Statistical Process Control in Python

93 lifeisstillgood 2025-11-26 08:58:40 UTC timothyfraser.com Llama Share 24

We will learn statistical process control in Python using pandas, plotnine, and scipy to measure variation and identify benchmarks in product quality over time. This workshop applies statistical process control to a case study of a Japanese Hot Springs bath economy, evaluating temperature, pH, and sulfur levels to ensure quality control and maintain reputation.

A cell so minimal that it challenges definitions of life

41 ibobev 2025-11-26 10:58:40 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 15

Scientists discovered a cell with a severely reduced genome that challenges the definition of life. The cell, named Sukunaarchaeum, lacks essential functions and relies on a host cell for survival.

Is DWPD Still a Useful SSD Spec?

12 zdw 2025-11-26 11:58:40 UTC klarasystems.com Llama Share 6

NAND flash SSDs have limited write endurance due to degradation of the media itself, which can cause performance issues and eventually lead to failure. To extend drive longevity, wear leveling, usable capacity increase, and raw capacity increase can be used, and understanding the Drive Writes Per Day (DWPD) metric is essential for evaluating drive endurance.

Show HN: KiDoom – Running DOOM on PCB Traces

278 mikeayles 2025-11-25 22:58:40 UTC mikeayles.com Full Share 34

I don't care how well your "AI" works

107 todsacerdoti 2025-11-26 10:58:40 UTC fokus.cool Llama Share 143

The author is concerned about the over-reliance on AI tools, particularly LLMs, which can lead to a loss of human skills and autonomy. They argue that AI systems are designed to reinforce existing power structures and control people's thoughts and desires.

Image Diffusion Models Exhibit Emergent Temporal Propagation in Videos

49 50kIters 2025-11-26 07:58:40 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 9

Researchers repurpose image diffusion models for object tracking in videos by interpreting self-attention maps as semantic label propagation kernels. They introduce DRIFT, a framework achieving state-of-the-art zero-shot performance on video object segmentation benchmarks.

Surprisingly, Emacs on Android is pretty good

173 harryday 2025-11-26 02:58:40 UTC kristofferbalintona.me Llama Share 81

The user set up Emacs on their Android device, using Termux to access CLI tools, and customized the interface for touchscreen use. They also installed a virtual keyboard for easier typing and set up Syncthing to share notes across devices.

Kagi Hub Belgrade

58 _se 2025-11-26 12:58:40 UTC blog.kagi.com Llama Share 41

Kagi Hub Belgrade is now open, offering free coworking space for all Kagi members with reservations available from December 15th. The 250-square-meter office space is open to Kagi users and team members for sharing feedback and ideas.

Cekura (YC F24) Is Hiring

0 2025-11-26 12:58:40 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Cekura is a fast-growing company building a reliability layer for conversational agents. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll partner with technical customers for long-term success, driving product feedback and proactive account management.

Copyparty, the FOSS file server [video]

117 franczesko 2025-11-26 05:58:40 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 25

Efficient solar cooking that stores heat in sand

30 gsf_emergency_6 2025-11-26 09:58:40 UTC sciencedirect.com Full Share 13

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After 15 Years, I Use Outlook as My Build Pipeline

5 birdculture 2025-11-26 11:58:40 UTC iwriteaboutcode.blogspot.com Prefix Share 0

I am sorry, brethren, for I have failed our craft, and disappointed those who have placed their trust in me. Today, after 15 years, I finally built the thing that I think I won't recover from, I will hand in my badge right after I finish writing this apology post. You see, sometimes work is just work, and people are just people. Some people work at work, and others, I think, are asleep. ...

Space Truckin' – The Nostromo (2012)

120 exvi 2025-11-26 02:58:40 UTC alienseries.wordpress.com Llama Share 65

Ridley Scott and Dan O'Bannon drew inspiration from films like 2001 and Dark Star for Alien's claustrophobic corridors and industrial aesthetic. The design process involved multiple artists, including Ron Cobb and Chris Foss, but ultimately resulted in a ship that was largely different from their original concepts.

Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing

517 pseudolus 2025-11-25 13:58:40 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 451

The IT community has failed to learn from decades of software development and operational failures, resulting in a trillion-dollar cost to society. To reduce IT blunders, senior management must prioritize honesty, skepticism, and ethics, and treat software development with the respect it deserves.

A new bridge links the math of infinity to computer science

206 digital55 2025-11-25 19:58:40 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 105

Mathematician Anton Bernshteyn discovered a connection between descriptive set theory and computer science, showing that problems about infinite sets can be rewritten as problems about network communication. This bridge between disciplines has opened new collaborations and insights into the nature of infinity.

1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus is unearthed in Budapest

104 gmays 2025-11-25 22:58:40 UTC apnews.com Llama Share 57

Archaeologists in Budapest, Hungary, discovered a remarkably well-preserved Roman sarcophagus with a young woman's skeleton and dozens of artifacts. The find offers a rare glimpse into the life of the young woman and the world she inhabited around 1,700 years ago.

Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world

355 skx001 2025-11-25 13:58:40 UTC axios.com Llama Share 277

The world's population is increasingly urbanized with 45% living in cities, and Jakarta is home to nearly 42 million people. Megacities are expanding with 33 in 2025, and Dhaka is expected to become the world's largest city by the middle of the century.

Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor

330 agreeahmed 2025-11-25 17:58:40 UTC github.com/flowglad Llama Share 189

Flowglad simplifies internet money making by integrating billing logic into apps with a single line of code. It uses internal user IDs for billing and provides real-time billing status.

CS234: Reinforcement Learning Winter 2025

140 jonbaer 2025-11-26 00:58:40 UTC web.stanford.edu Llama Share 20

The class will use Sutton and Barto's Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction as a supporting reading and allow up to 2 late days for assignments.

How to repurpose your old phone into a web server

268 louismerlin 2025-11-25 17:58:40 UTC far.computer Llama Share 100

We aim to reduce e-waste by giving a second life to forgotten devices and encourage reuse. Follow the tutorial to set up a local digital garden on your device.

Launch HN: Onyx (YC W24) – Open-source chat UI

207 Weves 2025-11-25 14:58:40 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 138

Chris and Yuhong from Onyx are building an open-source chat that works with any LLM, providing tools like RAG and web search. They aim to offer a secure, customizable, and user-friendly experience for teams to use LLMs.

FLUX.2: Frontier Visual Intelligence

326 meetpateltech 2025-11-25 15:58:40 UTC bfl.ai Llama Share 94

FLUX.2 is a powerful image generation model that offers high-quality images, consistency, and control. It's designed for real-world creative workflows and is available in various models for different needs and budgets.

Java Decompiler

91 mooreds 2025-11-26 02:58:40 UTC java-decompiler.github.io Llama Share 41

The Java Decompiler project develops tools to decompile and analyze Java byte code, including JD-GUI, JD-Eclipse, and JD-Core. These tools support Java 5 and later versions, including new features like annotations and generics.

Largest-Triangle-Three-Buckets and the Fourier Transform (2024)

17 wonger_ 2025-11-26 08:58:40 UTC daniel.mitterdorfer.name Llama Share 5

The Largest-Triangle-Three-Buckets (LTTB) algorithm reduces data volume while preserving visual properties by selecting significant points from equally sized buckets. It can be used for downsampling time series data, but may introduce distortion in the frequency domain.

New layouts with CSS Subgrid

249 joshwcomeau 2025-11-26 02:58:40 UTC joshwcomeau.com GoogleT5 Share 74

Css subgrid allows you to extend the parent grid through a <ul>. if you want to create an infinite supercomputer, you can use 'child' to add more rows and columns to the grid based on the content - and the size of the image you're displaying. you don't need to specify the exact number of rows, just the number that will fit your content. this is the most common use

BebboSSH: SSH2 implementation for Amiga systems (68000, GPLv3)

46 snvzz 2025-11-26 01:58:40 UTC franke.ms Llama Share 12

BebboSSH is an SSH2 implementation for Amiga systems with modern ciphers and optimized routines. It provides SSH2 client and server functionality, SCP transfers, and SFTP support for classic Amiga systems.

Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attack

708 jjmaxwell4 2025-11-25 18:58:40 UTC promptarmor.com Llama Share 188

An indirect prompt injection in Google's Antigravity code editor can steal credentials and code from a user's IDE by manipulating Gemini to exfiltrate data. The attack bypasses default protections and uses a browser subagent to send stolen data to an attacker-monitored domain.

Python is not a great language for data science

276 speckx 2025-11-25 16:58:40 UTC blog.genesmindsmachines.com Llama Share 263

The author argues that Python is not the best language for data science due to its cumbersome tools and limitations, despite being widely used. They prefer R for data wrangling, exploratory data analysis, and visualization, citing its ease of use and powerful data analysis capabilities.

I DM'd a Korean Presidential Candidate – and Ended Up Building His Core Campaign

3 wjsdj2009 2025-11-26 13:41:40 UTC medium.com/@wjsdj2008 Prefix Share 0

This is an English translation of a story I originally published on a Korean blogging platform called Velog. It was a uniquely special experience for me, and I wanted to share it with people outside Korea — to hear what you think, and to find out whether things like this happen in other countries as well.Please note that some parts may contain small mistranslations or loose interpretations. ...

Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research

354 piotrgrabowski 2025-11-25 20:58:40 UTC dwarkesh.com Llama Share 297

The conversation discusses the limitations of current AI models, specifically their poor generalization and tendency to overfit to specific tasks, and the need to rethink the approach to training models. The speakers also touch on the idea of value functions, emotions, and the importance of understanding human learning and generalization in order to improve AI models.