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TIL you can make "GIFs" with SVGs for GitHub README.md files

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-16 22:23:05

The moving image below is only 49Kb and has an incredibly high resolution. It's similar to a GIF but instead of showing moving images, it shows moving SVGs! The best part: Github supports these in their README.md files! Getting these to work involves asciinema and svg-term-cli. After uploading the asciinema you can use the tool to download a file that you can immediately click and drag into a README. It's something that I'm using extensively on bespoken. How it works? I was surpised to learn

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An Unknown Entity Has Voice Cloned the Secretary of State and Is Calling High Level Officials

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-17 08:44:27

In a perfect example of why it's an absolutely terrible idea for high-level government officials to use personal cell phones, text messaging platforms, and apps like Signal, secretary of state Marco Rubio has fallen victim to a scammer who's been using AI to clone his voice and writing style. As the Washington Post reports, a July 3 State Department cable revealed that an impostor posing as Rubio had "contacted at least five non-Department individuals, including three foreign ministers, a US go

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Apple cleared in case tied to two union-busting allegations at NYC retail store

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-17 10:29:52

Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit overturned a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision that found Apple in violation of federal labor law at its World Trade Center retail store in New York. Here’s what that means. A bit of background The case centers on events from 2022, during an organizing campaign by Apple store employees in coordination with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). One employee, Jordan Vasquez, testified that a senior manager asked him

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Melting Glaciers Could Unleash a Barrage of Volcanic Eruptions Worldwide, Scientists Warn

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-08-17 10:10:19

As if we needed another reason to worry about the climate crisis, researchers have found that melting glaciers could trigger a surge of intense volcanic eruptions in the future. Across the globe, hundreds of subglacial volcanoes—formed by eruptions beneath glaciers—lie dormant under thick layers of ice. A new study, presented at the Goldschmidt Conference in Prague, suggests that these volcanoes could awaken as climate change accelerates glacier retreat, potentially leading to an increase in vo

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Malicious Chrome extensions with 1.7M installs found on Web Store

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-17 14:00:00

Almost a dozen malicious extensions with 1.7 million downloads in Google's Chrome Web Store could track users, steal browser activity, and redirect to potentially unsafe web addresses. Most of the add-ons provide the advertised functionality and pose as legitimate tools like color pickers, VPNs, volume boosters, and emoji keyboards. Researchers at Koi Security, a company providing a platform for security self-provisioned software, discovered the malicious extensions in Chrome Web Store and rep

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Show HN: Trying to eat better? I built a nutrional assistant

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-17 14:29:46

BAZ - AI Meal Planning & Recipe Chat Assistant Transform your eating habits with BAZ's AI-powered meal planning and recipe discovery assistant. Create custom meal plans, discover healthy recipes, and get detailed nutritional analysis tailored to your dietary goals and preferences. Features: AI-powered meal planning recommendations Personalized recipe suggestions Comprehensive nutritional analysis Diet-specific meal plans (keto, vegan, gluten-free, etc.) Interactive chat interface Ingredi

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The best Prime Day SSD and external hard drive deals on Samsung, Crucial and more

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-18 06:36:18

Prime Day is a great time to pick up gear and upgrades you wouldn't normally think about. In case you've never used a solid-state drive (SSD) before, it's a class of add-ons that bolster a device's built-in storage. Not only will your phone, laptop or console be able to hold more data, but more of those files will be quickly accessible, which can vastly improve your speeds. If you have used an SSD before, you know what you're looking for — the best discounted drives on Amazon. We've curated a li

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Is it possible to play doom on an oscilloscope using only lissajous figures?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-18 03:57:25

Getting a piece of electronics to run doom (1993) is a classic project in hobby electronics, and so far people have gotten doom to run on pretty much anything, including analog oscilloscopes. However, in all cases that I have seen, the only part of the oscilloscope that is really "running" doom is the CRT display, which is hooked directly to an external computer a la 90's game consoles.Meanwhile, people also have managed to get analog oscilloscopes to display some pretty extraordinary and dynami

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Public exploits released for Citrix Bleed 2 NetScaler flaw, patch now

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-17 23:57:37

Researchers have released proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for a critical Citrix NetScaler vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-5777 and dubbed CitrixBleed2, warning that the flaw is easily exploitable and can successfully steal user session tokens. The CitrixBleed 2 vulnerability, which affects Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway devices, allows attackers to retrieve memory contents simply by sending malformed POST requests during login attempts. This critical flaw is named CitrixBleed2 as it close

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Integrated photonic source of Gottesman–Kitaev–Preskill qubits

news.ycombinator.com Larsen 2025-08-15 01:52:38

Here we provide experimental details on each major component in this experiment: the laser subsystem, photonic integrated chip, PNR detectors for state heralding and the homodyne detection system used for state tomography. Further details can be found in the Supplementary Information. Laser system The laser subsystem is composed of five lasers: two lasers (P1 and P2) for driving the dual-pump SFWM process that generates squeezing, a local oscillator laser used to perform homodyne detection and

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Man of Glass: Boccaccio: A Biography

news.ycombinator.com Alexander Lee 2025-08-14 17:48:34

In early June 1363, Giovanni Boccaccio received a letter that stung him deeply. Just a few days shy of his fiftieth birthday, he was then at the height of his creative powers. He had already penned at least a dozen major works, including the Decameron, any one of which would have assured him a place alongside Dante and Petrarch in the firmament of Italian literature. Although recent political upheavals had forced him to leave his native Florence, he was still writing feverishly. Yet to his frien

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New 1.5B router model achieves 93% accuracy without costly retraining

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-08-18 10:25:31

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 Researchers at Katanemo Labs have introduced Arch-Router, a new routing model and framework designed to intelligently map user queries to the most suitable large language model (LLM). For enterprises building products that rely on multiple LLMs, Arch-Router aims to solve a key challenge: how to direct queries to the best model for the job

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Public exploits released for CitrixBleed 2 NetScaler flaw, patch now

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-18 14:57:37

Researchers have released proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for a critical Citrix NetScaler vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-5777 and dubbed CitrixBleed2, warning that the flaw is easily exploitable and can successfully steal user session tokens. The CitrixBleed 2 vulnerability, which affects Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway devices, allows attackers to retrieve memory contents simply by sending malformed POST requests during login attempts. This flaw is named CitrixBleed2 as it closely resemb

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Waymo robotaxis are heading to Philadelphia and NYC

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-08-18 09:14:34

Waymo kicked off two “road trips” to Philadelphia and New York City on Monday, signaling the Alphabet-owned company’s interest in expanding into Northeastern cities. Waymo’s branded “road trips” don’t necessarily signal a commercial launch anytime soon. Waymo has announced several other road trips this year, including to Houston, Orlando, Las Vegas, San Diego, and San Antonio. Typically, the trips involve sending a small fleet of human-driven vehicles equipped with Waymo’s autonomous driving sy

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Show HN: I Got Tired of Calculator Sites, So I Built My Own

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-18 13:24:19

I’ve always found that online calculators tend to have bad UIs, especially on mobile. Most of the calculator websites I’ve come across use outdated and inconvenient ways of inputting data, or they format the results in confusing ways. I’ve noticed that fraction calculators (especially mixed fractions) are terrible to use, even on desktop. I haven’t built one of those yet, but it’s something I’m planning to tackle soon. This is a project I’ve always wanted to work on, but I’m relatively new to

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Charles Babbage and deciphering codes (1864)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-15 14:03:31

Charles Babbage wrote an autobiography Passages from the Life of a Philosopher which was published in London in 1864 . In our biography of Babbage we have quoted several passages from the book which tell us about his life and the analytical engine. Here we quote from Chapter XVIII of the book where Babbage writes about deciphering. What we present here is only an extract. In fact we omit a more technical part which describes the considerable effort that he had put in constructing dictionaries wi

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GM’s Cruise Cars Are Back on the Road in 3 US States—but Not for Ride-Hailing

wired.com Paresh Dave 2025-08-15 11:28:41

Cruise robotaxis are back on the road … well, kind of. Though General Motors pulled the plug on its self-driving taxi business last year, the automaker has been quietly repurposing a few of the vehicles as it seeks to develop new driver-assistance technologies. This week, WIRED spotted a GM Bolt electric hatchback on the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge and later saw a similar vehicle on Interstate 880 near Oakland. In each instance, the car was being driven by a human. But it held equipment on

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Waymo to begin testing in Philadelphia with safety drivers behind the wheel

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2025-08-18 21:56:20

Waymo said it will begin testing in Philadelphia, with a limited fleet of vehicles and human safety drivers behind the wheel. "This city is a National Treasure," Waymo wrote in a post on X on Monday. "It's a city of love, where eagles fly with a gritty spirit and cheese that spreads and cheese that steaks. Our road trip continues to Philly next." The Alphabet -owned company confirmed to CNBC that it will be testing in Pennsylvania's largest city through the fall, adding that the initial flee

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The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-15 13:04:41

But honey is an unusual case, and here is why. It's made by honeybees from flower nectar, and starts out as a warmish, watery, sugary fluid, the kind of thing that seems like it would be the purest bacteria bait. The bees concentrate the nectar on the way to the hive, removing some of the water, use enzymes to raise the acid content in the fluid discouraging some forms of microorganisms from growing, and break down the sugars into simpler ones, then decant the stuff into honeycomb chambers.

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Measles cases reach 33-year high as RFK Jr. pursues anti-vaccine agenda

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-18 21:17:34

Over the weekend, the tally of measles cases reached 1,281, setting a new case record since the highly contagious viral disease was declared eliminated from the country in 2000. The previous record was set in 2019, when there were 1,274 cases and officials warned that the US had narrowly avoided losing the elimination status. Overall, the current case tally is a 33-year high for the preventable infection, and the outlook for the country is bleak. Vaccination rates have only fallen since the pan

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Waymo starts robotaxi testing in Philadelphia and NYC

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-08-19 10:14:34

Waymo kicked off two “road trips” to Philadelphia and New York City on Monday, signaling the Alphabet-owned company’s interest in expanding into Northeastern cities. Waymo’s branded “road trips” don’t necessarily signal a commercial launch anytime soon. Waymo has announced several other road trips this year, including to Houston, Orlando, Las Vegas, San Diego, and San Antonio. Typically, the trips involve sending a small fleet of human-driven vehicles equipped with Waymo’s autonomous driving sy

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Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-19 17:58:09

Written by Adrian Holovaty on July 7, 2025 Well, here’s a weird one. At Soundslice, our sheet music scanner digitizes music from photographs, so you can listen, edit and practice. We continually improve the system, and I keep an eye on the error logs to see which images are getting poor results. In the last few months, I started noticing an odd type of upload in our error logs. Instead of images like this... ...we were starting to see images like this: Um, that’s just a screenshot of a Chat

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Cracking AI’s storage bottleneck and supercharging inference at the edge

venturebeat.com Vb Staff 2025-08-20 01:50:00

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 As AI applications increasingly permeate enterprise operations, from enhancing patient care through advanced medical imaging to powering complex fraud detection models and even aiding wildlife conservation, a critical bottleneck often emerges: data storage. During VentureBeat’s Transform 2025, Greg Matson, head of products and marketing, S

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AI will boost the value of human creativity in financial services, says AWS

zdnet.com Tiernan Ray 2025-08-20 13:33:57

shomos uddin/Getty Images Financial services firms are making early gains from artificial intelligence (AI), which is not surprising given that finance is historically an industry that embraces new technologies aggressively. Also: The AI complexity paradox: More productivity, more responsibilities One surprising outcome is that AI might end up making the most critical functions of banking, insurance, and trading, or the creative functions that require human insights, even more valuable. "Wha

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Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography (2017)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-20 01:09:42

Comes with everything you need to understand complete systems such as SSL/TLS: block ciphers, stream ciphers, hash functions, message authentication codes, public key encryption, key agreement protocols, and signature algorithms. Learn by doing. Learn how to exploit common cryptographic flaws, armed with nothing but a little time and your favorite programming language. Forge administrator cookies, recover passwords, and even backdoor your own random number generator.

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I recommend this Windows laptop to creatives and pro users - and it's on sale for Prime Day

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-08-20 16:30:14

ZDNET's key takeaways MSI's new Raider 18 HX is retailing for $4,000. This is, without a doubt, the most powerful laptop I've tested in 2025, due to its Intel Core Ultra 9 CPU and GeForce RTX 5080 GPU. As you can imagine, it is quite expensive and rather heavy. View now at New Egg View now at Amazon View now at B&H Photo Video more buying choices As part of Amazon Prime Day, the MSI Raider 18 HX with the GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card is on sale for $4,300, a $900 discount. 2025 has been a b

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Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-20 06:09:42

Comes with everything you need to understand complete systems such as SSL/TLS: block ciphers, stream ciphers, hash functions, message authentication codes, public key encryption, key agreement protocols, and signature algorithms. Learn by doing. Learn how to exploit common cryptographic flaws, armed with nothing but a little time and your favorite programming language. Forge administrator cookies, recover passwords, and even backdoor your own random number generator.

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Figuring out why a nap might help people see things in new ways

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-20 06:06:38

Dmitri Mendeleev famously saw the complete arrangement of the periodic table after falling asleep on his desk. He claimed in his dream he saw a table where all the elements fell into place, and he wrote it all down when he woke up. By having a eureka moment right after a nap, he joined a club full of rather talented people: Mary Shelley, Thomas Edison, and Salvador Dali. To figure out if there’s a grain of truth to all these anecdotes, a team of German scientists at the Hamburg University, led

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New study offers clues about what makes someone cool

news.ycombinator.com Christina Caron 2025-08-20 08:59:49

Is there a secret sauce that helps explain why people as different as David Bowie, Samuel L. Jackson and Charli XCX all seem so self-assured and, well, cool? A new study suggests that there are six specific traits that these people tend to have in common: Cool people are largely perceived to be extroverted, hedonistic, powerful, adventurous, open and autonomous. The study, which was published on Monday in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, surveyed nearly 6,000 participants from

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Data everywhere, alignment nowhere: What dashboards are getting wrong, and why you need a data product manager

venturebeat.com Seojoon Oh 2025-08-20 05:15:00

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 In the past decade, companies have spent billions on data infrastructure. Petabyte-scale warehouses. Real-time pipelines. Machine learning (ML) platforms. And yet — ask your operations lead why churn increased last week, and you’ll likely get three conflicting dashboards. Ask finance to reconcile performance across attribution systems, and

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TIL you can make "GIFs" with SVGs for GitHub README.md files

An Unknown Entity Has Voice Cloned the Secretary of State and Is Calling High Level Officials

Apple cleared in case tied to two union-busting allegations at NYC retail store

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Malicious Chrome extensions with 1.7M installs found on Web Store

Show HN: Trying to eat better? I built a nutrional assistant

The best Prime Day SSD and external hard drive deals on Samsung, Crucial and more

Is it possible to play doom on an oscilloscope using only lissajous figures?

Public exploits released for Citrix Bleed 2 NetScaler flaw, patch now

Integrated photonic source of Gottesman–Kitaev–Preskill qubits

Man of Glass: Boccaccio: A Biography

New 1.5B router model achieves 93% accuracy without costly retraining

Public exploits released for CitrixBleed 2 NetScaler flaw, patch now

Waymo robotaxis are heading to Philadelphia and NYC

Show HN: I Got Tired of Calculator Sites, So I Built My Own

Charles Babbage and deciphering codes (1864)

GM’s Cruise Cars Are Back on the Road in 3 US States—but Not for Ride-Hailing

Waymo to begin testing in Philadelphia with safety drivers behind the wheel

The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long

Measles cases reach 33-year high as RFK Jr. pursues anti-vaccine agenda

Waymo starts robotaxi testing in Philadelphia and NYC

Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists

Cracking AI’s storage bottleneck and supercharging inference at the edge

AI will boost the value of human creativity in financial services, says AWS

Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography (2017)

I recommend this Windows laptop to creatives and pro users - and it's on sale for Prime Day

Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography

Figuring out why a nap might help people see things in new ways

New study offers clues about what makes someone cool

Data everywhere, alignment nowhere: What dashboards are getting wrong, and why you need a data product manager

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