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Lisp-stat: Lisp environment for statistical computing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-13 17:23:55

Lisp-Stat is conceptually similar to R and will be familiar to most people from that ecosystem. It is suitable for both exploratory data analysis as well as front-line production deployments. Common Lisp is currently used at Google in several high-availability, high-volume transactional systems. Why Lisp? We had a few requirements when evaluating options. Specifically the system had to: Work well in the kind of exploratory environment conducive to analytics and AI Be robust enough to work in

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Start your own Internet Resiliency Club

news.ycombinator.com About The Author 2025-09-15 13:38:17

Thanks to war, geopolitics, and climate change, Europe will have more frequent and more severe internet disruptions in the very near future. Governments and businesses need to prepare for catastrophic loss of communications. Unfortunately, the necessary changes are risky and expensive, which means they won’t do it until a crisis is already here. However, small groups of volunteers with a little bit of time and money can provide crucial initial leadership to bootstrap recovery. An Internet Resil

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How to set up a WhatsApp account without Facebook or Instagram

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-15 08:00:24

There's no shortage of reasons to stay off the Meta ecosystem, which includes Facebook and Instagram, but there are some places where WhatsApp remains the main form of text-based communication. The app is a great alternative to SMS, since it offers end-to-end encryption and was one of the go-to methods to send uncompressed photos and videos between iPhone and Android users before Apple adopted RCS. Even though Facebook, which later rebranded to Meta, acquired WhatsApp in 2014, it doesn't require

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Cyborg Embryos Offer New Insights into Brain Growth

news.ycombinator.com Charles Q. Choi 2025-09-11 21:11:17

Scientists have created cyborg embryos by implanting electrode arrays into the developing brains of frogs, mice, and salamanders. Although the researchers reject implants in human embryos as unethical, they suggest their technology might one day help study and treat neurodevelopmental conditions in children. The stretchable technology at the core of the electrode arrays could record brain activity while remaining soft enough to accommodate the children’s growth. Recording the activity of neuron

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20 Years Ago, Batman Began a New Era of Hollywood

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-09-15 05:50:43

There are plenty of constants in popular culture, and Batman is near the top of the list. He’s everywhere in some fashion, particularly in movies, and his various cinematic versions have been significant in some way that speaks to how both the audience and Warner Bros. view the character. Of those, Batman Begins may be the most important. The first chapter of an eventual trilogy from director Christopher Nolan and writers David S. Goyer and Jonathan Nolan released on June 15, 2005, and marked h

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‘How to Train Your Dragon’ is Another Hit Remake at the Box Office

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-09-15 08:00:08

A second live-action remake has hit theaters with Universal’s How to Train Your Dragon, and shocker, it’s taking off big. Per Variety, the film has opened to $197.8 million worldwide. Of that, $114 million came from the international market, with Mexico, the UK and Ireland, and China listed as big contributors. Critic and audience reactions to the movie have been pretty solid, and it likely helps the larger How to Train Your Dragon franchise has never really went away: along with the three anim

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for June 16, #470

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-15 07:00:05

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle will hit all the right notes with musicians. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword answers, you can visit CNET's NYT

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Delightfully irreverent Underdogs isn’t your parents’ nature docuseries

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-15 06:11:24

National Geographic/Eleanor Paish Madagascar's aye-aye: "as if fear and panic had a baby and rolled it in dog hair" Madagascar's aye-aye: "as if fear and panic had a baby and rolled it in dog hair" National Geographic/Eleanor Paish National Geographic/Simon De Glanville An emerald jewel wasp emerges from a cockroach. An emerald jewel wasp emerges from a cockroach. National Geographic/Simon De Glanville National Geographic/Tom Walker A pack of African hunting dogs is no match for the honey badger

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Taiwan places export controls on Huawei and SMIC

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-09-15 06:14:24

In Brief Chinese companies Huawei and SMIC may have a difficult time accessing resources needed to build AI chips, due to Taiwanese export controls. Bloomberg reports that Taiwan’s International Trade Administration placed the two companies and their subsidiaries on an updated list of entities designated as strategic high-tech commodities. That means Taiwanese businesses will need government approval before they can ship anything to either company. As a result, Huawei and SMIC will lose acces

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Spiraling with ChatGPT

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-09-15 07:41:18

In Brief ChatGPT seems to have pushed some users towards delusional or conspiratorial thinking, or at least reinforced that kind of thinking, according to a recent feature in The New York Times. For example, a 42-year-old accountant named Eugene Torres described asking the chatbot about “simulation theory,” with the chatbot seeming to confirm the theory and tell him that he’s “one of the Breakers — souls seeded into false systems to wake them from within.” ChatGPT reportedly encouraged Torres

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I took my e-book library back from Amazon with this self-hosted app

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-15 04:00:06

Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority If you’ve ever bought an e-book from Amazon, you already know you don’t really own it. Sure, it’s in your Kindle library and you can read it in the app. But try moving it to another device or archiving it somewhere else, and you’ll quickly run into walls. In fact, Amazon has been doubling down on its attempts to curtail access to the books you’ve bought from the Kindle store. Between DRM, proprietary file formats, and a complete lack of export tools, you are s

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Over 46,000 Grafana instances exposed to account takeover bug

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-15 06:07:56

More than 46,000 internet-facing Grafana instances remain unpatched and exposed to a client-side open redirect vulnerability that allows executing a malicious plugin and account takeover. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2025-4123 and impacts multiple versions of the open-source platform used for monitoring and visualizing infrastructure and application metrics. The vulnerability was discovered by bug bounty hunter Alvaro Balada and was addressed in security updates that Grafana Labs released on May

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Best Buy will give you a free Sony 65-inch 4K TV right now - how to qualify for the deal

zdnet.com Taylor Clemons 2025-09-15 03:30:17

The Sony Bravia 5 TV. Kerry Wan/ZDNET Sony is most known for its high-end OLED TVs and home audio equipment, but its Mini LED and midrange LED models still offer impressive picture and audio quality, even if you opt for an older model. And right now at Best Buy (or Sony), when you buy a 98-inch Sony Bravia 5 at the regular price, you'll get a 65-inch Bravia X90L for free. That's a $1,200 TV you can use as a second screen in your home. Also: The best 98-inch TVs you can buy Here's the deal wit

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I tested this affordable Garmin sports watch, and it shouldn't be this good for the price

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-09-15 04:00:24

ZDNET's key takeaways The Garmin Forerunner 165 is typically available for $249, with the Music model priced at $299. The watch is small and lightweight, has a vibrant AMOLED display, 19 hours of GPS battery life, and features extensive support for running. I just wish there were more sports modes. $199.99 at Garmin $191.99 at Amazon $199.99 at Crutchfield more buying choices For a limited time, Amazon has discounted the Garmin Forerunner 165 down to just $191 ($59 off), making the already af

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I tested the new Dreame X50 Ultra for months and here's my buying advice

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-09-15 04:00:25

ZDNET's key takeaways The Dreame X50 Ultra is available for $1,700, but on sale for $1,300. This is one of the best robot vacuums and mops available, with anti-tangle dual brushes, 20,000Pa of suction, and legs to cross up to 4.2cm thresholds. The Dreame X50 Ultra can get caught on obstacles and require intervention, and sometimes leaves streaks while mopping. $1,299.99 at Amazon The Dreame X50 Ultra is 24% off right now, available for $1,399 -- a $400 discount. Dreame has quickly become a p

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Tiny-diffusion: A minimal implementation of probabilistic diffusion models

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-14 23:52:49

A minimal PyTorch implementation of probabilistic diffusion models for 2D datasets. Get started by running python ddpm.py -h to explore the available options for training. Forward process A visualization of the forward diffusion process being applied to a dataset of one thousand 2D points. Note that the dinosaur is not a single training example, it represents each 2D point in the dataset. Reverse process This illustration shows how the reverse process recovers the distribution of the trainin

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Text-to-LoRA: Hypernetwork that generates task-specific LLM adapters (LoRAs)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-11 21:51:10

Text-to-LoRA (T2L): Instant Transformer Adaption 🛠️ Installation Install uv if you don't have uv (see https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/) With uv installed, run the following to install the dependencies. git clone https://github.com/SakanaAI/text-to-lora.git cd text-to-lora # make sure you have `uv` installed # (see https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/) uv self update uv venv --python 3.10 --seed uv sync # we use the following wheel for installation #

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How easy is it for a developer to "sandbox" a program?

news.ycombinator.com In 2025-09-11 08:57:24

# source code sandboxing Sandboxing is when a developer limits available system resources to a program from within its own source code. A classic example is calling chroot(2) to change the root file-system to an empty directory so that the program cannot scribble into the root file-system. int main(void) { /* Program has full file-system access. */ chroot("/var/empty"); chdir("/"); /* File-system root re-rooted in /var/empty. */ int fd = open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY); /* Tried to open /var/empty

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The Art of Lisp and Writing (2003)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-14 23:07:42

The Art of Lisp & Writing Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. Charles Darwin Lisp is the language of loveliness. With it a great programmer can make a beautiful, operating thing, a thing organically created and formed through the interaction of a programmer/artist and a medium of expression that happens to execute on a computer. Taught that programmingor the worse "developing software"is like a routine engineering activity, many find difficulty seeing writing

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Childhood leukemia: how a deadly cancer became treatable

news.ycombinator.com Saloni Dattani 2025-09-15 05:12:42

Childhood leukemia: how a deadly cancer became treatable Before the 1970s, most children affected by leukemia would quickly die from it. Now, most children in rich countries are cured. In the past, when I’d hear the words childhood leukemia, I’d picture a young child who suddenly became seriously ill, and whose parents were told their child had only a few years to live. I’d wonder how a child might grasp the idea of limited time, or how painful it must have been to face the possibility of miss

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Metal Detectorist Discovers Rare Boat Grave Containing Viking Woman and Her Dog

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-09-15 04:00:45

The saying goes that a dog is a man’s best friend, but an archaeological excavation in Norway proves that women care about their four-legged companions just as much as men do, even 1,100 years ago. Archaeologists from the Arctic University Museum of Norway have revealed a 10th-century Viking boat grave on the Norwegian island of Senja. The buried individual is likely a woman who belonged to an elite class, as Science Norway first reported. Most notably, the team found a dog carefully buried at

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Best Internet Providers in Cape Coral, Florida

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-15 00:36:00

What is the best internet provider in Cape Coral? CNET's top pick for the best internet service provider in Cape Coral is Quantum Fiber thanks to its fast symmetrical speeds and unlimited data. While it may not be available everywhere in the city, it's the top choice where coverage allows. If Quantum Fiber is not available at your address, Xfinity, T-Mobile and Verizon are all reliable alternatives worth considering. For the best balance of price and performance, Xfinity’s $40 plan offers up t

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What Is Raspberry Pi and How Can I Use It for My Home Internet?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-15 03:00:00

A Raspberry Pi computer can do a little of everything, including keeping you occupied if you need a new project (or distraction). This teeny-tiny computer not only clocks in at a low price, but could potentially help you trim costs by becoming a DIY router. Saving money is appealing: A recent CNET survey showed that internet costs spiked for 63% of US adults last year. When our budgets are tight, having a device that can cover the gamut is appealing, from hosting your home internet to providing

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Homebuyers Are Scoring 5% Mortgage Rates With These Simple Strategies

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-15 04:00:21

Tharon Green/CNET If you're looking to buy a home, you probably know that housing affordability is in the dumps. Record-high prices and high mortgage rates are serving a double whammy to prospective buyers everywhere. But mortgage rates aren't set in stone. Although current rates are hovering near 7%, more borrowers are finding creative ways to snag rates below what lenders advertise. Last year, nearly half of buyers purchased a home at a rate below 5%, according to Zillow. "With borrowing co

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Cozy Horror Game Grave Seasons Is Stardew Valley Plagued by a Serial Killer

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-15 04:00:23

At Summer Game Fest, I tried a game that was bold enough to ask: Why doesn't Stardew Valley have more murder? Grave Seasons, due out next year, is a cozy farming sim with a morbid edge: It's about all the friends (and romantic partners) you make along the bloody way to stopping a serial killer. A little bit into the short demo of Grave Seasons, I took to the fields to clean up the run-down farm I'd broken into and decided to adopt, only to find a severed hand. It's fitting for an indie title pu

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The Mysterious Inner Workings of Io, Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon

wired.com Robin Andrews 2025-09-15 03:00:00

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Scott Bolton’s first encounter with Io took place in the summer of 1980, right after he graduated from college and started a job at NASA. The Voyager 1 spacecraft had flown past this moon of Jupiter, catching the first glimpse of active volcanism on a world other than Earth. Umbrella-shaped outbursts of magmatic matter rocketed into space from all over Io’s surface. “They looked amazingly beautiful,” said Bolton, who is now based a

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I set up a bird camera in my backyard, and it captured things I'd never seen before

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-09-15 07:00:17

ZDNET's key takeaways The Bird Buddy is available for $199. This bird feeder has a camera that takes beautiful pictures, is easy to set up, and features bird identification. It does require recharging once a week unless you have the solar option, needs to be within Wi-Fi range, and can miss some bird visitors. View now at Amazon View now at Mybirdbuddy more buying choices The bird feeders in my yard have always been an attraction for those watching from the couch, especially during the pandem

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Ruby on Rails Audit Complete

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-12 05:15:18

The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails (or “Rails”) is an open source full stack web-application framework. Thanks to the help of X41 D-Sec, GitLab, and the Sovereign Tech Agency, Rails can provide more secure versions of the tools needed for users to create database-backed web applications following the Model-View-Controller pattern. Audit Process: The audit work for this engagement took place over Decemb

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CI/CD Observability with OpenTelemetry Step by Step Guide

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-11 09:42:50

In the fast-paced world of CI/CD, understanding the performance and behaviour of your pipelines is crucial. GitHub Actions has become a popular choice for automating builds and deployments, but anyone who's debugged a flaky workflow or long-running job knows how challenging it can be to get visibility into what's happening under the hood. We usually rely on build logs, timing data, or guesswork when something goes wrong. Wouldn't it be nice to trace a pipeline run step-by-step, or have metrics o

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The Art of Lisp and Writing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-15 04:07:42

The Art of Lisp & Writing Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. Charles Darwin Lisp is the language of loveliness. With it a great programmer can make a beautiful, operating thing, a thing organically created and formed through the interaction of a programmer/artist and a medium of expression that happens to execute on a computer. Taught that programmingor the worse "developing software"is like a routine engineering activity, many find difficulty seeing writing

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Lisp-stat: Lisp environment for statistical computing

Start your own Internet Resiliency Club

How to set up a WhatsApp account without Facebook or Instagram

Cyborg Embryos Offer New Insights into Brain Growth

20 Years Ago, Batman Began a New Era of Hollywood

‘How to Train Your Dragon’ is Another Hit Remake at the Box Office

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for June 16, #470

Delightfully irreverent Underdogs isn’t your parents’ nature docuseries

Taiwan places export controls on Huawei and SMIC

Spiraling with ChatGPT

I took my e-book library back from Amazon with this self-hosted app

Over 46,000 Grafana instances exposed to account takeover bug

Best Buy will give you a free Sony 65-inch 4K TV right now - how to qualify for the deal

I tested this affordable Garmin sports watch, and it shouldn't be this good for the price

I tested the new Dreame X50 Ultra for months and here's my buying advice

Tiny-diffusion: A minimal implementation of probabilistic diffusion models

Text-to-LoRA: Hypernetwork that generates task-specific LLM adapters (LoRAs)

How easy is it for a developer to "sandbox" a program?

The Art of Lisp and Writing (2003)

Childhood leukemia: how a deadly cancer became treatable

Metal Detectorist Discovers Rare Boat Grave Containing Viking Woman and Her Dog

Best Internet Providers in Cape Coral, Florida

What Is Raspberry Pi and How Can I Use It for My Home Internet?

Homebuyers Are Scoring 5% Mortgage Rates With These Simple Strategies

Cozy Horror Game Grave Seasons Is Stardew Valley Plagued by a Serial Killer

The Mysterious Inner Workings of Io, Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon

I set up a bird camera in my backyard, and it captured things I'd never seen before

Ruby on Rails Audit Complete

CI/CD Observability with OpenTelemetry Step by Step Guide

The Art of Lisp and Writing

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