A repository consolidates former PoC repos with identical tracked files. It preserves vulnerability research for 12 repos with 96 tracked entries, for good-faith open-disclosure.
OpenRA playtest features new random map generators for Red Alert, Tiberian Dawn, and Dune 2000. The update includes balance overhauls, difficulty adjustments, and UI improvements for map-making.
DeepSpec: a full-stack codebase for training and evaluating speculative decoding algorithms - DeepSpec/DSpark_paper.pdf at main Β· deepseek-ai/DeepSpec
Mark Zuckerberg is waging a bizarre war on whistleblowers, including Sarah Wynn-Williams, author of Careless People, which exposes Facebook's misconduct. Zuckerberg is demanding $111m and silence from Wynn-Williams, who has complied despite the absurdity of the situation.
Apple's MacOS 27 Golden Gate has improved app icons, restoring distinct shapes and sharper designs. However, MacOS 26 Tahoe's forced squircle shape for third-party icons is still a usability issue that Apple should address.
Fintech systems require careful handling of money to prevent errors and ensure trust. Key patterns include idempotency, deduplication, reconciliation, and event sourcing to maintain accurate and reliable financial records.
Digital purchases are often revocable licenses, not actual files, and can be removed by stores without notice. Physical media, such as discs and books, cannot be remotely erased and can be owned, resold, and lent indefinitely.
Browse, filter and live-preview open webcams from around the world.
The user created a "Town Square" feature on their website, allowing visitors to see each other as stick figures and interact. They've open sourced it and made it available for others to integrate into their sites.
California law prohibits streaming ads from being louder than content starting July 1. Streaming services may apply volume adjustments to US streams nationwide due to technical requirements.
Encrypted DNS options like DoH and DoT add latency but often have similar whole-page load times as plain DNS. However, they provide better security and some providers have minor overhead.
Sakana AI launched Fugu, a frontier AI model, in Tokyo, targeting Japanese businesses and government agencies to reduce export control exposure. The move comes as the US government's ban on Anthropic's models drags on, with local alternatives like Sakana and China's 360 filling the gap.
Discontinuities in tax policies, subsidies, and other systems can lead to people behaving in ways that are not optimal, such as losing money to reduce taxes or manipulating grades. Smoothing out these discontinuities can help mitigate these issues, and techniques like randomization can be used to achieve this.
OpenTTD 16 beta is available with improved map generation and new features like custom control of land height and aging rate of cargo payments. The OpenTTD 16 Title Game Competition has been launched on TT-Forums for community members to design and vote on the new title game.
The Apple Neural Engine is a fixed-function matrix accelerator in Apple chips since A11-class, exposed through Core ML. A reverse-engineered guide documents its datapath, dispatch route, and compiler format for A11-A18 and M1-M5 chips.
A former Meta executive, Sarah Wynn-Williams, sued the company for allegedly trying to silence her over her memoir "Careless People." She claims Meta's private arbitration order and severance agreement are invalid and seeks to lift the gag order.
Researchers found that GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic reverse depression-like behavior in mice and humans by promoting beneficial gut microbes. A specific microbe, Lactobacillus delbrueckii, produces mood-boosting endocannabinoids when exposed to GLP-1 drugs.
Robert J. Sawyer, a science fiction author, uses WordStar for writing due to its intuitive interface and long-hand-page metaphor, which allows for easy editing and navigation. WordStar's unique control-key commands and customizable options make it a more productive tool for writers.
Mythos, a powerful AI model, has raised concerns about its potential to automate zero-day exploits, but its actual impact may be overstated. Existing cybersecurity measures, such as zero trust principles and AI-assisted vulnerability management, can still be effective in protecting against AI-assisted attacks.
Factorio 2.1 experimental is released with a changelog too long for Reddit, and users can opt in through Steam. The update includes graphics and audio system changes, and the team will continue to fix bugs and gather feedback.
The author was targeted by a fake-interview scam using a RAT called PinpinRAT, which was embedded in a TypeScript repository. The scam was sophisticated and used multiple fake websites, stolen history, and a patient timeline to avoid detection.
The text is a dummy sample of the printing industry, used since the 1500s. It has remained unchanged despite the transition to electronic typesetting.
John Boepple discovered freshwater mussel shells in the Illinois River, which led to the creation of a pearl button industry in Muscatine, Iowa. The industry thrived from 1891 to the 1960s, but ultimately devastated the local mussel population and led to conservation efforts.
Physicists have different methods to count elementary particles due to complexities in the Standard Model of particle physics. The number of particles can range from 17 to over 1000 depending on the criteria used.
ClickHouse Cloud built WAL-RUS, a Rust-based Postgres backup tool for predictable memory usage. WAL-RUS is compatible with WAL-G and reduces memory consumption by over 70% while maintaining archival throughput.
Reddit's spam filter system, which includes spamurai, uses various methods to detect and remove spam content. The system can see internal removal reasons, but only sitewide admins can view them.
Logic for Programmers is on sale until Jan 2nd with 40% off. Bjarne Stroustrup's Rule states that beginners need explicit syntax, while experts prefer terse notation.
Adrafinil is a macOS app that keeps a Mac awake when an AI coding agent is active, then sleeps normally when the agent finishes. It's a privileged helper that isolates sleep control in an unprivileged daemon.
Old Computer Challenge community is a group of enthusiasts who participate in retro computing and digital minimalism. The challenge takes place annually, with a theme and rules to create a unique experience.
A man in Claremore, Oklahoma, was arrested for speaking past a three-minute timer at a city council meeting about a proposed 270-to-300-acre data center campus. The arrest raises questions about how towns handle dissent when big infrastructure money arrives and the limits of public comment.
A Hacker News departures board displays top 20 stories with rank, score, and title on a split-flap display. It fetches the front page on a schedule and allows users to pin their own text and toggle flap clicks.
Trealla is a local-first knowledge base with content-addressable storage and hyper-relational graph. It uses Prolog as the main runtime and supports features like time-travel, deduplication, and full-text search.
The user built a 10-inch mini rack from aluminium extrusions to tidy up their desk and house six 1L PCs for a virtualization project. They encountered some challenges, such as expensive shelves and power distribution units, but overall they are happy with the build and its improved cable management.
Researchers warn that screen time for babies under two may lead to long-term negative effects on health and quality of life. They call for urgent investigation and reconsideration of government guidance on screen time for under-fives.
Alan Kay defines object-oriented programming as messaging, local retention and protection of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. This concept can be achieved in Smalltalk and LISP, and possibly other systems.
The book "Mathematics: Its Content, Methods, and Meaning" by Aleksandrov, Kolmogorov, and Lavrent'ev covers various mathematical disciplines in three volumes. It features contributions from prominent Soviet mathematicians, including Gel'fand, and is accessible to strong senior undergraduates.
A 60-year-old man in Spain had multiple brain lesions and was initially suspected of having metastatic cancer. However, tests revealed he had neurocysticercosis, a parasitic infection caused by tapeworm larvae.
To add an extra layer of security to a web browser or Electron-based IM application, use LXC to isolate the application from the host system. This involves creating an unprivileged container with network capabilities and mapping UIDs and GIDs to unused host IDs.
The author reflects on their childhood experiences working with their father, a Colombian immigrant, and how it taught them about the importance of paying attention to details in reality, which is often overlooked. This realization has implications for various domains, including programming, physics, and personal growth, and the author argues that seeking out and noticing details is crucial ...
The author discusses issues with software hackathons, citing a lack of quality projects and perverse incentives for participants. They propose a solution using a funding model that rewards participants based on actual coding time, rather than self-reported hours.
Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed pixels that can both create and analyze images. These bidirectional pixels could lead to the development of camera-displays that combine the two functions in a single device.
Iran and Oman's foreign ministries discussed the IMO plan on Monday, finalizing it before its suspension due to the IRGC's insistence on the northern route. The evacuation plan remains suspended due to a lack of guarantees that ships will not be attacked, despite traffic through the Strait of Hormuz continuing largely unabated.
Our services are down due to a power outage affecting three servers, with one server now back online but others still unreachable. We're investigating the cause and waiting for a fix from the datacenter operator.
Netflix replaced Compute Managed Batch with Kueue, a cloud-native job queueing system, to offer a more managed experience for batch workloads. The migration required zero lift for end users and was completed in 4 weeks, with Kueue now managing millions of batch workloads in production.
Young people in rich countries struggle with unaffordable housing near good jobs, leading to frustration and delayed independence. The issue may be partly due to a lack of new housing supply, partly attributed to older generations.
IBM's MCGA is a low-cost video chipset used in PS/2 models 25 and 30, consisting of memory and video formatter gate arrays. The formatter gate array decodes ISA addresses, manages RAMDAC, and generates pixel data in graphics and text modes.
The user discusses the concept of logic, explaining that it's a system for drawing conclusions from premises, and how formal logic is used in mathematics to provide a precise vocabulary for proofs. The user then explores the construction of real numbers using axiomatic methods, including the completeness axiom, and compares it to digital logic, which is used in computing to manipulate ...
MacBooks with unified memory behave like slow GPUs with large video RAM, allowing large model runs but at slower speeds. A MacBook M5 64GB can run certain models at 1500 tps prefix and 45 tps decode on 100K tokens.
The unified AI inference stack - from custom GPU kernels to production cloud serving on NVIDIA and AMD. 2x performance. Top open models. Open source stack.
The Linux scheduler is responsible for deciding which process or thread gets to run on a CPU, and it uses an algorithm called EEVDF to make this decision. EEVDF stands for Earliest Eligible Virtual Deadline First, and it takes into account a task's virtual runtime, eligibility, and deadline to determine which task should run next.
A puzzle game about tracing constellations in a living night sky.
The Videx VideoTerm card solved the Apple II's 40-column text limitation by using the Motorola MC6845 CRT Controller and 2KB of video RAM to store an 80-column character grid. The card's firmware and hardware architecture are emulated in the A2FPGA, which accurately replicates the original Videx card's behavior.
The author questions Dario Amodei's claim that scaling compute will solve AI's hard problems, specifically hallucinations, and suggests that a small company's architectural solution may be more effective. The author implies that the trillion-dollar bet on scaling may be a costly mistake.
Kiso is a publishing engine that converts OKF bundles into static websites for humans and AI. It generates a directory with HTML, Markdown, and XML files that can be opened locally or published online.
Search cyclearchive.com β find articles, chapters, issues and books about 19th- and early 20th-century cycling history, races, people, and publications.
AI-generated content is increasingly indistinguishable from human writing, making AI detectors unreliable. A new feature, "replays," provides a history of document edits, offering proof of human authorship.
Om Malik, a prominent tech journalist and investor, died at 59 after a long health journey. He founded Gigaom in 2001, which became a must-read for its hot scoops and sharp opinions on Silicon Valley.
European housing shortages are caused by zoning restrictions, especially in low-density suburbs, and are often driven by NIMBYism, but this issue is rarely discussed in continental Europe. Borrowing ideas from American YIMBYism, which advocates for more housing development, could help improve housing debates in Europe and address the continent's severe housing shortages.
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