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Microsoft Python Driver for SQL Server

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 03:28:25

Microsoft Python Driver for SQL Server mssql-python is a Python driver for Microsoft SQL Server and the Azure SQL family of databases. It leverages Direct Database Connectivity (DDBC) that enables direct connections to SQL Server without requiring an external driver manager. Designed to comply with the DB API 2.0 specification, this driver also introduces Pythonic enhancements for improved usability and functionality. It supports a full range of database operations, including connection managem

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How Container Filesystem Works: Building a Docker-Like Container from Scratch

news.ycombinator.com Ivan Velichko 2025-09-18 19:37:52

One of the superpowers of containers is their isolated filesystem view - from inside a container it can look like a full Linux distro, often different from the host. Run docker run nginx , and Nginx lands in its familiar Debian userspace no matter what Linux flavor your host runs. But how is that illusion built? In this post, we'll assemble a tiny but realistic, Docker-like container using only stock Linux tools: unshare , mount , and pivot_root . No runtime magic and (almost) no cut corners. A

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Plugin System

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-22 07:10:44

With several lines of code, you can implement the exact feature tailored to your needs. Furthermore, with the Official User Scripts plugin, you can just copy-and-paste code snippets into IINA without writing plugin packages.

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Show HN: Pyproc – Call Python from Go Without CGO or Microservices

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-23 06:08:00

pyproc Run Python like a local function from Go — no CGO, no microservices. 🎯 Purpose & Problem Solved The Challenge Go excels at building high-performance web services, but sometimes you need Python: Machine Learning Models : Your models are trained in PyTorch/TensorFlow : Your models are trained in PyTorch/TensorFlow Data Science Libraries : You need pandas, numpy, scikit-learn : You need pandas, numpy, scikit-learn Legacy Code : Existing Python code that's too costly to rewrite : Exis

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Why do we keep gravitating toward complexity?

news.ycombinator.com Kyrylo Silin 2025-09-23 06:02:31

The Great Pyramids took decades to build. It was a monumental feat of human ingenuity and collaboration. Today, we software developers erect our own pyramids each day - not from stone, but from code. Yet despite far more advanced tools, these systems don’t always make the experience better. So why, when KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) is a well-known mantra, do we keep gravitating toward complexity? Marketing > Simplicity Sell me this pen: ✎ What? You don’t know how? Okay, instead, sell me this

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PythonBPF – Writing eBPF Programs in Pure Python

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-22 21:29:47

Introduction Python-BPF offers a new way to write eBPF programs entirely in Python, compiling them into real object files. This project is open-source and available on GitHub and PyPI. I wrote it alongside R41k0u. Published Library with Future Plans Python-BPF is a published Python library with plans for further development towards production-ready use. You can pip install pythonbpf but it’s certainly not at all production ready and the code is hacky at best with more bugs than I could count

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CorentinJ: Real-Time Voice Cloning (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-25 07:23:03

Real-Time Voice Cloning This repository is an implementation of Transfer Learning from Speaker Verification to Multispeaker Text-To-Speech Synthesis (SV2TTS) with a vocoder that works in real-time. This was my master's thesis. SV2TTS is a deep learning framework in three stages. In the first stage, one creates a digital representation of a voice from a few seconds of audio. In the second and third stages, this representation is used as reference to generate speech given arbitrary text. Video

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EFF to court: The Supreme Court must rein in secondary copyright liability

news.ycombinator.com Betty Gedlu 2025-09-25 05:59:27

If the Supreme Court doesn’t reverse a lower court’s ruling, internet service providers (ISPs) could be forced to terminate people’s internet access based on nothing more than mere accusations of copyright infringement. This would threaten innocent users who rely on broadband for essential aspects of daily life. EFF—along with the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries, and Re:Create—filed an amicus brief urging the Court to reverse the decision. The Stakes: Turning

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Wimpy vs. McDonald's: The Battle of the Burgers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-23 14:43:46

When the burger landed on the tables of the first Wimpy Bar in 1954, it marked a new era of modernity, global connection, and convenience for a Britain rebuilding from the austerity of the Second World War. But it later found itself at the heart of a cultural war against these same ideals. ‘The McDonalds are coming’, declared the Reading Post in March 1983 as Wimpy’s competitor gained ground on the British high street. ‘It looks like the battle of the burgers is about to erupt.’ As the first mo

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Logging in Go with Slog: A Practitioner's Guide

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-23 18:03:01

Logging in Go has come a long way. For years, the community relied on the simple standard log Copy package or turned to powerful third-party libraries like zap and zerolog . With the introduction of log/slog in Go 1.21 , the language now has a native, high-performance, structured logging solution designed to be the new standard. slog Copy isn’t just another logger; it’s a new foundation that provides a common API (the frontend) that separates logging logic from the final output, which is contr

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Apple’s latest iPhone security feature just made life more difficult for spyware makers

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-09-27 23:00:46

Buried in an ocean of flashy novelties announced by Apple this week, the tech giant also revealed new security technology for its latest iPhone 17 and iPhone Air devices. This new security technology was made specifically to fight against surveillance vendors and the types of vulnerabilities they rely on the most, according to Apple. The feature is called Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) and is designed to help stop memory corruption bugs, which are some of the most common vulnerabilities exp

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iPhone 17, iPhone Air, AirPods Pro 3, and Apple Watch Series 11 event reactions

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-09-28 03:27:48

Benjamin and Chance react to the September Apple event, with opinions in keynote order. Chance was there in person, so that includes some early hands-on thoughts of these new devices. That includes Apple’s unveiling of the new AirPods Pro 3, Apple Watch Series 11, iPhone 17, iPhone Air and the unmistakably orange iPhone 17 Pro series. And in Happy Hour Plus, the pair talk about what products they are buying from this week’s announcements, and some more on Chance’s experience at Apple Park. Subs

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Remastered Tomb Raider games allegedly used AI to change Lara Croft's French voice

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-28 15:39:22

Françoise Cadol is the voice actor for Lara Croft in the French localizations of the Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered games. She has sent a legal notice to the games' publisher, Aspyr, alleging that a recent patch used artificial intelligence to alter her performance without her consent. The news was originally reported by French publication Le Parisien and picked up by Game Developer . According to August 2025 patch notes for the remastered game collection, Tomb Raider VI was updated with some adj

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France says Apple notified victims of new spyware attacks

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-09-29 03:32:05

In Brief Apple has notified a number of individuals that their devices were targeted in a spyware campaign, according to the French government. France’s national cybersecurity response unit said on Thursday that it was aware that Apple on September 3 sent a new notification to affected customers whose Apple devices may have been hacked. The cybersecurity unit said receiving a threat notification means that at least one of the devices linked to a customer’s iCloud account “has been targeted an

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These Newly Discovered Deep-Sea Snailfish Just Became Our Latest Obsession

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-02 06:00:26

The deep sea is home to some of the weirdest creatures on Earth, from ghostly elder fish to carnivorous harp sponges. Sometimes, scientists discover more humble creatures that are so tiny that they go unnoticed until new technology brings them into view. Such efforts rarely disappoint. Using an underwater robot camera, researchers discovered three new species of deep-sea snailfish: one bumpy, one dark, and one sleek. In a new paper published in Ichthyology and Herpetology, researchers explain h

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US Investment in Spyware Is Skyrocketing

wired.com Vas Panagiotopoulos 2025-10-02 08:00:00

The United States has emerged as the largest investor in commercial spyware—a global industry that has enabled the covert surveillance of journalists, human rights defenders, politicians, diplomats, and others, posing grave threats to human rights and national security. In 2024, 20 new US-based spyware investors were identified, bringing the total number of American backers of this technology to 31. This growth has largely outpaced other major investing countries such as Israel, Italy, and the

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Robinhood embraces copy trading after warning competitors about regulatory risks

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-10-02 06:17:09

What a difference a changing regulatory environment makes. Roughly nine months after suggesting that a young copy trading platform could only operate because it flew “under the radar” of regulators, Robinhood has announced its own entry into the space with “Robinhood Social,” a new feature that will allow users to follow and manually replicate the trades of prominent investors. The move represents a striking about-face for the online brokerage, which has historically been cautious about featur

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Apple Gets Hit With AI Copyright Lawsuit Days Before iPhone 17 Event

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-06 03:10:00

Two authors, Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson, are suing Apple, alleging the company violated their copyright protections and illegally acquired and used their books to train its AI, according to a complaint filed Friday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco. The authors claim Apple used a software program called Applebot to scrape data from "shadow libraries" such as Books3. The authors' novels were included in the pirated library and thus used to

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The "impossibly small" Microdot web framework

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 14:38:30

The "impossibly small" Microdot web framework Benefits for LWN subscribers The primary benefit from subscribing to LWN is helping to keep us publishing, but, beyond that, subscribers get immediate access to all site content and access to a number of extra site features. Please sign up today! The Microdot web framework is quite small, as its name would imply; it supports both standard CPython and MicroPython, so it can be used on systems ranging from internet-of-things (IoT) devices all the way

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Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5 billion to settle authors' copyright lawsuit

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-10-07 07:01:05

Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a class action lawsuit with a group of authors, who claimed the artificial intelligence startup had illegally accessed their books. The company will pay roughly $3,000 per book plus interest, and agreed to destroy the datasets containing the allegedly pirated material, according to a filing on Friday. The lawsuit against Anthropic has been closely watched by AI startups and media companies that have been trying to determine what copyr

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Anthropic Will Pay $1.5 Billion to Authors in Landmark AI Piracy Lawsuit

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-07 06:53:00

Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of authors alleging that the AI company illegally pirated their copyrighted books to use in training its Claude AI models. The settlement was announced Aug. 29, as the parties in the lawsuit filed a motion with the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals indicating they had reached an agreement. "This landmark settlement far surpasses any other known copyright recovery. It is the first of its kind in the AI era," Justin Nelson, lawy

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“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-07 07:26:03

Authors revealed today that Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion and destroy all copies of the books the AI company pirated to train its artificial intelligence models. In a press release provided to Ars, the authors confirmed that the settlement is "believed to be the largest publicly reported recovery in the history of US copyright litigation." Covering 500,000 works that Anthropic pirated for AI training, if a court approves the settlement, each author will receive $3,000 per work that Anthr

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Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors at Least $1.5 Billion in AI Copyright Settlement

wired.com Kate Knibbs 2025-10-07 11:14:28

Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of book authors alleging copyright infringement, an estimated $3,000 per work. In a court motion on Friday, the plaintiffs emphasized that the terms of the settlement are “critical victories” and that going to trial would have been an “enormous” risk. This is the first class action settlement centered on AI and copyright in the United States, and the outcome may shape how regulators and creative industries

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Warner Bros. sues Midjourney for AI images of Superman, Batman, and other characters

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-07 23:56:38

In Brief Warner Bros. is suing AI startup Midjourney for copyright infringement, alleging that the company allows users to generate images and videos of characters like Superman, Batman, and Bugs Bunny without permission. As first reported by Reuters, Warner Bros says that Midjourney knowingly engaged in wrongful conduct, noting that the company previously restricted subscribers from generating content based on infringing images, but recently lifted those protections. “Midjourney has made a c

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Warner Bros. Discovery sues Midjourney for generating ‘countless’ copies of its characters

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-09 11:49:27

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Warner Bros. Discovery is suing Midjourney over claims the AI startup “brazenly dispenses its intellectual property as if it were its own,” as reported earlier by The Hollywood Reporter. In the lawsuit, Warner Bros. Discovery alleges that Midjourney generated “c

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iPhone event preview, Google deal continues, new Siri plans

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-10-09 19:24:05

Benjamin and Chance get hyped for next week’s awe-dropping event with a breakdown of what we expect, and some intriguing hanging questions. In other news, the Google search deal escapes the jaws of antitrust unscathed, and we have more details about the upcoming Siri revamp. And in Happy Hour Plus, they discuss the Google Pixel’s 100x zoom features and debate the merits of AI usage in cameras. Subscribe at 9to5mac.com/join. Sponsored by Caldera Lab : High performance men’s skincare. Get 20% of

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William Wordsworth's letter: "The Law of Copyright" (1838)

news.ycombinator.com Wordsworth 2025-10-11 07:23:47

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The law of copyright This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this ebook or online at www.gutenberg.org . If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Titl

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Sharing a mutable reference between Rust and Python

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-12 22:30:25

As part of my ongoing project to reimplement Django’s templating language in Rust, I have been adding support for custom template tags. The simplest custom tag will look something like: # time_tags.py from datetime import datetime from django import template register = template . Library() @register.simple_tag def time (format_string): now = datetime . now() return now . strftime(format_string) # time_tags.py from datetime import datetime from django import template register = template . Libr

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ICE obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that hack phones and encrypted apps

news.ycombinator.com Stephanie Kirchgaessner 2025-10-14 15:12:13

US immigration agents will have access to one of the world’s most sophisticated hacking tools after a decision by the Trump administration to move ahead with a contract with Paragon Solutions, a company founded in Israel which makes spyware that can be used to hack into any mobile phone – including encrypted applications. The Department of Homeland Security first entered into a contract with Paragon, now owned by a US firm, in late 2024, under the Biden administration. But the $2m contract was

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The repercussions of a typo in C++ & Rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 14:22:01

The repercussions of missing an Ampersand in C++ & Rust Copying vs Passing by reference TL;DR There’s a funny typo that causes someone to copy data instead of “referencing” in C++. Rust is nice because it provides defaults that protect you from some of these “dumb” mistakes. In this example, I’ll go over how the “move by default” can prevent us from introducing this subtle behavior. Motivation I originally hesitated to write this because I thought the topic was too “obvious”, but I did it a

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“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion

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