Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012)

76 firephox 2026-07-20 15:27:11 UTC nothings.org Llama Share 23

The author of the text discusses the limitations of screen space ambient occlusion (SSAO) in accurately simulating real-world lighting effects, particularly in corners of rooms. They argue that SSAO often produces unrealistic results, such as darkening corners, due to a misunderstanding of how light interacts with surfaces.

Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

282 speckx 2026-07-20 14:27:11 UTC news.risky.biz Llama Share 169

A hacker breached Romania's cadastre agency, wiping the country's land registry database after a failed extortion attempt. The hack has brought the real-estate market to a standstill.

American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing

125 benwerd 2026-07-20 14:27:11 UTC werd.io Llama Share 110

American companies are losing the AI model market due to their locked-down business practices, while China's open approach is gaining traction. China's release of AI models openly could turn a US-created compute disadvantage into a distribution advantage, and create a more effective global ecosystem.

We're Squandering LEDs' Potential to Save Our Night Skies

110 defrost 2026-07-20 13:27:11 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 68

The author explores how artificial light at night affects cities, citing excessive lighting as a problem that disrupts human health and ecological balance. LEDs offer a solution, but their potential is often wasted due to outdated thinking and a failure to control and coordinate lighting levels.

Airport Simulator

353 apunen 2026-07-20 11:27:11 UTC airport.apunen.com Full Share 95

The sky (and your endurance) is the limit!

Perfection Is Not Over-Engineering

74 var0xyz 2026-07-20 14:27:11 UTC var0.xyz Llama Share 40

The author argues that perfection is not over-engineering, but rather ambiguous requirements. Clear requirements lead to a perfect solution.

Jaron Lanier: there is no AI (2023)

17 simonebrunozzi 2026-07-20 15:29:11 UTC newyorker.com Llama Share 10

The author, a computer scientist, argues that the term "artificial intelligence" is misleading and that we should think of AI as a tool for social collaboration rather than a creature that can be independent and intelligent. By recognizing the human essence of AI and giving people credit and control over their contributions, we can create a more transparent and equitable technology that ...

Firefox Merges Support for Vulkan Video Decoding

77 DemiGuru 2026-07-20 14:27:11 UTC github.com/search Full Share 16

GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.

I Tracked 997 Chrome Extensions That Changed Their Titles

19 Joseph_Hu 2026-07-20 15:27:11 UTC extensionranker.com Llama Share 0

Editing a Chrome extension title makes its rankings 4x more likely to move within two weeks, with equal odds of improvement or decline. Matching the title to a specific search phrase can lead to higher rankings, but only if the phrase has real volume and the extensions currently on top are growing.

Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling

77 cl42 2026-07-20 15:27:11 UTC emergingtrajectories.com Llama Share 74

Two state-of-the-art foundation models, Kimi K3 and Qwen 3.8, were launched, challenging top-tier model developers and threatening Anthropic's dominance. Their open models and lower costs pose a significant risk to Anthropic's product differentiation and economic model.

Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25

311 infosecau 2026-07-20 08:27:11 UTC slcyber.io Llama Share 167

A security researcher used a large language model called Sol to discover a pre-authentication SQL injection vulnerability in WordPress, which can be escalated to a full-blown RCE. The researcher found that Sol was able to chain together several creative exploitation techniques, including recursive batch calls and cache abuse, to produce a full exploit chain in just over 10 hours.

The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel

310 rapnie 2026-07-20 12:27:11 UTC edri.org Llama Share 163

The US is requiring EU countries to share biometric data and personal information for traveller screening, with the EU negotiating a Framework Agreement to set exchange modalities. The EU is being pressured into excessive US demands, potentially compromising European and third-country nationals' rights and data protection.

NYC Subway Signals: A Complete Guide

12 at1as 2026-07-20 15:27:11 UTC nycsubway.org Llama Share 3

The New York City subway uses wayside color-light block signalling with signals located to the side of tracks, utilizing colors of lights and dividing tracks into discrete blocks to detect train presence. Signals rely on control lengths and overlap to keep trains at least one signal apart and enforce separation between trains.

Inertia-1: An Open Exploration to a Unified Motion Foundation Model

31 hasheddan 2026-07-20 13:27:11 UTC yang-ai-lab.github.io Llama Share 1

Inertia-1 brings motion models under one roof, studying the full lifecycle of motion data, sensing, objectives, and scale in a controlled space. It finds a unified representation that adapts across placements, devices, and tasks with practical rules of thumb for sampling rates and window lengths.

Shinjuku Station in 3D

27 Gecko4072 2026-07-20 14:27:11 UTC satoshi7190.github.io Full Share 7

「新宿駅周辺屋内地図データ」（国土交通省）（https://www.geospatial.jp/ckan/dataset/mlit-indoor-shinjuku-r2）を加工して作成

Satan's 19th-Century Bank Note (2017)

27 Caiero 2026-07-20 13:27:11 UTC historytoday.com Full Share 1

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ECC and DDR5

69 zdw 2026-07-20 13:27:11 UTC etbe.coker.com.au Llama Share 52

ECC RAM corrects errors in memory before reaching the CPU, using Hamming codes to detect and correct single-bit errors. ECC RAM is recommended for systems storing important data, as it can prevent data corruption and lost time due to RAM hardware errors.

Soofi – Sovereign Open Source Foundation Models

21 Fake4d 2026-07-20 13:27:11 UTC soofi.info Llama Share 8

Soofi S stellt ein offenes europäisches KI-Modell vor, das nachvollziehbare und anpassbare KI-Anwendungen ermöglicht, insbesondere in industriellen Bereichen. Unternehmen können sich für die Testphase anmelden, um praxisnahe Tests mit Soofi durchzuführen.

Show HN: Wheesper – Start an anonymous discussion with a link

7 whatdoyouthink2 2026-07-20 15:27:11 UTC wheesper.com Full Share 4

Private discussions. Honest replies.

The Voice of Google

9 littlexsparkee 2026-07-20 15:27:11 UTC newyorker.com Llama Share 4

The author worked at Google from 2007 to 2016, starting as a communications associate and eventually becoming a manager, crafting internal messaging and social media content that amplified the company's corporate mythology. As the company grew and evolved, the author witnessed both its innovative spirit and its flaws, including a culture of sexism, a lack of accountability, and a failure to ...

Annoying and alarming things about OpenCode

288 alekq 2026-07-20 13:27:11 UTC wren.wtf Llama Share 198

The user thoroughly criticizes OpenCode, an AI coding agent, for its numerous security and usability issues, including poor permission handling, broken prompt caching, and lack of protection for early reads. The user argues that OpenCode's design is fundamentally flawed and that using it can lead to trivial exploitation or accidental wiping of machines, and suggests that local LLMs are also ...

Tested Kimi K3 for Coding

15 speckx 2026-07-20 14:27:11 UTC dotnetperls.com Llama Share 5

User tested Kimi K3 on Rust program optimization, and it successfully applied SWAR optimization in 15 minutes, resulting in 2% speedup. Kimi K3's performance and accuracy suggest it may be a frontier-level model as advertised.

Sensing warm and cool: how the body detects temperature changes

30 hhs 2026-07-20 11:27:11 UTC news.uq.edu.au Llama Share 4

University of Queensland researchers found that most skin temperature sensitive nerve cells can sense both cool and warmth, challenging a widely accepted view. This new understanding could help explain thermal dysfunction in people with spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, and ageing.

Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight

303 wertyk 2026-07-20 00:27:11 UTC github.com/hgaiser Llama Share 123

Moonshine allows remote PC gaming with isolated streaming sessions and keyboard, mouse, and controller inputs. It requires a Linux system and a VPN for secure internet streaming.

What does the Riemann zeta function have to do with the distribution of primes?

71 mb1699 2026-07-20 08:27:11 UTC hidden-phenomena.com GoogleT5 Share 16

Riemann was able to find an even more precise formula computing the number of prime numbers less than a number (n). the size of xrho depends only on how big s is, so if you have 0, then y = n - p / r h = 1...! equating logarithms with primes can be done in

We rewrote our custom visualisation renderers from SVG to be in Canvas

9 yomieluwande 2026-07-20 15:27:11 UTC polarsignals.com Prefix Share 0

We've been working hard at a revamp of our profiling dashboard and we wanted to share some of our learnings and improvements we've observed along the way, backed by numbers. This is not the first time we have written about making flame graphs fast. Last year we parallelised the SVG render and took the initial render of a large query from around eight seconds to about 91 milliseconds. ...

Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt

108 isaacfrond 2026-07-20 05:27:11 UTC labrujulaverde.com Llama Share 73

A Dutch archaeological team led by Dr. Carina van den Hoven discovered a tomb in the Theban necropolis, believed to belong to an individual named Paser from the Ramesside period. The team plans to continue studying and documenting the tomb to determine its historical significance and preserve its architectural and artistic features.

Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs

6 ibobev 2026-07-20 15:27:11 UTC magazine.sebastianraschka.com Prefix Share 0

It has been almost two years since OpenAI released o1, a model that popularized the idea of LLM-based reasoning models. DeepSeek-R1 followed about four months later, together with details of a reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) recipe to train such reasoning models. Last week, OpenAI released the GPT-5.6 model family. It comes in three sizes, each with roughly five or six ...

Primate 0.40: Route pages, store enums, async schemas and events

9 terrablue 2026-07-20 14:27:11 UTC primate.run Prefix Share 4

Primate 0.40 supports collocated route pages. Instead of importing a component from views and passing it to response.view, a route can render the frontend file next to it with response.page. The component examples above use typeof route.get.Page for their props. That type comes from response.page(...), so the route response is the source of truth and there's no separate interface to keep ...

The footprints of every building in NYC – updated weekly

17 jonathanmkeegan 2026-07-20 12:27:11 UTC beautifulpublicdata.com Llama Share 1

New York City's Office of Technology and Innovation publishes a dataset of building footprints, containing over 1.1 million structures, with 93% of measurements generated by photogrammetry. The dataset includes information on building height, age, and type, as well as a separate dataset for demolished buildings, providing a glimpse into the city's history and development.