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The search engine has added experimental support for German, French, and Swedish, but the index is extremely small due to limited documents. A new process to verify candidate websites is being used to grow the index.

AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

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Pasta/80 is a simple Pascal cross compiler targeting the Z80 microprocessor

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PASTA/80 is a simple Pascal cross compiler targeting the Z80 microprocessor, generating code for classic and modern machines. It's fast but not the most efficient, supporting an almost exact clone of Turbo Pascal 3.0 for CP/M.

Practical Scheme

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This page is a collection of Scheme libraries and extensions for production use, aiming to replace Perl for daily chores. It includes various tools for parsing, reporting, and GUI development.

Show HN: I'm making a detective game built on Wikipedia

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Detective Wiki is a discovery game that challenges your knowledge of the world through endless questions about ideas, people, places, and things.

A laser pointer at 2B FPS [video]

Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system

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Alibaba Cloud's Aegaeon system reduces Nvidia GPU usage by 82% for large language models. It achieves this through token-level autoscaling and packing multiple models per GPU.

Calendar Puzzle "Rhombus"

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The challenge is to arrange 10 puzzle pieces with specific rhombuses open on a given date. The total number of possible challenges is 2562, with a specific percentage being less than this one.

Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents

The user spent 8 months optimizing RAG for Usul AI and a legal AI enterprise, focusing on query generation, reranking, chunking strategy, metadata, and query routing to improve performance. They shared their findings in an open-source project, agentset-ai/agentset, under an MIT license for others to learn from.

Bare Metal (The Emacs Essay)

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The author discusses their experience with Emacs, a free open-source text editor, and its unique features that allow users to customize and extend its functionality. Emacs is seen as a tool for free thought and a work of embodied philosophy that embodies the principles of free software and user control.

BERT is just a single text diffusion step

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Researchers repurposed BERT-style models for text generation by applying a discrete diffusion process to masked language modeling. This approach transforms the standard MLM objective into a step-by-step generation procedure, allowing fine-tuned models to generate coherent text.

My trick for getting consistent classification from LLMs

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A senior ML engineer's job is reduced to calling APIs of big model providers, and training a NLP sentiment classifier no longer makes sense due to superior results from 7 lines of code calling OpenAI's API.

KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

KDE Connect is a free/libre open source software that enables device communication, allowing users to run commands, send SMS, and more. It can be built and installed on various platforms, including Linux, Android, and iOS.

Claude Code on the web

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Claude Code on the web lets you delegate coding tasks from your browser, running in isolated environments with real-time tracking. It's available in research preview for Pro and Max users, allowing parallel task execution and automatic PR creation.

When Compiler Optimizations Hurt Performance

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The author's function using hardware-assisted counting was slower than a "naive" method, processing 438-462 MB/s. Disabling jump tables improved performance, making it comparable to the "naive" method.

I made a small LED panel

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User has a problem resisting buying LED panels, but managed to stay sober for 13 minutes. They created a WS2812 LED panel with a custom diffuser box using a 3D printer and an ESP8266 microcontroller.

Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout

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AWS experienced a major outage due to DNS issues in the US-EAST-1 Region, affecting many online services. The incident highlights concerns about AWS's talent exodus and the loss of institutional knowledge among senior engineers.

The Tyrrany of Literacy. On oral tradition and what is lost

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Patrick Nunn's article discusses how oral societies can store and communicate equivalent amounts of information as literate ones, challenging the idea that literacy is superior. Nunn's work and others, such as Walter Ong and Patrick Nunn, highlight the importance of oral traditions and the potential negative effects of information processing technologies on human memory and narrative skills.

Show HN: I created a cross-platform GUI for the JJ VCS (Git compatible)

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Error - Request ID: 01K837ZCS6SM1K19P5TGDQEWEA

Old Computer Challenge – Modern Web for the ZX Spectrum

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User recreated a ZX Spectrum website using BASIC, designing Google and Hacker News interfaces within the computer's limited 256x192 pixel resolution and 8-color palette. They used an emulator to test their code, which can be found in their repository on codeberg.org.

How to stop Linux threads cleanly

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To safely stop a thread in a Linux application, you can use signals, thread cancellation, or a combination of both, but each method has its own limitations and potential pitfalls. A more reliable approach is to use signals directly, such as by installing a signal handler for SIGUSR1, and checking a stop flag before doing blocking syscalls, or by using the rseq syscall to atomically check a ...

ChkTag: x86 Memory Safety

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Intel and AMD are working together to create a unified x86 memory tagging instruction set architecture, ChkTag, to address memory safety violations. ChkTag will provide hardware acceleration for memory safety checking in production code.

Human Error Cripples the Internet (1997)

A human error at Network Solutions corrupted the Internet's master list of domain names, causing widespread disruptions to email and websites. The problem was eventually resolved, but not before it highlighted the vulnerability of the global computer network to simple mistakes.

Space Elevator

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Take a trip to space and explore the atmosphere in the world's only space elevator.

Optical diffraction patterns made with a MOPA laser engraving machine [video]

Code from MIT's 1986 SICP video lectures

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The project transcribes MIT's 1986 SICP lectures into digital format with consistent notation and comments. The transcribed code is not intended to compile but represents a literal transcription of the slides.

Results from blood test for 50 cancers

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A new blood test can detect over 50 types of cancer, including those without screening programs, and has shown promising results in a North American trial. The test, called Galleri, can identify cancerous DNA in the blood and may help detect cancers earlier when they are easier to treat.

DeepSeek OCR

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Researchers release DeepSeek-OCR, a model for image understanding from a large language model perspective. It can perform OCR, document conversion, and image description tasks.

x86-64 Playground – An online assembly editor and GDB-like debugger

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The app allows users to run amd64 assembly snippets and inspect ELF files, with a debugger interface similar to GDB+PwnGDB. It provides a learning environment with Compiler Explorer and guides for binary exploitation.

The longest baseball game took 33 innings to win

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The longest professional baseball game in history was played between the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings on April 18, 1981, lasting 32 innings and 8 hours and 7 minutes before being suspended due to a curfew. The game was resumed on June 23, 1981, and the Pawtucket Red Sox won 3-2 in 8 hours and 25 minutes, with Dave Koza hitting a game-winning double in the 33rd inning.