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Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux
OsrsNeedsf2P about 10 hours ago

Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux

The article discusses Valve's ongoing efforts to have the HDMI Forum unblock HDMI 2.1 support for Linux systems. Despite previous promises, the HDMI Forum has continued to deny this request, which Valve argues is unfairly restricting access to the latest HDMI technology for Linux users.

heise.de
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Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration
speckx about 7 hours ago

Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration

The article discusses the author's frustration with obtaining a Gemini API key, highlighting the challenges of navigating the exchange's onboarding process and the lack of clear documentation, which can be a barrier for users seeking to integrate with the platform.

ankursethi.com
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DeepSeek uses banned Nvidia chips for AI model, report says
goodway about 11 hours ago

DeepSeek uses banned Nvidia chips for AI model, report says

(Original is https://www.theinformation.com/articles/deepseek-using-banne... but hardwalled)

finance.yahoo.com
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Super Mario 64 for the PS1
LaserDiscMan about 9 hours ago

Super Mario 64 for the PS1

This project aims to port the classic Nintendo 64 game Super Mario 64 to the Sony PlayStation. The goal is to provide a playable version of the game that can run on the older PlayStation hardware.

github.com
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Is it a bubble?
saigrandhi about 10 hours ago

Is it a bubble?

The article discusses the debate around whether the current stock market conditions constitute a 'bubble'. It analyzes various factors such as valuation metrics, investor sentiment, and market fundamentals to examine the potential risks and opportunities in the current environment.

oaktreecapital.com
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The future of Terraform CDK
mfornasa about 8 hours ago

The future of Terraform CDK

Terraform-CDK is an open-source infrastructure as code framework that allows developers to use familiar programming languages like TypeScript, Python, and Go to define cloud resources, providing a more flexible and programmatic approach to infrastructure management.

github.com
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When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023)
atan2 about 6 hours ago

When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023)

The article explores the surprising usefulness of the bubblesort algorithm, a simple sorting technique often dismissed as inefficient. It examines scenarios where bubblesort can be advantageous, such as in small data sets or when sorting is a small part of a larger problem, and discusses the importance of understanding the strengths and weaknesses of various algorithms.

buttondown.com
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Rubio orders return to Times New Roman font over 'wasteful' Calibri
jnord about 5 hours ago

Rubio orders return to Times New Roman font over 'wasteful' Calibri

The article discusses the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, focusing on Russia's military buildup on the border and the potential for an invasion. It also examines the diplomatic efforts by Western nations to deter Russia and the potential economic and geopolitical consequences of the situation.

bbc.com
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EFF Launches Age Verification Hub as Resource Against Misguided Laws
iamnothere about 7 hours ago

EFF Launches Age Verification Hub as Resource Against Misguided Laws

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched an 'Age Verification Hub' to provide resources and guidance against misguided laws that mandate age verification for online content, which pose risks to privacy and free expression.

eff.org
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Show HN: A 2-row, 16-key keyboard designed for smartphones
QWERTYmini about 10 hours ago

Show HN: A 2-row, 16-key keyboard designed for smartphones

Mobile keyboards today are almost entirely based on the 26-key, 3-row QWERTY layout. Here’s a new 2-row, 16-key alternative designed specifically for smartphones.

k-keyboard.com
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Launch HN: InspectMind (YC W24) – AI agent for reviewing construction drawings
aakashprasad91 about 12 hours ago

Launch HN: InspectMind (YC W24) – AI agent for reviewing construction drawings

Hi HN, we're Aakash and Shuangling of InspectMind (https://www.inspectmind.ai/), an AI “plan checker” that finds issues in construction drawings, details, and specs.

Construction drawings quietly go out with lots of errors: dimension conflicts, co-ordination gaps, material mismatches, missing details and more. These errors turn into delays and hundreds of thousands of dollars of rework during construction. InspectMind reviews the full drawing set of a construction project in minutes. It cross-checks architecture, engineering, and specifications to catch issues that cause rework before building begins.

Here’s a video with some examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvn1FyHRlLQ.

Before this, I (Aakash) built an engineering firm that worked on ~10,000 buildings across the US. One thing that always frustrated us: a lot of design coordination issues don’t show up until construction starts. By then, the cost of a mistake can be 10–100x higher, and everyone is scrambling to fix problems that could have been caught earlier.

We tried everything including checklists, overlay reviews, peer checks but scrolling through 500–2000 PDF sheets and remembering how every detail connects to every other sheet is a brittle process. City reviewers and GC pre-con teams try to catch issues too, yet they still sneak through.

We thought: if models can parse code and generate working software, maybe they can also help reason about the built environment on paper. So we built something we wished we had!

You upload drawings and specs (PDFs). The system breaks them into disciplines and detail hierarchies, parses geometry and text, and looks for inconsistencies: - Dimensions that don’t reconcile across sheets; - Clearances blocked by mechanical/architectural elements; - Fire/safety details missing or mismatched; - Spec requirements that never made it into drawings; - Callouts referencing details that don’t exist.

The output is a list of potential issues with sheet refs and locations for a human to review. We don’t expect automation to replace design judgment, just to help ACE professionals not miss the obvious stuff. Current AIs are good at obvious stuff, plus can process data at quantities way beyond what humans can accurately do, so this is a good application for them.

Construction drawings aren't standardized and every firm names things differently. Earlier “automated checking” tools relied heavily on manually-written rules per customer, and break when naming conventions change. Instead, we’re using multimodal models for OCR + vector geometry, callout graphs across the entire set, constraint-based spatial checks, and retrieval-augmented code interpretation. No more hard-coded rules!

We’re processing residential, commercial, and industrial projects today. Latency ranges from minutes to a few hours depending on sheet count. There’s no onboarding required, simply upload PDFs. There are still lots of edge cases (PDF extraction weirdness, inconsistent layering, industry jargon), so we’re learning a lot from failures, maybe more than successes. But the tech is already delivering results that couldn’t be done with previous tools.

Pricing is pay-as-you-go: we give an instant online quote per project after you upload the project drawings. It’s hard to do regular SaaS pricing since one project may be a home remodel and another may be a highrise. We’re open to feedback on that too, we’re still figuring it out.

If you work with drawings as an architect, engineer, MEP, GC preconstruction, real estate developer, plan reviewer we’d love a chance to run a sample set and hear what breaks, what’s useful, and what’s missing!

We’ll be here all day to go into technical details about geometry parsing, clustering failures, code reasoning attempts or real-world construction stories about how things go wrong. Thanks for reading! We’re happy to answer anything and look forward to your comments!

inspectmind.ai
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Patterns.dev
handfuloflight about 2 hours ago

Patterns.dev

The article discusses the importance of design patterns in software development, providing an overview of common patterns and how they can be applied to create more maintainable, scalable, and efficient code.

patterns.dev
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ICE is using smartwatches to track pregnant women, even during labor
mdhb about 8 hours ago

ICE is using smartwatches to track pregnant women, even during labor

The article discusses concerns over the use of AI-powered technologies, such as location tracking, by US immigration authorities to monitor and detain pregnant women. It highlights the potential privacy and civil liberties issues arising from such practices.

theguardian.com
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Show HN: Transactional Email for Developers
farhadhf about 11 hours ago

Show HN: Transactional Email for Developers

I'm the founder of AhaSend. We've built a transactional email service specifically for developers, with a Pay-As-You-Go pricing model ($0.50 per 1,000 emails) and up to 70% volume discount for platform partners.

While there are many ESPs out there, we focused heavily on the Developer Experience to solve the pain of building and testing email flows:

* The CLI: Heavily inspired by the Stripe CLI, we built a tool that lets you develop and debug locally. You can listen to webhooks, trigger events, manage your domains, and send / list / debug messages directly from your terminal.

* True Sandbox: We offer a full-lifecycle sandbox where emails go through the entire pipeline (processing, signing, etc.) without ever leaving our servers. Rhis also triggers all the webhook events (delivered, clicked, etc.) so you can test your app's logic without spamming real inboxes.

* Granular Security: We support fine-grained API scopes (e.g., reporting-only keys, or keys scoped strictly to sending from specific domains, etc), so you don't have to store "root" API keys in your application.

I'd love to hear your thoughts!

ahasend.com
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NASA loses contact with Maven – spacecraft orbiting Mars for more than a decade
tzmlab about 4 hours ago

NASA loses contact with Maven – spacecraft orbiting Mars for more than a decade

NASA has lost contact with the MAVEN spacecraft that was orbiting Mars to study its atmosphere. The cause of the communication failure is under investigation, and efforts are being made to reestablish contact with the spacecraft.

theguardian.com
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Tourists required to give 5 years social media history to enter US
testing22321 about 10 hours ago

Tourists required to give 5 years social media history to enter US

The article discusses a new proposal by the Trump administration to require foreign tourists and immigrants to the US to disclose their social media history, in an effort to enhance security screening and vetting processes.

dailymail.co.uk
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Rep. Massie Introduces Bill to Remove the United States from NATO
workfromspace about 4 hours ago

Rep. Massie Introduces Bill to Remove the United States from NATO

The article discusses Congressman Massie's introduction of the Medical Cannabis Research Act, which aims to expand medical cannabis research opportunities in the United States. The bill would remove barriers to medical cannabis research and facilitate studies on the potential benefits and risks of cannabis.

massie.house.gov
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US taking 25% cut of Nvidia chip sales "makes no sense," experts say
gametorch about 5 hours ago

US taking 25% cut of Nvidia chip sales "makes no sense," experts say

The U.S. government's plan to take a 25% cut of Nvidia's chip sales is criticized by experts as counterproductive, as it could stifle innovation and drive chip production overseas, potentially harming U.S. competitiveness in the semiconductor industry.

arstechnica.com
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US may require foreign tourists to disclose 5 years of social media history
defly about 12 hours ago

US may require foreign tourists to disclose 5 years of social media history

The U.S. government is considering a new policy that would require foreign tourists to provide five years of their social media history when applying for visas or entering the country. This proposal aims to strengthen security measures and screen for potential threats.

nbcnews.com
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Parkinson's Might Be in the Water
wjb3 about 8 hours ago

Parkinson's Might Be in the Water

Researchers suggest that Parkinson's disease may be linked to environmental factors, such as contaminated water, rather than solely genetic factors. The article explores new theories about the potential causes of Parkinson's disease and the need for further investigation into environmental contributors.

wired.com
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