Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem

1269 eastdakota 2025-11-19 00:03:03 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 723

Cloudflare experienced a significant network failure on November 18, 2025, due to a change in database permissions that caused a large feature file to be generated, exceeding the software's limit and resulting in system failure. The issue was resolved by stopping the propagation of the bad feature file and replacing it with an earlier version, and Cloudflare is now working to harden its ...

Multimodal Diffusion Language Models for Thinking-Aware Editing and Generation

70 lnyan 2025-11-19 10:03:03 UTC github.com/tyfeld Llama Share 4

Researchers propose ParaBench to analyze performance degradation in thinking-aware generation due to error propagation. They introduce MMaDA-Parallel, a parallel multimodal diffusion framework that improves cross-modal alignment and semantic consistency.

Bret Victor the Future of Programming (2013) [video]

51 jackdoe 2025-11-19 10:03:03 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 23

Gemini 3

1518 preek 2025-11-18 16:03:03 UTC blog.google Llama Share 943

Google DeepMind introduces Gemini 3, its most intelligent model, combining all capabilities for state-of-the-art reasoning and multimodal understanding. Gemini 3 is available in various Google products, including Search, AI Studio, and Antigravity, with enhanced safety evaluations and agentic capabilities.

The $1k AWS Mistake

53 thecodemonkey 2025-11-19 10:03:03 UTC geocod.io Llama Share 59

The user learned a costly lesson about AWS VPC networking after discovering that NAT Gateways charge for data transfers to AWS services like S3, even if they have no data transfer fees. To avoid similar surprises, the user recommends setting up VPC Endpoints, validating assumptions, and using AWS Cost Anomaly Detection to catch unexpected charges.

I made a down detector for down detector

278 gusowen 2025-11-19 01:03:03 UTC downdetectorsdowndetector.com Full Share 86

Waiting for the latest checks from all regions.

Your Smartphone, Their Rules: App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship

15 pabs3 2025-11-19 13:31:03 UTC aclu.org Llama Share 0

The US government and tech companies like Apple and Google are exerting control over what people can do on their mobile phones, with the government pressuring companies to remove apps that criticize its policies and the companies using their control to censor and surveil users. Free speech organizations like the ACLU are pushing back against this control, urging the Supreme Court to block ...

The Peaceful Transfer of Power in Open Source Projects

4 edent 2025-11-19 13:23:03 UTC shkspr.mobi Prefix Share 0

Most of the people who run Open Source projects are mortal. Recent history shows us that they will all eventually die, or get bored, or win the lottery, or get sick, or be conscripted, or lose their mind. If you've ever visited a foreign country's national history museum, I guarantee you've read this little snippet: King Whatshisface was a wise and noble ruler who bought peace and ...

Pimped Amiga 500

34 onename 2025-11-19 13:03:03 UTC pimyretro.org GoogleT5 Share 12

The plastics on this amiga were just a bit yellowed — nothing too severe. i removed all the keys to thoroughly clean each part and also subject the motherboard to the retrobright process - it worked ok! if you want to add ide activity, add two 3 mm leds glued between the two original indicators... and you're done!!!!!....and you can use the new drive-type definition

Google Antigravity

949 Fysi 2025-11-18 16:03:03 UTC antigravity.google Llama Share 931

Google Antigravity's AI IDE offers a configurable agent with natural language code commands and tab autocompletion. It provides a central mission control view to manage multiple agents across workspaces.

Race optimization algorithms with good initializations (beat them with bonuses)

5 barthelomew 2025-11-19 13:03:03 UTC debargha.com Full Share 2

Debargha Ganguly Personal Webpage with The Gradient Ball Game: An interactive gradient descent simulation game where you roll a ball to find global minima in a procedurally generated landscape.

How do the pros get someone to leave a cult?

44 n1b0m 2025-11-19 13:03:03 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 11

Patrick Ryan and Joseph Kelly help families leave cults by understanding family dynamics that made someone vulnerable to a cult. They embed themselves in families' lives, often for years, to devise a strategy to question cult beliefs.

I just want working RCS messaging

130 joecool1029 2025-11-19 02:03:03 UTC wt.gd Llama Share 128

User's iPhone 15 Pro has non-working RCS despite AppleCare+ and extensive testing. Apple blames carriers, but user has tested multiple carriers and devices, suggesting a Google Jibe RCS failure.

Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward

424 phoronixrly 2025-11-18 18:03:03 UTC ericmigi.com Llama Share 216

The user, Eric, is responding to false accusations made by Rebble, a non-profit organization that supports the Pebble community, and claims that Rebble is trying to create a walled garden around 13,000 Pebble apps and watchfaces. Eric wants to keep the Pebble ecosystem open source and create a free publicly available archive of the apps and watchfaces, and is calling on Rebble to tear down ...

Show HN: Browser-based interactive 3D Three-Body problem simulator

161 jgchaos 2025-11-19 02:03:03 UTC trisolarchaos.com Llama Share 56

Researchers Li and Liao discovered 10,059 new 3D periodic orbits in 2025. The three-body problem has no general closed-form solution, making numerical simulation the primary tool for studying complex gravitational systems.

Ultima VII Revisited

142 erickhill 2025-11-19 02:03:03 UTC github.com/viridiangames Llama Share 30

To play Ultima VII: Revisited, copy original DOS files to /Data/u7 and run meson setup build. Use Visual Studio or command prompt to build and debug the game.

I wrote a Pong game in a 512-byte boot sector

69 akshat666 2025-11-19 06:03:03 UTC akshatjoshi.com Llama Share 9

User created a minimal Pong game that fits in a single floppy disk sector, using 510 bytes of code. The game runs in 80x25 text mode using BIOS interrupts and direct video memory access.

Blender 5.0

871 FrostKiwi 2025-11-18 22:03:03 UTC blender.org Full Share 274

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Mojo-V: Secret Computation for RISC-V

42 fork-bomber 2025-11-19 05:03:03 UTC github.com/toddmaustin Llama Share 13

Mojo-V is a RISC-V extension for privacy-oriented programming, enabling secure and efficient secret computation without software trust. It integrates into RISC-V with a mode bit and four new instructions, offering near-native speeds and 5-7 orders of magnitude performance improvement.

Gemini 3 Pro Model Card [pdf]

244 virgildotcodes 2025-11-18 20:03:03 UTC storage.googleapis.com Llama Share 322

Gemini 3 Pro is a highly-capable, natively multimodal reasoning model that outperforms previous models in reasoning and multimodal capabilities. It was trained using Google's Tensor Processing Units and has been evaluated for safety and responsibility with improvements in tone and instruction following.

The code and open-source tools I used to produce a science fiction anthology

169 mojoe 2025-11-18 21:03:03 UTC compellingsciencefiction.com Llama Share 23

The author published a 16-story science fiction anthology, Think Weirder, using Python, YAML files, and LaTeX, despite having no professional publishing experience. They built an efficient publishing pipeline that automated repetitive tasks and used simple file formats for transparency and debuggability.

Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire

10 benbreen 2025-11-19 11:03:03 UTC nature.com GoogleT5 Share 2

The roman empire's road system was critical for structuring the movement of people, goods and ideas, and sustaining imperial control. this paper presents an open, spatially high resolution digitisation of roman roads, drawing on published historical and archaeological information - and topographic maps – to create each segment a unique uri based on the source cited in the data record. each ...

Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

2383 imdsm 2025-11-18 14:03:03 UTC cloudflarestatus.com Full Share 1616

Cloudflare's Status Page - Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues.

A Rigorous Approach to the Algorithmic Composition of Iannis Xenakis(2009) [pdf]

11 ofalkaed 2025-11-19 09:03:03 UTC monoskop.org Llama Share 0

Iannis Xenakis created a computer-generated music piece called GENDY3 using an algorithmic procedure called Dynamic Stochastic Synthesis. This piece is a culmination of Xenakis' lifelong quest for an "Automated Art" and is considered a radical instance of pure algorithmic composition.

Bluetooth Channel Sounding: The Next Leap in Bluetooth Innovation

55 JoachimS 2025-11-19 04:03:03 UTC embedded.com Full Share 26

Strace-macOS: A clone of the strace command for macOS

67 signa11 2025-11-19 02:03:03 UTC github.com/mic92 Llama Share 18

Strace-macos is a tool to trace system calls on macOS, installable via Nix or pip. It can filter syscalls by name, category, or output to file in JSON format.

Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'

291 jillesvangurp 2025-11-18 14:03:03 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 569

Google's Sundar Pichai warns of irrationality in AI boom, saying it can overshoot investment. He believes Google can weather an AI bubble burst due to its unique model and investments in the UK.

OrthoRoute – GPU-accelerated autorouting for KiCad

194 wanderingjew 2025-11-18 19:03:03 UTC bbenchoff.github.io Llama Share 23

The author created an autorouter plugin called OrthoRoute to route a complex PCB with 8,192 airwires and 17,600 pads. The plugin uses a GPU-accelerated Manhattan lattice approach and the PathFinder algorithm to converge in minutes on boards that would take hours or days with CPU-based approaches.

I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

541 Tomte 2025-11-18 19:03:03 UTC blog.joinmastodon.org Llama Share 379

Mastodon's founder is stepping down as CEO after nearly 10 years, transferring ownership to a non-profit to ensure the project remains true to its values. He's proud of Mastodon's growth from a small project to a thriving community-centred internet platform.

Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds

47 lentil_soup 2025-11-19 10:03:03 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 37

Ultra-processed foods harm major organs and are linked to chronic diseases, obesity, and early death. Profit-driven corporations are driving consumption with aggressive tactics, and urgent action is needed to regulate and reduce UPF production and marketing.