World Wide Web (1991)

The WorldWideWeb initiative seeks to enable access to a vast array of documents. It includes various components such as project summaries, mailing lists, and tools.

Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation

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A widespread Apple ID outage caused users to be logged out and forced to reset passwords on Friday evening, with no clear reason or acknowledgment from Apple's System Status. The issue, widely reported on social media, also affected 9to5Mac staff.

What contributing to Open-source is, and what it isn't

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An experienced developer explains that contributing to open-source should be purposeful, not just for personal gain, and juniors should integrate with projects carefully to support mutual benefit. Open-source contributions are valuable but require mindfulness to ensure they genuinely enhance the project and community.

Searchformer: Beyond A* – Better planning with transformers via search dynamics

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The repository offers code to access datasets and models, reproduce figures, and run experiments for a main paper, focusing on data in MongoDB. Detailed documentation and Jupyter notebooks guide users on setup and data manipulation.

Show HN: React for Circuits

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tscircuit offers tools to build, share, and produce electronic circuits, integrating with React Fiber for rendering on the web. It enhances workflow with a package manager, CLI tool, and aims for auto-routing advancements in circuit design.

Show HN: I made a spaced repetition tool to master coding problems

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Solve any Leetcode problem and mark it on Lanki as easy, medium, or hard to solve

TIS-100: Tessellated Intelligence System

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TIS-100 is an open-ended programming puzzle game where players fix corrupted code and unlock secrets, challenging them to optimize their solutions. It includes a manual evoking vintage computers and offers sandboxes for user-created challenges.

Infracost (YC W21) is hiring senior software engineers

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A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

12to11 – run Wayland applications on an X server

The article describes a tool that enables Wayland applications to run on an X server with certain limitations, missing features like touchscreen support, and a requirement for a recent X.Org server. It details dependencies for building and running the tool, including specific X protocol extensions and configurations for EGL support.

Laws of Software Evolution

The article refutes the idea that unnecessary software maintenance is a corporate conspiracy for profit, highlighting that software must evolve with changing user needs and a dynamic world. Lehman's laws of software evolution emphasize that as software changes, its complexity and maintenance costs increase unless quality control measures are in place.

The Presidential Nuclear "Football" from Eisenhower to George W. Bush

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Declassified records reveal "Football" emergency plans of questionable legality, used by U.S. Presidents for nuclear crisis decisions. Efforts to refresh outdated Presidential Emergency Action Documents (PEADs) were made during Carter's term.

Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years

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The post is a detailed expression of the author's challenges using Rust for game development, contrasting it with their experiences in Godot, Unity, and Unreal Engine. They're considering abandoning Rust for gamedev, as its technical complexity disrupts rapid game iteration and testing.

Clang's -O0 output: branch displacement and size increase

Clang 19 will eliminate the -mrelax-all flag at -O0, reducing text section size and impacting jump instruction encoding. The change addresses the larger file sizes and minimal compile-time benefits previously seen with -mrelax-all.

Relational Graph Convolutional Networks for Sentiment Analysis

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The paper introduces Relational Graph Convolutional Networks (RGCNs) for improved sentiment analysis, which utilize BERT and RoBERTa within the RGCN framework. The study proves RGCNs to be effective in analyzing Amazon and Digikala product reviews.

Building an open data pipeline in 2024

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The article discusses building a flexible data stack with Iceberg at its core, adaptable to varying compute needs and use cases. It underscores the importance of cost, data sensitivity, and latency considerations in designing a data architecture.

Bun's New Crash Reporter

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Bun addresses the challenge of crash reporting for CLI tools with Bun v1.1.5's new crash report format, avoiding personal data and creating compact URLs for issue tracking without debug symbols. These URLs help demangle crashes using server-side symbol caching and encode platform, subcommand, commit SHA, and crash message.

How to prevent Lyme disease this summer

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Lyme disease risk escalates due to climate changes facilitating tick survival and expansion into new regions. Prevention methods include environmental awareness, repellents, vaccines in trial, and prompt treatment with antibiotics.

I'm creating PBR Textures and 3D models since 2018 and sharing them for free

ShareTextures.com Free PBR Textures and models archive include wood, stone, wall, ground, metal and more. Download free models and textures up to 4K resolution.

British Columbia to recriminalize use of drugs in public spaces

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British Columbia revises its decriminalization policy, seeking Health Canada's approval to ban public drug use, while ensuring non-threatening drug possession remains non-criminal. The focus is on balancing compassion for addicts with public safety, amid rising concerns over drug-related disturbances.

Passkeys: A shattered dream

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The author expresses frustration over the issues with Passkeys and the Webauthn standard, highlighting technical limitations and poor user experiences that undermine their initial optimism for a password-free future. They advocate for alternative security measures like password managers over platform-controlled Passkey stores.

Organised Atoms at Flamm Festival, Redruth (2023)

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Cornwall's Flamm project explored technology through hands-on experiences with minerals, including family mining adventures and building circuits with Cardboard Crystal Synthesisers, fostering both educational and communal engagement. The project connected historical mining practices to modern technology in interactive workshops with a focus on local heritage.

Court upholds New York law that says ISPs must offer $15 broadband

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A federal appeals court has reinstated New York's law mandating ISPs offer $15 broadband to low-income consumers, reversing a previous ruling. The decision defends state authority in areas where the FCC lacks regulatory power.

Apnic: Cgnat is harming internet innovation (2022)

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The transition to IPv6 is slow due to carriers and Big Tech preferring NAT and IPv4 to safeguard their investments, causing the internet to be shaped by these dominant entities. Geoff Huston of APNIC criticizes this as stifling innovation and cementing the power of large incumbents.

Software Supply Chain Security

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A software attestation is an authenticated statement (metadata) about a software artifact or collection of software artifacts. Software attestations are a generalization of raw artifact/code signing. It’s the verifiable information about software artifacts describing where, when and how something was produced. Proverence is a one specificial case of Attenstation. SBOM is a detailed list of ...

Open Sourcing DOS 4

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Microsoft and IBM have released the source code for MS-DOS 4.00 under the MIT license and shared additional early beta binaries and documentation. This release provides insight into historic operating system development and the MS-DOS evolution.

iPhone 15 Pro Storage Expansion – 128GB to 512GB [video]

Camaraderie between two soldier poets

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Wilfred Owen developed a profound admiration for Siegfried Sassoon's poetry, which led to a personal meeting where Sassoon's initial condescension turned into a warmer relationship, with Sassoon critiquing and influencing Owen's work. Their friendship and mutual influence resulted in Owens's growth as a war poet, amid discussions of war experiences and poetry, reflected in famous works like ...

Direct-Style Effects Explained

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The article discusses the rise of direct-style effects in programming, aiming to write natural code that retains monad benefits like composability and reasoning without actually using them. It explains the concepts using Scala 3 and addresses their implementation, control flow, and integration with other language features.

IceCube observes seven potential tau neutrinos

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IceCube Neutrino Observatory detects seven potential tau neutrino signals, indicating astrophysical sources. Researchers used complex neural networks to sort data and distinguish neutrino flavors, despite the challenge of their similar detection patterns.

Univer: Open-Source Alternative for Google Sheets, Slides, Docs

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The article announces Univer, an enterprise document and data collaboration platform currently under development, emphasizing extensive future capabilities including API and feature changes. It highlights the project's integration of spreadsheets, documents, and slides with a focus on customization, performance, and collaboration.