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.

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.

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.

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.

New images of Jupiter

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

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.

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.

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. ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

Sysadmin shock as Windows Server 2025 installs itself after labeling error

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Microsoft mistakenly labeled Windows Server 2025 as a security update, causing unexpected upgrades to 7% of customers. Heimdal discovered the error in the Windows Update API, where KB5044284 was incorrectly associated with Windows Server 2025.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Show HN: Term-Lisp – A Lisp, based on pattern matching and term rewriting

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term-lisp is a language for term list processing with first-class pattern matching, inspired by functional programming languages. It supports lazy evaluation and does not support variables, instead using rules to replace terms.

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.

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.

Switch 2 will be backwards compatible with Switch

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Nintendo Switch successor will be backward compatible with Switch and have Switch Online. Further details on the successor, including its release date, will be announced later.

Learning not to trust the All-In podcast

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The author, a non-expert, disputed a claim from the All-In podcast that 85% of Q3 GDP growth came from government spending, finding it to be a misreading of data from the Department of Commerce's website. The actual figure was 30.1%, consistent with post-Great Recession era trends.