Age Verification Laws: A Backdoor to Surveillance

641 hn_acker 2025-03-07 18:34:02 UTC 427 eff.org Llama Share

Age verification laws are being used to collect personal data from everyone, not just minors, and are a deliberate strategy to introduce surveillance systems. These laws pose serious risks to digital freedoms, including identity theft and data breaches, and should be replaced with less invasive methods to protect online users.

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers

585 kgwgk 2025-03-07 22:54:58 UTC 210 nature.com Llama Share

Two AI projects, Black Spatula and YesNoError, use artificial intelligence to find mistakes in scientific literature. They aim to prevent errors and fraud from entering the scientific literature by analyzing papers before publication.

Introducing command And commandfor In HTML

427 Kerrick 2025-03-07 17:24:02 UTC 246 developer.chrome.com Llama Share

Chrome 135 introduces new command and commandfor attributes for buttons, enhancing simplicity and accessibility. These attributes allow declarative behavior and replace older attributes, providing built-in common functionality and improved ergonomics.

Microsoft is plotting a future without OpenAI

422 doublebind 2025-03-07 18:44:34 UTC 441 techstartups.com Llama Share

Microsoft's AI head Mustafa Suleyman is working to reduce the company's dependence on OpenAI. He aims to build in-house AI models and cut costs, but progress has been slow due to technical and internal challenges.

Natural occurring molecule rivals Ozempic in weight loss, sidesteps side effects

416 pseudolus 2025-03-07 11:16:41 UTC 378 medicalxpress.com Llama Share

Stanford Medicine researchers discovered a naturally occurring molecule called BRP that suppresses appetite and reduces body weight without some side effects of semaglutide. BRP acts through a separate metabolic pathway and activates different neurons in the brain, offering a more targeted approach to body weight reduction.

Europe's most wanted man plotted my murder and that of my colleague

407 dralley 2025-03-07 19:28:31 UTC 253 theins.press Full Share

Ladder: Self-improving LLMs through recursive problem decomposition

367 fofoz 2025-03-07 06:45:57 UTC 110 arxiv.org Llama Share

LADDER framework enables Large Language Models to improve problem-solving capabilities through self-guided learning by generating simpler problem variants. It achieves significant accuracy improvements in mathematical integration tasks without relying on human supervision or architectural scaling.

Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"?

327 jbornhorst 2025-03-07 17:09:20 UTC 321 news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

The user is experiencing headaches and eye strain after long screen days despite wearing prescription glasses, and is looking for solutions to alleviate these issues. They have found that using progressive occupational lenses focused at arm's length has greatly reduced eye fatigue and improved screen clarity.

Vtm: Text-Based Desktop Environment

305 klaussilveira 2025-03-07 17:12:30 UTC 89 github.com/directvt Llama Share

The application is a text-based interface with a TUI matrix that can be rendered in a GUI window or text console. It supports wrapping console apps and nesting indefinitely, with GUI window support on Windows and terminal emulator on Unix platforms.

Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon

259 pseudolus 2025-03-07 18:06:45 UTC 338 theguardian.com Llama Share

A robotic spacecraft called Athena, designed to aid moon return missions, toppled over after landing on the lunar surface due to incorrect attitude and harsh conditions. The mission, valued at hundreds of millions of dollars, was a setback for Intuitive Machines and NASA's lunar exploration plans.

Polars Cloud: The Distributed Cloud Architecture to Run Polars Anywhere

258 neilfrndes 2025-03-07 20:57:46 UTC 87 pola.rs Llama Share

Polars aims to unify DataFrame APIs by offering a flexible, high-performance alternative to pandas and PySpark, enabling scalable data processing and remote execution. Polars Cloud will allow seamless remote execution of queries, with features like diagonal scaling, GPU support, and distributed queries, making it easy to process large datasets.

3dfx: So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023)

215 kristianp 2025-03-07 04:07:18 UTC 195 abortretry.fail Llama Share

3dfx Interactive was founded in 1994 by four men, including Gary Tarolli, Scott Sellers, Ross Smith, and Gordon Campbell, who aimed to create affordable 3D graphics accelerators. The company's Voodoo Graphics and GLide API became the standard in the PC graphics space in the 1990s, but ultimately declined due to competition and mistakes.

Bye, Prime

187 HieronymusBosch 2025-03-07 08:08:35 UTC 178 tbray.org Llama Share

User is canceling Amazon Prime due to commercial and emotional reasons. They no longer need next-day delivery and prefer shopping from Canadian suppliers to avoid US hostility.

Optimistic Locking in B-Trees

180 uds5501 2025-03-07 17:23:28 UTC 49 cedardb.com Llama Share

B-Trees are a 50-year-old data structure that remains ubiquitous for data storage due to their great data locality and ability to adapt to modern hardware. They efficiently store and retrieve data with low latency, making them an excellent choice for modern systems.

How did places like Bell Labs know how to ask the right questions? (2023)

179 sebg 2025-03-07 23:14:36 UTC 107 freaktakes.com Prefix Share

Many new science orgs are looking to pursue research that has the positive aspects of both “applied” research and “basic” research. To me, this is a very reasonable approach. After all, the “applied vs. basic research” distinction has always been a rather arbitrary one. Some research projects feel like they are squarely in one bucket or the other, but it’s not always that clear. Applied ...

Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (Filmed Feb. 13, 1957) [video]

177 kristiandupont 2025-03-07 19:06:30 UTC 54 youtube.com Embed Share

Strobelight: A profiling service built on open source technology

173 birdculture 2025-03-07 14:43:24 UTC 49 engineering.fb.com Llama Share

Strobelight is a profiling orchestrator at Meta that combines multiple open-source technologies to help engineers improve efficiency and utilization across the fleet. It provides automatic, regularly-collected profiling data for all services, allowing engineers to identify performance bottlenecks and optimize code for significant capacity savings.

Matters Computational (2010) [pdf]

168 nill0 2025-03-07 10:06:38 UTC 23 jjj.de Prefix Share

2 2 7 8 11 13 14 17 18 23 25 25 27 29 33 38 41 46 48 49 55 56 58 61 62 68 70 74 78 80 82 83 This is a book for the computationalist, whether a working programmer or anyone interested in methods of computation. The focus is on material that does not usually appear in textbooks on algorithms. Where necessary the underlying ideas are explained and the algorithms are given formally. It is assumed ...

GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet

166 cheeaun 2025-03-07 23:52:49 UTC 83 cybercultural.com Llama Share

GeoCities was a commercial internet service that made it easy for people to publish home pages on the World Wide Web in 1995. It offered a user-friendly platform for non-technical people to create web pages with design elements like animated GIFs and cartoon fonts.

Moscow-based global news network has infected Western AI tools

165 rbanffy 2025-03-07 19:01:30 UTC 108 newsguardrealitycheck.com Llama Share

A Moscow-based disinformation network named "Pravda" is flooding AI chatbots with false claims and propaganda, affecting their responses on news topics. The network has spread 3.6 million articles in 2024, with AI chatbots repeating false narratives 33.55 percent of the time.

Bring Back Shortwave

162 austinallegro 2025-03-07 12:16:16 UTC 104 spectator.co.uk Llama Share

Digital communications pose a risk in global conflict as they can be vulnerable to cyber attacks and information manipulation. This can lead to a loss of truth and accurate information in times of war.

Woman's DNA discovered in 20k year old deer-tooth pendant (2023)

161 pseudolus 2025-03-07 13:30:08 UTC 72 cbc.ca Llama Share

A German research team extracted human DNA from a 19,000 to 25,000 year old pendant made from a deer tooth in Siberia's Denisova cave. The DNA revealed the wearer was a female from a Northern Eurasian population, providing a new proof-of-concept for extracting DNA from ancient artifacts.

Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe?

147 justin66 2025-03-07 13:31:46 UTC 217 bbc.com Llama Share

Scientists in the UK are developing a new, secure alternative to GPS using quantum technology to create portable atomic clocks. This technology aims to protect critical systems from GPS jamming and could be integrated into everyday devices, including phones.

Laser-based device can scan almost any sample of gas and tell you what's in it

141 PaulHoule 2025-03-07 16:06:37 UTC 84 phys.org Llama Share

Scientists at CU Boulder and NIST developed a laser-based device that can identify various molecules in a gas sample at minute concentrations. The device, called Modulated Ringdown Comb Interferometry, can be used for medical diagnostics, such as detecting lung cancer and diabetes.

Betting on the Pope was the original prediction market

140 nodumbideas 2025-03-07 15:25:13 UTC 80 nodumbideas.com Llama Share

Prediction markets on the Pope's health and succession have a long history dating back to the 1500s when betting on papal deaths and elections was common. Today, these markets have gone mainstream with the rise of cryptocurrency-powered prediction markets, raising concerns about undue influence and the consequences of financializing spiritual and electoral outcomes.

Mysterious tunnels sketched by Leonardo may have been found

129 simonebrunozzi 2025-03-07 12:55:02 UTC 37 cnn.com Llama Share

Scientists at Politecnico di Milano discovered hidden underground passageways at the Sforza Castle in Milan, Italy, which were likely used by soldiers during the Renaissance. The discovery was made through nondestructive surveys and reinforces the influence of Leonardo da Vinci on the castle's architecture.

AMD YOLO

120 trulyrandom 2025-03-07 18:29:34 UTC 79 geohot.github.io Llama Share

AMD is sending MI300X boxes and the user believes they won't shoot themselves in the foot on software, making NVIDIA overvalued. They're betting on AMD being undervalued and expect the MI300X to outperform NVIDIA's H100 with good software.

Letta: Letta is a framework for creating LLM services with memory

118 sebg 2025-03-07 21:33:43 UTC 22 github.com/letta-ai Llama Share

Letta is an open source framework for building stateful LLM applications with advanced reasoning capabilities and transparent long-term memory. It uses a white box, model-agnostic approach and can be installed via Docker or pip.

The necessity of Nussbaum

113 rbanffy 2025-03-07 16:29:18 UTC 144 aeon.co Llama Share

Martha Nussbaum is a prominent philosopher who has made significant contributions to ethics, politics, and human development through her capabilities approach. Her work emphasizes the importance of emotions in moral reasoning and challenges traditional views on anger, advocating for a more constructive approach to justice and human flourishing.

Zig's dot star syntax (value.*)

110 todsacerdoti 2025-03-07 11:25:27 UTC 123 openmymind.net Llama Share

In Zig, variables are labels for stack addresses, and pointers are labels for other addresses, allowing for indirection and dereferencing. The .* operator dereferences a pointer, and the & operator introduces a level of indirection, enabling operations on entire memory or specific fields.

Doge Is Putting Major Government Efficiency Projects at Risk

109 doener 2025-03-07 19:22:34 UTC 84 wired.com Llama Share

Around 200 technologists have resigned or been fired from the General Services Administration (GSA) and the United States Digital Service (USDS) due to the takeover by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency. This has jeopardized a decade's worth of work on projects such as public health, passport applications, and weather forecasting, leaving a "giant hole" in the government's ...

Rules to improve air quality are under attack

104 ssuds 2025-03-07 05:25:38 UTC 49 heatpumped.org Llama Share

The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) is proposing a rule to phase out NOx and CO2 emitting gas furnaces and water heaters by 2036, but advocates want stronger targets and fees to reduce emissions. The current proposal has been watered down, and supporters are urging the SCAQMD to strengthen the rule to achieve full implementation by 2060 and reduce health impacts from gas ...

Great software design looks underwhelming

101 pierremenard 2025-03-07 19:19:21 UTC 15 seangoedecke.com Llama Share

The author believes great software design is about eliminating failure modes by being simple and straightforward, not adding complex solutions to handle potential problems. This approach involves designing out flaws, normalizing state, and relying on battle-tested systems to reduce the risk of bugs and errors.

Shares of Starlink's European rival Eutelsat have tripled

90 _fizz_buzz_ 2025-03-07 07:30:40 UTC 105 marketwatch.com Full Share

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How a Connecticut DMV Employee Made Thousands by Selling Towed Cars

89 hn_acker 2025-03-07 18:35:27 UTC 23 propublica.org Llama Share

A Connecticut towing company, D&L Auto Body & Towing, sold cars to a DMV employee, Dominik Stefanski, at deep discounts. Stefanski then resold the cars for a profit, avoiding returning money to car owners or the state.

Apple has 90 days to allow app sideloading in Brazil

88 soapdog 2025-03-07 18:27:05 UTC 37 theverge.com Llama Share

Apple will appeal an antitrust ruling in Brazil, despite already allowing competing app stores in some countries. The company claims the ruling would undermine user privacy and security.

Rust inadequate for text compression codecs?

87 todsacerdoti 2025-03-07 23:20:45 UTC 123 palaiologos.rocks Llama Share

The author chose to implement codecs in C instead of Rust due to performance concerns and the need for low-level control, despite Rust's memory safety features. The author believes that Rust's safety features are not adequate for performance-sensitive code and that C is more ergonomic for this type of code.

Coffee reduces risk of Type 2 Diabetes; okay to add cream, but not sweetener

87 hilux 2025-03-07 19:07:40 UTC 135 ajcn.nutrition.org Llama Share

Public health approaches to type 2 diabetes prevention include the US National Diabetes Prevention Program and studies on coffee consumption. Research suggests moderate coffee intake and diet changes may reduce type 2 diabetes risk.

How to Build a Thousand-Year-Old Tree

80 matthewjpo 2025-03-07 14:36:50 UTC 10 noemamag.com Prefix Share

Even in early summer, when Sherwood Forest is thick with lime-colored new leaves, you start to see it from a few hundred paces away. Its trunk is 36 feet around and its canopy stretches for almost three bus-lengths. Its broad, bowl-shaped crown is propped up by a ring of metal columns, like walking sticks measured to fit each of its groaning boughs. The Major Oak, as it’s called, is ...

'Next-Level' Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability

79 pseudolus 2025-03-07 20:50:45 UTC 26 quantamagazine.org Llama Share

Physicists have found that certain systems, including quantum particles and chaotic systems, are fundamentally unpredictable due to undecidability. This means that even with complete knowledge and unlimited computing power, some questions about these systems remain unanswerable.

What if America turned off Britain's weapons?

76 howard941 2025-03-07 17:51:12 UTC 127 reaction.life Llama Share

Britain's Trident nuclear programme relies heavily on US support, including parts and technical assistance, raising concerns about its independence. A US refusal to provide Britain with Trident missiles could be a scenario that needs to be planned for, given the current geopolitical shift.

Virtual Punch Card Creator

74 eniac111 2025-03-07 21:15:10 UTC 16 masswerk.at Llama Share

The Virtual Keypunch is a free online service that allows users to create and download custom punch cards, including various types such as FORTRAN, COBOL, and SYMBOLIC cards. Users can input text, use special keys for multiple punches, and even execute arithmetic expressions to receive results, all within a virtual keypunch environment.

Sublogic Flight Simulator

73 rbanffy 2025-03-07 11:16:57 UTC 28 goto10retro.com Llama Share

The author discusses the origins of Flight Simulator, a groundbreaking 1980 game created by Bruce Artwick and Stu Moment for the Apple II, which later became Microsoft Flight Simulator. The author recently acquired the Atari XE Game System version, Flight Simulator II, and shares their experience trying to play it.

US deploys AI to revoke visas of foreign nationals supporting Hamas: Report

72 bobheadmaker 2025-03-07 08:27:22 UTC 77 cnbctv18.com Llama Share

The US State Department will use AI to scan social media accounts of student visa holders for potential terrorist sympathies. The "Catch and Revoke" initiative aims to revoke visas of foreign nationals supporting Hamas or other designated terrorist groups.

The Take It Down Act isn't a law, it's a weapon

71 archagon 2025-03-07 19:35:20 UTC 30 theverge.com Llama Share

The Take It Down Act aims to criminalize nonconsensual intimate imagery and require web platforms to remove it within 48 hours, but its effectiveness is uncertain due to the Trump administration's history of selective enforcement.

Show HN: A big tech dev experience for an open source CMS

57 randall 2025-03-07 17:24:26 UTC 28 contentfoundry.com Llama Share

A team of 5 developers is building an open-source CMS with an AI-first dev environment. They're showing a tool that generates an "identity card" from a Twitter username.

When Europe needed it most, the Ariane 6 rocket delivered

57 _mitterpach 2025-03-07 12:48:50 UTC 13 arstechnica.com Llama Share

The Ariane 6 rocket successfully launched a French military spy satellite into orbit, marking its first operational flight. This achievement comes as Europe seeks to maintain its space sovereignty and independence from the US.

Show HN: IEMidi –  Cross-platform MIDI map editor for arbitrary controllers

55 i-e 2025-03-07 16:44:20 UTC 12 github.com/interactive-echoes Llama Share

IEMidi is a cross-platform MIDI editor that maps MIDI messages to actions. It's open-source and welcomes contributors for coding, packaging, and other assistance.

The Kernighan-Lin Search Algorithm

55 optimalsolver 2025-03-07 03:32:47 UTC 2 arxiv.org Llama Share

The Kernighan-Lin Search algorithm is a general search algorithm that combines variable depth search with problem-agnostic mechanisms. It outperforms other general search algorithms in solution quality and running time.

WB offers replacements, but no refunds, for DVDs rotting prematurely

54 speckx 2025-03-07 18:42:41 UTC 64 arstechnica.com Llama Share

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is replacing defective DVDs manufactured between 2006 and 2008 due to disc rot. Owners can check if their discs were affected by looking at the inner ring codes on the DVDs' undersides.

Cliff Asness: The New 'Crypto Fort Knox' Is as Dumb as It Sounds

54 kgwgk 2025-03-07 18:33:14 UTC 56 thefp.com Llama Share

President Trump issued an executive order for a US "strategic cryptocurrency reserve" like a digital Fort Knox. Critics argue it's a bad idea, potentially corrupt and unnecessary, especially since the US is off the gold standard.

The Landscape of Lisp

53 todsacerdoti 2025-03-07 11:45:39 UTC 26 churchofturing.github.io Llama Share

The author discusses four prominent Lisp dialects: Scheme, Common Lisp, Clojure, and Racket, each with its own strengths and use cases. They provide a brief overview of each dialect, highlighting their unique features and recommending them for different purposes.

CDC to study vaccines and autism despite research showing no connection

50 rntn 2025-03-07 18:10:28 UTC 67 theguardian.com Llama Share

The CDC plans a study on vaccine-autism links despite extensive research disproving such connections. This move comes amid a large measles outbreak in the US, fueled by declining vaccination rates and anti-vaccine views promoted by Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr.

Ten Digit Problems (2011) [pdf]

49 cpp_frog 2025-03-07 11:06:17 UTC 2 people.maths.ox.ac.uk Prefix Share

Abstract. Most quantitative mathematical problems cannot be solved ex- actly, but there are powerful algorithms for solving many of them numerically to a specified degree of precision like ten digits or ten thousand. In this article three difficult problems of this kind are presented, and the story is told of the SIAM 100-Dollar, 100-Digit Challenge. The twists and turns along the way illustrate ...

Ariane 6 performs first commercial flight with launch of CSO-3 satellite

48 mraniki 2025-03-07 00:47:38 UTC 33 arianespace.com Llama Share

Ariane 6 successfully launched the CSO-3 satellite into orbit for the French Defense Procurement Agency and CNES. This marks the beginning of Ariane 6's commercial operation and guarantees independent access to space for France and Europe.

How often are children genetically unrelated to their presumed fathers?

47 pseudolus 2025-03-07 10:35:02 UTC 89 science.org Llama Share

Maarten Larmuseau, a geneticist, studied extra-pair paternity (EPP) in humans by combining genealogical records with DNA tests. His research found that the EPP rate in Europe over the past 500 years is around 1%.

40% of Britons haven't read a single book in the last 12 months

47 GeoAtreides 2025-03-07 08:10:18 UTC 117 yougov.co.uk Llama Share

World Book Day aims to encourage children to read for fun, but reading is not a universal habit among British adults, with 40% not reading a single book in the last year. Despite this, 50% of Britons read or listen to books at least once a week, with women and older adults more likely to be readers.

From Prompt to Adventures:Creating Games with LLMs and Restate Durable Functions

46 ivanleomk 2025-03-07 21:15:25 UTC 14 restate.dev Llama Share

The user describes how they used Restate to simplify the process of generating a Choose Your Own Adventure game from a single user prompt, handling complex workflows and orchestration tasks with minimal boilerplate code. They implemented a Restate service in Python to generate stories, choices, images, and audio narration, leveraging Restate's primitives for concurrency, retries, and state ...

Extracting time series features: a powerful method from a obscure paper [pdf]

46 tmshapland 2025-03-07 18:43:12 UTC 5 rcin.org.pl Prefix Share

THE BEHAVIOR of structure functions of temperature measured in the atmospheric boundary layer is in basic disagreement with predictions of high Reynolds number local similarity theory. The observed behaviour appears to be due to the presence of relatively large scale coherent tem perature structure, whose characteristic signature is evident in temperature records, but not in those of ...

Why Local-First Software Is the Future and Its Limitations

46 todsacerdoti 2025-03-07 13:12:30 UTC 21 rxdb.info Prefix Share

Imagine a web app that behaves seamlessly even with zero internet access, provides sub-millisecond response times, and keeps most of the user's data on their device. This is the local-first or offline-first approach. Although it has been around for a while, local-first has recently become more practical because of maturing browser storage APIs and new frameworks that simplify data ...

Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-On

45 knappe 2025-03-07 03:11:58 UTC 44 tools.google.com Llama Share

Google Analytics offers an opt-out browser add-on for Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge to prevent data collection. Download and install the add-on to opt-out of data collection.

Prepare now for a potential H5N1 pandemic

43 Anon84 2025-03-07 13:21:01 UTC 39 science.org Llama Share

The CDC reports the first US H5N1-related human death, while the Georgetown University Global Health Institute discusses H5N1 influenza vaccines and the current outbreak.

Measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico now 208 cases, 2 deaths

41 pmags 2025-03-07 22:38:52 UTC 19 arstechnica.com Llama Share

Texas officials reported 198 confirmed measles cases, mostly in unvaccinated children and teens, with one death in a 6-year-old. New Mexico reported 10 cases, including one death, with officials calling for vaccination to prevent further spread.

How Monero Fulfilled Satoshi's Promise

40 znano 2025-03-07 14:24:33 UTC 36 zola.ink Llama Share

Monero is a true cryptocurrency that offers untraceable transactions, unlike Bitcoin and other public ledger cryptos. It achieves this through ring signatures, stealth addresses, and other features that make it a more private and secure option.

Ancient human DNA recovered from a Palaeolithic pendant

38 wglb 2025-03-07 15:28:24 UTC 2 nature.com Full Share

Google begins testing AI-only search results

35 nreece 2025-03-07 08:39:07 UTC 53 arstechnica.com Llama Share

Google is expanding its AI search features with Gemini 2.0, introducing AI Overviews on more results pages and a new AI Mode that replaces traditional links. AI Mode is an opt-in feature for Google One AI Premium subscribers, offering a conversational search experience.

StrictYAML

33 miohtama 2025-03-07 09:45:51 UTC 40 hitchdev.com Llama Share

StrictYAML is a type-safe YAML parser that validates a restricted YAML subset and preserves comments. It raises YAMLError for syntax issues or schema violations.

DOJ asks for judgement requiring Google to divest Chrome [pdf]

32 stefan_ 2025-03-07 23:44:05 UTC 34 storage.courtlistener.com Llama Share

Google must provide its Search Index and API with equivalent latency and reliability to competitors. Google must also allow competitors to submit synthetic queries and use its results, with limits on ad syndication.

Help Me Help You, Maintainers

32 zdw 2025-03-07 14:38:41 UTC 9 matduggan.com Llama Share

The open-source community faces issues with inconsistent maintenance and lack of clear guidelines for contributors. Maintainers often struggle with rendering assistance to contributors due to unclear expectations and processes.

Ask HN: Best way to simultaneously run multiple projects locally?

31 suralind 2025-03-07 00:14:06 UTC 56 news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

User wants to run multiple projects simultaneously and is considering using Kubernetes or a task runner with containers. They prefer simple solutions and are looking for alternatives to Docker Compose.

'Elon killed my resale': Bay Area Tesla owners using stickers to avoid backlash

26 randycupertino 2025-03-07 23:56:43 UTC 6 sfchronicle.com Full Share

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Reflection – AlphaGo / Gemini team building superintelligent coding agents

26 mlaskin 2025-03-07 17:19:59 UTC 18 reflection.ai Llama Share

Reflection's team has been pursuing superintelligence for years, building on breakthroughs in Reinforcement Learning and Large Language Models. Their goal is to create an autonomous coding system, then expand to other computer-based work, with a focus on real-world evaluations and responsible AI design.

A collection of website seizure banners created by government agencies

26 yamrzou 2025-03-07 12:51:12 UTC 2 seized.fyi Full Share

A collection of website seizure banners created by government agencies.

Kennedy and influencers bash seed oils, baffling nutrition scientists

25 XzetaU8 2025-03-07 19:30:56 UTC 25 apnews.com Llama Share

Seed oils, commonly used in cooking, have been criticized by some as causing inflammation and chronic diseases, but nutrition scientists say decades of research confirm their health benefits. Critics' claims are based on oversimplifications and misunderstandings of the science, and experts recommend a balanced diet with a variety of oils, including olive oil, and less ultraprocessed foods.

Nomars: No Manning Required Ship

25 croes 2025-03-07 15:00:49 UTC 49 darpa.mil Llama Share

The NOMARS program built the USX-1 Defiant, a 180' unmanned ship, to operate autonomously at sea with reduced size, cost, and increased efficiency. The ship will undergo testing and a multi-month demonstration to showcase its advantages and potential for a distributed USV fleet.

The Official Aztec C Online Museum

25 rbanffy 2025-03-07 12:19:31 UTC 6 aztecmuseum.ca Full Share

Main MenuWelcome to the Wonderfully Ancient World of Aztec C © Copyright Bill Buckels 2009 All Rights Reserved. Unless Otherwise Noted.

Anti-Schelling points and waiting for my barista-made coffee

25 Tomte 2025-03-07 10:38:50 UTC 27 interconnected.org Llama Share

Coffee shops have a large phase space allowing people to wait without collision due to unique orders. This is unlike other areas like fashion or politics where social signalling and consensus are key.

The gem Apple discontinued: the 11-inch MacBook Air (2019)

24 tosh 2025-03-07 18:19:53 UTC 48 morrick.me Llama Share

The user purchased an 11-inch MacBook Air from eBay, which exceeded their expectations despite initial reservations about its compact size and non-retina display. They found it to be a great machine for everyday tasks, with a good keyboard, long battery life, and reasonable connectivity options.

No one asked for this: Google is testing round keys in Gboard

20 Tomte 2025-03-07 19:40:59 UTC 16 arstechnica.com Llama Share

Google has updated Gboard to circle-shaped keys, causing user discontent. Users can opt out of the beta and reinstall the stable version to get the old key layout.

Broadcom has won. 70 percent of large VMware customers bought its biggest bundle

20 rntn 2025-03-07 19:34:27 UTC 9 theregister.com Llama Share

Broadcom's acquisition of VMware appears successful with 25% year-on-year revenue growth and 315% increase in net income. The company's software business unit posted $6.7 billion revenue in Q1 2025, a significant jump from $1.97 billion in Q4 2023.

PSExcel: Excel automation without Excel Overview (2015)

20 leonry 2025-03-07 19:19:43 UTC 7 ramblingcookiemonster.github.io Llama Share

The user created a PowerShell module called PSExcel to work with Excel files without Excel dependency. The module allows importing and manipulating Excel data, including formatting and freezing rows and columns.

Moscow-based global news network has infected AI tools with propaganda

20 marban 2025-03-07 05:38:04 UTC 7 newsguardrealitycheck.com Llama Share

A Moscow-based disinformation network named "Pravda" is flooding AI chatbots with false claims and propaganda, affecting their responses on news topics. The network has spread 3.6 million articles in 2024, with AI chatbots repeating false narratives 33.55 percent of the time.

Days Since Starship Exploded counter made it to 48. It's back to zero again now

19 beardyw 2025-03-07 09:36:22 UTC 27 theregister.com Llama Share

SpaceX's Starship mission ended in explosion due to loss of Raptor engines, with debris seen over the Atlantic. The Super Heavy Booster successfully returned to SpaceX's Texas launch tower, caught by mechanical chopsticks.

Monotype and Phototypesetting (2000) [pdf]

18 susam 2025-03-07 21:19:23 UTC 2 web.archive.org Prefix Share

Early phototypesetting systems are often categorized as first or sec- ond generation devices, and later machines as third and fourth gen- eration. There are, however, few hard and fast rules about exactly what characterizes systems in each category. As John Seybold states in his book The world of digital typesetting 1 the concept of applying generations to phototypesetters was proba- bly ...

Two weak spots in Big Tech economics

18 hn_acker 2025-03-07 18:56:34 UTC 4 pluralistic.net Llama Share

Big Tech companies have high valuations due to their growth potential, but this narrative is fragile and relies on the US market, where consumers are defenseless against data exploitation.

Linux Prepper Podcast – Audience Feedback on Self-Hosting

18 kitlop 2025-03-07 03:12:28 UTC 5 podcast.james.network Llama Share

Linux Prepper podcast updates include a new forum and feedback form, and sponsor ameriDroid. The show discusses Librewolf browser, PixelFed and Loops alternatives, and various hardware and software topics.

C Is Not a Low-level Language: Your computer is not a fast PDP-11 (2018)

17 bundie 2025-03-07 13:22:07 UTC 14 dl.acm.org Llama Share

Recent Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities were caused by processors speculatively executing instructions past access checks. This was due to features added to let C programmers believe they were programming in a low-level language.

Launching the First Optical Grating Clock Successfully Miniaturized

16 doener 2025-03-07 19:48:19 UTC 2 shimadzu.co.jp Llama Share

3月5日に18桁精度のストロンチウム光格子時計「Aether clock OC 020」を受注開始。光格子時計は100倍以上の精度を実現し、次世代の「秒」の定義の有力な候補です。

Hacked firm demanded journalist 'take down' breach reporting, citing UK court

16 impish9208 2025-03-07 02:00:37 UTC 5 techcrunch.com Llama Share

Pinsent Masons, representing HCRG, demanded DataBreaches.net remove two articles about a ransomware attack, citing a UK court order. DataBreaches.net refused, citing US First Amendment protections and lack of UK jurisdiction.

Building your sense of what's important at a tech company

15 gfysfm 2025-03-07 17:23:05 UTC 3 seangoedecke.com Llama Share

Engineers should recognize and prioritize high-impact work in tech companies where leadership focuses on one or two things at a time. Failing to do so can damage one's reputation and hinder career growth.

Kitchen foil and Algerian markets: When your phone is stolen in London

15 BerislavLopac 2025-03-07 16:20:37 UTC 2 londoncentric.media Llama Share

London Centric reports on phone snatching in London, with thieves using e-bikes to steal devices and sell them for parts in countries like China and Algeria. The police struggle to track stolen phones, with only 2% recovered, and experts suggest international blocking of phone identifiers and public databases of stolen phones to combat the crime.

Bitcoin's Fatal Flaw: Why Financial Surveillance Is Inevitable Without Privacy

14 aminoche 2025-03-07 06:50:28 UTC 65 substack.com Full Share

Chatbots Convinced Idiots They Cracked the Code on a Sculpture in CIA's Backyard

12 pseudolus 2025-03-07 19:59:10 UTC 0 gizmodo.com Llama Share

Jim Sanborn, sculptor of Kryptos, is frustrated with people using chatbots to claim they've solved the final code, showing arrogance and lack of effort. Sanborn charges a $50 fee for reviewing solutions due to the high volume of submissions from people who rely on AI for answers.

The trap of the top-down approach

11 baby 2025-03-07 04:15:34 UTC 1 cryptologie.net Llama Share

A security consultant needs to quickly become an expert in a codebase without writing code. The top-down approach is flawed as it's a time sink with low ROI, focusing on high-level views rather than deep, detailed knowledge.