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JSLinux Published: 2025-04-14 | Origin: Hacker News The content is a list of available emulated systems. However, further details about the specific systems are not provided in the excerpt. |
Show HN: Resurrecting Infocom's Unix Z-Machine with Cosmopolitan Published: 2025-04-14 | Origin: Hacker News The author has successfully created standalone executables of the Zork trilogy, originally from Infocom's UNIX source, and ported them using Cosmopolitan, allowing them to run natively on Windows, Mac, Linux, and BSD systems for both ARM and x86 architectures without requiring additional installations or files. The author also provides instructions for downloading Zork and running arbitrary .z3 text adventure files. Additionally, v3.0 of the project "Status Line," which enables Zork to run on |
Demolishing the Fry's Electronics in Burbank Published: 2025-04-14 | Origin: Hacker News Rebecca Castillo is a video creator and special projects lead at the Los Angeles Times, working with High School Insider and various Public Affairs programs. She is originally from Southern California and holds degrees from Swarthmore College and USC. |
Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own Published: 2025-04-14 | Origin: Hacker News The blog discusses the NissanConnect® EV & Services iPhone app, which allows Nissan LEAF owners to manage features such as battery charging and climate control. The author expresses dissatisfaction with the app, particularly its lack of a home screen widget for quickly checking battery status, unlike competitors' apps. Additionally, third-party apps that previously enhanced the LEAF experience are no longer available in North America due to Nissan's changes to their API, which have frustrated developers. One developer noted that ongoing issues with Nissan's |
how actually JavaScript works behind the scenes Published: 2025-04-14 | Origin: /r/programming The article explains how JavaScript, despite running on a single thread, can handle multiple tasks without freezing. JavaScript is an interpreted language, meaning it is not compiled directly to machine code but requires a runtime environment, like the V8 Engine used in Google Chrome and Node.js, to interpret and execute it. The main components involved are the Heap, which stores objects and variables, and the Call Stack, which manages the execution. The single-threaded nature of JavaScript means that only one operation can |
Why-everything-in-the-universe-turns-more-complex Published: 2025-04-14 | Origin: Hacker News An editorially independent publication supported by the Simons Foundation features an article by Irene Pérez discussing Fermi's paradox, which questions why, if intelligent alien life exists, we have not yet encountered any evidence of it. Various explanations have been proposed, including the idea that civilizations might self-destruct before achieving interstellar travel. Alternatively, it might be that intelligent life is exceedingly rare. A new research proposal suggests a more optimistic perspective, introducing a potential "law of nature" indicating that complexity in the universe |
NoProp: Training neural networks without back-propagation or forward-propagation Published: 2025-04-14 | Origin: Hacker News arXivLabs is a collaborative framework for developing and sharing new features on the arXiv website. Participants, including individuals and organizations, must agree to arXiv's values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is open to new project ideas that enhance its community. Users can receive operational status updates via email or Slack. |
Everything wrong with MCP Published: 2025-04-13 | Origin: Hacker News The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has emerged as a key standard for integrating third-party data and tools with LLM-powered chats and agents. While it offers exciting possibilities for enhancing chat assistants (like ChatGPT and Claude) by allowing users to bring their own tools (BYOT), there are also significant vulnerabilities and limitations to consider. The MCP enables a streamlined way to provide context and increase agent autonomy, allowing for more efficient operations rather than manual processes. The author highlights that while other platforms, like |
Show HN: I made a free tool that analyzes SEC filings and posts detailed reports Published: 2025-04-13 | Origin: Hacker News Several companies announced their first-quarter 2025 results, showcasing varying performances: 1. **Wilson Bank Holding Company (WBHC)**: Reported significant year-over-year earnings growth and balance sheet expansion. 2. **Bruker Corporation (BRKR)**: Surpassed revenue expectations, fueled by recent acquisitions, exceeding both internal and market forecasts. 3. **Morgan Stanley**: Achieved record performance in its Institutional Securities division, significantly exceeding analyst expectations. 4. **Fastenal Company**: |
Open guide to equity compensation Published: 2025-04-13 | Origin: Hacker News The content emphasizes the importance of feedback and highlights a guide on equity compensation published on Holloway. Equity compensation involves granting employees partial ownership in a company to align their interests with company goals, fostering teamwork, innovation, and employee retention. However, the complexities of stock options, RSUs, and associated legalities often lead to confusion and potentially costly mistakes. The guide aims to clarify these complexities, as decisions about negotiations and exercising options can significantly impact an employee's finances. Understanding equity compensation is best achieved through |
AI code suggestions sabotage software supply chain Published: 2025-04-13 | Origin: /r/programming Failed to fetch content - HTTP Status - 403 |
Whenever – typed and DST-safe datetimes for Python Published: 2025-04-13 | Origin: /r/programming The content introduces a new datetime library for Python called "Whenever," which addresses common challenges faced when working with Python's standard datetime library, such as the mixing of naive and aware datetimes and issues with Daylight Saving Time (DST). Whenever provides typed and DST-safe datetime functionality and boasts faster performance compared to other libraries, including Python's standard library. A pure Python version is also available for users who prioritize ease of use over speed. The library includes various features such as parsing, normalizing, |
Stop Just Loosening Coupling — Start Strengthening Cohesion Too Published: 2025-04-13 | Origin: /r/programming The content discusses the importance of cohesion in software design, contrasting it with coupling. Coupling describes the dependency between modules, where tight coupling requires changes in one module to affect another, whereas loose coupling allows for independent evolution of modules. Cohesion, however, refers to how well the components of a single module fit together, with high cohesion indicating that all parts contribute to a single purpose. The author argues that cohesion, although harder to measure and often overlooked, has a more significant long-term impact on the |
I wrote a program that can play Super Hexagon with Computer Vision Published: 2025-04-13 | Origin: /r/programming Of course! Please provide the content you'd like me to summarize, and I'll be happy to help. |
LLMs vs Compilers: Why the Rules Don’t Align Published: 2025-04-13 | Origin: /r/programming The content discusses the "Prompt-to-Program Paradox" faced when using LLM (Large Language Model) code generation tools. It highlights the contrast between the natural language prompts written by humans, which can be ambiguous and imprecise, and the precise, deterministic nature of compilers that require syntactically correct code. This mismatch can lead to challenges in complex programming tasks, as LLMs may produce syntactically correct code that is semantically flawed or brittle in real-world applications. The |
Finally Understand OSI & TCP/IP: Network Layers Explained Simply Published: 2025-04-13 | Origin: /r/programming Failed to fetch content - HTTP Status - 403 |
Cloudflare - Prepping for post-quantum: a beginner’s guide to lattice cryptography Published: 2025-04-13 | Origin: /r/programming The content discusses the evolution of cryptography, particularly focusing on lattice cryptography as a key component in the transition to post-quantum (PQ) security. Following the 2013 revelation of mass surveillance, the adoption of TLS for web encryption increased, shifting towards elliptic curve cryptography due to its efficiency over older methods like RSA. However, the potential threat posed by quantum computers necessitates a move to PQ cryptography, as they could potentially break existing public-key encryption. The post emphasizes the |
33-year-old AmigaOS for Commodore computers gets an unexpected update News Published: 2025-04-13 | Origin: Hacker News Hyperion Entertainment has released AmigaOS 3.2.3, which includes over 50 fixes and enhancements accumulated over the past two years. This update is particularly notable as it continues the development of the classic Motorola 680x0-friendly operating system, originally launched by Commodore in 1992. The AmigaOS 3.2 lineage began in 2021, and this version follows previous updates aimed at modernizing the OS since Hyperion took over in 2018. The |
Anti-Debugging: Techniques for detecting debuggers Published: 2025-04-13 | Origin: /r/programming Anti-Debugging-Techniken sind essenziell für den Schutz von Software vor unerwünschter Analyse, insbesondere durch Debugger und Reverse Engineering. Diese Technologien helfen, sensible Anwendungen und Systeme vor Manipulation und Missbrauch zu sichern, indem sie Barrieren schaffen, die angreifende Codeanalysen erschweren. Reverse Engineering stellt eine große Bedrohung dar, da es Angreifern ermöglicht, Schwachstellen auszumachen und auszunutzen. Es ist daher wichtig, Debug |
A Farewell to the ArcoLinux University Published: 2025-04-13 | Origin: Hacker News After eight years with the ArcoLinux project, the author has decided to step down, reflecting on their decreasing energy and focus as they approach 60. They wish to leave the project while it remains strong and they can take pride in their contributions. ArcoLinux has emphasized education, experimentation, and empowerment, with significant milestones including the creation of over 5,000 educational videos, the development of flexible installation tools (ArcoInstall and ALCI), and various tailored distributions for different learning paths |