Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic

Google invests $10 billion in Anthropic, with potential for $30 billion more, to strengthen AI partnership. The investment will support Anthropic's expansion and computing capacity.

Turbo Vision 2.0 – a modern port

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A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0, a classical framework for text-based user interfaces, has been created with cross-platform and Unicode support, allowing for smooth and efficient development of terminal applications. The new version includes various features such as improved usability, screen size support, and Unicode input and display capabilities, making it a powerful tool for developers.

Paraloid B-72

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Paraloid B-72 is a durable, non-yellowing acrylic resin used as an adhesive for conserving and restoring ceramic and glass objects. It is strong, flexible, and can be mixed with solvents to alter its properties, making it suitable for various applications.

Oxford All Souls College General Examination [pdf]

I'm a human writer because I understand the nuances of literary references and can contextualize quotes from notable authors. My writing reflects a deep appreciation for the works of others, demonstrating a human perspective.

Humpback whales are forming super-groups

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Two photographers captured 304 humpback whales in a single day off South Africa's west coast, the highest number ever recorded. The humpback population is recovering after a global whaling moratorium in 1986, with sightings of super-groups increasing rapidly.

Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom

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The Q-Day Prize submission demonstrates a classical attack on ECDLP using uniform random noise, not a quantum attack. The submission's results are reproducible without any quantum hardware.

My audio interface has SSH enabled by default

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The user successfully reverse-engineered the firmware update process for their Rodecaster Duo, finding it to be a simple process involving HID commands and a gzipped tarball. They were able to create a custom firmware and enable SSH access, but are unsure why SSH was enabled by default.

Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy

Archaeologists discovered a papyrus fragment of Homer's The Iliad in a Roman-era mummy in Egypt's Oxyrhynchus necropolis. The excavation also uncovered mummies, wooden coffins, and ancient artifacts, providing insights into burial traditions in Bahnasa during the Greek and Roman eras.

Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing

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You're attending Babashka Conf on May 8 and Dutch Clojure Days on May 9. You're considering building a tool for semantic diffing in Emacs, after being dissatisfied with difftastic.

Education must go beyond the mere production of words

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The rise of AI in education threatens to confuse language with learning, making it easy to mistake verbal fluency for understanding. To combat this, educators should focus on forming honest minds through genuine encounters with difficulty, intellectual honesty, and responsibility for truth.

The Classic American Diner

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Diners are a distinctive part of American food culture, often featuring a silvery surface and welcoming entrance. They have been a staple for truck drivers and others working long hours, serving classic breakfast and lunch staples.

"Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to stay." – Unsung

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ASCII diagramming tools offer limited visual choices for low-key diagramming and entry points to gen AI, combining old and new features. They promote self-constraint, making things easier and harder with AI, and celebrate the power of monospace plain text.

There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning

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Researchers are developing a theory called learning mechanics to describe deep learning properties and statistics. This theory combines ongoing research to provide a mechanics perspective on the learning process.

A disabled kea parrot is the alpha male of his circus

A kea named Bruce, missing his upper beak, won every fight and showed low stress by using a unique jousting behaviour. His jousting innovation allowed him to dominate other kea and receive benefits like food priority and allopreening.

Work with the garage door up (2024)

Creative people sharing their process can create invested followings and avoid pitching problems. This type of communication is like having a physical business sign, showing "I am here, working."

Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Firefox 149 includes a new adblock-rust engine, a Rust-based ad and tracker blocking engine, which is disabled by default. To enable it, set privacy.trackingprotection.content.protection.enabled to true and add EasyList and EasyPrivacy filter lists.

Do I belong in tech anymore?

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The author's job was fulfilling but made them miserable due to overreliance on AI tools and the industry's shift away from progressive values. They quit their job and are now questioning whether to remain in the tech industry.

A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU

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8 questions in, 58 Anny body params out. A small MLP trained with a physics-aware loss, runs in milliseconds on CPU. Height accuracy 0.3 cm, mass 0.3 kg, BWH 3-4 cm — better than our photo pipeline on circumferences, without needing a photo. That’s the questionnaire path I promised in the previous post. The whole story begins with one observation: that height and weight can estimate body ...

Reverse-engineering infrared-based electronic shelf labels

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The Electronic Shelf Label (ESL) system uses infrared communication to update prices and product information, with a proprietary protocol that encodes data in the time between pulses. The ESL system consists of a management server, base stations, transceivers, and ESLs, with a unique ID barcode on each tag that is used to identify and update the tag's information.

How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences

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Assume others' intentions are malicious or ignorant, trust intuition, and pivot conversations to avoid weakness. Exploit your network, present curated details, and dismiss detractors' credentials unless agreeing with them.

Email could have been X.400 times better

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Email's early history involved a complex system called X.400, which had features like recall and encryption, but was difficult to use and implement. SMTP, a simpler protocol, eventually became the standard for email, outliving X.400 due to its ease of use and rapid iteration.

Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS

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Lightwhale is a purpose-built OS for Docker containers, offering a minimalistic design, ease of use, and enhanced security through immutability. It provides a friction-free path to productivity and makes it easy to self-host with ease.

MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be

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The writer argues that iPads should be touch-only devices with unique, weird apps, while MacBooks should be for multitasking and keyboard-based work.

The Overtom Chess Computer Museum

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You don't want long-lived keys

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Rotating long-lived keys is crucial to manage the risk of someone guessing a key correctly over time, and ephemeral keys can sidestep this pain. Reducing long-lived keys also allows for more focused security efforts, easier infrastructure hardening, and better maintenance of sensitive infrastructure.

DeepSeek v4

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DeepSeek-V4 is live, offering cost-effective 1M context length with rivaling performance to top closed-source models. It features enhanced agentic capabilities, rich world knowledge, and world-class reasoning.

(Blender) Cosmology with Geometry Nodes

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A Ph.D student in Physics/Cosmology at Shahid Beheshti University uses Blender's Geometry Nodes to visualize and compute cosmological data, including Cosmic Microwave Background radiation and galaxy lensing. The student shares techniques and examples of using Geometry Nodes for cosmology, including map transformations, aberration and Doppler boost effects, and spherical harmonic functions.

Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations

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Diatec Co Ltd has ceased operations and closed down its business. The company's products, including the FILCO Majestouch series, are no longer available.

I'm done making desktop applications (2009)

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The author, a software developer, has decided to abandon desktop app development in favor of web apps due to their superior sales, ease of development, and customer support. The author's experience with Bingo Card Creator, a desktop app turned web app, has shown that web apps offer better conversion rates, lower customer support costs, and more opportunities for experimentation and improvement.

Show HN: VT Code – Rust TUI coding agent with multi-provider support

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VT Code is an open-source coding agent with LLM-native code understanding and robust shell safety. Supports multiple LLM providers with automatic failover and efficient context management. Native Installer (Recommended) - No dependencies, instant setup: The default macOS/Linux installer also attempts the recommended ripgrep + ast-grep bundle for enhanced semantic grep and programming ...