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April 13

Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuck voices

paloaltoonline.com

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A crosswalk button in Redwood City plays a voice professing...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A crosswalk button in Redwood City plays a voice professing to be Mark Zuckerberg on April 12. Courtesy Justin Ward. Crosswalk buttons along the mid-Peninsula appear to have been hacked, so that when pressed, voices professing to be Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk begin speaki...
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April 13

Ambient music on iOS 18.4 and the return to the Apple's Music app

manualdousuario.net
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April 13

BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of

jeffgeerling.com
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April 13

Minestom – An open-source, lightweight Minecraft server built from the ground up

minestom.net
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April 13

Show HN: AI quiz generator from any topic or book in seconds

wiyomi.com
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April 13

How to Structure a B2B Marketplace Venture

mit.edu

Summary: Companies setting up a business-to-business marketplace to make transactions more efficient for buyers and sellers...
Summary: Companies setting up a business-to-business marketplace to make transactions more efficient for buyers and sellers should carefully consider the best ownership structure. New research suggests that owning the marketplace outright can give a company greater control, security, and access to suppliers but can ...
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April 13

Experimental release of GrapheneOS for Pixel 9a

grapheneos.social
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April 13

WebTUI – A CSS Library That Brings the Beauty of Terminal UIs to the Browser

ironclad.sh
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April 13

Hunger shifts attention towards less healthy food options, study finds

medicalxpress.com

health research health research news health science medicine research medicine research news
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April 13

P2Panda: Building blocks for peer-to-peer applications

p2panda.org
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April 13

New urinal designs prevent 265,000 gallons of urine splashing onto the floor

livescience.com

Thousands of gallons of ill-aimed pee could be spared from lavatory floors thanks to a new...
Thousands of gallons of ill-aimed pee could be spared from lavatory floors thanks to a new urinal design, scientists say.Around 1 million liters (264,172 gallons) of urine are spilled onto the floor and walls of public restrooms each day in the U.S. thanks to current urinal shapes, creating hygiene issues and unplea...
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April 13

Mammoth genetic diversity throughout the last million years

sciencedaily.com

A new genomic study has uncovered long-lost genetic diversity in mammoth lineages spanning over a million...
A new genomic study has uncovered long-lost genetic diversity in mammoth lineages spanning over a million years, providing new insights into the evolutionary history of these animals. The new study has successfully extracted and analysed 34 new mammoth mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes), including specimens dating ...
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April 13

UK parliament votes to nationalize British Steel

politico.eu

donald trump ed davey imports keir starmer kemi badenoch
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April 13

I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses

tomsguide.com

I work best seated at my desk setup with multiple screens in front of me However,...
I work best seated at my desk setup with multiple screens in front of me However, when I travel or just need to get out of the house for a bit, I can’t bring my setup with me—or at least I thought I couldn’t.Now I know what you’re thinking. Why don’t I just go with one of the best laptops instead? Well, I’ve tried...
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April 13

OmniSVG

github.com
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April 13

Battle of the Mallocators

smalldatum.blogspot.com

If you use RocksDB and want to avoid OOM then use jemalloc or tcmalloc and avoid...
If you use RocksDB and want to avoid OOM then use jemalloc or tcmalloc and avoid glibc malloc. That was true in 2015 and remains true in 2025 (see here). The problem is that RocksDB can be an allocator stress test because it does an allocation (calls malloc) when a block is read from storage and then does a dealloca...
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April 13

YAML: The Norway Problem (2022)

bram.us
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April 12

Strong Chiro-Optical Activity of Plasmonic Metasurfaces–Inverted Pyramid Arrays

acs.org
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April 12

The origins of DEL (0x7F) and its Legacy in Amiga ASCII art

glyphdrawing.club

tl;dr: This article is a detailed (but not exhaustive) micro-history on the character DEL (0x7F) as...
tl;dr: This article is a detailed (but not exhaustive) micro-history on the character DEL (0x7F) as it appears in Amiga's Topaz font ( ⌂ ), and how it was used in Amiga ASCII art between 1993–2005. In part 1, "What is DEL", I try to form a comprehensive understanding of how DEL(ETE) originated as a way to obliterate...
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April 12

Learning Assembly for Fun, Performance and Profit

substack.com

assembly languageSource WiktionaryIf you can't do it in FORTRAN, do it in assembly language. If you...
assembly languageSource WiktionaryIf you can't do it in FORTRAN, do it in assembly language. If you can't do it in assembly language, it isn't worth doing.Real programmers don’t use Pascal - Ed PostLow-level languages have been in the news recently. Use of Nvidia’s ptx has been revealed as part of DeepSeek’s ‘secret...
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April 12

Shadertoys Ported to Rust GPU

rust-gpu.github.io

We ported a few popular Shadertoy shaders over to Rust using Rust GPU. The process was...
We ported a few popular Shadertoy shaders over to Rust using Rust GPU. The process was straightforward and we want to share some highlights. The code is available on GitHub. What is Rust GPU? Rust GPU is a project that allows you to write code for GPUs using the Rust programming language. GPUs are typically program...

demo
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April 12

Anubis Works

xeiaso.net
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April 12

Why is there a "small house" in IBM's Code page 437?

glyphdrawing.club

This post is a companion piece to my article The origins of DEL (0x7F) and its...
This post is a companion piece to my article The origins of DEL (0x7F) and its Legacy in Amiga ASCII art. That article is all about the character DEL, what it is, how it was used, and why it even has a visual representation, but with a focus on Commodore's Amiga computers. Whereas AmigaOS's Topaz font renders DEL wi...
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April 12

Ask HN: How do you monetize personal code if it's not an "app"?

ycombinator.com
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