Tootfinder

Very cool to read this review by @…
https://mastodon.social/@quillmatiq/112248533916726808
Also on HN:

🔊 Auf radioeins läuft...
John Legend:
🎵 Save Room
#NowPlaying #JohnLegend
https://open.spotify.com/track/3sTc75CCyIw4FPs6cXkOe7
https://iamslota.bandcamp.com/track/john-legend-save-room-slot-a-remix

What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32186203

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #TheCountryShowWithBobHarris
John Denver:
🎵 Take Me Home, Country Roads
#JohnDenver
https://open.spotify.com/track/1QbOvACeYanja5pbnJbAmk
https://djgizmo1.bandcamp.com/track/john-denver-take-me-home-country-roads-dj-gizmo-redrum

Tesla as a “$70k MAGA hat” 🤣
sometimes HN comments just hit the spot.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40142109

“I was bullish on lobste.rs because I thought that it could form a real alternative to HN – but as it turns out, it’s just the very worst of HN without any of its redeeming qualities.”
OUCH.
(I disagree mildly on the grounds that lobsters has gate-kept membership which does keep most of the insane riffraff doing drive-by commentary out. It still has some spectacularly toxic comment threads and commenters though.)<…

How a Woman Named [[Steve]] Pioneered Tech
https://www.computer.org/publications/tech-news/research/dame-stephanie-steve-shirley-computer-pioneer/
(Via

How a woman named "Steve" became one of Britain’s most celebrated IT pioneers, entrepreneurs, and philanthropists
Among computing pioneers, Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley is one of the most celebrated for building a $3 billion empire in the 1960s with an all-female staff.

Seems like Reddit isn't quite done sucking. Sometimes I miss aspects of the site, but neither the Web version nor the app are worth using, so it's history to me. Now they are blocking VPN users, because of course they are.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39883747

Unterwegs

TL;DR: If you have a fritz!box, you're hacked.
https://crapts.org/2024/04/21/all-fritz-box-modems-have-been-hijacked/
Edit: @…

The HN thread is a great example of 1) brand karma; 2) how misinformed while strongly opinionated many HN commentators are https://social.lansky.name/@hn50/112107101023064635

Physical Properties and Kinematics of Dense Cores Associated with Regions of Massive Star Formation from the Southern Sky
L. E. Pirogov, P. M. Zemlyanukha, E. M. Dombek, M. A. Voronkov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03074 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.03074
arXiv:2403.03074v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The results of spectral observations in the $\sim 84-92$ GHz frequency range of six objects in the southern sky containing dense cores and associated with regions of massive stars and star clusters formation are presented. The observations were carried out with the MOPRA-22m radio telescope. Within the framework of the local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) approximation, the column densities and abundances of the H$^{13}$CN, H$^{13}$CO$^ $, HN$^{13}$C, HC$_3$N, c-C$_3$H$_2$, SiO, CH$_3$C$_2$H and CH$_3$CN molecules are calculated. Estimates of kinetic temperatures ($\sim 30-50$ K), sizes of emission regions ($\sim 0.2-3.1$ pc) and virial masses ($\sim 70-4600~M_{\odot}$) are obtained. The line widths in the three cores decrease with increasing distance from the center. In four cores, asymmetry in the profiles of the optically thick lines HCO$^ $(1-0) and HCN(1-0) is observed, indicating the presence of systematic motions along the line of sight. In two cases, the asymmetry can be caused by contraction of gas. The model spectral maps of HCO$^ $(1-0) and H$^{13}$CO$^ $(1-0), obtained within the framework of the non-LTE spherically symmetric model, are fitted into the observed ones. The radial profiles of density ($\propto r^{-1.6}$), turbulent velocity ($\propto r^{-0.2}$), and contraction velocity ($\propto r^{0.5}$) in the G268.42--0.85 core have been calculated. The contraction velocity profile differs from that expected both in the case of free fall of gas onto a protostar ($\propto r^{-0.5}$), and in the case of global core collapse (contraction velocity does not depend on distance). A discussion of the obtained results is provided.

Honestly this link preview problem should be no different than getting HN-ed. The other (older) term is probably slashdotted.

How a Woman Named [[Steve]] Pioneered Tech
https://www.computer.org/publications/tech-news/research/dame-stephanie-steve-shirley-computer-pioneer/
(Via

How a woman named "Steve" became one of Britain’s most celebrated IT pioneers, entrepreneurs, and philanthropists
Among computing pioneers, Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley is one of the most celebrated for building a $3 billion empire in the 1960s with an all-female staff.

Seeing a company called Okapi on HN today is reminding me of the time @… gave a talk on renaming OpenAPI to Okapi -- a brilliant suggestion that, unfortunately, was never adopted.

🤖 Generator-Guided Crowd Reaction Assessment
(... I was really fascinated with this paper because my YOShInOn RSS reader has a module like this which can predict the popularity of a story on HN and if people will have a big discussion about it; it is super-easy to gather data for this kind of model)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.0…

Generator-Guided Crowd Reaction Assessment
In the realm of social media, understanding and predicting post reach is a significant challenge. This paper presents a Crowd Reaction AssessMent (CReAM) task designed to estimate if a given social media post will receive more reaction than another, a particularly essential task for digital marketers and content writers. We introduce the Crowd Reaction Estimation Dataset (CRED), consisting of pairs of tweets from The White House with comparative measures of retweet count. The proposed Generator…

wow; 'CS of S. elongatus PCC 7942 assembles into Sierpiński triangles:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07287-2/figures/1
(via HN)

Honestly this link preview problem should be no different than getting HN-ed. The other (older) term is probably slashdotted.

#Matrix …

Beyond Discord
💬Join our new Matrix space: #home:commune.sh The web is awash with reasons not to use Discord, especially for open source projects. One of the easiest ways to trend on HN is to rant against the use of Discord for OSS or information storage: In spite of countless pleas,