Android Unchains! Valve Reloads! AI Drains Power!

Bjarne fix your freaking language

Key Points

• RAII prevents file-handle leaks but exceptions complicate routine error handling.
• C-style NULL/errno checks offer explicit, localized error handling for fopen.
• Deferred initialization via optional or nullable RAII types can ease try/catch scoping issues.

Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage

Key Points

• Enterprise HDD lead times have extended to about 24 months.
• Hyperscalers are adopting QLC NAND SSDs, intensifying QLC demand and potential SSD price increases.
• QLC capacity is booked through 2026 at some manufacturers; QLC may overtake TLC by early 2027.

Fixing LCD Screen Corruption of a Tektronix TDS220 Oscilloscope

Key Points

• Intermittent LCD corruption documented; reduces when warmed.
• Probe compensation test shows non-square output on both channels.
• Step-by-step TDS220 disassembly including expansion module removal.

Dynamically include files in GitLab-CI

Key Points

• Use include with a variable-expanded local path to load versioned YAML files.
• Trigger pipelines via the GitLab API and pass variables like VERSION.
• Store variables (e.g., LONG_VERSION, SHORT_VERSION) in version-specific YAML files.

Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'

Key Points

• Yann LeCun plans to leave Meta to start an AI company focused on world models.
• Meta shifted FAIR toward commercial AI and LLMs after Llama 4 underperformed.
• Zuckerberg hired Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang and bought a 49% stake for $14.3B.

Simulating a Planet on the GPU: Part 1 (2022)

Key Points

• Polygon-based Unity approach hit CPU performance limits for realistic plate tectonics.
• GPU compute shaders with cubemaps enabled collisions, subduction, and seafloor spreading.
• SPH is considered to achieve realistic crust deformation at convergent boundaries.

You will own nothing and be (un)happy

Key Points

• Goodnotes 6 introduces AI-integrated features; the author says they cannot be turned off.
• Lifetime licensing has been removed; subscriptions are required for newest features.
• The author highlights broader issues with subscription models and cancellation friction.

Stochastic Computing

Key Points

• Stochastic computing uses random bitstreams and counting for robust computation.
• 1960s pioneers Brian Gaines and Wolfgang Poppelbaum built early architectures.
• Historical hardware limits pushed ML toward analog methods; stochastic computing offered noise immunity.

.NET 10

Key Points

• .NET 10 is an LTS release with support through November 10, 2028.
• Major performance gains: JIT, hardware acceleration (AVX10.2, Arm64 SVE), reduced GC pause times.
• C# 14 and F# 10 introduce significant language features; tooling updates are available now.

A behind-the-scenes look at Broadcom's design labs

Key Points

• Broadcom’s AI-focused switches and custom accelerators underpin data center networking.
• OpenAI and Broadcom will build 10 GW of AI accelerators via a strategic collaboration.
• Switch development spans ~3 years with early architectural lock-in and rigorous lab testing.

What happened to Transmeta, the last big dotcom IPO

Key Points

• Transmeta’s 2000 IPO marked a notable endpoint for dotcom-era tech offerings.
• Transmeta’s CPUs used a software translation layer for x86 compatibility, differing from AMD’s hardware approach.
• Crusoe and Efficieon underperformed against Intel benchmarks, with manufacturing handled by IBM, TSMC, and Fujitsu.

Security issues discovered in sudo-rs

Key Points

• Two vulnerabilities affect rust-sudo-rs, risking password disclosure and possible auth bypass under targetpw/rootpw.
• Fix available for Debian stable (trixie) in rust-sudo-rs 0.2.5-5+deb13u1; users should upgrade.
• CVE IDs are pending; details are tracked on Debian’s security tracker page.

Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k

Key Points

• 2025 fundraising progress: $395 of a $1,000 goal.
• NTP provides essential time synchronization for billions of devices and critical sectors.
• NTP Project delivers open-source implementation, documentation, and protocol development, supported by Network Time Foundation.

Using Street Lamps as EV Chargers – Tech Briefs

Key Points

• Streetlight EV charging in Kansas City showed cost, time, and environmental advantages over traditional stations.
• Predicting charging demand was challenging due to limited early data for machine learning models.
• Technical assessments and community engagement were essential for successful deployment.

Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support

Key Points

• yt-dlp 2025.11.12 adds external JavaScript runtime support for full YouTube functionality.
• Deno is recommended and enabled by default; Node.js, QuickJS/QuickJS-ng, and Bun are also supported.
• YouTube support without a runtime is deprecated and expected to degrade over time.

Ask HN: How does one stay motivated to grind through LeetCode?

Key Points

• Laid off engineer seeks motivation to practice LeetCode medium/hard problems.
• LeetCode-style challenges are common in Bay Area software engineering interviews.
• Targeting software engineering roles drives the need for daily problem practice.

New study finds users are marrying and having virtual children with AI chatbots

Key Points

• Study documents committed romantic bonds with AI chatbots, including roleplayed marriage and pregnancy.
• Replika’s 2023 removal and later reinstatement of erotic roleplay exposed relationship disruption dynamics.
• Analysis of 29 Replika users found strong emotional connections and perceived nonjudgmental support.

Show HN: XML-Lib – An over-engineered XML workflow with guardrails and proofs

Key Points

• Comprehensive XML validation using Relax NG and Schematron with cross-file constraints and signed assertion outputs.
• Publishing and output tools: XSLT 3.0 HTML docs, OOXML PowerPoint, and PHP 8.1+ pages with XXE protection.
• New streaming validation and linting features for scalability, security, and CI/CD integration.

The Geometry Behind Normal Maps

Key Points

• Tangent space is a local frame built on the tangent plane defined by the surface normal.
• UV parameterization orients tangent space by mapping U/V movements to 3D surface directions.
• Tangent space is fundamental to normal mapping and surface-relative shading computations.

Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy

Key Points

• NYT seeks 20 million private ChatGPT conversations; OpenAI opposes the request.
• OpenAI plans client-side encryption and automated safety detection with limited human review.
• OpenAI cites prior broader NYT demands and says it will continue legal resistance.

Seaque Live Bell Test

Key Points

• Game-generated random bits set SEAQUE’s measurement choices for Bell tests.
• SEAQUE aims to verify entanglement and anneal radiation damage in detectors.
• The ISS-hosted experiment is a step toward space-based quantum networks.

Micro.blog launches new 'Studio' tier with video hosting

Key Points

• Studio enables up to 20-minute video uploads on Micro.blog.
• Automatic copying to PeerTube and Bluesky is available, with YouTube planned pending approval.
• The launch reinforces Micro.blog’s POSSE-driven focus on owning content at a personal domain.

Fungus in Chernobyl nuclear disaster zone has mutated to 'feed' on radiation

Key Points

• Fungus at Chernobyl uses melanin-based radiosynthesis to convert radiation into energy.
• Observed on Reactor 4, the adaptation may inform astronaut radiation shielding.
• Space radiation exposure is high, exemplified by ISS dose equivalents reported in the article.

Learn Prolog Now

Key Points

• Introductory Prolog course available online since 2001 and in a revised book.
• Embedded SWISH enables interactive recognition of code and queries.
• Sources for the course and tools are available on GitHub; updates for SWI-Prolog compatibility are noted.

Ioannis Yannas invented artificial skin for treatment of burns–dies at 90

Key Points

• Ioannis V. Yannas, inventor of artificial skin, died at 90.
• Artificial skin (Integra) revolutionized burn treatment and supports organ regeneration.
• Yannas advanced collagen-based devices and biomaterials education.

Two women had a business meeting. AI called it childcare

Key Points

• AI mislabeled a co-founders’ meeting as childcare based on women’s names.
• An AI saved only the daughter’s salon enjoyment, omitting the son’s response.
• Bias studies (e.g., Gender Shades) show systemic misclassification patterns in AI.

The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia

Key Points

• Final penny minted in Philadelphia after Trump’s directive to end production due to cost.
• Penny remains legal tender; last circulating pennies were struck in June and final pressed coins will be auctioned.
• Retailers face legal and operational challenges from rounding, with exact-change laws and SNAP rules limiting options.

Kubernetes Is Your Private Cloud

Key Points

• Kubernetes is presented as a private cloud control plane with user-controlled scaling and placement.
• Open-source tools (Rook + Ceph, CloudNativePG, OpenTelemetry) replicate major public cloud services.
• Tooling maturity (IaC, GitOps, operators) is cited as making self-managed Kubernetes practical, with optional bursting to AWS/GCP/Azure.

Waymo begins freeway rides for the public

Key Points

• Freeway robotaxi rides start in San Francisco, Phoenix, and Los Angeles with opt-in via the Waymo app.
• Service expands to San Jose and airports, forming a 260-mile unified area and curbside operations.
• Validation included closed-course and simulation testing plus updated safety coordination protocols.

The PowerPC Has Still Got It (Llama on G4 Laptop)

Key Points

• Used a PowerBook G4 (PowerPC) with 1GB RAM to run an LLM via a fork of llama2.c.
• Converted data for big-endian architecture and addressed memory alignment without mmap.
• AltiVec SIMD optimization improved performance from 0.77 to 0.88 tokens per second.

Testing out Crush, a TUI based coding agent

Key Points

• Crush enabled rapid implementation of dynamic OpenGraph images and smooth build-script integration.
• Model choice (Sonnet 4 for heavy tasks; Gemini Flash for quick edits) resulted in $23.04 cost over ~45 minutes.
• Neovim integration and TUI features (diffs, changed-files list, model/cost display) supported oversight but had minor visual issues.

NetHack4 Philosophy

Key Points

• NetHack emphasizes flexibility to enable emergent play and player-driven solutions.
• Conducts formalize optional challenges across multiple categories to enhance replayability.
• Including rarely optimal options and commonly optimal milestones both serve distinct design purposes.

Helm v4.0.0

Key Points

• First stable release of Helm 4 adds WebAssembly-enabled plugin system and server-side apply.
• Most Helm v3 workflows and apiVersion v2 charts remain compatible, but changes are backward-incompatible.
• Binaries for major OSes are available and future patch/minor releases are scheduled.

Launch HN: JSX Tool (YC F25) – A Browser Dev-Panel IDE for React

Key Points

• Click-through JSX inspection maps UI to source for React projects.
• Local Dev Server enables filesystem access, LSP, and ripgrep within the browser.
• Non-AI IDE features are free; extension closed-source, Dev Server open-source.

Building a CI/CD Pipeline Runner from Scratch in Python

Key Points

• Defines pipelines via YAML stages and jobs with sequential stages and parallel jobs.
• Details runner responsibilities: config parsing, dependency graphing, containerized execution, logging, artifacts, and status.
• Shows a Python-based single-job executor using Docker as the starting point for a full runner.

Steam Machine

Key Points

• Compact cube PC for big-screen gaming with full Steam library access
• Optimized gaming OS with fast suspend/resume and cloud saves
• 4K/60 FPS target using FSR with discrete AMD CPU and GPU

Steam Frame

Key Points

• Streaming‑first wireless VR headset with controllers for the Steam library
• Dual‑radio design with included 6GHz adapter for stable, dedicated streaming links
• Foveated Streaming with eye tracking claims 10x image quality/bandwidth improvements

Show HN: Cancer diagnosis makes for an interesting RL environment for LLMs

Key Points

• LLMs navigate WSIs using tool-augmented RL to emulate pathologist workflows.
• Frontier models (GPT‑5, Claude 4.5) achieved higher agreement than smaller models on limited samples.
• Aluna plans a larger benchmark suite to validate and extend these findings.

A brief look at FreeBSD

Key Points

• FreeBSD is being tested in a VM for potential use on a Framework laptop, with support efforts from the FreeBSD Foundation.
• Cohesive system architecture is a main motivation, contrasting with Linux’s multi-project contribution path.
• Package availability is broad but includes gaps and lagging updates; ZFS and jails are compared with Linux’s Btrfs, LXC, and Podman.

Async and Finaliser Deadlocks

Key Points

• A Python finalizer acquiring a lock can deadlock when the main thread holds the lock.
• CPython’s reference counting triggers __del__ immediately after t = None.
• Finalizers run interleaved on the same thread at runtime-chosen times, requiring careful concurrency design.

Apple Introduced Digital ID in Apple Wallet

Key Points

• Digital ID can be created from U.S. passport data and is stored in Apple Wallet for iPhone and Apple Watch.
• Initial acceptance begins in beta at TSA checkpoints at 250+ U.S. airports for domestic travel verification.
• Data is encrypted and stored on-device; Face ID/Touch ID required to share only necessary information.

Project Euler

Key Points

• Most problems require programming alongside mathematical insight.
• Membership stands at 1364972 across 220 locations, using 113 programming languages.
• Account creation with cookies enabled is required; registration is free.

Maestro Technology Sells Used SSD Drives as New

Key Points

• SMART data revealed tens of thousands of power-on hours on drives sold as new.
• rsync.net returned the four SSDs for a refund and documented the case.
• The SSDs were intended for a critical ZFS special metadata device where reliability is essential.

The Single Byte That Kills Your Exploit: Understanding Endianness

Key Points

• Endianness directly affects exploit address packing and execution.
• Little-endian dominates x86/x64; big-endian is used in network protocols and some embedded architectures.
• Use tools (readelf/objdump/GDB/pwntools/struct) to detect and pack values correctly.

Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller and Steam Frame

Key Points

• Valve unveiled Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame.
• Steam Machine: SteamOS, AMD Zen 4 + RDNA3, 16GB RAM, 8GB GDDR6 vRAM, doubles as Linux PC.
• Steam Frame: wireless VR headset with Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and 16GB LPDDR5x, running SteamOS.

GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT

Key Points

• GPT-5.1 includes Instant and Thinking models with warmer tone and adaptive reasoning.
• Rollout starts with paid users; API endpoints arrive later this week.
• Legacy GPT-5 models remain available for three months before full transition.

UK pauses intelligence-sharing with US on suspected drug vessels in Caribbean

Key Points

• UK pauses sharing of maritime drug-trafficking intelligence with the US over legal concerns.
• US lethal strikes since September killed an estimated 76 people in 19 attacks on small boats.
• US carrier USS Gerald R Ford deployed to Caribbean amid tensions with Venezuela, with a UK officer serving on a ship in the strike group.

Blasting Yeast with UV Light

Key Points

• UV dose calculation is complex and may benefit from standardization.
• Preliminary data show reduced colony density with higher UV-C doses but not full eradication at ~1300 mJ/cm^2.
• Contamination impacted results; improved sterility and a repeat experiment are planned.

Is your electric bill going up? AI is partly to blame

Key Points

• Electricity prices up 40% since Feb 2020; residential rates rising faster than inflation.
• Demand growth from AI data centers and electrification; DOE projects 2.2% and 2.4% growth.
• Utilities face over $1 trillion in grid and supply investments; cost allocation is pivotal.

How Tube Amplifiers Work

Key Points

• Explains tube amp operation via the Fender 5F1 Champ example.
• Details signal flow from input jacks through V1A/V1B to V2 and the output transformer.
• Emphasizes safety and grounding best practices to reduce noise.

Archive or Delete?

Key Points

• Gmail’s early design and messaging promoted archiving everything.
• Archive-first preserves history; delete-first yields cleaner searches but risks data loss.
• A balanced rule: archive potential value, delete likely useless messages.

GLP-1 drugs linked to lower death rates in colon cancer patients

Key Points

• GLP-1 users showed 15.5% five-year mortality vs. 37.1% for non-users.
• Benefits persisted after adjustments for age, BMI, and disease severity.
• Authors call for clinical trials to confirm causality and mechanisms.

LLM Output Drift in Financial Workflows: Validation and Mitigation (arXiv)

Key Points

• Smaller LLMs deliver higher determinism than larger models in regulated financial tasks.
• Deterministic harness, invariant checks, and attestation system support audit-ready deployments.
• SQL tasks are stable; RAG tasks show higher drift, highlighting task-dependent sensitivity.

Anthropic invests $50B in US AI infrastructure

Key Points

• Anthropic to invest $50B with Fluidstack to build U.S. data centers in Texas and New York.
• Rollout begins in 2026, creating ~800 permanent and 2,400 construction jobs.
• Scaling responds to Claude’s demand; company stresses cost- and capital-efficient growth.

OmniAI (YC W24) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers

Key Points

• FDE role focuses on on-site integrations and lender workflow customization.
• Tech stack includes Node.js, TypeScript, React/Next.js, Postgres, Docker, Kubernetes; AI via OpenAI and Gemini.
• Work includes OCR pipelines (zerox), data aggregation from 50+ sources, and real-time underwriting models.

Software Development in the Time of New Angels

Key Points

• Agentic AI for software development is claimed to have emerged five months prior, altering code creation dynamics.
• $150/hour developer cost historically shaped processes and tooling in software development.
• LLM-assisted tools (GPT-3.5, Claude Code) were used to build a Java parser and AST in Scala for a knowledge graph project.

Making the Clang AST Leaner and Faster

Key Points

• Clang removes ElaboratedType and stores elaboration/qualifiers in RecordType to reduce memory and indirection.
• Benchmarks show 7% compile-time improvement in stdexec and 5% in Chromium.
• Changes are planned for the Clang 22 release.

Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software

Key Points

• Homebrew will deprecate the --no-quarantine flag that bypasses Gatekeeper.
• Casks must pass Gatekeeper checks; non-compliant casks lose support on September 1, 2026.
• Apple silicon enforces valid signatures for native arm64 code, reinforcing Gatekeeper compliance.

Marble: A Multimodal World Model

Key Points

• Marble’s world model is generally available with broad multimodal input support.
• Interactive 2D/3D editing and export to Gaussian splats, meshes, and videos.
• Marble Labs offers tutorials and case studies for practical workflows.

Jasmine: A Simple, Performant and Scalable Jax-Based World Modeling Codebase

Key Points

• Jasmine scales from single hosts to hundreds of accelerators with minimal code changes.
• Achieves order-of-magnitude faster reproduction on CoinRun via pipeline optimizations.
• Provides fully reproducible training and diverse sharding configurations for benchmarking.

Disassembling terabytes of random data with Zig and Capstone to prove a point

Key Points

• Experiment compares direct disassembly of random bytes vs. disassembly after DEFLATE inflation.
• Implemented in Zig with Capstone; integration steps using CMake are provided.
• AI Usage Disclosure notes no LLMs used; resources include a PDF and GitHub repo.

Being "Seen" and Feeling Part Of

Key Points

• Weekly reflection question prompts actions to feel more connected and seen.
• Lincoln Island members receive added engagement tools: calls, chat threads, and early access to anonymous responses.
• Aurora Coworking’s logo symbolizes community, visibility, and support within the author’s initiatives.

I built a platform where audiences fund debates between public thinkers

Key Points

• Audience-funded debates with tiered participation and question voting.
• AI-assisted setup for fast debate creation and editable content.
• Hosting on third-party live platforms; fees only after successful events.

Show HN: Gerbil – an open source desktop app for running LLMs locally

Key Points

• Runs LLMs locally via KoboldCpp, with cross-platform support and privacy-focused design.
• Includes image generation presets and integrations with SillyTavern and OpenWebUI.
• Offers CLI mode for advanced control, with installation options via GitHub Releases and Arch Linux AUR.

Louisiana Took Months to Sound Alarm Amid Whooping Cough Outbreak

Key Points

• Louisiana’s worst pertussis outbreak in 35 years led to two infant deaths.
• State officials appeared to delay standard public alerting and updates.
• An infant case in Baton Rouge required ICU care, illustrating the disease’s severity.

Max Number of Simultaneous Key-Press (N-Key Rollover, NKRO, Ghosting)

Key Points

• NKRO defines simultaneous key detection; 6-key vs full NKRO is contrasted.
• Anti-ghosting can enable many combinations; SideWinder X4 reports up to 26 keys.
• Matrix design and USB boot protocol contribute to practical rollover limits.

Are We Doomed?

Key Points

• Japan’s centenarian population has surged as fertility declines.
• Replacement-level fertility is about 2.1; many countries are now below it.
• South Korea’s TFR is 0.75, indicating potential rapid population decline.

£220 'for a cut-up sock' — Apples's new iPhone Pocket ridiculed online

Key Points

• Apple’s iPhone Pocket is a £219.95 limited edition collaboration with Issey Miyake.
• The accessory’s open-top, sock-like design and price drew significant online criticism.
• Analyst commentary frames the pricing as branding- and exclusivity-driven, aligning with luxury fashion norms.

Google will allow users to sideload Android apps without verification

Key Points

• New student/hobbyist account enables limited app distribution without full verification.
• Advanced, coercion-resistant flow will allow experienced users to sideload unverified apps with clear warnings.
• Verification extends Google Play’s identity-based safeguards to broader Android to deter scalable malware.

Benzene at 200

Key Points

• Faraday isolated benzene in 1825 from oil gas residues at the Royal Institution using intensive purification.
• He initially named the compound “bicarburet of hydrogen” and announced the discovery to the Royal Society.
• Perkin’s 1856 accidental synthesis of mauveine from aniline showcased benzene’s transformative industrial impact.

Valve is about to win the console generation

Key Points

• Valve is reported to have introduced Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame.
• Steam Machine runs SteamOS (immutable Arch Linux fork) with broad marketplace compatibility and upgradeable components.
• Steam Frame is described as a standalone VR successor to Valve Index.

My dad could still be alive, but he's not

Key Points

• Dispatcher advised waiting for an ambulance that did not arrive after ~30 minutes.
• Family self-transported to a nearby hospital; the patient collapsed and died at the entrance.
• The incident occurred in Toronto; the author arrived at 1:30 a.m. to confirm the death.

Tetrahedral Analog of the Pythagorean Theorem

Key Points

• De Gua’s theorem equates the squared area of the opposite face to the sum of squares of the three right faces in a tetrahedron.
• The theorem generalizes to a 4-simplex: one squared tetrahedral volume equals the sum of the other four squared volumes.
• Python and Gram matrix-based volume computation confirm the identities, with small residuals due to floating-point precision.

Mergiraf: Syntax-Aware Merging for Git

Key Points

• Mergiraf brings syntax-aware merging to Git across 33 languages using tree-sitter and GumTree.
• Hybrid strategy: attempts line-based merge first, then applies targeted tree-based resolution.
• Written in Rust under GPLv3; initiated by Antonin Delpeuch with major contributions from Ada Alakbarova.

Eleven Labs Debuts "Iconic Marketplace" Feat Michael Caine, Judy Garland, Others

Key Points

• Platform launched to license AI voices with commercial rights upon approval.
• Connects creators with rights holders to manage permissions.
• Curated roster of iconic figures with new additions planned.

A67z

Key Points

• A67z.com claims brainrot dominates the attention economy and platforms optimize for it.
• The fund says it invests in founders building for this content paradigm.
• Warnings: no a67z memecoin and no official Twitter/X; beware impersonators.

CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring

Key Points

• CollectWise seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to lead end-to-end customer implementations.
• AI agents reportedly outperform human collectors by 2x; company hit $1M ARR and targets $10M.
• Compensation is $150k–$190k salary plus significant equity; LLM and cloud skills required.

Google open-sources Android 16 QPR1, two months late

Key Points

• Android 16 QPR1 source is now available on AOSP.
• Kernel and firmware migrated in September under GPLv2.
• Userspace migration was blocked until the AOSP push.

Bitcoin's big secret: How cryptocurrency became law enforcement's secret weapon

Key Points

• Bitcoin’s ledger enabled powerful law enforcement tracing from around 2014.
• Blockchain forensics drove landmark cases like Silk Road, Mt. Gox, AlphaBay, and Welcome to Video.
• Resulting investigations led to record-breaking U.S. Justice Department seizures.

Claude Code Introduces Off-by-One Errors

Key Points

• Claude Code shows an off-by-one error when displaying large integer outputs from bash.
• Native terminal returns the correct value, indicating a display issue within Claude Code.
• Environment details: v2.0.37, Sonnet 4.5, macOS/Darwin 24.3.0.

A Commentary on the Sixth Edition Unix Operating System

Key Points

• Companion commentary to UNIX V6 source for UNSW courses, authored in 1977 by J. Lions.
• Acknowledges UNIX’s authorship by K. Thompson and D. Ritchie and Western Electric licensing restrictions.
• Covers core topics (traps, interrupts, RK driver, buffers, directories, file systems) and provides kernel constants and tunables.

On USB HID, Keyboard LEDs, and device emulation (2024)

Key Points

• Adopts usb_hid_host core with Wishbone and CDC to add USB inputs to BoxLambda.
• Investigates and implements keyboard LED control, requiring a HID emulator for simulation.
• Relies on HID Boot Protocol; tested with Dell devices due to compatibility.

Comparing the Latitude of Europe and America

Key Points

• U.S. cities are visually aligned with European counterparts at the same latitudes.
• Overlays extend to North America vs. Europe and North America vs. Australia by latitude.
• Latitude does not equate to climate; a resource is provided to compare city climates.

Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper that uses 1 GB RAM when idle

Key Points

• WhatsApp Windows app now uses a WebView2 wrapper loading WhatsApp Web.
• Tests report markedly higher RAM usage and performance issues versus the prior native app.
• Version 2.2584.3.0 is rolling out via the Microsoft Store, with eventual forced migration.