Chuck E. Cheese's animatronics band bows out
Link: spectrum.ieee.org/chuck-e-chee…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Charles “Entertainment” Cheese and friends will soon sing their last songAllison Marsh (IEEE Spectrum)
Libcom: **A Discussion Paper on Local Councils in Syria**
" Syrian Anarchist Omar Aziz's short text on the formations of councils in Syria during the uprising against Assad's regime. Author Omar Aziz Submitted by Reddebrek on December 8, 2024 Copied to clipboard Introduction: The Period of Power and the Period of Revolution A revolution is an exceptional event that will alter the history of societies, while changing humanity itself. It is a rupture in time and space, where humans live between two periods: the period of power and the period of revolution. A revolu…"
Qutebrowser: A keyboard-driven, Vim-like browser
Link: github.com/qutebrowser/qutebro…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on Python and Qt. - qutebrowser/qutebrowserGitHub
JSON5 – JSON for Humans
Link: json5.org/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
How much do I need to change my face to avoid facial recognition?
Link: gizmodo.com/how-much-do-i-need…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A hat and sunglasses may not be enough to fool the most sophisticated facial recognition algorithms.Kyle Barr (Gizmodo)
Computer Architecture, Fifth Edition: A Quantitative Approach (2011)
Link: dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/19…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers
Link: france24.com/en/live-news/2024…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The UK government is banning daytime TV adverts for sugary foods like granola and muffins in its battle against child obesity, branding such popular items as junk food.France 24 (FRANCE 24)
The Surreal Magnificence of Fatherhood
Link: shreyans.org/fatherhood
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
His arrival, our survival, and many transformations.shreyans.org
Researchers use AI to turn sound recordings into street images
Link: news.utexas.edu/2024/11/27/res…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
AUSTIN, Texas — Using generative artificial intelligence, a team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin has converted sounds from audioAdrienne Lee (The University of Texas at Austin)
Ask HN: What are the best programmable holiday lights?
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
SQLite changed temp file prefix after McAfee users called devs to complain (2006)
Link: github.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Official Git mirror of the SQLite source tree. Contribute to sqlite/sqlite development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
The Need to Grind Concrete Examples Before Jumping Up a Level of Abstraction
Link: justinmath.com/the-necessity-o…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
If you go directly to the most abstract ideas then you’re basically like a kid who reads a book of famous quotes about life and thinks they understand everything about life by way of those quotes.Justin Skycak
Mise: Dev tools, env vars, task runner
Link: github.com/jdx/mise
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
dev tools, env vars, task runner. Contribute to jdx/mise development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Flappy Bird in 1000 lines of C
Link: github.com/alxyng/flappybird
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A clone of .GEARS' Flappy Bird in just over 1000 lines of C - alxyng/flappybirdGitHub
China Completes Green Belt Around Taklamakan Desert
Link: sand-boarding.com/china-builds…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
China has just completed a 1,900-mile green belt around the Taklamakan Desert to combat desertification and protect local infrastructure.Sand-boarding.com (Surf the Sand)
UnitedHealth's Effort to Deny Coverage for a Patient's Care
Link: propublica.org/article/unitedh…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims.ProPublica
Mend it Mark gets suspect copyright strike for £25k audio amp repair
Link: hackaday.com/2024/12/07/the-25…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
We were recently notified by a reader that [Tom Evans] had filed a copyright claim against [Mark]’s repair video on his Mend it Mark YouTube channel, taking down said repair video as well as …Hackaday
Insects rely on sounds made by distressed vegetation to guide reproduction
Link: nytimes.com/2024/12/06/science…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Show HN: Cut the crap – remove the AI bullshit from websites
Link: cut-the-crab.streamlit.app/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The Installer gift guide, part two - Image: David Pierce / The Verge
Hi, friends! Welco... - theverge.com/2024/12/8/2431495…
The Installer gift guide grows once again, plus the Y2K movie is here, a great AI to-do list app, Spotify Wrapped, and more in this week’s edition of Installer.David Pierce (The Verge)
PostgreSQL High Availability Solutions – Part 1: Jepsen Test and Patroni
Link: binwang.me/2024-12-02-PostgreS…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Source: libsoftiktok
Germany is holding a young American woman hostage and threatening her with 10 years in prison after she stabbed a migrant who s*xually assaulted her
Original tweet : nitter.privacydev.net/libsofti…
Source: libsoftiktok
Arrested for making offensive comments on Facebook.
The UK is done.
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Arrested for making offensive comments on Facebook. The UK is done.Nitter
Source: libsoftiktok
This is the “Republican” leading the charge against Pete Hegseth.
Original tweet : nitter.privacydev.net/libsofti…
"BGP at home": getting a DIA circuit installed at home
Link: aaka.sh/posts/20230129-bgp-at-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Syrian government falls in end to 50-year rule of Assad family
Link: apnews.com/article/syria-assad…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The Syrian government fell early Sunday in a stunning end to the 50-year rule of the Assad family after a sudden rebel offensive sprinted across government-held territory and entered the capital in 10 days.BASSEM MROUE (AP News)
Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser
Link: nyxt.atlas.engineer/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Reverse engineering the Sega Channel game image file format
Link: infochunk.com/schannel/index.h…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Brian Krebs Investigates Internet's Most Vicious Hackers–From a Secret Location
Link: wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/hac…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Airline informant received thousands from passenger cash seizures
Link: atlantanewsfirst.com/2024/12/0…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
U.S. Department of Justice suspends controversial airport search program after ANF investigation.Brendan Keefe (Atlanta News First)
Browsing negative content online makes mental health struggles worse: Study
Link: news.mit.edu/2024/study-browsi…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
People struggling with their mental health are more likely to browse negative content online, and in turn, that negative content makes their symptoms worse, according to a series of studies by researchers at MIT.MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Notre Dame Cathedral reopens
Link: apnews.com/article/notre-dame-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Notre Dame is reopening its doors for the first time since a fire five years ago nearly destroyed the beloved 12th-century cathedral.AP News
Protecting undersea internet cables is a tech nightmare
Link: spectrum.ieee.org/undersea-int…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A recent, alleged Baltic Sea sabotage highlights the system’s fragilityMargo Anderson (IEEE Spectrum)
Can life emerge around a white dwarf?
Link: centauri-dreams.org/2024/12/06…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Arm " is worth almost $150 billion," writes the Verge, "which is now considerably more than Intel." "With the news earlier this week that Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger 'retired' and Intel is evaluating its options for a possible spinoff or outright sale…hardware.slashdot.org
Raspberry Pi 5 now supports Valve's Steam Link
Link: raspberrypi.com/news/valves-st…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
MIT largest open-source car design dataset, incl aerodynamics, to speed design
Link: news.mit.edu/2024/design-futur…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
DrivAerNet++, the largest open-source dataset for car aerodynamics developed to date, can be used to quickly train an AI model to generate novel car designs.MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Beekeepers halt honey awards over fraud in global supply chain
Link: theguardian.com/business/2024/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Warnings that genuine products are bulked out with cheaper sugar syrup prompt international congress to withdraw prizesJon Ungoed-Thomas (The Guardian)
Mathics 7.0 – Open-source alternative to Mathematica
Link: github.com/Mathics3/mathics-co…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Some work was done here in support of planned future improvements like lazy loading of builtin functions. A bit of effort was also spent to modernize Python code and style, add more type annotation...GitHub
The Curse of Recursion: Training on generated data makes models forget (2023)
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2305.17493
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Stable Diffusion revolutionised image creation from descriptive text. GPT-2, GPT-3(.5) and GPT-4 demonstrated astonishing performance across a variety of language tasks. ChatGPT introduced such language models to the general public.arXiv.org
Just: Just a Command Runner
Link: just.systems/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Tell HN: Need help, locked out of Google account with 10 years of personal data
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Hiroshi Nagai: Japan's Sun-Drenched Americana
Link: tokyocowboy.co/articles/uy1r8j…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Hiroshi Nagai developed an oeuvre of Americana pop style paintings that served as a backdrop to the Japanese City Pop movement of the late 70s and 80sben leighton (tokyo cowboy)
I algorithmically donated $5000 to Open Source
Link: kvinogradov.com/algo-sponsors/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
My experiment on algorithmic donating $5000 to 800+ authors of the most downloaded Python packages, leveraging data from GitHub Sponsors, PyPI, and OpenSSF.Konstantin Vinogradov
An invisible desktop application that will help you pass technical interviews
Link: github.com/ibttf/interview-cod…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Contribute to ibttf/interview-coder development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Show HN: Countless.dev – A website to compare every AI model: LLMs, TTSs, STTs
Link: countless.dev/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Compare AI models easily! All providers in one place.countless.dev
Does Your Code Pass the Turkey Test? (2008)
Link: moserware.com/2008/02/does-you…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Over the past 6 years or so, I’ve failed each item on “The Turkey Test.” It’s very simple: will your code work properly on a person’s machine in or around th...www.moserware.com
Biggest shell programs
Link: github.com/oils-for-unix/oils/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell! - oils-for-unix/oilsGitHub
Postgres for everything (e/Postgres)
Link: github.com/Olshansk/postgres_f…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
How to reduce complexity and move faster? Just Postgres for everything. - Olshansk/postgres_for_everythingGitHub
Audible Anarchism: **No God, No boss, No husband: The world’s first Anarcha-feminist group**
"For questions, comments or to get involved, e-mail us at audibleanarchist(at)gmail.comThis text can be read at libcom.org/article/no-god-no-b… An account of the first anarchist-feminist group in Argentina during the 1890s. Read for us by Sara S-CW of the Whizbanger Show thewhizbangershow.com/"
audibleanarchism.podbean.com/e…
For questions, comments or to get involved, e-mail us at audibleanarchist(at)gmail.comThis text can be read at https://libcom.audibleanarchism.podbean.com
Deep dive into finding RSS feeds
Link: lighthouseapp.io/blog/deep-div…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The RSS feed reader to fix information overloadlighthouseapp.io
Allwinner A733 octa-core Cortex-A76/A55 AI SoC supports up to 16GB RAM for Android 15 tablets and laptops
Allwinner A733 is an octa-core Cortex-A76/A55 processor with an optional 3 TOPS NPU and support for up to 16GB RAM designed for Android 15 tablets and laptops such as the Teclast P50Ai with a 10.92-inch touchscreen display. With two Cortex-A76 …
cnx-software.com/2024/12/06/al…
This Week in Plasma: Oodles of features!
blogs.kde.org/2024/12/07/this-…
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#KDE #Plasma #KDEPlasma #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource
I promised new features soon, and here they are! There are plenty of positive UI changes too. Hopefully what this week's post lacks in quantity will be made up by depth, because these are some nice changes that have been in development for quite some…This Week in Plasma: Oodles of features!
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RollerCoaster Tycoon was the last of its kind
[video]Link: youtube.com/watch?v=0JouTsMQsE…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahoyMerch: https://ahoy-shop.fourthwall.com/00:00 Introduction01:04 Chris Sawyer's Early Career03:56 Transition to the PC06:...YouTube
Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter
Link: joshwcomeau.com/css/backdrop-f…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing that final 10% that really makes it shine. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create the most realistic lush frosted glass anywhere on the internet.www.joshwcomeau.com
Structured Outputs with Ollama
Link: ollama.com/blog/structured-out…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Ollama now supports structured outputs making it possible to constrain a model's output to a specific format defined by a JSON schema. The Ollama Python and JavaScript libraries have been updated to support structured outputs.Ollama
Hit men aren't what you think
Link: slate.com/news-and-politics/20…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A scholar of criminal justice and contract killing saw something else in the shooting—potentially.Aymann Ismail (Slate)
Arc Prize 2024 Winners and Technical Report
Link: arcprize.org/2024-results
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
RNA-targeting CRISPR reveals that noncoding RNAs are not 'junk'
Link: phys.org/news/2024-11-rna-cris…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Genes contain instructions for making proteins, and a central dogma of biology is that this information flows from DNA to RNA to proteins.New York University (Phys.org)
My second year without a job
Link: shilin.ca/my-second-year-witho…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Reflecting on two years of unemployment: personal growth, financial lessons, and creative pursuits like music and startups. Here's how I navigated year two without a job.shilin typing...
DSPy – Programming–not prompting–LMs
Link: dspy.ai/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
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OpenWrt One router officially launched
Link: openwrt.org/#openwrt_one_route…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Mistakes as a new manager
Link: terriblesoftware.org/2024/12/0…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Transitioning from an individual contributor to a manager is tough but rewarding. The key is to delegate, find new sources of fulfillment, focus on quality over quantity, maintain proper engagement…Terrible Software
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Lies I was told about collab editing, Part 1: Algorithms for offline editing
Link: moment.dev/blog/lies-i-was-tol…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A proposed BRICS currency could reshape global financial markets and reduce dependence on the dollar. But there are massive challenges …BRICS
Israeli occupation forces stormed the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip again and forced patients and the wounded to leave it.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
During a meeting with the head of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office, Andriy Yermak, the US president’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, promised to provide Kiev with hundreds of thousands of shells, thousands of missiles and hundreds of armoured …newsmaker newsmaker (English News front)
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- A magnitude 7.0 earthquake shook parts of Northern California earlyen.people.cn
A Palestinian detainee died in Israeli custody on Thursday, marking the second death in Israeli prisons within 24 hours, prisoners’ affairs groups said.The Palestinian Information Center
Show HN: BunkerWeb – The Open-Source Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Link: github.com/bunkerity/bunkerweb
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
🛡️ Open-source and next-generation Web Application Firewall (WAF) - bunkerity/bunkerwebGitHub
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Russian and Syrian air forces killed 300 militants in coordinated airstrikes across multiple regions in Syria within the past 24 hours, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.Tasnim News Agency
OpenAI Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Research Program
Link: openai.com/form/rft-research-p…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
There is little doubt that the involvement of the Ukrainian military in Syria has been orchestrated by the NATO sponsors of the Kiev regime. Join…Strategic Culture Foundation
• On December 3 at 10:25 p.m. (local time), South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol delivered a surprise message to the nation. At the fourth minute of his speech, he said,Voltaire Network
<dialog>: The Dialog Element
Link: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Pyongyang, December 6 (KCNA) — The 34th Plenary Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA) of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea took place at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on Thursday.Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)
Pyongyang, December 6 (KCNA) — The Twelfth Session of the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is to be convened in Pyongyang on January 22, 2025.Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)
Decision on Convening SPA Session of DPRK Pyongyang, December 6 (KCNA) — The Twelfth Session of the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea will be convened in Pyongyang on January 22, 2025.Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)
US officials have sparked controversy by invoking the so-calledMiddle East Monitor
Rivian is opening its charging network to other EVs
Link: thedrive.com/news/rivian-is-op…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Each new Rivian Adventure Network station will be available to all compatible EVs, and existing chargers will receive "gradual retrofits" to allow other makes.Caleb Jacobs (The Drive)
Recently, there has been a spate of articles and commentary about ‘US exceptionalism’, namely that the US economy is bounding forward in terms of economic growth, hi-tech investment and productivit…Michael Roberts Blog
Fructose in diet enhances tumor growth
Link: source.washu.edu/2024/12/resea…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Fructose is a sweetener added to ultra-processed foods, typically in the form of high-fructose corn syrup. WashU research shows that the liver turns fructose into lipids that many types of cancers crave.Talia Ogliore (The Source)
Amnesty International joined a growing chorus of human rights experts who say Israel is carrying out a genocide in Gaza. The group called on states and arms suppliers of Israel to “bring Israel’s atrocities…to an immediate end.”Qassam Muaddi (Mondoweiss)
Maps.me co-founder tries to close down Organic Maps open-source fork
Link: github.com/orgs/organicmaps/di…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Today I am announcing the public disclose of the source code of so-called "metaserver", that previously was available only to few people of the team. At Organic Maps, we prioritize transparency and...GitHub
by Leon Camus. These are not simple questions of the national budget or retirement age, but of imminent danger, namely war, the kind that is rumbling in Eastern Europe and into which a neuropathic ruling class wants to drag us with no return.Réseau International
Every UUID Dot Com
Link: everyuuid.com/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Tokyo government gives workers 4-day workweek to boost fertility, family time
Link: cnn.com/2024/12/06/asia/tokyo-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
Link: huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llam…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.huggingface.co
Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round
Link: bbc.com/news/articles/cn4x2epp…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The move comes after allegations of Russian influence via social media on the first round of voting.Sarah Rainsford (BBC News)
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