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_--__--__··on NeoGeo AES+: SNK announces reissue of retro console without emulation
The payoff for MBS was to use SNK's brand recognition to promote the esports World Cup (run by another of his foundations). He even got to buddy up with some celebrities (Christiano Ronaldo and some famous DJ) when he shoehorned real people into that new Fatal Fury game.
_--__--__··on Ask HN: My ISP is telling my neighbors their slow internet is because of me
I assumed from the title this would be about using overlapping 2.4ghz wifi channels, which I would probably support urban ISPs shaming users for doing.
_--__--__··on Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem
Is it a coincidence that the first open problems solved by an LLM and a 4chan thread would be in the same field?
_--__--__··on Nvidia NemoClaw
There was some kind of public knowledge of this project over a week ago because people were trying to domain squat them and submit it to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nemoclaw.bot
_--__--__··on US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement
so all EDGAR APIs need to be updated to support either 10-Q or 10-H per firm?
_--__--__··on Where things stand with the Department of War
DoW is the opposite of newspeak, it is much more transparent and honest about what that organization is and has been for my entire life
_--__--__··on AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet
If only I were lucky enough to get LLM generated responses, usually a question like "Did you consider if X would also solve this problem?" results in a flurry of force pushed commits that overwrite history to do X but also 7 other unrelated things that work around minor snags the LLM hit doing X.
_--__--__··on AI agents can now create their own bank accounts
Took me a while to realize this wasn't an intentional "they call me 007" joke
_--__--__··on A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs
pol was made to contain all posting on the American culture war so it could be banned from the other (more active) boards
_--__--__··on US judge rules Luigi Mangione won't face death penalty in CEO killing case
Mangione is charged with killing a man (in New York, with New York state jurisdiction) and stalking a man (across multiple states, the federal charge). There is no such thing as a federal crime of fleeing across state lines or owning a list of assassination targets.
_--__--__··on US judge rules Luigi Mangione won't face death penalty in CEO killing case
Federal courts do not have jurisdiction over murders by default. There are two obvious cases where they do (murder of a federal official, murder on federal land) and a shaky third category of "murder pursuant to another federal crime". In the past that third category has been used to charge organized criminals, anything that touches the interstate commerce act (drug trafficking/contract killing/etc), and terrorism.

Charging Mangione with federal murder connected to a federal stalking charge was relatively unprecedented, but they might get it to stick on appeal. Stalking is threatening but maybe not inherently violent, but that seems similar to bank robbery (where FDIC insurance is frequently used to grant federal jurisdiction over involved homicides).

_--__--__··on The Rise and Impending Fall of the Dental Cavity
I'm skeptical as well but from the earlier linked faq (https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/defying-cavity-lantern-biow...):

>BCS3-L1 has four main genetic modifications:

It produces a weak antibiotic, mutacin-1140, which kills competing oral bacteria.

It’s immune to mutacin-1140, so it doesn’t kill itself.

It metabolizes sugar through a different chemical pathway that ends in alcohol instead of lactic acid.

It lacks a peptide that its species usually uses to arrange gene transfers with other bacteria.

_--__--__··on Chuck Klosterman on why we've never actually seen a real football game
Maybe, but soccer doesn't have very many situations where there are ~14 players standing in spitting distance of each other and a 6 inch shift in the position of the ball or a single player has huge implications for the outcome of the game.
_--__--__··on Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot
>and honestly? "Molt" fits perfectly - it's what lobsters do to grow.

So do we think Anthropic or the artist formerly known as Clawdbot paid for the tokens to have Claude write this tweet announcing the rename of a Product That Is Definitely Not Claude?

_--__--__··on How will the miracle happen today?
This is a mindset that is intentionally cultivated in Jesuit novices to the priesthood in what they call the "pilgrimage experiment": each is given $50 and a bus ticket in order to make a trip to a specific/meaningful destination while giving and receiving aid in whatever opportunities arise. Example anecdote: https://www.jesuitscentralsouthern.org/stories/judge-for-you...
_--__--__··on Video Game Websites in the early 00s
That blog definitely established character reveal drip feeds as the way to build hype for a fighting game (or similar genres like hero shooters), even today when it involves stupid things like announcing Ronaldo for the new Saudi-funded Fatal Fury.
_--__--__··on History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts
You're a human intelligence with knowledge of the past - assuming you were alive at the time, could you tell me (without consulting external resources) what exactly happened between arriving at an airport and boarding a plane in the year 2000? What about 2002?

Neither human memory nor LLM learning creates perfect snapshots of past information without the contamination of what came later.

_--__--__··on History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts
The time cutoff probably matters but maybe not as much as the lack of human finetuning from places like Nigeria with somewhat foreign styles of English. I'm not really sure if there is as much of an 'obvious LLM text style' in other languages, it hasn't seemed that way in my limited attempts to speak to LLMs in languages I'm studying.
_--__--__··on Why many Asian megacities are miserable places
It's a fully voluntary program and the annual 'benefit' is usually something like a box of local produce or a reduced fee ryoukan stay, it's hardly something that affects urban quality of life.
_--__--__··on X Just Accidentally Exposed a Covert Influence Network Targeting Americans
Easy, you just ban all known vpn endpoints and cloud hosting provider IP ranges. 4chan figured all this out over a decade ago.
_--__--__··on Why don't people return their shopping carts?
Not so much a kiosk, but American grocery stores often have one parking spot every other row that is blocked off with a fence/barrier and marked as a cart return storage. But that has its own problems because if someone hastily shoves a cart in there instead of stacking them in line it takes up too much space and creates a dangerous extrusion into the adjacent spots.
_--__--__··on Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today
A mistake that they continued making for weeks or even months after being clearly informed by multiple reverse-image search providers of what they were doing.
_--__--__··on The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need
Lazygit is the only way I review PRs these days because it is trivial to step through a file commit by commit when that is necessary (which maybe says something about the quality of the PRs I'm reviewing...). They also won me over by using Legend of the Galactic Heroes references in the github readme gifs.
_--__--__··on Narco-sub carrying 1.7 tonnes of cocaine seized in Atlantic
"In addition to the participation of the Portuguese Navy and Judicial Police, the operation was supported by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Joint Inter-Agency Task Force – South (JIATF-S), and the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA), working together within the scope of MAOC-N."

from the linked press release, I'm assuming DEA tipped off the Euro agencies that the sub was headed their way

_--__--__··on Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain
TLP was doxxed in a way that threatened their real life psychiatry practice, briefly blogged on Tumblr under a different psuedonym, and has since had little online presence other than rare tweets and randomly dropping a self-published book on Amazon (_Sadly, Porn_ by 'Edward Teach').
_--__--__··on Meta and TikTok are obstructing researchers' access to data, EU commission rules
I don't think you get it: the EU has a law that says these researchers need to find casus belli to wrestle the norms of online freedom of speech away from American corporations. Therefore they get to request data on every account that has ever interacted with certain political parties on those platforms, as a treat.
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Nice result, but the snake pattern is pretty obvious and intuitive even for a human who just glances over the problem. It kinda breaks if there is huge variance (if the top load expert is orders of magnitude higher than #2 it probably should just get its own GPU), but I'm not familiar enough with MoE to know if that's a realistic possibility.
_--__--__··on U.S. details gambling cases involving pro athletes and mafia families
"One indictment in the case lists 32 defendants, including the former N.B.A. player and coach Damon Jones and the Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups, who are both charged with wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy, according to the docket sheet in the case. Many of the other defendants also face those charges, along with counts accusing them of operating an illegal gambling enterprise and conspiracies to commit extortion and robbery."

They don't necessarily have or need evidence that Billups was aware of the rigging, just the regular financial crimes of taking payments from the Mafia that will presumably get him to cooperate.

_--__--__··on Ovi: Twin backbone cross-modal fusion for audio-video generation
I fully expect that we will see an AI video project that gets to Skibidi Toilet levels of cultural reach within the next two years, but 'blockbluster' implies a level of financial success that is much harder to predict.
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"Editor’s note: This story has been updated to remove a reference to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement being deployed as part of the operation."
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