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ELI5: The recently discovered XZ backdoor
Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1brf749/comment/kx8oxpg/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39941418
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"Total Eclipse" by Annie Dillard (1982) [pdf]
Article URL: https://faculty.etsu.edu/odonnell/readings/dillard_eclipse.pdf
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39941387
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ElephantSQL – End of Life Announcement
Article URL: https://www.elephantsql.com/blog/end-of-life-announcement.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39941022
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My Asahi M2 MacBook was stolen. It didn't have encryption
I am going through a hellish experience after leaving my bag in a Glasgow park. My Macbook Pro was inside it and powered off, but the thief who found it has managed to get access to my files and is trying to blackmail me for money to get my data back after they found my email address in the files they have been raking through.
It turns out that even when you have encryption on your MacOS, installing Asahi linux does not actually encrypt the partition it creates.
This is just a word of warning for anyone using Asahi linux, that you shouldn't assume your data to also be encrypted. If your home is burgled, then you can assume all your data is in the hands of the burglar.
Thieves these days certainly know the value of personal data.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39941021
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Show HN: FMAs Complement – Like 2's Complement but for Matrix Multiplications
TLDR : A lookup table for matrix multiplications.
Simple description : This is a custom binary number system designed to calculate vector dot products.
Technical description : FMA's complement is a fixed-point representation of binary numbers created — as an alternative to 2’s complement and 1’s complement — to perform the Fused Multiply-Add instruction.
We combine linear algebra and arithmetic codes (from data compression theory) to make a number system great for finding dot products.
Motivation I took a gap year to start a data compression startup (this was a mistake, I know) so I spent the past year working with Arithmetic Coders. I was trying to build a lookup table with random matrices and I saw patterns.
From my year's long experience with data compressors - patterns should NOT exist in random data. I built this because, I could (with reasonable accuracy) estimate dot products using a lookup table.
This is the GitHub repo accompanying the article - https://github.com/Fileforma/FMA-Complement
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39941020
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Infinity with Max Cooper – In Six Minutes
Article URL: https://mk.bcgsc.ca/infinity/index.mhtml
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39941016
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I made a tool to launch your next project 2x faster
Article URL: https://HustleGeneratorAI.com/waitlist
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39941007
Points: 1
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Ask HN: Alternatives of ChatGPT
I need AI software which can produce a well optimize article. As i see in ChatGPT, gives article do not provide a valid information.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39941005
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Open Asteroid Impact
Article URL: https://openasteroidimpact.org/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39940998
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The FDA has approved the first app to help treat depression
Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2024/04/04/1242721542/the-fda-has-approved-the-first-app-to-help-treat-depression
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39940992
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NLP Based Data Engineering and ETL Tool – Ask on Data
Article URL: https://askondata.com/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39940985
Points: 1
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An IRC Client in your motherboard
Article URL: https://axleos.com/an-irc-client-in-your-motherboard/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39940975
Points: 3
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A Lego Model of Financial Capitalism
Article URL: https://www.asomo.co/p/a-lego-model-of-financial-capitalism
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39940959
Points: 2
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Worker-to-Worker Unionism: A Model for Labor to Scale Up
Article URL: https://jacobin.com/2024/03/worker-to-worker-unionism-starbucks-amazon/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39940924
Points: 3
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Almost no one cares if your site is not on social media
Article URL: https://notes.ghed.in/posts/2024/no-one-cares-site-on-social-media/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39940922
Points: 3
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PRBenchmark – Expert PR Review Capabilities Equals Expert PR Creation Capability
Article URL: https://github.com/mrconter1/PullRequestBenchmark
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39940921
Points: 1
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Explicit Honesty
Article URL: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/explicit-honesty
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39940913
Points: 1
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The Ocean Apocalypse Is Upon Us, Maybe
Article URL: https://nautil.us/the-ocean-apocalypse-is-upon-us-maybe-542800/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39940910
Points: 2
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Newsmast: Building communities and connections in the Fediverse and beyond
Article URL: https://www.newsmastfoundation.org/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39940892
Points: 1
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JetZero: Groundbreaking 'blended-wing' demonstrator plane cleared to fly
Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/travel/jetzero-pathfinder-subscale-demonstrator/index.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39940889
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