El Salvador's Congress approved reforms to the Bitcoin Law, making cryptocurrency usage optional and removing its mandatory acceptance as legal tender, following IMF requirements for a $1.4 billion credit agreement. Recent surveys show 92% of Salvadorans didn't use bitcoin in 2024, while the government maintains its cryptocurrency reserves worth $634.8 million.
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An in-depth exploration of JIT decorator patterns in Python machine learning libraries showcases three implementation strategies: AST-based, bytecode-based, and tracing-based JIT compilation. Each approach offers unique benefits for translating Python functions into optimized machine code, with detailed examples from JAX and Triton demonstrating real-world applications.
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/decorator-jits-python-as-a-dsl/
Guidelines for posting job opportunities on Hacker News, emphasizing direct hiring company posts, active positions, and location transparency. Resources include job search tools and links to related threads for job seekers and freelancers.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42919502
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An IBM internal training document from 1979 emphasized that computers should never make management decisions as they cannot be held accountable, drawing parallels to modern AI concerns. The original document was discovered in old work papers but was later destroyed in a 2019 flood, with IBM archives unable to locate another copy.
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/3/a-computer-can-never-be-held-accountable/
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Hollywood is a software utility that creates cinematic-looking computer console displays by splitting them into multiple panes, making it popular for media productions including major TV shows, commercials, and online content since 2014.
A White House proposal to implement tariffs on Canadian, Mexican, and Chinese imports would result in higher consumer prices, reducing household purchasing power by approximately $1,000 in 2024. The policy would increase the average effective tariff rate to 8.6-8.8%, the highest since 1946, while causing significant price increases across various sectors, particularly in computers and electronics.
Elon Musk claims his DOGE team is controlling federal payment systems and shutting down contractor payments through Treasury Department access, raising concerns about the scope of his authority in government financial operations. The Tesla CEO, appointed by Trump to modernize federal IT, has expanded his mandate to include financial flow control across federal agencies, leading to conflicts with USAID and affecting organizations like Lutheran Family Services.
A comprehensive guide presenting essential patterns for creating effective personal websites, covering content, structure, navigation, and technology aspects. The patterns are derived from analysis of outstanding personal websites and provide practical guidelines for web development.
http://www.rdrop.com/~half/Creations/Writings/Web.patterns/index.html
The EU's AI Act introduces significant regulatory control over AI systems, with the first compliance deadline starting February 2024, enabling regulators to ban AI systems deemed to pose unacceptable risks. The framework categorizes AI applications into four risk levels, with prohibited uses including social scoring, emotion inference at work, and unauthorized biometric data collection, carrying potential fines up to €35 million or 7% of annual revenue.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/02/ai-systems-with-unacceptable-risk-are-now-banned-in-the-eu/
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William Gibson's novels explore design's role in shaping our future through themes of consumerism, technology, and identity, particularly evident in his latest work 'The Peripheral'. His narratives combine fashion, interiors, and technological gadgets to illustrate how unbridled materialism and design challenge the meaning of personhood in contemporary society. The foundations for Gibson's imagined futures, featuring virtual presence and physical avatars, are already being developed through current interaction design technologies.
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An engineer shares their experience building a WebAssembly interpreter in C during their free time, detailing the implementation process from binary format decoding to function execution. The project successfully runs basic programs like 'Hello World' and helped the author gain deep understanding of WebAssembly's core specification, preparing them for contributions to industrial-grade runtimes like Wasmtime.
A comprehensive guide explores dithering, color quantization, and CRT display emulation techniques for creating retro-style effects in WebGL and React Three Fiber projects, featuring practical code examples and interactive demonstrations for implementing ordered dithering, RGB cell patterns, and screen curvature effects.
https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/the-art-of-dithering-and-retro-shading-web/
Multiple critical security vulnerabilities were discovered in Git-related projects, allowing malicious repositories to leak user credentials through various exploit methods. The vulnerabilities affected major tools including GitHub Desktop, Git Credential Manager, Git LFS, and GitHub CLI, leading to implementations of new security measures.
https://flatt.tech/research/posts/clone2leak-your-git-credentials-belong-to-us/
OpenWrt 24.10.0 brings major updates including Linux kernel 6.6, TLS 1.3 support, and improved WiFi6/WiFi7 capabilities across over 1970 supported devices. The release features significant core component upgrades, new hardware target support, and enhanced security features, though users should note specific upgrade requirements for certain devices.
https://openwrt.org/releases/24.10/notes-24.10.0
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A company's YouTube channel was abruptly deleted without warning due to alleged 'spam and deceptive practices', despite only posting original product demos. The situation highlights ongoing issues with automated content moderation systems on major platforms, prompting discussion about alternative video hosting solutions.
https://bsky.app/profile/sinevibes.bsky.social/post/3lhazuyn5as2t
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Cloudflare has integrated C2PA provenance standard into their Images service, enabling preservation of digital content authenticity from creation through delivery. The integration allows content creators to maintain cryptographically signed metadata about image origins and transformations, while ensuring proper attribution and verification capabilities.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/preserve-content-credentials-with-cloudflare-images/
An extensive collection of 88 detailed London street views from 1838-1840, featuring architectural elevations, street maps, and business directories created by John Tallis. The views serve as both a historical record and an advertising medium, providing detailed documentation of London's commercial landscape during the Victorian era.
The Dębiec Water Treatment Plant in Poznań, Poland uses mussels with attached sensors as biological indicators to monitor water quality in the Warta River. The innovative system combines natural intelligence with computer technology, where eight sensor-equipped mussels signal pollution levels by opening or closing their shells, automatically shutting down the system if four mussels close simultaneously.
A web scraping tool automates company research by crawling websites and extracting key information about technology stacks, careers, and funding details. The tool generates comprehensive PDF reports from scraped data, integrating with services like LeadsOnTrees for enhanced startup ecosystem insights.
A group of young engineers, aged 19-24 with connections to Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, have gained significant control over federal government infrastructure through the Department of Government Efficiency project. Despite their limited government experience, these individuals have accessed sensitive information and systems at major agencies like OPM, GSA, and Treasury, raising concerns about regulatory capture and oversight.
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/
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