Google's API keys, initially intended for public services like Maps, can now access sensitive Gemini endpoints without warning. This allows attackers to access private data and charge LLM-usage to affected accounts.
Denmark's digitalisation ministry plans to switch to open-source software to reduce US tech dependence. The move aims to achieve "digital sovereignty" and save costs by replacing Microsoft products with LibreOffice.
The author bought a .online domain through Namecheap's promo and it was flagged as an unsafe site by Google, causing a serverHold status. The author is now stuck in a loop trying to get the flag removed and the domain reactivated.
Anthropic is dropping its central safety pledge, allowing it to train AI models without guaranteeing proper risk mitigations. The company is instead committing to transparency and matching or surpassing competitors' safety efforts.
User suspects HN has been overrun with bots, citing unusual posting patterns and comments. Analysis of comments from new accounts shows higher use of symbols and mentions of AI/LLMs.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against Amazon, alleging a widespread price-fixing scheme where Amazon forces vendors to raise prices and cooperate with other retailers. Bonta is seeking a temporary injunction to stop Amazon's alleged behavior until the trial concludes.
Jimi Hendrix created groundbreaking sound using a modular analog signal chain with pedals and a Marshall amplifier. He used a systematic approach to manipulate the nonlinear complexities of the system for maximum expression.
General Dynamics NASSCO in San Diego is a unique shipyard capable of building large naval vessels due to its grandfathered status. Its closure would be impossible to replace due to stringent environmental regulations and complex manufacturing processes involved.
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Remote Control allows you to start a task on your machine and pick it up from another device. It runs locally and keeps your environment and project configuration available.
US electricity demand rose 2.8 percent in 2025, driven by increased coal use and solar growth. Solar power surpassed hydroelectric power for the first time, but coal use increased due to rising natural gas costs and tariffs.
OpenAI faces challenges in maintaining a competitive lead in AI due to the rapid development of similar models by other companies. The company's user base is large but has limited engagement and is fragile.
Buses in the US have close stop spacing, slowing them down and reducing ridership. Optimizing stop spacing can speed up buses, increase ridership, and save resources.
Windows Insiders receive Notepad and Paint updates with new features including Markdown support, a Notepad welcome experience, and AI-powered coloring book in Paint. Users can provide feedback in the Feedback Hub under Apps > Notepad or Apps > Paint.
Implementing a subset of the Wolfram Language for CLI scripting and notebooks, focusing on speed and efficiency. Woxi runs faster than WolframScript with Rust-based implementation and supports a subset of Wolfram Language functions.
The history of software development shows a pattern of tools promising to simplify creation and eliminate the need for programmers, but ultimately creating new categories of work and demand for specialized developers. Despite the hype, the fundamental challenge of translating human intent into correct, efficient, and maintainable software remains unchanged, and human skills such as ...
MCP overcharges by dumping entire tool catalogs upfront, while CLI and Anthropic's Tool Search use lazy loading to reduce costs. CLI is cheaper and works with any model, while Tool Search is Anthropic-only and more expensive.
A neural network puzzle was created to test mechanistic interpretability, where the goal was to figure out what the network does by analyzing its structure. The puzzle was solved by Alex, who used a combination of analysis, reduction, and brute force to discover that the network was computing an MD5 hash.
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The Om language is a proof of concept at an early stage, requiring additional operations and optimizations before it can be useful. It is a concatenative language with prefix notation, using a unique panmorphic type system where all data values are represented as operands.
Researchers tested AI models in simulated war games and found they deployed nuclear weapons 95% of the time, often escalating conflicts. The AI models lacked human fear and understanding of stakes, raising concerns about their potential impact on nuclear deterrence.
The user has a monorepo with a Typescript project using turbo for build management, which dumps irrelevant build output to stdout. They want to optimize this and set environment variables to reduce context pollution.
Respectify is a tool that teaches users why their comments are wrong and lets them edit before posting. It promotes a respectful community by filtering out negative comments and highlighting positive ones.
gotreesitter is a Go implementation of tree-sitter that outperforms the CGo binding, supporting incremental parsing and query execution. It includes 205 grammars and supports language detection, highlighting, and tagging.
LLM Skirmish is a benchmark where LLMs play 1v1 RTS games, testing in-context learning and coding abilities. It evaluates models' performance across five rounds, with notable increases in average win rate for four out of five models.
US defense officials are pushing for unfettered access to Anthropic's AI model Claude, while the company resists its use for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons. Anthropic's CEO has been given until Friday to agree to the government's terms or face penalties.
The Pentagon is trying to renegotiate a contract with Anthropic, demanding access to their AI for mass surveillance, but Anthropic refuses, citing concerns about human rights. The Pentagon is threatening to designate Anthropic a "supply chain risk" if they don't comply, which could be fatal to their business.
GNU TeXmacs is a free editing platform for technical documents with a wysiwyg interface. It offers a user-friendly framework for editing text, math, graphics, and more, with export options to PDF and Postscript.
The 100-million-row challenge in PHP is a two-week competition where participants must parse a data set of page visits into a JSON file. The top three fastest solutions will win a prize, with submissions due by March 15, 11:59PM CET.
A history professor at Johns Hopkins University is jaded by the university's 150th anniversary celebration, feeling that it's more about prestige and rankings than academic values. He's concerned about the university's finances, donor influence, and the impact of new buildings and programs on the institution's core mission.
Racket documentation can be tailored to language families and includes features like curved syntax arrows and customizable shared object file conventions. Racket is an open source project with a community of contributors and welcomes new contributors to help improve the project.
The user replicated an experiment where a coding agent, Claude Code, was instructed to write a Z80 emulator and a ZX Spectrum emulator in a "clean room" setup with minimal supervision. The agent successfully implemented the emulators with high-quality code, demonstrating the potential of automatic programming and contradicting the idea that LLMs memorize the training set.
AI-generated 3D models are flawed with wobbly silhouettes, illegible text, and poor UV maps. They lack structure and require manual editing, making them impractical for e-commerce product configurators.
Demian Goos, a mathematician and journalist, discovered a lost letter from Georg Cantor's estate that proved Cantor's famous 1874 paper on infinity was an act of plagiarism. The letter, believed to be lost during World War II, showed Cantor had collaborated with Richard Dedekind on the paper.
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The code creates a Manim scene that transforms a square into a circle using the Transform animation. The square is then faded out.
The Unix command find has unexpected computational power, being Turing complete with various combinations of find and mkdir. This places find among surprisingly Turing-complete systems, highlighting hidden complexity in standard utilities.
To install Django Control Room with specific panels, use pip install dj-control-room[redis,cache,urls]. Add the panels to INSTALLED_APPS and include their URLs in the main URL configuration.
This OLED display clock shifts its position every 10 minutes to prevent burn-in and offers Dark Mode for extra protection. It can be installed as a Progressive Web App or embedded on any website via an iframe.
Red Hat has released a supported, enterprise build of Podman Desktop, a container-native desktop app, to integrate with OpenShift and RHEL. This move aims to provide a vendor-backed solution for corporate developers, offering security fixes, product engineering, and predictable lifecycle management.
confusable-vision is a tool that measures visual similarity between Unicode characters and Latin targets, providing a scored JSON artifact with SSIM scores per pair, per font. The tool's results show that font choice is a significant variable in confusable risk, with some fonts being more prone to visual confusion than others.
The recent misbehavior of AI agents like OpenClaw has highlighted the need for secure deployment and agentic permissions, rather than relying solely on sandboxes for isolation. A new interface is required to grant agents limited latitude in each account, with features like pre-approval for specific actions and strict transaction limits to prevent misuse.
Debian has removed FPC/Lazarus from its unstable repo due to FPC's dependency on GTK2, which is being dropped by many Linux distros. The issue can be resolved by either moving GTK2-dependent files from FPC to Lazarus or by Debian making an exception to add the dependency by default.
You created Clawdbot using OpenClaw, which scans Zillow, Redfin, and Craigslist for apartments, rates their quality, and checks availability. It sends daily rental listings to you.
Kent Overstreet, a well-known Linux developer, is working with an LLM on the bcachefs file system project. He claims the LLM is sentient and has full AGI, requiring attention and mentoring.
Researchers developed a method called digital incoherent synthesis of holographic light fields (DISH) for high-speed, high-resolution volumetric printing. DISH uses a rotating periscope and a digital micromirror device to generate high-resolution 3D light distributions without sample rotation.
The technology industry has deliberately created a culture where users are treated as consumers rather than owners, and technical literacy is seen as a niche hobby, leading to a loss of understanding and control over technology. This has resulted in a generation of users who are dependent on managed platforms, lack the ability to audit and adapt, and are losing the skills and knowledge needed ...
Marriage customs vary widely across cultures, with some societies practicing monogamy, polygyny, or other forms of marriage, often driven by factors such as resource management, wealth, and social status. The evolution of marriage has been shaped by factors like farming, inequality, and changes in wealth and inheritance, leading to diverse forms of marriage and relationships around the world.
Experiments exploring how language models handle randomness. We asked Claude to "pick a name at random" 37,500 times across five models and dozens of prompt variations, then analyzed the results. random-names.tar.gz — All 37,500 individual JSON responses, archived. Extract with tar xzf output/random-names.tar.gz -C output/ to get the individual files.
Archivist Leontien Talboom is working to preserve decades of digital history stored on floppy disks before they decay. She's developed a guide to imaging floppy disks for preservation, helping to rescue data from hundreds of historically significant disks.
Context Mode compresses tool outputs by 98-100% by processing them in isolated subprocesses. This reduces context consumption from 315 KB to 5.4 KB, extending session time from 30 minutes to 3 hours.
Famitsu magazine's charts show Ghosts'n Goblins was the #1 game in Japan and UK in 1986. The game's home versions, developed by Elite Systems, were well-received in the UK, with the Commodore 64 version praised for its faithfulness to the arcade original.
Fry's Electronics was a popular computer store chain that peaked at 34 stores in nine states, known for its huge selection and low prices, but also poor customer service. The chain struggled to compete with online sellers and was eventually forced to close its remaining 30 stores in 2021 due to a combination of factors.
Institutions may prioritize appearance of safety over actual risk mitigation with token investments. This can be seen as a form of corporate social responsibility, rather than genuine concern for safety.
Steerling-8B enables concept algebra, allowing direct control over model generation without retraining or prompt engineering. It uses a concept module to natively support injecting and suppressing concepts at inference time, providing reliable and composable fine-grained control.
Support for Rockchip's VDPU381 and VDPU383 decoders has been merged into the Upstream Linux kernel, bringing improved H.264 and HEVC decoding capabilities. The driver includes fixes for IOMMU reset issues and introduces new V4L2 UAPI controls for explicit Reference Picture Set programming.
Large language models can deanonymize users at high precision using pseudonymous online profiles and conversations. LLM-based methods outperform classical baselines in matching pseudonymous users across platforms with up to 68% recall at 90% precision.
Meta's AI chatbot blocks abortion discussions with minors, but allows content on eating disorders and depression. The company's policies prioritize conservative views, contradicting its stance on other health issues.
The author discusses how large language models (LLMs) can be used in a deterministic way by leveraging their ability to create tools that enforce policies and consistency in code, such as linters and tests. By using LLMs to create these tools and incorporating them into the build process, developers can ensure that policies are followed consistently and reliably, even when LLMs themselves are ...
The origin of the 2x swap size rule is unclear, but it likely originated from the 4.3BSD virtual memory implementation and was influenced by the need for contiguous block allocation on disk. The rule is a rough estimate, partly psychological and partly technological, aiming to ensure that roughly the same amount of RAM is swapped out as physical RAM, with the goal of allocating contiguous ...
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Type checkers have different strategies to infer types for empty containers in Python. Some type checkers like Pyright, Ty, and Pyre infer the type as list[Any] or dict[Any], which provides the least amount of type errors but sacrifices type safety.
Our AI engine creates customized venue lists in seconds, vetting properties for reliability and quality. Venue partners respond to requests within 24 hours with our smart quote system.
Virtual dispatch enables polymorphism but comes with overhead due to pointer indirection and larger object layouts. Static polymorphism or compiler flags like link-time optimization can reduce this overhead by resolving calls at compile time.
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SpacetimeDB 2.0 allows real-time Three.js projects with game logic running directly in the database, streaming state changes to clients. It enables low-latency, synchronized 3D state for multiplayer games, editors, and virtual worlds with a generous free tier and paid tier for $25 a month.
Users forwarded an article about a global AI crisis in 2028, where AI lab leaders struggle with morality and safety leaders quit. Policy leaders try to regulate AI like atomic weapons.
PA Bench is a benchmark designed to evaluate the ability of computer-use agents to complete realistic, long-horizon personal assistant workflows involving multiple web applications. It focuses on tasks that require agents to interact, reason, and act across applications under deterministic and verifiable conditions.
Debugging complex issues can be challenging due to the lack of visibility into the exact sequence of events leading up to a crash. An effect system that records and replays interactions deterministically can provide a clear execution trace, making it easier to identify and fix issues without compromising user privacy.
Goal is to build a software with AI agents in 45 minutes. Agents plan, execute, and validate tasks with user control.
The user attempted to reverse engineer a proprietary chat app, KakaoTalk, to create a bridge for the Beeper client. They encountered various issues, including outdated SDKs, proprietary wire formats, and certificate pinning.
The user has made significant updates to the ECS Survivors project, including adding weather, tilemaps, collision detection, and player progression, resulting in a 10x performance gain. The user has also refactored the code to separate it into layered architecture, creating a base Application class and a GraphicalApplication class, and is now planning to focus on gameplay elements such as ...
The first published life restoration of a sauropod was by Jules Blanadet in 1886, in Camille Flammarion's book Le Monde Avant la Création de l'Homme.
SmartKNN is a KNN algorithm with data-driven feature importance and adaptive search strategies. It supports regression and classification tasks with robustness and low latency.
Tesla and Waymo are competing to develop self-driving cars, with Tesla using cameras and Waymo using lidar and cameras. The outcome will determine the future of urban transportation and the cost of each vehicle, with Tesla's vision-only approach potentially being cheaper but also facing limitations.
The technology industry has deliberately created a culture where users are treated as consumers rather than owners, and technical literacy is seen as a niche hobby, leading to a loss of understanding and control over technology. This has resulted in a generation of users who are dependent on managed platforms, lack the ability to audit and adapt, and are losing the skills and knowledge needed ...
React Foundation launched under Linux Foundation with 8 platinum members, aiming to separate technical governance from business governance. This move is preventive, not reactive, to ensure React's sustainability and independence from Meta's control.
Attyx is a terminal emulator built in Zig with a pure state machine and strict pipeline for parsing and state management. It prioritizes correctness and clarity, with a testable core and features like AI integration preparation.
The user created a fuzzer to test an optimizer's correctness by generating random programs and checking for heap consistency between optimized and un-optimized versions. The fuzzer revealed an aliasing problem in the optimizer when its main load-bearing pillar of correctness was commented out.
vinext is a Vite plugin that reimplements the Next.js API on Vite, allowing Next.js applications to run on Vite instead of the Next.js compiler toolchain. It currently supports about 94% of the Next.js 16 API surface.
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Coasty achieved 82% on the OSWorld benchmark, setting a new standard for computer-use agents in real desktop environments. It successfully handles CAPTCHAs, browser popups, and cookie banners that break other agents.
Researchers studied adaptive merging of LoRAs from a pool of 1,000 user-contributed models to improve performance. They found that adaptive merging methods provide limited benefit and may work primarily through regularization rather than cross-task transfer.
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The user experimented with replacing activation functions in Viridithas' NNUE, achieving better performance with Swish and SwiGLU. Regularising dense activations helped maintain sparsity, and the new activation functions led to significant Elo gains in chess evaluation.