Graph Neural Networks for Time Series Forecasting: Beyond Traditional Approaches

2025-06-17
Graph Neural Networks for Time Series Forecasting: Beyond Traditional Approaches

This blog post presents a novel approach to time series forecasting using graph neural networks. Unlike traditional methods that focus solely on individual time series, this approach leverages the interconnectedness of data within a graph structure (e.g., from a relational database). By representing time series as nodes in a graph, and employing techniques like graph transformers, the model captures relationships between different series, leading to more accurate predictions. The post also compares regression-based and generative forecasting methods, demonstrating the generative approach's superior ability to capture high-frequency details and handle rare events.

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Heroku's .NET Support Goes GA: A Developer's Dream

2025-04-04
Heroku's .NET Support Goes GA: A Developer's Dream

Heroku has officially launched general availability (GA) support for .NET, ending its beta testing phase. This means .NET developers can now leverage Heroku's robust infrastructure and support services in production environments. Heroku automates the build and deployment of .NET applications, supporting languages like C#, F#, and Visual Basic, and seamlessly integrates with other Heroku features such as Pipelines, CI, and Review Apps for a streamlined development and deployment workflow. Whether you're new to .NET or a seasoned developer, Heroku offers a smooth deployment experience.

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The Nucleus: A Metabolic Compartment Rewriting Cell Fate

2025-03-23
The Nucleus: A Metabolic Compartment Rewriting Cell Fate

A groundbreaking study reveals the cell nucleus as a unique metabolic compartment, distinct from other cellular regions, playing a pivotal role in gene expression and cell fate. Researchers discovered that metabolic enzymes within the nucleus dynamically regulate epigenetic marks, such as histone acetylation, which change based on nutrient availability. In early embryonic development, nuclear metabolic activity is crucial for cell differentiation, while metabolites like alpha-ketoglutarate are key players in both stem cell differentiation and cancer suppression. This discovery opens exciting avenues for cancer therapy, suggesting the possibility of manipulating cellular metabolism to alter cell fate and treat diseases stemming from abnormal cell differentiation.

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Bridgerton and the Surprisingly Robust History of Regency-Era Sex Ed

2025-01-21
Bridgerton and the Surprisingly Robust History of Regency-Era Sex Ed

A scene in Netflix's Bridgerton season 3 sparked a discussion about female sex education in the 19th century. Historian and romance novelist Alexandra Vasti investigated, finding that while records of upper-class women's sex ed are scarce, popular novels, sex manuals like Aristotle's Masterpiece and Every Woman's Book, and sex worker memoirs reveal a surprising level of sexual knowledge among women. Vasti's novel, Ne'er Duke Well, features a fictional library secretly supplying women with sex education texts, highlighting the fight for access to sexual information. This contrasts sharply with current restrictions on sex education in some US states, illustrating the ongoing struggle for control over women's sexual knowledge, then and now.

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arXivLabs: Experimental Projects with Community Collaborators

2025-02-12
arXivLabs: Experimental Projects with Community Collaborators

arXivLabs is a framework enabling collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on the website. Individuals and organizations involved embrace arXiv's values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only partners with those who share them. Have an idea to enhance the arXiv community? Learn more about arXivLabs.

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Development

Giant Object Discovered at the Edge of Our Solar System: Challenging Planet Nine?

2025-05-28
Giant Object Discovered at the Edge of Our Solar System: Challenging Planet Nine?

A team of scientists from Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study has discovered a trans-Neptunian object (TNO) named 2017 OF201 using advanced computational methods. This extremely distant object, with an orbital period of approximately 25,000 years, is potentially large enough to be classified as a dwarf planet. Its unusual orbit challenges the existing hypothesis of a 'Planet Nine' and suggests that the region beyond Neptune's orbit is not empty. The discovery highlights the power of open science, relying on publicly available archival data.

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Michael Larabel: The Linux Hardware Guru Behind Phoronix

2025-03-06

Michael Larabel, founder and principal author of Phoronix.com (est. 2004), has dedicated his career to enhancing the Linux hardware experience. He's penned over 20,000 articles on Linux hardware support, performance, graphics drivers, and more. Larabel is also the lead developer of the widely-used benchmarking software Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org.

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Rethinking Bug Trackers: A Separation of Concerns

2025-03-10

After years of using various bug trackers, the author identifies a fundamental flaw in their data representation, leading to recurring frustrations. Three key issues are highlighted: a unified 'Fix Version' field conflating facts and plans; a two-tiered Status and Resolution system blurring the lines between code reality and future intentions; and the conflation of bug lists with to-do lists, creating awkwardness for non-bug tasks. The author proposes a 'separation of concerns' principle, suggesting a split into 'facts' and 'plans' tables. The facts table records objective bug information (existence, version, severity), while the plans table tracks intentions, timelines, and subjective priorities. This separation streamlines bug tracking, better accommodates different project types, and even allows for the complete omission of the plans table for projects focused solely on bug resolution.

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German Firm TNG Unveils DeepSeek-TNG R1T2 Chimera: A Faster, More Efficient Open-Source LLM

2025-07-05
German Firm TNG Unveils DeepSeek-TNG R1T2 Chimera: A Faster, More Efficient Open-Source LLM

TNG Technology Consulting GmbH, a German firm, has released DeepSeek-TNG R1T2 Chimera, a new large language model (LLM) built upon the open-source DeepSeek-R1-0528. Utilizing their innovative Assembly-of-Experts (AoE) method, R1T2 boasts significant improvements in speed and efficiency, achieving over 200% faster inference than R1-0528 while retaining over 90% of its reasoning capabilities. The model's concise outputs translate to lower compute costs. Released under the permissive MIT license and available on Hugging Face, R1T2 offers a cost-effective and efficient AI solution for enterprises and researchers.

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AI

LEGO Island Web Port: A Classic Returns

2025-06-23
LEGO Island Web Port: A Classic Returns

A year-long effort by countless dedicated contributors has brought LEGO Island, the classic 1997 PC game, to the web! This web port, powered by Emscripten, allows modern browsers to play this nostalgic title. Built upon the foundation of a previous decompilation project, this adaptation strives to make this piece of gaming history accessible to everyone. While still under development and containing potential bugs, your feedback is welcome as we work to polish this cherished classic.

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Game game port

Kuvasz-streamer: High-Performance PostgreSQL CDC

2025-01-03

Kuvasz-streamer is an open-source change data capture (CDC) project exclusively for PostgreSQL. Tightly integrated with PostgreSQL Logical Replication, it delivers high-performance, low-latency replication. Features include a lightweight design (Go, no dependencies), high throughput (10K TPS, <1s latency), automated publication and slot management, flexible table propagation models (clone, history, append-only), and support for declarative and interactive modes. Use cases span data consolidation, database upgrades, microservice database consolidation, multi-tenant database consolidation, and database performance optimization.

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Chess324: A Random Chess Variant Designed to Reduce Draws

2025-04-01

Chess324, also known as Kaufman Random Chess, is a new chess variant where all pieces except kings, rooks, and pawns are randomly placed on the first and last ranks. This aims to reduce the frequency of drawn games. The core rules of chess remain, but the randomized setup significantly increases complexity and strategic depth. Existing chess software can easily support Chess324 with minimal changes, making it accessible to a wide range of players.

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Argentine Rodents Thrive in Dubai Oasis

2024-12-19
Argentine Rodents Thrive in Dubai Oasis

A surprising new population of Patagonian mara, rabbit-like rodents from Argentina, has established itself in the Al Qudra Lakes oasis outside Dubai. These long-legged, large-eared animals now roam the desert landscape, typically home to gazelles. Their arrival remains a mystery, possibly stemming from escaped pets of the wealthy. Despite the harsh desert climate, the oasis provides a suitable habitat, and the lack of natural predators has allowed the mara to flourish and reproduce for several years. The thriving population suggests successful adaptation and breeding in their unexpected environment.

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2600-Year-Old Phoenician Shipwreck Raised from the Sea

2025-01-19
2600-Year-Old Phoenician Shipwreck Raised from the Sea

Off the coast of southeastern Spain, divers have successfully salvaged the Mazarrón II, a 2,600-year-old Phoenician shipwreck. Initially discovered in 1994, the 27-foot-long vessel, laden with lead ingots, was painstakingly raised piece-by-piece after years of planning. Threatened by coastal erosion and changing sea currents, its recovery ensures the preservation of this remarkably intact wreck, offering invaluable insights into Phoenician shipbuilding and culture.

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Archaeology Shipwreck Phoenician

Critique of Graham's Lisp Coding Style

2025-07-13

This review analyzes the maintainability and portability of Graham's Lisp code, finding it concise with short, well-motivated function definitions. However, it criticizes his overly brief and cryptic naming conventions, excessive use of nested if statements, avoidance of loop constructs, and preference for recursion over iteration, even at the risk of stack overflows. These stylistic choices deviate from common Lisp practices and can negatively impact code readability.

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Build Your Own Unsettling Vetinari Clock: A DIY Hack

2025-09-05

Inspired by Lord Vetinari's unsettlingly erratic clock from the Discworld series, a maker built a DIY clock with an irregularly ticking second hand. The project uses an ATtiny25 or PIC12F683 microcontroller and features open-source hardware and software designs. Clever firmware controls the clock, creating a seemingly random movement pattern over 32 seconds while maintaining accurate timekeeping. This fun project showcases embedded systems programming and provides complete hardware and software resources for replication and modification.

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Hardware

ck: Semantic Code Search Redefined

2025-09-07
ck: Semantic Code Search Redefined

ck is a powerful code search tool that goes beyond traditional grep by understanding the semantics of code. Describe what you're looking for in natural language (e.g., "error handling"), and ck will find relevant code, including try/catch blocks, error returns, and exception handling, even if those exact words aren't present. It offers keyword-based, semantic-based, and hybrid search modes, producing structured JSON output ideal for code analysis, documentation generation, and automated refactoring. Maintaining grep's familiar command-line interface and behavior while adding semantic intelligence, ck is perfect for developers, AI agents, and teams.

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LinHT: Amateur Radio's Software Defined Transceiver Revolution

2025-09-14

LinHT, an open-source hardware software-defined transceiver, successfully booted for the first time! Praised by industry veteran Bruce Perens as the most important hardware project in amateur radio today, LinHT achieved a 5dBm output power in the 420-450MHz UHF band despite initial skepticism. The project owes its success to Vlastimil OK5VAS and Andreas OE3ANC, and the PCB design is publicly available. Prototype production cost approximately $190 per unit (based on a 5-unit run). LinHT signals a revolution in amateur radio, driven by software-defined transceivers.

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WebExtension.net Launches Curated Chrome Extension Collections

2024-12-23
WebExtension.net Launches Curated Chrome Extension Collections

WebExtension.net has introduced curated collections of Chrome extensions, offering users a streamlined way to discover and utilize high-quality extensions. The feature allows users to create and share their own curated lists of extensions. Existing collections cover various fields, including language learning, design tools, and front-end development, showcasing essential tools for designers and helpful extensions for front-end developers. This significantly improves user efficiency and workflow.

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GOG Joins Forces to Preserve Gaming History

2025-01-15
GOG Joins Forces to Preserve Gaming History

GOG announced its joining of the European Federation of Game Archives, Museums and Preservation Projects (EFGAMP), underscoring its commitment to game preservation. GOG has a long-standing dedication to preserving classic games, with its GOG Preservation Program ensuring compatibility for over 100 titles. This collaboration will foster partnerships with museums and international organizations to further advance the preservation of gaming heritage.

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The Complexity Trap in Software Development: Why We Build 'Code Pyramids'

2025-09-16
The Complexity Trap in Software Development: Why We Build 'Code Pyramids'

This article explores the pervasive issue of complexity in software development. Using the metaphor of pyramids, the author likens complex software systems to impressive but ultimately empty structures, expensive to maintain and lacking substance. From a marketing perspective, complexity is often presented as a high-status symbol, but ultimately simplicity and efficiency reign supreme. The article analyzes various factors contributing to complexity, including the allure of creativity, legacy systems, team dynamics, and the pressure to innovate. It urges developers to strike a balance between simplicity and practicality, avoiding over-engineering and building truly valuable software.

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Migrating Apple Account Purchases: A Comprehensive Guide

2025-02-12

This guide details how to migrate apps, music, and other purchased content from a secondary Apple Account to a primary one. Several prerequisites must be met, including: both accounts must be distinct, have two-factor authentication enabled, be set to the same region, and the secondary account must have a zero balance with no outstanding rentals or pre-orders. The migration process occurs within your iPhone or iPad settings. Afterwards, the secondary account can no longer be used for media and purchases. The guide also lists various reasons why the migration might fail, such as incompatible account types or unusual account status, making it a very helpful resource.

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Litestar: An Underrated Python Web Framework

2025-08-07

Litestar is a lightweight, async-first Python web framework that scales exceptionally well even in large projects. Unlike popular frameworks like FastAPI, Litestar prioritizes code scalability, avoiding issues like circular imports and simplifying multi-file application development through its unique route decorator mechanism. Furthermore, its excellent integration with Pydantic, SQLAlchemy, and the Advanced Alchemy library significantly boosts developer productivity, especially when handling database interactions. Its automatic DTO and repository generation features are incredibly convenient. In short, Litestar is a noteworthy Python web framework, particularly well-suited for developers who value maintainable and scalable code.

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Autoscaling Your Kubernetes Apps with Dash0: Beyond CPU and Memory

2025-01-11
Autoscaling Your Kubernetes Apps with Dash0: Beyond CPU and Memory

This blog post demonstrates how to leverage Dash0 for automated scaling of Kubernetes applications. While Kubernetes simplifies scaling, manual replica adjustments are inefficient. Dash0 automates this process by monitoring application telemetry. The post explores three Kubernetes autoscaling types: Horizontal Pod Autoscaling, Vertical Pod Autoscaling, and Cluster Autoscaling, focusing on Horizontal Pod Autoscaling. It explains its mechanics and how to utilize custom metrics (like latency) instead of solely relying on CPU and memory utilization for optimal scaling strategies. Dash0 integrates with the Prometheus Adapter, enabling PromQL queries against Dash0 data to drive HPA, resulting in automated scaling based on application performance and improved user experience.

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GitHub Copilot: Your AI Pair Programmer

2024-12-18
GitHub Copilot: Your AI Pair Programmer

GitHub Copilot is an AI-powered pair programmer that provides real-time code suggestions based on your code and natural language prompts. It supports multiple programming languages and IDEs, offering free and paid plans to suit various needs. Copilot boasts powerful debugging and security vulnerability fixing capabilities, along with multi-file editing and cross-platform support. While trained on public code repositories, it doesn't copy-paste code but generates suggestions probabilistically, offering an optional code referencing filter to mitigate copyright concerns.

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Systemd to Boot Directly from HTTP-Downloaded Disk Images

2025-02-11

Systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering is adding the ability to boot directly from a disk image downloaded via HTTP within the initial RAM disk (initrd) during the Linux boot process. Building on recent systemd additions, this allows downloading the root disk image via HTTP, attaching it to a loopback device, and mounting it. The goal is to allow pointing UEFI to a URL to load the Unified Kernel Image (UKI) and boot the root filesystem. The immediate use case is simplifying physical device testing by easily booting new root filesystems over HTTP on each boot. The work-in-progress pull request includes the initial code for this; future extensions may include NVMe-over-TCP support.

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Obscura: A Next-Gen VPN Using 2-Party Relays and QUIC

2025-02-11
Obscura: A Next-Gen VPN Using 2-Party Relays and QUIC

Existing consumer VPNs suffer from significant trust and privacy issues, as VPN providers act as a man-in-the-middle, seeing both user personal info and browsing history. Obscura VPN solves this by using a 2-party relay architecture and a QUIC-based VPN protocol. The 2-party relay separates "who you are" from "what you do," ensuring that even if one relay is compromised, not all user information is leaked. QUIC disguises VPN traffic as HTTP/3 traffic, bypassing network filters and avoiding the performance degradation of TCP over TCP. Obscura partners with Mullvad as its exit node and open-sources its app's entire source code, aiming for an open and private internet.

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Tech

Deep Dive into the SQLite Database File Format

2025-09-07

This document details the on-disk database file format used by all SQLite releases since version 3.0.0. SQLite databases typically reside in a single file, the "main database file," containing the database state. Additional files, rollback journals or WAL files, aid in recovery to a consistent state. This document focuses on the main database file, covering page size and types, B-tree pages, freelists, and record format. Rollback journals and WAL file formats are also briefly described.

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Development

LLM-powered AI Agents Fail to Meet Expectations in CRM Tests

2025-06-16
LLM-powered AI Agents Fail to Meet Expectations in CRM Tests

A new benchmark reveals that Large Language Model (LLM)-based AI agents underperform on standard CRM tests, particularly regarding confidentiality. Salesforce research shows a 58% success rate for single-step tasks, plummeting to 35% for multi-step tasks. Critically, these agents demonstrate poor awareness of confidential information, negatively impacting performance. The study highlights limitations in existing benchmarks and reveals a significant gap between current LLM capabilities and real-world enterprise needs, raising concerns for developers and businesses relying on AI agents for efficiency gains.

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AI

Threads of God: Sardinia's Rarest Pasta

2024-12-24
Threads of God: Sardinia's Rarest Pasta

Su filindeu, literally "Threads of God," is arguably the world's rarest pasta. Made only twice a year by three women in Sardinia, this intricate pasta requires a 20-mile pilgrimage for devotees to partake in the biannual Feast of San Francesco. The simple ingredients—semolina, water, and salt—belied by an impossibly complex creation process that has baffled even Barilla engineers and celebrity chef Jamie Oliver. The resulting delicate strands, served in a mutton broth with pecorino cheese, represent more than just a culinary delicacy; they are a testament to a 200-year-old tradition and a unique cultural symbol of Sardinia.

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