OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules

765 jonbaer 2025-03-13 12:20:29 UTC 773 finance.yahoo.com Llama Share

OpenAI asked the Trump administration to shield AI companies from state regulations in exchange for sharing models with the federal government. OpenAI wants the government to provide liability protections and support AI infrastructure investments to maintain US leadership in AI.

Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it

647 nomilk 2025-03-13 07:59:55 UTC 393 forum.cursor.com Llama Share

Start by reading Cursor's documentation to learn its capabilities and usage. Modular programming and setting guidelines like Single Responsibility Principle can help organize code and improve AI's coding efficiency.

“Normal” engineers are the key to great teams

596 jnord 2025-03-13 20:35:47 UTC 506 spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share

The author argues that the concept of a "10x engineer" is flawed due to its reliance on subjective metrics and the assumption that individual engineers are the primary drivers of productivity.

The Lost Art of Logarithms

551 ozanonay 2025-03-13 19:05:17 UTC 190 lostartoflogarithms.com Llama Share

You've been developing web pages using Visual Studio Code on a Windows 11 Surface Pro 9 and testing them on various devices including Mac Mini, Asus Chromebook, and iPad Mini. However, the pages have issues on the iPad Mini and become awkward on phones.

Y Combinator urges the White House to support Europe's Digital Markets Act

495 mrkramer 2025-03-13 22:12:31 UTC 376 techcrunch.com Llama Share

YC supports the DMA, arguing it promotes American innovation and opens opportunities for startups, while preventing Big Tech from boxing them out. The DMA limits anticompetitive tactics by tech companies, promoting interoperability and benefiting smaller ventures.

IO Devices and Latency

434 milar 2025-03-13 16:46:27 UTC 152 planetscale.com Llama Share

Non-volatile storage devices such as tape drives, hard disk drives, and solid state drives have evolved over the years to improve durability and performance. The latest product release, PlanetScale Metal, uses locally attached NVMe drives to run cloud databases, providing blazing fast queries, low latency, and unlimited IOPS.

Steam Networks

359 herbertl 2025-03-13 14:37:05 UTC 155 worksinprogress.co Prefix Share

Since 1882, Manhattan has delivered steam into the homes and businesses of its citizens. It is used for: pressing linens at The Waldorf Astoria; cleaning crockery and heating food in restaurants; washing clothes at dry cleaners; sterilizing medical equipment at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital; by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to control the humidity levels and temperatures around its artwork. ...

'Uber for nurses' exposes 86K+ medical records, PII via open S3 bucket

351 Twirrim 2025-03-13 00:14:54 UTC 186 websiteplanet.com Llama Share

Jeremiah Fowler, a cybersecurity researcher, discovered an unsecured database belonging to ESHYFT, a HealthTech company, containing 86,341 records. The database was not password-protected or encrypted, exposing sensitive information including medical documents and personal identifiable information.

Meta is trying to stop a former employee from promoting her book about Facebook

283 SanjayMehta 2025-03-13 01:22:27 UTC 105 engadget.com Llama Share

Meta wins early victory against former Facebook policy executive Sarah Wynn-Williams over her tell-all memoir. An arbitrator ordered Wynn-Williams to stop selling and publicizing the book due to alleged disparagement of Meta.

xlskubectl – a spreadsheet to control your Kubernetes cluster

270 pabs3 2025-03-13 01:12:56 UTC 74 github.com/learnk8s Llama Share

A company is connecting Google Spreadsheet to Kubernetes for cluster management. They aim to replace YAML with spreadsheets and seek funding for further development.

My teen years: The transputer operating system

255 nanochess 2025-03-13 00:31:47 UTC 67 nanochess.org Llama Share

The user developed a self-contained operating system for a transputer in 1995, adding features like a C compiler, assembler, and text editor, and later restored it after 29 years. The user corrected a bug in the C compiler that caused rendering issues in a ray-traced robot image, and made the operating system available on GitHub.

Amateur Telescope Making Main Page

252 Tomte 2025-03-13 10:43:54 UTC 54 stellafane.org Llama Share

Amateur astronomers can make their own telescopes for pride, knowledge, and quality, despite affordable pre-made options. The Springfield Telescope Makers provide simple and proven techniques for novice mirror and telescope makers.

Statistical Formulas for Programmers (2013)

235 Tomte 2025-03-13 14:09:21 UTC 39 evanmiller.org Llama Share

The text discusses statistical formulas for programmers, including average, standard deviation, confidence intervals, and tests for independence and equality. It also covers Poisson distribution, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, and trend lines for data analysis.

Ask HN: Where do seasoned devs look for short-term work?

220 shinypenguin 2025-03-13 15:06:07 UTC 172 news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

You're a skilled platform data engineer with 15 years of experience seeking short-term projects. You've tried UpWork and Toptal with no success, and are looking for alternative platforms like project boards or feature bounty platforms.

Pirate Bay co-founder Carl Lundström has died

203 HeckFeck 2025-03-13 12:26:33 UTC 88 independent.co.uk Llama Share

The Independent is a news outlet that provides unbiased reporting on various topics, including reproductive rights and climate change, without paywalls. They rely on donations to continue sending journalists to cover both sides of the story.

Show HN: Bubbles, a vanilla JavaScript web game

200 ehmorris 2025-03-13 17:48:03 UTC 73 ehmorris.com Full Share

Pop the bubbles!

Honey Bunnies

195 memalign 2025-03-13 17:33:23 UTC 38 mameson.com Full Share

This is an experiment of rendering honey like fluid. / TSL / WebGPU

A new Sudoku layout with 81 uniquely shaped cells

185 dmit 2025-03-13 01:04:50 UTC 73 danielchasehooper.com Llama Share

The user invented a new type of puzzle called "Cracked Sudoku" where cells are arranged in any shape and connected by "runs" that cannot contain repeated numbers. The user created a puzzle generator and generated thousands of puzzles, but wants to improve the algorithm and design a human-made puzzle for a popular puzzle website.

C Plus Prolog

175 mpweiher 2025-03-13 22:48:45 UTC 52 github.com/needleful Llama Share

C Plus Prolog is a system that combines Prolog and C to create a new language, allowing for compile-time evaluation and reflection. It uses SWI-Prolog extensions to translate Prolog terms into valid C code, providing a unique way to write systems programming.

History of Maths for Beginners

160 kreig 2025-03-13 17:35:34 UTC 20 thonyc.wordpress.com Prefix Share

In the comments on my recent post on books on the history of maths Fernando Q. Gouvêa jumped in to draw attention to the book Math Through the Ages: A Gentle History for Teachers and Others, which he coauthored with William P. Berlinghoff. I had not come across this book before, as I noted in my post I gave up reading general histories of maths long ago, so, I went looking and came across the ...

Lego says it wants to start to bring video game development in-house

158 namanyayg 2025-03-13 00:44:58 UTC 93 videogameschronicle.com Llama Share

Lego plans to bring video game development in-house, potentially ending collaborations with third-party studios. The move aims to create more Lego experiences, including a rumored Lego Harry Potter title and a Lego football game.

Recursion kills: The story behind CVE-2024-8176 in libexpat

157 spyc 2025-03-13 22:05:44 UTC 161 blog.hartwork.org Llama Share

Expat 2.7.0 has been released with a fix for a long-standing vulnerability (CVE-2024-8176) and other improvements. The vulnerability, discovered in 2022, was a complex issue that required collaboration from multiple companies to resolve.

City simulator I made in Scratch

155 Annulus 2025-03-13 14:46:31 UTC 17 scratch.mit.edu Full Share

Huawei targeted in new European Parliament corruption probe

131 suraci 2025-03-13 10:04:02 UTC 104 ftm.eu Llama Share

Belgian police raided Huawei's EU office and homes of lobbyists in a corruption probe over bribery and money laundering allegations. Around 15 former and current MEPs are under investigation for allegedly taking bribes from Huawei.

Doge Privacy Act Requests

126 toomuchtodo 2025-03-13 02:40:43 UTC 57 jamieraskin.com Llama Share

US Representative Jamie Raskin encourages citizens to file demands for access to personal data obtained by DOGE and Elon Musk under the Freedom of Information Act. Citizens can fill out a Privacy Act request form and mail it to DOGE to exercise their right to access personal information.

Did the Particle Go Through the Two Slits, or Did the Wave Function?

110 Tomte 2025-03-13 14:49:06 UTC 120 profmattstrassler.com Llama Share

The quantum double-slit experiment's interference effect arises from the wave function's pattern traveling across regions of possibility space, not from particles or wave functions physically moving through slits. Particles cannot go through two doors at once, and wave functions cannot pass through physical doors, illustrating the difference between physical space and the space of possibilities.

Xata Agent: AI agent expert in PostgreSQL

100 todsacerdoti 2025-03-13 18:32:27 UTC 19 github.com/xataio Llama Share

Xata Agent is an open source tool that monitors Postgres databases, finds issues, and suggests fixes. It can be self-hosted or used in a cloud version with easier integrations.

Meta goes to arbitrator to prevent whistleblower from promoting tell-all book

96 SirLJ 2025-03-13 10:37:42 UTC 2 cnbc.com Llama Share

Meta won an emergency ruling to stop former staffer Sarah Wynn-Williams from promoting her memoir "Careless People" due to allegations of sexual harassment and unflattering company portrayal. The arbitrator prohibited Wynn-Williams from further publishing or distributing the book and retracting her previous disparaging remarks.

How Pi Almost Wasn't

84 jamespropp 2025-03-13 22:54:31 UTC 55 mathenchant.wordpress.com Llama Share

Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th, but the choice of 3.14 as the fundamental pi value is arbitrary and other values like 6.28 or 1.57 are equally valid.

Going down the rabbit hole of Git's new bundle-URI

79 chmaynard 2025-03-13 13:38:26 UTC 18 blog.gitbutler.com Llama Share

The user tried to speed up Git clones by using the bundle-uri feature, but encountered issues due to Git's behavior when unpacking bundle files. They found that Git only copies local branch references, ignoring other references, which led to unnecessary object downloads.

Carefully but Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu

77 wicket 2025-03-13 13:39:47 UTC 105 discourse.ubuntu.com Llama Share

You published a post on Ubuntu's future, focusing on "Modernisation" to improve various areas including the graphical shell and virtualisation stack. This modernisation aims to enhance the Unix-like experience in Ubuntu.

Dodge Chargers now have pop-up ads at every stoplight

75 surprisetalk 2025-03-13 16:53:25 UTC 67 fuelarc.com Llama Share

Dodge Charger owners are experiencing popup ads on their infotainment screens at every stoplight, blocking navigation and music controls. Stellantis, Dodge's parent corporation, is facing backlash for the ads, which are part of a SiriusXM feature included with new and certified pre-owned vehicles.

The long flight to teach an endangered ibis species to migrate

73 FinnLobsien 2025-03-13 14:12:21 UTC 19 newyorker.com Prefix Share

The birds left Bavaria on the second Tuesday in August. They took off from an airfield, approximated a few sloppy laps, and then, such are miracles, began to follow a microlight aircraft, as though it were one of them. The contraption—as much pendulum as plane—reared and dipped as its pilot, a Tyrolian biologist in an olive-drab flight suit and amber shooting glasses, tugged on the steering ...

Game Boy Advance Architecture – A Practical Analysis

72 chw9e 2025-03-13 08:25:03 UTC 7 copetti.org Prefix Share

The internal design of the Game Boy Advance is quite impressive for a portable console that runs on two AA batteries. This console will carry on using Nintendo’s signature GPU. Additionally, it will introduce a relatively new CPU from a British company that will surge in popularity in the years to come. Most of the components are combined into a single package called CPU AGB. This package ...

Interprocedural Sparse Conditional Type Propagation

69 PaulHoule 2025-03-13 14:44:25 UTC 11 railsatscale.com Llama Share

The author discusses the challenges of static type analysis in dynamic languages like Ruby and proposes an interprocedural type analysis using Sparse Conditional Constant Propagation (SCCP). The analysis is implemented and tested on a mini-language, showing promising results with execution times under 3 seconds for large synthetic programs.

Functional Tests as a Tree of Continuations (2010)

66 amenghra 2025-03-13 20:46:26 UTC 32 evanmiller.org Llama Share

Writing automated tests for computer code is essential for maintaining quality, but traditional list-based testing structures can be repetitive and inefficient. A testing tree approach, where each node represents a step and assertions are made at each node, can significantly reduce test code length and improve test structure.

Hexagon Spiral Coordinates

60 ibobev 2025-03-13 09:20:32 UTC 14 redblobgames.com Llama Share

You added a new section on spiral coordinate systems to your guide, initially hesitant due to lack of experience but deciding to publish unoptimized code for now. You also discovered an alternative method for sorting by angle using axial coordinates.

FTC can't afford to fight Amazon's allegedly deceptive sign-ups after DOGE cuts

57 unclebucknasty 2025-03-13 03:37:28 UTC 10 arstechnica.com Llama Share

The FTC is asking to delay a trial against Amazon due to staffing and budgetary shortfalls caused by the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency. The agency needs two months to prepare, citing a severe resource shortfall in money and personnel.

Tiny changes in gene expression make big difference in eye size of fruit flies

56 PaulHoule 2025-03-13 22:07:29 UTC 16 phys.org Llama Share

Scientists discovered tiny changes in gene expression timing can lead to big differences in eye size in fruit flies. A slight change in the timing of the orthodenticle gene expression causes a significant difference in ommatidia size.

"Have Quotes About Salieri"

46 tintinnabula 2025-03-13 17:14:47 UTC 12 contingentmagazine.org Llama Share

A postdoctoral researcher visited the Special Collections Reading Room at Temple University's Charles Library to examine David Weiss's research notes and outlines for his novel "The Assassination of Mozart." Weiss's notes showed his fascination with the conspiracy theory surrounding Mozart's death and his use of historical sources to create a fictional plot.

The failure of the land value tax

44 eamag 2025-03-13 14:14:43 UTC 81 worksinprogress.co Full Share

Mercedes-Benz Drives Toward Solid-State EV Batteries

44 pseudolus 2025-03-13 00:46:22 UTC 54 spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share

Mercedes-Benz and Factorial Energy have successfully integrated semi-solid-state lithium-metal batteries into a production vehicle, the EQS electric sedan, with a 25% longer driving range. The technology could potentially cut battery packs in half in size, weight, and capacity while delivering identical driving range by 2030.

Revealed: How the UK tech secretary uses ChatGPT for policy advice

42 adrianhon 2025-03-13 12:26:22 UTC 54 newscientist.com Llama Share

UK technology secretary Peter Kyle used ChatGPT for advice on AI adoption in the UK business community and podcast appearances. ChatGPT suggested reasons for slow adoption, including limited awareness and regulatory concerns, and recommended podcasts for Kyle to appear on.

Rembrandt to Picasso: Five ways to spot a fake masterpiece

42 Vigier 2025-03-13 06:02:28 UTC 29 bbc.com Llama Share

Art forgers use anachronistic pigments, fake provenance, and inconsistent brushwork to deceive buyers. Experts use analysis, X-rays, and spell checks to verify authenticity and uncover forgeries.

Would {word1} beat {word2} • Ranked AI game

41 benlirio 2025-03-13 22:55:21 UTC 51 word-battle.com Full Share

Register for Word Battles

DOGE Makes Its Latest Errors Harder to Find

39 jbegley 2025-03-13 10:43:27 UTC 11 nytimes.com Llama Share

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency posted error-filled data claiming $10 billion in taxpayer savings. The group made its new mistakes harder to find, leaving its activities less transparent than before.

Ask HN: How to study for system design that doesn't include front end/back end?

35 3a2d29 2025-03-13 23:32:34 UTC 24 news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

To ace a system design interview, focus on understanding the problem requirements, asking clarifying questions, and breaking down the domain into abstractions, rather than jumping to a solution. Practicing mock problems, teaching, and learning from failures are also key to improving your system design skills, especially in areas like finance where domain knowledge is crucial.

A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++ (2010)

35 GarethX 2025-03-13 12:16:33 UTC 2 blog.regehr.org Prefix Share

Programming languages typically make a distinction between normal program actions and erroneous actions. For Turing-complete languages we cannot reliably decide offline whether a program has the potential to execute an error; we have to just run it and see. In a safe programming language, errors are trapped as they happen. Java, for example, is largely safe via its exception system. In an ...

Beware tech career advice from old heads – Jacob Kaplan-Moss

34 raybb 2025-03-13 17:51:47 UTC 46 jacobian.org Llama Share

Newcomers to the tech industry should be skeptical of career advice from those with over 10-15 years of experience. This is because the industry and its challenges have changed dramatically over time, making old advice often useless.

Show HN: I built AI agents with CrewAI to automate my entire Gmail workflow

26 Tonykip 2025-03-13 15:18:52 UTC 25 github.com/tonykipkemboi Llama Share

CrewAI automates Gmail with AI agents for categorization, organization, and response. It uses IMAP for secure connection and requires 2-Step Verification for app password creation.

Sketch-Programming: A Minimalist Paradigm for Code Design

20 DmitryO 2025-03-13 21:31:53 UTC 9 github.com/dmitryolkhovoi Llama Share

Sketch is a meta-programming paradigm that simplifies programming by abstracting away boilerplate code and reducing complexity. It enables developers to prototype ideas quickly and build robust systems with less effort.

Toni Morrison's Lost Play

19 lermontov 2025-03-13 02:48:31 UTC 1 vulture.com Prefix Share

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. The soirée was at the Steuben Club in Albany, a half-hour before the premiere. The gray-haired star of the evening had not been expected to make an appearance. The journalists, politicos, benefactors, and academics in attendance believed that the playwright (who did not ...

Laplacian Mesh Smoothing by Throwing Vertices

18 nosferalatu123 2025-03-13 00:30:19 UTC 2 nosferalatu.com Llama Share

Laplacian mesh smoothing is a technique used to smooth 3D meshes by iteratively shifting each vertex towards the average position of its neighbors. The process can be optimized by precomputing the neighbor list and reusing it across multiple smoothing passes to improve performance and accuracy.

Hours in a Hurricane, on a Race with No Course

15 elemeno 2025-03-13 12:10:19 UTC 5 nytimes.com Prefix Share

You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. As the remnants of Hurricane Helene swept over me, I huddled on a mountain ridge in West Virginia. The 2024 United States Adventure Racing Association National Championships hadn’t even begun yet, and I was already getting chilled. About 200 other ...

Why it makes sense for wealthier nations to help others decarbonize

13 gnabgib 2025-03-13 18:24:05 UTC 6 nature.com Llama Share

The COP29 climate summit failed to provide sufficient climate finance to keep global warming below 1.5°C, with high-income countries agreeing to "take the lead" in directing funds to low-income countries. A proposed "climate finance club" of willing high-income countries could finance decarbonization in low-income countries, sidestepping the need for a global agreement.

OpenAI declares AI race "over" if training on copyrighted works isn't fair use

11 rntn 2025-03-13 17:12:34 UTC 2 arstechnica.com Llama Share

OpenAI is seeking Donald Trump's AI Action Plan to declare AI training fair use, allowing unfettered access to training data. This would help US AI companies compete with China, but rights holders fear it will replace them in markets and water down creative output.