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security

Ryan Montgomery | Capabilities of Hackers, Tools Hackers use

AskSN

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What to say to someone who leaves the door open after coming in?

Stacker Saloon

saloon

science

Dancing sea turtles
Long-lost tomb of Thutmose II
Hidden images in Pollock paintings
Solving a fluid dynamics mystery
How to cook a perfectly boiled egg
More progress on deciphering Herculaneum scrolls
What ancient Egyptian mummies smell like


Research roundup: 7 cool science stories from February

Politics_And_Law

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US President Trump continues to slam Ukrainian President Zelensky

bitcoin

Advancements in On-Chain Privacy

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Animal_World

Dog Breed Of The Day - Doberman Pinscher

siggy47

Is it really true that this breed was made in a laboratory? Or is it a myth?

devs

> Rust, a modern and notably more memory-safe language than C, once seemed like it was on a steady, calm, and gradual approach into the Linux kernel.
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> In 2021, Linux kernel leaders, like founder and leader Linus Torvalds himself, were impressed with the language but had a "wait and see" approach. Rust for Linux gained supporters and momentum, and in October 2022, Torvalds approved a pull request adding support for Rust code in the kernel.
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> By late 2024, however, Rust enthusiasts were frustrated with stalls and blocks on their efforts, with the Rust for Linux lead quitting over "nontechnical nonsense." Torvalds said at the time that he understood it was slow, but that "old-time kernel developers are used to C" and "not exactly excited about having to learn a new language." Still, this could be considered a normal amount of open source debate.
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> But over the last two months, things in one section of the Linux Kernel Mailing List have gotten tense and may now be heading toward resolution—albeit one that Torvalds does not think "needs to be all that black-and-white." Greg Kroah-Hartman, another long-time leader, largely agrees: Rust can and should enter the kernel, but nobody will be forced to deal with it if they want to keep working on more than 20 years of C code.
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> ...

As the Kernel Turns: Rust in Linux saga reaches the “Linus in all-caps” phase

The Lunar Economy Is Coming

0xbitcoiner

I'm really excited to see where this goes in the next 20 years. I'm pretty sure we'll get there! Just wondering, how does this industry make money?

HealthAndFitness

MDMA-assisted therapy for moderate to severe PTSD

charts_and_numbers

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Rankings are based on Zillow’s Market Heat Index, which measures housing market competition. The index ranges from 0 to 100, with higher values favoring sellers and lower values favoring buyers.

The index looks at user engagement on Zillow’s active home listings, the share of listings with a price cut, and the share of for-sale listings going pending in 21 days.

Seller’s Markets: Housing demand exceeds supply, giving sellers more negotiating power, leading to higher prices

Buyer’s Markets: Housing supply exceeds demand, giving buyers more negotiating power, leading to lower prices

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-top-real-estate-markets-in-u-s-for-buyers-and-sellers/

Mapped: Top Real Estate Markets in U.S. for Buyers and Sellers

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> Bid from man tortured by trashed bitcoins seems unlikely to sway city council.
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> James Howells, the IT pro who lost about 8,000 bitcoins in a landfill more than a decade ago, thinks he has one last chance to dig up his buried treasure before it's lost forever.
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> He wants to buy the landfill.

Man offers to buy city dump in last-ditch effort to recover $800M in bitcoins

BooksAndArticles

> A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case for a Stateless Society is an astonishingly concise, rigorous, and accessible presentation of anarcho-capitalist ideals. It covers a wide range of topics including: money and banking, monopolies and cartels, insurance, health care, law, security, poverty, education, environmentalism, and more! To enjoy this compelling listen requires no previous political, philosophical, or economic knowledge as all uncommon concepts are defined and explained in a simple yet uncompromising manner. Take heed, this work is liable to cause radical paradigm shifts in your understanding of both the state and free market.

‎A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case for a Stateless Society

lightning

> The partnership between the companies aims to make cryptocurrency payments faster and more accessible for physical and digital commerce
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> São Paulo February 2025 – In addition to being seen as a store of value, Bitcoin isn’t even widely used for transactions because of the slow confirmation times. The Lightning Network, built on the Bitcoin blockchain,  has resolved that issue. Now, our customers are connected to this fast, cheaper solution through Transfero’s products and solutions in partnership with Lightspark.
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> By integrating these technologies, paying with Bitcoin in retail becomes faster, similar to the speed of a Pix payment.
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> ...

Transfero Integrates LN for Faster Bitcoin Payments in Brazilian Retail

### Abstract

Payment channel networks, such as Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, have emerged to address blockchain scalability issues, enabling rapid transactions. Despite their potential, these networks often experience payment failures due to delays in pathfinding, unreliable routes and infrastructure issues, resulting in excessive carbon emissions. Current reinforcement learning solutions for payment channel networks mainly address issues like payment channel balance and routing fees but often overlook the infrastructure-related causes of payment failure. This paper introduces a novel reinforcement learning-based architecture that combines reinforcement learning agent with native deterministic pathfinding algorithms. This hybrid approach leverages the fast, complete solutions of deterministic algorithms while adapting to the network’s dynamic and probabilistic nature of payments to significantly enhance payment success rates. Experiments on real network snapshots show that this approach outperforms native pathfinding algorithms and state-of-the-art static optimization methods, providing improved reliability and efficiency in dynamic network conditions. In scenarios with payment failure rates greater than 5%, the proposed approach achieves a 10% higher payment success rate than existing methods, while maintaining balanced performance on economic key metrics such as the payment fee and throughput, and on sustainability key metrics such as payment path length, number of inter-country/continental hops, and average carbon intensity.

Hybrid pathfinding optimization for the LN with Reinforcement Learning

Music

Music Territorys - Feel Good Friday! Valentine's edition.

Public_N_M_E

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