I tasted Honda’s spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)

1548 voxadam 2025-02-11 15:08:08 UTC 443 haterade.substack.com Llama Share

The author learned about mouse tape, a rodent repellent coated with capsaicin, after experiencing car troubles due to rodent damage. The author tasted the tape, finding it had a subtle warmth and numbing effect, but not effective in repelling rodents.

Firing programmers for AI is a mistake

730 frag 2025-02-11 09:42:42 UTC 842 defragzone.substack.com Llama Share

The author argues that companies replacing programmers with AI will regret it as AI can't replicate human expertise and will lead to product failures and rehiring sprees. The best programmers will become rare and expensive, leaving companies to fix the mess they created.

Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024

633 TangerineDream 2025-02-11 14:55:45 UTC 205 backblaze.com Llama Share

Backblaze monitored 301,120 hard drives in 2024, with a quarterly failure rate of 1.35% and an annual failure rate of 1.57%. The failure rates are down from previous years, but the company will be watching the 8TB, 12TB, 14TB, and 16TB drive models as they approach or exceed five years of service.

Boring tech is mature, not old

497 mikece 2025-02-11 14:08:22 UTC 299 rubenerd.com Llama Share

The author praises "boring" tech as well-understood and reliable, preferring it over new or complex systems that can cause surprises and issues. They define "boring" as mature tech with a proven track record, good documentation, and a strong community.

Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting

412 ambigious7777 2025-02-11 04:13:47 UTC 502 theverge.com Llama Share

Two Nvidia RTX 5090 owners reported melted power connectors and damaged PSUs, similar to 2022 RTX 4090 issues. Nvidia's new 12V-2x6 connector aims to improve reliability, but existing 12VHPWR cables can still be used.

Thomson Reuters wins first major AI copyright case in the US

386 johnneville 2025-02-11 20:56:21 UTC 175 wired.com Llama Share

Thomson Reuters won a copyright lawsuit against Ross Intelligence, with a judge ruling their AI infringed on Westlaw materials. The ruling complicates fair use arguments for AI companies, potentially limiting their use of copyrighted materials.

The subtle art of designing physical controls for cars

363 vsdlrd 2025-02-11 19:15:02 UTC 233 theturnsignalblog.com Llama Share

The user explored designing a physical climate control system for cars with a rotary dial, focusing on automation and minimal interactions, and created a prototype using a Smart Knob project. They established design principles for haptic interfaces and implemented a fake automated system with temperature, fan speed, and seat heating controls, recommending a setup with two functions for ...

DeepScaleR: Surpassing O1-Preview with a 1.5B Model by Scaling RL

320 sijuntan 2025-02-11 19:59:00 UTC 126 pretty-radio-b75.notion.site Llama Share

Researchers developed DeepScaleR-1.5B-Preview, a reasoning model trained with reinforcement learning, outperforming OpenAI's o1-preview on multiple math benchmarks. The model achieved 43.1% Pass@1 accuracy on AIME 2024 with 1.5B parameters and 3,800 A100 GPU hours.

Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights

298 sidcool 2025-02-11 04:19:41 UTC 169 cacm.acm.org Prefix Share

Hyperscalers, such as Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Tencent, have developed planetary-scale infrastructure to deliver cloud, Web, or mobile services to their global users. And though most practitioners may not directly build such hyperscale infrastructure, we believe it is beneficial to learn a bit about it. Historically, many widely used technologies have ...

Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop

287 mraniki 2025-02-11 06:34:26 UTC 199 tech.slashdot.org Llama Share

Stellantis introduced full-screen ads on its infotainment systems, appearing every time a vehicle stops. Drivers must manually close ads to access basic vehicle functions, disrupting the driving experience.

Launch HN: A0.dev (YC W25) – React Native App Generator

256 sethburster 2025-02-11 17:08:35 UTC 97 news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

Seth and Ayo built a0.dev, a platform that generates custom React Native apps in hours, not weeks. It uses AI to create apps with live previews, ideal for prototyping and app development.

We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly

248 miranda_carter 2025-02-11 02:13:56 UTC 227 dagger.io Full Share

UnitedHealth hired a defamation law firm to go after social media posts

239 taimurkazmi 2025-02-11 17:44:34 UTC 195 fortune.com Full Share

The insurer and its law firm denies a doctor’s online claim that it refused to cover care for a cancer patient.

How about trailing commas in SQL?

223 ingve 2025-02-11 08:26:16 UTC 268 peter.eisentraut.org Llama Share

We need to decide how to support trailing commas in SQL, considering PostgreSQL, the SQL standard, and other implementations. We have options to support all cases, popular cases, or just maintain trailing commas for future additions.

FLAC 1.5 Delivers Multi-Threaded Encoding

217 mikece 2025-02-11 13:58:01 UTC 69 phoronix.com Llama Share

FLAC 1.5 introduces multi-threaded audio encoding and can handle chained Ogg FLAC files. It also includes various library fixes and build system updates.

Intel's Battlemage Architecture

208 ksec 2025-02-11 16:00:59 UTC 144 chipsandcheese.com Llama Share

Intel's new Battlemage architecture targets the midrange segment, aiming to improve performance with less compute power and memory bandwidth. The Arc B580 GPU, based on Battlemage, offers 12 GB of VRAM at $250, undercutting competitors while providing more VRAM than midrange cards from AMD and Nvidia.

Tesla Cybertruck Drives Itself into a Pole, Owner Says 'Thank You Tesla'

207 computerliker 2025-02-11 19:09:25 UTC 218 thedrive.com Llama Share

A Tesla Cybertruck owner praised the automaker for the vehicle's performance after it crashed into a utility pole in Reno, Nevada, due to the Full Self-Driving system's failure. The owner took blame for not paying attention, but critics argue the system's failure is a bigger issue.

A Year of Telepathy

192 julianh65 2025-02-11 22:46:31 UTC 312 neuralink.com Llama Share

Three individuals with paralysis, Noland, Alex, and Brad, have used Neuralink's Link brain-computer interface for over 670 days, enabling them to control devices with their thoughts. They have regained autonomy and independence, with Noland learning, Alex designing, and Brad communicating in various environments.

NOAA's public weather data powers the local forecasts on your phone and TV

187 rntn 2025-02-11 21:31:43 UTC 112 theconversation.com Llama Share

NOAA's vast network of satellites, radar, and weather analysts provides real-time data for accurate weather forecasts. This data is then used by forecasters to issue warnings and alerts, making it a public good that benefits everyone, not just those who can pay for it.

Make Your Own Website: A beginner's guide

187 panic 2025-02-11 02:37:06 UTC 45 web.pixelshannon.com Llama Share

This guide explains how to create a basic website using HTML and CSS, including setting up a folder, creating an index.html file, adding content, and linking to other pages. To publish the website, users can upload their files to a web host, such as yay.boo, Neocities, or Netlify, and register a custom domain name for a small fee.

BYD to offer Tesla-like self-driving tech in all models for free

183 senti_sentient 2025-02-11 22:08:18 UTC 310 asiafinancial.com Llama Share

BYD introduced self-driving systems on all its vehicles, including its cheapest model, priced at $9,555, for free. This move could start a price war in the electric vehicle market and hurt rivals like Tesla.

E Ink’s color ePaper tech gets supersized for outdoor displays

183 Brajeshwar 2025-02-11 16:01:19 UTC 143 newatlas.com Llama Share

E Ink has showcased 75-inch outdoor displays using Kaleido 3 technology with low power consumption and non-light pollution. The displays are designed for digital signage and can operate in various temperatures, with Samsung offering sizes from 13 to 75 inches.

How Copyover MUD Servers Worked

183 _jackdk_ 2025-02-11 01:19:14 UTC 82 jackkelly.name Llama Share

The user reminisces about playing MUDs in their youth and eventually becoming interested in building and tinkering with them, including learning to code and implementing a "copyover" or "hotboot" trick to update the server without losing connections. This trick uses Unix primitives like pipes, fork, and file descriptor persistence to replace the server with a new version while retaining its ...

Postmortem: The singular design of Namco's Katamari Damacy (2004)

179 danso 2025-02-11 17:34:31 UTC 53 gamedeveloper.com Llama Share

Katamari Damacy's creator wanted to create a unique game that breaks away from traditional game design, focusing on simplicity and originality. The game's development process was a collaborative effort that allowed the team to express their creativity and bring a fresh perspective to the gaming industry.

LLMs can teach themselves to better predict the future

175 bturtel 2025-02-11 16:40:20 UTC 84 arxiv.org Llama Share

Researchers developed a fine-tuning framework for large language models that improves forecasting capabilities without human-curated samples. Their method increased prediction accuracy by 7-10% compared to a base model.

The Floppotron 3.0 (2022)

174 pabs3 2025-02-11 01:02:48 UTC 25 silent.org.pl Llama Share

The user is impressed with the Floppotron 3.0 music project using floppy drives, hard drives, and scanners, and asks about the music file and MIDI files to convert and upload. They also suggest recording the Floppotron for preservation and propose organizing a contest for user-made songs and a tour.

Microsoft open sources PostgreSQL extensions

161 beardyw 2025-02-11 13:05:38 UTC 80 theregister.com Llama Share

Microsoft released two PostgreSQL extensions, pg_documentdb_core and pg_documentdb_api, to support document-style data and compete with MongoDB. This move blurs the lines between relational and non-relational databases, according to experts.

Japan can be a science heavyweight once more if it rethinks funding

158 rntn 2025-02-11 18:30:13 UTC 50 nature.com Llama Share

Japanese funding agencies should support talented researchers with flexible funding to pursue interdisciplinary research, as seen in successful models worldwide. This approach can lead to breakthroughs and foster collaboration, but Japan's current system often favors narrow, disciplinary research.

JetBrains Fleet drops support for Kotlin Multiplatform

158 konradkissener 2025-02-11 17:17:55 UTC 263 blog.jetbrains.com Llama Share

JetBrains is shifting focus from a standalone Kotlin Multiplatform IDE to providing better KMP support on the IntelliJ Platform. Fleet support for KMP will be deprecated in three months.

The first yearly drop in average CPU performance in its 20 years of benchmarks

146 LorenDB 2025-02-11 20:00:13 UTC 63 tomshardware.com Llama Share

PassMark's average CPU mark score for desktop and laptop processors dropped 3.4% and 0.5% respectively in 2025. The drop may be due to various factors including switching to lower power machines, Windows 11 performance issues, or bloatware.

IT Unemployment Rises to 5.7% as AI Hits Tech Jobs

137 paulpauper 2025-02-11 17:18:43 UTC 147 wsj.com Full Share

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TSMC 2nm Process Disclosure – How Does It Measure Up?

134 sroussey 2025-02-11 07:05:39 UTC 101 semiwiki.com Llama Share

Thread 22069: The thread "China's SMIC Q4 profit slumps 38.4%, misses estimates despite revenue growth" has 2 replies and was posted by Daniel Nenni. It is located in the SemiWiki Main Forum.

Reviving the joy and honor of working with your hands (2015)

133 skadamat 2025-02-11 18:23:03 UTC 107 richmond.com Llama Share

Noel Dempsey, a 68-year-old mechanical engineer, rescues and sells old industrial machinery from closed vocational schools, highlighting the decline of vocational education in the US. Dempsey's work emphasizes the need for a shift back to vocational education to maintain America's industrial strength and security.

Apple software update “bug” enables Apple Intelligence

124 walterbell 2025-02-11 02:55:31 UTC 131 lapcatsoftware.com Llama Share

Some users who disabled Apple Intelligence saw it re-enabled after updating to macOS 15.3.1 and iOS 18.3.1. The re-enabling appears to depend on whether the Setup Assistant is displayed after the update.

Migrate purchases from one Apple Account to another

108 james_pm 2025-02-11 23:32:02 UTC 59 support.apple.com Llama Share

You can migrate purchases from a secondary Apple Account to a primary Apple Account if both accounts are eligible and meet certain requirements. This process involves verifying payment methods, spending any remaining balance, and signing out of the secondary account.

Working from home is here to stay

108 miohtama 2025-02-11 07:35:24 UTC 78 wolfstreet.com Llama Share

Office attendance remains low, with average occupancy at 54% of pre-Covid levels. Hybrid work arrangements dominate, with 39% of full-time employees working partially or fully from home.

Ways to generate SSA

105 g0xA52A2A 2025-02-11 07:21:21 UTC 34 bernsteinbear.com Llama Share

Static Single Assignment (SSA) is a compiler representation where variables are assigned exactly once, used in the 1980s and still applied today. Key papers on SSA include The Cytron Paper, Single-Pass Generation of Static Single-Assignment Form, and SSA Translation Is an Abstract Interpretation.

Danes sign petition to buy California from U.S.

98 iancmceachern 2025-02-11 01:29:56 UTC 37 ktla.com Llama Share

Danish citizens launched a tongue-in-cheek petition to buy California, offering perks like sunshine and avocado toast, in response to President Trump's Greenland acquisition idea. The petition, which has nearly 200,000 signatures, is a rebuttal to Trump's fixation on acquiring Greenland, a Danish territory.

Associated Press Barred from Oval Office for Not Using 'Gulf of America'

93 healsdata 2025-02-11 23:12:11 UTC 54 theguardian.com Llama Share

The Associated Press was barred from the Oval Office due to its refusal to align with President Trump's executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico. AP will continue to use the original name, citing its long history and international recognition.

RTX 5090 cable overheats to 150 degrees Celsius

89 LorenDB 2025-02-11 14:55:18 UTC 4 tomshardware.com Llama Share

YouTuber Der8auer investigated an RTX 5090 melting incident, finding a critically damaged wire causing uneven current distribution. This led to dangerously high temperatures, breaching safety limits and potentially causing damage.

Voters were right about the economy

88 cwwc 2025-02-11 19:54:45 UTC 88 politico.com Llama Share

Government statistics on the economy are flawed and misrepresent reality, particularly for lower-income households. The numbers often hide the true extent of unemployment, wage stagnation, and economic disparities, leading to a disconnect between public perception and economic reality.

Incremental compilation instantly rebuilds the Zig compiler [video]

88 kristoff_it 2025-02-11 19:10:16 UTC 15 youtube.com Full Share

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Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America'

88 jasperr1 2025-02-11 00:08:11 UTC 187 theverge.com Llama Share

Google Maps now shows "Gulf of America" in the US, following the Trump administration's name change, while other countries still see "Gulf of Mexico". Apple Maps and other mapping companies have not made the change yet.

Database of 750 companies building for people with disabilities

87 ohjeez 2025-02-11 19:01:46 UTC 11 data.perkins.org Llama Share

The DisabilityTech market encompasses technology solutions for people with disabilities, with over 750 companies worldwide, led by North America, followed by Europe and Asia. The market is diverse, with companies serving various end-user groups and using various technologies.

Sid Meier's Civilization VII

87 doener 2025-02-11 09:18:11 UTC 135 civilization.2k.com Llama Share

Sid Meier's Civilization VII Founders Edition is a digital-only edition available until February 28, 2025, with early access on February 6, 2025. It includes post-launch content, new leaders, civilizations, and gameplay features.

Get in loser. We're rewinding the stack

86 andrew_rfc 2025-02-11 15:40:11 UTC 2 andrews.substack.com Llama Share

User implemented setjmp for WebAssembly to make zeroperl usable, using Binaryen's Asyncify feature and a solution found in the Ruby repo. This allows for a fully sandboxed and self-contained Perl in a tiny WebAssembly module.

Anchoreum: A game for learning CSS anchor positioning

85 thomaspark 2025-02-11 13:54:01 UTC 26 anchoreum.com Full Share

The exhibit's grand opening was a rousing success. Anchoreum is now considered to be the finest anchor museum in the world!

Show HN: Mapping the Unix Magic Poster – An Interactive Annotation Project

77 drio 2025-02-11 22:22:37 UTC 29 drio.github.io Llama Share

The su command switches to a different user account, often to gain root privileges, while man displays online manuals for commands and system details. Pipes combine commands for efficient workflows, and memory leaks occur when programs fail to release unused memory.

Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM; retains Black Friday

72 blipr 2025-02-11 00:57:22 UTC 62 theverge.com Llama Share

Google Calendar no longer highlights certain events by default, including Pride month and Black History Month. Google returned to showing only public holidays and national observances from timeanddate.com, allowing users to manually add other important moments.

Elements of Programming (2009)

68 kykeonaut 2025-02-11 18:04:35 UTC 5 elementsofprogramming.com Full Share

The Mythology of Work (2018)

68 robtherobber 2025-02-11 12:37:11 UTC 88 crimethinc.com Llama Share

The current capitalist system prioritizes profit over people, leading to poverty, inequality, and environmental destruction. We should rethink work and aim for a society where people pursue activities for their own sake, not just for a paycheck.

Zeroperl: Sandboxing Perl with WebAssembly

67 ccakes 2025-02-11 20:11:37 UTC 34 andrews.substack.com Llama Share

The user built a static Perl build in WebAssembly to run ExifTool, but encountered issues with exception handling and file system calls. They created a custom VFS table to bundle the Perl prefix inside the module, resulting in a 9.1 MB WebAssembly build of Perl that is fully sandboxed and self-contained.

'social network' attacking pesticide critics shuts down after investigation

67 rguiscard 2025-02-11 00:44:57 UTC 18 theguardian.com Llama Share

US company v-Fluence halted operations after being exposed for secretly profiling hundreds of health advocates in a private web portal. The company, which worked with pesticide makers, removed the profiles but faces backlash and potential litigation from those targeted.

Shopify takes down Ye website selling swastika shirts after Super Bowl ad

66 pseudolus 2025-02-11 17:16:58 UTC 53 cnbc.com Llama Share

Shopify took down Ye's website selling swastika t-shirts for violating its terms of service. The site was online until Tuesday morning after a Super Bowl ad directed viewers to visit Yeezy.com.

More users are watching YouTube on TV than mobile

64 mikece 2025-02-11 14:10:47 UTC 87 engadget.com Llama Share

YouTube reports TV has surpassed mobile as primary device for US content viewing, with big screens and chunky remotes still relevant. YouTube's new feature Watch With allows creators to produce live commentary and reactions to games and events.

Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news – study

63 ggm 2025-02-11 07:19:51 UTC 30 theguardian.com Llama Share

Far-right populists are more likely to spread fake news on social media than politicians from mainstream or far-left parties. They use misinformation to destabilize democracies and gain political advantage, often through alternative media ecosystems.

How America traded systematic improvement for quick wins–and lost both

62 klooney 2025-02-11 04:03:36 UTC 15 population.fyi Llama Share

Voters are demanding government effectiveness, not ideological solutions, and a forgotten chapter in American governance, the Bureau of the Budget's Work Simplification program, offers crucial lessons. The program's systematic approach to improvement, focusing on training and process analysis, achieved remarkable results and can inform contemporary reform efforts.

Go's new map implementation in 1.24 is powered by Swiss Tables

60 tosh 2025-02-11 18:29:29 UTC 4 twitter.com/petermattis Full Share

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Elementary Functions and Not Following IEEE754 Floating-Point Standard (2020)

60 dreamer_soul 2025-02-11 01:50:21 UTC 32 hlsl.co.uk Llama Share

The IEEE-754 standard for floating-point numbers has a 1 ULP error constraint for elementary functions, but most libraries do not follow this requirement, leading to inconsistent results. Implementing correctly rounded functions is possible without significant performance impact on modern hardware, and a dynamic library can provide arbitrary precision while ensuring deterministic results.

Nocc – A Distributed C++ Compiler

60 gjvc 2025-02-11 00:35:34 UTC 33 github.com/vkcom Llama Share

nocc speeds up compilation of large C++ projects by parallelizing compilation across remotes and using shared remote caches. It integrates with any build system and supports precompiled headers, remote caching, and incremental compilation.

Trust, 2-Party Relays, and QUIC

59 kevincox 2025-02-11 18:44:48 UTC 32 obscura.net Llama Share

Obscura is a new VPN service that uses a 2-party relay architecture and QUIC transport to provide end-to-end encryption and obfuscation, making it harder to detect and block. By partnering with Mullvad, Obscura ensures that users' personal info and browsing history remain private, and its open-source app allows users to verify its trustworthiness.

A pair of scissors on formica table suddenly bursts into flames

59 83457 2025-02-11 15:11:43 UTC 47 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. If blocked, try changing back to default User-Agent or file a ticket for assistance.

Down the rabbit hole: Implementing SSH port forwarding over AWS Session Manager

59 saligrama 2025-02-11 01:42:59 UTC 13 joinformal.com Llama Share

The user, a new hire at Formal, fixed a bug that prevented VS Code Remote SSH connections through the Formal Connector, which supports SSH and AWS SSM protocols. The fix involved implementing TCP/IP forwarding over SSH and SSM, and resolving data race issues in the AWS Session Manager Plugin.

CFPB's 1,700 employees told to "not perform any work"

58 dataflow 2025-02-11 04:59:32 UTC 66 nypost.com Llama Share

President Trump's administration is targeting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) with a surprise week off for employees and a request for a $0 quarterly allocation from the Federal Reserve. This move aims to shrink the federal government and follows similar actions at USAID, with the goal of reducing the CFPB's workforce and budget.

Feature Flags vs. Configuration Options – Same Difference?

58 m0nhawk 2025-02-11 04:54:24 UTC 7 cs.cmu.edu Prefix Share

Update: We have published a paper on this discussion, including updates from interviews we conducted, at ICSE-SEIP 2020. Having spent over a decade researching configurable systems and software product lines, the phenomenon of feature flags is interesting but also deeply familiar. After reading papers and blogs, watching talks, and interviewing several developers, we see some nuance but also ...

Time to act on the risk of efficient personalized text generation

57 Jimmc414 2025-02-11 16:14:03 UTC 34 arxiv.org Llama Share

Advances in open-sourced Generative AI models and finetuning techniques enable creation of personalized models mimicking individuals' writing styles. However, this also introduces new safety risks of large-scale impersonation attacks through phishing emails.

EU's AltStore Gets First Native iOS Pornography App

57 ilamont 2025-02-11 16:11:47 UTC 78 macrumors.com Llama Share

The EU's Digital Markets Act allows developers to distribute iOS apps through alternate stores, enabling the creation of a native iPhone pornography app called Hot Tub. Apple checks these apps for malware but has fewer restrictions on content, allowing users to download the app through AltStore.

NixOS and Portable Executables

53 jandeboevrie 2025-02-11 05:50:34 UTC 21 jackkelly.name Llama Share

User impressed with Cosmopolitan Libc and APEs, but had issues with finicky APEs on NixOS. User set up Nix Flake to register APE loader with binfmt_misc for easier use.

What are non intelligent people like me supposed to do for money?

53 carabiner 2025-02-11 02:54:03 UTC 87 reddit.com Full Share

To continue, log in to your Reddit account or use your developer tokenIf you think you've been blocked by mistake, file a ticket below and we'll look into it.

ASTRA: HackerRank's coding benchmark for LLMs

50 rvivek 2025-02-11 17:37:38 UTC 14 hackerrank.com Llama Share

The ASTRA benchmark evaluates AI models on multi-file, real-world coding tasks, focusing on code generation correctness and consistency, and includes 65 project-based coding questions across 10 primary coding skill domains. The benchmark reveals that o1, o1-preview, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet are leading models for front-end development, with o1 leading in average score and average pass@1, while ...

Canonical announces 12 year Kubernetes LTS

46 gpi 2025-02-11 14:27:00 UTC 49 canonical.com Llama Share

Canonical announced a 12 year security maintenance and support commitment for Kubernetes 1.32 LTS. This release is easy to install, operate and upgrade, with best-of-breed open source networking and security services.

Mass market non-fiction has bad incentives

45 bumbledraven 2025-02-11 19:50:07 UTC 36 borretti.me Llama Share

Non-fiction books often prioritize author status over actual content, with writers focusing on publicity and legitimacy rather than providing useful information. This status-driven approach pollutes the information environment by prioritizing publication over substance.

Why do AI chatbots have such a hard time admitting 'I don't know'?

44 fortran77 2025-02-11 14:26:32 UTC 71 wsj.com Full Share

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Bulk inserts on ClickHouse: How to avoid overstuffing your instance

41 mooreds 2025-02-11 14:43:45 UTC 11 runportcullis.co Llama Share

Clickhouse Cloud users should batch data into larger chunks before inserting to avoid creating too many parts and degrading performance. Tools like Jitsu Bulker, clickhouse-bulk, and DLT can help streamline bulk data ingestion into Clickhouse by batching data and preventing the "too many parts" problem.

Altman: OpenAI not for sale, especially to competitor who is not able to beat us

39 jmsflknr 2025-02-11 10:43:24 UTC 88 axios.com Llama Share

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company is not for sale, rejecting Elon Musk's $97.4 billion offer. Altman stated that OpenAI's mission is not for sale and that Musk's offer shows disregard for the company's goals.

Tumblr to join the Fediverse after WordPress migration completes

38 Fitik 2025-02-11 21:26:14 UTC 12 techcrunch.com Llama Share

Tumblr will move to WordPress infrastructure allowing users to federate via ActivityPub and potentially run custom plugins or themes. The migration aims to integrate Tumblr with the open social web, including support for WordPress' ActivityPub plug-ins.

My Wife's Enemies Are Now My Enemies, Too (2019)

38 mooreds 2025-02-11 13:10:47 UTC 62 thecut.com Llama Share

The author's wife taught him to have enemies, which he now shares with her, including friends, family, and acquaintances she dislikes. He supports her by avoiding and criticizing these people, which has made him a more loyal and resolute person.

What the Black Hawk pilots could see, just before the crash

36 bookofjoe 2025-02-11 23:08:38 UTC 64 nytimes.com Llama Share

A Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines jet over the Potomac River on Jan 29, killing 67 people. The cause of the crash is unclear, but investigators are examining what the pilots saw before the accident.

Solving the ABA Problem in Rust with Tagged Pointers

36 todsacerdoti 2025-02-11 12:26:11 UTC 23 minikin.me Llama Share

The ABA problem in concurrent programming can be solved using tagged pointers with versioning, which increments a version counter on every update to detect stale references. This method effectively solves the ABA problem by attaching a version identifier to each pointer, minimizing synchronization overhead and safeguarding data integrity in performance-critical environments.

SolarWinds to Be Acquired by Turn/River Capital

36 ChrisArchitect 2025-02-11 02:05:35 UTC 24 investors.solarwinds.com Llama Share

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Disabling cert checks: we have not learned much

34 caution 2025-02-11 15:11:22 UTC 22 daniel.haxx.se Llama Share

The author of curl emphasizes the importance of verifying server certificates by default to prevent insecure connections and middle-man attacks, and strongly discourages users from disabling the check. Despite improvements to the API and documentation, the author still finds many instances of disabled certificate checks in modern software, and encourages others to report bugs and lead by good ...

Do Lake Names Reflect Their Properties?

34 IvanLudvig 2025-02-11 00:47:17 UTC 42 ivanludvig.dev Llama Share

You analyzed lake colors in France, Italy, and Russia/Belarus by fetching satellite image data. The results show that lake colors are consistent across countries, with a light-blue-greyish tint, and color-named lakes are not distinguishable from each other.

I Blog with Raw Txt

32 simonpure 2025-02-11 09:00:15 UTC 17 misc.l3m.in Llama Share

This blog is written in raw TXT without HTML or CSS formatting due to a poor internet connection. It uses plain text and relies on browser capabilities, avoiding theme constraints.

Show HN: Sort lines semantically using llm-sort

24 vagozino 2025-02-11 03:25:25 UTC 13 github.com/vagos Llama Share

The plugin adds a new command llm sort for semantic ranking of lines based on a query. It supports various methods, models, and output limits.

Harry Stewart, Jr., one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, dies at 100

22 cf100clunk 2025-02-11 17:09:46 UTC 6 apnews.com Llama Share

Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr, a decorated World War II Tuskegee Airman, has died at 100. He broke racial barriers and earned honors for combat heroism, including the Distinguished Flying Cross.

The Butter Thesis (2019)

21 SoKamil 2025-02-11 21:02:12 UTC 15 nickgrossman.xyz Llama Share

USV's "Butter Thesis" describes interactions that are smooth, easy, and enjoyable. It's about creating tools and experiences that are frictionless and joyful, making users want to use them.

Lzbench compression benchmark

20 todsacerdoti 2025-02-11 15:47:45 UTC 6 morotti.github.io Llama Share

Javascript is required for this page to work and it compares various compression methods including gzip, tar, 7-zip, zlib, liblzma, and libdeflate. The benchmark results show that the fastest algorithms are ideal for reducing storage and network usage.

Man who threw away $750M in Bitcoin wants to buy the dump where it's buried

17 larrymcp 2025-02-11 18:15:27 UTC 28 fortune.com Full Share

James Howells continues his quest to recover a mistakenly trashed fortune.

Enterprise Is Dead

17 FinnLobsien 2025-02-11 11:21:28 UTC 3 cra.mr Llama Share

Sentry is an Enterprise software company that has successfully scaled to 50,000 paying customers by focusing on community, low-friction product adoption, and open-source models. The company's approach challenges traditional sales-driven business models and emphasizes the importance of critical thinking and decision-making in business growth.

The Curious Similarity Between LLMs and Quantum Mechanics

16 rdlecler1 2025-02-11 16:24:30 UTC 14 robleclerc.substack.com Llama Share

Author Rob Leclerc, a VC and AI expert, noticed parallels between transformer models and quantum mechanics, suggesting they may capture nature's design principles. He mapped out analogies between transformer concepts and quantum phenomena, inviting readers to share their thoughts.

Subjectivity in Productivity

16 tapanjk 2025-02-11 06:10:11 UTC 2 world.hey.com Llama Share

The quest for exactness is often impossible in creative work and project management. Basecamp is adding imprecise, humanizing features to reflect reality, not false precision.

Utility Engineering: Analyzing and Controlling Emergent Value Systems in AIs

13 Jimmc414 2025-02-11 19:08:04 UTC 1 emergent-values.ai Llama Share

Researchers found that current AIs exhibit high degrees of structural coherence in their preferences, suggesting emergent value systems. To control these systems, they propose utility engineering, which includes methods to analyze and control AI utilities.

Show HN: I built an AI coloring page generator

12 iliaddh 2025-02-11 17:09:06 UTC 24 colori.io Prefix Share

Create unique, personalized coloring pages in seconds with our AI technology. Perfect for teachers, parents, and creative minds. "ColorMe has transformed my art classes. My students love creating their own unique coloring pages!" "The AI understands artistic styles perfectly. It's like having a creative partner that brings my ideas to life." "My kids are obsessed! They ...