Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today

1629 immibis 2025-11-15 10:30:52 UTC adguard-dns.io Llama Share 401

The FBI is investigating Archive.is, a website that preserves web pages, over potential copyright or CSAM issues. A suspicious organization, Web Abuse Association Defense, pressured AdGuard DNS to block Archive.is, but its claims and evidence appear to be fabricated.

Things that aren't doing the thing

327 downboots 2025-11-15 18:24:58 UTC strangestloop.io Llama Share 165

You're stuck in a cycle of thinking about doing the thing, but not actually doing it. All your thoughts and actions are just distractions from taking real action.

TCP, the workhorse of the internet

326 signa11 2025-11-15 06:37:50 UTC cefboud.com Llama Share 149

TCP is a transport layer protocol that provides reliable, orderly, and uncorrupted data transfer over the internet by handling retransmission, checksums, and flow control. It shields developers from network unreliability and ensures data integrity by maintaining a connection state, tracking sequence numbers, and using acknowledgments, checksums, and other reliability mechanisms.

Nevada Governor's office covered up Boring Co safety violations

299 Chinjut 2025-11-15 19:10:31 UTC fortune.com Llama Share 60

Nevada's workplace safety agency issued $425,000 in fines to Elon Musk's Boring Company after two firefighters suffered chemical burns in its tunnels, but the citations were rescinded after a meeting with the Governor's office. The incident has raised concerns about the Governor's office interfering with OSHA investigations and has led to changes in Nevada's OSHA policies that may make it ...

AMD GPUs Go Brrr

259 vinhnx 2025-11-15 02:06:16 UTC hazyresearch.stanford.edu Llama Share 89

Researchers from Team: William Hu, Drew Wadsworth, Sean Siddens, Stanley Winata, Daniel Fu, Ryan Swann, Muhammad Osama, Christopher Ré, Simran Arora, developed HipKittens to optimize AI performance on AMD GPUs. HipKittens uses optimized memory access, AMD-centric wave scheduling, and chiplet-aware grid scheduling to achieve competitive performance on AMD CDNA3 and CDNA4 GPUs.

When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts

253 goldenskye 2025-11-15 23:55:19 UTC oldvcr.blogspot.com Llama Share 216

The author had a US$355 order from an EU seller delayed by US Customs tariffs, which were initially incorrectly assessed at US$711. The issue was resolved after a lengthy appeal process, with the final tariff being US$51.30.

Messing with scraper bots

232 HermanMartinus 2025-11-15 07:38:18 UTC herman.bearblog.dev Llama Share 78

The user created a Markov chain babbler to waste scraper bot time and resources by serving fake data. They also built a static site server to serve endless posts of content to saturate crawlers.

I can't recommend Grafana anymore

229 gpi 2025-11-15 03:58:01 UTC henrikgerdes.me Llama Share 100

The user had a good experience with Grafana products initially, using Loki, Prometheus, and Grafana for observability, but later found the rapid pace of change and deprecation of features to be concerning. They now question recommending Grafana products due to the complexity and instability, preferring a more stable solution for monitoring.

Spec-Driven Development: The Waterfall Strikes Back

212 vinhnx 2025-11-15 07:48:23 UTC marmelab.com Llama Share 189

The author argues that Spec-Driven Development (SDD) is a step in the wrong direction, as it replaces developers with coding agents and requires meticulous planning, similar to the Waterfall model.

One Handed Keyboard

196 doppp 2025-11-15 09:44:15 UTC github.com/htx-studio Llama Share 93

QMK固件，集成了轨迹球和机械键盘。

Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11

194 znpy 2025-11-15 16:53:30 UTC windhawk.net Llama Share 129

To restore the classic Windows look on Windows 10 and 11, install the classic task manager and various mods such as OpenShell and Classic Theme Explorer Lite. These mods fix issues like transparency, empty context menus, and ribbon appearance.

Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729

193 ibobev 2025-11-15 15:19:20 UTC borretti.me Llama Share 136

The user bought a refurbished Fujitsu Lifebook laptop for 250 AUD, which runs Linux flawlessly with all hardware working out of the box. They had to disable Secure Boot by installing Windows 11, updating the BIOS, and then disabling it in the BIOS settings.

Kagi Bloopers – Search Results Gone Wrong

188 embedding-shape 2025-11-15 12:23:08 UTC help.kagi.com Full Share 61

We're relentless in our pursuit of delivering the best quality search possible. But we're only human (well, mostly!) and building a search engine is complex, so sometimes Kagi serves up results that are more hilarious than helpful.

AMD continues to chip away at Intel's x86 market share

187 speckx 2025-11-15 20:35:33 UTC tomshardware.com Llama Share 97

AMD gained 1.4% share in client CPUs and 1.4% in desktop CPUs in Q3 2025, while Intel lost 1.4% and 1.5% respectively. AMD's share of x86 CPUs now stands at 25.6% and 33.6% in desktops.

FBI Director Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Three Senior Staff

173 Jimmc414 2025-11-15 18:03:37 UTC propublica.org Llama Share 129

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino and two other senior staff members received waivers exempting them from polygraph exams, raising concerns about their suitability for sensitive roles. The waivers were granted by Director Kash Patel, who also appointed Bongino despite his lack of prior FBI experience and history of pushing conspiracy theories.

Designing a Language (2017)

173 veqq 2025-11-15 05:44:43 UTC cs.lmu.edu Llama Share 103

Designing a programming language involves iterative phases of specification, implementation, and testing, requiring knowledge of programming paradigms, language concepts, and existing languages. Key considerations include defining syntax, semantics, and abstract syntax, as well as deciding on features such as functions, control flow, concurrency, and type systems.

Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'

170 achow 2025-11-15 21:18:55 UTC 9to5mac.com Llama Share 342

Apple is stepping up its CEO succession planning with John Ternus as the likely candidate. No final decision has been made and an announcement is unlikely before Apple's next earnings report in late January.

Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: the story of learned avoidance

152 nabla9 2025-11-15 18:40:55 UTC elifesciences.org Llama Share 90

Animals can learn to avoid pathogens through transgenerational epigenetic inheritance. A recent study confirmed that Caenorhabditis elegans can pass on learned avoidance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to its F2 generation.

Blocking LLM crawlers without JavaScript

147 todsacerdoti 2025-11-15 23:30:04 UTC owl.is Llama Share 73

User blocks crawlers by serving a poisoned path in robots.txt and checking for a "validated" cookie. They redirect non-cookie requests to a validation page, setting a "validated" cookie upon success.

Mag Wealth (2024)

142 andsoitis 2025-11-15 16:16:42 UTC saul.pw Llama Share 163

Wealth inequality is a significant issue, with sharp differences between wealth classes and similarities within them, and it's essential to discuss structural class differences. The Mag scale measures wealth, with levels ranging from ↑0 (extreme poverty) to ↑11 (corporate valuations), and ↑14.7 (world wealth).

libwifi: an 802.11 frame parsing and generation library written in C (2023)

122 vitalnodo 2025-11-15 22:16:33 UTC libwifi.so Llama Share 11

libwifi is a library for parsing and generating WiFi frames, requiring -lwifi linker flag and installed shared library. It uses a loop to read packets, parse frames, and store data in libwifi_frame structs.

AsciiMath

118 smartmic 2025-11-15 21:22:57 UTC asciimath.org Llama Share 38

AsciiMath is a markup language for mathematics that can be rendered using MathJax. It supports various symbols and expressions, including derivatives and variables.

AI note-taking startup Fireflies was really two guys typing notes by hand

111 thomassmith65 2025-11-15 02:11:43 UTC pcgamer.com Llama Share 61

Fireflies AI startup co-founder revealed its early AI transcription service was powered by two founders typing notes by hand. The company's founders used this method to make enough money to pay rent before automating the service.

Weighting an average to minimize variance

97 ibobev 2025-11-15 15:25:08 UTC johndcook.com Llama Share 50

You have $100 to invest in two or more assets with varying volatility. The optimal allocation minimizes risk by distributing funds based on the variance of each asset.

The inconceivable types of Rust: How to make self-borrows safe (2024)

94 birdculture 2025-11-15 23:31:39 UTC blog.polybdenum.com Llama Share 15

Rust's borrow checker prevents self-borrows, but this limitation can be overcome by adopting a more ambitious goal of safe async functions, which requires naming the types of local variables. To achieve this, Rust needs to add named lifetimes, inconceivable types for partial borrows and moves, and a new type for bound lifetime references, allowing for safe and zero-cost self-borrows.

Archimedes – A Python toolkit for hardware engineering

93 i_don_t_know 2025-11-15 19:29:32 UTC pinetreelabs.github.io Llama Share 12

Archimedes is a Python framework that lets developers create and analyze control systems algorithms in Python and automatically generate optimized C code for embedded systems. It provides a high-level interface for developing and deploying control systems, including tools for simulation, optimization, and hardware deployment, and is designed to be flexible and scalable.

USA gives South Korea green light to build nuclear submarines

91 JumpCrisscross 2025-11-15 18:29:00 UTC navalnews.com Llama Share 86

US President Donald Trump has given the go ahead for South Korea to build Nuclear Submarines on US soil at the Philadelphia shipyards. The construction is expected to take over 10 years and will be the first nuclear-powered submarine project for South Korea.

NATO Ended Russia's Estonian Air Incursions

90 madspindel 2025-11-15 09:14:34 UTC themilitaryanalyst.com Llama Share 49

NATO demonstrated overwhelming capability by intercepting Russian Mig-31s without firing a shot, rendering them useless with electronic warfare. The Russians got the message and haven't repeated the incursion, understanding NATO's strength and willingness to enforce its airspace.

Caffeinated coffee consumption or abstinence to reduce atrial fibrillation

84 stared 2025-11-15 19:43:39 UTC jamanetwork.com Llama Share 45

Consuming caffeinated coffee may lower the risk of recurrent atrial fibrillation episodes. A clinical trial found that patients who drank caffeinated coffee had a 39% lower hazard of recurrence compared to those who abstained from coffee and caffeine.

AWS deprecates two dozen services (most of which you've never heard of)

73 mooreds 2025-11-15 18:55:22 UTC lastweekinaws.com Llama Share 47

AWS has deprecating 24 services, including Cloud Directory, S3 Object Lambda, and Snowball Edge, but most are redundant or unused. The move is seen as a cleanup of AWS's "launch a new service" approach, allowing more focus on successful services.

The computer poetry of J. M. Coetzee's early programming career (2017)

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How to write generics in C

57 todsacerdoti 2025-11-15 13:58:09 UTC raphgl.github.io Llama Share 51

C's lack of built-in generics can be worked around by using a macro trick to name-mangle functions and structs. This approach allows for generic programming in C, but requires careful use of preprocessor definitions and includes to avoid redeclaration errors.

Llmdeathcount.com

55 brian_peiris 2025-11-15 18:22:27 UTC llmdeathcount.com Full Share 43

Large Language Models like ChatGPT have led people to their deaths, often by suicide. This site serves to remember those who have been affected, to call out the dangers of AI that claims to be intelligent, and the corporations that are responsible.

How to tolerate annoying things

53 zdw 2025-11-15 14:53:09 UTC psyche.co Llama Share 44

Patricia E Zurita Ona, a clinical psychologist, shares how to handle daily annoyances using acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). By practising radical acceptance, centring, and self-compassion, you can reduce stress and respond to frustrating experiences in a more constructive way.

Meta Says the 2,400 'Adult Movies' They Torrented Were for Personal Use

47 horsellama 2025-11-15 18:02:39 UTC vice.com Llama Share 22

Strike 3 Holdings and Counterlife Media sued Meta for $359 million, alleging it downloaded and seeded 2,400 porn videos to train AI. Meta claims the downloads were for personal use by employees, not for AI training.

Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science

43 DrierCycle 2025-11-15 02:58:56 UTC cell.com Llama Share 45

The cognitive sciences have been dominated by English-speaking researchers studying English-speaking populations, leading to an Anglocentric bias that hampers progress in understanding human cognition and language. This bias is reflected in the over-reliance on English language and scripts, which can lead to premature claims of universality and limit the examination of cognitive constructs ...

6B Miles Driven

42 mensetmanusman 2025-11-15 15:02:54 UTC tesla.com Full Share 96

You don't have permission to access "http://www.tesla.com/fsd/safety" on this server. https://errors.edgesuite.net/18.4c0c0317.1763298441.4309bca1

Ohm Editor

41 andsoitis 2025-11-15 06:01:29 UTC ohmjs.org Llama Share 7

This is a grammar for arithmetic expressions, defining rules for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponentiation, and parentheses. It also includes rules for identifiers and numbers.

Waymo Was on a Roll in San Francisco. Then One of Its Cars Killed a Cat

40 donohoe 2025-11-15 14:31:39 UTC nytimes.com Full Share 61

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I implemented an ISO 42001-certified AI Governance program in 6 months

36 azhenley 2025-11-15 17:04:23 UTC beabytes.com Llama Share 9

Béatrice Moissinac, PhD, discusses AI Governance, a process to manage AI system quality and safety. She recommends the NIST AI Risk Management Framework for its well-rounded approach and ease of implementation.

EyesOff: How I built a screen contact detection model

32 Two_hands 2025-11-15 08:42:33 UTC ym2132.github.io Llama Share 12

The user created a model to detect if someone is looking at a screen for the EyesOff application, which prevents shoulder surfing. They built their own dataset and model, overcoming challenges such as data scarcity and labelling issues, and achieved 71.25% accuracy on mid-range performance.

Reservoir: Smart electric water heater

32 flakespancakes 2025-11-15 03:50:04 UTC reservoirhome.com Llama Share 59

Reservoir is a thermal "battery" that heats water with an ultra-efficient heat pump when electricity is cheaper and cleaner. It saves homeowners hundreds of dollars a year and provides plenty of hot water.

The Mighty Simplex (2023)

31 just_human 2025-11-15 16:49:49 UTC galileo-unbound.blog Llama Share 5

The simplex is a fundamental geometric solid with high symmetry and efficiency, used in various applications including game theory, optimization, and machine learning. It has a recursive construction and can be used to represent complex systems, such as ecosystems and neural networks, with its vertices and faces providing a useful framework for analysis.

Project Fucking Sucks

29 todsacerdoti 2025-11-15 23:19:50 UTC ficd.sh Llama Share 18

The author argues that low-effort, dishonest projects are polluting the open-source community, making it harder for experienced developers and newcomers alike. They advocate for gatekeeping to preserve the culture and values of open-source software.

Scientists reverse kidney damage in mice, hope for humans next

28 ashishgupta2209 2025-11-15 03:59:35 UTC sciencedaily.com Llama Share 2

Researchers at University of Utah Health discovered that ceramides cause acute kidney injury by damaging kidney cell mitochondria. They found a new drug candidate that protects mitochondrial function and prevents kidney injury in mice.

US spy satellites built by SpaceX send signals in the "wrong direction"

27 Jtsummers 2025-11-15 17:28:16 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 2

A researcher found 171 out of 193 Starshield satellites built by SpaceX for the US government's NRO are sending signals in the wrong direction. The signals are in a frequency band allocated for Earth-to-space transmissions, raising concerns about interference and lack of transparency in spectrum management.

A structural regular expression engine for Rust

26 vinhnx 2025-11-15 02:17:31 UTC sminez.dev Llama Share 3

The author discusses structural regular expressions, a notation for composing regular expressions to describe text structure, and its application in a text editor. They introduce a Rust crate called structex to implement a general-purpose engine for structural regular expressions.

US spy satellites built by SpaceX send signals in the "wrong direction"

17 chha 2025-11-15 07:01:57 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 2

A researcher found 171 out of 193 Starshield satellites built by SpaceX for the US government's NRO are sending signals in the wrong direction. The signals are in a frequency band allocated for Earth-to-space transmissions, raising concerns about interference and lack of transparency in spectrum management.

How my speed date got stolen onstage at a live comedy dating show

15 eatitraw 2025-11-15 08:16:35 UTC psychotechnology.substack.com Llama Share 22

The writer attends a comedy speed dating show in Barcelona, where he initially refuses to use pre-written questions and instead chooses awkward silence with his date. He later participates in a "friendship date" with a smooth guy, embracing his role as a cringe connoisseur.