2025-04-17
Harry Potter and the Problematic Author, a fanzine “on loving flawed media...
Harry Potter and the Problematic Author, a fanzine “on loving flawed media and feeling betrayed by a childhood hero”. “I was 11 years old when Harry Potter finally broke through...
Roblox's latest legal entanglement is with the creator of the viral 'Apple' dance who took TikTok by storm: 'Kelley is an independent creator who should be compensated fairly for her work'
Kelley Heyer is taking the behemoth platform to court.
The HackerNoon Newsletter: xAI’s Grok 3: All the GPUs, None of the Breakthroughs (4/17/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, April 17, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, we present you...
We called its first cyberpunk setting 'cooler than Night City,' and now the studio behind The Ascent says it's making 'the kind of game that every developer wants to work on'
Details are sparse, but Neon Giant says its next game is "ludicrously ambitious", first-person, and focused on "player agency and creativity."
The F-35 Stealth Fighter Won’t Fly For India
Summary and Key Points: India’s search for a next-generation fighter highlights why the F-35 is unsuitable despite its advanced design. The Pentagon’s recent report underscored severe operational issues, including a...
2,000 Missiles are Gone: The U.S. Navy’s Tomahawk Cruise Missile Nightmare
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy faces a looming missile capability crisis with the retirement of Ohio-class submarines and Ticonderoga-class cruisers, which together provide over 2,000 Vertical Launch System...
There's no two ways about it—I love the Lumon blue, retro styling of this Severance-inspired keyboard
A trackball? In MY keyboard? I'll roll with it.
American Foreign Policy Is Lost In a Multipolar World
Key Points and Summary: America’s global strategy is unraveling, replaced by a multipolar world that Washington struggles to accept. -Facing overstretch and limited resources, the U.S. must abandon delusions of...
NASA Has No Comment on New Signs of Alien Life
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have discovered the strongest signs of alien life to date — and NASA has nothing to say about it. Following news that a...
The American Revolution by Ken Burns
Filmmakers Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt have made a 12-hour documentary series on the Revolutionary War that will debut on PBS in November 2025. Here’s a preview (YouTube,...
Host Keys and SSHing to EC2
Published on April 17, 2025 3:10 PM GMT I do a lot of work on EC2, where I ssh into a few instances I use for specific purposes. Each time...
Understanding Concentrability in Direct Nash Optimization
In this section, we provide detailed theoretical proofs supporting the Direct Nash Optimization (DNO) framework. The proof of Theorem 2 involves a two-step procedure, beginning with regression using logarithmic loss...
Why the U.S. Navy Is Forced to Take an Aircraft Carrier ‘Out of Service’ for 6 Years
The RICOH Challenger for U.S. Navy Aircraft Carriers: Refueling a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is among the most complex industrial tasks. It involves lengthy, highly specialized procedures to ensure the carrier...
Leaked: Palantir’s Plan to Help ICE Deport People
Internal Palantir Slack chats and message boards obtained by 404 Media show the contracting giant is helping find the location of people flagged for deportation, that Palantir is now a...
US-made chip prices could soar if the rumour that TSMC might charge 'as much as 30%' more for its Arizona chips pans out
So tariffs on foreign chips and hiked prices on domestic ones?
Forget the F-47: China’s New J-50 6th-Generation Fighter Is Already Flying in Public
Summary and Key Points: China’s new sixth-generation fighter, the J-50, recently captured in images and video, indicates rapid advancement in Beijing’s aviation capabilities. -Built by Shenyang Aircraft Corporation, this tail-less...
Baldur's Gate 3's excellent new photo mode is full of details, dances, and poses for your cat—as well as 7 different ways to vogue, because why not
Subclasses? New builds? I'm out here voguing in the Forgotten Realms.
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