Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data

1101 rbanffy 2025-04-15 10:55:41 UTC npr.org GoogleT5 Share 521

Doge has been granted high-level access to a lot of data that could benefit musk's spacex. labor law experts fear that if the data gets out, it could be abused, including by private companies with cases before the nlrb that might get insights into union leadership - and more... sources say they have seen other evidence that doge is exfiltrating sensitive data for unknown reasons. 'if this ...

Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator

912 filiph 2025-04-15 08:22:59 UTC filiph.github.io Llama Share 161

Filip created an uncertainty calculator to reason about uncertain numbers in everyday life. The calculator uses a simple notation with tilde (~) to represent ranges and normal distributions.

America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back

754 putzdown 2025-04-15 13:50:49 UTC molsonhart.com GoogleT5 Share 943

U.s. president announced major new taxes on imports from foreign countries. eric liu: manufacturing in the united states is so expensive and our supply chain is bad - he says a 54% tariff doesn't solve that problem. the stated goal of many of our tariffs was to stop the import of fentanyl, ilio: we need to focus on the demand, not the supply if we want to

How to win an argument with a toddler

709 herbertl 2025-04-15 14:38:25 UTC seths.blog Llama Share 513

Toddlers and some adults engage in arguments for connection, status, or to change others, not for genuine insight. To have a real argument, exchange ideas with well-informed people and be open to changing your mind.

4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

692 LookAtThatBacon 2025-04-15 11:30:56 UTC knowyourmeme.com Llama Share 960

4chan was hacked by Soyjak.Party users in mid April 2025, restoring the /QA/ board and leaking janitor emails. The attackers exploited outdated PHP code and deprecated MySQL functions in 4chan's backend.

TLS certificate lifetimes will officially reduce to 47 days

504 crtasm 2025-04-15 15:09:22 UTC digicert.com Llama Share 651

The CA/Browser Forum voted to shorten TLS certificate lifetimes and reusability of CA-validated information. New rules will take effect in 2026, 2027, and 2029, requiring automation for certificate management.

How the U.S. became a science superpower

467 groseje 2025-04-15 13:24:39 UTC steveblank.com Llama Share 491

The US and Britain had different approaches to science and technology during WWII, with the US using a decentralized university-based system and Britain using a centralized government lab system, leading to the US emerging as the global leader in science and technology. The US university-industry-government partnership became the foundation of its post-war economic boom, but its dominance may ...

12-factor Agents: Patterns of reliable LLM applications

444 dhorthy 2025-04-15 22:38:04 UTC github.com/humanlayer Llama Share 75

The user discusses the challenges of building AI-powered software and proposes using Directed Graphs (DGs) and their Acyclic friends, DAGs, to create more reliable and scalable LLM-powered software. They suggest incorporating small, modular concepts from agent building into existing products rather than building a greenfield rewrite, allowing skilled software engineers to create high-quality ...

It's easier than ever to de-censor videos

381 DamonHD 2025-04-15 17:12:22 UTC jeffgeerling.com Llama Share 157

The user tested the security of pixelating a folder in a YouTube video by offering a reward to those who could de-pixelate it. Three people successfully de-pixelated the folder using different techniques, including brute-force and AI-assisted methods.

Generate videos in Gemini and Whisk with Veo 2

347 meetpateltech 2025-04-15 17:02:16 UTC blog.google Llama Share 132

Gemini users can now generate and share videos using Veo 2, a state-of-the-art video model. Users can create 8-second videos with cinematic realism by describing scenes in Gemini or animating images in Whisk.

Decreased CO2 during breathwork: emergence of altered states of consciousness

322 bookofjoe 2025-04-15 16:23:40 UTC nature.com GoogleT5 Share 159

Etco2 and experience depth appear to be more robustly related to each other in the active-breath group than the passive group over time. the 11d-asc and all 4 sub-scales of the meq-30 scored indistinguishable or higher compared to experiences typically evoked by standard therapeutic doses psilocybin or lsd - a finding consistent with psychedelic-as

Hacking a Smart Home Device (2024)

314 walterbell 2025-04-15 03:12:55 UTC jmswrnr.com GoogleT5 Share 78

Reverse engineering an esp32-based smart home device to gain remote control access. the device is connected to a cloud server, which handles the smart device networking. to decrypt the packets, we need to figure out the structure of the data. we can do this using msgpack, but it's not the same as open_in_newsecurity through obscurity. in the bigger picture, this is just an annoying

OpenAI is building a social network?

313 noleary 2025-04-15 16:08:29 UTC theverge.com Llama Share 424

OpenAI is working on a social network, possibly integrating it into ChatGPT or releasing as a separate app. The project aims to help users share better content with AI assistance.

JSX over the Wire

263 danabramov 2025-04-15 15:56:18 UTC overreacted.io GoogleT5 Share 173

A bff lets you experiment with alternatives to your rest apis without affecting the client application. you want the siblings to be resolved in parallel, which means you don't need separate express routes for each screen - but that's not always the case if you're using jsx vs. jsx based components i've written so far... eh? sam taylor:

Clolog

258 todsacerdoti 2025-04-15 17:04:47 UTC github.com/bobschrag Llama Share 44

Clojure logic programming system Clolog provides a Prolog-like interface for querying and reasoning about data, with features such as variadic terms, opaque terms, and leash execution tracing. Clolog includes built-in predicates like or, first, truthy?, evals-from?, and do, as well as support for predicate transforms and assertion creation functions.

Teuken-7B-Base and Teuken-7B-Instruct: Towards European LLMs (2024)

246 doener 2025-04-15 10:17:17 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 95

Two multilingual LLMs support 24 EU languages, trained on 60% non-English data and a custom tokenizer. They demonstrate competitive performance on multilingual benchmarks like ARC and HellaSwag.

Chroma: Ubisoft's internal tool used to simulate color-blindness

230 gm678 2025-04-15 13:04:26 UTC github.com/ubisoft Llama Share 86

The solution simulates color blindness types for game accessibility testing on a single monitor. It resolves CPPWinRT issues by installing the Microsoft.Windows.CppWinRT NuGet package or updating to Visual Studio 2022.

Hacking the Postgres wire protocol

225 levkk 2025-04-15 14:33:10 UTC pgdog.dev Llama Share 50

PgDog is a network proxy that understands SQL and can infer where queries should go without changing application code. It manipulates Postgres wire protocol to serve queries to multiple databases at once.

How dairy robots are changing work for cows and farmers

223 DonHopkins 2025-04-15 22:26:35 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 170

Lely's autonomous robots are revolutionizing dairy farming, increasing milk production and reducing labor costs. The robots also improve cow welfare and allow farmers to diversify and enjoy a better work-life balance.

AI as Normal Technology

223 randomwalker 2025-04-15 20:05:07 UTC knightcolumbia.org GoogleT5 Share 87

We articulate a vision of artificial intelligence (ai) as normal technology. we argue that this goal does not require drastic policy interventions or technical breakthroughs. our argument for the slowness of ai impact is based on the innovation-diffusion feedback loop - ehud reiter, tim dawkins, and nicole sullivan t.d., author of building the epistemic community for ai safety

Launch HN: mrge.io (YC X25) – Cursor for code review

220 pomarie 2025-04-15 13:34:21 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 107

mrge is an AI code review platform helping teams merge code faster with fewer bugs. It connects to GitHub, uses AI to review code, and provides a human-friendly review workflow for faster review.

What the hell is a target triple?

168 ingve 2025-04-15 18:35:05 UTC mcyoung.xyz GoogleT5 Share 132

Cross-compiling is taking a computer program and compilating it for another machine. the “vendor” part is essentially irrelevant, and mostly is of benefit for sorting related operating systems together - steve mcqueen explains llvm's triple system based on arm architectures and x86_64 emulation. arm64ec refers to amd’s original implementation of long mode in

ICE Agents Realize They Arrested Wrong Teen, Say 'Take Him Anyway'

166 angryantant 2025-04-15 14:47:10 UTC newsweek.com Llama Share 85

A 19-year-old Venezuelan immigrant, Merwil Gutiérrez, was detained in New York and deported to El Salvador despite having no gang ties or criminal history. His family is seeking diplomatic intervention for his release and safe return.

MCP Run Python

162 xrd 2025-04-15 11:09:30 UTC github.com/pydantic Llama Share 65

The code runs a Pyodide server in Deno to execute Python code isolated from the OS. It uses the Pydantic AI Agent to run a simple query and print the result.

eInk Mode: Making web pages easier to read

161 amadeuspagel 2025-04-15 09:52:18 UTC jackscogito.blogspot.com GoogleT5 Share 77

The eink mode is a web browsing mode specifically designed for users of electronic ink (e in) devices. continuous scrolling can cause severe ghosting on older e ink devices, says daniel taylor jr. he hopes to adapt the rich knowledge and information of the internet to be presented on paper-like e-ink devices and monitors. however, with careful design, all kinds of websites should be able to provide

How a yacht works: sailboat physics and design

154 stass 2025-04-15 21:19:33 UTC onemetre.net Llama Share 54

Fins and sails work by using lift and drag to counteract forces like wash and windage, with design factors like aspect ratio, twist, and camber playing key roles. Sail and fin design involves optimizing planforms, sections, and appendages for efficiency and stability.

The case of the UI thread that hung in a kernel call

142 luu 2025-04-15 17:13:31 UTC devblogs.microsoft.com Llama Share 48

A customer's UI thread was hung for five hours due to a watchdog thread suspending it to capture a stack trace. The watchdog thread was waiting for a lock held by the UI thread, causing a deadlock.

Philosophy Major Snatched by ICE During Citizenship Interview

139 mdp2021 2025-04-15 14:36:30 UTC dailynous.com Llama Share 105

Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian Columbia University student, was detained by ICE agents in Vermont after a US citizenship interview. His lawyer claims the detention is in retaliation for his advocacy on behalf of Palestinians and his identity as a Palestinian.

The problem with "vibe coding"

135 jmmv 2025-04-15 00:26:53 UTC dylanbeattie.net Llama Share 149

Dylan Beattie discusses the difference between programs and products in tech, stating that programs are experimental code while products require extensive work for viability. He emphasizes that programming and product development are distinct skills.

Show HN: MCP-Shield – Detect security issues in MCP servers

134 nick_wolf 2025-04-15 05:15:01 UTC github.com/riseandignite Llama Share 39

MCP-Shield scans MCP servers for vulnerabilities and tool poisoning attacks. It detects issues like exfiltration channels and cross-origin escalations.

Benn Jordan's AI poison pill and the weird world of adversarial noise

131 glitcher 2025-04-15 16:47:20 UTC cdm.link Llama Share 198

Benn Jordan's video proposes using adversarial noise poisoning attacks to protect music from generative AI services. This approach works on audio and could be updated if services react, but requires high-end GPUs and a lot of electricity.

The last RadioShack in Maryland is closing

125 ivewonyoung 2025-04-15 18:00:17 UTC marylandmatters.org Llama Share 134

The last RadioShack store in Maryland is closing its doors after over 40 years. Manager Cindy Henning, who worked there for three decades, will miss the store and its customers.

CT scans could cause 5% of cancers, study finds; experts note uncertainty

124 pseudolus 2025-04-15 13:26:59 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 145

Researchers estimated 103,000 future cancers from 93 million CT scans in 2023, with lung and colon cancer being the most common types. The study suggests doctors use CT scans judiciously and at optimized doses to balance risks and benefits.

WEIRD – a way to be on the web

121 weinzierl 2025-04-15 12:42:54 UTC a.weird.one Llama Share 63

Weird is a platform combining WordPress, Notion, and Linktree features for easy website creation and digital identity management. It enables users to create and connect their own websites, promoting a decentralized and user-agency-focused web experience.

Doge Is Far Short of Its Goal, and Still Overstating Its Progress

119 rurp 2025-04-15 14:50:59 UTC nytimes.com Full Share 40

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Four Years of Jai (2024)

117 xixixao 2025-04-15 23:17:13 UTC smarimccarthy.is GoogleT5 Share 151

Jai is a new interpreted language, but it's not as easy to debug as other languages. it is designed for serious programmers, who want to make sure things actually work before they ship. there isn't much in the standard library, although it contains quite some good stuff. the language is still in closed beta, so i don''m not sure if i'll be able to test it out in my spare time.

You cannot have our user's data

115 Tomte 2025-04-15 14:13:19 UTC sourcehut.org Llama Share 109

SourceHut has deployed Anubis to protect against aggressive LLM crawlers and clarified its stance on scraper behavior. The company views user data as belonging to users, not companies, and will not provide it for LLM training or other purposes without permission.

I speak at Harvard as it faces its biggest crisis since 1636

106 Tomte 2025-04-15 17:35:10 UTC scottaaronson.blog Llama Share 101

The author praises Harvard for standing up to the Trump administration despite the depressing news of antisemitism in US universities. They will give a lecture at Harvard's math department on the limits of mathematical knowledge and speculate on the potential of future technologies to expand our understanding.

Designing a low-cost high-performance 10 MHz – 15 GHz vector network analyzer

101 pdziepak 2025-04-15 18:38:52 UTC hforsten.com GoogleT5 Share 25

Vector network analyzer is a device used to measure scattering parameters of electrical circuits operating at high frequencies. it can only measure s11 and s21, requiring manually flipping the device being measured to fully measure the two-port s-parameters. ideally, harmonics shouldn't affect the measurements when measuring linear devices, as the non-linearity of the devices would cause ...

Notion Mail is out

101 jasperr1 2025-04-15 15:34:47 UTC notion.com Llama Share 132

Notion Mail organizes emails with AI auto-filter and customizable system. It helps achieve inbox zero and reduces email anxiety with its features.

MeshCore, a new lightweight, hybrid routing mesh protocol for packet radios

98 cuu508 2025-04-15 14:38:58 UTC github.com/ripplebiz Llama Share 36

MeshCore is a lightweight C++ library for multi-hop packet routing in embedded projects using LoRa and other packet radios. It enables decentralized communication networks without the internet, supporting various LoRa devices and easy flashing.

Cyberpunk 1958: The Early Days of the Polish IT Industry

96 StefanBatory 2025-04-15 21:01:02 UTC culture.pl Llama Share 6

Polish women played a significant role in the country's IT sector during the communist era, making up one-third of teams and holding leadership roles. They contributed to the development of programming languages and computer designs.

Cohere Launches Embed 4

96 rekovacs 2025-04-15 15:48:41 UTC cohere.com Full Share 47

< Back to blogCohere Team Embed 4 delivers state-of-the-art accuracy and efficiency, helping enterprises securely retrieve their multimodal data to build agentic AI applications.

Mark Zuckerberg's failed negotiations with the FTC to end Meta's antitrust case

88 ianrahman 2025-04-15 23:51:33 UTC wsj.com Full Share 93

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Two Years of Rust

87 todsacerdoti 2025-04-15 12:38:54 UTC borretti.me Llama Share 66

The author reflects on their experience writing a B2B SaaS product in Rust, praising its performance, tooling, and type system, but criticizing its borrow checker and module system. They also discuss the challenges of concurrency and testing in Rust, and suggest ways to improve build performance and write more modular code.

An Introduction to Modern CMake

86 signa11 2025-04-15 15:48:59 UTC cliutils.gitlab.io Llama Share 56

CMake is a powerful and clean build system that solves many problems, especially in Modern CMake versions 3.15+. It's widely supported and used, making it a common denominator for projects.

Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim

81 amosjyng 2025-04-15 10:33:02 UTC pikuma.com Llama Share 25

The history of Vi and Vim editors is closely tied to the development of UNIX and open-source software, with key players like Ken Thompson, George Coulouris, and Bill Joy contributing to their evolution. Vim, created by Bram Moolenaar, is a popular Vi clone that has become a legendary text editor among software developers, still widely used today.

Show HN: Torque – A lightweight meta-assembler for any processor

78 benbridle 2025-04-15 21:46:45 UTC benbridle.com Llama Share 30

Torque is a lightweight meta-assembler for any processor architecture, emulating assembly languages with integers, bit sequences, and macros. It allows writing programs for any processor using its own macros and a processor's datasheet.

Liquid: Language models are scalable and unified multi-modal generators

78 pr337h4m 2025-04-15 19:46:14 UTC foundationvision.github.io Llama Share 8

Liquid is a multimodal model that integrates vision and language using a single large language model, eliminating the need for external visual embeddings. It outperforms existing models in multimodal capabilities while maintaining comparable language performance and reducing training costs by 100 times.

The Post-Developer Era

77 thm 2025-04-15 04:10:14 UTC joshwcomeau.com Llama Share 68

The author believes AI has not replaced human developers, but rather augmented them, and companies are still hiring despite AI adoption. The author offers job-hunting tips, including applying early, building a network, and leveraging online communities to increase chances of success.

Show HN: Resonate – real-time high temporal resolution spectral analysis

76 arjf 2025-04-15 15:26:13 UTC alexandrefrancois.org Llama Share 30

Resonate is a low-latency algorithm for audio signal analysis that uses a resonator model to extract spectral information. It efficiently computes an instantaneous, perceptually relevant estimate of the spectral content in real-time.

GitHub suffers a cascading supply chain attack compromising CI/CD secrets

74 vinnyglennon 2025-04-15 11:31:26 UTC infoworld.com Llama Share 23

A sophisticated supply chain attack compromised GitHub Actions, exposing secrets across tens of thousands of repositories. The attack originated from a breach of the "reviewdog/action-setup" GitHub Action, which was used by tj-actions/changed-files.

Fun ways of deciding authorship order (2016)

72 qifzer 2025-04-15 16:37:47 UTC dynamicecology.wordpress.com Llama Share 34

The author discussed various unconventional methods for determining authorship order in ecology and evolutionary biology papers, including alphabetizing, basketball skills, croquet, coin flips, and even a brownie bake-off. Some authors used creative approaches such as arm wrestling, game theory, and even a dog's treat-eating order.

I'm getting fed up of making the rich, richer

68 tobr 2025-04-15 13:51:43 UTC bell.bz Llama Share 41

You're considering a shift in your studio's focus to support progressive movements and create real-world education content. You want to work with clients like Lefroy Brooks and Jamie Clarke who care about the web and its users.

Important open source projects should not use GitHub (2020)

68 bitbasher 2025-04-15 02:18:29 UTC unixdigest.com Llama Share 70

Microsoft acquired GitHub in 2018 and also bought npm in 2020, raising concerns about control over open source projects. Many large projects still host on GitHub, despite alternatives like Codeberg, NotABug, and sourcehut offering self-hosting options.

The Subjective Charms of Objective-C

68 wmlive 2025-04-15 00:58:43 UTC wired.com Llama Share 47

Gottfried Leibniz's dream of a characteristica universalis, a language representing all scientific truths, lives on in programming languages like Objective-C and Swift. The author's experience with Objective-C, a verbose and polarizing language, contrasts with the author's later appreciation for Swift's concise and expressive code.

Once banned, Poland's stately 18th century dance garners UNESCO honors (2024)

65 danielam 2025-04-15 17:20:55 UTC apnews.com Full Share 36

METS, the Middle English Texts Series

61 lordleft 2025-04-15 18:17:06 UTC metseditions.org Llama Share 12

METS publishes affordable medieval texts, including unique romances and the English Apocalypse, in print and digital formats. The organization seeks feedback to improve its website and reader, and invites scholars to publish with METS.

How I Don't Use LLMs

60 jxmorris12 2025-04-15 01:06:20 UTC gleech.org Llama Share 18

The user is skeptical about using Large Language Models (LLMs) for intellectual work due to concerns about accuracy, over-reliance, and potential deskilling. They find LLMs useful for generating ideas, formatting, and translation, but prefer to use them as a tool rather than a replacement for human thinking and expertise.

The Industrialization of IT

44 kiyanwang 2025-04-15 04:24:26 UTC benn.substack.com Llama Share 50

A weekly Substack discusses the potential of AI models like Gemini 2.5 Pro to replace human engineers in software development. The author argues that industrializing AI will lead to increased productivity and efficiency, potentially replacing human engineers with machines.

Multipaint: Draw pictures with color limitations of 8-bit and 16-bit platforms

37 doener 2025-04-15 23:01:04 UTC multipaint.kameli.net Llama Share 17

Multipaint is a pixel art editor that supports various 8-bit and 16-bit computer platforms. It features common drawing tools, color clash emulation, and export options.

Post-Silicon Validation of Static Lockstep Mode

36 luu 2025-04-15 17:21:51 UTC intel.com Full Share 3

You don't have permission to access "http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/content-details/851929/post-silicon-validation-of-static-lockstep-mode-on-intel-xeon-6-processor-e-core-architecture.html" on this server.

Overuse of CT scans could cause 100k extra cancers in US

36 ivewonyoung 2025-04-15 02:15:09 UTC icr.ac.uk Llama Share 18

Researchers warn that overuse of CT scans in the US could cause 100,000 cancer cases, including 10,000 in children. Benefits of CT scans outweigh risks if clinically justified, but unnecessary scans increase cancer risk.

EU gives staff 'burner phones, laptops' for US visits

35 Tomte 2025-04-15 08:06:18 UTC theregister.com Llama Share 11

The European Commission is issuing burner laptops and phones to staff visiting the US to prevent espionage. This move reflects the EU's growing concern about cyber-espionage from the US, a change in relations between the two.

JEP 506: Scoped Values final for Java 25

34 ludovicianul 2025-04-15 11:17:02 UTC openjdk.org Llama Share 9

Scoped values are a new API in Java that enables methods to share immutable data with callees within a thread and child threads, providing a simpler and more efficient alternative to thread-local variables. The scoped values API is designed to be easy to reason about, with a bounded lifetime and automatic cleanup, making it suitable for use in scenarios where thread-local variables are currently used.

M1: Towards Scalable Test-Time Compute with Mamba Reasoning Models

33 dpstart01 2025-04-15 17:00:18 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 3

Researchers introduced a hybrid linear RNN model, M1, for efficient reasoning, outperforming previous models and matching state-of-the-art performance. M1 achieves higher accuracy and a 3x speedup compared to transformers under a fixed generation time budget.

Google Search to redirect its country level TLDs to Google.com

33 lapcat 2025-04-15 13:10:41 UTC searchengineland.com Llama Share 26

Google will redirect its country-level domain names to Google.com due to improved local search experience. This change will be rolled out gradually over the coming months with minimal impact on users.

Ocean Tides and the Earth's Rotation (2001)

32 susam 2025-04-15 19:19:31 UTC core2.gsfc.nasa.gov Llama Share 7

The tides affect the earth's rotation in two ways: a slow secular change due to tidal friction and rapid changes caused by tidal movements. The slow change increases the length of day by 2.3 milliseconds per day per century.

Ultrafast Optical Detector

30 JohannMac 2025-04-15 13:56:32 UTC tdk.com Llama Share 13

TDK developed the Spin Photo Detector, a device that boosts data transmission speed and reduces power consumption using optical detection. It can be applied in data centers, optical communication, and AI applications like generative AI and AR/VR.

Show HN: Particle - News, Organized

29 enduser 2025-04-15 21:26:44 UTC apps.apple.com Llama Share 25

Particle is a personalized news app that brings everything you need to know into one place. It offers summaries, multiple perspectives, and interactive features to help you understand the news.

Trying (and failing) to hack the Wall of Sheep (2022)

29 kstrauser 2025-04-15 19:33:51 UTC honeypot.net Llama Share 11

The author attempted to hack the Wall of Sheep at DEF CON by injecting JavaScript into the login field, but failed due to the Shepherd manually typing in the login credentials. The author plans to try again next year with a more advanced setup and a better understanding of the Wall of Sheep's internal workings.

LightlyTrain: Better Vision Models, Faster – No Labels Needed

29 michal-l 2025-04-15 12:57:34 UTC github.com/lightly-ai Llama Share 11

LightlyTrain is a tool that uses unlabeled data to pretrain models, reducing labeling costs and speeding up deployment. It supports various model architectures and use-cases, including detection, classification, and segmentation.

Show HN: I made a tool to send a letter now people use it to just print

27 bahrtw 2025-04-15 16:21:51 UTC pieterpost.com Full Share 23

Recipient Name Search Address Street address Apartment, suite, etc. (optional) City State/Province Postal Code Country

Unique bacteria that survive by employing multicellular behavior

20 PaulHoule 2025-04-15 18:54:50 UTC phys.org Llama Share 8

Researchers studied multicellular magnetotactic bacteria that survive by grouping together, providing insight into life's evolution on Earth. These bacteria exhibit obligate multicellularity, where individual cells are genetically different and have unique roles for the group's survival.

Isolated Execution Environment for eBPF

20 tuananh 2025-04-15 15:42:04 UTC ebpf.foundation Llama Share 2

Researchers propose a paradigm shift for eBPF programs, redefining them as kernel-mode applications requiring dedicated isolation to enhance security and scalability. The current eBPF verifier faces challenges, including security vulnerabilities and inherent complexity, which undermine its reliability.

Some features that every JavaScript developer should know in 2025

19 pierremenard 2025-04-15 02:27:10 UTC waspdev.com Llama Share 15

JavaScript has introduced new features like iterators, Array.prototype.at(), Promise.withResolvers(), and structuredClone() for better performance and memory efficiency. These features include methods like drop(), take(), some(), every(), find(), map(), reduce(), and boolean operations with Set objects for easier and more efficient coding.

OpenAI announces nonprofit commission advisors

17 mfiguiere 2025-04-15 22:50:37 UTC openai.com Llama Share 4

OpenAI is forming a nonprofit commission to inform its philanthropic efforts and expand its reach and impact. The commission, led by Daniel Zingale, includes advisors Dolores Huerta, Monica Lozano, Dr. Robert K. Ross, and Jack Oliver, who will gather feedback from stakeholders and advise on AI's potential to address global challenges.

Show HN: Somehash – A Blurhash-inspired exploration

17 theogravity 2025-04-15 19:36:48 UTC travisbumgarner.dev Llama Share 1

To prevent visitors from leaving, a placeholder image called Somehash is being built from scratch using React and Python. Somehash will display interesting colors, textures, or patterns extracted from images using algorithms like KMeans clustering.

'Enough Is Enuf' Review: A Dream of Simpler Spelling

17 pepys 2025-04-15 18:11:14 UTC wsj.com Full Share 22

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Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols

17 azhenley 2025-04-15 01:30:21 UTC johndcook.com Llama Share 0

The author discusses the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols block in Unicode, highlighting various symbols used in different contexts such as geometry and database joins. The block includes symbols for perpendicular lines, geometric algebra, and database joins.

10k Times Faster, 10k Times Simpler

16 ingve 2025-04-15 15:02:01 UTC tailscale.com Llama Share 3

Modern hardware capabilities allow for simpler software solutions, but many developers still overengineer, creating complex systems that mimic tech giants. By leveraging device power and prioritizing maintainability, developers can build more efficient and scalable systems.

Japan antitrust watchdog hits Google with cease and desist order

15 coolandsmartrr 2025-04-15 06:53:37 UTC asia.nikkei.com Llama Share 4

Japan Fair Trade Commission issued a cease and desist order to Google over monopolistic practices. Google demanded preferential treatment for its search services on Android phones from at least six manufacturers.

Show HN: USL - A Universal Scripting Language That Outputs to 111 Languages

15 usl 2025-04-15 02:26:19 UTC townsendatomics.gumroad.com Full Share 17

Program in the language(s) you want instantly!USL: One Script, 100+ Languages — Build It Once. Use It Everywhere.

Understanding US Power Outages – By Brian Potter

14 rbanffy 2025-04-15 09:34:01 UTC construction-physics.com Llama Share 9

US power outages are heavily driven by extreme events, which are highly regional and can be hundreds of times worse than typical weeks. Baseline power reliability varies significantly by region, with some areas consistently experiencing high rates of outages.

Japanese Typography Essentials: Japanese Type Between Japanese and Latin

13 bryanrasmussen 2025-04-15 16:49:20 UTC researchgate.net Full Share 2

CT scans could cause 5% of cancers, study finds

13 jnord 2025-04-15 02:04:19 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 1

Researchers estimated 103,000 future cancers from 93 million CT scans in 2023, with lung and colon cancer being the most common types. The study suggests doctors use CT scans judiciously and at optimized doses to balance risks and benefits.

Cutting Down Rust Compile Times with One Thousand Crates

12 todsacerdoti 2025-04-15 21:45:37 UTC feldera.com Llama Share 0

Feldera's SQL-to-Rust compiler was taking 25 minutes to compile on a 64-core machine due to single-threaded LLVM passes and codegen, but splitting the generated Rust code into smaller crates utilizing all CPUs reduced the compilation time to 2 minutes and 10 seconds. Despite achieving a 12-second compilation time per crate, the total compilation time remained slower than expected due to ...

Figma sent a cease-and-desist letter to Lovable over the term 'Dev Mode'

11 coloneltcb 2025-04-15 19:19:29 UTC techcrunch.com Llama Share 0

Figma sent a cease-and-desist letter to Lovable over the term "Dev Mode" due to trademark concerns, but Lovable's CEO refuses to change the feature's name. The dispute is also a sign of a larger competition between Figma and Lovable in the "vibe coding" market.

Show HN: Million Dollar Homepage Meets LinkedIn

11 leon3rd 2025-04-15 13:23:12 UTC 10000resumes.com Full Share 4

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Show HN: AES-256 brute force using structured logic (UUIDs and xy = x/y rule)

11 polymetron 2025-04-15 00:38:50 UTC github.com/elsolem Llama Share 0

The toolkit tests brute-force cracking of UUID-encrypted AES-256-CBC files using a deterministic search principle. It showcases linear exploration of UUID space without guessing or filtering.