Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts?
It kinda depends on which platform handles their bulk messages. For example, if they are messaging you through Twilio, replying with “STOP” will cause Twilio itself to opt you out of messages (https://help.twilio.com/articles/223134027-Twilio-support-fo…), and the sender can’t disable that (https://help.twilio.com/articles/360034798533-Getting-Starte…). It’s kinda like how Mailchimp handles unsubscriptions for recipients, no matter what the sender wants. […]
Boris Vallejo and the Pixel Art of the Demoscene
As an epic fantasy painter, Boris Vallejo had a great influence on 1980s and 90s fantasy book covers, computer game box art, and the demoscene. Through the decades, his works have been replicated by pixel artists. This article features fantasy art history, demoscene drama, and a lot of pixel art fun creating a Boris Vallejo […]
AI chipmaker Cerebras files for IPO to take on Nvidia
Andrew Feldman, co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems, speaks at the Collision conference in Toronto on June 20, 2024. Ramsey Cardy | Sportsfile | Collision | Getty Images Artificial intelligence chip startup Cerebras Systems on Monday filed its prospectus for an initial public offering, with plans to trade under the ticker symbol “CBRS” on the […]
BorgBackup 2.0 supports Rclone – over 70 cloud providers in addition to SSH
create: implement retries for individual fs files (e.g. if a file changed while we read it, if a file had an OSError) info: add used storage quota, #7121 transfer: support –progress create/recreate/import-tar: add –checkpoint-volume option support date-based matching for archive selection, add –newer/–older/–newest/–oldest options, #7062 #7296 disallow –list with –progress, #7219 create: fix –list –dry-run […]
The Silk Road (2023)
Frontispiece to the earliest complete block printed ‘book’, the Chinese translation of the Buddhist text the Diamond Sutra, AD 868, found in the Dunhuang caves in 1907. British Library/Bridgeman Images. On a summer night in 1900, a Daoist monk named Wang Yuanlu was sweeping sand from the entrance to the caves known as the Grottoes […]
Essential node in global semiconductor supply chain hit by Hurricane Helene
Hurricane Helene dropped more than 2 feet of rain on Spruce Pine, N.C. The town is home to one of the world’s only sources of high-purity quartz, which is used to manufacture silicon chips and solar panels. Spencer Bost Spencer Bost A tiny town in North Carolina that’s just been devastated by hurricane Helene could […]
Show HN: qrframe – generate beautiful qr codes with javascript code
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Upstream containers with compiler toolchains from kernel.org
Many moons ago, some discussions were being held around having common container images with toolchains maintained by the upstream Linux kernel community. It didn’t quite happen back then, TuxMake was launched by Linaro soon after with images forked from the KernelCI ones and they have been diverging ever since. Where do things stand now? A […]
Pooltool: A sandbox billiards game that emphasizes realistic physics
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The Open Music Encyclopedia
MusicBrainz is an open music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public. MusicBrainz aims to be: The ultimate source of music information by allowing anyone to contribute and releasing the data under open licenses. The universal lingua franca for music by providing a reliable and unambiguous form of music identification, […]