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Detecting a PS2 Emulator: When 1*X does not equal X

Link: https://fobes.dev/ps2/detecting-emu-vu-floats
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40618459

Like 8 June at 18:05 | Open on social.lansky.name

Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts

Link: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2354686/microsoft-blocks-windows-11-workaround-local-accounts.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40572289

Like 4 June at 10:35 | Open on social.lansky.name

NetBSD bans all commits of AI-generated code

Link: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/112446618914747900
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40375029

Like 16 May at 5:20 | Open on social.lansky.name

Modal is a matrioshka language based on pattern-matching to rewrite trees

Link: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/modal
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40126935

Like 23 April at 6:45 | Open on social.lansky.name

VoRS: Vo(IP) Simple Alternative to Mumble

Link: http://www.vors.stargrave.org/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40083641

Like 19 April at 10:55 | Open on social.lansky.name

RFC: Banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

Link: https://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg99042.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40038372

Like 15 April at 10:40 | Open on social.lansky.name

A list of AI coding tools

Link: https://github.com/sourcegraph/awesome-code-ai
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39966152

Like 8 April at 9:15 | Open on social.lansky.name

Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards

Link: https://ollama.com/blog/amd-preview
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39718558

Like 15 March at 18:30 | Open on social.lansky.name

Pornhub Blocked in Texas

Link: https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/pornhub-texas-blocked-age-verification-law-1235942280/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39708347

Like 14 March at 20:50 | Open on social.lansky.name

VS Code: Prompt Editor for LLMs (GPT4, Llama, Mistral, etc.)

Link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=lastmile-ai.vscode-aiconfig
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39643057

Like 8 March at 19:30 | Open on social.lansky.name

Apple Orders 'Neuromancer' Series

Link: https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/apple-neurmancer-series-william-gibson-1235925640/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39543281

Like 28 February at 21:45 | Open on social.lansky.name

Submarine cables linking Africa-Asia-Europe severed

Link: https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-houthis-hit-underwater-communications-cables-1001472165
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39521626

Like 27 February at 12:15 | Open on social.lansky.name

Latest GPT-4 training data updated to December 2023

Link: https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-4-and-gpt-4-turbo
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39433153

Like 19 February at 21:10 | Open on social.lansky.name

The case against caffeine

Link: https://zantafakari.substack.com/p/the-case-against-caffeine
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39430401

Like 19 February at 15:25 | Open on social.lansky.name

BitLocker encryption broken in 43 seconds with sub-$10 Raspberry Pi Pico

Link: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/youtuber-breaks-bitlocker-encryption-in-less-than-43-seconds-with-sub-dollar10-raspberry-pi-pico
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39284711

Like 7 February at 6:55 | Open on social.lansky.name

Hans-Cees

@hn50 @hvangalen Stacksmashing found that the communication lanes (LPC bus) between the CPU and external TPM are completely unencrypted on boot-up, enabling an attacker to sniff critical data as it moves between the two units, thus stealing the encryption keys.
#infosec #microsoft #bitlocker

7 February at 7:44 | Open on mas.to

Microsoft seeks Rust developers to rewrite core C# code

Link: https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/31/microsoft_seeks_rust_developers/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39240205

#rust #microsoft

Like 3 February at 16:40 | Open on social.lansky.name

Japan's precision moon lander has hit its target, but appears to be upside-down

Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-01-japan-craft-successful-pin-moon.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39128977

Like 25 January at 14:40 | Open on social.lansky.name

@hn50 precisely upsidedown

25 January at 14:41 | Open on mastodon.social

Ollama releases Python and JavaScript Libraries

Link: https://ollama.ai/blog/python-javascript-libraries
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39125477

#python #javascript

Like 25 January at 3:55 | Open on social.lansky.name

Winlator: Android app that lets you to run Windows apps with Wine

Link: https://winlator.org/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39095337

Like 22 January at 22:00 | Open on social.lansky.name

Outline: Self hostable, realtime, Markdown compatible knowledge base

Link: https://github.com/outline/outline
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39012054

Like 16 January at 17:35 | Open on social.lansky.name