U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat

2217 _tk_ 2025-03-24 16:23:55 UTC 1272 theatlantic.com Llama Share

A journalist was accidentally added to a Signal chat group of senior Trump administration officials discussing a military operation against Houthi targets in Yemen. The officials, including Pete Hegseth and Michael Waltz, shared sensitive information about the operation, which was later confirmed to be real.

I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud

967 HieronymusBosch 2025-03-24 17:09:07 UTC 650 jeffgeerling.com Llama Share

The user bought a Bosch 500 series dishwasher due to Consumer Reports' recommendation but was disappointed to find that features like delayed start and eco mode require a cloud-connected app. The user suspects planned obsolescence and feels that the app requirement is unnecessary and inconvenient.

German parliament votes as a Git contribution graph

617 mxschll 2025-03-24 23:29:03 UTC 167 abstimmung.eu Llama Share

Der Bundestag diskutiert mehrere Gesetze und Entschließungen, darunter die Unterstützung der Ukraine, die Modernisierung des Staatsangehörigkeitsrechts und die Änderung des Bundeswahlgesetzes.

Triforce – a beamformer for Apple Silicon laptops

583 tosh 2025-03-24 14:45:34 UTC 207 github.com/chadmed Llama Share

Triforce implements a Minimum Variance Distortionless Response adaptive beamformer for Apple Silicon laptops' microphone arrays. It's a basic implementation with limited performance due to lack of SIMD optimisation and wideband decomposition.

Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter

541 tosh 2025-03-24 18:35:12 UTC 291 qwenlm.github.io Llama Share

You launched Qwen2.5-VL-32B-Instruct, a model with improved human-aligned responses and fine-grained image understanding. It outperforms other models in tasks like MMMU and MM-MT-Bench, but cannot reach a 110km destination before 13:00 at 100km/h.

23andMe files for bankruptcy to sell itself

509 healsdata 2025-03-24 03:48:24 UTC 398 reuters.com Full Share

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Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site. What trends are we seeing?

485 themeaningist 2025-03-24 08:03:16 UTC 607 plausible.io Llama Share

The European Alternatives website has seen a surge in visitors, with 1.3 million visitors in 2025, and a 1.1K% increase in traffic. The site's popularity is driven by Reddit and privacy-friendly search engines, indicating a growing preference for EU-built, privacy-friendly tools.

War story: the hardest bug I ever debugged

417 jakevoytko 2025-03-24 14:37:46 UTC 180 clientserver.dev Llama Share

A Google Docs team member investigated a fatal error that occurred when bolding and unbolding large bodies of text, which led to a nondeterministic bug that was eventually traced to a V8 issue with Math.abs() returning negative values. The issue was caused by a V8 refactoring that accidentally turned Math.abs() into the identity function for a super-optimized level, and was fixed by adding a ...

Goblin.tools: simple, single-task tools to help neurodivergent people with tasks

339 ValentineC 2025-03-24 14:15:17 UTC 228 goblin.tools Llama Share

Magic Todo is a todo list with automated task breakdown and categorization based on spiciness level. It allows synchronization across devices with a unique username and password.

Quadlet: Running Podman containers under systemd

295 gjvc 2025-03-24 00:27:05 UTC 66 mo8it.com Llama Share

The user migrated from using podman generate systemd to Quadlet for running Podman containers as systemd services, finding it more flexible and powerful. Quadlet allows for easier management of containers, including automatic updates and restarts, and supports multiple files for complex container setups.

Japanese scientists use stem cell treatment to restore movement in spinal injury

258 pseudolus 2025-03-24 10:25:19 UTC 41 medicalxpress.com Llama Share

Japanese scientists conducted a study using iPS cells to treat spinal cord injuries, resulting in improved motor function for two out of four patients. The treatment showed promise with no serious adverse events observed after a year of monitoring.

European Cloud, Global Reach

242 Sami_Lehtinen 2025-03-24 08:49:54 UTC 157 upcloud.com Llama Share

Organisations should evaluate European cloud service providers based on certifications, security controls, and regulatory compliance to ensure stability and future scalability. UpCloud offers secure European data centres with ISO 27001 certification and adherence to CISPE Code of Conduct for robust data security management.

Mastering Delphi 5 2025 Annotated Edition Is Now Complete

203 mariuz 2025-03-24 15:40:08 UTC 115 blog.marcocantu.com Llama Share

Marco Cantu released a free 1139-page edition of his book Mastering Delphi 5 with 475 footnotes and new screen snapshots. It's a gift to the Delphi community for the language's 30th anniversary.

63 Chinese Cuisines: The Complete Guide (2024)

196 mastax 2025-03-24 01:23:34 UTC 60 chinesecookingdemystified.substack.com Full Share

Arc-AGI-2 and ARC Prize 2025

183 gkamradt 2025-03-24 20:35:30 UTC 100 arcprize.org Llama Share

ARC Prize launches ARC-AGI-2 to challenge AI with tasks that are easy for humans but hard for AI, focusing on fluid intelligence and efficiency. The benchmark aims to inspire research and drive innovation towards general intelligence, with a $125K guaranteed progress prize and a $700K Grand Prize in the ARC Prize 2025 contest.

Writing a tiny undo/redo stack in JavaScript

160 julik 2025-03-24 08:53:23 UTC 62 blog.julik.nl Llama Share

The user created an undo stack implementation in JavaScript that uses two stacks, undoStack and redoStack, to manage undoable and redoable actions without indexing errors. The implementation uses structuredClone to create deep clones of arguments and is robust, small, and efficient, making it suitable for use in drawing applications.

Three Hundred Years Later, a Tool from Isaac Newton Gets an Update

153 rbanffy 2025-03-24 22:16:56 UTC 44 quantamagazine.org Llama Share

Researchers have improved Newton's method to efficiently find the minimum of complicated functions with any number of variables and derivatives. The new algorithm converges faster than previous techniques and could eventually surpass gradient descent for various applications.

An Interview with Zen Chief Architect Mike Clark

144 Smaug123 2025-03-24 19:05:49 UTC 16 computerenhance.com Llama Share

Mike Clark discussed the similarities between x64 and ARM architectures in terms of low-power design, stating that the x64 ISA is not fundamentally limiting for low-power designs. He also shared insights on various microarchitectural trade-offs, such as the impact of 4k page size on L1 cache size and the challenges of widening data paths for scatter/gather operations.

The Vatican's Latinist (2017)

143 bookofjoe 2025-03-24 01:29:51 UTC 69 newcriterion.com Prefix Share

In 1970, the Procurator General of the Discalced Carmelite Order, Finian Monahan, was summoned to the Vatican for a meeting. The subject of the meeting was a promising young American priest by the name of Reginald Foster. The head Latinist of the Vatican’s State Department had tapped Foster to write papal correspondence, which was at the time composed entirely in Latin. Foster wanted the job ...

The game designer playing through his own psyche

141 FinnLobsien 2025-03-24 10:39:32 UTC 98 newyorker.com Llama Share

Davey Wreden is a video game designer who experienced success with his game The Stanley Parable, but struggled with depression and addiction to praise. He has since released a second critically acclaimed title, the Beginner's Guide, and is working on his third game, Wanderstop, which explores themes of trauma and personal growth.

Internet Archive Europe – Bringing Collections to Life

140 robin_reala 2025-03-24 18:52:47 UTC 35 internetarchive.eu Llama Share

Internet Archive Europe is a Dutch non-profit project building collections and tools to preserve Universal Access to all Knowledge. It has a diverse board of advisors with expertise in copyright, AI, and digital transformation.

Tesla sales drop 35% in San Diego County

125 doener 2025-03-24 09:00:11 UTC 154 fox5sandiego.com Llama Share

Tesla sales in San Diego County dropped 35% in February, causing investors to worry about the company's stock price. Protesters are calling for Elon Musk's firing due to the firings of federal workers and the company's declining sales.

Scientists Discover New Heavy-Metal Molecule 'Berkelocene'

119 gmays 2025-03-24 13:07:38 UTC 43 newscenter.lbl.gov Llama Share

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory discovered "berkelocene," the first organometallic molecule containing berkelium, a heavy element. This breakthrough challenges long-held theories about the chemistry of later actinides and provides new understanding of berkelium's behavior.

First-of-its-kind trial enables paralysed man to stand via stem cell injection

118 bentobean 2025-03-24 18:07:04 UTC 22 nature.com Llama Share

A Japanese man with spinal cord injury can now stand on his own after receiving neural stem cells in a trial. Two of four participants showed significant improvements, but results are not yet peer reviewed and larger trials are needed to confirm the treatment's effectiveness.

Move on to ESM-Only

118 bpierre 2025-03-24 00:35:25 UTC 88 antfu.me Llama Share

The author believes it's time to move to ESM-only due to the ecosystem's evolution and increased adoption of ESM. They recommend new packages be released as ESM-only for simplicity and future-proofing.

Cottagecore Programmers

116 morleytj 2025-03-24 20:08:25 UTC 152 tjmorley.com Llama Share

Tech workers often express a desire to leave their jobs and engage in hands-on labor such as farming or craftsmanship due to feelings of alienation and disillusionment with modern work practices. This trend is linked to the decline of the "self-made man" ideal and the rise of income inequality, as well as a nostalgia for a perceived simpler and more meaningful past.

Osgint – OSINT tool to find information about GitHub user

115 CHEF-KOCH 2025-03-24 05:51:42 UTC 26 github.com/hippiiee Llama Share

The user's profile has an ID of 41185722, created on 2018-07-13, with 10 public repos and 0 public gists. The user's email is [email protected] and [email protected], with a GPG key and public SSH key.

HP avoids monetary damages over printers in class-action settlement

111 JSR_FDED 2025-03-24 09:00:18 UTC 89 arstechnica.com Llama Share

A US judge approved a settlement between HP and customers who sued the company over firmware updates that locked out non-HP ink and toner. HP agreed to pay $725,000 in attorneys' fees and allow users to decline firmware updates on specific printers.

Project Operation Whitecoat (2010)

106 smegger001 2025-03-24 16:35:07 UTC 102 scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu Prefix Share

This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Arthur E. Nelson University Archives at CSUSB ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in History in the Making by an authorized editor of CSUSB ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ABSTRACT: From 1954-1973, the U.S. Army established an unlikely alliance with the Seventh-Day Adventist ...

The Prospero Challenge

104 jstanley 2025-03-24 09:04:43 UTC 39 mattkeeter.com Llama Share

The author wants to optimize a Python interpreter for rendering implicit surfaces and invites others to submit their experiments and ideas for improvement. Various optimizations have been explored, including pre-parsing, numba, GPU acceleration, and JIT compilation, with some achieving significant speedups and reductions in memory usage.

Show HN: We made an MCP Server so Cursor can build things from REST API docs

100 goargp 2025-03-24 10:21:02 UTC 72 npmjs.com Llama Share

The Apidog MCP Server allows direct access to API documentation for AI-powered IDEs, speeding up development. It can be set up by copying a JSON configuration code and adding a project ID and access token.

23andMe Files for Bankruptcy, as CEO Anne Wojcicki Resigns

99 boh 2025-03-24 18:34:31 UTC 29 wsj.com Full Share

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Aircraft detection at planetary scale

96 jjwiseman 2025-03-24 20:40:21 UTC 86 planet.com Llama Share

Planet's new Aircraft Detection Analytic Feed uses machine learning to automate daily detection of aircraft globally, offering a scalable solution for analysis at scale. The feed precisely identifies aircraft ≥25 meters in length or wingspan across airfields, enabling pattern-of-life analyses and highlighting anomalous behavior.

Peano's Axioms

90 ulugh 2025-03-24 19:26:05 UTC 33 principlesofcryptography.com Llama Share

Peano's Axioms provide a rigorous definition of natural numbers by defining a set of axioms that describe the properties of natural numbers, including the existence of a successor function and the principle of mathematical induction. The axioms are used to construct the set of natural numbers, which includes 0 and all positive integers, and provide a foundation for number theory and other ...

Researchers search for more precise ways to measure pain

90 Petiver 2025-03-24 03:57:02 UTC 81 washingtonpost.com Full Share

Did you spot a fish? Press the Fish Doorbell

87 rguiscard 2025-03-24 07:31:20 UTC 29 visdeurbel.nl Llama Share

Fish swim through Oudegracht in Utrecht to lay eggs upstream. Pressing the doorbell alerts lock operator to open Weerdsluis for their journey.

Show HN: A website for sharing the "Good, Bad, and Why"s of urban spaces

86 kappasan 2025-03-24 21:48:07 UTC 19 dedede.de Full Share

Gatehouse – a composable, async-friendly authorization policy framework in Rust

76 hardbyte 2025-03-24 22:50:47 UTC 28 github.com/thepartly Llama Share

A flexible authorization library combines RBAC, ABAC, and ReBAC policies with OR logic by default. It provides a fluent API to construct custom policies and aggregates them with PermissionChecker for access evaluation.

Multiple vulnerabilities in ingress-Nginx (Score 9.8)

76 numbsafari 2025-03-24 21:07:37 UTC 21 groups.google.com Llama Share

Critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-1974) in ingress-nginx allow arbitrary code execution and Secret disclosure. Upgrade to v1.11.5 or later to mitigate the issues.

Show HN: A difficult game to test your logic

76 CodeCrusader 2025-03-24 13:47:02 UTC 44 rvlabs.ca Full Share

Challenge yourself with the classic jumping frogs puzzle. Guide the frogs across the pond by making strategic moves. Can you solve all levels?

Intel: A Bug and a Pro

73 rbanffy 2025-03-24 21:20:13 UTC 44 abortretry.fail Llama Share

Intel's Pentium processor had a floating-point division bug, known as the FDIV bug, which affected accuracy in high-precision calculations. Intel eventually replaced all flawed Pentiums, costing $475 million, but the bug did not significantly impact the company's trajectory.

Deregulated energy markets accelerate solar adoption

71 seanobannon 2025-03-24 16:05:47 UTC 180 seanobannon.substack.com Llama Share

Solar power has become the cheapest source of new electricity generation in the US, but adoption depends on market structure, with deregulated markets embracing solar faster than regulated ones. Deregulation can accelerate renewable adoption by enabling private capital to build a cleaner, larger-capacity grid and meet rising energy demand.

OpenAI Says It's "Over" If It Can't Steal All Your Copyrighted Work

65 raju 2025-03-24 20:56:33 UTC 77 futurism.com Llama Share

OpenAI is asking the US government to define "fair use" to access copyrighted materials for AI training, warning that China will otherwise win the AI race. OpenAI claims this is a matter of national security and US competitiveness.

It's Time to Stop Building KV Databases

64 foldU 2025-03-24 20:31:36 UTC 60 buttondown.com Llama Share

The author dislikes Key-Value databases due to their lack of data independence and the need for users to implement their own data models. They propose a middle ground between KV and relational databases.

Using Gorilla glass for home building

63 nailer 2025-03-24 00:27:38 UTC 69 wsj.com Full Share

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Learning about Bootc

63 nikodunk 2025-03-24 00:18:44 UTC 56 sean.thrailkill.cloud Llama Share

Bootc allows users to create immutable Linux distros like SteamOS using containers, making it easy to configure and maintain an OS. This technology, combined with Bootc, enables users to create a seamless Linux experience with "Just Works" functionality.

TUI editor and Vim/Neovim alternative

58 znano 2025-03-24 16:14:22 UTC 60 github.com/tauraamui Llama Share

Lilly is a pre-alpha text editor suitable for developers, aiming to provide a Vim/Neovim alternative with essential features and improved performance. It simplifies plugin management and offers a unified framework for a VIM-like experience.

The persistent mischaracterization of Google and Facebook A/B tests

56 PaulHoule 2025-03-24 02:54:42 UTC 13 sciencedirect.com Full Share

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Why Anthropic's Claude still hasn't beaten Pokémon

51 Workaccount2 2025-03-24 15:07:37 UTC 62 arstechnica.com Llama Share

Researchers at Anthropic are developing AI model Claude to achieve human-level understanding and performance, but it still struggles with tasks like playing Pokémon. Claude's strengths lie in text-based portions of the game, but it has trouble with image recognition and navigation.

Mathematicians uncover the logic behind how people walk in crowds

50 geox 2025-03-24 20:47:23 UTC 19 news.mit.edu Llama Share

Researchers at MIT studied pedestrian flow and found a key measure called "angular spread" that determines whether crowds are orderly or disordered. A small angular spread, around 13 degrees, leads to orderly, lane-like traffic, while a larger spread causes disorder and less efficient movement.

Decent living standards for 8.5B would require 30% of current resource use

50 isomorph 2025-03-24 20:33:10 UTC 25 sciencedirect.com Full Share

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Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy Is Done. Powerful Conservatives Are Listening

48 bryan0 2025-03-24 08:06:45 UTC 66 nytimes.com Full Share

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VMware turns its back on small businesses: 72-core license policy backlash

46 walterbell 2025-03-24 00:15:04 UTC 38 systemadministration.net Llama Share

VMware's new licensing policy requires a minimum 72 CPU core purchase, forcing small businesses to pay for more than they need. This move is seen as a dismissal of loyal customers in favor of large enterprise accounts, driving them to consider open-source alternatives like Proxmox.

GM blocks dealers from using Apple CarPlay, Android Auto aftermarket kits

45 hnburnsy 2025-03-24 19:47:08 UTC 22 news.dealershipguy.com Llama Share

General Motors forced a dealer to stop selling an aftermarket kit restoring Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in its electric vehicles due to potential software update issues. GM plans to discontinue offering these services in favor of its own built-in infotainment systems.

Unveiling the mysterious 'red sprite' lightning strikes over the Himalayas

45 wglb 2025-03-24 15:58:04 UTC 6 phys.org Llama Share

Two Chinese astrophotographers captured over 100 red sprites over the Himalayas on May 19, 2022. A study found the sprites were triggered by high-peak current lightning strikes within a massive thunderstorm system.

AI Reveals Secrets of Dendritic Growth in Thin Films

43 rustoo 2025-03-24 17:47:08 UTC 11 tus.ac.jp Llama Share

Researchers at Tokyo University of Science developed an AI model to predict dendritic growth in thin films, helping optimize thin-film growth processes. The model integrates persistent homology and machine learning to analyze dendrite structures and establish a relationship between their morphology and Gibbs free energy.

The Tranhumanist Cult Test

38 thinkingemote 2025-03-24 12:06:16 UTC 115 ewanmorrison.substack.com Prefix Share

By subscribing, I agree to Substack's Terms of Use, and acknowledge its Information Collection Notice and Privacy Policy. In trying to have a few conversations about transhumanism, over the last few months, I’ve found myself attacked online by people who see themselves as its defenders. I’ve been mobbed, trolled, name-called, and several tech-protectors even suggested that I should kill ...

Surrendering to Authoritarianism

36 chmaynard 2025-03-24 23:58:15 UTC 28 chrishedges.substack.com Llama Share

Columbia University's president caved to Trump administration demands, banning face masks and protests, and surrendering academic autonomy. Elite universities prioritize power over intellectual freedom, serving as indoctrination machines under authoritarian rule.

Building an idempotent email API with River unique jobs

33 izend 2025-03-24 19:00:00 UTC 11 riverqueue.com Llama Share

We implemented idempotency in a River job to send emails by leveraging River's built-in system for unique jobs, which uses a unique key based on job kind, account ID, and idempotency key. This allows the API to detect and skip duplicate requests, providing a more reliable and efficient way to send emails.

Eli Lilly will soon release key data on its weight loss pill orforglipron

32 toomuchtodo 2025-03-24 20:58:34 UTC 29 cnbc.com Llama Share

Eli Lilly's experimental once-daily obesity pill, orforglipron, is expected to be as effective as semaglutide in weight loss. The company plans to release initial results from several late-stage clinical trials on the pill this year.

China's Energy Transition at Odds with Solar Glut, Cheap Power

27 toomuchtodo 2025-03-24 20:10:18 UTC 30 bloomberg.com Llama Share

China's green energy transition is at a critical point due to oversupply and declining power prices. Despite investing $800 billion in renewables, China faces hurdles in balancing climate goals with energy security.

Project Europe aims to drive European innovation

27 doener 2025-03-24 17:35:34 UTC 9 projecteurope.co Llama Share

Project Europe aims to drive European innovation by investing in young tech builders with global ambitions. It encourages entrepreneurship and risk-taking among the next generation with European roots.

Rust Additions for GCC 15 Bring Support for If-Let Statements

27 Corrado 2025-03-24 08:38:16 UTC 25 phoronix.com Llama Share

New Rust code for the gccrs front-end is being merged for GCC 15.1, including Polonius borrow checker and support for if let statements. This will make gccrs more practical as an alternative to Rust's official compiler.

A 1930s movement wanted to merge the US, Canada and Greenland

20 valeg 2025-03-24 08:46:31 UTC 6 theconversation.com Llama Share

The Technocracy movement of the 1930s proposed a scientifically managed economy and society, merging North America into a single unit governed by experts. This idea is echoed in Elon Musk's vision for efficiency cuts and a technocratic government, but with significant differences in approach and values.

Why we chose LangGraph to build our coding agent

17 timbilt 2025-03-24 11:04:27 UTC 9 qodo.ai Llama Share

Qodo built AI coding assistants using LLMs, initially with structured flows, but switched to LangGraph for a more dynamic and flexible approach that balances adaptability with opinionated coding best practices. LangGraph's graph-based framework allows for creating state machines with nodes and edges, enabling the creation of structured or open-ended workflows that can be easily recalibrated ...

Exploring Ruby Ractors – I paid for for 10 cores I'm gonna use 10 cores

15 todsacerdoti 2025-03-24 04:19:49 UTC 0 jpterry.com Llama Share

The user explored Ruby Ractors for true concurrency and discovered impressive performance gains with YJIT. They found that Ractors can run ruby code with true concurrent parallelism, but YJIT offers a 10-13x speedup for free.

How I pwned a major New Zealand service provider

14 MrBruh 2025-03-24 23:07:14 UTC 2 mrbruh.com Llama Share

The user discovered a vulnerability in KiwiServices app, allowing them to access user data, and reported it to the company. The company acknowledged and fixed the issue within 30 days, following a responsible disclosure period.

Harfbuzz Release 11.0.0

12 rossant 2025-03-24 11:37:10 UTC 0 github.com/harfbuzz Llama Share

New APIs are added to Skrifa Rust library for performance and correctness testing. They include memory management and font loading functions.