Httptap: View HTTP/HTTPS requests made by any Linux program

650 alexflint 2025-02-03 16:28:45 UTC 144 github.com/monasticacademy Llama Share

Httptap is a Linux tool that runs a command in an isolated network namespace, injecting a certificate authority to decrypt HTTPS traffic. It creates a TUN device and runs the subprocess in an environment where all network traffic is routed through it.

Introducing deep research

588 mfiguiere 2025-02-03 00:06:10 UTC 419 openai.com Llama Share

OpenAI's deep research in ChatGPT conducts multi-step research on the internet for complex tasks, freeing up time by offloading and expediting complex web research. It can synthesize hundreds of online sources to create a comprehensive report at the level of a research analyst.

Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living

500 momciloo 2025-02-03 15:09:55 UTC 123 videotoflip.com Llama Share

This service converts videos into flipbooks, allowing users to relive memories in a tangible way. Users can upload their videos, customize the flipbook, and order a printed version for gifts or keepsakes.

US bill proposes jail time for people who download DeepSeek

488 soundworlds 2025-02-03 23:41:00 UTC 306 404media.co Llama Share

Senator Josh Hawley introduced a bill to ban importing or exporting AI products to China, with penalties of up to 20 years in jail and a $1 million fine. Critics say the bill is overly broad and could harm AI research and online speech, with unintended consequences for users and researchers.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)

479 whoishiring 2025-02-03 16:00:43 UTC 561 news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

Unlaunched Healthcare Startup: Seeking Python/Typescript engineers for a remote (USA) full-time position to build a healthcare quality and cost improvement platform. Must have strong coding skills and a desire to deliver solutions quickly.

Anthropic: "Applicants should not use AI assistants"

468 twapi 2025-02-03 07:46:37 UTC 400 simonwillison.net Llama Share

I have read and agree to not use AI assistants during the application process to showcase my personal interest and communication skills. I want to work at Anthropic because I am drawn to the company's mission of creating helpful and safe AI systems that benefit society.

AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU

447 geox 2025-02-03 10:31:13 UTC 394 techcrunch.com Llama Share

The EU's AI Act has a February 2 compliance deadline for unacceptable risk applications, including social scoring, biometric data collection, and facial recognition. Companies found non-compliant may face fines up to €35 million or 7% of their annual revenue.

"A computer can never be held accountable"

436 zdw 2025-02-03 22:01:38 UTC 289 simonwillison.net Llama Share

A 1979 IBM training document claimed computers can't be held accountable, now relevant in the AI age. The document's original source is lost due to a flood, with efforts to locate it through IBM archives and retirees unsuccessful.

What really happens inside a dating app

411 polote 2025-02-03 19:12:30 UTC 348 blog.luap.info Full Share

Our channel on YouTube has been deleted due to “spam and deceptive policies”

380 richrichardsson 2025-02-03 12:21:52 UTC 111 bsky.app Llama Share

A YouTube channel for a music tech firm was deleted due to "spam and deceptive practices" without warning. The firm claims to have only posted original product demos, calling the accusation false and a loss of years of work.

I Wrote a WebAssembly VM in C

327 irreducible 2025-02-03 14:30:11 UTC 90 irreducible.io Llama Share

The user spent 6 months writing a WebAssembly VM in C, gaining valuable experience and knowledge about the WebAssembly standard, its evolution, and its applications outside the browser. The project, called Semblance, was a huge success, teaching the user about the core WebAssembly specification and giving them the confidence to contribute to an industrial-grade runtime like Wasmtime.

Open Euro LLM: Open LLMs for Transparent AI in Europe

325 joecobb 2025-02-03 20:56:44 UTC 276 openeurollm.eu Llama Share

European AI companies and research institutions collaborate on the OpenEuroLLM project to develop open-source language models. The project aims to advance European AI capabilities, strengthen competitiveness, and promote digital sovereignty.

AMD: Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerability

284 todsacerdoti 2025-02-03 17:59:13 UTC 104 github.com/google Llama Share

Google Security Team identified a vulnerability in AMD Zen-based CPUs allowing malicious microcode patches to be loaded with local admin privileges. AMD fixed the issue on December 17, 2024, and users can verify the fix through TCB values in attestation reports.

Developer Philosophy

284 todsacerdoti 2025-02-03 17:00:09 UTC 69 qntm.org Llama Share

A senior developer shares their software development philosophies, emphasizing the importance of avoiding ground-up rewrites and instead focusing on incremental improvements. They also stress the need for thorough testing, documentation, and code maintenance to prevent technical debt and ensure a maintainable product.

He went to jail for stealing someone's identity, but it was his all along

266 rawgabbit 2025-02-03 14:42:51 UTC 270 nytimes.com Llama Share

A man named Matthew Keirans impersonated William Woods for decades, leading to false imprisonment and involuntary hospitalization. Keirans was sentenced to 12 years in prison for stealing Woods's identity and manipulating the justice system.

Anything threatening to be a subculture is commodified before it can walk (2014)

248 delaugust 2025-02-03 12:50:36 UTC 263 dezeen.com Llama Share

William Gibson's latest novel explores the intersection of technology, design, and materialism, challenging the meaning of personhood. His works, such as The Peripheral, critique late-capitalist consumer society and the commodification of individuality.

The U.S. needs a shipbuilding revolution

244 iancmceachern 2025-02-03 06:27:11 UTC 435 usni.org Llama Share

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Discord client that works on Win95*, Win98 and above

239 Tiberium 2025-02-03 11:49:49 UTC 179 github.com/discordmessenger Llama Share

Discord Messenger is a beta application compatible with Windows 2000 and older, but using third-party clients is against Discord's TOS. To build Discord Messenger, you need to install OpenSSL and set environment variables, then compile using MinGW and adjust settings for compatibility.

Polish city is using mussels to monitor water quality (2020)

204 gscott 2025-02-03 04:53:11 UTC 61 awa.asn.au Llama Share

The Dębiec Water Treatment Plant in Poland uses mussels as sensors to detect water quality changes in the Warta River. Mussels close their shells when water is polluted, signaling to a computer system to alert engineers.

Bluesky now has 30 million users

200 belter 2025-02-03 10:17:41 UTC 177 bsky.app Llama Share

User is happy with Bluesky, a social media platform that allows control over feed and interactions with like-minded people. They left X, a platform with constant ads and an algorithm that incites anger, for better mental health.

No-Panic Rust: A Nice Technique for Systems Programming

197 chmaynard 2025-02-03 22:48:56 UTC 134 blog.reverberate.org Llama Share

The author, a tech lead for a C library, was skeptical about porting it to Rust due to performance and code size concerns, but discovered a technique called "No-Panic Rust" that allows for low-level systems programming without panics. No-Panic Rust requires careful work and gives up some Rust niceties, but can provide the performance, code size, and error reporting behavior of a C library ...

Remote Code Execution in Marvel Rivals Game

184 eugenekolo 2025-02-03 18:02:42 UTC 126 shalzuth.com Llama Share

A security researcher discovered a Remote Code Execution exploit in Marvel Rivals that could allow attackers to run code on players' devices. This is one of several critical bugs found in popular games, with many still unpatched due to unreachable or unresponsive game developers.

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025)

175 whoishiring 2025-02-03 16:00:42 UTC 482 news.ycombinator.com Full Share

Decorator JITs: Python as a DSL

173 ingve 2025-02-03 15:03:36 UTC 39 eli.thegreenplace.net Llama Share

The article discusses various strategies used by libraries to implement JIT (Just-In-Time) compilation in Python, including using the LLVM compiler, Python's introspection capabilities, and tracing the execution of the function. The tracing approach is particularly useful for automatic differentiation and can handle arbitrarily complicated Python code, but has limitations such as not ...

London Street Views (1840)

172 jfil 2025-02-03 05:19:52 UTC 23 davidrumsey.com Llama Share

John Tallis's London Street Views is a series of 88 parts published between 1838 and 1840, featuring 74 illustrated streets. The publication was an advertising medium with engraved elevations and historical notes.

Efficient Reasoning with Hidden Thinking

171 fofoz 2025-02-03 16:06:48 UTC 42 arxiv.org Llama Share

Heima is an efficient reasoning framework for MLLMs that condenses complex problem-solving into compact hidden representations. It achieves higher generation efficiency with maintained or improved zero-shot task accuracy.

I conditioned myself to fail

157 brainbun 2025-02-03 16:19:45 UTC 74 brainbun.com Llama Share

User builds projects, gets motivated, launches, then loses interest due to lack of feedback. They're addicted to information and dopamine from feedback, making it hard to find product market fit without constant validation.

The Dumbest Trade War Fallout Begins

141 SirLJ 2025-02-03 03:06:59 UTC 100 wsj.com Full Share

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Show HN: Marksmith – a GitHub-style Markdown editor for Ruby on Rails

140 adrianthedev 2025-02-03 12:53:31 UTC 24 avohq.io Llama Share

Marksmith is a GitHub-style markdown editor for Ruby on Rails that supports ActiveStorage and has a plain textarea interface. It features a preview pane, toolbar, and list continuation, making it a natural choice for writing markdown in plain text.

Julia and JuliaHub: Advancing Innovation and Growth

134 xgdgsc 2025-02-03 07:19:29 UTC 64 info.juliahub.com Llama Share

JuliaHub and the Julia community have grown rapidly with 136 million Discourse views and 511 thousand GitHub stars. JuliaHub has created new products like JuliaSim and Pumas to help users get the most out of Julia.

Show HN: Klarity – Open-source tool to analyze uncertainty/entropy in LLM output

129 mrciffa 2025-02-03 13:53:48 UTC 26 github.com/klara-research Llama Share

Klarity is a tool for analyzing uncertainty in generative model outputs, combining probability analysis and semantic understanding. It provides insights into model behavior during text generation and offers a structured JSON analysis for each generation.

Reverse Engineering Apple's typedstream Format

127 css 2025-02-03 15:36:52 UTC 24 chrissardegna.com Prefix Share

imessage-exporter’s goal is to provide the most comprehensive representation of iMessage data available. Message data is stored in a legacy format that appears to be a stream that represents objects. Originally, imessage-exporter used a naive algorithm to extract text data from this blob and inferred other context from the surrounding table data. However, as Apple introduced new iMessage ...

The Cantonese Scrolls – A Cantonese language learning mental RPG

124 fearedbliss 2025-02-03 19:48:51 UTC 54 cantoscrolls.com Llama Share

The game is dedicated to the creator's wife Fallon and late Chinchilla Leslie, and aims to document Cantonese language through a free RPG. It's a living document with updates and available for download with no internet required.

Patterns for Personal Web Sites (2003)

119 matthberg 2025-02-03 01:18:07 UTC 17 rdrop.com Full Share

These patterns for creating personal Web sites have been distilled over the last few years from the most interesting personal Web sites I've found. For more information on these patterns, please read the introduction. These patterns were last revised in July of 2003. For a summary of changes, see the revision history.

Musk says DOGE is halting Treasury payments to US contractors

117 bloomingkales 2025-02-03 02:57:38 UTC 65 fortune.com Full Share

Musk said DOGE was shutting down payments to Lutheran Family Services, a faith-based charity that has been providing social services to refugees.

The Language Construction Kit (1996, 2012)

109 pzrsa 2025-02-03 12:31:15 UTC 14 zompist.com Llama Share

Mark Rosenfelder offers language construction resources including The Language Construction Kit and The Syntax Construction Kit.

The Economic and Fiscal Effects of the Trump Administration's Proposed Tariffs

106 danboarder 2025-02-03 03:57:43 UTC 66 budgetlab.yale.edu Llama Share

The proposed tariff would increase US PCE prices by 0.6-0.76% and reduce household purchasing power by $1,000-$1,250. It would also shrink the US economy by 0.2% in the long run and raise average effective tariff rates to 8.6-8.8%.

Bayesian Epistemology (2022)

100 rnjailamba 2025-02-03 08:46:27 UTC 52 plato.stanford.edu Prefix Share

We can think of belief as an all-or-nothing affair. For example, I believe that I am alive, and I don’t believe that I am a historian of the Mongol Empire. However, often we want to make distinctions between how strongly we believe or disbelieve something. I strongly believe that I am alive, am fairly confident that I will stay alive until my next conference presentation, less confident that ...

MTR: 'traceroute' and 'ping' in a single tool

99 program 2025-02-03 22:26:35 UTC 39 bitwizard.nl Llama Share

MTR is a network diagnostic tool combining traceroute and ping functions. It sends ICMP ECHO requests to each network hop to determine link quality.

DeepSeek gives Europe's tech firms a chance to catch up

97 belter 2025-02-03 09:25:12 UTC 127 reuters.com Full Share

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Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (February 2025)

96 mgl 2025-02-03 22:55:40 UTC 74 news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

Software developers are considering quitting due to market uncertainty and the potential Gen AI bubble burst. They should focus on their skills, interests, and what pays well, and be willing to learn and adapt to new technologies.

Ruby “Thread Contention” Is Simply GVL Queuing

96 ciconia 2025-02-03 08:43:13 UTC 56 island94.org Llama Share

Thread contention in Ruby is not a struggle for resources, but rather a queue of threads waiting for the Global VM Lock (GVL) in an orderly manner. The GVL is released when a thread does IO or exceeds its thread quantum, allowing other threads to run, but can lead to "Tail Latency" in CPU-bound threads.

New Proofs Probe the Limits of Mathematical Truth

93 headalgorithm 2025-02-03 17:34:17 UTC 21 quantamagazine.org Llama Share

Mathematicians Peter Koymans and Carlo Pagano proved Hilbert's 10th problem undecidable for every ring of integers. Their work gives unprecedented control over elliptic curves and related equations.

FreeBSD for hi-fi audio: real-time processing, equalizer, MPD and FFmpeg

93 m4c-pl 2025-02-03 06:43:28 UTC 35 m4c.pl Prefix Share

A complete guide to configuring FreeBSD as an audiophile audio server: setting up system and audio subsystem parameters, real-time operation, bit-perfect signal processing, and the best methods for enabling and parameterising the system graphic equalizer (equalizer) and high-quality audio equalization with FFmpeg filters. Linux users will also find useful information, especially in the ...

Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against universal jailbreaks

88 meetpateltech 2025-02-03 16:46:52 UTC 63 anthropic.com Llama Share

Researchers developed Constitutional Classifiers to defend AI models against universal jailbreaks, achieving robustness with minimal over-refusal rates and compute overhead. A live demo of the system is available for red teaming, allowing users to test its robustness against jailbreaking attempts.

T1: A RISC-V Vector processor implementation

84 namanyayg 2025-02-03 11:22:44 UTC 12 github.com/chipsalliance Llama Share

T1 is a RISC-V Vector implementation inspired by the Cray X1 vector machine, supporting lane-based micro-architectures and SRAM-based VRFs. It ships vector machine features and can be a general platform for MMIO DSA.

Catgrad: A categorical deep learning compiler

75 remexre 2025-02-03 07:44:07 UTC 13 catgrad.com Full Share

View on GitHub catgrad is a deep learning framework using category theory to statically compile models into their forward and backwards passes. This means your training loop can run without needing a deep learning framework (not even catgrad!)

Google removed 2.36M apps from Google Play using AI threat detection

73 isaacfrond 2025-02-03 09:16:26 UTC 39 security.googleblog.com Full Share

Posted by Bethel Otuteye and Khawaja Shams (Android Security and Privacy Team), and Ron Aquino (Play Trust and Safety) Android and Google...

Chaplin: Local visual speech recognition (VSR) in real-time

73 venusgirdle 2025-02-03 02:59:00 UTC 9 github.com/amanvirparhar Llama Share

A visual speech recognition tool reads lips in real-time and types silent mouthed words locally. It uses a model trained on the Lip Reading Sentences 3 dataset and can be started by pressing the option or alt key.

Earth Detecting Earth

71 nabla9 2025-02-03 21:24:50 UTC 17 seti.org Llama Share

A research team led by Dr. Sofia Sheikh analyzed Earth's technosignatures, finding radio signals detectable from 12,000 light-years away and atmospheric emissions from 5.7 light-years away. The study aims to refine SETI searches by understanding Earth's detectability from space.

New York claims a small victory in 'forever war on rats'

68 lareading 2025-02-03 14:18:18 UTC 199 thetimes.com Llama Share

New York Mayor Eric Adams has faced health issues and corruption charges, but a pilot rat reduction program in Harlem shows promise. The program, which involves sealed trash containers and new bins, has reduced rat sightings in the area.

First place in Tetris 99 using computer vision, classical AI, a lot of free time

65 sschul 2025-02-03 16:22:17 UTC 46 bpinzone.github.io Prefix Share

We created a program to play Tetris 99, an online multiplayer game for the Nintendo Switch. The algorithm used computer vision to determine the state of the board, a depth-first search algorithm with a hand-crafted utility function to find a good next block placement, and sent the series of button presses required to perform that placement via a microcontroller that communicated with the ...

When Bohr got it wrong: the impact of a little-known paper on quantum theory

64 sohkamyung 2025-02-03 12:19:19 UTC 26 physicsworld.com Llama Share

Niels Bohr, Hendrik Kramers, and John Slater proposed the Bohr-Kramers-Slater (BKS) theory in 1924, which abandoned causality and energy conservation, but was later disproven by the Bothe-Geiger experiment. The BKS theory's radical ideas paved the way for Heisenberg's matrix mechanics and the development of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, which became the predominant ...

Managing Secrets in Docker Compose – A Developer's Guide

62 thunderbong 2025-02-03 02:55:24 UTC 13 phase.dev Llama Share

Docker Compose's secret management capabilities have evolved, but users often overlook secure secret management, exposing secrets through environment variables or hardcoded files, leading to security incidents. Best practices for managing secrets include using secure configuration, runtime secret injection, and controlling access to secrets, with tools like Phase helping to streamline the process.

How Translation Works, Book Title Edition

61 janpio 2025-02-03 21:33:29 UTC 21 whatever.scalzi.com Llama Share

Translating fiction requires capturing a vibe and tone, which is difficult for computerized translations to achieve. Human translators are essential for conveying the feel and humor of a text, and their importance may even increase with AI advancements.

It's not 'emotional labour', it's kin work

61 bobbiechen 2025-02-03 17:41:28 UTC 71 thefuturefeeling.substack.com Llama Share

The author argues that women's work in organizing gatherings and maintaining family ties is often mislabeled as 'emotional labour'.

Mailspring: Cross-platform, fast, open source mail client

60 thunderbong 2025-02-03 06:38:50 UTC 26 github.com/foundry376 Llama Share

Mailspring is a new email client with a C++ sync engine, faster performance, and open-source UI. It offers features like Unified Inbox, Snooze, and Send Later, with a Pro version adding link tracking and analytics.

Excavated: 52 Egyptian Mummies. Over a Dozen Had Mysterious Golden Tongues

52 bookofjoe 2025-02-03 15:04:07 UTC 30 popularmechanics.com Llama Share

Archaeologists in Egypt discovered 13 mummies with golden amulets in place of tongues, believed to aid the deceased in speaking in the afterlife. The tombs, dating back to the Ptolemaic era, also featured ritual texts, artwork, and other golden adornments.

Vibe Coding

45 rahimnathwani 2025-02-03 01:27:13 UTC 41 twitter.com/karpathy Llama Share

User relies heavily on LLMs for coding, giving minimal input and accepting all changes. This approach works for throwaway projects but results in complex, hard-to-understand code.

Show HN: Apitally – A simple, privacy-focused API monitoring and analytics tool

44 itssimon 2025-02-03 06:07:00 UTC 20 apitally.io Llama Share

Apitally offers API analytics and monitoring with logging, alerts, and customizable thresholds. It's easy to set up with minimal code changes and provides data privacy features to protect sensitive information.

The missing cross-platform OS API for timers

42 broken_broken_ 2025-02-03 06:07:10 UTC 29 gaultier.github.io Llama Share

The user discusses the challenges of implementing timers in a cross-platform way, highlighting the differences in timer APIs between Unix variants and Windows, and the problems with using signals in Unix. They explore alternative approaches, including using timerfd_create, kqueue, and libuv, which implement timers as file descriptors or use a min-heap to manage user-space timers.

Auto-AVSR: Audio-Visual Speech Recognition with Automatic Labels

41 yagizdegirmenci 2025-02-03 06:20:32 UTC 1 github.com/mpc001 Llama Share

This repository provides an open-sourced framework for speech recognition with a focus on visual speech and audio-visual speech recognition. It achieves a 20.3% word error rate for visual speech and 1.0% for audio speech on LRS3 benchmarks.

Show HN: Check Supply – Send Checks in the Mail

38 pfista 2025-02-03 15:52:34 UTC 89 check.supply Llama Share

Check Supply is a service that lets you send physical checks via mail from your phone with no need for stamps or trips to the post office. It securely connects to your bank account and charges a flat fee of $6.99 per check.

S1: Simple Test-Time Scaling

37 t55 2025-02-03 17:56:11 UTC 3 github.com/simplescaling Llama Share

This repository provides an overview of the paper "s1: Simple test-time scaling" and its implementation using the vLLM library to achieve strong reasoning performance with minimal test-time scaling and a budget of 1,000 examples. The code includes examples of using the vLLM library to generate responses to user prompts and implement test-time scaling with budget forcing.

Hello, I'm Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers (2015)

35 LorenDB 2025-02-03 19:47:25 UTC 35 wired.com Llama Share

The author's last name "Null" causes issues with technology due to its similarity to the programming term "null." This leads to problems with web forms, email addresses, and other digital interactions.

Run-All

33 clovis818 2025-02-03 11:56:27 UTC 6 news.ycombinator.com Full Share

github.com/clovis818/run-all is a command-line tool that allows you to execute commands across multiple directories based on a customizable directory pattern. It is designed for developers and sysadmins who need to run repetitive tasks in multiple project folders, offering options to exclude directories, run commands in parallel, and more.

Optimizing with Novel Calendrical Algorithms

26 mmastrac 2025-02-03 16:40:57 UTC 1 jhpratt.dev Llama Share

A developer optimized the `Date::to_calendar_date` method in the time crate by creating a new algorithm from scratch using Euclidean affine functions, resulting in a 57.5% performance improvement. The new algorithm is branchless, const-compatible, and faster than the previous implementation, making it a significant improvement for the time crate.

Conway's Law (2022)

25 yamrzou 2025-02-03 09:43:05 UTC 1 martinfowler.com Llama Share

Conway's Law states that a system's architecture mirrors its development team's communication structure, and ignoring this law can lead to system architecture problems. To address this, the Inverse Conway Maneuver involves organizing development teams to encourage the desired software architecture, such as microservices, to promote autonomous services.

Converge (YC S23) will review your YC application before you submit

24 janhenr 2025-02-03 12:14:03 UTC 22 news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

Converge co-founders offer feedback on YC applications. Fill out this form for a fresh set of eyes: https://forms.gle/H12KqmaaN4zpoYBd9.

Where Poka-Yoke and Cybernetics Meet: Users determine the purpose of any device

24 yamrzou 2025-02-03 09:45:13 UTC 0 stream.syscoi.com Llama Share

The user is exploring how the interface of a device conveys the message to the user on how to interact with it, drawing from cybernetics and design theorists like Ross Ashby and Klaus Krippendorff. The designer must amplify desirable variety and attenuate undesirable variety to create a consistent message, anticipating the user's interactions and making the correct way to use the device ...

Show HN: Calculate Your Revenue

20 Malfunction92 2025-02-03 10:47:33 UTC 5 postmake.io Llama Share

A simple calculator helps visualize potential revenue by adding up to three pricing plans and exploring key milestones. The Postmake directory offers tools and resources used by successful companies and startups.

Evaluating Code Embeddings

20 fzliu 2025-02-03 07:54:34 UTC 0 blog.voyageai.com Llama Share

Code retrieval systems face challenges in evaluating retrieval quality due to the lack of high-quality benchmarking datasets and methodologies for creating such datasets. Voyage AI has collected feedback and insights on this issue and proposes strategies to create new evaluation benchmarks, including repurposing question-answer datasets and leveraging code repositories and issues/tickets.

Bluesky: Advanced Bridge for Mastodon and Telegram

18 behindai 2025-02-03 19:26:50 UTC 1 mastogr.am Full Share

Mastogram https://mastogr.am is a simple, fast, and secure tool that allows you to bridge your Telegram channels with your Mastodon profiles, taking just two minutes to set up with no coding or deployment needed. It offers full control over what the bridge can and cannot do, with customizable settings to fit your needs.

Show HN: Gave Claude LSD SQL

17 yevbar 2025-02-03 08:11:58 UTC 11 github.com/lsd-so Llama Share

To use LSD with Claude, sign up for a free Google account, create an API key, and update the .env file with your email and API key. Then, update the claude_desktop_config.json file with the full path to uv and restart Claude desktop.

Sony Kills Recordable Blu-ray and Other Vintage Media

16 thread_id 2025-02-03 12:57:53 UTC 4 spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share

Sony is ending production of recordable media formats including Blu-Ray discs, MiniDiscs, and MiniDV cassettes. However, most Blu-Ray discs remain unaffected and are still available for purchase.

AI Is Robbing Jr. Devs

16 makerdiety 2025-02-03 04:39:06 UTC 15 benbrougher.tech Llama Share

The author argues that relying on AI for junior developer tasks can hinder their growth and learning opportunities. This approach can also lead to a widening gap between experienced and inexperienced developers.

The Video Game History Foundation Library Opens in Early Access

16 bpierre 2025-02-03 01:14:12 UTC 0 gamehistory.org Llama Share

The Video Game History Foundation launched its digital archive of video game history research materials, available at library.gamehistory.org, with over 1500 searchable out-of-print magazines and unique items from game production. The library is a powerful tool for video game research with best-in-class discovery features and is free for anyone to access digitally.

OpenAI – Deep Research

16 irs 2025-02-03 00:04:06 UTC 6 openai.com Llama Share

OpenAI's deep research in ChatGPT conducts multi-step research on the internet for complex tasks, freeing up time by offloading and expediting complex web research. It can synthesize hundreds of online sources to create a comprehensive report at the level of a research analyst.

Texas Tempts Meta

15 feross 2025-02-03 19:32:36 UTC 5 bloomberg.com Llama Share

A shareholder may prefer a company to be run by a trusted, visionary leader who can make risky decisions for high returns, or by a more cautious, shareholder-accountable management.

Better AI Is a Matter of Timing

15 headalgorithm 2025-02-03 17:20:26 UTC 2 spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share

SiTime developed a new clock optimized for AI workloads using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) for significant energy savings and lower costs. The Super-TCXO clock provides synchronization 3 times better than traditional quartz-based components at a smaller size.

Ask HN: Are there any CLI only tools that are monetised

15 ludovicianul 2025-02-03 13:43:52 UTC 19 news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

The user is looking for pure CLI tools that are monetized, either through premium support or a free and paid version, and found a few examples including k9s and Skeema. They also discussed their own company's CLI tool, Conveyor, and the challenges of monetizing a niche market.

Optimizing with Novel Calendrical Algorithms

15 jhpratt 2025-02-03 07:06:12 UTC 15 jhpratt.dev Llama Share

A developer optimized the `Date::to_calendar_date` method in the time crate by creating a new algorithm from scratch using Euclidean affine functions, resulting in a 57.5% performance improvement. The new algorithm is branchless, const-compatible, and faster than the previous implementation, making it a significant improvement for the time crate.

Resistance to Rust abstractions for DMA mapping

12 ZeroCool2u 2025-02-03 12:40:36 UTC 1 lwn.net Prefix Share

The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber. Thousands of subscribers depend on LWN for the best news from the Linux and free software communities. If you enjoy this article, please consider subscribing to LWN. Thank you for visiting LWN.net! While the path toward the ability to write device drivers in Rust has been anything but smooth, steady ...

Show HN: Multi-/BiKeyMap (Go Module)

12 baquero 2025-02-03 08:24:31 UTC 0 github.com/aeimer Llama Share

The go lib provides two data structures, MultiKeyMap and BiKeyMap, for handling maps with multiple keys in a concurrent and non-concurrent manner. Both data structures offer O(1) access time due to the underlying hashmap, with MultiKeyMap having a generic primary key and multiple string secondary keys and BiKeyMap having two generic keys.