EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games

1220 Klaster_1 2025-02-27 18:42:01 UTC 317 github.com/electronicarts Llama Share

This repository provides Steam Workshop support for Command & Conquer Red Alert, but its source code requires effort to restore due to compilation issues. The game requires purchase through EA App or Steam, and contributions are not accepted here, but can be made through a fork.

GPT-4.5

1120 meetpateltech 2025-02-27 20:01:16 UTC 981 openai.com Llama Share

OpenAI releases GPT-4.5, a research preview of its strongest GPT model, with improved knowledge, creativity, and emotional intelligence. GPT-4.5 is available to Pro users and developers worldwide, with potential applications in writing, programming, and problem-solving.

Turning a Bluetooth device into an Apple AirTag without root privileges

500 layer8 2025-02-27 17:03:39 UTC 81 nroottag.github.io Llama Share

The design involves a Trojan code on a tracked computer and a server with a database and key generation system. The server uses the database and key generation system to retrieve location reports from Apple Cloud.

IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

475 ahurmazda 2025-02-27 22:28:49 UTC 383 newsroom.ibm.com Llama Share

IBM acquired HashiCorp for $6.4 billion to automate and secure hybrid cloud applications and generative AI. The acquisition will help clients accelerate innovation, strengthen security, and get more value from the cloud.

Solitaire

458 goles 2025-02-27 15:54:36 UTC 155 localthunk.com Llama Share

The user's game Balatro was inspired by the classic solo card game solitaire, aiming to recreate its comforting and low-stakes vibe with modern design elements. The game's meta-game features, such as achievements and challenges, were added to encourage exploration and provide a checklist for players to work through, much like a solitaire game.

Fish 4

308 SteveHawk27 2025-02-27 13:06:40 UTC 105 github.com/fish-shell Llama Share

fish's core code has been ported from C++ to Rust, with no direct impact on users. The update includes various changes and improvements to the shell's functionality, including new features, bug fixes, and performance enhancements.

A $100 DIY muon tomographer

281 Luc 2025-02-27 15:55:21 UTC 44 spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share

Physicist Luis Alvarez used muons to search for hidden chambers in the pyramids of Giza. Muon tomography has since been used to discover hidden access shafts, study magma chambers, and probe damaged reactors.

Distributed systems programming has stalled

280 shadaj 2025-02-27 16:12:42 UTC 217 shadaj.me Llama Share

Developers struggle with concurrency, fault tolerance, and versioning in distributed systems due to lack of native programming models. A new programming model is needed that addresses control, correctness, and co-location issues in distributed systems.

Some Command & Conquer games are now open source

257 bpierre 2025-02-27 22:52:17 UTC 3 github.com/electronicarts Llama Share

helmci is a program that deploys helm release values to Kubernetes clusters. electronicarts/helmci and other projects like rig-inversion and texturesets have recent commit activity.

Goodbye K-9 Mail

246 todsacerdoti 2025-02-27 17:26:21 UTC 37 cketti.de Llama Share

I quit my job at MZLA to take a break from working on Thunderbird for Android and K-9 Mail. I'm stepping away to explore other interests and may return as a volunteer contributor in the future.

Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's Starlink

230 toss1 2025-02-27 22:41:40 UTC 231 mexicodailypost.com Llama Share

Carlos Slim canceled his Starlink collaboration due to tensions with Elon Musk, opting to invest $22 billion in América Móvil's infrastructure instead. This move significantly impacts Musk's Starlink, losing a major partner in 25 countries and potentially giving China a commercial advantage.

World-first experimental cancer treatment paves way for clinical trial

206 femto 2025-02-27 22:24:22 UTC 74 wehi.edu.au Llama Share

Researchers at The Brain Cancer Centre are conducting a clinical trial to investigate an experimental treatment for glioblastoma, a highly aggressive brain cancer. The treatment involves triple immunotherapy administered before surgery, which has shown promising results in a single patient with no signs of cancer recurrence after 18 months.

Show HN: Superglue – open source API connector that writes its own code

193 adinagoerres 2025-02-27 17:20:22 UTC 48 github.com/superglue-ai Llama Share

Superglue is an open source proxy server that connects to APIs and data sources, validating and transforming data into desired formats. It simplifies API integrations by handling data validation, transformation, and authentication.

DualPipe: Bidirectional pipeline parallelism algorithm

179 mfiguiere 2025-02-27 02:08:53 UTC 20 github.com/deepseek-ai Llama Share

DualPipe is a bidirectional pipeline algorithm that achieves full overlap of forward and backward computation-communication phases. It reduces pipeline bubbles and is suitable for 8 PP ranks and 20 micro-batches in two directions.

Mozilla's new terms of use are out of step with Firefox's direct competition

178 mimasama 2025-02-27 14:12:54 UTC 2 quippd.com Llama Share

Mozilla's new Terms of Use grant a nonexclusive, royalty-free license to use user information, which is more expansive than Google's and Microsoft's similar licenses. This has raised concerns about user data rights and liability, with some arguing that the language is unnecessary and others questioning why Mozilla needs it.

Show HN: Probly – Spreadsheets, Python, and AI in the browser

165 tobiadefami 2025-02-27 15:02:39 UTC 34 github.com/pragmaticmachinelearning Full Share

This design means that data analysis happens locally in your browser, providing better performance and privacy. The Docker container serves the Next.js application and handles API requests to OpenAI, while all Python code execution happens in your browser using WebAssembly.

A data analysis of speeches at the Oscars

165 PourquoiPas 2025-02-27 12:23:41 UTC 20 stephenfollows.com Llama Share

The Oscars have evolved from brief speeches to lengthy acknowledgments, with screenwriters being the most verbose. Harvey Weinstein was thanked in 1.5% of speeches, behind God at 4.3%, but ahead of Steven Spielberg in the 1990s and 2000s.

Postgres as a Graph Database: (Ab)Using PgRouting

161 michelpp 2025-02-27 21:07:57 UTC 42 supabase.com Llama Share

pgRouting is a Postgres extension for graph functionality, often used for geospatial routing and network analysis. It can solve complex problems on a graph-based structure, from shortest paths to project scheduling and resource allocation.

The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic review of the evidence (2022)

158 flaxxen 2025-02-27 18:27:01 UTC 117 nature.com Prefix Share

The serotonin hypothesis of depression is still influential. We aimed to synthesise and evaluate evidence on whether depression is associated with lowered serotonin concentration or activity in a systematic umbrella review of the principal relevant areas of research. PubMed, EMBASE and PsycINFO were searched using terms appropriate to each area of research, from their inception until December ...

Gene Hackman has died

154 romaniitedomum 2025-02-27 08:46:54 UTC 162 nytimes.com Llama Share

Gene Hackman, a 95-year-old actor known for his subtle performances in films like "Bonnie and Clyde" and "Superman," has died. He was found dead at his home in New Mexico along with his wife, with no foul play suspected.

Teslas monitor everything – including you [video] from WIRED

154 mdhb 2025-02-27 07:12:22 UTC 177 youtube.com Embed Share

Nvidia emulation journey, part 1: RIVA 128/NV3 architecture history and overview

144 davikr 2025-02-27 20:51:23 UTC 55 86box.net Prefix Share

February 25, 2025 - written by starfrost013 Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of guest posts by starfrost013 going over the architecture of NVIDIA’s first commercially-successful product, and the ongoing effort to get it emulated on 86Box. It gets more technical than all our previous posts, but there is little detailed information out there on this chip that helped launch NVIDIA ...

US Forest Service firings decimate already understaffed agency

143 rntn 2025-02-27 11:24:51 UTC 128 grist.org Llama Share

The US Forest Service is facing a severe staffing crisis due to layoffs, with over 3,400 workers targeted for cuts, including tribal relations specialists and seasonal workers. The agency's understaffing and budget constraints are expected to have a devastating impact on public lands and communities across the US.

RoboPianist: Dexterous Piano Playing with Deep Reinforcement Learning (2023)

139 bemmu 2025-02-27 09:41:23 UTC 52 kzakka.com Llama Share

We use MuJoCo to simulate a piano-playing environment with two hands and MIDI to represent musical pieces as note sequences. Our agent learns to play piano by maximizing a reward function that includes correct key hits, energy consumption, and fingering labels.

The Doge Takeover Is Worse Than You Think

137 leotravis10 2025-02-27 21:43:54 UTC 52 wired.com Llama Share

DOGE's actions have caused widespread damage to US agencies, including the US Agency for International Development and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This has led to a loss of institutional knowledge and a brain drain in various departments.

Nigerians are building affordable alternatives to AWS and Google Cloud

128 NDAjam 2025-02-27 16:13:21 UTC 52 restofworld.org Llama Share

Nigerian fintech entrepreneur Fara Ashiru built Okra on AWS but faced high costs due to currency exchange. She then set up a local cloud infrastructure, Nebula, allowing Nigerians to pay in naira and store data locally.

DeepSeek Open Source Optimized Parallelism Strategies, 3 repos

103 helloericsf 2025-02-27 02:01:41 UTC 8 github.com/deepseek-ai Llama Share

We share profiling data captured using PyTorch Profiler to demonstrate overlapping strategies in our training and inference framework. The data shows balanced MoE routing, overlapping computation and communication in prefilling and decoding stages.

Launch HN: Bild AI (YC W25) – Understand Construction Blueprints Using AI

97 rooppal 2025-02-27 17:30:51 UTC 38 news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

Roop and Puneet, founders of Bild AI, use machine learning to read construction blueprints and extract material quantities and cost estimates. Their approach involves specialized models for specific tasks, aiming to automate tedious and error-prone manual processes in the construction industry.

FDA meeting to pick next winter's flu shot is canceled, in ominous sign for US

94 benchtobedside 2025-02-27 00:32:52 UTC 120 endpts.com Full Share

FDA panel meeting to select flu vaccine strains canceled; Paul Offit confirms

What can be computed? A practical guide to the theory of computation (2018) [pdf]

92 nill0 2025-02-27 18:52:01 UTC 25 softouch.on.ca Prefix Share

P R I N C E T O N U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S • P R I N C E T O N A N D O X F O R D The inspiration of GEB Which “theory” course are we talking about? The features that might make this book appealing What’s in and what’s out Possible courses based on this book Computer science as a liberal art Editing and rerunning a Python program Running a Python program on input from a file Running more ...

Time Warp: Delayed-choice quantum erasure

92 Gnarl 2025-02-27 14:00:21 UTC 75 drgblackwell.substack.com Prefix Share

Like most of my posts, this one is free and reasonably non-technical; my few premium posts have technical content. (Audio version below.) I considered sending this post back in time to make up for the major delay in publishing it – but I hope that readers with a fair degree of foresight will have looked ahead and seen that it was going to be worth waiting for. To receive new posts and support ...

API design note: Beware of adding an "Other" enum value

86 luu 2025-02-27 10:47:31 UTC 53 devblogs.microsoft.com Llama Share

To avoid confusion, remove the Other value from the enum and document it as open-ended. Unrecognized values should be treated as "Other" by programs.

Show HN: Wireless video streaming on POV bike display

83 polishdude20 2025-02-27 20:39:29 UTC 21 youtube.com Embed Share

A son spent a year trying to save his father from conspiracy theories

81 js2 2025-02-27 14:57:22 UTC 93 npr.org Llama Share

A man's father challenged him to a bet where he would predict 10 apocalyptic events within a year, with the loser paying $10,000, but the bet ultimately led to the breakdown of their family's relationship. The man realized that his father's stubbornness and refusal to listen to others were similar to those of his grandfather, who died at a young age due to his own stubbornness, and that his ...

Muon's magnetic moment exposes a hole in the Standard Model, unless it doesn't

80 ColinWright 2025-02-27 16:14:45 UTC 23 physicsworld.com Llama Share

The Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab found a discrepancy between theoretical predictions and experimental measurements of the muon's anomalous magnetic moment in 2021. However, a new prediction using lattice QCD found the Fermilab result to be consistent with the Standard Model.

Instagram 'Error' Turned Reels into Scroll of Murder, Gore, and Violence

75 danso 2025-02-27 15:50:38 UTC 22 404media.co Llama Share

Instagram's algorithm showed some users videos of horrific violence, animal abuse, and gore due to an error. Meta apologized and said the issue was fixed, but users are concerned about the future of content moderation on the platform.

How to run GUI applications directly in containers

73 hippospark 2025-02-27 17:04:11 UTC 38 github.com/hemashushu Llama Share

To run GUI applications in containers without installing additional software, you can use Docker or Podman to map the host's Wayland socket and PipeWire socket into the container and set the corresponding environment variables. You can also build a Docker image for the target application by creating a base image with essential packages for GUI applications and then adding specific packages ...

Outlook classic dropped from Microsoft 365

70 miles 2025-02-27 23:02:24 UTC 67 office-watch.com Llama Share

Microsoft has dropped classic Outlook from some Microsoft 365 installations, replacing it with a new version still in development. Classic Outlook is available as a separate download from Microsoft or the Microsoft Store with a required Microsoft 365 plan.

Python as a second language empathy (2018)

64 luu 2025-02-27 05:46:32 UTC 36 ballingt.com Llama Share

The speaker emphasizes the importance of understanding colleagues' mental models of Python, especially for those new to the language, and suggests building "Python-as-a-second-language empathy" by learning other languages and listening to questions. This empathy can help identify common misconceptions and improve communication, especially in teaching, code review, and interviewing.

U.S. soldier charged in AT&T hack searched "can hacking be treason"

64 todsacerdoti 2025-02-27 03:41:24 UTC 56 krebsonsecurity.com Llama Share

A US Army soldier, Cameron Wagenius, pleaded guilty to leaking phone records and extorting companies, and prosecutors claim he searched for non-extradition countries to flee. Wagenius faces up to 20 years in prison and fines for his crimes.

Imposing memory security in C [video]

62 transpute 2025-02-27 14:13:04 UTC 99 fosdem.org Full Share

They say that Rust is going to replace C. I don't believe that and I wanna share how we're doing memory-safe operations in BIRD's C code with no need to enforce this by the language paradigm. It's obviously possible to override that, yet with the right policies and processes in place, it is almost impossible.

US examining whether UK's encryption demand on Apple broke data treaty

62 Shank 2025-02-27 08:18:11 UTC 63 reuters.com Full Share

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Who was Aleph Null? (2013)

59 colluder 2025-02-27 15:34:34 UTC 21 bit-player.org Llama Share

The author of the "Computer Recreations" column in Software-Practice and Experience was identified as C A Lang, later revealed to be Charles Lang, a computer scientist from Cambridge University. Charles Lang was part of the Cambridge CAD Group and worked on solid modeling software on a PDP-7 system.

Automattic's "nuclear war" over WordPress access sparks potential class action

58 bookofjoe 2025-02-27 23:29:59 UTC 10 arstechnica.com Llama Share

Automattic and Matt Mullenweg face a class action lawsuit over allegedly disrupting hundreds of thousands of websites with WP Engine. Keller accuses them of extorting tens of millions of dollars from WP Engine for using the WordPress trademark.

OpenCloud 1.0

58 doener 2025-02-27 21:13:42 UTC 16 opencloud.eu Llama Share

OpenCloud, a GDPR-compliant open-source solution, is now available for file management and collaboration. It offers a high-performance, transparent alternative to proprietary solutions like Microsoft SharePoint and Google Drive.

Show HN: Wampy, interface addon for Linux-based Walkmans

50 unknown321 2025-02-27 18:07:35 UTC 9 github.com/unknown321 Full Share

Also works on Walkman One for NW-A50 / A40 / A30 / ZX300 / WM1A/Z. Check Device support table, find your device and select supported version for currently installed firmware. Make sure you have at least 100MB free on internal storage. Download exe from releases, run and follow instructions. Make sure that your internal storage is named "WALKMAN":

A Comprehensive Formal Security Analysis of OAuth 2.0

49 colonCapitalDee 2025-02-27 05:25:44 UTC 11 arxiv.org Llama Share

Researchers analyzed OAuth 2.0's security in a web model, discovering four attacks that break its security. They proposed fixes and proved the security of the fixed version, providing authorization, authentication, and session integrity guarantees.

Local social spending and political dissatisfaction of the economically deprived

47 PaulHoule 2025-02-27 12:33:14 UTC 45 frontiersin.org Prefix Share

Previous research demonstrates that local conditions are highly visible and proximate for citizens and thus have a distinct impact on political attitude formation. However, we still lack knowledge of the interplay of the local and the individual level. In this study, we examine how a specific group (economically deprived individuals) responds to local social spending in the formation of ...

Captain 'lost for words' after witnessing a super pod of more than 2k dolphins

47 petethomas 2025-02-27 03:56:13 UTC 11 cbc.ca Llama Share

A rare super pod of 2,000 northern right whale dolphins was spotted in Monterey Bay, California, with some individuals jumping and playing next to a boat. The dolphins, an elusive species, were seen with their calves and were described as highly social and playful creatures.

The three-dimensional Kakeya conjecture, after Wang and Zahl

45 robinhouston 2025-02-27 16:53:56 UTC 1 terrytao.wordpress.com Llama Share

Hong Wang and Joshua Zahl resolved the three-dimensional Kakeya set conjecture by establishing a lower bound on the volume of a Kakeya set. Their proof relies on a lengthy induction on scales argument.

Rifling through the archives with Robert Caro

42 benbreen 2025-02-27 06:05:46 UTC 2 smithsonianmag.com Prefix Share

Robert Caro has spent most of his life asking questions of others, and he rather prefers it that way. He is gracious and fascinating company, but while he takes evident pride in the work he has done, he’s ambivalent about too much talking of himself. Toward the end of our final meeting, he’ll mutter with wry good humor, “I never want to use a sentence with ‘I’ in it again.” Recently, Caro has ...

Second US Site Blocking Bill Introduced

42 ls612 2025-02-27 03:16:36 UTC 10 torrentfreak.com Llama Share

US lawmakers Rep Zoe Lofgren and Rep Darrell Issa introduced bills FADPA and ACPA to block foreign pirate sites. The bills aim to shield ISPs from liability and facilitate mass site-blocking measures.

Google gifts a Free AI Coding Assistant to the developer community

41 sachinjain 2025-02-27 10:25:27 UTC 64 techcrunch.com Llama Share

Google's Gemini Code Assist offers a free AI coding assistant with high usage caps, allowing developers to access and edit codebases via a chat window. The tool aims to steer early-career developers toward Google's Code Assist, with plans to monetize through enterprise upgrades.

Show HN: Compiler Playground for energy-efficient embedded dataflow processor

37 keyi 2025-02-27 18:38:47 UTC 17 efficient.computer Llama Share

We launched the effcc Compiler Playground for developers to experience our processor's energy efficiency and performance. The interactive platform maps code onto the Efficient Fabric, visualizing execution flow and energy estimates for optimized performance.

USAID's chief economist has resigned. Here's why

36 herbertl 2025-02-27 21:36:58 UTC 18 npr.org Llama Share

Dean Karlan resigned as USAID's Chief Economist after two years, citing the agency's dismantling under the new administration. He expressed frustration over mass layoffs and the harm to USAID's ability to use foreign aid effectively.

We Kind of Suck at That Right Now

36 wapasta 2025-02-27 10:38:02 UTC 40 cutlefish.substack.com Llama Share

The author realized their mistake in criticizing a team in front of their boss, causing offense. They learned to meet people where they are, not where they want them to be, to truly help and improve.

Japan births fall to lowest in 125 years

29 marban 2025-02-27 09:00:04 UTC 160 ft.com Llama Share

Japan's birth rate fell to a 125-year low in 2024, with a 5% drop from the previous year, exacerbating the country's demographic crisis. The population shrank by almost 900,000 people, with 30% of the population aged over 65, putting a strain on public debt and social security.

Show HN: Ranked Search for Semi-Structured Data

24 alrudolph 2025-02-27 17:57:17 UTC 7 demo.tryvoker.com Full Share

Datasets need to be cleaned before uploading for best results. Please do not mix multiple values in a single column. Please make columns with numbers numeric only. For example: Please do any necessary post-processing to get your data into a suitable form for us to ingest.

Gene Hackman has died

23 sundaybsunday 2025-02-27 14:42:02 UTC 13 theguardian.com Llama Share

Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead in their Santa Fe home, with no immediate indication of foul play. The couple's cause of death has not been determined, and an active investigation is underway.

Germany's Water Consumption Down 17% Following Nuclear Reactor Shutdowns

23 42lux 2025-02-27 11:17:09 UTC 46 vdi-nachrichten.com Llama Share

Die deutsche Wirtschaft hat 2022 etwa 17 % weniger Wasser als 2019 verwendet, hauptsächlich aufgrund des Ausstiegs aus der Kernenergie. Der Wasserverbrauch der Wirtschaft in Deutschland ist zwischen 2019 und 2022 deutlich gesunken.

The False Summit – When 90% done becomes 50%

20 jermaustin1 2025-02-27 19:20:19 UTC 7 jeremyaboyd.com Llama Share

The user struggles with finishing personal projects due to various reasons including existential dread, fear of losing novelty, and difficulty in setting scope, which may be linked to potential ADHD symptoms. They are considering therapy and coping mechanisms such as exposure therapy and scoping personal projects to overcome their completion issues.

From "hot blonde" to "stepsis": porn titles over time

20 higuidebot 2025-02-27 17:42:15 UTC 25 github.com/dhealy05 Llama Share

The user analyzed Pornhub's homepage snapshots from 2008 to 2021, finding a trend towards more intense and violent content, particularly incest and rape, due to professionalization and a shift towards monetization. The analysis used text embeddings and clustering to identify changes in video titles and their relation to the demand side, with sexually violent terms becoming synonymous with ...

FAA close to canceling $2.4B Verizon contract in favor of Musk's Starlink

18 reaperducer 2025-02-27 11:08:04 UTC 3 washingtonpost.com Full Share

The FBI's lab leak investigation

15 purglet 2025-02-27 18:23:39 UTC 17 vanityfair.com Llama Share

FBI scientist Jason Bannan says lab origin of COVID-19 is more likely due to WIV's research on coronaviruses and lack of transparency. Bannan's assessment is based on open-source information and contradicts natural origin theory.

Show HN: LoomLetter – an app to organize newsletters and listen on the go

14 kirkodouglasjr 2025-02-27 18:11:02 UTC 4 loomletter.app Llama Share

LoomLetter offers AI-powered newsletter narration and widgets for easy access to stay updated. It helps busy professionals stay organized and focused with features like AI narration and home screen widgets.

Firefox Terms of Use

12 bwidlar 2025-02-27 09:38:29 UTC 3 mozilla.org Llama Share

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.

Prompting Large Language Models in Bash Scripts

11 chilipepperhott 2025-02-27 19:46:55 UTC 0 elijahpotter.dev Llama Share

You're experimenting with LLMs for dataset generation and created a tool called ofc to integrate Ollama into bash scripts.

The Rake and its Prongs (2024)

11 cenazoic 2025-02-27 13:17:43 UTC 2 christiantietze.de Llama Share

The user expects word-level shortcuts to operate on word boundaries, but a String has no notion of word boundaries, making it difficult to determine valid insertion points. To solve this, the user suggests checking if a location is less than or equal to the range's upper bound and greater than or equal to 0, ensuring a valid insertion point.