User searched for an original Braun DN 40 alarm clock and designed a 3D printed combination of tray, charger, and clock to solve space issues. After iterations, they created a final design with a rounded shape, comfortable to hold, and optimized cable canal.

The book "Data-Oriented Programming in Java" focuses on organizing programs around data to create simpler, smaller, and easier-to-understand code. It emphasizes the importance of capturing domain data accurately, allowing the rest of the system to fall into place naturally.

Lord Rayleigh calculated the size of a single molecule using oil and water, building on Benjamin Franklin's 1770 experiment where he observed oil calming turbulent water. Rayleigh's 1890 experiment involved measuring the spread of olive oil on water and estimating the thickness of the oil film, allowing him to estimate the length of an oil molecule at 1.63 nanometers.

Felafax fine-tuned the LLaMA 3.1 405B model on AMD GPUs using JAX, demonstrating the ability to efficiently manage large-scale AI workloads and achieving impressive results. The experience highlights the viability of AMD GPUs as a strong alternative to NVIDIA hardware for large-scale AI training, and the seamless integration of JAX with ROCm support simplifies the transition.

The user discovered a vulnerability in Dotpe's QR code ordering system, which allowed them to access sensitive information such as ongoing orders, purchase history, and sales data from thousands of restaurants across India. The user was able to exploit this vulnerability to remotely place orders, access customer data, and even see what everyone in India is currently eating in real-time at all ...

The iPhone 16 makes three big leaps for repairkind, including a new adhesive that can be debonded with an electrical current, a hard steel case battery, and a dual-entry design that allows for independent access to components. The new adhesive and Repair Assistant feature make battery replacements easier and more accessible, but some obstacles to repair remain, including fussy screw types and ...

Cloudflare launched AI Audit, a free tool for website owners to track and block AI models scraping their sites. The company also plans to create a marketplace where website owners can sell access to their content to AI model providers.

AI will accelerate human progress, enabling people to accomplish things that would have seemed like magic to their grandparents, and eventually, everyone's lives can be better than anyone's life is now. With AI, we can have shared prosperity, solve hard problems, and create almost anything we can imagine, leading to a future of massive prosperity and astounding triumphs.

A study reveals that Octopus cyanea hunts in groups with various fish species, displaying social behaviors and intelligence previously thought unique to vertebrates. Researchers observed these octopuses enforcing order by punching fish and benefiting from collaborative hunting strategies.

CEOs and corporate landlords are pushing for employees to return to offices due to financial struggles, despite remote work being just as productive and beneficial for employees. The real estate apocalypse unfolding due to office return mandates could lead to a financial crisis, with over $1 trillion in loans at risk of default.

The paper presents a novel method for designing floor plans using Voronoi diagrams, allowing for topological changes in wall layouts and incorporating constraints such as room areas and connectivity. The method is demonstrated through interactive examples and GIF animations generated using Rust commands.

The Norman Rockwell Museum is hosting an exhibition, "What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine", featuring iconic original illustrations and cartoons from MAD's longtime contributors and next-generation visual satirists, exploring the art, satire, and cultural impact of the magazine. The exhibition is available to be hosted at other venues and can be contacted at ...

King Godric XIII, called the Crimson Hand, the Withering Flame, the dreaded King Thirteen rose from his throne. The whispers of his subjects had grown too loud, too bold. They had forgotten their place. — I am fear incarnate! — his roar echoed through the hall. — You will bow before me, or you will burn! Voting for this edition's games is in progress - sign in to vote on this game.

The user provides a snarky guide on how to run a bare minimum setup for a colocation environment, using an old Ethernet switch and a Linux-running device, and highlights the benefits of doing so, such as improved connectivity and availability. The guide covers steps from setting up the device to configuring the network and accessing the server from a laptop, with a focus on simplicity and ...

X will now allow blocked users to view public posts but not interact. Elon Musk supports this change, aiming to deprecate the block feature in favor of a stronger mute option.

Telegram will now disclose a user's phone number and IP address to authorities if they're a suspect in a criminal case, as per its updated privacy policy. The change aims to deter criminals from abusing the app's search function, which has been used to sell illegal goods.

Tesla announced the open-sourcing of the Tesla Transport Protocol over Ethernet (TTPoE) and joining the Ultra Ethernet Consortium to standardize a high-speed/low-latency fabric for AI/ML/Datacenters. TTPoE is a simple, hardware-based protocol that ensures full transmission guarantee, with no CPU or OS involvement, and is designed for basic fundamentals of transport and resilience.

The author left a successful company to explore AI-assisted video editing and generative models, but faced setbacks and detours, including a failed grant proposal and a rethinking of their video editor concept. They eventually built a generative video generator using Microsoft's LLM framework Promptflow and Temporal, and learned valuable lessons about prompt design, embeddings, and search.

The new version of Media Hoarder introduces TV series support, episodes heatmaps, and various UI and UX improvements, including clickable series and episodes, and a shared medialist item card component. The update also includes bug fixes, such as improved error handling and filtering, and a re-ranked IMDB search results feature for TV series.

The author is working on a Rust to .NET compiler, rustc_codegen_clr, and is implementing Rust panics and unwinding using .NET APIs. The author discusses the complexities of unwinding, including cleanup blocks, drop flags, and MIR optimizations, and shares their experiences and challenges in optimizing the compiler for .NET.

Ferroelectric memory (FRAM) is a nonvolatile storage technique that stores bits in a special ferroelectric material, which can retain data for decades and be written rapidly, but is more expensive than flash memory. Despite its advantages, FRAM has not achieved widespread use due to its high cost, with current prices around $3 per megabit, making it a niche product used in specialized ...

THB is a journaling app that stores and organizes your WhatsApp messages in a private online journal, allowing you to reflect on your past entries. You can send multiple entries per day, and receive a daily notification, with a 14-day free trial and subscription options available.

Anime has evolved from a niche genre to a multi-billion dollar industry, driving pop culture and entertainment through its unique art style, engaging stories, and interactive experiences. With the rise of AI, UGC platforms, and new business models, anime is transforming passive consumption into dynamic entertainment, enabling fans to interact with their favorite characters and stories in new ...

Nova is a feature-rich, fast, and flexible code editor with smart autocomplete, multiple cursors, and built-in support for numerous languages. It offers customizable build and run tasks, debugging support, Git integration, and an extensions API, all designed to enhance productivity and user experience.

AI tools are improving code development speed and quality, but the impact on end-user products is limited as it depends on the organization's ability to determine good features and iterate on them. The biggest benefits of AI-guided coding are among novices, and even with faster development, the quality of the final product may not necessarily improve.

You analyzed the distribution of convenience stores in Japan, focusing on the top few brands, and found that some areas have exclusive territories. You used a mapping tool to zoom in on prefectures and view detailed maps showing the closest convenience store brand for each location.

/code in Google Labs contains various code experiments, such as Data Science Agent and Code Transformation.

Luke Ings, a 36-year-old man, has been imprisoned for 18 years under an indefinite jail term for robbery and a fight at 17, despite the IPP sentence being scrapped in 2012. His mother, Samantha, is calling for urgent action from the government to release her son, who is trapped in maximum security prison with no release date, amid concerns over soaring rates of suicide and self-harm among IPP ...

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The article discusses various portability issues in C programming, including differences in integer sizes, address space limitations, file and time type sizes, byte order, and alignment, which can cause problems when running programs on different architectures. The article also highlights the importance of considering these issues when writing portable code, as they can affect not only C ...

Averaging is a ubiquitous problem in neuroscience that hides the actual moment-to-moment signals of neurons, making it difficult to understand how the brain works. The assumption that averaging neural activity over trials, neurons, or both is what the rest of the brain sees may be a convenient fiction, holding back our understanding of the brain.

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The Python Package Index (PyPI) faces sustainability challenges due to exponential growth in prebuilt binary data. Proposed solutions include leveraging tools like Zig for reliable cross-compilation, reducing redundancy, and implementing secondary caching to manage costs and maintain ecosystem independence.

Telegram is a popular messaging service with over a billion active users, but it has faced criticism for not doing enough to combat illegal activities and copyright infringement. The company has taken action to remove copyrighted content, but the "Z-Library Official" channel remains online, with some posts removed and users redirected to alternative platforms.

Violins dominate orchestras due to historical development, logistical needs for balanced sound, and their unique capabilities. Despite some experimentation, the standard setup has largely remained consistent since the 19th century.

Yasheng Huang's book explores the historical development of China's imperial system, highlighting the keju examination system's role in creating a "frictionless autocracy" that prioritized scale over scope, leading to a lack of innovation and diversity. The system's collapse in the late Qing period and the subsequent Republican era's struggles to balance scale and scope demonstrate the ...

Qocker is a user-friendly GUI application for managing Docker containers. Built with PyQt5, it provides an intuitive interface for viewing and interacting with your Docker containers. This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.

Hinkley Point C, the UK's first new nuclear power station in a generation, is facing significant cost overruns and delays, with estimates suggesting it will cost £34bn, nearly double the original budget, and may not be completed until 2031. Despite the challenges, the project is expected to incorporate lessons learned and apply them to the construction of Sizewell C, which is expected to be ...

The user received prototype shells and PCBs for their portablizer project, and they are satisfied with the assembly process, except for minor adjustments needed for the dock PCB and 3.5mm jacks. The user is now preparing to install the motherboard and other components, with only minor tweaks needed to fit everything together.

Argentina's ISPs are required to block 69 Magis TV-linked domains for violating intellectual property law, and a court order also demands Google uninstall the Magis TV app from Android devices with IP addresses in Argentina. This unprecedented measure aims to eliminate millions of copies of Magis TV already installed on users' devices, potentially setting a global precedent for anti-piracy efforts.

A statewide audit found that California's government lacks transparency in tracking and analyzing its spending on homelessness services, making it difficult to determine the effectiveness of programs. The audit also revealed that many cities, including San Jose and San Diego, fail to thoroughly account for their spending and measure the success of their homelessness programs.

The user is embedding Ichiban Prolog into a Go-based IRC bot, Hellabot, to remove the need for recompilation when updating triggers. The Prolog code is loaded from a file and executed using the Prolog runtime, allowing users to change the bot's logic without redeploying the bot.

The author is concerned about the influence of the internet, particularly YouTube, on children's daily lives, citing examples of how kids are easily swayed by marketing and branding. The author specifically criticizes MrBeast, a popular YouTuber, for his predatory marketing tactics and exploitation of children, and calls for content creators to use their platforms for good rather than just ...

The author spent a year developing their side business, JustFax, using Rust, which led to a significant refactor and the implementation of a job processing queue and accounting system. The author highlights the benefits of using Rust, including type safety, compile-time errors, and a lack of runtime errors, but notes that the compile time can be slow and the development cycle can be different ...

OpenAI's official account was compromised, posting a fake announcement about a new blockchain token, $OPENAI, which is a phishing scam. This is not the first time OpenAI accounts have been hacked, and it highlights the growing issue of cryptocurrency scams.

The article argues that Britain's economic decline is due to a lack of private investment and high costs of building infrastructure, leading to stagnant growth and widening income inequality. The authors propose that removing barriers and lowering costs can help Britain build its way out of economic stagnation, citing historical examples of successful infrastructure development and economic ...

Amazon is requiring its staff to return to the office five days a week, contradicting the UK government's push for flexible working, including remote work, which some studies suggest can boost productivity and collaboration. However, other studies have found that fully remote work can lead to a 10% drop in productivity, and the optimal approach may be a hybrid model that balances office and ...

YouTube is increasing its Premium subscription fees for users outside the US, with some users facing a 50% hike, making it more expensive than Spotify Premium and Apple Music. The price increase will take effect in November, affecting individual and family plans in several countries, including Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, and Sweden.

The Hungarian Presidency of the EU has proposed making the EU High-Level Expert Group on Data Access for Effective Law Enforcement's recommendations the basis for EU policy, aiming to enable real-time access to metadata and communication data for end-to-end encrypted services. The proposal has raised concerns among civil rights organizations and IT security experts, who warn that it could ...

You've noticed a lack of diversity in sci-fi authors and want recommendations featuring authors from different backgrounds. You're open to suggestions from non-Westerners, refugees, and even unusual groups like cultists living in Antarctica.

Bimodal neuromodulation, combining sound therapy with electrical tongue stimulation via the Lenire device, shows promise as a nonsurgical treatment for moderate to severe tinnitus. A controlled trial (TENT-A3) demonstrated superior performance of bimodal treatment over sound-only therapy in reducing tinnitus symptoms, leading to FDA De Novo approval.

Apple introduced a new battery removal process for the iPhone 16, using an adhesive that debonds with a low electrical current, making it easier to remove. The process earned a 7/10 on iFixit's repairability scale, with the tech saying Apple has "landed another repairability win" with this year's base iPhones.

A. M. Hocart's theory that monarchs and institutions of government originated from rituals to channel cosmic powers into human society is now supported by archaeological evidence of grand burials and sacred contexts. The concept of freedom and property has changed over time, with Roman law's influence shaping modern Western societies and contrasting with the Wendat people's practices of ...

Balaji Srinivasan suggests five reasons for unrealized productivity despite advanced technology: distractions, dissipation in bureaucracy, divergence among individuals, misallocation of resources, and poor decisions. The author favors "The Great Dissipation" theory, noting that new technologies often lead to creating more tasks rather than reducing them.

AWS faces stiff competition from on-premises infrastructure, with customers returning to run IT on-site despite the significant effort involved. The company claims this flexibility highlights the attractiveness of moving back to on-premises, but experts say cloud repatriation is still a small trend, with most companies preferring private or standardized cloud infrastructure.

A new survey suggests that locked display cases may be worse than the problem they aim to solve, as 55% of respondents said they would buy the item elsewhere if it's locked up. The survey found that only 32% of shoppers would ask a store employee to unlock the case, while 13% would try to find an alternative product.

Cofounder exposed API keys, leading to a billing alert. Discussed various secrets management solutions like git-crypt, .env files, GCP/AWS secrets managers, 1Password CLI, and alternatives like SOPS and Ansible Vault, focusing on security and ease of use for different team sizes.

A novel approach uses Neural Radiance Fields to generate a diverse and realistic dataset for training feature detectors and descriptors. The proposed methodology achieves competitive or superior performance on standard benchmarks while requiring less training data and time compared to existing approaches.

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the Phone-Free School Act, requiring schools to develop policies limiting smartphone use by July 1, 2026, to support students' mental health, academic success, and social wellbeing. The law aims to reduce digital distractions, minimize phone use, and promote stronger in-person connections, building on previous efforts to regulate smartphone use in schools.

Linux kernel patches were posted to enable DeviceTree support for the upcoming RISC-V motherboard for the Framework Laptop 13, which uses a StarFive JH7710 SoC with four U74 cores. The patches aim to get Linux bootable on the board, with hopes of upstreaming the support in Linux v6.13 for a potential release with the Framework 13 RISC-V motherboard.

Sentry, a developer software company, has introduced a new license category called "fair source" which aims to help companies align with the "open" software development sphere without encroaching on existing licensing landscapes. The fair source concept is designed to provide a middle ground between open source and proprietary software, allowing companies to share their code while protecting ...

Researchers found that people are strongly biased by first impressions, favoring boxes with valuable items on top and overestimating their value. However, when given time to reflect, participants made more rational choices, equally favoring boxes with valuable items in different positions.

A recently discovered Arc vulnerability in Firestore security rules allows attackers to create arbitrary documents for other users, potentially leading to severe consequences. The vulnerability is caused by incorrectly configured rules and can be tested using a provided test snippet to identify affected codebases.

Rice University researchers discovered a new wasp species, Chrysonotomyia susbelli, in Houston, marking their 18th new species since 2014. This parasitoid wasp, found on university grounds, highlights local biodiversity and suggests more undiscovered species.

The author recently purchased an old iPod Video and an iPod Nano to relive nostalgic memories and to tinker with the devices, replacing the battery and upgrading the storage. The author reflects on how the iPod's simplicity and focus on music listening are appealing in today's world of multifunctional devices, and wonders what a modern iPod with a click wheel and Apple Music integration would ...

A Charlevoix couple, Steve and Kathie Libert, believe they've found the Great Lakes' oldest shipwreck, Le Griffon. Despite skepticism and legal battles, they aim to prove its authenticity and protect this historical find before time runs out due to their age and financial constraints.

Mozilla has removed the Adjust SDK from its Firefox and Firefox Focus browsers, which was used for tracking ad campaign effectiveness, sparking questions about the company's commitment to privacy. The move comes as Mozilla is introducing a new data collection feature, Privacy-Preserving Attribution, which has raised concerns about the extent of data collection under the guise of privacy.

The US Dietary Guidelines have led to a national crisis of chronic disease, driven by poor diet, and have been criticized for lacking scientific rigor and transparency. The proposed changes in the farm bill offer a chance to restore scientific integrity to the guidelines, promoting a healthier future for America by mandating greater transparency and adherence to rigorous scientific standards.

A man died after being knocked off his scooter by a woman riding a scooter in Koreatown, Los Angeles, and his family is seeking the public's help to identify her. The incident highlights the dangers of riding scooters, particularly on sidewalks, and the importance of following traffic laws to avoid accidents.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed an administrative complaint against three major prescription drug benefit managers (PBMs) for engaging in anticompetitive and unfair rebating practices that have artificially inflated the list price of insulin drugs. The PBMs, Caremark, ESI, and Optum, allegedly created a system that prioritizes high rebates from drug manufacturers, leading to ...

2.11BSD_X44 is a modified version of 2.11BSD that adopts 4.4BSD's architecture-dependent and architecture-independent code, allowing for easier portability. It can be cross-built from most UNIX-like operating systems, but building for i386 requires following specific guidelines and rules.

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tinygrad aims to create a new operating system and compiler for neural networks, which will be the core functionality of future devices, and a restrictive programming language that runs everywhere. This new paradigm, called Software 2.0, promises deterministic runtimes, no segfaults, and no memory-level exploits, with a focus on neural networks and dataflow.

Platypush customizations use procedures to specify custom logic, which can be triggered by various events, and a new release improves UI integration and introduces a powerful procedure editor with drag-and-drop support. The editor allows for nested blocks, variable autocompletion, and export to YAML, and also includes a file editor and browser component for managing Python procedures and files.

Elon Musk claims desalination is "absurdly cheap", and the numbers suggest it's true. Desalination would increase electricity demand by 13% in the US, but the cost per person per year would be around $154, making it a viable option for water scarcity.

A coalition of law-enforcement agencies shut down iServer, a phishing-as-a-service platform that helped unlock over 1.2 million stolen or lost mobile phones, and arrested the Argentine national behind it. The platform allowed low-skilled unlockers to phish device owners for passcodes and credentials, and was used to unlock phones and disable lost mode, allowing criminals to use the devices.

ButterCMS faced a severe security incident causing DNS failure and potential domain ownership change, impacting over 1,660 websites. The investigation highlighted risks of relying on third-party services without continuous verification and the importance of proper communication during such changes to prevent security breaches and GDPR compliance issues.

Connected to unsecured WiFi, faced login issues on MacBook and Firebase. Resolved by resetting passwords; learned to avoid unsecured networks due to potential security risks.

The author reflects on the challenges of collaboration and how Google Docs only solved part of the problem, leaving the issue of organizing conversations around documents unsolved. The author proposes to take on the role of a "project hero" to organize discussions around AI and make them accessible and constructive, acknowledging that this will be a labor-intensive task.

A team of physicists has proposed a method to detect individual gravitons, the quantum building blocks of gravity, using quantum sensing technology. The experiment, which could become a reality in the near future, involves coupling an acoustic resonator with improved energy state-detection methods to absorb and emit gravitons in discrete steps.

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising capabilities in extracting tables from documents, offering flexibility and contextual understanding, but they also have limitations, including variability in outputs, risk of hallucination, and black box nature. A hybrid approach combining traditional Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and LLMs, such as Nanonets, can provide a more accurate ...

The Supreme Court ruled that watching and downloading child pornography are offenses under the POCSO Act and IT law. The court suggested amending the term "child pornography" to "child sexually abusive and exploitative material" and asked courts to avoid using the term.

Cloudflare introduces Ephemeral IDs, a new feature that generates unique, short-lived IDs to identify and block malicious actions, replacing IP addresses as a method to combat modern threats. This feature integrates with Turnstile, a CAPTCHA alternative, to detect and prevent fraudulent activity, improving security and user experience without compromising user privacy.

Hundreds of organizations store RSA private keys in DNS TXT records, initially thought to be a leak or misconfiguration, but it's actually a legitimate reason for DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) email authentication. This allows recipients to verify email authenticity, but organizations can rotate DKIM keys to prevent old emails from being verified, providing plausible deniability.

To install Windows Server 2008 on HP Integrity VM, downgrade HP VM to 4.x, create a virtual switch, and use text-only mode installation via HP Smart Setup Media or Windows RTM media with an unattend.xml file. Access the VM via serial console and telnet, and manage installation through command prompt using specific commands and key combinations.

Google's NotebookLM AI can condense complex documents into engaging audio discussions, similar to a podcast, but with some notable issues preventing it from fully replacing professional podcasters. The AI's "Audio Overview" feature can summarize documents, make connections between topics, and banter back and forth, making it a useful tool for quickly grasping complex information.