I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam Website with Claude

191 thecr0w 2025-12-07 17:33:26 UTC j0nah.com Llama Share 159

The user attempted to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website using Claude, a language model, but despite various tools and prompts, Claude failed to accurately recreate the website's layout due to limitations in spatial reasoning and precision. The user hypothesized that Claude's vision encoder converts images into semantic tokens, making it difficult for him to work with visual media and ...

The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]

111 AareyBaba 2025-12-07 18:33:26 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 112

Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory

324 Alifatisk 2025-12-07 12:33:26 UTC research.google Llama Share 105

Researchers at Google introduced Titans, a new sequence modeling architecture that combines the speed of RNNs with the accuracy of transformers. Titans uses a deep neural network as a memory module to learn and update its parameters in real-time, enabling it to handle extremely long contexts.

Dollar-stores overcharge cash-strapped customers while promising low prices

150 bookofjoe 2025-12-07 15:33:26 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 193

A state government inspector found that Family Dollar and Dollar General stores in North Carolina and other states had a high error rate in pricing accuracy, with some stores failing multiple inspections. The issue is attributed to understaffing, overstocking, and a lack of incentives for retailers to correct the problem, affecting low-income customers who rely on these stores for affordable ...

An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform

101 pykello 2025-12-07 15:33:26 UTC betterexplained.com Llama Share 10

The Fourier Transform breaks down a signal into its underlying cycles, like a smoothie recipe breaking down ingredients. It finds the speed, amplitude, and phase of each cycle to recreate the original signal.

A two-person method to simulate die rolls

29 Fraterkes 2025-12-07 20:33:26 UTC blog.42yeah.is Llama Share 10

A group of friends created a method to generate random numbers using a polar coordinate system and a clock face, which they used to play a simplified D&D campaign. They also designed a game called verbal tennis where players use their generated numbers to hit a virtual ball, with the goal of winning the game.

Scala 3 slowed us down?

147 kmaliszewski 2025-12-07 15:33:26 UTC kmaliszewski9.github.io Llama Share 79

The author migrated a service from Scala 2.13 to 3.7.3, but performance issues arose due to a library bug affecting chained evaluations. Upgrading the library resolved the issue, highlighting the importance of benchmarking in Scala version migrations.

Estimates are difficult for developers and product owners

114 todsacerdoti 2025-12-07 19:33:26 UTC thorsell.io Llama Share 126

A Product Owner needs estimates from developers to plan releases and prioritize features, but developers dislike estimating due to uncertainty and the risk of being held accountable for unrealistic expectations. The problem lies not in estimates themselves, but in how they're used as predictions or deadlines, which can hurt developers and reduce psychological safety in organizations.

Build a DIY magnetometer with a couple of seasoning bottles

46 nullbyte808 2025-12-07 17:33:26 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 13

A proton-precession magnetometer measures Earth's magnetic field by detecting the oscillations of hydrogen nuclei in water. It uses a simple circuit with coils, a MOSFET, and a capacitor to amplify the audio tone generated by the precessing protons.

XKeyscore

51 belter 2025-12-07 21:33:26 UTC en.wikipedia.org Llama Share 4

XKeyscore is a secret NSA system for analyzing global Internet data in real time. It allows analysts to access and analyze vast amounts of data, including emails, phone calls, and browsing histories, with minimal oversight.

The Anatomy of a macOS App

159 elashri 2025-12-07 13:33:26 UTC eclecticlight.co Llama Share 39

Mac OS X introduced a bundle structure for applications, consisting of a hierarchy of directories containing executable code and resources, with a standard form including a MacOS directory, Resources, and Info.plist file. The bundle structure has evolved over the years to include additional components such as code signatures, notarization, and store receipts, providing improved security and ...

The state of Schleswig-Holstein is consistently relying on open source

479 doener 2025-12-07 13:33:26 UTC heise.de Llama Share 224

Schleswig-Holstein state administration is switching to open source software, saving over 15 million euros in license costs annually. The state expects to save more in the long run despite initial problems and criticism during the migration process.

Java Hello World, LLVM Edition

154 ingve 2025-12-07 12:33:26 UTC javaadvent.com Llama Share 54

A Java program is created to generate and execute LLVM IR, the intermediate language behind compilers like clang, using Java's Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API to call the LLVM C API. The program prints "Hello, World!" by JIT-compiling the LLVM IR to native machine code using the LLVM JIT compiler API.

Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru

17 danso 2025-12-07 20:33:26 UTC nber.org Llama Share 3

Researchers acknowledge the contributions of various individuals and institutions in the study of the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru. The study received financial support from the Inter-American Development Bank and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Proxmox delivers its software-defined datacenter contender and VMware escape

14 Bender 2025-12-07 21:33:26 UTC theregister.com Llama Share 1

Proxmox released Datacenter Manager, a centralized management tool for multiple Proxmox environments, offering features like VM migration and fleet management. This move makes Proxmox a more viable alternative to VMware for private cloud platforms.

Nested Learning: A new ML paradigm for continual learning

44 themgt 2025-12-07 15:33:26 UTC research.google Llama Share 1

Researchers introduced Nested Learning, a new approach to machine learning that bridges the gap between model architecture and optimization algorithm. This paradigm treats a model as a system of interconnected, multi-level learning problems optimized simultaneously, enabling more capable and efficient learning algorithms.

iced 0.14 has been released (Rust GUI library)

21 airstrike 2025-12-07 21:33:26 UTC github.com/iced-rs Full Share 14

Added Reactive rendering. #2662 Time travel debugging. #2910 Animation API for application code. #2757 Headless mode testing. #2698 First-class end-to-end testing. #3059 Input method support. #277...

Syncthing-Android have had a change of owner/maintainer

80 embedding-shape 2025-12-07 20:33:26 UTC github.com/researchxxl Full Share 18

invite nel0x here and get help to carry on setup build and release: use old maintainers signing allowed? can we play sign? reinstate gh action workflows contact fdroid for release continuation general: is the name syncthing fork ok or should be changed?

Vanity Activities

47 surprisetalk 2025-12-07 17:33:26 UTC quarter--mile.com Llama Share 33

The writer identifies several activities as "vanity activities," where people pursue something that appears useful but is not, such as credit card churning, reading the news, and biohacking. These activities are often driven by personal enjoyment rather than actual usefulness.

Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions

428 puttycat 2025-12-07 13:33:26 UTC gptzero.me Llama Share 331

Generative AI tools are overwhelming scholarly journals and conferences with fake papers, including 50 submissions to ICLR that contained obvious hallucinations.

Semantic Compression (2014)

37 tosh 2025-12-07 17:33:26 UTC caseymuratori.com Llama Share 3

The user discusses the flaws of object-oriented programming and proposes a compression-oriented approach to programming, where code is structured to be semantically smaller and more efficient. They demonstrate this approach by transforming the UI code in The Witness's editor, breaking down complex code into reusable and maintainable components, and creating objects after the fact rather than ...

Context Plumbing (Interconnected)

4 gmays 2025-12-07 21:33:26 UTC interconnected.org Prefix Share 0

These past few weeks I’ve been deep in code and doing what I think about as context plumbing. I’ve been building an AI system and that’s what it feels like. Uniquely for computers, AI can understand intent and respond in a really human way. This is a new capability! Like the user can type I want to buy a camera or point at a keylight and subvocalise I’ve got a call in 20 minutes or hit a ...

Building a Toast Component

72 FragrantRiver 2025-12-07 13:33:26 UTC emilkowal.ski Llama Share 28

The creator of Sonner, a popular toast library, made it stand out with a unique name, elegant animations, and a user-friendly API, which led to its widespread adoption. The library's success can be attributed to its attention to detail, good developer experience, and beautiful design, making it a great example for building components that feel just right.

Z2 – Lithographically fabricated IC in a garage fab

319 embedding-shape 2025-12-07 03:33:26 UTC sam.zeloof.xyz Llama Share 73

The user made significant improvements to their DIY silicon process, creating a 10µm polysilicon gate process with 100 transistors on a single chip, a huge step closer to more advanced DIY computer chips. They achieved excellent transistor characteristics, including low threshold voltage and leakage current, and plan to automate testing and design more complex circuits.

The programmers who live in Flatland

65 winkywooster 2025-12-07 14:33:26 UTC blog.redplanetlabs.com Llama Share 79

A programmer in a lower dimension cannot comprehend a higher dimension of programming due to their existing mental framework. Recognizing this cognitive bias and being open to new ideas is key to growing as a programmer and embracing new dimensions of programming.

The past was not that cute

379 mhb 2025-12-06 22:33:26 UTC juliawise.net Llama Share 469

The author enjoys retro aesthetics but acknowledges the past was not as charming as often portrayed, with many people facing hardships and difficulties. They appreciate the past's lessons, such as the value of music and community, but choose to live in the present with modern conveniences.

Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)

425 turrini 2025-12-06 22:33:26 UTC anders.unix.se Llama Share 203

Unix enthusiasts share their unchanged desktop habits over 13 years, still using terminals and command-line interfaces. They've switched to various Linux distributions and window managers, but remain loyal to their Unix roots and text-based work style.

A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes

26 wjb3 2025-12-07 19:33:26 UTC biorxiv.org Llama Share 4

Scientists discovered a novel geothermal amoeba, Incendiamoeba cascadensis, that can divide at 63°C, a new record for eukaryotes. The amoeba's genome shows enrichment of genes related to proteostasis and thermal adaptation.

How the Disappearance of Flight 19 Fueled the Legend of the Bermuda Triangle

42 pseudolus 2025-12-07 12:33:26 UTC smithsonianmag.com Llama Share 10

Flight 19, a US Navy training run, vanished on Dec 5, 1945, with 14 men on board, sparking a mystery that remains unsolved. Theories abound, but experts say the likely cause was a combination of pilot disorientation, poor communication, and missed rescue opportunities.

Eurydice: a Rust to C compiler

172 todsacerdoti 2025-12-07 02:33:26 UTC jonathan.protzenko.fr Llama Share 111

Eurydice is a compiler from Rust to C that aims to produce readable C code, allowing for a gradual transition to Rust while maintaining compatibility with legacy systems. The compiler plugs into the MIR level of the Rust compiler and uses Charon to avoid reimplementing the wheel, with ongoing work to integrate it with Microsoft and Google's crypto libraries.