Slack threatened to cut off free communication for Hack Club despite the nonprofit paying $5,000 yearly. Hack Club is switching to Mattermost due to the short notice and is warning small businesses about the importance of owning their data.
The tool modifies URLs to appear malicious by adding a redirect to make them look suspicious. It replaces the original link with a new fake one that eventually redirects to the original site.
Nvidia and Intel have formed a partnership to develop x86 products, including tightly integrated CPUs and GPUs via NVLink interface. Nvidia will buy $5 billion in Intel common stock and custom x86 data center CPUs will be fabricated for Nvidia's AI products.
User switched from Sway to KDE for ease of use, especially for non-gaming tasks. User finds KDE feature-complete, fast, and reliable, comparing favorably to Windows and macOS.
Meta introduced the Meta Ray-Ban Display and Meta Neural Band, a new category of AI glasses that offers a high-resolution display and hands-free control through muscle movements. The Meta Ray-Ban Display starts at $799 and will be available in select retailers, offering features like messaging, video calling, and pedestrian navigation with phone-free walking directions.
When FileVault is enabled, data volume is locked until authenticated, disabling most OpenSSH configurations. Remote SSH authentication can unlock the volume, briefly disconnecting SSH before services are restored.
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I'm Bess Stillman, a soon-to-be mom and widow to Jake Seliger, who died of tongue cancer. I struggle to believe he's really gone, feeling like he's still with me, especially when my daughter Athena grows up with his face and eyes.
Robert Simmon created a south-up map challenging conventional cartography. His map, including familiar details, encourages a reevaluation of why north is always at the top.
Google introduces Learn Your Way, a generative AI-powered platform that creates personalized learning experiences based on students' grade level and interests. Early results show improved retention and positive user sentiment, potentially revolutionizing education.
CERN Computer Animal Shelter reopens for mice donation on the CERN lawn. Disconnected mice from computers are accepted to prevent cyber risks.
EFF campaign found social media platforms remove abortion content based on overenforcement, lack of transparency and arbitrary moderation. This harms reproductive health advocates and restricts their access to communities.
You've probably heard of stream ciphers, but what about a scream cipher 😱? Today I learned there are more “Latin capital letter A” Unicode characters than there are letters in the English alphabet. You know what that means, it's time to scream:
American Prairie secured its second-largest land purchase, buying 70,000 acres in Montana's Anchor Ranch for $35 million from billionaire brothers. This acquisition returns public access to the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, where public access had been restricted for years.
This app provides a graph view of radioactivity measurements using CPS and CPM, and allows for custom unit selection and storage of CSV files. It also generates true random numbers based on geiger counter readings for dice rolls and other purposes.
A study shows US metal mines discard critical minerals like cobalt and lithium in tailings, which could meet US demand if recovered. The challenge lies in economical recovery, requiring research, development, and policy to incentivize mining operators to process them.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr used his power to get TV stations to suspend Jimmy Kimmel's show indefinitely. This action, led by a government official, is an attempt to dictate the speech of private TV networks and entertainers, threatening free speech.
XTX developed TernFS, a distributed filesystem designed for large-scale compute efforts. TernFS exposes read/write access through a custom API over TCP and UDP, and scales to tens of exabytes, trillions of files, and millions of concurrent clients.
Playing SimCity 2000 as an adult forces me to consider city development decisions that were too complex for my childhood self. The game still offers a unique blend of creative freedom and urban management, albeit with limitations and an outdated user interface.
New pnpm setting minimumReleaseAge delays dependencies installation for one hour by default. It can be adjusted or excluded for certain dependencies with minimumReleaseAgeExclude.
Here is a 2-sentence summary: Apple released a 40W Dynamic Power Adapter, a compact charger that delivers up to 60W of power and charges an iPhone to 50% in 20 minutes. The adapter features foldable prongs, dynamic power delivery and is reinforced with graphite thermal pads and foam cushions for heat dissipation and protection.
You built your website without classes by reusing custom elements and attributes instead of classes for styling. This approach made your code cleaner and more accessible, but requires more planning and authoring expertise.
Researchers found that AI tools, specifically ChatGPT, mirror American culture rather than diversity of human psychologies. This limits AI tools' accuracy in non-Western countries, introducing double jeopardy for research budgets and cultural understanding.
For OSX or file permissions errors, use sudo npm install -g mapscii. Mapscii uses OSM data under ODbL and CC BY-SA licensed cartography.
People are advocating for developing "taste" to improve AI-generated content but they often lack it themselves. They're really talking about skills like contextual appropriateness, quality recognition, and ethical boundaries that should have been applied all along.
Google is upgrading Chrome with Google AI across multiple levels, enhancing browsing experience, productivity and safety. Chrome's Gemini feature now helps users by clarifying complex information, handling tasks and navigating the web.
New libxslt maintainer studying codebases needs help with input/output buffers. Prefer email for questions about using xmlOutputBufferCreateIO for managing output/input buffers.
The user has a Dell Inspiron 5567 laptop with an unexplained S3 sleep reboot issue that occurred across multiple operating systems. A faulty firmware command in the ACPI's Southbridge_PrepareToSleep method skips a critical step when setting the sleep type register, causing the system to restart instead of sleep.
Researchers suggest early humans may have developed a universal system of symbols around 40,000 years ago, which could have preceded the Sumerian writing system and potentially spread globally through migration or trade. However, the meanings and purposes of these symbols are still unclear, and their development may have varied across regions, challenging the idea of a single, universal language.
Roblox's Luau is a Lua 5.1 variant that supports type system, performance, and sandboxing features. Luau balances backwards compatibility with added features for an efficient programming environment and optional Just-In-Time compilation.
The Perl and Raku Foundation received a USD 10,000 donation from Geizhals Preisvergleich to support Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. The fund maintains the Perl core's stability, security, and reliability, benefiting users and organizations, including Geizhals.
This course covers hardware-assisted virtualization and introduces techniques for writing high-performance fuzzing hypervisors. Hands-on exercises with Rust source code are provided to practice the concepts.
To improve results with AI-assisted coding, focus on providing the right context and breaking down tasks into small units of work that describe business value outcomes. This method manages the compounding of errors and ensures the quality of AI-generated code by respecting the context window of LLMs.
A developer chose YAML for their configurable software, but soon it became hard to manage due to its size and complexity. This shows that users often expect bad configuration experiences.
UC Berkeley released personal information of students, staff, and faculty to the federal government in response to an investigation into alleged campus antisemitism. The move has drawn criticism from campus community members who are fearful of further repression under the Trump administration.
User created a voice assistant Blue that enables hand free control on mobile devices through a small hardware accessory called Bud, which can tap, swipe and type. User built 100 working units in 55 days for Demo Day and received positive response.
The OS-1000-lines-zig project is a lightweight, high-performance OS created with a monolithic kernel architecture. It welcomes contributions through forking the repo and submitting pull requests with testable changes under the MIT License.
A Republican administration is trying to silence comedian Jimmy Kimmel's speech by threatening Disney with regulatory investigations and sanctions because Kimmel made comments that the FCC chair dislikes. Kimmel should file a suit for damages against Disney and the government for violating the First Amendment.
LlamaFactory is a unified efficient fine-tuning framework for 100+ language models that supports various efficient algorithms and wide tasks. The framework includes features such as model exporting, experiment tracking and visualization, and pre-trained model and dataset downloading.
Researchers found that queen Iberian harvester ants produce male clones of a different species, Messor structor, as part of their normal life cycle, a phenomenon called xenoparity. This discovery challenges the traditional understanding of species barriers and opens up new questions about cooperation, conflict, and dependency in nature.
Cactus is an energy-efficient AI inference framework for mobile devices with no dependencies, designed to optimize for budget and mid-range phones. It offers a transformer inference engine and a general numerical computing framework that runs on Cactus Kernels with customizable models.
An OpenTelemetry Collector is needed for multi-service production environments to manage cost, performance, security, and data processing. It centralizes telemetry policy, removes vendor lock-in and provides programmable data routing.
Researchers developed a General Physics Transformer (GPhyT) that can simulate various physics domains without retraining. GPhyT achieves superior performance and stable long-term predictions through in-context learning and universal principles.
The plugin assigns 4-character codes to each Obsidian note, allowing reference from other places. The codes are generated using SHA-256 hashing and Base32 encoding, handling O, I, L, U, and formatting issues.
Samsung is rolling out a software update to its Family Hub refrigerators in the US that displays ads on idle screens. The ads can be dismissed but may reappear in the campaign period.
The paper "Were RNNs All We Needed?" proposes simplifying LSTMs and GRUs to parallelize recurrence using the matrix scan algorithm, achieving a speedup from $O(T)$ to $O(\log T)$. Implementation on GPU showed substantial speedup for long sequences.
OneDev provides task management, code review, CI/CD pipelines, and more features to improve software engineering. It's a highly reliable tool with features to enhance project health and progress.
tldraw SDK version 4.0 includes new CLI tool, starter kits, and changes to license, allowing commercial use with a paid license. The SDK now also supports accessibility with WCAG 2.2 AA compliance and new npm create tldraw@latest command.
XMonad devteam seeks someone to port XMonad to Wayland, having collected sufficient contributions to fund the task. Current challenges include a badly outdated project and limitations in Wayland programs' identifiers, complicating the port.
Cooley-Tukey algorithm reduces DFT complexity from O(|x|^2) to O(x * (d + r)) by splitting sequences. This approach can be applied recursively to achieve an ideal time complexity of O(x * log(x)) for input lengths that are powers of 2.
User built a video card with TTL gates without a microcontroller, improving Ben Eater's "World's Worst Video Card". They optimized timer circuitry and successfully connected RAM, ROM, and timers to generate an image.
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Newton discovered a pattern to determine the area under curves for every possible value of x. He found a method for replacing complicated curves with infinite sums of simpler building blocks made of powers of x.
Use the arrow keys to collect all the apples! Help the ant get fed! Made partially with hmpl-js out of boredom in a couple of days :)
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Text adventures allow players to shape worlds through choice-driven narratives. This channel shares insights and tips on creating immersive, interactive stories.
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To learn a new language efficiently, you can start by reading a book that has the highest vocabulary impact from the set of books, measured by a weighted sum of its common words. However, to choose the best two books for joint vocabulary coverage, you need an algorithm that guarantees approximation accuracy.
Lee Jay Lorenzen, a Xerox employee, created a graphical desktop environment called GEM, which later became the operating system for the Atari 520 ST. Apple sued Digital Research, GEM's creators, over copyright infringement, but DRI settled by modifying GEM to make it less similar to the Macintosh interface.
The user implemented a Fahivets-85 emulator that compiles to Web Assembly, achieved playable status with the "Rain" game, and completed instructions decoding logic using AI assistance. Further work is required to resolve existing bugs and improve CPU emulation functionality.
Automatic differentiation in scientific machine learning can give incorrect derivatives due to numerical instability. Non-standard modifications to AD achieve accurate results but require significant engineering trade-offs.
Time of Flight sensors measure distance using reflected laser pulses, categorized by indirect iToF, direct dToF, and FMCW approaches. Main system types are defined by optical distance measurement principle and scanning architecture.
David frum: translators restore meaning of a text by means of an elaborate process. he says only one so equipped can undertake the negotiations that translation entails. the developers of machine translation have achieved remarkable technical feats, frank says. but we ought to be cautious about what the babel fish whispers in our ears, frun says skeptics might want to avoid it if they are not ...
Tesla is designing doors with a single button to combine manual and electronic release mechanisms for easier escape in emergency situations. This change aims to prevent passengers from being trapped in burning vehicles due to faulty door handles.
nvmath-python brings NVIDIA math libraries to Python with intuitive APIs and access to cuBLASLt parameters. It provides Matrix Multiply, custom kernels, and custom FFT functions with unitary scaling.
A Generalized Algebraic Theory of Directed Equality | A PhD thesis by Jacob Neumann
Typhoid deaths fell by two-thirds after cities built sand filtration systems and chlorinated water in the 1900s. Today, equivalent airborne threats can be addressed with far-UVC light, which cleans air safely and effectively.
ABC and its subsidiaries, including Nexstar, have pulled the "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" show off the air indefinitely due to Kimmel's comments about Charlie Kirk's killer. Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr has suggested that ABC's broadcast license is at risk, but a source said Kimmel is not fired and will return after speaking with Disney.
The user was impressed by a detailed document on embedded driver development, specifically graphic cards. They think no books delve deeply into graphic card drivers, so they'll likely read OSS driver source code for more insight.
The JavaScript community faces a moment of reckoning after the largest supply-chain attack, potentially leading to a shift towards secure and sustainable software development. However, it's unlikely that major corporations will make significant changes, and more of the same reckless practices will continue.
If we remove each edge with independent probability 1/2,1/2, 1/2 what is the probability that there is still a path from the top to the bottom vertex? this is equivalent to counting the subsets of edges that we can remove without disconnecting two vertices. in fact, our special case can be solved with "duality' trick, illustrated below. nicolaus mills: symmetry does occasionally work in ...
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User suggests https://hackerweb.app for limited HN items, helps avoid rabbit holes. They also prefer Dark Mode on HN for reading long texts.
Scientists are considering the possibility of creating "mirror life" by making mirror-image biomolecules, which could help answer questions about the origin of life but also raise unique risks and uncertainties. Researchers continue to explore this idea, which includes creating mirror-image bacteria, despite concerns about how living organisms might respond to mirror-image biomolecules.
A new Michigan bill, called the Anticorruption of Public Morals Act, would ban most adult content and VPNs, charging ISPs up to $500,000 in fines for non-compliance. The bill, proposed by six Republican representatives, has not yet passed but could serve as a template for other states' laws.
Robert Roberson, a death row inmate, has 29 days until execution for a crime an increasing number of people believe he didn't commit. His lawyers claim his conviction is based on "junk science" and he's innocent, citing new evidence and medical errors contributing to his daughter's death.
Mathematicians developed AI to tackle complex fluid dynamics equations, discovering new families of unstable singularities. The breakthrough combines mathematical insights with AI, achieving unprecedented accuracy and potentially solving long-standing challenges.
Seattle Ultrasonics unveiled the C-200, the world's first ultrasonic chef's knife, which cuts food with 50% less force using microscopic vibrations. The $399 knife uses industrial ultrasonic technology and comes with a rechargeable battery pack and wireless charging option.
Researchers at Stanford discovered evidence of "dominance reversal" in fruit flies, where genetic variants behave differently based on environmental conditions. This allows the flies to develop long-term pesticide resistance, and the researchers suggest this mechanism could be widespread in nature.
American professional culture is undergoing a significant transformation due to artificial intelligence, which rewards technical specificity and measurable output. Management roles are becoming less valuable as AI takes over tasks, forcing a shift towards individuals who can actually produce results, not just manage others.
This innovative app receives data from various sources and visualizes it clearly on your Android smartphone, smartwatch (Wear OS, Miband, and Amazfit), and in your car (via GlucoDataAuto). Notifications (Beta!): Receives values from Cam APS FX, Dexcom G6/G7, Eversense, and potentially many more apps IMPORTANT NOTE: GDH is not a standalone Wear OS app. The phone app is required for setup.
Combining electronics with kids' dough creates an LED light-up caterpillar project. The project uses conductive dough and introduces kids to basic circuits, conductors, and electricity.
Author Nolen Gertz disagrees with columnist David Brooks, who thinks rigid politics on the left leads people on the right to nihilism. Gertz argues that Brooks misreads history and the cause of nihilism, which is actually people who strongly believe in things, not those with no conviction.
The Scanning Capacitance Microscope (SCM) was invented in an attempt to improve the VideoDisc technology developed by RCA in the 1960s. Despite the VideoDisc's failure, the SCM went on to revolutionize semiconductor production and has been a key tool in the industry's advancements.
Chosen level is too hard for a game, where goal is to have at least one green cell per row won by clicking on numbers.
A large array with N positive floating point numbers needs to find the index of the smallest number. By sorting the array as u32, it is optimized to run in 370 us.
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The author discusses how their movie night group, facilitated by a group chat, grew into a large, corporate-like production, losing its community feel.
Algarotti's Il Newtonianismo per le dame features a dialogue where a Marchioness is converted to Newtonianism from Cartesianism. The text popularizes Newton's theories and shows how women could be interested and informed.
The Internet Phone Book is a curated directory of personal websites and essays promoting a community-driven, non-commercial internet. Its makers plan to continue the book, integrate it with physical spaces, and support creators of all skill levels on the "poetic web".
The Emerald Source Code Commentary is a work-in-progress that examines and explains the decompiled source code of Pokemon Emerald.
MFU calculations have limitations as the widely used 6ND approximation is too rough for inference and dynamic workloads, ignoring complexities like attention mechanisms and parallelism. To accurately measure MFU, a more sophisticated approach based on execution graphs and roofline models is suggested for capturing performance gaps in large-scale training and inference.
Berkeley Lab developed AutoBot, an automated experimentation platform that uses machine learning to optimize material fabrication in weeks. AutoBot found the combinations that yield the highest quality metal halide perovskite materials, which could revolutionize LED and laser technology.
To go viral on X, you need at least a few thousand views, after which reposts and engagement can take you further. A good product must eventually grow itself through scalability, making virality alone insufficient for company growth.
Cloudflare's Tenant Service API outage stemmed from a dashboard bug that caused repeated calls, overloading the service. The issue occurred in stages with multiple attempts to restore service and improvements made to reduce impact in the future.
The author describes the process of obtaining a true 80x25 Linux text console without using X or Wayland and explains how VGA text mode worked with non-square pixels and different font sizes. To obtain the desired display, the author suggests using a 9x16 font and mapping CP437 glyphs to Unicode space, and provides instructions on how to create and activate the font on a Debian system.