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Will Pay For This: Validating Market Demand

2025-01-12

Will Pay For This is a tool designed to discover market demand. It gauges the viability of a product or service by assessing user willingness to pay, helping entrepreneurs and businesses pinpoint target audiences and refine their product strategies, thereby minimizing wasted resources. Users simply describe their idea, and the platform provides market demand feedback based on data analysis. This is a powerful tool for creators unsure of their product's market potential.

(www.willpayforthis.com)

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Japanese Firms Demo Unforgeable Quantum Tokens

2024-12-25

In response to the challenges posed by quantum computing to traditional encryption methods, Mitsui, NEC, and Quantinuum in Japan successfully demonstrated the technology of transmitting and redeeming quantum tokens over a 10-kilometer fiber optic network. This technology leverages quantum key distribution (QKD), exploiting the fragility of quantum data to achieve unforgeability, single-use properties, and local validation of tokens, offering a novel secure solution for financial transactions and asset management. This breakthrough marks a significant step towards commercial applications of quantum token technology.

(spectrum.ieee.org)

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Metamorphic Rocks: Messengers from Earth's Depths

2024-12-27

Metamorphic Rocks: Messengers from Earth's Depths

This essay explores the incredible journeys of metamorphic rocks. Starting as humble seabed sediments, these rocks are buried deep within the Earth's crust, undergoing intense heat and pressure that transforms them into new mineral forms. Their eventual return to the surface provides invaluable insights into the planet's deep interior. The author vividly describes this transformation as an epic journey, highlighting the importance of metamorphism in plate tectonics and the crucial role of water in the process. The story also contrasts the ease of exploring space with the challenges of accessing Earth's subsurface.

(aeon.co)

Tech Metamorphic rocks metamorphic rocks Earth science

Gource: Visualizing Your Codebase with Stunning Animations

2025-01-03

Gource: Visualizing Your Codebase with Stunning Animations

Gource is an open-source software that visualizes your version control repository history in a breathtaking animated way. The repository root is at the center, directories are branches, files are leaves, and developers become dynamic characters moving around the code tree, their contributions shown as animated trails. Gource uses OpenGL rendering and requires a 3D-accelerated video card. It supports various version control systems like Git, SVN, Mercurial, and offers extensive parameters for customization, allowing you to easily generate impressive visualizations of your codebase history.

(github.com)

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LLM Identity Confusion: A Crisis of Trust Emerges

2024-12-30

A recent study reveals widespread "identity confusion" in Large Language Models (LLMs). Researchers found that over 25% of LLMs exhibit misrepresentation of their origins or identities, primarily stemming from model hallucinations rather than replication or reuse. This identity confusion significantly erodes user trust, especially in critical tasks like education and professional use, surpassing the negative impact of logical errors. The findings highlight the systemic risks posed by LLM identity confusion and call for greater attention to model reliability and trustworthiness.

(arxiv.org)

AI Identity Confusion Trust Crisis

Type-Driven Development: How Types Simplify Complex Programming

2024-12-19

Type-Driven Development: How Types Simplify Complex Programming

This article explores the concept of "Type-Driven Development," where the author, drawing from experience with the large-scale Heartbeat Typescript project (300k+ lines), demonstrates how Typescript's type system simplifies complex programming problems. The core idea is that by leveraging the type system effectively, allowing types to flow freely across all application layers, starting new features with type definitions, making illegal states unrepresentable, parsing instead of validating data, and maintaining code honesty and specificity, bugs are drastically reduced and development efficiency is improved. The author also shares techniques for using pure functions as type bridges and the type system as an introspection tool, while acknowledging the occasional need to bypass type system constraints.

(mayhul.com)

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So You Want to Write Java in Neovim?

2024-12-28

This post details how to efficiently develop Java code within the Neovim editor. The author shares their positive experience using Neovim for Java at work, recommending JDTLS as the LSP server and either nvim-java or nvim-jdtls as Neovim plugins. The article thoroughly explains JDTLS configuration, including debugging and testing setups, and provides a personal configuration example featuring codelens and debugger functionality. Even if you're not a Neovim devotee, you can still learn valuable Java development techniques.

(ptrtojoel.dev)

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Wide Events: A Practitioner's Guide to Enhanced Observability

2024-12-24

This article introduces 'Wide Events,' an observability approach that enhances system monitoring and debugging by emitting a single event containing all collectable information for each unit of work. The author details how to choose appropriate tools (like Honeycomb), add rich attributes (including service metadata, instance info, build info, HTTP request/response details, user/customer info, rate limits, caching info, localization info, uptime, metrics, async request summaries, sampling info, and timing info), and handle errors and feature flags. Common concerns like excessive data volume, redundant data, and the relationship with existing metrics are addressed. The article highlights the significant practical value of this approach, showcasing how it simplifies debugging and reveals unexpected system behaviors.

(jeremymorrell.dev)

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Mastodon Web App Requires JavaScript

2025-01-01

Eric Hellman's tilde.zone post reveals a long-term project update: using the Mastodon web application requires enabling JavaScript, or alternatively, using a native Mastodon app. This suggests work on improving the web client or user experience for Mastodon.

(tilde.zone)

Development Web App

Immersion Cooling Could Reshape Data Center Design

2025-01-01

Immersion Cooling Could Reshape Data Center Design

Sandia National Laboratories is testing a novel cooling system that fully submerges computer servers in a non-conductive liquid coolant. This captures 100% of waste heat, resulting in a 70% reduction in energy consumption and significantly less water usage. The technology promises to revolutionize data center design, addressing the growing power and water demands of high-performance computing. Partnering with Submer Technologies, Sandia is conducting comprehensive tests, with a case study expected this fall.

(www.sandia.gov)

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Panel Graphic Walker: Interactive Data Exploration with HoloViz Panel

2024-12-30

Panel Graphic Walker: Interactive Data Exploration with HoloViz Panel

Panel Graphic Walker is a Python library that integrates the power of Graphic Walker into HoloViz Panel for interactive data exploration within Jupyter Notebooks and Panel applications. It offers a Tableau-like interface, allowing users to quickly create dynamic visualizations and tables with minimal code. It supports various data backends and renderers, and can handle large datasets using server-side computation. The project is in its early stages; pinning a specific version is recommended.

(github.com)

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Programmer Tackles Advent of Code 2024 on OS/2 Warp 4 with Java 1.0.1

2024-12-26

A programmer took on the Advent of Code 2024 challenge using Java 1.0.1 on a 1996 IBM OS/2 Warp 4 system. This wasn't just a coding challenge; it was a retro journey pushing the limits of outdated hardware and software. The article details the challenges encountered, including bugs in Java 1.0.1, performance bottlenecks, and limitations of the old system, and how these were overcome. This showcases not only coding prowess but also the charm of early computing technology and the programmer's perseverance.

(www.uninformativ.de)

Development

Disney Villain Songs Are Dying: Mufasa's 'Bye Bye' is Exhibit A

2025-01-02

Disney Villain Songs Are Dying: Mufasa's 'Bye Bye' is Exhibit A

Disney animation once thrived on memorable villain songs, but recent years have seen a decline in quality. The article uses "Bye Bye," a song from the Mufasa: The Lion King sequel, as a prime example. It argues the song lacks creativity and impact, failing to establish the villain Kiros's personality or threat level. Compared to classic Disney villain songs, "Bye Bye" falls woefully short. The author suggests that great villain songs showcase the villain's wickedness and advance the plot, but "Bye Bye" does neither. The article concludes with a plea for Disney to revitalize its approach to villain songs and return to its former glory.

(www.polygon.com)

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Hackers Reveal Vulnerability in Europe's Remotely Controlled Power Grid

2024-12-29

Hackers Reveal Vulnerability in Europe's Remotely Controlled Power Grid

A significant portion of Europe's renewable energy production is remotely controlled via longwave radio. While designed to stabilize the grid, this system, using unencrypted and unauthenticated Versacom and Semagyr protocols, is vulnerable to abuse. Researchers analyzed these protocols and demonstrated how vulnerabilities could be exploited to remotely control streetlights, power plants, and potentially cause large-scale blackouts. They also showcased the possibility of using this vulnerability to create a city-wide light art installation.

(media.ccc.de)

Tech grid security remote control

XiangShan: An Open-Source High-Performance RISC-V Processor

2025-01-02

XiangShan: An Open-Source High-Performance RISC-V Processor

XiangShan is an open-source, high-performance RISC-V processor project jointly developed by the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Peng Cheng Laboratory. Multiple stable versions have been released, along with comprehensive documentation, tutorials, and micro-architecture overviews. The latest Kunminghu version is under development and supports various simulation tools and IDEs. XiangShan aims to advance RISC-V processor technology, employing an agile development methodology, and its work has been published in peer-reviewed papers, receiving international recognition.

(github.com)

Hardware Open-Source Processor

Programming Lewis Carroll's Memoria Technica

2024-12-27

This article explores Lewis Carroll's *Memoria Technica*, a cipher he devised to aid in remembering numbers. The cipher maps consonants to digits, ignoring vowels and punctuation. The article describes the cipher's mechanics, presents online tools for encoding and decoding, and discusses its potential use in steganography. The authors detail their TypeScript implementation, highlighting optimizations for efficiency. Examples illustrate encoding and decoding, and the article analyzes the cipher's strengths and weaknesses as a steganographic technique, including a potential vulnerability related to letter and digit frequency discrepancies.

(ztoz.blog)

Development Steganography

Bypassing Disk Encryption with Automatic TPM2 Unlock: A Critical Vulnerability

2025-01-17

This article exposes a critical vulnerability in systems using TPM2 for automatic disk encryption unlocking. An attacker with brief physical access can decrypt the disk without altering the TPM's state. The vulnerability stems from most setups failing to verify the LUKS identity of the decrypted partition. The attacker can use the initrd image in the unencrypted boot partition to create a fake LUKS partition with a known key, tricking the system into executing a malicious init program, thereby obtaining the original disk key. Solutions include using a TPM PIN or properly verifying the LUKS identity within the initrd.

(oddlama.org)

Tech Disk Encryption

US Government's Massive Nuclear Power Procurement: A Historic Deal

2025-01-06

US Government's Massive Nuclear Power Procurement: A Historic Deal

The US General Services Administration (GSA) has awarded Constellation, operator of the largest fleet of commercial nuclear plants in the US, over $1 billion in contracts to supply power to 13 government agencies for 10 years. The largest contract, worth $840 million, will provide over 1 million megawatt-hours annually, partly fueled by Constellation's investments to increase output at its existing plants. This 'historic procurement' secures a reliable, cost-competitive energy supply, advancing a carbon-free future and protecting taxpayers from price hikes. It's the GSA's largest energy purchase ever and a significant climate-focused agreement incorporating existing nuclear reactors.

(www.nucnet.org)

Tech Nuclear Power Government Procurement Carbon Neutrality

Millions of Windows 10 PCs Face Security Disaster as Microsoft Ends Support

2025-01-06

Millions of Windows 10 PCs Face Security Disaster as Microsoft Ends Support

Millions of Windows 10 users face a looming security crisis as Microsoft plans to end support for the OS on October 14, 2025. With millions of devices still running Windows 10, especially in Germany, the lack of security updates leaves them vulnerable to cyberattacks. Security experts urge immediate action: upgrade to Windows 11, switch to an alternative OS, or face significant risks like ransomware and data breaches. Businesses face additional compliance and productivity concerns. The situation is more critical than the Windows 7 end-of-life, highlighting the urgent need for users and businesses to act now.

(betanews.com)

Tech Security Risk OS Upgrade

Building the World's Best Product Engineering Org: Six Key Elements

2025-01-12

This article is a transcript of James Shore's keynote presentation at the Regional Scrum Gathering Tokyo conference, exploring how to build a world-class product engineering organization. He proposes six key elements: People, Internal Quality, Lovability, Visibility, Agility, and Profitability. The article details how to achieve these goals through improved hiring strategies, enhanced code quality, fast feedback loops, agile methodologies, and collaboration with other departments, emphasizing the importance of continuous improvement. Through case studies and practical experience, the author shares valuable insights, providing guidance for building efficient and excellent product engineering teams.

(www.jamesshore.com)

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38C3: Illegal Instructions - Chaos Communication Congress Explores Tech and Society

2024-12-29

The 38th Chaos Communication Congress (38C3), themed "Illegal Instructions," will take place in Hamburg from December 27th to 30th, 2024. This four-day conference, organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC), will feature talks and workshops on technology, society, and utopia. Topics range from hardware hacking and security to ethical and political discussions surrounding technological advancements. From liberating Wi-Fi on ESP32 to breaking Apple's new iPhone remote control feature and examining the EU's digital identity systems, 38C3 promises a diverse program sparking debate about technological ethics and societal responsibility.

(media.ccc.de)

Tech Society

OpenAI: The Next Visa? Challenges and Risks on the Path to Monopoly

2024-12-26

OpenAI: The Next Visa? Challenges and Risks on the Path to Monopoly

The article compares OpenAI to Visa, arguing its success isn't due to superior technology but to erecting barriers through exclusive deals, government contracts, and licensing restrictions to limit competition. OpenAI attempts to build these barriers by lobbying for government regulation, restricting investors from funding competitors, and securing long-term exclusive contracts with large clients. However, this strategy faces political and competitive headwinds. Similar to Visa's past challenges, the increasing ubiquity of LLM technology threatens the core API business. Competition from Elon Musk and potential relaxation of government regulation further complicate OpenAI's efforts to maintain its dominance. Ultimately, OpenAI's future hinges on whether it can build sufficiently high barriers to entry, both technologically and legally, to avoid repeating Visa's antitrust lawsuit.

(sherwood.news)

AI monopoly

Programmer Builds Native Flame Graph Viewer: Conquering Xlib and Performance Bottlenecks

2024-12-25

A Rust programmer, needing to debug Rust Analyzer, embarked on building a native flame graph viewer. Initial attempts using various GUI toolkits proved too memory-intensive. Instead, he cleverly used Xlib, overcoming challenges like scrolling performance, rendering thousands of buttons, and handling mouse interactions. The result: a lightweight, efficient flame graph viewer. This project showcases excellent programming skills and a deep understanding of performance optimization, offering valuable lessons for other developers.

(laladrik.xyz)

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Charting the Universe: Is the Cosmos Itself a Black Hole?

2024-12-24

Charting the Universe: Is the Cosmos Itself a Black Hole?

Two physicists have created a chart encompassing every known object in the universe's history, plotted by mass and size. The chart reveals that all objects reside within a triangle bounded by gravitational and Compton limits. Black holes lie on the gravitational limit, while fundamental particles are on the Compton limit. Intriguingly, the universe itself also sits on the gravitational limit, raising the question: is our universe a black hole? The chart also illustrates the universe's evolution, from the formation of fundamental particles after the Big Bang to the emergence of stars and galaxies, and points towards the exploration of unknowns like dark matter.

(www.economist.com)

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SimplexDocsPlaygroundRequest API: Code Execution Preview

2025-01-15

The SimplexDocsPlaygroundRequest API provides code execution and preview functionality. Users submit code to the server via this API, which executes the code and returns the results, along with a preview of the execution process. This is useful for developers debugging code, testing APIs, and rapidly prototyping. The API is currently loading; results will be available after code execution.

(www.simplex.sh)

Development Code Execution Preview

2024 Box Office Top 10: Animation Reigns Supreme, Superhero Fatigue Sets In

2024-12-30

2024 Box Office Top 10: Animation Reigns Supreme, Superhero Fatigue Sets In

The 2024 box office was a rollercoaster, a sluggish first half due to strikes giving way to a blockbuster-fueled second half. Animation dominated, with Pixar's Inside Out 2 becoming the highest-grossing animated film of all time at $1.698 billion, outperforming many superhero films and claiming the year's top spot. Disney's Moana 2 also scored big, nearing $800 million. Superhero movies, meanwhile, underperformed except for Deadpool & Wolverine ($1.33 billion), highlighting the genre's waning box office dominance. Other hits included sequels like Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Kung Fu Panda 4, and the Wicked adaptation, proving classic IPs and quality content still resonate.

(www.slashfilm.com)

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Mullvad VPN 2024 Year in Review: Enhanced Security and Privacy

2024-12-25

Mullvad VPN 2024 Year in Review: Enhanced Security and Privacy

Mullvad VPN's 2024 review highlights significant advancements in user privacy and security. Key achievements include migrating the support email inbox to self-hosted hardware, launching DAITA technology for enhanced traffic obfuscation, adding multi-hop connections and ShadowSocks support across all platforms, and completing multiple security audits of both VPN servers and apps. Additionally, Mullvad ran traditional outdoor advertising campaigns to raise awareness of mass surveillance.

(mullvad.net)

Tech

Java for Small Programs: Scripts and Notebooks

2024-12-18

This article explores the surprising effectiveness of Java for small programs, particularly scripting and exploratory programming. The author details how Java's features, like implicit classes, records, and enums, simplify code, highlighting the ease of running Java scripts without compilation (using JEP 330 and JEP 458). Managing external dependencies with JBang is also discussed. The article further delves into using Java within Jupyter Notebooks, acknowledging current limitations while expressing hope for future improvements in the ecosystem. The author's experience automating tedious tasks showcases Java's strength over alternatives like bash scripting and Python, emphasizing the advantages of static typing and robust tool support.

(horstmann.com)

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NASA JPL Horizons: A Powerful Tool for Exploring the Solar System

2025-01-03

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Horizons system is a powerful online service providing precise orbital data and ephemerides for solar system objects. It offers multiple access methods including a web interface, command-line interface, email, and an API. Users can query information on asteroids, comets, planets, satellites, and more, and perform orbital calculations and visualizations. Horizons is a powerful tool for astronomers, aerospace engineers, and space enthusiasts exploring the mysteries of our solar system.

(ssd.jpl.nasa.gov)

Tech Solar System Data

Phugoid Oscillation: A Pilot's Nightmare

2024-12-27

A phugoid is an aircraft motion characterized by a repetitive cycle of climbing and descending, accompanied by changes in airspeed. Caused by variations in pitch and a nearly constant angle of attack, it can be triggered by factors like elevator input or control surface malfunctions. While sometimes a manageable nuisance, uncontrolled phugoids have been implicated in numerous aviation accidents, including the devastating Japan Airlines Flight 123 crash. Understanding phugoid dynamics is crucial for flight safety.

(en.wikipedia.org)

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