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The Rust Calling Convention We Deserve

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A lot of people ask me "ok, what would you use instead?" and i point them to the go register abi. llvm is conservative: it tries to generate llvm function signatures that clang could have plausibly generated - but it can't be used to call unmangled symbols. when passing pointers and doubles, they replace <2 x u64>.s

Randar: A Minecraft exploit that uses LLL lattice reduction to crack server RNG

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"Randar" is an exploit for Minecraft which uses LLL lattice reduction to crack the internal state of an incorrectly reused java.util.Random in the Minecraft server, then works backwards from that to locate other players currently loaded into the world. - randar-explanation/README.md at master · spawnmason/randar-explanation

Women Who Code Closing

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Women who code started as a community group in 2011 in san francisco. today, we've brought together over 360,000 technologists who deeply care about building an industry that's more diverse, inclusive, and equitable. we are deeply saddened by the difficult decision to dissolve the entity - but we hope this work carries on beyond our end if you're still interested in participating! danielle ...

Halo 2 in HD: Pushing the Original Xbox to the Limit

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The original xbox 360 version of halo 2 now supports 1080p video. this requires a change to the texture accumulator target, or taxaccum for short. while most render targets are smaller than the back buffer (ranging from 512512 all the way down to 6464) this changes how the game’s rendering engine handles memory allocations for the video stream - limiting the amount of memory available to ...

El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour

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Visita virtual es una forma de navegar libremente por obras del museo. se han digitalizado todas las salas y espacios que cuentan con exposiciones de la colección, incluidos espácios como hall de entrada, claustro de los jerónimos as a pasillos en la

Monowheels: Vehicles with Insufficient Wheels

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A monowheel is one big wheel with rider and engine inside its circumference. there is no steering mechanism, making uncommon demands on the riders' sense of balance. the first known patent for such an invention was taken out in 1897 - but there are no pictures of the contraption on this site despite this. if you want to see "monowheels in action, visit the british museum in l

Formal Mechanised Semantics of CHERI C: Capabilities, Undefined Behaviour

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Memory safety issues are a persistent source of security vulnerabilities. cheri research project has shown how to improve security for existing codebases. this is done by using unforgeable hardware capabilities in place of machine-word pointers. google scholardigital library jeremy condit, matthew harren, david gay, and george c. necula. safecode: enforcing alias analysis for weakly typed ...

Show HN: Vapi – Convince our voice AI to give you the secret code

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Vapi is an orchestration layer over speech-to-text, large language model (llm) and text- to-speech (tts) providers. you can bring your own llms, custom voices, and we make it all talk like a person. vapi runs on any platform: the web, mobile, telephony, even hardware devices like the rpi. we're making voice ai's as simple

Feathers are one of evolution's cleverest inventions

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In 2022 a bird with the code name b6 flew from alaska to tasmania in 11 days. jim mcnair: feathers have many brilliant features, including their adaptability and durability - he says they've led to successful technological innovations like temporary fastening systems for shoes and bags based on feather velcros. in the future, we may be able to use feather-based biosensors to track movement,

Hermit is a hermetic and reproducible sandbox for running programs

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Hermit forces deterministic execution of arbitrary programs and acts like a reproducible container. it sits between the guest process and the kernel intercepting system calls made by the guests - in some cases, it can completely replace the functionality of kernel and suppress the original system call. you can run racy multiple times to see its nondeterminism disappear, then run it again ...

Draftaid (YC W24) Is Hiring a Founding AI/ML Engineer

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# About Us * DraftAid is the world's first generative AI for CAD schematic drawings. Think Github Copilot for 2D manufacturing drawings. * Mechanical engineers and designers spend 40% of their time creating production drawings from their 3D models. It's a tedious process, error-prone, and often delays projects by weeks! DraftAid generates detailed drawings with a single click. This ...

My mother declared my bedroom a disaster area (1984)

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A 13-year-old boy wrote to president ronald reagan asking for federal funds to clean up his room. bob greene says he's been in china and found the letter upon his return tuesday - and it was 40 years ago! regan: funds are dangerously low, and we need more volunteers to tackle local problems. greener: if you want to help, you can start by

Multi-tenant queues in Postgres

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Fair queueing in postgres allows you to only dispatch the amount of tasks each worker can handle at a time. the most straightforward solution is to use partition by, but this isn't the right approach here. shuffle sharding, which uses blocks of ids to limit concurrency, is also an option if you want to improve performance - let us know in the comments below! 'if

Myths about the Anthropocene

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The concept of the anthropocene epoch was born in 2000 out of a moment of spontaneity. but what did crutzen intend by the term? it was meant to describe anthropogenic changes to the planet, he says - but it's not based on geological time lapses like the graphs show today. the societal value is that it announces the unambiguous scientific evidence showing humans have permanently changed the

Chinchilla Scaling: A replication attempt

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We attempt to replicate the third method for estimating a compute-optimal scaling law. we find that the reported estimates are inconsistent with their first two estimation methods, fail at fitting the extracted data, and report implausibly narrow confidence intervals -intervals this narrow would require over 600,000 experiments, while they likely only ran fewer than 500. arxivlabs is 'a ...

I keep a WTF notebook (2021)

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Rise8 is a team that wants to help people access food stamps and other safety net services. if you've heard about kessel run, or pivotal&# 39;s work with the air force generally, this is where you should be based - i'm referring to their work vs. theirs... oh, and hey, he's got swag!

Long Reviled as 'Ugly,' Sea Lampreys Get Some Respect (2023)

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“Thousands of sea lamprey are passed upstream [on the Connecticut River] each year. This is a predator that wiped out the Great Lakes lake-trout fishery. [Lampreys] literally suck the life out of their host fish, namely small-scale fish such as trout and salmon. The fish ladders ought to be used to diminish the lamprey.” So editorialized the Lawrence (Massachusetts) Eagle-Tribune on December ...

OpenMCT: A web based mission control framework

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Openmct is a next-generation mission control framework for visualization of data. it is being used by nasa for data analysis of spacecraft missions, as well as planning and operation of experimental rover systems. most of the core open mct codebase is also written as plugins - see the tutorials in our documentation for examples if you want to extend the framework. post any questions to the ...

Why the OpenSSL punycode vulnerability was not detected by fuzz testing (2022)

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A memory corruption security vulnerability was discovered in the openssl punycode parser. fuzzing will waste time in asn.1 deserialization with little time spent on verification, says sam taylor, who wrote the paper based on the vulnerability he found - if it can be fixed, it should be rolled out osfuzz 1.0! x509_verify_

Launch HN: Volta Labs (YC W19) – Easier sample prep for genomics

Udayan umapathi is the founder of volta labs, a genomics applications company. he is using advanced electrowetting technology to solve scalable sample prep challenges. the callisto sample prep system automates the process end-to-end, reliably, and at lower cost compared to traditional robotics. umpathis says the technology could be used to improve the quality of samples, reduce costs and ...

Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize

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Dnsmasq provides network addressing for small networks: dns, dhcp, router advertisement and network boot. the jury, made up of public officials from the ministries of education and youth, recognised the importance of the project for network security. anyone can nominate free and open source projects for one the bluehats prizes, and nominations are still open. in 2024 four prizes of € 10 000 ...

Insatiable: A life without eating

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Cynthia dudrick was on a form of artificial food called total parenteral nutrition. she recalls all the ways her body screamed, you're hungry, constantly - even though she had enough functional nutrition in my body, she couldn't eat it. the author's research shows that noticing food and remembering its location are heightened when hungry. if you or someone you know is on tpn,

The Theory That There Is Only One Electron in the Universe

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Physicist john wheeler proposed that electrons and positrons are the same particle. he said that they are moving forward and backward in time, like a knot in the universe's time axis. this theory is unlikely to be correct, as there are not nearly as many postons as atoms in observable universe. the theory also doesn't account for the fact that there is more matter than antimatter in

The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat

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The ocean floor is home to hundreds of thousands of miles of slender cables. the cables connect the rest of the world to japan - and the u.s. to europe & the united states to the west coast of north korea and south america. global marine's wave sentinel is equipped with cameras, sensors, and a powerful water jet aimed at burying cables in shallow water. if the

Dickey Betts, hit-crafting mainstay of Allman Brothers Band, dies at 80

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Dickey betts co-founded the genre-defining southern rock group the allman brothers band. he wrote several of the group's most enduring compositions, including "ramblin' man" the band survived the 1971 death of duane allman following a motorcycle accident - and broke up twice. "it was like vaudeville or something except it was rock-and-roll," said rolling stone. his family announced the death on

Inside Amazon’s Secret Operation to Gather Intel on Rivals

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Thoughts on Seed Oil

Mark Zuckerberg: Llama 3, $10B Models, Caesar Augustus, Bioweapons [video]

Not your mother's mall (2003)

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