DNA confirms there IS a big cat roaming the British countryside
discoverwildlife.com — Could this be conclusive evidence that proves there are big cats roaming the British countryside? DNA, 1
Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count
quantamagazine.org — Imagine that you’re sent to a pristine rainforest to carry out a wildlife census. Every time you see an animal, you snap a photo. Your digital camera will track the total number of shots, but you’re only interested in the number of unique animals — all the ones that you haven’t counted already. What’s the best way to get that number? “The obvious solution requires remembering every animal you’ve seen so far and comparing each new animal to the list,” said Lance Fortnow, a computer scientist at the Illinois Institute of Technology. But there are cleverer ways to proceed, he added, because if you have thousands of entries, the obvious approach is far from easy. COMPUTER, 2
OpenBSD – sshd(8) split into multiple binaries
undeadly.org — Contributed by rueda on 2024-05-17 from the puffy-does-the-splits dept. OPENBSD, 3
Why neural networks struggle with the Game of Life
bdtechtalks.com — This article is part of our reviews of AI research papers, a series of posts that explore the latest findings in artificial intelligence. WHY, 4
A forged Apple employee badge
cabel.com — Here’s a quick and cautionary tale. FORGED, 5
How to read C type declarations (2003)
unixwiz.net — This site uses advanced css techniques READ, 6
Exercises to Learn Rust
rust-exercises.com — Welcome to "100 Exercises To Learn Rust"! EXERCISES, 7
Many Searchers Want to Turn Off Google AI Overviews
seroundtable.com — There are many searchers who have been using Google daily that are heading to the Google Web Search Help forums to ask how they can turn off the new AI Overviews within the Google Search results. As you know, AI Overviews started to roll out on Tuesday and some searchers simply do not want it. MANY, 8
Visualizing algorithms for rate limiting
smudge.ai — Imagine a Twitch chat with many active participants and just one spammer. Without rate limiting, the sole spammer can easily dominate the entire conversation. With rate limiting, each user has a fair chance to participate. VISUALIZING, 9
Extracting Words from Scanned Books: A Step-by-Step Tutorial with Python, OpenCV
github.com — You can find the link for the tutorial here. EXTRACTING, 10
Welcome to the Parallel Future of Computation
pages.dev — With Bend you can write parallel code for multi-core CPUs/GPUs without being a C/CUDA expert with 10 years of experience. It feels just like Python! WELCOME, 11
Deutsche Bahn introduces "MetaWindow"
railtarget.eu — Deutsche Bahn has unveiled a pioneering advancement in noise control technology with the introduction of the MetaWindow, a transparent noise barrier boasting unparalleled sound-absorbing capabilities. DEUTSCHE, 12
Make a game with Hoot for the Lisp Game Jam
spritely.institute — Twice per year I co-host the Lisp Game Jam: a 10-day game jam where participants create small games in their favorite Lisp dialect. Unlike classic game jams like Ludum Dare, which have an intensive 2-3 day long duration, the Lisp Game Jam is much more casual and spans two whole weekends to give busy people (most of us!) more of a chance to complete a game. There are no prizes, though there is a judging period where we play each other's games and give feedback. Really, the joy of getting creative with Lisp is its own reward. Game jams are the perfect excuse to prototype a gameplay idea and get some practice managing the scope of a project to meet a due date. MAKE, 13
Growing sodium chloride crystals at home
crystalverse.com — I discovered a way to grow transparent sodium chloride crystals at home. Here’s how. GROWING, 14
A transport protocol's view of Starlink
potaroo.net — A Transport Protocol’s View of Starlink May 2024 TRANSPORT, 15
But Why a Penguin?
jstor.org — At six pence, or one-fortieth of a pound each, the first ten Penguin Books were priced to move. And move they did: within six months of the introduction of Penguins to the market in 1935, the paperback company was boasting that three million copies had been sold. Unconventionally available in variety, chain stores, and newsagents as well as the more traditional bookshops, Penguins weren’t just another variation on cheap books. BUT, 16
Egypt's pyramids may have been built on a long-lost branch of the Nile
nature.com — You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar EGYPT, 17
Arch Linux RISC-V
felixc.at — ARCH, 18
Slack AI Training with Customer Data
slack.com — Our mission is to build a product that makes work life simpler, more pleasant and more productive. Our guiding principle as we build this product is that the privacy and security of Customer Data is sacrosanct, as detailed in our Privacy Policy, Security Documentation and SPARC and the Slack Terms. SLACK, 19
America's dramatic shift from gas power plants to batteries
theprogressplaybook.com — Please subscribe me to your newsletter! AMERICA, 20
Finding Mona Lisa in the Game of Life (2020)
kevingal.com — The Game of Life is a 2d, grid-shaped petri dish. Each grid square in the dish is a cell that can be either alive or dead. FINDING, 21
How to fix bugs in 24 hours or less
dolthub.com — Here at DoltHub, we made a pledge to fix Dolt correctness bugs in 24 hours or less. We're proud of this pledge and we work hard to uphold it. But how is this possible? FIX, 22
Simplifying Join Syntax
github.com — As all joins involve the primary key, we can devise ways of simplifying JOIN code according to this characteristic. There are three join simplification methods. SIMPLIFYING, 23
Context caching guide
google.dev — The Gemini API context caching feature is designed to reduce the cost of requests that contain repeat content with high input token counts. CONTEXT, 24
The evolution of a Scheme programmer (2020)
erkin.party — Created: 2020-07-15 Updated: 2020-07-17 EVOLUTION, 25
Jike: The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene
restofworld.org — In February, Wang Huiwen, co-founder of China’s delivery giant Meituan, publicly announced his plans to build China’s OpenAI. But instead of announcing the news on China’s most popular microblogging site Weibo or its ubiquitous messaging app WeChat, he published a post on Jike — a niche social media platform little known to most Chinese internet users, but beloved among tech workers, investors, and industry experts. In a post titled “AI Heroes wanted,” Wang invited Jike users to contact him and join his new venture. JIKE, 26
Show HN: Chessdream – Generate realistic chess positions with AI
news.ycombinator.com — For no specific reason, I trained a neural network to generate random chess positions that look similar to positions from actual games (from lichess db). I also made it so you can condition it on some fixed pieces, and adjust the number of pieces. CHESSDREAM, 27
D3 in Depth
d3indepth.com — Visualising Data with JavaScript teaches you how to build charts, dashboards and data stories using Chart.js, Leaflet, D3 and React. DEPTH, 28
Exit Strategy: The Case for Single-Stair Egress
architecturalrecord.com — American land-use reformers intent on addressing present-day housing shortages have, for the last decade, focused their efforts on amending zoning codes—the very rules that gradually downzoned most urban land in the U.S., effectively outlawing multifamily housing, spurring suburban sprawl, and fanning the current crisis. Recently, however, a group of young architects and planners has brought attention to another code barrier that limits design options for large multifamily buildings: the multiple egress routes mandated by most American building codes. The argument, in short, is to re-legalize single-stair apartment buildings, also known as “point-access blocks”—a typology that was once commonplace and remains so in much of the world, including the European Union, where fireproof single-st... EXIT, 29
Skio (YC S20) – Subscriptions for Shopify, ReCharge Migrations – Is Hiring skio.com
Reflex (YC W23) Is Hiring Software Engineers ycombinator.com
Promoted.ai (YC W21) Is Hiring a Apache Flink Expert Staff Engineer ycombinator.com