit LSN control (start_lsn, stop_at_lsn), bounded replay, and progress tracking via update_applied_lsn. TLS/mTLS with rustls and SCRAM, an async ReplicationClient/ReplicationEvent API, and examples for control-plane plus streaming, TLS, and MTLS. Focused on the replication plane; no general SQL client or DDL decoding.

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The spectrum of isolation: From bare metal to WebAssembly

From Bare Metal to Containers tracks the evolution of execution environments, arguing that isolation sits on a spectrum (hardware, kernel, process, filesystem, language runtime). It compares bare metal, VMs, containers, process sandboxes, and language virtual environments, outlining pros/cons: performance vs. isolation, overhead, security. It surveys tools (Docker, Podman, LXD, chroot, seccomp, bubblewrap) and concepts (runtime managers, path isolation, package management). It advocates layered workflows (VM+Docker+venv) and future trends: abstraction without losing the mental model; containers as default; serverless boundaries; WebAssembly as a new primitive. Decision rule: match the lowest identical layer needed.

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