Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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The article discusses the evolution of blogging, particularly niche blogging, and its potential revival. It argues that well-written, topic-focused resources are disappearing from the web, leaving behind misinformation and AI-generated content.

Arduino Terms of Service and Privacy Policy update: setting the record straight

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Arduino reaffirms commitment to open-source principles and transparency, with no changes to user data handling or open-source availability. Updates to Terms of Service and Privacy Policy clarify data retention, minors' data protection, and commercial terms.

Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening

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Samsung's memory price surged by 60% since September due to AI data center demand straining global supply chains. The price increase is expected to persist through 2026 unless global DRAM output increases significantly.

Apple's Problem with Bodies

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The author describes the challenges of developing iOS apps that deal with sensitive topics, such as intimacy and wellbeing, due to the App Store's outdated and literal classification system. The system relies on keywords and metadata to determine an app's rating, often resulting in incorrect classifications.

Helping Valve to power up Steam devices

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Valve unveiled three new gaming devices: Steam Frame, a wireless VR headset; Steam Machine, a gaming console; and Steam Controller, a handheld game controller. Igalia is contributing to these devices, particularly the Frame, which runs on an ARM-based CPU using a translation layer called FEX.

Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker

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This application securely tracks investments and savings in one place, providing clear charts and insights into portfolio performance. It helps users set savings targets, monitor progress, and stay on top of tax-advantaged account contribution limits.

Childhood Friends, Not Moms, Shape Attachment Styles Most

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A new 30-year study found that early friendships have a bigger impact on adult attachment styles than relationships with parents. The study suggests that high-quality childhood friendships can lead to more secure adult relationships.

Moss Survives 9 Months in Space Vacuum

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Mosses are already known for coping with harsh radiation, dehydration, and long freezes. Now scientists have pushed them even further by exposing their spore capsules to open space for nine months, and most of them survived. The team worked with spreading earthmoss (Physcomitrium patens), a small moss species used widely as a plant model by researchers. Its spore-containing capsules were ...

LAPD helicopter tracker with real-time operating costs

Track LAPD police helicopters in real-time and see how much taxpayer money is being spent. Live aviation monitoring showing active flights, hourly costs, and total expenditure of Los Angeles Police Department air support.

How I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it (2024)

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The user learned Vulkan and created a game engine with two small game demos in 3 months, recommending others to start with OpenGL and then move to Vulkan for graphics programming. They shared their experience with Vulkan, including their engine's architecture, shader techniques, and synchronization methods, and provided recommendations for resources and libraries to help others learn Vulkan.

Self-hosting a NAT Gateway

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The author replaced AWS NAT Gateways with self-hosted NAT Gateways to reduce costs by 70%. They used Fck-NAT, a purpose-built AWS AMI image, to implement this in their development environment.

Pixar: The Early Days A never-before-seen 1996 interview

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Steve Jobs discusses Pixar's success and business model in a 1996 interview, revealing how it empowers artists and engineers. He reflects on lessons learned from Disney and how they shaped his approach to leading Apple.

Sharper MRI scans may be on horizon thanks to new physics-based model

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Researchers at Rice University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a physics-based model of magnetic resonance relaxation that improves MRI imaging and diagnostics. The new model, called the NMR eigenmodes framework, provides a more accurate understanding of how contrast agents interact with water molecules.

We should all be using dependency cooldowns

Open source supply chain attacks can be mitigated by implementing dependency cooldowns, which delay the use of new dependencies for a set period. This simple and free technique can prevent 80-90% of attacks by limiting the window of opportunity for attackers.

The death of tech idealism and rise of the homeless in Northern California

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The author visits a wealthy acquaintance in Palo Alto, where they discuss the issue of homelessness in the Valley. The acquaintance, a tech entrepreneur, dismisses the problem as one that can be solved by innovators like himself, but the author sees it as a symptom of the region's income inequality and gentrification.

Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC

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You can make PS2 games in JavaScript

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The user discovered that a JavaScript game they created was ported to the PS2 using the Athena engine, which allows JavaScript code to run on the PS2, and they were able to run the game on an emulator. The user then created a "Hello World" example using Athena, which included setting up a game loop, handling user input, and rendering text and animations on the PS2 screen.

Infinibay LXD Container

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LXD provides native support for KVM/libvirt, making it ideal for running VMs inside containers without privileged mode or complex workarounds. The setup script automatically detects your distribution and uses the appropriate package manager. LXD installation path (snap vs native package) is also auto-detected. # 1. Clone repository and navigate to lxd directory cd infinibay/lxd # 2. Run setup ...

Is Matrix Multiplication Ugly?

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The author criticizes Stephen Witt's article in The New Yorker for misunderstanding matrix multiplication, which is a fundamental operation in linear algebra. The author argues that matrix multiplication is not ugly or lacking in symmetry, but rather a powerful tool in mathematics and other fields.

Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts

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Experts say Prozac should no longer be prescribed to children due to lack of clinical benefit and potential risks. A new review found fluoxetine is clinically no better than placebo in treating depression in children.

The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting’s Posthumous Star

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Kurt Almqvist, a Swedish art historian, discovered Hilma af Klint's abstract paintings in 2013 and helped popularize her work. His research revealed af Klint's complex personality and challenged the myth surrounding her life and art.

Building a Durable Execution Engine with SQLite

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Durable Execution (DE) engines make long-running workflows persistent, allowing them to resume from the last successfully executed step after failures. A basic DE engine can be implemented in Java with less than 1,000 lines of code, as demonstrated by the Persistasaurus project, which uses SQLite for storing execution logs and virtual threads for delayed execution steps.

3D printing with unconventional vase mode

The article discusses advanced techniques for 3D printing using vase mode, a printing mode that prints a spiral path with no seams, and how to modify it to create unconventional prints. It explains how to use slits, double walls, and increased extrusion width to create stronger and lighter prints.

Shop Sans is a typeface for curved text paths

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Shop Sans is a variable font with 21 named instances for curved settings and a static font for typical use, with work underway for other weights and widths. It includes alternate glyphs and allows for curve-aware optimizations, but may require manual tweaking for kerning and tracking.

When functions dissolve (2020)

In this post we are going to explore how the notion of function loses its significance as an abstracted module of program logic when we compile a higher level imperative language to the assembly code. In imperative programming, functions isolate pieces of program logic. For example, in C-like language, the following function would increase its argument by one and return its value. Ideally, ...

Make product worse, get money

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You argue that the theory that dating apps have an incentive to string people along rather than find long-term relationships is not helpful because it applies to many businesses and doesn't explain why they get away with it.

Olmo 3: Charting a path through the model flow to lead open-source AI

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Olmo 3 is a fully open AI model that exposes its entire development flow, enabling customization and adaptation. It delivers strong performance in various tasks, including reasoning, programming, and math problem solving, with a focus on transparency and accountability.

Pivot Robotics (YC W24) Is Hiring for an Industrial Automation Hardware Engineer

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The job involves designing and integrating control systems, mechanical systems, and safety systems for robot cells, requiring mechanical engineering experience and CAD proficiency. The ideal candidate has 1-2 years of experience in mechanical design and control system integration, with a willingness to travel for installations and field testing.

RRules (yes handling RSCALE) using only PL/pgSQL

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This library provides a pure PL/pgSQL implementation of iCalendar RRULE recurrence calculation for PostgreSQL, supporting full timezone functionality and DST handling. It can be installed via psql or curl and offers various functions for generating and querying occurrences.

Solving Fizz Buzz with Cosines

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The Fizz Buzz sequence is a counting game that can be expressed as a finite Fourier series. The sequence can be defined as (s_{f(n)}(n))_{n = 1}^{\infty} where f(n) is a function that can be expressed as a finite Fourier series with a constant term 11/15 and three cosine terms with coefficients 2/3, 4/5, and 4/5.