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NASA closing its original repository for Columbia artifacts to tours

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-27 16:26:27

NASA is changing the way that its employees come in contact with, and remember, one of its worst tragedies. In the wake of the 2003 loss of the space shuttle Columbia and its STS-107 crew, NASA created a program to use the orbiter's debris for research and education at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Agency employees were invited to see what remained of the space shuttle as a powerful reminder as to why they had to be diligent in their work. Access to the Columbia Research and Preservation Off

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Microsoft says Windows September updates break SMBv1 shares

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-28 00:48:23

Microsoft has confirmed that the September 2025 Windows security updates are causing connection issues to Server Message Block (SMB) v1 shares. The list of platforms affected by this known issue is quite extensive, as it includes both client (Windows 11 24H2/23H2/22H2 and Windows 10 22H2/21H2) and server (Windows Server 2025 and Windows Server 2022) platforms. In a service alert seen by BleepingComputer, Microsoft said this known issue affects those connecting to SMBv1 shares over the NetBIOS

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Language Models Pack Billions of Concepts into 12k Dimensions

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-28 01:54:20

In a recent 3Blue1Brown video series on transformer models, Grant Sanderson posed a fascinating question: How can a relatively modest embedding space of 12,288 dimensions (GPT-3) accommodate millions of distinct real-world concepts? The answer lies at the intersection of high-dimensional geometry and a remarkable mathematical result known as the Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma. While exploring this question, I discovered something unexpected that led to an interesting collaboration with Grant and a

Topics: dimensional embedding high space vectors

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Whole-Genome Sequencing Will Change Pregnancy

wired.com Rob Reddick 2025-09-28 09:00:00

The world of pregnancy is going to radically change, predicts Noor Siddiqui. “I think that the default way people are going to choose to have kids is via IVF and embryo screening,” she said at the WIRED Health summit last week. “There’s just a massive amount of risk that you can take off of the table.” Siddiqui is the founder and CEO of Orchid, a biotech company that offers whole-genome screening of embryos for IVF. By analyzing the DNA of different embryos before selecting which one to implant

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Which NPM package has the largest version number?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-28 06:03:18

Which npm package has the largest version number? I spent way too much time on this I was recently working on a project that uses the AWS SDK for JavaScript. When updating the dependencies in said project, I noticed that the version of that dependency was v3.888.0 . Eight hundred eighty eight. That’s a big number as far as versions go. That got me thinking: I wonder what package in the npm registry has the largest number in its version. It could be a major, minor, or patch version, and it doe

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Language Models Pack Billions of Concepts into 12,000 Dimensions

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-28 06:54:20

In a recent 3Blue1Brown video series on transformer models, Grant Sanderson posed a fascinating question: How can a relatively modest embedding space of 12,288 dimensions (GPT-3) accommodate millions of distinct real-world concepts? The answer lies at the intersection of high-dimensional geometry and a remarkable mathematical result known as the Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma. While exploring this question, I discovered something unexpected that led to an interesting collaboration with Grant and a

Topics: dimensional embedding high space vectors

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The Quest to Find the Longest-Running Simple Computer Program

wired.com Ben Brubaker 2025-09-28 00:00:00

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107 and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If you’re stumped, you’re not alone. These are the first five busy beaver numbers. They form a sequence that’s intimately tied to one of the most notoriously difficult questions in theoretical computer science. Determining the values of busy beaver numbers is a daunting challenge that has attracted a cult

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Resizing images in Rust, now with EXIF orientation support

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-24 00:31:22

Resizing images in Rust, now with EXIF orientation support Resizing an image is one of those programming tasks that seems simple, but has some rough edges. One common mistake is forgetting to handle the EXIF orientation, which can make resized images look very different from the original. Last year I wrote a create_thumbnail tool to resize images, and today I released a small update. Now it’s aware of EXIF orientation, and it no longer mangles these images. This is possible thanks to a new ver

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Amazon Prime Shared Free Shipping Faces Crackdown Next Month

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-28 11:07:06

If you're using someone else's Amazon Prime membership for their free shipping but you don't live in the same household, you might need to pay another monthly cost soon. According to Amazon's updated customer service page, the online retail giant is ending its Prime Invitee benefit-sharing program on Oct. 1. Amazon's Prime Invitee program is being replaced by Amazon Family, as reported earlier by The Verge, which includes many of the same benefits. However, Amazon Family only works for up to t

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Someone Finally Got the Note and Fixed This ‘Beetlejuice’ Sign

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-09-30 16:00:33

If you’re a movie prop replica collector, you know exactly which Beetlejuice sign we’re talking about. For years, as a Beetlejuice decor hunter, there has been one item I refused to buy on principle because it had one glaring mistake: it was not in-universe accurate. I’ve bought the Adam and Barbara monster face hanging decor, the inflatable Sandworm for my lawn, and the “Here Lies Betelgeuse” tombstone—but never the iconic light-up sign due to the fact that it always featured the ghost with th

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An engineering history of the Manhattan Project

news.ycombinator.com Brian Potter 2025-10-01 03:04:49

The Manhattan Project, the US program to build an atomic bomb during WWII, is one of the most famous and widely known major government projects: a survey in 1999 ranked the dropping of the atomic bomb as the top news story of the 20th century. Virtually everyone knows that the project built the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And most of us probably know that the bomb was built by some of the world’s best physicists, working under Robert Oppenheimer at Los Alamos in New Mexico

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As Apple again extends free satellite messaging, I’m doubling down on my prediction

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-02 04:21:56

Apple’s satellite messaging service was a key feature of the iPhone 14. Initially limited to providing an emergency service for those outside cellular coverage areas, it was subsequently extended to offer roadside assistance cover for mechanical problems and messaging with family and friends too. Although initially described as free for the first two years only, Apple subsequently extended free coverage – and has just done so again … As Macworld notes, here are the latest free periods: iPhone

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An Engineering History of the Manhattan Project

news.ycombinator.com Brian Potter 2025-10-02 04:04:49

The Manhattan Project, the US program to build an atomic bomb during WWII, is one of the most famous and widely known major government projects: a survey in 1999 ranked the dropping of the atomic bomb as the top news story of the 20th century. Virtually everyone knows that the project built the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And most of us probably know that the bomb was built by some of the world’s best physicists, working under Robert Oppenheimer at Los Alamos in New Mexico

Topics: bomb material plant plutonium uranium

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AI gaming startup Born raises $15M to build ‘social’ AI companions that combat loneliness

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-10-04 12:00:00

Fabian Kamberi, CEO and co-founder of the Berlin-based AI gaming startup Born, thinks the current AI companions on the market are designed to be exploitative and geared towards isolating users through one-to-one relationships with AI chatbots. “It feels like it fuels the loneliness epidemic, instead of making it more fun and giving users the opportunity to make their lives better,” Kamberi told TechCrunch. The future of AI companions, he says, is about shared experiences that strengthen real-w

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Office CMBS Delinquency Rate Spikes to Record 11.7%

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 16:37:04

Extend-and-pretend and forbearance deals widely implemented to “cure” delinquent CRE mortgages. The office and multifamily sectors of commercial real estate loans got further bludgeoned in August, despite large-scale extend-and-pretend and forbearance deals executed in the hopes for better times and lower interest rates and more demand so that lenders don’t end up with the property and a huge loss. The delinquency rate of office mortgages that have been securitized into commercial mortgage-b

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Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-10-04 16:44:30

Reddit users can no longer see how many people are subscribed to their favorite subreddit communities. The platform has announced that it’s removing the member count metric that appears on subreddit pages — located under the page bio on the right for desktop users, or at the top under the subreddit name on mobile — to better focus on real-time engagement. The member count is being replaced by two metrics. One shows how many users have visited a subreddit in the past seven days, “based on a roll

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Ted Cruz Wants to Help AI Companies Duck Regulations

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-05 01:00:37

Most tech firms like to operate under the adage of “ask forgiveness, not permission,” but they don’t even have to do that when they have lenient overseers like Ted Cruz trying to preemptively tell them to go ahead and get reckless. According to a report from Bloomberg, the Texas Senator plans to introduce legislation that will waive federal regulations for artificial intelligence companies and allow them to test new products without the standard scrutiny or oversight. The proposed bill, which i

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Microsoft September 2025 Patch Tuesday fixes 81 flaws, two zero-days

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-06 04:43:33

Today is Microsoft's September 2025 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 81 flaws, including two publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities. This Patch Tuesday also fixes nine "Critical" vulnerabilities, five of which are remote code execution vulnerabilities, 1 is information disclosure, and 2 are elevation of privileges. The number of bugs in each vulnerability category is listed below: 41 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities 2 Security Feature Bypass Vulnerabilities 22 R

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How to watch today’s Apple event with iPhone 17, Apple Watch Ultra 3, more

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-06 06:04:00

It’s almost time: Apple’s big iPhone 17 event is happening today: Tuesday, September 9. The ‘Awe dropping’ announcements will be streamed live online. Here’s how to watch the iPhone 17 event. Apple’s iPhone 17 event: here’s how to watch live on September 9 Apple’s biggest event of the year is about to start. The iPhone 17 event happens today, September 9 at 1:00 p.m. ET / 10:00 a.m. PT. Apple’s keynote is expected to be a pre-recorded video, with all the announcements livestreamed across sev

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Orson Welles' Estate Disgusted by Amazon Remaking His Movie Using AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-06 12:14:20

Amazon is planning to use artificial intelligence to recreate destroyed footage from Orson Welles' 1942 film "The Magnificent Ambersons" — but the late directors' estate is calling bull. In a statement to Variety, a spokesperson for David Reeder, whose Reeder Brand Management handles Welles' estate on behalf of the auteur's daughter Beatrice, said that the family hadn't been informed of the project, which is slated to generate with AI the final 43 minutes of the film. Edward Saatchi, the CEO o

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Three big things we still don’t know about AI’s energy burden

technologyreview.com James O'Donnell 2025-10-07 07:00:00

The problem with finding that number, as we explain in our piece published in May, was that AI companies are the only ones who have it. We pestered Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft, but each company refused to provide its figure. Researchers we spoke to who study AI’s impact on energy grids compared it to trying to measure the fuel efficiency of a car without ever being able to drive it, making guesses based on rumors of its engine size and what it sounds like going down the highway. But then this

Topics: ai energy google number openai

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A New Platform Offers Privacy Tools to Millions of Public Servants

wired.com Dell Cameron 2025-10-07 08:00:00

A first-of-its-kind marketplace rolled out on Tuesday offering free and discounted privacy and security services to America’s 23 million current and former public servants. The initiative is supported by the Public Service Alliance (PSA), a nonprofit group that says it formed last summer following an unprecedented rise in threats against government workers across the United States. Open to anyone who is serving or has served in government—federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial—the platfo

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Judge rejects Anthropic's record-breaking $1.5 billion settlement for AI copyright lawsuit

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-07 11:35:12

Judge William Alsup has rejected the record-breaking $1.5 billion settlement Anthropic has agreed to for a piracy lawsuit filed by writers. According to Bloomberg Law, the federal judge is concerned that the class lawyers struck a deal that will be forced "down the throat of authors." Alsup reportedly felt misled by the deal and said it was "nowhere close to complete." In his order, he said he was "disappointed that counsel have left important questions to be answered in the future," including t

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I only give my real number to people, not companies

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-06 22:00:41

Ryan Haines / Android Authority I shudder every time I get a phone call from an unknown number. I dread looking at the hundreds of unread text messages in my inbox. No, I’m not being melodramatic. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been very lax with securing my phone number. Every app, every food delivery service, every shopping website that I’ve logged into has my phone number. At the time of signing up for these services, it seemed like the obvious thing to do. After all, if the delivery guy n

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M5 iPad Pro launch this week is starting to look very possible

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-08 20:29:13

Apple is expected to launch 8+ new products this week, headlined by the iPhone 17 lineup. But a surprise appearance of the forthcoming M5 iPad Pro is now looking even more likely too. New signs point to higher likelihood of M5 iPad Pro launch at September event This week’s iPhone 17 event is shaping up to be packed with new product announcements. We’re expecting four iPhone 17 models, Apple Watch Ultra 3, AirPods Pro 3, Apple Watch Series 11, and more. Apple has a handful of rumored products

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Cillian Murphy Is Flattered Everyone Thought He Would Play an Emaciated Zombie in ’28 Years Later’

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-10-09 04:48:49

As soon as the teaser trailer for 28 Years Later dropped, pretty much everyone and their mom assumed the skinny zombie seen struggling through flowers looked uncannily like Cillian Murphy’s Jim, the franchise’s original main character from director Danny Boyle and Alex Garland‘s 2002 28 Days Later. The internet sleuths swiftly discovered the likeness was pure serendipity, but the Oscar-winning actor now says he was touched that fans had assumed the emaciated undead wanderer was him. In an inter

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Why Your Office Chair Should Have Lumbar Support

wired.com Luke Larsen 2025-10-09 04:00:00

Office chairs with lumbar support have been around for decades, but it has largely been relegated to high-end seats. That's no longer the case. Lumbar support is a standard feature on most office chairs these days, even budget models. Often it's included, but you may have to pay a small fee to add it on. But is having lumbar support really worth it? Unless you have perfect posture, the lumbar spine is the area in your lower back that needs help. A standard office chair may not follow the natura

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Watch ZDNET's preview of the Apple Event - and the rest of Techtember

zdnet.com Jason Hiner 2025-10-09 15:02:00

Watch ZDNET's preview of the Apple Event - and the rest of Techtember Get the inside scoop from ZDNET editors as we run through our expectations for the Apple Event and the rest of what promises to be a very eventful Techtember.

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How many dimensions is this?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 18:25:21

In the past couple of weeks, I’ve been posting about seemingly simple mathematical problems that defy intuition, and where the answers we find on the internet turn out to be shallow or hard to parse. For a taste, you might enjoy the articles on Gödel’s beavers or on infinite decimals. Today, let’s continue by asking a simple question: how many dimensions does a line have? A trained mathematician might blurt out an answer involving vector spaces or open set coverings, but there’s no fun in that.

Topics: curve dimensional log number shape

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‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ Summons a Franchise-Best Box Office

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-09 12:15:13

After a longer-than-expected wait, the fictionalized versions of Ed and Lorraine Warren have financially gone out with a bang. Per the Hollywood Reporter, this weekend’s The Conjuring: Last Rites has made $187 million worldwide. Of that, $83 million came domestically, becoming the best launch for a Conjuring movie, the third-biggest open for a horror movie overall, and well past initial projections from Warner Bros. and box office analysts. Internationally, its $104 million take also defied exp

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NASA closing its original repository for Columbia artifacts to tours

Microsoft says Windows September updates break SMBv1 shares

Language Models Pack Billions of Concepts into 12k Dimensions

Whole-Genome Sequencing Will Change Pregnancy

Which NPM package has the largest version number?

Language Models Pack Billions of Concepts into 12,000 Dimensions

The Quest to Find the Longest-Running Simple Computer Program

Resizing images in Rust, now with EXIF orientation support

Amazon Prime Shared Free Shipping Faces Crackdown Next Month

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An Engineering History of the Manhattan Project

AI gaming startup Born raises $15M to build ‘social’ AI companions that combat loneliness

Office CMBS Delinquency Rate Spikes to Record 11.7%

Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits

Ted Cruz Wants to Help AI Companies Duck Regulations

Microsoft September 2025 Patch Tuesday fixes 81 flaws, two zero-days

How to watch today’s Apple event with iPhone 17, Apple Watch Ultra 3, more

Orson Welles' Estate Disgusted by Amazon Remaking His Movie Using AI

Three big things we still don’t know about AI’s energy burden

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Judge rejects Anthropic's record-breaking $1.5 billion settlement for AI copyright lawsuit

I only give my real number to people, not companies

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