Apache ECharts offers over 20 chart types, supports data transforms, and is customizable with responsive design. It features progressive rendering, accessibility features, and a large open source community with third-party extensions.
Bracket City is a daily word game that can be played on The Atlantic. Start as a tourist and play the puzzle each day to become the mayor.
Pix, a digital payment system in Brazil, became the country's most popular payment technology by 2024, with 63 billion transactions and 26 trillion reais moved. It displaced cash and cards, adopted faster than any other country.
Tailscale raised $160 million in Series C funding to support its growth and expand its network security and identity layer. The funding will help Tailscale grow its engineering and product teams to unlock more markets and support its free support for customers and backward compatibility platform.
Lenat's first legend was his automated mathematician (am), a system that, according to the legends, discovered mathematical concepts autonomously. yuxi liu: 'to go meta, we must first understand: what *is* logical ai? he says if we want to understand the concept of "intelligence", we need to know what it is, and how it works.' ly
The video game industry is facing a crisis as artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used to replace human artists, designers, and voice actors, threatening their livelihoods and creative freedom. Many industry professionals are resisting the use of AI, citing concerns over the loss of human emotion, nuance, and soul in their work, and are advocating for the value of human ...
Safari Technology Preview 216 introduces text-wrap: pretty, a new CSS value that brings a level of polish to typography on the web by leveraging paragraph-based algorithms to solve long-standing problems. The value can be used to improve readability and accessibility, but its implementation may vary across browsers, and developers should test performance before applying it to long paragraphs ...
Meta released Llama 4 models, including Maverick, which beat GPT-4 and Gemini 2.0 on benchmarks, but used an optimized version for testing, not the public version. This raises concerns about gaming the system and the accuracy of benchmarks in AI model comparisons.
You use search engines and AI tools for different purposes. You prefer traditional search engines for simple queries and specific information, while AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude are better for complex research and open-ended questions.
In India, technicians like Sushil Prasad repurpose broken laptops to create functional, low-cost devices called "Frankenstein" machines. These hybrids are sold to students and small businesses, offering a lifeline to those priced out of India's digital economy.
In GitHub Actions, the shell keyword can be any executable on the $PATH, not just fixed values. This allows any command to be used, but requires passing {0} for single file inputs.
Birds have advanced cognitive abilities despite having smaller brains with different structures than mammals. Research suggests that birds and mammals independently evolved brain regions for complex cognition.
Framework Laptop 13 sales paused in US due to new tariffs, but Canadian operations will be slightly affected. Framework laptops are manufactured in Taiwan, so Canadian imports are not directly affected by US tariffs.
The author contributed to Emacs by rewriting transpose-frame.el, a complex task requiring collaboration with a maintainer. The rewritten code is now part of Emacs 31 in window-x.el.
Clean power provided 40% of the world's electricity last year, mainly due to solar's staggering rise. Solar is set to be an unstoppable force with battery storage, outpacing demand and displacing fossil fuels.
A court has blocked a British government attempt to keep secret a legal case over its demand to access Apple Inc. user data in a victory for privacy advocates.
The author discusses their experience with htmx, a JavaScript library that enables targeted page updates, and argues that it's better to use plain HTML wherever possible to achieve the best results. They also advise against using hx-boost, which can create problems with page navigation and caching.
IBM developed the System/360, a revolutionary mainframe series that transformed the computer industry and enabled businesses and governments to work more efficiently. The project was marked by chaos and uncertainty but ultimately led to IBM's dominance in the industry.
Netflix solved the problem of accurately attributing flow IP addresses to workload identities by developing a new attribution method that uses eBPF and IPMan to determine local and remote IP addresses. The new method eliminates misattribution and provides dependable, fleet-wide insights into Netflix's service topology and network health, unlocking opportunities in areas such as service ...
Coroot provides actionable insights from metrics, logs, and traces with a 100% system coverage and no code changes required. It offers automated performance analysis and alerts for SLOs, with easy deployment options via Docker or Kubernetes.
Datastar uses SSE to stream the whole page every 200ms, achieving high performance with a naive implementation and leveraging Brotli compression for a 100-230:1 compression ratio. It's a stateless approach that avoids websockets' complexity and challenges.
North Korean citizens are using stolen or fake identities to get jobs at US companies, funneling salaries to fund nuclear weapons and operations. US companies are implementing new strategies to verify identities and detect the scam, but experts predict the scheme will expand in 2025.
CodeSandbox uses Firecracker to quickly clone and resume virtual machines, enabling fast development environments and new workflows. By using memory snapshotting, shared mmaping, and copy-on-write, CodeSandbox can clone a VM in under 2 seconds, allowing for instant forking and testing of code changes.
Researchers in China built a 32-bit RISC-V processor using molybdenum disulfide instead of silicon. The processor, RV32-WUJI, executes the full RISC-V instruction set but is limited to kilohertz clock speeds and single-bit operations.
Badgeify is a Mac app that adds app icons and notifications to the menu bar for easy tracking and launching. It personalizes the menu bar with customizable icons and notification counts for a cleaner and more efficient workspace.
Author is rewriting a book chapter on Logic Programming Languages, replacing puzzle solvers with practical examples. They found a Prolog solution to a videogame puzzle and rewrote it more elegantly.
Woodpeckers drum to advertise territory and attract mates, with different species having distinct drumming patterns. Listening to drumming speed and duration can help identify species such as Downy, Hairy, and Northern Flickers.
Neural Graffiting injects memory and information into pre-trained models, altering their behavior and generative predictions. This technique, inspired by neuroplasticity, creates a unique mental universe for each model, influencing its "thinking" and relationships between concepts.
The user is writing a blog post about solving a combinatorial problem using analytic combinatorics. They start with a warm-up problem, counting the number of rooted ordered ternary trees with n nodes, and use generating functions and singularity analysis to find an asymptotic approximation. They then apply the same techniques to the actual problem, counting the number of unordered rooted ...
Donald Trump's return to power may lead to increased US control over global data flows, posing a risk to European data sovereignty. Europe must invest in open-source technologies and develop local cloud infrastructures to protect its digital assets and maintain control over its data.
Palestinian detainees claim they were subjected to mistreatment and torture by Israeli military and prison staff, including beatings, electric shocks, and chemical burns. Israel denies systematic abuse, saying it will examine specific allegations.
The article discusses the potential harm of advertising and proposes taxing it as a "bad" to internalize its externalities. A tiered system could tax more intrusive or manipulative ads, shifting market incentives towards more ethical alternatives.
A few days ago, terence tao proposed the challenge to decompose the 300k! we will fix n=300k that is the case analyzed by tao in the post. the objective is to replace each prime (or 1) in this list of n!-heavy things n with b/2c in c, such that the biggest number is bigger than the smallest number in both lists - 14891
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You can feed a full conversation thread from Hacker News into LLM using the hn: fragment with the ID of the conversation. For example: To set up this plugin locally, first checkout the code. Then create a new virtual environment:
Gemini Advanced subscribers can use Deep Research with Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, a personal AI research assistant. It generates detailed reports on any topic, saving hours of time.
GitMatcher uses AI to match developers from GitHub based on technical requirements. It analyzes millions of profiles for code quality, collaboration, and expertise to find the perfect fit.
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Researchers found that plastic breaks into nanoplastics due to weak layers in the material that degrade over time. These small pieces can persist for centuries and cause damage to living things, including humans.
Researchers improved video generation with Test-Time Training (TTT) layers, achieving 34 Elo point lead over baselines in human evaluation. TTT layers enabled pre-trained Transformers to generate coherent one-minute videos with strong temporal consistency and motion smoothness.
The author of Raw & Ferrel, a newsletter, organized a protest against running clubs by promoting a "Sit Club" event in San Francisco, where people gathered to sit and relax. The event gained attention from local media and the author pokes fun at the idea of running and promotes alternative forms of exercise, encouraging readers to subscribe to their newsletter.
HNSW is a graph structure with levels of varying density, where nodes are inserted randomly and searched level by level. It returns the K nearest nodes when the target is not found, or the closest node on level 0.
IBM announced the z17 mainframe with Telum II processors, capable of 24 trillion operations per second and 50% faster than the z16. It supports z/OS and Linux, with general availability expected this summer.
Pakistan has quietly become a top solar adopter, importing 22 gigawatts of solar panels in 2024, more than Canada has installed in total. The country's clean tech boom is a rare opportunity to shift its carbon-intensive development model.
The smartfunc library is a wrapper around the llm library that simplifies the process of generating summaries and responses using AI models. It supports async functions, debug mode, and various backends.
Adults listen to an average of 20.7 hours of music per week, according to a study. this study seeks to enhance our understanding of bm's potential for adhd patients. results suggest that adults screened with adhd may benefit from more conscious choice of listening during complex cognitive activities. neurotypical group received significantly more musical training than the adhd-screened group. ...
Sculptor is a coding agent environment that helps embed software engineering best practices. It runs code in a sandbox, tests, and fixes issues in parallel, with early access available for testers.
Cloudflare acquired Outerbase to integrate its data management features into Cloudflare's platform. This will make data more accessible and intuitive for developers.
Allison Johnson is a tech reviewer with 10 years of experience, particularly interested in mobile photography and telecom. She visited Satsop Business Park, a former nuclear power plant repurposed as an acoustics testing facility.
The author has a long list of friends, but struggled to form real emotional connections. she says to be intentional about things is 'inauthentic' but if done right, this adds ms value to her life and the lives of her friends - and those of others he will meet in the future! samantha moore says making close friends is like playing video games – it’s like having dozens of actions
Scientists used soundwaves to suspend insect specimens, capturing detailed photos without damaging them. This method, called acoustic levitation, allows for automated, controllable imaging and 3D model creation of small specimens.
The LGP-30 is a 1956 commercial computer considered the first "personal computer" due to its simple design and low cost. It was recreated in an FPGA with modern components, allowing users to play with its quirks and timing behavior.
A DDoS mitigation company, Voxility, leaked routes to its transit provider Lumen, causing internet traffic disruptions worldwide for 20 minutes. The incident highlights the need for better routing hygiene and the potential benefits of using RFC 9234's "Only to Customer" BGP Path Attribute to prevent such leaks.
The author experimented with FastCGI in Rust, finding it useful for scripted languages with slow or unsafe HTTP request processing. However, for most use cases, HTTP servers are preferred due to their simplicity and direct accessibility.
A detailed digital scan of the Titanic has revealed new insights into its final hours, including how engineers kept the ship's lights on until the end. The scan suggests that small punctures in the hull led to the ship's demise, contradicting its reputation as unsinkable.
Abracadabra Finance lost $13 million in cryptocurrency to hackers through its "cauldrons" product. The company is investigating with security firms and offering a 20% bug bounty to the hacker.
Pursuing pleasure for its own sake can lead to addiction in an age of abundance. Modern addictions like substance abuse and excessive screen time desensitize individuals and expose them to misery when the pleasure is absent.
The EU offered the US a "zero-for-zero" tariff deal but the US rejected it. The EU will impose tariffs on US goods starting April 15.
The complete Austrian cigarette packs and single cigarettes collection
Meta's Llama 4 failed to meet expectations, and rumors suggest the company may have cheated to achieve better results. AI researchers and experts are questioning the integrity of AI model progress and the AGI timeline narrative.
Fcc chairman brendan carr is taking a hard line against broadcast stations accused of bias. but his two immediate predecessors said punishing stations based on the content of news programs would violate the first amendment right to free speech. '#34;the case isn't close to being settled right now,' an anonymous fcc official was quoted as saying. the u.s. attorney in california said he
The user was tasked with optimizing Output Media start latency for Recall.ai, but it turned into a deep dive into Linux kernel, Bubblewrap sandboxing, and Rust Tokio's threading model. After weeks of debugging, the user discovered a quirk in the Linux kernel's PR_SET_PDEATHSIG feature that was causing Chromium to terminate randomly, and removing the --die-with-parent flag fixed the issue.
Scientists have created "Peter Pan toads" by removing a gene that prevents them from metamorphosing into adult toads, making them voracious cannibals that can control cane toad numbers. The gene-edited tadpoles could be used to reduce the invasive cane toad population in Australia, but further research is needed to ensure their viability as a management tool.
AI avatars are being developed to create realistic talking characters, combining faces with voices, and are being used in content creation, advertising, and corporate communication. Newer models enable avatars with full bodies that can move and interact with their surroundings.
GameNode is the perfect platform to manage your game collection virtually. Update your backlog, rate the titles you've played, and add the most anticipated releases to your wishlist. Connect with friends, follow their activities, and keep track of everyone's latest gaming sessions.
Election officials and law enforcement collaborated to keep the 2024 election safe despite threats of violence. Their joint efforts minimized disruption and ensured a smooth election process.
Daniel Breyer's novel "Smokebirds" critiques the wealthy elite, a world he knows well as the son of billionaire Jim Breyer. The book skewers the self-absorbed and entitled characters, but Daniel says he's not staking a moral high ground, just reflecting on his own experiences.
A zero-day exploit in the US Constitution v1.0's Article II allows the President to bypass governance protocols via an undocumented 'Immunity' feature. The system is critically vulnerable to social engineering and Trojan horse attacks, risking total governance failure.
Bloomberg delivers business and financial information worldwide. Japan's PM Shigeru Ishiba forms team to negotiate tariff deal with US President Donald Trump.
Managers often use imprecise language when speaking about performance and tasks, leading to confusion and miscommunication. Using specific and measured language is crucial for effective management, and can be achieved by taking time to gather thoughts and providing clear, actionable feedback.
Scientists propose that black holes contain supermazes, complex structures made of vibrating strings, which hold information about what they devoured. These supermazes are part of a theory that could merge gravity with quantum physics and solve the black hole information paradox.
Kitagawa Utamaro's woodblock prints of Yamauba and Kintarō depict a loving mother, not a monstrous demoness. Utamaro's unique portrayal of Yamauba shows her as a symbol of parental patience and love.
Solar power doubled in the last three years and made up 7% of the world's electricity last year, with a boom in solar power capacity. Clean power is on track to expand faster than the world's overall electricity demand, potentially squeezing out fossil fuels.
American academic Paul Chambers faces 15-year prison sentence in Thailand for allegedly insulting the monarchy under lese majeste law. Chambers, a lecturer at Naresuan University, was formally charged and jailed after a complaint was filed by a regional army command.
The author believes FreeBSD Jails are a form of container technology that predates Linux containers. They argue that the term "container" should not be reserved for Linux-based solutions like Docker and Podman.
Meta released Llama 4 models, including Maverick, which beat GPT-4 and Gemini 2.0 on benchmarks, but used an optimized version for testing, not the public version. This raises concerns about gaming the system and the accuracy of benchmarks in AI model comparisons.