Losses widen at Stripe Europe to $1.1B after employee ‘liquidity event’
A Dublin-registered arm of Stripe, the Irish-American payments company founded by the Collison brothers, lost more than $1.1 billion (€999.6 million) last year as share-based payments to employees surged in 2023. New accounts for Stripe Payments International Holdings – a holding company for the group’s activities outside the United States, including in Europe, Asia and […]
Show HN: I removed politics from Twitter with AI
Scroll twitter in peace. Without all the negativity. We use AI to filter out content on social media so you’ll never have to see anything you don’t want to (war, politics, outrage etc…) No credit card required, instant download. 50k+ tweets blocked 10k+ posts blocked 10k+ videos blocked
Billiards is a good game (1975)
When I came here in 1928, now more than half the history of the University ago, the University of Chicago was the one institution of higher learning that was thought to exist west of the Appalachians by the populace east of the Appalachians. This widespread recognition was based largely on the names of Leopold and […]
How Raw sockets behave differently in macOS and Linux
This post builds up on my previous post where I talked about an interesting bug in my ping implementation. In case you haven’t read it I will explain it very briefly for better coherence. I was sending raw echo-request packets to a target host but I wasn’t using the right tool for sending raw packets. […]
Void captures over a million Android TV boxes
September 12, 2024 Doctor Web experts have uncovered yet another case of an Android-based TV box infection. The malware, dubbed Android.Vo1d, has infected nearly 1.3 million devices belonging to users in 197 countries. It is a backdoor that puts its components in the system storage area and, when commanded by attackers, is capable of secretly […]
My 71 TiB ZFS NAS After 10 Years and Zero Drive Failures
My 4U 71 TiB ZFS NAS built with twenty-four 4 TB drives is over 10 years old and still going strong. Although now on its second motherboard and power supply, the system has yet to experience a single drive failure (knock on wood). Zero drive failures in ten years, how is that possible? Let’s talk […]
The Legend of Holy Sword: An Immersive Experience for Concentration Enhancement
Abstract:Concentration is significant for maximizing potential in any activity. However, traditional methods to improve it often lack direct and natural feedback. We propose an innovative and inspiring VR system to experience and improve concentration. In the experience of pulling out the holy sword, which cannot be achieved simply by force, the player receives multimodal concentration […]
NextNav’s Callous Land-Grab to Privatize 900 MHz
The 900 MHz band, a frequency range serving as a commons for all, is now at risk due to NextNav’s brazen attempt to privatize this shared resource. Left by the FCC for use by amateur radio operators, unlicensed consumer devices, and industrial, scientific, and medical equipment, this spectrum has become a hotbed for new technologies […]
OpenAI o1 Results on ARC-AGI-Pub
ARC Prize testing and notes on OpenAI’s new o1 model Over the past 24 hours, we got access to OpenAI’s newly released o1-preview and o1-mini models specially trained to emulate reasoning. These models are given extra time to generate and refine reasoning tokens before giving a final answer. Hundreds of people have asked how o1 […]
Lisp implemented in Rust macros
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