Pavel Durov, Telegram's CEO, was arrested at Paris' Bourget airport on Saturday evening due to an arrest warrant. He was traveling from Azerbaijan and holds dual citizenship of France and the UAE, with an estimated fortune of $15.5 billion.

The user struggled with math in school due to lacking pre-requisite knowledge, not lack of ability. By rebuilding math skills from the ground up, they realized that they're not "dumb" but rather, they just needed to fill knowledge gaps.

You're working on various projects, including a London home search website, Amazon scraper websites, and a guitar practice app, while also learning about hybrid static and SSR apps with Astro.js and improving your coding skills by working on patches for ffmpeg. You're also exploring machine learning, trading, and browser-based CHIP-8 emulation, and plan to share your experiences and ...

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Hot Page allows designers to build and deploy pages without coding, giving them full control over layout and design. Users praise Hot Page for its ease of use, flexibility, and ability to create unique and artful pages for various purposes, such as sharing recipes or displaying poems.

The Temporal proposal in ECMAScript introduces a new API for working with dates and times, including a Temporal.ZonedDateTime object that accurately represents dates and times with their corresponding time zone. This API eliminates the common pitfalls of working with traditional Date objects, such as unexpected shifts in time due to Daylight Saving Time (DST) or time zone differences, and ...

Network defenders often focus on protecting individual assets, but attackers breach networks by navigating a graph of interconnected assets and security relationships. To gain an upper hand, defenders should visualize their network as a graph, prune unwanted edges, and manage from reality to anticipate and prevent attacks.

The user developed an open-source Reddit client called Geddit, which allowed users to view Reddit without authentication, and was downloaded over 25,000 times, but was later banned from Reddit for violating their API terms. The user was surprised by the ban and felt that their non-commercial app was unfairly targeted, and now misses the old Reddit and considers starting their own text-only ...

GoogleSQL extends SQL to solve its design problems, making it easier to learn, use, and extend while leveraging the existing ecosystem and userbase. This approach allows for incremental adoption of new features without requiring a new language, making it a more productive way to improve standard SQL.

“When you design a new user interface, you have to start off humbly” Humble UI is a desktop UI framework for Clojure. No Electron. No JavaScript. Only JVM and native code. (require '[io.github.humbleui.ui :as ui]) (def ui (ui/default-theme {} (ui/center (ui/label "Hello from Humble UI! 👋")))) (ui/start-app! (ui/window {:title "Humble 🐝 UI"} #'ui))

The author criticizes the book "Geometric Algebra for Computer Science" (GA4CS) for its poor foundations, including incorrect definitions of inner products, contractions, and duals, which lead to inconsistent and flawed calculations. The author also highlights errors in the book's claims about the efficiency of geometric algebra methods, particularly in the composition of orthogonal ...

The author wrote a program called "Trip" to simulate the failure of specific Libc functions, aiming to help students understand robust error handling in systems programming. The program uses the LD_PRELOAD hack to intercept and manipulate functions, and the author shares their experience and design decisions in implementing the program.

ChartDB is a web-based database diagramming editor that allows users to visualize their database schema with a single query and customize diagrams, export SQL scripts, and access features without an account. The tool also features AI-powered export for easy migration, interactive editing, and community contributions, with a Public Beta currently available.

NASA will return the Boeing Starliner spacecraft to Earth without astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, citing safety concerns and the need for more testing data. The uncrewed return will allow NASA and Boeing to gather more information on Starliner's performance and prepare for future crewed flights to the International Space Station.

The author compares String, SmolStr, and SmartString, discussing their memory usage, allocation events, and performance in parsing a JSON file. SmolStr and SmartString show better performance than String, with SmolStr being the best, but the author notes that microbenchmarks may not accurately represent real-world scenarios.

Clay is a C library for building user interfaces, providing a declarative syntax for laying out elements and rendering them in a browser or other environment. It supports various element types, including rectangles, text, images, and custom elements, and provides a simple API for handling mouse and pointer interactions, scrolling, and other UI features.

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) has designed a new EUV lithography equipment that simplifies the optical system and reduces power consumption by a factor of ten, potentially revolutionizing chip manufacturing. The technology could challenge ASML's monopoly on EUV lithography and enhance Japan's position in the semiconductor industry, with potential partners including Nikon and Canon.

Julius is an open-source version of Caesar 3 with UI enhancements, requiring original game files to run, and offers 100% save file compatibility. It preserves original game bugs and can be downloaded or built, with an alternative fork named Augustus offering gameplay changes, but not supporting original save files.

The author is implementing a custom React-like library from scratch, focusing on the core render model, including the creation of a view tree, rendering, and updating the DOM. They also implement several hooks, including `useState`, `useRef`, `useEffect`, and `useMemo`, and discuss the challenges and trade-offs involved in implementing these hooks.

use GoPhp\Interpreter; $interp = Interpreter::create(<<<GO package main type person struct { name string age int } func newPerson(name string) *person { p := person{name: name} p.age = 42 return &p } func main() { s := newPerson("John Doe") println("Hello, " + s.name) } GO); $result = $interp->run();

Papersway is a window management system for Sway/i3wm that arranges windows in a row, allowing movement between visible windows. It offers features like reordering, toggling monocle mode, and creating fresh workspaces, and is free software under the GNU General Public License.

AMD's latest mobile chip, Strix Point, features an improved integrated graphics processing unit (iGPU) with a larger GPU and architecture upgrade, offering better performance and power efficiency compared to its predecessor. The Strix Point iGPU, codenamed Radeon 890M, is built on the RDNA 3.5 architecture and provides improved cache bandwidth, memory access, and compute performance, making ...

AstroForge, an asteroid mining company, has raised $40 million in Series A funding and plans to launch two missions, Odin and Vestri, to explore and mine metal-rich asteroids. The company's next mission, Odin, will fly by a near-Earth asteroid in 2023, while Vestri, scheduled for 2025, will attempt to dock with the asteroid and sample its surface.

The "doom principle" states that performing cryptographic operations before verifying a MAC can lead to security issues. Examples of this principle include the "authenticate-then-encrypt" method, which can be vulnerable to padding and MAC errors, and the SSH protocol, which can be exploited to recover plaintext.

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Turbo Pascal 7 was a revolutionary programming tool that introduced integrated source-level debugging and object-oriented programming to Windows development, making it easier to create Windows applications. Its popularity declined due to increasing competition from C and Microsoft's C tools, as well as the rise of Visual BASIC, but it remains a significant part of computing history.

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The user discusses the need for fine-grained access controls in code, inspired by network firewalls, and proposes a Node.js library called firewall-js that uses JavaScript proxies to limit access based on filesystem structure. The library allows for easy organization and permissions, preventing maintenance issues and enhancing security.

The user created a 3D-printed surveillance bird, a "Not-NSA bird", using designs from Sketchfab and Thingiverse, and programmed it to move its head and blink its LED randomly. The user provides a step-by-step guide on how to create this bird, including 3D printing, coding, and assembly.

The City of Cumberland is launching a limited-time relocation package pilot program offering up to $20,000 to attract families to live within city limits. The package includes $10,000 in relocation cash and a $10,000 match for approved home renovations or down payments on new homes.

Make is a build tool that can automate tasks such as installing dependencies, running tests, and compiling files, and is a good choice for web projects due to its speed, simplicity, and language-agnostic nature. By using Makefiles, developers can create a consistent interface to commands across projects, making it easier to work with teammates and manage complex build processes.

Sapiens is a comprehensive suite for human-centric vision tasks, pre-trained on 300 million images and offering excellent generalization to unconstrained conditions. The model can be used for tasks such as 2D pose, part segmentation, and depth estimation, and can be installed and fine-tuned using the provided installation script and training guide.

Datalog is a logical query language that applies logic programming principles to database theory, supporting recursive queries and in-memory relational databases. It allows defining inference rules and querying the database using a syntax similar to Prolog, enabling complex queries and transitive closures that cannot be done in most forms of SQL.

You're finding that using VS Code Cursor and Sonnet 3.5, instead of GitHub Copilot, is now a net win for your programming needs. You're leveraging the tools to write English prompts, review generated code, and use completions to speed up your coding process.

CORS is a hack to mitigate legacy mistakes and provides opt-out and opt-in protections against XSS attacks, but it is insufficient and allows implicit credentials to be used in cross-origin requests. To ensure security, sites should ignore implicit credentials on cross-origin requests and use explicit credentials, such as API tokens or OAuth flows, to authenticate users.

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Researchers are exploring the potential of psychedelics to reveal a deeper dimension of consciousness, with some arguing that these experiences can tap into a transpersonal reality that extends beyond the brain. While some scientists and philosophers are skeptical about the existence of a non-material reality, others believe that psychedelics can facilitate profound and transformative ...

Ed-tech companies face significant challenges in scaling globally due to regional differences in markets, cultural expectations, and financial incentives, making it difficult to achieve high product-market fit and monetization. The industry's low expected returns and difficulty in scaling make it hard to build a venture-scale, generational company, with most ed-tech products either failing or ...

Norway has reported sabotage at its Evenes Air Station, where a critical communications cable was severed, amid increasing warnings about Russian activity on the continent. The incident comes as other European NATO air bases report incidents, including suspected sabotage and drone activity over critical infrastructure, amid concerns about a wave of "hybrid warfare" by Russia.

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Ircpipe is a simple utility that connects to an IRC network and handles setup, authentication, and channel joining, allowing users to interact with the network without worrying about details. It can be used to create a rudimentary IRC client or to receive alerts from scripts, and is implemented in under 500 lines of C89 code.

The website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks and has blocked the user's action. The user can email the site owner to report the block and include details of what they were doing when the page came up.

The AceMagic X1 is a dual-screen laptop with a unique design, featuring two 14-inch IPS screens and a traditional keyboard, but its secondary screen's precarious placement can be distracting. The X1's design allows for flexible use of the dual screens, with features for controlling which screen is on and a hinge system that supports up to 360-degree movement.

AppleInsider reported that the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro may support the JPEG-XL file format, which offers 3x better compression than JPEG. JPEG-XL is a royalty-free format that can encode images up to 1 terapixel with lossless compression, and its adoption could help popularize the format, especially with Apple's support.

The author argues that reading old books is valuable because they offer cognitive and perspectival diversity, allowing readers to think through ideas for themselves and discover new concepts. By engaging with old books, readers can gain a deeper understanding of history, access conceptual and cognitive diversity, and develop their own thinking, rather than simply relying on modern ...

The user is an older adult who finds chat AI services like ChatGPT and Perplexity helpful in searching for information and improving memory, using them to prepare Anki decks and find concise answers. They appreciate the services' ability to provide quick results, include website sources, and suggest follow-up questions, and believe that understanding the limitations of LLMs can help users get ...

Just came across this Kaparthy tweet: [0] https://x.com/karpathy/status/1827143768459637073 I wanted to get some broader feedback before setting everything up. What’s your experience with this stack?

Germany's energy transition policy, Energiewende, has resulted in a 25% reduction in climate gas emissions, but at a cost of EUR 696 billion. If Germany had invested in nuclear power instead, it would have achieved its climate goals with a substantial margin at half the expenditures, with a total nominal expenditure of EUR 364 billion.

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The author reflects on the fleeting nature of literary fame, citing examples of popular books and authors from the past that are now largely forgotten, and argues that what endures is often determined by a dedicated following among artists, geeks, academics, critics, and editors. The author suggests that predicting what will last requires looking to what has partisans among dedicated readers ...

The Sinsheim and Speyer museums in southwest Germany showcase a vast collection of vintage cars, aircraft, and military hardware, including a Buran prototype and a Soviet Tupolev Tu-144, with interactive exhibits and accessible displays. The museums are a must-visit for tech and engineering enthusiasts, with a two-day pass available for €52 or €42 for children between 5 and 14.

Elon Musk's investors, including Russian billionaires Petr Aven and Vadim Moshkovich, have ties to Putin and have not protested Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This raises concerns about Musk's bias and the impact on Twitter, which may be promoting pro-Russian narratives and damaging the platform.

Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO, discussed "glue people" who are nice but unproductive, and how he initially tried to get rid of them at Novell. Google later changed its hiring process to flag potential "glue people" and prioritize hires with backgrounds Schmidt liked.

Army ants build bridges with their bodies by slowing down and freezing in place when other ants step over them, without a leader or complex cognitive resources. Researchers have developed a model to predict when ants will build bridges, which could inform the development of simple robots that can perform similar feats.

Google prioritizes profit over quality in search results, making it difficult for competitors to emerge. The user suggests building a personalized search engine using open-source tools, but notes that it would require a large monopoly and may not be worth the effort due to the complexity and potential security issues.

The author purchased a HGST SSD drive with a capacity of 200GB and encountered issues with formatting and reading data due to the drive's type 1 protection, which was resolved by installing the sg3_utils package and setting the ashift value to 12. The author also migrated their data from Oracle ZFS to OpenZFS and created a 10-disk RAIDZ2 pool with a special mirror and cache, achieving a ...

German journalist Martin Bernklau was falsely accused of crimes by Microsoft's Copilot AI, which listed his phone number and address. Bernklau is suing Microsoft for defamation and invasion of privacy, claiming the AI's false accusations damaged his reputation.

A simple polymer hydrogel was able to learn and improve at playing Pong over time by adapting to the game's feedback, demonstrating the ability to remember and exhibit complex behaviors. The discovery opens up new avenues for research and development of "smart" materials that can learn and adapt to their environment.

Death Cafe is a social franchise that hosts group discussions about death, aiming to increase awareness and help people make the most of their lives, with over 18,000 events held in 90 countries since 2011. The concept was developed by Jon Underwood and Sue Barsky Reid, and is now run by Susan Barsky Reid and Jools Barsky, with a goal to normalize conversations about mortality.

The user wants to develop a browser extension that allows users to input natural text or voice commands, which are then passed to an LLM to determine the desired outcome. They have already tested a prototype and are looking for collaboration, specifically seeking help with UI design and learning GO.

The Acme Corporation is creating an internal CLI to simplify tasks and preserve institutional knowledge. The CLI uses just, a cross-platform command runner, and allows devs to contribute new commands and share workflows.

Hermeto Pascoal, a Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist, created the Calendário do Som, a musical corpus of 366 compositions, one for each day of the year, as a birthday gift to humanity, aiming to promote peace and unity. The compositions reflect Hermeto's eclectic musical style, blending various genres and styles, and his use of unconventional instruments and notation systems, which ...

Professor Avi Loeb proposes a black hole engine that could provide an advanced civilization with an endless supply of power, using matter as fuel and emitting Hawking radiation. This concept could be detectable as a technosignature, potentially indicating the existence of an advanced civilization, and could solve the problem of waste disposal while providing clean energy.

MIT's new student intake has a 10% drop in students from historically under-represented racial and ethnic groups, following the Supreme Court's decision to end affirmative action. The university's admissions figures show a decline in black and Hispanic students, while Asian American students make up 47% of the new class.

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Menocchio, a 16th-century miller, was interrogated by the Roman Inquisition for his unconventional beliefs about the origin of the universe, which Carlo Ginzburg later analyzed as an example of oral tradition and peasant religion. Ginzburg's book "The Cheese and the Worms" became a classic in microhistory, challenging dominant approaches in historical scholarship and inspiring new inquiries ...

Tech giants' mission statements reveal a desire to become indispensable in our digital lives, but their policies for account termination and content removal are opaque and often fail badly. To regain control, we need to break up the giants, restore interoperability, and establish fair and transparent rules for online services.

The author attempts to create a faster string search algorithm than grep, but ultimately fails and discovers that grep's speed comes from a treacherous optimization that sacrifices worst-case performance for best-case speed. The author copies the technique and finds that it brings a 2% speed increase, but at a cost of a 70% slowdown in the worst case.

Scientists warn against taking health advice from centenarians, as their longevity may be due to luck or genetics rather than specific habits. Instead, experts recommend focusing on well-known factors that can improve life expectancy at a population level, such as improvements in healthcare, hygiene, and individual choices.

The PHP parser simplifies static code analysis and manipulation, parsing PHP 7.0 to 8.3 and supporting PHP 5.2 to 8.3. The parser is used to traverse the Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) and modify the code, such as dropping function bodies.

Guy Davenport's "The Geography of the Imagination" is a collection of essays that explores the connections between art, literature, and culture, showcasing his erudite and imaginative approach to understanding the creative process. Through his writing, Davenport demonstrates a deep appreciation for the complexity and richness of human culture, encouraging readers to slow down and appreciate ...

NASA has decided to send astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore back to Earth on a SpaceX-crewed Dragon flight in February, citing too much uncertainty with the Boeing Starliner's thrusters. The Starliner will return to Earth uncrewed, and NASA will continue to work with Boeing to understand the root causes of the issues and make design improvements.