~hackernews | Bookmarks (17243)

Ask HN: Great maker projects for 8th grade kids and above?

ycombinator.com
1
Autopoietic Networks

gbragafibra.github.io
1
Electric car batteries last longer than expected (study) – ecomento.de

ecomento.de

Die Unternehmensberatung P3 hat Daten von mehr als 7.000 Elektroautos analysiert und Erkenntnisse zur realen Batteriealterung...
Die Unternehmensberatung P3 hat Daten von mehr als 7.000 Elektroautos analysiert und Erkenntnisse zur realen Batteriealterung in der Praxis veröffentlicht. Akkus verlieren mit der Zeit an Leistungsfähigkeit, was zu weniger Reichweite und langfristig zu einem nicht mehr in der Praxis nutzbarem Energiespeicher führt. ...
1
Computer Scientists: Breaches of Voting System Software Warrant Recounts

freespeechforpeople.org

A group of computer security experts have written to Vice President Kamala Harris to alert her...
A group of computer security experts have written to Vice President Kamala Harris to alert her to the fact that voting systems were breached by Trump allies in 2021 and 2022 and to urge her to seek recounts in key states to ensure election verification. Following the 2020 election, operatives working with Trump atto...
1
The Fastest Way to Download Foursquare's New 100M+ POI Dataset

fused.io

foursquare foursquarepoi poi
1
The Challenges of Building a Sigstore Implementation from Scratch [video]

youtube.com

people & blogs
1
An ad giant wants to control your next TV's OS

arstechnica.com

Per The Trade Desk, Ventura's other top "benefits" will include a "cleaner supply chain for streaming...
Per The Trade Desk, Ventura's other top "benefits" will include a "cleaner supply chain for streaming TV advertising, minimizing supply chain hops and costs—ensuring maximum ROI for every advertising dollar and optimized yield for publishers" and improved ad targeting. TVs sold at a loss in order to bolster ad busin...
1
The Surprising Benefits of Talking Out Loud to Yourself

time.com

When Ellie Shoja goes for a walk, she slips on her headphones and starts talking—but there’s...
When Ellie Shoja goes for a walk, she slips on her headphones and starts talking—but there’s no other voice ricocheting through the speakers. It’s merely a convenient way to disguise the fact that she’s engrossed in a conversation with herself.“As far back as I can remember, I’ve talked to myself,” says Shoja, 43, w...
1
Recovering from Frozen Images in Squeak

squeak.org

When developing complex systems, encountering errors that leave your project in a frozen state can bring...
When developing complex systems, encountering errors that leave your project in a frozen state can bring much sadness and consternation. For developers working with Squeak/Smalltalk, a frozen image refers to a situation where the system becomes unresponsive. This can happen due to various issues, including deadlocks...
1
Show HN: Llama 3.2 Interpretability with Sparse Autoencoders

github.com
1
Could Humans Hibernate?

aeon.co
2
Oxide Cuts Data Center Power Consumption in Half

oxide.computer

Replacing low-efficiency AC power supplies with a high-efficiency DC Bus Bar Power conversion is performed once...
Replacing low-efficiency AC power supplies with a high-efficiency DC Bus Bar Power conversion is performed once AC power is fed from the data center to the Oxide universal power shelf with a customized power shelf controller (PSC). The power shelf distributes DC power up and down the rack via a bus bar. This elimina...
1
Communicating Software Estimates

apsis.io

Communication is hard. It's also extremely important. We're lucky that in the field of software development...
Communication is hard. It's also extremely important. We're lucky that in the field of software development miscommunication tends to lead to project delays instead of loss of life.1 Estimates are also hard. It's challenging to produce accurate estimates in the first place, but even after a good estimate has been pr...
1
14-Year-Old Casper Wind Farm Has Not Turned a Blade in at Least 3 Years

cowboystatedaily.com
1
Emacs Code Conversion Language

emacsninja.com
1
Refresh vs. Long-lived Access Tokens (2023)

grayduck.mn
1
DOJ says Google must sell Chrome to crack open its search monopoly

theverge.com

The Department of Justice says that Google must divest the Chrome web browser to restore competition...
The Department of Justice says that Google must divest the Chrome web browser to restore competition to the online search market, and it left the door open to requiring the company to spin out Android, too.Filed late Wednesday in DC District Court, the initial proposed final judgement refines the DOJ’s earlier high-...
1
A Walk with LuaJIT

polarsignals.com

continuous profiling ebpf monitoring observability polar signals
2
OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now

dynomight.net

We recently talked about a mystery: All large language models (LLMs) are terrible at chess. All,...
We recently talked about a mystery: All large language models (LLMs) are terrible at chess. All, that is, except for gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct, which for some reason can play at an advanced amateur level. This is despite the fact that this model is more than a year old and much smaller than recent models. What’s going ...
1
Listen to the whispers: web timing attacks that work

portswigger.net
1
My Dream Thermostat

leontrolski.github.io
1
First Ever Recorded Use of ICBM in War

funker530.com
1
Ask HN: How can I consistently deliver high-quality work with minimal issues?

ycombinator.com
1
Pg_karnak: Transactional schema migration across tenant databases

thenile.dev

When we need to describe Nile in a single sentence, we say "PostgreSQL re-engineered for multi-tenant...
When we need to describe Nile in a single sentence, we say "PostgreSQL re-engineered for multi-tenant apps". By multi-tenant apps, we mean applications like Stripe, Figma, Twilio, Notion, Workday, and Gusto - here a large number of customers is served from a shared application stack. In these types of applications, ...

ai-native b2b multi-tenant postgres saas
1