Gemini 2.5 Flash

1041 meetpateltech 2025-04-17 19:03:39 UTC developers.googleblog.com Llama Share 550

Gemini 2.5 Flash is a hybrid reasoning model that allows developers to turn thinking on or off and set thinking budgets for quality, cost, and latency. It's available in preview via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, offering comparable metrics to leading models at a fraction of the cost and size.

Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules

839 IdealeZahlen 2025-04-17 14:47:46 UTC nytimes.com Full Share 478

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Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the zoom.us domain

626 RVRX 2025-04-17 00:55:49 UTC status.zoom.us Llama Share 303

Zoom's domain zoom.us was unavailable due to a server block caused by a communication error between Zoom's registrar and GoDaddy Registry. The issue was resolved quickly with no product or security failure, and steps are being taken to prevent future outages.

An intro to DeepSeek's distributed file system

610 sebg 2025-04-17 12:50:37 UTC maknee.github.io Llama Share 107

3FS is a distributed filesystem that abstracts away complexity, providing fault tolerance, redundancy, and high throughput. It uses a management server, meta nodes, and storage nodes to manage data and ensure strong consistency with the CRAQ protocol.

Which year: guess which year each photo was taken

594 trymas 2025-04-17 10:42:06 UTC whichyr.com Llama Share 178

The game challenges users to guess historical photo years between 1850 and 2025. Users earn points based on their guesses, with perfect scores and daily challenges tracking progress.

TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale

592 cwwc 2025-04-17 13:39:28 UTC afterbabel.com GoogleT5 Share 677

If not blocked, a law would force tiktok to cease operations in the u.s. on january 19. in 2023, there were roughly 21.8 million teens (13-17) using the app almost constantly - daniel scott and christopher edwards v. tiktok, andrew schmidt and jennifer lee roberts

Potatoes in the Mail

502 mooreds 2025-04-17 21:35:45 UTC facts.usps.com Llama Share 254

The United States Postal Service owns many trademarks including Click-N-Ship and Forever. Postal Facts 2024 provides information about the USPS.

Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

449 coppolaemilio 2025-04-17 00:10:51 UTC coppolaemilio.com Llama Share 476

The user tried various music players and solutions after leaving Spotify, but found Jellyfin to be the perfect replacement, offering features like offline listening and self-hosting. They successfully set up Jellyfin on an old computer and a mini PC, and now enjoy their entire music library from any device, promoting digital autonomy and self-hosting as a hobby.

“Most promising signs yet” of alien life on a planet beyond our Solar System

415 fuidani 2025-04-17 08:02:21 UTC skyatnightmagazine.com Llama Share 347

Astronomers found signs of chemicals on exoplanet K2-18b that could indicate life. The James Webb Space Telescope detected dimethyl sulfide and dimethyl disulfide in the planet's atmosphere, a possible biosignature.

US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban

370 intunderflow 2025-04-17 10:42:01 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 421

The US government is threatening to ban Harvard University from enrolling foreign students over its refusal to comply with demands to address antisemitism. Harvard has refused to surrender its independence and constitutional rights, despite the potential loss of billions of dollars in federal funding.

Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'

324 1659447091 2025-04-17 12:34:38 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 426

Discord is testing face scanning to verify users' ages in the UK and Australia due to new online safety laws. The technology aims to prevent underage access to adult content but raises concerns about privacy and security.

I analyzed chord progressions in 680k songs

306 jnord 2025-04-17 22:44:11 UTC cantgetmuchhigher.com Llama Share 142

The Chordonomicon dataset contains nearly 680,000 chord progressions from 680,000 songs and reveals interesting differences in chord choices across genres like jazz and country. The data also shows a decline in 7th chords and a decrease in unique chord rates over the decades, suggesting that contemporary chord progressions are becoming more redundant.

First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb

293 gmays 2025-04-17 14:36:51 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 313

A UK woman, Grace Davidson, has given birth to a baby girl using a donated womb from her sister, in the UK's first successful womb transplant. The baby, Amy, weighed 4.5 pounds and was born by Caesarean section, giving hope to women with similar conditions.

Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results

282 mtlynch 2025-04-17 13:41:27 UTC timsh.org Llama Share 64

The user shares an updated approach to recording and analyzing mobile app traffic using mitmproxy and Python, allowing for faster and more scalable data collection. They provide a guide and a Python notebook to help others record and analyze app traffic, and encourage others to contribute to a crowd-sourced database of app data collection.

HDR‑Infused Emoji

268 tabletcorry 2025-04-17 14:42:07 UTC sharpletters.net Llama Share 143

You can add HDR emojis to Slack for a brighter reaction, but it works best on iPhones and not on Android devices. Support varies, so results may differ.

U.S.-born man from Georgia held for ICE under Florida's new anti-immigration law

261 pavel_lishin 2025-04-17 19:35:23 UTC georgiarecorder.com Llama Share 131

Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a 20-year-old US citizen, was held in jail for 48 hours after a traffic stop despite his mother showing his birth certificate and Social Security card. A judge dropped the charge but Lopez-Gomez remains in custody due to a federal request from ICE.

This 'College Protester' Isn't Real. It's an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops

233 colinprince 2025-04-17 13:57:09 UTC wired.com Llama Share 227

Police departments near the US-Mexico border are using AI-generated online personas to collect intelligence on suspects, including human traffickers and protesters. The technology, called Overwatch, has not led to any known arrests despite a $360,000 contract with Pinal County, Arizona.

Milwaukee M18 Battery Reverse Engineering

219 jakogut 2025-04-17 16:07:21 UTC quagmirerepair.com Llama Share 102

The user reverse engineered a Milwaukee M18 48-11-1828 18VDC 54Wh battery pack, identifying its components, including a Texas Instruments MSP430G2744 microcontroller and a BQ76925 battery monitor IC, and documenting its circuit board and connections. The user also explored the battery's communication protocol, including a 12V/3V handshake and a checksum-based communication system, and noted ...

What do I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code?

215 JSLegendDev 2025-04-17 22:55:55 UTC blog.luden.io Llama Share 139

Ivan Trusov, lead programmer of Craftomation 101, discussed his experience with Lua, a lightweight language used in the game, and how it was chosen for its ease of use and flexibility. He mentioned that while Lua has its limitations, it was a good choice for the project and that he would consider using a strictly typed language like TypeScript for future projects, but only if it was ...

US judge finds administration wilfully defied court order in deportation flights

214 stubish 2025-04-17 02:44:43 UTC abc.net.au Llama Share 166

US Judge James Boasberg says Trump administration officials may face criminal prosecution for contempt of court due to 'wilful disregard' of deportation order. The judge has probable cause to hold the administration in contempt, but they can first purge their contempt before potential prosecution.

Encryption Is Not a Crime

209 freddyym 2025-04-17 12:56:58 UTC privacyguides.org Llama Share 211

Encryption is a digital tool that protects our privacy and security from cyberattacks, identity theft, and other threats. Oppressive regimes and law enforcement entities are attempting to undermine encryption, despite experts warning of its dangers.

Passing planes and other whoosh sounds

203 zdw 2025-04-17 05:53:31 UTC windytan.com Llama Share 56

The 'whoosh' sound from a plane is not just the Doppler effect, but also caused by a delayed echo from the ground, creating an interference pattern. This effect is prominent when the plane is directly overhead and the ground is close, resulting in a 9 millisecond delay.

Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in Erlang/OTP SSH

195 kimi 2025-04-17 13:29:44 UTC nvd.nist.gov Llama Share 51

Erlang/OTP versions prior to OTP-27.3.3, OTP-26.2.5.11, and OTP-25.3.2.20 have a SSH server vulnerability allowing RCE. Patched versions and a temporary workaround are available to prevent unauthorized access.

AGI Is Still 30 Years Away – Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu

172 Philpax 2025-04-17 16:42:13 UTC dwarkesh.com GoogleT5 Share 366

Dwarkesh patel and ege erdil think we'll see explosive economic growth. they disagree on whether intelligence will accelerate technological change a great deal. but they do agree that research is harder than people think, and depends on compute scale. if you look at the original gpt-4 compared to the current gpt-4o, it's like, maybe 125 times cheaper to run. so you don't get to see at

mIRC 7.81

168 futurecat 2025-04-17 11:34:30 UTC mirc.com Full Share 138

mIRC is a popular Internet Relay Chat client used by individuals and organizations to communicate, share, play and work with each other on IRC networks around the world. Serving the Internet community for over two decades, mIRC has evolved into a powerful, reliable and fun piece of technology.

ChatGPT now performs well at GeoGuesser

167 dredmorbius 2025-04-17 23:36:57 UTC flausch.social Llama Share 147

People are warning about a new threat model where AI can locate photos taken outdoors with high accuracy, even without metadata, for a low monthly fee. This raises concerns about online safety and the need to reevaluate what photos are posted online.

Oda Ujiharu: Why the ‘weakest Samurai warlord’ is admired

160 cdplayer96 2025-04-17 09:30:43 UTC tokyoweekender.com Llama Share 64

Oda Ujiharu, a Sengoku samurai warlord, was known for losing Oda Castle nine times but winning it back eight times, earning him the nickname "The Phoenix." Despite his military blunders, he was admired for his loyalty to his people and retainers, who remained fiercely loyal to him.

Show HN: AgentAPI – HTTP API for Claude Code, Goose, Aider, and Codex

158 hugodutka 2025-04-17 16:54:58 UTC github.com/coder Llama Share 15

To run an AgentAPI server on macOS, install claude and run the server with curl commands, then access the demo web chat interface at https://coder.github.io/agentapi/chat.

Peru's ancient irrigation systems turned deserts into farms because of culture

152 PaulHoule 2025-04-17 02:31:34 UTC theconversation.com Llama Share 74

Peru's north coast is a desert with limited rainfall, yet it's a major agricultural hub due to irrigation canals. Ancient societies like the Moche and Chimu thrived in this area for millennia, developing sophisticated irrigation systems that adapted to the desert climate.

Cutting down Rust compile times from 30 to 2 minutes with one thousand crates

143 Qadriq 2025-04-17 11:22:17 UTC feldera.com Llama Share 87

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 ...

Advanced Shell Scripting with Bash (2006) [pdf]

134 transpute 2025-04-17 09:26:45 UTC uniforumchicago.org Llama Share 111

Bash scripting basics include variable declaration, arithmetic operations, and conditional statements. Key commands include declare, readonly, if, and (( )) for numeric tests, with error handling and special character escaping.

OpenAI looked at buying Cursor creator before turning to Windsurf

128 mfiguiere 2025-04-17 13:51:49 UTC cnbc.com Llama Share 115

OpenAI considered acquiring Cursor, a popular AI coding tool, but instead turned to rival Windsurf for a potential $3 billion deal. OpenAI also released new coding models, Codex CLI, which are now available in Cursor.

Scientists find strongest evidence yet of life on an alien planet

119 prossercj 2025-04-17 13:11:21 UTC reuters.com Full Share 39

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BitNet b1.58 2B4T Technical Report

109 galeos 2025-04-17 07:27:11 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 30

BitNet b1.58 2B4T is an open-source 1-bit LLM with 2 billion parameters, trained on 4 trillion tokens and achieving performance comparable to full-precision LLMs. It offers significant advantages in computational efficiency, memory footprint, energy consumption, and decoding latency.

The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder

106 BerislavLopac 2025-04-17 07:34:08 UTC buttondown.com Llama Share 110

NP is a class of decision problems where a potential proof can be verified in polynomial time, while NP-complete is the hardest possible NP problems. A problem that is harder than NP but still decidable is the token movement problem on an infinite grid, which is PSPACE-complete and grows exponentially harder with the number of dimensions.

Differentiable Programming from Scratch

106 sksxihve 2025-04-17 04:30:47 UTC thenumb.at GoogleT5 Share 18

Gradient descent is a way to compute the slope of f$$ in higher dimensions. the algorithm uses the typical linear algebraic multiplication rules to compose them if $$mathbfx$ is given x - y = 7 nabla = 023418765910111213141617

Toothpaste widely contaminated with lead and other metals, US research finds

104 c420 2025-04-17 12:54:49 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 104

New research found 90% of 51 toothpaste brands contain lead, along with other heavy metals like arsenic, mercury, and cadmium. The contamination is linked to ingredients like hydroxyapatite, calcium carbonate, and bentonite clay, which may be the source of the toxins.

SQLite transactions and virtual tables

103 preetamjinka 2025-04-17 17:28:31 UTC misfra.me Llama Share 9

SQLite's virtual-table interface supports writes and full transactional behavior through xUpdate and hooks for transaction boundaries. The rollback journal and super-journal ensure atomicity across multiple virtual tables and databases.

Stainless steel strengthened: Twisting creates submicron 'anti-crash wall'

102 wglb 2025-04-17 14:28:07 UTC techxplore.com Llama Share 44

Researchers from China and the US developed a twisting technique to strengthen stainless steel, creating a submicron 'anti-crash wall' that boosts its resistance to metal fatigue. The treated metal shows a 2.6 times increase in strength and a significant reduction in strain due to ratcheting.

Development on Apple Silicon with UTM

101 todsacerdoti 2025-04-17 10:28:31 UTC rkiselenko.dev Llama Share 72

UTM allows running Windows or Linux on iOS devices at a usable speed. To create a Linux development environment, use UTM VMs, install brew and mkisofs, and set up cloud-init scripts for tools and settings.

A cute proof that makes e natural

100 georgecmu 2025-04-17 16:19:43 UTC poshenloh.com Llama Share 42

The article explains the natural properties of e, including its derivative being itself and its unique exponential curve shape. It also shows that e can be derived from the limit of (1+1/n)^n.

Shell-secrets – GPG-encrypted environment variables

92 mgarciaisaia 2025-04-17 19:39:42 UTC github.com/waj Llama Share 42

A script named shell-secrets.sh securely reads secret values from encrypted files and allows easy login and logout between different accounts. The script uses a sub-shell process for each login and updates the SECRET_LOGIN variable for prompt display, with autocomplete for available file names.

Building an AI that watches rugby

87 reddavis 2025-04-17 10:18:43 UTC nickjones.tech Llama Share 45

A developer built a prototype system using AI to watch and summarize rugby games, extracting data from the scoreboard and audio commentary. The system aims to provide a richer experience for fans, highlighting moments that don't show up in structured event feeds.

The Atari 1200XL fiasco

85 rbanffy 2025-04-17 09:01:07 UTC goto10retro.com Llama Share 83

The Atari 1200XL was a third Atari 8-bit computer announced in 1982 and released in 1983 with 64K RAM and a sleek new case design. It had several notable changes but ultimately flopped due to compatibility issues and a high price.

Zack: A Simple Backtesting Engine in Zig

82 sksxihve 2025-04-17 03:36:16 UTC github.com/zerotech-studio Llama Share 7

Zack is a lightweight backtesting engine for trading strategies written in Zig, simulating trading based on historical OHLCV data. It processes data bar-by-bar, generates trading signals, and reports performance, driven by an event loop within the BacktestEngine.

The Animals That Exist Between Life and Death

81 dnetesn 2025-04-17 01:05:22 UTC nautil.us Llama Share 45

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek discovered rotifers that could revive after desiccation, raising a philosophical paradox about life and death. His observations sparked a debate that continues today, with some arguing that rotifers exist in a third state of being, neither fully alive nor dead.

A 1980s toy robot arm inspired modern robotics

79 danso 2025-04-17 15:42:32 UTC technologyreview.com Llama Share 43

The Armatron robotic arm was a 1980s toy that lived up to its hype, featuring a mechanical arm with various movements and a unique sound. Its design was the work of Hiroyuki Watanabe, a 69-year-old engineer who drew inspiration from radio-controlled helicopters and newspaper clippings.

As 'Bot' Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond

77 jhunter1016 2025-04-17 10:57:38 UTC voiceofsandiego.org Llama Share 143

Southwestern College professors are dealing with a surge in fake students, or bots, in their online classes, which are bilking state and federal financial aid money. The college's administration is working to mitigate the issue but professors feel they are not doing enough to curb the crisis.

GPT o3 frequently fabricates actions, then elaborately justifies these actions

75 occamschainsaw 2025-04-17 05:48:23 UTC xcancel.com Full Share 71

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Manga Guide To Databases (2004) [pdf]

72 mastermedo 2025-04-17 06:53:05 UTC oberstar.eu.org GoogleT5 Share 6

A manga guide to databases teaches readers how to build databases using tico. database fairy explains the basics of databases in ww.nostarch.com manga series - no part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted unless prior written permission is obtained, the author says. the manga was published thanks to the joint efforts of many people: shoko azuma, ohmsha & trend-pro. db

On Jane Jacobs (2017)

70 herbertl 2025-04-17 17:35:33 UTC salmagundi.skidmore.edu GoogleT5 Share 46

The legend of jane jacobs centers on the writer who revolutionized our thinking about cities. sally kohn: the fearless activist who stood up to planning czar robert moses' rampaging road construction is irresistible - she says despite her plight, she was a hero in her own right if she wanted to save the city he says she should have been able to walk the streets and observe their functioning instead of

I Cannot Be Technical

70 mooreds 2025-04-17 12:20:33 UTC fightforthehuman.com GoogleT5 Share 93

Tech is intensely hierarchical and demands performance of flat culture. sally kohn: the technical needs to exclude women in daycares, cafes and even labs. she says that if you want to be technical, you must be a human being first and foremost. we need to stop treating women as objects of contempt, she writes. tech should be about people, not machines. women should not be excluded from tech, he says -

AI is turning us into glue

65 lswainemoore 2025-04-17 23:01:48 UTC lincoln.swaine-moore.is Llama Share 58

The writer is concerned about the impact of AI on their job as a software developer, fearing they'll be replaced by machines in tasks requiring deep linear thinking. They worry about being left with non-technical tasks like plumbing and ship-steering.

Recursive LLM prompts

65 vlan121 2025-04-17 19:46:01 UTC github.com/andyk Llama Share 10

The user is exploring the use of recursive prompts with LLMs to generate new prompts with updated state, inspired by goal-conditioned Reinforcement Learning and the General Problem Solver AI system. They are using this technique to compute the Fibonacci sequence and other mathematical functions, but face challenges with the model's accuracy and are exploring ways to improve it, such as ...

Sony Unveils the Smallest and Lightest Lidar Depth Sensor

65 sksxihve 2025-04-17 01:19:41 UTC petapixel.com Llama Share 19

Sony announced the AS-DT1, the world's smallest LiDAR depth sensor, using Direct Time of Flight technology and a Single Photon Avalanche Diode image sensor. It measures distances with exceptional accuracy, ideal for applications with space and weight constraints, such as drones and self-driving cars.

CN Tower, Behind the Scenes (2014)

64 ianpenney 2025-04-17 22:55:36 UTC site.roadwolf.ca Llama Share 16

The user shared photos from their radio station engineer days at the CN Tower, showing behind-the-scenes areas and equipment. They described various rooms and systems, including the Diesel Generator Room, transmitter racks, and antenna combiners.

Consistent Hash Ring

63 jcartw 2025-04-17 12:54:31 UTC gallery.selfboot.cn Llama Share 19

Consistent Hashing Ring is a hashing algorithm for data distribution and load balancing in distributed systems, minimizing data migration when nodes change. It uses a circular structure with virtual nodes to achieve uniform data distribution and scalability.

Micro Wheeled legged Robot

61 nill0 2025-04-17 17:31:37 UTC github.com/mushibo Llama Share 12

The robot requires fabrication of 4 PCBs using LCEDA and ESP32, with components including L6234PD013TR and AS5600. To operate, connect the battery, restart the robot, and connect to its WiFi network to access a remote control interface.

Olympic Gold Medalist Dominates the 100M at Her Kid's Sports Day Event

60 oatsandsugar 2025-04-17 23:29:08 UTC kottke.org Llama Share 52

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, an 8-time Olympic gold medalist, competed against parents at her son's sports day and won easily. Watching world-class sprinters up close is a thrilling experience that showcases their incredible speed.

Top OpenAI Catastrophic Risk Official Steps Down Abruptly

60 FinnLobsien 2025-04-17 16:37:04 UTC garrisonlovely.substack.com Llama Share 49

OpenAI's top safety staffer Joaquin Quiñonero Candela stepped down from his role, citing a desire to return to hands-on work as an intern. The company's safety organization has undergone significant changes, with multiple leaders leaving or being reassigned.

Memory Size Matters to PostgreSQL

59 PaulHoule 2025-04-17 22:37:12 UTC pgdba.org Llama Share 11

PostgreSQL's shared buffer is a memory segment for data flow management. It uses a clock sweep algorithm for buffer replacement.

U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia

57 shitter 2025-04-17 21:58:35 UTC nbcnews.com Llama Share 25

A US-born citizen, Juan Carlos Gomez-Lopez, was detained despite a judge finding no probable cause for charges under a temporarily blocked state immigration law. He remains detained at ICE's request, possibly to be sent to an ICE detention center.

Show HN: HN Watercooler – listen to HN threads as an audio conversation

50 sebastiennight 2025-04-17 18:54:13 UTC onetake-ai.github.io Full Share 56

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Kennedy promises to find environmental causes of autism

49 southernplaces7 2025-04-17 05:50:04 UTC politico.com Llama Share 50

US Health Secretary Kennedy plans to study autism causes with an open mind and follow the science, despite past controversies over vaccine links. He aims to provide real-time data on autism rates and examine various factors, including environmental toxins and medicines.

UniK3D: Universal Camera Monocular 3D Estimation

46 rbanffy 2025-04-17 19:38:08 UTC lpiccinelli-eth.github.io Llama Share 12

UniK3D is a generalizable method for monocular 3D estimation that models any camera and achieves state-of-the-art performance. It uses a spherical 3D representation and a novel camera module to accurately reconstruct metric 3D scenes.

Russian Propaganda Campaign Targets France with AI-Fabricated Scandals

45 colinprince 2025-04-17 13:29:41 UTC newsguardtech.com Llama Share 15

Russia's Storm-1516 disinformation operation targets France with 5 false narratives, spreading in 38,877 social media posts and 55.8 million views. Leading AI chatbots repeat these false claims, posing a new disinformation threat.

Warren Buffett holds enough cash to buy 476 companies in the S&P 500

44 panny 2025-04-17 01:43:49 UTC mitrade.com Llama Share 10

Warren Buffett has $334 billion in cash, enough to buy 95% of the S&P 500, but he's not buying due to waiting for the Federal Reserve to act. He's been patient, sitting on his cash, and not reacting to market downturns.

Erlang Solutions' Blog round-up

43 amalinovic 2025-04-17 10:43:23 UTC erlang-solutions.com Llama Share 0

Erlang Solutions shares insights on big data in healthcare, fintech compliance, digital wallets, and IoT security through their latest blog posts. Their goal is to help businesses stay ahead in tech by making complex topics easier to understand.

Crows can recognize geometric regularity

41 wglb 2025-04-17 14:20:13 UTC phys.org Llama Share 2

Researchers at the University of Tübingen found that carrion crows can recognize geometric regularity. The study suggests that this ability may exist in other animals as well, beyond humans and primates.

N-Params vs. Single Param

37 carlos-menezes 2025-04-17 18:23:23 UTC carlos-menezes.com Llama Share 43

Passing arguments individually can be confusing and brittle, while object parameters provide clarity and self-documenting code. Object parameters also offer full autocompletion and type safety in TypeScript.

How the Federal Government Is Undermining Election Security

37 hn_acker 2025-04-17 14:08:41 UTC brennancenter.org Llama Share 8

The Trump administration has cut federal support for election security, including CISA services and funding for information sharing networks. This has left states and local election officials vulnerable to foreign and domestic cyber threats.

Library patterns: Why frameworks are evil

36 kretaceous 2025-04-17 01:46:51 UTC tomasp.net Llama Share 16

The author argues that libraries are better than frameworks in software development because they are composable, easier to test and explore, and allow users to be in control of the system. To design good libraries, the author suggests providing multiple layers of abstraction, avoiding callbacks, and giving users the power to combine libraries with others or replace parts of them.

Nearly $1B of DOGE 'savings' vanish overnight

35 Jacquie11 2025-04-17 20:39:56 UTC msn.com Full Share 3

Nearly $1 billion of DOGE ‘savings’ vanish overnight - More than $900 million in claimed ‘savings’ were quietly removed from DOGE’s ‘wall of receipts’ this week

Show HN: val – An arbitrary precision calculator language

34 crap 2025-04-17 19:51:31 UTC github.com/terror Llama Share 19

val is a simple calculator language with a command-line interface and ongoing work on a Rust library and web playground. It supports expressions, statements, and functions, allowing users to write and execute val programs.

'Cosmic radio' detector could discover dark matter within 15 years

33 rbanffy 2025-04-17 12:26:04 UTC phys.org Llama Share 50

Scientists at King's College London and Harvard University have developed a "cosmic car radio" detector to find dark matter, which could be discovered within 15 years. The detector, called an Axion quasiparticle, operates at high terahertz frequencies and emits light when it identifies the frequency of dark matter.

Daily Pill May Work as Well as Ozempic for Weight Loss and Blood Sugar

32 uxhacker 2025-04-17 10:59:03 UTC nytimes.com Full Share 70

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An experiment that turned back biological time

30 jsomers 2025-04-17 04:13:24 UTC nehalslearnings.substack.com GoogleT5 Share 1

A teenager from higashiosaka accompanied his father to the hospital. feeling powerless, he felt like this path wasn't for him despite his medical degree. fueled excitement about the potential of human es cells. yamanaka and takahashi re-tested their induced cells to see if they truly measured up. they found that there were just four genes without which colonies wouldn’t grow properly - c-my

British rebellion against Roman legions caused by drought, research finds

29 pseudolus 2025-04-17 22:17:06 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 14

Severe droughts in southern Britain from AD364 to 366 led to famine and social breakdown, weakening Roman rule. The droughts, combined with grain deficits, likely contributed to the "barbarian conspiracy" rebellion in AD367 against Roman Britain.

Show HN: LTE-connected IoT module with remote programming and NL data analysis

27 siliconwitch 2025-04-17 13:35:58 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 25

Center Pieces and Lunch Sets in Crochet Work (1915)

24 petethomas 2025-04-17 04:36:34 UTC gutenberg.org Llama Share 2

The text describes various crochet patterns for making flowers, leaves, and pineapple motifs using different stitches and techniques. It provides detailed instructions for creating multiple patterns, including the materials and tools required for each project.

WordPress Feature API

23 jameswlepage 2025-04-17 07:29:54 UTC github.com/automattic Llama Share 1

The WordPress Feature API exposes WordPress functionality in a standardized way for server and client-side use, making it accessible to AI systems and developers. It provides a unified registry of resources and tools, reusing existing functionality and allowing for context matching and filtering.

Show HN: Lit.money – Ethically designed to be a private, simple way to see money

21 mhrnik 2025-04-17 10:05:27 UTC lit.money Llama Share 27

lit.money is a simple finance management app designed to make things easy, currently in beta phase with plans for fair pricing. It prioritizes data privacy and security with advanced encryption and secure servers.

Models of Ice Skating for the Development of Robotic Ice Skating Gaits [pdf] (2020)

18 nill0 2025-04-17 14:29:32 UTC www2.eecs.berkeley.edu GoogleT5 Share 5

Ice skating is both a highly efficient mode of travel and beautiful and graceful sport. for bipedal locomotion, the majority of work focuses on walking and running gaits. we used hybrid trajectory optimization to create slaloming gait based on human-like movements. the resulting arc-shape resembles the shape of equilateral triangles, which are shaped like elliptical cylinders.

Decomposing Transactional Systems

17 adastral 2025-04-17 22:00:30 UTC transactional.blog GoogleT5 Share 0

A transaction might be executed more than once for different purposes. writes that occur in transactions are buffered locally without contacting the cluster. tapir is the most well known example of not executing transactions before committing them. here are some further systems which all do transaction processing in rather different ways - and which you can use in your own projects if you ...

Show HN: Zuni (YC S24) – AI Copilot for the Browser

17 willgtaylor 2025-04-17 15:15:39 UTC zuni.app Llama Share 11

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Scientists find strongest evidence yet of life on an alien planet

17 ziptron 2025-04-17 01:41:54 UTC reuters.com Full Share 1

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Why does everything look infantilized?

16 futuraperdita 2025-04-17 02:56:57 UTC assemblagenyc.substack.com Llama Share 7

The author criticizes modern consumer culture for dumbing down consumers with infantile branding and products that prioritize looks over quality and authenticity. This trend is driven by companies that prioritize profit over substance, creating a market of lookalike brands that harm the environment and consumers.

Cache loop and memory loss in GPT – a user-side fix (tested with GPT itself)

14 sks38317 2025-04-17 15:29:21 UTC github.com/sks38317 Llama Share 5

A ChatGPT user encountered PDF generation failures and cache issues during multi-session simulations and proposed an optimization solution. The solution included system behavior logs and metrics, referenced in official OpenAI support correspondence.

Notes on a claim that a mceliece348864 distinguisher uses only 2^529 operations [pdf]

13 nabla9 2025-04-17 11:52:49 UTC classic.mceliece.org Llama Share 1

A recent paper claims to have broken the McEliece cryptosystem with a new distinguisher, but the report concludes that it does not affect Classic McEliece security claims. The distinguisher is too slow to be a threat.

ChatGPT models are surprisingly good at Geoguessing

11 coloneltcb 2025-04-17 16:32:31 UTC techcrunch.com Llama Share 0

OpenAI released AI models o3 and o4-mini that can analyze images and search the web to find locations. The models can pose a privacy risk if used to identify individuals from images, but OpenAI claims to have safeguards in place.

Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds data loss, performance issues

11 lentoutcry 2025-04-17 06:31:29 UTC tomshardware.com Llama Share 0

A recent experiment with four SATA SSDs found that a two-year-old, heavily used drive showed noticeable performance degradation and file corruption. The test also revealed that even a relatively fresh SSD left unplugged for two years had error correction issues.