A visual proof that a^2 – b^2 = (a + b)(a – b)
Link: futilitycloset.com/2024/12/15/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A visual proof that a2 – b2 = (a + b)(a – b). Sophie Germain wrote, “It has been said that algebra is but written geometry and geometry is but diagrammatic algebra.”Greg Ross (Futility Closet)
Llama.cpp Now Supports Qwen2-VL (Vision Language Model)
Link: github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
This PR implements the Qwen2VL model as requested at #9246 . The main changes include: Add m-RoPE and vision RoPE mode to current RoPE OP in CPU and CUDA backend Add llama_context.n_pos_per_token ...GitHub
I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper
Link: mfasold.net/blog/displaying-we…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
How I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paperMarios Fasold's Website
Why is it so hard to buy things that work well?
Link: danluu.com/nothing-works/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive
Link: shirtpocket.com/blog/index.php…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Silicon Valley Tea Party a.k.a. the great 1998 Linux revolt take II (1999)
Link: marc.merlins.org/linux/teapart…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Cyphernetes: A Query Language for Kubernetes
Link: cyphernet.es/#
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Nokia 5110 – Back from the Dead
Link: opsbros.com/nokia-5110-back-fr…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
I loved my Nokia 5110 and I wonder if it was possible to breathe new life into this long-shelved and still-memed mobile phone. As it turns out, not only is it possible, but it's going to be a lot easier than I anticipated.OpsBros Admin (Opsbros)
NYC wants you to stop taking traffic cam selfies, but here's how to do it anyway
Link: pcmag.com/articles/nyc-wants-y…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The Traffic Cam Photobooth website from artist Morry Kolman lets you snap a pic as you pass a public camera. New York officials responded with a cease-and-desist, but Kolman is undeterred.Jon Kalish (PCMag)
'The next recession starts here': Trump team weighs abolishing bank regulators
President-elect Donald Trump and his advisers are reportedly considering plans to weaken—or abolish altogether—top bank regulators, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and Office of th...
President-elect Donald Trump and his advisers are reportedly considering plans to weaken—or abolish altogether—top bank regulators, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.Jake Johnson (Alternet.org)
Show HN: SmartHome – An Adventure Game
Link: smarthome.steviep.xyz
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far
Link: 9to5mac.com/2024/12/16/most-ip…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A new survey suggests that Apple Intelligence matters to iPhone buyers, but the majority say that the initial features add...Ben Lovejoy (9to5Mac)
My PhD advisor rewrote himself in bash (2010)
Link: matt.might.net/articles/shell-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Show HN: Open-sourcing my failed startup Buzee – A file search application
Link: github.com/gsidhu/buzee-tauri
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A superfast full-text search application. Contribute to gsidhu/buzee-tauri development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Preferring throwaway code over design docs
Link: softwaredoug.com/blog/2024/12/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
If you have discipline to throw away your first idea, draft, throwaway PRs often drives more progress than a design doc.Doug Turnbull's Blog
Source: libsoftiktok
Did you know that Congress snuck in a massive year end health care spending package which gives tens of billions to Big Pharma?
Why is Congress doing this 6 weeks before inauguration? Is it to stop Trump’s and RFK’s agenda?
This seems like a huge waste of taxpayer money. Cc @DOGE @elonmusk
Call your Representative and get answers!
Original tweet : nitter.privacydev.net/libsofti…
Did you know that Congress snuck in a massive year end health care spending package which gives tens of billions to Big Pharma? Why is Congress doing this 6 weeks before inauguration? Is it to stop Trump’s and RFK’s agenda? This seems like a huge w…Nitter
Wishing for a more orderly disruption may misunderstand government reform
Link: eatingpolicy.com/p/bringing-el…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Wishing for a more orderly disruption may misunderstand the nature of government reformJennifer Pahlka (Eating Policy)
Beta registration opened today, will enable texting in dead zones in early 2025.Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
“With all these sightings over the last while, why do we have more questions than answers?” the Senate Majority Leader said during a December 15th press conference.Alex Heath (The Verge)
Load is not what you should balance: Introducing Prequal
Link: usenix.org/conference/nsdi24/p…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Show HN: I built an embeddable Unicode library with MISRA C conformance
Link: railgunlabs.com/unicorn/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Where high-velocity software meets precision engineering.railgunlabs.com
Palm's CEO emails Steve Jobs (2007)
Link: twitter.com/TechEmails/status/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Foreign countries step up efforts to establish contacts with Syria's interim rulers.ABC News
Xiaomi has provided official support for Home Assistant
Link: github.com/XiaoMi/ha_xiaomi_ho…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant. Contribute to XiaoMi/ha_xiaomi_home development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Taming LLMs – A Practical Guide to LLM Pitfalls with Open Source Software
Link: souzatharsis.com/tamingLLMs/ma…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A new video captures a 1968 demo of IBM’s Executive Terminal
Link: spectrum.ieee.org/ibm-demo
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A new video captures a remarkable 1968 demo of IBM’s Executive TerminalDavid C. Brock (IEEE Spectrum)
Elixir/Erlang Hot Swapping Code
Link: kennyballou.com/blog/2016/12/e…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Carta is making it too difficult to cancel subscriptions, some founders say
Link: techcrunch.com/2024/12/12/cart…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Cap table management firm Carta is under fire from some founders who say cancelling their subscriptions is too hard.Charles Rollet (TechCrunch)
Unexpected Keyboard
Link: github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Ke…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A lightweight virtual keyboard for developers. Contribute to Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
A middle schooler found a new compound in a piece of goose poop
Link: phys.org/news/2024-12-middle-s…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A group of young students became bonafide biomedical scientists before they even started high school. Through a partnership with a nearby university, the middle schoolers collected and analyzed environmental samples to find new antibiotic candidates.American Chemical Society (Phys.org)
"Rules" that terminal programs follow
Link: jvns.ca/blog/2024/11/26/termin…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A year after the feature was revealed as a Sneak at Adobe’s annual conference, the Reflection Removal tool is now available in Camera Raw, and coming soon to Lightroom.Andrew Liszewski (The Verge)
Microsoft Recall still storing credit card, social security numbers
Link: tomshardware.com/software/wind…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Despite promising to filter personal data out, Recall still captures it.Avram Piltch (Tom's Hardware)
Show HN: Kubernetes Spec Explorer
Link: kubespec.dev/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Find the documentation for all builtin resources, properties, types and even some examples!kubespec.dev
Parkinson's Law: It’s real, so use it
Link: theengineeringmanager.substack…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Yes, just set that deadline.James Stanier (The Engineering Manager)
The FDA Hasn't Inspected This Drug Factory After 7 Recalls for the Same Flaw
Link: propublica.org/article/glenmar…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Glenmark Pharmaceuticals issued seven recalls for pills that didn’t dissolve properly, records show. All were made at the same factory in India. But the FDA still hasn’t stopped the company from shipping other pills made there to the U.S.ProPublica
Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths
Link: bbc.com/news/articles/c0j1z14p…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
For the first time, the annual report delved into race and ethnic data of those who underwent assisted dying.Nadine Yousif (BBC News)
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Android XR
Link: blog.google/products/android/a…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Android XR is our newest platform built specifically for XR headsets and glasses.Shahram Izadi (Google)
Mouseless – fast mouse control with the keyboard
Link: mouseless.click/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Fermat's Last Theorem – how it's going
Link: xenaproject.wordpress.com/2024…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
So I’m two months into trying to teach a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem to a computer. We already have one interesting story, which I felt was worth sharing.Xena
Show HN: Quantus – LeetCode for Financial Modeling
Link: quantus.finance/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Boost your finance career. It's the best place to learn more and practice financial modeling skills with hands-on tasks in an excel-based environment.quantus.finance
BlenderGPT
Link: blendergpt.org/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
BuzzFeed is selling Hot Ones - First We Feast.
After months of searching for a bu... - theverge.com/2024/12/12/243195…
BuzzFeed has finally found a buyer for First We Feast and the popular YouTube show Hot Ones, and the $82 million sale will help the company get on top of its massive debt.Charles Pulliam-Moore (The Verge)
Gukesh Becomes the Youngest Chess World Champion in History
Link: lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog/wcc…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
GM Gukesh D pressed a slightly better endgame for a long time against GM Ding Liren, who blundered unexpectedly into a losing king and pawn endgame.lichess.org
Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History
Link: oldmapsonline.org/en/history/r…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The easy-to-use getaway to historical maps in libraries around the world.www.oldmapsonline.org
Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why
Link: arstechnica.com/information-te…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Filter resulting from subject of settled defamation lawsuit could cause trouble down the road.Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
A ChatGPT clone, in 3000 bytes of C, backed by GPT-2 (2023)
Link: nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
This program is a dependency-free implementation of GPT-2, including byte-pair encoding and transformer inference, in ~3000 bytes of C. I then use this to create something like Chat GPT.nicholas.carlini.com
Launch HN: Azalea Robotics (YC S24) – Baggage-handling robots for airports
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Ham Radio All-in-One-Cable
Link: github.com/skuep/AIOC
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Ham Radio All-in-one-Cable. Contribute to skuep/AIOC development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Storing Times for Human Events
Link: simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/27/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
I’ve worked on various event websites in the past, and one of the unintuitively difficult problems that inevitably comes up is the best way to store the time that an …simonwillison.net
A letter to open-source maintainers
Link: xuanwo.io/2024/10-a-letter-to-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
An infrastructure engineer, focused on distributed storage systemxuanwo.io
The Cold Email Handbook
Link: za-zu.com/blog/playbook
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Learn how to master cold email outreach from $0 to $1M ARR. A comprehensive playbook on infrastructure, copywriting, and AI-powered personalization at scale.My Portfolio (www.za-zu.com)
Instant macOS install on Proxmox including AMD patches
Link: github.com/luchina-gabriel/OSX…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Voilà, install macOS on ANY Computer! This is really and magic easiest way! - luchina-gabriel/OSX-PROXMOXGitHub
The GPU is not always faster
Link: cowfreedom.de/#dot_product/int…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
OnlyFans models are using AI impersonators to keep up with their DMs
Link: wired.com/story/onlyfans-model…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Editorial / Personal note.
I’m going to panhandle again. I lost my job in tech months ago right at the time I had a ton of expenses. I have a job now which pays less than half of my old salary. Also I have a kid in college.
If anyone can spare a couple of dollars, you could tip me via Kofi, if you’ve enjoyed my contributions to the Fediverse, if my dumb comments have made you laugh.
I feel bad even asking, things are tough for everyone. But thanks in advance.
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Evolving my ergonomic setup (or, my laptop with extra steps)
Link: ntietz.com/blog/evolving-ergo-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Chatbot hinted a kid should kill his parents over screen time limits: lawsuit
Link: npr.org/2024/12/10/nx-s1-52225…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
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QEMU with VirtIO GPU Vulkan Support
Link: gist.github.com/peppergrayxyz/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
QEMU with VirtIO GPU Vulkan Support. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.Gist
Mysterious New Jersey drone sightings prompt call for 'state of emergency'
Link: theguardian.com/us-news/2024/d…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Lawmaker called for a ‘limited state of emergency’, while 21 mayors asked governor to enact statewide actionEd Pilkington (The Guardian)
The racial slur of the day is Murray.
It is used to refer to Maori.
Deep lore: Sounds similar to "Māori", New Zealand aboriginals.
Dear OAuth Providers
Link: pilcrowonpaper.com/blog/dear-o…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Trillium TPU Is GA
Link: cloud.google.com/blog/products…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Trillium, Google’s sixth-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is now GA, delivering enhanced performance and cost-effectiveness for AI workloads.Mark Lohmeyer (Google Cloud)
AI Guesses Your Accent
Link: start.boldvoice.com/accent-gue…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Let the Oracle figure out your non-native English accent!start.boldvoice.com
The Myth of Bananaland
Link: worldhistory.substack.com/p/th…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The marketing and reality of the United Fruit CompanyGeorge Dillard (Looking Through the Past)
2400 phone providers may be shut down by the FCC for failing to stop robocalls
Link: docs.fcc.gov/public/attachment…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Django and Postgres for the Busy Rails Developer
Link: andyatkinson.com/django-python…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
About 10 years ago I wrote a post PostgreSQL for the Busy MySQL Developer, as part of switching from MySQL to Postgres for my personal and professional projects, wherever I could.Andrew Atkinson - Software Engineer, Author, High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails
RISC-V HiFive Premier P550 Development Boards with Ubuntu Now Available
Link: sifive.com/blog/hifive-premier…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
HiFIve Development board, RISC-VSiFive
Pgroll – Zero-downtime, reversible, schema changes for PostgreSQL (new website)
Link: pgroll.com/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
X41 Reviewed Mullvad VPN
Link: x41-dsec.de/news/2024/12/11/mu…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
FCC Opens Entire 6 GHz Band to Low Power Device Operations
Link: fcc.gov/document/fcc-opens-ent…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Understanding the Odin Programming Language
Link: odinbook.com/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Learn the Odin Programming Language and demystify low-level programmingodinbook.com
Atrazine, an endocrine-disrupting herbicide banned in EU,still widely used in US
Link: water.usgs.gov/nawqa/pnsp/feat…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Overweight overtakes tobacco smoking as the leading disease risk factor in 2024
Link: scimex.org/newsfeed/being-over…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Being overweight overtakes tobacco smoking as the leading disease risk factor in 2024 Living with overweight or obesity has overtaken tobacco smoking as the leading risk factor contributing to disease burden in 2024, according to a new repor…Scimex
Dioxus 0.6 – Crossplatform apps with Rust
Link: dioxuslabs.com/blog/release-06…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A fullstack crossplatform app framework for Rust. Supports Web, Desktop, SSR, Liveview, and Mobile.dioxuslabs.com
Helium: Lighter Web Automation with Python
Link: github.com/mherrmann/helium
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Lighter web automation with Python. Contribute to mherrmann/helium development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
You need 4 colors
Link: iamsajid.com/colors/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
We all took the DVD boom era for granted
Link: filmstories.co.uk/features/we-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Between the late 90s and mid-2000s, home releases were often imaginatively packaged and stuffed with extras.Ryan Lambie (Film Stories)
Don't Get Distracted
Link: calebhearth.com/dont-get-distr…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
I’m going to tell you about how I took a job building software to kill people. But don’t get distracted by that; I didn’t know at the time.Hearthside
PeerTube mobile app: discover videos while caring for your attention
Link: joinpeertube.org/news/peertube…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Today, at Framasoft (bonjour!), we publish the very first version of the PeerTube Mobile app for android and iOS. A lot of care went into its concepti...JoinPeerTube
The Case Against Google's Claims of "Quantum Supremacy"
Link: gilkalai.wordpress.com/2024/12…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The 2019 paper “Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor” asserted that Google’s Sycamore quantum computer, with 53 qubits and a depth of 20, performed a specific computat…Combinatorics and more
Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era
Link: blog.google/technology/google-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Today, we’re announcing Gemini 2.0, our most capable AI model yet.Sundar Pichai (Google)
What I learned covering computer science in 2024
Link: mailchi.mp/quantamagazine.org/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
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Making memcpy(NULL, NULL, 0) well-defined
Link: developers.redhat.com/articles…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Undefined behavior (UB) in the C programming language is a regular source of heated discussions among programmers. On the one hand, UB can be important for compiler optimizations.Nikita Popov (Red Hat Developer)
The PayPal Mafia is taking over America's government
Link: economist.com/business/2024/12…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
America’s right-wing tech bros are celebrating Donald Trump’s victoryThe Economist
Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2024 winners
Link: rmg.co.uk/whats-on/astronomy-p…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The winning images in the world's biggest space photography competition have been revealedwww.rmg.co.uk
Show HN: Don't let your billion-dollar ideas die
Link: ideaharbor.xyz
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Judge Refuses to Allow Sale of Infowars to The Onion
Link: nytimes.com/2024/12/10/busines…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
B+ Tree Visualization
Link: cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualiza…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Alzheimer's study shows ketone bodies help clear misfolded proteins
Link: genengnews.com/topics/translat…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Study finds ketone esters help clear misfolded proteins in preclinical models of aging and Alzheimer’s disease.Sophia Ktori (GEN - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News)
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