User is recreating Hokusai's 36 views of Mount Fuji as 1-bit pixel art on old Macintosh computers for nostalgia and flow state. They use Aldus SuperPaint 3.0 on Quadra 700 or PowerBook 100 to create authentic 512x342 pixel images.
The Free Universal Construction Kit is a set of adapters that allows children's construction toys to work together, promoting creative play and hybrid designs. The Kit is a grassroots remedy for proprietary toy systems, available for free download and 3D printing.
A new 10G USB 3.2 adapter from WisdPi offers a compact alternative to bulky Thunderbolt adapters, but its performance depends on the USB port's bandwidth. It reaches full 10 Gbps speed only with a USB 3.2 Gen 2 2x2 port, otherwise it's slower.
The user is sharing music player information from the 1980s, specifically from games like Wizball and Athena, and is allowing others to use and modify the work. The user acquired the rights to the music and code from Infogrames and credits the original author, Martin Galway.
Google invests $10 billion in Anthropic, with potential for $30 billion more, to strengthen AI partnership. The investment will support Anthropic's expansion and computing capacity.
Framework has announced its new Laptop 13 Pro with a redesigned CNC-machined aluminum chassis, improved speakers, and a 20% larger battery for up to 20 hours of battery life. The laptop features new Intel Core Ultra Series 3 chips, a custom IPS display, and a haptic touchpad, with options for Linux pre-installation and user-upgradeable RAM modules.
Desmond Morris, a 98-year-old English zoologist, died near Dublin after a career of writing and presenting about animal behavior. His book "The Naked Ape" argued that humans are just another species of ape, shaped by ancient genes and primal instincts.
Canal+, a French TV channel, used a simple encryption system called Discret 11 to block unauthorized viewing, but it was eventually cracked and pirated due to its simplicity and the leak of its schematics. The system was later replaced with Nagravision encryption in 1992 and retired by 1995, but Canal+ went on to become a major satellite broadcaster in Europe.
This resource is an introductory primer for primary care clinicians to consider whether a patient's component conditions are part of a larger constellation of medical conditions, including Autism/ADHD, hypermobility, dysautonomia, and mast cell dysfunction. The main goal is to emphasize connections between these conditions and explain how they may impact management, with a focus on screening ...
Researchers propose two new methods to study the relationship between model size and computation in deep learning. They show that increasing model size or computation can improve performance without increasing the other.
A web-based RDP client connects to Windows Remote Desktop servers directly from browsers without plugins. It uses a Go proxy server to bridge WebSocket connections to the RDP server's TCP port.
OpenAI introduces Bio Bug Bounty for GPT-5.5, inviting researchers to find a universal jailbreak for bio safety questions. Applications open April 23, 2026, and close June 22, 2026.
HEALPix is an algorithm for pixelizing the 2-sphere, devised in 1997 by Krzysztof M. Górski. It's widely used in cosmology for maps of the cosmic microwave background.
Modern technologies often embed the interests of their creators, not users, leading to trust violations. Defining a user agent role for AI agents could help balance interests and create trust, but requires constraints and standardization.
ASCII diagramming tools offer limited visual choices for low-key diagramming and entry points to gen AI, combining old and new features. They promote self-constraint, making things easier and harder with AI, and celebrate the power of monospace plain text.
Niri, a Wayland compositor, has released new features including blur, xray blur, and improved screencasting with cursor metadata. Other updates include animation fixes, improved IME support, and new options for tablet and input device management.
The Q-Day Prize submission demonstrates a classical attack on ECDLP using uniform random noise, not a quantum attack. The submission's results are reproducible without any quantum hardware.
You're attending Babashka Conf on May 8 and Dutch Clojure Days on May 9. You're considering building a tool for semantic diffing in Emacs, after being dissatisfied with difftastic.
A questionnaire-based system estimates body measurements with high accuracy, outperforming photo-based methods without requiring a photo. The system uses a physics-aware loss and a small MLP trained on a synthetic dataset to predict 58 Anny body parameters with a mean error of 0.3 cm and 0.3 kg.
Panic, a game publisher, received bundles of mail from players expressing appreciation for their games. The mail included creative notes, gifts, and even a child's tooth.
Paraloid B-72 is a durable, non-yellowing acrylic resin used as an adhesive for conserving and restoring ceramic and glass objects. It is strong, flexible, and can be mixed with solvents to alter its properties, making it suitable for various applications.
Two photographers captured 304 humpback whales in a single day off South Africa's west coast, the highest number ever recorded. The humpback population is recovering after a global whaling moratorium in 1986, with sightings of super-groups increasing rapidly.
The user successfully reverse-engineered the firmware update process for their Rodecaster Duo, finding it to be a simple process involving HID commands and a gzipped tarball. They were able to create a custom firmware and enable SSH access, but are unsure why SSH was enabled by default.
Microsoft released Windows 2.x, a graphical user shell that ran on top of MS-DOS, with features like overlapping windows and icons on the desktop, but it was still limited by hardware and software constraints. The release was part of a larger effort by Microsoft to develop a GUI that could eventually be replaced by OS/2, but Apple sued Microsoft over copyright infringement, leading to a ...
Archaeologists discovered a papyrus fragment of Homer's The Iliad in a Roman-era mummy in Egypt's Oxyrhynchus necropolis. The excavation also uncovered mummies, wooden coffins, and ancient artifacts, providing insights into burial traditions in Bahnasa during the Greek and Roman eras.
WUPHF is a shared office platform for teams, allowing agents to collaborate and share knowledge. It uses a local wiki and notebook system for knowledge management.
The rise of AI in education threatens to confuse language with learning, making it easy to mistake verbal fluency for understanding. To combat this, educators should focus on forming honest minds through genuine encounters with difficulty, intellectual honesty, and responsibility for truth.