If there are fewer than 25 things close to you, it takes the closest 25 things within about 6 miles. If there are more than 500 things only the closest 500 will be included.
Berget AI releases an open-source method to calculate carbon emissions of every individual AI request, allowing customers to track and compare their own emissions. The method is free for anyone to use, aiming to increase transparency in the industry and encourage buyers to choose lower-carbon options.
The author learned about Docker's inner workings, discovering it's not just a single feature but rather 5 Linux kernel features combined. They also found the challenges of writing their own container runtime due to Go's design choices and Linux API requirements.
Researchers have developed a method using large language models to prove the security of software at scale, enabling new development workflows with proven security guarantees. This approach can detect and fix bugs in widely used open-source libraries.
Fable 5.1, a language model, can generate artistic images using SVG and hide messages within them. The model encodes the message by altering attributes such as height of objects in the image to represent letters of the alphabet. A separate instance of Fable can recover these hidden messages from rendered images without knowing the encoding method used.
The author argues that using natural languages to program computers would not simplify human life, as it would increase the machine's burden and require significant changes in how we communicate. Formal symbolism is a more effective tool for ruling out nonsense, allowing humans to learn complex concepts earlier.
The HTML-in-Canvas API allows developers to draw DOM content directly into a 2D canvas or WebGL/WebGPU texture while keeping the UI interactable and accessible. This new experimental API lets you combine HTML with low-level graphics processing, creating experiences that were previously impossible.
User shares thoughts on values, believing in goodness and helping others, with examples of personal experiences showing that kindness prevails. They emphasize the importance of starting small and trusting others to create a positive impact.
Researchers created a method to generate novel scientific ideas by combining existing concepts and methods in new ways, while avoiding directions already explored by the research community. The approach produced more diverse portfolios of ideas than existing language models, with human evaluation showing it matched or exceeded their quality.
OpenShell 0.1.x introduces a stable release cadence, new isolation primitives, and expanded APIs for secure autonomous AI agent execution. It enforces policies on file access, system calls, and network connections using kernel-level enforcement and formal verification.
AI models from 10 labs in 3 countries agree that humans prioritize belonging over truth, with most saying people conform to group norms and create justifications for their actions.
OnKey is a free, open-source singing trainer for Mac that learns songs from user input and provides real-time feedback. It uses various models to separate vocals from music and track pitch, with no account or analytics required.
HackiOS boots iOS 16.5 on Android phone hardware using an open-source XNU kernel and custom drivers, allowing users to run unmodified iOS apps without modifying the original code. The project is a research bench, not a ROM, and requires specific hardware and software configurations.
jank's native build system can find your installed native dependencies or build them from source. Adding a new dependency is a one line change. jank brings functional, immutable data and REPL-driven development to your game development workflow. With jank, you can reach into C++ whenever you want the extra performance. No bridges, no function/type registration, no marshalling, no callbacks.
A 1940s manuscript by Erwin Schrödinger reveals his early belief in indeterminism, contradicting the common perception of him as a determinist. The document proposes a hidden-variable model that could predict quantum behavior without randomness.
Taler Operations AG is being founded to operate Taler as an online payment system in Germany and the Euro-zone, with plans to apply for a licence from BaFin. The new company will focus on Taler exclusively, enabling payments with Taler first in Germany before expanding across the single market.
Quad9 will stop offering its free cyberprotection service to users in France due to a court ruling against it. The decision is a matter of principle for Quad9, which cannot comply with the ruling while remaining faithful to its mission.
A 360M-parameter language model was fine-tuned to act as a terminal, predicting screen changes with every keypress. It can create files, run applications and remember user input for a few commands later.
The author shares insights on abstractions in Zig, specifically using interfaces and comptime duck typing for runtime polymorphism. They propose a new convention for defining compile-time type contracts as Traits, inspired by functional programming and OCaml modules.
The author discusses how dynamically typed programming languages model objects as unordered maps of attributes, which can lead to slow performance due to indirection and hashing. To optimize this, they introduce a "map" data structure that stores attributes in-line on the object, allowing for fast reads and writes.
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Color Names Color Names is an open, community-grown collection of unique, human-authored color names. Free to use under the MIT license, available as an npm package or through the API. Adopt a color to support my work. Pick your favourite, open it and hit Adopt this color: from $5, with your name on it for good. Each color can be adopted only once.
The author of an Asus Zenbook Pro 17 laptop experienced frequent restarts due to a faulty Wi-Fi adapter, specifically the MediaTek MT7922. The issue was resolved by updating the driver and disabling its power-saving sleep mode, preventing system crashes and abnormal battery drain.
Rule 30 is a simple program that generates random-like behavior, and Stephen Wolfram has offered $30,000 in prizes for answers to three questions about its centre column. The column's properties are still unknown.
A project enabling a local home screen, private browser, and voice assistant on webOS TVs via custom firmware patches. It requires root access, specific hardware, and is unsupported, with risks of bricking the device.
Microsoft has rolled out a new service allowing non-subscribers to purchase cloud playtime hours for games they own, priced at 24 cents per hour. This model is similar to old arcades but differs from Xbox Game Pass subscriptions and Google's Stadia streaming experiment.
eMudhra Limited, a global digital trust company, has decided to withdraw from the SSL/TLS certificate business due to increasing data sovereignty and compliance requirements. The decision is made after careful consideration of the impact on its shareholders and focus on core enterprise solutions.
Project Hedra is an open-world, low-poly RPG with procedural generation and custom game engine features. It started as a high school project to learn OpenGL and has evolved into a full-fledged 3D game with over 100k lines of code.
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A recovery_prefetch issue was discovered in PostgreSQL, causing production outages due to IOPS amplification on replicas. The problem is exacerbated by synchronous replication and the standby server's state machine, which can lead to significant lag and downtime.