The user built an open-source laptop, anyon_e, using a Rockchip RK3588 SoC, 4K AMOLED display, and custom keyboard and trackpad. The project was a challenging interdisciplinary effort combining electrical, software, and mechanical systems.
Ross was just granted a FULL AND UNCONDITIONAL PARDON by . Words cannot express how grateful we are. President Trump is a man of his word and he just saved Ross's life. ROSS IS A FREE MAN!!!!!
A security researcher discovered a nearly five-year-old typo in MasterCard's domain name server settings that could have allowed interception of internet traffic. The typo was corrected after the researcher spent $300 to register the unused domain name and alert MasterCard to the issue.
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I work from home and experience eye strain, so I've created a comfortable workspace with even lighting, using sheer curtains, wood blinds, and dimmable lamps to reduce glare and fatigue. I also follow the 20/20/20 rule to take breaks and rest my eyes.
The women's liberation movement's emphasis on leaderless, structureless groups has led to the formation of informal structures and elites, which can be detrimental to the movement's effectiveness and inclusivity. To overcome these issues, the movement needs to adopt more formal structures and decision-making processes, such as delegation of authority, rotation of tasks, and equal access to ...
A federal court ruled that backdoor searches of Americans' private communications collected under Section 702 require a warrant. This decision could lead to reforms, including a warrant requirement for querying US persons' data, to protect civil rights and liberties.
The user shares 16 life lessons learned from their 50-year career in computing, emphasizing the importance of family, passion, and courage, as well as the value of teamwork, leadership, and setting good benchmarks. They also share personal anecdotes and experiences, including their marriage and career milestones, to illustrate these lessons and provide guidance for a happy and successful life ...
I deleted many apps and installed restrictive ones to control my phone addiction. I disabled the browser on my phone and laptop to reduce procrastination and distractions.
The team encountered a crash in their Rust code due to a race condition between threads calling getenv and setenv, which was caused by the rust-native-tls/openssl backend setting environment variables. They decided to migrate away from this backend to rustls on Linux to avoid the issue, and also considered holding the Python Global Interpreter Lock to prevent the race condition.
F-Droid achieved significant growth and decentralization efforts in 2024, thanks to donations, grants, and community contributions. The project expanded its ecosystem, improved infrastructure, and welcomed new team members to support its mission in 2025.
Stratoshark is a cloud-based tool for application activity monitoring created by Sysdig, offering a familiar interface to Wireshark users. It supports system call and log capture, advanced features, and seamless integration with Falco and Sysdig CLI.
A computer science teacher created the SimpleCPU architecture to teach students about computer architectures by designing and implementing it using Xilinx's ISE tools. The project aims to provide a hands-on understanding of how software is translated into results through hardware and software design.
DHS has terminated its advisory committees, including cyber panels, amid concerns over US national security. This move is seen as a significant blow to cybersecurity efforts and may leave the country vulnerable to attacks.
User created a system to control their phone's SMS app over MQTT from a remote workstation to respond to real estate spam texts. They used an Android app and a Python script with a language model to generate responses and store ongoing conversations in JSON files.
Silicon Valley Disposition auctions off tech companies' excess and remains, selling items like 3D printers and e-scooters. The company helps failed companies sell assets quickly to pay employees and allows startups to buy gear on the cheap.
User needs to register or sign in with developer credentials and ensure a unique User-Agent string to access the application. If blocked, try changing back to default User-Agent or file a ticket for assistance.
Complexity in software development cannot be eliminated, but it can be managed by isolating it in well-defined places such as code, documentation, and training sessions. This is why tools like Rust and TypeScript are useful, as they help to isolate complexity in type systems and other areas, allowing developers to focus on other problems and create more robust and maintainable code.
The solo developer of Wizard Masters, a web-based multiplayer game, shares the challenges and rewards of creating a game with Clojure, a Lisp dialect, and Babylon.js. The developer learned valuable lessons about game development, including the importance of tooling and the limitations of web games.
OpenAI spent $1.76 million on lobbying in 2024, a significant jump from $260,000 in 2023, as the company positions itself as a key player in AI policy. OpenAI's lobbying efforts focus on legislation supporting AI growth, national security, and energy infrastructure.
Two OpenAI o1 models played Codenames, with each model reasoning out clues and guesses, showing impressive general knowledge. They successfully linked words with creative clues, such as "007" to "Mail", "Lawyer", "Line", and "Log" with "Paper".
Google Fiber construction has started in Las Vegas, with plans to expand to Clark County next month. Residents will have access to GFiber service with various plans and speeds up to 8 gig later this year.
The user uses a local LLM to make decisions on product relevance and combines multiple decisions to make a smart decision, achieving 90.76% correct predictions on 11.9% of product pairs. The user uses a decision tree to combine the LLM decisions and achieves high precision and recall, treating the results as an interesting data point for further exploration and improvement.
The Open Heart protocol allows anonymous users to send emoji reactions to a URL with optional arbitrary data. It returns a JSON object mapping emojis to their counts or a 403/404 error if counts are write-only.
Researchers propose Tensor Product Attention to reduce memory overhead in language models by compactly representing queries, keys, and values. This approach enables the Tensor ProducT ATTenTion Transformer (T6) to outperform standard Transformer baselines in language modeling tasks while processing longer sequences.
Researchers introduced lossless compression schemes for inverted file and graph-based indices, reducing index size by 30% on billion-scale datasets. These methods exploit ordering irrelevance within data structures, compressing vector ids by a factor of 7 with no impact on accuracy or search runtime.
Open the app, click "Install" and select "Install Notepad" from the menu. This app recreates the old Notepad experience using modern File System Access API.
The Minimal 64x4 is a free, non-commercial project with a 8MHz CPU, 400x240 monochrome VGA output, and 4x the processing power of a Commodore C64. It has a PS/2 port, expansion slot, and serial UART port with individual licenses required for hardware and software parts.
Researchers at Cern are developing a new cancer treatment called Flash, which delivers radiation in under a second, reducing side effects and increasing effectiveness. The goal is to make Flash available to all cancer patients, improving treatment outcomes and reducing costs.
Instagram censored search results for popular Democrat hashtags on Trump's second inauguration day, but not Republican hashtags, and claimed it was a technical error. The censorship lasted 9 hours and affected users worldwide, raising concerns about Meta's content moderation practices and potential alignment with the new administration.
Zero is considered plural when used as an adjective to modify a countable noun, because it is not a singular quantity. This is why we say "zero 3s" and "zero books" rather than "zero 3" or "zero book".
The quote "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers" is likely an urban legend attributed to IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, with no credible source to support its accuracy. The actual quote from Watson in 1953 referred to a specific machine, not a general market for computers.
Researchers developed FLAME, a transformer-based model for Excel formula authoring assistance, which is smaller and more efficient than larger models. FLAME outperforms larger models in formula repair, completion, and retrieval tasks.
The Therac-25 paper's author, Nancy Leveson, has an original unmodified Therac-25 at her TEAL laboratory for controlled reproduction of situations described in the paper. To trigger the Malfunction 54 error, a sequence of events must be followed using the Therac-25 Operator Console Simulator, which can be accessed on Athena or downloaded and compiled.
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Chatbox is a free, open-sourced desktop client for ChatGPT and other LLMs with features like local data storage and advanced prompting. It supports multiple LLM providers and has a user-friendly interface with team collaboration and mobile app options.
Pitfall! is a platformer where Pitfall Harry searches for 32 treasures in a jungle maze. The browser port offers Easy, Normal, and Hard modes with various features and gameplay changes.
The author is building a compiler for a Java-style concurrent object-oriented language called Bolt, which will cover topics like concurrency, generics, and compiling to LLVM. The author will explain the process of building a compiler, including the stages of lexing, parsing, type-checking, and translating, and will use an analogy of a telegraph operator to help understand the process.
A man in his 40s developed xanthelasma after adopting a high-fat diet of beef, cheese, and butter, resulting in extremely high cholesterol levels. His condition highlights the risks of high cholesterol and the importance of managing it to prevent complications.
The code uses the BrowserAI library to load and use various AI models for text generation, speech recognition, and text-to-speech conversion. It loads models such as LLaMA and Whisper, generates text, and transcribes audio using Web Audio API.
A basic full-text search engine is built using Python to search across millions of documents and rank them according to their relevance in milliseconds. The engine uses an inverted index, tokenization, filtering, and ranking algorithms to provide precise and relevant search results.
VexRiscv is a RISC-V CPU implementation that uses a software-oriented approach to hardware description, allowing for a high degree of customization and flexibility. It features a 5-stage in-order pipeline and supports various plugins for adding instructions, CSR management, and other features, making it a highly configurable and extensible CPU design.
OpenVox 8.11 is a community-maintained open source Puppet implementation, functionally equivalent to Puppet. It's a drop-in replacement but not yet fully tested, so use with caution on production infrastructures.
Philosopher Agnes Callard explores Socrates' ethics of enquiry in "Open Socrates", arguing it's crucial for self-knowledge and humility. The book confronts readers with existential questions and the importance of honest self-reflection.
PyVista is a Python library for 3D visualization and mesh analysis built on top of VTK. It provides a streamlined toolset for creating and analyzing 3D data structures across UNIX and Windows platforms.
The US Navy's Parcae satellite program, launched in 1976, provided global ocean surveillance and electronic intelligence to counter the Soviet Union's growing naval presence during the Cold War. The program's advanced technology enabled rapid data processing and dissemination, allowing for timely military decision-making and maritime-domain awareness.
Gruntwork recommends switching to OpenTofu due to its open-source nature and community-driven governance. OpenTofu offers a drop-in replacement for Terraform with improved features and compatibility, making migration a simple process.
Arm released the first public specification for its Chiplet System Architecture, engaging over 60 companies. This architecture aims to address diverse AI workloads by providing a set of standards for system partitioning and chiplet connectivity.
A 22-page zine co-created by Quinn Dombrowski and others teaches web archiving with no special expertise required. The zine is available in full-color and black-and-white PDF versions for reading or printing.
A Canadian financial firm, Cryptomus, is processing transactions for dozens of Russian cryptocurrency exchanges and cybercrime services. These exchanges are linked to sanctioned Russian banks and are used for money laundering and cyber attacks.
The EU's ePrivacy Directive requires consent for accessing data stored on a user's device, which may apply to cookie-free analytics solutions that use fingerprinting to track users. Despite claims from companies like Fathom and Plausible that their solutions don't require cookie banners, the EDPB's 2023 guidelines suggest that accessing data from the user's device still requires consent.
Wealth inequality is illustrated by comparing Elon Musk's $450 billion fortune to individual financial realities. His wealth is equivalent to spending cents on common expenses, making it almost impossible to comprehend through normal human experience.
Amazon will close its Quebec facilities in the next two months, cutting over 1,700 jobs and outsourcing deliveries to smaller contractors. The decision is for cost savings, not due to unionization of about 200 employees at a Laval warehouse.
The described instructions perform various vector operations such as addition, shuffling, clamping, and permutation. They also include operations for conditional assignment, broadcasting, absolute value calculation, and converting immediate values to floating-point numbers.
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Evo is a modern, offline-first version control system that simplifies branching and merging for developers. It uses workspaces to encourage clean, focused work and reduce merge conflicts.
Data is being treated like code with added history for security and audit trails. Tools like LakeFS and Oxen.ai use Git-like systems for data management in batch job-based platforms.
The post explains Gentzen's notation for reasoning, called sequent notation, which is used in Sequent Calculus and Natural Deduction to reason about logic. It covers the basics of sequent notation, inference rules, and derivation trees, and introduces one-sided sequent calculus, which is a system for classical logic that avoids duplicating rules.
Photographing fluorescent minerals requires careful attention to camera settings, lighting, and composition to capture vivid colors in a dark room. Key considerations include focus, image quality, composition, and lighting, as well as using manual settings, RAW format, and image editing software to achieve the best results.
We'll analyze the charge present in a capacitor under the influence of a square wave with symmetric semi-period and positive average value. The step function takes the values: $$q_{2n+1} = E C + (q_{2n} - E C) e^{\frac{-T}{2 \tau}} = E C (1 - e^{\frac{-T}{2 \tau}})+ q_{2n} e^{\frac{-T}{2 \tau}}$$
A new US President has revoked previous administration's orders and policies, aiming to restore common sense and unity in the Federal Government. The President seeks to end divisive practices, open borders, and climate extremism, promoting American prosperity and values.
Apache Hudi is an open data lakehouse platform for ingesting, storing, and managing data across cloud environments. It provides features like snapshot, incremental, and change-data-capture queries, and supports Spark and Flink.
System Informer is a tool for monitoring system resources, debugging software, and detecting malware. It provides detailed information about system performance, processes, and GPU usage.
The article discusses implementing data structures in C, specifically a string-to-string map, using a bump allocator, counted strings, and a 4-ary trie, and compares them to their C++ equivalents. It also covers string manipulation, dynamic arrays, and using Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) to seed the hash for security.
The Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident was caused by a combination of factors including the reactor's unstable design, xenon poisoning, and inadequate control rod insertion, which led to a power surge and a steam explosion. The accident was exacerbated by the reactor's positive void coefficient of reactivity, which caused a strong reactivity increase when the coolant water density decreased, ...
Scientists discovered giant fossils called Prototaxites dating back 350-420 million years, initially thought to be plants but now widely accepted as fungi due to their internal structure and carbon isotope analysis. These ancient fungi likely had no living descendants but their fossils reveal a bizarre prehistoric landscape.
People may quit their jobs due to feeling miserable, getting too comfortable, or having work that's too easy. Quitting can be a drastic step, but sometimes it's necessary for a rewarding career.
Investors rejected Griffin due to concerns about market growth, profitability, and scalability. They also cited geographical restrictions, competition, and capital requirements as reasons for not investing.
Apple's Intelligence feature feels like an unnecessary alpha, offering unhelpful text tools and unimproved Siri. It's likely a required commitment to the AI hype cycle, lacking value for end users.
I attended the LibreOffice conference in Luxembourg with a visa application submitted on August 5th, but my passport was still with the embassy on August 27th. I received my passport back on September 3rd, and after returning from Kenya, my visa was approved on October 5th.
A private island in the San Francisco Bay, Point Buckler, is being sold at auction after a decade-long fight between its owner, John Sweeney, and government agencies over environmental concerns. Sweeney claims the agencies are carrying out a land grab, while they say he committed egregious environmental damage by building a levee and landing helicopters on the island.
Usenet is a worldwide distributed electronic bulletin board system where people discuss various topics, and it has a unique culture with rules and regulations. It's essential to follow Usenet etiquette, be civil, and avoid flaming or posting copyrighted material without permission.