2. The Ugliest Airplane: An Appreciation (www.smithsonianmag.com)
The Transavia AirTruk ainβt pretty, but it had purpose.
3. Major leap towards reanimation after death as mammal's brain preserved (www.newscientist.com)
A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place and minimal damage. Some believe the same could be done with the brains of people with a terminal illness, so their mind can be reconstructed and they can "continue with their life"
5. The paddle wheel aircraft carriers of Lake Michigan (signoregalilei.com)
Youβve read the title. Aircraft carriers of where powered by what? I was just as surprised as you are, but yes, they really did exist. I now introduce you to USS Wolverine and USS Sable:
6. ZJIT removes redundant object loads and stores (railsatscale.com)
ZJITβs optimizer now removes redundant object loads and stores, improving JIT performance of CRubyβs shape system. This post explains how the optimization works.
7. How BYD Got EV Chargers to Work Almost as Fast as Gas Pumps (www.wired.com)
The Chinese automaker is racing ahead of global competitorsβbut don't expect to see those gains in the US anytime soon.
8. Atuin v18.13 β better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell (blog.atuin.sh)
A new release is out! v18.13 is probably the biggest set of changes we have released in a good while, read on to find out more.
Much faster and better search with the daemon
The daemon has existed for a long time, and has been marked as "experimental" for
Much faster and better search with the daemon
The daemon has existed for a long time, and has been marked as "experimental" for
9. Google adds 24-hour wait and mandatory reboot to Android sideloading flow (android-developers.googleblog.com)
10. Lent and Lisp (leancrew.com)
11. Senior European journalist suspended over AI-generated quotes (www.theguardian.com)
Mediahuis suspends Peter Vandermeersch, who says he βfell into trap of hallucinationsβ, after investigation by newspaper where he was once editor-in-chief
12. The seven hour explosion nobody could explain (phys.org)
13. A look at content scrambling in DVDs (mathweb.ucsd.edu)
14. Attempts to post the latest Trivy security incident have been marked [dead] (news.ycombinator.com)
15. Padel Chess β tactical simulator for padel (www.padelchess.me)
Learning platform to improve your padel tactical skills
16. Turing Award Honors Bennett and Brassard for Quantum Information Science (amturing.acm.org)
17. Hawaii's worst flooding in 20 years threatens dam, prompts evacuations (www.nbcnews.com)
Floodwaters lifted homes and cars, causing an estimated $1 billion in damage, and 5,500 people were under evacuation orders as a 120-year-old dam threatened to fail.
18. We give every user SQL access to a shared ClickHouse cluster (trigger.dev)
A deep dive into TRQL β the SQL-like language behind Query. How we parse, validate, and compile queries to secure, tenant-safe ClickHouse SQL.
19. How Ford burned $12B in Brazil (2021) (www.reuters.com)
20. Show HN: Joonote β A note-taking app on your lock screen and notification panel (joonote.com)
An Android note-taking app for viewing and editing your notes, to-do lists, and reminders directly on the lock screen and notification panel.
21. Former FBI Director Robert Mueller Has Died (apnews.com)
Robert S. Mueller III, the FBI director who transformed the nationβs premier law enforcement agency into a terrorism-fighting force after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and who later became special counsel in charge of investigating ties between Russia and Donald Trumpβs presidential campaign, has died
22. Show HN: Can I run a model language on a 26-year-old console? (github.com)
Running a large language model on a PlayStation 2. Contribute to xaskasdf/ps2-llm development by creating an account on GitHub.
23. The Story of Marina Abramovic and Ulay (2020) (www.sydney-yaeko.com)
The intertwining lives of two individuals that changed performance art forever.
24. Man pleads guilty to $8M AI-generated music scheme (therecord.media)
Michael Smith, 54, admitted to inflating streaming numbers for hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs by deploying thousands of fake accounts across major platforms, including Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify and YouTube Music.
25. No Semicolons Needed (terts.dev)
26. Apple Announces New Mac Sales Record Following MacBook Neo Launch (www.macrumors.com)
Apple's CEO Tim Cook today said the Mac just had its "best launch week ever for first-time Mac customers," which suggests that the new MacBook Neo has been a hit with customers buying their first laptops or switching from Windows. Apple released the MacBook Neo last Wednesday, March 11. In the U.S., pricing starts at just $599 for the general public and an even lower $499 for college students.
27. purl: a curl-esque CLI for making HTTP requests that require payment (www.purl.dev)
A curl-esque CLI for making HTTP requests that require payment. Designed for humans and agents alike.
28. Revert "userdb: add birthDate field to JSON user records (github.com)
This reverts commit acb6624, reversing changes made to ba1caf0.
Revert "userdb: add birthDate field to JSON user records (#40954)"
After extensive community discussion, legal review and c...
Revert "userdb: add birthDate field to JSON user records (#40954)"
After extensive community discussion, legal review and c...
29. Show HN: I fixed FFmpeg's subtitle conversion (the bug from 2014) (connollydavid.github.io)
30. Italy, Belgium set to lose gas supply after biggest LNG plant bombed (www.politico.eu)
Damage to a major gas production facility could take five years to repair, QatarEnergyβs CEO told Reuters.