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Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms Moving on from React, a year later Hunyuan3D 2.0 – High-Resolution 3D Assets Generation Isolating complexity is the essence of successful abstractions What are these bumps on the top of a pull-tab can? Infinigen Tensor Product Attention Is All You Need Invisible Electrostatic Wall at 3M plant (1996) Why is zero plural? (2024) Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow The Arduous Luxembourg Visa Process Calm tech certification "rewards" less distracting tech Castle Game Engine: Web target – big progress, first 3 demos to try Open-source browser port of Pitfall from the Atari 2600 Evo: Version control that works the way you think Mercator: Extreme Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models? The Peppermills of Jens Quistgaard Dissecting "Tiny Clouds" shadertoy (2017) HyperDX (YC S22) is hiring engineers to build open source observability Rafael Araujo's 20 Mesmerizing Geometrical Masterpieces (2024) JReleaser: quick and effortless way to release your project Sigstore: Making sure your software is what it claims to be Prime numbers so memorable that people hunt for them Liskov Substitution: The real meaning of inheritance More than 40% of postdocs leave academia, study reveals Concept cells help your brain abstract information and build memories Show HN: I made a app that uses NFC as a physical switch to block distractions29 heise online News
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WhatsApp-Konto kann zukünftig mit Facebook und Instagram verknüpft werden Polizistin erzwingt Fingerabdruck zu Handy-Entsperrung: OLG findet das OK Massive Abhängigkeit: Schweiz mietet Microsoft-Software ohne Ausschreibung Wasserstoffspeicher in Ostfriesland geht in Betrieb Top 10: Die beste Smartwatch mit EKG im Test – Huawei, Garmin, Fitbit & Co. DSGVO-Auskunftsanspruch über gespeicherte Daten hat seine Tücken WTF: Mit "Was" zur Vulva: Siri irritiert iPhone-Nutzer mit Intimbild Hand-Exoskelett lässt Pianisten schnelle Klavierstücke besser spielen Raumfahrt: Indien schafft als vierte Weltraumnation ein Andockmanöver im All heise+ | Was es mit dem neuen Outlook auf sich hat AMD verschiebt Radeon RX 9070 (XT) auf März Switchbot Luftreiniger F6 im Test: Mit LED-Beleuchtung und sehr leise Aufregung um "Solarspitzengesetz": Keine Steuerung über Hersteller-Clouds heise+ | Medizin: Wie Lasertechnik Operationen an Hirn und Rückenmark sicherer macht KI-Update kompakt: Trump, Schularbeiten, DeepSeek-R1, Character AI BSI zertfiziert erste quantensichere Smartcard SoftwareArchitekTOUR – Episode 101: Generative AI für Softwareprojekte heise-Angebot: Machine Learning und KI: Das Programm der Minds Mastering Machines 2025 steht Objektdatenbank: Onlinebesuch im Deutschen Historischen Museum Seagate kündigt erste 36-TByte-Festplatte an Appell an die UN: Kampf gegen Weltraummüll als Entwicklungsziel für Menschheit Zahlen, bitte! Linux – bald 40 Millionen Codezeilen schwer heise+ | Nextcloud Talk als Teams-Ersatz Geothermie: Vollautonomer Bohrroboter bohrt effizient und kostengünstig Streit um KI-Musik: GEMA fordert Lizenzgebühren von Suno 8500 Megawattstunden: Warum die größte Batterie der Welt auf Rost setzt Trumps Memecoin: Von Krypto-Scams kaum noch zu unterscheiden 7-Zip: Lücke erlaubt Umgehung von Mark-of-the-Web iOS 19: Neuer Look für die Kamera-App?27 PC Gaming
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Tech Support and Basic Questions Thread - January 20, 2025 As of today /r/pcgaming has added x.com to the domain blacklist. Havok, whose software is famed for its use in Half-Life 2 and Elder Scrolls, just showed off its updated physics engine in first YouTube trailer in over ten years Hyper Light Breaker Early Access Review - IGN: 4/10 Balatro has reached 5 million units sold NCSoft's Horizon MMO Has Also Reportedly Been Canceled Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader has sold 1 million copies GDC's annual State of the Game Industry survey reveals 1/3 of 'triple-A developers' are working on live service games My two-year fight against Activision’s False COD Ban (Unbanned!) Bloodborne PC Emulation - 60FPS/Mods Tested - The Remaster We've Always Wanted? The Blood of Dawnwalker's creative director explains how the RPG's narrative sandbox works: 'the core of it is maximising players' freedom' DOOM: The Dark Ages Leaked to Launch on May 15, 2025 (Rumor) Action RPG set in Warhammer universe reportedly scrapped. Game was supposed to be in development for more than 2 years Kingdom Deliverance 2 reveals Post Launch Roadmap with free updates in Spring and DLC to be included in Expansion Pass Bloodborne PC Emulation - 60FPS/Mods Tested - The Remaster We've Always Wanted? Austin does not recommend from Skill Up: Hyper Light Breaker (Early Access Review) Eternal Strands Demo now available. AMD Sets March Launch Window for Radeon RX 9070 XT & 9070 Graphics Cards World of Warcraft has a currency problem: more than 500 kinds of tender can currently be used in the 20-year-old game Phantom Blade Zero - Year of the Snake Gameplay Trailer 2025 Eternal Strands - Launch Trailer | Yellow Brick Games Coming to Game Pass: Sniper Elite: Resistance, Eternal Strands, Citizen Sleeper 2, and More - Xbox Wire A technical dive into the new Tokyo Xtreme Racer Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders out now Reflector confirms more layoffs after Unknown 9 falls short of expectations Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist Review Solasta II - Dev Update #05 - Back to Combat25 programming
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The FizzBuzz that did not get me the job Five years of React Native at Shopify A guy made a PS1 game and connected it to a PS4 Quicksort Algorithm in Five Lines of Code! - Computerphile Framework Fatigue: The Real Reason Developers Get Angry About New Tech BrainFlood: Runtime code generation via reflection in .NET Ultra-Simple tool for LLM chatting with a whole Github Repo, I literally just paste my Jira tickets into this sometimes for a quick overview/planning of how I'll do my work. Building a more performant UI rendering engine Pitfall! Atari 2600 game web port source code released [TS] Liskov Substitution: The Real Meaning of Inheritance Reverse Engineering Call Of Duty Anti-Cheat StackOverflow has lost 77% of new questions compared to 2022. Lowest # since May 2009. The testing pyramid is an outdated economic model Building Web Apps Without JavaScript Using Only HTML & CSS Trickery Don't be The Asshat: A Maintainer's Perspective on Code Change Reviews Evolving our infrastructure through the messaging system model in Dropbox The Flow State Haskell: A Great Procedural Language A crash course on building a distributed message broker like Kafka from scratch — Part 1 Nevalang v0.30.1 - NextGen Programming Language Design & Develop Distributed Software Better w/ Multiplayer • Tom Johnson & Julian Wood Tackling Technical Debt with Patterns and Domain Knowledge | Maintainable.fm Two Hard Things SupGen is an AI-free program synthesizer based on examples or dependent types. It outperforms the SOTA by up to 1000x! Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?23 /r/Technology
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We’re a team of science & tech journalists covering AI, climate change, and biotech. We just published our annual list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies, a round-up of promising tech that we believe could have a real impact on the world. Ask us anything about emerging tech in 2025 and beyond! Traders lose millions on 'fake' Barron meme coin that has no link to Trump's son | A fake $BARRON meme coin inspired by Donald Trump's son but with no official link surged by 90% in a minute before completely losing its value. Trump pardons the programmer who created the Silk Road dark web marketplace. He had been sentenced to life in prison. Anti-Trump Searches Appear Hidden on TikTok After App Comes Back Online Trump Revokes Biden EV Targets, Freezes Funds for Nationwide Charging Network Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy 'GO HOME' — White House removes Spanish language from website Apple Deadnamed the Gulf of America and Conservatives Are Triggered | Tech companies aren’t moving fast enough for America’s most sensitive politicians. Instagram hides search results for 'Democrats' ‘Missing’ constitution on White House site sparks debate on social media White House removes Constitution, LGBTQ+ & HIV resources & Spanish language version from site Trump officially creates DOGE. His EO says its purpose is to upgrade the government's IT. Dutch pension funds divest from Tesla Netflix is raising prices again, as the standard plan goes up to $17.99 The U.S. Constitution Delivers a 404 Now Trump revokes Biden order that had set 50% electric vehicles target for 2030 | President tells crowd that US ‘will not sabotage our own industries while China pollutes with impunity’ Meta under fire for auto-following Trump & Vance, Blocking Democrat hashtags Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht to be released Trump Signs Order 'Ending Federal Censorship' on Social Media Platforms Trump pardons Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht Tech movement 'Free our Feeds' wants to kick billionaires out of social media ownership Government website offering reproductive health information goes offline Genetically engineered mosquitoes with "toxic" semen could kill females and curb spread of disease, researchers say26 Open Source on Reddit
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It’s 2025, we’re ready for more Open Source! A pathway to an open and healthy social media ecosystem that cannot be controlled by any company or billionaire opensource LLM with o1 capabilities Now deploy via Transformers, Llama cpp, Ollama or custom endpoints. CPU/MPS/CUDA Support Linux, Windows & Mac. Fully open source. Rag Chat with local embeddings. Which tools to use to generate detailed GitHub contribution stats report for organization members and contributors? Don't be The Asshat: A Maintainer's Perspective on Code Change Reviews brand new to coding: peak interest in Open Source Just in case it helps someone/ gives you some ideas: I build (and open sourced) IGOR - a highly scalable platform for tracking. Looking for Collaborators for an Open-Source ASP.NET Core Project Does anybody know a great open-source discord bot? [python] Fitting-Toolkit Package Version 1.1.0 released. Open Source Dev Tool for app delivery, now with a portal An idea: Income for open source developers NodeBB 4.0.0 released! I made a "Google Messages for web" alternative Text Behind Video using machine learning Stable version of the Windows tool I developed: Scheduled PC Tasks. Would you try it or test it ? Mobifree: more ethical and humane mobile software National nonprofit shares new article on open-source software projects Smart Bookmark: An AI-Powered Bookmark Manager 🚀 Cyberbro v0.1.0 released - Analyze IoC with OpenCTI, Threat fox and more #FOSS What projects should I donate to if I want to bring the world without Adobe closer? Suggesting some good open source projects to contribute. Is this open source Data Science course on github useful or not? 🚀 [Open Source] Deno + Electron + Vue Starter Template - Because Why Choose Just One Modern Framework? kew - a tiny terminal music player - type what you want to hear and playlists are created automatically - now feature complete!26 /r/space: news, articles and discussion
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All Space Questions thread for week of January 19, 2025 Exclusive: Trump likely to axe space council after SpaceX lobbying, sources say The giant gas exoplanet WASP-127b has winds that blow at 33,000 kilometres per hour, or nearly 30 times the speed of sound on Earth. How rare is the 7-planet plantary parade next month? Supermassive Black Hole Caught Doing Something Never Seen Before First look at space shuttle, Mission Control 2025 dollar coins from US Mint Janet Petro is now leading NASA as acting administrator. The space junk crisis needs a recycling revolution Interstellar visitor may have scrambled our solar system billions of years ago Amazing 'scattered' conjunction this month. X-ray observations uncover merger process in a nearby low-mass galaxy cluster Everyday Astronaut's and Cosmic Perspective's spectacular hi-res real time and slo-mo compilation of Starship Flight 7, from launch to catch, including a complete uninterrupted sequence. I Imaged Saturn and Titan Passing Behind the Moon with my Telescope My first clear photo of the Sun this year: 1/17/2025 'Heavy' dark matter would rip our understanding of the universe apart, new research suggests NASA sets new hydrogen sulfide exposure limits for space missions A Thorough and Recent Overview of Dark Matter (July 2024) See 6 Planets Align on January 21 SpaceX Scrubs Falcon 9 Rocket Launch With Just 11 Seconds To Go After Delta Air Jet Flies Into Restricted Airspace Gravitational waves offer a 'cosmic DNA test' for black holes HR 8799 was the first star whose planetary system was confirmed via direct imaging Mars Passed Behind the Moon Last Week. Here it is Through my Telescope. Uranus in the eyes of Hubble vs JWST Mercury vs The Sun Could large-scaled electromagnets be a temporary solution for space debris? University of Michigan-led research has developed a new method, LEFTfield, to analyze cosmic maps more effectively, extracting more data without compression. This breakthrough, published in Physical Review Letters, could fast-track discoveries in dark energy, dark matter, and cosmic structure.23 Rock, Paper, Shotgun
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Here's a demo for Eternal Strands, the Zelda-meets-Colossus wizarding sim from a former Dragon Age director My most anticipated indie of 2025 quietly updated its demo build while I was off eating lunch Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director thinks GTA 6 might have the "clout" to normalise a $100 price tag Sledding Game is a chill "hangout game" like Webfishing, but with penguins that ragdoll downhill In creepy real-time strategy game Calyx you battle a huge mass of alien plants Monster Hunter Wilds PC system requirements may yet fall, as Capcom aim to improve performance Lysergic FPS Mohrta is a medieval western gothic blend of Morrowind and Doom New RPG Cyclopean: The Great Abyss is a Lovecraftian Ultima homage, and I can't get torches to work Specialist RPG studio's unannounced Warhammer game revealed following layoffs Mindwave is a punky, relentless and completely hypnotic Warioware Straftat resurrects a Counter-Strike map you either love or hate, cannibalising FPS history in the best way possible Marvel Snap has been "banned" in the USA alongside TikTok, but devs insist it'll be back online soon Identify the scary numbers in macrodata refinement with this free Severance-inspired game The Maw: what's new in PC games this week? Dino Crisis-esque horror Code Violet won't be coming to PC because the risk of "vulgar" mods isn't worth the "extra money" What's on your bookshelf?: comment farming from the abyss edition The Sunday Papers Topdown tactical shooter Intravenous 2 now has Steam Workshop support and a map editor Sons Of The Forest now lets you build rafts - and don't worry, Kelvin is better at swimming now, too Genshin Impact maker will pay a $20 million fine to settle FTC charges that allege they misled players about lootbox odds What are we all playing this weekend? Unless this cake is lying to you Silksong will reappear in April Hyper Light Breaker early access review: a flashy but hollow roguelike with few of Drifter’s charms27 Formula 1
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Verified BlueSky accounts of F1 journalists, publications and other personalities Ask r/Formula1 Anything - Daily Discussion Thread Lewis on instagram: First time in red Proposal to ban X.com links Scuderia Ferrari | Getting acquainted with the Ferrari factory. Ferrari Mechanics Preparing Hamilton's Car for Shakedown in Fiorano Lewis hamilton via ig Max Verstappens’ last time finishing outside the points (exc. DNFs) was the 2016 Belgian GP, when he was 18 years old! He is now 27! Insane! Lewis first Ferrari picture is now the most liked F1 related picture on Instagram [RACER] Gene Haas won't need to fund F1 team in 2025 [Motorsport.com] Hamilton reunited with long-time F1 trainer Cullen [@redbullracing] Red bull racing in my beautiful Bosnia and Herzegovina [Carlos Sainz via IG] Back to work! At this point, I see a 44 in every new Ferrari post.. Laura Mueller becomes F1's first female Race Engineer as Haas confirm key personnel changes Yuki Tsunoda completed 57 laps around Imola today. He drove the AT04 (the 2023 car) with a special camo livery The Godfather John Elkann Steps in as Bodyguard to usher lewis out Sergio Perez enjoying retirement with Messi Red Bull close in on major sponsorship partner after $150m deal ends - report [BBC] Laura Muller: Haas employ German as first female race engineer in Formula 1 it seems the Bridge Section of Silverstone is being torn up or something (I don't know exactly what is happening) [Formula 1 via IG] Meeting the team.. [Thomas Maher] Oliver Bearman will have Irishman Ronan O’Hara in his ear as his race engineer. [@AlpineF1Team] Bringing a piece of our heritage back to Enstone. Kimi’s 2013 Australian GP race winner, the E21, was proudly on display for staff to admire Looking for source of classic Monaco footage Lewis Hamilton in Maranello with the F4020 Ars Technica - All content
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Bambu Lab pushes a “control system” for 3D printers, and boy, did it not go well New year, same streaming headaches: Netflix raises prices by up to 16 percent RIP EA’s Origin launcher: We knew ye all too well, unfortunately Apple Intelligence, previously opt-in by default, enabled automatically in iOS 18.3 Cutting-edge Chinese “reasoning” model rivals OpenAI o1—and it’s free to download Satellite firm bucks miniaturization trend, aims to build big for big rockets How to get a perfect salt ring deposit in your pasta pot Trump issues flurry of orders on TikTok, DOGE, social media, AI, and energy Southern California wildfires likely outpace ability of wildlife to adapt California’s air pollution waiver and the “EV mandate” are banned by Trump Trump orders US withdrawal from the World Health Organization Report: Apple Mail is getting automatic categories on iPadOS and macOS Edge of Mars’ great dichotomy eroded back by hundreds of kilometers DC-area veterinarians on heightened alert amid potential inauguration risks Robotic hand helps pianists overcome “ceiling effect” “Project Mini Rack” wants to make your non-closet-sized rack server a reality Sleeping pills stop the brain’s system for cleaning out waste Peeing is contagious among chimps Life is thriving in the subsurface depths of Earth TikTok is mostly restored after Trump pledges an order and half US ownership20 Science – Ars Technica
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How to get a perfect salt ring deposit in your pasta pot Edge of Mars’ great dichotomy eroded back by hundreds of kilometers Robotic hand helps pianists overcome “ceiling effect” Sleeping pills stop the brain’s system for cleaning out waste Peeing is contagious among chimps Life is thriving in the subsurface depths of Earth Has Trump changed the retirement plans for the country’s largest coal plants? A solid electrolyte gives lithium-sulfur batteries ludicrous endurance Fire destroys Starship on its seventh test flight, raining debris from space Here’s what NASA would like to see SpaceX accomplish with Starship this year Heroes, villains, and childhood trauma in the MCEU and DCU Two lunar landers are on the way to the Moon after SpaceX’s double moonshot Researchers use AI to design proteins that block snake venom toxins Meta takes us a step closer to Star Trek’s universal translator Is humanity alone in the Universe? What scientists really think. There was a straight shot from Earth to the Moon and Mars last night Maker of weight-loss drugs to ask Trump to pause price negotiations: Report Up close and personal with the stag beetle in A Real Bug’s Life S2 SpaceX is superb at reusing boosters, but how about building upper stages? Not just heat death: Here are five ways the Universe could end20 Gaming – Ars Technica
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RIP EA’s Origin launcher: We knew ye all too well, unfortunately Switch 2 sports ~7.9-inch screen, 33% bigger tablet surface—Ars video analysis Civilization VII preview: The most complete package since IV Intel Arc B570 review: At $219, the cheapest good graphics card It’s official: Take a first look at the Switch 2 This PDF contains a playable copy of Doom 2002’s Neverwinter Nights gets a patch in 2025 from “unpaid software engineers” Report: After many leaks, Switch 2 announcement could come “this week” Of course Atari’s new handheld includes a trackball, spinner, and numpad Gentrified Doom remake trades chainsaw for cheese knife New videos show off larger Nintendo Switch 2, snap-on Joy-Cons Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past the Steam Deck. New GeForce 50-series GPUs: There’s the $1,999 5090, and there’s everything else Switch 2 leaks point to controllers that work like computer mice AMD launches new Ryzen 9000X3D CPUs for PCs that play games and work hard AMD’s new Ryzen Z2 CPUs boost gaming handhelds, if you buy the best one Ars readers gave over $39,000 in our 2024 Charity Drive Meet the man keeping hope, and 70-year-old pinball machines, alive Rumors say next-gen RTX 50 GPUs will come with big jumps in power requirements Marvel Rivals lifts 100-year “cheating” bans on Mac and Steam Deck players15 Slashdot
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'Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative To the Tech Oligarchy' macOS Sequoia 15.3 and iOS 18.3 Enable Apple Intelligence Automatically IMDb Founder Steps Down As CEO After 35 Years Wine 10.0 Released Managing AI Agents As Employees Is the Challenge of 2025, Says Goldman Sachs CIO Trump To Announce Up To $500 Billion In AI Infrastructure Investment EA's Origin App For PC Gaming Will Shut Down In April Cutting-Edge Chinese 'Reasoning' Model Rivals OpenAI o1 Game Developers Are Getting Fed Up With Their Bosses' AI Initiatives UK To Launch Digital Wallet For Passports, Driving Licences, and More US To Exit WHO Scale AI CEO To Trump: 'America Must Win the AI War' SoftBank-Backed Fish Startup Allegedly Faked Most of Its Sales VMware Migrations Will Be Long, Expensive, and Risky, Warns Gartner Great Barrier Reef Hit By Its Most Widespread Coral Bleaching, Study Finds16 OSnews
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9front “THIS TIME DEFINITELY” released Right to root access How UNIX spell ran in 64kB RAM Introduction to GrapheneOS Linux 6.13 released MorphOS 3.19 released Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search Dillo 3.2.0 released Hands-on graphics without X11 using NetBSD’s wscons Microsoft adds “AI” to Microsoft 365 and raises prices to pay for it Venture: cross-platform GUI tool for parsing and analyzing Windows event logs Google announces it’s going to intentionally violate EU law Offer: Volunteer labor for your open source project Microsoft will also stop supporting Office applications on Windows 10 after October 14 Nepenthes: a dangerous tarpit to trap LLM crawlers Microsoft releases 161 Windows security updates