A user was suspended from Stack Overflow for a year after raising a question about the removal of attribution from a contributor, Luigi Mangione, who was charged but not convicted of a crime. The user believes the suspension was retribution and that Stack Overflow's actions contradict their own policy and the principles of the Creative Commons license under which the site operates.
The author argues that societal problems are masked by a "Happy Story" narrative, where issues are ignored or downplayed, and people are encouraged to play-act solutions rather than addressing the root causes. The author believes that burnout and quitting are symptoms of a broken system that prioritizes profit over people.
The user created a website to visualize Factorio blueprints in vector graphics, allowing users to import, tweak, and export blueprints. The website also supports plotting factories with a pen plotter and has a dataset for fine-tuning a text-to-image neural network.
Microsoft 365 prices rose by 40% to $179 annually or $17 monthly, with Copilot AI integration. However, customers can opt out of the new plan by canceling and selecting Microsoft 365 Classic, which has no price increase or Copilot.
Researchers discovered a new attack surface in Windows by exploiting the Best-Fit feature, which converts Unicode characters to ANSI characters, leading to vulnerabilities in various applications and tools. The Best-Fit feature can be exploited to perform attacks such as Path Traversal, Argument Injection, and Remote Code Execution (RCE) in applications like PHP-CGI, Python, and Windows ...
Scientists found that regular contractions of blood vessels in the brain, stimulated by norepinephrine, push cerebrospinal fluid along during sleep. This glymphatic system helps flush out chemical waste, but the sleep drug zolpidem may impede this process.
Quickwit's founders, Paul, Adrien, and another engineer, joined forces in 2020 to create a cost-efficient search engine. They released Quickwit in 2021 and partnered with Mezmo and Binance to scale the product.
Phi 4 is a 14B parameter language model built from synthetic and public data, enhanced for safety and adherence. It's designed for research and use in general purpose AI systems, but requires careful evaluation and adherence to laws and regulations.
SQL treats all NULL values as distinct, allowing multiple NULL values in a UNIQUE column, which can be confusing when using ORMs. To mitigate this issue, using a partial index on the column with a NULL condition or a generated column with a deterministic value can help enforce the UNIQUE constraint without increasing table size.
A company like Tektronix in the late 1970s and early 1980s trained employees to solder by making in-depth training videos. These videos taught workers the practical aspects of making solid solder joints and proper tool use, including the importance of cleaning a soldering iron tip.
TV companies are prioritizing software and AI features over user needs, loading 2025 TVs with unwanted gimmicks and microphones to support AI capabilities. This trend points to a future where TVs are sold as platforms for apps, AI, and ads, rather than just devices for watching content.
A man spent 30 years searching for a childhood story about Christmas decorations and goblins, and finally found it with the help of a librarian who used critical skills to uncover the story in an old anthology. The story was written by Ruth C. Paine, a great aunt of the man's friend, and was discovered through a combination of research and a box of papers from the author's estate.
Raspberry Pi 5 now comes in a 16GB variant priced at $120, offering improved performance for applications like large language models and computational fluid dynamics. The company also launched Raspberry Pi Carbon Removal Credits for $4 to mitigate the emissions associated with manufacturing and disposal.
Mathematicians Roger Apéry and Frank Calegari, along with colleagues, proved the irrationality of several numbers, including L(2), a value of the Riemann zeta function. Their methods, based on power series and complex numbers, have opened up new possibilities for proving irrationality in number theory.
Peter Kirstein, a British computer scientist, connected the UK to the Arpanet in 1973, marking a significant milestone in the development of the internet. The internet has since grown exponentially, with the emergence of new technologies and applications, but also raises concerns about security, scalability, and the impact of the Internet of Things.
VideoLAN introduced a new feature at CES 2025 that generates real-time subtitles for videos using local AI models. The feature works offline and supports multiple languages, maintaining VLC's free and ad-free model.
Kate's App is a secure tool for medical caregivers and patients to share and coordinate information. It allows users to control access and permissions while keeping data private.
A friend was diagnosed with stage 4 GBM and the user is looking for alternative treatments, including bio-hacking methods such as ketogenic diet, water-only fasting, and magnetic fields, to help extend their friend's life. Several users shared their personal experiences and research on various treatments, including the ketogenic diet, autophagy, and immunotherapy, but emphasized the ...
TabPFN is a new artificial intelligence model that can analyze tabular data, such as spreadsheets, and make predictions with high accuracy, outperforming existing methods on datasets with up to 10,000 samples and 500 features. This model, called TabPFN, uses a technique called in-context learning to learn from a large corpus of synthetic datasets and can also generate new data, estimate ...
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You have a robust backup system using Google Takeout, NeoBackup, and Syncthing for your Android device. You may also consider using Titanium Backup or 3C All-in-One Toolbox for additional local backups.
The International Earth Rotation Service issues directives on leap seconds, which can cause time synchronization issues. To avoid problems, the company implemented a "leap smearing" technique, slowing down their time by 1 second over 20 hours to stay in sync with the rest of the world.
The American Dream is at risk due to wealth inequality, lack of voting, and rising polarization, but the author's family is committed to giving half their wealth to charity over five years to support those in need. The author encourages others to contribute to organizations helping those in need and work towards deeper changes to preserve the American Dream for everyone.
The user has compiled a list of noteworthy self-hosted software projects from 2024, including Hoarder, Pinchflat, Glance, and others, based on factors like functionality, community reception, and development activity. These projects offer innovative solutions for tasks such as read later and bookmarking, YouTube management, dashboard consolidation, and more, and are worth exploring for those ...
The code combines GOES-16 and GOES-18 satellite data to measure hotspot areas in the January 2025 Southern California fires. It can be run online in Google Colab by importing the repository and modifying download parameters.
To delete your Facebook account, download your archive first by going to Your information and permissions, then Download Your Information, and select the data you want to save. After downloading, go to the Accounts Center, click on Deactivation or deletion, and select Delete account to confirm.
Google's Chrome Web Store has hundreds of extensions violating its policy by manipulating search results with misleading keywords. Security researcher Wladimir Palant found 920 extensions using this technique to promote irrelevant or abusive extensions.
Valve's SteamOS is gaining popularity as a gaming operating system, especially with the success of the Steam Deck. Microsoft's Windows platform is struggling, particularly in handheld form factors, and SteamOS could potentially threaten Windows' dominance in the PC gaming market.
The user modified a professional water dispenser to add hands-free functionality by reverse engineering its firmware, creating a patch to automatically dispense water when a bottle is placed under the dispenser. The user used a PICkit programmer, Ghidra disassembler, and Microchip's XC8 compiler to create and implement the patch, which saved them 30 seconds of button pressing per day.
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The user proposes a model of user needs for documentation, focusing on seven actions: Appraise, Understand, Explore, Practice, Remember, Develop, and Troubleshoot, to create more purposeful documentation. This model aims to complement existing documentation frameworks and enable technical writers to create docs that serve real purposes rather than merely filling templates.
Automattic is reducing sponsored WordPress contributions due to lawsuits from WP Engine and realigning resources to focus on for-profit projects. The company will redirect energy towards projects that fortify WordPress for the long term and match volunteering pledges to benefit the broader ecosystem.
The Rust test runner cargo-nextest runs each test in a separate process to ensure reliability and avoid coordination issues, using a universal protocol that all participants can agree on. This process-per-test model provides natural fault boundaries, isolates tests, and enables rich lifecycle management with zero coordination via universal OS primitives.
Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933, and within a month, he began dismantling the country's democratic structures and processes through constitutional means. Hitler's enabling law, passed on March 23, 1933, granted him absolute power, allowing him to rule by decree and paving the way for the Nazi regime's totalitarian rule.
SimpleGantt is a lightweight project management tool that runs in the browser, requiring no installation or server access. It supports local project file saving and can be used with SharePoint in restricted environments.
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The user is working on a graphical code editor and encountered issues with shaping ligatures in monospace fonts, specifically with the "LIGSPACE" glyph that doesn't behave like a typical ligature. They discovered that this glyph is actually a ligature spacer that adds to the advance of the previous glyph and can be identified by its empty rasterization, allowing them to handle it in their ...
The Fengning Pumped Storage Power Station, the world's largest facility, has started full operations with its final unit. It supports China's renewable energy infrastructure and can store 40 GWh of energy.
The author tested the 16 GB Raspberry Pi 5 model and found it has virtues, but its $120 price is a step too far for most people. The 2 GB or 4 GB Pi 5 is a better option, or the Pi 4 starts at $35 for a well-supported SBC.
Mike Johns boarded a driverless Waymo taxi to an airport in Scottsdale, Arizona, but it began spinning in circles in a parking lot. He filmed the moment he was trapped in the vehicle, unable to stop the car or get help.5 days ago
The author got a magnet implant in their hand to experience a sixth sense and lifting abilities, which they found cool and useful. They describe their healing process, sensations, and experiences with the implant, including lifting small objects and sensing magnetic fields.
Poka-yoke is a Japanese term for mistake-proofing or error prevention in processes. It involves designing mechanisms to prevent or correct human errors, such as a car's automatic transmission requiring the brake pedal to be depressed before starting.
Paul Ehrlich and Julian Simon made a bet in 1980 on the price of five metals, with Ehrlich expecting prices to rise due to resource depletion and Simon expecting prices to fall due to human innovation. Long-term data shows that prices have remained relatively stable, supporting Simon's view that humans can effectively respond to scarcity.
Richard Brautigan's poem is well known in tech circles and was originally published in 1967. Permission is granted to reprint the poem in any format, including free PDFs and online scans.
Invariants are properties that hold at all times during a system's evolution, helping to reason about shared properties and simplify complex systems. They are useful for describing systems that change over time, such as algorithms, file systems, and databases, and can be applied to both small and large systems.
Alex Hamer, a software engineer at Tesco, highlights the importance of considering the performance of web applications on lower-end devices. He uses data from Rum Archive to show that Android users experience slower page loads and interactivity compared to iOS users.
The user is a git enthusiast who believes that the git checkout command is overly complex and confusing, especially for non-developers, and suggests that junior developers should be taught to use git switch and git restore instead. The user is not calling for the official deprecation of git checkout, but rather a communal deprecation, where developers and contributors stop teaching junior ...
Alethea Jerebine, a researcher, studies the benefits of "risky play" for children's development. Her research shows that allowing children to take incremental risks helps develop spatial awareness, confidence, and resilience.
The @starting-style CSS trick allows for animation creation without @keyframes, useful in specific situations. It uses transition and property variables to animate elements with rotation, color, and translation effects.
Serverless adoption is growing but at a slow rate, and the industry is cautious due to the challenges of microservices. The transition to serverless requires significant investment in tooling and infrastructure.
Popular apps like Candy Crush and Tinder are secretly harvesting location data through the advertising ecosystem without users' knowledge. This data is being sold to a location data company that has sold it to US law enforcement in the past.
You're tracking out-of-band activities on your blog to reflect on accomplishments and stay motivated. You've implemented a simple link blog using Hugo and a minimalistic theme, filtering entries from the main RSS feed to avoid spamming readers.
Mina Tran, a Texas mother, prefers a "sad beige" home with a neutral palette to avoid bright colours. She's not alone, as the trend has gained popularity on social media and is even Pantone's 2025 colour of the year.
Before the code in the main method a Java application is executed, the JVM must go through an a long and complex series of steps to metaphorically create the universe to run your Java application. In this episode of Stack Walker we take a deep dive …
Atari introduced the 16-bit Atari ST computer at the 1985 Winter CES, with a lower-cost 130ST and higher-end 520ST model. The ST was priced at $600 for the computer itself, with display and floppy drive separately priced, and was available in the US in late June and early July.
A faulty Fujitsu software system called Horizon caused nearly 1,000 UK post office managers to be wrongly convicted of theft between 1999 and 2015, resulting in prison, financial ruin, and even suicides. The UK government has since dismissed all convictions and established a compensation scheme, but the Horizon system remains in use and is still plagued by bugs and errors.
After losing my job at Weaveworks due to bankruptcy, I refreshed my LeetCode skills but neglected other important knowledge areas. I found that workplaces value relevant technology experience and problem-solving skills over just algorithm knowledge.
Francis Picabia was a French artist and writer who adopted multiple aliases and was involved in various art movements, including Dada and Surrealism. He created the arts review 391, which showcased his artworks and writings, and was a key figure in the Dada movement before renouncing it and later criticizing Surrealism.
The author's initial VR gaming experience was negative due to poor quality and high cost, but he recently tried it again and found significant progress with a new headset that's affordable and easy to use. The technology has improved to the point where it's a viable niche, but still has some downsides like motion sickness and limited gaming selection.
In Rwanda, 30 years after the genocide, some victims and perpetrators have formed unlikely friendships through a community-based sociotherapy program called Mvura Nkuvure. The program helps people cope with trauma and rebuild trust.
Lovable experienced a 19-hour outage due to Github disabling its app due to excessive repository creations. The issue was resolved by using AWS S3 for file storage and Github lifting its ban on the app.
Meta is releasing a white paper on surface electromyography (sEMG) technology that enables people to control devices with muscle activations at the wrist. This non-invasive technology is safe and does not require implants or surgery.
The Internet Archive is a nonprofit library founded in 1996 offering free public access to digital cultural artifacts. It features ceramic sculptures of staff members, including Aaron Swartz, in its Great Room.
Exploring the browser as a storytelling medium.
This guide is for developers and DevOps engineers who want to learn Helm quickly and effectively manage Kubernetes deployments. It's a beginner-friendly, action-oriented resource that covers the essentials of Helm.
Autosave is saving user input automatically on changes, lost focus, or interval without user action, typically in inline forms. A Stimulus autosave controller with Turbo can autosave by submitting a model form with a custom controller and data attributes on the form and field.
To become a data scientist, focus on developing essential skills such as understanding machine learning algorithms, domain knowledge, and effective communication, rather than just programming. With persistence and a willingness to learn, you can start building your data science skills through hands-on experience, online platforms like Kaggle, and a growth mindset that emphasizes curiosity and ...
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People nostalgically remember the 1990s as a better time, but this nostalgia is often based on misconceptions about the past and a lack of understanding of the present. By acknowledging the flaws of the past and the benefits of the present, we can work to create a more connected and social world in the modern era.