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nope96on Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America'

I see "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" when zoomed in all the way. "Gulf of America" when zoomed out.

nope96on Veo 2: Our video generation model

This is a first step towards "the holodeck". You describe a scene and it exists. Imagine you could jump in and interact with it. That seems like something that could happen in 10-20 years.

nope96on PEP 750: Tag Strings for Writing Domain-Specific Languages

Does this mean I can write a print function and be able to print"hello world" without parentheses again, like in python 2.x ?

nope96on Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?

https://www.ztree.com/ a clone of the old DOS Xtree. Quite the learning curve, but very powerful.

nope96on Apple reports second quarter results

"Apple announced that its board had authorized $110 billion in share repurchases, a 22% increase over last year’s $90 billion authorization. It’s the largest in history, ahead of Apple’s previous repurchases, according to data from Birinyi Associates." - https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/02/apple-aapl-earnings-report-q...

nope96on Getting rid of bed bugs: trickier than ever

Does the heat treatment damage electronics? Can you leave your computers in the house while your house is baking?

nope96on The Dark Forest hypothesis is absurd

If "the singularity" is a real thing that can happen, it seems like there is an incentive for species that fear "the singularity" to preemptively wipe out any civilizations they find which seem close to achieving AGI

nope96on High-speed 10Gbps full-mesh network based on USB4 for just $47.98

How good is error handling on USB 4? The rare times I've had data corruption it was almost always when transferring lots of data using USB (this happened to me on multiple drives, computers, usb ports or cables. this was in the early USB 3 days)

nope96on Apple's Predicament – NSPredicate Exploitation on macOS and iOS [video]

Video's description : "Sep 15, 2023 -- In 2021 the FORCEDENTRY sandbox escape introduced the usage of NSPredicate in an iOS exploit. This new technique allowed attackers to sidestep codesigning, ASLR, and all other mitigations to execute arbitrary code on Apple devices. As a result, Apple put in place new restrictions to make NSPredicate less powerful and less useful for exploits. This presentation will cover new research showing that these added restrictions could be completely circumvented in iOS 16, and how NSPredicates could be exploited to gain code execution in many privileged iOS processes. This technical deep dive will be a rare instance of iOS security that anyone can comprehend without years of experience."

nope96on Bad Apple as MS-DOS Escape Sequences

As a kid I always admired AVATAR ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Attribute_Termi... ) and wondered why more people didn't use it for art. It was far more efficient. I'd use it wherever I could, and it would feel like my modem got a 2x speed boost. But I'd never seen any BBS software convert ANSI art into AVATAR on the fly...

Also, displaying ANSI with ANSI.SYS was completely unsafe, as there were codes to redefine keyboard input (i.e. turn F1 into Format C:)

nope96on Raspberry Pi 5: available now

The first Pi (2012 release) was $35, this release is, when inflation adjusted to 2012 dollars, $44. So in the same ballpark-ish

nope96on The Ur-Quan Masters: Open-source remake of Star Control II

I am sad because Paul Reiche III has left the project, though it seems he did write a story before leaving -- https://pistolshrimpgames.com/2023/09/uqm2-update-summer-202...

From Fred:

"Well, after 30+ years working with Paul, I would never speak for him, but he got to a point where his focus was fractured and he couldn't do justice to any of his competing interests. He stuck it out with us long enough to deliver the story/worldbuilding side and now, as always, he's trusting me and the rest of us to bring it home. Will he be able to return? Unknown. Is he still my best friend? For sure."

https://old.reddit.com/r/uqm2/comments/16h50qp/uqm2_update_s...

nope96on Forty years of programming

I've been using computers since I was a pre-teen, it wrecked both my forearms (and later, my neck) in my early 30's. There was NO WARNING, the issues just happened out of nowhere. I always thought RSI, if it happened to me, would happen gradually and I'd know to stop/rest. The neck stuff has taken a decade to heal and it's still not back to normal.

nope96on Play Leisure Suit Larry free in DOS running in browser

Al Lowe (the game's author) is still kickin'! https://twitter.com/allowe/ https://allowe.com/

nope96on Lenovo PC boss: 4 in 5 of our devices will be repairable by 2025

Re: #2 - The UEFI bloatware/rootkit checked the Windows version: if you used Windows 8 or up it used the "feature" called "Windows Platform Binary Table", but Windows 7 didn't have that, so for Windows 7 it overwrote CHKDSK.EXE with a Lenovo loader on every reboot. So, yeah, they were overwriting OS binaries on disk, not just relying on WPBT. (But no reports of binaries being overwritten on on Linux)

nope96on Large language models: Scaling laws and emergent properties

This space is moving so fast my jaw drops every time I read something about it. For example this line:

"... has discovered empirically that the capability for moral self-correction emerges at around 22B parameters. For more scientific details, the paper is here. [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.07459.pdf]"

nope96on Could you train a ChatGPT-beating model for $85k and run it in a browser?

I remember watching one of the final episodes of Connections 3: With James Burke, and he casually said we'd have personal assistants that we could talk to (in our PDAs). That was 1997 and I knew enough about computers to think he was being overly optimistic about the speed of progress. Not in our lifetimes. Guess I was wrong!

nope96on How to Insure Your Money When You’re Banking over $250K (2022)

This is not about ACH. It's about ACATS:

https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=381060&

nope96on “My PGP key is compromised, and at least many of my bitcoins stolen”

He also lost a lot of Bitcoins on the Mt Gox hack b/c he thought it would be safe. He's just one person and I wouldn't draw any big conclusions about it. (One person who has been a massive target for something like this for many years, I would add)

nope96on The Box of Now and Forever: three decades of memories

There is an "Official 30th Anniversary Celebration" of Star Control 2 with the game's creators, today at 4pm EST at https://twitch.tv/x33n

nope96on Sugar Substitutes Surprise

Interesting! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-Glucose

nope96on Memtest86 v6.00 with UEFI support released

This was 10+ years ago, but I had an issue with my motherboard not liking my RAM when in dual channel mode that memtest/memtest+ could not find, but Windows Memory Diagnostic (advanced tests) did find. So it's worth running both if you are ever stumped.

nope96on Ask HN: Why does the media say inflation is up every month?

If anyone is curious, here are the numbers: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SA0

Last 4 months have stayed steady-ish at 296

nope96on Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain

Openness to new things? Variety is the spice of life, how spicy are they?

nope96on The life-changing effects of hallucinations

> "I frequent drug-friendly events and hang with drug-friendly people"

Adults or Children?

My friends were all "gifted kids" who hung out in the same social circle, and did lots (and lots) of drugs (acid, DMT, mushrooms, coke, weed) from age 15-18.

In all cases it was great until one time it was suddenly NOT great. Yes, I actually witnessed at least 3 "meltdowns" where someone started acting really, really scary-strange, "We should call his mom!" strange.

All of them have negative feelings towards drugs as adults. There was no internet then to look up correct dosage, "safe" usage. No reviewed darknet dealers selling "real stuff" vs. random shit you'd buy from a stranger at Lollapalooza. I don't know what to say, but it's true, I saw people get messed up (long-term) from hallucinogens and swear them off forever.

nope96on The life-changing effects of hallucinations

One friend's mom, who was a "natural medicine healer", noticed we were all into computers (early 1990's), and thought we had "Electric Fungus". I always thought that would make a good band name.

Or maybe the X-rays from CRT monitors fried our brains.

I suspect doing random amounts of acid or mushrooms as a teen = some increased % of developing anxiety disorders.

nope96on The life-changing effects of hallucinations

They are in their 40's now. The girlfriend struggled with mental health and never really held a job. The guy on mushrooms went through years of therapy and anti-depressants, and seemed to have a normal life. The best friend still struggles with what he calls random "dissociation" and " depersonalization" episodes. He's a fairly self-destructive person that clearly has https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoid_personality_disorder#...

It's all anecdotal - maybe the drugs accelerated something that would have happened anyway? Maybe they were more vulnerable as teens? who knows! I do know that none of them would ever touch hallucinogens today.

nope96on The life-changing effects of hallucinations

I've never taken hallucinogens, but I had many friends that did:

Best friend and his girlfriend did LSD, the girlfriend had an immediate mental breakdown and was hospitalized. Diagnosed with schizophrenia in the following months, has been a life long schizophrenic ever since.

The best friend developed "schizoid personality disorder" over the next year and was never the same. Both were normal, happy go lucky teens that changed dramatically over a summer.

Another friend took mushrooms several times without issue, but one time had a breakdown afterwards and developed a severe anxiety disorder immediately after that never went away.

I could list about 5 other friends with similar experiences, but the point is, some people have extremely negative reactions to hallucinogens, and I'm glad I never tried them.