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MinC Is Not Cygwin
minc.commandlinerevolution.nl
EU fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M
politico.eu

The highly anticipated penalties are the first to be issued under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act.

America's cyber defenses are being dismantled from the inside
theregister.com

Opinion: The CVE system nearly dying shows that someone has lost the plot

Apple and Meta fined millions for breaching EU law
ca.finance.yahoo.com
OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an "AI-first" experience
arstechnica.com

OpenAI would love to own Chrome, and it’s allegedly not alone.

The Gruen Transfer is consuming the internet
sebs.website

Sebastian David Lees - The Gruen Transfer is taking over social media. What is it and how can we avoid it?

Advanced Python Features
blog.edward-li.com

Python is one of the most widely adopted programming languages in the world. Yet, because of it’s ease and simplicity to just “get something working”, it’s also one of the most underappreciated. If you search for Top 10 Advanced Python Tricks on Google or any other search engine, you’ll find tons of blogs or LinkedIn articles going over trivial (but still useful) things like generators or tuples. However, as someone

Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Internet
nlnet.nl
Pixel is a unit of length and area
nayuki.io
Why Does My eBPF Program Work on One Kernel but Fail on Another?
ebpfchirp.substack.com

Teodor J. Podobnik - How to Build Truly Portable eBPF Programs

Hyperscaling Have I Been Pwned with Cloudflare Workers and Caching
troyhunt.com

I've spent more than a decade now writing about how to make Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) fast. Really fast. Fast to the extent that sometimes, it was even too fast: The response from each search was coming back so quickly that the user wasn’t sure if it was

Where did the false "equal transit-time" explanation of lift originate from?
hsm.stackexchange.com

It's supposedly a "widely circulated" false claim that wings generate lift because of their asymmetric shape, forcing air above to travel faster so that they meet up on the trailing edge at the sam...

Native visionOS platform support
github.com/godotengine

Dear Godot community, I'm on Apple's visionOS engineering team, and we would like to contribute Vision Pro support to the Godot engine. This is the first PR that lays the foundation for tha...

The Problem with Modern Engineering Isn't Speed. It's Chaos
earthly.dev

Vlad A. Ionescu - Last year, our team spent a lot of time interviewing fellow Platform, DevOps, DevEx, CI/CD, and SRE engineers, as well as engineering leaders, in o...

UN says scam call centers are epidemic and expanding globally
theregister.com

: What used to be a serious issue mainly in Southeast Asia is now the world’s problem

The Outlook for Programmers
cacm.acm.org
Projects for Old OS X
jonathanalland.com
Intel to Announce Plans This Week to Cut More Than 20% of Staff
bloomberg.com
New study of birds shows citizen science can be trusted
ucdavis.edu

Platforms such as iNaturalist and eBird encourage people to observe and document nature, but how accurate is the ecological data that they collect?

Meaning Machine – Visualize how LLMs break down and simulate meaning
meaning-machine.streamlit.app
Show HN: Durable Python Workflows
github.com/autokitteh
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Durable workflow automation in just a few lines of code - autokitteh/autokitteh

Google won't ditch third-party cookies in Chrome after all
arstechnica.com

Google drops plans for a one-click prompt to disable tracking cookies.

Take Action: Defend the Internet Archive
blog.archive.org
How to quickly charge your smartphone: fast charging technologies in detail
eb43.github.io
CSS Hell
csshell.com
Tesla Profits Drop 71% Amid Backlash to Elon Musk's Role Under Trump
nytimes.com
Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run
blog.atuin.sh

Atuin Desktop looks like a doc, but runs like your terminal. Script blocks, embedded terminals, database clients and prometheus charts - all in one place.

Windows File Manager (WinFile) repository archived on March 1, 2025
github.com/microsoft

Original Windows File Manager (winfile) with enhancements - microsoft/winfile

Classic Computer Replicas
obsolescence.dev
Tesla Q1 2025 Update [pdf]
digitalassets.tesla.com
Show HN: Dosidicus – A digital pet with a simple neural network
github.com/ViciousSquid
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Tamagotchi-style digital pet with a neural network and Hebbian learning - ViciousSquid/Dosidicus

A study of lightning fatalities inside buildings while using smartphones [pdf] (2024)
electricalsafetyworkshop.org
Everyday life improvements since the 90s (2022)
gwern.net

Gwern - A list of unheralded improvements to ordinary quality-of-life since the 1990s going beyond computers.

Can a single AI model advance any field of science?
lanl.gov

Earl Lawrence - Can a single AI model advance any field of science? Los Alamos statistician Earl Lawerence is building a model to find out.

OpenAI would buy Google's Chrome, exec testifies at trial
reuters.com
How long does it take to create a new habit? (2015)
thelogicaloptimist.com

yorgo - How long it really takes to create a new habit, not 21 days.

Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS (Homebrew replacement)
github.com/alexykn

Rust based package manager for macOS. Contribute to alexykn/sapphire development by creating an account on GitHub.

Ping, You've Got Whale: AI detection system alerts ships of whales in their path
biographic.com

Mark Garrison - A new artificial intelligence-powered detection system is giving ship captains real-time alerts when a whale is in their path.

The Truth about Atlantis (2019)
talesoftimesforgotten.com

Spencer McDaniel - If you are like most Americans, chances are, you probably believe that Atlantis or another civilization like it once existed. A survey conducted by Chapman University in October 2014 found that, at that time, roughly 63% of people in the United States agreed or strongly agreed with the statement “ancient, advanced civilizations, such as Atlantis, … Continue reading "The Truth about Atlantis"

The complex origin story of domestic cats
phys.org

Researchers looking into the origin of domestic cats have long considered that cats likely accompanied early farmers during the Neolithic, spreading through Europe alongside the adoption of agriculture.

I started a devblog about mixing SwiftUI and C++ to make a Twitch app
kulve.org

Kulve is a crossplatform, native Twitch application currently being built for Apple platforms.

Parcom: CL Parser Combinators
github.com/fosskers

Simple parser combinators for Common Lisp. Contribute to fosskers/parcom development by creating an account on GitHub.

π0.5: A VLA with open-world generalization
pi.website

Our latest generalist policy, π0.5, extends π0 and enables open-world generalization. Our new model can control a mobile manipulator to clean up an entirely new kitchen or bedroom.

Internal MS email to managers details new policies to cull low performers
businessinsider.com

Ashley Stewart - Microsoft has created new policies and tools for managers as the company dials up performance pressure on employees.

Deepseek Unmasked [pdf]
selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov
Show HN: I built a Ruby gem that handles memoization with a ttl
github.com/mishalzaman
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Contribute to mishalzaman/memo_ttl development by creating an account on GitHub.

Are polynomial features the root of all evil? (2024)
alexshtf.github.io

Alex Shtoff - There is a well-known myth in the machine learning community - high degree polynomials are bad for modeling. In this post we debunk this myth.

I should have loved biology too
nehalslearnings.substack.com

Nehal Udyavar - How I went from hating it to being obsessed, the allure of great writing, and a post-scuba-dive moment of clarity

Google will keep cookies and skip opt-out option in Chrome
privacysandbox.com

In this April 2025 announcement, the Privacy Sandbox team shares next steps for Privacy Sandbox and tracking protections in Chrome.

Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source IDE for multi-agent systems
github.com/rowboatlabs
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AI-powered multi-agent builder. Contribute to rowboatlabs/rowboat development by creating an account on GitHub.

Show HN: Morphik – Open-source RAG that understands PDF images, runs locally
github.com/morphik-org
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Open source multi-modal RAG for building AI apps over private knowledge. - GitHub - morphik-org/morphik-core: Open source multi-modal RAG for building AI apps over private knowledge.

ClickHouse gets lazier and faster: Introducing lazy materialization
clickhouse.com

ClickHouse - ClickHouse learned to procrastinate strategically. Discover how lazy materialization skips unnecessary column reads to accelerate queries.

Algebraic Semantics for Machine Knitting
uwplse.org
Hyperwood – Open-Source Furniture
hyperwood.org
Surprises in Logic (2016)
math.ucr.edu
Supabase raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation
finance.yahoo.com

Supabase raises a $200 million Series D, and the company hits a $2 billion valuation.

David Tong Lectures on Theoretical Physics
damtp.cam.ac.uk
Launch HN: Infra.new (YC W23) – DevOps copilot with guardrails built in
news.ycombinator.com
launch
Bethesda announces remastered version of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
youtube.com

Tune in on April 22, 2025, at 11am ET/8am PT.

Introduction to Graph Transformers
kumo.ai

Federico Lopez - While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have opened up new possibilities by capturing local neighborhood patterns, they face limitations in handling complex, long-range relationships across the graph. Enter Graph Transformers, a new class of models designed to elegantly overcome these limitations through powerful self-attention mechanisms. In this article, we’ll introduce Graph Transformers, explore how they differ from

Using physics simulations to find targeting strategies in tenpin bowling
pubs.aip.org
Show HN: I open-sourced my AI toy company that runs on ESP32 and OpenAI realtime
github.com/akdeb
show

Realtime AI speech with OpenAI Realtime API on Arduino ESP32 with Secure Websockets and Deno edge functions with >10min uninterrupted conversations globally for AI toys, AI companions, AI device...

Abusing DuckDB-WASM by making SQL draw 3D graphics (Sort Of)
hey.earth

Personal blog and portfolio site

Join the W3C Exploration Interest Group: where standards start
w3.org

The goal of the Exploration Interest Group is to provide a platform to help W3C investigating emerging technology trends, analyzing their impacts on the evolution of Web technologies, and proposing ways for W3C to collaborate shaping the trends for the benefit of the Web users.

US FDA suspends milk quality tests
reuters.com
The Cold Start Problem: Using Network Effects to Scale Your Product – A Review
madhavajay.com

So you wanna build a Network? ⏱️ Time to read: 12 minutes I have to say this is one of the best books I have ever read. Author @andrewchen (Andrew Chen) from a16z goes into depth from personal experience and research on what it takes to build a networked product and platform and more importantly what…

The raccoons who made computer magazine ads great
technologizer.com

In the 1980s and 1990s, PC Connection built its brand on a campaign starring folksy small-town critters. They’ll still charm your socks off.

Student loans in default to be referred to debt collection, Dept of Ed says
apnews.com
Should We Respect LLMs? A Study on Influence of Prompt Politeness on Performance
arxiv.org

We investigate the impact of politeness levels in prompts on the performance of large language models (LLMs). Polite language in human communications often garners more compliance and effectiveness, while rudeness can cause aversion, impacting response quality. We consider that LLMs mirror human communication traits, suggesting they align with human cultural norms. We assess the impact of politeness in prompts on LLM

Major breakthroughs in UK munitions production
baesystems.com
Offical XRP NPM package has been compromised and key stealing malware introduced
aikido.dev

The official XPRL (Ripple) NPM package was compromised by sophisticated attackers who put in a backdoor to steal cryptocurrency private keys and gain access to cryptocurrency wallets.

Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data
krebsonsecurity.com
Coding as Craft: Going Back to the Old Gym
cekrem.github.io

Christian Ekrem - Why 'reflexive AI usage' sounds like a diagnosis I don't want next to my name

RISC-V RVA23 Profile: A major milestone
riscv.org
Marijuana hospital visits linked to dementia diagnosis within 5 years – a study
cnn.com

Sandee LaMotte - A large analysis found those who visit an emergency room due to marijuana have up to a 72% higher risk of dementia within five years than the general population.

SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces
serenityos.org
Does RL Incentivize Reasoning in LLMs Beyond the Base Model?
limit-of-rlvr.github.io
FreeDOS 1.4 Is Here
freedos.org
Detecting if an expression is constant in C
nrk.neocities.org
The many ways tarrifs will hit electronics
spectrum.ieee.org

Shawn DuBravac, chief economist at IPC, discusses the chaos tariffs are causing in the electronics industry. With fluctuating tariffs, prices for electronics like smartphones and TVs are skyrocketing, hitting low-income consumers hardest. Supply chains are struggling to adapt, stifling innovation and investment. How will this uncertainty impact the future of electronics? #Tariffs #Economy #ElectronicsIndustry

Data Compression Nerds Hate This One Trick [video]
media.ccc.de

kleines Filmröllchen - How one guy in his bedroom (kind of) beat all of PNG's combined multi-decade effort in one year, and why that's strange. For over two de...

AI for Network Engineers: Understanding Flow, Flowlet, and Packet-Based LB
nwktimes.blogspot.com

Explore flow, flowlet, and packet-based load balancing methods used in AI backend networks to boost performance and optimize traffic paths.

Fujitsu and RIKEN develop world-leading 256-qubit sup quantum computer
fujitsu.com

Fujitsu and RIKEN develop world-leading 256-qubit superconducting quantum computer

A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers
theconversation.com

Rayane El Masri - Once errors creep into the AI knowledge base, they can be very hard to get out.

Attacking My Landlord's Boiler
blog.videah.net
Welcome to our website for the 1963 BBC MCR21 OB Van
mcr21.org.uk
Forecaster reacts: METR's bombshell paper about AI acceleration
peterwildeford.substack.com

Peter Wildeford - New data supports an exponential AI curve, but lots of uncertainty remains

Flat origami is Turing complete (2023)
arxiv.org

"Flat origami" refers to the folding of flat, zero-curvature paper such that the finished object lies in a plane. Mathematically, flat origami consists of a continuous, piecewise isometric map $f:P\subseteq\mathbb{R}^2\to\mathbb{R}^2$ along with a layer ordering $λ_f:P\times P\to \{-1,1\}$ that tracks which points of $P$ are above/below others when folded. The set of crease lines that a flat origami makes (i.e., the

PaulG on building the infrastructure of the police state
twitter.com
Prolog Adventure Game
github.com/stefanrodrigues2

Text Adventure game in SWI Prolog. Contribute to stefanrodrigues2/Prolog-Adventure-game development by creating an account on GitHub.

101 BASIC Computer Games
github.com/maurymarkowitz

Type-in programs from the original 101 BASIC Computer Games, in their original DEC and Dartmouth dialects. No, this is *not* the same as BASIC Computer Games. - maurymarkowitz/101-BASIC-Computer-Games

Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life
github.com/ericjenott

E-ink IBM XT clone with solar power, ultra low power consumption, and ultra long battery life. - GitHub - ericjenott/Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with solar power, ultra low power consumption, and ...

The Future of Compute: Nvidia's Crown Is Slipping
mohitdagarwal.substack.com

Mohit Agarwal - Demand consolidation, changing compute mix, custom silicon, and distributed training will hurt NVIDIA's pole position.

Cheating the Reaper in Go
mcyoung.xyz
Ultra-precision formation flying demonstration for space-based interferometry
arxiv.org

We propose SILVIA (Space Interferometer Laboratory Voyaging towards Innovative Applications), a mission concept designed to demonstrate ultra-precision formation flying between three spacecraft separated by 100 m. SILVIA aims to achieve sub-micrometer precision in relative distance control by integrating spacecraft sensors, laser interferometry, low-thrust and low-noise micro-propulsion for real-time measurement and

Visiting Us
epic.com

Founded in a basement in 1979, Epic develops software to help people get well, help people stay well, and help future generations be healthier.

Thieves took their iPhones. Apple won't give their digital lives back
washingtonpost.com
Is 1 Prime, and Does It Matter?
mathenchant.wordpress.com

If you ask a person on the street whether 1 is a prime number, they’ll probably pause, try to remember what they were taught, and say “no” (or “yes” or “I don’t remember”). Or maybe they’ll cross t…

EU says it will enforce digital rules irrespective of CEO and location
reuters.com
An update to our pricing
windsurf.com

Our pricing model is getting much simpler!

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