Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT

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MIT will cover tuition costs for 80% of US families with income below $200,000. Undergraduates from families with income below $100,000 will pay nothing towards their education.

What is the origin of the lake tank image that has become a meme? (2021)

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The image of the Panzer of the Lake is a photo of a German Panzer IV D tank that fell into the Meuse River in Houx, Belgium on May 13, 1940. The photo was taken later, possibly in 1941, by a German pioneer or tank recovery crew.

AAA – Analytical Anti-Aliasing

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Anti-Aliasing techniques include SSAA, MSAA, MLAA, SMAA, and FXAA, each with its own strengths and weaknesses, but Analytical Anti-Aliasing offers a simpler and more effective solution by fading the shape's border by exactly one pixel. This approach preserves shape even at low resolutions and can be implemented without extra buffers or hardware requirements, making it a promising solution for ...

Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke

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A Chinese cargo ship Yi Peng 3 passed near two broken submarine cables in the Baltic Sea, slowing down before and after the incidents. Danish navy is shadowing the ship, but no boarding has occurred, and the incident is being investigated.

Let's Encrypt is 10 years old now

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Let's Encrypt provides free server certificates for secure internet communication, making it easier to use TLS everywhere. It's a joint effort by organizations to promote open internet security through automatic, secure, and transparent certificate issuance and renewal.

Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever

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Game publishers are unwilling to release older games into the public domain, breaking the copyright contract with the public. Epic Games is an exception, allowing the Internet Archive to freely share two classic games, Unreal and Unreal Tournament.

Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds

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Z-Library, a shadow library, continues to operate despite US prosecution and extradition attempts of its alleged operators. Users, including students and researchers, view the site as a necessary resource for accessing free knowledge due to financial constraints and limited access to academic materials.

Tiny Glade 'built' its way to >600k sold in a month

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GameDiscoverCo's newsletter discusses the latest game platform and discovery news, including the trending unreleased Steam games chart and the success of Tiny Glade, a relaxing building game that has sold over 616,000 copies in less than a month. The game's developers, Ana and Tom, attribute its success to its serene gameplay, beautiful graphics, and ability to appeal to players who want to ...

Weight-loss drug found to shrink muscle in mice, human cells

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Researchers at the University of Alberta found that trendy weight-loss drugs may shrink the human heart and other muscles. They suggest that people taking these drugs should be aware of the potential long-term health effects and consider nutrition and exercise to minimize muscle loss.

Electrobun: Cross-platform desktop applications written in TypeScript

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Electrobun is a solution for building cross-platform desktop apps in Typescript. It uses bun, zig, and RPC for security, performance, and tiny app updates.

Understanding the BM25 full text search algorithm

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The user is building a personalized content feed and wants to combine full-text search and vector similarity search using BM25, a widely used algorithm for full-text search that ranks documents based on their relevance to a query. BM25 uses four components: query terms, Inverse Document Frequency (IDF), term frequency in the document, and document length normalization, and the user can ...

Show HN: Bike route planner that follows almost only official bike trails

Route planner for cyclists

Apple Confirms Zero-Day Attacks Hitting macOS Systems

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Apple released urgent security updates for macOS and iOS to fix two exploited vulnerabilities, CVE-2024-44308 and CVE-2024-44309, which can lead to code execution and cross-site scripting. Users are urged to apply iOS 18.1.1, macOS Sequoia 15.1.1, and iOS 17.7.2 to stay secure.

Google stops letting sites like Forbes rule search for "Best CBD Gummies"

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Google updated its site reputation abuse policy targeting third-party content on established sites for product reviews and affiliate marketing. This change resulted in significant drops in search rankings for sites like Forbes and Time, with lost traffic estimated at $7.5 million.

How good are American roads?

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US road infrastructure is generally good, with over 80% of interstate highways in good or very good condition, but non-interstate roads, especially in urban areas, are often poor quality. Compared to other countries, US interstates are high-quality, but non-interstate roads are lower quality, and more data is needed to accurately compare road quality internationally.

Blender 4.3

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Blender 4.3 adds new features including Light Linking and Shadow Linking, a new texture node for Gabor noise, and improved Geometry Nodes with a For Each Element zone and gizmos. It also enhances Grease Pencil with layer groups and improved eraser functionality.

Pipe Viewer – A Unix Utility You Should Know About

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The user is starting a new article series about Unix utilities, specifically Pipe Viewer (pv), a tool for monitoring data pipeline progress. Examples of using pv include compressing large files, timing data transfer rates, and copying large amounts of data over the network.

Webvm: Virtual Machine for the Web

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WebVM is a Linux virtual machine running in browsers using CheerpX, enabling safe execution of x86 binaries. It uses Tailscale for networking and supports customization through Dockerfiles.

How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment

Google sent a confidential memo in 2008 advising employees to avoid speculation and sarcasm in internal communications to prevent lawsuits. The company implemented measures to minimize incriminating comments, including deleting messages and using legal privilege as a shield.

Why don't you move abroad?

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The author, an Indian software engineer, shares his personal story of moving abroad for work and eventually returning to India, citing emotional damage and a desire for a better work-life balance. He now works remotely as a Product Manager in India, prioritizing his emotional wellbeing and happiness over professional success.

Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media

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The social media platform Bluesky has gained 20 million users in two months, surpassing Twitter's recent growth, as users seek an alternative to hate speech and algorithmic manipulation. Bluesky's "marketplace of algorithms" allows users to choose their own feed, promoting a more democratic social media experience.

Ask HN: Bluesky Accounts Worth Following for HN Enthusiasts

User is looking for tech-related content on Bluesky and shares their podcast and personal projects. They're skeptical about people moving to Bluesky due to concerns about it being centralized and venture capital-backed.

Does the Internet Route Around Damage? – Baltic Sea Cable Cuts

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Internet cable cuts in the Baltic Sea caused latency increases in 20-30% of paths, but no visible packet loss. The Internet showed resilience by routing around the damage, but the long-term impact and future capacity issues remain unknown.

AlphaQubit: AI to identify errors in Quantum Computers

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Researchers developed AlphaQubit, an AI-based decoder that accurately identifies quantum computing errors with state-of-the-art accuracy. This breakthrough could enable reliable quantum computers to solve complex problems and lead to scientific breakthroughs.

Doxx/Darkflare: DarkFlare TCPoCDN (TCP over CDN)

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DarkFlare is a tool that disguises TCP traffic as HTTPS requests to bypass corporate firewalls and network restrictions. It uses Cloudflare's encrypted infrastructure to create a stealthy TCP-over-CDN tunnel for accessing internal resources.

Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset

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Foursquare released a large open data set of 100 million global places of interest with 22 attributes. The data is available for commercial use under the Apache 2.0 license and can be queried remotely through DuckDB.

Europe's Internet resilience mitigates impact of submarine cable cuts

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Two recent Baltic Sea cable cuts resulted in little-to-no impact on affected countries due to significant redundancy and resilience in European Internet infrastructure. Cloudflare Radar graphs showed no apparent impact to traffic volumes in Lithuania, Sweden, Finland, and Germany at the time of the cable cuts.

SQL, Homomorphisms and Constraint Satisfaction Problems

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SQL can be used to solve various problems such as graph matching, constraint satisfaction, and model checking due to its ability to express conjunctive queries and homomorphisms. This perspective allows SQL to be seen as a model checker for first-order logic and a solver for graph homomorphism problems, making it a powerful tool for solving complex problems.

Show HN: Autotab – Programmable AI browser for turning web tasks into APIs

Alexi and Jonas from Autotab, a Chrome-based browser for complex task automation, are seeking feedback on their product. They've developed a dedicated authoring tool for intent specification and control flows to improve reliability and performance.

GNU Artanis 1.0.0 Released

GNU Artanis is a web framework written in Guile Scheme, designed for small to medium web applications. It's licensed under GPLv3+ and LGPLv3, with a pure Scheme core and a high-performance asynchronous server design.

Lush: My favorite small programming language

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The author reminisces about Lush, a small Lisp programming language developed in the 1980s for machine learning, which allowed for easy integration of C code and had a unique self-documenting feature. Despite its limitations, Lush remains a cozy and powerful tool for developing algorithms, and the author hopes to revive it or use it in production, encouraging others to try it out.

La Basilica Di San Pietro

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A digital twin of St. Peter's Basilica was created using 400,000 images and AI, allowing visitors to explore it from anywhere. The project, a collaboration between the Vatican, Iconem, and Microsoft, will be available for the 2025 Holy Year Jubilee.

Meta Uses LLMs to Improve Incident Response

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Meta used LLMs to root cause incidents with 42% accuracy by fine-tuning a model on historical investigations and internal documentation. This approach enables AI to assist engineers in focusing on the most relevant code changes, reducing investigation time and improving MTTR.

/usr/bin/env -S uv run

#!/usr/bin/env -S uv run (via) This is a really neat pattern. Start your Python script like this: And now if you chmod 755 it you can run it on any machine with the uv binary installed like this: ./app.py - and it will automatically create its own isolated environment and run itself with the correct installed dependencies and even the correctly installed Python version.

With Core One, Prusa's Open Source Hardware Dream Dies

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Prusa Research has shifted away from open source hardware with their new Core ONE printer, sparking disappointment among fans who valued the company's commitment to open source principles. However, the company's decision may be a necessary business move to remain competitive in the market, and their printers will still be highly hackable and upgradable.

New Calculation Finds we are close to the Kessler Syndrome [video]

Using gRPC for (local) inter-process communication (2021)

The user designed a high-level architecture for the FlashCam software using a single RPC framework for IPC and public APIs, choosing gRPC due to its efficiency and tooling. gRPC's unary call latency over Unix domain sockets was measured, showing a ~100 µs overhead, which is acceptable for the project's purposes and outweighed by the benefits of using a single library for IPC and RPC.

Show HN: Cardo ‒ Open Source desktop podcast client

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Listen to your podcasts 🎙️ on desktop 💻 Open source, made with ♥️ by n0vella

Discarded delights: The joy of ex-library books (2021)

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An ex-library book is a used book that once belonged to a public library or institution and has been discarded. It often carries library markings and may have a poor reputation due to heavy use, but can be a cheap and accessible way to own a book.

Bird flu in Canada may have mutated to become more transmissible to humans

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A teenager in British Columbia, Canada, has a rare bird flu mutation that may make it more transmissible among people. Experts warn that undetected cases in the US could lead to further spread of the virus.

Between the Booms: AI in Winter – Communications of the ACM

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The term "artificial intelligence" has been misused to describe various technologies, but its history is complex, with different approaches emerging and falling out of favor over the years, including expert systems, neural networks, and probabilistic methods. The field has undergone significant shifts, from the 1980s AI winter to the current resurgence of interest in machine learning and ...

Show HN: Self-Host Next.js in Production

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OpenNext converts Next.js build output into deployable packages for various environments, supporting AWS Lambda and Node.js Server. It aims to support all Next.js 14 features and can be customized with an open-next.config.ts file.

Show HN: Unbug – Rust macros for programmatically invoking breakpoints

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The unbug crate provides macros to catch errors during debugging sessions, allowing developers to pause and log messages without having to conditionally compile them out. To use unbug, enable the feature, return or continue immediately after macro invocation, and use a debugger like VSCode with Rust Analyzer and Code LLDB extensions.

Call for Developer Projects

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The last few weeks have seen a swell of developer interest in atproto. Welcome! The protocol is maturing, and now is a great time for early adopters to jump in and start building. This post lists s...

Danish Navy stopped a Chinese ship suspected of damaging undersea cables

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A Chinese bulk carrier was detained by the Danish Navy for damaging telecommunications cables in the Baltic Sea. The incident is suspected to be deliberate sabotage, not an accident.

The Rise of Malört, an Unexpected Midwest princess

Malört is a bitter, herbaceous spirit made from wormwood and sugar, known for its intense flavor. It originated in Chicago as a medicinal liquor during Prohibition and has since gained a cult following worldwide.

My Resignation from Emacs Development

Alan Mackenzie is resigning as Emacs contributor due to disagreements over CC Mode's symbols being used by Emacs without his consent. He blames Stefan Monnier's disregard for Emacs conventions on open discussion and courteous communication for his decision.

3 years ago, VCs in Bay Area tech were thriving. Now, they're 'bleeding cash.'

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Venture capital firms are struggling due to a lack of exits through acquisitions or IPOs, resulting in a $60 billion shortfall in 2023. High interest rates, antitrust regulation, and founders' reluctance to go public have contributed to this stagnancy.

Britain is building one of the world’s most expensive railways

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The UK's High Speed 2 (HS2) rail project is the world's most expensive railway project, costing $416 million per mile, due to its complex route through densely populated areas and bureaucratic planning. Despite its original promise to "level up" deprived regions, the project has been plagued by cost overruns, delays, and opposition, with many now questioning its value and feasibility.

Ensō: design constraints of a focussed writing tool

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UX stays out of the user's way, updates should make Ensō feel smaller/dumber (MISS – Make It Stupid, Simple). It should feel a bit like a toy (still looking for the right word here)

Nickel Plating Handbook [pdf]

Nickel Institute promotes nickel use in various applications, including decorative and functional plating, through science and market growth. Electroplating nickel involves passing electric current between electrodes in an electrolyte, depositing metal on the cathode and dissolving it at the anode.

Show HN: Rebuild of Blossom, an open-source social robot

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The user developed an open-source robot platform called Blossom for human-robot interaction research, which they have continued to improve and expand. The platform now includes a redesigned frame, improved telepresence interface, and conversational interaction with a language model, and has been showcased at Maker Faire Coney Island.

Firefox nightly is running an experiment featuring a Fakespot feed on newtab

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Mozilla is preparing a new messaging surface and fixing various bugs including auto-pip feature and address bar issues. Other updates include improved search and suggest functionality, favicon improvements, and a Fakespot feed experiment in December.

I designed my website to look like a chat log

Alex Dragusin offers a one-shot logo design service with no revisions for $500, providing a unique design that suits your business needs. He specializes in tech and corporate logos, emphasizing minimalism and long-term usability, with full rights and vector files included.

U of T computational imaging researchers harness AI to fly with light in motion

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University of Toronto researchers have developed a camera setup that visualizes light in motion one million times faster than normal, opening avenues for new 3D sensing techniques. This technology can capture ultrafast moments of a scene from multiple viewpoints and has potential applications in sensing, filmmaking, and autonomous vehicles.

The Northeast is becoming fire country

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A wildland firefighter in California, New Mexico, and Arizona associates the smell of a burning forest with his work, but it unexpectedly wafts through his Brooklyn apartment, leading to a real forest fire in Prospect Park. The fire highlights the Northeast's combustible conditions due to a severe drought.

Exploring the Cost and Feasibility of Battery-Electric Ships

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Researchers at Berkeley Lab found that retrofitting US shipping fleet to battery-electric systems could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 34-73% by 2035. Electrifying up to 85% of ships would be cost effective in 2035 with 95% electricity decarbonization.

Nominal for Storing, Structural for Manipulating

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Programming languages often use either nominal or structural type systems, with nominal types being more restrictive but better for data abstraction and error messages, and structural types being more flexible but worse for data abstraction and error messages. Polaris combines the benefits of both systems by using lightweight newtype wrappers for nominal types and row-polymorphic, structural ...

AMD crafts custom EPYC CPU with HBM3 for Azure: 88 Zen 4 cores and 450GB of HBM3

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Microsoft announced its latest HPC Azure VMs powered by a custom AMD CPU with HBM3, offering 6.9TB/s bandwidth and nearly 9 times faster performance than previous Genoa-X CPUs. The custom CPU is likely the MI300C chip, initially intended for the general public but secured by Microsoft for exclusive use in Azure.

Judge Rules Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Not So Decentralized in Law

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A federal judge ruled that Lido DAO is a "legal entity" subject to laws and regulations, rejecting its claim of being just "software." The decision holds Lido and its institutional investors liable for selling unregistered securities.

Singularity Missed

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The author criticizes Ray Kurzweil's predictions of AI development, specifically his chart comparing computing performance to animal brain capabilities. The author argues that Kurzweil is off by at least 23 years due to unrealistic expectations of insect brain-like capabilities in computers.

Automatic braking systems save lives. Now they’ll need to work at 62 MPH

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US car safety-tech has improved with automatic emergency braking systems, preventing 42,000 crashes and 20,000 injuries by 2025. New regulations will require AEB systems to operate at higher speeds and detect pedestrians, saving at least 360 lives and 24,000 injuries annually.

Underrated Ways to Change the World

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The author argues that changing the world doesn't require grand actions, but rather small, consistent efforts by many people. He shares examples of ordinary individuals who made a positive impact through their daily work and actions.

Banned from Bluesky Within 30s

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Got banned from BIuesky within the first 30 seconds for posting a biological fact

Agent Blue – Arsenic-Laced Rainbow [pdf]

The US military sprayed Agent Blue, a toxic arsenic-based herbicide, on Vietnamese rice paddies and bamboo groves, causing widespread harm and cancer risks. Exposure to Agent Blue has been linked to bladder, lung, and skin cancers, and its effects can last for generations.

Like 'old Twitter': The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky

Scientists are rapidly moving to Bluesky, a Twitter-like platform, due to its welcoming features and growing critical mass of researchers. Over 20,000 influential scientists have joined Bluesky, with the number likely to be much higher now, as researchers seek a less polarized online environment.

Show HN: A People Search Engine with Face Recognition

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We are a search engine that uses facial recognition to conduct in-depth, accurate research about individuals, prospects, and brands. Turn strangers into familiar faces and generate winning cold emails through IntroThem.

Jaguar Cars rebranding without any cars

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Jaguar is collaborating with a collective of original creators across the arts. Exploring new perspectives. Challenging boundaries.

Musi fans refuse to update iPhones until Apple unblocks controversial app

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Musi, a free music streaming app, was removed from Apple's App Store after receiving copyright complaints from YouTube. Musi is suing Apple, claiming breach of contract, but Apple argues the app is not at risk of extinction despite its removal.

Microsoft will soon let you clone your voice for Teams meetings

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Microsoft revealed Interpreter in Teams for real-time speech-to-speech translation in up to nine languages. The tool will be available to Microsoft 365 subscribers starting in early 2025 with voice simulation consent required.

Show HN: Weave - actually measure engineering productivity

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Measure engineering output, not noise. See how your team stacks up to the rest of the industry. Move faster with intelligent, actionable insights.

Trivial REST server in various languages to compare

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The /version endpoint returns a RESTful JSON response with the "version" fields. The payload should be serialized to JSON from a struct or class, not printed as a simple string. When the server runs, it should respond to curl http://localhost:8000/version or in the web browser.

Apple TV+ Will License Its Movies to Other Services to Reduce Billions in Losses

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Bloomberg delivers business and financial information worldwide. Netflix's live boxing event between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson drew 60 million viewers despite technical issues.

Google workers to DOJ: we need protections to make your breakup effective

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The Alphabet Workers Union wants the government to consider worker impact in antitrust remedies for Google, ensuring workers are protected and empowered to speak out. Google employees met with the DOJ to share their perspectives, urging the government to prioritize worker rights and avoid retaliation.

Ghost Tap: New cash-out tactic with NFC Relay

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ThreatFabric analysts discovered a new cash-out tactic called "Ghost Tap" used by threat actors to steal money from stolen credit cards linked to mobile payment services. This tactic involves relaying NFC traffic using publicly available tools like NFCGate, allowing cybercriminals to stay anonymous and scale the cash-out process.

Latest graphics driver for your Surface devices powered by Snapdragon X Elite

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Microsoft released a new graphics driver version 31.0.82.0 for Snapdragon X Elite devices with improved performance and new game support. It includes DirectML optimizations for AI tasks and WebNN model support in the browser.

Creating and Defeating Hexhunt

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The user created a puzzle called Hexhunt for HackMIT, which involves finding the highest-scoring board by connecting adjacent letters on a hexagonal grid without repeats, and they used a trie data structure to speed up the evaluation process. They also used simulated annealing to search for high-scoring boards and achieved a score of 4064, which is likely the maximum possible score, and ...

Don't Call It a Substack

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Substack wants to control your content and audience for profit, limiting your freedom and potentially exposing you to hate speech. You can break free by exporting your subscribers and using alternatives like Ghost, Beehiiv, or Medium.

"Safe" C++

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The author expresses outrage and frustration with the C++ committee's handling of memory safety, citing a lack of leadership and a culture of silence and retaliation against whistleblowers. The author specifically targets committee members Herb Sutter, Gaby Dos Reis, and Bjarne Stroustrup for their alleged behavior and lack of accountability.

Don't Call It a Substack

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Show HN: I'm 17 and made a tool to help students study smarter

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LIRA is a study buddy that helps with learning by breaking down content quickly. It provides concise answers and summaries to master any subject.

AI's Slowdown Is Everyone Else's Opportunity

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Bloomberg delivers business and financial information worldwide. AI models are not improving as dramatically as expected due to scaling laws.

How Did You Do on the AI Art Turing Test?

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A test with 11,000 participants showed that most people have a hard time identifying AI art based on subtle differences in style and quality, with a median score of 60% and a mean of 60.6%. The results suggest that people's negative opinions of AI art may be driven by frustration with the proliferation of low-quality AI art rather than a genuine artistic difference, and that some people may ...

ChipWits Macintosh/Commodore 64 Forth source code released

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ChipWits, a 1984 game, is being released as open source with its original Mac and Commodore 64 FORTH source code. The game's legacy is being preserved and a modernized version is also being developed to inspire a new generation of programmers.