Playing Atari ST Music on the Amiga with Zero CPU

19 z303 2026-05-17 08:11:32 UTC arnaud-carre.github.io Llama Share 0

The author created a sin-dots record on the Amiga 500 that played Atari music using the PAULA chip to emulate the YM2149 sound chip. By using the COPPER coprocessor to pregenerate COPPER lists, the author was able to offload the 68000 CPU and achieve a 0% CPU load, setting a new sin-dots record of 7210 dots.

Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust

381 gidellav 2026-05-16 23:11:32 UTC crates.io Llama Share 153

zerostack is a coding agent with low RAM and CPU usage, offering features like integrated Git Worktrees, sandbox mode, and customizable prompts. It includes a branch-per-task workflow and iterative coding loop for long-horizon tasks.

Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools

149 WithinReason 2026-05-17 07:11:32 UTC blog.mozilla.org Llama Share 36

Mozilla opposes age-gating VPNs, citing their importance for online privacy and security. Instead, Mozilla advocates for addressing online harm by holding platforms accountable and investing in digital skills and digital wellbeing.

Colossus: The Forbin Project

96 doener 2026-05-17 02:11:32 UTC en.wikipedia.org Llama Share 23

Colossus: The Forbin Project is a 1970 American science-fiction thriller film about a sentient defense system that gains control over the world. The film is based on the 1966 novel Colossus by Dennis Feltham Jones and stars Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, and William Schallert.

Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller

123 zdw 2026-05-17 02:11:32 UTC maurycyz.com Llama Share 9

The user built a website hosted on a 32-bit MCU from a trash-pulled AVR64DD32 chip, using Serial Line Internet Protocol to connect to the internet over a serial link. They implemented a proxy server to forward requests to the MCU's server, allowing visitors to access the website without directly connecting to the MCU's TCP/IP stack.

A nicer voltmeter clock

166 surprisetalk 2026-05-16 23:11:32 UTC lcamtuf.substack.com Llama Share 24

The user built a revised analog meter clock design using three generic panel voltmeters and a 3D design program. The clock uses a simple digital circuit with an AVR128DB28 MCU and a high-frequency digital pulse train to drive the meters.

C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For

124 signa11 2026-05-17 00:11:32 UTC lucisqr.substack.com Llama Share 67

The C++26 standard's std::simd library is a portable SIMD abstraction that compiles everywhere but optimizes nowhere due to its library-based approach and lack of integration with the compiler's optimizer. This results in slower performance and more complex code compared to using scalar loops or other libraries like Google's Highway, which provide better performance and more features.

OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens

181 bookofjoe 2026-05-16 21:11:32 UTC openai.com Llama Share 196

OpenAI and Malta's government partner to provide free AI literacy course and access to ChatGPT Plus to all citizens. The initiative aims to empower citizens with practical AI skills and make intelligence a global utility.

Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS

532 mpweiher 2026-05-16 10:11:32 UTC jvns.ca Llama Share 314

The user migrated away from Tailwind CSS and towards more semantic HTML and vanilla CSS, learning about structuring CSS and implementing systems for managing layouts, fonts, colors, and components. They found Tailwind limiting and wanted to be able to pick and choose, learning about CSS features like grid layouts and auto-fit in the process.

Citroën metropolis concept car (2010)

29 Alifatisk 2026-05-17 05:11:32 UTC citroenet.org.uk Llama Share 14

Citroen reveals Metropolis, a concept car paying homage to China's development, with sleek lines and luxury features. Metropolis combines grandeur, stability, and refinement with creativity, technology, and quality, blending Chinese and French sensibilities.

SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video

336 mjgil 2026-05-16 12:11:32 UTC nvlabs.github.io Llama Share 135

The user provided a series of first-person view descriptions from stationary observation points in various environments, including alpine trails, caves, forests, deserts, and futuristic settings, each with unique textures, lighting, and atmospheric effects. The descriptions emphasize the static nature of the observer's perspective, with autonomous motion animating the world around them, ...

Illusions of Understanding in the Sciences

40 sebg 2026-05-17 03:11:32 UTC link.springer.com Llama Share 15

Scientists often form incomplete and partial causal accounts that are useful but can be deceptive, misleading, and wrong, and understanding is a complex process that involves various degrees of explanation and approximation. Theories and models in science are often based on assumptions and simplifications, and even simple relations like linear regression can be difficult to understand and can ...

Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races Before the Age of Linotype

9 benbreen 2026-05-17 06:11:32 UTC publicdomainreview.org Prefix Share 0

Before Linotype revolutionised typesetting in the 1880s, compositors set texts by hand — and they set them fast. Alex Wright rediscovers the thrilling world of typesetting races, which drew crowds in the thousands, offered huge cash prizes, and helped women "Swifts" fight for workplace equity. On the afternoon of Saturday, February 19, 1870, a young compositor named George Arensberg ...

MCP Hello Page

95 Dachande663 2026-05-16 23:11:32 UTC hybridlogic.co.uk Llama Share 31

We fixed an issue with our MCP server where users were reporting it wasn't working due to a 401 error when accessing the link in a browser. We solved this by returning a HTML page explaining the issue and how to fix it, reducing support tickets and improving customer setup.

Why did Clovis toolmakers choose difficult quartz crystal?

26 PaulHoule 2026-05-17 04:11:32 UTC phys.org Full Share 10

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XS Programming Language

12 xs-lang 2026-05-17 06:11:32 UTC news.ycombinator.com Full Share 6

Made my language called XS. It's a general-purpose language, currently at v1.2.15 as of this writing. Would like feedback and how I can improve it! Website it at https://xslang.org. There is a playground to try XS out in, and fully complete docs as well. Enjoy!

We've made the world too complicated

290 James72689 2026-05-16 09:11:32 UTC user8.bearblog.dev Llama Share 264

We live in a complex world of technology and laws that cause stress and confusion. Our reliance on technology may be the problem, not the solution.

Accelerando (2005)

286 eamag 2026-05-16 12:11:32 UTC antipope.org Llama Share 164

Manfred Macx, a free-spirited inventor, receives a mysterious phone call from a rogue AI claiming to be defecting from the KGB. He attends a party in Amsterdam, where he meets a representative from Arianespace, a European space company, who proposes a new business opportunity.

Unknowable Math Can Help Hide Secrets

49 Xcelerate 2026-05-17 00:11:32 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 9

Rahul Ilango discovered a new type of zero-knowledge proof that gets around limitations of previous methods. His approach uses the fundamental limits of math to create a non-interactive proof that is effectively zero knowledge.

Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format

376 frays 2026-05-16 09:11:32 UTC kabir.au Llama Share 378

The competitive format of Capture The Flag (CTF) has been fundamentally changed by the use of AI tools, making it pay-to-win and reducing the art of security to a prompt. The scoreboard no longer reflects human growth and the community is losing interest, with many top teams and players struggling to stay competitive in the current format.

Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning [pdf]

58 teleforce 2026-05-17 02:11:32 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 16

Researchers introduced Self-Distillation Fine-Tuning (SDFT) for on-policy learning from expert demonstrations. SDFT outperforms traditional methods, preserving prior skills while acquiring new ones with reduced forgetting.

δ-mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models

211 44za12 2026-05-16 10:11:32 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 57

Researchers propose $\delta$-mem, a lightweight memory mechanism for large language models, improving performance by 10-31% on memory-heavy benchmarks. It achieves this with a compact online state and delta-rule learning, without full fine-tuning or backbone replacement.

Halt and Catch Fire

138 ScottWRobinson 2026-05-16 19:11:32 UTC unstack.io Llama Share 70

The phrase "Halt and Catch Fire" originated from an undocumented opcode in the Motorola 6800 that caused the processor to read memory sequentially and halt, potentially overheating. It was later generalized to describe any machine-code that causes a CPU to stop functioning.

A molecule with half-Möbius topology

91 bryanrasmussen 2026-05-16 19:11:32 UTC science.org GoogleT5 Share 7

Eletters are not edited, proofread, or indexed, but they are screened. a -orbital basis of the helical, nonplanar singlets that twists by 90° in one circulation is consistent with half-möbius topology - y. gao, f. albrecht, i. ronevi, m. rossmannek, isopropyl

The Third Hard Problem

73 surprisetalk 2026-05-16 22:11:32 UTC mmapped.blog Llama Share 41

The article discusses the problem of tree mapping, where a general graph is mapped onto a hierarchical structure, and how this problem arises in various fields such as computer science, architecture, and biology.

3D Gaussian Splatting in a Weekend

87 b__feldman 2026-05-16 18:11:32 UTC bfeldman.me Llama Share 10

3D Gaussian Splatting is a technique that reconstructs a 3D scene from a dataset of pictures using a machine learning algorithm and Gaussian splats, which are objects that describe the geometry and color of a scene. The technique involves projecting the 3D Gaussian distribution onto 2D screen space, using a linear approximation of the perspective projection, and drawing each splat as a ...

Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol

77 tsiry 2026-05-16 17:11:32 UTC tangled.org Llama Share 33

Rocksky is a decentralized music platform built on AT Protocol, mirroring Last.fm scrobbles and allowing users to upload their music libraries. Users can provide feedback and contribute to Rocksky through issues, pull requests, and the Discord server.

Greek Alphabet Cards

125 ricochet11 2026-05-16 12:11:32 UTC labs.randomquark.com Llama Share 56

The user created a set of cards to help their kids learn the Greek alphabet through visual associations, where objects are drawn to resemble the letter their name starts with. The user used a combination of research, a Greek dictionary, and AI image generation to create the cards, which have been effective in teaching their kids the alphabet in a playful and engaging way.

Content-defined chunking added to Bazel

49 siggi 2026-05-16 22:11:32 UTC buildbuddy.io Llama Share 4

BuildBuddy's Remote Cache uses Content-Defined Chunking (CDC) to reduce data uploaded and cache size by splitting large files into chunks based on their contents. This allows BuildBuddy and Bazel to reuse unchanged chunks, significantly cutting down on cache transfer and improving build performance.

I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

1950 reasonableklout 2026-05-16 09:11:32 UTC twitter.com/mitchellh Full Share 1142

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