Why do ships use “port” and “starboard” instead of “left” and “right?”
Link: oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/po…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Unlike left and right, port and starboard refer to fixed locations on a vessel.US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Google search partial outage while rolling out new search?
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LLaVA: Large Language and Vision Assistant
Link: llava-vl.github.io/
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Node.js 20 is now available
Link: nodejs.org/en/blog/announcemen…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.Node.js
My Emacs eye candy
Link: xenodium.com/my-emacs-eye-cand…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Broadband Consumer Labels
Link: fcc.gov/broadbandlabels
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
The FCC has proposed new rules that would require broadband providers to display easy-to-understand labels to allow consumers to comparison shop for broadband services.www.fcc.gov
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Clock
Link: oimo.io/works/clock/
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Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs
Link: vox.com/technology/2023/4/18/2…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
The company plans to lay off employees on Wednesday, according to sources.Shirin Ghaffary (Vox)
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Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically
Link: ghacks.net/2023/04/17/firefox-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Mozilla is working on a new usability feature in its open source Firefox web browser that can automate interactions with so-called Cookie banners on websites.Martin Brinkmann (gHacks Technology News)
Lightweight SQLite Editor for Windows
Link: github.com/little-brother/sqli…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Lightweight SQLite editor for Windows. Contribute to little-brother/sqlite-gui development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
A new kind of symmetry shakes up physics
Link: quantamagazine.org/a-new-kind-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
So-called “higher symmetries” are illuminating everything from particle decays to the behavior of complex quantum systems.Quanta Magazine
French publisher arrested in London for refusal to tell police his passcodes
Link: theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/a…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Ernest Moret was stopped at rail station and taken into custody, where he was questioned about his participation in French protestsMatthew Weaver (The Guardian)
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Reddit will begin charging for access to its API
Link: nytimes.com/2023/04/18/technol…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Fox News, Dominion Voting Systems reach $787,500,000 settlement
Link: cbsnews.com/news/fox-news-domi…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
The judge announced the case has been resolved after a 12-member jury and 12 alternates had been selected.Melissa Quinn (CBS News)
Netflix will end its DVD service after 25 years
Link: nytimes.com/2023/04/18/busines…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
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Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu
Link: theregister.com/2023/04/17/mic…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Others are resigned to inevitability and argue it's better than a subscriptionJeff Burt (The Register)
Brain images just got 64 million times sharper
Link: medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is how we visualize soft, watery tissue that is hard to image with X-rays.Science X (Medical Xpress)
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Nennt drei Apps, die für euch unverzichtbar sind. Kurz beschreiben, weshalb. Ich/wir sind gespannt, welche Apps genannt werden. 📲
#android #ios #app #apps #sicherheit #datenschutz
Astral
Link: astral.sh/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Astral builds high-performance developer tools for the Python ecosystem, starting with Ruff, an extremely fast Python linter, written in Rust.astral.sh
Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten survival
Link: cnbc.com/2023/04/18/software-f…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
A change in law for R&D costs blindsided software startups, and income tax bills are so big it may push tech companies under if Congress doesn’t provide a fix.Eric Rosenbaum (CNBC)
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Apple’s agreement with Cupertino is taxpayer-fleecing collusion
Link: news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insi…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Cupertino, Calif.'s complicity in its tax arrangement with Apple is reprehensible, as are most collusions between industry and government.Andrew Leahey (news.bloombergtax.com)
Changes to Tailscale Pricing and Plans
Link: tailscale.com/blog/pricing-v3/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Today we’re announcing the third generation of Tailscale plans and pricing. Most noticeably: The Free plan is expanding from one to three users.Tailscale
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Giant SpaceX Spiral Appears Amid the Aurora Lights in Alaska's Night Sky
Link: petapixel.com/2023/04/17/giant…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
A photographer out capturing the aurora lights over Alaska on Saturday night was dumbfounded when a giant blue spiral appeared above him.Matt Growcoot (PetaPixel)
Toilets in churches, in monasteries, at religious sites, and toilet regulations of various religions. All this and more on the Toilets of the World.Toilets of the World
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A WWII spy who hid codes in her knitting
Link: amightygirl.com/blog?p=25020
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
The 23-year-old secret agent hid her codes in knitting to avoid detection by the Nazis.Aaron Smith (A Mighty Girl)
Misalignment Museum
Link: niche-museums.com/110
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
In a postapocalyptic world where rogue AI has destroyed most of humanity, this museum exists as a memorial and apology to the humans who remain.www.niche-museums.com
PSA: Upgrade your LUKS key derivation function
Link: mjg59.dreamwidth.org/66429.htm…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Load Balancing
Link: samwho.dev/load-balancing/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
An example of LLM prompting for programming
Link: martinfowler.com/articles/2023…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Generated knowledge and chain of thought prompting of an LLM can generate useful code.martinfowler.com
OpenWRT 22.03.4
Link: github.com/openwrt/openwrt/rel…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
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OpenVMS 9.2 for x86: Auto boot, licenses, PAKs, networking and SSH
Link: raymii.org/s/blog/OpenVMS_9.2_…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
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Darth Vader vs Rebels | Full HD | Enjoy watching!YouTube
Don't write clean code, write CRISP code
Link: bitfieldconsulting.com/golang/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
“Clean code” is so over: all the cool kids are switching to CRISP code . I’ll show you how to achieve it in five catchy, T-shirt-friendly slogans.John Arundel (Bitfield Consulting)
The New XOR Problem
Link: blog.wtf.sg/posts/2023-02-03-t…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
In 1969, Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert published Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry. In it, they showed that a single-layer perceptron cannot compute the XOR function.blog.wtf.sg
Marginalia: Search the Internet
Link: search.marginalia.nu/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
search.marginalia.nu is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept cookies or subscribe to newsletters.search.marginalia.nu
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Hot Beds: Low-Cost Ancient Roman Hack to Start Crops Early and Increasing Yield
Link: growveg.com/guides/how-to-make…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Hotbeds are horticultural alchemy. But what is a hotbed and what makes them so magical?GrowVeg
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Qemu.js – a proof-of-concept port of QEMU to web browser using WASM JIT (2019)
Link: github.com/atrosinenko/qemujs
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Qemu.js source code with proof-of-concept machine-code-to-WASM JIT. - GitHub - atrosinenko/qemujs: Qemu.js source code with proof-of-concept machine-code-to-WASM JIT.GitHub
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Ampersand (2015)
Link: haggardhawksblog.blogspot.com/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
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GPT4All Chat – Locally-running AI chat application powered by the GPT4All-J
Link: gpt4all.io/index.html
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
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KV.js
Link: github.com/HeyPuter/kv.js
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Fast, in-memory caching module for JavaScript. Inspired by Redis. - GitHub - HeyPuter/kv.js: Fast, in-memory caching module for JavaScript. Inspired by Redis.GitHub
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DINOv2: State-of-the-art computer vision models with self-supervised learning
Link: dinov2.metademolab.com/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
You didn’t just do that, Heroku
Link: openfolder.sh/heroku-anti-dx
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Obligatory TL;DR with spoilers at the end of the post. MusicButler is the first web-app I ever built. It notifies its users about new music byopenfolder.sh
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You're not uncool. Making friends as an adult is just hard
Link: wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/11/10…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Forming new friendships as an adult can seem like an impossible feat. Psychologist Marisa G. Franco shares her top tips for making genuine connections.Peter O'Dowd (WBUR)
Crooks’ mistaken bet on encrypted phones
Link: newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Drug syndicates and other criminal groups bought into the idea that a new kind of phone network couldn’t be infiltrated by cops. They were wrong—big time. Ed Caesar reports.Ed Caesar (The New Yorker)
Why don’t more people live close to friends?
Link: annehelen.substack.com/p/youd-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
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Implementers, Solvers, and Finders
Link: rkoutnik.com/2016/04/21/implem…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
I was talking to a former student when he brought up an article written by a well-seasoned programmer regretting his choice of career. This fellow had rejec...Randall Koutnik
The Windows 11 Trash Party
Link: birchtree.me/blog/the-windows-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Thomas Bandt was setting up a new computer for his kid, and it gave him the opportunity to really look at what Windows has become over the years.Matt Birchler (Birchtree)
How do electrons find the “path of least resistance”?
[video]Link: youtube.com/watch?v=C3gnNpYK3l…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Ever wonder how electrons know where they are going? Electricity is a pretty mystifying topic, because electricity seems to be able to do impossible things, ...YouTube
DOOM maps to SVG to laser cutter
Link: theor.xyz/doom-maps-laser-cut/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
I’ve heard a lot about classic Doom’s data format and decided to write some Rust code to extract its maps and convert that to vector graphics I could laser cut.theor.xyz
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Breaking the limits of TLA+ model checking
Link: hillelwayne.com/post/graphing-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Graphing TLA+ state spaces for fun and profit.Hillel Wayne
The Inner Workings of Distributed Databases
Link: questdb.io/blog/inner-workings…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Comparison of replication options of time-series databases.questdb.io
New 3D Printable Search Engine
Link: printablesearch.com
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
PrintableSearch is a search engine for finding the top 3D printable models from the best model sites.www.printablesearch.com
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Indian government empowers itself to “fact check,” delete social media posts
Link: restofworld.org/2023/indian-go…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
The Indian government on April 6 announced a state-run fact-checking unit that will have sweeping powers to label any piece of information related to the…Adnan Bhat (Rest of World)
OpenSSH versus SSH
Link: utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/bl…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
A Forty-Year Career (2019)
Link: lethain.com/forty-year-career/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
The Silicon Valley narrative centers on entrepreneurial protagonists who are poised one predestined step away from changing the world.lethain.com
Firmware is on shaky ground – let's see what it's made of
Link: theregister.com/2023/04/17/opi…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Old architectures just don't stack upRupert Goodwins (The Register)
Geometry Central: library of data structures, algorithms for geometry processing
Link: geometry-central.net/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
OpenAI’s CEO says the age of giant AI models is already over
Link: wired.com/story/openai-ceo-sam…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Sam Altman says the research strategy that birthed ChatGPT is played out and future strides in artificial intelligence will require new ideas.Will Knight (WIRED)
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AWS staff spending ‘much of their time ’optimizing customers' clouds'
Link: theregister.com/2023/04/17/ama…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Annual shareholder letter warns of ‘softening’ growth for cloud biz, likely lift-off for Kuiper satellite broadbandSimon Sharwood (The Register)
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Am 19. April 1943 begann der Aufstand im Warschauer Ghetto. Szmuel Zygielbojm warnte da schon lange, dass die Nazis das Judentum vernichten wollten.
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Keep Stuff Linkable
Link: animaomnium.github.io/keep-stu…
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