Helping Valve to power up Steam devices

495 TingPing 2025-11-21 17:29:59 UTC igalia.com Llama Share 154

Valve unveiled three new gaming devices: Steam Frame, a wireless VR headset; Steam Machine, a gaming console; and Steam Controller, a handheld game controller. Igalia is contributing to these devices, particularly the Frame, which runs on an ARM-based CPU using a translation layer called FEX.

Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker

468 a-fadil 2025-11-21 16:34:52 UTC wealthfolio.app Llama Share 161

This application securely tracks investments and savings in one place, providing clear charts and insights into portfolio performance. It helps users set savings targets, monitor progress, and stay on top of tax-advantaged account contribution limits.

How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA

405 i-con 2025-11-21 12:12:41 UTC heise.de Llama Share 447

A French judge, Nicolas Guillou, is experiencing digital isolation due to US sanctions, unable to use US companies for banking and e-commerce. He advocates for Europe to gain digital sovereignty to ensure the rule of law is not compromised by US influence.

Olmo 3: Charting a path through the model flow to lead open-source AI

371 mseri 2025-11-21 06:50:14 UTC allenai.org Llama Share 120

Olmo 3 is a fully open AI model that exposes its entire development flow, enabling customization and adaptation. It delivers strong performance in various tasks, including reasoning, programming, and math problem solving, with a focus on transparency and accountability.

Arduino published updated terms and conditions: no longer an open commons

335 felineflock 2025-11-21 15:44:16 UTC molecularist.com Llama Share 104

Qualcomm acquired Arduino, sparking community fears that its open-source ethos would be lost. Arduino's new terms and conditions, rewritten by Qualcomm's lawyers, confirm these fears, restricting patent licenses and reverse engineering.

We should all be using dependency cooldowns

309 todsacerdoti 2025-11-21 14:50:36 UTC blog.yossarian.net Llama Share 196

Open source supply chain attacks can be mitigated by implementing dependency cooldowns, which delay the use of new dependencies for a set period. This simple and free technique can prevent 80-90% of attacks by limiting the window of opportunity for attackers.

You can make PS2 games in JavaScript

248 tosh 2025-11-21 16:42:19 UTC jslegenddev.substack.com Llama Share 59

The user discovered that a JavaScript game they created was ported to the PS2 using the Athena engine, which allows JavaScript code to run on the PS2, and they were able to run the game on an emulator. The user then created a "Hello World" example using Athena, which included setting up a game loop, handling user input, and rendering text and animations on the PS2 screen.

Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts

236 pseudolus 2025-11-21 00:02:18 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 344

Experts say Prozac should no longer be prescribed to children due to lack of clinical benefit and potential risks. A new review found fluoxetine is clinically no better than placebo in treating depression in children.

It's hard to build an oscillator

223 chmaynard 2025-11-21 07:45:53 UTC lcamtuf.substack.com Llama Share 86

The user discusses building an oscillator circuit using a single n-channel MOSFET and a Schmitt trigger to create a relaxation oscillator. Two alternative oscillator circuits are also presented, one using an operational amplifier and another using an R-C lowpass filter to produce a sine wave.

Homeschooling hits record numbers

222 bilsbie 2025-11-21 00:31:47 UTC reason.com Llama Share 614

Homeschooling in the US continues to grow, increasing at an average rate of 5.4% in the 2024-2025 school year. This growth is nearly three times the pre-pandemic rate, with over a third of states reporting their highest homeschooling numbers ever.

California DMV approves map increase in Waymo driverless operations

220 NullHypothesist 2025-11-21 22:52:13 UTC dmv.ca.gov Full Share 134

Approved autonomous vehicle platforms to conduct driverless testing and deployment operations in all approved operational design domains (ODD) in California. Make Model Years MakeJaguar I-Pace Model Years2021 and 2024 MakeZeekr RT Model Years2022 and 2025 Hours of Operation: All times of day and night ODD Characteristics: All rain, fog, and other conditions All Speeds Approved […]

HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops' CPUs

220 latexr 2025-11-21 10:01:37 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 147

Dell and HP have disabled HEVC hardware decoding on some laptops, despite processors having integrated support. Owners can use third-party software or disable hardware acceleration in their web browser for HEVC playback.

FAWK: LLMs can write a language interpreter

214 todsacerdoti 2025-11-21 10:28:49 UTC martin.janiczek.cz Llama Share 185

The user tried to implement AWK for Advent of Code but found it hard due to its lack of modern features. They then used a Large Language Model to generate a working AWK interpreter with additional features.

How Cops Are Using Flock's ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters and Activists

199 pseudalopex 2025-11-21 17:20:51 UTC eff.org Llama Share 77

Law enforcement agencies used Flock Safety's ALPR system to track protesters and activists across the US, often without a clear reason or crime under investigation. This mass surveillance technology threatens freedom to demonstrate and protest.

Making a Small RPG

187 ibobev 2025-11-21 13:23:16 UTC jslegenddev.substack.com Llama Share 33

The user is creating an RPG game using JavaScript and the KAPLAY game library, drawing inspiration from older games like Dragon Quest 1 and Undertale, and aims to create a game with a unique battle system and open-world exploration. The game, set in the land of Hydralia, features a battle system where the player must dodge projectiles and attack enemies, with a focus on upgrading stats and ...

Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

181 gnabgib 2025-11-21 22:40:28 UTC disassociated.com Llama Share 123

The article discusses the evolution of blogging, particularly niche blogging, and its potential revival. It argues that well-written, topic-focused resources are disappearing from the web, leaving behind misinformation and AI-generated content.

Nursing excluded as 'professional' degree by Department of Education

142 ourmandave 2025-11-21 01:00:33 UTC nurse.org Full Share 95

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XBMC 4.0 for the Original Xbox

140 zdw 2025-11-21 15:18:05 UTC xbox-scene.info Llama Share 74

A new version of Xbox Media Center (XBMC), version 4.0, has been released with a modern interface and updated features. This update brings a renewed commitment to preserving and extending the capabilities of the iconic console homebrew application.

Why top firms fire good workers

135 hhs 2025-11-21 00:36:01 UTC rochester.edu Llama Share 213

Elite firms' "revolving door" culture is a rational way to signal talent and boost profits by retaining top performers and letting go of slightly lower-skilled employees. This process helps maintain the firm's reputation and rewards true talent, allowing workers to command higher fees after leaving the firm.

Solving Fizz Buzz with Cosines

134 hprotagonist 2025-11-21 17:28:25 UTC susam.net Llama Share 37

The Fizz Buzz sequence is a counting game that can be expressed as a finite Fourier series. The sequence can be defined as (s_{f(n)}(n))_{n = 1}^{\infty} where f(n) is a function that can be expressed as a finite Fourier series with a constant term 11/15 and three cosine terms with coefficients 2/3, 4/5, and 4/5.

The New AI Consciousness Paper

129 rbanffy 2025-11-21 16:25:48 UTC astralcodexten.com Llama Share 242

Researchers have found that current AI systems lack consciousness due to their inability to meet computational theories of consciousness.

Boom, bubble, bust, boom. Why should AI be different?

125 speckx 2025-11-21 20:30:51 UTC crazystupidtech.com Llama Share 153

The AI bubble is similar to the internet bubble of 1999, with investors and companies overspending on AI, leading to concerns about a potential crash. The AI bubble is expected to last longer than the internet bubble due to the large amounts of guaranteed but unspent capital in the system.

LAPD helicopter tracker with real-time operating costs

122 polalavik 2025-11-21 22:11:07 UTC lapdhelicoptertracker.com Full Share 132

Track LAPD police helicopters in real-time and see how much taxpayer money is being spent. Live aviation monitoring showing active flights, hourly costs, and total expenditure of Los Angeles Police Department air support.

Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC

105 Venn1 2025-11-21 19:46:34 UTC tuxedocomputers.com Llama Share 32

We ship to almost all countries, with free shipping in Europe and a maximum 7.99 € fee for small orders. Additional duties and taxes may apply for non-EU orders, but you won't pay German taxes.

Jmail: Gmail Clone with Epstein's Emails

105 walz 2025-11-21 13:04:56 UTC jmail.world Llama Share 8

I'm Jeffrey Epstein, and I've received emails about various news stories and personal conversations. I've been arrested and Alex Acosta has resigned, while Trump ended the citizenship question on the census.

Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds

95 donohoe 2025-11-21 12:26:40 UTC bloomberg.com Full Share 136

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Pixar: The Early Days A never-before-seen 1996 interview

94 sanj 2025-11-21 20:45:06 UTC stevejobsarchive.com Llama Share 8

Steve Jobs discusses Pixar's success and business model in a 1996 interview, revealing how it empowers artists and engineers. He reflects on lessons learned from Disney and how they shaped his approach to leading Apple.

EXIF orientation info in PNGs isn't used for image-orientation: from-image

94 justin-reeves 2025-11-21 13:29:14 UTC bugzilla.mozilla.org Llama Share 79

JPEG and PNG images with same EXIF info are rotated differently in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox. Browser inconsistencies occur due to EXIF data placement and handling.

Germany: States Pass Porn Filters for Operating Systems

88 trallnag 2025-11-21 10:52:52 UTC heise.de Llama Share 153

Providers of operating systems must install a "youth protection device" to filter out porn and age-inappropriate content. This will be mandatory by December 1, 2027, to protect minors from internet harm.

We remain alive also in a dead internet

78 achierius 2025-11-21 20:46:36 UTC slavoj.substack.com Llama Share 62

ižek discusses how AI is manipulating and regulating our lives, and how we are unaware of its extent. He argues that AI needs human energy and jouissance to function, and that our imperfection is grounded in the imperfection of AI machinery.

Private Equity's New Venture: Youth Sports

76 wahnfrieden 2025-11-21 16:52:48 UTC jacobin.com Llama Share 68

Private equity firms are buying up youth sports facilities and leagues, banning parents from recording their kids' games and forcing them to pay for exclusive streaming services. This trend is pricing out lower-income families from participating in youth sports.

Building a Minimal Viable Armv7 Emulator from Scratch

69 xnacly 2025-11-21 13:30:36 UTC xnacly.me Llama Share 20

The user built a tiny, zero-dependency armv7 userspace emulator in Rust called stinkarm, which parses and validates 32-bit arm binaries, decodes arm instructions, and translates guest and host memory interactions. The emulator can run an armv7 hello world binary in 1.9ms and is ~100-1000x slower than native armv7 execution, with a total pipeline execution time of about 2ms.

The Untold History of Arduino (2016)

68 davikr 2025-11-21 21:29:28 UTC arduinohistory.github.io Llama Share 4

I, Hernando Barragan, created Wiring in 2003 as my Master's thesis project at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (IDII) to make electronics easy for artists and designers, and it was later forked by Massimo Banzi and others to create Arduino. I was never asked to join the Arduino team and was surprised by their decision to duplicate my work, but I continued to develop Wiring and contributed ...

Make product worse, get money

68 zdw 2025-11-21 15:23:20 UTC dynomight.net Llama Share 67

You argue that the theory that dating apps have an incentive to string people along rather than find long-term relationships is not helpful because it applies to many businesses and doesn't explain why they get away with it.

Is Matrix Multiplication Ugly?

65 jamespropp 2025-11-21 22:17:11 UTC mathenchant.wordpress.com Llama Share 31

The author criticizes Stephen Witt's article in The New Yorker for misunderstanding matrix multiplication, which is a fundamental operation in linear algebra. The author argues that matrix multiplication is not ugly or lacking in symmetry, but rather a powerful tool in mathematics and other fields.

Brazil charges 31 people in major carbon credit fraud investigation

62 PaulHoule 2025-11-21 18:30:52 UTC news.mongabay.com Llama Share 18

Brazil's Federal Police have indicted 31 suspects for carbon credit fraud and land-grabbing in the Amazon. The scheme involved corrupt public servants and two REDD+ projects that laundered timber while generating carbon credits.

The senior population is booming. Caregiving is struggling to keep up

61 toomuchtodo 2025-11-21 21:05:09 UTC cnbc.com Llama Share 41

The senior population is growing rapidly, but the labor force is struggling to keep up due to low wages and difficult caregiving jobs. Experts say the sector needs more resources to meet the increasing demand for senior care.

McDonald's is losing its low-income customers

59 PaulHoule 2025-11-21 17:52:37 UTC latimes.com Llama Share 151

McDonald's Dollar Menu helped the company recover from a slump in the early 2000s by targeting low-income consumers. However, the company is now struggling to retain these customers due to rising prices and costs.

Command Lines

56 nowflux 2025-11-21 16:33:28 UTC wreflection.com Llama Share 15

Cursor, a startup, raised $2.3B in its series-D round at a $29.3B valuation, becoming the fastest company to reach $1B in annual recurring revenue. The AI-coding tool market is growing exponentially, with companies like Google, AWS, and Microsoft competing to capture this shift.

The Qtile Window Manager: A Python-Powered Tiling Experience

54 stonecharioteer 2025-11-21 07:41:15 UTC tech.stonecharioteer.com Llama Share 20

The user is a long-time XFCE user who recently switched to Qtile, a Python-based tiling window manager, for its extensibility and productivity. They customized Qtile with a consistent color palette, custom icons, and hardware-aware components.

How I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it (2024)

50 jakogut 2025-11-21 23:28:40 UTC edw.is Llama Share 24

The user learned Vulkan and created a game engine with two small game demos in 3 months, recommending others to start with OpenGL and then move to Vulkan for graphics programming. They shared their experience with Vulkan, including their engine's architecture, shader techniques, and synchronization methods, and provided recommendations for resources and libraries to help others learn Vulkan.

More tales about outages and numeric limits

48 todsacerdoti 2025-11-21 13:44:12 UTC rachelbythebay.com Full Share 3

Measuring Latency (2015)

43 dempedempe 2025-11-21 01:50:24 UTC bravenewgeek.com Llama Share 11

Gil Tene's talk on latency measurement highlights flaws in common tools and methodologies. Measuring latency requires describing the complete distribution of latencies, not just averages or percentiles.

Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being Unimpressed by AI

42 gehwartzen 2025-11-21 06:16:58 UTC 80.lv Llama Share 1

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman expressed surprise at people's negative reaction to AI integration in Windows. Critics argue Microsoft prioritizes AI over fixing Windows' known issues.

How/why to sweep async tasks under a Postgres table

39 ostler 2025-11-21 18:28:31 UTC taylor.town Llama Share 14

The user advocates for using a database as the central system for handling tasks and workflows, prioritizing transaction guarantees and reversibility. This approach eliminates errors and makes error-handling nicer, allowing for parallel processing and adequate randomness.

Streaming platform Twitch added to Australia's teen social media ban

38 Erikun 2025-11-21 06:37:07 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 80

Twitch has been added to Australia's teen social media ban, requiring under-16s to close existing accounts by January 9. The ban aims to prevent under-16s from using platforms for online social interaction.

Arduino Terms of Service and Privacy Policy update: setting the record straight

35 manchoz 2025-11-21 21:13:11 UTC blog.arduino.cc Llama Share 16

Arduino reaffirms commitment to open-source principles and transparency, with no changes to user data handling or open-source availability. Updates to Terms of Service and Privacy Policy clarify data retention, minors' data protection, and commercial terms.

While Eyes Are on Takaichi, Taiwan's Lai Is Quietly Redefining the Status Quo

34 jasondp 2025-11-21 06:19:20 UTC jonathancc.substack.com Llama Share 14

Jonathan Chen, a former investigative reporter and PR Head, provides high-fidelity insights on China's political and tech landscape. He analyzes the Lai Ching-te administration's move to exclude mainland spouses from public office, potentially leading to de facto Taiwan independence.

3D printing with unconventional vase mode

29 dgroshev 2025-11-21 23:10:17 UTC vorpal.se Llama Share 6

The article discusses advanced techniques for 3D printing using vase mode, a printing mode that prints a spiral path with no seams, and how to modify it to create unconventional prints. It explains how to use slits, double walls, and increased extrusion width to create stronger and lighter prints.

Is C++26 getting destructive move semantics?

27 signa11 2025-11-21 14:52:36 UTC stackoverflow.com Llama Share 38

You want to express a function that consumes an object without running its destructor. The C++ specification lacks a way to do this directly, requiring manual memory management with placement-new and std::destroy_at.

RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern

23 vm 2025-11-21 00:22:11 UTC wpri.com Llama Share 4

A Rhode Island Superior Court intern was briefly detained by ICE agents before being released after a judge intervened and confirmed the intern was not the intended target. The incident has sparked concerns about ICE's operations in Rhode Island and calls for enhanced access to virtual court hearings.

Cloudflare Dashboard and Cloudflare API service issues

21 testplzignore 2025-11-21 19:19:17 UTC cloudflarestatus.com Full Share 2

Cloudflare is investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard. These issues do not affect the serving of cached files via the Cloudflare CDN or other security features at the Cloudflare Edge. Customers using the Dashboard are impacted as requests might fail and/or errors may be displayed.

iHeartRadio web has exposed all its source code

20 GhostyTongue 2025-11-21 12:49:08 UTC github.com/gh0stytongue Full Share 13

This repository is for educational and research purposes only. All code is copyrighted by iHeartMedia, Inc. The content in this repository belongs to iHeartMedia, Inc. If there are any copyright concerns, please contact for removal.

Apple's Problem with Bodies

18 valzevul 2025-11-21 23:16:25 UTC drobinin.com Llama Share 10

The author describes the challenges of developing iOS apps that deal with sensitive topics, such as intimacy and wellbeing, due to the App Store's outdated and literal classification system. The system relies on keywords and metadata to determine an app's rating, often resulting in incorrect classifications.

Explaining, at some length, Techmeme's 20 years of consistency

15 nhf 2025-11-21 23:54:49 UTC news.techmeme.com Llama Share 2

Techmeme celebrates 20 years of aggregating tech news, remaining consistent despite significant changes in technology and media. The site continues to evolve with new features and expansion into other news verticals.

Kyber vs. RSA-2048

11 iliasabs 2025-11-21 00:43:09 UTC blog.ellipticc.com Llama Share 10

RSA-2048 and elliptic-curve cryptography are vulnerable to quantum computers using Shor's algorithm, but Kyber is immune and already standardized, fast, and shipping. Kyber is dramatically faster than RSA-2048 for key generation and private operations, making it a better choice for securing digital infrastructure against future quantum threats.