Stimulation Clicker

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A video explaining Bitcoin from 2017 was taken down and a copyright strike issued to your channel, allegedly by Arbitrum's bot through Chainpatrol for brand protection. This raises concerns about fake takedown requests being issued through advanced LLM scanning tools.

The Future of Htmx

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htmx aims to be a stable and reliable tool for building web services, emulating jQuery's characteristics. It will focus on maintaining its current API and implementation, with minimal changes and no pressure to upgrade.
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The game DOOM: The Gallery Experience parodies gallery openings by allowing players to walk around and appreciate art in a reimagined DOOM level. The game's concept is well-received but its meaning is open to interpretation.

Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plans to step down as Liberal leader, citing internal battles and a need for a fresh start. A leadership race will begin, with the next election likely to feature Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre as the main rival.

Time-Series Anomaly Detection: A Decade Review

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Recent advances in data collection technology highlight the need for time series analytics, particularly anomaly detection in fields like cyber security and healthcare. A new survey categorizes anomaly detection methods under a process-centric taxonomy and outlines general trends in time-series anomaly detection research.

Apple squandered the Holy Grail

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The author switched to an iPhone 7 after experiencing issues with their Samsung S7 and has since become an Apple fan. They appreciate Apple's focus on enabling creativity through their products, comparing them to bicycles for the mind.

All clocks are 30 seconds late

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The user believes all clocks are 30 seconds late due to truncating seconds to the nearest lower whole minute. This results in an average error of 30 seconds.

Hitting OKRs vs. Doing Your Job

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Engineering OKRs duplicate product planning if they only say "Ship the Roadmap." Marketing OKRs express intentions clearly, focusing on new campaigns, audiences, or channels.

NYC Congestion Pricing Tracker

Congestion Pricing in NYC has shown early signs of reducing traffic on bridges and tunnels leading to lower Manhattan, but results are mixed for routes within the zone. Traffic decreased on some exempt routes, but overall changes are small and may require more data for conclusive results.

Who killed the rave?

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Used Meta AI, now Instagram is using my face on ads targeted at me

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I live my life a quarter century at a time

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The writer worked on the original Dock for Mac OS X, starting in 1998, and was based in Ireland, flying back and forth to Cupertino for demos. He resigned in 2000 after being asked to move to the US.

My little sister's use of ChatGPT for homework is heartbreaking

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Triptych Proposals

Triptych enhances HTML by allowing network requests and page replacements with HTTP methods, forms, and targeted DOM subtrees. It completes HTML's REST capabilities and makes it self-describing for various problem spaces.

Uncut Currency

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Engineer eats efficiently for $2.50 a day (2016)

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The user is documenting a 46-day experiment to eat on a $2.50 daily food budget, exploring cooking techniques, science, and fun, while sharing recipes and costs. They are using a calculating tool called Frink to track costs and nutrition, and making meals such as krautburgers, egg salad sandwiches, and pork tacos.

The evolution of a structural code editor

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The author developed a structural editor for the EYG programming language, which treats code as a structured tree rather than a flat sequence of characters. The editor has evolved over several years, with major changes to improve usability and navigation.

Killed by LLM

Various AI benchmarks were created to measure intelligence, but many have been "killed" by language models due to saturation. These benchmarks, including the Turing Test, are no longer effective at measuring AI capabilities.

An autumn bike adventure down the US portion of the Eastern Divide Trail

User is listing movie and TV show titles in chronological order, possibly as a personal challenge or log.

Software is eating the world, all right (2024)

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A 43-year IT veteran turned small business owner criticizes the digital revolution for being financially corrupt, morally bankrupt, and a parasite that's killing its host. He urges Marc Andreessen to rewrite his seminal article as a manifesto demanding companies stop the digital bleeding and build a "hate firewall" to protect people.

Spline Distance Fields

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The user is developing a new renderer called Star Machine and a time trial racing game called Rainy Road, requiring a terrain rendering system that is composable and can handle complex landscapes. They discovered a technique called spline distance fields to generate terrain from splines, which they implemented in Blender using Geometry Nodes.

Regulations Enabling 6 GHz Wi-Fi

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Self-Hostable Form Back End – OSS Alternative to Formspree

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FormBee is a form backend that sends form data to various platforms without server-side code. It offers a hosted option and self-hosting with customizable plugins and features.

C: Simple Defer, Ready to Use

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The user discusses implementing the "defer" feature in C using existing tools and compilers, including GCC extensions and C++ standard features. They propose a new syntax for "defer" that combines different requirements and can be implemented in the language or library.

Lord of the Io_uring (2020)

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io_uring is a new Linux I/O subsystem for asynchronous programming, offering improved performance and scalability. This guide provides details on io_uring and its usage, with source code available on Github for contribution and bug reporting.

LLMs and Code Optimization

David G. Andersen tests a large language model's ability to optimize code, finding it effective in some cases but limited in others, particularly in parallelization. He achieves significant speed improvements by manually optimizing the code, highlighting the importance of human judgment in complex optimization tasks.

Show HN: Mashups – Resurrecting Yahoo Pipes, my side project

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The system combines data from RSS feeds, CSV files, and JSON APIs into a unified stream, applying filters and transformations for customized output. It offers automatic updates and a visual interface for building complex workflows without programming experience.

Industrial photographer Christopher Payne spotlights the good in American labor

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Christopher Payne is an industrial photographer documenting manufacturing processes and workers in factories. He aims to show the beauty and importance of manual labor in a world of increasing automation.

A Pixel Parable

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Mark, a professional illustrator, lands a job at LucasFilm Games after winning an art show and meeting Gary, who offers him a role despite Mark's lack of experience with video games. Mark learns to use the computer and its painting program, NeoChrome, and eventually becomes Lead Background Artist for Loom, a fantasy adventure game.

Reflections

The author reflects on OpenAI's progress over the past nine years, from a quiet research lab to a company that has seen massive growth and impact with the launch of ChatGPT. The author expresses gratitude for the team's hard work and the support of key individuals like Ron Conway and Brian Chesky.

Agents Are Not Enough

Agents are autonomous programs that can accomplish tasks on behalf of humans, but their limitations and shortcomings need to be addressed. A new ecosystem with agents, Sims, and Assistants can provide standardization, privacy, personalization, and increased trust to make agents more effective and sustainable.

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Synthesizing Music from JSON

pl_synth is a tiny music synthesizer for C and JavaScript that allows for creating instruments and arrangements, and it has been used in several games including high_impact. The synthesizer was optimized for performance by pre-generating lookup tables and restructuring the code, and it can be used in a C version or a JavaScript version that can be compiled to a WASM module.

Unemployed office workers are having a harder time finding new jobs

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We are teen hackers from around the world who code together

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Hack Club is a community of teenage coders who build open source projects and gather online and in-person to share their love of code. Members can connect with others, build projects, and learn through hands-on experience.

Printf debugging is ok

The user shares their thoughts on the debate about using debuggers versus notepad for coding, stating that both tools have their place and that using a debugger is not something to be ashamed of. They emphasize the importance of debugging skills and suggest that resources should be available to teach these skills, rather than relying on individual experiences and strategies.

Ratchet effects determine engineer reputation at large companies

Engineers at large tech companies gain status through a natural ratchet effect, where they start with low-status work and gain reputation by delivering successes, leading to higher-profile projects. If they fail, their status ratchets down, making it hard to regain reputation.

Property-Based Testing for the People

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Automated testing, specifically property-based testing, improves software quality by saving time and finding bugs. Research aims to make PBT more accessible by addressing user challenges with random data generation and test evaluation.

Fold-... and Monoids

Monoids are ubiquitous in computer science and come from abstract algebra, defined as a binary function that is closed under folds, with an identity element and an accumulation of results. Folds can be used to accumulate values, drive state machines, and create pipelines through function composition, and can be used to eliminate many loops in code.

The Latest Fake Literary Agencies

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Fake literary agencies are posing as real ones, targeting writers with scams. Look for red flags like unverifiable sales, fake agents, and upfront fees to avoid being scammed.

TikTok should lose its big Supreme Court case

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The Supreme Court will hear a case about whether the government can ban TikTok due to concerns over China's control. The case involves a federal law that requires ByteDance to sell TikTok to a less vulnerable company.

A swashbuckling tale of Italian software piracy – 1983-1993 (2022)

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In Italy, software piracy was a widespread and organized industry in the 80s and 90s, with many companies and individuals selling pirated games in shops and on the streets, often with the help of corrupt retailers. The industry was so large that it effectively killed the Italian video game industry, with many developers unable to compete with the cheap and readily available pirated games, and ...

AMD 'Strix Halo' Ryzen AI Max+ Debuts with RDNA 3.5 Graphics and Zen 5 CPU Cores

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AMD announced its 'Strix Halo' Ryzen AI Max series laptop processors with up to 40-core integrated GPU and 16 CPU cores. The new APUs deliver up to 1.4X faster gaming performance and 84% faster rendering performance than Intel and Apple's flagship models.

Raising of Chicago

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Engineers in Chicago raised buildings on jackscrews to lift the city out of its swampy ground. The work, funded by private and public funds, was completed in the 1850s and 1860s, improving drainage and reducing epidemics.

IPv6-only Network based on Jool

User set up an IPv6-only network on Linux using Jool, a stateful NAT64 translator, to access IPv4 Internet and map IPv4-to-IPv6 ports. Jool allows IPv4-only hosts to reach IPv6-only services on the LAN, with DNS64 service for convenient IPv4 address conversion to pseudo IPv6 addresses.

Why are corporations cutting managers?

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US public companies have cut middle-manager head counts by 6% since the pandemic, with senior executives also seeing a 5% reduction. The cuts are likely due to companies focusing on core business and eliminating bureaucratic layers after years of rapid revenue growth.

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Dell will no longer make XPS computers

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Dell is killing its XPS, Latitude, Inspiron, and Precision branding, replacing it with Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max branding. The new branding will feature three lines with base, plus, and premium models, emphasizing performance, durability, and mobility.

What Parler Saw During the Attack on the Capitol

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ProPublica reviewed thousands of Parler videos from the January 6 Capitol riot, providing a comprehensive record of the event through the eyes of participants. The videos, ordered by time, offer a newsworthy look at the violent riot.

Show HN: Filter out engagement bait and politics on your X/Twitter feed

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User created a Chrome extension called Unbaited to filter out engagement bait and inflammatory content from X feed using Llama 3.3 model. The extension aims to demonstrate user control over feed content and can be customized to analyze tweets according to user preferences.

Amidst the noise and haste, Google has successfully pulled a SpaceX

Google started working on TPUs in 2013 and vertically integrated the entire stack from chips to applications, allowing them to deploy infrastructure cheaper than competitors. This move is strategically similar to SpaceX's Starlink, giving Google a significant advantage in AI computing.

Hacker of the year nominee: Gromit the Dog

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The author suggests Gromit from Wallace and Gromit as a role model for kids due to his sensible and cautious approach to technology. Gromit's character serves as a contrast to the flaws of modern tech thinking and solutionism.

Optimizing uint64_t Digit Counting: A Method that Beats Lemire's by up to 143%

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The code defines a table of digit counts and uses it to compare different counting methods for integers. It prints discrepancies between the methods and the expected counts for a set of random integers.

Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things

You're looking for books about how hard things got done, focusing on mechanics and world-building rather than people and character studies. You've read books like The Big Rich, Barbarians at the Gate, and want more in-depth histories of how things were created.

Human judgment must remain central to health insurance claims: California law

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A new California law prohibits health insurance companies from denying coverage based solely on AI algorithms, ensuring human judgment remains central to decisions. The law aims to safeguard Californians' access to quality care by mandating human oversight and strict deadlines for authorizations.

This Is Not Your Last Job

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I'm a front-end web engineer with 15 years of experience, and I'm always looking to learn new technologies to stay ahead in my career. I'm not tied to any one job or employer, and I expect to have multiple roles and employers throughout my career.

Ask HN: How can I learn to better command people's attention when speaking?

You feel ignored in group conversations and even by your wife, suspecting a weak voice or presence may be the issue. Improving vocal projection and confident body language could help you be heard and noticed.

A man keeping hope, and 70-year-old pinball machines, alive

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Steve Young runs The Pinball Resource, a business that supplies rare parts and schematics for vintage pinball machines. He has built a vast collection of parts and knowledge over 50 years, helping enthusiasts maintain and restore classic pinball machines.

DVD shop owner vows to be ‘last man standing’

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Steve Webber has run Northgate Video in Bury St Edmunds for 43 years, keeping it afloat despite the demise of chain retailers and rise of streaming services. He now focuses on DVD sales and helping customers find specific films, with the business being about interaction and helping people rather than making profits.

2DGD_F0TH A compendium of the community knowledge on game design and development

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A community-driven game design and development book is available for free on Itch.io, aiming to be a comprehensive resource for new game developers. Contributions are welcome, but AI-generated content is not allowed to maintain the book's quality and integrity.

Show HN: LogLayer – Unified logger that routes logs to various logging libraries

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Use console logging when starting out, then switch to another logging provider later without changing your application code. Transform, enrich, and filter logs with plugins that lets you customize every aspect of your logging pipeline. Fan out logs to multiple logging libraries and cloud providers such as DataDog and New Relic at the same time. javascript

America's first bird flu death reported in Louisiana

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A person over 65 with underlying conditions has died from H5N1 bird flu in the US, the first human death from the virus. The risk to the public remains low but people who work with animals or have contact with sick animals should watch for symptoms.

In 2025, People Will Try Living in This Underwater Habitat

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Deep is developing underwater habitats to enable scientists to live on the seafloor for weeks, months, and years. The goal is to advance ocean science and engineering, and by 2030, establish a permanent human presence in the ocean.

The cases of consumer-grade routers on puny power supplies

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A man in New Zealand had issues with a router that worked fine on grid power but not on his solar power system. He fixed the problem by adding capacitors to the power supply.
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The author praises 404 Media for using magic links as a login strategy despite user complaints, and suggests combining magic links with passkeys for a more secure and fast sign-in experience. Passkeys can seamlessly integrate with magic links and offer a more user-friendly experience, but implementing them may require significant work and resources.

Modern Generic SVGA driver for Windows 3.1

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A rewritten Windows 3.1 SVGA driver, VBE, supports all available graphic modes on systems with VESA BIOS Extensions, including multi-byte pixels and True-Colour Full HD rendering. The driver has some issues, such as glitches in Solitaire, and requires specific settings in SYSTEM.INI to enable Double Buffering and adjust the refresh rate.

Ask HN: Have you ever seen a pathfinding algorithm of this type?

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You're implementing a new pathfinding algorithm for a game, specifically for wolves, to improve performance. You're aiming to create a waypoint system to bypass obstacles using Bresenham's Line Algorithm.

Fixing America's elevators is becoming a heavy lift

The US has 1 million elevators with Americans traveling 2.55 billion miles annually, but supply-chain issues cause long waits for replacement parts. This leads to crisis situations for people unable to use stairs, especially in tall buildings with aging elevators.

Fascists and Rakes (2014)

People disagree on what constitutes harm, leading to disagreements on the permissiveness and harm-minimising principles. This results in accusations of being a fascist or a rake, rather than addressing the actual disagreement.

Run Python in the Browser Effortlessly

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Microsoft open-sourced MarkItDown, a Python program converting Office files to Markdown. Pyodide, a WebAssembly technology, was used to run MarkItDown in the browser, making it accessible to non-technical users.

Kentucky Cops Raid Wrong Home, Kill Innocent Man over Alleged Stolen Weed Eater

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London police raided the wrong home, killing 63-year-old Douglas Harless, after repeatedly being given the correct address of 489 Vanzant Road for a stolen Weed Eater. The man who stole the Weed Eater was already in custody, and police had a search warrant but still made the fatal mistake.

Year 7 as a CTO

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The founder of RevenueCat reflects on a successful 2024, despite personal and team challenges, and sets goals for 2025, including hiring 45 people and reaching $100M in revenue. He emphasizes the importance of prioritizing mental health, culture, and team alignment to achieve success in a growing startup.

Dtack Grounded archive (1981-1985)

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Autocorrect in Your Keyboard Firmware (2021)

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QMK now has a core autocorrect feature released on 2022-11-26. It can be used to correct common typos like fitler and ouput.

Show HN: SPath is a Rust lib for query JSONPath over any semi-structured data

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The spath crate is a JSONPath replacement for querying semi-structured data. It can be used with JSON, TOML, and custom formats via Cargo.

Four causes for 'Zoom fatigue' (2021)

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Stanford researchers warn that video calls can be tiring due to unnatural eye contact, large face sizes, and constant self-view. To alleviate "Zoom fatigue," they suggest reducing face size, hiding self-view, and taking breaks from video.

Aedan Cullen Cracks the Raspberry Pi RP2350's Security Subsystem Wide Open

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Engineer Aedan Cullen found a vulnerability in Raspberry Pi's RP2350 microcontroller. He claims a simple power glitch can beat the chip's security subsystem and win the company's $20,000 capture the flag competition.

Computer Cousins: The Atari ST and DOS PCs

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Atari chose Digital Research's GEM software for the Atari ST due to its near completion and better GUI compared to Windows. GEMDOS, a file system OS, was later used underneath GEM, providing a compatible disk format with PCs.

Show HN: E-Paper Life Organizer with Pico and Inky Frame

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The code is for an Inky Frame 7.3" display powered by a Raspberry Pi Pico W, using LVGL for layout and a server for iCal data. The server code is hosted on GitHub and can be set up on a free platform like PythonAnywhere, with configuration files to be modified for network and server details.

Coinage and the Tyranny of Fantasy 'Gold'

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The author discusses how ancient and medieval currency systems worked, highlighting the impracticality of using gold coins for everyday transactions. They argue that fantasy settings should use more realistic currency systems, such as silver or copper, to better reflect the economic realities of pre-industrial societies.

Why clowns paint their faces on eggs (2017)

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Clowns use ceramic eggs to register and protect their unique makeup designs, a self-regulated system outside of formal copyright law. This tradition, started in 1946, serves as a way for clowns to memorialize their identities and maintain a sense of professionalism within their community.

Constellation's Nuclear Plants to Provide Power for US Government Agencies

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Constellation secured $1bn in contracts to supply power to 13 US government agencies for 10 years. The deal includes a portion of power from nuclear plant uprates and will add 1,100 MW of clean energy by 2028.

Show HN: I made it easy to create invoices

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Features InvoiceFast is designed to eliminate the common pain points faced by freelancers and small business owners. The amount is to be paid into our bank. Nordea Bank - reg nr. 4149 / Konto Nr.: 9182 Your place to create invoices and get paid. Never worry about paying monthly to create invoices anymore.

The Rise of the French Fry Cartel

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A group of four major frozen potato companies are accused of price-fixing and operating as a cartel, driving up the cost of french fries and Tater Tots. The companies allegedly use a third-party data analytics platform to share confidential business information and coordinate prices.

Why Computer Scientists Consult Oracles

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Researchers in computational complexity theory use hypothetical oracles to study the difficulty of problems and understand the relationships between complexity classes. Oracles help them explore the limits of computation and have led to new algorithms and insights, such as Peter Shor's quantum algorithm for factoring large numbers.

Self-driving Tesla steers Calif. tech founder onto train tracks

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Jesse Lyu's Tesla Autopilot feature put him on a train track in Santa Monica, forcing him to run a red light to avoid a collision. He's calling on Tesla to fix the issue, saying the feature should never put a vehicle on a train track.

Disney to Merge Hulu and Live TV with Fubo, Taking on YouTube TV

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Disney will control 70 percent of the new company formed by merging Hulu With Live TV with Fubo, with Fubo management running the combined venture. The deal will create a bigger player in the virtual multichannel video provider space, competing with YouTube TV.

Air Force Tests Subscale Model of Blended-Wing Body Jet

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The Air Force is developing a Blended-Wing Body aircraft, with a subscale demonstrator already flown and a full-scale version expected to fly in 2027. The project aims to reduce fuel burn by 30 percent and accelerate innovation for future large aircraft.

The Atari STACY was launched in 1989

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The Atari Stacy was a portable ST launched in 1989 with 2 and 4MB versions and a 20 or 40MB hard drive. It was initially priced at over $2,299 and manufactured until 1991 before being replaced by the ST Book.

Getting LLMs to Generate Funny Memes Is Unexpectedly Hard

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Eric (@16BitNarwhal) built reporoast.com, a site that generates memes roasting GitHub repos using Greptile API and LLMs. He overcame issues with generic output and image generation struggles to create a functional meme generator.

Drawing Animals with Margaret Mead

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The author, a 10-year-old, met Margaret Mead at the American Society for Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama conference in 1963, where they drew animals on napkins together. Mead, a renowned anthropologist, was a keynote speaker at the event, discussing adolescent mental health services and the stresses of modern life.