What frightens a seasoned IT professional? A screen streaked with unidentified fluid? An error message that only hints at what has gone wrong behind the scenes? Roller coasters are not scary. Nausea-inducing, yes. Scary? No. However, what if the kiosks surrounding the...

Sustainable business practices are often seen as a luxury that only rich countries can afford. And these days, some of the biggest economies, including the U.S., are backtracking on those commitments. But what if businesses had an incentive to adopt practices that...

OPINION The best way to bust out of jail is not to get locked up in the first place. There are options once you're inside, legal and illegal, and all are complicated, time-consuming, and probably won't work. Microsoft Office users have been banged up since 1990, a...

A ballerina music box is a charming ornament, but it remains one that is limited by its mechanism to a very short performance. [ShielaDixon] has one, and decided to make so much more with it. The music box mechanism is a simple clockwork motor with a comb that’s...

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49065752 Points: 20 # Comments: 3

Google has created a new taxonomy to describe cybercrime outfits, seemingly abandoning a Microsoft-led effort to create consistent names. The Big G announced its new schema on Saturday in a post that notes its 2022 acquisition of Mandiant and its subsequent...

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-fined-1-02-billion-under-eus-tech-antitrust-rules-7e8ae1fb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49065498 Points: 13 # Comments: 4

WHO, ME? Mistakes happen, and when readers of The Register make them, we like to share those tales of woe in a Monday column we call "Who, Me?" It's our guide on how not to get ahead in the modern workplace. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as Clay, who in the...

When you hear the word TV, you probably think of a big LED screen, maybe even the old CRT TVs, but in either case it’s something large and fairly complicated. However, thanks to the persistence of vision, it doesn’t have to be. In this handheld-sized project from...

If your workday feels like a high-stakes game of notification whack-a-mole, you aren’t alone. Between Slack channels buzzing, Microsoft Teams pinging in the background, multiple email accounts open, and mobile messages cluttering your phone, simply checking if someone...

This article is republished with permission from Laser Wars, a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology. The most critical component to actually fielding high-energy laser weapons at scale isn’t the diode pump, or the gain...

The 13th flight of SpaceX’s Starship made it off the launchpad on Friday and ticked off just about everything on the company’s to-do list. After delays and engine replacements, Elon Musk’s colosso-launcher took to the skies at beer-o’clock on Friday evening – 5:51PM...

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Optical cavities – two mirrors arranged to reflect light multiple times between them – form the basis of lasers and certain optical filters. Since any angle between the two mirrors results in light being scattered away, parallel alignment is essential, yet difficult...

ASIA IN BRIEF Taiwanese mega-manufacturer Foxconn has adopted Singaporean hyperconverged infrastructure vendor (HCI) Arcrfra for some GPU virtualization workloads and to replace VMware in some remote offices. Arcfra launched in 2024 and the next year earned a place on...

Forget YouTube videos—frontier physical AI models need multiple camera angles, dense annotation, and soon, brain wave readings.

Hi HN, we built world-model-optimizer, an open-source tool for continually improve models specialized to agents. Today we are launching `wmo serve`, a tool to route repetitive tasks to distilled smaller models.Agent traces you already capture are opportunities to get...

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c3r087181ndo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063266 Points: 4 # Comments: 1

Disclaimer, I have not yet placed the order. But JLCPCB have so far excepted all files and config so I have 1 more button to press. If anyone see some obvious mistake please send feedback.This project grew out of curiosity. Loved the https://monster6502.com/ project...