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Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors

Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion to authors and publishers after a judge ruled it illegally downloaded millions of copyrighted books. This settlement may pave the way for more A.I. companies to pay rights holders.

I'm absolutely right

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Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector

Fil-C's FUGC collector uses parallel and concurrent marking and sweeping with Dijkstra barrier and grey-stack techniques.

Purposeful animations

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Animations in interfaces can either enhance or negatively impact user experience, depending on their purpose and usage frequency. The key is to animate for a purpose, with speed and consistency, but know when to avoid animation for common actions.

Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy

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Tesla has revised its "Full Self-Driving" (FSD) capability, downplaying the promise of unsupervised autonomy. FSD now comes with a vague definition, potentially allowing Tesla to reduce its price and require customers to subscribe for basic features.

I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf

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I bought a used 2023 Nissan Leaf as my first new car in 15 years, and have been trying to extend its battery life by using it for local travel and limiting DC fast charging.

European Commission fines Google €2.95B over abusive ad tech practices

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The European Commission fined Google €2.95 billion for distorting competition in adtech by favoring its own services over competitors. Google has 60 days to propose measures to eliminate conflicts of interest, potentially involving divestment.

Making a font of my handwriting

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Writer created a custom font for their website, but struggled with open source tools Inkscape and FontForge due to clunky interfaces.

ML needs a new programming language – Interview with Chris Lattner

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Chris Lattner created LLVM and led Swift development at Apple. He's now working on Mojo, a language that utilizes type-safe metaprogramming to make GPU programming productive and fun.

Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others

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Nepal's government has shut off major social media platforms, citing failure to comply with registration requirements, for curbing online hate and cybercrime. The move comes as governments worldwide increase oversight of big tech, citing concerns over misinformation and online safety.

Nest 1st gen and 2nd gen thermostats no longer supported from Oct 25

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Google announced they'll stop supporting 1st gen and 2nd gen Nest thermostats via apps but they'll still work locally. This might affect Hubitat integration if it relies on app-based functionality.

The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years

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The Alpha Centauri system consists of Proxima, an extremely dim red dwarf, and the orange and yellow dwarfs Alpha Centauri AB. Other notable red dwarfs include Barnard's Star, Wolf 359, and Luyten's Star, each with unique characteristics such as flare activity or planetary systems.

South Korea: 'many' of its nationals detained in ICE raid on GA Hyundai facility

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South Korea expressed concern and regret to the US Embassy over an immigration raid at a Hyundai facility in Georgia where many South Korean nationals were detained. The US ICE agency is investigating unlawful employment practices and other federal crimes at the construction site where South Korean companies Hyundai and LG Energy Solution are building a new battery plant.

I kissed comment culture goodbye

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The user was an active internet commenter for 16 years but has decided to leave commenting due to disappointment and lack of meaningful relationships. He believes comment culture creates an "internet of strangers" rather than fostering connections and friendships.

Interview with Japanese Demoscener 0b5vr

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Japanese demoscener 0b5vr creates 64K and 4K intros and performs live coding and VJ sets. He released 64K demo "0b5vr GLSL Techno Live Set" (0mix) at Revision 2023, showcasing live coding and music creation with GLSL.

OpenAI eats jobs, then offers to help you find a new one at Walmart

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OpenAI offers certification and a jobs board to help workers adapt to jobs disrupted by AI. Workers can take tech courses and advertise themselves to customers, creating economic opportunities.

Protobuffers Are Wrong (2018)

The author of the text criticizes protobuffers as having a poorly designed type system, leading to inconsistencies and issues, especially with regards to optional fields and type conversions. According to the author, protobuffers' flaws, such as their inability to handle multiple types and their permissive but misleading backwards- and forwards-compatible API, make them less practical for ...

A computer upgrade shut down BART

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BART has limited service resuming with certain lines starting around 9:30am due to a computer problem after a network upgrade. Seek alternative transportation options at bart.gov/alternatives.

My Own DNS Server at Home – Part 1: IPv4

A blogger sets up a DNS server using Bind on their Raspberry Pi to create a home network with digital sovereignty. They configure Bind to serve a domain and IP address mappings.

MentraOS – open-source Smart glasses OS

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Mentra Store offers smart glasses apps compatible with devices like Mentra Mach 1 and offers open-source development tools through MentraOS. MentraOS is an open-source platform allowing developers to build apps for smart glasses.

Why is Japan still investing in custom floating point accelerators?

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Pezy Computing's new Pezy-SC4s chip boosts floating-point performance by 25% and lowers power consumption despite a significant increase in clock speed, potentially matching the Green500's record 55 GF/W. The company plans to release its first exascale system next year, featuring 737,280 cores and a peak performance of 8.6 petaflops.

Development speed is not a bottleneck

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Product development involves continuous discovery, with initial idea validation and subsequent experimentation and iteration crucial to success, regardless of development pace or technology, such as AI, used. Rework due to communication issues and incorrect assumptions often outweighs initial development challenges.

What to do with an old iPad

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Here is a 2 sentence summary of the user's input: The user downgraded their iPad 2 from iOS 9 to 6.1.3 and jailbroken it, then repurposed it as a small web server using a custom setup with lighttpd. The user successfully created a remote web server by using port forwarding and autossh to connect a Google Cloud VPS to the iPad's lighttpd.

US economy added just 22,000 jobs in August, unemployment highest in 4 yrs

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US labor market growth slowed significantly in August as the economy added just 22,000 jobs and the unemployment rate rose to 4.3%. The job growth slowdown is attributed to economic uncertainty, high interest rates, and decreased business optimism.

Show HN: Open-sourcing our text-to-CAD app

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The system generates 3D models from natural language descriptions and outputs OpenSCAD code with interactive sliders. It runs in-browser and supports various libraries including BOSL and custom font Geist.

Forking Chrome to render in a terminal (2023)

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You're creating a browser extension to render web pages in a terminal instead of an HTML view using a combination of Chrome and Rust. The extension converts web page content into monochrome characters in a fixed grid, taking advantage of terminal escape sequences to style the output, and has achieved performance improvements by using shared memory regions and removing unnecessary IPC calls.
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Kenvue shares fell over 10% after a report that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr could link autism to Tylenol use. Kenvue denies the link, citing lack of evidence from FDA and medical organizations.

Show HN: Swimming in Tech Debt

Read "Swimming in Tech Debt" by Lou Franco on Help This Book

Freeway guardrails are now a favorite target of thieves

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LAist faces a $3.4 million funding loss after Congress cut federal funding for public media. Readers can protect the nonprofit newsroom by becoming a monthly member to sustain local journalism.

Evolving the OCaml Programming Language (2025) [pdf]

You are a professor at IIT Madras and also a core maintainer of the OCaml programming language. OCaml, a functional language, has a small but mature package ecosystem and is widely used in various fields, including finance, due to its stability, high-dynamic range, and good platform tooling support.

SQL needed structure

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The object-relational mismatch is a problem where querying relational databases fails to produce hierarchical data due to SQL's limitations in handling complex structures. This issue can be addressed by using query language features that allow producing structured data in a single query.

I have two Amazon Echos that I never use, but they apparently burn GBs a day

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Age verification doesn’t work

Age verification is being pushed on online platforms to stop minors accessing adult content. However, most users will circumvent this by using search engines, social media, and proxy sites.

Poisoning Well

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Writers are trying to disrupt Large Language Models by creating "tainted" articles filled with grammatical distortions and nonsense to contaminate output. They use nofollow links to direct crawlers to these nonsense versions, hoping to undermine LLMs' perceived efficacy and resource usage.

Firefox 32-bit Linux Support to End in 2026

Mozilla ends Firefox support for 32-bit Linux with Firefox 145. Users on this platform can continue with 32-bit Firefox ESR 140 until at least September 2026.

1TB Raspberry Pi SSD on sale now for $70

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A terabyte can store 250 HD movies, 200,000 songs or 250,000 photos among other large data files. Our 1TB SSD provides fast data transfer and is available for use with Raspberry Pi 5 and other devices.

Default musl allocator considered harmful to performance

User experiences a 7x slowdown when using the default musl allocator, likely due to contention between multiple threads when allocating memory. Swapping the allocator to mimalloc fixes the performance issues, and similar slowdowns have been reported by others in various projects.

The math of shuffling cards almost brought down an online poker empire

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A deck of 52 playing cards can be arranged in more than a quadrillion different ways, making it extremely unlikely to replicate the same sequence of cards. The vastness of 52! has led to practical problems in online games, including poker, due to limitations in algorithms and random number generators.

Using your phone on toilet may give you hemorrhoids: study

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A study found that using a smartphone while on the toilet can increase the risk of hemorrhoids by 46%. Experts advise keeping bathroom sessions brief, ideally no longer than 5 minutes.

SAP splashes €20B on Euro sovereign cloud push

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SAP invests €20 billion to expand sovereign cloud infrastructure in Europe over 10 years, targeting public sector and regulated industries. The move aims to ensure data sovereignty and compliance with GDPR, competing with American cloud giants.

Tokyo has an unmanned, honor-system electronics and appliance shop

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Mr. Sato from SoraNews24 went to a unique, unmanned electronics store called GO12 in Tokyo to buy a microwave. He paid 5,000 yen without any human interaction and successfully got the item.

Data modeling guide for real-time analytics with ClickHouse

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ClickHouse is a real-time analytics solution that can handle billions of weather records in under 200 milliseconds, providing fast query responses and optimal storage efficiency. Through ClickHouse and its modeling approaches such as denormalization, dictionaries, incremental materialized views, and refreshable materialized views, real-time analytics can be effectively achieved for various ...

Quantum Mechanics, Concise Book

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A concise text on quantum mechanics, intended for a general mathematical audience including CS, engineering, math, and physics undergrads, as well as anyone interested in a concise intro/overview of QM. Prerequisites: linear algebra, calculus, high school physics - basketballguy999/Quantum-Mechanics-Concise-Book

Why Everybody Is Losing Money On AI

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The cost of generative AI is unsustainable, with companies like OpenAI and Anthropic losing billions, and those using their models facing massive compute costs. Large Language Models are too expensive to make sense for most applications.

NYT says US special forces killed North Korean civilians in botched 2019 mission

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Should we revisit Extreme Programming in the age of AI?

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Software delivery outcomes remain poor despite AI-driven acceleration because teams lack alignment, shared context, and user validation. Extreme Programming (XP) principles like pair programming and continuous integration help teams learn, adapt, and remain user-focused, even with faster code generation.

Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code

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Here is a summary in 2 concise English sentences.

A Top Secret Seal Team 6 Mission into North Korea Fell Apart

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Type checking is a symptom, not a solution

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The software industry's decades-long obsession with type checking and increasingly sophisticated type systems may be a symptom of poor architectural choices, rather than a necessary solution to complexity, and may misallocate intellectual resources away from more pressing challenges. A shift towards true isolation, explicit interfaces, and time-aware design could help build systems that are ...

Why RDF is the natural knowledge layer for AI systems

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Large language models struggle with enterprise data due to SQL schema issues and lack of semantic clarity, but knowledge graphs significantly improve accuracy.

Tesla offers mammoth $1T pay package to Musk, sets lofty targets

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How many SPARCs is too many SPARCs?

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A user rescued over 30 assorted SPARC based workstations and servers that were about to be thrown away and wants to give them away to those interested. The user has attempted to test some of the machines but they are generally in varying states of disrepair, with some able to boot and others not functioning at all.

Using AI to perceive the universe in greater depth

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Researchers developed Deep Loop Shaping, an AI method that reduces noise in gravitational wave measurement instruments. It improves control, allowing scientists to gather more critical data on universe dynamics and formation.

BMW kills Home Assistant integration to “protect security” [video]

Writing by manipulating visual representations of stories

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The system visualizes and edits stories using a timeline and character movements with the help of a GPT-4o and OpenAI API. It requires Node.js, TypeScript, React, and Vite setup, along with an OpenAI API key for proper functioning.

MIT says AI isn't replacing you it's just wasting your boss's money

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A new MIT study found 9 out of 10 AI projects have no return on investment, with companies struggling to apply AI effectively. This means human problem solving skills are still essential and job seekers should emphasize adapting to AI tools to improve workflows and save money.

Exploring Interlisp-10 and Twenex

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User is exploring Interlisp-10, a 1970s character-based environment that predated Interlisp-D for DEC PDP-10 mainframes, and learning the TTY editor for specialized tasks with macro support. They are using SDF's TWENEX system, which provides a complete Interlisp-10 implementation, to gain authentic experience.

The key points of "Working Effectively with Legacy Code"

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Michael Feathers' book Working Effectively with Legacy Code aims to help developers rescue existing codebases by focusing on writing tests to ensure feedback and minimal, safe refactorings. Key strategies include identifying seams, using characterization tests for unclear code, and employing techniques like sprouting and wrapping to tackle Legacy Code in high-pressure situations.

Fiber Concurrency

The :fiber_concurrency plugin allows seamless connection reuse across fibers. It's required with persistent plugin or when using httpx with a fiber scheduler and async gem.

Fantastic pretraining optimizers and where to find them

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Researchers compared 10 deep learning optimizers across various model sizes and datasets. They found that fair comparisons require rigorous hyperparameter tuning and evaluate speedup over well-tuned AdamW.

Morse Code Translator

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The text describes an online Morse code creator that translates English text into Morse code with audio signals for learning rhythm and timing. It features advanced audio settings for customization and supports multiple input methods.

Building an acoustic camera with UMA-16 and Acoular

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An acoustic camera demonstration program using the miniDSP UMA-16 microphone array allows users to detect the primary source of sound and overlay it on a live video display in Beamforming mode. The application is a proof of concept that can be run on Linux or macOS, but not Windows, and comes with code that users can modify and adjust to their preference.

Lava RGB

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I installed the Lava RGB 2.0 mod on a front loader NES by replacing the original power module and soldering the mod board to the main board. The installation includes adding a SNES-style multiout port for RGB output.

Truco and clones: the beginnings of Argentinian computer gaming

You discussed the history of computing in Argentina, from the first computer, Clementina, built in 1961, to the rise of home computers in the 1980s. The first Argentinian game, Truco, was created in 1982 by Enrique and Ariel Arbiser for the TRS-80.

Speed Brain: Helping web pages load faster (2024)

Cloudflare introduced Speed Brain to reduce page load latency by anticipating user interactions. It uses Speculation Rules API to prefetch content before navigation, currently available for all plan types at no cost, improving Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) by 40-75%.

Escaping the odds and a formula for life (2024)

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To maximize wealth growth, the Kelly Criterion formula balances risk and reward by using logarithmic utility, which penalizes large losses more than rewards large gains and reflects real-world risk aversion in long-term investments. This formula was first introduced by John L. Kelly Jr, and helps investors and gamblers determine the optimal fraction of their bankroll to bet in order to ...

IRHash: Efficient Multi-Language Compiler Caching by IR-Level Hashing

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This paper proposes IRHash, an IR-level compiler cache for LLVM supporting languages with LLVM backends, providing higher accuracy than previous works including Ccache and cHash. IRHash offers 19% average build time reduction across 16 open-source projects compared to Ccache and cHash.

Supercharger for Business – Tesla

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Requiem for an Exit

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Artists Thomas Kvam and Frode Oldereid created a robotic installation called Requiem for an Exit that explores technology, ideology, and collective memory. The piece features a towering robot with a projection-mapped face and AI-generated voice delivering a meditation on chaos, suffering, and the limits of human agency.

California AG to OpenAI: Harm to Children Will Not Be Tolerated

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California Attorneys General Bonta and Jennings are investigating OpenAI due to concerns over its AI products interacting with children. They are particularly concerned about OpenAI's safety mission for children and are urging the company to prioritize their protection.

Matmul on Blackwell: Part 2 – Using Hardware Features to Optimize Matmul

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The author improved performance by more than 50 times the initial kernel benchmark by leveraging Blackwell GPU architecture features such as tensor cores and Tensor Memory. They used techniques like loop tiling, TMA transfers, and tensor memory allocation to achieve a 28x improvement over a naive kernel but still operating at 8.7% of cuBLAS' performance.

Learning the soroban rapid mental calculation as an adult

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William James at CERN (1995)

William James discusses the concept of selection in thought, where the mind selects and rejects information from sensory input, in his book "Principles of Psychology". This idea is seen in high-energy physics where detectors use selection and preperception to filter through vast amounts of data to identify interesting patterns.

Expanding Economic Opportunity with AI

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OpenAI aims to help people become fluent in AI, creating new opportunities, and connecting them with companies through the Jobs Platform and OpenAI Academy. These initiatives will provide skills training and certification in AI, helping 10 million Americans be AI-fluent by 2030, and putting the power of AI in the hands of more people.

simonw has vibe-coded 124 useful tools

The user has a collection of 124 tools built using Vibe coding and AI, highlighting 12 tools that they consider genuinely useful. These tools include image and PDF manipulation, API encryption, and web scraping, among others.

Why Browser Company at $610M is cheap

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The browser company loses its momentum and value, while Josh Miller might exit with a payout. Atlassian gains access to AI technology at a relatively low price, strengthening its position in the AI market.

Playing Viking Chess with Whale Bones

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Researchers found whale bone Viking chess game pieces in central and eastern Sweden, suggesting early industrial whaling in northern Europe. The analysis implies that whale bones were imported from northern Norway and used to make game pieces for a mass market.

Heap-based buffer overflow in Kernel Streaming

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A heap-based buffer overflow in the Windows Kernel Streaming WOW Thunk Service Driver was discovered and responsibly disclosed to Microsoft, which patched it on August 12, 2025. The vulnerability occurred in the CKSAutomationThunk::HandleArrayProperty() function due to incorrect buffer length checks, allowing an attacker to trigger a non-paged heap overflow.

Show HN: Stroboscopic Instrument Tuner

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This code is a strobe tuner with adaptive auto-gain for consistent visual feedback, analyzing pitch with autocorrelation and FFT. It has a phase comparator algorithm with adjustable sensitivity for a visually intuitive strobe motion based on signal strength and pitch.