You're working on a PC6502 project with a tower of PCBs on your sofa. You've made progress with keyboard integration, compact flash, and display functionality.
The user describes the issues with using Visual Studio on Windows, including lengthy installations, registry pollution, and lack of transparency, and proposes a solution called msvcup, a CLI tool that installs the MSVC toolchain and SDK in a few minutes. msvcup is a versioned, isolated, and declarative dependency that allows for reproducible builds across machines and eliminates the need for ...
The European Commission adopted new measures to prevent unsold apparel destruction, cutting waste and emissions. Companies must disclose unsold products and ban destruction by 2027, with derogations for safety reasons.
Researchers introduced Aletheia, a math research agent that generates, verifies, and revises solutions in natural language. Aletheia demonstrated capabilities from Olympiad problems to PhD-level exercises and achieved milestones in AI-assisted mathematics research.
A Moog-style polyphonic synthesizer is built in Python with a tkinter GUI inspired by the Subsequent 37. It supports MIDI controllers for real-time parameter control.
A new file format called Gwtar is introduced to solve the problem of archiving large HTML pages, which is difficult because it needs to be static, single, and efficient. Gwtar achieves all three properties by using a combination of HTML, JavaScript, and a tarball to store assets, allowing for lazy-loading and selective downloading of assets.
The user describes a path tracing library built on top of Three.js WebGL framework, showcasing various demos including geometry, ocean, sky, billiard table, Cornell Box, volumetric rendering, water, light shaft, terrain, and more, all rendered in real-time at 30-60 FPS on any device. The library also features advanced techniques such as quadric geometry, constructive solid geometry, and ...
Old code was often verbose and used multiple style blocks, whereas modern code is concise and uses features like CSS variables, transitions, and media queries. Modern code also tends to use fewer JavaScript libraries and more native functionality.
A coalition of 40 state attorneys general supports the Senate's Kids Online Safety Act, urging Congress to adopt it over the House version due to its stronger regulatory framework. The Act would require online platforms to verify users' real-world identities and mitigate harms to minors, raising constitutional concerns about anonymous speech and identity checks.
The user thanks ArchWiki maintainers for their contributions to software freedom and documentation, highlighting its usefulness in understanding technology. They encourage others to appreciate and support the maintainers through donations.
Hideki Sato, the designer behind Sega consoles, has died at 77. He led the creation of Sega's arcade and home console hardware, including the Master System, Genesis, Saturn, and Dreamcast.
New York City's public hospital system pays Palantir $4 million to improve billing efficiency. Critics argue Palantir's involvement puts patients' data at risk due to its role in ICE deportations and Israeli military actions.
MicroLEDs, with pixels just micrometers across, have long been a byword in the display world. Now, microLED-makers have begun shrinking their creations into the uncharted nano realm. In January, a startup named Polar Light Technologies unveiled prototype blue LEDs less than 500 nanometers across. This raises a tempting question: How far can LEDs shrink? We know the answer is, at least, ...
Flashpoint Archive preserves over 200,000 games and animations from the web, aiming to prevent their loss to time. The non-profit project relies on community contributors and donations to further its goal of preserving internet history and culture.
Oat is a lightweight, zero-dependency UI library for building web applications with semantic HTML and minimal JavaScript. It's designed for simplicity and customization, with a focus on standards-based UI and minimal bloat.
A model generates names by learning from training data, using attention heads and multilayer perceptrons to focus on input aspects and relationships. It uses gradient descent and entropy to adjust weights, allowing it to learn patterns and generate names with varying levels of complexity.
Knock-knock.net visualizes bot traffic on the internet as "background radiation." It shows real-time bot activity and historic stats on attempted usernames and passwords.
Palantir is suing Swiss online magazine Republik for factual comparison in two reports. The company claims it was unfairly treated by the reporting, which came at an inopportune time for Palantir's business interests.
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The game Starflight, published by Binary Systems in the 80s, is a sandbox game that allows players to explore the galaxy, engage in combat, and interact with aliens, with a broader plot emerging as the player discovers an ancient threat. The game's code is written in Forth, a minimalist language with a simple syntax, which makes it unique and challenging to reverse engineer, but also allows ...
Irish-language sci-fi book Digitization of Manannán is being made more accessible. Errors in the first chapter are being corrected to reduce mistakes in later chapters.
Owner’s Record The model and serial numbers are located on the rear. Record these numbers in the spaces provided below. Refer to them whenever you call upon your Sony dealer regarding this product. For the customers in the U.S.A. This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to ...
A user reverse-engineered a smart sleep mask's Bluetooth protocol and app to create a web control panel, but discovered it could also read and control other users' brainwaves and devices. The user contacted the company about the issue and used the experience to revisit digital hygiene practices.
Fossil hunter Barnum Brown is remembered today as “Father of the Dinosaurs,” or, more curtly, “Mr. Bones.” Brown is best known for his discovery of Tyrannosaurus rex in 1902, but that’s just one feat in his paleontology career that took him around the globe—he also did some side work with Disney, oil titans, and the CIA’s predecessor. He was born on this day in 1873 in Kansas, named after the ...
Amazon's Ring ad sparked a backlash over its "Search Party" feature, which links cameras to form a neighborhood-wide surveillance dragnet. The incident highlights growing concerns over the US surveillance state and the erosion of individual privacy.
RynnBrain is an embodied foundation model grounded in physical reality with variants for dense and mixture-of-experts models. It excels in fine-grained video understanding, localization, and physical-space reasoning with applications in robot task planning and navigation.
The author, a recovering addict, had a spiritual experience on nitrous oxide that led to a deep sense of connection with God, but ultimately ended in rejection and addiction. The author's experience was marked by a desperate attempt to prove God's existence and a refusal to accept the reality of their situation.
Antoine's grafting innovation led to the development of a commercial pecan industry in the US, transforming the crop into a cash crop. His work paved the way for the Centennial variety of pecan, catapulting the industry into profitability across the South.