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1. AnandTech Farewell Total comment counts : 102 Summary The article announces that AnandTech, a website dedicated to covering computing hardware, will be shutting down after 27 years of operation. The author reflects on the changes in technology and publishing over the years and expresses gratitude to the editors who have contributed to AnandTech’s success. Although the website will no longer publish new articles, its existing content will remain accessible, and the forums will continue to be active....

1. Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch Total comment counts : 81 Summary The article describes the author’s frustration with a control system for their home air conditioning. The system consists of a Daikin air conditioner and an Advantage Air control box operated by a cheap Android tablet. Six months after the warranty expired, the tablet stopped working, and the author contacted customer support. They were told that they would need to replace the entire control system for $1245....

1. Diffusion models are real-time game engines Total comment counts : 81 Summary The article discusses the development of GameNGen, a game engine powered by a neural model that allows for real-time interaction with a complex environment. The engine can successfully simulate the game DOOM at a high frame rate using a single TPU. The neural model is trained in two phases: first, a RL-agent learns to play the game and records training sessions, and second, a diffusion model is trained to generate the next frame based on the sequence of past frames and actions....

1. Box64 and RISC-V in 2024: What It Takes to Run the Witcher 3 on RISC-V Total comment counts : 23 Summary The article discusses the progress made in running The Witcher 3 game on a RISC-V PC, which is believed to be the first AAA game to run on this type of machine. The initial challenges were related to implementing x86_64 instructions correctly and the lack of RISC-V devices that could be connected to AMD graphics cards....

1. Removing stuff is never obvious yet often better Total comment counts : 45 Summary The article discusses the author’s experience with removing a calculator feature on a pricing page and the positive outcomes that resulted. The calculator was causing confusion for potential users and deterring them from signing up. Despite initial resistance from the team, the author decided to remove the calculator and conducted an A/B test to measure the impact....

1. Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn Total comment counts : 72 Summary Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, was arrested at Le Bourget airport in Paris on Saturday evening. He was taken into custody based on a French search warrant for his alleged failure to cooperate with French authorities. Durov is accused of running Telegram as a platform for organized crime due to its encrypted messaging services....

1. Did you lose your AirPods? Total comment counts : 65 Summary The article is about a person who found a pair of AirPods and wanted to find the owner by using the serial number and the last four digits of their phone number. Instead of spamming all possible phone numbers, they narrowed down the search by assuming the owner lived in the same area and had an iPhone with iMessage turned on....

1. We need to liberate the Postcode Address File Total comment counts : 36 Summary The British government attempted to reconstruct the Ship of Theseus, or Trigger’s Broom, which is a metaphor for the challenge they faced in reconstructing the UK Postcode Address File (PAF). In 2013, the government privatized Royal Mail and along with it, the ownership and management of the PAF. This database lists all physical postal addresses in the country and is a valuable resource for various purposes....

1. What is an SBAT and why does everyone suddenly care Total comment counts : 22 Summary This article is a brief message informing the reader that they have been selected to complete a CAPTCHA to validate their requests. It also mentions the copyright information for Dreamwidth Studios, LLC. Top 1 Comment Summary The article discusses how the TPM (Trusted Platform Module) can be used to establish a secure chain of trust for the booting process on Linux....

1. The semantic web is now widely adopted Total comment counts : 60 Summary The article discusses the concept of Web 3.0 and how the Semantic Web, which focuses on machine-readable websites, has become widely adopted and can be considered as Web 3.0. The author explains how Semantic Web metadata is added to web pages using JSON-LD, which allows for enhanced link previews and improved search engine results. The article also mentions how csvbase, a website for sharing table data, utilizes the Dataset and CSV on the Web schemas to provide machine-readable information about the tables....