Cloudflare defeated patent troll Sable IP in a five-day jury trial, with the jury finding that Cloudflare did not infringe on Sable's patent and that the claim is invalid. Cloudflare won the case and Sable agreed to pay $225,000 and dedicate its entire patent portfolio to the public.

ChatGPT introduces Canvas, a new interface for collaborative writing and coding projects, allowing users to work side by side with ChatGPT. Canvas offers a new way of working together, with features like inline feedback and suggestions, and is available to ChatGPT Plus and Team users.

Automattic and WordPress Foundation claim WP Engine infringed on their trademarks, using them to mislead consumers and dilute their rights. WP Engine is ordered to preserve data and pay compensation for unauthorized use of trademarks.

Researchers revisited traditional RNNs (LSTMs and GRUs) to improve training efficiency by removing hidden state dependencies. This led to the creation of minimal versions (minLSTMs and minGRUs) that are faster and comparable in performance to recent sequence models.

Gumroad's Helper project initially used htmx but switched to React/Next.js due to scalability concerns and limitations in user experience. The team found React/Next.js to be a better fit for their complex, stateful interface, allowing them to move faster and create more engaging user experiences.

The user discussed various issues with terminal colors, including poor contrast, inconsistent color schemes, and difficulties with configuring colors in different programs. They found solutions such as configuring the terminal emulator, using shell scripts, and enabling "minimum contrast" features in some terminals.

Robert Dennard invented DRAM, a type of random-access memory, in 1968, paving the way for inexpensive and high-density memory. He also developed Dennard scaling, a theory that predicts transistor power consumption remains constant as transistors get smaller.

Stefano Marinelli, founder of BSD Cafe, shares his experience migrating clients from Linux to BSDs, citing improved stability and reliability. He now manages 78% of hypervisors on FreeBSD and 66% of workloads on BSDs, with positive client feedback.

A dance program for seniors increased brain volume in areas related to working memory and attention, and also increased BDNF levels, which supports neuroplasticity. This suggests that dancing may be a more effective way to counteract age-related brain decline than conventional fitness programs.

Google leaders assured employees their hybrid work plan will stay in place despite Amazon's return-to-office mandate. Google's policy remains flexible as long as employees remain productive during remote days.

Excessive screen time can harm adult brains, causing eye strain, social isolation, and mental health issues, as well as increasing the risk of neurodegeneration. Experts recommend no screen time for the first hour of the day and instead suggest engaging in lifestyle medicine activities to promote brain health and cognitive enhancement.

Researchers developed TPI-LLM, a tensor parallel inference system for low-resource devices, to serve 70B-scale models efficiently. TPI-LLM reduces time-to-first-token and token latency by 80-90% and memory footprint by 90% compared to other systems.

Cox Communications is lowering internet upload speeds in some neighborhoods to stop excessive usage, affecting both heavy users and their neighbors. The company is imposing neighborhood-wide slowdowns in cases where a single customer's usage is deemed excessive.

Starlink offers free internet service for 30 days to areas impacted by Hurricane Helene. To get the free service, select the "Helene Relief" plan and check out, noting that only impacted areas will display the option.

UK to give Chagos Islands sovereignty to Mauritius, potentially affecting .io domain zone. ICANN working groups will likely determine future of .io zone.

Researchers from Poland and the UK developed MiraGe, a system using Gaussian Splatting to edit images by temporarily interpreting a selected part in 3D space. MiraGe achieves state-of-the-art performance in image editing, capturing human perception nuances while enabling complex transformations.

FLUX1.1 [pro] improves image quality, speed, and efficiency with faster generation times and reduced latency. It surpasses other models on the leaderboard with the highest overall Elo score.

The project aims to create a simple, fully featured mobile phone with enhanced privacy. It uses various audio components and a central MCU OS for basic phone functionality.

The Black-Scholes formula is a mathematical model that calculates the fair price of a European-style option, and it's based on the assumption that stock prices follow a lognormal distribution and that the market has no arbitrage. The formula can be derived by assuming a risk-neutral world where investors are indifferent to risk, and it's a key concept in finance that has been widely used to ...

The UK will hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after over half a century, including the US military base on Diego Garcia. The deal aims to address past wrongs and ensure the islands' future, with the UK providing financial support and the US continuing to operate the base.

Michel Becker, the Golden Owl treasure hunt organiser, has announced a solution has been given and is being verified. A new online system allows players to submit solutions and receive a yes or no answer within 24 hours.

The author made money from game development on Android in 2013 but is abandoning the Google Play Store due to increasing publishing requirements. The author cannot meet the new requirements as a solo developer and is letting their account expire on November 5.

FlyonUI is an open-source Tailwind CSS library with semantic classes and JS plugins. It offers unlimited themes and a wide range of blocks and layouts with free and open-source access.

AAA game developers are shifting focus from live-service games to single-player experiences due to oversaturation and high costs. Single-player games offer a lower-risk opportunity with a growing market of 25+ gamers who prefer solo play.

Scientists discovered that gamma radiation from thunderstorms is much more common than previously thought. A study using a retrofitted U2 plane found that nearly all big thunderstorms generate gamma rays in various forms.

EU member states agreed on a new informal definition to label "potential terrorists" without democratic scrutiny. This definition may target not only terrorists but also asylum seekers, refugees, and climate activists.

The US Department of Energy invested $1.5 billion in four transmission projects to improve grid reliability and capacity. The projects will add 1,000 miles of new transmission and 7,100 megawatts of capacity in six states.

The author praises Unix for its programmability, allowing users to easily extend the system by writing shell scripts and combining existing programs, and argues that this synergy is a key factor in its productivity and flexibility. However, the author also identifies several shortcomings in Unix, including its outdated file system, terminal, and permission system, and suggests that evolving ...

A powerful X9.05 solar flare erupted from sunspot AR3842, triggering radio blackouts over Africa and Europe. A coronal mass ejection is expected to hit Earth between Oct. 3 and Oct. 5, possibly triggering widespread auroras.

HTTrack is an offline browser utility that downloads websites to a local directory, preserving link-structure. It allows browsing the site offline, updating existing mirrors, and resuming interrupted downloads.

Statisticians Donald Rubin introduced multiple imputation in the 1970s to deal with missing data, which is a more accurate and general method than single imputation. This technique involves making multiple guesses about missing data and analyzing each completed data set to provide a more reliable prediction and estimate of uncertainty.

The Lannan Foundation's closure highlights the uncertainty in the US arts ecosystem, where philanthropy is unsustainable and nonprofit arts organizations struggle to fundraise. A shift towards collective and regenerative funding models, as well as hybrid models, is emerging to empower individual artists and supporters.

OpenAI is expected to reach $5-5.2B in annualized run rate revenue by the end of 2024, with a growth rate of 225% y/y, while Anthropic is expected to reach $1B. Both companies are expected to lose billions of dollars this year, but their API businesses have higher gross margins, with OpenAI's API business at around $1.2-1.5B and Anthropic's at around $800M.

Methane emissions from oil and gas infrastructure are a significant contributor to global warming. New satellite data reveals huge plumes, including one from an LNG tanker, highlighting the need for more research on emissions from the global shipping industry.

A Bevy plugin uses ratatui to render a screensaver in the terminal, starting immediately or after inactivity. It works in any shell for immediate start, but inactivity delay is currently Zsh only, setting TMOUT environment variable.

Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic, is threatening legal action over a tweet criticizing his behavior. The author, a former employee, claims Mullenweg is using his power to silence critics and harm the WordPress community.

Botanists have successfully grown a 1,000-year-old tree seed found in a Judean Desert cave, believed to be extinct. The tree, nicknamed "Sheba," may be the source of a healing balm mentioned in the Bible and other ancient texts.

Britain's last coal power plant at Ratcliffe-on-Soar will close on Monday after 57 years of operation. The shutdown marks the end of Britain's 142-year history of coal power use and a major achievement in reducing the UK's carbon emissions.

DOSBox-X is a DOS emulator that goes beyond running DOS games, also supporting Windows 3.x, 9x, and ME emulation. It aims to be a complete emulation package for pre-2000 DOS and Windows 9x based systems.

Instagram users posted a message to avoid AI, but it won't change their rights. To prevent AI use, set accounts to private or opt out in platform settings, but this may limit profile reach.

Buck Shlegeris, CEO of Redwood Research, created an AI agent that botched a software update on his desktop machine, rendering it unbootable. He learned a hard lesson in automation, highlighting the need for oversight and thorough testing of AI agents.

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A graduate student used ChatGPT to help with a writing assignment, but instead of outsourcing work, he used it as a sounding board to explore ideas and sharpen his prose. The tool's role was more like a brain hack to ease the writing process, providing starting points and reducing mental effort.

The author of Reflection 70B model published a post-mortem to clarify reproducibility of benchmark scores and take responsibility for mistakes made during the model's launch. The model's launch was rushed and mistakes were made, including incorrect benchmark scores and model behavior, which led to a loss of trust in the open source ecosystem.

Dries Buytaert, Drupal founder, shares his perspective on the open source community's Maker-Taker problem, where creators see their work used by others without contributing back. He proposes a contribution credit system to incentivize contributions and fair involvement.

Our EEVR technique produces sharper and more accurate renderings than 3DGS and other techniques on the Zip-NeRF dataset. It achieves real-time performance and supports techniques like defocus blur and camera distortion.

Researchers at Permiso Security found that stolen AWS credentials were used to operate and resell AI-powered sex chat services. The attackers used custom jailbreaks to bypass content filtering and interact with large language models on Bedrock from Amazon Web Services.

Visa introduced VTAP, a platform for banks to issue fiat-backed tokens on blockchain networks. BBVA will use VTAP for live pilots in 2025 on the public Ethereum blockchain.

WhatsApp and Meta ask a judge to award them a total win against NSO Group due to discovery violations in a case accusing the Israeli company of violating anti-hacking laws. NSO Group repeatedly ignored court orders and discovery obligations, unfairly skewing the record in the case.

Junio C Hamano will be offline for the latter half of October. He wants to see how the community manages the project during his absence.

You used LLMs to improve outdated math course images by processing 300 images through GPT-4o and Gemini models. Gemini-1.5-Flash performed well, especially on common equations, and was used to rebuild the math equations in LaTeX for better legibility.

People value effort and struggle in tasks, a phenomenon known as the "effort paradox". This paradox offers insights into overcoming obstacles, learning, empathy, and a more meaningful life.

Meta AI can use images and videos from Ray-Ban Meta users to train its AI models if they're shared with Meta AI. Users can opt out by not using Meta's multimodal AI features.

Adam Glapiński wriggles free from prime minister’s purge of allies of former nationalist government. Everything now is just a euphemism for financial repression and austerity. That doesn’t stop politicians looking for magical alternatives. Reform UK thinks they can raise up to £40 billion to fund tax cuts by treating banks’ QE reserves differently.

Cloudflare has been combating a month-long campaign of hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks, mitigating over 100 attacks exceeding 2 billion packets per second. Cloudflare's defenses automatically detected and mitigated the attacks without impacting performance for customers.

MageCDN is a fast, simple, and reliable image hosting tool with affordable usage-based pricing. It optimizes images up to 90% without quality loss and serves them via Bunny CDN with low latency.

Intel's Lunar Lake chip features a new E-Core architecture called Skymont, which replaces Crestmont in Meteor Lake. Skymont boosts multithreaded performance and handles low priority background tasks with improved power efficiency.

A new study found toxic flame retardants in 85% of 203 consumer products, including black plastic toys and kitchen utensils, posing health risks. Experts recommend avoiding black plastic for food contact materials and toys with black plastic pieces due to potential health risks.

HMS Birkenhead, a British paddle steamer, sank on February 26, 1852, after hitting a rock off South Africa's coast, resulting in 441 deaths. The disaster led to the establishment of the "women and children first" tradition, with 193 survivors rescued from the sea.

The UK has agreed to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after over 50 years, including the US military base on Diego Garcia. The deal includes financial support and a 99-year lease for the base, with Mauritius allowed to resettle other islands.

You created a mobile app for coffee chat with HN users to practice WebRTC and have fun, building on an existing website. The app is in a closed beta and you're looking for 20 users to test it.

Microsoft's AI head Mustafa Suleyman says AI assistants with long-term memory are about a year away, enabling users to invest more time and share personal history. Critics raise concerns about data security, privacy, and bias, but supporters argue deep integration is necessary for AI tools to be truly useful.

Flawless is a tool that allows developers to write durable code that runs until completion even in the presence of external failure, providing a robust way to handle errors and resume execution from any point. It uses a log mechanism to persist side effects and guarantee determinism, enabling the creation of long-running workflows and transactional behavior with ease.

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Zero is an approach to modern frontend development without a framework, using JSX to create DOM nodes. It provides a set of types and functions for a good developer experience.

Astronomers discovered a region between the desert and savanna of exoplanets, called the Neptunian ridge, which has more planets. This finding may help explain the Neptunian desert and savanna, but more research is needed.

We release FLUX1.1 [pro], a more efficient model with six times faster generation and improved image quality. Our new BFL API offers customization and competitive pricing for integrating state-of-the-art image generation into applications.

The United States never adopted the metric system due to various reasons, including a missed opportunity when a scientist carrying a 1 kilogram copper cylinder was taken prisoner by pirates in 1793. The country has since made several attempts to adopt the metric system, but it remains the preferred system only in policy, not in practice.

The user reverse-engineered the Kekz Headphones, discovering a Jieli Chip and an SD card with encrypted files, and found a way to decrypt and clone cookies, ultimately revealing the encryption method and creating a tool to read and write cookies. The user also discovered that the Kekz App uploads ID3 tags and geolocation data to an Azure Cosmos database, and found a connection string in the ...

Students are divided on using generative AI in coursework, with some fearing cheating and others seeing it as a tool to aid learning. Employers want students to have AI skills but most students don't currently use AI in their studies.

LG Chem developed a temperature-responsive Safety Reinforced Layer (SRL) to suppress thermal runaway in lithium-ion batteries. The material, a thin layer, reacts to heat by altering its molecular structure and blocking electricity flow, preventing battery fires.

The FT Digital Edition costs Rs1950 for 6 months, then Rs1950 every 3 months, or Rs3999 every 3 months for 12 months. Full digital access costs Rs4335 per month, with a newspaper subscription also available.

Gumroad's Helper project initially used htmx but switched to React/Next.js due to scalability concerns and limitations in user experience. The team found React/Next.js to be a better fit for their complex, stateful interface, allowing them to move faster and create more engaging user experiences.

Tcl is a hidden gem with elegant syntax, consistent and powerful features, and a simple interaction with C. Despite its limitations, it's a lean and well-thought-out tool suitable for metaprogrammers and aesthetes.

Listen to Script Reading Robots on Spotify. Two artificial intelligence podcasters discuss their favourite movie scripts. Hear them deep dive into the screenplays of some of the most loved and successful movies of all time. If you have a script they can review, whether published or not, leave a comment and we'll get in touch!

Mozilla is entering digital advertising to build a better internet by respecting individuals' rights and balancing commercial value with public interest. They aim to achieve this through product and infrastructure development, prioritizing privacy, openness, and choice.

Insider trading involves buying or selling securities with non-public information, but it can make markets more efficient by incorporating new information into stock prices faster. Governments may not need to regulate insider trading as companies can implement their own measures to protect investors.

A Florida Tesla burst into flames in a garage three days after Hurricane Helene, with officials believing the car's battery exploded due to saltwater contact. The incident highlights the risk of electric vehicle fires after flooding, with warnings issued to relocate EVs from flooded areas.

Robert Roberson, a 57-year-old autistic American, faces execution in Texas on October 17, 2024, despite new evidence of his innocence in a case based on disputed medical theory. His case highlights the dangers of letting emotion and authority numb critical thinking in the name of science.

Krafton has partnered with Pocketpair to bring Palworld to mobile devices, with PUBG Studios developing the mobile version. Palworld's mobile release may be a reinterpretation of the game, as details are unclear if it will be a faithful port or a spinoff.