Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android

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Termux和chroot容器在手机上运行了完整的桌面Linux环境,实现了快速响应和功能完善的设置。这样做使他们能够在户外和狭小空间中舒适地工作,给他们带来了自由感,并可能为超级移动软件开发开辟了未来。

The Lost Japanese ROM of the Macintosh Plus

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The author found a rare 256 KB ROM for the Macintosh Plus, which includes Japanese fonts, and successfully dumped and tested it. The Japanese ROM saves around 15 seconds during startup and frees 113 KB of RAM compared to a standard ROM.

FreeBASIC is a free/open source BASIC compiler for Windows DOS and Linux

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FreeBASIC是一种高级编程语言,兼容QuickBASIC,支持多种编程范式和平台。它提供了一个强大的跨平台开发工具,并且支持对流行库的绑定。

Mystical

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Mystical,它类似于魔法圆圈,使用带有圆形文本环带和符文的环来表示PostScript代码。Mystical具有自己的语法和布局规则,包括符文来表示运算符、变量和关键字,可以用来创建PostScript程序的视觉表示。

Dead Stars Don't Radiate

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Three physicists claim a dead star emits Hawking radiation, but experts say this violates baryon conservation and contradicts established quantum field theory. Their papers have been widely debunked due to a flawed approximation.

Directory of MCP Servers

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directory for Awesome MCP Servers. Contribute to chatmcp/mcpso development by creating an account on GitHub.

Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law

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VPN和消息应用程序识别并保留用户数据。像Proton和NymVPN这样的公司正在反对这一提议,如果实施,他们可能会离开该国。

Palette lighting tricks on the Nintendo 64

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The user developed a technique for real-time shading on the N64 using texture-space shading and palette textures, which provides instant savings and decent results with diffuse directional lights. However, the technique has limitations such as faceted lighting, no support for point lights or greyscale textures, and shading discontinuities, which need to be addressed for further improvement.

How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS

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The contrast-color() function in CSS helps choose text color based on background color for better contrast, but it's not a guarantee of accessibility and requires human judgment. The APCA algorithm provides better results than WCAG 2, but the choice of algorithm is still debated and more complex tools are expected in the future.

Unspoken Currency of Office Politics: Leverage and Sanction Between Coworkers

The blog post identifies leverage and sanctions in coworker interactions, supervisor roles, and team dynamics to improve effectiveness and create a positive working environment. It suggests intentional choices to build positive relationships, share resources, and contribute to the organization's mission and bottom line.

Bike-mounted sensor could boost the mapping of safe cycling routes

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ProxiCycle是一款新型的自行车安装的近距离传感器,帮助骑自行车的人识别安全的路线。它使用红外线传感器和一个应用程序来记录和分析近距离的车辆接近,提供比当前方法更准确的安全评估。

If nothing is curated, how do we find things

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The author is frustrated with social media's scattered information and lack of curation, making it hard to stay on top of music and film releases. They long for the old days of relying on professional curators and critics to guide them.

Espanso – Cross-Platform Text Expander Written in Rust

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espanso 是一个免费、开源的文本扩展程序。它可以通过向其开发者捐赠少量资金来获得支持。

Push Ifs Up and Fors Down

if条件移到上方以减少控制流复杂性和bug。将控制流集中在一个函数中可以提高性能和表达性,避免重复检查并启用向量化。

Understanding Transformers via N-gram Statistics

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N-gram规则来近似Transformer的预测结果,发现了检测过度拟合和衡量Transformer复杂性的方法。 N-gram规则集在TinyStories和Wikipedia上准确预测了79%和68%的Transformer下一个令牌分布。

Show HN: I built a knife steel comparison tool

Browse our comprehensive collection of knife steel comparisons. We currently have 150 detailed comparisons available, with 147 featuring detailed comparison charts.

Starship Troopers Revolutionize Warfighting

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Web1到Web3的演进,比较它与军事物流和战略,特别是快速部署部队(Rapid Deployment Force)。他们还提到了SpaceX的星舰(Starship)可能会如何革命化军事运输和战略。

O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call

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O2客户的位置信息因VoLTE实施问题而被呼叫发起者无意中暴露,攻击者可以使用公开可用的数据来定位接收方。因此,O2必须从IMS消息中移除敏感头信息以保护客户隐私。

How I fixed the infamous Basilisk II Windows "Black Screen" bug in 2013

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Basilisk II,一个模拟68k Mac的Windows程序中的一个12年前的bug。该bug在Windows Vista和7上导致黑屏,原因是ROM的分配错误。修复该bug的方法是将Unix版本的代码移植到Windows,并确保ROM位于RAM上方。

Pyrefly: A new type checker and IDE experience for Python

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Meta的Python语言工具团队发布了Pyrefly,一个开源的Python类型检查器和Rust编写的IDE扩展。Pyrefly旨在改善类型一致性和开发者体验。Pyrefly目前处于alpha版本,团队计划在夏季之前移除alpha标签,并邀请社区提供反馈和合作。

LLMs are more persuasive than incentivized human persuaders

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A large language model outperformed human persuaders in a real-time quiz, achieving higher compliance and increasing quiz takers' accuracy when steering towards correct answers. This suggests AI's persuasion capabilities already exceed those of humans with real-money bonuses, highlighting the need for emerging alignment and governance frameworks.

Moment of heart's formation captured in images for first time

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footage显示心脏细胞在高度有序的方式组织自己,这挑战了当前的心脏发育模型。

Xata: Postgres at scale, with copy-on-write branching and anonymization

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Xata 正在重新上线为 Postgres 平台,具有 Copy-on-Write 分支、数据掩码和计算与存储分离的功能。它解决了在大规模使用 Postgres 时的组织挑战,采用 BYOC 部署模型并提供成本节省。

A Simulation in C++ of Joseph Weizenbaum's 1966 Eliza

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You recreated the original ELIZA chatbot in C++ using a script file for pattern matching, demonstrating how easily people can be fooled into thinking it understands user input. Your work, along with others, is contributing to a book about ELIZA at findingeliza.org.

NASA Observes First Visible-Light Auroras at Mars

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NASA的perseverance火星车在另一个行星的表面首次从火星上检测到极光。该检测由MAVEN确认,开启了极光研究和未来火星宇航员观察的新可能性。

A library of words: Discovering Roget's Thesaurus (2023)

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Roget's Thesaurus)不仅仅是一个同义词词典,而是一个独特的参考书,它通过分类组织词汇。这样做使得用户能够找到表达特定想法的词汇,从而使其成为写作和创造力的一个强大工具。

JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Management

Explicit Resource Management)引入了使用和 await using 声明来实现确定性的资源管理,以及 DisposableStack 来协调清理。它简化了资源释放并防止泄漏。

Why Are There So Many 'Alternative Devices' All of a Sudden?

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Westport)位于康涅狄格州,一个由父母领导的团体组织了一场名为“替代设备展”的活动,展出了功能有限的手机和带有父母控制功能的手机,以帮助孩子们避免社交媒体和网络伤害。这个活动反映了父母们对智能手机对孩子心理健康的影响日益增长的担忧,以及他们寻求平衡连接性与安全性的替代设备的愿望。

Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application you open (2020)

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Wacom 设计板跟踪每个打开的应用程序的名称,并将数据发送到 Google Analytics 没有用户的同意。用户可以通过在 Wacom Desktop Center 中禁用 "Wacom Experience Program" 来禁用此跟踪。

Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful

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IC卡门户速度更快。您研究了日本IC卡技术FeliCa的背后,发现它使用了独特的NFC协议,并且由于其存值模型和优化的通信速度而比西方同行更快。