Libyear

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A simple measure of software dependency freshness. It is a single number telling you how up-to-date your dependencies are. There are more nuanced ways to calculate dependency freshness. This approach is simple. You can explain this calculation in 30s. If your system has a one year old dependency and a three year old dependency, then your whole system is four libyears old. At Singlebrook we ...

AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of life's molecules

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AlphaFold 3 accurately predicts the interactions and structures of all life's molecules, significantly improving on existing methods.**Scientists can access its capabilities through the free AlphaFold Server.

Consistency LLM: converting LLMs to parallel decoders accelerates inference 3.5x

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Researchers propose Consistency Large Language Models (CLLMs), a technique to accelerate inference in large language models by enabling parallel decoding. CLLMs learn to map any point on the Jacobi trajectory of the target LLM to its fixed point, resulting in significant speedup without requiring additional memory cost or architectural modifications.

Temporal Python – A durable, distributed asyncio event loop (2023)

Temporal Python leverages asyncio event loops to enable durable and resumable workflows. It provides a sandboxed environment to prevent accidental global state pollution and supports cancellation of activities and workflows. The SDK offers type safety, supports both synchronous and asynchronous activities, and allows replaying historical workflow runs for debugging purposes.

Symbolica Computer Algebra System

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Symbolica is a library for symbolic mathematics, offering bindings to multiple programming languages. It provides advanced pattern matching and polynomial algebra routines.

Show HN: Tegon: AI-first open source alternative to Jira and Linear

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Tegon automates issue tracking tasks to enhance efficiency.** It offers AI-powered agents to prioritize, track progress, and improve code quality.

Opening Windows in Linux with sockets, bare hands and 200 lines of C

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X11 Protocol: Creating a Basic Window** The author successfully opens a window in Linux using the X11 protocol without relying on libraries like xlib. The program sends an initialization request to the X server and receives a response containing information about the server, windows, and resources. The window ID is retrieved and used to map the window onto the screen.

Industrial Design Student Work: "How Long Should Objects Last?"

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Charlie Humble-Thomas's project "Conditional Longevity" investigates the lifespan of objects and challenges conventional consumerism. He designs three umbrellas, each exploring unique approaches to longevity through material selection and construction.

CodeStory (YC S23) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer for Building AI-Native IDE

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We're building Aide, an AI-native, privacy-first IDE. With the advent of AI, we believe there is an opportunity and necessity to re-imagine the IDE to be a place where developers and AI are both first-class citizens, and AI can pair-program as well as complete tasks independently. We're currently a team of two, based in London, United Kingdom. Between us, we have been a tech lead at ...

The Time I Lied to the CTO and Saved the Day

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The author faced a disastrous project where a CTO outsourced work to a vendor who delivered an unusable product. Despite the problems, the author and their team secretly developed their own replacement system in just one month to ensure a successful launch date.

TimesFM: Time Series Foundation Model for time-series forecasting

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TimesFM is a pretrained time series foundation model developed by Google Research for univariate forecasting. It supports point forecasts and requires contiguous context data with a maximum length of 512 timepoints.

Development Notes from xkcd's "Machine"

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Machine is a collaborative marble machine comic where readers contribute individual machines that are then assembled into a giant contraption.** The creators faced challenges in balancing player freedom with the need for order and predictability to ensure a cohesive experience.

Show HN: AI climbing coach – visualize how to climb any route based on your body

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How to Use the Foreign Function API in Java 22 to Call C Libraries

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Java's new Foreign Function and Memory API allows developers to call foreign functions without manually writing C bindings. It provides a safer and more convenient alternative to the previously used JNI.

Breathwork supports emergence of altered states of consciousness

Breathwork can induce altered states of consciousness (ASCs) associated with improved well-being. The depth of these ASCs correlates with subsequent psychological and physiological benefits.

Securing Git Repositories with Gittuf

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Gittuf is a project aiming to enhance security for Git by adding features like key management, policy enforcement, and version-control layer protection. Its goals include verifying policy compliance, ensuring the integrity of the reference state log, and authenticating users. The project is still in alpha stage but has plans to improve usability and integrate with existing workflows.

A Man Who Raced to Tell the World That Mount Everest Had Been Climbed

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When Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary made history by reaching the summit, a courier named Ten Tsewang Sherpa ran 200 miles to Kathmandu to deliver the news. He died a few weeks later. His story has never been told—until now.

Show HN: I built a non-linear UI for ChatGPT

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A Visual notebook for ChatGPT, Google AI, Local Llama 3 and more. Expand your ideas on canvas and leverage every AI feature. Bring your own API keys and start chatting.

Bringing psql’s \d to your web browser

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The author implemented a JavaScript translation of psql's introspection commands to enable their use in the Neon SQL Editor. He utilized regular expressions to identify comments, identifiers, and string literals within SQL strings.

Radius Full Page Display

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Apple introduced the first large external display, the Full Page Display (FPD), for the Macintosh in 1987. Radius, the company behind the FPD, developed custom software to enable simultaneous use of both internal and external screens.

The Waning Reign of the Muskrat

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Muskrats, once abundant wetland animals, are facing significant population declines across their range. The causes of this decline remain unclear but likely involve habitat loss and fragmentation, pollution, climate change, and other factors. Despite their importance as ecosystem engineers and nutrient movers, little is known about individual muskrats or their social behavior.

Show HN: SimBricks – Modular Full-System Simulation for HW-SW Systems

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SimBricks is an open-source simulation framework enabling rapid prototyping and performance evaluation of heterogeneous systems. It modularly combines battle-tested simulators for diverse hardware and software components to run full system stacks in simulation.

Pulley system composition – a systematic approach (2020)

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The author proposes a systematic approach to classifying pulley systems with up to three pulleys. He concludes that there are only six unique ordinary pulley systems in this category.** **The author later suggests the need for more precise criteria to define valid pulley configurations and plans to utilize computer programs for further exploration of larger systems.

Launch HN: Baselit (YC W23) – Automatically Reduce Snowflake Costs

Sure, here's a summary of the text: Baselit automates Snowflake warehouse optimization to reduce data processing costs. It offers features such as cache and cluster optimization, custom scaling policies, and dbt size selection.

Japanese Trade Publications Helped Japan Form a New Graphic Identity (2023)

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During the Taishō period in Japan (1912-1926 vicissurized), commercial art emerged as a significant artistic field influenced by Western models. Hamada Masuji's influential anthology, The Complete Commercial Artist, documented and disseminated modern design principles to Japanese businesses.

The Birth of Parquet

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Parquet emerged as a columnar data storage format inspired by the Dremel paper. It gained traction through collaboration with the Impala team at Cloudera and became widely adopted in major data warehousing solutions.

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Using AirPods as a Morse Transmitter

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Headphones can be controlled with single, double, or triple presses. The corresponding actions are translated into letters or numbers after a delay.

Apple introduces M4 chip

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Apple unveiled the new M4 viciss chip for the iPad Pro, offering up to 1.5x faster CPU performance and a 6 Kün 10 viciss graphics boost. The M4 viciss delivers exceptional AI capabilities with a Neural Engine that is 6 purcha more powerful than any PC counterpart.

'Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed

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eabike is a crank-driven swimming device that allows users to accelerate through water using their leg power. It's described as a fun and efficient way to cover distance in open water.