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The basics of decoupling capacitors
Link: lcamtuf.substack.com/p/the-bas…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Two decades ago, to build a portable music player, you had to clobber together several hundred electronic components. Today, you can accomplish the same with a single chip and a dozen passives. Heck, you might even get Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for free.lcamtuf (lcamtuf’s thing)
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RedPajama: Reproduction of Llama with Friendly License (Stanford, MILA Quebec)
Link: together.xyz/blog/redpajama
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
RedPajama is a project to create a set of leading, fully open-source models. Today, we are excited to announce the completion of the first step of this project: the reproduction of the LLaMA training dataset of over 1.2 trillion tokens.Together (TOGETHER)
Apple Card’s new high-yield Savings account is now available, offering a 4.15 p
Link: apple.com/newsroom/2023/04/app…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
With no fees, no minimum deposits, and no minimum balance requirements, users can easily set up and manage their Savings account directly from Wallet.Apple
Nintendo Is Taking Down My Videos
[video]Link: youtube.com/watch?v=FSZYpDk9Xm…
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Nintendo is taking down my videos, why you should care, and how this affects everyoneNintendo Game Content Guidelines for Online Video & Image Sharing Platfo...YouTube
The man who didn’t invent Flamin’ Hot Cheetos (2021)
Link: latimes.com/business/story/202…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Richard Montañez has for years told a story of how he dreamed up Flamin’ Hot Cheetos while working as a Frito-Lay janitor. The archival record, former employees and Frito-Lay itself say otherwise.Sam Dean (Los Angeles Times)
OpenBSD: Malloc leak detection available in -current
Link: undeadly.org/cgi?action=articl…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
iOS 17 will reportedly set the stage for sideloading apps on iPhone
Link: techcrunch.com/2023/04/17/ios-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Apple is reportedly building the groundwork in iOS 17 to allow people to sideload apps to their iPhones in the future.Ivan Mehta (TechCrunch)
Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong
Link: features.apmreports.org/sold-a…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
There's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago.features.apmreports.org
One economist went on a long whimsical journey to pay his taxes with cash
Link: fortune.com/2023/04/10/paying-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
How difficult it is for the unbanked to pay taxes?Jay L. Zagorsky (Fortune)
Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as default search engine
Link: sammobile.com/news/samsung-gal…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Google is all set to introduce Magi AI to its search engine to counter Samsung's current negotiations with Microsoft for Bing.Sagar Naresh (SamMobile)
No Source Code == No Patent
Link: albertcory50.substack.com/p/no…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
How we know you "have' the inventionAlbert Cory (Life Since the Baby Boom)
Orbital Test Launch of Starship in ~4 hours
Link: youtube.com/watch?v=L5QXreqOrT…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
SpaceX is targeting as soon as Monday, April 17 for the first flight test of a fully integrated Starship and Super Heavy rocket from Starbase in Texas. The 1...YouTube
Build and deploy 5G network with open-source software and off-the-shelf hardware
Link: rs-ojict.pubpub.org/pub/lqhigi…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Motivated by the many benefits enabled by Open RAN, there is a need for an educational comprehensive step-by-step tutorial on how an individual/company can practically build and deploy a 5G network using open-source software and commercial off-the-sh…RS Open Journal on Innovative Communication Technologies
Monthly Fediverse posts cross 1 billion for the first time
Link: masto.ai/@mg/11021284314449906…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
The Battle over Techno’s Origins
Link: newyorker.com/culture/cultural…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
T. M. Brown on the Museum of Modern Electronic Music, in Frankfurt, Germany, and the tension between its founders and techno music’s Detroit pioneers.T. M. Brown (The New Yorker)
MiniGPT-4
Link: minigpt-4.github.io/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Alien Artefacts
Link: brautaset.org/posts/alien-arte…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
I made my blog solar-powered, then things escalated
Link: louwrentius.com/i-made-my-blog…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey
Link: mastodon.social/@mcc/110209163…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Prince Rupert's Drop vs Molten Glas
[video]Link: youtube.com/watch?v=C1KT8PS6Zs…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
https://www.calbreed.com/Thanks to those who support on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/smartereverydayClick here if you're interested in subscribing: http:/...YouTube
Unwinding the Stack the Hard Way
Link: lesenechal.fr/en/linux/unwindi…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Tutorial on how to make a stack trace or backtrace manually unwinding the stack using ELF’s .eh_frame and call frame information (CFI)Kévin Lesénéchal (lesenechal.fr)
Booting Modern Intel CPUs
Link: mjg59.dreamwidth.org/66109.htm…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Space Invaders creator reveals game’s origin story
Link: wired.com/story/space-invaders…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
A new mini arcade cab version of the iconic alien shooter is set to land, 45 years after Tomohiro Nishikado’s surprise hit changed gaming forever.Craig Grannell (WIRED)
I liked this simple calculus exercise
Link: blog.plover.com/math/se/calcul…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Conway’s Law
Link: martinfowler.com/bliki/Conways…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Systems are constrained to follow the communication patterns of their designers.martinfowler.com
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Lessons from America’s astonishing economic record
Link: economist.com/leaders/2023/04/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
The world’s biggest economy is leaving its peers ever further in the dustThe Economist
'Algebra for none' fails in San Francisco
Link: joannejacobs.com/post/algebra-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
The goal was equity. The result: Meh. Frustrated by high failure rates in eighth-grade algebra, San Francisco Unified decided in 2015 to delay algebra till ninth grade and place low, average and high achievers in the same classes.Joanne Jacobs
Understanding large language models: A cross-section of the relevant literature
Link: magazine.sebastianraschka.com/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
A Cross-Section of the Most Relevant Literature To Get Up to SpeedSebastian Raschka (Ahead of AI)
Why flying insects gather at artificial light
Link: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
For millennia, humans have watched nocturnal insects flying erratically around fires and lamps. Explanations have included theories of “lunar navigation” and “escape to light”.bioRxiv
Plain C API design, the real world Kobayashi Maru test
Link: nibblestew.blogspot.com/2023/0…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Designing APIs is hard. Designing good APIs that future people will not instantly classify as "total crap" is even harder. There are typical...nibblestew.blogspot.com
WikiIndex
Link: wikiindex.org/Welcome
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Experiments with plane-filling curves and Fourier transform
Link: github.com/dmishin/fft-image-e…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Experiments with applying Fourier transofrms to various plane-filling curves and patterns - GitHub - dmishin/fft-image-experiments: Experiments with applying Fourier transofrms to various plane-fil...GitHub
Korean as a Concatenative, Stack-Oriented Language (2017)
Link: m.post.naver.com/viewer/postVi…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
[BY Ryan Brainard] Korean is an subject-object-verb (SOV) language, which shares the a similar st...m.post.naver.com
Who owns history? How historical footage is hidden and monetised
[video]Link: aeon.co/videos/who-owns-histor…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
From civil rights marches to moonwalks, historical imagery that belongs to everyone is locked away behind paywalls. Why?Aeon
I used Stable Diffusion and Dreambooth to create an art portrait of my dog
Link: shruggingface.com/blog/how-i-u…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
In this post, we walk through my entire workflow/process for bringing Stable Diffusion to life as a high-quality framed art print.www.shruggingface.com
AT&T Wireless traffic shaping apparently making some websites unusable
Link: adriano.fyi/post/2023/2023-04-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
When I’m living in my RV, wireless service providers are my primary source of connectivity. So when either AT&T or Verizon make major changes, I take notice.Adriano (https://adriano.fyi)
‘Stop or I’ll fire you’: the driver who defied Uber’s automated HR
Link: theguardian.com/technology/202…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Alexandru Iftimie received apology from tech giant after investigating data behind his supposed fraudHeather Stewart (The Guardian)
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) defended his trip to Saudi Arabia by explaining how the country has made changes in recent years for the better.Jack Birle (Washington Examiner)
Batch computing and the coming age of AI systems
Link: hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Nibbles of Rust – Restructuring Patterns
Link: catmonad.xyz/blog/nibbles_02.h…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
SpaceX's First Starship Launch Tomorrow
Link: space.com/spacex-starship-rock…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
SpaceX has a 150-minute window to launch the Starship SN24 spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket on April 17, starting at 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT).Tariq Malik (Space)
‘Angry Birds’ company is about to be sold for $1B to Sega
Link: theverge.com/2023/4/14/2368363…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Sega, the house of Sonic the Hedgehog, is reportedly about to buy Angry Birds company Rovio for $1 billion. Rovio failed to sell to Playtika in March for $800 million.Umar Shakir (The Verge)
De-Stressing Booking.com
Link: alexcharlton.co/projects/booki…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
FSF Slams Google over Dropping JPEG-XL in Chrome
Link: phoronix.com/news/FSF-Slams-Go…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Last October Google engineers decided they would deprecate JPEG-XL support in Chrome over some debated rationale for the movewww.phoronix.com
Algorithmic System for Turning the Elderly into High-Nutrient Slurry (2019)
Link: arxiv.org/abs/1908.06166
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
he ethical implications of algorithmic systems have been much discussed in both HCI and the broader community of those interested in technology design, development and policy.arXiv.org
Pico3D: Open World 3D Game Engine for the PicoSystem (RP2040 Microcontroller)
Link: github.com/bernhardstrobl/Pico…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Open World 3D Game Engine for the PicoSystem & RP2040 Microcontroller - GitHub - bernhardstrobl/Pico3D: Open World 3D Game Engine for the PicoSystem & RP2040 MicrocontrollerGitHub
Efficiency trades off against resiliency
Link: blog.nelhage.com/post/efficien…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
The fastest math typesetting library for the web
Link: katex.org/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Simple API, no dependencies – yet super fast on all major browsers.katex.org
Tabi: The shoe that became a sock and then a shoe again
Link: one-from-nippon.ghost.io/untit…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Stockholm, 1912 At 35° C it was an unusually hot day for Stockholm. Shizo Kanakuri stood at the start line of the marathon in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.The One from Nippon team (One from Nippon)
This used to happen a lot from 1939-1945 except the people who received the packages didn't live long
Anyone ever encounter aportation? I've heard stories of coins falling from nowhere. And falling pebb... - "/x/ - Paranormal" is 4chan's imageboard for the discussion of paranormal, spooky pictures and conspiracy theories.boards.4channel.org
Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)
Link: futureblues.com/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Mit einem Aufruf wollen Dietmar Bartsch und Gregor Gysi die Spaltung der Linken verhindern. Die Gründung einer neuen Partei sei „völlig überflüssig“.
Krise der Linkspartei: Allgemeinplätze gegen den Abgrund
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Intel won't back down on chip ID feature (1999)
Link: zdnet.com/article/intel-wont-b…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Execs point to FreePC.com as proof that privacy and technology can co-exist.Robert Lemos (ZDNET)
Wayback: Self-hosted archiving service integrated with Internet Archive
Link: github.com/wabarc/wayback
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
A self-hosted archiving service integrated with Internet Archive, archive.today, IPFS and beyond. - GitHub - wabarc/wayback: A self-hosted archiving service integrated with Internet Archive, archiv...GitHub
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