Internet Archive Switzerland

145 hggh 2026-05-09 12:33:32 UTC internetarchive.ch Llama Share 18

Internet Archive Switzerland is a non-profit foundation in St. Gallen, Switzerland, aiming for universal access to all knowledge. It preserves digital information and collaborates with partners to rescue vulnerable collections and build the Gen AI Archive.

Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

1221 anonymousiam 2026-05-08 19:33:32 UTC reclaimthenet.org Llama Share 439

Google's new reCAPTCHA system requires Android users to run Google Play Services to prove they're human, excluding de-Googled phones. This move establishes a precedent for accessing basic web content, favoring Google's ecosystem control over user data consent.

How LEDs are made (2014)

29 smig0 2026-05-09 11:33:32 UTC learn.sparkfun.com Llama Share 5

The author visited YunSun factory in China and learned about the LED manufacturing process, including die production, wire bonding, and epoxy molding. The factory uses a combination of manual and automated processes, with multiple suppliers involved in the tool-chain, making it difficult to create custom LEDs.

A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

448 _alternator_ 2026-05-09 04:33:32 UTC gowers.wordpress.com Llama Share 301

A mathematician used ChatGPT 5.5 Pro to improve the upper bound on a problem in additive number theory from exponential to polynomial in time, with the AI producing a result that was almost certainly correct according to a human expert. The mathematician suggests that the era of human mathematicians solving problems independently may be coming to an end, and that the future of mathematics ...

Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

255 pretext 2026-05-09 05:33:32 UTC twitter.com/trq212 Full Share 147

Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot. Some privacy related extensions may cause issues on x.com. Please disable them and try again.

LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate

63 rbanffy 2026-05-09 09:33:32 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 19

Large Language Models (LLMs) degrade documents during long workflows, corrupting 25% of content on average. Current LLMs are unreliable delegates, introducing severe errors that silently corrupt documents over time.

Mythical Man Month

231 ingve 2026-05-09 01:33:32 UTC martinfowler.com Llama Share 148

Fred Brooks managed IBM's System/360 in the 1960s and wrote influential book The Mythical Man-Month in 1975. The book emphasizes conceptual integrity in system design, simplicity, and straightforwardness to avoid communication issues and ensure effective work.

OpenAI’s WebRTC problem

378 atgctg 2026-05-08 23:33:32 UTC moq.dev Llama Share 99

The user strongly advises against using WebRTC for voice AI due to its limitations and trade-offs, such as introducing artificial latency and aggressively dropping packets. The user suggests using QUIC instead, which offers better performance and scalability, and provides a detailed explanation of how QUIC can be used for load balancing and connection management.

America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy

80 rawgabbit 2026-05-09 06:33:32 UTC apnews.com Llama Share 44

Bob Shaw, CEO of Shaw Industries, clashed with 3M executives in 2000 over Scotchgard reformulation due to environmental concerns. Shaw's company and others continued using PFAS alternatives despite warnings and health risks.

Making Julia as Fast as C++ (2019)

38 d_tr 2026-05-09 09:33:32 UTC flow.byu.edu Llama Share 25

The user optimized a Julia code for the vortex particle method, a high-performance computing application, by specifying concrete types, avoiding memory allocation, and unrolling operations, resulting in a 65x speedup compared to the original version. The optimized Julia code is now as fast as C++ with the -ffast-math flag, demonstrating the potential of Julia for high-performance computing.

Killswitch: Per-function short-circuit mitigation primitive

39 signa11 2026-05-09 09:33:32 UTC lwn.net GoogleT5 Share 9

Af_alg_sendmsg() is the highest-level entry into the af_alg +sent path. engaging it with retval '-eperm' causes every send attempt to return -eperm to userspace; no caller ever sees +half-initialised state. +* inline functions, freed __init symbols, and anything compiled away cannot

David Attenborough's 100th Birthday

732 defrost 2026-05-08 14:33:32 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 143

Sir David Attenborough turns 100, receiving birthday messages from the royal couple and many celebrities. A special concert at the Royal Albert Hall celebrates his life and legacy.

Reviving the IBM Selectric Composer Fonts (2023)

27 tangus 2026-05-09 10:33:32 UTC kutilek.de Llama Share 0

The IBM Selectric Composer used a 9-unit grid for its type elements, but this caused issues with letter widths, particularly with the Univers typeface, which was adapted for the machine. A digitization of the Univers typeface was created by scaling scans of the original type elements and applying a rounded corners filter to maintain the typeface's friendly impression.

What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting

108 Tomte 2026-05-09 05:33:32 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 23

Joseph Dwyer studied cosmic events before researching lightning on Earth. He discovered that lightning initiation requires extreme events, not just electricity.

Removing fsync from our local storage engine

14 zzsheng 2026-05-09 12:33:32 UTC fractalbits.com Llama Share 4

A custom-built single-node KV storage engine was designed to avoid fsync calls for PUT and DELETE operations by using preallocated files, O_DIRECT writes, and a journal with aligned commits to ensure durability on SSDs. The engine achieved higher throughput and lower latency compared to ext4 and O_DIRECT+fsync configurations in a 4KB random-write benchmark on AWS i8g.2xlarge local NVMe.

Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)

291 homebrewer 2026-05-08 21:33:32 UTC wiisfi.com GoogleT5 Share 76

A mid-range wi-fi 6 router supporting (1) 44 mimo [7], (2) all dfs channels, (3) 160 mhz (he160) wide channels is. if you are not right next to the router, your actual speed will be around 900 mbps 100 for 22 mimo and 650 for wi-fi 5 - edward s. lewis. says unless you

AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures

364 speckx 2026-05-08 18:33:32 UTC jefftk.com Llama Share 143

A security vulnerability was discovered and shared publicly after an initial attempt at a closed disclosure, highlighting a tension between coordinated and immediate disclosure. AI-assisted vulnerability detection is making long embargoes obsolete and shortening the time to detection.

Cartoon Network Flash Games

372 willmeyers 2026-05-08 16:33:32 UTC webdesignmuseum.org Llama Share 114

The website is blocked due to security reasons after a suspicious action was detected. Please email the site owner with the Cloudflare Ray ID and details of the action that triggered the block.

AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved

239 christhecaribou 2026-05-08 19:33:32 UTC cnbc.com Llama Share 167

Amazon Web Services experienced a thermal issue at a Virginia facility causing operational issues. The outage affected trading platforms like FanDuel and Coinbase, with full recovery expected to take several hours.

An Introduction to Meshtastic

468 ColinWright 2026-05-08 14:33:32 UTC meshtastic.org Llama Share 164

Meshtastic is a community-driven, open-source project using LoRa radios for long-range off-grid communication. It forms a mesh network allowing multiple users to receive messages, with each device supporting one user at a time.

The React2Shell Story

176 mufeedvh 2026-05-08 23:33:32 UTC lachlan.nz Llama Share 22

A professional hacker discovered a critical remote code execution vulnerability, "React2Shell," in the React framework, which affected millions of websites, and reported it to Meta on November 30th 2025. The hacker, fueled by curiosity and frustration, spent days learning about the Flight protocol and eventually found a way to exploit it, leading to the development of the React2Shell exploit chain.

Teaching Claude Why

209 pretext 2026-05-08 18:33:32 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 96

We improved Claude's safety training to reduce agentic misalignment by teaching principles of aligned behavior and using diverse data. Our methods, including the "difficult advice" dataset and document training, achieved significant improvements in alignment generalization.

You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)

197 MrBruh 2026-05-08 20:33:32 UTC ze3tar.github.io Llama Share 120

A Linux kernel vulnerability in io_uring's ZCRX subsystem allows an attacker to write to adjacent slab memory, corrupting a refcount, leading to a heap read, KASLR break, and modprobe_path overwrite. This can be exploited to gain uid=0.

Read Programming as Theory Building

10 birdculture 2026-05-09 13:33:32 UTC codeutopia.net Llama Share 0

Reading Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" helped the author understand that programming is about building a mental model of a program, its requirements, and how they relate to everything around it. This theory helps explain why writing good software is hard and how various activities like writing clean code, documentation, and automated tests are connected to communicating the ...

Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+?

101 mad 2026-05-08 23:33:32 UTC sigops.org Llama Share 27

Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle to model complex systems, producing specs that recite textbook protocols rather than actual implementations. They excel in syntax but fail in conformance and invariant phases.

Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM

234 xngbuilds 2026-05-08 15:33:32 UTC btxx.org Llama Share 92

The user set up a Raspberry Pi Zero v1.3 running Alpine Linux to serve a micro site to the public internet, using a separate VPS for TLS termination. They used darkhttpd as the web server and configured a backup system using lbu and rsync to ensure persistent changes on reboots.

Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible

88 geox 2026-05-08 23:33:32 UTC colorado.edu Llama Share 27

Researchers at CU Boulder have successfully turned on and sustained bioluminescent algae using simple chemical solutions. This breakthrough could lead to autonomous robots and living sensors for water quality, as well as a sustainable alternative to electricity for lighting.

Forking the Web

54 wrxd 2026-05-09 12:33:32 UTC dillo-browser.org Llama Share 53

Rodrigo Arias Mallo proposes an alternative to the Web with a simple, short specification to ensure diversity of browsers and low development effort. The goal is to create a standardized, non-ambiguous format for exchanging information among humans.

US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

316 david-gpu 2026-05-08 14:33:32 UTC war.gov Full Share 467

You don't have permission to access "http://www.war.gov/UFO/" on this server. https://errors.edgesuite.net/18.d6adc17.1778337219.2e8a93

Roadside Attraction

30 aways 2026-05-09 05:33:32 UTC theoffingmag.com Llama Share 4

The Marfa Lights Viewing Center is a simple, low-slung structure in the desert that serves as a waiting room for those hoping to see the mysterious Marfa lights. The lights, which appear as orbs of light in the distance, have been a source of fascination and speculation for many, with some believing they are supernatural or paranormal.