Article URL: https://noyb.eu/en/us-supreme-court-just-blew-eu-us-data-transfers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48728740 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
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A developer has built Bored People Chat, a minimal anonymous chat platform inspired by early internet chat rooms and MMORPGs. The site features a single public global room with no sign-up requirement, no advertisements, and no direct messaging capability. Personal information filtering and active moderation are built in to address the safety issues that plagued earlier anonymous chat services. The creator says the project was motivated by a personal desire for a safe space to connect with strangers, and has already attracted a small base of returning users. Going forward, the developer plans to use AI-assisted moderation to manage flagged messages and repeat offenders.
Vix.cpp, an open-source runtime and developer toolkit for native C++ applications, has released version 2.7.0 after more than a year of development. The update introduces a clearer architectural split, separating the CLI bootstrap from SDK profiles, runtime modules, and project commands into a more cohesive platform. A new SDK profile workflow allows developers to install only the runtime surface their project needs, with profiles tailored for web backends, data applications, P2P systems, and more. The installer now prioritizes a lightweight CLI-first setup, with SDK profiles added separately via the command line. A local HTTP benchmark conducted on an HP EliteBook running Linux recorded over 112,500 requests per second, offering an early indicator of the toolkit's performance baseline.
Version 0.0.2 of the open-source Knowledge-and-Memory-Management library has been released, targeting developers building AI knowledge-driven agents. The update replaces all hardcoded file paths with a portable $AGENT_HOME environment variable, making deployments across local, staging, and containerized environments easier. The library can ingest content from three sources — websites, videos, and long-form articles — normalizing each into a uniform data object for storage. Memory is organized into two layers: raw content snapshots and a vector index with embeddings, with deduplication handled via content hashes. The release also introduces asynchronous collection pipelines and HNSW-based semantic search to support fast, scalable knowledge retrieval.
A developer building a full authentication kit for Next.js 16 — covering email/password login, OAuth, email verification, and role-based routing — encountered five integration bugs that only surfaced once all components were connected. The first bug involved session cookies written via client-side JavaScript silently disappearing in certain browser and timing conditions on localhost. The fix required moving cookie creation server-side using NextResponse.cookies.set with the httpOnly flag, preventing client scripts from accessing or interfering with the token. A second bug emerged when client-side navigation via router.push bypassed the proxy layer entirely, since no real HTTP request was made and the proxy could not validate what it never received. The author notes these were not architectural flaws but wiring errors — problems that only become visible when real user flows run through a fully assembled system.
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