Mistral OCR

1707 littlemerman 2025-03-06 17:39:39 UTC 410 mistral.ai Llama Share

Mistral OCR is an Optical Character Recognition API that accurately extracts content from documents, including text, images, tables, and equations. It enables deeper understanding of rich documents and is available for use in various industries, including science, customer service, and education.

Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it

729 nabla9 2025-03-06 12:33:27 UTC 445 science.org Full Share

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Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

721 OuterVale 2025-03-06 08:47:32 UTC 529 revolt.chat Full Share

Revolt is the chat app that's truly built with you in mind.

The US stops sharing air quality data from embassies worldwide

628 geox 2025-03-06 00:53:32 UTC 430 apnews.com Llama Share

The US government will stop sharing air quality data from its embassies and consulates due to funding constraints. This move is worrying scientists and experts who say it will hinder global air quality monitoring and public health efforts.

Succinct data structures

565 pavel_lishin 2025-03-06 17:48:37 UTC 103 blog.startifact.com Llama Share

The user discovered succinct data structures, which store data in a compact form while maintaining useful properties, and found them to be useful in systems programming, particularly in Rust. They discussed various succinct data structures, including rank/select bit vectors, wavelet matrices, and FM-indices, and shared their experience with Rust libraries such as vers and sucds.

Anime fans stumbled upon a mathematical proof

499 classichasclass 2025-03-06 16:37:34 UTC 229 scientificamerican.com Llama Share

An anonymous 4chan user estimated the minimum number of episodes to watch to see all possible orders of a 14-episode anime series, leading to a new area of mathematical study called superpermutations. The user's estimate was later confirmed and expanded upon by mathematicians, setting a range for the size of a superpermutation that would allow efficient viewing of the series.

Buy European Made. Support European Values

459 doener 2025-03-06 10:58:57 UTC 271 buy-european-made.eu Full Share

Go European is a community-driven directory bringing you product recommendations and European alternatives from across the continent.

Differentiable Logic Cellular Automata

458 eyvindn 2025-03-06 23:43:37 UTC 90 google-research.github.io Prefix Share

Imagine trying to reverse-engineer the complex, often unexpected patterns and behaviors that emerge from simple rules. This challenge has inspired researchers and enthusiasts that work with cellular automata for decades. In cellular automata, we generally approach things from the bottom-up. We choose local rules, then investigate the resulting emergent patterns. What if we could create ...

Show HN: CodeTracer – A time-traveling debugger implemented in Nim and Rust

331 alehander42 2025-03-06 14:30:10 UTC 52 github.com/metacraft-labs Llama Share

CodeTracer is a user-friendly time-traveling debugger for various programming languages that records program execution into sharable trace files. It helps track down bugs by showing the origin of any value in the program and allows navigation through the execution history.

DeepSeek-R1-671B-Q4_K_M with 1 or 2 Arc A770 on Xeon

296 colorant 2025-03-06 00:23:33 UTC 111 github.com/intel Llama Share

To run DeepSeek-R1-671B-Q4_K_M with Intel GPU, update GPU driver to the latest version and use the latest llama.cpp Portable Zip. You can specify which Intel GPU to use by setting the ONEAPI_DEVICE_SELECTOR environment variable.

Cognitive Behaviors That Enable Self-Improving Reasoners

276 delifue 2025-03-06 01:33:14 UTC 103 arxiv.org Llama Share

Researchers studied language models' self-improvement through reinforcement learning, finding that certain models naturally exhibit key reasoning behaviors. Priming models with these behaviors enables substantial improvements, suggesting a fundamental relationship between initial reasoning and capacity for improvement.

Ask HN: How did the internet discover my subdomain?

268 govideo 2025-03-06 22:34:54 UTC 280 news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

Your subdomain was discovered by internet bots through automated scans of the global IPv4 space, likely due to its association with your main domain. These bots, including Expanse and web crawlers, use various user agents to identify and scan online presence, including presigned URLs to cloud storage buckets.

Automatically tagging politician when they use their phone on the livestreams

266 driesdep 2025-03-06 10:22:06 UTC 147 driesdepoorter.be Llama Share

Cookies are categorized into necessary, functional, performance, analytical, and advertisement types based on their functions. They help websites function properly, track user behavior, and deliver customized ads.

The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide

218 Tomte 2025-03-06 05:53:30 UTC 126 verfassungsblog.de Llama Share

An authoritarian regime will use fear, propaganda, and manipulation to gain power, then limit freedoms and civil liberties. To resist, stay informed, organize, and educate others, while treating opponents with respect and understanding their perspectives.

NASA Shuts Off Voyager Science Instrument

207 01-_- 2025-03-06 17:14:39 UTC 95 gizmodo.com Llama Share

NASA engineers are shutting off science instruments on Voyager 1 and 2 to conserve power, extending their lifespan by a year or so. The twin spacecraft, launched in 1977, are running low on power due to decaying plutonium and may only have a few more months left without these measures.

Why I find diffusion models interesting?

200 whoami_nr 2025-03-06 22:35:00 UTC 85 rnikhil.com Llama Share

Inception Labs' Diffusion LLM outperforms traditional LLMs in code generation by validating generated text before continuing. This approach reduces hallucinations and enables coherent multi-step planning in agents.

Using GRPO to Beat o1, o3-mini and R1 at “Temporal Clue”

199 kcorbitt 2025-03-06 19:51:55 UTC 55 openpipe.ai Llama Share

We trained smaller, open-weight language models using reinforcement learning to achieve frontier-level deductive reasoning on Temporal Clue puzzles, surpassing R1 and coming close to Sonnet 3.7. Our models were over 100x cheaper to run at inference time.

50 Years in Filesystems: 1984

196 kaycebasques 2025-03-06 18:34:11 UTC 44 blog.koehntopp.info Llama Share

BSD FFS improved Unix filesystem performance by optimizing disk I/O, reducing fragmentation, and increasing file size limits. It introduced features like soft links, quotas, and advisory file locking, and achieved a 22-47% increase in throughput compared to traditional Unix filesystems.

Finland applies the “Housing First” concept (2020)

194 ColinWright 2025-03-06 12:29:36 UTC 142 thebetter.news Llama Share

Finland's "Housing First" concept has reduced homelessness by 4 out of 5 people. The policy provides small apartments and counselling without preconditions, costing less than accepting homelessness.

56k modems relied on digital trunk lines

175 beardyw 2025-03-06 17:19:44 UTC 133 hackaday.com Llama Share

The 56k modem worked by exploiting a change in the telephone network where ISPs could directly access the phone network in a digital manner, allowing them to send data at up to 56 kbps. However, this was only possible in one direction, and end users still had to use regular modems, which limited upload speeds to 33.6 kbps.

Rayhunter – Rust tool to detect cell site simulators on an orbic mobile hotspot

174 stefankuehnel 2025-03-06 19:04:12 UTC 18 github.com/efforg Llama Share

This code is a proof of concept for the Orbic RC400L mobile hotspot and may work on other Orbic devices. It serves a web UI for controlling and analyzing recordings, but use at your own risk due to potential legal liabilities.

Forget Twitter threads and write a blog post instead (2021)

173 theshrike79 2025-03-06 08:48:13 UTC 121 kevquirk.com Llama Share

The author dislikes Twitter threads due to lack of context and Twitter's 280 character limit, preferring blog posts for long-form content. They think creators should write coherent blog posts and share links on Twitter for easier consumption.

How to distrust a CA without any certificate errors

169 tptacek 2025-03-06 22:28:01 UTC 89 dadrian.io Llama Share

A distrust in the Web PKI occurs when a certification authority is removed from a root store due to security, compliance, or trust issues, causing certificate errors in browsers. The SCTNotAfter mechanism allows for forward-looking distrusts, enabling existing certificates to continue working without errors while preventing new certificates from being issued by the distrusted CA.

Scientists crack how aspirin might stop cancers from spreading

164 SirLJ 2025-03-06 11:53:08 UTC 92 bbc.com Llama Share

Researchers at the University of Cambridge found that aspirin may help cancer patients by unleashing the immune system to fight cancer cells. However, more trials are needed to confirm the benefits and risks of using aspirin for cancer treatment.

AMD Announces "Instella" Open-Source 3B Language Models

164 rbanffy 2025-03-06 11:17:48 UTC 53 phoronix.com Llama Share

AMD open-sourced Instella, a 3B parameter language model, trained on MI300X GPUs, offering competitive performance. Instella is fully open-source, allowing developers to access and contribute to its code and weights.

The "Take It Down" Act

152 panarky 2025-03-06 00:30:01 UTC 99 eff.org Llama Share

The Take It Down Act is an overbroad bill that could be used to remove lawful content, as President Trump has demonstrated he would do. It lacks safeguards and could lead to censorship, threatening protected speech and online privacy.

Warewulf is a stateless and diskless container OS provisioning system

146 mooreds 2025-03-06 18:45:47 UTC 50 github.com/warewulf Full Share

Warewulf is a stateless and diskless container operating system provisioning system for large clusters of bare metal and/or virtual systems. - warewulf/warewulf

Volkswagen seeks to counter rivals with budget EV model

144 herbertl 2025-03-06 00:36:40 UTC 192 ttnews.com Llama Share

Volkswagen unveiled the ID. EVERY1 concept car, its lowest-priced EV at €20,000, to compete with Chinese brands and regain market share. The car will offer over 155 miles of range and is due to start production in two years.

A few words about FiveThirtyEight

137 JumpCrisscross 2025-03-06 00:52:07 UTC 131 natesilver.net Llama Share

The author of Silver Bulletin is sad to hear about the layoff of remaining staff at 538 due to Disney's broader cuts. The author, who previously worked at 538, believes that maintaining a comprehensive public polling database is a vital public service.

Show HN: Shelgon: A Framework for Building Interactive REPL Shells in Rust

128 cat-whisperer 2025-03-06 19:32:12 UTC 24 github.com/nishantjoshi00 Llama Share

Shelgon is a Rust framework for building interactive REPL applications with terminal UI capabilities. It provides a type-safe foundation for command execution and custom shells.

Show HN: Rust Vector and Quaternion Lib

127 the__alchemist 2025-03-06 20:32:47 UTC 48 github.com/david-oconnor Llama Share

To use this code, add the no_std feature for embedded targets, computer_graphics for graphics functionality, and the encode feature for bincode. Do not run cargo fmt due to macro issues.

Show HN: Open-source, native audio turn detection model

124 kwindla 2025-03-06 18:20:48 UTC 28 github.com/pipecat-ai Llama Share

The project aims to build a state-of-the-art turn detection model that matches human expectations more closely than current voice activity detection (VAD) based approaches. The model is based on Meta AI's Wav2Vec2-BERT backbone and currently supports English, with plans to expand to additional languages and improve performance through data collection and model architecture experimentation.

UK quietly scrubs encryption advice from government websites

120 nickburns 2025-03-06 17:38:33 UTC 2 techcrunch.com Llama Share

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre removed encryption advice from its website, now recommending Apple's Lockdown Mode instead. This change comes after the UK government secretly ordered Apple to build a backdoor for encrypted iCloud data.

Exposing Russian EFF Impersonators: The Inside Story on Stealc and Pyramid C2

113 hn_acker 2025-03-06 19:01:28 UTC 17 hunt.io Llama Share

A threat group impersonating the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is targeting Albion Online players through decoy documents and phishing attempts. The group's tactics and malware align with financially motivated cybercrime activity.

Apache iceberg the Hadoop of the modern-data-stack?

113 samrohn 2025-03-06 06:53:46 UTC 63 blog.det.life Llama Share

Apache Iceberg is emerging as a cornerstone for data lakes and lakehouses, addressing a core problem in data lakes: managing large, constantly evolving datasets with ACID compliance and schema evolution. However, its adoption often outpaces organizations' abilities to operationalize it effectively, requiring careful planning and skill-building.

Tesla gets more than 20% of parts from Mexico, it will be affected by tariffs

108 zfg 2025-03-06 00:49:59 UTC 150 electrek.co Llama Share

Tesla will be negatively affected by tariffs due to its significant parts sourcing from Mexico and Canada. The tariffs will increase the cost of Tesla vehicles despite a recent delay in their implementation.

Atlassian announces end of support for Opsgenie

94 anurag 2025-03-06 18:08:24 UTC 102 atlassian.com Llama Share

Atlassian is transitioning Opsgenie's capabilities into its platform to provide better services for customers. Opsgenie will be fully integrated into Jira Service Management and Compass by April 2027, with a June 2025 end of sale.

Bangladesh's factories turn to surveillance, automation; workers feel pressure

80 impish9208 2025-03-06 14:39:36 UTC 76 restofworld.org Llama Share

Bangladesh's garment factories are adopting smart manufacturing technology to increase productivity and competitiveness, but workers say automation has led to job losses and increased stress. The devices, such as Nidle, track worker efficiency and can replace up to six workers.

More thoughts on the 1670 modem's weird noises

76 kencausey 2025-03-06 16:18:11 UTC 29 rachelbythebay.com Llama Share

You're investigating odd noises from a 1670 modem in dial mode, specifically a repeating white noise and "pa-tink" sound every 1.2 seconds. The issue occurs in both units and is not related to pulse dialing or degradation.

PurrCrypt: Steganographic encryption disguised as pet sounds

75 vxfemboy 2025-03-06 20:47:59 UTC 14 github.com/vxfemboy Llama Share

PurrCrypt is a cryptography tool that uses elliptic curve algorithms like Bitcoin, disguised as cat and dog sounds. It hides secret messages in cute pet language, providing strong security through adorability.

Bcvi – run vi over a 'back-channel' (2010)

73 leonry 2025-03-06 18:55:47 UTC 26 sshmenu.sourceforge.net Llama Share

bcvi is a command-line tool that works with SSH to send commands from a server back to a workstation. It provides a back-channel for launching GUI apps and running commands on the workstation.

Denmark postal service to stop delivering letters

73 sixhobbits 2025-03-06 11:29:56 UTC 69 bbc.com Llama Share

PostNord, Denmark's state-run postal service, will end letter deliveries by 2025 due to a 90% decline in volumes since 2000. 1,500 postboxes will disappear and 1,500 workers will lose their jobs, with a focus shifting to parcel deliveries.

Spark-TTS: Text-2-Speech Model Single-Stream Decoupled Tokens [pdf]

72 bilekas 2025-03-06 11:51:17 UTC 5 arxiv.org Llama Share

Researchers introduced Spark-TTS, a novel system for zero-shot text-to-speech synthesis using BiCodec and Qwen2.5 LLM. It enables controllable voice generation with coarse-grained control and fine-grained adjustments.

Xdg-ninja: checking your $HOME for unwanted files and directories

71 plushugh 2025-03-06 00:43:22 UTC 28 github.com/b3nj5m1n Llama Share

xdg-ninja is a tool that helps move files to their correct locations based on XDG spec. It's installed from git HEAD and configurations are crowdsourced from users.

How much traffic can a pre-rendered Next.js site handle?

69 MartijnHols 2025-03-06 06:42:00 UTC 51 martijnhols.nl Llama Share

The user tested their Next.js site's performance and found that it can handle 193 requests per second, but a traffic surge from a site like Hacker News could still cause issues due to the need for 60+ additional requests. The user then upgraded to a dedicated server and found that it can handle 2,330 requests per second, making it a more suitable option for handling large traffic surges.

A brief meditation on formal systems and lying goblins

63 mprast 2025-03-06 22:00:38 UTC 29 the-nerve-blog.ghost.io Llama Share

A classic logic puzzle from the movie Labyrinth was solved using boolean algebra, where the goal is to determine which door leads to the castle by asking a goblin one question. The solution involves asking the goblin if the other goblin would say the left door leads to the castle, and then inverting the answer to determine the correct door.

A shirt whose price increases by 1 euro with every purchase

63 tomsonj 2025-03-06 13:05:02 UTC 36 driesdepoorter.be Llama Share

Cookies are categorized into necessary, functional, performance, analytical, and advertisement types based on their functions. They help websites function properly, track user behavior, and deliver customized ads.

Launch HN: Cenote (YC W25) – Back Office Automation for Medical Clinics

61 ansong99 2025-03-06 14:47:35 UTC 51 news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

Kofi, Kristy, and Ajani co-founded Cenote to automate medical clinic workflows with AI, reducing time-consuming referral intake processes. Cenote uses LLMs, OCR, and RPA to extract and validate referral data, check for medical necessity, and initiate insurance verification in minutes.

LFortran compiles PRIMA

60 genphy1976 2025-03-06 15:00:23 UTC 20 lfortran.org Llama Share

LFortran successfully compiles and executes libprima/PRIMA, a package for solving nonlinear optimization problems. This milestone brings LFortran closer to its goal of compiling 10 production-grade codes, a key step toward achieving beta-quality status.

I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats

60 bookofjoe 2025-03-06 13:34:52 UTC 115 thewalrus.ca Llama Share

The author, an ethics professor, is struggling with the rise of AI-generated essays in his classes, which undermines the value of education and creates an unfair advantage for cheaters. He argues that education should be about developing critical thinking and writing skills, not just about passing exams or getting a job.

Portable MRI Scans Patients for Signs of Stroke

58 rbanffy 2025-03-06 13:08:09 UTC 26 spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share

Scientists at Wellumio created Axana, a portable MRI scanner for emergency departments, to quickly diagnose strokes. Axana uses magnetic fields to create low-resolution images, sufficient for detecting ischemic strokes, at a lower cost and with simpler interpretation than traditional MRI machines.

Ask HN: Best Windows/Linux developer laptop in 2025

58 edtech_dev 2025-03-06 01:14:28 UTC 70 news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

You're looking for a portable laptop for development, considering Asus or Lenovo due to past experiences, with a 13-14 inch screen and a budget that's not specified.

How the Index Card Cataloged the World (2017)

54 Tomte 2025-03-06 19:38:57 UTC 17 theatlantic.com Llama Share

Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish botanist, invented the index card to manage his research, but it had unexpected implications for categorizing people and prejudice. Linnaeus's paper slips, a product of the Enlightenment, were later used for bibliographical records and even cataloging enemies in regimes like the Nazi party.

How do you process the news?

54 surprisetalk 2025-03-06 11:10:21 UTC 62 alexschroeder.ch Llama Share

The user has stopped reading online news due to paywalls and excessive ads, considering a return to books. They feel news should be paid like taxes, but current models are impractical.

Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing

54 mraniki 2025-03-06 04:44:06 UTC 71 ft.com Full Share

Complete digital access to quality FT journalism with expert analysis from industry leaders. Pay a year upfront and save 20%.

Forces deep underground seem to be deforming Earth's inner core

52 walterbell 2025-03-06 07:46:50 UTC 21 newscientist.com Llama Share

Earth's inner core has changed shape over the past 20 years according to seismic wave measurements. Changes in the inner core's rotation and shape are likely caused by convection in the outer core and interactions with the lower mantle.

Commodore 64 PETSCII Image (2022)

50 erickhill 2025-03-06 03:58:04 UTC 12 medium.com/@8bitsten Llama Share

After losing my job, I'm taking a break to learn something new, specifically old computers, electronics, and games. I'm starting with PETSCII art, creating a STAR WARS stormtrooper helmet using pixel art with PETSCII characters.

InstantStyle: Free Lunch Towards Style-Preserving in Text-to-Image Generation

48 klaussilveira 2025-03-06 23:31:13 UTC 11 github.com/instantx-research Llama Share

InstantStyle is a framework that employs two techniques to disentangle style and content from reference images, allowing for effective style transfer and content preservation. It is built on IP-Adapter and can be used for text-to-image generation with high-resolution image output.

Mistral OCR

48 meetpateltech 2025-03-06 17:02:58 UTC 3 mistral.ai Llama Share

Mistral OCR is an Optical Character Recognition API that accurately extracts content from documents, including text, images, tables, and equations. It enables deeper understanding of rich documents and is available for use in various settings, including on-premises and cloud environments.

'Trump Gaza' AI video intended as political satire, says creator

47 beardyw 2025-03-06 09:16:56 UTC 74 theguardian.com Llama Share

Solo Avital created an AI-generated video depicting Gaza as a paradise, intended as satire of Trump's plan to develop the area. Trump posted the video without context, surprising Avital and sparking debate about AI-generated content and its potential misuse.

Due to new tariffs, many more physical game discs may "simply not get made"

46 isaacfrond 2025-03-06 08:16:41 UTC 67 arstechnica.com Llama Share

Tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China may lead to price increases and supply issues for US video game software and hardware. Game makers may pass costs to consumers, and digital game prices could also rise to match higher physical game prices.

Demos of Stream Processing Solving Real-World Problems

45 Sheldon_fun 2025-03-06 09:04:38 UTC 3 github.com/risingwavelabs Llama Share

This repository provides stream processing demos using RisingWave, targeting Kafka and Postgres users, with a focus on real-world applications and industry use cases. The demos are self-contained, executable, and verified on Ubuntu and Mac.

Show HN: LLMs Playing Mafia games – See them lie, deceive, and reason

42 uncanny_guzus 2025-03-06 13:47:30 UTC 24 mafia.opennumbers.xyz Full Share

Show HN: C++ AWS MSK IAM Auth Implementation – Goodbye Kafka Passwords

40 jovezhong 2025-03-06 19:39:08 UTC 2 github.com/timeplus-io Full Share

High-performance, low-footprint SQL database written in C++. Process millions of rows per second from Kafka, Pulsar, or ClickHouse, and seamlessly write results back. Supports powerful features like JOIN, CDC, UPSERT, and LOOKUP, enabling real-time analytics and ETL at scale. - proton/src/IO/Kafka/AwsMskIamSigner.cpp at develop · timeplus-io/proton

Now there are two Chinese automakers on the top list

39 teleforce 2025-03-06 11:23:49 UTC 51 daoinsights.com Llama Share

Chinese automakers BYD and Geely entered the top 10 global sales ranking, with BYD ranking 5th and Geely 10th. Toyota Group topped the ranking for the fifth consecutive year with 10.82 million vehicles sold.

Aider: Using Uv as an Installer

39 anotherpaulg 2025-03-06 03:18:06 UTC 13 simonwillison.net Llama Share

Paul Gauthier's Aider CLI utility uses uv to install itself in a virtual environment without requiring users to know about isolated virtual environments. The installation process uses uv to install a new Python 3.12 and Aider package in a safe, managed directory.

Let's Talk About the American Dream

34 _eigenfoo 2025-03-06 13:41:48 UTC 16 blog.codinghorror.com Llama Share

The author will give a talk with Alexander Vindman about building a better American Dream for everyone through democracy, community, and economic mobility. They will explore how to create long-term structural change and move beyond individual generosity towards systems that create security and possibility for all.

Unseen photos of U2 and The Smiths released as Maxwell Hall Archive is unveiled

33 gnabgib 2025-03-06 00:03:58 UTC 6 salford.ac.uk Llama Share

A new digital archive for Maxwell Hall in Salford reveals unseen photos and memorabilia from iconic concerts featuring The Smiths, Blondie, U2, and New Order. The archive showcases the venue's rich history and will continue to grow with donations from the public.

Spark Texture Compression 1.2

31 luu 2025-03-06 19:49:42 UTC 6 ludicon.com Llama Share

Spark 1.2 is a major update to the real-time GPU texture compression solution, offering improved performance, new compression formats, and expanded platform support, including Android TV and console SDKs. The update includes significant optimizations, such as f16 vectorization and improved EAC codec performance, as well as new codecs like BC3-YCoCg and ETC2, and support for larger block sizes ...

A New, Chemical View of Ecosystems

29 rbanffy 2025-03-06 17:22:25 UTC 4 quantamagazine.org Llama Share

Scientists have found that rare chemicals called "keystone molecules" can structure and alter connections between species in ecosystems. A recent study on pungent Alderia sea slugs isolated new molecules that had profound effects on other species and the ecosystem.

Graphite: Node-based, non-destructive, procedural 2D vector editor

29 klaussilveira 2025-03-06 13:27:06 UTC 2 github.com/graphiteeditor Llama Share

Graphite is a free, open source graphics engine with a nondestructive editing workflow combining layer-based compositing and node-based design. It's a highly versatile tool for vector, raster, and beyond, aiming to be an industry standard for art and design.

Questions for William J. Rapaport

27 baziotis 2025-03-06 18:24:37 UTC 3 docs.google.com Llama Share

You're discussing AI with Professor William J Rapaport from U at Buffalo, a philosopher and computer scientist. Please send your questions for him, and I'll help you summarize them in 2 concise sentences.

There Is a Significant Need for Retirement Savings in the US

27 FigurativeVoid 2025-03-06 16:17:21 UTC 99 apolloacademy.com Llama Share

Apollo Global Management presentation warns of US retirement asset ownership gap and notes that opinions and projections are subject to change without notice. The presentation does not constitute investment advice and actual events may differ from forward-looking statements.

Novo Nordisk slashes Wegovy price for patients lacking insurance benefits

24 bookofjoe 2025-03-06 15:13:39 UTC 10 washingtonpost.com Full Share

UK homes install subsidised heat pumps at record level

23 RobinL 2025-03-06 12:28:01 UTC 23 bbc.co.uk Llama Share

UK heat pump installations rose 52% last year to a record level due to increased government incentives. Experts say running costs need to fall for the government to meet its targets of installing hundreds of thousands of heat pumps annually.

MAGA Wants to End Capitalism as We Know It

22 petethomas 2025-03-06 07:47:16 UTC 9 bloomberg.com Llama Share

Bloomberg delivers business and financial information worldwide. Trump's tariffs and plans may dismantle the US managerial corporation system.

Show HN: Testeranto – the AI driven test framework for TypeScript projects

21 adamwong246 2025-03-06 23:15:48 UTC 0 npmjs.com Full Share

🚧 WARNING: Testeranto is still under development and is not ready for production yet. 🚧 Testeranto produces test results which can be fed to Aider.ai to automatically fix failing tests. Testeranto tests are specified in a strongly-typed gherkin-like syntax. Rather than testing your code directly, Testeranto requires you wrap your code with a semantic interface which is based on TS type signatures.

Investigating an argument-dependent lookup issue and working around it

17 luu 2025-03-06 20:03:51 UTC 1 devblogs.microsoft.com Llama Share

The problem is that a call to invoke in C++/WinRT resolves to std::invoke instead of winrt::impl::invoke due to argument-dependent lookup after promoting coroutines out of the experimental namespace. To fix this issue without upgrading C++/WinRT, you can declare a version of invoke in the winrt::Windows::Foundation namespace that is considered better than std::invoke and assert that the ...

Ask HN: Escaping Difficult Employment Situation?

17 dirtybirdnj 2025-03-06 14:14:30 UTC 38 news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

You're trapped in a job you hate due to lack of local job opportunities and energy to job hunt. Your situation is exacerbated by a corporate environment that demotivates you, causing mental breakdown and feelings of isolation.

MAGA Wants to End Capitalism as We Know It

16 helsinkiandrew 2025-03-06 09:16:23 UTC 16 bloomberg.com Llama Share

Bloomberg delivers business and financial information worldwide. Trump's tariffs and plans may dismantle the US managerial corporation system.

The Combined Cipher Machine 1940's-1950's

15 Christrian164 2025-03-06 17:42:44 UTC 1 chris-intel-corner.blogspot.com Prefix Share

Another machine that became increasingly important for the Allies, in the period 1943-45, was the Combined Cipher Machine - CCM. Unfortunately, this machine has not received a lot of attention from historians because there is limited information available on its internal operation and use in the field. Here I have attempted to present information on the CCM from various sources that are not ...

Is Social Security a Ponzi Scheme?

15 surprisetalk 2025-03-06 11:18:46 UTC 19 marginalrevolution.com Llama Share

Elon Musk and Nobel laureates Paul Samuelson, Milton Friedman, and Paul Krugman have called Social Security a Ponzi scheme due to its unsustainable actuarial returns. The system's returns were artificially inflated by population growth and productivity increases, but are now expected to decline.

Exploring Polymorphism in C: Lessons from Linux and FFmpeg's Code Design (2019)

11 dreampeppers99 2025-03-06 14:23:24 UTC 3 leandromoreira.com Llama Share

Linux and FFmpeg use polymorphism and abstraction to make their codebases extensible and maintainable by defining generic interfaces and operations that can be implemented by various components. This approach allows for easy addition of new codecs, formats, and protocols by providing a common interface and operations that can be implemented by each component, reducing coupling and increasing cohesion.