Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL

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Cloudflare Turnstile is looping in WebKitGTK browsers due to WebGL fingerprinting for tracking. Temporarily allowing fingerprinting fixes the issue, but it's blocked in WebKit for privacy reasons.

1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices

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PrismML released Bonsai Image 4B, a compact image-generation model for local hardware. It reduces memory footprint by 6.4x to 8.3x, enabling on-device image generation on devices like iPhones and Macs.

Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study

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Creatine supplementation has been found to raise phosphocreatine levels in neurons and provide an ATP buffer that helps cognitively demanding tasks run at full capacity. Studies have shown that creatine can slow cognitive decline in early Alzheimer's patients by 30%, improve cognitive function in healthy adults under stress, and even emerge as a potential adjunct for depression treatment.

Dav2d

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The dav2d project is a fast decoder for the new AV2 codec, developed by VideoLAN community members to provide a small, fast, portable, and correct decoder for real applications. It builds on the success of AV1 and aims to improve compression efficiency, with reported gains of up to 25% compared to AV1.

Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC

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The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI

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The author's workflow has shifted significantly with AI, allowing them to go from idea to prototype 4x faster. This increased velocity has expanded their work's surface area, enabling them to take on new projects and explore ideas previously deemed too time-consuming.

Show HN: Streambed – Stream Postgres to Iceberg on S3, Supports Postgres Wire

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Streambed streams Postgres WAL changes to S3 as Parquet files with Iceberg metadata. It exposes Iceberg tables via a Postgres query server for querying with psql.

Linux/M68k

Linux/m68k is a Linux port for Motorola 68020-68060 systems, stable on Amiga, Atari, and Apple Macintosh models. It has over 2100 users and is available for download from various FTP sites.

United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert

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A United Airlines flight made a mid-Atlantic U-turn after a passenger's Bluetooth speaker named 'BOMB' triggered a security alert. The plane landed back in Newark, where passengers were questioned and their belongings were searched before a replacement flight departed.

Restartable Sequences

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Restartable sequences or rseq for short is the best kept secret at the frontier of system programming. if you want to get rid of both the mutex and atomics, you can use restarted sequence calls instead. google and mozilla are the two companies you should thank most for helping enable me to do what i do. the kernel has a syscall that can be used to reschedule threads

Re: [PATCH] OOM_pardon, a.k.a. don't kill my xlock (2004)

A sysctl was proposed to prevent OOM killing certain processes, and an aircraft company used a similar concept called OOF to save fuel by ejecting passengers in emergency cases.

Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions

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Meta is launching subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, offering extra features for power users. The plans, branded as "Meta One," will also include professional plans for creators and businesses, and AI-focused plans for users.

'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut

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Two horror films, "Backrooms" and "Obsession," dominated US box offices with record-breaking sales, while Disney's "The Mandalorian and Grogu" suffered a significant drop in its second weekend. The success of these low-budget films has upended conventional wisdom about the necessary components for a hit.

The Four Programming Questions from My 1994 Microsoft Internship Interview (2023)

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There are no Performance-Aware Programming lessons this week because it is Summer Internship 1994 Week here on Computer, Enhance! This week will feature five posts about the programming questions I was asked when I interviewed for a Microsoft summer internship way, way back in 1994. Normally scheduled lessons will resume next week. Long, long, long ago — I believe it was in 1994, but it could ...

London's Free Roof Terraces

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The writer visited several City roof terraces, finding some to be pointless or closed, but The Garden at 120 and The Lookout stood out. The Garden at 120 offers a 360° panorama with long-distance views, while The Lookout provides better views than Horizon 22.

Odysseus – self-hosted AI workspace

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Odysseus is a self-hosted AI workspace with local tools and integrations. It runs on your hardware with your data, prioritizing privacy and security.

The Website Specification

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The website specification outlines essential features for decent websites, linking to source standards like WHATWG and WCAG. It's open for contributions and available as an MCP server and Agent Skill.

Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity

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Researchers discovered a new technique called FROST that allows websites to track visitors' browsing history and open apps by measuring SSD interactions. To prevent FROST attacks, users can close unnecessary tabs and monitor OPFS file creation and size.

Having your insulin pump die while you're on vacation

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I have type 1 diabetes and use an insulin pump to stay alive. My pump failed during a week-long vacation in Santa Fe, causing me to waste insulin and deal with frustrating issues.

Backpressure is all you need

The author discusses the limitations of using Large Language Models (LLMs) in software development, specifically the need for automated backpressure to prevent bugs and low-quality code. They propose adding various checks and reviews to the development process, including automated tests, types, linters, end-to-end tests, canary releases, and review agents.

Deflock hits 100k ALPRs Mapped in USA

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ALPRs are AI-powered cameras that track and store vehicle data, including location history, without a warrant or probable cause. This data is often shared with thousands of agencies nationwide, posing a serious risk to privacy and civil liberties.

FROST: Fingerprinting Remotely using OPFS-based SSD Timing [pdf]

We introduce FROST, a novel remote side-channel attack that uses SSD contention measurements from within the browser to fingerprint user activity on a system. FROST achieves an F1 score of 88.95% for top-50 closed-world website fingerprinting and 95.83% for application fingerprinting.

Daily pill can double survival time for deadliest cancer, trial shows

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A new pill called daraxonrasib has been found to double survival time in patients with pancreatic cancer, with fewer side effects compared to chemotherapy. The pill targets a protein called Kras that fuels nearly all pancreatic cancers, offering new hope for patients with this often deadly disease.

Security Envelope Pattern collection – S.E.C.R.E.T

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S.E.C.R.E.T. is a group of collectors creating a standardized security envelope pattern collection. They celebrate the craft of secrecy and the mystery of security envelope patterns.

I put a datacenter GPU in my gaming PC

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The user upgraded their gaming PC with a secondhand datacenter GPU, a Tesla V100 SXM2 16GB, which they purchased for £150 and paired with an adapter for £50, achieving 32GB of VRAM and competitive local LLM performance. The setup, which cost £200, allows the user to run a 27 billion parameter model at 32 tokens per second, rivaling cloud models from Anthropic.

You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)

Working for a large company can be bad for programmers, stifling creativity and freedom. Starting a small company or working for a small team is often better, allowing for more autonomy and innovation.

A Gentle Introduction to Lattice-Based Cryptography [pdf]

The document discusses lattice-based cryptography and the security of quantum-safe cryptographic schemes. It explains the theory of lattices, defines fundamental computational lattice problems, and describes the LLL and BKZ lattice basis reduction algorithms. The document also discusses the security of the Kyber key encapsulation mechanism and the Dilithium digital signature scheme, which are ...

One year of Roto, a compiled scripting language for Rust

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Roto is a statically typed, JIT-compiled scripting language for Rust applications, offering faster performance than other scripting languages. It has been updated with new features, bug fixes, and improved integration with Rust, making it more complete and user-friendly.

Show HN: Atomic Editor – Obsidian-style live preview for CodeMirror 6

CodeMirror 6 editor features inline live preview, WYSIWYG tables, and syntax highlighting. It includes interactive checkboxes and cursor-scoped link unfolding for a seamless editing experience.

Telli (YC F24) is hiring in engineering, design, and GTM [Berlin, on-site]

Companies are using AI agents to have natural conversations with customers at scale, but building effective voice agents is a hard task. telli helps businesses build, deploy, and improve AI voice agents to drive real outcomes.