Factor 0.100 Now Available
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” — Kierkegaard I’m very pleased to announce the release of Factor 0.100! Source code: 0.100 This release is brought to you with over 1400 commits by the following individuals: Aditya Aryaman Das, Alex null Maestas, Alexander Ilin, Andy Kluger, Bhargav Shirin Nalamati, Charlie […]
How a scientist is pushing to supersize research into ultra-processed foods
CHICAGO — The last place you might have expected Kevin Hall to make a plea for help was at a conference of scientists who work for global food conglomerates. After all, the government researcher is the leading scientific voice in the United States warning that a steady diet of these engineered products might be a […]
They don’t make readers like they used to
(This essay is late because I came home from worldcon with a wonderful prize–COVID19. It was a very mild dose and I’m better now but it put everything on hold for about a week.) In the past I’ve blogged about how difficult it is to write the near future, ten years out (I used to […]
Valkey achieved one million RPS 6 months after forking from Redis
2024-09-13 · Dan Touitou, Uri Yagelnik In the first part of this blog, we described how we offloaded almost all I/O operations to I/O threads, thereby freeing more CPU cycles in the main thread to execute commands. When we profiled the execution of the main thread, we found that a considerable amount of time was […]
The Department of Everything – Dispatches from the telephone reference desk
How do you find the life expectancy of a California condor? Google it. Or the gross national product of Morocco? Google it. Or the final resting place of Tom Paine? Google it. There was a time, however—not all that long ago—when you couldn’t Google it or ask Siri or whatever cyber equivalent comes next. You […]
Icon (real creators, AI ads) is hiring founding engineers (NYC)
Icon is the best team helping brands create winning influencer ads with AI. Our founder/CEO (who is writing this, sorry for writing in 3rd person) brings experience from Skio, Pinterest, Hulu, League of Legends (Top 200 North America), & Y Combinator. At Skio (a subscription platform for Shopify), he is founder/CEO of the company having […]
The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out
From the swimming habits of dead trout to the revelation that some mammals can breathe through their backsides, a group of leading leftfield scientists have been taking their bows at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the 34th annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. Not to be confused with the actual Nobel prizes, the Ig Nobels […]
Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city
Hey HN! I just published https://meet.hn, a map to find hackers in your city. How it works? Demo of the signup process: https://x.com/meet_hn/status/1834918518904746329 1. Fill the form: username, city+country 2. Copy the text generated in the box below the form, and paste it in your HN description. 3. Click “Add me on the map” Optionnaly […]
Show HN: Electrico – Electron Without Node and Chrome (Rust / Wry)
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iPhone 16 Pro lets users capture ProRAW photos in JPEG-XL format
Even before the launch of the iPhone 16 on Monday, 9to5Mac had already reported that the new Pro models would have the ability to take photos in JPEG-XL format. Although Apple hasn’t mentioned it anywhere, the iPhone 16 Pro is indeed capable of taking ProRAW photos in JPEG-XL. JPEG-XL coming to iPhone 16 Pro Code […]