Show HN: ANSI-Saver – A macOS Screensaver
A macOS screensaver that brings back the art of the BBS era. Remember dialing into BBSes at 14.4k, watching ANSI art fill your terminal line by line? The vibrant CP437 characters, the neon color palettes, the logos crafted pixel-by-pixel by scene artists — that whole world lives on at 16colo.rs, the largest ANSI/ASCII art archive […]
PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD’s Athlon
Today, in the year 2000, AMD shipped an undisputable processor milestone, its 1 GHz Athlon CPU. Thus, the Gigahertz PC era was born. AMD scored marketing gold ahead of its powerful rival Intel. PC industry heavy hitters of the time, Compaq and Gateway, were key partners, and the first pre-built 1 GHz system deliveries began […]
Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep
Those who have never endured the relentless ringing of tinnitus can only dream of the torment. In fact, a bad dream may be the closest some get to experiencing anything like it. The subjective sound, which can also be a hissing, buzzing, or clicking, is heard by no one else, and it may be present […]
Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours
US military used Palantir’s Maven AI system with Anthropic’s Claude to generate and prioritise targets during Iran strikes. Pentagon relied on Palantir’s Maven system paired with Anthropic’s Claude AI to generate and prioritise targets during Iran operations. US military used AI to strike 1,000 targets in Iran in 24 hours Maven system, powered by Claude […]
The yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan
As loneliness deepens in one of the world’s fastest-ageing nations, a network of women delivering probiotic milk drinks has become a vital source of routine, connection and care. A woman in a neat navy suit and powder-blue shirt cycles purposefully down a quiet residential street in Tokyo. It’s 08:30 but already balmy, and she’s grateful […]
US economy sheds 92,000 jobs in February in sharp slide
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Filesystems Are Having a Moment
🌱 – A collection of sprouting thoughts. I used to work at a vector database company. My entire job was helping people understand why they needed a database purpose-built for AI; embeddings, semantic search, the whole thing. So it’s a little funny that I’m writing this. But here I am, watching everyone in the AI […]
AI Error May Have Contributed to Girl’s School Bombing in Iran
This Week in Worcester spoke with multiple sources who confirmed that the military’s deployment of AI led to the missile strike against the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, a city in southern Iran, on Saturday. Ali Bahreini, Iran’s ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva, said the strike killed 150 students. There has been no […]
Practical Guide to Bare Metal C++
_entry: ldr pc,reset_handler_ptr ;@ Processor Reset handler ldr pc,undefined_handler_ptr ;@ Undefined instruction handler ldr pc,swi_handler_ptr ;@ Software interrupt ldr pc,prefetch_handler_ptr ;@ Prefetch/abort handler. ldr pc,data_handler_ptr ;@ Data abort handler/ ldr pc,unused_handler_ptr ;@ ldr pc,irq_handler_ptr ;@ IRQ handler ldr pc,fiq_handler_ptr ;@ Fast interrupt handler. ;@ Set the branch addresses reset_handler_ptr: .word reset undefined_handler_ptr: .word hang swi_handler_ptr: […]
UUID package coming to Go standard library
I would like to suggest the addition to the standard library of a package to generate and parse UUID identifiers, specifically versions 3, 4 and 5. The main reason I see to include it is that the most popular 3rd-party package (github.com/google/uuid) is a staple import in every server/db based Go program, as confirmed by […]