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Portability of Tar Features

news.ycombinator.com Michał Górny 2026-01-30 21:43:40

Please note that this article is focused merely on read-wise format compatibility. In other words, it establishes how tar files should be written in order to achieve best probability that it will be read correctly afterwards. It does not investigate what formats the listed tools can write and whether they can correctly create archives using specific features. This naturally raised more questions on how portable various tar formats actually are. To verify that, I have decided to analyze the stan

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AMD Ryzen 5 9600X Is Now 41% Off for Prime Day as Amazon Clears Out Stock at a Record Low

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-02-03 22:33:08

Processors are usually one of the most expensive line items when purchasing or upgrading a PC so it is worth waiting for major sale events such as Prime Day or Black Friday in an effort to secure the best prices. Right now, Amazon is offering the Ryzen 5 9600X at its all-time lowest price, which is quite a plummet from the $279 that it commanded for months at a time. This Prime exclusive deal brings the price down to a mere $165 which is a massive 41% saving. With Prime Day kicking off early th

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Free as Air, Free as Water, Free as Knowledge (1992)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-30 20:28:16

``Free as Air, Free As Water, Free As Knowledge'' by Bruce Sterling Speech to the Library Information Technology Association June 1992, San Francisco CA Hi everybody. Well, this is the Library Information Technology Association, so I guess I ought to be talking about libraries, or information, or technology, or at least association. I'm gonna give it a shot, but I want to try this from an unusual perspective. I want to start by talking about money. You wouldn't guess it sometimes to hear so

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``Free as Air, Free as Water, Free as Knowledge'' (1992)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-31 20:28:16

``Free as Air, Free As Water, Free As Knowledge'' by Bruce Sterling Speech to the Library Information Technology Association June 1992, San Francisco CA Hi everybody. Well, this is the Library Information Technology Association, so I guess I ought to be talking about libraries, or information, or technology, or at least association. I'm gonna give it a shot, but I want to try this from an unusual perspective. I want to start by talking about money. You wouldn't guess it sometimes to hear so

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Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-05 12:21:51

I'm in the process of rebuilding my homelab from the ground up, moving from a 24U full-size 4-post rack to a mini rack. One of the most difficult devices to downsize (especially economically) is a NAS. But as my needs have changed, I'm bucking the trend of all datahoarders and I need less storage than the 120 TB (80 TB usable) I currently have. It turns out, when you stop running an entire YouTube channel in your home (I'm in a studio now), you don't need more than a few terabytes, so my new c

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Rust and WASM for Form Validation

news.ycombinator.com Sebastian Lauwers 2026-02-05 15:24:50

In recent years, Rust and WebAssembly have become much more usable for pure backend-style engineers. When I say “pure backend-style”, I mean people who never wrapped their heads around React, SPAs, and all that stuff. This, unsurprisingly, includes me. For a very long time, in order to use WASM you were strongly guided towards using Webpack and a whole array of Node-related tools in order to just get started. These days, luckily, the story has become much more streamlined. In today’s tutorial,

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Physicists start to pin down how stars forge heavy atoms

news.ycombinator.com Jenna Ahart 2026-02-08 22:18:32

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) may not glitter quite like the night sky, plunked as it is between Michigan State University’s chemistry department and the performing arts center. Inside, though, the lab is teeming with substances that are otherwise found only in stars. Here, atomic nuclei accelerate to half the speed of light, smash into a target and shatter into smithereens. The collisions create some of the same rare, unstable isotopes that arise inside stars and which, through a

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From Le Mans to Driven—where does F1: The Movie rank?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-08 23:08:25

It may not have escaped your attention that there's a new film about motorsport called F1: The Movie. It's a return-to-racing story with elements you'll have seen before, just maybe with other sports. A driver has been looking to slay his personal demons. There's a wise veteran, an impatient rookie, and an underdog team with its back to the wall. Except this time, the backdrop is the multicolored circus of Formula 1, seen close up at 200 mph. Backed by Apple and made by people responsible for h

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Physicists Start to Pin Down How Stars Forge Heavy Atoms

news.ycombinator.com Jenna Ahart 2026-02-09 16:18:32

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) may not glitter quite like the night sky, plunked as it is between Michigan State University’s chemistry department and the performing arts center. Inside, though, the lab is teeming with substances that are otherwise found only in stars. Here, atomic nuclei accelerate to half the speed of light, smash into a target and shatter into smithereens. The collisions create some of the same rare, unstable isotopes that arise inside stars and which, through a

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Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

news.ycombinator.com Borenstein Is An Associated Press Science Writer 2026-02-09 22:10:13

WASHINGTON (AP) — Websites that displayed legally mandated U.S. national climate assessments seem to have disappeared, making it harder for state and local governments and the public to learn what to expect in their backyards from a warming world. Scientists said the peer-reviewed authoritative reports save money and lives. Websites for the national assessments and the U.S. Global Change Research Program were down Monday and Tuesday with no links, notes or referrals elsewhere. The White House,

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Elon Musk's X goes down for some users

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2026-02-10 08:17:37

The X logo appears on a phone, and the xAI logo is displayed on a laptop in Krakow, Poland, on April 1, 2025. (Photo by Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Elon Musk's social media platform X was hit with an outage on Wednesday, leaving some users unable to load the site. More than 15,000 users reported issues with the platform at around 9:53 a.m. ET, according to analytics firm Downdetector, which gathers data from users who spot glitches and report them to service. The issues appeare

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WebAssembly Troubles part 4: Microwasm (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-06 05:03:20

WebAssembly Troubles part 4: Microwasm Preamble This is the final part of a 4-part miniseries on issues with WebAssembly and proposals to fix them. Part 1 here, part 2 here, part 3 here. This article assumes some familiarity with virtual machines, compilers and WebAssembly, but I’ll try to link to relevant information where necessary so even if you’re not you can follow along. Also, this series is going to come off as if I dislike WebAssembly. I love WebAssembly! I wrote a whole article about h

Topics: compiler format microwasm wasm webassembly

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Couchers is officially out of beta

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-10 06:05:20

A new chapter: Couchers is officially out of Beta! Quick summary: we are out of Beta and into version 1, we're releasing a new strategy around safe & active community instead of bashing our competitors, a fancy redesigned landing page, and a bunch of new features to make core couch surfing functionality better! Share the platform with your friends and let's grow the community together! We are super excited to share that Couchers is today finally out of the Beta phase with our version 1 (v1) la

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Couchers is officially out of Beta

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-10 12:05:20

A new chapter: Couchers is officially out of Beta! Quick summary: we are out of Beta and into version 1, we're releasing a new strategy around safe & active community instead of bashing our competitors, a fancy redesigned landing page, and a bunch of new features to make core couch surfing functionality better! Share the platform with your friends and let's grow the community together! We are super excited to share that Couchers is today finally out of the Beta phase with our version 1 (v1) la

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India’s Max Financial says hacker accessed customer data from its insurance unit

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2026-02-10 12:18:39

In Brief Max Financial Services on Wednesday said its insurance subsidiary Axis Max Life Insurance received communication from an anonymous sender about unauthorized access to its customer data. Without disclosing specifics, the Noida-based financial services company said in its stock exchange filing that Axis Max Life Insurance subsequently initiated an information security assessment and data log analysis. “A detailed investigation is also underway in consultation with information security

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From Le Mans to Driven—where does F1: The movie rank?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-10 17:08:25

It may not have escaped your attention that there's a new film about motorsport called F1: The Movie. It's a return-to-racing story with elements you'll have seen before, just maybe with other sports. A driver has been looking to slay his personal demons. There's a wise veteran, an impatient rookie, and an underdog team with its back to the wall. Except this time, the backdrop is the multicolored circus of Formula 1, seen close up at 200 mph. Backed by Apple and made by people responsible for h

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Forminator plugin flaw exposes WordPress sites to takeover attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-11 03:38:32

The Forminator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to an unauthenticated arbitrary file deletion flaw that could enable full site takeover attacks. The security issue is tracked as CVE-2025-6463 and has a high-severity impact (CVSS 8.8 score). It impacts all versions of Forminator up to 1.44.2. Forminator Forms is a plugin developed by WPMU DEV. It offers a flexible, visual drag‑and‑drop builder to help users create and embed a wide range of form-based content on WordPress sites. According to

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Elon Musk's X is down for some users

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2026-02-11 08:40:30

The X logo appears on a phone, and the xAI logo is displayed on a laptop in Krakow, Poland, on April 1, 2025. (Photo by Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Elon Musk's social media platform X was hit with an outage on Wednesday, leaving some users unable to load the site. More than 15,000 users reported issues with the platform at around 9:53 a.m. ET, according to analytics firm Downdetector, which gathers data from users who spot glitches and report them to service. The issues appeare

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Google Messages is hiding a useful text formatting feature from users

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-11 12:00:09

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR It turns out Google Messages supports text formatting, but currently, only the integrated Gemini chatbot can use it to format its own replies. The hidden feature uses Markdown syntax, as seen when the Gemini chatbot formats its own text with symbols like double asterisks for bolding. A full rollout may be challenging due to cross-platform compatibility needs, as text formatting isn’t a standard part of the RCS specification. Google Messages was a sim

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Kelly Benefits says 2024 data breach impacts 550,000 customers

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-13 06:28:39

Kelly & Associates Insurance Group (dba Kelly Benefits) is informing more than half a million people of a data breach that compromised their personal information. The Maryland-based health and life insurance agency has issued an update on a security incident it suffered last year between December 12-17, when unauthorized actors breached its IT systems and stole files. On April 9, 2025, the company stated that the incident impacted 32,234 individuals. The figure was revised multiple times until

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PlanetScale for Postgres

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-13 10:08:29

Announcing PlanetScale for Postgres By Sam Lambert | July 1, 2025 Today we are announcing the private preview of PlanetScale for Postgres: the world’s fastest Postgres hosting platform. You can request access to PlanetScale for Postgres by visiting this link. We are already hosting customers' production workloads with incredible results. Convex, the complete backend solution for app developers, is migrating their reactive database infrastructure to PlanetScale for Postgres. Read more about t

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Apple accuses former Vision Pro engineer of stealing trade secrets

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2026-02-13 12:03:08

Apple is suing a former employee for allegedly stealing confidential Vision Pro headset research before leaving to join Snap’s product design team. In the complaint filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court on June 24th, Apple accuses Di Liu of downloading thousands of documents containing proprietary information from Apple’s internal systems and saving them to his personal cloud storage account in his final days as a senior design engineer for the Vision Pro. According to the lawsuit, Liu fal

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Musk's X appoints 'king of virality' in bid to draw in younger users

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-02-14 08:09:46

Musk's X appoints 'king of virality' in bid to draw in younger users 52 minutes ago Share Save Share Save Getty Images Elon Musk has appointed a product developer responsible for several successful youth-focused social media apps to a senior role at X. Nikita Bier has been made X's head of product three years after publicly suggesting on the platform - then known as Twitter - that it should employ him. "I've officially posted my way to the top," he wrote in a post on X announcing the role. X

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Esse Health says recent data breach affects over 263,000 patients

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-14 08:04:29

Esse Health, a healthcare provider based in St. Louis, Missouri, is notifying over 263,000 patients that their personal and health information was stolen in an April cyberattack. As the largest independent physicians' group in the Greater St. Louis area, Esse Health operates 50 locations and employs over 100 physicians. The organization was made aware of a breach after the attackers took down some primary patient-facing network systems and its phone systems on April 21. Impacted systems were

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This AI travel agent can plan your next trip's entire itinerary - for free

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2026-02-14 06:58:00

ZDNET Spending long hours in front of a computer screen trying to plan vacations could soon become a thing of the past. The travel industry has enthusiastically embraced generative AI in recent years. Expedia, for example, integrated a ChatGPT-powered customer service chatbot into its app in early 2023. Kayak did something similar one year later, launching an AI platform trained on customer data and designed to provide personalized, real-time travel recommendations. Also: Are AI subscriptions

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I just can’t imagine using YouTube Music, so why do you?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-14 22:45:02

Joe Maring / Android Authority 🗣️ This is an open thread. We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts in the comments and vote in the poll below — your take might be featured in a future roundup. Not too long ago, I was a loyal Google Play Music user. It was an app that I loved dearly, offering great usability and a wide range of music. However, when the vastly different YouTube Music arrived and Play Music departed, I sought another service. I couldn’t quite get to grips with the changes, a

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How to Use Markdown

wired.com Justin Pot 2026-02-14 23:00:00

Whether you're posting on Reddit, Discord, or Github, there's only one way to add formatting: Markdown. If you want to add a link, bold some text, or even split text into paragraphs, you will need to know the basics of this text-based formatting system. Does that sound scary? Trust me, it’s not. Markdown has just a few rules for formatting text the way you want, and you only need to learn the rules for the formatting you actually use. Let's go over the simple rules, talk about why Markdown is

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This $649 Windows laptop competes with my MacBook Air (and does a few things better)

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2026-02-15 00:20:15

ZDNET's key takeaways The Asus Zenbook A14 with 16GB of memory is on sale at Best Buy for $649 - the lowest price we've seen yet. It's a fantastic balance of innovation and value with a brilliant OLED display, competitive hardware, and a satisfying physical form. While its use case is clearly defined, the laptop has its limits when it comes to high-end performance. View now at Best Buy When Asus officially announced the Zenbook A14 at CES this year, I wasn't the only one to be low-key enamore

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The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering

news.ycombinator.com Philipp Schmid 2026-02-14 17:53:55

June 30, 2025 5 minute read Context Engineering is new term gaining traction in the AI world. The conversation is shifting from "prompt engineering" to a broader, more powerful concept: Context Engineering. Tobi Lutke describes it as "the art of providing all the context for the task to be plausibly solvable by the LLM.” and he is right. With the rise of Agents it becomes more important what information we load into the “limited working memory”. We are seeing that the main thing that determine

Topics: context engineering information model right

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AT&T says ‘our network’ wasn’t to blame for Trump’s troubled conference call

theverge.com Jay Peters 2026-02-14 21:27:56

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. AT&T believes its network wasn’t at fault for a conference call where President Donald Trump accused the company of being “totally unable to make their equipment work properly.” Instead, AT&T is blaming an unnamed “conference call platform.” Earlier on Monday, President Donald Trump complained on Truth Social about apparent issues with AT&T’s network during a “major conferenc

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Portability of Tar Features

AMD Ryzen 5 9600X Is Now 41% Off for Prime Day as Amazon Clears Out Stock at a Record Low

Free as Air, Free as Water, Free as Knowledge (1992)

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Rust and WASM for Form Validation

Physicists start to pin down how stars forge heavy atoms

From Le Mans to Driven—where does F1: The Movie rank?

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Couchers is officially out of beta

Couchers is officially out of Beta

India’s Max Financial says hacker accessed customer data from its insurance unit

From Le Mans to Driven—where does F1: The movie rank?

Forminator plugin flaw exposes WordPress sites to takeover attacks

Elon Musk's X is down for some users

Google Messages is hiding a useful text formatting feature from users

Kelly Benefits says 2024 data breach impacts 550,000 customers

PlanetScale for Postgres

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Esse Health says recent data breach affects over 263,000 patients

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