I’m finding this very interesting… An evolved neural network that plays the game of tic-tac-toe and so far is a pretty decent player. Here is a visualization of it’s evolved “brain” that underwent GA (genetic algorithm) training with classification learning + self-play.

The GCC compiler backend can now fully bootstrap the Rust compiler
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I sent you my QR code, please respond!

*for context: long ago, there were some complaints, about some of my sitting drawings, where the legs are apart, not using dithering/more shading and one of my favourite artists, made a video, exploring the use of QR codes, in art
P.S.: the code just redirects to my websites

This is one of my attempts:

$ go build ./cmd/xor/... && ./xor
Generation  95 | Fitness: 0.999964 | Nodes: 9   | Conns: 19
Target reached!

Best network performance:
  [0 0] → got=0 exp=0 (raw=0.000) ✅
  [0 1] → got=1 exp=1 (raw=0.990) ✅
  [1 0] → got=1 exp=1 (raw=0.716) ✅
  [1 1] → got=0 exp=0 (raw=0.045) ✅
Overall accuracy: 100.0%
Wrote best.dot – render with `dot -Tpng best.dot -o best.png`

Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow
Article URL: https://blog.google/technology/ai/generative-media-models-io-2025/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44044043

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de you need to get a gold chain and hang this little penguin on it, so that nobody can doubt your Linux user status.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org maybe 3D printed toys are the solution, to the dust collecting problem. My collection of 3D printed canines, just expanded today, with this new keychain:

10 Years of Stable Rust: An Infrastructure Story
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I made a batgirl one for you (it’s so tiny…….)

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I’m thinking of bringing back filters (this time not as a feature flag, just baked in): New filters: Hide Feed, Hide Bots, Hide News, Media Only, No Replies, Local Only — toggle to trim noise & surface the Twts you care about.

Thousands of everlasting daisies turn farm into social media hotspot
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Secure by Design: Google’s Perspective on Memory Safety (2024)
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Spatial Data-Management (1979)
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i got a shelf for all my cassette tapes! from a lovely person on facebook marketplace :] i don’t think they produce these anymore, i think i got a good deal

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Introducing Mac Themes Garden
I’ve “launched” the Mac Themes Garden! It is a website showcasing more than 3,000 (and counting) Kaleidoscope from the Classic Mac era, ready to be seen, downloaded and explored! Check it out! Oh, and there also is an RSS feed you can subscribe to see themes as they are added/updated! ↫ Damien Erambert If you’ve spent any time on retrocomputing-related social media channels, you’ve definitely seen the old classic Mac OS themes in your timeline. They are exquisitely beauti … ⌘ Read more

HydraLink Offers Open USB-to-Automotive Ethernet Interface for Testing and Diagnostics
HydraLink is now available on CrowdSupply as a compact and open-source USB-to-Automotive Ethernet adapter intended for engineers, researchers, and others working with in-vehicle networks. It supports both 100BASE-T1 and 1000BASE-T1 over single-pair Ethernet, enabling direct access to automotive Ethernet without the need for media converters or additional lab equipment. Hy … ⌘ Read more

smug woof

@bmallred@staystrong.run It really is 🤣

happy free comic book day! my store was out of freebies but i got some of my pulls and also a trade of one of my favorite reads last year!

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I’m not even being facetious here either. I’d llove to see you “unit tests” this:

Confession:

I’ve never found microblogging like twtxt or the Fediverse or any other “modern” social media to be truly fulfilling/satisfying.

The reason is that it is focused so much on people. You follow this or that person, everybody spends time making a nice profile page, the posts are all very “ego-centric”. Seriously, it feels like everybody is on an ego-trip all the time (this is much worse on the Fediverse, not so much here on twtxt).

I miss the days of topic-based forums/groups. A Linux forum here, a forum about programming there, another one about a certain game. Stuff like that. That was really great – and it didn’t even suffer from the need to federate.

Sadly, most of these forums are dead now. Especially the nerds spend a lot of time on the Fediverse now and have abandoned forums almost completely.

On Mastodon, you can follow hashtags, which somewhat emulates a topic-based experience. But it’s not that great and the protocol isn’t meant to be used that way (just read the snac2 docs on this issue). And the concept of “likes” has eliminated lots of the actual user interaction. ☹️

Should ink to this

P.S: the couple first Seasons and Her (The movie) are the main reasons I find it a bit difficult to go back to mainstream social media or even care about smartphones 😆

A visual flow chart diagram that illustrates how two different but very related concepts can lead to system accidents 👌

• asynchronous evolution
  
• drift into failure

Here’s an example of what you end up with (I don’t follow the feed, but it’s in my pod’s cache)

This is the best I can do!

god i love XG so much like who else is rapping like them in k-pop. cocona my girl!!!!!!!!

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good morning yarn verse. have a ruru clip

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PR to Add improved styles for the logo for twtxt.ndev

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org “hmmm, marzipan….”

This one just occurred to me randomly.

This expands the usefulness of Twtxt / Yarn.social to:

• Sharing small posts
  
• Sharing links
  
• Sharing media
  
• Having long conversations
  
• Voting on topics, opinions or decisions
  
• RSVPing to virtual or physical events

Timeline of Evolution of Twtxt/Yarn.social:

• 2016 – Twtxt created by John Downey: plain text + HTTP = minimalist microblogging
  
• 2017–2019 – Community builds CLI tools, but adoption remains niche
  
• 2020 – Yarn.social launched by @prologic@twtxt.net with federation, threading, UI
  
• 2021–2023 – Pods sync, user mentions, blocking, search, and media support added
  
• 2024+ – Yarn.social becomes the reference Twtxt platform, with active federated pods

I do not agree with every decision the Internet Archive makes, but I consider it a very important tool, for Internet archival and preservation - to the point, it even influenced what licence I chose, for my media and websites.

Sadly they’re now facing another threat, in the form of litigious music labels, that they’re now trying to convince to stop, by collecting signatures here.

i must stop ghosting all my social media except discord and fedi when i am depressed. ghosting is the mind killer

@prologic@twtxt.net earliest I have of you:

My welcome message, and first recorded mention (that I could find):

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev your feed is spitting out dupes? 🧐

Nice! 😊

This is what I see.

@bender@twtxt.net Seems fine here on my
iPhone? 🧐

Hmm, I truly wonder what’s happening here?

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Ahh this is coming back 403 Forbidden here btw 😅

And trying again.

See:

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hmm @prologic@twtxt.net how did replying to lyse double up here?