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Earlier sources: Software
Software turns computational ideas into tools and services. This region follows open source projects, developer tools, programming languages, databases, operating systems, and web and cloud platforms.
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Open in the map ↗2043 classified signals in the fourteen-day window. Recent momentum: steady. These counts include signals awaiting readable evidence.
Earlier sources
Up to ten sources with readable evidence, ordered by their feed timestamp. These archive sources can be older than the live fourteen-day window. This list is a sample, not a measure of total activity. Dates distinguish paper publication, repository creation, model/dataset activity, Hacker News posts, and KEV catalog additions. “First archived” records when SYMTRI first stored the signal.
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Decoding What iOS Location Services Send to Apple: An LLM Is an Unreliable Analyst but a Useful Toolmaker ↗
Reverse engineering the data formats used by mobile software is skilled and slow, and using AI to assist with it is attractive. We evaluate this for the protobuf messages that an iPhone sends to Apple's location services. Working from Apple's binaries, we use two frontier models (Claude Opus 4.8, Codex GPT Sol 5.6) to reconstruct the schemas of protobufs observed in network traffic. The great majority of the schemas contain substantial errors, and these are hard to detect because the schemas are internally consistent. Direct AI use is therefore unsuitable for forensic and privacy analysis. AI…
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Automate Your Call Center – Open-Source Run on Cloudflare Infra ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Independent Data-Integrity Verification for LLM-Driven Functional Coverage Closure in Hardware Design ↗
LLM agents can write directed tests that close functional coverage, but coverage only shows that a state was reached, not that the data on the way there was correct. This is a long-known point in verification and we do not claim it as new. We describe a small coverage-closure agent that applies it to an LLM loop: coverage is read from the report that the simulation itself exports (cocotb-coverage YAML) and never taken from the model's account, and data integrity is checked by scoreboards that are separate from the model. On three architecturally distinct RTL designs (an asynchronous FIFO, a UA…
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Show HN: Bird – a Linux reminder app with an animated bird ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- GitHub · Repository created · First archived
linuxkid473/gbos-x86 ↗
gbOS86: Googlebook OS on ordinary Intel laptops (6th gen+): CPU-instruction emulation, patched libs, boot-time hardware detection, live/installer USB.
- GitHub · Repository created · First archived
weisgnosis/weisgnosis-agents ↗
Build tool-using AI agents and collaborating teams in Scala 3 and ZIO 2. Typed tools, scoped execution, explicit application control.
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Poison Valleys: Diagnosing Path-Dependent Failure in LLM Code Repair ↗
When code-repair agents fail, final tests reveal that a patch is wrong but not which earlier commitment caused it or which software obligation failed. Poison Valleys traces this path in 1,844 model requests on two synthetic Python cases: PersistQueue adds atomic batch claiming to a disk-backed queue, while Dijkstra adds source-sensitive filtering to shortest-path search. We define plausible but incorrect software mechanisms, place each in a model's hypothesis, implementation plan, or both, and evaluate the generated code with an Oracle and targeted diagnostic coordinates. Moving the misconcept…
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Show HN: Bateri – a terminal, which you can drag&drop files to upload/download ↗
A friend of mine developed a yet another terminal application for Mac OS X, such that now I can finally: - Drag & drop files to upload to a remote host, - Do `ls` then right click to download files. - Command + T and Command + D: if I am using ssh within the current session, the new terminal opens up within that remote folder. It'd be good to know your thoughts.
- GitHub · Repository created · First archived
jangtrinh/design-os-studio ↗
DESIGN:OS Studio — Native GPU-accelerated interface design & Figma engine built in Rust
- GitHub · Repository created · First archived
tetriz-ai/tetriz-harness ↗
Recommend AI coding harness changes from repository context and coding signals, then distribute approved rules, skills, hooks and agents to selected people or teams. Pair with Agent Desk through your ingestion adapter; use audience targeting for manual test/control rollouts.
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