WikiTok

1404 Group_B 2025-02-04 18:40:55 UTC 218 wikitok.vercel.app Llama Share

Santa Rosa Island is a 53,195-acre island in California, home to the rare Torrey Pine and 13,000-year-old human remains. Other topics include a Romanian entrepreneur, a Catholic cathedral, a natural area, a German sculptor, and regional electric industry organizations.

What's happening inside the NIH and NSF

936 rrock 2025-02-04 22:51:36 UTC 1491 science.org Full Share

www.science.org needs to review the security of your connection before proceeding.

El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender

913 smallerfish 2025-02-04 00:00:13 UTC 851 ticotimes.net Llama Share

El Salvador will cease to make Bitcoin legal tender after a confusing reform to the Bitcoin Law, allowing businesses to refuse Bitcoin payments. The move comes after a failed economic bet by President Nayib Bukele, who had adopted Bitcoin in 2021.

Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools

842 cryptophreak 2025-02-04 16:06:32 UTC 409 danieldelaney.net Llama Share

AI coding tools failed to deliver precise software due to their conversational approach. Real software requires precise documentation, not chat-based guesses.

Apple Invites

643 openchampagne 2025-02-04 16:21:58 UTC 906 apple.com Llama Share

Apple introduced Apple Invites, a new app for iPhone that helps users create custom invitations for events. The app allows users to create, share, and manage invitations, and is available for download from the App Store or icloud.com/invites.

Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored

623 healsdata 2025-02-04 22:29:48 UTC 180 deno.com Llama Share

Oracle filed a motion to dismiss Deno's petition to cancel its "JavaScript" trademark, claiming it used a screenshot of Node.js as proof of use in a different class. Deno argues Oracle committed trademark fraud by misrepresenting its connection to Node.js.

Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance

606 jbegley 2025-02-04 20:28:16 UTC 533 washingtonpost.com Full Share

Payments crisis of 2025: Not “read only” access anymore

557 shinryuu 2025-02-04 15:05:34 UTC 646 crisesnotes.com Llama Share

A former BFS employee has confirmed a 25-year-old DOGE employee, Marko Elez, has read and write access to BFS servers, posing a catastrophic risk to the US economy. The crisis, labeled the "Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025", is being covered for free by the author, who urges readers to take out a paid subscription to support their work.

Infosec 101 for Activists

477 greenie_beans 2025-02-04 22:25:32 UTC 205 infosecforactivists.org Prefix Share

America has a strong tradition of activism, dating back to slave revolts and indigenous uprisings even before the founding of the United States. Today, activism in the US remains critical. Street protests are an essential tool that activists use to raise awareness and push for institutional change. That being said, challenging existing power structures carries an element of risk - exposure ...

Open Deep Research

392 transpute 2025-02-04 19:55:27 UTC 76 github.com/huggingface Full Share

🤗 smolagents: a barebones library for agents. Agents write python code to call tools and orchestrate other agents. - smolagents/examples/open_deep_research at main · huggingface/smolagents

The Video Game History Foundation library opens in early access

362 pabs3 2025-02-04 01:15:28 UTC 71 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.

A Coup Is in Progress in America

358 maximilianburke 2025-02-04 00:48:53 UTC 170 techdirt.com Llama Share

A coup is underway in the US, with Donald Trump and Elon Musk seizing control through unconstitutional means, violating civil service protections and laws. Americans must resist this transformation of constitutional democracy into a system of personal loyalty to private interests.

Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig

349 todsacerdoti 2025-02-04 17:21:02 UTC 296 gist.github.com Embed Share

GitHub reveals how software engineers are purging federal databases

345 josefresco 2025-02-04 18:57:47 UTC 315 404media.co Llama Share

Federal government contractors are removing references to DEI from a database for the Head Start program through code updates. This is part of a larger effort to align federal agencies with Donald Trump's executive orders on DEI.

America desperately needs more air traffic controllers

342 mooreds 2025-02-04 15:44:21 UTC 634 cnn.com Llama Share

US air traffic control faces a decades-long staffing shortage due to high attrition rates and stressful work conditions. The Federal Aviation Administration is struggling to hire and retain enough controllers to meet demand, posing safety risks to the flying public.

Vanguard's average fee is now 0.07% after biggest-ever cut

331 cantaloupe 2025-02-04 15:11:07 UTC 270 bloomberg.com Full Share

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Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]

269 kalu 2025-02-04 00:42:20 UTC 234 govinfo.gov Llama Share

The US President orders the release of all records related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The records will be declassified and disclosed within 15-45 days.

Popular Linux orgs Freedesktop and Alpine Linux are scrambling for new webhost

255 ossusermivami 2025-02-04 11:19:03 UTC 118 arstechnica.com Llama Share

Two popular free software projects, X.org/Freedesktop.org and Alpine Linux, need to find new hosting by the end of April due to Equinix's bare-metal sales and services shutdown. They require significant bandwidth and development resources, with X.org needing over 400GB of storage and Alpine Linux using 800TB of bandwidth each month.

Nine – seemingly impossible C64 demo

250 appleorchard46 2025-02-04 23:11:38 UTC 62 linusakesson.net Llama Share

You're creating a video explaining how something works and have a disclaimer about forum abuse. You're experiencing issues running a PRG file in VICE with a syntax error.

Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website

245 filoeleven 2025-02-04 22:53:05 UTC 2 techcrunch.com Llama Share

Google updated its AI principles to promote responsible AI, mitigating harm and bias, and aligning with human rights and international law. The move comes amid controversy over Google's AI use in military contracts, with some employees protesting and the Pentagon's AI chief citing its role in speeding up the US military's kill chain.

How I use LLMs as a staff engineer

241 gfysfm 2025-02-04 20:49:58 UTC 190 seangoedecke.com Llama Share

The author uses large language models to aid in coding, research, and learning new domains, finding them highly valuable for tasks that don't require long-term maintenance. They use LLMs for tasks like autocomplete, code review, and learning new concepts, but not for writing important documents or complex business logic.

Jujutsu VCS: Introduction and patterns

232 cube2222 2025-02-04 16:22:03 UTC 117 kubamartin.com Llama Share

The author is experimenting with Jujutsu (jj), a new version control system written in Rust, and finds it enjoyable due to its consistent design and simplicity. Jj allows for flexible changes, conflict resolution, and rebasing, making it a pleasant alternative to traditional Git workflows.

DoppelBot: Replace Your CEO with an LLM

232 gk1 2025-02-04 15:08:21 UTC 116 modal.com Llama Share

Modal created a Slack bot called @erik-bot using OpenLLaMa, which improved productivity. They now release DoppelBot, a Slack bot that can be fine-tuned on a user's own messages for personalized responses.

Build a link blog like Simon Willison

228 xuanwo 2025-02-04 15:17:48 UTC 54 xuanwo.io Llama Share

You're creating a link blog inspired by Simon, sharing internet finds with comments and thoughts. Your goal is to write frequently and add value through commentary and connections to past work.

Government planned it 7 years, beavers built a dam in 2 days and saved $1M

223 croes 2025-02-04 21:13:30 UTC 126 voxnews.al Llama Share

Beavers in the Czech Republic built dams in 2 days, saving the government 30 million Czech crowns. The beavers' natural construction exceeded the planned 7-year project to restore water areas in the Brdy nature park.

Alibaba/T-HEAD's Xuantie C910: An open source RISC-V core

221 mfiguiere 2025-02-04 05:40:57 UTC 76 chipsandcheese.com Llama Share

T-HEAD's Xuantie C910 is a low power, high performance RISC-V core with vector extension, targeting AI, edge servers, and industrial control applications. It has a 12-stage pipeline, out-of-order execution, and a 64 KB instruction cache.

Radiant Foam: Real-Time Differentiable Ray Tracing

209 w-m 2025-02-04 11:39:56 UTC 23 radfoam.github.io Llama Share

Researchers propose Radiant Foam, a novel scene representation that combines efficiency and quality of splatting with the accuracy of ray tracing. It uses a Voronoi diagram and Delaunay triangulation to efficiently trace rays through a scene in real time.

Alan Turing's "Delilah" project

205 pseudolus 2025-02-04 14:50:00 UTC 25 spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share

Alan Turing, a codebreaker and computer scientist, worked on a portable voice-encryption system called Delilah during WWII. The Bayley papers, recently auctioned, reveal Turing's work as a creative electrical engineer, challenging the traditional view of his expertise.

I bought a container full of Chinese electric excavators. Here's what showed up

192 nkurz 2025-02-04 03:19:57 UTC 98 electrek.co Llama Share

The author imports Chinese electric mini-excavators and accessories, improving them for North American users, and now offers them for sale in the US. These machines are designed for landowners and homesteaders, offering lower operating costs, safer operation, and quieter performance.

DeepRAG: Thinking to retrieval step by step for large language models

191 fofoz 2025-02-04 14:43:53 UTC 29 arxiv.org Llama Share

DeepRAG is a framework that models retrieval-augmented reasoning as a Markov Decision Process to improve answer accuracy and efficiency. It dynamically determines whether to retrieve external knowledge or rely on parametric reasoning at each step, improving answer accuracy by 21.99%.

How Spotify Killed Lo-Fi Hip Hop

190 fbnlsr 2025-02-04 17:35:27 UTC 225 gamechops.substack.com Llama Share

Lofi Hip Hop's popularity led to commercialization, with corporations using AI-generated music to replace real artists. Independent musicians like Wish on the Beat are pivoting to new sounds and formats to stay relevant.

Ask HN: Do you know travel blogs that have animated SVG maps of their travels?

185 trebeljahr 2025-02-04 01:40:06 UTC 55 news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

You're looking for a travel blog that created custom SVG animations for their trip routes and wrote a tutorial on how they did it. The blog likely featured a photographer who documented their process, including a post about Cathedral Cove in New Zealand.

How to scale your model: A systems view of LLMs on TPUs

182 mattjjatgoogle 2025-02-04 18:56:08 UTC 30 jax-ml.github.io Llama Share

The goal of model scaling is to increase the number of chips used for training or inference while achieving a proportional increase in throughput, but this comes at the cost of added communication between chips. Understanding the interplay of per-chip computation, memory bandwidth, and total memory is critical to scaling models efficiently and avoiding bottlenecks.

OmniHuman-1: Human Animation Models

178 fofoz 2025-02-04 10:29:27 UTC 31 omnihuman-lab.github.io Llama Share

OmniHuman generates realistic human videos with various styles, supporting different music, poses, and gestures. It can handle diverse inputs, including cartoons, animals, and challenging poses, with high video quality depending on the reference image.

Ambsheets: Spreadsheets for Exploring Scenarios

176 azhenley 2025-02-04 23:56:25 UTC 47 inkandswitch.com Llama Share

Ambsheets are an extension to spreadsheets that allows a single cell to hold multiple values at once, enabling easier scenario planning. This feature, called amb values, can be used to explore complex decision-making scenarios in a more flexible and interactive way.

What's Going on at the FBI?

164 hkhn 2025-02-04 04:46:20 UTC 170 lawfaremedia.org Llama Share

FBI agents are resisting pressure to disclose their involvement in the Jan 6 investigations, with many refusing to fill out a questionnaire. This internal resistance could limit the administration's ability to target personnel who enforced the law.

Words flagged in search of current NSF awards

156 croes 2025-02-04 14:29:30 UTC 153 mastodon.social Llama Share

The Musk administration is restricting free speech and academic freedom by censoring certain topics. This move is seen as promoting corporate interests over diversity and inclusion in research.

OWASP Non-Human Identities Top 10

155 raskelll 2025-02-04 06:07:02 UTC 33 owasp.org Llama Share

Project identifies top 10 risks for non-human identities in development, using OWASP methodology and real-world data. Contributions welcome to improve the project and its ranking criteria.

100 Or so Books that shaped a Century of Science (1999)

141 Luc 2025-02-04 15:25:27 UTC 33 web.mnstate.edu Llama Share

This is a list of books on various scientific topics including biology, physics, mathematics, and history of science. The books cover a range of subjects from evolution and DNA to quantum mechanics and the history of technology.

TikTok's algorithm exhibited pro-Republican bias during 2024 presidential race

136 erentz 2025-02-04 17:51:55 UTC 102 psypost.org Llama Share

A study found TikTok's algorithm recommended 11.8% more Republican content to Republican users and 7.5% more opposing views to Democratic users during the 2024 US presidential election. The bias was driven by negative partisanship content, with Republican users exposed to more criticism of the Democratic party.

Nvidia open-source nanite: continuous level of detail (LOD) mesh library

135 klaussilveira 2025-02-04 11:05:18 UTC 29 github.com/nvpro-samples Llama Share

The nv_cluster_lod_builder library is a continuous level of detail (LOD) mesh library that allows for fine-grained control over geometric detail within a mesh, using a decimation strategy that allows regular watertight LOD transitions across a mesh. The library uses a spatial hierarchy of bounding spheres to search for cluster groups of the right LOD in the right spatial region relative to ...

Microsoft Is Dead (2007)

134 aamederen 2025-02-04 11:32:25 UTC 218 paulgraham.com Llama Share

Microsoft's death occurred around 2005 due to four factors: Google's rise, the shift to web-based software, widespread broadband internet, and Apple's resurgence. Microsoft's inability to adapt and its reliance on outdated business models led to its decline.

Build your own SQLite, Part 4: reading tables metadata

132 thunderbong 2025-02-04 13:39:12 UTC 11 blog.sylver.dev Llama Share

We extended our SQL parser to support CREATE TABLE statements by adding new token types and updating the Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) to represent the new statement type. We then used this parser to extract metadata from the schema table, allowing us to understand the structure of tables in our database.

Escaping surprise bills and over-engineered messes: Why I left AWS

128 theogravity 2025-02-04 02:56:32 UTC 155 travisbumgarner.dev Llama Share

The user was dissatisfied with AWS hosting due to complexity and cost, but found a simpler solution with NearlyFreeSpeech (NFS) that allows prepaid balances for controlled financial liability. They migrated 8 websites to NFS, experiencing a small increase in monthly cost from $1 to $7.

Onlookers freak out as 25-year-old set loose on Treasury computer system

112 brohee 2025-02-04 18:18:31 UTC 130 rawstory.com Llama Share

Elon Musk's 25-year-old engineer, Marko Elez, has been granted full control over US Treasury Department systems responsible for Social Security payments and tax returns. Sources are freaking out as Elez has the ability to write code and potentially disrupt the systems.

Dolní Vĕstonice Portrait Head: The oldest known human portrait in the world

111 bookofjoe 2025-02-04 01:46:33 UTC 43 livescience.com Llama Share

A 26,000-year-old sculpture discovered in the Czech Republic is the oldest known portrait of a person. The tiny mammoth ivory head, measuring 1.9 inches tall, appears to be a woman's face with individualized features.

Show HN: Play with real quantum physics in your browser

109 mattvr 2025-02-04 18:24:31 UTC 60 quantum.orgsoft.org Llama Share

Cloudflare is experiencing a connection issue with the origin web server, preventing page display. Submitting error logs from the web server with the Ray ID will aid in the investigation.

Windows 11 – There's still nothing worth my time

98 segasaturn 2025-02-04 12:33:55 UTC 132 dedoimedo.com Llama Share

The author of Dedoimedo tested Windows 11 on a laptop and found it to be slow and useless. The operating system's new features, such as the tabbed Explorer, are aesthetically poor and lack responsiveness.

Backblaze seemingly does not support files greater than 1 TB

91 amwolff 2025-02-04 10:50:01 UTC 80 wadetregaskis.com Llama Share

Backblaze is uploading a 1 TB file repeatedly due to a 100,000 chunk limit. This limit contradicts Backblaze's claim of supporting files up to 1 TB.

Resistance to Rust abstractions for DMA mapping

91 mustache_kimono 2025-02-04 04:50:30 UTC 92 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 ...

The APL Challenge

86 bjarteaarmolund 2025-02-04 22:02:35 UTC 21 challenge.dyalog.com Llama Share

The APL Challenge is a three-month competition where participants solve 10 problems using the APL programming language. The deadline is Wednesday 30 April 2025 at 09:00 UTC.

How does fentanyl get into the US?

83 tartoran 2025-02-04 16:39:57 UTC 190 bbc.com Llama Share

President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on Chinese goods over fentanyl exports, but also accused Canada and Mexico of failing to stop fentanyl smuggling. The US has seized over 4,500lb of fentanyl since September, mostly at the US-Mexico border.

Reasons Not to Refactor

79 chmaynard 2025-02-04 04:57:26 UTC 54 thoughtbot.com Llama Share

Refactoring should be done in small, behavior-preserving steps to avoid breaking the system. It's better to pause and come back later when you know more about the code or have new requirements.

How to prove false statements? (Part 1)

78 feross 2025-02-04 21:47:12 UTC 6 blog.cryptographyengineering.com Llama Share

The user discusses a theoretical cryptography result that demonstrates a practical attack on zero-knowledge "proving systems" used in blockchains, highlighting the limitations of the random oracle model and the potential for backdoors in cryptographic schemes. The user warns that the threat model for recursive proof systems is uncertain and that the possibility of unbounded attacks exists, ...

YouTube restores SineVibes channel after Peter Kirn & Ars Technica get involved

77 richrichardsson 2025-02-04 07:51:00 UTC 34 bsky.app Llama Share

YouTube channel back after appeal accelerated by Google employee contacted by Ars Technica reporter. Channel owners thank supporters for encouragement and apologize mix up led to new follower.

Nontraditional Red Teams

75 feross 2025-02-04 18:01:45 UTC 24 zachholman.com Llama Share

Having a "red team" with an antagonistic mindset can help prevent common mistakes in product development, such as shipping embarrassing visuals or broken sign-in forms. This team can catch issues like ad blockers breaking navigation or password managers not auto-filling forms, making the development process more efficient.

Securing edge device systems, including firewalls, routers, and VPN gateways

74 transpute 2025-02-04 23:43:34 UTC 34 nsa.gov Full Share

You don't have permission to access "http://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/Press-Releases-Statements/Press-Release-View/Article/4052657/joint-publications-focus-on-mitigation-strategies-for-edge-devices/" on this server.

Introducing Apple Invites, a new app that brings people together

73 marban 2025-02-04 16:26:52 UTC 2 apple.com Llama Share

Apple introduced Apple Invites, a new app for iPhone that helps users create custom invitations for events. The app allows users to create, share, and manage invitations, and is available for download from the App Store or icloud.com/invites.

Bouncing Beholder, my winning JS1K entry (2012)

72 wonger_ 2025-02-04 13:37:57 UTC 20 marijnhaverbeke.nl Llama Share

The user created a game for the JS1K competition, where they had to fit the entire game into 1024 bytes of code, leading to creative use of hacks and compression techniques. The game, which involves collecting coins while avoiding obstacles, uses a holistic approach to design and employs various tricks, such as abbreviating method names and reusing functions, to stay within the byte limit.

TrailBase: Sub-millisecond open-source application base with Rust, SQLite and V8

71 trailbase 2025-02-04 20:58:06 UTC 34 trailbase.io Llama Share

TrailBase is a fast database that outperforms alternatives like SupaBase, PocketBase, and vanilla SQLite in insertion and read operations. It has a smaller memory footprint than SupaBase but consumes more memory than PocketBase when using V8.

Launch HN: Pinch (YC W25) – Video conferencing with immersive translation

69 christiansafka 2025-02-04 17:10:51 UTC 43 news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

Christian and Keyu are building Pinch, a virtual conferencing platform with real-time voice translation and lip syncing in 15 languages. They aim to improve collaboration and productivity across languages and cultures by solving translation challenges.

NASA Told to to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites

69 cdme 2025-02-04 15:12:03 UTC 46 404media.co Llama Share

NASA personnel were ordered to remove mentions of DEI, indigenous people, environmental justice, and women in leadership from public sites by 5pm ET. This directive is linked to President Trump's executive order on ending government DEI programs.

VSCode Marketplace Web Pages No Longer Allow Direct VSIX Downloads

68 elashri 2025-02-04 11:36:30 UTC 18 github.com/microsoft Llama Share

The bug is that new installation instructions point to a non-existent link under Version History for downloading the extension. This prevents users from downloading the extension as instructed.

Five Coding Hats

61 azhenley 2025-02-04 21:00:09 UTC 18 dubroy.com Llama Share

The author used to believe in a single "right" way of coding, but now thinks different approaches are needed for different situations. They propose using "coding hats" like the captain's hat for safety, the scrappy hat for speed, the MacGyver hat for results, the chef's hat for presentation, and the teacher's hat for communication.

The Constitutional Crisis Is Here

58 iNic 2025-02-04 21:29:54 UTC 11 theatlantic.com Llama Share

Elon Musk, acting for Donald Trump, is attempting to seize control of federal spending, citing a vague crisis and claiming it's a matter of "now or never." This move could reset the rules of the game in favor of the right and destroy programs faster than they can be restored.

Please help me find better blogs to read

58 iwatog 2025-02-04 13:44:23 UTC 68 news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

You're seeking blogs on computer science design, philosophy, space, history, and literature, with a focus on non-standard narratives and in-depth analysis.

What was before the telephone bell? Pencils and Hammers

57 Kovalick 2025-02-04 01:44:45 UTC 10 calling315.com Llama Share

Thomas A. Watson invented the telephone bell and the Buzzer, a hand-activated voltage generator, to announce incoming calls. He also developed a reliable polarized ringer that has remained unchanged in principle since its invention in 1878.

Palantir designed to 'power the West to its obvious innate superiority' says CEO

56 rntn 2025-02-04 16:57:26 UTC 93 theregister.com Llama Share

Palantir CEO Alex Karp aims to power the West to its superiority through his company's data analytics products. He believes Palantir's long-term strategy will generate significant value and impact.

Show HN: Haystack Code Reviewer – Perform code reviews on a canvas

55 akshaysg 2025-02-04 17:02:20 UTC 18 haystackeditor.com Full Share

The canvas-based IDE that makes navigation and refactoring 10x faster

Microsoft cracking down people upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware

54 belter 2025-02-04 16:10:02 UTC 95 xda-developers.com Llama Share

Microsoft is stopping people from upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware by removing registry key values and flagging dodging tools as malware. Users on unsupported hardware can still install Windows 11 manually but may face issues with automatic updates.

El Salvador offers to house violent US criminals and deportees of any nation

51 miles 2025-02-04 07:10:30 UTC 63 cnn.com Llama Share

El Salvador agreed to accept US deportees, including criminals, and house US criminals in exchange for a fee. Critics call the deal problematic and inhumane, citing concerns over prison conditions and human rights.

MathScroll – Infinitely Scroll Mathematics

50 beanburger 2025-02-04 20:46:39 UTC 7 projects.ollybritton.com Full Share

This project is a fork of the excellent WikiScroll with a few minor changes. See also the corresponding blog post, Doomscrolling mathematics.

Discord has ongoing major outage

49 bluetidepro 2025-02-04 21:21:54 UTC 12 discordstatus.com Full Share

Welcome to Discord's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.

The Slotted Counter Pattern (2020)

48 eatonphil 2025-02-04 17:56:34 UTC 20 planetscale.com Llama Share

To avoid contention on a single row when incrementing a counter, use a separate table with multiple rows to spread updates. This approach, called slotted counters, reduces contention and improves concurrency by incrementing a count in a random slot for each update.

Orion O6 ITX Arm V9 board – temper your expectations

45 rbanffy 2025-02-04 17:06:35 UTC 24 jeffgeerling.com Llama Share

The author is reviewing Radxa's Orion O6, a new Arm PC build, and expresses concerns about its marketing claims and software readiness. The board's performance is mixed, with some benchmarks beating popular SBCs but not others.

My Seventh Year as a Bootstrapped Founder

44 mtlynch 2025-02-04 14:07:23 UTC 8 mtlynch.io Llama Share

The user sold their company TinyPilot and became a father, finding happiness and flexibility as an indie founder. They're now writing a book on effective writing techniques and exploring new technologies like Nix, htmx, and Zig.

The most breathtaking abandoned sites

42 PaulHoule 2025-02-04 11:45:34 UTC 9 english.elpais.com Full Share

Thomas Jonglez, founder of the publishing house bearing his name, curates the 10 most photogenic sites from his label’s latest compendium of urbex photography, ‘The Atlas of Abandoned Places.’ The book not only showcases stunning imagery but also serves as a plea to safeguard, protect, and preserve cultural heritage

Implementing a linear collider facility at CERN

41 elashri 2025-02-04 02:47:49 UTC 6 newsline.linearcollider.org Llama Share

A new Linear Collider Facility is proposed for CERN to study the Higgs boson with high precision. The facility would be constructed in stages, starting with an e+e− linear collider based on SCRF technology.

Experience the DeepSeek R1 Distilled 'Reasoning' Models on Ryzen AI and Radeon

38 mariuz 2025-02-04 09:42:46 UTC 13 community.amd.com Llama Share

DeepSeek R1 is a reasoning model that uses chain-of-thought reasoning to tackle complex tasks, taking longer to respond. It can be run on AMD Ryzen AI processors and Radeon graphics cards through LM Studio.

If your customers don't talk, NPS is a vanity metric

38 smitec 2025-02-04 02:22:55 UTC 50 elliotcsmith.com Llama Share

Word of mouth growth works best when customers interact with each other and discuss the problem your product solves. If not, NPS scores are a vanity metric and referral programs may not be effective.

Spotify Paid $10B to the Music Industry in 2024, $1B More Than Last Year

37 ilamont 2025-02-04 15:20:37 UTC 79 variety.com Llama Share

Spotify paid out $10 billion to the music industry in 2024, a record and $1 billion more than last year. The company has paid out nearly $60 billion since its founding in 2006.

Day 5 of Trump-Musk and Treasury Payments: Not "Read Only" Access Anymore

33 ForHackernews 2025-02-04 13:25:44 UTC 6 crisesnotes.com Llama Share

A former BFS employee has confirmed a 25-year-old DOGE employee, Marko Elez, has read and write access to BFS servers, posing a catastrophic risk to the US economy. The crisis, labeled the "Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025", is being covered for free by the author, who urges readers to take out a paid subscription to support their work.

Hector Martin: "Behold, a maintainer sabotaging the Rust for Linux project"

33 mustache_kimono 2025-02-04 02:13:28 UTC 20 lwn.net Llama Share

Danilo Krummrich opposes adding Rust to the kernel due to maintainability concerns. He wants to stop Rust integration in the kernel despite considering it a good language for new projects.

DeepSeek not as disruptive as claimed, firm has 50k GPUs and spent $1.6B

31 sxp 2025-02-04 18:03:11 UTC 13 tomshardware.com Llama Share

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, claims to have trained its model with low compute resources but SemiAnalysis reports $1.6 billion in hardware costs and 50,000 Nvidia GPUs. DeepSeek's success is built on strategic investments, technical breakthroughs, and a competitive workforce.

Show HN: I built a CLI to automate depth tracking on underwater videos

30 noppanut15 2025-02-04 07:22:49 UTC 8 github.com/noppanut15 Llama Share

depthviz is a CLI tool for freedivers to create depth & time overlay videos from dive computers or manual logs. It supports various dive log formats and allows customization of display settings for a seamless and natural depth display.

What's the Deal with Magnetic Fields?

30 zdw 2025-02-04 07:17:06 UTC 24 lcamtuf.substack.com Llama Share

Magnetic fields originate from the interaction between moving charges and stationary charges, resulting in a net electric field experienced by the moving charge. This phenomenon is a consequence of relativistic length contraction, where the spacing between moving charges appears to increase in the direction of travel, creating a magnetic field.

Don't Delegate Understanding

27 herbertl 2025-02-04 18:07:37 UTC 9 stephango.com Llama Share

A parasite consumes health and wealth by preying on ignorance and offering easy solutions. To avoid this, build your own understanding and don't delegate it to others.

Show HN: Mandarin Word Segmenter with Translation

27 routerl 2025-02-04 17:56:33 UTC 9 mandobot.netlify.app Full Share

Why employees smuggle AI into work

26 belter 2025-02-04 13:31:05 UTC 19 bbc.com Llama Share

Many knowledge workers use unauthorized AI tools at work, citing ease of use and flexibility as reasons. Companies struggle to manage this "shadow AI" due to its benefits and potential data security risks.

'No medical evidence' to support Lucy Letby's conviction, expert panel finds

21 mellosouls 2025-02-04 13:05:11 UTC 7 theguardian.com Llama Share

An expert panel concluded that 17 babies' deaths at a UK hospital were due to bad medical care, not deliberate harm by former nurse Lucy Letby. The panel's findings may lead to a review of Letby's convictions for murdering seven babies and attempting to kill another seven.

Programmers are modern-day computers

20 jtlicardo 2025-02-04 14:48:52 UTC 45 jtlicardo.com Llama Share

The author argues that AI is making certain programming skills less relevant, but not useless, as machines can perform tasks more efficiently. They suggest that developers should focus on higher-level skills, like asking AI questions, rather than manual tasks.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren Introduces Act to Block Sites Infringing on U.S. Copyrights

20 healsdata 2025-02-04 04:53:24 UTC 14 deadline.com Llama Share

Rep. Lofgren introduced the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act to prevent foreign-run sites from exploiting U.S. law loopholes. The Act requires U.S. internet providers to block access to pirate websites while protecting free speech and due process.

The Alchemist and His Quicksilver

20 jger15 2025-02-04 01:00:25 UTC 1 fantasticanachronism.com Llama Share

The author finds joy in suffering, viewing it as a catalyst for creativity and heightened awareness. They reject detachment and instead cultivate intensity and sensitivity, embracing life's wildness and tension.

OpenAI announces SoftBank partnership as fallout from DeepSeek continues

18 thunderbong 2025-02-04 11:43:21 UTC 17 semafor.com Llama Share

OpenAI announced a joint venture with SoftBank, investing $3 billion annually in OpenAI software. OpenAI's CEO considers making its products open-source, following the success of DeepSeek's open-source AI model.

The Final Frontier with Steve Jurvetson (2022)

16 sebg 2025-02-04 09:27:58 UTC 4 cloudvalley.substack.com Prefix Share

By subscribing, I agree to Substack's Terms of Use, and acknowledge its Information Collection Notice and Privacy Policy. Step through a nondescript Los Altos storefront and into a world of space. Try, if you can, to focus your eyes on a single object. Every available surface, from wall to window-wall, is covered in a jungle of space artifacts. Rocket engines fill corners, meteorites ...

Seeking Support After Equinix Metal Sunsets

16 ahamez 2025-02-04 09:24:27 UTC 2 alpinelinux.org Llama Share

Equinix Metal is sunsetting their bare-metal hosting service, impacting Alpine Linux's infrastructure and requiring alternative hosting solutions. The community is needed to help find new hosting and financial support to maintain Alpine Linux's reliability and efficiency.

Animating Rick and Morty One Pixel at a Time

15 todsacerdoti 2025-02-04 19:31:47 UTC 2 danielchasehooper.com Llama Share

The user created an animation of Rick from Rick and Morty using 240 lines of code in a live coding editor, showcasing techniques for making animations and graphical effects. The animation was created using OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL) and signed distance fields, with various techniques used to achieve a realistic look.

Platform for supporting local sellers and buyers

15 blunum 2025-02-04 08:34:23 UTC 12 blunum.com Full Share

Buy or Sell within your Local Community

Minor 387 Documentation Mystery

13 userbinator 2025-02-04 03:59:38 UTC 0 os2museum.com Llama Share

The author is researching the behavior of x87 FPU state saving and loading instructions. The 32-bit protected-mode FPU state includes a floating-point opcode field that was added in 1987.