United States blocks Palestinian request for full UN membership (www.cbc.ca)
Mark Zuckerberg: Llama 3, $10B Models, Caesar Augustus, Bioweapons [video] (www.youtube.com)
Help I work in an open office and my co-workers are so loud (www.cnbc.com)
Tiger – Function Hub for LLM Agents (github.com)
Long Reviled as 'Ugly,' Sea Lampreys Get Some Respect (2023) (e360.yale.edu)
Formal Mechanised Semantics of CHERI C: Capabilities, Undefined Behaviour (dl.acm.org)
Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules (arstechnica.com)
Monowheels: Vehicles with Insufficient Wheels (www.douglas-self.com)
CA insurance crisis: Thousands to lose coverage as two more insurers withdraw (www.sfchronicle.com)
Draftaid (YC W24) Is Hiring a Founding AI/ML Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)
Ubuntu 24.04 yields a 20% advantage over Windows 11 on Ryzen7 Framework laptop (www.phoronix.com)
Gentoo bans AI-created contributions (lwn.net)
The Theory That There Is Only One Electron in the Universe (www.iflscience.com)
Thoughts on Seed Oil (dynomight.substack.com)
How Pluto got its 'heart' (news.arizona.edu)
Meta and Lavender (blog.paulbiggar.com)
Cloudflare CEO bought a newspaper to change reporting about his new house plans (www.bloomberg.com)
R3dfox: A fork of Firefox made specifically for Windows 7 and 8 compatibility (github.com)
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What Myths About the Anthropocene Get Wrong (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Vapi – Convince our voice AI to give you the secret code (blog.vapi.ai)
Randar: A Minecraft exploit that uses LLL lattice reduction to crack server RNG (github.com)
Insatiable: A Life Without Eating (longreads.com)
El Prado Museum in Unprecedented Detail with New 360º Gigapixel Virtual Tour (www.museodelprado.es)
Multi-Tenant Queues in Postgres (docs.hatchet.run)
Should Apple Kill Siri and Start Over? (www.macrumors.com)
Why chocolate is skyrocketing in price (thehustle.co)
One-person companies–how do you manage it all and stay sane? (news.ycombinator.com)
Windows 10 will start nagging you to switch from local account to MS Account (www.neowin.net)
Hackers threatening to publish a stolen sanctions and financial crimes watchlist (techcrunch.com)
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Google is combining its Android and hardware teams – and it's all about AI (www.theverge.com)
SpaceX's most-flown reusable rocket will go for its 20th launch tonight (arstechnica.com)
Keeling Labs (YC W23) –RL for Battery Optimization–Is Hiring a Senior Data Eng (www.keelinglabs.com)
You Need a "WTF Notebook" (www.simplermachines.com)
TSMC expects customers to pay more for chips fabbed overseas (www.theregister.com)
My mother declared my bedroom a disaster area (news.lettersofnote.com)
Nintendo Reveals Tears of the Kingdom's Biggest Problem and How It Was Solved (www.ign.com)
Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize (nlnet.nl)
Not your mother's mall (2003) (www.sfgate.com)
All-cash offers, wealthy buyers push Southern California home prices to a record (www.latimes.com)
Meta Llama 3 (llama.meta.com)
OpenMCT: A web based mission control framework (github.com)
Employers feel the side effects of drugmaker control over Wegovy, Ozempic costs (www.politico.com)
A brief, weird history of brainwashing (www.technologyreview.com)
Chinchilla Scaling: A Replication Attempt (arxiv.org)
Hermit is a hermetic and reproducible sandbox for running programs (github.com)
Author granted copyright over book with AI-generated text–with a twist (www.wired.com)
USAF Test Pilot School, DARPA announce aerospace machine learning breakthrough (www.edwards.af.mil)
Halo 2 in HD: Pushing the Original Xbox to the Limit (icode4.coffee)
Mentally stimulating work plays key role in staving off dementia, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
Inside Amazon’s Secret Operation to Gather Intel on Rivals (www.wsj.com)
Understanding AWS End of Service Life Is a Key FinOps Responsibility (www.fairwinds.com)
Why CVE-2022-3602 was not detected by fuzz testing (allsoftwaresucks.blogspot.com)
Volta Labs (YC W19) – Easier sample prep for genomics (news.ycombinator.com)
A UK government-sponsored agency is censoring journalism (unherd.com)
EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy (www.theregister.com)
Extracting valuables from the San José galleon (www.popularmechanics.com)
AWS kills Snowmobile data transfer truck (www.cnbc.com)
The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat (www.theverge.com)
Why Fugaku, Japan's fastest supercomputer, went virtual on AWS (aws.amazon.com)
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Boston Dynamics' new electric Atlas robot is swiveling nightmare fuel (www.theverge.com)
The Paradox of x86 (thechipletter.substack.com)
Keeper (YC S21) is hiring engineers to build a personal accountant for everyone (www.ycombinator.com)
Startup Idea: Reverse Amazon (www.anton-on-software.com)
EU science advisers back call for a 'CERN for AI' to aid research (sciencebusiness.net)
The Domino Computer (www.andrewt.net)
Feathers Are One of Evolution's Cleverest Inventions (www.scientificamerican.com)
Logitech mouse and keyboard users are getting a free AI upgrade (www.zdnet.com)
Europe gives TikTok 24 hours to explain 'addictive and toxic' new app (www.theregister.com)
Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features (blog.system76.com)
Causality, Interaction, and Complexity (www.alexahn.com)
I Know the secret to the quiet mind. I wish I'd never learned it (www.theatlantic.com)
Google fires 28 workers in indiscriminate act of mass retaliation (twitter.com)
OpenAI's model all but matches doctors in assessing eye problems (www.ft.com)
Analyzing a Baking Recipe (www.cookingforengineers.com)
RHttp: REPL for HTTP (github.com)
Wayfair fired a bunch of people again today, after using them to train AI (news.ycombinator.com)
A proof that Meson is Turing-Complete (github.com)
OpenBSD – Coming soon to a -current system near you: parallel raw IP input (www.undeadly.org)
Lions OS: secure – fast – adaptable (trustworthy.systems)
Scientists solve long-standing mystery surrounding the moon's 'lopsided' geology (phys.org)
Langfuse (YC W23) Is Hiring [Engineers, DevRel] in Berlin, Germany (langfuse.com)
Why SQLite Performance Tuning Made Bencher 1200x Faster (bencher.dev)
How Matzo Is Made (www.bloomberg.com)
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Florida Fish Are Mysteriously Dying After 'Spinning and Whirling,' (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Sei (YC W22) Is Hiring LLMOps (On-Site, India) (www.ycombinator.com)
Google Fires 28 Employees After Multi-City Protests (www.cnbc.com)
Linus Torvalds adds arbitrary tabs to kernel code (arstechnica.com)
Software glitch saw Aussie casino give away millions in cash (www.theregister.com)
SCOTUS Declines to Review First Amendment Mass Protest Rights Case (truthout.org)
Chemists Invent Drugs and Drugs Save Lives (chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
First known fractal molecule (newatlas.com)
Praat: Doing Phonetics by Computer (www.fon.hum.uva.nl)
I also made a three-body simulation (three-bodies.sulami.xyz)
A junk food diet can cause long-term damage to adolescent brains (today.usc.edu)
Implementing Natural Conversational Agents with Elixir (seanmoriarity.com)
How Perfectly Can Reality Be Simulated? (www.newyorker.com)
Only s (onlyspans.net)
A single atom layer of gold – LiU researchers create goldene (liu.se)
Nvidia Speech and Translation AI Models Set Records for Speed and Accuracy (developer.nvidia.com)
Human hair transformed into renewable energy storage (news.csu.edu.au)
MGM says FTC can't probe ransomware attack as Lina Khan was a guest at the time (www.theregister.com)
Zint (zint.org.uk)
Short Stack – World’s Smallest Nintendo Wii (github.com)
Lambda School and founder banned from all student lending (twitter.com)
Does Anyone Use a "Closed Core" Software Model? (news.ycombinator.com)
House passes bill requiring warrant to purchase data from third parties (thehill.com)
A no-watermark video downloader for Any social media (www.fastdownload.io)
Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things (tonsky.me)
Novelists as Schoolmasters (www.thearticle.com)
Flying Aircraft Carriers (neverwasmag.com)
CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and CEO Austen Allred (www.consumerfinance.gov)
Svix (YC W21) Is Hiring a Tech Lead (US Remote) (www.svix.com)
Cyc: History's Forgotten AI Project (outsiderart.substack.com)
High-speed trader Jane Street raked in $4.4B at start of 2024 (www.ft.com)
Joseph Priestley created revolutionary "maps" of time (www.neh.gov)
Spiraling insights: Scientists observe mechanical waves in bacterial communities (phys.org)
Reddit is taking over Google (www.businessinsider.com)
How Google Is Crushing Tuta (tuta.com)
Roku TVs may inject tailored ads into anything and everything when you pause (www.theregister.com)
A self-published art book about Google's first 25 years (www.damaia.com)
Oolite: An open source open-world space opera (oolite.space)
How Antithesis Finds Bugs (antithesis.com)
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (www.themarginalian.org)
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince buys local paper, feuds over mansion build (archive.ph)
Collapse of Self-Trained Language Models (arxiv.org)
Speeding up LLM inference 2x times (possibly) (asciinema.org)
How Nestlé gets children hooked on sugar in lower-income countries (stories.publiceye.ch)
An Obscure Actions Workflow Vulnerability in Google's Flank (adnanthekhan.com)
AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iPhone, is available now (mastodon.social)
Effort – a possibly new algorithm for LLM Inference (kolinko.github.io)
Embeddings are a good starting point for the AI curious app developer (bawolf.substack.com)
The Boring Phone (www.heineken.com)
Y Combinator is hiring full stack engineers – learn tons and tons about startups (news.ycombinator.com)
The forgotten war on beepers (newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org)
The Making of Django Reinhardt (www.messynessychic.com)
The great commercial takeover of low Earth orbit (www.technologyreview.com)
How does this full-track, 3-wheel snow bike even turn? (newatlas.com)
libxev: A cross-platform, high-performance event loop (github.com)
The Stem-Ification of Society (www.babylon-newsroom.com)
Everything We Can't Describe in Music (hazlitt.net)
YouTuber MKBHD trashes Humane AI Pin, sparks firestorm over damage to startup (www.businessinsider.com)
The biggest source of waste is untapped skilled pragmatists (cutlefish.substack.com)
Power-hungry AI is putting the hurt on global electricity supply (arstechnica.com)
Cross-Platform Executable Viewer and Reverse Engineering Tool (github.com)
Desbordante 2.0.0 Released (github.com)
Bronze Age Stone Anchors as Material Metaphors (link.springer.com)
Future of Humanity Institute shuts down (www.futureofhumanityinstitute.org)
Formlabs Form 4 3D Printer Beats Injection Molding Machine in Speed and Quality [video] (www.youtube.com)
Mixtral 8x22B (mistral.ai)
Solving the minimum cut problem for undirected graphs (research.google)
Stable Diffusion 3 API Now Available (stability.ai)
Tell the U.S. Senate: Stop Risaa, the FISA Mass Surveillance Expansion (act.eff.org)
Dubai's Floods Weren't Caused by Cloud Seeding (www.wired.com)
New Boston Dynamics humanoid robot [video] (www.youtube.com)
An Electric New Era for Atlas (bostondynamics.com)
LXQt 2.0.0 Released (lxqt-project.org)
Sony FW900 Widescreen CRT Trinitron (www.vice.com)
Student debt is haunting Americans from graduation to retirement (www.cnn.com)
Quantum mechanics is the OS for Physics (www.scottaaronson.com)
The Making of Dune II (readonlymemory.com)
Boston Dynamics Retires Its Legendary Humanoid Robot (spectrum.ieee.org)
The VC acid test as a founder (2017) (www.stimmel-law.com)
Google Workers Protest Cloud Contract with Israel's Government (tech.slashdot.org)
How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile? (johnhawks.net)
Cooler transformers could help electric grid (www.sciencedaily.com)
Security Vulnerability in Browser Interface Allows Computer Access via GPU (www.tugraz.at)
Blaze: A High Performance C++ Math Library (bitbucket.org)
Finley (YC W21) is hiring for capital markets innovators (US remote) (www.finleycms.com)
I can't use my number pad for 2FA codes (shkspr.mobi)
ChatControl: EU ministers want to exempt themselves (european-pirateparty.eu)
Open Source TailwindCSS UI Components (github.com)
The Ballmer Peak: An Empirical Search (arxiv.org)
NetBSD 10: Proper old-school Unix, not like those lazy, decadent Linux types (www.theregister.com)
Humane AI – Pico Laser Projection – $230M AI Twist on an Old Scam (2023) (kguttag.com)
Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich (www.economist.com)
Why the Higgs Field Is Nothing Like Molasses, Soup, or a Crowd (profmattstrassler.com)
RubyJS-Vite (filipvrba.github.io)
Ur Quan Masters sequel Free Stars: Children of Infinity, by original devs (pistolshrimpgames.com)
How the Food Industry Pays Influencers to Shill Blueberries, Butter, and More (www.bonappetit.com)
Amazon Echo Hacking Wiki (github.com)
The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet (twitter.com)
What software sparks joy when using? (news.ycombinator.com)
Collection of notebooks showcasing some fun and effective ways of using Claude (github.com)
Why Alcohol Is the Deadliest Drug (www.addictioncenter.com)
F/OSS Comics: 8. The Origins of Unix and the C Language (fosscomics.com)
Java 23: The New Features Are Officially Announced (coderoasis.com)
Ollama 0.1.32: WizardLM 2, Mixtral 8x22B, macOS CPU/GPU model split (github.com)
Perlis's Programming Epigrams (www.cs.yale.edu)
The success of EVs is massively underreported (www.evuniverse.io)
Google will pump more than $100B into AI says DeepMind boss (www.theregister.com)
Tailscale SSH is now Generally Available (tailscale.com)
The Geiss screensaver and Winamp music visualization plug-in source code (github.com)
Caching secrets of the HTTP elders, part 1 (csvbase.com)
OpenJS: "XZ Utils Cyberattack Likely Not an Isolated Incident" (socket.dev)
Covid infections are causing IQ drops and years of brain aging, studies suggest (www.cbc.ca)
What makes concurrency so hard? (buttondown.email)
Stop Acting Like You're Famous (ajkprojects.com)
Google workers arrested after protesting company's work with Israel (www.washingtonpost.com)
Raytracing on Meteor Lake's iGPU (chipsandcheese.com)
Ten years of improvements in PostgreSQL's optimizer (rmarcus.info)
MKBHDs for Everything (stratechery.com)
Tax consequences of WIN95 team members keeping a piece of software for testing (devblogs.microsoft.com)
I Nearly Died Drowning. Here's What It's Like to Survive (longreads.com)
Cute trick for fetch-and-add-based queues (outerproduct.net)
Overture Maps Foundation Releases Beta of Its First Open Map Dataset (overturemaps.org)
Boeing's problems has cost United $200M in Q1 2024 (www.cnn.com)
Learn OAuth by building a client with Node.js (annotate.dev)
Sextortion scams are driving teenage boys to suicide (www.bloomberg.com)
Use Your Potions and Scrolls (jerry.wtf)
Boeing whistleblower says 787 fleet should be grounded (thehill.com)
Site claims to have harvested 4B+ Discord chats, all yours for a price (www.theregister.com)
The US reauthorizing and expanding its surveillance laws (www.theguardian.com)
We should snapshot a mostly AI output free version of the web (news.ycombinator.com)
NASA Technology Helps Guard Against Lunar Dust (www.nasa.gov)
3D-printed "metamaterial" is stronger than anything in nature (www.freethink.com)
Tvix – A New Implementation of Nix (tvix.dev)
Trimming The Herbs TAS Clear on my Wii U [video] (www.youtube.com)
Amazon is filled with garbage e-books, this is how they get made (www.vox.com)
US Senate to Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Call 'Stasi-Like' (www.wired.com)
The justice system's role in non disclosure of Horizon material (www.thejusticegap.com)
Firefox Proton UI userChrome.css fixes. (2021) (github.com)
Upgrading 3M Variables to Envelope Encryption (blog.railway.app)
The Americas Act and Its Chances of Becoming Law (globalamericans.org)
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'Pacifist' Japan is tooling up for war (www.irishtimes.com)
ISPs can charge extra for fast gaming under FCC's Internet rules, critics say (arstechnica.com)
Should You Use Upper Bound Version Constraints (In Python)? (iscinumpy.dev)
Charge of the Savoia Cavalleria at Izbushensky (en.wikipedia.org)
Spellbrush (YC W18) hiring an anime-loving distributed systems engineer; Tokyo/SF (twitter.com)
A quick post on Chen's algorithm (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
Global Firepower Index (www.globalfirepower.com)
WizardLM was unpublished due to missing toxicity testing (twitter.com)
Founders need to be ruthless when chasing deals (steveblank.com)
NPR suspends veteran editor as it grapples with his public criticism (www.npr.org)
How the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2017) (arstechnica.com)
Populist anger is 'a gift wrapped in barbed wire' (2016) (www.politico.eu)
YouTube puts third-party clients on notice: Show ads or get blocked (arstechnica.com)
Judge refuses to Ctrl-Z divorce order made by a misclick (www.theregister.com)
Difficulty levels of most European languages for Americans (www.atlasobscura.com)
NSA Publishes Guidance for Strengthening AI System Security (www.nsa.gov)
A shell CLI tool to predict your next command enhanced by LLM and RAG (github.com)
Why Sweden abandoned its secret A-bomb project (www.bbc.com)
We need to rewild the internet (www.noemamag.com)
Refuting Bloomberg's analysis: ChatGPT isn't racist, but it is bad at recruiting (interviewing.io)
David Lynch Presents 'A Thinking Room' (www.wallpaper.com)
Megalodon: Efficient LLM Pretraining and Inference with Unlimited Context Length (arxiv.org)
usbredir: A protocol for sending USB device traffic over a network connection (www.spice-space.org)
Term Typer – Learn a Language by Typing (www.termtyper.com)
CloudCruise (YC W24) – Graph-Based Workflow Builder for Web Agents (cloudcruise.com)
Search HN for interesting comment sections (www.searchhacker.news)
AT&T Fiber Internet Privacy controls are horribly broken (github.com)
Hiring Full Stack Engineers at Apriora (YC W24) (www.ycombinator.com)
Redis Is Forked (vickiboykis.com)
How to Stop Losing 17,500 Kidneys (www.statecraft.pub)
Time Magazine's Best Inventions of 2023 Award for Humane's AI Pin (daringfireball.net)
NASA tries to jog Voyager 1's memory from 15B miles away (www.theregister.com)
Google DeepMind's Aloha Unleashed is pushing the boundaries of robot dexterity (twitter.com)
This is a teenager (pudding.cool)
Amazon HQ2 was supposed to add jobs last year. It shed them instead (www.washingtonpost.com)
Palo Alto – Putting the Protecc in GlobalProtect (CVE-2024-3400) (labs.watchtowr.com)
Firefox 125 (www.mozilla.org)
Half of Ireland's young people have low level of mental wellbeing (www.independent.ie)
US government’s reliance on Microsoft means the company gets a free pass (www.wired.com)
Vaccine breakthrough means no more chasing strains (news.ucr.edu)
Efficient gas boiler with real-time data (emoncms.org)
The legal rule that computers are presumed to be operating correctly (2022) [pdf] (www.benthamsgaze.org)
Tech exec predicts 'AI girlfriends' will create $1B business (nypost.com)
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Authorization is still a nightmare for engineers (www.osohq.com)
YouTube cracking down even harder to punish user for skipping ads (9to5google.com)
Creating sexually explicit deepfake images to be made offence in UK (www.theguardian.com)
People who don't want to learn how to program can always find a reason not to (twitter.com)
Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads (gizmodo.com)
A visual guide to Vision Transformer – A scroll story (blog.mdturp.ch)
Product-Market Fit Isn't a Black Box – A New Framework to Help B2B Founders (pmf.firstround.com)
AMD unveils Ryzen Pro 8000-series processors (www.tomshardware.com)
Justice Department to File Antitrust Suit Against Live Nation (www.wsj.com)
America's young men are blowing their money like never before (www.businessinsider.com)
Loading a trillion rows of weather data into TimescaleDB (aliramadhan.me)
Ice to treat soft-tissue injuries contraindicated by creator of protocol (en.wikipedia.org)
$10M in Gold Disguised as Machine Parts Seized from Cargo Plane (jalopnik.com)
Why We Practice Magic (press.princeton.edu)
Chip Startup Rivos Raises More Than $250M to Tap AI Boom (finance.yahoo.com)
Yes, Python and Matplotlib can make pretty charts (python-graph-gallery.com)
Microsoft Invests $1.5B in G42 (news.microsoft.com)
OneSignal (YC S11) Is Hiring Engineers (onesignal.com)
MSFT's WizardLM2 models have been taken down (huggingface.co)
Thoughts on low latency trading if exchanges went full cloud (blog.abctaylor.com)
Trap spaces of Boolean networks are conflict-free siphons of their Petri net [pdf] (amu.hal.science)
Copenhagen's historic stock exchange in flames (www.bbc.com)
AI cloud startup TensorWave bets AMD can beat Nvidia (www.theregister.com)
Tesla Cybertruck's Stuck Accelerator Pedal Creates 6,800-Pound Land Missile (insideevs.com)
IPv6 for the Remotely Interested (ssg.dev)
The demise of email forwarding is getting closer (talk.tidbits.com)
The Queen of Sample Clearance: An Interview with Deborah Mannis-Gardner (www.forbes.com)
iOS404 (ios404.com)
a Rust based CLI tool 'imgcatr' for displaying images (github.com)
Goto (www.azillionmonkeys.com)
Astronomers discover Milky Way's biggest stellar black hole–33 times size of sun (www.theguardian.com)
My battle with Tesla: I want to clear my name before I die (www.bbc.co.uk)
YouTube Shorts Redirector (github.com)