Passport Photos

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The series "Passport Photos" challenges official rules by taking unconventional photos of people in passport poses. It tests various actions while taking official document photos, defying the usual straight-faced requirement.

Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada

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The Canadian government has ordered TikTok to close its offices due to national security concerns, but users can still access the app. The decision was made after a national security review found that TikTok's activities in Canada posed a risk to national security.

131M American Buildings

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The user discussed their system specifications and used DuckDB to analyze a large dataset of US building footprints generated by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, converting the data from Geodatabase to Parquet format. They also explored the dataset's metadata, including building types, locations, and imagery sources, and provided a pivot table showing the relationships between imagery source ...

Private Cloud Compute Security Guide

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Private Cloud Compute provides secure cloud processing for Apple Intelligence tasks with strict data protection and transparency. It enforces stateless computation, non-targetability, and verifiable guarantees to ensure user data privacy and security.

Guy gives a negative review to Battlezone after playing 8k hours; He's right

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Scott Smith, a dedicated Battlezone player, left a negative review after 9,000 hours of playtime, citing numerous bugs and design changes in the remaster that ruined the game's multiplayer experience. He still plays the game to help modders and others with problems, showing a deep connection to the community he's mourning the loss of.

Show HN: Hacker News frontpage as a print newspaper that you can personalize

Personalize the Hacker News frontpage. Like and dislike stories, then click 'Update' to get recommended stories.

Launch HN: Midship (YC S24) – Turn PDFs, docs, and images into usable data

Max, Kieran, and Aahel from Midship created a tool to extract data from unstructured documents like PDFs and images. Midship uses OCR and language models to provide clean, structured data and has two user types: non-technical users and developers.

Show HN: SuperSplat – open-source 3D Gaussian Splat Editor

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SuperSplat is an advanced browser-based editor for manipulating and optimizing 3D Gaussian Splats. It is open source and engine agnostic.

New images of Jupiter

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Catapulted Cloud Stream from South Tropical Zone and South Component above the Great Red Spot

Visualizing binary files with ImHex's DSL, the "pattern language"

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I've got a binary file with a custom made binary format, and a spec for that binary format. How do I go into the binary quickly and see the data I want ? This is a problem I ran into while writing some software that operates on this data. Before, my approach would have probably been to write some Python code to parse the format, following the spec carefully and see where it diverges. ...

Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities

The user shares interesting macOS Bash commands for accessing secrets, opening files, copying text, and more. Commands include security, open, pbcopy, pbpaste, caffeinate, uuidgen, mdfind, screencapture, and networksetup.

Show HN: Aide, an open-source AI native IDE

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Developers can use AI to make large code changes with Aide, a tool that proposes fixes and iterates on linter errors. Aide aims to make AI-edits seamless and maintainable.

Physicists spot quantum tornadoes twirling in a 'supersolid'

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Physicists at the University of Innsbruck have captured images of quantum-scale vortices in a supersolid, a paradoxical phase of matter that's simultaneously solid and fluid. The discovery could help explain properties in extreme systems, including pulsars and high-temperature superconductors.

Exposure to phthalate compromises brain function in adult vertebrates

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The decline of the working musician

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The gig economy has changed the music industry, making it harder for musicians to make a sustainable living. A new book, "Band People," explores the lives of working musicians, highlighting the challenges and realities of a career in music.

Sin taxes are suffering from a shortage of sinners

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California faces a budget deficit due to declining tax revenues from fuel, cigarettes, and alcohol.

Title drops in movies

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A study analyzed 73,921 movies for title drops, finding that 36.5% of movies have at least one title drop during their runtime, with an average of 10.3 title drops per movie. The study also found that movies named after their protagonists have a higher title drop rate, and that the use of title drops has increased over the decades, particularly in multi-drop films.

One year, 41M digits: How Luke Durant found the largest known prime number

Monorepo – Our Experience

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The user's team switched to a monorepo setup after experiencing both setups and found minor positive changes, including reduced grunt work and increased sense of connectedness among team members. The move was easy and didn't impact development velocity, with the team appreciating the benefits of a shared digital space and increased awareness of each other's work.

The deep learning boom caught almost everyone by surprise

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Fei-Fei Li's massive ImageNet dataset, created in 2009, played a crucial role in the resurgence of neural networks, which were previously considered a backwater in AI research. The dataset, combined with Nvidia's CUDA platform and Geoffrey Hinton's backpropagation algorithm, enabled the development of deep learning models like AlexNet, which achieved unprecedented performance in image ...

Model Predictive Control in the Browser with WebAssembly

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The user implemented a cart-pole system using Model Predictive Control (MPC) and WebAssembly (WASM) to create a web-based simulation. The MPC system uses a predictive model to reason about control actions and can be interacted with through a web app.

Caring for yourself while caring for others

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You're a caregiver for a loved one and need to prioritize your own health to provide the best care. Taking care of yourself through self-care, support, and respite care can help you manage stress and maintain your well-being.

Hacking cars in JavaScript (Replay attacks in the browser with the HackRF)

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The user built a project using a HackRF device and JavaScript to receive and transmit data, and successfully recreated a tool to hack a car in the browser. The project involves using the WebUSB API to connect the HackRF device, setting settings like gain and frequency, and using the Canvas API to visualize the data, with the goal of running a rolljam/replay attack on a car.

WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill

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We optimized Recall.ai's IPC to reduce CPU usage by up to 50% and AWS bill by over $1M/year. We replaced WebSockets with a custom ring buffer for efficient data transfer.

98.css – A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs

98.css is a CSS library that styles HTML to resemble Windows 98 interfaces. It's compatible with frontend frameworks and prioritizes accessibility.

Forget CDK and AWS's insane costs. Pulumi and DigitalOcean to the rescue

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Install Pulumi following the official guide and verify installation. Run commands to create a DigitalOcean cluster and verify its creation.

Trump wins presidency for second time

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Former President Trump secured a second term with 270 electoral votes, flipping Georgia and shattering the "blue wall." He won a convincing victory despite a criminal trial, assassination attempts, and a change in the Democratic ticket.

Kernel optimization with BOLT (binary optimization and layout tool)

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A tool called BOLT optimizes kernel performance by rearranging the binary to improve code locality, and it has been used by companies like Meta and Google to achieve significant performance gains. BOLT can be used with GCC or Clang and supports various architectures, and it has been integrated into the LLVM project, making it a valuable tool for optimizing kernel performance.

Ollama 0.4 is released with support for Meta's Llama 3.2 Vision models locally

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Llama 3.2 Vision is now available to run in Ollama, in both 11B and 90B sizes. To add an image to the prompt, drag and drop it into the terminal, or add a path to the image to the prompt on Linux. Note: Llama 3.2 Vision 11B requires least 8GB of VRAM, and the 90B model requires at least 64 GB of VRAM.

Sysadmin shock as Windows Server 2025 installs itself after labeling error

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Administrators are reporting unexpected appearances of Windows Server 2025 after what was published as a security update turned out to be a complete operating system upgrade. The problem was flagged by a customer of web app security biz Heimdal. Arriving at the office on the morning of November 5, they found, to their horror, that every Windows Server 2022 system had either upgraded itself to ...