AV1: A Modern, Open Codec

237 CharlesW 2025-12-05 00:26:32 UTC netflixtechblog.com Llama Share 105

Netflix uses AV1, a modern open video codec, to deliver high-quality streaming to its members, achieving 30% viewing share and reducing bandwidth consumption. AV1's superior compression efficiency and features like HDR and film grain synthesis enhance the streaming experience, with AV2 on the horizon to further improve streaming capabilities.

BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive

108 mikelabatt 2025-12-05 01:26:32 UTC evclinic.eu Llama Share 63

BMW PHEV owners face high costs due to over-engineered diagnostic procedures and expensive replacement parts. This results in unnecessary waste and increased CO2 footprint.

Trick users and bypass warnings – Modern SVG Clickjacking attacks

81 spartanatreyu 2025-12-05 00:26:32 UTC lyra.horse Llama Share 9

A new technique has been discovered that allows for complex interactive clickjacking attacks and multiple forms of data exfiltration by using SVG filters to run logic and provide visual output. This technique can be used to create convincing attacks such as fake captchas, input boxes, and even QR codes that can be used to exfiltrate data.

NeurIPS 2025 Best Paper Awards

43 ivansavz 2025-12-05 01:26:32 UTC blog.neurips.cc Llama Share 6

The Best Paper Award Committee selected seven groundbreaking papers that highlight advances in various machine learning topics, including diffusion models, self-supervised reinforcement learning, and neural scaling laws. The papers address critical challenges in AI, such as the Artificial Hivemind effect, mode collapse, and the need for improved RL paradigms to unlock novel reasoning abilities in LLMs.

How Brussels writes so many laws

38 amadeuspagel 2025-12-05 02:26:32 UTC siliconcontinent.com Llama Share 31

The EU's governing coalition, spanning multiple parties and institutions, has produced around 13,000 acts between 2019 and 2024. This speed and productivity come from incentives for producing legislation, not exercising vetoes.

The Ofcom Files, Part 4: Ofcom Rides Again

52 parliament32 2025-12-05 01:26:32 UTC prestonbyrne.com Llama Share 12

Britain's Ofcom is threatening to expand a probe into 4chan, a US company, after refusing to pay fines. The US is considering a GRANITE Act to protect Americans from foreign censorship, inspired by Ofcom's letters.

CUDA-l2: Surpassing cuBLAS performance for matrix multiplication through RL

91 dzign 2025-12-04 21:26:32 UTC github.com/deepreinforce-ai Llama Share 11

CUDA-L2 optimizes HGEMM CUDA kernels, outperforming major matmul baselines on A100. It supports 16-bit accumulator, with 32-bit support planned for future release.

State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter

136 anjneymidha 2025-12-04 23:26:32 UTC openrouter.ai Llama Share 51

Large language models (LLMs) have shifted from single-pass pattern generation to multi-step deliberation inference, accelerating deployment and new applications. An empirical study of real-world LLM usage reveals substantial adoption of open-weight models, creative roleplay, and coding assistance categories.

Multivox: Volumetric Display

244 jk_tech 2025-12-04 17:26:32 UTC github.com/ancientjames Llama Share 31

The code is for a volumetric display system using a Raspberry Pi, with two display options: Rotovox and Vortex, each with unique features. The system includes a driver and client code, a demo, and a simulator for testing.

I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years

4 benbreen 2025-12-05 03:26:32 UTC resobscura.substack.com Prefix Share 0

Notes on the history of technology, medicine, science, art, drugs, and empire. Also: AI in research and teaching. By subscribing, I agree to Substack's Terms of Use, and acknowledge its Information Collection Notice and Privacy Policy. I was 25 years old when I started writing the blog version of Res Obscura, which ran from 2010 to 2023 (and still exists here). This was the early summer ...

Transparent leadership beats servant leadership

390 ibobev 2025-12-04 14:26:32 UTC entropicthoughts.com Llama Share 183

You're skeptical of servant leadership and propose transparent leadership instead, where leaders empower employees by explaining values and principles, and removing themselves as middlemen. A good leader should become a high-powered spare worker, focusing on technical problems to stay skilled and earn respect.

StardustOS: Library operating system for building light-weight Unikernels

41 transpute 2025-12-04 23:26:32 UTC github.com/stardustos Llama Share 1

Stardust is a unikernel OS that runs cloud apps in a protected environment with a small code base and static linking. It supports multiple cores, preemptive threads, and POSIX-compatible libraries.

How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs

519 50kIters 2025-12-04 09:26:32 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 507

Elites use AI-driven persuasion to shape public opinion, potentially increasing polarization. Advances in persuasion technology can either heighten or dampen polarization depending on the governing environment.

Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?

538 delichon 2025-12-04 18:26:32 UTC reason.com Llama Share 784

Elite US universities have high percentages of students claiming learning disabilities, with 20-38% of students at Brown, Harvard, Amherst, and Stanford claiming mental health conditions and learning disabilities. Many experts believe these students are not genuinely learning disabled but rather using accommodations as a way to avoid bad grades and intellectual growth.

CSS now has an if() conditional function

59 aanthonymax 2025-12-04 22:26:32 UTC caniuse.com Full Share 24

"Can I use" provides up-to-date browser support tables for support of front-end web technologies on desktop and mobile web browsers.

Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig

259 yurivish 2025-12-04 22:26:32 UTC sinclairtarget.com Llama Share 288

The author experimented with Go, Rust, and Zig to understand their values and design choices, finding that Go is minimalist, Rust is maximalist, and Zig is a reaction against both, offering manual memory management and a focus on data-oriented design. Each language reflects its creators' values, with Go prioritizing corporate collaboration, Rust prioritizing safety and performance, and Zig ...

We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months

196 cheeseblubber 2025-12-04 23:26:32 UTC aitradearena.com Llama Share 163

Five LLMs (GPT-5, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and DeepSeek) were tested in a backtested trading AI Trade Arena with $100K each over 8 months. Grok performed the best, while Gemini had the worst performance due to a non-tech heavy portfolio.

After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death

5 mikhael 2025-12-05 03:26:32 UTC arstechnica.com Prefix Share 1

If you know the name Ron Gilbert, it’s probably for his decades of work on classic point-and-click adventure games like Maniac Mansion, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the Monkey Island series, and Thimbleweed Park. Given that pedigree, October’s release of the Gilbert-designed Death by Scrolling—a rogue-lite action-survival pseudo-shoot-em-up—might have come as a bit of a surprise. In an ...

Django 6

262 wilhelmklopp 2025-12-04 21:26:32 UTC docs.djangoproject.com Llama Share 125

Django 6.0 supports Python 3.12, 3.13, and 3.14, and includes new features like Content Security Policy, template partials, and a built-in Tasks framework.

Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later

137 AwkwardPanda 2025-12-04 15:26:32 UTC onlyrecipeapp.com Full Share 126

Save and organize your favorite recipes from any website. Extract recipes, sync across devices, and print beautiful recipe cards. Your personal recipe collection in the cloud.

Nice Functions [pdf]

7 tzury 2025-12-05 02:26:32 UTC math.mit.edu Prefix Share 1

In teaching differential equations, we constantly meet exponentials and polynomials and products like (t + 1)e2t. Sines and cosines are in- cluded, coming from complex exponentials eiωt. These functions appear everywhere we look—as solutions y(t), as right hand sides f (t), and as inverse Laplace transforms. The equations themselves are linear with constant coefficients: 2. They are the ...

I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer

435 todsacerdoti 2025-12-04 12:26:32 UTC lalitm.com Llama Share 210

The author, a Senior Staff Engineer at Google, disagrees with Sean Goedecke's advice to optimize for visibility and fungibility, instead advocating for stewardship and long-term ownership of systems. This approach allows for deeper technical context, trust, and promotion opportunities through technical advocacy and metrics tracking engineering health.

PyTogether: Collaborative lightweight real-time Python IDE for teachers/learners

72 indigodaddy 2025-12-04 18:26:32 UTC github.com/sjriz Llama Share 19

PyTogether is a browser-based Python IDE for collaborative learning and teaching with real-time editing and chat. It offers a simple, distraction-free environment for beginners with instant setup and limited features.

What is better: a lookup table or an enum type?

21 todsacerdoti 2025-12-05 00:26:32 UTC cybertec-postgresql.com Llama Share 6

The article compares three methods to implement a column with limited distinct values in PostgreSQL: using a string with a check constraint, an enum type, and a lookup table. Each method has its pros and cons, with the enum type being the most space-efficient and flexible, but not allowing value removal, and the lookup table being the most flexible but complicating queries and potentially ...

Fighting the age-gated internet

183 geox 2025-12-04 14:26:32 UTC wired.com Llama Share 176

Members of Congress considered 19 online safety bills that may lead to increased censorship and surveillance. Digital rights groups, including Fight for the Future, oppose the bills, citing concerns over age verification and its impact on internet freedom.

Help, My Java Object Vanished (and the GC Is Not at Fault)

36 birdculture 2025-12-04 23:26:32 UTC arraying.de Llama Share 2

The user, a HotSpot Java Virtual Machine developer, encountered intermittent and non-obvious test failures after changing the markWord layout to conform to JEP450 for Project Valhalla, and after extensive debugging, they narrowed down the issue to a miscompilation bug in the C2 JIT-compiler with Compact Object Headers disabled. The user used various tools and techniques, including automated ...

Converge (YC S23) is hiring a martech expert in NYC

0 2025-12-04 17:26:32 UTC runconverge.com Llama Share

Converge is hiring a Senior Technical Customer Success Manager to help scale their Growth OS platform to $10M+ ARR. The role involves advising customers on marketing measurement, resolving technical issues, and driving customer success and renewals.

Autism should not be treated as a single condition

222 bookofjoe 2025-12-04 17:26:32 UTC economist.com Llama Share 268

Autistic individuals may struggle with overwhelming sensory experiences but often possess unique gifts in areas like music, math, or art. Receiving exclusive content from The Economist Group is agreed upon.

It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)

676 pavelai 2025-12-04 09:26:32 UTC javascript.tm Llama Share 340

Oracle controls the JavaScript trademark, but its use has been discontinued and it's become a generic term. The trademark has remained with Oracle since its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, but it has been in disuse for years, causing confusion and disruption.

A Cozy Mk IV light aircraft crashed after 3D-printed part was weakened by heat

227 toss1 2025-12-04 21:26:32 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 187

A plane crashed at Gloucestershire Airport due to a 3D-printed part collapsing from heat exposure. The Air Accidents Investigation Branch will take safety actions regarding 3D printed parts after the incident.