Former Meta employee laid off in 2023 started making games in free time, inspired by Luck Be A Landlord to create a roguelike pachinko game. The game launched in December 2024 and sold around 200,000 units in its first 10 weeks on Steam.
Researchers introduced FFTNet, a framework that uses the Fast Fourier Transform to achieve efficient global token mixing in O(n log n) time, capturing long-range dependencies. Experiments show FFTNet outperforms traditional self-attention and fixed Fourier models on benchmarks like Long Range Arena and ImageNet.
The user tried to upgrade an iMac G4 with an M4 Mac Mini using the Juicy Crumb DockLite G4 but encountered several issues, including color banding and no screen blanking.
A breakout game with roguelite mechanics. Break bricks, catch coins, pick upgrades, repeat. Play for free on mobile and desktop.
DeepGEMM is a CUDA library for efficient FP8 General Matrix Multiplications with fine-grained scaling, supporting normal and Mix-of-Experts (MoE) grouped GEMMs. It leverages NVIDIA Hopper tensor cores and employs CUDA-core two-level accumulation to address imprecise FP8 tensor core accumulation.
Jeff Bezos is shifting the Washington Post's opinion pages to focus on personal liberties and free markets, with opposing views to be published elsewhere. This move has raised concerns in the newsroom and among critics who see it as an attempt to suppress dissenting views.
Optifye's AI-powered security cameras track factory workers in real-time, sparking criticism over workplace surveillance. The company's demo video was deleted after it went viral on social media, highlighting growing anxieties over AI in the workplace.
Examples and guides for using the VLM Run API. Contribute to vlm-run/vlmrun-cookbook development by creating an account on GitHub.
Jeff Bezos announced a new libertarian vision for The Washington Post's opinion sections, focusing on personal liberties and free markets. The decision sparked shock and dismay among staff, with some resigning and others criticizing Bezos' influence on editorial policy.
Mozilla introduces Terms of Use and updated Privacy Notice for Firefox, clarifying data use and user rights. The changes aim to provide transparency and user control over data, aligning with Mozilla's commitment to user privacy and security.
AtomixDB is a Go-based mini relational database focusing on database management, storage, and transactions. It features B+ Tree storage, concurrent reads, and query processing for improved performance and efficiency.
Until just a few weeks ago, no American seemed on better terms with fortune than Irving V. Link, who had spent most of the past half century playing gin rummy by the side of the pool at the Beverly Hills Hotel, in Los Angeles. For forty-two years, from the time he discovered the hotel, in 1950, until it closed, last December 30th, Irving’s days had been as well ordered and as predictable as ...
Alexa+ is a next-generation assistant powered by generative AI, offering a more conversational, smarter, and personalized experience. It can manage tasks, provide entertainment, and offer suggestions based on users' interests, all while protecting their privacy and security.
Justin and Jason, co-founders of Maritime Fusion, are working on putting fusion reactors on ships to provide a decarbonized solution for the shipping industry. They believe high-temperature superconductors have made magnetic confinement more feasible, and they aim to achieve breakeven within a few years.
DARPA wants to explore growing large biological structures in microgravity using advances in metabolic engineering and biological self-assembly. This could create structures like space tethers, debris removal nets, and kilometer-scale interferometers that are difficult to produce traditionally.
Clifford's Geometric Algebra offers a unified perspective on vector spaces with elements of arbitrary dimensionality. It includes various geometric algebras for 2D, 3D, and projective/conformal transformations.
Chile's president declared a state of emergency after a nationwide blackout affected 8 million homes and 14 of 16 regions. The blackout was caused by a disrupted high-voltage transmission line and officials are investigating.
ForeverVM is a secure code execution API that runs Python code in a remote sandbox with long-lived machines and memory snapshots for scalability. It provides a REPL interface and is available as an MCP server, suitable for enterprise use.
A social media manager is looking for freelance or full-time work after being let go due to lack of funds. A newsletter is sharing the work of Norwegian-American photographer Monsen, who documented Native American life in the American Southwest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Golioth recently received a number of customer reports regarding connectivity issues on a specific vendor’s cellular chipset series. We immediately contacted the vendor and began working towards reproducing and isolating the behavior. What ensued was a lengthy investigation that ultimately revealed some unexpected and highly undesirable behavior. This is a story of the complexities of ...
The user built a Pokémon FireRed playing bot using RetroArch and OpenAI's GPT-4o, which navigated the game world, battled, and responded to events. The bot used a database to store game state, pathfinding, and OCR to understand in-game text, but struggled with programmatic input control and battle handling.
Your brain can see 3D from two 2D images, and you can trick it into seeing 3D on a flat screen using eye muscles. All you need is two pictures taken from different positions shifted horizontally to see a 3D image by crossing your eyes.
Telescope is a web app for exploring log data in ClickHouse, allowing users to configure connections, run queries, and customize views. It has a live demo at https://telescope.humanuser.net, with features for filtering, searching, and analyzing logs.
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.
Yaak is an offline, Git-friendly app for API testing with a clean interface. It's a local-first tool that doesn't require an account, created by the Insomnia founder.
Automattic is facing a class action lawsuit over its feud with WP Engine, with a cybersecurity expert accusing CEO Matt Mullenweg of sabotaging WP Engine's business. The lawsuit seeks financial damages and a permanent injunction to prevent Automattic from interfering with competitors.
We are trying to represent 3D rotations without discontinuities, starting with Euler angles, then exploring Rodrigues vectors and their discontinuities, and finally discovering quaternions that represent 3D rotations without discontinuities.
Posted by Alex Rebert, Security Foundations, Ben Laurie, Research, Murali Vijayaraghavan, Research and Alex Richardson, Silicon For decades,...
A dictionary with over 1,250 entries and 10,000 examples is based on a book by Oxford University Press. The book is now available for free after going out of print in 2008.
Rivers can split into separate branches, creating bifurcation islands, which are areas of land surrounded by water. These islands can be found in various locations, including South America, Germany, and North America, and can be larger than some continents.
The text describes the formal verification of a long division algorithm using Hoare logic. The algorithm is implemented in a programming language with unsigned N-bit integers. The verification involves establishing a loop invariant and using Hoare's while-loop axiom to prove the correctness of the algorithm.
You've created a new format for encoding real numbers on computers, combining fixed-point and floating-point representations. It uses multiple sign bits and logarithmic scaling to represent large and small numbers with constant relative precision.
D of ancient scripts are often attributed, and sometimes misattributed, to individual scholars: Jean-Jacques Barthélemy and the Phoenician alphabet, Champollion and Egyptian hieroglyphs, Magnus Celsius and Staveless Runes, Michael Ventris and Linear B, Edward Hincks and Akkadian cuneiform, Yuri Knorozov and Maya glyphs. These were undeniable intellectual achievements. They were also ...
A TypeScript-based WebAssembly runtime was created to demonstrate Doom's incompatibility with TypeScript types, but it surprisingly works. The project is now abandoned, but its code can be found on the MiTS GitHub repository with some instructions still to be implemented.
emdash helps remote teams stay focused by streamlining workflows and notifications. It integrates chat, meetings, and knowledge in one place for effortless collaboration and productivity.
“A nation so poorly prepared to act independently could not attempt total reform without total destruction. An absolute monarch would have been a less dangerous innovator.” – Alexis de Tocqueville “History is a capricious lady. But I hope that it will judge me fairly.” – Mikhail Gorbachev1 The Soviet reform experience remains a repository of historical lessons. But are we learning the right ...
SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 rocket carrying an Intuitive Machines mission to the moon with a mini data center containing 8 terabytes of storage. The mission aims to test a proof-of-concept for moon-based data centers, offering data sovereignty and resilience against Earthly hazards.
Toyota completed the first phase of Woven City, a futuristic city southwest of Tokyo, covering 175 acres. The city will test autonomous vehicles, digital technologies, and robots for residents, with 360 people moving in by the end of the year.
The writer received an email from an Australian financial company with a blog title as the subject and responded by saying they don't like money, only tolerate it for survival. They view money as a necessary evil that drives selfish and unfeeling behavior.
A cross-platform UI library with a razor sharp focus on performance, simplicity and expressive power PanGui is currently under development and is not yet available to the public. Sign up to the newsletter to stay up to date on PanGui's progress, or sign up to the beta program to help shape the future of PanGui when we begin bringing on beta testers. Most modern applications - composed of ...
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.
Some venture capital funds prioritize social impact and ethics, focusing on investments that benefit society and the environment. These funds often have stricter guidelines and more transparent decision-making processes.
Christoph Hellwig updated MAINTAINERS to reflect Marek Szyprowski as the new maintainer of the dma-mapping tree. Marek Szyprowski will now maintain the dma-mapping tree.
The Open Source LLMOps Stack, consisting of LiteLLM and Langfuse, is an open, scalable, and well-integrated setup for LLM-powered applications that offers flexibility, control, and long-term viability. This stack provides features such as observability, evaluation, and prompt management, and can be deployed in a matter of minutes via HELM or docker compose templates.
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BP plans to slash renewable energy investments and focus on increasing oil and gas production due to pressure from investors and lower profits. This shift could lead to sales of non-core businesses and may face opposition from environmental groups and some shareholders.
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.
This is a life timeline tool that visualizes past, present, and future in a colorful view, allowing users to track time spent and document meaningful periods. It auto-adds birthdays and world events, and users can export and import their timeline in YAML format.
vscli is a CLI/TUI that launches Visual Studio Code dev containers and supports other editors. It detects dev container projects and launches them, or launches the editor normally if not detected.
Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world
A glitch on Apple iPhones causes the name 'Trump' to appear when users say 'racist' due to phonetic overlap. Apple acknowledged the issue and is working to fix it, denying any political bias.
The property at 1100 Leavenworth St APT 4 is a historic Edwardian building in Nob Hill with a package deal opportunity for $1,275,000. However, it has high crime rates, poor air quality, and limited climate control, which may deter some buyers.
Enterprise software is evolving from passive records to autonomous objects that pursue their own goals. This shift brings data objects to life, enabling them to navigate systems, organizations, and data repositories.
A developer resigned as Asahi Linux lead due to burnout from maintaining open-source software. The economics of open-source are broken, with maintainers often sacrificing time and energy without compensation or recognition.
Mozilla grants a personal license to use Firefox, allowing modification and distribution under open source licenses. Users agree to Mozilla's Terms of Use, including data processing and intellectual property rights, and may have limited liability for damages.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1558 roundels use life's follies to convey moral messages through cryptic proverbs. Originally intended for dinner parties, these roundels were meant to be rotated and contemplated by guests, revealing their own learning and opinions.
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.