Anime Is Eating the World
Anime – what started as a niche genre of manga and animation has become a multi-billion dollar industry in its own right, with chart-topping games like Pokémon Go and Genshin Impact grossing billions and movies like Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba becoming one of the highest grossing films of the year. Anime is driving pop […]
Telegram will now hand over phone number and IP for criminal suspects
/ ‘If Telegram receives a valid order from the relevant judicial authorities that confirms you’re a suspect,’ it may now reveal your info. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Telegram will now turn over a user’s phone number and IP address if it receives a request from authorities, […]
Windows Server 2008 IA64 Guest on HP Integrity VM (HP-UX)
This is a guest post by Antoni Sawicki (aka Tenox) This is a guide on how to install Windows Server 2008 guest on HP Integrity VM. Yes, Itanium and HP-UX involved. Unlike installing HP-UX or OpenVMS guests, this is not widely documented (or at all) and a rather obscure process. I suppose Windows on HP-UX […]
In 1870, Lord Rayleigh used oil and water to calculate the size of molecules
Many decades before the discovery of x-rays and the invention of powerful microscopes, Lord Rayleigh calculated the size of a single molecule. And he did it, remarkably, using little more than oil, water, and a pen. His inspiration was none other than Benjamin Franklin. Sometime around 1770, while visiting London, Franklin became intrigued by a […]
Developing a go bot embedding ichiban Prolog
Ichiban Prolog is a #golang implementation of an ISO compatible Prolog. To learn how to embed it, I decided to add Prolog support to Hellabot, a simple irc bot. Hellabot design requires to program its triggers using a two step process as described in the code below: type Trigger struct { // Returns true if […]
Show HN: I Wrote a Book on Java
https://www.manning.com/books/data-oriented-programming-in-j… This book is a distillation of everything I’ve learned about what effective development looks like in Java (so far!). It’s about how to organize programs around data “as plain data” and the surprisingly benefits that emerge when we do. Programs that are built around the data they manage tend to be simpler, smaller, and […]
It’s Time to Bring Back the iPod
I’ve been nostalgic for my iPod recently—specifically, my very first iPod, an iPod video, a sleek little device that could fit in the palm of my hand and play thousands of songs (and one episode of LOST I bought on iTunes). I recently purchased a beat-up old iPod video on eBay. Cosmetically, it’s in rough […]
MI couple running out of time to prove they found Great Lakes’ oldest shipwreck
Show Caption Hide Caption Reporter joins Great Lakes divers at what may be Le Griffon shipwreck I went skin-diving in Lake Michigan over wreckage that my guides say is the oldest shipwreck in the Great Lakes. Watch my video to see what I saw. . . In four decades of news work, I’d never reported […]
Why are the violins the biggest section in the orchestra?
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As the largest section of the orchestra, sitting front and center of the stage performing memorable melodies, it’s easy for violinists to steal the limelight. Ask any violinist why there are so many in an orchestra, and we’ll often reply, tongue-in-cheek: “obviously it’s because we’re the best.” The real answer is […]
The Intelligence Age
In the next couple of decades, we will be able to do things that would have seemed like magic to our grandparents. This phenomenon is not new, but it will be newly accelerated. People have become dramatically more capable over time; we can already accomplish things now that our predecessors would have believed to be […]