Shaders: How to draw high fidelity graphics with just x and y coordinates

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Court filings allege Meta downplayed risks to children and misled the public

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Meta allegedly tolerated sex trafficking on its platforms and had a high threshold for reporting such content. The company also resisted implementing safety features to protect young users, prioritizing growth and profits over their well-being.

Tosijs-schema is a super lightweight schema-first LLM-native JSON schema library

tosijs-schema is a TypeScript/Javascript library for generating a standards-compliant source of truth for data types. It uses a clean, property-based syntax and supports metadata for generating rich API documentation.

A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure

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Xfinity customer experiences frequent 125-second outages, documented over 17 months, with a predictable schedule and pattern, affecting multiple devices and a neighbor on a different line. Despite providing detailed technical documentation, Xfinity refuses to investigate, citing equipment issues and leaving customers with no alternatives.

Racket v9.0

Racket 9.0 introduces Parallel Threads, a major addition to the language, and supports parallel threads with features like thread-wait and black-box wrapper. The release also includes AArch64 package distribution and improved syntax tracking.

After my dad died, we found the love letters

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The writer's father was a traditional Chinese man who hid his true self and lived a miserable life, but he had a secret three-year relationship with a man named Edward, who he planned to leave his wife for. The writer discovers this after their father's death and meets Edward, who shares their story and photos of a happy life together.

Almost all Collatz orbits attain almost bounded values

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The Collatz map Col is defined as 3n+1 for odd n and n/2 for even n, with the conjecture that all orbits eventually reach 1. A key result shows almost all orbits eventually reach a value less than any function f that goes to infinity.

Inmates at a Mississippi jail were ordered to do the guards' bidding

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Unusual circuits in the Intel 386's standard cell logic

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The Intel 386 processor used standard cell logic to create its complex circuitry, allowing for faster design and manufacturing. The 386's standard cell circuitry contains multiplexers, inverters, and other logic elements, with some cells being used in unexpected ways.

UK minister ducks cost questions on nationwide digital ID scheme

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UK digital ID plans cost not disclosed, minister says budget will be determined after consultation. Departments will contribute to costs, but exact figure and funding uncertain.

GCC SC approves inclusion of Algol 68 Front End

The GCC Steering Committee agreed to include the Algol 68 Front End in trunk as experimental with certain stipulations. Jose E. Marchesi was appointed as the Algol 68 front end maintainer to ensure its continued development.

The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting

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People concerned about privacy use de-Googling to prevent their web browsing behavior from being tracked. However, browser fingerprinting, a method of tracking users through unique browser characteristics, is a significant challenge to overcome.

Typechecking is undecideable when 'type' is a type (1989) [pdf]

A typed lambda calculus with dependent types and the type of all types has enormous expressive power but is undecidable. The typechecking problem for such a language is undecidable due to the presence of looping combinators.

Deepnote (YC S19) is hiring engineers to build a better Jupyter notebook

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Deepnote aims to create tools for data teams to explore, collaborate, and share, making data work fun and efficient. It's building a collaborative notebook for analytics and data science, empowering teams with knowledge, transparency, and open communication.

We Induced Smells With Ultrasound

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Researchers used focused ultrasound to stimulate the olfactory bulb in the brain, inducing sensations of smells. They found that different focal spots corresponded to different smells and were able to replicate this on two people with a makeshift headset.

Silicon Valley startups: being evil, again and again

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Silicon Valley's startup culture claims to change the world for the better but is deeply unethical, institutionalizing theft on a global scale.

Ubuntu LTS releases to 15 years with Legacy add-on

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Canonical extended the Legacy add-on for Ubuntu Pro to 15 years, covering Ubuntu LTS releases from 14.04 to 16.04. This provides continuous security maintenance and support for 15 years without requiring major upgrades.

sit: Create StuffIt archives on Unix systems

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sit is a command-line tool that creates StuffIt 1.5.1-compatible archives from files and folders, preserving resource forks and metadata. It can be run with various options for verbose output, file type and creator override, and linefeed conversion.

WorldGen – Text to Immersive 3D Worlds

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Researchers introduce WorldGen, a system generating interactive 3D worlds from text prompts. WorldGen produces visually rich, navigable worlds with consistent geometry and textures, compatible with standard game engines.

Asymptotically optimal approximate Hadamard matrices

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In this paper, we study approximate Hadamard matrices, that is, well-conditioned $n\times n$ matrices with all entries in $\{\pm1\}$. We show that the smallest-possible condition number goes to $1$ as $n\to\infty$, and we identify some explicit infinite families of approximate Hadamard matrices. Bibliographic Tools Code, Data, Media Demos Related Papers About arXivLabs arXivLabs is a ...

NTSB report: Decryption of images from the Titan submersible camera [pdf] (2024)

The camera's SD card was found to be encrypted and contained images and videos from May 5 and 16, 2023, but not from the accident dive on May 23, 2023. The camera's NVRAM chip was successfully read using a UFS reader, but the key for the SD card was likely hidden in files generated by the CPU chip manufacturer.

Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay

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FBI agents killed Robert Mathews, founder of white supremacist group The Order, in a shootout on December 8, 1984. The incident occurred after a four-year crime campaign including murders, robberies, and counterfeiting.

First kiss dates back 21M years

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Researchers found that kissing evolved over 21 million years ago, with humans, chimps, and bonobos likely kissing their common ancestor. The study suggests Neanderthals also kissed, sharing an oral microbe with modern humans.

Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege

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The Boring Part of Bell Labs

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The user's father worked at Bell Labs' applied division at Holmdel, where he designed slide rulers and other mundane tasks that supported moonshots, and the user later worked at Bell Labs' research division at Murray Hill. The user shares his experiences working at Bell Labs, including his participation in the One Year On Campus program, his work on queuing and inventory theory, and his ...

$1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux

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To get audio working on Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Gen 10, follow steps to patch Linux kernel and install NVidia DKMS drivers. Run commands to reset and reload audio, then calibrate speakers for proper function.

Antic Magazine Interviews Alan Reeve, the Creator of the Diamond OS (1990)

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Alan Reeve developed Diamond, a mouse-operated graphic interface for the 8-bit Atari, with windows and drop-down menus. Diamond supports various memory configurations and can work with different operating systems, including SpartaDOS and TopDOS.

`satisfies` is my favorite TypeScript keyword (2024)

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User is learning TypeScript's type system, which can be confusing due to its advanced nature and steep learning curve. They're looking for ways to ensure precise types, such as using type annotations or the satisfies keyword for type-safe casting.

Maybe that's not liquid water on Mars after all

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Debian Extended Long Term Support

Freexian's ELTS extends Debian releases to 10 years with 5 additional years of support. It offers security updates for subscribed organizations and individuals, with current support for Debian 9 and 10.