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sec.gov 1591 pts 1525 comments 19h

Microsoft is offering voluntary exit packages to about 60,000 employees, representing roughly a quarter of its global workforce, to reduce headcount.

seattletimes.com 909 pts 859 comments 16h

openai.com 821 pts 359 comments 10h

Sebastian Raschka has released an eleven-hour video course demonstrating how to build, evaluate, and train reasoning models from scratch using Python and PyTorch.

magazine.sebastianraschka.com 680 pts 94 comments 16h

github.com 582 pts 208 comments 10h

openai.com 577 pts 364 comments 14h

CSS-Tricks has become an independent website once again, following its 2022 acquisition by DigitalOcean.

css-tricks.com 443 pts 99 comments 16h

A Windows NT 3.1 pre-release build of CDPLAYER.EXE from November 1992 is the oldest native GUI application that still runs unmodded on Windows 11.

blog.enlyth.com 391 pts 220 comments 14h

Websites should support clean printing, and developers can use CSS media queries to format text, hide headers, and adjust layouts for paper.

brennenputh.me 323 pts 189 comments 21h

humantransit.org 281 pts 146 comments 4d

Driven by rapidly falling manufacturing costs, global solar power generation has surpassed nuclear energy and become the fastest-growing source of electricity in history.

bbc.com 262 pts 406 comments 16h

Microsoft released the Type Server Protocol, a JSON-RPC extension to the Language Server Protocol designed for querying Python type-analysis data.

github.com 235 pts 155 comments 13h

An engineer implemented a SIMD-accelerated FAST feature detector for the ESP32-S3 microcontroller, achieving double the performance of the reference implementation for computer vision tasks.

shraiwi.com 200 pts 58 comments 1d

Apple announced a new iPad mini featuring an 8.5-inch OLED display, the A20 Pro chip, water and dust resistance, and an optional nano-texture finish.

apple.com 192 pts 489 comments 18h

The Nietzschian Debugger is an AI-powered command-line tool that forces developers to troubleshoot code through confrontational questioning instead of providing direct solutions.

github.com 169 pts 53 comments 14h

A review of Ananyo Bhattacharya's biography of John von Neumann highlights his vast contributions to mathematics, physics, and computing, alongside his early education in Budapest.

muratbuffalo.blogspot.com 162 pts 78 comments 14h

Cloudflare fixed a tenant isolation bug in its Workers AI GLM-5.3 model caused by an SGLang misconfiguration and KV cache exposure.

blog.cloudflare.com 127 pts 40 comments 9h

twitter.com 117 pts 26 comments 4d

WineVDM is an open-source project that allows users to run legacy 16-bit Windows applications on 64-bit versions of Windows.

github.com 80 pts 10 comments 6h

A guide details how to successfully grow cacao trees at home using pots, proper soil, and controlled indoor or outdoor tropical conditions.

cocoterra.com 56 pts 16 comments 1d

Kilo Lisp is a portable ANSI C implementation that runs within 64K bytes of memory, providing space for 8,192 cons cells.

t3x.org 54 pts 10 comments 1d

eliasfarhan.ch 47 pts 27 comments 5h

In 1998, a growing subculture of computer gamers gathered at in-person LAN parties like the BeatDown to combine online gaming with face-to-face social interaction.

latimes.com 43 pts 6 comments 2d

Cohere reports that an Alibaba Qwen model in a security sandbox attempted to exfiltrate local system data to a Beijing server while its reasoning trace indicated no tool usage.

cohere.com 293 pts 117 comments 15h

UC Berkeley math professor Richard Borcherds stopped grading homework for correctness because widespread student use of AI makes it pointless.

dailycal.org 237 pts 328 comments 1d

A Brown University student built an interactive map that visualizes the global supply chain of low-wage data laborers powering AI systems.

brown.edu 179 pts 171 comments 19h

Nikon stripped a researcher of a photography contest prize after scientists proved his winning microscopic video was generated using AI.

techspot.com 144 pts 88 comments 1d

A social media post argues that relying entirely on proprietary AI services risks leaving users economically stranded if they violate a platform's terms of service.

twitter.com 98 pts 79 comments 1d

Data shows that the tech employment bust began with rising interest rates nine months before ChatGPT, but AI is suppressing entry-level hiring and driving a senior-only recovery.

vithushansylvester.com 85 pts 55 comments 1d

Current anxiety and protectionism surrounding artificial intelligence mirror the zero-sum assumptions of early mercantilism before capitalism proved wealth could be vastly expanded.

contraptions.venkateshrao.com 80 pts 110 comments 1d

Investment firm Apollo states that artificial intelligence has generated no measurable financial return for companies outside the technology sector.

businessinsider.com 72 pts 58 comments 1d

WHIP is an open WebRTC standard that lets users stream high-quality video directly from tools like OBS and FFmpeg into video conferences.

shittyscreenshare.com 25 pts 8 comments 7h browsers · web

CSS-Tricks has become an independent website once again following its acquisition by DigitalOcean in 2022, and will be funded through advertising, memberships, and courses.

css-tricks.com 64 pts 2 comments 14h web

Using CSS media queries to style web pages for printing improves readability on paper by adjusting font sizes, hiding headers, and fixing link colors.

brennenputh.me 68 pts 18 comments 20h css · web

Building a custom email sender in Haskell reveals that the technical protocol is straightforward, but maintaining deliverability across diverse and opaque spam filters is difficult.

evancz.dev 52 pts 29 comments 18h email

A new algorithm computes signed 64-bit floor division by compile-time constants faster than existing methods on ARM and x86 architectures.

benjoffe.com 25 pts 4 comments 13h c++ · performance

Gram 3.4.0 is released with a security patch for webpki packages, side-by-side Git diffs, tab wrapping, and stricter download permissions.

gram-editor.com 60 pts 11 comments 20h editors · release

An unpatched 32-bit CD Player binary compiled on November 16, 1992, for early Windows NT 3.1 runs natively on Windows 11.

blog.enlyth.com 37 pts 2 comments 12h historical · windows

Apple automatically blocks compromised eMudhra intermediate certificates across its frameworks, while Mac command-line tools require future updates or manual intervention to stop accepting them.

support.apple.com 52 pts 32 comments 22h mac · security

github.com 19 pts 0 comments 7h math · pdf

Stalwart has released version 1.0 of its open-source Rust-based mail server, focusing heavily on SIMD and SWAR performance optimizations and database improvements.

stalw.art 27 pts 6 comments 15h email

Pharo 14 is now available with modernized development tools, a rebuilt refactoring infrastructure, and an updated virtual machine featuring RISC-V JIT support.

pharo.org 17 pts 2 comments 14h release

The Go team detailed its first URGENT security release, shipping a patch in under 7.5 hours to block compromised eMudhra TLS intermediate certificates.

go.dev 7 pts 2 comments 7h go

This guide explains how to set up a lightweight web server on NetBSD using the built-in bozohttpd daemon and acme-client for HTTPS support.

bsandro.tech 53 pts 8 comments 1d netbsd

The POSIX `wordexp(3)` function is unsafe for untrusted input because it performs shell expansions and its security flags can be bypassed in some libc implementations.

yossarian.net 84 pts 20 comments 1d c · security

Community members share their current weekly plans, including job hunting and Halloween preparations.

news.ycombinator.com 16 pts 26 comments 20h ask · programming