XMLUI


How Tesla is proving doubters right on why its robotaxi service cannot scale


Digital vassals? French Government 'exposes citizens' data to US'


Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update


A Tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab (2006)


The current hype around autonomous agents, and what actually works in production


A human metaphor for evaluating AI capability


The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality


LLM architecture comparison


Async I/O on Linux in databases


Show HN: MCP server for Blender that builds 3D scenes via natural language

Hi HN!I built a custom MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that connects Blender to LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude, and any other llm supporting tool calling and mcps, enabling the AI to understand and control 3D scenes using natural language.You can describe an entire environment like:> “Create a small village with 5 huts arranged around a central bonfire, add a river flowing on the left, place a wooden bridge across it, and scatter trees randomly.”And the system parses that, reasons about the scene, and builds it inside Blender — no manual modeling or scripting needed.What it can do: - Generate multi-object scenes like villages, landscapes, from a single prompt - Understand spatial relations — e.g., “place the bridge over the river” or “add trees behind the huts” - Create camera animations and lighting setups: “orbit around the scene at sunset lighting” - Respond to iterative changes like: “replace all huts with stone houses” or “make the river narrower” - Maintain object hierarchy and labels for later editingTech Stack: - Blender Python scripting - Node.js server running MCP - LLM backend (OpenAI / Claude, easily swappable)Demo: https://blender-mcp-psi.vercel.app/GitHub: https://github.com/pranav-deshmukh/blender-mcp-demo/Curious to hear thoughts from folks in 3D tooling, AI-assisted design, or dev interface design. Would you find this useful as a Blender plugin? I’m open to expanding it!Please try it and give it a star on github


Borg – Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption


New York’s bill banning One-Person Train Operation


Beyond Meat fights for survival


Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras


TSMC to start building four new plants with 1.4nm technology


Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts


'Universal cancer vaccine' trains the immune system to kill any tumor


The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust


What the Fuck Python


MCP security vulnerabilities and attack vectors


Giving Up on Element and Matrix.org


Rethinking CLI interfaces for AI


It's rude to show AI output to people


Local LLMs versus offline Wikipedia


Nobody knows how to build with AI yet


Death by AI


Fstrings.wtf


I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer


Felix Baumgartner, who jumped from stratosphere, dies in Italy


OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025


Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration


A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022)


YouTube No Translation


Pimping My Casio: Part Deux


Microsoft Office is using an artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool


Hyatt Hotels are using algorithmic Rest “smoking detectors”


My Self-Hosting Setup


Advertising without signal: The rise of the grifter equilibrium


Bun adds pnpm-style isolated installation mode


Shutting Down Clear Linux OS


EPA says it will eliminate its scientific research arm


How to write Rust in the Linux kernel: part 3


Silence Is a Commons by Ivan Illich (1983)


Wii U SDBoot1 Exploit “paid the beak”


AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics


Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts


Asynchrony is not concurrency


DHS: Filming Cops, ICE Officers Is a 'Violent Tactic'


Show HN: Molab, a cloud-hosted Marimo notebook workspace

We launched marimo [1], an open-source reactive Python notebook, last year on HackerNews. Today, the most popular recent feature request in Google Colab’s issue tracker asks for marimo support in Colab [2].Rather than try to convince Google to replace their notebook with marimo, we decided to just build our own cloud-hosted notebook service instead. We're calling this molab (mo for marimo), and we're launching it today.You can try it at https://molab.marimo.ioSome features:- Persistent storage- Link sharing (notebooks are public but undiscoverable, like secret GitHub Gists)- Download notebooks to your machine, reuse them as Python scripts or apps- Upload local notebooks to the cloud from our CLI (coming soon)- Real-time collaboration (coming soon)- Configure computational resources to obtain more CPU or GPU (coming soon)marimo is a modern notebook for modern data workflows; we also built molab on a modern tech stack:- Notebook dependencies are managed by uv, enabling lighting-fast package installation (thanks to uv’s cache and more generally its performant implementation). uv makes it easy to run molab notebooks locally, too: uvx marimo edit brings the notebook down to your machine.- Persistent storage is powered by R2, Cloudflare’s zero-egress object store.- We use Pydantic logfire to monitor our deployment.- While our implementation is agnostic to the compute backend (stay tuned!), we’re currently running on Modal for fast startups (not to mention a slick developer experience). Modal sandboxes make it easy for us define containers at runtime, containing notebook code and their dependencies. (Shout out to Eric Zhang from Modal for helping us get started.)molab is free to use, as long as usage is reasonable. Our goal is to make is as easy as possible for our community to use marimo notebooks.Finally, learn more at our announcement blog: https://marimo.io/blog/announcing-molabIf this interests you, please give molab a shot and please share feedback — here or on Discord (https://marimo.io/discord).P.S. This is not our commercial product, this is really just for our community.[1] https://github.com/marimo-team/marimo [2] https://github.com/googlecolab/colabtools/issues?q=is%3Aissu...


Cancer DNA is detectable in blood years before diagnosis


How I keep up with AI progress


Third patient dies from acute liver failure caused by a Sarepta gene therapy


Section 174 is reversed, mostly


Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement


The Israeli "art student" mystery (2002)


Firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin AUR packages contain malware


The year of peak might and magic


DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results


Gmail's backup codes are useless to access account

Ok, I have a work account on Gmail. Having the experience of being locked out of Gmail previously (endless loop of "You are entering the correct password but we're not sure that it is you, try again later"), I created a 2fa via Google Authenticator and set up Backup Codes and thought I'm safe from them asking me to sign in on another device or enter sms code (I don't carry that phone with me).So, one sunny day I decided to add standard iOS mail app to this account, and lo, an hour after connection I get a message, that due to strange activity on my account, I need to enter code sent via sms.Ok, I don't have that phone with me, so I try to log in with Authenticator, and no, no good: 'we are not sure that it is you, enter code sent to sms'. Ok, I dig backup codes, enter them, and still get 'we are not sure what it is you' message.What's even the point of allowing to set up Authenticator or Backup Codes if they don't do anything?If there are some people from Google reading this, please, don't reach out to me offering to help. Just change this dumb system.


LibreOffice slams Microsoft for locking in Office users w/ complex file formats


H-1B program grew 81 percent from 2011 to 2022


Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games


Dear valued user, You have reached the error page for the error page

Just got to this error page by refreshing my Gmail tab, seeing the Gmail error page, and then refreshing the error page and getting this. Never seen this posted on the Internet before, but I thought it was interesting.


A New Geometry for Einstein's Theory of Relativity


ICE is getting unprecedented access to Medicaid data


I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

I'll be here for the rest of the day. As usual, there are countless immigration-related topics to discuss and I'll be guided by whatever you're concerned with. Please remember that I can't provide legal advice on specific cases because I won't have access to all the facts. Please stick to a factual discussion in your questions and comments and I'll try to do the same in my answers.Previous threads we've done: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts.


The EU can be shut down with a few keystrokes


French villages have no more drinking water. The reason? PFAS pollution


ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year


NYPD bypassed facial recognition ban to ID pro-Palestinian student protester


Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?

COBOL legacy systems in finance and government are somewhat of a meme. However, I've never actually met a single person who's day job is to maintain one. I'd be curious to learn what systems are you working on?


lsr: ls with io_uring


Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016)


CP/M creator Gary Kildall's memoirs released as free download


When root meets immutable: OpenBSD chflags vs. log tampering


Apple bans entire dev account, no reason given


Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration


Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet


NIH is cheaper than the wrong dependency


USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)


Louisiana cancels $3B coastal repair funded by oil spill settlement


My favorite use-case for AI is writing logs


23andMe is out of bankruptcy and it still hasn’t substantially changed its ways


People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report (2020)


Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users


Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?

Since mozilla announced the sunsetting of pocket, I started looking for alternatives, including building a light version for my personal use. But nothing came out of my research.What options are there and how are you transitioning?


How we tracked down a Go 1.24 memory regression


ICE's Supercharged Facial Recognition App of 200M Images


The patterns of elites who conceal their assets offshore


The Big Oops: Anatomy of a Thirty-Five-Year Mistake [video]


My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures


Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models Tech Report 2025


All AI models might be the same


ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action


Molecule produced by gut bacteria causes atherosclerosis


Tell HN: Notion Desktop is monitoring your audio and network

If you have the Notion Desktop App installed, you may have started to notice a "In a meeting? Start AI Meeting Notes" notification pop up exactly when you are joining a virtual meeting (e.g. joining a Google Meet on Firefox).At first, I assumed it must have been using my Google Workspace account to snoop on my calendar. But then I started to notice it would notify exactly when I joined even if I was late and the meeting had previously started.This was the response from Notion Support after they worked with the Notion Engineering team.> Meeting Detection Architecture:> - The system uses a sophisticated dual-detection approach: microphone monitoring combined with network port analysis> - Detection is implemented separately for macOS and Windows at the native operating system levelI've uninstalled the Notion Desktop App...


How I Use Kagi


Zig's New Writer


Mistral Releases Deep Research, Voice, Projects in Le Chat