To move objects in 3D space, we define their x, y, z coordinates as functions of time using parametric equations. This allows us to create various paths, including a spherical helix path, by combining sine and cosine functions.
AGENTS.md is a file containing extra context for coding agents, including build steps and tests. It's a standard Markdown file that can be used by any coding agent.
You're experiencing issues accessing Linux kernel sites due to Anubis, a project that blocks AI crawlers by requiring humans to solve SHA-256 challenges. This solution is ineffective as it's too cheap for AI vendors to mine tokens, but expensive for humans with limited access.
Microsoft's M365 Copilot AI product has a vulnerability that allows users to access files without leaving a trace in the audit log, posing a significant security risk. Microsoft fixed the issue but chose not to notify customers or publicly disclose the problem, which is a disservice to its customers and raises questions about the company's transparency and accountability.
To resolve CI failures, check license issues in Cargo.toml and zed-licenses.toml, and add missing licenses or clarifications as needed. Verify compliance with open source licenses using cargo-about and a lawyer if unsure.
You installed the Port Authority extension on Firefox and visited the US visa application website, which triggered a port scan notification. This is not a common occurrence, but some websites may attempt to scan ports, and uBlock Origin has a default list to block such attempts.
We've secured $32M in Series B funding from Sequoia Capital to develop a new way to collaborate on software, linking conversations to code. Our vision is a collaborative workspace where humans and AI agents work together, with every insight preserved and linked to the code forever.
Google introduced Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and Pixel 10 Pro XL with a new Google Tensor G5 chip and refreshed design. These phones feature improved cameras, wireless charging, and personalized experiences with seven years of updates.
A Home Depot customer filed a class action lawsuit claiming the company uses facial recognition technology at self-checkout kiosks without permission. The lawsuit alleges Home Depot's "computer vision" technology violates Illinois law by collecting facial data without consent.
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The author experimented with a custom code review tool, git-review, but it had limitations and wasn't a success. They're now back to using GitHub's web interface for code reviews.
AWS has undergone significant changes over the years, with improvements in EC2, IAM, and networking services. Key updates include live-migration of instances, reduced reliance on dedicated instances, and improved Glacier restore fees.
Tidewave Web is a coding agent that runs in the browser with full page and code context, eliminating the need for constant back-and-forth between tools. It integrates with Rails and Phoenix apps, allowing developers to build features and validate them in the browser.
Learn computer graphics by solving challenges.
The article discusses how the mass adoption of GenAI has led to a "Bus Factor" of zero, where no one knows how to work on a project, and how this has created a flawed approach to coding known as "vibe coding." This approach relies on AI-generated code without understanding the underlying knowledge.
The Great Firewall of China (GFW) exhibited anomalous behavior by injecting forged TCP RST+ACK packets to disrupt connections on TCP port 443 between 00:34 and 01:48 UTC+8 on August 20, 2025. The incident was temporary and widespread, but the responsible device does not match known GFW devices, suggesting a new device or misconfigured state.
The author argues that modern CI systems are too complex and redundant with build systems, suggesting that a unified system combining both would be more efficient and user-friendly. They propose a hypothetical platform that would allow for scheduling and execution of arbitrary compute tasks, with a focus on software development, and believe that such a system could greatly benefit companies ...
Posting on Hacker News can bring traffic and brand awareness but low conversion rates. Engage with comments and consider feedback to improve your product or service, but don't rely solely on HN for marketing.
Pytype will stop supporting Python 3.12, shifting focus to new typing ideas and frameworks. It recommends using alternative typing solutions like mypy, citing a robust Python typing ecosystem.
The author explains the network architecture of Bluesky and the Authenticated Transfer Protocol (ATProto), a decentralized social network, and its various components such as records, blobs, lexicons, and DIDs. The author also discusses how users are uniquely identified with their Decentralized Identifier (DID), how handles are assigned and changed, and how the network stores and retrieves ...
This is an anthology of science fiction stories showcasing the cyberpunk movement, a product of the 1980s that combines high-tech and counterculture themes. The anthology, titled Mirrorshades, features works by notable authors such as William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, and Pat Cadigan, who are known for their futuristic and often surreal visions of the world.
The author's team decided to drop Playwright and switch to raw CDP to increase speed and control over browser automation, and to avoid the complexity and latency introduced by adapter libraries. They created a new library called cdp-use that provides a type-safe Python client generator for the Chrome DevTools Protocol, allowing for direct access to browser APIs and improved reliability in ...
Databricks signed a term sheet for its Series K round, valuing the company at over $100 billion. The funding will accelerate AI strategy, expand Agent Bricks and Lakebase, and fuel global growth.
Growing certain plants in hot and humid climates is challenging due to high nighttime temperatures that accelerate plant metabolism. This is because plants need to operate above their compensation point, where photosynthesis exceeds respiration, to grow and survive.
Claude Code workflow uses spec-driven development, GitHub issues, and AI agents to ship faster and better with full traceability. It transforms PRDs into epics, issues, and production code, maintaining context and preventing bugs.
PlutoPrint is a Python library for generating PDFs and images from HTML content. It uses PlutoBook's rendering engine and provides a simple API for reports, invoices, and visual snapshots.
Researchers use neural networks to classify objects by training them on large datasets, where the networks learn to recognize patterns and boundaries in complex data spaces. Neural networks can be used for various tasks, including image recognition, language processing, and problem-solving, and have applications in fields such as astrophysics, biology, and medicine.
Luminal is a Rust-based ML framework that uses ahead-of-time compilation and kernel search to achieve high performance. It simplifies the compiler stack and allows automatic discovery of complex optimizations.
George and Alex are building Channel3, a database of internet products searchable via text/image with affiliate monetization. Channel3 provides an API for developers to earn commissions on sales driven by their apps.
Apple joins Open Policy Agent project with investment and community support, ensuring project governance and licensing remain unchanged. Apple maintainers will continue contributing to OPA with no change in project governance or maintainers' list.
Kevin Buzzard leads a project formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean theorem prover. It's funded by EP/Y022904/1 and hosted at Imperial College London.
The user installed Acronis True Image to migrate data to a new SSD, but left it installed and it caused high CPU usage when plugging or unplugging an external monitor.
The release of GPT-5, a highly anticipated AI model, was a disappointment, failing to meet expectations and highlighting the AI industry's overhyped promises. The industry's reliance on hype and unrealistic expectations may lead to a painful reckoning, with some economists predicting minimal economic benefits from AI advancement.
Christine Webb argues that human exceptionalism damages science, the environment, and democracy by making humans the baseline for judging other species. She advocates for humility and awe, and a capabilities approach that values the unique abilities of nonhuman animals.
Digg is where communities connect to share and discover the very best of the internet and beyond.
SimpleIDE is a lightweight VB.NET IDE for Linux built with GTK# 3 and .NET 8.0. It provides a modern development environment for VB.NET projects on Linux systems with various features and commands.
A new refactoring feature, expression extraction to toplevel, was implemented in OCaml's Merlin editor. This feature allows users to extract expressions into their own let bindings, with optional name specification and handling of free variables.
US Customs and Border Protection officials have been searching more phones and devices than ever before, with 14,899 searches in the past three months. This trend is part of a broader increase in device searches over the past decade, with 46,362 searches in the last full year of data available.
Chinese physicists studied the spin serve in badminton, a banned technique that adds pre-spin to the shuttlecock before contact. Their research found that pre-spin affects the shuttlecock's trajectory, prolonging oscillation and creating a "dip and sway" pattern.
You used a fake eVisa website for Canada and paid $79, but later filled out the official form for free. You tried to chargeback the payment but were warned it could harm future visa applications.
We're making progress on the Windows port of Zed, with a new DirectX 11 rendering backend and improved memory efficiency. We're still working on key areas like key bindings, SSH remoting, WSL support, and performance optimization before declaring Zed on Windows ready for general use.
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Sergei, a Soviet computing veteran, solved a mysterious rail yard computer crash by discovering contaminated cattle from Chernobyl were causing radiation-induced memory flips. He escaped the Soviet Union after uncovering the government's plan to mix contaminated meat with uncontaminated meat.
To sell an Aga cooker, a salesman must use personal contact and persuasion, avoiding standard sales talk and instead tailoring their approach to the individual prospect's interests and needs. The salesman should emphasize the Aga's unique features, such as its fuel efficiency, cleanliness, and versatility, and be prepared to address common objections and concerns.
Marsha Linehan developed Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) after her own traumatic experiences in a mental hospital. DBT teaches emotional regulation skills to help people cope with distress, but critics argue it can be overly individualistic and ignore systemic issues.
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Traverse Research developed a benchmark called Evolve to measure GPU performance and learned various quirks in different chips by running microbenchmarks on various hardware. The research found interesting patterns and bottlenecks in memory bandwidth, such as differences in bandwidth between caches and between buffers and textures, and varying performance on different GPUs from AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA.
The user found their original Palm IIIx, a relic from 1999, while cleaning and was able to reactivate it with new batteries. The Palm IIIx has a monochrome screen, runs on AAA batteries, and lacks WiFi or network connectivity, making it nearly useless today.
Developers must balance adding new code with managing existing complexity, controlling costs, and simplifying systems to maintain ease and speed of development. Effective management involves refining listening skills, using tooling, and cultivating skills to analyze and improve code, estimates, and problem-solving approaches.
Experts from Cadence, Siemens EDA, Synopsys, Baya Systems, and Keysight discussed how AI can be applied to chip design to maximize its value. They agreed that AI can help automate tasks, improve productivity, and enable the creation of vertical solutions tailored to specific industries.
The author built a personal travel history map with live location sharing, using Rust, PostgreSQL, and iOS development. The project showcases the author's approach to overengineering, prioritizing stability, performance, and maintainability.
Heinrich GeiΓler invented the Geissler tube, a gas discharge tube that emitted fluorescent light, in the 1850s. This invention led to the development of modern lighting, electronics, and physics.
The user discusses the limitations of Haskell's record syntax and proposes a library called type-machine that uses Template Haskell to simulate structural subtyping and generate constraints for record types. The library provides type-transformers and allows deriving structural subtyping for records, improving performance compared to using heterogeneous lists.
A monoid-augmented FIFO queue is a data structure that maintains a monoid-structured aggregate over its contents while allowing efficient addition and removal of values. The DABA algorithm provides a constant-time worst-case complexity solution for such queues, with at most two monoid operations per push and one per pop, and up to two per query.
Bizcardz.ai converts business card designs to KiCad PCB schematics for manufacturing. It uses Groq for faster processing, also allowing direct conversion from images with specific dimensions.
Foresight Data is hiring a Staff Engineer in NYC for both front-end and back-end roles, allowing engineers to use their preferred tools. The "Now, Together" concept involves managers helping engineers complete small, stuck tasks during 1:1 meetings to boost accountability, compassion, and discovery.
Ruby's Marshal deserialization exploits have a decade-long history of patches and bypasses, demonstrating the futility of addressing symptoms rather than root causes. The persistence of these issues in the Ruby ecosystem requires fundamental changes, such as deprecating and removing the Marshal module.
Echidna's new symbolic execution capabilities, enhanced by hevm, allow for bug detection and verification of smart contracts with minimal user requirements. The tool combines fuzzing and symbolic execution to provide stronger security guarantees, but its effectiveness depends on the complexity of the code and the presence of assertions.
Researchers found evidence of brief, bright glints in high orbit around Earth before humans launched satellites, correlating with UFO reports and nuclear tests. These glints are likely from flat reflective objects, possibly advanced alien devices, with sizes around 6-14cm equivalent diameter.
OS Yamato is a digital space that promotes mindfulness and simplicity through impermanence, care, and seasonal themes. It features a unique approach to data storage where objects fade and disappear after a year unless revisited.
Avi Loeb suggests that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could be a test of humanity's intelligence by a superior alien civilization. He argues that its anomalous properties and trajectory may indicate a technological origin rather than a natural rock.
The I.H.R.A. definition of antisemitism has been adopted by over 40 governments and universities, but critics argue it blurs the line between hostility towards Jews and criticism of Israel. The definition has been used to suppress academic freedom and silence critics of Israel, potentially creating a self-fulfilling assertion that criticism of Israel is antisemitic.
European leaders are increasingly restricting free speech, criminalizing more speech than the US, and pushing for even more sweeping restrictions. This trend risks infringing on individual rights and social ills, including censorship envy and ineffective censorship.
The website administrator has set up a protection to prevent AI companies from aggressively scraping their site to avoid downtime. Disable plugins like JShelter to access content requiring modern JavaScript features.
Numeric springing is a procedural animation technique that can be precisely controlled by specifying the oscillation frequency and damping ratio. By exposing these parameters to designers, they can easily tweak the system to achieve the desired springing effect.
The user discusses challenges with mental health, specifically bipolar disorder, and its impact on project execution and decision-making. They also reflect on the importance of empathy and empowerment in tech, and the need to use technology to help people rather than disempower them.
Researchers analyzed array usage in Java programs, finding most arrays are small and accessed by few classes and threads. They discovered 69.8% of access patterns are uncomplicated traversals, informing future compiler optimizations.
The app helps users find homes based on budget, travel time, and work location. It offers tailored results for groups of 1-6 people, whether renting or buying.
Apple joins Open Policy Agent project with investment and community support, ensuring project governance and licensing remain unchanged. Apple maintainers will continue contributing to OPA with no change in project governance or maintainers' list.