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LoFi's Fight for Survival Against the AI Tide

2025-02-04
LoFi's Fight for Survival Against the AI Tide

LoFi hip hop, a genre that organically exploded online in the mid-2010s, is facing a battle for survival against the onslaught of AI-generated music and cheap royalty-free tracks. Initially, LoFi offered unprecedented opportunities for bedroom musicians and independent artists. However, its commercialization has led platforms like Spotify to replace real artists with AI-generated and royalty-free music, diluting the royalty pool. Yet, Los Angeles-based musician Wish on the Beat has carved a new path, transforming her LoFi beats into ambient tracks, demonstrating the enduring value of authentic artistry. This highlights the importance of supporting independent musicians and resisting the tide of low-quality AI-generated music to preserve the diversity of the music ecosystem.

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(gamechops.substack.com)
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Blizzard Reverses Hardcore WoW Classic Death Policy After DDoS Attacks

2025-03-25
Blizzard Reverses Hardcore WoW Classic Death Policy After DDoS Attacks

Streamer Sodapoppin's World of Warcraft Classic Hardcore raid was wiped out by a DDoS attack. Blizzard responded by resurrecting characters killed during the attack, a departure from the game's usual permadeath policy. Blizzard stated that the DDoS attack was a malicious third-party action, warranting a different response than typical in-game deaths. While the overall Hardcore mode rules remain unchanged, deaths specifically caused by external attacks like this will be handled differently.

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(arstechnica.com)
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Technical Debt vs. Technical Assets: A Wise Investment Strategy

2024-12-21
Technical Debt vs. Technical Assets: A Wise Investment Strategy

This article explores the difference between technical debt and technical assets. Technical debt, similar to financial debt, represents code issues that must be addressed, such as bugs and poor code readability, hindering development efficiency. Technical assets, on the other hand, are proactive investments in known problems, like building high-quality SDKs, reducing future maintenance costs and increasing development freedom. The article advises prioritizing the repayment of technical debt before investing in technical assets, leveraging proven processes and technologies to avoid accumulating technical debt and ultimately achieving higher development efficiency and product quality.

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(liblab.com)
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Chipmakers Slow Expansions in Japan and Malaysia Amid Weak Demand and Tariff Uncertainty

2025-03-29
Chipmakers Slow Expansions in Japan and Malaysia Amid Weak Demand and Tariff Uncertainty

Leading chipmakers and packagers, including TSMC and Intel, are slowing their expansions in Japan and Malaysia due to sluggish demand for older chips and tariff uncertainties. Companies like ASE Technology and SPIL are also scaling back Malaysian expansion plans, adopting a 'wait-and-see' approach alongside numerous other chip suppliers.

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(asia.nikkei.com)
Tech chip industry investment slowdown global economy

eBPF Performance Boost: Unveiling the Trampoline Mechanism

2025-08-11

This blog post delves into the eBPF trampoline mechanism, a key performance optimization. With eBPF's increasing use in system monitoring and other areas, efficient program execution is critical. The trampoline avoids the overhead of exception handling in traditional kprobe methods by directly calling eBPF programs. The article details the trampoline's inner workings, covering advanced use cases like handling function entry and exit points, multi-argument passing, and implementation optimizations on ARM64.

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(bootlin.com)
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UK Shifts AI Regulation: Risk Mitigation Trumps Mandatory Testing

2025-02-20
UK Shifts AI Regulation: Risk Mitigation Trumps Mandatory Testing

The UK government has quietly shifted its approach to AI legislation, dropping plans to force AI companies to provide pre-release access to the AI Safety Institute (AISI) for testing. This move, met with industry resistance, has raised concerns. Michael Birtwistle, associate director at the AISI, warned that it risks leaving various societal harms unaddressed, such as algorithmic bias. The shift comes amid escalating trade tensions with the US, with the UK's Technology Secretary, Peter Kyle, largely focusing on Ukraine and tariffs in media appearances, offering little comment on the AI policy change.

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(www.politico.eu)
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Massive Jazz Archive Launches at UNT Music Library

2025-06-11

Thanks to a grant from The Recording Academy’s GRAMMY Museum Grants Program, the UNT Music Library has launched a massive collection of jazz history: the Tim Owens Jazz and Broadcast Collection. This digitized archive boasts over 150 hours of interviews and performance masters from NPR's jazz programs, including interviews by Owens from the Peabody Award-winning *Jazz Profiles*. This adds significantly to UNT's contribution to global music research and preservation.

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(library.unt.edu)
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Pushing the Limits of Linux Pipes: From 3.5GiB/s to 62.5GiB/s

2025-06-22
Pushing the Limits of Linux Pipes: From 3.5GiB/s to 62.5GiB/s

This post explores the implementation of Unix pipes in Linux by iteratively optimizing a test program that writes and reads data through a pipe. Starting with a simple program achieving around 3.5GiB/s throughput, the author improves its performance twentyfold through several optimization stages. Key improvements include utilizing `vmsplice` and `splice` system calls to eliminate data copying, leveraging huge pages to reduce paging overhead, and employing busy-looping to minimize synchronization costs. The journey is detailed with code examples and performance analysis using Linux's `perf` tool.

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(mazzo.li)
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Recreating Apple's WWDC 2025 Liquid Glass Effect with CSS, SVG, and Physics

2025-09-09
Recreating Apple's WWDC 2025 Liquid Glass Effect with CSS, SVG, and Physics

This article delves into recreating the stunning Liquid Glass UI effect showcased at Apple's WWDC 2025. It uses CSS, SVG displacement maps, and physics-based refraction calculations to achieve a convincing approximation. The author explains the principles of refraction, detailing how light bends when passing through different materials and how mathematical functions describe the glass surface shape. SVG displacement maps are then employed to simulate the refraction effect. The article culminates in creating UI components, such as magnifying glasses, search boxes, switches, and sliders, with the Liquid Glass effect. Note that optimal performance is currently seen in Chrome due to browser compatibility with SVG filters as backdrop-filter.

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(kube.io)
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NOAA Releases Chilling Audio of Titan Sub Implosion

2025-02-13
NOAA Releases Chilling Audio of Titan Sub Implosion

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released an audio recording capturing the implosion of the Titan submersible, which tragically killed five people during a Titanic exploration mission in June 2023. The recording reveals a distinct sound believed to be the catastrophic failure of the vessel. Investigations into the disaster have uncovered significant design and operational flaws, including prior incidents highlighting safety concerns ignored by OceanGate. The audio adds another layer to the ongoing investigation and underscores the risks involved in deep-sea exploration.

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(jalopnik.com)
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Manx: An Open Source Treasure Trove of Vintage Computer Manuals

2024-12-23

Manx is an open-source project dedicated to cataloging and preserving manuals for older computers. It currently boasts nearly 10,000 manuals from 61 websites, covering minicomputers, mainframes, and associated peripherals like terminals and printers. While many manuals are scanned images and not directly indexable by search engines, Manx adds metadata and information to compensate. Its search currently focuses on part numbers, titles, and keywords. For microcomputer manuals, Tiziano's 1000 BiT is a better resource.

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(manx-docs.org)
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Qualcomm Extends Android Software Updates to Eight Years

2025-02-25
Qualcomm Extends Android Software Updates to Eight Years

Qualcomm announced a partnership with Google to provide up to eight years of Android software and security updates for devices powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite and the next five generations of Snapdragon 8 and 7-series chips. This will enable OEMs to more easily provide longer-term updates for their devices, reducing costs and improving user experience. While ultimate update decisions rest with manufacturers, this initiative promotes longer device lifespans, starting with Snapdragon 8 Elite phones launching with Android 15.

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(9to5google.com)
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Frontend Framework Fatigue: Stop Rewriting Everything!

2025-03-20

A frontend engineer with 20+ years of experience rails against the frontend community's obsession with rewriting applications. He argues that constantly chasing new frameworks wastes valuable time and energy that should be focused on product development. Instead of constantly switching tools, he advocates for deep mastery of core web technologies for long-term success. The over-reliance on frameworks is also making it difficult for new developers to enter the field, hindering web innovation. He calls for a return to web fundamentals to avoid being swept away by the tide of framework churn.

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(polotek.net)
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Ransomware Decryption Without Paying: A Race Against Time

2025-03-14
Ransomware Decryption Without Paying: A Race Against Time

The author successfully helped a company recover its data from Akira ransomware without paying the ransom, and has open-sourced the full source code. The ransomware uses four nanosecond timestamps as seeds to generate encryption keys. By analyzing the ransomware's encryption algorithm and filesystem timestamps, the author devised a GPU-accelerated brute-force solution. This involved enumerating timestamp combinations, generating keys, and attempting to decrypt known plaintext. The process was challenging, requiring reverse engineering, CUDA programming optimization, and cloud computing resources. The author shares technical details and code, providing a valuable resource for data recovery in similar situations.

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(tinyhack.com)
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Cap: A Lightweight, Privacy-Preserving Open-Source CAPTCHA Alternative

2025-05-30
Cap: A Lightweight, Privacy-Preserving Open-Source CAPTCHA Alternative

Cap is a lightweight, modern, open-source CAPTCHA alternative using SHA-256 proof-of-work. It's fast, private, and incredibly easy to integrate. Composed of a JavaScript widget (@cap.js/widget) and a server-side component (@cap.js/server), Cap offers various extensions and supports multiple runtimes and programming languages. It even runs standalone in Docker. Compared to hCaptcha, Cap is 250x smaller and, using proof-of-work, requires no user tracking. Fully open-source, Cap offers modes like invisible and floating to suit various needs.

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(capjs.js.org)
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Legion Health: AI-Powered Mental Healthcare – Hiring Backend Engineers

2025-02-11
Legion Health: AI-Powered Mental Healthcare – Hiring Backend Engineers

YC-backed Legion Health is hiring top-tier backend engineers to build a next-gen, AI-driven mental healthcare system. This system uses AI to streamline operations like scheduling, billing, and patient interaction, not diagnostics. Engineers will architect and implement a highly scalable, event-driven backend using Node.js, Supabase, and AWS, handling real-time data and ensuring HIPAA compliance and security. This is a challenging and impactful opportunity to shape the future of AI in healthcare.

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(www.ycombinator.com)
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Building an LLM from Scratch: A Deep Dive into Dropout

2025-03-20
Building an LLM from Scratch: A Deep Dive into Dropout

This post documents the author's journey through the dropout chapter of Sebastian Raschka's "Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)". Dropout is a regularization technique that prevents overfitting by randomly ignoring some neurons or weights during training, thus spreading knowledge more broadly across the model. The author details the implementation of dropout and explores nuances of its application in LLMs, such as applying dropout to attention weights or value vectors, and rebalancing the resulting matrix. The post also touches upon practical dropout rate choices and the challenges of handling higher-order tensors for batch processing, setting the stage for further learning.

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(www.gilesthomas.com)
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OrioleDB: A High-Performance PostgreSQL Storage Extension

2025-07-19
OrioleDB: A High-Performance PostgreSQL Storage Extension

OrioleDB is a PostgreSQL storage extension that replaces the default Heap storage engine, dramatically improving performance. By redesigning core components like MVCC, page caching, and checkpoints, OrioleDB enhances throughput and predictability for transactional workloads while maintaining the familiar PostgreSQL user experience. Recent releases add support for non-B-tree index types, tablespaces, and fillfactor, along with query and index performance optimizations. Benchmarks using TPC-C and sysbench show significant throughput improvements over PostgreSQL's default Heap engine, with go-tpc tests demonstrating multiple times the tpmC.

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(www.orioledb.com)
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Native Windows Todo App in Pure C

2025-05-11
Native Windows Todo App in Pure C

A modern, native Windows todo application built with C and the Win32 API. It allows users to create, edit, delete, and mark todo items as complete, with persistent storage in AppData. Features include system tray integration and a native Windows look and feel. The application supports up to 100 todo items. The source code is open-source and includes build instructions.

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(github.com)
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Haiku January Development Report: Core Improvements and New Features

2025-02-14

The January Haiku development report covers numerous improvements, including a major refactor of the Tracker file manager adding context menus, cut/copy/paste functionality, and live menu updates. Applications saw additions such as new features in the icon editor, touchpad settings, and styled text editor. Driver support was expanded to include Alder Lake chipsets, AMD temperature monitoring, and the Wacom CTH-470. Kernel-level changes focused on extensive memory management, page mapping, and permission check optimizations, boosting system stability and security. Many bugs were fixed, and the build system and documentation were improved.

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(www.haiku-os.org)
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Sand Mafia: How Gangs Are Making Millions from Illegal Sand Mining in Latin America

2025-02-09
Sand Mafia: How Gangs Are Making Millions from Illegal Sand Mining in Latin America

Just outside Rio de Janeiro, a powerful gang, led by 'Zinho,' amassed a fortune through illegal sand mining. Using heavy machinery, they extracted vast quantities of sand, fueling a lucrative, unregulated real estate market and monopolizing services for illegally constructed buildings. This activity not only caused significant environmental damage, including flooding and habitat destruction, but also fostered corruption and violence, with links to political figures and even murder. Similar operations in Colombia and Mexico reveal a widespread problem, where illegal sand mining is a highly profitable criminal enterprise with devastating consequences for the environment and social stability.

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(insightcrime.org)
Misc illegal sand mining organized crime environmental damage

Linux Network Programming Guide: A Deep Dive into Socket Programming

2025-01-19
Linux Network Programming Guide: A Deep Dive into Socket Programming

This guide provides a comprehensive explanation of Linux network programming, focusing on socket programming. The author notes that many online resources lack clarity and sample codes often only cover the basics, hence the creation of this tutorial, offering clear guidelines and numerous examples. Topics covered include socket types, addressing, APIs (getprotobyname(), getservbyname(), getaddrinfo(), htonl(), htons(), ntohl(), ntohs(), socket(), setsockopt(), bind(), listen(), accept(), connect(), recv(), send(), close()), client-server models (simple HTTP client, TCP-based client-server, multithreaded TCP client-server, UDP-based client-server), advanced techniques (non-blocking sockets, synchronous I/O multiplexing with select() and poll(), broadcasting messages), and secure networking with libcurl and OpenSSL.

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(github.com)
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My Secret Stash: Why I'm Hesitant to Share My Dotfiles

2025-08-06
My Secret Stash: Why I'm Hesitant to Share My Dotfiles

The author loves dotfiles – configuration files for software and operating systems – and enjoys sharing ideas and code. However, they're hesitant to publicly release their own extensive dotfiles repository, which includes configurations for zsh, tmux, neovim, vscode, a Homebrew package list, Stylus CSS rules, and is managed with GNU Stow. They feel their personalized customizations are too intimate to share, despite the coolness factor. This raises questions about the balance between personalized developer configurations and open-source sharing.

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(hamatti.org)
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LLMs Conquered: A Graveyard of AI Benchmarks

2025-01-06

Killedbyllm.com is a fascinating website documenting the rapid progress of Large Language Models (LLMs). It lists numerous benchmarks, from early reading comprehension tests to complex mathematical reasoning challenges, that have been surpassed by models like GPT-4 and LLaMa. The site serves as a testament to the breakneck speed of AI advancement, showcasing how previously insurmountable challenges have fallen to LLMs and prompting reflection on the future of AI.

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(r0bk.github.io)
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The Meter: A 4500-Year-Old Secret Hidden in the Great Pyramid?

2025-03-04

This article challenges the conventional understanding of the meter's origin, suggesting it might predate the French revolution by millennia. It explores the mathematical relationships within the Great Pyramid of Giza, revealing astonishing connections between its dimensions and the constants π and the Golden Ratio, ultimately linking these to the modern-day meter. The author proposes that ancient Egyptians possessed knowledge of the meter and derived units like the cubit from it, raising questions about the technological sophistication of ancient civilizations.

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(www.iforgeiron.com)
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Neo4j's License Modification Case Threatens Open Source

2025-02-28
Neo4j's License Modification Case Threatens Open Source

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will soon rule on Neo4j's attempt to modify the GNU AGPLv3 license, adding restrictive clauses that users cannot remove, contradicting the license's core principle. This case's outcome will significantly impact the enforceability of all open-source licenses, potentially eroding the trust that underpins open source. The Software Freedom Conservancy filed an amicus brief, but the Free Software Foundation's (FSF) non-involvement sparks controversy. The central question is whether licensors can add irremovable restrictions. The ruling will have far-reaching consequences for the open-source community and may even impact Neo4j forks like ONgDB and DozerDB.

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(www.theregister.com)
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The Demise of the 80x25 Text Console in Modern Linux

2025-09-17

The author encountered a frustrating issue: the classic 80x25 text console, a feature present in DOS, OS/2, FreeBSD, and Linux for over 40 years, is largely gone in modern Linux systems. This isn't simply a resolution problem; it involves UEFI booting, non-x86 platforms, and the shift to graphical rendering modes. Old solutions like the `vga=` parameter are ineffective, and newer attempts like using `kmscon` have significant issues. The author is resorting to finding an older PC, highlighting the declining compatibility between modern systems and legacy hardware.

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(changelog.complete.org)
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JFK Assassination: Thousands of Declassified Documents Released

2025-03-20
JFK Assassination: Thousands of Declassified Documents Released

The National Archives released tens of thousands of declassified documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Key revelations include a previously heavily redacted 1961 memo detailing CIA activities and tensions with President Kennedy, detailed records of CIA wiretapping of Soviet and Cuban diplomatic facilities in Mexico City, and surveillance related to Lee Harvey Oswald. The release fuels further investigation into the assassination and sparks debate about the CIA's role and government transparency.

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(abcnews.go.com)
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Youth Reading Crisis: Enjoyment and Frequency Plummet

2025-09-10
Youth Reading Crisis: Enjoyment and Frequency Plummet

A 2025 literacy survey of 5-18 year-olds reveals a persistent reading crisis, with enjoyment and daily reading rates hitting 20-year lows. Only 32.7% of 8-18 year-olds reported enjoying reading, a 36% drop since 2005. Daily reading fell to 18.7%. The study found that material linked to favorite films/TV shows, matching interests, engaging covers/titles, and choice significantly impacted reading motivation. Even those reporting low enjoyment recognized reading's educational value, consuming song lyrics, news, and fiction. The report suggests aligning reading with personal interests and other media to re-engage young readers.

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(literacytrust.org.uk)
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