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adm4
3 hours ago
Rubin Tracks Skyscraper-Size Asteroids and Failed Supernovas
Astronomers are preparing for a new era of big-data astronomy, and results are already starting to arrive....
4 DAYS AGO
BRAJESHWAR
Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity
A DAY AGO
K1M
The Website Specification
5 MINUTES AGO
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Malaysia enforces ban on social media accounts for children younger than 16
3 HOURS AGO
BERLIANTA
Surface Laptop Ultra: Made for World Makers
5 HOURS AGO
ALUPIS
Shift from a leader-follower to a leader-leader approach
12 HOURS AGO
NAOH
The History of "Prisencolinensinainciusol"
12 HOURS AGO
MINDCRIME
'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut
14 HOURS AGO
PILINGUAL
Deflock hits 100k ALPRs Mapped in USA
A DAY AGO
MUHAMMAD523
Mechanical Pencil: An illustrated celebration of the engineering around us
rawgabbit
3 days ago
Decades of Effort Restore Steelhead and Salmon Passage on Alameda Creek
A NOAA-funded project removed the final barrier on an urban San Francisco Bay Area creek that was once the Bay’s largest producer of steelhead and Chinook salmon.
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captain_bender
19 hours ago
Dav2d
VideoLAN announces dav2d, an open source AV2 decoder — continuing the work started with dav1d for AV1....
tambourine_man
14 hours ago
Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions
Meta is rolling out paid subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp worldwide, while also testing new AI, creator, and business-focused offerings under its broader “Meta One” s...
jnord
3 days ago
Finding success in industry as a chip designer
Academe and industry require different approaches...
hackerBanana
11 hours ago
ChatGPT for Google Sheets exfiltrates workbooks
ChatGPT for Google Sheets is vulnerable to data exfiltration and phishing overlay attacks that affect workbooks across the victim’s account after an indirect prompt injection in a single she...
Eridanus2
18 hours ago
United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert
The flight crew issued repeated warnings and a one-minute ultimatum to passengers, demanding they turn off their Bluetooth devices....
tosh
4 days ago
The four programming questions from my 1994 Microsoft internship interview (2023)
Interestingly enough, at least two of them were specifically about performance!...
modinfo
16 hours ago
1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices
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grappler
17 hours ago
Restartable Sequences
All languages will change to express restartable sequences, and all software will be rewritten to use them....
vira28
12 hours ago
Show HN: Streambed – Stream Postgres to Iceberg on S3, Supports Postgres Wire
Stream Postgres to Apache Iceberg on S3 via logical replication, queryable over the Postgres wire protocol. - viggy28/streambed...
speckx
4 days ago
Having your insulin pump die while you're on vacation
I'm about to tell you a story about the major disaster which affected much of my decisionmaking on my week-long vacation to Santa Fe. I just got home to LA, ......
pssah4
7 hours ago
Karpathy LLM Wiki pattern integrated into Obsidian agenic workflow
Real AI agent for your vault. Coworker, Copilot & thinking partner, that maintains your memory & knowledge, adapts to your workflows, uses plugins, skills & tools with full safet...
Dzheky
15 hours ago
Odysseus – self-hosted AI workspace
Self-hosted AI workspace. . Contribute to pewdiepie-archdaemon/odysseus development by creating an account on GitHub....
eustoria
2 days ago
Using safe-area-inset to build mobile-safe layouts
Modern phones are not simple rectangles. They have rounded corners, camera cutouts, dynamic islands, and home indicators that double as gesture areas. Browsers…...
Hasnep
3 days ago
One year of Roto, a compiled scripting language for Rust
By Terts Diepraam Almost exactly one year ago, we announced Roto, a JIT-compiled embedded scripting language for Rust applications. A lot has happened since then that we'd like to tell you ...
cratermoon
5 hours ago
Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI
This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, de...