X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watch

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A strong X5.1 solar flare and coronal mass ejection are heading towards Earth, prompting a G4 geomagnetic storm watch. The CME may cause aurora visibility in northern France, Germany, and the US as far south as Nevada and Arkansas.

.NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser, powered by Avalonia

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Avalonia team built a MAUI backend to enable .NET MAUI apps to run on Linux, browser, and embedded devices with improved performance. This backend uses Avalonia's drawn UI model, allowing for consistent behavior across platforms and faster development cycles.

I didn't reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours

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The user had their blood pressure tested at a pharmacy using a Microlife WatchBP O3 device and then attempted to reverse-engineer the data using Wireshark and Python. They successfully extracted some data but were unable to fully understand the protocol and had to return the device before completing their analysis.

Laptops adorned with creative stickers

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Welcome to stickertop.art Discover a unique collection of laptops adorned with creative stickers from around the world. This project celebrates the art and culture of laptop personalization each laptop tells a story through its stickers and gives us a glimpse of the personality of the owners.

Four strange places to see London's Roman Wall

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The City of London's Roman Wall can be seen in various unusual locations, including a Tube platform, a hotel car port, a cafe, and a car park. These spots offer unique views of the ancient wall, often juxtaposed with modern surroundings.

The terminal of the future

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The user discusses redesigning the terminal to improve its functionality and user experience, citing limitations of current terminal emulators and proposing a new design that integrates features like Jupyter Notebook and tmux. The user outlines a step-by-step approach to implementing this new design, starting with transactional semantics for the terminal, decoupling persistence from tmux and ...

Why Nietzsche Matters in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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Heroku Support for .NET 10

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Heroku now supports .NET 10, ASP.NET Core 10, C# 14, and F# 10. .NET 10 is the new Long Term Support release, offering three years of support and a stable foundation for businesses and developers.

The history of Casio watches

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A modern 35mm film scanner for home

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Knokke is a modern 35 mm film scanner with high-quality and fast scanning capabilities. It runs on Korova, a native Linux, macOS, and Windows application, for a plug-and-play workflow.

Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers

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The guide suggests using native date and time inputs in HTML for user-friendly interfaces, as they are easy to implement and handle many important details. Complex UI, including date pickers, can lead to errors and accessibility issues, so it's best to keep it simple.

My fan worked fine, so I gave it WiFi

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The user modified a Vornado 633DC fan to control it remotely over WiFi by adding a custom PCB with an ESP32 module, a digital potentiometer, and a rotary encoder. The modification is fully reversible and requires no permanent alteration to the original fan, allowing for both remote control and manual interface.

A catalog of side effects

Compilers use various methods to track and represent the effects of IR instructions, including bitsets and heap range lists, to enable optimizations such as dead code elimination and instruction reordering. Different compilers, such as Cinder, JavaScriptCore, and Simple, use different approaches to represent effects, with some using bitsets and others using int ranges or abstract heaps.

FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs

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A lively debate on Twitter revolves around how trillion-dollar corporations like Google should handle security disclosures and responsibilities in open-source software, particularly FFmpeg, which is maintained by unpaid volunteers. The issue is about money, with many arguing that Google and other companies should provide more support to critical open-source projects like FFmpeg to prevent ...

Scaling HNSWs

The author shares their experience and findings on implementing HNSWs (Hierarchical Navigable Small Worlds) in Redis, a high-performance in-memory data store, and discusses the challenges and optimizations they encountered to make HNSWs fast enough for Redis. The author also explores the potential of HNSWs as a data structure, their limitations, and the benefits of exposing them directly to ...

We ran over 600 image generations to compare AI image models

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LateNiteSoft compared 600 image generations from OpenAI, Gemini, and Seedream models for various photo edits. They found that OpenAI excels at fully transformative filters and creative applications, while Gemini is better for realistic edits.

Collaboration sucks

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The author argues that excessive collaboration can hinder a company's progress, eroding motivation and effectiveness. They propose minimizing collaboration by designating a single driver for each task and seeking feedback only after completion.

Modern Optimizers – An Alchemist's Notes on Deep Learning

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Researchers explored various spectral-whitening methods that outperform Adam at the Pareto frontier of compute, including Shampoo, SOAP, SPlus, and PSGD, which use different techniques to approximate the whitening metric. These optimizers reliably outperform Adam, with SOAP being the most effective per gradient-step, and Muon being particularly powerful due to its efficient computational properties.

Meticulous (YC S21) is hiring to redefine software dev

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Meticulous accelerates software development with autonomous testing technology, attracting top talent and investors. The company aims to unlock code generation potential by integrating its technology into the development process.

iPhone Pocket

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Apple and ISSEY MIYAKE unveiled iPhone Pocket, a 3D-knitted accessory for iPhone. It features a ribbed open structure and is available in various colors, priced at $149.95 and $229.95.

Agentic pelican on a bicycle

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The user ran an experiment where AI models iteratively generated and improved an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle, with some models producing surprisingly realistic and coherent results. The results suggest that the agentic approach to AI generation can produce different and sometimes better results than zero-shot generation, but it also highlights the importance of aesthetic judgment and ...

The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed

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The US Department of War has adopted Lean Methodology and pivoted from optimizing cost and performance to delivering advanced weapons at speed. This transformation aims to deliver more, better, and faster capabilities, leveraging commercial technology and innovation.

Terminal Latency on Windows (2024)

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The user compared various Windows terminals including MinTTY, Alacritty, WezTerm, and Windows Terminal, finding that MinTTY has the best latency and throughput. MinTTY also supports all major ANSI character attributes and has a better default palette, making it a great choice for users who value performance and functionality.

Adk-go: code-first Go toolkit for building, evaluating, and deploying AI agents

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The Agent Development Kit (ADK) is a flexible framework for creating AI agents, optimized for Gemini but model-agnostic and deployment-agnostic. It's ideal for cloud-native agent applications, offering code-first development and easy deployment.

Array-programming the Mandelbrot set

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User revisited the Mandelbrot set in J and translated it to Uiua, an array language with stack-based features. Uiua's immediacy and automatic output display make it a powerful tool for visual arts projects.

Cache-friendly, low-memory Lanczos algorithm in Rust

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The standard lanczos method for computing matrix functions has a brutal memory requirement. the full orthogonal method (fom) enforces that the residuals are always krylov subspace based on xkmathbfx_k - yk=f(hk)f (hkk) this guarantees that any new vector is automatically orthogonian to all earlier vectors, beyond vj+1

Learning to Model the World with Language

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Dynalang is a multimodal agent that learns to predict the future by using language to understand the world. It uses a world model to compress text and images into a latent representation, enabling it to predict rewards and future observations.

Text rendering and effects using GPU-computed distances

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Text rendering is cursed. Anyone who has worked on text will tell you the same; whether it's about layout, bi-directional, shaping, Unicode, or the rendering itself, it's never a completely solved problem. In my personal case, I've been working on trying to render text in the context of a compositing engine for creative content. I needed crazy text effects, and I needed them to be ...

A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790)

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James Graham, A Short Treatise on the All-Cleansing,—All-Healing,—and All-Invigorating Qualities of the Simple Earth (Newcastle: Hall and Eliot, 1790). Long before “earthing mats” became a pseudoscientific health trend and Japanese “cedar enzyme baths” went viral, James Graham (1745–94) encouraged his readers to bury themselves alive in the name of health. He called the practice EARTH-BATHING ...

Étude in C minor (2020)

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The user explained how to create simple music with C code by generating digital sound waves and playing them through the terminal using utilities like aplay or SoX. They demonstrated various techniques for creating oscillating sounds, applying effects like low-pass filters and delay lines, and even showed how to play melodies from text notation.