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121. Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin
122. Blaze: A Dec VT420 (and More) Emulator
123. The rise of industrial software
124. Reading is a vice: US student reading abilities and habits are declining
125. Flow5 Released to Open Source
126. The New Moore's Law: Why Optical Computing Could Redefine Scaling for AI
127. When square pixels aren't square
When you want to get the dimensions of a video file, you probably want the display aspect ratio. Using the dimensions of a stored frame may result in a stretched or squashed video.
128. Pixar's True Story
129. Why Prefer Textfiles? (2010)
130. Show HN: BusterMQ, Thread-per-core NATS server in Zig with io_uring
131. The most friendless place on Earth
132. A love song for Linux gamers with old GPUs
AMD GPUs are famous for working very well on Linux. However, what about the very first GCN GPUs? Are they working as well as the new ones? In this post, I’m going to summarize how well these old GPUs are supported and what I’ve been doing to improve them.
133. Fifteen Most Famous Transcendental Numbers
134. Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice
Exclusive: Inaccurate information presented in summaries, Guardian investigation finds
135. Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups
136. Memory Subsystem Optimizations
137. Steve Jobs, Atari Employee Number 40 (2011)
Steve Jobs was a brilliant thinker, an inspiration, and a leader, but back in 1974 he was an 18-year-old dropout soldering resistors onto Atari's arcade games to save up for a spiritual journey to India.
138. Understanding Elasticsearch Percolator Field and Ingestion Lifecycle
139. Heap Overflow in FFmpeg EXIF
AI cybersecurity startup finding memory vulnerabilities
140. Scaffolding to Superhuman: How Curriculum Learning Solved 2048 and Tetris
141. High-Fidelity 3D Shape Generation
142. The Tyranny of Categorization. We must redefine our relationship with boundaries
143. A faster heart for F-Droid. Our new server is here
Donations are a key part of what keeps F-Droid independent and reliable and our latest hardware update is a direct result of your support. Thanks to donation...
144. Microservices Killed Our Startup. Monoliths Would've Saved Us
145. Everyone's Watching Stocks. The Real Bubble Is AI Debt
Something has changed in the artificial intelligence boom in the past year. Since the arrival of ChatGPT in 2022, America’s biggest tech companies have been leading the charge, aided by hundreds of billions of dollars on their balance sheet. Now, debt has entered the picture and the stakes are higher.
146. Scientists unlock brain's natural clean-up system for new treatments for stroke
147. Tell HN: Happy New Year
148. I'm having the worst career winter of my life
149. Duolingo Used iPhone's Dynamic Island to Display Ads, Violating Apple Design GUI
Language learning app Duolingo has apparently been using the iPhone's Live Activity feature to display ads on the Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island, which violates Apple's design guidelines. According to multiple reports on Reddit, the Duolingo app has been displaying an ad for a "Super offer," which is Duolingo's paid subscription option. Apple's guidelines for Live Activity state that the feature cannot be used to display ads or promotions.
150. All-optical synthesis chip for large-scale intelligent semantic vision