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Build Your Own Lisp

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 05:55:20

Build Your Own Lisp Learn C and build your own programming language in 1000 lines of code! If you're looking to learn C, or you've ever wondered how to build your own programming language, this is the book for you. In just a few lines of code, I'll teach you how to use C, and together, we'll start building your very own language. Along the way we'll learn about the weird and wonderful nature of Lisps, how to develop a real-world project, concisely solve problems, and write beautiful code! T

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14 Best Beauty Box Subscriptions, Tested for Months (2025)

wired.com Louryn Strampe 2025-12-14 16:31:00

Ipsy is likely best known for its Glam Bags, which include a cute makeup bag each month filled with five deluxe samples. It was cofounded by OG beauty guru Michelle Phan in 2011. I received some excellent deluxe samples, including Fenty Beauty mascara, a BYOD blush brush, and a Just Ximena highlighter. And unlike some other sample sizes I've received, Ipsy actually sent enough of each hair product to be useful. My mane of curly hair initially laughed at the 50-milliliter bottle of Marc Anthony l

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xAI’s new Grok image and video generator has a ‘spicy’ mode

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-12-14 16:20:32

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. xAI’s new Grok Imagine tool is an AI image and video generator that encourages users to make NSFW content. In contrast to rival generative AI video tools like Google’s Veo and OpenAI’s Sora, which try to block users from generating anything seedy, the Grok chatbot’s Imagine feature provides a “Spicy” generation mode that actively directs it to spit out nudity and sexualized content. Grok Imagine includes te

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Using drone imagery and AI to rapidly assess damage after hurricanes and floods

news.ycombinator.com Lesley Henton 2025-12-10 15:22:18

A tool developed at Texas A&M University is set to transform how emergency responders assess damage after disasters. The technology, known as CLARKE (Computer vision and Learning for Analysis of Roads and Key Edifices) uses artificial intelligence and drone imagery to evaluate damage to buildings, roads and other infrastructure in a matter of minutes. CLARKE was created by a team of researchers led by Tom Manzini, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science and engineering, and Dr. Robin Murphy, a pi

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Passkeys are just passwords that require a password manager

news.ycombinator.com Dan Fabulich 2025-12-14 10:29:47

Passkeys are just passwords that require a password manager You reset your passkey the same way you reset your password. But you’ll find that passkeys make it harder to switch between password managers, because you can’t copy and paste a passkey. Dan Fabulich 3 min read · Just now Just now -- Listen Share Passkeys are randomly generated passwords that are required to be managed by a password manager. All the major password managers support them, including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and

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Deterministic Simulation Testing in Rust: A Theater of State Machines

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-10 16:36:58

It's been just a year since we wrote about how we implemented deterministic simulation testing (DST) of our Go database (FrostDB). Since then, we have been hard at work writing our new database backed by object storage in Rust (read more here about why). In this blog post, I want to lay out the approach we took to build our new Rust database with DST principles front-and-center and how it compares to the approach we took with FrostDB. As a quick recap, DST tests are randomized full system integ

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EconTeen – Financial literacy lessons and tools for teens

news.ycombinator.com Mr. K 2025-12-14 15:10:51

We've reimagined financial education for the digital generation. Our comprehensive curriculum combines proven teaching methods with engaging technology to deliver real results. 💡 Interactive Learning Engaging lessons with quizzes, scenarios, and hands-on activities that make complex financial concepts easy to understand and remember. 🎓 Comprehensive Curriculum From budgeting basics to investment strategies, our 22+ lesson modules cover everything students need for lifelong financial success.

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3D Line Drawings

news.ycombinator.com Amritansh Kwatra 2025-12-14 15:16:12

This is an experiment examing how to create a 3D line drawing of a scene. In this post, I will describe how this can be done by augmenting the process of generating 3D Gaussian Splats 3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering, by Kerbl et al. and leveraging a process to transform photographs into Informative Line Drawings Learning to Generate Line Drawings that Convey Geometry and Semantics, by Chan, Isola & Durand. Examples The majority of scenes shown above are generated u

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EconTeen – Financial Literacy Lessons and Tools for Teens

news.ycombinator.com Mr. K 2025-12-14 21:10:51

We've reimagined financial education for the digital generation. Our comprehensive curriculum combines proven teaching methods with engaging technology to deliver real results. 💡 Interactive Learning Engaging lessons with quizzes, scenarios, and hands-on activities that make complex financial concepts easy to understand and remember. 🎓 Comprehensive Curriculum From budgeting basics to investment strategies, our 22+ lesson modules cover everything students need for lifelong financial success.

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Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 14:50:05

Sometimes kids need something they can do on their own — while you’re on a work call, cooking dinner, or just taking a breath. Here’s a list of solo activities you can try with your child, grouped by age. Some are linked to full activity guides on Offline.Kids, and others are simple ideas you can… View post

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Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering

news.ycombinator.com Qwen Team 2025-12-15 11:56:40

GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DEMO DISCORD We are thrilled to release Qwen-Image, a 20B MMDiT image foundation model that achieves significant advances in complex text rendering and precise image editing. To try the latest model, feel free to visit Qwen Chat and choose “Image Generation”. The key features include: Superior Text Rendering : Qwen-Image excels at complex text rendering, including multi-line layouts, paragraph-level semantics, and fine-grained details. It supports both alphabeti

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Qwen-Image is a powerful, open source new AI image generator with support for embedded text in English & Chinese

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-12-15 21:07:53

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 After seizing the summer with a blitz of powerful, freely available new open source language and coding focused AI models that matched or in some cases bested closed-source/proprietary U.S. rivals, Alibaba’s crack “Qwen Team” of AI researchers is back again today with the release of a highly ranked new AI image generator model — also open s

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Offline.kids – screen-free activities for kids

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 20:50:05

Sometimes kids need something they can do on their own — while you’re on a work call, cooking dinner, or just taking a breath. Here’s a list of solo activities you can try with your child, grouped by age. Some are linked to full activity guides on Offline.Kids, and others are simple ideas you can… View post

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In This Look Inside the New ‘Bad Batch’ Novel, the Emperor’s Name Counts for a Lot

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-12-15 21:16:03

From Rebels to Andor, we’ve met different types of people that make up the Empire’s sinister intelligence forces in the Imperial Security Bureau. We’ve seen agents like Kallus realize the extent of their role in the Empire’s evil, and agents like Dedra Meero consumed by the system they created. Now, in the latest Star Wars novel, we’re going to meet an agent learning a very difficult lesson: the long arm of Imperial law doesn’t apply to some people, whether they like it or not. That’s the troub

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F1 in Hungary: Please stop saying Monaco without the walls

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-15 20:42:19

Formula 1 teams can start their annual summer break today. Sometime this month, each of the 10 teams has to close its factory for 14 consecutive days. Laptops stay in the office, email goes unchecked. It all sounds very civilized for a sport where the difference between hero and zero can come down to milliseconds. As was the case at this past weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix, at least in qualifying. When the Hungaroring was added to the calendar back in 1986, it was F1's first true foray behind t

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The best GPS trackers for kids recommended by parents in 2025

zdnet.com Allison Murray 2025-12-16 11:47:00

Why we like it: The Apple AirTag is an affordable and accurate solution to keep track of your child's location. It works with the Find My app and seamlessly integrates with the Apple ecosystem. Apple's AirTags are about the size of a quarter, and there are countless accessories you can use to attach the small tracker to a jacket, backpack, or even slip it into your child's pocket. The device uses an easily replaceable CR2032 battery lasts that lasts around a year. The AirTag offers a solid per

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Tesla awards Musk $29 billion in shares with prior pay package in limbo

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2025-12-16 16:27:37

Tesla CEO Elon Musk was awarded an interim pay package of 96 million shares of the company over the weekend. The shares would be worth about $29 billion. Tesla stock climbed about 2% Monday. The company said in a filing Sunday that the pay package would vest in two years as long as Musk continued as CEO or in another key executive position. The new award would be forfeited if the legal battle over his 2018 compensation ends with Musk being able to exercise the larger pay package, which was va

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The Toyota Corolla of programming

news.ycombinator.com Adrian Kosmaczewski 2025-12-16 15:49:00

In 1995, an otherwise unknown software developer released the first version of a new scripting language whose explicit aim was to make applications for this new platform called “The World Wide Web”. After starting as a small project, and thanks to the crazy dot-com years, it grew dramatically to become one of the most widely used programming languages of all time. After some stumbling first steps, it eventually got some sort of standardization in 1997, even reluctantly including some OOP feature

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LastPass can now warn or block logins to shadow SaaS apps - here's how

zdnet.com David Berlind 2025-12-16 21:00:19

LastPass ZDNET's key takeaways: The LastPass plug-in can now prevent access to unapproved SaaS apps. Feature extends plug-in's monitoring of SaaS access attempts. Passkey authentication coming by month's end -- not yet supported. Earlier this year, LastPass announced it was adding the ability for administrators of its password management solution to monitor employee usage of SaaS or web-based applications. Today at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, the company announced it has

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Do LLMs identify fonts?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 03:56:24

Spoiler: not really dafont.com is a wonderful website that contains a large collection of fonts. It’s more comprehensive and esoteric than Google Fonts. One of its features is a forum where users can ask for help identifying fonts – check out this poor fellow who’s been waiting for over two years and bumped his thread. I thought it would be interesting to see if an LLM could do this task, so I scraped the forum and set up a benchmark. I implemented this as a live benchmark. By this I mean that

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My Ideal Array Language

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 21:05:08

2025-07-20 What do I think the ideal array language should look like? The fundamental units of computation available to users today are not the same as they were 20 years ago. When users had at most a few cores on a single CPU, it made complete sense that every program was written with the assumption that it would only run on a single core. Even in a high-performance computing (HPC) context, the default mode of parallelism was (for a long time) the Message Passing Interface (MPI), which is a

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Under RFK Jr, CDC skips study on vaccination rates, quietly posts data on drop

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-13 15:45:58

Vaccination rates among the country's kindergartners have fallen once again, with coverage of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination dropping from 92.7 percent in the 2023–2024 school year to 92.5 percent in 2024–2025. The percentage changes are small across the board, but they represent thousands of children and an ongoing downward trend that makes the country more vulnerable to outbreaks. In the latest school year, an estimated 286,000 young children were not fully protected agains

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Tesla hands $29B comp package to Elon Musk amid ‘AI talent war’

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-12-16 18:13:55

Tesla’s board of directors has announced a new compensation package for CEO Elon Musk worth around $29 billion in shares, with the company citing the “ever-intensifying AI talent war and Tesla’s position at a critical inflection point” as reasons for the payout. The massive pay package is being allocated through a 2019 Equity Incentive Plan that is already approved by shareholders, so it won’t go to a vote, according to a regulatory filing and Ann Lipton, a professor at the University of Colora

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The US military’s on-base slot machines

news.ycombinator.com Molly Longman 2025-12-17 00:50:46

When Dave Yeager stumbled upon the chamber of shiny, casino-style slot machines, he felt an instant pull. It was his first night of deployment in Seoul, South Korea, and the United States Army officer was in a bad headspace. The September 11, 2001, attacks had just happened, and he had a wife and two children under the age of 5 at home whom he missed fiercely. He felt lost. WIRED has made this article free for all to read because it is primarily based on reporting from Freedom of Information Ac

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Airbnb guest says host used AI-generated images in false $9,000 damages claim

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-12-17 12:15:00

WTF?! One of the many fears about AI use becoming widespread is that people can now alter images – sometimes convincingly – without any technical skills. An example of this surfaced recently when an Airbnb guest said a host manipulated photos in a false £12,000 ($9,041) damage claim. The incident took place earlier this year when a London-based woman booked a one-bedroom apartment in New York's Manhattan for two-and-a-half months while she was studying, reports The Guardian. She decided to leav

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The US Military Is Raking in Millions From On-Base Slot Machines

wired.com Molly Longman 2025-12-17 11:30:00

When Dave Yeager stumbled upon the chamber of shiny, casino-style slot machines, he felt an instant pull. It was his first night of deployment in Seoul, South Korea, and the United States Army officer was in a bad headspace. The September 11, 2001, attacks had just happened, and he had a wife and two children under the age of 5 at home whom he missed fiercely. He felt lost. WIRED has made this article free for all to read because it is primarily based on reporting from Freedom of Information Ac

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Tesla asks shareholders to approve $29B comp package for Elon Musk amid ‘AI talent war’

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-12-17 12:13:55

Tesla’s board of directors has announced a proposed compensation package for CEO Elon Musk that would be worth around $29 billion in shares, with the company citing the “ever-intensifying AI talent war and Tesla’s position at a critical inflection point” as reasons for the payout. The new plan will be put to a vote at the company’s annual shareholder meeting, which is scheduled for November. It will also be entirely voided if the Delaware Supreme Court decides to overturn a judge’s January 2024

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A study of lights at night suggests dictators lie about economic growth (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 03:50:53

B enito Mussolini was a tyrant, but at least he made the trains run on time. Or so the story goes. Dictators are often seen as ruthless but effective. Official GDP figures support this view. Since 2002 average reported economic growth in autocracies has been twice as fast as in democracies.

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New quantum state of matter found at interface of exotic materials

news.ycombinator.com Kitta Macpherson 2025-12-14 02:42:00

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Crystal structure and temperature dependence of resistivity of EIO/DTO. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adr6202 Scientists have discovered a new way that matter can exist—one that is different from the usual states of solid, liquid, gas or plasma—at the interface of two exotic materials made int

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Life, Work, Death and the Peasant: Family Formation

news.ycombinator.com Bret Devereaux 2025-12-15 10:39:42

This is the first part of the third part of our series (I, II) discussing the patterns of life of the pre-modern peasants who made up the great majority of all humans who lived in our agrarian past and indeed a majority of all humans who have ever lived. Last week, we looked at death, examining the brutal mortality regime of pre-modern societies, typified by extremely high (c. 50%) infant and child mortality, very high maternal mortality and often high male military mortality, which kept life ex

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Build Your Own Lisp

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Using drone imagery and AI to rapidly assess damage after hurricanes and floods

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Deterministic Simulation Testing in Rust: A Theater of State Machines

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Qwen-Image is a powerful, open source new AI image generator with support for embedded text in English & Chinese

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In This Look Inside the New ‘Bad Batch’ Novel, the Emperor’s Name Counts for a Lot

F1 in Hungary: Please stop saying Monaco without the walls

The best GPS trackers for kids recommended by parents in 2025

Tesla awards Musk $29 billion in shares with prior pay package in limbo

The Toyota Corolla of programming

LastPass can now warn or block logins to shadow SaaS apps - here's how

Do LLMs identify fonts?

My Ideal Array Language

Under RFK Jr, CDC skips study on vaccination rates, quietly posts data on drop

Tesla hands $29B comp package to Elon Musk amid ‘AI talent war’

The US military’s on-base slot machines

Airbnb guest says host used AI-generated images in false $9,000 damages claim

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Tesla asks shareholders to approve $29B comp package for Elon Musk amid ‘AI talent war’

A study of lights at night suggests dictators lie about economic growth (2022)

New quantum state of matter found at interface of exotic materials

Life, Work, Death and the Peasant: Family Formation

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