The FTC announced a final "click-to-cancel" rule requiring sellers to make it easy for consumers to cancel subscriptions. The rule will apply to most negative option programs and prohibit misrepresentation and unfair practices.

ArchiveBox is updating its features with a plugin ecosystem, P2P sharing, and more to self-host internet archives.

Amazon introduces new Kindle lineup including color Kindle, reimagined Scribe, and fastest Paperwhite ever. Devices offer improved features such as color displays, faster page turns, and waterproof designs starting at $109.99.

Cloudflare's bot blocking features can block legitimate RSS readers from accessing website content. To resolve this, website owners can whitelist RSS readers by their IP address or user agent string in Cloudflare's dashboard.

A developer benchmarked Qualcomm's NPU on a Windows AI PC, achieving 1.3% of its 45 Teraops/s claim. The results show the NPU's performance is slower than the CPU, but still offers potential energy or sustained performance advantages.

The author, a former Palantir employee, explains the company's unique culture and approach to software development, which emphasizes intense competitiveness, intellectual curiosity, and a willingness to tackle difficult problems. The author defends Palantir's work with government agencies and military organizations, arguing that it is morally neutral and that the company's software has helped ...

The user highly recommends the Apple Vision Pro for in-flight entertainment, citing its ability to provide a high-quality, immersive experience with minimal distractions and no need for a separate screen. However, they note that the device has some drawbacks, including a high price, limited battery life, and some issues with tracking and spatial awareness in certain environments.

Winamp's open-source code was posted but deleted due to licensing issues and concerns over included proprietary code. The code's restrictive license terms, which prevent users from distributing modified versions, have been criticized by the open-source community.

Zerodha launches a $1 million annual fund to support Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects globally. The fund aims to provide structured financial assistance to FOSS projects, promoting the spirit of hacking, liberty, and reciprocity.

macOS system updates may cause traffic leaks due to firewall issues. A reboot resolves the issue, but a workaround is being investigated to prevent leaks until a fix is available.

Invex Gaming, an Australian and New Zealand CSGO community server, developed a system called IdentityLogger to fingerprint players and prevent ban evasion. The system used a combination of IP address, Steam ID, and a unique Tracking ID stored in a cookie to identify and ban cheaters, effectively reducing cheating on their servers.

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is back online in a read-only state after attacks took the site down last week. The archive is still recovering and other services remain offline due to security concerns.

GIMPS discovered a new prime number, M(57885161) was confirmed as the 48th Mersenne prime. A new prime, possibly M(57885161), is being tested and may be announced soon.

Redbox has poor security practices, including using hardcoded encryption keys and storing PII in plain text. They also implemented a custom multitasking programming language, which is unusual and potentially unnecessary.

Targeted Google ads and landing pages collected email addresses for our product. Effective marketing for early companies involves targeting buyers with ads, not just users on social media.

Anders Johnson suffered from unexplained illness symptoms, including weight loss and brain fog, which improved on a gluten-free diet but were later found to be caused by chronic giardiasis. He self-diagnosed the condition using a microscope and antibiotics treatment led to symptom relief.

The user set up a self-hosted environment on their home server using Coolify to deploy Ollama and leverage Llama 3.2 for AI tasks, achieving significant performance improvements with GPU acceleration. The setup involved installing Ubuntu, Coolify, and NVIDIA drivers, configuring Docker for GPU support, and securing the LLM API with an API key using Caddy.

Sana is a text-to-image framework that generates high-resolution images at a fast speed, deployable on laptop GPU. It achieves competitive performance with large models while being 20 times smaller and 100+ times faster in throughput.

Mistral AI introduces les Ministraux, two new models, Ministral 3B and 8B, for on-device computing and edge use cases. These models set a new frontier in knowledge, reasoning, and efficiency, supporting up to 128k context length and various use cases.

Externally accessible headers for custom daughter boards, including UART, SPI, I2C, PWM, digital I/O, ADC functions

Ireland's Transition Year is a non-exam year for students aged 16-17, allowing them to explore interests and gain life skills. The program has evolved since its introduction in 1974, with 99% of schools now offering it, despite some controversy over its effectiveness and accessibility.

Sieve's Eye Contact Correction API corrects eye contact in videos by simulating gaze at the camera. It also allows for a natural look by enabling eyes to look away randomly when speaking.

Mozilla engineers improved Firefox's performance by optimizing WebAssembly compilation. They fixed issues with the Ion compiler, including a slow register allocator and a memory-intensive dominator tree building pass.

Researchers analyzed WeChat's network protocol MMTLS and found weaknesses in its cryptography, including deterministic IVs and lack of forward secrecy. They released technical tools and documentation to aid future researchers in studying WeChat's inner workings and security properties.

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We moved to a new state for lower rent and found a cute place on Craigslist, but updating our address proved difficult due to Google Maps not recognizing our rural road. We encountered issues with banks, phone services, and the DMV due to Google's limitations and the lack of physical address recognition.

The kalmangrad package is a Python library that uses Bayesian filtering to estimate derivatives of non-uniformly sampled time series data with high accuracy even in the presence of noise. It provides a robust alternative to traditional numerical differentiation methods and can estimate derivatives up to any specified order.

The Financial Times offers a trial for $279, then $75 per month, with complete digital access to quality journalism. Paying upfront saves 20% and is available until October 24.

Elon Musk pledged 88.3 million Tesla shares, nearly 36% of his stake, to borrow money and avoid capital gains taxes. Many billionaires, including Larry Ellison and Stephen Schwarzman, also pledge shares to access cash without selling and paying taxes.

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 article discusses BSOS (Bad Software, Obvious Success), where code appears to work but actually has flaws. To verify code, use verification methods like testing, static checks, and model checking, but also be suspicious of success and sad path success.

Please come to our events next week: Escaping the Memory Hole Wednesday, October 23rd, and Go Behind-the-Scenes at the Physical Archive Tuesday, October 22nd.

Israeli agents created pager bombs with hidden explosives that deceived Hezbollah's due diligence. The devices exploded in Beirut, killing 39 and wounding over 3,400, escalating tensions between Israel and Hezbollah.

Amazon refreshed its Kindle lineup with new features including a textured screen coating on the Kindle Scribe, a larger screen on the Kindle Paperwhite, and faster page turns on all models. The company also introduced its first color e-reader, the Kindle Colorsoft, and updated the basic Kindle with improved contrast and brightness.

You described how laziness can compound and lead to a "death spiral" where it's hard to get back on track. Acknowledging the problem is the first step to recovery.

Greenmask is a powerful open-source utility for logical database backup dumping, anonymization, and restoration, designed to be highly customizable and backward-compatible with PostgreSQL utilities. It supports various storage options, parallel execution, and dynamic parameters for resolving functional dependencies between columns.

Archive.org's Wayback machine is back in a limited capacity, but other services remain down. Users are turning to alternatives like archive.ph and ghostarchive.org for web archiving.

Discord was banned in Turkey due to criminal allegations, prompting the user to learn about DNS and VPNs. The user fixed a DNS leak issue on their Arch Linux system, enabling them to use Discord again with their OpenVPN setup.

Intel and AMD are forming a joint x86 advisory board to unify the x86 ISA and accelerate time to market. The goal is to enhance compatibility, predictability, and consistency across x86 product offerings from both companies.

Citizen is a web application framework for building fast and scalable web sites, with features like caching, routing, and error handling. It provides a flexible and modular architecture for building traditional server-side web applications, single-page applications, and RESTful APIs.

Unsloth fixed a universal issue in Gradient Accumulation that negatively impacts training, pre-training and finetuning runs for sequence models. The issue causes higher loss in gradient accumulation compared to full batch training due to loss calculation and numerical errors.

The author created a FastAPI backend to generate polished written documents and quizzes from YouTube videos, leveraging OpenAI's LLMs for accuracy and efficiency. The author also used NextJS for the frontend and Claude3.5 Sonnet for debugging and code generation, resulting in a streamlined development process and high-quality outputs.

You have a Samsung UN24H4500 TV and want to explore hardware hacking. Start by researching common vulnerabilities in similar models and searching for tutorials on reverse engineering and exploitation.

Climate scientists are struggling to explain the unusually steep rise in global sea surface temperatures and air temperatures in 2023 and 2024. NASA's chief climate scientist, Gavin Schmidt, says the unexpected spike in temperatures is "absolutely gobsmackingly bananas" and may indicate the climate system is more unpredictable than thought.

The author reflects on their experience in India, where life is a series of bilateral negotiations due to chaotic informal norms and a lack of agreed-upon equilibrium. This inefficiency holds back India's potential growth, but the author believes that cultural transformation and deliberate effort can lead to a Coasian equilibrium.

The Royal Society's 1,600 historic reports show peer review's evolution from informal discussions to formalized assessments. The archive highlights both the benefits and drawbacks of peer review, including biased or inefficient quality control.

Elon Musk's claims about Tesla's self-driving capabilities have raised concerns about the company's honesty with customers. Tesla's HW3 computer may not be capable of unsupervised self-driving.

Mt Rainier's Columbia Crest has melted down 21.8ft since 1998, revealing the SW Rim as the new highest point at 14,399.6ft. The elevation change was confirmed through multiple surveys, including a recent differential GPS measurement by the author, which also matched Lidar data from 2022.

LOOPS is a Lisp Object-Oriented Programming System that integrates different programming paradigms, including procedure-oriented programming, access-oriented programming, and object-oriented programming, to provide a powerful programming environment for multi-paradigm applications. LOOPS provides features such as classes, active values, and inheritance, allowing programmers to create complex ...

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Researchers analyzed diffusion models for dense prediction tasks and found existing methods to be suboptimal. They introduced a new model, , which directly predicts annotations and simplifies the diffusion process for better quality and efficiency.

The ultra-rich live in a world of suffocating luxury, isolated from humanity by a metaphorical wall of paranoia and fear, with physical barriers like walls and gates surrounding their properties. This class is obsessed with voluntary immurement, cutting themselves off from the world and its problems, as they live in a state of placid stasis, detached from the struggles of others.

The National Archives plans to use AI tools like Google's Gemini and Microsoft Copilot to enhance productivity and access to records. Employees have expressed concerns about AI accuracy, data security, and potential copyright infringement issues.

The European Commission made several announcements, including designating X's online social network as non-core under the Digital Markets Act and approving several mergers and acquisitions. The Commission also disbursed funds to Greece and Romania under the Recovery and Resilience Facility and supported Ukraine's healthcare sector.

NGS's assert() supports pattern arguments and returns the evaluated expression when successful. It's used for fluent interface and exception handling, with retry_assert() used for retrying attempts.

The standard 4 foot 8.5 inch track gauge originated from George Stephenson's design for the Killingworth tramway in the late 1700s. It was later adopted as the standard gauge in the UK and influenced the decisions of other major railways across the world.

A Turkish man, Mehmet Aydın, created a virtual farming app called Farm Bank that scammed 132,000 people out of $250 million. He is now facing 89,000 years in prison after being caught in Brazil and extradited to Turkey.

The article explores how to apply SwiftData's modern thinking within Core Data, focusing on data modeling and concurrent programming, to create a stable and reliable data management solution. By integrating SwiftData's principles into Core Data, developers can achieve a similar experience with better performance and stability.

Most programmers spend around 2-6 hours per day coding, with significant variations depending on the individual's role, experience, and work environment, and the majority of their time is spent on tasks like reading, debugging, and reviewing code. The average daily coding time ranges from 1-8 hours, with some individuals coding for 14-16 hours on particularly challenging tasks, and the amount ...

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There is no secret government silo of advanced technology that will save us if war breaks out—you must build it. If you have read this far, you care deeply about the future of our collective defense. Help us to reboot the arsenal of democracy and make that future safe, prosperous, and free.

Montgomery County in Maryland is building 463 new mixed-income apartments with a $100 million revolving fund to address its housing shortage. The project, Hillandale Gateway, will be majority owned by the county and offer affordable housing permanently.

Stephen Margheim presents how Rails 8 and SQLite can simplify application architecture, making it viable for production use with a single machine. This combination unlocks the power of simplicity, enabling individuals to build production-grade applications faster, simpler, and cheaper than ever before.

The user uses various storage methods like drawers, bins, and 3D printed organizers for their spare parts, sorted by type and value. They also use a registry and labels to keep track of their components and a flexible system that can be extended and changed as needed.

Foyle is an AI that helps developers operate their software by translating intent into executable commands using LLMs, making it easier to manage infrastructure and reduce DevOps complexities. Foyle uses VScode Notebooks and Runme to provide a collaborative environment where developers can manage infrastructure more efficiently and effectively.

PAM is a flexible framework for authentication that separates the specifics of authentication from applications, allowing system administrators to customize authentication procedures without changing or rewriting the software. A custom PAM module can be developed using Python to extend the system's existing authentication capabilities, showcasing the flexibility and adaptability that makes ...

Modems make a distinctive sound when connecting to the internet, known as a handshake, which involves finding a common language and determining the telephone channel's weaknesses. The handshake involves exchanging tones and binary data to assess the line's quality and determine a suitable speed for data transfer.

Arch is a Layer 7 gateway that protects and personalizes LLM applications with APIs, handling tasks like prompt detection and backend API calls. It's built on Envoy Proxy and offers features like prompt guardrails, traffic management, and standards-based observability.

Axiom Space and Prada have designed a new spacesuit for NASA's Artemis mission to the moon. The suit features a mostly white exterior to reflect heat and protect the wearer from high temperatures.

Invaria offers a demo instance for testing structured logging and telemetry analysis on OSS repos. The goal is to automate instrumentation at the CI step for better observability and higher data quality.

Here is a 2 concise English sentences summary of the text in 200 characters: Our mission is to enable mass customization and unlock impossible designs with patented Gravity Free Manufacturing technology. We defy gravity and remove costly tooling, creating designs once thought impossible.

Türkiye's media outlets are promoting a favorable image of China's Xinjiang region, ignoring human rights abuses. This is part of China's strategy to influence international narratives and counter Western criticism.

You're discussing investment opportunities in the SIEM & logging infrastructure stack and ways to disrupt Splunk from a technical perspective. You're considering companies like Cribl, Snowflake, Panther, Tines, and others that offer log pre-processing, data lakes, and SOAR tools to improve security operations and reduce costs.

Nvidia's R&D spending is about two times higher than AMD's, but still lower than Intel and Qualcomm's, while Apple leads with around $27 billion in R&D spending in 2023. Nvidia invests in data center GPUs, client PC GPUs, and networking gear, while AMD focuses on CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs.

Hi HN - we’ve been working on a fun project that I wanted to share It takes your PDF LinkedIn profile or resume and generates a short podcast either hyping you up, or roasting you. It takes your professional experience and crafts a narrative of your life and why you’re so successful. Or if you want a roast… It pokes holes and makes fun of you.

Ollama is an app that lets you interact with LLMs directly through your computer using GGUF quants from Hugging Face. It offers customisations like quantization type, system prompt, and sampling parameters.

Amazon announced four new Kindles, including the first-ever color e-reader, Kindle Colorsoft, priced at $280. The new devices offer improved features such as faster page turns, higher contrast ratios, and longer battery life.

A woman in Casper was surprised by a group of raccoons in a hotel parking lot, but they didn’t injure her. The raccoons seemed to be drawn to something in the woman’s truck, but the woman and others were able to safely get away.

The author explores compiling Scheme to WebAssembly (Wasm) using Bigloo, a Scheme compiler, and discusses the challenges and solutions encountered, including function pointer cast errors and binary size overhead. The author also touches on compiling JavaScript to Wasm using Hopc, a JavaScript to Scheme compiler, but notes that it is still a work in progress due to runtime crashes and large ...

Headstart uses Claude to deliver enterprise software projects in weeks, revolutionizing development timelines with high security standards. Claude's automation enables Headstart to generate 90-97% of required code, allowing them to focus on architecture design and problem solving.

Meta is contributing two new disaggregated network fabrics and a new NIC to Open Compute Project (OCP) for AI training clusters. This move aims to advance AI infrastructure with open, vendor-agnostic systems and efficient data center technologies.

Universal Jointing is a method of connecting submarine optical tele-communication cables with a common set of equipment & methods. It provides efficient, cost effective & reliable technology with shared expertise & uniform introduction of new improvements.

Releasing a game with a CERO age rating in Japan can be expensive due to membership fees and reviewing costs, especially for multiplatform releases. The IARC provides a free alternative for digital-only games, but physical releases still require a CERO rating, making it cost prohibitive for smaller titles.