A lost Amazon world just reappeared in Bolivia
In September 2021, a team of specialists traveled to one of the least-documented areas of the Bolivian Amazon: the Great Tectonic Lakes of Exaltación in the department of Beni. The expedition, organized by the Grupo de Trabajo para los Llanos de Moxos (GTLM), brought together experts from the Wildlife Conservation Society, the National Museum of […]
Do the thinking models think?
Whether machines can think is a classic debate that dates back to the intellectual titans of the 1950s. Turing opens his 1950 article Computing Machinery and Intelligence with: I propose to consider the question, “Can machines think?” The Hungarian genius, von Neumann, shortly before his death in 1957, prepared a posthumously published monograph The Computer […]
SmartTube Compromised
Earlier this week, the developer of SmartTube, the most popular alternative YouTube app for Android TV and Fire TV devices, announced that his app’s digital signature had been exposed. A new version of the app using a new digital signature has since been released. While everyone is encouraged to switch to the new app, SmartTube’s […]
Stacked Diffs with git rebase —onto
tldr; Use git rebase –onto to cleanly rebase a dependent branch without dragging along commits that don’t belong to it. 1git rebase –onto If you’ve ever worked on a larger feature and split your work into multiple PRs that depend on each other, you’ve probably experienced the pain of keeping them in sync. This workflow […]
Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT’s public release
A browser extension for avoiding AI slop. Download it for Chrome or Firefox. This is a search tool that will only return content created before ChatGPT’s first public release on November 30, 2022. Since the public release of ChatGTPT and other large language models, the internet is being increasingly polluted by AI generated text, images […]
X210Ai is a new motherboard to upgrade ThinkPad X201/200
X210Ai is a new motherboard to upgrade Thinkpad X201/200, The details as below: 1, CPU: Ultra 7 165H, Ultra 9 185H; 2, Storage support: Two of M.2 SSD PCIE 4.0 (one 2280, one 2242), the original 2.5inch SATA; 3, Memory: DDR5 5600MHz max to 128G (64G +64G); 4, Two type-c: one is support thunderbolt 4.0, […]
In Re: 23andMe, Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation
The U.S. Bankruptcy Court has authorized this Settlement Website. This is not a lawyer solicitation. A Settlement has been reached with 23andMe, Inc. (now known as “Chrome”) in a class action lawsuit over a cyberattack announced by 23andMe on October 6, 2023, which resulted in the theft of Personal Information in its databases concerning approximately […]
Regarding Thien-Thi Nguyen
Hello, please forgive any grammatical errors on my part for I am not an English native speaker. I found this thread regarding the death of ttn https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37457796 I am Thien-Thi’s daughter, my dad was a very private person, so I found out about the thread only recently. Since I can’t leave a comment, I’m making […]
Advent of Sysadmin 2025
Advent of SysAdmin 2025 The Advent of Sysadmin is a 12-day Advent calendar of Linux and DevOps challenges of different difficulties that runs from December 1st to December 12th. Each day there will be a scenario that you can solve to earn points (Easy = 1 point, Medium = 2 points, Hard = 5 points). […]
Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Wikipedia
I woke up restless and kind of hungover Sunday morning at 6 am and opened Reddit. Somewhere near the top was a post called “TIL in 2002 a cave diver committed suicide by stabbing himself during a cave diving trip near Split, Croatia. Due to the nature of his death, it was initially investigated as […]