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Understanding Deflate

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-15 15:12:40

Understanding Deflate I’m trying to understand how Deflate works so decided to compress a simple string TOBEORNOTTOBEORTOBEORNOT using GZIP then decode the resulting file by hand. Compressing the data Pretty simple here, text in bytes out: $ echo -n 'TOBEORNOTTOBEORTOBEORNOT' | gzip -n | xxd -ps -u 1F8B08000000000000030BF17772F50FF2F30F09013342605C00F14E3D2D 18000000 Reading the GZIP data Even though I’m really interested in the compressed data I have to decode the GZIP “wrapper” in order

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Procedural Island Generation (III)

news.ycombinator.com Chema Guerra 2025-09-20 00:29:49

Resulting terrain elevation with multi-scale noise layers and mountain peaks This post continues from Part II, where we established the paint map foundation and mountain ridge system. Now we’ll add detailed noise layers, distance-based mountain peaks, and do blending to create the final terrain elevation. Paint Map (recap) Before applying noise layers, we start with the foundation established in Part I - the paint map that defines our base land/water distribution: The paint map from Part I -

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Folks, we have the best π

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-25 02:10:03

In the past couple of months, I published a number of articles on recreational math. I did my best to keep them accessible and fun, but my goal was usually to shed light at deeper mathematical truths. For example, the discussion of 0.999… = 1 served as a springboard to highlight some of the subtler properties of real numbers and the different meanings of infinity. Today, I have no agenda. This article exists because I discovered a somewhat obscure paper that says something unexpected and cool.

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Justice Department Announces Actions to Combat North Korean Remote IT Workers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-26 12:31:05

Note: This press release has been updated to reflect new information regarding the guilty plea of one defendant in the District of Massachusetts. The Justice Department announced today coordinated actions against the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea (DPRK) government’s schemes to fund its regime through remote information technology (IT) work for U.S. companies. These actions include two indictments, an information and related plea agreement, an arrest, searches of 29 known or suspec

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PgEdge Goes Open Source

news.ycombinator.com Dave Page 2025-09-29 11:01:57

In November last year after nearly two decades at my previous gig, I came to the conclusion that I didn’t want to work at what seemed to be rapidly becoming an AI-focused company and moved to pgEdge where the focus is well and truly on distributed PostgreSQL and Postgres generally. Distributed databases (and particularly Postgres of course) have always been a passion of mine – even being a key topic of my master’s dissertation many years ago. Moving to pgEdge was a breath of fresh air. Not only

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KDE launches its own distribution

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-29 20:49:36

KDE launches its own distribution (again) [LWN subscriber-only content] Welcome to LWN.net The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber. Thousands of subscribers depend on LWN for the best news from the Linux and free software communities. If you enjoy this article, please consider subscribing to LWN. Thank you for visiting LWN.net! At Akademy 2025, the KDE Project released an alpha version of KDE Linux, a distribution built by the project to " in

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Need Linux help? My favorite forums, groups, and mailing lists when I need support

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-01 19:00:19

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways If you need help with Linux, try these outlets. You might not get an answer immediately, but one will come. These are all free to join and enjoy (just watch out for trolls). Linux is about community, and it has been for a very long time. Without community, I'm not sure if Linux would be where it is today. When I first started using Linux in the late 90s, I turned to old-school solution

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Show HN: Downloading a folder from a repo using rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-28 01:51:31

Git Down git-down lets you download one or multiple directories from a Git repository without the hassle of cloning or downloading the whole repository, with one simple command. Usage It's really easy to use. $ git-down -d < DESTINATION_DIRECTORY > < REPO_URL.git:branch > FILES The -d <DESTINATION_DIRECTORY> option above is optional. If not specified the files will be downloaded into a directory under the name of the target repository. We're using the bootstrap repo as an example for how t

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This Fedora spin is perfect for one particular kind of new Linux user

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-04 07:00:17

A slightly modified Nobara desktop (switched from the default Dark theme to a Light theme). Screenshot by Jack Wallen/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNet's key takeaways Nobara Linux, based on Fedora 42, is available now. This Linux distribution is perfectly suited for gamers - and Linux newbies. Nobara is free to download, install, and use. I really like Fedora. I find Fedora to be a very fast and reliable OS, which is quite the opposite of what it once wa

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The race to build a distributed GPU runtime

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-03 09:18:47

For a decade, GPUs have delivered breathtaking data processing speedups. However, data is growing far beyond the capacity of a single GPU server. When your work drifts beyond GPU local memory or VRAM (e.g., HBM and GDDR), hidden costs of inefficiencies show up: spilling to host, shuffling over networks, and idling accelerators. Before jumping straight into the latest distributed computing effort underway at NVIDIA and AMD, let’s quickly level set on what distributed computing is, how it works, a

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The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 08:20:37

The Universe within 12.5 Light Years The Nearest Stars Number of stars within 12.5 light years = 33 About the Map This map shows all the star systems that lie within 12.5 light years of our Sun. Most of the stars are red dwarfs - stars with a tenth of the Sun's mass and less than one hundredth the luminosity. Roughly eighty percent of all the stars in the universe are red dwarfs, and the nearest star - Proxima - is a typical example. Information on the Nearest Stars Sun - Type= G2 , Magnitu

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Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 14:01:49

After working hard since our Polars Cloud announcement last February, we are pleased to officially launch Polars Cloud. Polars Cloud is now Generally Available on AWS. Beyond that, we also launched our novel Distributed Engine in Open Beta on Polars Cloud. You can immediately get started at https://cloud.pola.rs/. After that you can fire a remote distributed query: import polars_cloud as pc import polars as pl from datetime import date with pc . ComputeContext ( workspace = "<my-workspace>" ,

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Google stock jumps 8% after search giant avoids worst-case penalties in antitrust case

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2025-10-13 17:59:19

Google CEO Sundar Pichai during the press conference after his meeting with Polish PM Donald Tusk at Google for Startups Campus In Warsaw in Warsaw, Poland on February 13, 2025. Images) Alphabet shares popped 8% in extended trading as investors celebrated what they viewed as minimal consequences from a historic defeat last year in the landmark antitrust case. Last year, Google was found to hold an illegal monopoly in its core market of internet search. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled aga

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Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts

news.ycombinator.com Jennifer Elias 2025-10-13 16:26:47

Google CEO Sundar Pichai during the press conference after his meeting with Polish PM Donald Tusk at Google for Startups Campus In Warsaw in Warsaw, Poland on February 13, 2025. Images) Alphabet shares popped 8% in extended trading as investors celebrated what they viewed as minimal consequences from a historic defeat last year in the landmark antitrust case. Last year, Google was found to hold an illegal monopoly in its core market of internet search. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled aga

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In a new filing, Apple fights back against court’s ‘indefensible’ Epic Games ruling

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-17 14:11:36

Earlier this evening, Apple filed a reply brief with the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, arguing multiple points why the court should either reverse Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers’ 2021 decision, or vacate the new injunction and assign a new judge to the case. Here are the details. ‘Indefensible’, ‘overbroad’, and ‘flawed’ In a 42-page document, Apple minces no words to refute both Epic Games’ arguments and the district court’s ruling, particularly regarding the “improper expansion and m

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This Hidden iPhone Feature Could Help Protect Your Eyes

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-24 13:33:03

According to my iPhone, I spend about four hours a day looking at my phone. I'm sure I hold my iPhone close to my face at times, especially at night, and that might be why my eyes hurt sometimes, like I've got something in them. Luckily, there's a hidden iPhone feature called Screen Distance that could help all of us take better care of our eyes. CNET The feature warns you when you're holding your iPhone or iPad too close to your face, sort of like having a parent tell you to sit farther back

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My 4 favorite Linux distros for streaming - and why choosing the right one makes a huge difference

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-27 08:26:17

Jose A. Bernat Bacete / Moment via Getty Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Some Linux distributions are better for streaming. There are certain factors to consider for streaming on Linux. The distributions here should work fine without tweaking. Among Spotify, Netflix, Hulu, and other streaming services, I consume a lot of content. Although you might think any operating system with a web browser (or the ability to install an app or two) is perfectl

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Google to require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store

news.ycombinator.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-27 08:05:14

Google is tightening security measures around Android app distribution, the company announced on Monday. Starting next year, Google will begin to verify the identities of developers distributing their apps on Android devices, not just those who distribute via the Play Store. The changes will affect all certified Android devices once live, though the global rollout will be more gradual. The tech giant stresses that this does not mean developers can’t distribute outside of the Play Store through

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Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-27 16:23:12

Google is tightening security measures around Android app distribution, the company announced on Monday. Starting next year, Google will begin to verify the identities of developers distributing their apps on Android devices, not just those who distribute via the Play Store. The changes will affect all certified Android devices once live, though the global rollout will be more gradual. The tech giant stresses that this does not mean developers can’t distribute outside of the Play Store through

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Just bought a new Galaxy foldable? Watch out for this alert-hiding bug

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-28 04:40:21

Paul Jones / Android Authority TL;DR The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 suffer from a Do Not Disturb bug. Custom Do Not Disturb settings can reset automatically, removing your call or notification filters. A fix exists for the Galaxy S25 series in One UI 8 beta 5, but not yet for the Fold 7 or Flip 7. When you buy a flagship Samsung phone, the minimum you expect is smooth sailing with the core functionality. Still, early Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 owners might want to double-check th

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Visualizing distributions with pepperoni pizza and JavaScript

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 21:38:04

Monday, August 18, 2025 There's a pizza shop near me that serves a normal pizza. I mean, they distribute the toppings in a normal way. They're not uniform at all. The toppings are random, but not the way I want. The colloquial understanding of "random" is kind of the Platonic ideal of a pizza: slightly chaotic but things are more or less spread out over the whole piece in a regular way. If you take a slice you'll get more of less the same amount of pepperoni as any other slice. And every bite

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LLMs generate ‘fluent nonsense’ when reasoning outside their training zone

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-11-05 14:12:37

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now A new study from Arizona State University researchers suggests that the celebrated “Chain-of-Thought” (CoT) reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs) may be more of a “brittle mirage” than genuine intelligence. The research builds on a growing body of work questioning the depth of LLM reasoning, but it takes a unique “data distribution” len

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5 reasons to switch to an immutable Linux distro today - and which to try first

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-11-09 23:06:00

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Immutable Linux distributions are the future. There are several reasons why immutable is the way to go. From security to predictability, you can't go wrong with immutable. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Immutable Linux distributions sound complicated, right? You'd be surprised to know that it's actually quite simple. Essentially, an immutable distri

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A short statistical reasoning test

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 14:55:55

The second – likelihoodist – is to create a profile likelihood and take the $q$ quantile. I personally find this approach more intuitive in general because it is contextually picking model parameters, rather than to directly making claims about degrees of belief: we are just trying to pick $p$ such that it captures the first 5% of the likelihood sum of our binomial model. There are at least two general – from first principles – approaches to calculate a lower bound fraction without knowing

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A Visual Exploration of Gaussian Processes (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Görtler 2025-11-08 12:21:43

Even if you have spent some time reading about machine learning, chances are that you have never heard of Gaussian processes. And if you have, rehearsing the basics is always a good way to refresh your memory. With this blog post we want to give an introduction to Gaussian processes and make the mathematical intuition behind them more approachable. Gaussian processes are a powerful tool in the machine learning toolbox . They allow us to make predictions about our data by incorporating prior kno

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Simulating and Visualising the Central Limit Theorem

news.ycombinator.com Greg Foletta 2025-11-12 23:11:51

Simulating and Visualising the Central Limit Theorem Categories: Statistics R 34 minutes read I completed a Computer Science degree at uni, and bundled a lot of maths subjects in as electives: partial differential equations, vector calculus, discrete maths, linear algebra. For some reason however I always avoided statistics subjects. Maybe there’s a story to be told about a young person finding uncertainty uncomfortable, because twenty years later I find statistics, particularly the Bayesia

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Washington, DC police put under federal control, National Guard deployed

news.ycombinator.com Kevin Breuninger 2025-11-22 12:13:51

President Donald Trump on Monday placed the Washington, D.C., police department under federal control and deployed 800 National Guard troops in the capital city to address what he claimed was out-of-control crime there. It is the first time that a president has federalized the Metropolitan Police Department. Trump's move drew fierce condemnation from local officials, who noted that official statistics show crime in D.C. is on the decline. "I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation'

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This Linux distro makes Slackware easier than ever

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-06 12:36:00

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Slackel is a user-friendly take on the otherwise challenging Slackware. There are four different desktop variations to choose from. Slackel is a great distribution for learning Linux. Slackware has been around since 1993 and has served as the foundation for many Linux distributions, such as the early iterations of SUSE. What sets Slackware apart from other Linux distributions is that it tries to be more UNIX-like than not. Sla

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Perfecting anti-aliasing on signed distance functions

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 17:55:47

← index Doing anti-aliasing on SDF is not as straightforward as it seems. Most of the time, we see people use a smoothstep with hardcoded constants, sometimes with screen space information, sometimes cryptic or convoluted formulas. Even if SDFs have the perfect mathematical properties needed for a clean anti-aliasing, the whole issue has a scope larger than it appears at first glance. And even when trivial solutions exist, it's not always clear why they are a good fit. Let's study that together

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Cedana (YC S23) Is Hiring a Systems Engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 08:00:30

At Cedana, we are solving what many thought was impossible: the seamless, live migration of active CPU+GPU containers across global compute. We're building the next generation of AI orchestration systems, founded on our pioneering work in checkpoint/restore technology. This isn't just an incremental improvement; it's a fundamental shift that makes distributed computing truly portable, elastic, and resilient across planet scale compute. This is an exceptionally difficult systems problem that req

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Latest Tech News

Understanding Deflate

Procedural Island Generation (III)

Folks, we have the best π

Justice Department Announces Actions to Combat North Korean Remote IT Workers

PgEdge Goes Open Source

KDE launches its own distribution

Need Linux help? My favorite forums, groups, and mailing lists when I need support

Show HN: Downloading a folder from a repo using rust

This Fedora spin is perfect for one particular kind of new Linux user

The race to build a distributed GPU runtime

The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years

Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available

Google stock jumps 8% after search giant avoids worst-case penalties in antitrust case

Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts

In a new filing, Apple fights back against court’s ‘indefensible’ Epic Games ruling

This Hidden iPhone Feature Could Help Protect Your Eyes

My 4 favorite Linux distros for streaming - and why choosing the right one makes a huge difference

Google to require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store

Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store

Just bought a new Galaxy foldable? Watch out for this alert-hiding bug

Visualizing distributions with pepperoni pizza and JavaScript

LLMs generate ‘fluent nonsense’ when reasoning outside their training zone

5 reasons to switch to an immutable Linux distro today - and which to try first

A short statistical reasoning test

A Visual Exploration of Gaussian Processes (2019)

Simulating and Visualising the Central Limit Theorem

Washington, DC police put under federal control, National Guard deployed

This Linux distro makes Slackware easier than ever

Perfecting anti-aliasing on signed distance functions

Cedana (YC S23) Is Hiring a Systems Engineer

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