The Format Dialog in Windows NT

Article URL: https://twitter.com/davepl1968/status/1772042158046146792 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39811604 Points: 202 # Comments: 91

Japan bucks private equity slowdown in Asia Pacific with deal value soaring 183% last year

Japan PE deal value surged 183% in 2023 from a year earlier, making it the largest private equity market in Asia Pacific for the first time.

Ken Buck says he’s ‘happy to move on’ after leaving Congress

Former Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.), who served his last day in the House on Friday, said in a Sunday interview he has no regrets about resigning from his seat before the end of his term. In a roundtable discussion on ABC News’s “This Week,” Jonathan Karl noted the timing of Buck’s

Thousands celebrate Palm Sunday in Jerusalem amid war in region

Thousands of Christians celebrated Palm Sunday in Jerusalem, kicking off the first day of Holy Week while the war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas persists in the region. Swarms of the faithful attended the traditional procession on the Mount of Olives on

Four in court as Moscow attack death toll nears 140

The suspects, showing signs of being beaten, are charged with terrorism over Friday's concert hall massacre.

Jewish settlers set their sights on Gaza beachfront

They see an opportunity to push for a return of Jewish settlements to the Palestinian territory.

Activists Unfurl Massive Quilt for Gaza on Met Museum Steps

They called for an immediate ceasefire while accusing the museum of complicity in Israel's violence against Palestinians.

Australia must lead the world on nature restoration through ambitious interpretation of international law

Australia has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to halt and reverse biodiversity loss through ambitious law and policy reform.

Port-scanning the fleet and trying to put out fires

Article URL: http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/03/21/scan/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39811298 Points: 60 # Comments: 5

Moving Back to London and 2023 Review

Article URL: https://mccormick.cx/news/entries/moving-back-to-london-2023-review Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39811291 Points: 29 # Comments: 10

Do artifacts have politics? [pdf]

Article URL: https://faculty.cc.gatech.edu/~beki/cs4001/Winner.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39811287 Points: 58 # Comments: 8

Tiny-autodiff: A tiny autograd library in D

Article URL: https://code.dlang.org/packages/tiny-autodiff Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39811280 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

DongleHider+ Framework Laptop Expansion Card

Article URL: https://github.com/LeoDJ/FW-EC-DongleHiderPlus Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39811261 Points: 138 # Comments: 55

Explorer: Exploration-Guided Reasoning for Textual Reinforcement Learning

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10692 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39811260 Points: 23 # Comments: 1

Stellantis uses ‘mandatory remote work day’ to cut 400 white-collar jobs: ‘It was a mass firing of everybody that was on the call’

“Emergent” abilities in LLMs actually develop gradually and predictably – study

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-quickly-do-large-language-models-learn-unexpected-skills-20240213/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39811155 Points: 193 # Comments: 145

Large Language Models' Emergent Abilities Are a Mirage

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/how-quickly-do-large-language-models-learn-unexpected-skills/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39811155 Points: 64 # Comments: 29

US Border Patrol chief says migrant smugglers are 'exploiting' the southern border's 'vulnerability'

U.S. Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens said migrant smugglers are taking advantage of vulnerabilities at the southern border and the importance U.S. officials place on responding to humanitarian issues. In an interview that aired Sunday on CBS News’s "Face the Nation," Owens said

Wu-Tang Clan Close Out Vegas Residency With Surprise Method Man & Redman Takeover

Wu-Tang Clan treated the fans who made it to Vegas for the final night of their 7-week Vegas residency to an unannounced performance by Method Man and Red.

Michelin-starred Dutch chef Syrco Bakker sets down new roots in Ubud, Bali with Syrco BASE

Syrco BASE is a four-in-one concept with a bar, restaurant, chef’s table and shop that uses ingredients from local farmers and suppliers.

'Quantum tornado' allows scientists to mimic a black hole on Earth

Article URL: https://www.space.com/quantum-tornado-black-hole-physics-simulation-absolute-zero Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39810979 Points: 8 # Comments: 3

2 suspects in Moscow concert hall terrorist attack appear in court

Two suspects in connection to the deadly Moscow concert hall terrorist attack appeared in the city’s district court Sunday night. The Associated Press (AP) reported that two of the suspects in the concert hall shooting that left more than 130 people dead on Friday appeared in

Minecraft exploit is allowing attackers to get any Xbox/MS account banned

Article URL: https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/minecraft-exploit-is-allowing-harassers-to-get-content-creators-xbox-accounts-banned Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39810956 Points: 9 # Comments: 2

Jill Biden’s dystopian vision for women’s health

Women’s health advocates should join in an urgent call to refocus this presidential initiative on a vision that remains true to the women’s health movement, addressing the obstacles to health for all women and empowering women to have control over their bodies, the role of

Austin's Bitcoin Underground

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/24/inside-austins-bitcoin-underground.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39810796 Points: 5 # Comments: 1

California has a forgotten fast food brand

Regional fast food chains are bizarre and beautiful. These local favorites tend to remain local , either because there’s no interest in going national or the menu just doesn’t have broader appeal; some chains are so oddly specific that they just wouldn’t make sense anywhere

Carville: 'Too many preachy females' are 'dominating the culture of the Democratic Party'

Democratic strategist James Carville argued "too many preachy females" in the Democratic Party could be to blame for President Biden's bleeding support from key voters. In an interview published Saturday with New York Times opinion columnist Maureen Dowd, Carville voiced

Facebook Is Filled with AI-Generated Garbage–and Older Adults Are Being Tricked

Article URL: https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-seniors-are-falling-for-ai-generated-pics-on-facebook Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39810706 Points: 8 # Comments: 1

The 10 Pop-Music Documentaries I Most Wish Someone Would Make

Music movies are having a moment — if, indeed, they ever stopped having one. Take the pop-music biopic. There are times, like right now, when it surges in popularity, yet the form has never gone out of style. And music documentaries, a staple of the indie-film world, have only

Nuclear's role in a net-zero world

Article URL: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2024/nuclears-role-in-a-net-zero-world Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39810692 Points: 26 # Comments: 38

Jean Smart and Sterling K. Brown Honored for Queer Allyship: LGBTQ Rights and Racial Justice Are Not ‘Separate Battles’

Though the Human Rights Campaign gala on Saturday night in Los Angeles contended with a brief interruption by protestors calling for a Gaza ceasefire, the annual stayed largely on course, serving as a rallying cry for Democratic candidates and the LGBTQ+ community. In addition

Catching a break: How gig workers find rest

Article URL: https://restofworld.org/2024/gig-worker-rest-breaks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39810629 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

Post-menopausal whales may help solve the mystery of female longevity

Although life can seem to go whizzing by, humans are actually weirdly long-lived animals. A new study helps explain why: menopause.

‘One of the Good Ones’ Review: Pasadena Playhouse’s Cross-Cultural Comedy Brings a Norman Lear Sensibility to the Stage

Does “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” count as a genre unto itself, given how many plotlines in the last half-century have relied on the suitor-out-of-water supper guest as a linchpin? That trope seemed to have reached its furthest, most subversive extreme with “Get Out,” but

Nas Inspires Young Students & Revisits His Past Self In New 'I Love This Feeling' Video

Nas has more than made his mark in Hip Hop, and now, he's come out with a brand new video that shows how good he feels called 'I Love This Feeling.'

Trump’s hush money case set for critical hearing over document dump

The judge overseeing former President Trump’s hush money case will hold a consequential hearing Monday to sort out who is to blame for a curveball that delayed the trial at the last minute. Trump’s trial had been widely expected to begin the same day as the hearing until

‘A Beggar’s Tale’ quest walkthrough in Dragon’s Dogma 2

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Monolith – CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file

Article URL: https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39810378 Points: 589 # Comments: 126

"She's bouncing the ball" – the uncanny way octopuses play

Article URL: https://lithub.com/shes-bouncing-the-ball-on-the-uncanny-way-octopuses-play/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39810320 Points: 115 # Comments: 36

Welcome Aaron Cohen Back to the Site

Hey, Jason here. I’m off this week (Mar 25-29) to spend some time with family (and Edith is working on Drawing Media ), so my friend and ice cream impresario Aaron Cohen will be taking over the site again (he previously guest edited a couple of times in the ’10s). He owns and