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Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries
This approach only works for very simple cases. In complex cases, it turns out that the old version of glibc also pulls in other libraries and the compiler, and you're stuck with a very ancient sysroot. You may often find that you can't compile new library versions in such a sysroot and link them statically. So, it lo…
OpenLogi
I tried to switch to Mouser, but it leaked memory like crazy, taking sometimes tens of GB of RAM so I just vibed a replacement based on my very specific needs. It takes 3.5MB of RAM currently.
Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries
> Modularizing Can't be done. The libc is legacy, it can't be changed without breaking everything. It's also mandatory on every operating system other than Linux. A change in paradigm is necessary. Freestanding C, not hosted C. This completely gets rid of the libc and is a surprisingly clean language. Linux only, beca…
IBM Simon (1994): the original smartphone, explained in its own ad [video]
> how many false starts we had I did a double-take at that. False starts? The Palm? Blackberry? These things sold in the tens of millions and I saw them everywhere. I'm a Brit: I used a Psion. My PDA didn't sync with my desktop; I didn't do that stuff on the desktop, I did it in a better, far more reliable computer in…
Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone
What is more amazing to me is I thought this wouldn't be localized. I thought we have on earth and one atmosphere but clearly not? Like the standard of living can wildly change if we change our own local area. We don't need people in Montreal or Paris to come up with a plan? So unlike greenhouse gases, which can last…
Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone
Yeah, aren’t the EV tyre’s compounded differently in some way to account for the extra weight? If the weight on each wheel is greater I’d have assumed the tyre would need to be harder, for the same performance. I would have assumed that would counter the otherwise additional wear, but I keep hearing EV tyre pollution…
Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone
I’ve never once been in a property that had an exhaust fan sufficient. I’ve had the exhaust on full blast and the spike on the air quality sensor on another floor of the house is rapid and massive. I suspect a sufficient ventilation would require something more like a lab fume hood that can pull a negative pressure on…
Norway should buy OpenAI
Doesn't change anything. If you buy something for a certain price, regardless of whatever reasons you have for doing so (including but not limited to, being rich and irresponsible, being insane, or doing it for the memes.) Then that thing has that value to you at that point in time. Whether someone else will share you…
Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union
Which would be the most pathetic but plausible interpretation of this. Instead of working to improve the legislative mechanisms in the EU to prevent malicious abuse of the system, they merely let Apple just do whatever it wants.
Supersonic Trebuchet [video]
A LLM may produce OpenSCAD compliant syntax, I don't doubt that, but how do you make it produce designs that fit engineering constraints? How do you even express those to a LLM? How do you validate those? How do you iterate upon them? The domain of ML-driven design optimization isn't exactly new, is quite specific, an…
Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers
JTFC why are you arguing minutiae? The analogies aren't the argument. AC and meat are bad for the environment but they deliver personal benefit. Having a DC in your community has no appreciable personal benefit, only negatives. That's it.
What the Heck Is Hyperscale? (2020)
I was looking for the origin of the word "hyperscalers" and found this post. Thought it would be interesting to share with the HN audience.
Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union
Notarization is a grey area. A competent Commission would have successfully argued against it, but there are arguments for it. On the much clearer violations I'll copy my comment to another user: Article 5(4): > “The gatekeeper shall allow business users, free of charge, to communicate and promote offers, including un…
Terabytes of credentials leaked in supply-chain attack
> In all, both security firms said some 434,000 CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) software pipelines had credentials exposed after running the compromised LiteLLM versions. So, averaging megabytes per pipeline . For username and password data. Really? We're talking about the credentials for…
OpenLogi
> the genai content on the website is just so distracting and such a bummer That's harsh. Consider English might not be the author's first language (I see Chinese on the screenshots). Just opening the site I get all the info I need from the text (local first, no account, no telemetry, that's great), install instructio…
California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year
You're citations, if accurate, show only that some regulations don't work well. We already know that. But it's not a reason to do nothing. > Bad regulation typically tries to nudge either consumers or producers in a direction contrary to the prevailing culture and/or economics We wouldn't need regulation if the p…
Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation
This is essentially how the job market is structured in Denmark, and it works very well. We provide strong safety nets, free healthcare, etc, but in return, employers are given wide latitude to fire employees. This allows them to remain unusually flexible in a European context - responding to market changes much faste…
Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
UPDATE: Noted, shifted to a 100% native MacOS version now :D https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/hp-laser-1008a-macos Previous context I shared on X: "Also some clarification on the "he's just using the linux driver in the VM" - not quite This is one of the weirdest batch of printers HP made because i…
Japan's Gen X workers are struggling
> An economic collapse means a massive, severe breakdown of a regional or national economy where normal trade, banking, and commerce largely stop I think you may be using the word 'collapse' incorrectly here, as do other commenters under you - no eastern European economy is 'collapsing' in any meaningful way, maybe ap…
Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months
the memory kit i bought earlier this year has been within ~10% of the price for the past 8 months. do with that as you may. a simple ddr5 stick of 6000 mt/s cl30 if wondering. ever since i had my own money, gpu or general hardware had some excuse to fleece us. however, with ram the blatant collusion throughout hi…
Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good
I mean, how do you check that your frontend code (possibly not even managed by your team) is calling and needs all of your backend endpoints? I'm sure it can be done, and it probably should, but saying it should always be 0% is not very pragmatic.
The Amazon tax
I still use Amazon despite them being burned because they seem slightly more reliable than other places, but only slightly and my goodwill to them is completely burned. Yesterday they delivered a package to a parcel locker 150 miles away, which is a double screw up because it was supposed to be to the door. They've al…
Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco
> Factor in inflation and its pretty easy to get negative returns on bank deposits. But that applies to having money at all. That can't be enough to call it gambling. > expectation, intent I understand your argument here, but I disagree. Shifting to the bank that offers the best rate is good management, not gambling.…
Show HN: Kitsunagu – A platform to find English-speaking professionals in Japan
Hey mc3301, thank you so much. We really appreciate you adding the clinic. We're actively working on adding those so if you know any more clinics definitely add them. If you want to add a bunch, feel free to just send us an email at contact@kitsunagu.com if that's easier. Thanks also for the feedback on the bouncing c…
Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone
I’ve often wondered about this. Does the area immediately above where the gas stove was have an exhaust fan that vents to atmosphere? I would have assumed a properly specced exhaust fan would capture and remove combustion products from a gas stove?
OpenLogi
I always thought this is a rule of thumb, but then I learned that wireless gamepads for popular consoles (back then it was PS3/PS4 era) don't really follow that pattern. I came across multiple tests where older wireless PS controllers and xbox controllers were consistently more responsive in practice. For modern…
Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit
I don't think google will explicitly 'deintificate' the data and sell it 'deidentified'. It's more that that kinda data can't really be anonymized. And while I trust google to pay lipservice to the 'anonymizedness' , I don't trust them at all that they won't just feed all that data into their AI training as-is, lettin…
Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation
That not what the paper says. They're saying that good quality jobs can lead to higher productivity. That's something discovered by Ford way back in the early 20th century when he stepped from the typical 60+ hours of the week down to our now normal 40 hour work week and saw productivity/worker increase at each s…
Show HN: A public AI whose memory is shared across all users
It's possible, yeah. The system is general enough that it would work. I'm considering exposing an API version. You set up a shared memory, then you hit the API as if it were an LLM. The underlying model could be configurable, the shared memory would be handled opaquely.
Supersonic Trebuchet [video]
I would love for this to be optimized to the point that its portable and can be carried around, assembled on the side of the mountain, and used as a low-cost, efficient way to throw things from one mountain to another, maybe for avalanche control, or cloud seeding, or indeed for seed bombs intended for re-wilding hard…