I Went to SQL Injection Court

1212 mrkurt 2025-02-25 18:39:10 UTC 432 sockpuppet.org Llama Share

A bill in Illinois aims to clarify that public bodies must provide database schema information to the public, but the Illinois Supreme Court ruled that database schemas are exempt from Freedom of Information Act requests. A new bill, SB0226, proposes to add language to the statute requiring public bodies to provide a sufficient description of database structures to allow requesters to request ...

Hyperspace

835 tobr 2025-02-25 15:51:54 UTC 446 hypercritical.co Llama Share

The author's interest in file systems led to creating an app called Hyperspace, which uses Apple File System (APFS) clones to reclaim disk space without deleting files. Hyperspace is now available in the Mac App Store as a free download, with a paid upgrade to reclaim disk space.

DigiCert: Threat of legal action to stifle Bugzilla discourse

605 DanAtC 2025-02-25 01:40:14 UTC 189 bugzilla.mozilla.org Llama Share

Sectigo's General Counsel Brian Holland disputes DigiCert's claim that Sectigo's COO made false statements about DigiCert. Sectigo believes open debate is essential for the WebPKI community and DigiCert's litigation threat undermines this goal.

Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers

600 latexr 2025-02-25 12:04:00 UTC 188 news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

Optifye.ai uses AI to exploit factory workers, treating them as disposable automatons. Its founders, rich CS graduates, prioritize lowering stress for company owners by increasing worker stress.

Winners of the $10k ISBN visualization bounty

578 yamrzou 2025-02-25 06:26:56 UTC 63 annas-archive.org Llama Share

We announced a $10,000 bounty for the best ISBN space visualization, received many creative submissions, and awarded prizes to four winners. The submissions provided unique perspectives on UI and implementation, and we plan to incorporate some into our main website.

How Core Git Developers Configure Git

548 lnkl 2025-02-25 08:17:11 UTC 122 blog.gitbutler.com Llama Share

The user discusses various Git config settings that are not enabled by default but are useful and should be considered as new defaults, including settings for sorting branches, listing tags, and improving the diff algorithm. The user provides a list of 9 config settings and 3 aliases that were suggested by the Git core team as potential new defaults in the "Spring Cleaning" experiment, and ...

Framework's first desktop is a strange–but unique–mini ITX gaming PC

545 perihelions 2025-02-25 19:39:21 UTC 522 arstechnica.com Llama Share

Framework's Desktop PC is a small, powerful gaming PC with a unique combination of high performance and compact size. It starts at $1,099 and is priced well compared to gaming-focused mini PCs and DIY builds, but its non-upgradeable components are a departure from Framework's usual modularity.

DeepSeek open source DeepEP – library for MoE training and Inference

532 helloericsf 2025-02-25 02:27:29 UTC 71 github.com/deepseek-ai Llama Share

DeepEP is a communication library for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) and expert parallelism, providing high-throughput and low-latency all-to-all GPU kernels. It supports low-precision operations and offers optimized kernels for asymmetric-domain bandwidth forwarding.

Signal to leave Sweden if backdoor law passes

481 km 2025-02-25 12:50:14 UTC 266 swedenherald.com Llama Share

The Swedish bill requires Signal to install backdoors, but the company refuses due to security risks. The bill aims to allow police and Security Service to access message history for crime suspects.

Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace

469 Inityx 2025-02-25 23:24:40 UTC 379 github.com/material-theme Full Share

Not Found

'Hey Number 17 '

418 Amorymeltzer 2025-02-25 17:48:02 UTC 156 404media.co Llama Share

Optifye.ai is a venture-backed AI system that uses machine vision to track factory workers' hand movements and output, allowing bosses to monitor and criticize their efficiency. Its founders, Duke University students, seem to endorse the system's potential for worker surveillance and criticism.

Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone

404 luu 2025-02-25 00:59:09 UTC 546 discuss.systems Full Share

Content warning: uspol science funding

It’s still worth blogging in the age of AI

329 gpjt 2025-02-25 00:46:43 UTC 222 gilesthomas.com Llama Share

The author argues that blogging is worthwhile for learning and thinking, and as a durable proof of one's abilities. It helps others solve problems, provides a portfolio of writing, and offers a rare sense of accomplishment when readers engage with the content.

Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay (2017)

321 __natty__ 2025-02-25 08:22:33 UTC 244 torrentfreak.com Llama Share

Spotify used unlicensed music to start its platform, including content from The Pirate Bay. The company's early success coincided with the decline of The Pirate Bay following a 2006 raid.

Hard problems that reduce to document ranking

318 noperator 2025-02-25 17:37:07 UTC 54 noperator.dev Llama Share

The author uses document ranking algorithms with language models to locate N-day vulnerabilities in patch diffs. This technique can also be applied to other security problems like fuzzing targets and prioritizing injection points.

There isn't much point to HTTP/2 past the load balancer

318 ciconia 2025-02-25 05:33:21 UTC 250 byroot.github.io Llama Share

HTTP/2 was designed to improve page load times by allowing multiple requests to be sent over a single connection, but its benefits are mainly seen over the internet, especially on mobile connections, and not in data centers or LANs. In Ruby HTTP servers, such as Puma, HTTP/2 support is not a critical feature, as its benefits can be achieved through other means, like using a reverse proxy or ...

Embedding Python in Elixir, it's fine

307 arathunku 2025-02-25 12:53:15 UTC 64 dashbit.co Llama Share

Elixir's Nx ecosystem has expanded its capabilities in Machine Learning and Data through the Nx effort, but some companies have existing workflows that they need to adapt to Elixir. To address this, Pythonx was announced, which embeds the Python interpreter within the Erlang VM, allowing for automatic data conversion and code evaluation between Elixir and Python.

How to change your settings to make yourself less valuable to Meta

284 SLHamlet 2025-02-25 03:47:37 UTC 122 johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com Llama Share

To stop Meta from tracking you, select "No, don't make my ads more relevant" and unlink your account from shared data. Use a browser extension like Privacy Badger to block advertisers and third parties.

Tesla sales in Europe down 45% in January

275 doener 2025-02-25 10:11:13 UTC 509 ft.com Llama Share

The FT offers a digital subscription for $319 for the first year, then $75 per month. Pay upfront to save 20% and get 10% off the first year.

Disclosure of personal information to DOGE “is irreparable harm,” judge rules

256 taimurkazmi 2025-02-25 02:59:33 UTC 150 arstechnica.com Llama Share

A federal judge blocked DOGE from accessing personal data held by the US Department of Education and Office of Personnel Management due to unauthorized disclosure. A temporary restraining order is in place until March 10, with a preliminary injunction already issued in a different court blocking DOGE access to Department of Treasury information.

Launch HN: Browser Use (YC W25) – open-source web agents

254 MagMueller 2025-02-25 15:45:17 UTC 98 github.com/browser-use Llama Share

Browser Use is a tool that allows AI to control browsers, enabling automation of tasks. It can be used for various tasks such as searching, applying for jobs, and writing letters.

Show HN: Tach – Visualize and untangle your Python codebase

253 the1024 2025-02-25 16:34:07 UTC 62 github.com/gauge-sh Llama Share

Tach is a tool for managing Python project dependencies, allowing interactive configuration and error detection. It generates dependency graphs and can be integrated with CI/CD and other tools.

DeepSearcher: A local open-source Deep Research

227 stephen37 2025-02-25 14:33:42 UTC 26 milvus.io Llama Share

The article presents Zilliz's DeepSearcher open-source project, a research agent that demonstrates additional concepts such as query routing, conditional execution flow, and web crawling as a tool. DeepSearcher is a more fully-featured agent than the previous post, with the ability to input multiple source documents and set the embedding model and vector database used via a configuration file.

What would happen if we didn't use TCP or UDP?

214 Hawzen 2025-02-25 07:13:23 UTC 111 github.com/hawzen Llama Share

The user experimented with creating a custom transport-layer protocol called HDP and sending packets using it, observing varying results across different operating systems and network environments. The experiment revealed that while it is technically possible to create a custom protocol, it may not work as expected due to differences in OS behavior and network configurations, and may be ...

The XB-70 (2019)

202 rbanffy 2025-02-25 18:12:31 UTC 133 codex99.com Llama Share

The author's dad worked on the XB-70 Valkyrie project, a massive US Air Force bomber, from 1955 to 1969. After the project ended, he became an industrial hygienist and an expert in ventilation, earning an award in his name.

Chicory: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime

200 0x54MUR41 2025-02-25 11:22:06 UTC 94 chicory.dev Full Share

Using Chicory you don't need to rely on any system resource. Everything runs in 100% pure Java on top of the standard library. Integrating Chicory in your project is smooth and only requires a few steps. Give your application a twist with a plugin system. Web Assembly modules are running in a sandboxed environment. You have full control over the used resources.

Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs [pdf]

177 tmnvdb 2025-02-25 19:59:41 UTC 96 martins1612.github.io Prefix Share

Jan Betley * 1 Daniel Tan * 2 Niels Warncke * 3 Anna Sztyber-Betley 4 Xuchan Bao 5 Mart´ın Soto 6 Nathan Labenz 7 Owain Evans 1 8 We present a surprising result regarding LLMs and alignment. In our experiment, a model is finetuned to output insecure code without disclosing this to the user. The resulting model acts misaligned on a broad range of prompts that are unrelated to coding: it ...

Gleam, Coming from Erlang

177 ingve 2025-02-25 07:54:00 UTC 59 olano.dev Llama Share

The user tried Gleam, a type-safe language running on the Erlang VM, and found it close to their ideal language, combining Erlang's concurrency model with Rust's type system. They successfully built a feed aggregator with Gleam and appreciate its Erlang/OTP integration, but note that the OTP abstractions are still unstable.

EdgeDB is now Gel and Postgres is the future

162 mmastrac 2025-02-25 21:47:06 UTC 120 geldata.com Llama Share

PostgreSQL is gaining popularity due to its open-source nature and extensibility, making it a reliable and versatile database system. Its adoption momentum is accelerating, with many startups striving for PostgreSQL wire-protocol and SQL dialect compatibility.

Dogs may have domesticated themselves because they liked snacks, model suggests

161 Stratoscope 2025-02-25 05:33:27 UTC 170 livescience.com Llama Share

Scientists found that wolves may have domesticated themselves by choosing to coexist with humans for food, then selecting mates with similar temperaments. A new study suggests that natural selection could have driven this self-domestication over 15,000 years.

History of CAD

159 nill0 2025-02-25 03:36:41 UTC 65 shapr3d.com Llama Share

The Engineering Design Revolution by David E. Weisberg chronicles the 80-year history of CAD, from its pioneers to modern-era CAD. The book is now freely available online, with readers encouraged to contribute to the Cancer League of Colorado Foundation.

A Defense of Weird Research

147 surprisetalk 2025-02-25 12:27:11 UTC 48 asteriskmag.com Llama Share

Funding basic scientific research yields high returns, but private companies struggle to justify investments due to long timelines and value-capture issues. Governments can better absorb risks and provide long-term benefits, making them uniquely positioned to fund transformative research.

A possible future of Python in the browser

146 milliams 2025-02-25 09:15:14 UTC 94 lukasz.langa.pl Llama Share

The author improved Python performance by creating a new language called SPy, which compiles Python-like code to native binaries or WebAssembly. SPy's performance is demonstrated with a generative art demo that runs at 120 FPS on a Mac and 60 FPS on a phone.

Ask HN: Recommend resources that helped your game dev journey?

144 stevekwon211 2025-02-25 09:07:41 UTC 70 news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

You're a new game dev struggling with Space Zero after a demo flop. You're looking for resources to learn game design, specifically books, tutorials, and communities to improve mechanics and depth.

Xcode Constantly Phones Home

142 lladnar 2025-02-25 05:43:30 UTC 58 lapcatsoftware.com Llama Share

User's project in Xcode was slow due to internet connections, specifically to developerservices2.apple.com. Disabling these connections with Little Snitch made builds fast and successful.

ChatGPT Saved My Life (no, seriously, I'm writing this from the ER)

138 bethanymarz 2025-02-25 13:36:31 UTC 230 hardmodefirst.xyz Llama Share

I'm in the hospital with a rare condition where my platelet count dropped to zero. ChatGPT helped me identify the issue and prompted me to visit the ER.

New maps of the chaotic space-time inside black holes

130 rbanffy 2025-02-25 16:15:39 UTC 103 quantamagazine.org Llama Share

Physicists study singularities, points of infinite density at black hole centers, to understand space, time, and gravity. New research revisits chaos around singularities with updated mathematical tools to reconcile general relativity and quantum mechanics.

DOGE will use AI to assess the responses of federal workers

122 doener 2025-02-25 12:56:10 UTC 184 nbcnews.com Llama Share

Elon Musk directed an email to government employees asking them to list their accomplishments in the last week, with the information to be fed into an AI system to determine job necessity. The email was met with pushback from unions and some agencies, with some employees not required to respond.

Show HN: MyCoder, an open source Claude-Code alternative

119 bhouston 2025-02-25 20:41:30 UTC 52 github.com/drivecore Llama Share

MyCoder is a powerful command-line AI agent that performs coding tasks with a modular architecture. It can execute tasks like file deletion, software installation, and network requests with caution required.

Awesome DeepSeek Integrations

116 selvan 2025-02-25 09:23:56 UTC 24 github.com/deepseek-ai Llama Share

DeepSeek API is integrated into various popular software and tools, including desktop assistants, chatbots, productivity tools, and more, to provide intelligent personal knowledge management and AI-driven text processing capabilities. The DeepSeek API is also supported by numerous open-source libraries and frameworks, enabling seamless integration and development of AI-powered applications.

Ghost House – software for automatic inbetweens

112 spiralganglion 2025-02-25 20:16:10 UTC 3 tedwiggin.com Full Share

Ghost House

Unknown illness kills over 50 in Congo with hours between symptoms and death

111 amichail 2025-02-25 13:11:44 UTC 52 apnews.com Llama Share

An unknown illness has killed over 50 people in northwestern Congo with symptoms leading to death in 48 hours. The WHO is investigating the cause, with samples sent for testing but so far showing no Ebola or Marburg.

Show HN: My new wiki for Silicon Graphics stuff

108 ThatGuyRaion 2025-02-25 16:46:07 UTC 80 tech-pubs.net Full Share

Tech-Pubs.net, or TechPubs, is a public wiki cataloging the hardware of the former Silicon Graphics Corporation. 02/16/2025 - SSL is working and the site is finally feeling "correct" for once! 02/26/2025 - If you notice something out of place, please contact the administrator, Raion, on IRIXNet. Thank you!

Simulating Time in Square-Root Space

105 EvgeniyZh 2025-02-25 07:11:03 UTC 15 eccc.weizmann.ac.il Llama Share

Researchers improved a 50-year-old simulation, showing that time $t$ multitape Turing machines can be simulated in $O(\sqrt{t \log t})$ space. This implies space-efficient solutions for certain problems and reduces a simulation problem to a series of Tree Evaluation instances.

Deconstructing the "Whimsical Animations" landing page

103 ambigious7777 2025-02-25 12:35:56 UTC 28 joshwcomeau.com Prefix Share

Introduction For the past few months, I’ve been hard at work on my upcoming third course, Whimsical Animations. For each course, I create a custom landing page, and for a course about I knew the landing page needed to be very extra. It took longer than I’d care to admit, but the course’s landing page(opens in new tab) is now live. 😄 At first glance, it looks pretty straightforward, even ...

Troubleshooting: A skill that never goes obsolete

100 surprisetalk 2025-02-25 12:03:04 UTC 50 autodidacts.io Full Share

www.autodidacts.io is currently unable to handle this request.

Upside Down Air Force

99 stevage 2025-02-25 10:16:14 UTC 16 frontiernet.net Llama Share

The Air Force Research Laboratory tests electronic countermeasures on airframes suspended upside-down for blind spots and interference. Airframes from all services are tested at the Rome Research Site, formerly Griffiss Air Force Base.

Show HN: GoatDB – A lightweight, offline-first, realtime NoDB for Deno and React

88 justagoat 2025-02-25 16:56:25 UTC 45 github.com/goatplatform Llama Share

GoatDB is a real-time, version-controlled database for Deno, React, and low-friction deployments, ideal for prototyping and self-hosting. It provides resilience, offline-first capabilities, and automatic conflict resolution.

US court upholds Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes's conviction

79 stevekemp 2025-02-25 11:50:29 UTC 107 theguardian.com Llama Share

A US court upheld the convictions of Elizabeth Holmes and Ramesh Balwani for defrauding investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars. Holmes, sentenced to 11 years, is expected to be released in 2032 after serving a nine-year sentence.

Stone Soup AI (2024)

79 dredmorbius 2025-02-25 07:02:58 UTC 36 simons.berkeley.edu Llama Share

The author argues that AI systems are not individual intelligent agents but rather cultural technologies that allow humans to access and build upon existing information. This idea is illustrated through the story of stone soup, where collective human resources create something greater than the sum of its parts.

The HP-35: Consumer Electronics, an Origin Story

79 wyclif 2025-02-25 01:28:25 UTC 42 codex99.com Llama Share

HP's HP-35 calculator was a groundbreaking device that combined advanced technology and design to revolutionize the engineering profession. Released in 1972, it became a huge success, selling over 100,000 units in the first year and paving the way for future handheld electronics.

GibberLink [AI-AI Communication]

73 anotherhue 2025-02-25 05:47:09 UTC 43 github.com/pennyroyaltea Llama Share

Conversational AI agents switch to sound-level protocol when they realize they are both AI agents. A demo uses LLM tool-calling to switch to ggwave 'data over sound' protocol.

US friendship is in freefall – shredding bonds and cutting lives short

67 Cedarwolf 2025-02-25 00:44:39 UTC 55 nypost.com Llama Share

Friendship in America is declining, with 60% of Americans feeling lonely and a 26% increase in those with no close friends. This trend is linked to lower trust, crime, and unrest, and can be reversed by seeking out in-person connections.

Jane Street Open Source

64 _benj 2025-02-25 16:49:16 UTC 22 opensource.janestreet.com Llama Share

Company contributes to open source community through projects on Github, including Base, Core, Async, Incremental, Base_quickcheck, and Patdiff libraries for OCaml. These libraries provide functionality for standard library replacement, asynchronous programming, and testing.

Show HN: Txtl – Fast static website of text utilities

63 vivek-jain 2025-02-25 18:00:47 UTC 8 viveksjain.github.io Full Share

Please enter some input. We will try to auto-detect the most appropriate mode. Alternatively, you can select a mode from the dropdown above.

Zlib-Rs Is Not Only Safer but Now Outperforming Zlib C Implementations

62 mrpotato 2025-02-25 13:15:55 UTC 17 phoronix.com Llama Share

Zlib-rs, a Rust implementation of Zlib, has outperformed C implementations, particularly zlib-ng and Chromium's zlib, in decompression and compression. Zlib-rs aims to raise €95k for further performance and packaging work while maintaining Zlib API compatibility.

Evaluating modular RAG with reasoning models

61 emil_sorensen 2025-02-25 10:24:34 UTC 31 kapa.ai Llama Share

We explored using OpenAI's o3-mini reasoning model in a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system to simplify the pipeline and reduce manual tweaking. Our experiments showed mixed results, with modest gains in code generation and factuality, but no significant improvement in information retrieval quality and knowledge extraction.

Theoi Greek Mythology

60 Schiphol 2025-02-25 11:42:02 UTC 3 theoi.com Llama Share

The Theoi Project provides a free reference guide to Greek mythology, featuring deity profiles, quotes, and illustrations from ancient art. The site includes a library of classical texts, a pantheon, bestiary, and gallery of over 1200 ancient images.

What do people see when they're tripping? Analyzing Erowid's trip reports

59 cainxinth 2025-02-25 12:27:30 UTC 78 themicrodose.substack.com Llama Share

Sean Noah studied psychology and neuroscience after learning about synesthesia in high school. He's now analyzing trip reports on Erowid to understand how psychedelics affect visual perception.

$30 Thrift Store Find a $223,000 Jet Engine Valve

58 iancmceachern 2025-02-25 05:59:29 UTC 52 avweb.com Llama Share

A man bought a thrift store air valve for $30 that's valued at $223,520. He's unsure of its actual value or how it ended up at the store.

The Efficiency of Vim

54 bencornia 2025-02-25 06:17:12 UTC 80 bencornia.com Llama Share

I learned to touch type in fifth grade and peaked at 80 wpm, but now type 60-70 wpm due to increased efficiency. I discovered Vim, a modal editor that eliminates mouse use and overhead, allowing for faster and more efficient text editing.

AI is blurring the line between PMs and engineers?

52 razcle 2025-02-25 18:57:33 UTC 58 humanloop.com Llama Share

A technology company's PMs and domain experts, not engineers, are doing prompt engineering in a custom UI, which is a key part of AI applications. This trend is blurring the line between product managers and engineers, with PMs driving AI success through clear communication and understanding user needs.

Tesla sales almost halved in Europe last month

52 lormayna 2025-02-25 11:45:20 UTC 10 businessinsider.com Llama Share

Tesla sales in Europe fell 45% in January, with a 1% market share, behind Chinese rival SAIC Motor and BYD. The decline comes after Elon Musk's involvement in European politics, including endorsing a far-right party.

US asked to kick UK out of Five Eyes

49 dmitrygr 2025-02-25 00:31:29 UTC 40 computerweekly.com Llama Share

US Congress accuses UK of a "foreign cyber attack" through a Home Office demand to Apple to break its cloud security system. They urge the US to reevaluate the Five Eyes agreement if the UK doesn't withdraw the demand.

Thermoelectric Solar Panel

48 adrianN 2025-02-25 07:40:17 UTC 52 simplifier.neocities.org Llama Share

A thermoelectric solar panel was developed using bismuth alloys to convert sunlight into electricity. The panel has an efficiency of 0.01% and produces 5 milliwatts of power, but its limitations make it unsuitable for primary electricity generation.

Low Overhead Allocation Sampling with VMProf in PyPy's GC

47 lumpa 2025-02-25 18:20:18 UTC 0 pypy.org Llama Share

We developed an experimental approach to low overhead statistical memory profiling for PyPy by integrating VMProf and the PyPy Garbage Collector to sample every nth allocated byte. The resulting overhead is directly controlled by the sampling rate and the rate at which the user program allocates memory, allowing for a tradeoff between profiling precision and overhead.

Elon Musk spells danger for Accenture, McKinsey and their rivals

47 matthewsinclair 2025-02-25 12:14:51 UTC 40 economist.com Llama Share

A large organisation with bloat issues has a new boss eager to make changes. The new boss is inspired by Trump and Musk's efforts to cut government spending and bureaucracy.

Have we been wrong about why Mars is red?

45 rntn 2025-02-25 17:11:57 UTC 9 esa.int Llama Share

Scientists combined ESA and NASA data with lab experiments to find Mars rusted early due to liquid water, not later as previously thought. This suggests Mars was habitable in the past and its red color is due to ferrihydrite, a water-rich mineral.

Show HN: Prioritize Anything with Stacks

45 seanconnollydev 2025-02-25 13:06:22 UTC 34 stack-ranker.com Llama Share

Stacks simplifies complex choices by breaking them down into simple A/B comparisons. It helps teams prioritize and build consensus efficiently.

Detecting Noise in Canvas Fingerprinting

41 avastel 2025-02-25 10:09:25 UTC 64 blog.castle.io Llama Share

Fraudsters can forge or create fake canvas fingerprints to evade detection by modifying native functions like toDataURL and getImageData using JavaScript proxy objects or browser extensions. To detect this, use approaches like proof of work, function consistency checks, or error triggering to verify the authenticity of canvas values and identify potential bot or fraudster activity.

OlmOCR: Open-source tool to extract plain text from PDFs

40 eamag 2025-02-25 16:51:47 UTC 9 olmocr.allenai.org Llama Share

olmOCR is an open-source tool converting PDFs to plain text with natural reading order, supporting tables, equations, and handwriting. It's trained on English documents and can be deployed on GPUs for efficient document processing.

The Middle Ages in Computer Games

40 tailefer 2025-02-25 06:45:09 UTC 7 medievalists.net Llama Share

The book "The Middle Ages in Computer Games" examines how games shape perceptions of the past and influence modern society. It delves into various topics, including combat, religion, and technology, in medievalist games.

Fabric and craft retailer Joann to go out of business, close all of its stores

36 mooreds 2025-02-25 15:41:56 UTC 105 apnews.com Llama Share

Joann Inc, a fabric and crafts retailer, is going out of business after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the second time. The company will close all stores but keep its website and mobile app open for going-out-of-business sales.

Apple Voice Dictation Writes 'Trump' When You Say 'Racist'

36 internetter 2025-02-25 14:09:47 UTC 11 boehs.org Llama Share

TikTok users found Apple's voice dictation briefly flashes 'Trump' when saying 'Racist' due to a likely machine learning correlation. This may be an artefact of training data, not a deliberate attempt to sabotage.

Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3 (2023)

35 metadat 2025-02-25 17:05:15 UTC 3 allthingsdistributed.com Prefix Share

Today, I am publishing a guest post from Andy Warfield, VP and distinguished engineer over at S3. I asked him to write this based on the Keynote address he gave at USENIX FAST ‘23 that covers three distinct perspectives on scale that come along with building and operating a storage system the size of S3. In today’s world of short-form snackable content, we’re very fortunate to get an ...

Finnegans Wake Extensible Elucidation Treasury

35 alderz 2025-02-25 06:56:07 UTC 11 fweet.org Llama Share

Raphael Slepon welcomes you to a site dedicated to James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, a collection of 98,333 notes and a search engine for scholars and enthusiasts. The site is a work in progress, encouraging users to comment on and contribute to the collection through a "Comment on Me!" button.

A16Z AI Voice Update 2025

33 lxm 2025-02-25 04:06:39 UTC 56 gamma.app Full Share

© 2023 Gamma Tech, Inc.

ChatGPT can be used as default Safari search engine with new extension

31 TimLeland 2025-02-25 16:05:01 UTC 19 macrumors.com Llama Share

Apple updated ChatGPT with a Safari Extension allowing users to set ChatGPT as default search engine in Safari. The extension redirects Safari search queries to ChatGPT Search instead of the default search engine.

Apple's Dictation System Transcribes the Word 'Racist' as 'Trump'

30 cwmartin 2025-02-25 21:41:31 UTC 23 nytimes.com Llama Share

Apple's automatic dictation feature temporarily displayed "Trump" instead of "racist" before correcting itself, sparking controversy over AI capabilities. An Apple spokeswoman blamed phonetic overlap, but a former Apple AI team member suspects a prank or software code issue.

US employee screening giant DISA says hackers accessed data of 3M people

30 impish9208 2025-02-25 13:18:33 UTC 4 techcrunch.com Llama Share

DISA confirmed a data breach affecting over 360,000 Massachusetts residents and a limited portion of its network. Stolen information includes Social Security numbers, financial account info, and government-issued ID documents.

Narrative and the Structure of Art (2023)

30 bryanrasmussen 2025-02-25 11:01:39 UTC 6 medium.com/luminasticity Llama Share

The presence of narrative in art is a debated topic, with some arguing that internal narrative is more complex and others claiming that external narrative is more primal and foundational. The tension between internal and external narrative has led to various artistic movements, including the destruction of narrative in graphic arts and the imposition of narrative by critics and authorities.

Turbocharging V8 with mutable heap numbers · V8

29 todsacerdoti 2025-02-25 15:18:57 UTC 5 v8.dev Llama Share

V8 optimized JavaScript performance by eliminating a performance bottleneck in the async-fs benchmark. The optimization involved updating the Math.random function to use integer operations and in-place updates, resulting in a 2.5x speedup.

Brewing Clean Water: The metal-remediating benefits of tea preparation

28 bookofjoe 2025-02-25 18:05:54 UTC 10 pubs.acs.org Llama Share

Researchers studied tea leaves as a natural adsorbent for metal removal from drinking water. Tea leaves, especially black tea, can effectively remove lead from water, with steeping time being a key factor.

Microsoft Launches Ad-Supported Version of Office Apps for Windows

27 m463 2025-02-25 05:42:30 UTC 4 windowscentral.com Llama Share

Microsoft quietly launched a free version of Office for Windows with ads and limited features, allowing basic editing of documents. The free version is currently in limited testing and Microsoft has confirmed it has no plans to launch as a permanent option.

Speed or security? Speculative execution in Apple Silicon

25 ingve 2025-02-25 07:37:21 UTC 1 eclecticlight.co Llama Share

Apple silicon CPU cores use techniques like out-of-order execution and speculative execution to improve processing speed. However, these techniques can be vulnerable to attacks like Spectre, SLAP, and FLOP, which exploit memory access patterns.

The Moped King

20 paulgb 2025-02-25 11:08:35 UTC 9 streetsblogprojects.org Llama Share

Fly E-Bike's CEO Ou Zhou built a micromobility company in NYC with 70,000 e-bikes and mopeds sold since 2018. However, the company faces lawsuits and regulatory issues over battery fires and product failures.

Reflections on 25 Years of Blogging

18 genmon 2025-02-25 12:20:51 UTC 12 interconnected.org Llama Share

The author started blogging 25 years ago at 22 and is now 47, using their blog as a social platform and public notebook to share ideas and connect with others. They've maintained a weekly blogging streak since March 2020 and value the freedom and utility of writing on their own site.

Y Combinator Supports AI Startup Dehumanizing Factory Workers

17 distantsounds 2025-02-25 16:47:32 UTC 1 404media.co Llama Share

Optifye.ai is a venture-backed AI system that uses machine vision to track factory workers' hand movements and output, allowing bosses to monitor and criticize their efficiency. Its founders, Duke University students, seem to endorse the system's potential for worker surveillance and criticism.

An illustrated guide to the Kaminsky DNS vulnerability (2008)

16 amidtheperf 2025-02-25 10:54:37 UTC 3 unixwiz.net Prefix Share

The big security news of Summer 2008 has been Dan Kaminsky's discovery of a serious vulnerability in DNS. This vulnerability could allow an attacker to redirect network clients to alternate servers of his own choosing, presumably for ill ends. This all led to a mad dash to patch DNS servers worldwide, and though there have been many writeups of just how the vulnerability manifests itself, ...

Vibe Coding and the Future of Software Engineering

14 alexp 2025-02-25 09:06:21 UTC 5 alexp.pl Llama Share

The author discusses Vibe Coding, a concept where AI generates code, and its potential impact on software engineering. They argue that while it may seem chaotic, it's not a replacement for human engineers, but rather a tool to augment their work.

Metasploit – Penetration Testing Framework

13 modinfo 2025-02-25 10:38:53 UTC 2 metasploit.com Llama Share

Metasploit empowers security teams to stay ahead of threats by verifying vulnerabilities and improving security awareness. This week's release includes new modules for NetAlertx, Argus Surveillance DVR, and Ivanti Connect Secure.