“Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI”

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AI tools have solved an Erdos problem autonomously with feedback, demonstrating increased capability. AI can rapidly write and rewrite expositions of the solution, enabling dynamic and high-multiplicity conceptions of writeups.

JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters

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RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can it game?

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The Raspberry Pi 5 can technically game with an RTX 5090, but it's not recommended due to poor performance. The CPU perf degradation under FEX emulation makes it unplayable for modern games.

Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times

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A cybersecurity researcher discovered a default ArcGIS API key embedded in Flock Safety's public-facing JavaScript bundles, granting access to 50 private layers and potentially compromising millions of people's movements nationwide. The exposed key was not restricted and appeared across 53 publicly accessible endpoints, demonstrating a systemic pattern of credential mismanagement.

Show HN: Rocket Launch and Orbit Simulator

How Markdown took over the world

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Markdown, a simple text format, revolutionized the internet by making it easy to format text without needing to know HTML. Created by John Gruber in 2004, Markdown has become a standard for developers and users worldwide, used in apps, messaging platforms, and even AI systems.

How will the miracle happen today?

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The author recounts experiences of receiving kindness from strangers while hitchhiking and traveling, developing a theory that kindness is like a breath that can be drawn in or squeezed out.

Scientists discover oldest poison, on 60k-year-old arrows

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Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

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Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok.

The (likely?) cheapest home-made Michelson interferometer

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User built a Michelson interferometer using a 3D printer and basic components from Amazon, costing under $3. The device measures tiny changes in distance using constructive and destructive interference, making it a great first experiment in CAD and 3D printing.

Start your meetings at 5 minutes past

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Google teams start meetings at five minutes past the hour to avoid running into the next meeting. This simple habit reduces stress and improves productivity by giving attendees a short break.

Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines

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See it with your lying ears

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The author applied image filters to audio and vice versa, discovering that while image pixelation produces aesthetically pleasing results, audio pixelation creates unpleasant overtones.

QtNat – Open you port with Qt UPnP

QtNat is a C++ library using Qt 6 that simplifies NAT port mapping with UPnP for peer-to-peer applications and multiplayer games. It automatically communicates with compatible routers to create port forwarding rules at runtime.

Turn a single image into a navigable 3D Gaussian Splat with depth

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My article on why AI is great (or terrible) or how to use it

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The user, a senior engineer, shares their experience with AI development, highlighting its benefits and practical suggestions for using AI in the OSS Python Data world. They emphasize the importance of balancing AI's advantages with its costs and developing strategies to overcome common challenges.

Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear

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A Simon-style musical ear training game. Listen to melodies and play them back on piano. Practice mode with sheet music notation or play-by-ear mode. MIDI keyboard support.

Deno has made its PyPI distribution official

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deno is being distributed on pypi for use in python projects. i think this is a really amazing thing that allows deno to be used in more places and appreciated by more people. my only concern is that this is an unofficial endevour, and maybe it should probably be was reviewed/endorsed by/colaborated with the deno project

Amiga Pointer Archive

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hide system pointers color thumbnails use selected pointer animal arrow crosshair disk flag hand letters mouse pixel skills pointy shape sword system mod toonish uncategorized Colors GUI colors (not usable for pointer) Note: There’s a browsable history in the local edits category. Every step is saved locally in the browser as well.

Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux

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Advanced tab management is complete with session persistence and tab support in main and sidebar windows. Password management framework is established for secure handling and future improvements.

The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app

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You're experiencing issues with the Play Store due to PI spoofing and device storage. Disabling GMS and spoofing in PI allowed you to check for updates, but you still have a "not enough room" issue.

Show HN: I built a tool to create AI agents that live in iMessage

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Build Your Own Agent in iMessageBuild Your Own Agent in iMessage Build me a weather agent that checks the forecast in iMessage

Replit (YC W18) Is Hiring

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Replit is a platform that enables users to build applications using natural language, making software creation accessible to anyone. It aims to empower the next generation of builders by removing traditional barriers to application creation.

Show HN: Similarity = cosine(your_GitHub_stars, Karpathy) Client-side

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Favorite Tech Museums

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I love technology history because it brings me both advice and encouragement: stories of people solving problems despite constraints much bigger than mine, stories of flawed inventions and flawed inventors, stories of oddities that can inform and inspire. Sometimes the blueprints for the best version of the future already exist in the past, but only if you do some spelunking first, and ...

Show HN: EuConform – Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source)

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This tool provides technical guidance for EU AI Act compliance, risk assessment, and bias detection offline. It does not replace legal advice and requires consultation with qualified professionals.

Show HN: Various shape regularization algorithms

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Shape regularization is a technique used in computational geometry to clean up noisy or imprecise geometric data by aligning segments to common orientations and adjusting their positions to create cleaner, more regular shapes. It is formulated as an energy minimization problem with constraints on maximum deviations.

Design duality and the expression problem (2018)

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Part of what I hope to accomplish with this series is to make more concrete the nebulous notion of “trade-offs” that gets brought up any time program design comes up. So far I have brought up what I think are two of the most important ideas: The most fundamental trade-off in abstraction design is power vs properties. And we humans seem to have a common bias towards more power, when getting ...

How to code Claude Code in 200 lines of code

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AI coding assistants use a powerful LLM with a toolbox to execute tasks through a conversation loop. The LLM decides what to do and the code executes it, with the loop continuing until the LLM responds without requesting any tools.

Linux Runs on Raspberry Pi RP2350's Hazard3 RISC-V Cores (2024)

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Jesse Taube successfully booted a minimal Linux distribution on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2's RP2350 microcontroller using its open source RISC-V cores. The Linux distribution requires a specific version without an MMU and needs PSRAM expansion for it to work.