Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead

1101 Shank 2025-02-13 15:34:57 UTC 957 marcan.st Llama Share

The author, a former lead of the Asahi Linux project, is resigning due to burnout and frustration with the Linux community's toxic behavior and lack of support. They cite personal attacks, harassment, and entitled users as reasons for their departure.

Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search

927 b3n 2025-02-13 19:57:29 UTC 334 blog.kagi.com Llama Share

Kagi Search introduces Privacy Pass, an authentication protocol that allows users to access services without revealing their identity. This feature is now available on Kagi's Tor onion service and Orion browser.

LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab

544 LinuxBender 2025-02-13 16:59:43 UTC 222 theregister.com Llama Share

LibreOffice, a 40-year-old office suite, is being taught new tricks such as real-time collaboration and browser-based functionality. Two new projects, Distributed real-time collaboration for Writer and ZetaOffice, aim to make LibreOffice more important than ever.

Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids

533 desunit 2025-02-13 07:12:47 UTC 405 desunit.com Llama Share

The marshmallow experiment's conclusion that patience equals success is flawed as it doesn't consider factors like home stability, economic background, and cultural norms.

Phind 2: AI search with visual answers and multi-step reasoning

520 rushingcreek 2025-02-13 18:20:29 UTC 187 phind.com Llama Share

Phind has been rebuilt from scratch with 6 months of data from 130+ million searches, now offering rich visual outputs and interactive features. It can also perform multiple web searches and execute code for comprehensive real-time answers.

Show HN: SQL Noir – Learn SQL by solving crimes

432 chrisBHappy 2025-02-13 21:49:16 UTC 84 sqlnoir.com Full Share

Solve crimes and mysteries using SQL queries in this detective-themed SQL learning game.

DOGE as a National Cyberattack

391 mikece 2025-02-13 14:10:04 UTC 212 schneier.com Llama Share

The US government has experienced a major security breach through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has compromised sensitive data and systems, including the Treasury Department and Office of Personnel Management. The breach has raised concerns about national security and the potential for foreign adversaries to exploit the vulnerabilities created by DOGE's actions.

Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads

388 rbanffy 2025-02-13 12:19:08 UTC 237 nature.com Llama Share

Researchers developed a blood test to detect pancreatic cancer early using nanosensors that detect active proteases in the blood. The test showed 73% accuracy in identifying pancreatic cancer and 98% accuracy in identifying healthy individuals.

U.K. demand for a back door to Apple data threatens Americans, lawmakers say

383 ksec 2025-02-13 14:53:46 UTC 315 washingtonpost.com Full Share

The OBS Project is threatening Fedora Linux with legal action

292 TheFreim 2025-02-13 23:52:32 UTC 211 gitlab.com Llama Share

Users are unhappy with unofficial OBS Studio Flatpak on Fedora Flatpaks, which is poorly packaged and broken, and being mistaken for the official package. A clear distinction between official and unofficial packages is requested, with the unofficial one removed or labeled as third-party.

MapTCHA, the open-source CAPTCHA that improves OpenStreetMap [video]

289 raybb 2025-02-13 19:44:34 UTC 45 fosdem.org Llama Share

Researchers developed MapTCHA, a CAPTCHA system that uses AI-generated images to verify human users and improve OpenStreetMap accuracy. MapTCHA aggregates user responses to determine the existence of objects, suggesting locations for mapping.

Fewer students are enrolling in doctoral degrees

234 rntn 2025-02-13 14:53:21 UTC 462 nature.com Llama Share

PhD enrolments have dropped in several countries due to high living costs, low stipends, and limited job options. Countries are urged to reform working conditions and provide more funding to prevent a talent drain and slow scientific progress.

TeX and Typst: Layout Models (2024)

231 fngjdflmdflg 2025-02-13 04:34:09 UTC 37 laurmaedje.github.io Llama Share

Typst's layout engine differs from TeX's in its region-based model, which prioritizes placement over movability, but lacks flexibility in juggling content. A relayout-based approach can unify movability and placement, but introduces complexity and performance challenges that Typst is well-positioned to overcome.

Trump's firing of the U.S. government archivist is far worse than it might seem

217 rendx 2025-02-13 07:18:04 UTC 101 fastcompany.com Full Share

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Self hosted FLOSS fitness/workout tracker

216 freemh 2025-02-13 09:44:25 UTC 110 github.com/wger-project Llama Share

Wger Workout Manager is a free, open source web app for managing workouts, weight, and diet plans with a REST API. It's licensed under AGPL 3+ and has documentation under CC-BY-SA 4+.

Who exactly needs to get approval from an institutional review board (IRB)?

210 gregorymichael 2025-02-13 17:13:01 UTC 155 dynomight.net Prefix Share

Some of my favorite internet people sometimes organize little community experiments. Like, let’s eat potatoes and see if we lose weight. Or, let’s try take some supplements and see if anxiety goes down. I’ve toyed with doing one myself, to see if theanine (a chemical in tea) really helps with stress. But sometimes, when everyone is having fun, some very mean very bad people show up and say, ...

Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage

186 abe94 2025-02-13 13:47:25 UTC 129 reuters.com Full Share

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DOGE staffer is trying to reroute FEMA funds

182 jkestner 2025-02-13 14:16:20 UTC 283 dropsitenews.com Llama Share

DOGE has gained access to FEMA's financial management system, allowing it to review grants and access personally identifiable information. At least four FEMA employees have been fired with letters citing executive power, amid concerns over DOGE's influence and motives.

Federal data is disappearing. On Thursday, meet the teams working to rescue it

180 20after4 2025-02-13 06:07:34 UTC 86 muckrock.com Llama Share

The Trump administration has removed hundreds of federal data sets and websites without warning, prompting civil society organizations to preserve the data. Organizations like the Internet Archive and Harvard's Library Innovation Lab are working to rescue and share the data with the public.

DOGE Has Started Gutting a Key US Technology Agency

171 qwertox 2025-02-13 16:12:29 UTC 177 wired.com Llama Share

Dozens of US government workers, mostly probationary and short-term staffers, were fired from the Technology Transformation Services on Wednesday. The cuts are part of a broader effort to reduce the federal workforce, with around 650 TTS employees previously employed.

Better text rendering in Chromium-based browsers on Windows

171 barlog 2025-02-13 15:08:34 UTC 130 developer.chrome.com Llama Share

Microsoft Edge transitioned to Chromium in 2020, but users reported text appearing "washed out". The Edge team adjusted default text contrast and gamma settings to match pre-Chromium Edge and native Windows applications.

'It's a money game to them':son takes on UnitedHealth over elderly father's care

170 howard941 2025-02-13 19:16:29 UTC 153 theguardian.com Llama Share

Robby Martin's father, Jackie, had his UnitedHealth Medicare Advantage coverage repeatedly denied despite his need for rehab after a back fracture. Jackie died alone five days after UnitedHealth cut off his nursing home coverage, prompting a lawsuit accusing the company of wrongfully denying elderly patients care.

Learning fast and accurate absolute pitch judgment in adulthood

165 dr_dshiv 2025-02-13 08:38:13 UTC 129 link.springer.com Full Share

How to professionally say (2022)

141 bookofjoe 2025-02-13 01:24:31 UTC 96 github.com/akashrajpurohit Llama Share

User created a static website with professional phrases for colleagues, inspired by Instagram content creator @loewhaley. The project is open sourced, allowing feedback and improvements.

White Hat Hackers Expose Iridium Satellite Security Flaws

133 Brajeshwar 2025-02-13 16:23:50 UTC 31 spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share

German hackers Sec and Schneider demonstrated how to intercept Iridium text messages and locate users with 4km accuracy using a home-assembled eavesdropping kit. Many Iridium devices, including civilian satellite phones, still rely on an unencrypted 30-year-old radio protocol, making them vulnerable to interception.

TSMC faces tough choices amid rumors for Intel foundry collaboration

132 walterbell 2025-02-13 16:27:25 UTC 156 techsoda.substack.com Llama Share

TSMC executives are set to negotiate with the US government over potential cooperation options, including setting up a US factory or investing in Intel's foundry services. TSMC's board approved a $17.14 billion capital budget for long-term capacity planning, but its stance on US proposals remains unclear.

Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data in AI, including DNA

130 LinuxBender 2025-02-13 16:58:49 UTC 230 theregister.com Llama Share

Larry Ellison suggests governments gather all data, including genomic data, to analyze with AI for better services and security. He believes Oracle can help by creating a unified database system for AI to process and improve areas like healthcare and food production.

Amazon ends kindle ebooks "Download and Transfer via USB"

121 m463 2025-02-13 21:39:50 UTC 94 goodereader.com Llama Share

Amazon will stop allowing Kindle users to download and transfer e-books via USB on February 26, 2025. This feature is being discontinued due to low usage and concerns about e-book piracy.

Why cryptography is not based on NP-complete problems

120 blintz 2025-02-13 00:24:08 UTC 55 blintzbase.com Llama Share

Cryptographic schemes rely on hard problems that are difficult to solve even with many computers working together, such as the RSA problem which is based on the difficulty of factoring large numbers. A problem must have the property that a randomly-sampled instance of it is difficult with overwhelming probability, known as average-case hardness, to be useful for cryptography.

Beginnings of Roman London discovered in office basement

117 petethomas 2025-02-13 04:46:26 UTC 26 bbc.com Llama Share

Archaeologists in London have discovered a 2,000 year old Roman basilica, a major public building where decisions were made. The site, located at 85 Gracechurch Street, will be opened to the public and sheds light on the city's beginnings.

YouTube's New Hue

111 xnx 2025-02-13 00:55:26 UTC 263 design.google Llama Share

YouTube updated its iconic red logo to a softer shade of red and a magenta gradient for its 20th birthday. The change aims to refine the brand's identity while ensuring accessibility and motion design considerations.

LM2: Large Memory Models

110 fzliu 2025-02-13 23:21:21 UTC 30 arxiv.org Llama Share

The Large Memory Model (LM2) is a decoder-only Transformer architecture with an auxiliary memory module that improves multi-step reasoning and information synthesis. LM2 outperforms other models by 37.1-86.3% on average across tasks, demonstrating exceptional capabilities in multi-hop inference and question-answering.

Reassessing Wayland

108 GalaxySnail 2025-02-13 10:02:39 UTC 59 dudemanguy.github.io Llama Share

The author of a popular blog post about Wayland issues 3 years ago now has a more positive outlook due to significant progress made in the Wayland ecosystem.

I built a failed startups goods website and named it VcSubsidized.com

107 heshiebee 2025-02-13 16:22:38 UTC 35 vcsubsidized.com Full Share

Failed startup? Don't worry, someone will definitely want your Herman Miller chairs and barely-used Macbook Pros. Used Herman Miller Aeron chair. Has been put to use launching our company and pivoting from CPG to Crypto to AI to Deep Research Agent. Unfortunate...

OpenAI scrubs diversity commitment web page from its site

104 gpi 2025-02-13 23:18:17 UTC 146 techcrunch.com Llama Share

OpenAI has changed its diversity, equity, and inclusion webpage to "building dynamic teams" citing diverse ideas and challenging them. This change comes amid backlash against DEI policies and OpenAI's own government work including a government contract and chatbot.

Cheap solar power is sending electrical grids into a death spiral

104 blackhawkC17 2025-02-13 19:41:29 UTC 116 economist.com Llama Share

A madcap entrepreneur invented the public utility Gas Light and Coke company to supply London residents with piped energy, increasing efficiency and reducing costs. However, the technology widened social divides instead of being a great equalizer.

Court Documents Shed New Light on DOGE Activity at Treasury Department

104 jbegley 2025-02-13 15:38:01 UTC 45 zetter-zeroday.com Llama Share

New court documents reveal that a 25-year-old DOGE employee, Marko Elez, had limited access to Treasury Department payment systems, contrary to previous reports of administrative-level privileges. Treasury staff implemented security measures to restrict Elez's access, and an investigation found no evidence of unauthorized activity, contradicting earlier claims of disruption to critical payments.

Product Development Processes You Might Not Have Heard of (2022)

101 lgunsch 2025-02-13 17:40:29 UTC 22 departmentofproduct.com Llama Share

The Department of Product discusses alternative product development methodologies to Scrum, including ShapeUp, Plan Build Ship, and Get Shit Done, each with its own unique approach to development cycles and decision-making. These methodologies offer different benefits, such as flexibility, predictability, and rapid iteration, and can be tailored to suit the needs of various teams and companies.

Bezos' Blue Origin to layoff about 10% across its space, launch business

98 pinewurst 2025-02-13 16:26:09 UTC 100 cnbc.com Llama Share

Blue Origin laid off about 1,400 employees, roughly 10 percent of its workforce, to cut costs and ramp up rocket launches. The move aims to help the company scale New Glenn manufacturing and compete with SpaceX.

JesseSort: A novel sorting algorithm that is faster than Python's default sort.

95 amichail 2025-02-13 20:27:08 UTC 60 github.com/lewj85 Full Share

JesseSort is a novel sorting algorithm that introduces a new data structure called a Rainbow to efficiently organize and merge elements. It achieves a runtime of O(n log n). The full breakdown of the algorithm can be seen in JesseSort.pdf. Preprint also available here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/388955884_JesseSort

USAID funding freeze disrupts global tuberculosis control efforts

91 Red_Tarsius 2025-02-13 17:35:10 UTC 119 cidrap.umn.edu Llama Share

The Trump administration's 90-day funding freeze on USAID has halted TB diagnosis and treatment services worldwide, leaving patients without medicine or diagnosis. Experts fear the freeze could lead to deadly consequences for TB patients and hinder global TB control efforts.

Cybertrucks Are Deadlier Than Infamous Ford Pintos

88 laurex 2025-02-13 18:46:57 UTC 68 motherjones.com Llama Share

A new report suggests that Tesla's Cybertrucks have a higher fatality rate than the infamous Ford Pinto. The Cybertrucks had 5 fire fatalities in 1 year, giving them a fatality rate of 14.5 per 100,000 units, compared to the Pinto's 0.85 per 100,000 units.

AI can interpret animal emotions better than humans

85 marojejian 2025-02-13 21:16:36 UTC 47 science.org Full Share

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The Path to American Authoritarianism

77 pjmlp 2025-02-13 06:30:44 UTC 37 foreignaffairs.com Prefix Share

Donald Trump’s first election to the presidency in 2016 triggered an energetic defense of democracy from the American establishment. But his return to office has been met with striking indifference. Many of the politicians, pundits, media figures, and business leaders who viewed Trump as a threat to democracy eight years ago now treat those concerns as overblown—after all, democracy survived ...

Why is everyone trying to replace Software Engineers?

73 akulkarni 2025-02-13 15:49:59 UTC 137 toddle.dev Llama Share

Software engineers are not in immediate danger of being replaced by AI due to its limitations in pattern matching and real reasoning. The profession's steep learning curve and lack of understanding among non-technical colleagues contribute to misconceptions about AI replacing engineers.

The Death of the Web (2024)

71 mark_mcnally_je 2025-02-13 20:39:48 UTC 73 garry.net Llama Share

The user reminisces about the early internet, feeling it would bring rapid human progress and global unity, but instead, it's been commercialized and ruined by ads, popups, and corporate control. They lament the loss of creativity and passion on the internet, now dominated by mainstream interests and exploited by capitalism.

Magnetic field sorting of superconducting graphite particles with Tc>400K (2024)

71 ykch 2025-02-13 15:20:52 UTC 39 arxiv.org Llama Share

Researchers developed a method to isolate superconducting particles from industrial graphite powders using magnetic field gradients. The sorted particles showed transition temperatures up to 700K with zero resistance up to 500K.

Federal workers say they increasingly distrust platforms like Facebook

68 isaacfrond 2025-02-13 14:47:43 UTC 84 theverge.com Llama Share

Federal workers increasingly distrust mainstream platforms due to concerns of data leaks to the government. They are moving conversations to encrypted apps like Signal to maintain privacy.

RFK Jr Will Be Confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services

66 basementcat 2025-02-13 16:37:08 UTC 49 reuters.com Full Share

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Open Source Software and Corporate Influence

63 rrampage 2025-02-13 22:19:08 UTC 25 alilleybrinker.com Prefix Share

Open source software projects are frequently enmeshed with the interests of corporations. We should update mental models of who works on open source accordingly, and build or modify power structures to be more resilient to corporate capture. The goal of this article is to make clear that the large scale engagement of corporations in open source has happened and is continuing to happen, that ...

TSforge: Reverse Engineering the Windows Software Protection Platform

63 fraXis 2025-02-13 21:01:46 UTC 3 massgrave.dev Llama Share

Researchers discovered a universal exploit for Windows' Software Protection Platform (SPP) called TSforge, which can activate every edition of Windows since Windows 7 and every Windows addon and Office version since Office 2013. The exploit works by manipulating the trusted store, a critical component of SPP, and uses a combination of reverse engineering, debugging, and cryptography to bypass ...

Tolerating full cloud outages with Monzo Stand-in

63 abritishguy 2025-02-13 18:23:53 UTC 41 monzo.com Llama Share

Monzo built Monzo Stand-in as a backup banking infrastructure to minimize downtime during technical migrations and outages. It's a separate system that runs on Google Cloud Platform and supports key features like spending, transfers, and card management.

DOGE's Website Is Just One Big X Ad

57 OuterVale 2025-02-13 20:06:48 UTC 18 wired.com Llama Share

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) website is criticized for promoting his X platform over the official government website. The site's source code directs search engines to X.com, raising questions about Musk's conflicts of interest.

Banksy Fights with Greeting Card Company for Control of His Trademark

54 abetusk 2025-02-13 22:21:28 UTC 19 robbreport.com Llama Share

Banksy faces a trademark case with Full Colour Black over non-use of his name, despite selling merchandise and art. The case will be heard in April, with Banksy's team arguing he has used the trademark to sell work and merchandise.

JPMorgan CEO: "I don't care how many people sign that f—ing [WFH] Petition"

54 Zaheer 2025-02-13 20:24:02 UTC 101 fortune.com Full Share

Jamie Dimon popped off at the 1,200+ JPMorgan employees fighting against full-time RTO: ‘I don’t care how many people sign that petition’ Jamie Dimon has no patience for employees who want to work on a hybrid schedule.

$400M armored Tesla gov contract

54 rgbrgb 2025-02-13 16:41:04 UTC 15 npr.org Llama Share

The Trump administration plans to buy $400 million worth of armored electric vehicles, with Tesla's Cybertruck being a possible option. Elon Musk's companies, including Tesla, have received billions from the federal government, raising concerns about conflicts of interest.

Chrome browser bringing an IP address privacy tool to Incognito

53 privacyWatcher 2025-02-13 11:09:13 UTC 53 github.com/googlechrome Llama Share

Chrome introduces IP Protection in Incognito mode to limit IP address sharing with third-party domains. This feature uses a two-hop proxy system to mask users' original IP addresses and assign a different masked IP address to domains on the masked domain list.

Apple Resumes Advertising on X

48 greyadept 2025-02-13 02:42:02 UTC 50 macrumors.com Llama Share

Apple has resumed advertising on X after a year-long pause due to Elon Musk's controversial remarks. The company is promoting its Safari privacy features and Apple TV+ show Severance on the platform.

New DOGE site update breaks down government jobs by salary/age/headcount

47 mlindner 2025-02-13 09:56:11 UTC 75 doge.gov Full Share

This is DOGE's effort to create a comprehensive, government-wide org chart. This is an enormous effort, and there are likely some errors or omissions. We will continue to strive for maximum accuracy over time.

Questioning the Criteria for Evaluating Non-Cryptographic Hash Functions

46 todsacerdoti 2025-02-13 00:05:48 UTC 9 cacm.acm.org Llama Share

Non-cryptographic hash functions are widely used in various applications, including hash tables, load balancers, and data deduplication, and their performance can be evaluated using metrics such as uniformity and the avalanche criterion. However, the design of non-cryptographic hash functions is often based on folklore and lacks a clear understanding of the trade-offs between different design ...

DOGE Has Started Gutting a Key US Technology Agency

44 pseudolus 2025-02-13 15:56:13 UTC 17 wired.com Llama Share

Dozens of US government workers, mostly probationary and short-term staffers, were fired from the Technology Transformation Services on Wednesday. The cuts are part of a broader effort to reduce the federal workforce, with around 650 TTS employees previously employed.

Google Lighthouse recommends not embedding YouTube videos directly

44 jsheard 2025-02-13 02:19:31 UTC 15 developer.chrome.com Llama Share

Lazy loading third-party resources like videos and social media can improve page load speed. Use a facade, a static element that looks similar to the actual content, until the user interacts with it.

Explaining my fast 6502 code generator (2023)

42 zdw 2025-02-13 15:34:57 UTC 6 pubby.games Prefix Share

To learn how optimizing compilers are made, I built one targeting the 6502 architecture. In a bizarre twist, my compiler generates faster code than GCC, LLVM, and every other compiler I compared it to. I reckon my compiler isn't doing more when it comes to high-level optimizations, so the gains must be from the code generation side. This makes sense, as most compilers are multi-target, ...

Chrome does not have any way to stop video auto play?

42 nomendos 2025-02-13 06:46:25 UTC 62 news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

Chrome no longer allows extensions to block auto-playing videos and Google's "learn my preferences" feature does not respect user preferences. This has led to a loss of trust and respect for users, with some considering uninstalling Chrome.

Elizabeth Holmes' PR campaign continues

41 smgit 2025-02-13 12:17:09 UTC 52 theverge.com Llama Share

Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos, is trying to rehabilitate her image after being convicted of defrauding investors. Her publicist is using People magazine and other outlets to portray her as a sympathetic figure, but her claims of redemption may be seen as insincere.

Married Women Could Be Stopped from Voting Under Save Act

32 hn_acker 2025-02-13 16:20:48 UTC 41 newsweek.com Llama Share

The SAVE Act could prevent married women from registering to vote due to name changes. It requires in-person documentation, including a birth certificate, to prove citizenship.

Small, Light, Robust Phones for a Type 1 Diabetic Child

28 grahar64 2025-02-13 04:45:21 UTC 20 maori.geek.nz Llama Share

We're looking for a new phone for our 4yo son with T1D, requiring Android 11 or above, good Bluetooth, WiFi, and cell signal, and durability. We're considering the Doogee S Mini, PhoneMax Q9 Mini, and Unihertz Jelly 2E for their small size and ruggedness.

Senior State Dept. Advisor "BigBalls" Ran Image Host with Racist/Pedophilic URLs

26 PolandKid 2025-02-13 15:03:29 UTC 2 muskwatch.com Llama Share

Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old, launched an image-sharing website in 2021 with custom URLs referencing child abuse and racial slurs. He was named senior adviser to the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Technology despite his past involvement in cybercrime and white supremacist communities.

Tennis great Steffi Graf got bitten by pickleball's 'fun factor'

26 Tomte 2025-02-13 12:20:16 UTC 55 cnn.com Llama Share

Steffi Graf, a 22-time Grand Slam singles champion, is experiencing nerves while playing pickleball due to its fast pace and unknown opponents. She will compete in the Pickleball Slam 3 event in Las Vegas alongside her husband Andre Agassi.

Traces of London's first Roman basilica found beneath office basement

24 janpot 2025-02-13 16:23:04 UTC 3 heritagedaily.com Llama Share

Archaeologists at MOLA discovered London's first Roman basilica and forum dating back to AD 80. The structure was a public building for legal and administrative purposes, but was replaced after 20 years.

The US has exposed the World Anti-Doping Agency's precarious funding model

23 PaulHoule 2025-02-13 22:09:30 UTC 9 phys.org Llama Share

The US has withheld funding from the World Anti-Doping Agency, exposing its reliance on national contributions and creating a conflict of interest. WADA's current funding model is flawed, and reforms are needed to protect its independence and maintain trust in the system.

Remco is a lightweight configuration management tool

23 gjvc 2025-02-13 14:13:37 UTC 7 github.com/heavyhorst Llama Share

Remco is a lightweight config management tool influenced by confd, keeping local files up-to-date from key/value stores. It supports multiple backends and sources for template resources.

Towards an API for the Real Numbers Hans

22 weinzierl 2025-02-13 14:21:22 UTC 7 dl.acm.org Prefix Share

The real numbers are pervasive, both in daily life, and in mathematics. Students spend much time studying their prop- erties. Yet computers and programming languages generally provide only an approximation geared towards performance, at the expense of many of the nice properties we were taught in high school. Although this is entirely appropriate for many applica- tions, particularly those ...

Zed Launches Edit Prediction with new Zeta LLM

20 joeldrapper 2025-02-13 20:02:01 UTC 2 zed.dev Llama Share

Zed introduces edit prediction powered by Zeta, an open source model, to anticipate and apply user edits with a single tab press. The feature balances existing uses of tab, such as indenting lines, and language server suggestions.

How Hans Bethe Stumbled Upon Perfect Quantum Theories

18 rbanffy 2025-02-13 18:55:19 UTC 1 quantamagazine.org Llama Share

Walter Gordon's exact approach to the hydrogen atom failed due to intertwined possibilities of quantum particles. Hans Bethe's ansatz, a simplified model, perfectly captured the behavior of any number of quantum particles.

Trump administration set to purchase $400M worth of armored Teslas

15 binarno_sp 2025-02-13 08:22:46 UTC 4 npr.org Llama Share

The Trump administration plans to buy $400 million worth of armored electric vehicles, with Tesla's Cybertruck being a possible option. Elon Musk's companies, including Tesla, have received billions from the federal government, raising concerns about conflicts of interest.

AI column-smashes words, concocts scientific term now used in 20 papers

15 hilux 2025-02-13 05:38:50 UTC 1 boingboing.net Llama Share

A made-up scientific term "vegetative electron microscopy" has appeared in nearly two dozen published papers, with Elsevier saying it's a valid phrase. The term likely originated from a 1959 paper misread by an AI.

Gold Is Worth More in New York

14 ioblomov 2025-02-13 19:25:05 UTC 12 bloomberg.com Llama Share

Bloomberg delivers business and financial information worldwide. Commodity futures allow companies to bet on prices without physically storing commodities.

UTEP leaders silent as Ted Cruz accuses researchers of using 'woke DEI grants'

13 cratermoon 2025-02-13 14:48:31 UTC 5 elpasomatters.org Llama Share

El Paso Matters is celebrating 5 years of independent journalism. UTEP researchers won a $1 million grant for bird research, but Sen. Ted Cruz labeled it as a "woke DEI grant" due to its mention of diversity.