Steam Machine

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Steam Frame

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Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support

926 bertman 2025-11-12 10:12:53 UTC github.com/yt-dlp Llama Share 549

yt-dlp will require a JavaScript runtime for full YouTube support, with Deno enabled by default. Users must install a supported JS runtime and yt-dlp-ejs component for YouTube functionality.

Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'

809 MindBreaker2605 2025-11-12 07:25:30 UTC nasdaq.com Llama Share 619

Meta's AI scientist Yann LeCun is leaving to start his own AI venture focusing on "world models" that learn from visual data. His departure marks a rift within Meta's AI program as CEO Zuckerberg shifts focus to commercial AI products and large language models.

The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia

618 andrewl 2025-11-12 16:10:13 UTC cnn.com Llama Share 798

The US penny will be discontinued after 238 years due to high production costs. Its removal is causing problems for retailers, who may face legal issues and increased costs from rounding prices to the nearest nickel.

Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

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Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller and Steam Frame

392 doener 2025-11-12 18:26:25 UTC phoronix.com Llama Share 4

Valve announced three new Steam devices: a Steam Controller, a Linux-powered Steam Machine console, and a wireless Steam Frame VR headset. These devices will be released in early 2026 with exact timing and pricing to be shared in the new year.

Project Euler

389 swatson741 2025-11-12 17:24:54 UTC projecteuler.net Llama Share 96

Project Euler offers challenging math and programming problems for inquiring minds to learn new concepts in a fun context. It has 1.3 million registered members from 220 locations worldwide using 113 programming languages.

Perkeep – Personal storage system for life

318 nikolay 2025-11-12 03:34:32 UTC perkeep.org Llama Share 69

Perkeep is an open source system for storing and accessing data across devices. It's under active development and suitable for programmers and tech-savvy users.

Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy

314 meetpateltech 2025-11-12 14:08:28 UTC openai.com Llama Share 296

The New York Times is demanding 20 million ChatGPT conversations from OpenAI, but OpenAI is fighting this as it disregards privacy protections and could make millions of users' conversations public. OpenAI is accelerating its security and privacy roadmap to protect users' data and will continue to fight the Times' demand.

Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, SF and Phoenix

312 nharada 2025-11-12 16:06:29 UTC techcrunch.com Llama Share 389

Waymo will offer robotaxi rides on freeways in San Francisco, Phoenix, and Los Angeles, reducing ride times by up to 50%. Riders can opt for freeway rides through the Waymo app, with the service initially available to select users.

Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k

306 gastonmorixe 2025-11-12 07:56:35 UTC ntp.org Llama Share 230

The NTP Project develops and maintains the NTP protocol for synchronizing computer clocks over networks. It produces open source reference implementations and documentation for various applications.

GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT

267 tedsanders 2025-11-12 19:05:41 UTC openai.com Llama Share 280

ChatGPT is upgrading to GPT-5.1 with improved intelligence, communication style, and customization options. The update includes new models, easier tone control, and better instruction following, making ChatGPT more enjoyable and adaptable to users' preferences.

Learn Prolog Now

255 rramadass 2025-11-12 14:54:27 UTC lpn.swi-prolog.org Llama Share 180

Learn Prolog Now is an introductory course to Prolog programming available online since 2001 and in book form. The course aims to provide a self-contained text for beginners and emphasizes practical Prolog programming through exercises and a Prolog interpreter.

You will own nothing and be (un)happy

247 showthemfangs 2025-11-12 06:37:13 UTC racc.blog Llama Share 221

The Goodnotes app has updated to version 6 with AI-integrated features that can't be turned off and no longer offers a lifetime license. This shift to subscription-based services is becoming common, making "ownership" in the digital world an illusion.

What happened to Transmeta, the last big dotcom IPO

223 onename 2025-11-12 09:01:41 UTC dfarq.homeip.net Llama Share 139

Transmeta was the last big IPO of the dotcom era, launching November 7, 2000, with a $273 million IPO. The company shifted to licensing intellectual property in 2005 and was eventually sold to Novafora in 2009.

Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage

192 pabs3 2025-11-12 05:36:41 UTC tomshardware.com Llama Share 170

AI demand is causing a shortage of DRAM and storage, with prices doubling and delivery times delayed by two years. Hyperscalers are switching to QLC NAND-based SSDs, but this is creating its own shortage and may lead to rising SSD prices worldwide.

Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software

184 firexcy 2025-11-12 21:50:14 UTC github.com/homebrew Llama Share 155

Homebrew will deprecate the --no-quarantine flag due to macOS security updates and Intel support ending. This change will provide a safer experience for users and align with Gatekeeper requirements.

Voyager 1 is a light-day away by November 2026

172 Neuronaut 2025-11-12 23:38:56 UTC iflscience.com Llama Share 50

Voyager 1 will be the first human-made object to reach one light-day away from Earth in late 2026. It will continue to travel through interstellar space, passing through the Oort cloud and having close encounters with other stars.

Maestro Technology Sells Used SSD Drives as New

166 walterbell 2025-11-12 18:29:18 UTC kozubik.com Llama Share 73

We purchased four SSD parts from Maestro Technology that were advertised as brand new but showed signs of wear. The SMART data indicated that the parts had been used before and would likely fail within two years.

Marble: A Multimodal World Model

160 meetpateltech 2025-11-12 22:11:14 UTC worldlabs.ai Llama Share 36

Marble is a generative world model that creates 3D worlds from various inputs, allowing users to edit, expand, and export them. Marble's multimodal capabilities and AI-native editing tools give users fine-grained control over their generated worlds.

Valve is about to win the console generation

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A brief look at FreeBSD

136 todsacerdoti 2025-11-12 12:10:11 UTC yorickpeterse.com Llama Share 78

The user is considering switching from Fedora to FreeBSD on their new Framework laptop, attracted by FreeBSD's cohesive experience, software availability, and claimed stability. They have been testing FreeBSD in a virtual machine and have encountered some quirks, including a clunky package manager and differences between GNU and BSD CLI programs, but are still unsure if the benefits of using ...

Micro.blog launches new 'Studio' tier with video hosting

121 justin-reeves 2025-11-12 13:46:28 UTC heydingus.net Llama Share 33

Micro.blog allows users to host their own presence on the web with features like video hosting, automatic crossposting, and customizable plans. The platform aims to decentralize video content and provide an alternative to centralized platforms like YouTube.

Simulating a Planet on the GPU: Part 1 (2022)

115 Doches 2025-11-12 06:58:06 UTC patrickcelentano.com Llama Share 17

The author is recreating SimEarth 2, a planet simulation game, after 32 years of computing advances. They've made significant progress using compute shaders and Smoothed-Particle Hydrodynamics to simulate realistic world generation and plate tectonics.

UK pauses intelligence-sharing with US on suspected drug vessels in Caribbean

113 beardyw 2025-11-12 18:07:27 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 58

The UK has suspended intelligence sharing with the US on suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean due to concerns over lethal military strikes. The move indicates the UK's disagreement with the Trump administration's practice of sinking boats allegedly used by drug traffickers.

The Geometry Behind Normal Maps

109 betamark 2025-11-12 13:50:47 UTC shlom.dev Llama Share 5

Tangent space is a local coordinate system that connects a surface's geometry to its texture coordinates, allowing for accurate lighting and shading in computer graphics. It's a geometric structure that emerges from a surface's parameterization, and its orientation is defined by the surface's UV coordinates, which describe how texture coordinates move across the surface.

GLP-1 drugs linked to lower death rates in colon cancer patients

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A UC San Diego study found GLP-1 medications reduced colon cancer deaths by 50% in over 6,800 patients. Researchers believe GLP-1 drugs may have anti-cancer effects through reduced inflammation and improved insulin sensitivity.

Anthropic invests $50B in US AI infrastructure

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Anthropic is investing $50 billion in US computing infrastructure with Fluidstack, creating 800 permanent and 2,400 construction jobs. This investment will support AI research and development, advancing American AI leadership and competitiveness.

Launch HN: JSX Tool (YC F25) – A Browser Dev-Panel IDE for React

92 jsunderland323 2025-11-12 17:43:42 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 72

Jamie and Dan built JSX Tool, a React project inspector with AI features, allowing users to edit code from source maps and inspect JSX like HTML. The tool includes a custom AST parser, CSS editor, and local server for file system access, with a focus on convenience and workflow context.

How Tube Amplifiers Work

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A 1950s Fender 5F1 Champ guitar amplifier's signal flow involves the guitar input jacks, circuit board, preamp tube V1, power tube V2, and output transformer, with the goal of amplifying the guitar's alternating current audio signal. The amplifier's components, including capacitors, resistors, and transformers, work together to boost the signal's voltage and current, ultimately driving the ...

Fungus in Chernobyl nuclear disaster zone has mutated to 'feed' on radiation (2024)

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The fungus, which has been found on Chernobyl's Reactor 4, has adapted to convert gamma radiation into chemical energy.

Digital ID, a new way to create and present an ID in Apple Wallet

77 meetpateltech 2025-11-12 16:40:17 UTC apple.com Llama Share 115

Apple launched Digital ID, a new feature in Apple Wallet that lets users create an ID using their U.S. passport for domestic travel and age verification. Digital ID is secure, private, and can be presented with iPhone or Apple Watch, expanding identity options for users without a REAL ID-compliant driver's license.

Ask HN: How does one stay motivated to grind through LeetCode?

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You're a former tech employee struggling to crack LeetCode problems after being laid off. Many others have been in similar situations, finding motivation through setting daily goals, tracking progress, and reminding themselves that problem-solving skills are valuable regardless of job specifics.

Blasting Yeast with UV Light

71 Gormisdomai 2025-11-12 18:46:40 UTC chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com Llama Share 20

The author conducted a 'minimal trust' investigation into wet lab experiments to learn about UV susceptibility data, finding many sources of variability and the importance of standardised UV dose methodology. They plan to write about sterile technique for home labs in their next post.

Problems with C++ exceptions

69 signa11 2025-11-12 05:44:10 UTC marler8997.github.io Llama Share 91

Bjarne Stroustrup's Safe C++ talk highlights the problems with using exceptions for error handling in C++, including correctness, exhaustiveness, and RAISI issues. Two techniques to address these problems are doing error handling before RAII and providing a "side-channel" in constructors for reporting errors, which can make code less noisy and more reliable.

Is your electric bill going up? AI is partly to blame

55 ilamont 2025-11-12 19:21:09 UTC npr.org Llama Share 66

Electricity prices have jumped 40% since February 2020, driven by increased demand for electricity and higher natural gas prices. Utilities are scrambling to add new electric generation and make the power grid more resilient, but this may lead to higher bills for residential customers.

Helm 4.0

55 todsacerdoti 2025-11-12 17:02:38 UTC github.com/helm Llama Share 59

Helm v4 has backward incompatible changes, but most workflows remain compatible with v3. Existing charts should continue to work, but test installation and upgrades for server-side apply changes.

Async and Finaliser Deadlocks

54 emailed 2025-11-12 18:12:29 UTC tratt.net Llama Share 19

The user discusses the "futurelocks" problem, a deadlock caused by finalizers trying to acquire mutexes in languages like Python and Rust, and how it's a long-standing issue that can be solved by running finalizers on a separate thread. The user also draws an analogy between finalizer deadlocks and futurelock deadlocks, both of which are caused by the hope that code will always cooperate, and ...

The PowerPC Has Still Got It (Llama on G4 Laptop)

51 stmw 2025-11-12 16:17:58 UTC hackster.io Llama Share 18

Andrew Rossignol successfully ran a modern AI model on a 2005 PowerBook G4 with 1GB RAM and a 32-bit processor. He achieved a modest improvement in performance by leveraging the PowerPC's vector processing extension, AltiVec.

New study finds users are marrying and having virtual children with AI chatbots

47 giuliomagnifico 2025-11-12 12:58:59 UTC psypost.org Llama Share 84

A new study explores human relationships with AI chatbots, finding users form deep emotional bonds, often describing their chatbot as a romantic partner and spouse. Users feel committed to their AI companions due to their ability to fulfill unmet needs in human relationships.

Kubernetes Is Your Private Cloud

44 ndhandala 2025-11-12 16:07:30 UTC oneuptime.com Llama Share 82

Moving to Kubernetes allows for control over infrastructure, scalability, and costs, breaking dependence on public cloud providers. By treating Kubernetes as a private cloud control plane, teams can make intentional tradeoffs, invest in automation, and achieve more resilience and autonomy.

Show HN: Cancer diagnosis makes for an interesting RL environment for LLMs

37 dchu17 2025-11-12 17:01:42 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 18

David from Aluna built a tool for LLMs to zoom and pan across digitized pathology slides, allowing them to find relevant regions for diagnosis. LLMs like GPT-5 and Claude 4.5 showed promising results in cancer subtyping and IHC scoring tasks with prompt engineering.

Making the Clang AST Leaner and Faster

34 vitaut 2025-11-12 20:02:58 UTC cppalliance.org Llama Share 9

A recent Clang patch improved compile-time performance by reducing the memory footprint and creation cost of the Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) representation. This led to a 5-7% build-time reduction in real-world projects.

Are We Doomed?

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Japan's low birth rate and aging population are causing a shift in societal dynamics, with a growing industry for elderly care and a need for immigration to maintain numbers. The relationship between population and climate change is complex, and while having more children may seem counterintuitive for the environment, it could help address the challenges of aging societies and maintain ...

Show HN: I built a platform where audiences fund debates between public thinkers

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Logosive is a platform that allows users to create and participate in debates on various topics, with debaters earning a share of ticket revenue based on their agreement with organizers. The platform supports debates on multiple platforms, including X Spaces, YouTube Live, and Zoom, and allows VIP ticket holders to submit and vote on questions for the debaters.

Security issues discovered in sudo-rs

23 kahlonel 2025-11-12 10:08:53 UTC lists.debian.org Llama Share 14

Debian has released a security update for rust-sudo-rs to fix two security issues that could result in password disclosure or authentication bypass. The issue has been fixed in version 0.2.5-5+deb13u1 for the stable distribution.

LLM Output Drift in Financial Workflows: Validation and Mitigation (arXiv)

22 raffisk 2025-11-12 19:53:25 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 25

Financial institutions use Large Language Models for tasks but smaller models achieve 100% output consistency while larger ones show significant drift. A new framework enables deterministic behavior and audit-ready attestation for AI deployments in finance.

The US Do Not Call registry is offline

22 OvidStavrica 2025-11-12 01:10:58 UTC donotcall.gov Llama Share 12

Government shutdown prevents website service. Visit FTC's website for unwanted call information.

Two women had a business meeting. AI called it childcare

21 sophiabk 2025-11-12 15:37:22 UTC medium.com/hold-my-juice Llama Share 30

The author's AI calendar analysis mistakenly flagged a meeting with co-founder Emily as childcare due to biased assumptions about women's roles. This highlights the need to design AI systems that are self-aware and actively work against bias to avoid shaping childhood perceptions.

Jasmine: A Simple, Performant and Scalable Jax-Based World Modeling Codebase

20 PaulHoule 2025-11-12 22:35:29 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 1

Researchers introduced Jasmine, a JAX-based world modeling codebase that scales and reproduces results faster than prior implementations. Jasmine enables reproducible training and supports diverse configurations for benchmarking pipelines across model families.

Text rendering and effects using GPU-computed distances

17 PaulHoule 2025-11-12 00:56:10 UTC blog.pkh.me Llama Share 0

The article discusses rendering text with signed distance fields on the GPU for fast and high-quality effects. It covers extracting Bézier curves from fonts, computing distances, and optimizing the process for performance.

Async and Finaliser Deadlocks

16 todsacerdoti 2025-11-12 11:38:01 UTC tratt.net Llama Share 11

The user discusses the "futurelocks" problem, a deadlock caused by finalizers trying to acquire mutexes in languages like Python and Rust, and how it's a long-standing issue that can be solved by running finalizers on a separate thread. The user also draws an analogy between finalizer deadlocks and futurelock deadlocks, both of which are caused by the hope that code will always cooperate, and ...

Eleven Labs Debuts "Iconic Marketplace" Feat Michael Caine, Judy Garland, Others

11 obiefernandez 2025-11-12 23:40:54 UTC elevenlabs.io Llama Share 5

Notable figures mentioned include famous actors, musicians, authors, scientists, and athletes who have made significant contributions to their respective fields. They have received numerous awards and accolades for their work, including Oscars, Grammys, and Nobel Prizes.