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Someone got Doom in an SQL database

1,300 lines of SQL querying renders accurate bitmapped views of Hell at 35 fps.

Ars Technica • 15h ago • Kyle Orland
Technology 15h ago

Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music

Sean Parker, who once taught the music industry what asking for forgiveness looks like, is now back with the labels' ble...

Technology 15h ago

Meta open sources code to let you make Muse AI gadgets

Meta now lets you make your own Muse gadgets that feature the company's new AI agent with code that the company open sou...

Technology 15h ago

The Harness Is the Company

Article URL: https://blog.sshh.io/p/the-harness-is-the-company Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49938...

Technology 16h ago

Zig v0.17.0

Article URL: https://ziglang.org/download/0.17.0/release-notes.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology 16h ago

Three AI agents, two countries, and one uneven world wide web

Article URL: https://royapakzad.substack.com/p/multilingual-ai-agents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology 16h ago

Barcodes are about to go extinct

Article URL: https://thehustle.co/originals/why-barcodes-are-about-to-go-extinct Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator...

Technology 16h ago

Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash

Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution. ...

Technology 16h ago

Netflix is pivoting away from prestige

Many of Netflix's biggest critically acclaimed hits have been the products of its multiyear production deals with noted ...

Technology 16h ago

Everyone's Packing Up

Article URL: https://widdershins.verja.net/everyones-packing-up/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499...

Technology 16h ago

Apple will limit Mac disk access as AI agents ‘substantially’ increase risk

Apple will add new limits for "full disk access" on Mac in response to risks posed by AI agents, as reported earlier by ...

Technology 16h ago

Patient-zero drill put health facilities to the test—40% of them failed

Actors with makeup and fake symptoms staggered into 73 healthcare facilities. ...

Technology 16h ago

Sling TV drops its one-day cable passes

Dish-owned Sling TV will no longer be offering its Sling Pass feature that allowed people to buy a single day of cable T...

Technology 16h ago

Show HN: Made an open-source Lego AI generator

Hi there :-) New on HN, first time posting.Past year, around December, I started experimenting with making ChatGPT and ...

Technology 17h ago

ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in...

Technology 17h ago

GrapheneOS has fixed the Android 17 QPR1 kernel performance regression

Article URL: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/42511-grapheneos-has-fixed-the-massive-android-17-qpr1-kernel-performance...

Technology 17h ago

Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS

Article URL: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=p6zjojqw Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937631 ...

Technology 17h ago

Make Tmux the OS

Article URL: https://matduggan.com/what-does-my-dream-os-ui-look-like/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...

Technology 17h ago

Muse Gadgets

Article URL: https://gadgets.muse.ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937504 Points: 12 # Comments:...

Technology 17h ago

"The only intuitive interface is the nipple" (2012)

Article URL: https://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/misc/nipple.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499373...

Technology 17h ago

Lyft settles landmark driver misclassification lawsuit for $272.5M

Critics say workers are still owed far more.

Technology 17h ago

Apple Pass Designer

Article URL: https://developer.apple.com/pass-designer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937276 Poi...

Technology 17h ago

Scientists untangle the biology of an 'undruggable' cancer gene

https://archive.ph/4uZAghttps://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/abstract/S1097-2765(26)0... Comments URL: https://news.yco...

Technology 18h ago

The 2008 economic crisis changed the US's relationship with energy

It wasn't obvious at the time, but the US uncoupled carbon emissions and GDP growth. ...

Technology 18h ago

The Nintendo 64 Partner-N64 Development Kit

Article URL: https://www.behindthecode.ca/partner-n64pc-dev-kit/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499...

Technology 18h ago

US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China

Nvidia’s chip-smuggling problem won’t go away as arrests continue.

Technology 18h ago

This Shoe Company’s Instagram Ad With a Frat Is Pissing People Off

A collaborative Instagram post between footwear line HEYDUDE and a University of Florida frat is sparking backlash due t...

Technology 18h ago

Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed

Also: Spooky action at the LHC, Ice Age psychoactive use, yeast for building homes on Mars, and...

Technology 18h ago

Around 2-6% of World Bank foreign aid got siphoned into crypto wallets

Article URL: https://www.nber.org/papers/w35655 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49936725 Points: 31 ...

Technology 18h ago

Apple says it’s tightening macOS ‘Full Disk Access’ controls due to new risks from AI agents

Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI a...