I Don't Understand Quantum Physics (2018)

Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology

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Elon Musk's decision to shut off US support for Ukraine's Starlink system has sent shockwaves across Europe, highlighting the US as an unreliable security partner. This move may lead to a loss of business and revenue for American companies in Europe as nations seek alternatives.

OBS Studio 33

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OBS Studio has been updated with new features and bug fixes, including a massive overhaul of the browser source framework and improved plugin loading. The update also includes support for newer NVIDIA Broadcast SDKs and fixes several issues with video output and stream disconnections.

Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS

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User received Jolla phone with disappointing experience due to required account for app store and lack of file browser. They are considering returning the device as they prefer a Linux-like experience without app stores.

Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed

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Kimi K3.1 Pro is a new model that offers substantial improvements in coding, 3D creation, financial research, and agentic capabilities with a 1-million-token context window. It delivers consistent gains across various benchmarks and outperforms proprietary models like GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5.

Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month

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Scientists have successfully trapped a single subatomic particle of antimatter, called a positron, for months using a special trap. This achievement could help explain why the universe is made mostly of matter and not antimatter.

Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone

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Below is a series of demos we revealed at Hexacon in Paris today. Everything will be released in due time.

Appreciating the beauty of all your body's scars and scratches

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A person had a life-threatening tumor removed in a surgery, but is now grateful to be alive. Their scars and bumps are reminders of their journey and part of what makes them unique.

Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects many HTTP libs and apps

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A widely used compression library Brotli has a known security vulnerability, dubbed "node2shell," which can cause memory leaks or execute arbitrary code. Users are advised to upgrade their libraries and applications that use Brotli until patches become available.

Twelve years of distributed SQLite

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The author created rqlite in 2014, combining SQLite with Raft consensus protocol to create a fault-tolerant relational database. Since then, the concept of "distributed SQLite" has evolved into a category with various projects offering different approaches to replication and consistency.

How to run a city builder on 16 MHz

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The author discusses how older games like SimCity could run on less powerful hardware, and analyzes the optimization techniques used in the game's code to achieve this. The key optimizations include skipping unnecessary calculations and only updating certain parts of the simulation or rendering at specific intervals.

Apple Music 404 Not Found

The page you’re looking for can’t be found. Explore new music, playlists, and artists on Apple Music.

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

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If there are fewer than 25 things close to you, it takes the closest 25 things within about 6 miles. If there are more than 500 things only the closest 500 will be included.

How close can pure functional programming get to C?

A DEFLATE compression library written in Lean 4 outperformed a Rust package, but was still slower than a C implementation. The author achieved this result through optimization techniques that are widely beneficial across languages.

Bringing uv and ty together

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Astral's uv and ty tools are now integrated, enabling unified support for Python scripts in the CLI and editor. This integration aims to create an integrated toolchain that uses a shared understanding of projects to enable new capabilities.

AI-Assisted Paper on Z-Library Cites a TorrentFreak Article That Doesn't Exist

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A paper in a peer-reviewed journal discusses Z-Library, a pirate ebook library, and its impact on academic publishing. The authors' references to major publishers' actions against Z-Library appear to be fabricated using AI tools.

A practical guide to AI image generation, from diffusion to agents

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This guide covers AI image generation, including how models work, different types, history, and best practices for building image generation into code and agents. It provides experiments with various models to achieve non-AI generated images.

Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech

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Block, Inc. collects user information for various purposes including measuring usage and sending useful information, while also sharing data with affiliates and third parties. Users can access, delete or correct their personal information by contacting Block's privacy team.

TornadoVM 7 Enables GPU-Native Workloads from Java Applications

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TornadoVM, an open-source heterogeneous GPU programming framework for Java, has reached version 7.3, a major milestone for the project. TornadoVM automatically accelerates Java programs on multi-core CPUs and GPUs. Rather than replacing existing JVMs, it works alongside them and provides a rich GPU programming ecosystem in Java that you can use with any mainstream JDK distribution such as ...

The Chalk and the Airplane

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Mathematicians are struggling with the impact of AI-generated proofs, feeling a loss of romance and discovery in their field. They fear that the use of AI will lead to a decline in human understanding and creativity.

Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22

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Canada's Parliament is debating Bill C-22, a surveillance bill that could compromise millions of Canadians' privacy and security. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association urges Canadians to sign its petition opposing the bill, which has already passed the House of Commons.

Apple Security Research Device

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Apple offers the Security Research Device Program to help security researchers work with iOS securely. Researchers can apply for a 12-month loan of an SRD, which provides access to iOS components and tools for vulnerability discovery.

Show HN: Autonomous root for Tcl Android TV via CVE-2022-22706

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TCL 50C721 (RTD1319 / Mali-G31) root toolkit — autonomous CVE-2022-22706 exploit chain

Hacker reverses Samsung TV, finds on-board AI listening OpenAI account suspended

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CVE Tracker

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Resolution Range View Dates Mode Data: CVEProject/cvelistV5 Counts follow the selected period and date; Cumulative shows the running total. Projection = pace vs median day-of-month fraction, last 12 months

The Real Kevin Bacon

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The "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" game reveals Samuel L. Jackson as the center of Hollywood, but a new generation may surpass him. A simulation predicts Chloë Grace Moretz as the next potential center, with 10% winning over simulations.

C vs. C#: racing VLC's Gaussian blur

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A C# port of a native VLC 4 filter, Gaussian blur, was compared to the original C code. The C# version took about 23% longer per frame than the C version at sigma 4.

Tiling Noise – Procedural GPU Patterns

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This tutorial extends value noise to a torus, addressing UV seams and implementing tiling for seamless patterns. It introduces lattice coordinate adjustments and frequency-based tiling logic to achieve smooth transitions across tile boundaries.

How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money

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A data scientist and app developer analyzed the game Block Blast, finding that it uses a complex system to adapt difficulty levels based on ad revenue. The code was decompiled from both Android and iOS versions, revealing a set of rules that adjust piece placement based on user performance and ad prices.

The Quake Fan who built the map editor everybody uses

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Kristian Duske created TrenchBroom in 2010 as a macOS level editor for Quake due to dissatisfaction with existing tools, and it has since become a popular choice among mappers. The project's success is attributed to its 3D-centric workflow and features like linked groups, which have enabled the Quake mapping scene to experience a renaissance.