Graphite is a vector editor evolving into a generalized graphics toolbox with a node graph core for nondestructive editing. It's a free, web-based app with desktop versions coming later in 2024, offering native performance and procedural editing capabilities.

A new book, Web Browser Engineering, explains how web browsers work by building a basic browser in Python. It will be published by Oxford University Press and available for pre-order now.

This site provides documentation for SQLite's WebAssembly and JavaScript APIs, enabling sqlite3 use in modern browsers. It's API-stable with version 3.41, pending community feedback.

The new edition of Modern C updates to C23 standard with new features like bit-precise types, nullptr constant, and type generic programming. It also includes new material on compound expressions, lambdas, and internationalization for program failure.

Archaeologists have tunneled 4 kilometers into Copan's acropolis since the 1930s, uncovering early stelae, plaster facades, and tombs. A Harvard-led conservation plan preserves the site with a digital 3D model and addresses climate, visitor, and collapse risks.

David Jakins, an 82-year-old man, won the World Conker Championships but was found with a steel chestnut in his pocket. The organizers are investigating allegations of cheating after Jakins, the competition's top judge, was involved in preparing the conkers before the tournament.

Pumpkin is a Minecraft server built in Rust for a fast and customizable experience. Join our Discord for updates and connect with members, or support the project on GitHub.

Awnings were once a common feature on buildings to block solar heat gain, but they disappeared with the widespread adoption of air conditioning. Awnings are now mainly used for signage and deck coverings, but may regain popularity due to increasing energy prices.

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Asterinas is a secure OS kernel providing a Linux-compatible ABI, prioritizing memory safety with Rust and a minimal Trusted Computing Base. It offers developer friendliness with Rust, OSDK, and MPL flexibility.

Apple introduced the new iPad mini with A17 Pro chip and Apple Intelligence for personal and private intelligence. The new iPad mini features a 8.3-inch Liquid Retina display, supports Apple Pencil Pro, and starts at $499 with 128GB storage.

The Mothbox is a low-cost, high-performance insect monitor that helps study biodiversity with its automated design and open-source AI scripts. It uses UV light to attract insects, takes photos, and identifies species with AI, providing ultra-high resolution data on environmental health.

Meta is showcasing open AI hardware designs at the OCP Global Summit 2024 to foster innovation and collaboration. They're releasing new AI platforms, rack designs, and network fabrics to support growing AI workloads and infrastructure needs.

There are alternative forms of generating mermaid graphs in ASCII using this same Git repository.

Scientists discovered that birds maintain balance while sleeping by using tensegrity, a property of structures that balance tension and compression. This allows birds to stand and sleep without losing balance due to the unique anatomy of their feet and stiff tendons.

The FIDO Alliance published a working draft for secure credential exchange, enabling users to transfer passkeys and credentials across providers securely. The draft specifications, CXP and CXF, aim to standardize secure credential transfer and promote user choice and ease of switching providers.

Hacker Typer is a website created in 2011 to mimic movie hacker stereotypes. It allows users to type and instantly see hacker code appear on screen.

A study found that human life expectancy may be slowing down, with a finite limit to how long people can live. The study analyzed mortality data from 10 countries and found that the rate of improvement in life expectancy has dropped below previous decades.

Astronomers propose using the sun's gravity as a lens to study nearby exoplanets with a resolution of 10 square kilometers for objects 100 light-years away. A recent study found that a solar-lens telescope could detect a 1 Watt laser from Proxima Centauri b and resolve details on the order of 10 km to 100 km.

The jank project, a native Clojure dialect, has made progress with exception handling, startup time optimization, and a potential switch to LLVM IR codegen. The project now has a C API, allowing for a C ABI runtime library, and is gaining community support with multiple contributors and a growing user base.

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John Cena is set to star in a live-action Matchbox movie, but the real story of Matchbox is a tale of postwar resilience and the rise of a toy-car empire. The company's history began with John William Odell, a skilled engineer who founded Lesney Products Ltd in 1947.

We're a small family company owed $20k by MyCommerce, a platform for selling software online, after they delayed payments and worsened contract terms. MyCommerce's financial troubles, including layoffs and new management, raise concerns about recovering our money and those of other vendors.

Elon Musk's claims of Tesla's autonomous driving capabilities have been overhyped and lack real-world evidence. Tesla's latest demonstration on a movie studio lot is a fantasy world built to showcase unrealistic capabilities.

Developing a game for Apple Vision Pro involves setting up a LayerRenderer with Compositor Services, configuring it for foveation and vertex amplification, and obtaining the required matrices for rendering. The game engine must run on a separate thread, update the app state in the update phase, and submit rendering commands with Metal in the submit phase, all while controlling the execution ...

The Damas-Hindley-Milner (HM) type system is a type system for the lambda calculus with parametric polymorphism that has well-known type inference algorithms requiring no programmer annotations. It has been implemented in two ways, Algorithm W and Algorithm J, with the latter using union-find to store equivalences between type variables.

Intel and AMD formed an advisory group to improve x86 ISA consistency and simplify software development. The group aims to reduce friction between Intel and AMD products and enable greater choice in the future.

User had a productive day fixing bugs and refactoring code, discovering a bigger problem behind each issue. They made progress on several unrelated tasks, including adding a fatal error infrastructure and removing unnecessary compile-time parameters.

Hector Pasten solved a 100-year-old math problem by using a new technique involving elliptic curves and modular forms. His result shows that the largest prime factor of a specific sequence of numbers grows much faster than previously thought.

The user released a raycasting tech demo for the GameBoy Advance, sharing lessons learned from the project, which started as a challenge to build a 2.5D engine that ran well enough to play a game. The project was abandoned due to burnout from asset creation, controls, and the limitations of the GBA hardware, but the tech stack and solutions used, such as CMake and Python, are worth sharing.

A hotel guest was offended by the "Powered by FreeBSD" logo on the hotspot login page, believing it was the Devil. The guest threatened to leave unless the logo was removed, potentially costing the hotel over $1000.

Time is measured from when the EC2 instance moves from "pending" state to "running" state until when port tcp/22 becomes "open" (aka a SYN packet gets a SYN/ACK response). Measurements on amd64 are c5.xlarge; measurements on arm64 are c6g.xlarge.

Lillian Schwartz was a resident artist at Bell Laboratories from 1969-2002, developing computer techniques for artists and creating visionary films. Her works have been exhibited and awarded at various museums and festivals worldwide.

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Forscape is an engineering problem solver with low-cost abstraction, safety checks, and an intuitive user experience. It supports matrix operations and has a syntax highlighting feature for matrices with compile-time dimension checks.

gomponents are HTML components in pure Go that render to HTML 5 for reusable components. They offer type safety, auto-completion, and nice formatting.

Command AI is being acquired by Amplitude, with no disruption to customers and plans to integrate Amplitude's stack for better solutions. The acquisition aims to combine Command AI's user experience expertise with Amplitude's analytics capabilities.

OpenAI is expected to lose $5 billion this year and will likely raise $6.5 billion in funding, then need to do so again in short order due to increasing expenses.

The database contains over 4 billion DNS records in various formats, covering A, AAAA, CNAME, and more. It provides valuable insights for cybersecurity research, network troubleshooting, and competitive analysis.

Posted by Alex Rebert, Security Foundations, and Chandler Carruth, Jen Engel, Andy Qin, Core Developers Error-prone interactions between ...

The history of computing memory is often overshadowed by Charles Babbage's contributions, but the development of programmable machinery and electronic memory predates his work. Various forms of dynamic memory, such as relay-based, vacuum tube, and magnetic core memory, played significant roles in computing before the advent of LSI integrated circuits in the mid 1970s.

IBM's Telum II chip has 8 cores at 5.2 GHz with 360 MB L2 SRAM and a built-in DPU for high-speed networking. It's designed for high availability, security, and scalability, with a focus on database and transaction processing.

Researchers discovered a way to sneak malicious instructions into top AI chatbots using invisible Unicode characters that large language models can recognize but humans can't. This technique, called ASCII smuggling, can be used to conceal data and instructions in AI-powered bots.

MacProxy is a proxy script that allows vintage hardware to browse the modern web by intercepting requests and serving simple HTML interfaces. It supports extensions, including a ChatGPT example, and can be run on Linux distributions using a systemd service configuration.

Maintaining a fork of an open-source project requires following best practices such as using atomic commits and rebasing regularly to avoid conflicts. A plugin system can also help reduce issues when rebasing by allowing downstream developers to extend the upstream project without modifying its code.

Cell-based architectures provide a scalable and resilient approach to building distributed systems by isolating failures to a subset of users or customers, improving fault tolerance and reducing the impact of issues. They offer a range of benefits, including improved resiliency, scalability, and cost savings, but require significant investment and effort to implement and manage.

Subsea cables are crucial for global internet communication, but they can break due to natural disasters, human activities, or wear and tear, causing significant disruptions. Repair ships and remotely operated underwater vehicles are used to fix damaged cables, and the industry has gained valuable scientific insights from these repairs, including the discovery of underwater landslides and the ...

TwoSet Violin, a musical comedy duo, has announced its end after 11 years. The pair thanked fans for their support and memories, leaving behind a legacy of bringing classical music to new audiences.

Cloudflare has faced pressure from copyright holders due to its association with pirate sites. The company was ordered to pay €1.27 million in damages for copyright infringement in a Moldovan court.

Adaline Gateway provides a unified interface for calling 200+ LLMs with custom plugins and caching. It uses a Gateway object and Model objects to support various providers and modalities.

A batch of suggestions cannot be applied due to various reasons including no code changes, deleted lines, and pull request status. Suggestions cannot be applied in certain situations such as pending reviews, multi-line comments, and queued merge.

Before modern timekeeping devices, noontime was signaled by sundial cannons firing at noon, often accompanied by observatories and harbors. The world's only functioning sundial cannon is in Åtvidaberg, Sweden, firing daily at 1 PM from May to September.

dbt's microbatch incremental models have limitations due to its stateless design, making it error-prone and suitable only for sophisticated users. SQLMesh offers a more flexible and efficient incremental modeling solution with state tracking and scheduling.

To submit a proposal for a new emoji, follow the guidelines and supporting documents, and ensure your proposal meets all the requirements, including empirical evidence and addressing selection factors.

A documentary about Peruvian ayahuasca shaman Estela Pangoza is coming out in November, exploring the lives of shamans behind the mystique. The film delves into the complexities of ayahuasca tourism and the authenticity of shamanic experiences.

The dawn of the 1990s was a time of huge upheaval in the British games industry. Most of the well-known studios – the likes of Sensible Software, The Bitmap Brothers, Elite Systems, Gremlin Graphics and Hewson Consultants – had specialised in the home computer market, progressing through successive generations: the ZX81 and VIC-20; the Commodore 64 and Spectrum; the Amiga and Atari ST. But ...

The user migrated their ReCalendar project from Create React App to Vite, experiencing some challenges but ultimately achieving a more solid and future-proof foundation with improved metrics. The migration resulted in a 13% smaller bundle size, 80% fewer files, and zero security vulnerabilities, making it a worthwhile recommendation for others to consider.

Kirill Shevchenko, a 22-year-old world number-69, was expelled from the 2024 Spanish Team Championship after a phone was found in a toilet with handwriting matching his. He was accused of using the phone during games, violating FIDE rules, and forfeiting two games.

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Rajendra Gupta's research suggests the universe might not need dark matter or dark energy, proposing a new model combining covarying coupling constants and tired light theories. This model could alter our understanding of the universe, potentially making it 26.7 billion years old instead of 13.8 billion years old.

Computers have finite memory and can't store infinite real numbers, so approximation is necessary. Rounding real numbers to a fixed number of decimal places introduces a maximum round-off error of 0.5 * 10^-p.

Zapata AI ceased operations on October 9, 2024, due to accelerated payment obligations to Sandia Investment Management LP. The company terminated most employees after receiving notice of a payment acceleration from $2.5 million due in 2026 to October 2024.

You're considering alternatives to WordPress due to recent drama, but think it's best to stay. You're looking at options like Drupal, which offers customization and a secure backend.

A University at Buffalo expert suggests rodents use ultrasonic vocalizations to enhance their sense of smell by manipulating particles in their surroundings. This discovery could lead to new treatments for psychological disorders and technological advancements.

Users are trying to add guard rails to LLM responses without breaking streaming, suggesting techniques like multi-streaming, regex filters, and custom stop words to improve accuracy and speed. Some users have successfully implemented these techniques, but the problem remains unsolved and every LLM has been "jailbroken" at some point.

The US was predicted to have slower growth than other industrial countries in 1992 but experienced a mini-boom instead. Japan and Europe's economies stagnated and declined after being a concern to the US.

The Weather Channel's doomsday weather forecasts are unnecessary and scary, making winter seem like the end of the world. They should stick to standard advisories and warnings, giving viewers the information they need to stay safe without sensationalizing the weather.

SpeakMyVoice is an AI-powered app that learns your style and preferences to offer personalized quick responses. It stores your data locally for private and secure communication.

h2tunnel is a CLI tool and Node.js library for exposing localhost development servers to the internet using a tunneling workflow. It uses a self-signed TLS certificate and private key pair for authentication and supports HTTP2 multiplexing for simultaneous requests on a single TCP connection.

EQL and Dune are two distinct platforms for querying blockchain data, with EQL optimized for EVM chains using a simplified SQL-like syntax and Dune exceling at data visualization and cross-chain querying. EQL outperforms Dune in tasks like transaction lookups and account state queries, while Dune is better suited for processing large datasets and handling complex queries across multiple blockchains.

The user tried to play a Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh game in English, but the existing fan translation was incomplete, so they decided to translate the game themselves. They used a hex editor, a text table, and a character map to extract and modify the game's text, and they also located and extracted the font, which they used to create a patch to replace the original font with the modified one.

This project is inspired by the classic Tamagotchi device, featuring a virtual character drawn with JavaScript. The character can be controlled through various buttons, or it can dynamically change based on interactions with an AI assistant.

We updated the RDoc template generator for Ruby documentation with improved layout, navigation, and readability. Our version is now available as a Ruby gem, allowing it to evolve independently and be used immediately.

Fable will shut down on November 15, 2024, with support available until October 30. Users must export their files before the shutdown date.

X's mobile app subscriptions brought in $14.7 million in September 2024, with estimates suggesting 1.3-3.7 million paid users. Subscriptions are a small part of X's revenue, which generated $1.48 billion in the first 6 months of 2024.

The user tested a game called TRAPPED, a psychological horror game where interaction is through chatting with someone on the other side, and found it fun and intriguing. They encountered a bug where the game froze after using the upload command, but refreshing the page saved their progress.

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Apple introduced the new iPad mini with A17 Pro chip and Apple Intelligence for personal and private intelligence. The new iPad mini features a 8.3-inch Liquid Retina display, supports Apple Pencil Pro, and starts at $499 with 128GB storage.

India's total electricity generation capacity has reached 452.69 GW, with renewable energy contributing a significant portion of the overall power mix.

The author is building a neural network library from scratch in C, aiming to help people understand neural networks from the ground up without relying on existing libraries like PyTorch. The library will allow users to train simple neural networks to solve tasks like identifying handwritten digits, and the author provides a step-by-step explanation of the process, including the forward and ...

King Vidor's 1928 film The Crowd critiques American Exceptionalism, depicting a young man's fall from idealism to anonymity in New York City. The film's use of documentary and expressionist techniques explores the tension between individuality and mass conformity in early 20th-century urbanization.

Triton is a CUDA-based framework that allows large models to run on consumer GPUs, with support for Windows and MSVC. It requires CUDA 12, MSVC, Windows SDK, and vcredist, and has specific installation and setup instructions for Windows users.

You want to fine-tune a Large Language Model (LLM) to map user questions to relevant documentation points in your framework's documentation. The ideal tool should be easy to retrain, integrate with automated processes, and provide links to relevant pages, with optional simple coding question handling.

Firefox: MediaSession does not support dynamically generated images, i.e. data url, blob, and cannot be intercepted by Service Worker.

Digital River has stopped paying numerous merchants for software and digital products sold through its MyCommerce platform. The company's financial situation, including potential liquidation, may be the reason for withheld payments.

The user experimented with storing large arrays in Pharo Smalltalk and Java, finding that Pharo's SmallInteger type can store values inline, while Java's long type has a maximum value that can be exceeded. The user suggests that Java's array size limit may become a priority in the next decade, but libraries like fastutil can help fill the void.