Year: 2026

Lilly’s message | Kibotronics

Lilly’s message | Kibotronics

💥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: From John C. Lilly’s “The Scientist: A Metaphysical Autobiography” 1978 In the isolation tank with K, John received a new message as follows: What is the purpose of Man’s existence on the planet Earth? Man is a form of biological life which is sustained in the presence of water. A very large fraction of his body, like that of other organisms on the planet Earth, consists of water and carbon compounds. His Biocomputer depends on water and the flow of ions through membranes. It…
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Mea Culpa – Dark Hours — Terry Godier

🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Last week I launched a project called Dark Hours, which was a website utility to give you an idea of what could be seen in the sky that night. A developer who created another web app called DarkHours.app replied to my comment on Bluesky yesterday to show me how similar the project was to his, including the name. The thread is here. I told him I’d significantly differentiate the featureset, change the name, and write up a blog post to show people his project.…
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Latent Reasoning

Latent Reasoning

🔥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731-Latent-Reasoning. A self-contained model that does thinking in latent space, NVFP4-quantized, with a production vllm form for serving runtime. https://huggingface.co/nmitchko/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731-Latent-Reasoning Published on blog.n.ichol.ai Where the last edition left off Last time I grafted a CoLaR head (Compressed Latent Reasoning) onto DeepSeek Flash v4. The work had all the makings of a demo. A head that lets the model think in latent space. A learned stop head that decides when it has thought enough. A riddle that showed why plain autoregressive generation regurgitates cached answers instead…
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A Surveillance ‘Cat-and-Mouse’ Game With AI

A Surveillance ‘Cat-and-Mouse’ Game With AI

🚀 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Anthony “Bingy” Arillotta waited years to become a made man in the Genovese crime family, and when at last the call came in August 2003, he followed directions to the letter. According to sworn testimony, Arillotta was summoned to a steak house in the Bronx, where he was made to hand over his cellphone, beeper, and jewelry before being driven to an apartment building. When he got there, he was taken to a small bathroom and strip-searched for electronic devices. For his big meeting with…
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The Alpha 21264: NT’s Greatest RISC

The Alpha 21264: NT’s Greatest RISC

✨ Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: [Editor's note: This article was originally scheduled for publication in the September 1998 issue of BYTE Magazine but was canceled when BYTE folded in June 1998. It appeared instead in Windows NT Magazine and in C'T, a German computer magazine. This text is the original English version.]While the world waits for Intel's 64-bit Merced chip and Microsoft's 64-bit version of Windows NT, Digital Equipment is offering a sneak preview of the next generation in NT processing. The Alpha 21264 is a 64-bit processor that runs…
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Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI’s Soaring Cost

Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI’s Soaring Cost

✨ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: SAP, one of the world’s biggest software companies, suspended most travel and hiring last month because of AI’s soaring cost, with exceptions only being made for AI-related travel or hires, according to an internal SAP email obtained by 404 Media. Bloomberg reported on the email and the freezes in July, but a current SAP employee said the bans are still in effect. The employee said the company had a global employee meeting recently where this was brought up again. They added SAP is currently rolling out…
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Excel 電子印鑑の作り方・使い方完全ガイド|3 つの方法を解説 | ブログ

Excel 電子印鑑の作り方・使い方完全ガイド|3 つの方法を解説 | ブログ

🔥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Excel で電子印鑑を使いたいけれど、「どうやって作ればいいのかわからない」「アドインは安全なの?」と悩んでいませんか。 この記事では、Excel 電子印鑑の作り方を 3 つの方法に分けて、画像付きでわかりやすく解説します。 結論から言うと、いま最もおすすめなのはブラウザで作成する方法です。インストールもマクロ有効化も不要で、認印・角印・日付印を数秒で作成できます。 もちろん従来のアドインを使う方法や、Excel の図形機能で自作する方法も紹介するので、目的に合った作り方が必ず見つかります。 Excel 電子印鑑の作り方は、大きく分けて次の 3 通りです。それぞれの特徴を先に比較しておきましょう。 作り方難易度インストール印章の見栄えおすすめ度A. ブラウザで作成(Sealkit)★☆☆ 簡単不要◎ プロ品質★★★B. NOMBO 版アドイン★★☆ 普通必要(xls+マクロ)○★★C. Excel の図形機能で自作★★★ 難しい不要△ 手作り感★ 方法 A が最もおすすめな理由は、インストール不要でブラウザだけで完結すること、透過 PNG で高品質な印鑑が作成できること、そして Mac でも Windows でも同じように使えることです。くわしくは方法 A の詳細で解説します。 今すぐ作成したい方は、Sealkit の Excel 電子印鑑作成ツールで無料で作成できます。 最も簡単で、かつ見栄えの良い電子印鑑を作れるのがブラウザで作成する方法です。 Sealkit なら登録不要・完全無料で、Excel に貼り付けられる透過 PNG をすぐにダウンロードできます。 Step 1. 電子印鑑の種類を選ぶ Sealkit のオンライン電子印鑑作成ツールを開き、認印・角印・日付印から用途に合った種類を選びます。 Step 2. 名前や会社名を入力してカスタマイズ テキスト欄に名前または会社名を入力し、書体・サイズ・枠の種類をプレビューを見ながら調整します。 苗字が 4 文字の方やフルネームにも対応しています。 Step 3. 透過 PNG でダウンロード 「ダウンロード」ボタンをクリックし、透過背景の PNG を保存します。 この PNG をそのまま Excel に貼り付けできます。 ブラウザで作る方法のメリット インストール・アドイン不要 マクロ有効化のセキュリティ警告なし Mac の Excel でも使える Word・PDF・Google スプレッドシートにも流用できる 無料で Excel 電子印鑑を作成する → 窓の杜や Vector…
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02011-02022 (11 years): The original URL for this prediction (www.longbets.org/601) will no longer be available in eleven years.

✨ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Duration 11 years (02011-02022) STAKES $1,000 will go to Bletchly Park Trust if Keith wins,or The Internet Archive if Haughey wins. Keith's Argument "Cool URIs don't change" wrote Tim Berners-Lee in 01999, but link rot is the entropy of the web. The probability of a web document surviving in its original location decreases greatly over time. I suspect that even a relatively short time period (eleven years) is too long for a resource to survive.I would love to be proven wrong. Haughey's Argument Though much…
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jmarshall23/msword: Port of Microsoft Word 1.1a to x64 with extra features for research purposes. · GitHub

jmarshall23/msword: Port of Microsoft Word 1.1a to x64 with extra features for research purposes. · GitHub

💥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: This project is a fully working native Windows x64 port of Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, whose historical codename was Opus. It builds the original Word source and resources together with modern replacements for the 16-bit assembly, segmented-memory, and Win16 platform boundaries. The result is the original Word application and user experience running as a 64-bit Windows executable. This is not an emulator or a reimplementation using a modern editor control. 64-bit Windows Visual Studio 2022 with Desktop development with C++ A Windows 10…
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02011-02022 (11 years): The original URL for this prediction (www.longbets.org/601) will no longer be available in eleven years.

🔥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Duration 11 years (02011-02022) STAKES $1,000 will go to Bletchly Park Trust if Keith wins,or The Internet Archive if Haughey wins. Keith's Argument "Cool URIs don't change" wrote Tim Berners-Lee in 01999, but link rot is the entropy of the web. The probability of a web document surviving in its original location decreases greatly over time. I suspect that even a relatively short time period (eleven years) is too long for a resource to survive.I would love to be proven wrong. Haughey's Argument Though much…
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