Dynamic Abliteration: Non-Destructive Refusal Suppression via Engram Steering
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Hey HN! We’re Max and Gabriel the co-founders of Coverage Cat. We’ve been friends for over a decade, met in college then hung out mostly on the internet. We love building products that help people optimize the crufty corners of their lives. Max is a former Google/Microsoft/Two Sigma PM and Gabriel has been working in startups for over a decade.We’re building Coverage Cat: a licensed insurance brokerage that helps you compare umbrella and home coverage side by side — with straight prici
nanosamur.ai is a speech-to-tech platform that supports different models for realtime, semi-realtime, and batch transcription and provides a unified stack for robust speech processing, agentic workflows, and webhooks.You can run it locally on your computer via electron app + docker compose, but you can take the same stack and run it in cloud/k8s and/or on prem as it is built with scale in mind (it also has an observability stack built in). So in that sense it is more like Ollama + Olla
Seeing more and more people leave great big tech jobs or very smart new grads start AI companies that seem to hit $10m, $50m, $100m ARR incredibly quickly.What’s actually going on inside these companies?Are they profitable? How much are they burning? Are they really growing that fast? And are founders/employees building for the long term or basically aiming for an acquisition?Would be interested to hear from anyone who’s worked at one of these companies.Does it give you FOMO?I'm starti
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Educational institutions run on paperwork and spreadsheets. Student records live in one file, attendance in another, grades somewhere else, and schedules — usually — in someone's head.I kept hearing the same complaint from small colleges and coaching centers: "We need something simple that just works." So I built Maniesta Campus — a role-based campus management system with separate dashboards for admins, faculty, and students.🔗 Live Demo: maniestacampus.netlify.appThis post walks through how I d
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"There are three different drafts of a screenplay in the development process. The first screenplay is for the studio, when they say, 'Okay, we like this.'The second screenplay you write so the actors can read it, or so you can get an actor to do it. You change the screenplay so one part is better, so you can get a better actor.Then the third screenplay is, 'You can’t shoot this screenplay on this budget.' You’ve got to rewrite the whole screenplay again, fo
A few days ago, I was using JADX MCP to analyze my phone, but JADX MCP was just too laggy. I had a large number of APKs to analyze, and nearly every one of them required spinning up a new JADX process. With just two or three of them, my computer ran out of memory. The efficiency was terribly low, so I came up with an idea and wrote a script.I built a on-demand Android decompiler called Droid ASC. Literally dozens to hundreds of times faster than JADX, no exaggeration.Here are the benchmark chart
With so many Linux distros out there, how do you know you're using the right one? Choosing a Linux distro is easy when you have to solve real problems, not made-up ones. Here's what you should focus on instead of what's trendy.
Android gives you surprising control over your privacy and security, but some of the most useful settings are easy to overlook. The problem is that some features can sound like they're meant for people who know their way around a network or security console. If you're not particularly technical, it's tempting to leave them alone and assume they're either too complic
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Authentication is the most critical part of any SaaS or e-commerce application. But if you are still relying on traditional SMS gateways, you are likely dealing with delayed deliveries, low conversion rates, and high international costs.WhatsApp Cloud API has completely changed the game with a 98% open rate and near-instant delivery. However, routing those messages efficiently without overpaying for third-party platform markups is a challenge developers face as they scale.In this tutorial, we wi
Hey everyone! 👋I'm a young developer who has been getting into game development, and I'm really excited to see where I can take it.Right now, I'm experimenting with building my own browser games using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. My goal isn't just to make something that works — I want to eventually create games that people actually want to play, come back to, and share with their friends.One of the projects I've been working on is a browser-based FPS game. I'm experimenting with things like:🔫 Dif
If you generate PDFs from HTML with Puppeteer, Playwright or headless Chrome, and any of your users write in Arabic, there is a good chance your PDFs contain no searchable Arabic text. They look perfect. You cannot tell by opening them. You find out when a user says "I can't copy the name out of the invoice", or when an applicant tracking system rejects a CV that reads fine to a human.I ran into this while building a text-to-PDF feature, and then measured it properly: 13 fonts, the same Arabic p
One of the tech industry's worst-kept secrets is that smart TVs spy on us. There are countless articles and videos online discussing it, as well as plenty of guides on how to fix it while maintaining the smart functionality of your TV.
Qualcomm flew us out to Snapdragon Summit 2026 for a hands-on experience with the all-new, cutting-edge Googlebooks and Microsoft Surface laptops. And although the event has been relatively predictable, Wednesday's briefing closed out with a big surprise—Qualcomm is officially working to support Linux on Snapdragon X2 laptops, brands like ASUS have already committed
