FAA Issues National Ground Stop
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FAA ground stop, LibreOffice’s year-round work, and Nvidia GPU scarcity
First things first
AI’s in a big-promise, show-me-the-results mood: sweeping medical claims meet skepticism, while researchers use it to decode Gödel’s notebooks. Less magic button, more useful tool that still needs human judgment.
Across tech, reliability feels newly precious, from major outages to millions in missing GPUs. But there’s plenty of fun tinkering too, with clever terminal borders, pixel-art maps, and a Monkey Island comparison for old-school game fans around here.
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"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying."
LibreOffice says it works every day of the year, making a playful reference to its reliability. Users praised its Linux support and shared their long-term use of the free office suite.
Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startups to Buy Its GPUs
Nvidia allegedly funded AI startups and small cloud providers that then bought its GPUs, sustaining demand and helping move excess chip supply. CFO Colette Kress reportedly warned that the deals were risky because some buyers could not afford the GPUs.
Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software Still the Same? [video]
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Jonathan Blow asks why software has not changed despite claims that AI can solve coding. The provided content contains no further details about his argument.
Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous medical claims
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s prediction that AI could help cure cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, and mental illness within a decade drew sharp criticism from experts and Eli Lilly’s CEO. Gary Marcus calls the claims unrealistic and compares them to Elizabeth Holmes’s medical promises.
$11.4M in Nvidia hardware vanishes during shipment from CA to TX
Six pallets of Nvidia computer hardware worth $11.4 million disappeared during a shipment from Oakland, California, to Texas. Authorities are investigating; the truck was last tracked in Southern California.
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It Takes 16 Clicks for a Student to Open a PowerPoint on an iPad
A student reportedly needs 16 clicks to open a PowerPoint on an iPad. The complaint highlights a cumbersome classroom technology workflow.
AI unlocks Gödel's notebooks, said to contain hundreds of proved theorems
AI tools are helping researchers decipher Kurt Gödel’s 1,009 pages of notebooks, much of them written in obsolete shorthand. The notes are said to contain hundreds of proved theorems that could reveal new details about his mathematical work.
Why Zig over C for Systems Programming
Zig keeps C-like control and direct access to C libraries while simplifying error handling and resource cleanup with `errdefer`. The author favors Zig for new systems code but values C’s portability and established ecosystem.
Ukraine knocks out 36% of Russia's oil refining capacity in under two weeks
Ukrainian attacks disabled 36% of Russia’s oil refining capacity in less than two weeks. The strikes targeted Russian oil refineries and disrupted their operations.
Terminal borders that don't cost a cell
A proposed terminal protocol adds thin borders to cell edges, letting panels, fields, and buttons gain outlines without sacrificing rows or columns. A Ghostty patch and Ratatui demos show the approach, and its creator is seeking feedback from terminal and TUI developers.
Big tech is here to let us down
Microsoft Outlook, Teams, and Copilot outages disrupted businesses, schools, universities, and courts. The outages exposed institutions’ dependence on Microsoft and support the case for open-source alternatives.
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FM-1 Workbench
FM-1 Workbench is a browser-based editor for the FM1 synthesizer, supporting sound and sequence editing, project and sample management, MIDI, and firmware updates. It requires desktop Chrome or Edge and JavaScript, and can connect to the device to save projects and manage its sound libraries.
U.S. October PPI Rises 6.5% YoY, Highest in Nearly Four Years
U.S. producer prices rose 6.5% year over year in October, the highest rate since November 2022, but below the 6.6% forecast. Prices increased 0.3% from September, also below expectations, while September’s monthly gain was revised up to 1.4%.
Why is Google cutting off Search from AI-free schools? Here are some theories
Google says schools that disable AI Overviews for students will lose access to Google Search, drawing criticism from parents and public officials. A former Google employee theorizes the policy helps the company defend its position in recent antitrust cases by presenting AI and Search as an integrated product.
Ggml v1.0.0
ggml 1.0.0 removes deprecated public APIs and legacy DIAG_MASK operations, while adding configurable YaRN truncation and FP8 support. It also improves backend performance with quantized matrix multiplication, fused MoE operations, and new attention and scheduling paths.
Live airband on all frequencies from KORS. Victoria, CA also ground stopped
Orcas Airband streams live air traffic radio from KORS, with options to listen across frequencies and channels. Its traffic board is automatically compiled and may be inaccurate or incomplete, so it is not for navigation.
A technical vision for the Haskell ecosystem
The Haskell Foundation’s new technical leadership committee will develop and seek support for initiatives, with community input on proposals. Its vision prioritizes faster builds, better debugging and profiling, easier onboarding, and Haskell’s strengths in reliable human-reviewed and AI-assisted software development.
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No AI Slop: A Manifesto
The No AI Slop manifesto urges developers to prioritize outcomes, understanding, and human judgment over speed and AI-generated volume. It defines slop as low-effort work that shifts review costs onto others and calls for taking responsibility for AI-assisted work.
After 600 experiments, here's what I discovered about JEPA world models
After 600 experiments with LeWM, Haddy Alchaer found that transforming a memory graph can generate subgoals on the fly and solve long-horizon physics tasks with out-of-distribution goals, without extra training. The work explores JEPA world models, which plan using compact scene representations rather than generating future images.
Show HN: Isometric SF – A pixel-art map of the SF Bay Area
Isometric SF is a pixel-art map of the San Francisco Bay Area. It combines OpenStreetMap data with 3D imagery, land-cover, elevation, and place data from several sources.
Palmfrets, Minnesota guitarist's invention, strikes a new chord
Minnesota musician Ben Ranson invented “palmfrets,” a guitar attachment and playing technique that lets players add bass lines and melodies using their palm. He unveiled the invention at a Fergus Falls performance after developing the idea for more than five years.
Monkey Island: all 13 versions side by side
An interactive site compares all 13 versions of The Secret of Monkey Island side by side across 12 matching scenes. It uses emulator captures with consistent scaling and includes CRT effects and version details.
Found: A protein that drives ageing without unleashing inflammation
Researchers identified granzyme K as an enzyme that drives age-related damage in body tissues. Aged mice without the protein had better heart and liver function and less kidney damage, while retaining immune defenses.