JavaScript Temporal is coming

1388 SigmundurM 2025-01-30 11:28:31 UTC 395 developer.mozilla.org Llama Share

Temporal is a new JavaScript object that simplifies date and time management, replacing the flawed Date object with built-in support for time zones, calendars, and more. Experimental browser releases are starting to ship Temporal, with Firefox having the most mature implementation, allowing developers to try it out and become familiar with the modern approach.

Archivists work to save disappearing data.gov datasets

738 johnneville 2025-01-30 19:40:33 UTC 217 404media.co Llama Share

Datasets on data.gov have been deleted since Trump's inauguration, with over 2,000 datasets disappearing. Researchers are working to determine what's been deleted and why, but it's a complex task due to data.gov's aggregator nature.

Commercial jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan airport

662 mzmzmzm 2025-01-30 02:56:45 UTC 669 mediaite.com Llama Share

An American Airlines plane collided with a Blackhawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport in Virginia, halting flights. Fatalities have been reported in the crash, with a massive search and rescue operation underway in the Potomac River.

Mistral Small 3

612 jasondavies 2025-01-30 14:16:57 UTC 194 mistral.ai Llama Share

Mistral Small 3 is a 24B-parameter model released under Apache 2.0, offering competitive performance with larger models at lower latency. It's suitable for local deployment and can be used for tasks like conversational assistance, function calling, and fine-tuning for subject matter expertise.

Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024

587 grep_it 2025-01-30 18:38:12 UTC 466 elitefourum.com Llama Share

Printers add tiny yellow dots to colour prints, visible with a magnifying glass or high-resolution image, containing metadata like printer serial number and print date. Different printer brands produce unique patterns, with Xerox's 15x8 grid being one of the most well-known.

String of recent killings linked to Bay Area 'Zizians'

583 davikr 2025-01-30 14:21:20 UTC 795 sfgate.com Llama Share

Two recent US killings are linked to a fringe online group called the "Zizians," a radical offshoot of the Rationalism movement. The group's members, including data scientists Maximilian Snyder and Teresa Youngblut, are accused of violence including murder and a deadly shootout.

Antiqua et Nova: Note on the relationship between AI and human intelligence

571 max_ 2025-01-30 14:01:27 UTC 464 vatican.va Full Share

California law enforcement misused state databases more than 7k times in 2023

561 hn_acker 2025-01-30 18:48:30 UTC 309 eff.org Llama Share

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department committed 6,789 abuses of California's CLETS database in 2023, a majority of the state's 7,275 reported violations. Misuse of CLETS led to 24 suspensions, 6 resignations, and 9 firings of officers across California in 2023.

Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

445 LeoPanthera 2025-01-30 19:37:42 UTC 169 github.com/exelban Llama Share

To install Stats, download the latest version, open the Stats.dmg file, and move the app to the application folder. Disabling Sensors and Bluetooth modules can reduce CPU usage and power efficiency by up to 50%.

A better build system for OCaml

352 gaws 2025-01-30 20:14:47 UTC 200 blog.janestreet.com Llama Share

Jane Street developed Jenga, a build system for OCaml, but it failed to gain traction due to its limitations and complexity. The company later created Jbuilder, which became popular for its speed and portability, and eventually replaced Jenga with Dune, a more scalable and efficient build system.

Mathesar – an intutive spreadsheet-like interface to Postgres data

318 gjvc 2025-01-30 00:31:53 UTC 77 github.com/mathesar-foundation Llama Share

Mathesar is an open source UI for PostgreSQL that makes working with databases simple and powerful. It's easy to deploy, scalable, and secure with access control based on Postgres roles and privileges.

Younger cannabis users have reduced brain function, finds largest study yet

305 clumsysmurf 2025-01-30 01:23:54 UTC 276 newatlas.com Llama Share

A large study found that cannabis use reduces brain function during cognitive tests, particularly in working memory, in 18- to 36-year-olds. Abstaining from cannabis before cognitively demanding tasks may help performance, but heavy users may experience withdrawal symptoms.

PCBs, copper pours, ground planes, and you

282 surprisetalk 2025-01-30 04:33:25 UTC 83 lcamtuf.substack.com Llama Share

Copper pours on printed circuit boards reduce RF emissions and improve signal integrity by minimizing inductive reactance and electromagnetic interference. They are often used in hobbyist projects, but become essential in high-speed electronics and applications like smartphones and desktop computers.

Show HN: Audiocube – A 3D DAW for Spatial Audio

249 noahfk 2025-01-30 13:12:34 UTC 106 audiocube.app Full Share

Audiocube is a 3D DAW — unleash a new dimension of sonic creativity in your music and sound design. Use a flexible mixer and mastering effects for some final coloration, then export your finished audio.

The US government's open data on Data.gov is currently being scrubbed

239 xbmcuser 2025-01-30 08:36:35 UTC 58 old.reddit.com Llama Share

User needs to register or sign in with developer credentials and ensure a unique User-Agent string to access the application. Alternatively, they can try resetting to default User-Agent or file a ticket for assistance.

Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech

206 Tomte 2025-01-30 06:17:44 UTC 368 techcrunch.com Llama Share

US teens have low trust in major tech companies, with 64% doubting their care for mental health and 62% questioning their safety protection. They also worry about AI misuse, with 47% unsure of responsible decisions.

LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting

203 mariuz 2025-01-30 11:59:14 UTC 76 blog.documentfoundation.org Llama Share

LibreOffice experienced rapid growth from 2011 to 2014, then stagnation, before resuming growth in 2019. It has now reached over 35 million downloads in 2024, with 400 million total downloads since 2011.

Pointers Are Complicated II, or: We need better language specs (2020)

160 ksec 2025-01-30 15:09:08 UTC 103 ralfj.de Llama Share

The author argues that compiler IRs need precise semantics to ensure correct optimizations, and that ignoring provenance can lead to incorrect compilation results. To fix this, the author suggests that the LLVM community should make explicit assumptions about the information that makes up a value, including provenance, and develop a more precise language specification.

Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions

154 hrpnk 2025-01-30 00:12:49 UTC 70 github.com/marketplace Llama Share

Generate an app password for GitHub and save it as a secret. Use this password to publish a GitHub status RSS feed to Bluesky every 5 minutes.

Decompiling 2024: A Year of Resurgance in Decompilation Research

145 matt_d 2025-01-30 01:48:17 UTC 60 mahaloz.re Llama Share

Decompilation research experienced a resurgence in 2024 with 30% of top publications ever made in the field. The year saw significant growth in the field with new trends and advancements in decompilation techniques.

Hard Mode Rust (2022)

141 rrampage 2025-01-30 03:46:29 UTC 72 matklad.github.io Llama Share

The user implemented a toy hard mode ray tracer in Rust to gain experience with minimal, artificially constrained API and to avoid relying on RAII for resource management. The implementation involved writing a custom allocator, using a two-pass parsing approach, and constructing a bounding volume hierarchy to speed up ray-triangle intersection tests.

Investigating the case of human nose shape and climate adaptation (2017)

139 thunderbong 2025-01-30 08:04:53 UTC 85 journals.plos.org Prefix Share

Zaidi AA, Mattern BC, Claes P, McEvoy B, Hughes C, et al. (2018) Correction: Investigating the case of human nose shape and climate adaptation. PLOS Genetics 14(1): e1007207. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1007207 View correction The evolutionary reasons for variation in nose shape across human populations have been subject to continuing debate. An import function of the nose and nasal ...

Launch HN: Karsa (YC W25) – Buy and save stablecoins internationally

129 Shasnani 2025-01-30 16:59:38 UTC 221 news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

Shahryar and Dale, co-founders of Karsa, created a platform to help people in emerging markets buy and save in stablecoins to protect against currency instability and inflation. Karsa is a peer-to-peer platform that allows users to buy dollar-denominated stablecoins at a market price, with a simple process and no need for crypto knowledge.

Interview with DeepSeek Founder: We're Done Following. It's Time to Lead

126 oli5679 2025-01-30 11:47:27 UTC 59 thechinaacademy.org Llama Share

DeepSeek-R1, an open-source AI model from Chinese firm DeepSeek, has shaken Silicon Valley by matching top-tier performance at 1/30th the API cost, forcing a global reckoning on AI's future. Founder Liang Wenfeng aims to lead innovation, not follow, and believes China must transition from being a beneficiary to a contributor in AI, prioritizing pure innovation and AGI research.

Optical Frequency Combs

125 zafka 2025-01-30 19:44:02 UTC 40 nist.gov Llama Share

Optical frequency combs are specialized lasers that measure exact light frequencies with high accuracy. They have various applications, including timekeeping, spectroscopy, and lidar, and are being miniaturized for use in microchips and smartphones.

A history of APL in the USSR (1991)

125 todsacerdoti 2025-01-30 13:18:49 UTC 20 dl.acm.org Llama Share

The article discusses the history of APL programming language in the Soviet Union and its implementation on various computers. It also mentions the impact of the AT&T divestiture on the telecommunications industry in the United States.

Quaternions and spherical trigonometry

122 t55 2025-01-30 17:57:46 UTC 48 terrytao.wordpress.com Llama Share

Quaternions are non-commutative numbers with real and imaginary parts, used for three-dimensional rotations and spherical trigonometry. They form a skew field with unique multiplicative inverses and have properties useful for deriving trigonometric identities.

GitHub Is Down

113 floriangosse 2025-01-30 14:29:28 UTC 64 githubstatus.com Llama Share

Subscribe to GitHub incident updates via email and/or text message for notifications on status changes. Visit eu.githubstatus.com or au.githubstatus.com for specific region status.

A Rust procedural language handler for PostgreSQL

107 dgroshev 2025-01-30 18:25:22 UTC 19 github.com/tcdi Llama Share

PL/Rust is a loadable procedural language for PostgreSQL that enables writing native machine code functions in Rust. It provides access to Postgres' SPI and safe Rust types over most Postgres data types.

Show HN: Ahey – A simple pub-sub service built on top of web push

106 vasanthv 2025-01-30 23:39:29 UTC 16 ahey.io Full Share

Ahey is a simple pub-sub service built on top of web push. It lets you send unlimited push notifications to any browser with just a simple HTTP POST request. Works in all major browsers. 100% free.

Review: Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart

99 pseudolus 2025-01-30 15:24:53 UTC 61 lareviewofbooks.org Llama Share

Nicholas Carr's book Superbloom argues that modern technologies of connection are tearing us apart, not making us more informed or rational. He suggests that we need to change ourselves, not just the technology, to reject the hyperreal and focus on the material world.

MySQL at Uber

96 0xFA11 2025-01-30 19:08:29 UTC 63 uber.com Full Share

Not Acceptable

Cointelpro

91 georgecmu 2025-01-30 18:19:55 UTC 22 en.wikipedia.org Prefix Share

COINTELPRO (a syllabic abbreviation derived from Counter Intelligence Program) was a series of covert and illegal[1][2] projects conducted between 1956 and 1971 by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting American political organizations that the FBI perceived as subversive.[3][4][5][6] Groups and individuals ...

Classic Duck Hunt game made in JavaScript and Kaplay

91 JSLegendDev 2025-01-30 00:53:21 UTC 20 jslegend.itch.io Llama Share

The user created a Duck Hunt-like game called Duck Hunter using the KAPLAY library, available on PC with a pause feature via the 'P' key. They suggested improvements including swapping the hyena laugh and adding positional bonuses for head shots.

Why Children's Books?

90 ferman 2025-01-30 20:35:12 UTC 68 lrb.co.uk Prefix Share

I​ 1803, Samuel Taylor Coleridge sat in his astronomer’s study in Keswick, and wrote in his notebook his central Principle of Criticism: never to lose an opportunity of reasoning against the head-dimming, heart-damping principle of judging a work by its defects, not its beauties. Every work must have the former – we know it a priori – but every work has not the latter, and he, therefore, who ...

A Young Man Used AI to Build a Nuclear Fusor

87 cl3m 2025-01-30 08:06:08 UTC 69 corememory.com Llama Share

A 20-year-old math student built a nuclear fusor in his home with AI guidance, raising AI safety questions. The student, HudZah, used Anthropic's Claude AI service to learn and build the complex machine despite initial safety concerns.

I built a website where you can pop confettis for no reason

82 beingmani 2025-01-30 08:22:26 UTC 40 poptheconfetti.website Full Share

Pop the confetti as much as you want, this is just another dumb website to pass your time.

These Websites Have Been Seized

74 GoldenStack 2025-01-30 20:52:52 UTC 13 seized.matdoes.dev Full Share

A collection of website seizure banners created by government agencies.

What makes a great mocktail? (2018)

72 amarcheschi 2025-01-30 22:13:43 UTC 82 seriouseats.com Llama Share

Researchers found that the taste of alcohol is universally described as bitter and slightly sweet at 10% ABV, but this effect is minimal in low-ABV drinks. To recreate the effects of alcohol in mocktails, ingredients like ginger, chilies, and oversteeped black tea can be used to add bitterness, astringency, and spice.

Signs Of Life In A Desert

69 mindingnever 2025-01-30 20:30:09 UTC 12 noemamag.com Llama Share

The author visits Uzbekistan to explore its ancient history and witness the devastating effects of the Aral Sea's collapse. He travels to various sites, including the necropolis of Mizdarkhan, where he discovers a mix of Zoroastrian and Islamic traditions.

The Slow Death of OCSP

66 speckx 2025-01-30 13:54:09 UTC 12 feistyduck.com Llama Share

Let's Encrypt will stop supporting OCSP in May 2025, citing high costs and lack of security benefits. The CA/Browser Forum has decided to replace revocation checking with short-lived certificates, valid for up to seven days.

Tesla sales in Germany dropped 41% in 2024

61 belter 2025-01-30 09:44:25 UTC 101 cleanenergywire.org Full Share

All texts created by the Clean Energy Wire are available under a “Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0)” . They can be copied, shared and made publicly accessible by users so long as they give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.

Andrew Ng on DeepSeek

54 amrrs 2025-01-30 19:04:05 UTC 8 deeplearning.ai Llama Share

China is catching up to the US in generative AI, with implications for the AI supply chain, as seen in the recent release of DeepSeek-R1, an open weight model comparable to OpenAI's o1. The trend of falling prices in LLM token prices and the emergence of reinforcement learning as a key direction in language modeling are also significant developments in the AI field.

The PETG adhesive test [video]

50 zdw 2025-01-30 23:12:08 UTC 21 youtube.com Embed Share

Engineered waterways helped Ancient Amazonians became master maize farmers

50 andsoitis 2025-01-30 04:58:08 UTC 6 sciencenews.org Full Share

Casarabe people grew the nutritious crop year-round on savannas thanks to networks of drainage canals and ponds.

Show HN: Workflow86 - An AI business analyst and automation engineer

48 taaron 2025-01-30 17:05:54 UTC 45 workflow86.com Llama Share

Workflow86 is a customizable platform that allows businesses to create and manage complex workflows by combining AI, no-code, and code, interacting with existing systems and apps. It enables users to automate various business processes, such as lead management, contract management, and employee onboarding, with features like task management, custom code modules, and AI workflow components.

The AI Fad Just Burned to the Waterline

48 dxs 2025-01-30 15:17:44 UTC 66 charleshughsmith.blogspot.com Llama Share

The AI fad is a status signifier and cultural frenzy driven by human herd behavior and corporate hubris. It lacks a monopolistic moat and scarcity value, making profits thin to zero.

SQL or Death? Seminar Series – Spring 2025

45 matt_d 2025-01-30 01:29:32 UTC 41 db.cs.cmu.edu Llama Share

The SQL or Death Seminar Series at Carnegie Mellon University explores making SQL faster or replacing it with a better alternative. The talks are online and open to the public via Zoom, with videos posted on the CMU-DB YouTube Channel.

Show HN: Iterm-Mcp – AI Terminal/REPL Control for iTerm2

42 deathmonger5000 2025-01-30 18:14:46 UTC 21 github.com/ferrislucas Llama Share

iterm-mcp allows models to interact with iTerm, inspecting output and controlling terminals with minimal dependencies. It's designed for natural integration and full terminal control, but requires user monitoring for safety.

Anthropic's CEO says DeepSeek shows US export rules are working

42 pseudolus 2025-01-30 01:37:53 UTC 23 techcrunch.com Llama Share

Amodei says current US export controls are slowing Chinese AI companies like DeepSeek, but stronger controls could give the US a lead. US commerce secretary pick Lutnick and OpenAI want stricter export controls to prevent China from gaining military AI dominance.

Krita 5.2.9 Released

40 voxadam 2025-01-30 13:38:33 UTC 11 krita.org Llama Share

Krita 5.2.9 is a bug fix release with major fixes to clone-layers, opacity handling, and crash fixes. It also includes various UI improvements and bug fixes.

Repeat offenders may be responsible for many shark attacks

39 rbanffy 2025-01-30 18:02:51 UTC 43 nautil.us Llama Share

Eric Clua, a shark expert, suggests that only a few bold and daring sharks are responsible for most human attacks, not mistaken identity. His research documents three repeat offender sharks, challenging the idea of indiscriminate culling to prevent attacks.

An open-source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions

37 sansui12 2025-01-30 16:27:15 UTC 13 block.github.io Llama Share

Goose is a tool that empowers developers to contribute, customize, and innovate freely by handling complex tasks and allowing customization with preferred LLMs and external servers. It saves time and effort by automating tasks such as debugging, deployment, and data processing.

PyPI Now Supports Project Archival

35 woodruffw 2025-01-30 15:42:56 UTC 0 blog.pypi.org Llama Share

PyPI now supports project archival, allowing maintainers to signal a project's status and lack of future updates. This feature is not deletion, but a user-controlled marker for supply-chain security and better decision-making.

Signature moves: are we losing the ability to write by hand?

34 Caiero 2025-01-30 18:09:51 UTC 0 theguardian.com Llama Share

Handwriting is disappearing in a world dominated by screens, leading to a loss of cognitive skills, sensory experiences, and human connection. The decline of handwriting is a symbol of how thoughtlessly we've settled between old and new technologies, and it's essential to find a balance between technology and traditional embodied forms of learning and expression.

FAA issues ground stop after passenger plane collides midair with helicopter

32 wslh 2025-01-30 03:00:33 UTC 1 cnn.com Llama Share

A plane and helicopter collided midair near Washington, DC's Reagan National Airport, with a search and rescue effort underway in the Potomac River. The FAA has grounded flights at the airport and an investigation is being conducted by the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board.

Show HN: Reactive Signals for Python – inspired by Angular's reactivity model

31 buibuibui 2025-01-30 18:56:42 UTC 19 github.com/buiapp Llama Share

The reaktiv library provides an Angular-inspired reactive system with async/await support, automatic dependency tracking, and zero external dependencies. It allows for efficient memory management and type annotations throughout its API.

Unintended workplace safety consequences of minimum wages

26 luu 2025-01-30 18:32:44 UTC 60 sciencedirect.com Full Share

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Light Phone III camera sample photos

26 jalict 2025-01-30 12:35:37 UTC 6 thelightphone.com Llama Share

The Light Phone III features a 50mp camera with a 12mp default resolution, allowing for low light performance and a 10fps frame rate. The camera tool is being fine-tuned with features like autofocus, exposure control, and manual settings.

'Headed for technofascism': the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley

23 juunpp 2025-01-30 00:24:30 UTC 4 theguardian.com Llama Share

Silicon Valley's roots in reactionary thinking date back to the 1990s, influenced by George Gilder's ideas on unlimited male power and entrepreneurship. This thinking has evolved into today's rightward turn, with tech leaders like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk promoting a return to "masculine energy" and rejecting diversity and inclusion efforts.

The Cost of Being Invisible: Dis-Inclusion's Toll on Neurodivergent Employees

23 MilnerRoute 2025-01-30 00:05:26 UTC 11 workdesign.com Llama Share

Kelly Colón discusses dis-inclusion's impact on neurodivergent employees, causing stress, burnout, and turnover due to environments not designed for their needs. Creating inclusive workplaces with flexible policies and designs can help retain neurodivergent talent and foster innovation.

Researchers combine holograms and AI to create uncrackable optical encryption

22 gnabgib 2025-01-30 17:09:45 UTC 12 optica.org Llama Share

Researchers developed a new optical system using holograms and neural networks to encode information, achieving high-level encryption. The system can decode intricate spatial information in scrambled images, paving the way for secure communication channels.

Why this simple ring was so difficult to make [video]

13 DamnInteresting 2025-01-30 17:26:18 UTC 3 youtube.com Embed Share

Plane Crashes Near Washington DC after midair collision with helicopter

11 miiiiiike 2025-01-30 03:51:42 UTC 2 nytimes.com Prefix Share

A commercial regional jet crashed in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan National Airport on Wednesday night, Washington’s fire and emergency department said. The Federal Aviation Administration said that an American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kan., had collided midair with a Black Hawk helicopter while approaching the airport. The plane, a PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700, collided in ...