news, !paper 2025-03-07

641 Age Verification Laws: A Backdoor to Surveillance / eff.org / 429

427 Introducing command And commandfor In HTML / developer.chrome.com / 246

422 Microsoft is plotting a future without OpenAI / techstartups.com / 441

416 Natural occurring molecule rivals Ozempic in weight loss, sidesteps side effects / medicalxpress.com / 378

407 Europe's most wanted man plotted my murder and that of my colleague / theins.press / 253

379 Feds Link Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks / krebsonsecurity.com / 255

367 Ladder: Self-improving LLMs through recursive problem decomposition / arxiv.org / 110

329 Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"? / news.ycombinator.com / 322

305 Vtm: Text-Based Desktop Environment / github.com/directvt / 89

289 Show HN: Open-Source DocumentAI with Ollama / rlama.dev / 33

259 Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon / theguardian.com / 338

258 Polars Cloud: The Distributed Cloud Architecture to Run Polars Anywhere / pola.rs / 87

187 Bye, Prime / tbray.org / 178

180 Optimistic Locking in B-Trees / cedardb.com / 51

179 How did places like Bell Labs know how to ask the right questions? (2023) / freaktakes.com / 107

179 Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (Filmed Feb. 13, 1957) [video] / youtube.com / 54

174 Mountains, Cliffs, and Caves: A Guide to Using Perlin Noise for Procedural Gen / jdhwilkins.com / 35

173 Strobelight: A profiling service built on open source technology / engineering.fb.com / 49

168 Matters Computational (2010) [pdf] / jjj.de / 23

166 Bring Back Shortwave / spectator.co.uk / 105

166 GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet / cybercultural.com / 84

165 Moscow-based global news network has infected Western AI tools / newsguardrealitycheck.com / 108

156 Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe? / bbc.com / 240

153 The features of Python's help() function / pythonmorsels.com / 55

150 "Big 3" science fiction magazines including Asimov's and Analog acquired / jasonsanford.substack.com / 85

148 Discovery of fresco portraying Dionysian mysteries at Pompeii / pompeiisites.org / 84

141 Laser-based device can scan almost any sample of gas and tell you what's in it / phys.org / 84

140 Betting on the Pope was the original prediction market / nodumbideas.com / 80

120 AMD YOLO / geohot.github.io / 79

118 Take It Down Act: A Flawed Attempt to Protect Victims That'll Lead to Censorship / eff.org / 38

118 Letta: Letta is a framework for creating LLM services with memory / github.com/letta-ai / 22

113 The necessity of Nussbaum / aeon.co / 144

113 Ereader Easy Swedish / ereader-swedish.fly.dev / 66

109 Doge Is Putting Major Government Efficiency Projects at Risk / wired.com / 84

104 Rules to improve air quality are under attack / heatpumped.org / 49

101 Great software design looks underwhelming / seangoedecke.com / 15

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