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Boost HTML5 Game Performance with WebAssembly

news.ycombinator.com Gaming Writer 2026-01-04 10:45:03

Who this article is for: Game developers looking to improve the performance of their HTML5 games Technical leads and engineers interested in integrating WebAssembly into their projects Students or professionals learning about web technologies and game development HTML5 game development has transformed web gaming, but it’s the integration of WebAssembly that’s truly revolutionizing performance capabilities. When players experience stuttering frame rates or input lag in browser games, they don’

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Ukraine arrests suspected admin of XSS Russian hacking forum

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-05 05:41:27

The suspected administrator of the Russian-speaking hacking forum XSS.is was arrested by the Ukrainian authorities yesterday at the request of the Paris public prosecutor's office. The French authorities state that the investigation was opened roughly four years ago, uncovering activities related to ransomware and other cybercrimes, which yielded multi-million-dollar profits. This was despite the forum publicly banning all ransomware topics on the platform in May 2021. "The investigation, ope

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‘I Got You Guys Out of So Much Trouble’: Trump Signs Stablecoin Crypto Bill

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2026-01-06 10:05:36

The self-diagnosed “very stable genius” has, fittingly, signed into law the GENIUS Act, which introduces (very loose, industry-friendly) regulations for the operation of stablecoins—cryptocurrencies pegged to assets like the US dollar. During the press conference and signing ceremony for the bill, Trump got quite transparent about his relationship with the crypto community, telling them, “I got you guys out of so much trouble.” Trump’s comments, made over the weekend, show quite the prescience,

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Don't animate height

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-03 12:44:19

Our app was mysteriously using 60% CPU and 25% GPU on my M2 MacBook. It turned out this was due to a tiny CSS animation! In this post, I show how to find expensive animations, why some are so expensive, and how to make many animations much cheaper. Along the way, we'll learn how the browser renders CSS animations and how to use Chrome's dev tools for performance profiling. The problem While building Granola, a note-taking app, I noticed it was using 60% CPU and 25% GPU on my M2 MacBook: Activ

Topics: animations height layout paint performance

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Major European healthcare network discloses security breach

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-07 05:27:10

AMEOS Group, an operator of a massive healthcare network in Central Europe, has announced it has suffered a security breach that may have exposed customer, employee, and partner information. The organization published a statement on its website, as required by Article 34 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which mandates a public notice in the event of a data breach. AMEOS is a Zurich-based healthcare provider that employs 18,000 staff in over 100 hospitals, clinics, rehabilitati

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Don't Animate Height

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-04 00:44:19

Our app was mysteriously using 60% CPU and 25% GPU on my M2 MacBook. It turned out this was due to a tiny CSS animation! In this post, I show how to find expensive animations, why some are so expensive, and how to make many animations much cheaper. Along the way, we'll learn how the browser renders CSS animations and how to use Chrome's dev tools for performance profiling. The problem While building Granola, a note-taking app, I noticed it was using 60% CPU and 25% GPU on my M2 MacBook: Activ

Topics: animations height layout paint performance

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Telegram's crypto wallet goes live to its 87 million U.S. users

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2026-01-08 00:00:01

Telegram users in the U.S. can now send, receive, and manage cryptocurrency directly inside the app — no downloads, extensions, or separate logins required. TON Wallet is built into Telegram's interface and is beginning its U.S. rollout this week. It is a self-custodial crypto wallet in which a user controls their own private keys. The service, developed by The Open Platform, which is known as TOP, and built on the TON blockchain, allows users to send stablecoins and other digital tokens to th

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I finally gave NotebookLM my full attention - and it really is a total game changer

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2026-01-08 00:33:56

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET One of the best parts of my job is that I get to chat with industry folks who, like me, eat and breathe AI tools. After meeting with yet another (non-Google-affiliated) media person last week who told me how much they loved NotebookLM, I decided to give it a real try. Also: OpenAI wins gold at prestigious math competition - why that matters more than you think Although I've tried several NotebookLM features for the site before and have been impressed, finding a wa

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I know genomes and I didn’t delete my data from 23andMe

news.ycombinator.com Steven Salzberg 2026-01-07 02:52:26

As word spread last year that 23andMe was about to go bankrupt, many of their millions of customers wondered if they should delete their data. Social and conventional media were quick to offer advice, sometimes coming from experts in genetics and genomics–my field, I should note–on how to go onto the 23andMe website and delete all of your data. In March of this year, the California attorney general issued a warning that 23andMe was “in financial distress,” and he told Californians that they oug

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Elon Musk’s X Says ‘Nope’ to French Authorities Trying to Access Its Algorithm

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2026-01-08 05:55:20

Onlookers have long suspected that Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) has a right-wing bias embedded in its digital DNA, and, in January of this year, cybercrime authorities in France took it upon themselves to uncover whether this was true or not. The investigation has sought to determine whether the site is guilty of algorithmically manipulating the visibility of content on its website. NBC reports that, earlier this month, the probe was transferred to a “key unit of France’s national police.” N

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Apple @ Work Podcast: What Spike’s AI feed gets right about workplace AI

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2026-01-08 15:00:00

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My favourite German word

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-05 09:11:14

My favourite German word¶ 30th June 2025 A documentation colleague recently challenged me with a question: Nowadays, more and more people reach for an LLM tool to provide the information they want. If human beings don’t actually read it, what is the point of writing and structuring documentation for humans? Newer generations (she said) are becoming unskilled at finding information for themselves. They seem less able to digest what they find, to apply it to their problems. But it’s not just t

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Mercedes-AMG gives us a ride in its next high-performance EV

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-09 00:01:34

Mercedes-Benz provided flights from Detroit to Stuttgart, Germany, and accommodation so Ars could be briefed on the AMG.EA prototype as well as the GT XX that we covered last month. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. First-generation high-performance electric vehicles, like the Tesla Model S Plaid, had a party trick that would wow first-timers: straight-line acceleration. Feeling your internal organs shift under the G forces of acceleration is cool the first few times but gets annoying

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Polymarket Says It’s Coming Back to the U.S.

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2026-01-09 03:55:31

In 2022, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission accused Polymarket of having offered illegal trading services. Since then, as part of its settlement with the government, the site hasn’t operated inside the United States. However, the platform—which lets web users earn or burn cash via bets on anything and everything (from political races to farts)—now appears to be headed back to America, thanks in part to a recent business deal. In a press release published Monday, Polymarket announced tha

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I know genomes. Don't delete your DNA

news.ycombinator.com Steven Salzberg 2026-01-09 14:52:26

As word spread last year that 23andMe was about to go bankrupt, many of their millions of customers wondered if they should delete their data. Social and conventional media were quick to offer advice, sometimes coming from experts in genetics and genomics–my field, I should note–on how to go onto the 23andMe website and delete all of your data. In March of this year, the California attorney general issued a warning that 23andMe was “in financial distress,” and he told Californians that they oug

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Polymarket Says Its Coming Back to the U.S.

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2026-01-09 15:55:31

In 2022, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission accused Polymarket of having offered illegal trading services. Since then, as part of its settlement with the government, the site hasn’t operated inside the United States. However, the platform—which lets web users earn or burn cash via bets on anything and everything (from political races to farts)—now appears to be headed back to America, thanks in part to a recent business deal. In a press release published Monday, Polymarket announced tha

Topics: acquisition market platform polymarket site

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How to remove personal information to protect yourself from stalkers

9to5mac.com Sponsored Post 2026-01-07 11:00:00

With data brokers making big money by selling your personal details, it’s never been easier for bad actors to get access to your phone number, email address, physical address, and even sensitive data like your social security number. That doesn’t just leave you at risk from spammers and scammers, but some people unfortunately have to worry about their contact details being used for stalking and harassment … How to remove personal information Data brokers are companies whose business is buying

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Dior begins sending data breach notifications to U.S. customers

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-10 15:31:28

The House of Dior (Dior) is sending data breach notifications to U.S. customers informing them that a May cybersecurity incident compromised their personal information. Dior is a French luxury fashion house, part of the LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton) group, which is the world's largest luxury conglomerate. The Dior brand alone generates an annual revenue of over $12 billion, operating hundreds of boutiques worldwide. The security incident occurred on January 26, 2025, but the company only

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Quadratic forms beyond arithmetic

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-06 08:59:21

Quadratic Forms Beyond Arithmetic Alexander Merkurjev Raman Parimala Communicated by Notices Associate Editor Han-Bom Moon 1 . Introduction The concept of quadratic forms can be traced back to ancient civilizations such as the Babylonians and Greeks. The Greeks, particularly Euclid in his famous work Elements, presented geometric methods for solving quadratic equations. The Greeks’ focus on geometry and their methods continued to influence mathematicians for centuries. Rules for quadratic equat

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Musk's X refuses to hand over data in 'politically motivated' French investigation

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2026-01-11 00:24:13

Elon Musk's X on Monday denied allegations made by French authorities as part of a criminal investigation into alleged data tampering, adding that it would not submit to the prosecutor's demand to hand over data. X's global government affairs account said the French investigation, which ramped up this month, is "politically-motivated" and designed to "restrict free speech." "French authorities have launched a politically-motivated criminal investigation into X over the alleged manipulation of

Topics: data french investigation platform said

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Quadratic Forms Beyond Arithmetic

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-06 20:59:21

Quadratic Forms Beyond Arithmetic Alexander Merkurjev Raman Parimala Communicated by Notices Associate Editor Han-Bom Moon 1 . Introduction The concept of quadratic forms can be traced back to ancient civilizations such as the Babylonians and Greeks. The Greeks, particularly Euclid in his famous work Elements, presented geometric methods for solving quadratic equations. The Greeks’ focus on geometry and their methods continued to influence mathematicians for centuries. Rules for quadratic equat

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Musk's X refuses to hand over data in 'politically-motivated' French investigation

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2026-01-11 10:10:24

Elon Musk's X on Monday denied allegations made by French authorities as part of a criminal investigation into alleged data tampering, adding that it would not submit to the prosecutor's demand to hand over data. X's global government affairs account said the French investigation, which ramped up this month, is "politically-motivated" and designed to "restrict free speech." "French authorities have launched a politically-motivated criminal investigation into X over the alleged manipulation of

Topics: data french investigation platform said

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Microsoft wants to fix ‘slow or sluggish’ performance in Windows 11

theverge.com Tom Warren 2026-01-11 10:30:39

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Ever since Windows 11 first debuted in October 2021, there have been complaints about its performance on certain types of hardware. Whether it was gaming on new hybrid performance CPUs showing no improvement on Windows 11, or claims that Windows 11 simply feels lethargic compared to Windows 10, Microsoft has tried to fix the problems with updates to the OS. Now, it wants direct

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SIOF (Scheme in One File) – A Minimal R7RS Scheme System

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-09 08:17:48

SIOF (Scheme In One File) - A Minimal R7RS Scheme System SIOF is a portable interpreter for the R7RS Scheme programming language. It can be built from a single C source file siof.c; there are no OS- or hardware-specific parts, no compiler-specific tricks, no dependency on platform-specific building tools. There is no distributives or packages: just compile the source file with your favorite C compiler, link it with the standard C runtime libraries and be done with it. For some platforms, precom

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Titan’s Methane Lakes Could Form Bubble-Like Structures Essential to Life, Scientists Say

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2026-01-11 04:00:06

On December 25, 2004, the Huygens probe separated from the Cassini spacecraft and landed on Titan’s sandy surface. The probe survived for 72 hours on Saturn’s largest moon, revealing a world that is chemically complex and more Earth-like than expected. For years, scientists have been intrigued by Titan as an alien world that might have the right conditions to host life, albeit in a very different form than on Earth. New research by NASA reveals that molecular precursors to life could form in Tit

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The Ultimate Dolby Atmos Experience Might Be In Your Car

wired.com Ryan Waniata 2026-01-11 02:33:00

It’s fair to say that no five people crammed into a compact SUV have been more blissfully enthralled on a country drive than my wife’s family and I on one particular mid-summer Sunday. It wasn’t just the silky smooth performance of the Cadillac Optiq, or even its incredible 19-speaker AKG sound system, but an x-factor pushing our driving experience beyond the sum of their parts: Dolby Atmos Music. If you haven't heard it in a vehicle like this, you might think I'm joking. Everyone has probably

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Rethinking CLI interfaces for AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-10 20:58:42

We need to augment our command line tools and design APIs so they can be better used by LLM Agents. The designs are inadequate for LLMs as they are now – especially if you're constrained by the tiny context windows available with local models. Agent APIs Like many developers, I’ve been dipping my toes into LLM agents. I’ve done my fair share of vibe coding, but also I’ve been playing around with using LLMs to automate reverse engineering tasks mostly using mrexodia’s IDA Pro MCP , including ex

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Show HN: Simulating autonomous drone formations

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-07 17:18:48

Ketu Lightweight framework to simulate drone formations. Ketu provider simple abstractions to mimick the sensors available on drones and create scenarios to see how the drones react to each other in the world. Using ketu you can simulate autonomous drones that align to create any shape. Checkout this video for a demonstration. Why use Ketu? Ketu provides a sandbox for people to quickly try out new drone formation techniques without amount of large setup. For a more detailed simulation you ca

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ServiceNow’s acquisition of Moveworks is reportedly being reviewed over antitrust concerns

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2026-01-11 15:04:30

In Brief ServiceNow’s acquisition of enterprise AI startup Moveworks is reportedly drawing regulatory scrutiny. The acquisition is currently under review for antitrust by the U.S. Justice Department, according to Bloomberg, which cited sources familiar with the matter. The probe began in June, Bloomberg reported, and both companies have since received a “second request” calling for additional information that has to be provided before the deal can move forward. ServiceNow announced it was acq

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WhatsApp streamlines in-app support process

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-01-11 20:32:47

If you’ve ever tried to get in-app support on WhatsApp, you know the process used to start with filling out a form, possibly attaching a few files, and waiting for a support rep to eventually get in touch. Now, that form is on its way out, and the screening process is, you guessed it, becoming AI-based. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Out with the form, in with AI Unless you’re Stephen Hackett, support knowledge bases are never fun to navigate, especially if you are in a hurry and alr

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Boost HTML5 Game Performance with WebAssembly

Ukraine arrests suspected admin of XSS Russian hacking forum

‘I Got You Guys Out of So Much Trouble’: Trump Signs Stablecoin Crypto Bill

Don't animate height

Major European healthcare network discloses security breach

Don't Animate Height

Telegram's crypto wallet goes live to its 87 million U.S. users

I finally gave NotebookLM my full attention - and it really is a total game changer

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I know genomes. Don't delete your DNA

Polymarket Says Its Coming Back to the U.S.

How to remove personal information to protect yourself from stalkers

Dior begins sending data breach notifications to U.S. customers

Quadratic forms beyond arithmetic

Musk's X refuses to hand over data in 'politically motivated' French investigation

Quadratic Forms Beyond Arithmetic

Musk's X refuses to hand over data in 'politically-motivated' French investigation

Microsoft wants to fix ‘slow or sluggish’ performance in Windows 11

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The Ultimate Dolby Atmos Experience Might Be In Your Car

Rethinking CLI interfaces for AI

Show HN: Simulating autonomous drone formations

ServiceNow’s acquisition of Moveworks is reportedly being reviewed over antitrust concerns

WhatsApp streamlines in-app support process

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