Thoughts on Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: 2026-08-30 | 7.5 min reading These are some of my thoughts on Pope Leo XIVโ€™s Magnifica Humanitas - On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence and the encyclical video presentation. The future of artificial intelligence is in a building state; thus, the encyclical try to be a seed for discussion and awareness. The direction that AI takes is not written into the technology itself. It depends on our choices, on the institutions that host and underpin that choosing, and on…
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โ€œI just chose words carefully.โ€ โ€“ Unsung

โ€œI just chose words carefully.โ€ โ€“ Unsung

๐Ÿ’ฅ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: I donโ€™t think anyone particularly enjoys typesetting in monospace. Regular text is okay โ€“ at least as okay as it can be: Right aligning is also fine, as long as you donโ€™t mind counting spaces, but centering already gets tricky, as you donโ€™t have a half space to make things truly even: And full justification is where things get particularly weird. The spaces are just too large, and cannot be distributed evenly, creating a really unpleasant feeling: The solution used in typesetting elsewhere is…
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Continuous diffusion language models โ€“ Sander Dieleman

Continuous diffusion language models โ€“ Sander Dieleman

๐Ÿ’ฅ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: A flurry of recent activity in the space of continuous diffusion models for language, after a few years of relative dormancy, suggests that this approach is making something of a comeback. Fully discrete diffusion methods had largely supplanted earlier attempts to make continuous diffusion work for language, but the tide is starting to turn. In this post, I want to take a closer look at whatโ€™s going on, and why it is happening now. The recent influx of new research in this space inspired…
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EU’s ProtectEU Plan Renews Push for Encryption Backdoors

EU’s ProtectEU Plan Renews Push for Encryption Backdoors

๐Ÿš€ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The EUโ€™s ProtectEU strategy quietly sketches the blueprint for a backdoor.Private conversations must remain private.Stand against efforts to weaken encryption.The EU is once again looking for a way to undermine end-to-end encryption in the name of strengthening law enforcement capabilities, this time via a new strategy, ProtectEU.The internal security strategy, announced this week by the EU Commission, is presented as a โ€œvision and workplanโ€ that will span a number of years but stops short of making concrete policy proposals.A press release asserts that the current…
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The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer

The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Spacelab was a reusable laboratory that could be carried in the Space Shuttle's cargo bay, providing lab space for astronauts and experiments.1 Because Spacelab was a European project, it used a French-built minicomputer, the Mitra 125 MS,2 rather than the Shuttle's main computers, IBM-built AP-101 systems. For storage, the Spacelab computer contained 128 kilobytes of RAM. Rather than silicon memory, the computer used magnetic core memory, with each bit stored in a tiny ferrite ring. In this article, I take a close look at this…
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KodeMunkie/sm750hdmifb: Experimental Linux DRM/KMS driver for the SM750G10 SE-DP750A-HDMI, with HDMI, custom RGB565 dithering, DMA and software-scaled ultrawide modes. ยท GitHub

KodeMunkie/sm750hdmifb: Experimental Linux DRM/KMS driver for the SM750G10 SE-DP750A-HDMI, with HDMI, custom RGB565 dithering, DMA and software-scaled ultrawide modes. ยท GitHub

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Push this card to real 2048-wide output or a software-scaled 2560x1080 ultrawide desktop, with bandwidth-saving colour conversion and update optimisations for smoother performance. Linux display driver for the single-HDMI SE-DP750A-HDMI PCIe card. Experimental: this driver is for one specific SM750 board. Optional modes can exceed published GPU or monitor clock limits and may produce no signal, distortion, or an unstable display. Keep SSH or another recovery route available when trying non-EDID modes. The tested board is sold or marked as SE-DP750A-HDMI and has all of…
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SQLite in Production with Built-In Litestream Replication โ€“ OpenRun

SQLite in Production with Built-In Litestream Replication โ€“ OpenRun

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: OpenRun is an open-source, self-hosted GitOps platform for deploying web apps and internal tools on Docker, Podman, or Kubernetes. It provides authentication, authorization, auditing, and RBAC without requiring changes to the application.OpenRun now has built-in Litestream support for SQLite apps. App databases are continuously replicated to AWS S3 or S3-compatible object storage such as Cloudflare R2, MinIO and SeaweedFS. Restore is automatic: when OpenRun detects an empty or recreated app volume, it restores the database from the replica before starting the app. The same setup…
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Any User Process Can Escalate to Root

๐Ÿš€ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: A security issue in Omarchyโ€™s default Docker configuration meant that essentially every program running in the userโ€™s desktop session could escalate to root without a password, sudo, or a privilege prompt.If you use Omarchy, the most important takeaway is simple: update to 4.0.1.I reported this issue privately through the projectโ€™s responsible-disclosure process. The underlying configuration has since been patched, so Iโ€™m publishing the details now to explain what the issue is and let users know to update their systems.The IssueOmarchy configured its default user as…
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Massive 12TB Steam leak reveals decades of unreleased games โ€” archived files include unseen Half-Life 2: Episode 3 builds and assets

Massive 12TB Steam leak reveals decades of unreleased games โ€” archived files include unseen Half-Life 2: Episode 3 builds and assets

โœจ Read this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Valve might've just suffered its biggest data leak in history, but it wasn't a hack or a security breach. Instead, the company left an endpoint to its legacy infrastructure accessible to the public, from where archivists extracted 12-13TB of old game content. The files are still being explored, but we know they include both Valve's internal projects and third-party releases, with an early weapon asset from Half-Life 2 Episode 3 being the key discovery, along with scrapped Portal 2 concepts.Go deeper with TH Premium: GPUs…
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Europe’s summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat

Europe’s summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat

๐Ÿš€ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Small boats stand idle on cracked ground in a shriveled side channel of theย Danube Riverย in northern Serbia, where the water has receded into a couple of shrinking ponds under pressure from extreme drought and heat. Fish circle in the shallow waters. โ€œThis is all we have, these two little ponds that are full of juvenile fish,โ€ fisherman Dusan Jovanovic said. He said the fish are in danger because there is too little water and its temperature is over 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit). โ€œIf…
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