The Daily Index — Tuesday, September 19, 2023 · TLDR Index

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A Reddit user recently posted an AI-generated image of a spiral-shaped medieval village that gained rapid attention on social media for its remarkable geometric qualities. The image was created using Stable Diffusion and a guidance technique called ControlNet. A similar technique for producing QR codes went viral earlier this year. This article explains how the artwork was generated. Examples of other similar artworks are available.

arstechnica.com · 8 min

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FEE

Unity announced a Runtime Fee on September 12 that will charge developers for each game installation past a certain threshold. This was not received well by the developer community, who were quick to point out all the problems that the fee might cause. Unity posted an apology on X on September 17 saying that it would make changes to the policy and share an update in a couple of days. It is rumored that Unity plans to limit fees to 4% of a game's revenue for customers making over $1 million. The new approach will reportedly also not retroactively count installations.

kotaku.com · 4 min

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MICROSCOPE TO HELP DOCTORS SPOT CANCER

The Augmented Reality Microscope, while not yet ready for clinical use, has shown initial promise as a useful tool for pathologists without easy access to a second opinion.

cnbc.com · 10 min

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BUN HYPE. HOW WE LEARNED NOTHING FROM YARN

npm gradually implemented all of the features that made Yarn special over the years - the same thing will likely happen with Bun.

dev.to · 26 min

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HOW MUCH GARDEN YOU WOULD NEED TO 100% SURVIVE ON

An efficient 800-square-foot garden could sustain a family of four.

lifehacker.com · 6 min

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AWS IPV4 ESTATE NOW WORTH $4.5 BILLION

AWS currently owns 127,972,688 IPv4 addresses and it has plans to charge $43.80 per year per IPv4 address starting in February next year.

toonk.io · 7 min

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CORONAL MASS EJECTION

Coronal mass ejections are immense eruptions of plasma and energy from the Sun's corona - a video of the fly-through is available in the article.

theverge.com · 1 min

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DAYS OF PANDEMIC TO CUTTING OVER 20K FOLKS IN 2023

This post shares some of the discussions going on inside Microsoft among the senior leadership team and the board during the early days of the pandemic and after the company decided to lay off thousands of employees.

teamblind.com · 11 min