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72 49 UK counter-terrorism unit demands Steam withdraw controversial shooter from sale

Valve has removed a game from its British Steam storefront following a request from the UK's counter-terrorism unit.

1 hour ago  »  eurogamer.net
UK counter-terrorism unit demands Steam withdraw controversial shooter from sale
5 65 Programming the C64 with Visual Studio Code – Retro Game Coders

How to program the Commodore 64 in BASIC, Assembly or C using Microsoft Visual Studio Code on Mac, Windows and Linux!

Chris Garrett 2 hours ago  »  retrogamecoders.com
Programming the C64 with Visual Studio Code
28 85 What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2025?

At the start of each year, on January 1st, a new crop of works enter the public domain. Find our highlights of what lies in store for 2025 here.

3 hours ago  »  publicdomainreview.org
What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2025?
4 40 The Color of Noise (2014)

What kinds of random distributions are good for the sorts of graphics work we do in game development?

5 hours ago  »  caseymuratori.com
The Color of Noise
62 66 How can I grow as an engineer without good seniors to learn from? 5 hours ago  »  news.ycombinator.com 15 52 Heaviside’s Operator Calculus (2007)

An operational calculus converts derivatives and integrals to operators that act on functions, and by doing so ordinary and partial linear differential equations can be reduced to purely algebraic …

5 hours ago  »  deadreckonings.com
Heaviside’s Operator Calculus
8 47 The Phones of the New NATO Secretary General

A weblog about Signals Intelligence, Communications Security and top level telecommunications equipment

5 hours ago  »  electrospaces.net
The phones of the new NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte
14 57 Francis Crick's "Central Dogma" was misunderstood

The Central Dogma is not a 'dogma,' and it has never been broken.

Asimov Press 5 hours ago  »  asimov.press
Francis Crick Was Misunderstood
25 179 Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines 6 hours ago  »  markwhen.com 33 66 Steam Deck hits 17,000 games playable and verified

Another big milestone has been reached by Valve with their handheld Linux gaming PC, with the Steam Deck hitting 17,000 games rated playable or verified.

7 hours ago  »  gamingonlinux.com
Steam Deck hits 17,000 games playable and verified
44 157 Procedural knowledge in pretraining drives reasoning in large language models

The capabilities and limitations of Large Language Models have been sketched out in great detail in recent years, providing an intriguing yet conflicting picture. On the one hand, LLMs demonstrate a general ability to solve problems. On the other hand, they show surprising reasoning gaps when compared to humans, casting doubt on the robustness of their generalisation strategies. The sheer volume of data used in the d

7 hours ago  »  arxiv.org
8 36 Show HN: Vicinity – Fast, Lightweight Nearest Neighbors with Flexible Back Ends

Lightweight Nearest Neighbors with Flexible Backends - MinishLab/vicinity

7 hours ago  »  github.com/MinishLab
GitHub - MinishLab/vicinity: Lightweight Nearest Neighbors with Flexible Backends
17 37 First new asthma attack treatment in 50 years

Around two million asthma and COPD attacks each year could be treated with the drug, a study suggests.

7 hours ago  »  bbc.com
First new asthma attack treatment in 50 years
27 53 Building a distributed log using S3 (under 150 lines of Go)

In this third part of the series, I will show how we can implement a durable, distributed, and highly available log using S3

8 hours ago  »  avi.im
69 143 Kubernetes on Hetzner: cutting my infra bill by 75%

Hi, my name is Bill. I’m a software engineer based in London. This is a blog about software development.

8 hours ago  »  bilbof.com
54 56 Yotta Bank and the Problem with Fintech (Patrick Boyle) [video] 10 hours ago  »  youtube.com 67 191 Kyawthuite is so rare it's only ever been found once

There's a mineral so rare that only one specimen of it has ever been found in the entire world.

Michelle Starr 10 hours ago  »  sciencealert.com
The World's Rarest Mineral Is So Rare It's Only Ever Been Found Once
3 74 A Science of Concurrent Programs (final draft) 10 hours ago  »  lamport.azurewebsites.net 87 133 Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread connectivity in brain

OpenRead Reading & Notes Taking

10 hours ago  »  openread.academy
UNTITLED
5 41 Attacking the hashing function in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2

Mounting a dictionary attack against the Tony Hawk cheat code hashing system

Bo 10 hours ago  »  32bits.substack.com
Under the microscope: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (PlayStation, Dreamcast)
7 56 Show HN: OrioleDB Beta7

OrioleDB is a storage extension for PostgreSQL which uses PostgreSQL's pluggable storage system. Designed as a drop-in replacement for PostgreSQL's existing Heap storage, OrioleDB aims to overcome scalability bottlenecks and fully utilize modern hardware capabilities. By integrating seamlessly with PostgreSQL, it offers improved performance, efficiency, and scalability without sacrificing the robustness and reliabili

11 hours ago  »  orioledb.com
OrioleDB beta7: Benchmarks | OrioleDB
18 121 Review of "Statistics" by Freedman, Pisani, and Purves (2017) 14 hours ago  »  cadlag.org 383 969 Advent of Code 2024 15 hours ago  »  adventofcode.com 28 118 DynaSaur: Large Language Agents Beyond Predefined Actions

Existing LLM agent systems typically select actions from a fixed and predefined set at every step. While this approach is effective in closed, narrowly-scoped environments, we argue that it presents two major challenges when deploying LLM agents in real-world scenarios: (1) selecting from a fixed set of actions significantly restricts the planning and acting capabilities of LLM agents, and (2) this approach requires

18 hours ago  »  arxiv.org
98 96 Education and Healthcare Suck for the Same Reasons

All about alternative schooling, homeschooling, unschooling, and microschooling in India. We share guides to paths beyond traditional schooling that are being explored and rediscovered as our world changes rapidly.

19 hours ago  »  betterschooling.in
Education and Healthcare Suck for the Same Reasons: And Here's How We Can Change That - BetterSchooling
57 98 Fucking Tired of AI 20 hours ago  »  news.ycombinator.com 34 64 Canon ships its first nanoprint lithography machine, rivals ASML

Machine received by Texas Institute for Electronics

20 hours ago  »  datacenterdynamics.com
Canon ships its first nanoprint lithography machine, rivals ASML
113 246 OpenWRT One Released: First Router Designed Specifically for OpenWrt

Today, we at SFC, along with our OpenWrt member project, announce the production release of the OpenWrt One. This is the first wireless Internet router designed and built with your software freedom and right to repair in mind. The OpenWrt One will never be locked down and is forever unbrickable. This device services your needs as its owner and user. Everyone deserves control of their computing. The OpenWrt One t

21 hours ago  »  sfconservancy.org
First Router Designed Specifically For OpenWrt Released
59 53 All Here founder's arrest shows it's easy for startups to scam investors 21 hours ago  »  axios.com 65 147 Map UI – Ghost in the Shell

Map UI (User Interface) for the film “Ghost in the Shell” Copyright Shirow Masamune / Kodansha • Bandai Visual • Manga Entertainment •

21 hours ago  »  ilikeinterfaces.com
Map UI – Ghost in the Shell
8 43 Office CMBS Delinquency Rate Spikes to 10.4%, Just Below Worst of GFC Meltdown 22 hours ago  »  wolfstreet.com 91 62 The Salvadoran government has 5,940 bitcoins worth $582M

De acuerdo con el sitio CoinMarketCap, la moneda digital tocó los $98,342 a las 5:00 a.m.

La Noticia sv 22 hours ago  »  lanoticiasv.com
El bitcoin está por alcanzar los $100,000 y El Salvador ha alcanzado los $582 millones en la reserva estatal - Noticias de hoy en El Salvador
58 37 Controlling AI's Growing Energy Needs 23 hours ago  »  cacm.acm.org 138 217 Jeff Dean responds to EDA industry about AlphaChip 23 hours ago  »  twitter.com/JeffDean 52 67 Large Language Models as Markov Chains

Large language models (LLMs) have proven to be remarkably efficient, both across a wide range of natural language processing tasks and well beyond them. However, a comprehensive theoretical analysis of the origins of their impressive performance remains elusive. In this paper, we approach this challenging task by drawing an equivalence between generic autoregressive language models with vocabulary of size $T$ and con

24 hours ago  »  arxiv.org
8 37 Ukraine 'redirecting' Iranian-designed kamikaze drones back to Russia yesterday  »  telegraph.co.uk 27 41 Why microservices might be finished as monoliths return with a vengeance

Microservices architecture may look appealing, but transitioning from a monolith is challenging and can increase system complexity.

Supriya Lal, Yelp yesterday  »  venturebeat.com
Why microservices might be finished as monoliths return with a vengeance
72 89 An 83-year-old short story by Borges portends a bleak future for the internet

Borges imagined an endless library that contained every possible permutation of letters. The truth is out there, but it’s embedded among hordes of lies and gibberish.

Roger J. Kreuz yesterday  »  theconversation.com
An 83-year-old short story by Borges portends a bleak future for the internet
60 98 Silicon Valley is turning into its own worst fear (2017)

We asked a group of writers to consider the forces that have shaped our lives in 2017. Here, science fiction writer Ted Chiang looks at capitalism, Silicon Valley, and its fear of superintelligent AI.

Ted Chiang yesterday  »  buzzfeednews.com
Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear
135 448 Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption)

Contribute to privastead/privastead development by creating an account on GitHub.

yesterday  »  github.com/privastead
GitHub - privastead/privastead
39 38 China's EV Boom Threatens to Push Gasoline Demand Off a Cliff yesterday  »  bloomberg.com 7 43 Source Code of $3k-a-Month macOS Malware 'Banshee Stealer' Leaked

The Banshee Stealer macOS malware operation, which emerged earlier this year, was reportedly shut down following a source code leak. 

Eduard Kovacs yesterday  »  securityweek.com
Source Code of $3,000-a-Month macOS Malware ‘Banshee Stealer’ Leaked
187 442 A Brazilian CA trusted only by Microsoft has issued a certificate for google.com

A Brazilian certificate authority trusted only by Microsoft has issued a presumably-unauthorized certificate for google.com: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1934361 This can used to i...

yesterday  »  follow.agwa.name
Andrew Ayer (@agwa@follow.agwa.name)
39 48 The reproducibility crisis and other problems in science: John Ioannidis [video] yesterday  »  youtube.com 27 61 Wayland Color Management Protocol Might Be Close to Merging

In what could be a wonderful holiday for the Linux desktop, it looks like the Wayland color management protocol might finally be close to merging after four years in discussion.

yesterday  »  phoronix.com
Wayland Color Management Protocol Might Finally Be Close To Merging
152 380 Ntfs2btrfs does in-place conversion of NTFS filesystem to the open-source Btrfs

Contribute to maharmstone/ntfs2btrfs development by creating an account on GitHub.

yesterday  »  github.com/maharmstone
GitHub - maharmstone/ntfs2btrfs
126 297 AMD Disables Zen 4's Loop Buffer

A loop buffer sits at a CPU's frontend, where it holds a small number of previously fetched instructions.

Chester Lam yesterday  »  chipsandcheese.com
AMD Disables Zen 4's Loop Buffer
67 66 Motivating Personal Growth by Seeking Discomfort (2022) yesterday  »  journals.sagepub.com 32 38 ChatGPT refuses to say the name "David Mayer," and no one knows why yesterday  »  twitter.com/venturetwins 144 216 You must read at least one book to ride yesterday  »  ludic.mataroa.blog 291 327 Honeycrisp apples went from marvel to mediocre

An investigation into the Honeycrisp apple and how a complex string of events led to a decline in the quality of a beloved apple variety.

yesterday  »  seriouseats.com
How Honeycrisp Apples Went From Marvel to Mediocre
33 116 Square roots and maxima

A brief numerical and graphical check on a 3Blue1Brown video.

yesterday  »  leancrew.com
Square roots and maxima
32 88 Interview of Robert Shingledecker, Tiny Core Linux and DSL Developer (2009) yesterday  »  distrowatch.com 12 49 Modern Mathematics (Pre-Print) Cutting-edge math for today's coder yesterday  »  artima.com 7 36 The Story of Nel

Happy 🦃 Day!

Diego Crespo yesterday  »  deusinmachina.net
The Story of Nel
32 45 Ask HN: How do I search the web in the age of enshittified search engines? yesterday  »  news.ycombinator.com 23 39 Ask HN: How to Resurrect a Site from Archive.org? yesterday  »  news.ycombinator.com 122 71 Tesla is looking to hire a team to remotely control its 'self-driving' robotaxis

Elon Musk's "fully autonomous" cars will, like other robotaxi vehicles, rely on remote human pilots.

Lucas Ropek yesterday  »  gizmodo.com
Tesla Is Looking to Hire a Team to Remotely Control Its 'Self-Driving' Robotaxis
11 45 US War Department 1945 // Army Talk Orientation Fact Sheet #64 – Fascism

March 24, 1945. Army Talk Orientation Fact Sheet #64 Fascism! A sheet printed and distributed by the United States War Department as an educational tool for...

yesterday  »  archive.org
Army Talk Orientation Fact Sheet #64 - Fascism! : Army Orientation Branch: Information and Education Division : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
18 35 Things I wish I knew the day I started Berklee (2008) 2 days ago  »  sive.rs 146 264 Safe relational database queries using the Rust type system

Safe relational database queries using the Rust type system Do you want to persist your data safely wit…

2 days ago  »  blog.lucasholten.com
34 59 Both KDE and GNOME to offer official distros

Leading Linux desktops boldly address the "not enough distros" non-problem

2 days ago  »  theregister.com
Both KDE and GNOME to offer official distros
10 70 Microsoft accused of Malware-like Bing Wallpaper app

The Bing Wallpaper app appears to include behaviors and features that are generally only found in malicious apps.

Martin Brinkmann 2 days ago  »  ghacks.net
Microsoft accused of Malware-like Bing Wallpaper app - gHacks Tech News
70 83 Thoughts on the software industry (2022) 2 days ago  »  linus.coffee 45 103 Make the most of your burl Cindy Drozda 2 days ago  »  cindydrozda.com 10 41 The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor

This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly …

2 days ago  »  acoup.blog
Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
25 127 Making Screenshots of Test Equipment Old and New 2 days ago  »  tomverbeure.github.io 180 425 Engineering Sleep 2 days ago  »  minjunes.ai 670 348 If not React, then what?

Frameworkism is now the dominant creed of today's frontend discourse, and it's bullshit. We owe it to ourselves and to our users to reject dogma and embrace engineering as a discipline that strives to serve users first and foremost.

2 days ago  »  infrequently.org
If Not React, Then What? - Infrequently Noted
40 40 Googling Is for Old People. That's a Problem for Google 2 days ago  »  wsj.com 0 61 Cause of rare devastating, autoimmune disease in Puerto Ricans–and possible cure

A rare autoimmune condition with a tongue-twister of a name may impact people of Puerto Rican heritage through a newly discovered genetic pathway, a discovery that may ultimately guide genetic counseling and treatment, scientists associated with the discovery say.

2 days ago  »  medicalxpress.com
Scientists find cause of rare devastating, autoimmune disease in Puerto Ricans—but also find potential treatment
279 275 Sol-Ark manufacturer reportedly disables all Deye inverters in the US

Seemingly, at the drop of a hat the morning of Friday, Nov 15th, Deye-branded inverters across the US were intentionally bricked.

2 days ago  »  solarboi.com
Sol-Ark manufacturer reportedly disables all Deye inverters in the US
15 40 The Quake III Arena Bot (2001) [pdf] 2 days ago  »  fabiensanglard.net 59 157 NASA's Europa Clipper: Miles Down, Instruments Deploying

Headed to Jupiter’s moon Europa, the spacecraft is operating without a hitch and will reach Mars in just three months for a gravity assist.

2 days ago  »  nasa.gov
NASA’s Europa Clipper: Millions of Miles Down, Instruments Deploying - NASA
151 111 The Engagement Is Better on Bluesky

Bluesky is the lobby to the open web. Find and build your community here.

2 days ago  »  bsky.social
The Engagement Is Better on Bluesky - Bluesky
42 82 Triangle fraud in brick and mortar retail Getcho, Inc 2 days ago  »  getcho.app 48 446 Geometric line-art of Wacław Szpakowski (2017)

A new exhibition proves that the Polish artist, who died in 1973, deserves a far wider reputation—and that his influence remains deeply felt.

2 days ago  »  theparisreview.org
Waclaw Szpakowski Made Labyrinthine Drawings from Single, Continuous Lines
19 39 Who is "Absolute Persistence", and why is their spyware on 600M computers?

Device security is only as good as its ability to stay on. Built right into device firmware Absolute creates a persistent, unbreakable link between IT teams and the devices they manage, so you can see, control, and remediate devices automatically, from everywhere. Embedded in more than 500 million devices worldwide, Absolute Persistence turns every device in your fleet into a self-healing endpoint.

2 days ago  »  absolute.com
Absolute Persistence Technology | Absolute Security
279 335 The deterioration of Google 2 days ago  »  baldurbjarnason.com The deterioration of Google 12 62 The Hall SC-VGA-2 Video Processor, the Atari ST and NeXTSTEP

A periodic fascination on this blog is figuring out better ways to get better screenshots of our classic systems, which often hail from the ...

2 days ago  »  oldvcr.blogspot.com
The Hall SC-VGA-2 video processor, the Atari ST and NeXTSTEP: more tales of the unscreenshotable
17 61 Bevy 0.15 released

Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. It is free and open-source forever!

2 days ago  »  bevyengine.org
Bevy 0.15
122 132 Brits are scrolling away from X and aren't that interested in AI

Ofcom's Online Nation report drills into the UK's internet habits for 2024

2 days ago  »  theregister.com
Brits are scrolling away from X and aren't interested in AI
72 118 Ask HN: Platform for senior devs to learn other programming languages? 2 days ago  »  news.ycombinator.com 323 550 Breaking the 4Chan CAPTCHA

In this blog post, I will talk about my successful experiment in machine learning using TensorFlow to automate solving the 4Chan CAPTCHA.

blackjack 2 days ago  »  nullpt.rs
1 42 Show HN: Jinbase – Multi-model transactional embedded database

Multi-model transactional embedded database. Contribute to pyrustic/jinbase development by creating an account on GitHub.

2 days ago  »  github.com/pyrustic
GitHub - pyrustic/jinbase: Multi-model transactional embedded database
15 85 Jank is now running on LLVM IR

Learn about jank generating LLVM IR instead of C++. See the startup time improvements. Gain insight into what the community has been up to. Sponsor jank!

2 days ago  »  jank-lang.org
jank is now running on LLVM IR
483 668 What does this button do? – My new car has a mysterious and undocumented switch 2 days ago  »  blog.koenvh.nl 119 65 UK lawmakers vote in support of assisted dying

British lawmakers have voted to allow assisted dying, a move set to make the UK one of a small handful of countries to allow terminally ill people to end their lives.

Rob Picheta 2 days ago  »  cnn.com
UK lawmakers vote to allow assisted dying | CNN
222 135 US house prices in 1950 vs. 2024, accounting for inflation

The map above shows how much houses cost in 1950 in each US state in 2024 inflation adjusted US dollars, compared to what the average cost actually is in 2024.

2 days ago  »  brilliantmaps.com
US Houses Prices In 1950 vs 2024 (Accounting For Inflation) - Brilliant Maps
8 57 Calmy Leon – The Ultimate Relaxing Music and Sound Generator

World's most relaxing music player and sound generator.

Dr. Ir. Stéphane Pigeon 2 days ago  »  calmyleon.com
130 221 The Influence of Bell Labs

We’ve talked previously about Bell Labs’ long, storied history as an innovation engine and a generator of new technology.

Brian Potter 2 days ago  »  construction-physics.com
The Influence of Bell Labs
63 118 Simple Sabotage for the 21st Century – Specific Suggestions

The most potent tools for fighting injustice are the ones already in your hands.

N/A 2 days ago  »  specificsuggestions.com
Specific Suggestions: Simple Sabotage for the 21st Century
87 140 Chinese pebble-bed nuclear reactor passes "meltdown" test 2 days ago  »  ans.org 71 67 Javier Milei: "My contempt for the state is infinite"

Argentina’s president is idolised by the Trumpian right. They should get to know him better

2 days ago  »  economist.com
Javier Milei: “My contempt for the state is infinite”
73 172 Buy Nothing Day

24 hour detox from consumerism.

2 days ago  »  buynothingday.co.uk
Buy Nothing Day
100 384 Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering Julia Evans 2 days ago  »  jvns.ca 52 48 How Baltic and Nordic countries are preparing for a crisis or war

The history of Russian occupation of some countries around the Baltic Sea prompts a greater awareness of risk of attack today.

Marie Cronqvist 2 days ago  »  theconversation.com
‘Keep nine litres of water in storage’: how Baltic and Nordic countries are preparing for a crisis or war
0 60 All Known Movies Featuring Nmap 2 days ago  »  nmap.org 15 70 Archaeometallurgical investigation of the Nebra Sky Disc

Scientific Reports - Archaeometallurgical investigation of the Nebra Sky Disc

2 days ago  »  nature.com
Archaeometallurgical investigation of the Nebra Sky Disc - Scientific Reports
40 201 Prometheus 3.0

An open-source monitoring system with a dimensional data model, flexible query language, efficient time series database and modern alerting approach.

Prometheus 2 days ago  »  prometheus.io
Announcing Prometheus 3.0 | Prometheus

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