Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining

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The user tested OpenAI's o3 model by guessing the location of a photo taken in El Granada, California. The model correctly identified the Central Coast of California but incorrectly pinpointed the location as Cambria, 200 miles off.

Bare metal printf – C standard library without OS

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We used Newlib to create a compact C standard library for a bare metal system on RISC-V, implementing UART primitives and passing them to Newlib to build a full printf functionality. We set up a cross-compiler toolchain, configured it to use Newlib, and built a minimal C runtime to run on the bare metal system, allowing us to use printf and other C standard library functions.

Path is a utility for working with paths

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Show HN: My self-written hobby OS is finally running on my vintage IBM ThinkPad

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The project is a 32-bit operating system for i386 architecture with networking capabilities, built with C, Assembly, and C++. It supports cross-platform compilation using Docker and QEMU.

Sigbovik Conference Proceedings 2025 [pdf]

A team of squirrels evaluates each paper for authorship not shown. nse ensures that only individuals exceeding an intelligence quotient can perceive encoded information. the system dynamically suppresses semantic and visual recogni- tion pathways in real time. to share the gist with the cognitively less-gied, we decided to leave this abstract, and section headers, untouched by our technology. ...

Amazon Just Happens to Hold Book Sale During Independent Bookstore Day

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Amazon's book sale coincides with Independent Bookstore Day, prompting criticism from indie booksellers who view it as an attempt to undermine their success. Local bookstores have adapted to the online ecosystem and formed strong bonds with their communities, making Amazon's sale seem like petty posturing.

Bill Gates's Personal Easter Eggs in 8 Bit BASIC (2008)

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Microsoft added an Easter egg to their BASIC interpreter for the Commodore PET, which printed "MICROSOFT!" when typing "WAIT6502,1".

Found a simple tool for database modeling: dbdiagram.io

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Absolutely! The Personal plan is available forever. You can also get more power and unlimited diagrams with our Personal Pro plan, with $14 per month. Learn more. We are Holistics.io, a Singapore-based business intelligence product company. We built DBDiagram internally in order to have a quick way to visualize database schemas for our customers. We thought it would be cool to turn that into ...

An end to all this prostate trouble?

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Spermatic vein backflow is not the new part of their theory. ideal would be valve repair or replacement, but not on vein valves, says dr. sanjay gupta, author of the paper cited above. the ideal is to replace the valve with a catheter, he says, and it won't last forever if it fails - as some have suggested 'in the womb' venous

Dad and the Egg Controller (2018)

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The narrator's dad was an inventor who built a device called the Egg Controller to control the temperature of a Big Green Egg barbecue. The narrator struggled to understand the device's interface but eventually figured it out and successfully used it to cook a pork shoulder for a memorial lunch.

Anatomy of a SQL Engine

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Dolt's SQL engine performs steps from parsing to result spooling, including binding, simplification, and join planning. The engine uses intermediate representations to optimize query execution, including join costing and execution with tiered storage and result spooling.

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BART's Anime Mascots

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BART introduced anime mascots Mira, Jasmine, Baylee, and Nimbus to promote public transportation use among youth riders. The mascots were created by California-based artists following a 2022 open call and are available as merchandise on railgoods.com.

The Passing of Ucbvax (1994)

The ucbvax computer at UC Berkeley was retired after 16 years of service, with a ceremony held to honor its history and contributions. It will be repurposed as a card-key access system controller for the UC Police department.

Parity (YC S24) is hiring founding engineers to build an AI SRE (in-person, SF)

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Parity is using AI to automate on-call tasks, reducing the burden on teams. Backed by top investors, Parity is building a product to define a new category in infrastructure management.

Slinky-Coil Dipole (2021)

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A Slinky coil can be used as a compact, lightweight antenna for various frequencies. It can be stretched to different lengths and used as a dipole or helical antenna.

Cloth

A 2D cloth Verlet simulation made in Rust

Tilt: dev environment as code

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Tilt automates microservice development by watching files, building container images, and updating the environment. It supports various languages and has community resources for configuration and contribution.

CosAE: Learnable Fourier Series for Image Restoration

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CosAE is a novel autoencoder that uses Fourier series with a neural network to encode images with extreme spatial compression without losing detail. It surpasses state-of-the-art approaches in super-resolution and blind image restoration tasks.

The Friendship Recession: The lost art of connecting

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The "Friendship Recession" is a cultural shift where Americans are prioritizing work and family over friendships, leading to a decline in meaningful relationships. To combat this, individuals must take initiative to form and sustain connections through shared experiences and rituals, rather than relying on digital interactions.

HTTP Feeds: a minimal specification for polling events over HTTP

HTTP feeds allow asynchronous decoupling of systems without message brokers, using a client that fetches events with a lastEventId query parameter. The server supports long polling for lower latency and uses a time-ordered UUIDv6 or database sequence as event ID for strong ordering.

Stuffed-Na(a)N: stuff your NaNs

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stuffed-naan encodes data as NaNs, preserving it in math operations and compressing data by 25%. It's fast, privacy-first, and can't be copied without losing data.

Mobygratis – Free Moby music to empower your creative projects

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Mobygratis provides free instrumental music for all creators. It offers three free format options: stereo MP3, stereo WAV, and multitrack WAV.

Australian who ordered radioactive materials walks away from court

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A 24-year-old Australian man received a two-year good behavior bond for ordering and possessing radioactive materials without permits. The judge considered his mental health issues and lack of malicious intent, despite a major hazmat incident in August 2023.

Robot Dexterity Still Seems Hard

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Humanoid robots are being developed by numerous companies, with some raising hundreds of millions of dollars in funding, but they still struggle with dexterity and manipulation.

TPSV, an Alternative to TSV (and CSV)

TSVP has advantages over CSV and TSV due to its simpler parsing and alignment capabilities. It uses a pipe character to separate cells and allows for row continuations and comments.

LLMs can see and hear without any training

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The code downloads and uses several datasets including MS-COCO and Clotho for image captioning, and evaluates the performance of the MILS method on these datasets. The code also uses audio and video captioning to convert audio and video to text, and then combines the captions to generate high-quality images using a language model.

Solar Orbiter's widest high-res view of the Sun

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Solar Orbiter captured a detailed view of the Sun's million-degree hot atmosphere, combining 200 individual images in ultraviolet light. The image shows glowing coronal loops, dark filaments, and prominences in the Sun's messy magnetic field.

Your phone isn't secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing

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Smartphones are not secretly listening to users, but companies like Facebook and Google are tracking users through various data points to serve targeted ads. This data collection is often more complex and unsettling than the initial "listening" conspiracy theory.

Parallel ./configure

User wants to utilize 24 CPU cores for ./configure, but it only uses 69% of one core. They created a new build system using make to parallelize configuration tasks.