Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare

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Cloudflare is the majority front door for 89.6% of European companies with a CDN, while Amazon comes second at 3,112 distinct companies.

Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts

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The web has undergone numerous changes due to evolving devices, browsers, and personal preferences. Various non-standard HTML tags have been used to adapt websites for different environments and integrations.

Why getting your hands dirty is good for you

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Touching natural materials like soil and plants can boost skin's microbial diversity, benefiting the immune system. Research suggests that prolonged or frequent contact with nature could significantly change what's happening on our skin and in our bodies.

We built our house for LAN parties

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Kenton Varda and Jade Wang, a married couple with two kids, designed and built their house from scratch in Austin, Texas. The house features custom-built gaming stations with 22 game machines that cost around $75,000.

I've factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority from the 90s

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The author explores the security of RSA cryptography, noting that small keys can be factored on a modest desktop computer and some old root certificates are still vulnerable.

There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis

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The author is discussing the challenges of hosting video game wikis on new domains after a Google core update in March 2024, which has made it difficult for these wikis to show up in search results. The author is exploring possible solutions and potential long-term fixes to this issue.

Mistral raises €3B

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Mistral raised €3 billion in a Series D funding round, valuing the company at over €21 billion. The investment will help Mistral expand its frontier research and infrastructure to support mission-critical AI transformation for global enterprises.

Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework

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TradingAgents is a multi-agent trading framework that uses LLM-powered agents to evaluate market conditions and inform trading decisions. The framework supports various LLM providers, including OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and more.

TALA Is Open-Source

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TALA, an auto-layout algorithm, is now open-source under the same license as D2. It offers a novel orthogonal layout engine with customizable node positions and sizes for various use cases.

How well do agents use test/verification techniques?

Agents were given various instructions to test code, but most failed to use the techniques effectively. Default performed better than most conditions due to agents not doing useless work when not instructed.

Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)

One box per building standing today, appearing in the year it was built. What was torn down along the way isn't here, so this is the surviving county, not the county as it was.

Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU: desktop-class mobile gameplay with AI-native graphics

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The Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU brings dedicated neural accelerators and a new execution engine to create desktop-class gaming experiences on mobile devices. It integrates neural graphics capabilities, such as Neural Super Sampling and Denoising, into the graphics pipeline for improved efficiency and image quality.

End-to-end infrastructure for training and inferencing open weight models

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AC2 is a researcher cockpit for model development and learning, with options to use coding agents or follow the Quickstart. It includes an OpenTelemetry-based observability SDK called ac2.tracing for capturing timing and other metrics.

Leaving VMware just got harder after Broadcom pulled VDDK downloads

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Broadcom has removed the public download of VMware's Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK), a crucial library for many migration tools, causing concern among customers and vendors. This move may hinder their exit from vSphere to other platforms.

Jellyfin 12.0

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Jellyfin 12.0 is a stable release with major features and improvements, including performance work, support for books and comics, and security fixes. The new version drops the major version from its naming scheme to reflect significant changes in the library database.

WeatherNext 3

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WeatherNext 3 can predict all surface variables – including weather station targeted temperature and humidity at 5km resolution, and other surface variables like wind at 10km. This results in significantly more accurate forecasts – even in locations the model hasn’t encountered in training.

Scientists observe Einstein's gravity in the quantum world

The VMs Powering Mobile Agents (Instinct, Claude Code)

Agents are moving from local computers to phones, with companies providing VMs for them to run on. Instinct uses a sandbox-as-a-service model where agents don't need their own VMs, instead using a disposable Ubuntu box and accessing server-side tools via GraphQL requests.

My Feed, My Way

The Albanese Government is releasing draft legislation for the Digital Duty of Care, which will require digital service providers to provide a safe online environment and give Australians control over their social media algorithms. The laws aim to protect users from harm, particularly children and young people, with penalties of up to $109.2 million for non-compliance.

Understanding Computer Memory Architecture and SSD Internals

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Computer memory and storage are organized across different levels, from individual memory cells to SRAM, DRAM, SDRAM, Flash Memory, NAND organization, and SSDs, with each level balancing capacity, latency, bandwidth, reliability, endurance, and cost. The design of computer memory systems involves trade-offs between these factors and architectural mechanisms such as cache hierarchies and ...

John Margolies' photographs of roadside America

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti and John Margolies documented the American roadside, with Margolies focusing on quirky buildings and signs. His archive of 11,710 photographs is now available online for free at the Library of Congress.

anystation: Calling any station A public board shaped like a tree. No account

Hacker News posts include technical discussions on networking, IoT devices, and open-source projects. Users share updates on Raspberry Pi setups, ICAP protocols, and experimental communication methods.

We have a year to fix security everywhere

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The GLM 5.3-flash model, a powerful AI capable of finding and exploiting vulnerabilities, is now accessible to anyone with the necessary hardware, posing an imminent threat to security across various industries. The need for urgent action is emphasized as organizations struggle to deploy patches in time.

Trusting-Trust Attack against an Entire Linux Distribution

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A trusting-trust attack can be performed on GNU strip, a build utility, by tampering with its binary seed in the NixOS Linux distribution. This allows for propagation of malicious code into subsequent builds and final standard environment.
A mathematician collaborated with a Large Language Model (LLM) to solve the Navier-Stokes problem, but OpenAI claims to have solved it first. The LLM was used to push the collaboration's work from rough forcing to smooth forcing and incompressible Euler equations.

Extinct Tasmanian tiger's 'snap' unlike any living mammal's bite

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Researchers found that Tasmanian tigers, also known as thylacines, were not the large predators initially thought to be. They had specialized feeding adaptations that likely prevented them from hunting livestock.

Robot writes in languages it has never seen before

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Among the many things we humans like to lord over the rest of the animal kingdom is our complex language. Sure, other creatures talk to one another, but we’ve got all these wildly complicated written languages with syntax and fun words like defenestrate. This we can also lord over robots, who, in addition to lacking emotion and the ability to not fall on their faces, can’t write novels. At ...

Emacs Bedrock 2.0

Bedrock version 2.0 is available for Emacs, requiring version 31, and offers improved defaults with sample configurations for popular packages. The new release includes incremental improvements over the previous version without breaking compatibility with older versions of Emacs.

I tested 10 model/harness combinations on the same Three.js task

Testing different model and harness combinations to find the best results for a Three.js sci-fi hangar project. The goal is to generate a self-contained HTML file with inline JavaScript, including drone formation toggle and cinematic camera path.

Icy Moons Are Ocean Worlds