1. Quake’s lightning gun bug explained [video] Total comment counts : 16 Summary error Top 1 Comment Summary A bug was missed in a code where the normalization was performed prior to zeroing out the Z component, resulting in an unnormalized vector. Top 2 Comment Summary The request is for an explanation of a skiing bug in the game Tribes. The person requesting the explanation would like it presented in a style similar to a certain video, as they have not found previous explanations to be satisfactory....

1. New York State Senate passes prohibitions on non-competes Total comment counts : 22 Summary The New York State Senate has approved two bills aimed at non-compete agreements; the first proposes banning all non-compete agreements, and the second proposes a limited ban of certain types. If passed by the State Assembly and signed by the Governor, the bills could become law this week. Bill No. S3100A would ban employers from entering into non-compete agreements with covered individuals and provide for legal recourse and payment for lost compensation, damages, attorneys’ fees, and costs....

1. Llama.cpp: Full CUDA GPU Acceleration Total comment counts : 25 Summary The article describes a new pull request that adds GPU acceleration for ggml tensors in order to improve prompt processing and generation performance. The author added CUDA kernels for scale, cpy, diag_mask_inf, and soft_max, as well as two special kernels for doing matrix vector multiplication. The PR is still being tested for lower-end GPUs and potential issues with VRAM usage....

1. Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years Total comment counts : 163 Summary Nonio is a new platform that functions like Reddit where your subscription fee is split between everything you upvote each month to reward creators for their content. $1 of your subscription goes to running the servers and the remaining amount is split equally among the content you upvote at the end of the month....

1. Reddit Strike Has Started Total comment counts : 96 Summary The article advises caution when clicking on subreddits that have recently changed their publicity type or disabled posting, as there may be slow rollout issues on Reddit’s side. It suggests using Reddark hosted by individuals unrelated to UNTONE as a possible alternative, but warns users to click with care. Additionally, the article provides a code source and suggests joining Lemmy as an alternative to Reddit....

1. The computer graphics industry got started at the university of Utah Total comment counts : 28 Summary The IEEE has recognized the key computer graphics and visualisation techniques that Ivan Sutherland and David Evans developed in the 1960s and 1970s, many of which are still used today. Using the facilities at the University of Utah and their own firm, Evan and Sutherland produced such processes as Gouraud shading, the Warnock algorithm and the Phong reflection model....

1. Mechanical Apple Watch from real e-waste Apple Watch Total comment counts : 37 Summary The author of the article spent the last three months constructing a mechanical Apple Watch using a Seiko NH38 watch movement and 42mm Series 1 Apple Watch in stainless steel, among other parts. The author was inspired to create this watch after realizing they would be spending a lot of money on features they neither needed nor would use in a regular Apple Watch....

1. Apollo will close down on June 30th Total comment counts : 176 Summary The article states that the reader appears to be a bot and the website has seen too many requests from them lately. The website has a limit on the number of requests it can handle to prevent abuse. The reader is asked to wait for 5 seconds and try again. If they are not a bot but are using a browser extension that appears as a bot, they should change the extension’s user agent string to avoid this issue in the future....

1. Deepmind Alphadev: Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep RL Total comment counts : 35 Summary The article discusses the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to discover new and efficient algorithms for fundamental tasks such as sorting and hashing. The authors formulated the task of finding better sorting algorithms as a single-player game and trained an AI agent, AlphaDev, to play this game and discover small sorting algorithms that outperformed previously known human benchmarks....

1. Messages that can only be understood under the influence of psychedelics Total comment counts : 46 Summary A panel of judges from QRI’s international phenomenologist network scored submissions to a Psychedelic Cryptography contest based on their effectiveness, specificity, and aesthetic value. Only three submissions showed promise, using a classic method that exploits tracer effects to “write out” images or text over time.The encoded information pops out in a psychedelic state of consciousness, presenting the first clear demonstration of a real perceptual computational advantage of psychedelic states....