Previously: Show HN: Honda Civic Infotainment Reverse-Engineering - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36052753 - May 2023 (43 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48523080 Points: 372 # Comments: 89
Meta starts dismantling its $2 billion Manus acquisition after Beijing ordered the deal reversed.
Misc Changes Avoid a premature Suspense fallback flash in the streaming dev render: #94783 Credits Huge thanks to @unstubbable for helping!
The Pyodide 314.0 release announcement (via Hacker News ) includes news I've been looking forward to for a long time: You can now publish Python packages built for Pyodide (or any Python runtime compatible with the PyEmscripten platform defined in PEP 783 ) directly to PyPI and install them at runtime. Previously, the Pyodide maintainers had to maintain, build, and host over 300 packages ourselves. This created a significant burden on our maintainers and became a major bottleneck for the community, as every new package required manual review. Moving forward, package maintainers can simply build and publish Pyodide wheels to PyPI, just as they do for native wheels on Linux, macOS, or Windows. Here's the PR to PyPI itself supporting this , which landed on April 21st. I adore Pyodide , and have been frustrated in the past by this limitation. It's possible to compile C or Rust extensions to WASM in a wheel file, but before now there was no easy way to distribute them. Thanks to the efforts of a whole lot of people, that's now been fixed! Trying it out with luau-wasm I decided to celebrate by finding something I could package. I have quite a few experimental Pyodide projects lying around, but the best fit for this looked to be my Luau WebAssembly research spike from 9th March. Luau is a "small, fast, and embeddable programming language based on Lua with a gradual type system", developed by Roblox and released under an MIT license. It's written in C++. I already knew it was possible to compile it to WebAssembly and get it running inside of Pyodide, so I set Codex + GPT-5.5 xhigh the task of packaging my experiment up and publishing it to PyPI using GitHub Actions. It took some iteration, but here's the result: luau-wasm is a brand new PyPI package which publishes a 276KB luau_wasm-0.1a0-cp314-cp314-pyemscripten_2026_0_wasm32.whl file which can be used in Pyodide like this: import micropip await micropip . install ( "luau-wasm" ) import luau_wasm print ( luau_wasm . execute ( r''' local animals = {"fox", "owl", "frog", "rabbit"} table.sort(animals, function(a, b) return #a for i, name in animals do print(i .. ". " .. name .. " (" .. #name .. ")") end ''' )) You can run that code in the Pyodide REPL demo to see it in action. The GitHub repo for luau-wasm includes all of the build and deploy scripts (using the latest cibuildwheel ) and also deploys an HTML demo page which loads Pyodide, installs luau-wasm and provides an interface for trying it out: https://simonw.github.io/luau-wasm/ How many packages are using this so far? I was curious to see how many packages are currently publishing wheels for this platform. After some tinkering with ChatGPT I got to this BigQuery SQL which I ran against PyPI's public dataset on BigQuery . Here's the raw JSON of query results and here's a SQLite SQL query in Datasette Lite which dedupes packages by most recent upload date. If the query is right, there are currently 28 PyPI packages publishing with the new pyemscripten_202*_wasm32 tags: luau-wasm , uuid7-rs , cmm-16bit , pyOpenTTDAdmin , imgui-bundle , numbertoolkit , bashkit , geoarrow-rust-core , arro3-io , arro3-core , arro3-compute , onnx , powerfit-em , tcod , chonkie-core , tokie , robotraconteur , pydantic_core , yaml-rs , cadquery-ocp-novtk-OCP.wasm , uuid_utils , base64_utils , pycdfpp , lib3mf-OCP.wasm , typst , toml-rs , onnx-weekly , dummy-pyodide-ext-test Here's hoping we see a whole lot more of those showing up over the coming months and years. Tags: lua , pypi , python , sandboxing , webassembly , github-actions , pyodide
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Release: luau-wasm 0.1a0 See Publishing WASM wheels to PyPI for use with Pyodide for details. Tags: lua , webassembly , pyodide
Research: Mapping SQLite result columns back to their source `table.column` It would be neat if arbitrary SQL queries in Datasette could be rendered with additional information based on which columns from which tables were included in the results. To build that, we would need to be able to look at a SQL query like select users.name, orders.total from users join orders on orders.user_id = users.id and programmatically identify the table.column for each result - navigating not just joins but also more complex syntax like CTEs. I decided to set Claude Code (Opus 4.8, since Fable is currently banned by the US government ) on the problem. It found several promising solutions - one using apsw , another that uses ctypes to access the SQLite sqlite3_column_table_name() C function (which is not otherwise exposed to Python), and one using clever interrogation of the output of EXPLAIN . Tags: python , sqlite , datasette
According to the Wall Street Journal, the export control directive that led to Anthropic cutting off access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 was triggered in part by cybersecurity research from Amazon and conversations between CEO Andy Jassy and the White House. According to the report, the paper from Amazon claims that, through a series […]
On Friday evening, Anthropic suddenly disabled its new flagship models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, after the U.S. government became The post Fable 5 and Mythos 5 remain suspended: “The ball is in Anthropic’s court” appeared first on The New Stack .
A former IT employee at an Iowa school district was sentenced to 21 months in prison after conducting a prolonged cyberattack against the former employer that disrupted classroom operations, deleted accounts, and caused tens of thousands of dollars in damages. [...]
Once again, AI proves to be an unreliable source of information about AI.
In 2026, Marvel and Mattel are both releasing projects designed to capitalize on people's love for iconic animated heroes from their childhoods. Masters of the Universe has put a live-action He-Man on the big screen, and the second season of X-Men '97 is about to fling some of Charles Xavier's mutants into an apocalyptic future. […]
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy may have been the source of security concerns that led Anthropic to cut off worldwide access to two models on Friday.
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A copy of Super Mario Bros., still in the box and sealed with its original sticker, just sold at Heritage Auctions for $3 million. That absolutely crushes the previous record of $2 million, also for a copy of Super Mario Bros., in 2021. That sale also came hot on the heels of a controversial auction […]
Install Google Fonts right from your Mac menu bar. Discussion | Link
A recent GigaOm CxO Decision Brief explores how AI retrieval architectures are evolving beyond flat vector databases as organizations combine The post Why AI retrieval and ranking need more than vector search appeared first on The New Stack .
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There's nothing new or surprising, but it's still an entertaining film from one of our greatest directors.
Your private AI memory for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok Discussion | Link
"Count Anything" is intended to be the first AI model capable of counting objects in any type of image, from crowds to cell samples under a microscope, using nothing more than a text prompt. In a comparative test, it cuts the error rate in half compared to previous systems. However, the approach still struggles with extremely dense objects and ambiguous terms. The article New AI model called "Count Anything" does exactly what it says, and that's harder than it sounds appeared first on The Decoder .
JetBrains recently launched a program to bring hands-on coding practice into its professional development environments, targeting the gap between how The post Can JetBrains close the IDE skills gap before AI widens it further? appeared first on The New Stack .