1. Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones (www.404media.co)
AirKamuy is shipping flatpacked drones made of paper that cost around $2,000.
3. Largest Digital Human Rights Conference Suddenly Canceled (www.404media.co)
RightsCon was delayed by Zambia's Ministry of Information for "thematic issues" and problems with speakers.
4. Scott Aaronson on quantum: "Will you heed my warnings NOW?" (scottaaronson.blog)
Holy crap … yesterday I was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences! If you don’t believe me, click the link and keep scrolling down until you hit the name “Aaronson.” But …
5. Recovering files from beyond the grave using PhotoRec (lost-number.bearblog.dev)
You know the drill. That passwords.txt is no longer needed. Right click -> Delete. Empty Trash. That's it.
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Well, not quite.
When I was younger...
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Well, not quite.
When I was younger...
6. The Science Behind Honey's Eternal Shelf Life (2013) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
A slew of factors—its acidity, its lack of water and the presence of hydrogen peroxide—work in perfect harmony, allowing the sticky treat to last forever
7. DRAM Crunch: Lessons for System Design (www.eetimes.com)
The rising DRAM crunch is forcing a rethink of AI workloads, with edge architectures offering a more resilient alternative.
8. I scraped 1.94M Airbnb photos for opium dens, pet cameos, and messy kitchens (burla-cloud.github.io)
119 cities x 4 quarterly snapshots of Inside Airbnb data. 1.7M photos through CLIP, the most suspicious shortlists double-checked with Claude Haiku Vision, 50.7M reviews scored through Haiku, all parallelized on Burla.
9. 1.4 GW: battery storage at former Grohnde nuclear power plant (www.heise.de)
1.4 GW power, 6 GWh capacity: Emmerthal energy cluster to exceed Grohnde NPP output, located on major power lines.
10. A statement from members of the Toki Pona community (tokipona.net)
A statement from members of the Toki Pona community.
11. SatoshiGuesser – Roll for Bitcoin (github.com)
Roll for lost bitcoin. Contribute to Pathos0925/SatoshiGuesser development by creating an account on GitHub.
12. A Grounded Conceptual Model for Ownership Types in Rust (cacm.acm.org)
13. Show HN: TRiP – a complete transformer engine in C built from scratch just by me (github.com)
A complete transformer engine in C — inference, training, chat, vision. - carlovalenti/TRiP
14. Why isn't AMD's MI300X competitive? (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
16. How Semiconductors Were Made in America (www.siliconimist.com)
17. If Apple makes an iPad Neo, it's all over (www.techadvisor.com)
Android tablets continue to lag, making me think that an iPad Neo would be the final straw
20. Show HN: Coding-Flashcards – Learn Rust, SQLite, or Godot from First Principles (github.com)
Over 800 flashcards to learn Rust, SQLite, Godot, or Wolfram Language from first principles. Written in markdown with script to convert them to Anki decks or PDF files. - ad-si/Coding-Flashcards
21. How to Disable Firefox's New Emoji Picker (emsh.cat)
22. Who Is That Knocking at My (SSH) Door? (sheep.horse)
Note: As I was writing this I became aware of an even better project covering much the same ground in a more detailed way - I Left Port 22 Open...
23. Zulip 12.0 Released (blog.zulip.com)
We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 12.0, containing hundreds
of new features and bug fixes: end-to-end encryption for mobile push
notifications, a major upgrade for Docker, configurable image previews, and much
more! Almost 5,500 new commits have been merged across the project since …
of new features and bug fixes: end-to-end encryption for mobile push
notifications, a major upgrade for Docker, configurable image previews, and much
more! Almost 5,500 new commits have been merged across the project since …
24. Compositing and Blending – Exploring the math and intuition behind blend modes (nik.digital)
Exploring the math and intuition behind blend modes in the browser
25. The Lingua Franca of LaTeX (increment.com)
26. The Silent Frequency That Makes Old Buildings Feel Haunted (scienceblog.com)
27. Hackers are actively exploiting a bug in cPanel and WHM (techcrunch.com)
Web hosts are scrambling to fix the bug under active attack by hackers. One company said hackers have been abusing the bug for months.
30. Kubereboot/Kured: Kubernetes Reboot Daemon (github.com)
Kubernetes Reboot Daemon. Contribute to kubereboot/kured development by creating an account on GitHub.