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The US is betting on AI to catch insider trading in prediction markets

https://www.wired.com/story/polymarket-insider-trading-cftc-michael-selig-interview/
1•Bender•33s ago•0 comments

The Young Are Being Battered by AI as Hiring Shifts to Older Workers

https://gizmodo.com/the-young-are-being-battered-by-ai-as-hiring-shifts-to-older-workers-2000759608
1•robtherobber•53s ago•0 comments

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1•ibobev•1m ago•0 comments

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1•Brajeshwar•1m ago•0 comments

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1•USTECH_WORKER•4m ago•0 comments

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1•asimov4•4m ago•0 comments

We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag

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3•ildari•5m ago•1 comments

PgBackRest Will Continue

https://pgbackrest.org/news.html#will-continue
2•aflukasz•7m ago•1 comments

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1•mikece•8m ago•0 comments

Are smartphones behind the fertility decline?

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1•SCEtoAux•9m ago•1 comments

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2•gok•11m ago•0 comments

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1•teleforce•11m ago•0 comments

Project Inbox 2026

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Ascetic Computing

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3•louhong•13m ago•1 comments

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One Pass Is Not Enough: Recursive Latent Refinement for Generative Models

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1•mooreds•20m ago•0 comments

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5•ViktorRay•20m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries

https://github.com/2b2tplace/1m_release
30•exploraz•1h ago

Comments

jetbalsa•33m ago
Ah, The 4chan of Minecraft servers, a silly place.
Tiberium•33m ago
2B2T really has an extremely interesting and long history, and some of the most interesting exploits/security vulnerabilities found just for it, for example https://2b2t.miraheze.org/wiki/Nocom where the attackers had a blunt server DoS and through it influenced the server owner to report it to PaperMC, and the fix for the DoS gave them ability to track other players just as they had hoped.

> In July 2018, 0x22 and Babbaj created a coordinate exploit, using the groundwork laid out in the lag exploit. The two theorized that, if the server didn't return a response for unloaded chunks, but returned a response for loaded chunks, the rough location of players in 2b2t could be approximated. However, prplz's patch returned a response regardless of whether a chunk was loaded or unloaded, requiring a second patch to Paper that would only return a response if the chunk was loaded.

> Knowing that the issue would be resolved if Hausemaster reported it to Paper, likely through the method they laid out, 0x22 and Babbaj began intentionally, repeatedly, and blatantly sending CPacketPlayerDigging packets, causing the Paper watchdog process to output a stack trace, which included the line added by prplz.

skerit•30m ago
2b2t is so interesting. It is a toxic place, yet you can find really nice things, builds, messages, ... It's fascinating.
lanyard-textile•7m ago
The highways especially. You'd think they'd be completely dysfunctional in a place like this.
sciencejerk•24m ago
With severe weaponized autism, the help of several people involved, thousands of dollars spent, and countless hours wasted, we present you the largest world download project ever

Never underestimate the power of severe weaponized autism!

elmean•14m ago
real <3
zimpenfish•22m ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDyze1YlOrI is a good explanation of what they did
pizzathyme•22m ago
Maybe a dumb question but since 2B2T (as I understand it) is a single instance of everyone modifying it to their heart's content, why does the download look like the standard biomes of a fresh minecraft map?
jamilton•12m ago
You gotta zoom into the center to see the main chaos. And if you zoom in elsewhere, you can see all the generation differences from different versions of the game.
nom•11m ago
Besides the spawn area, most blocks have never been touched. It's a lot of blocks.
lanyard-textile•9m ago
The world is mind bogglingly big; as are most minecraft worlds, but this one especially.

People sprawl far to prevent PvP encounters.

aeyes•4m ago
It is running on a single machine so the player count is relatively low. Today the limit is ~1500 concurrent players but it used to be much lower. And of the players online probably half are bots which don't build.

The map is 30Mx30M blocks so outside of the very center you'll not see that much player activity.

DonutSMP is the largest Minecraft server today, the overworld is 225,000x225,000 blocks and the map is modified wherever you look.

nom•15m ago
This was kept completely secret, so three days ago a separate group released their 200k² world download.

https://www.reddit.com/r/2b2t_Uncensored/comments/1tefffd/in...

Ups.

lanyard-textile•11m ago
For those who don't know: 2b2t is a famous minecraft server known for its true "anarchy" configuration.

You can do absolutely anything on it. Modded client, x-raying, item duplication. There are no area protections. PvP enabled.

It is difficult to leave spawn :)

skerit•7m ago
You can use a modded client, everyone does, but there _are_ some protections. So you can get kicked, you just won't get banned.
lanyard-textile•4m ago
I hand waved the details for simplicity, you're correct.

Egregious bugs like item dupes are also patched; but while they last, they're allowed.

MattCruikshank•6m ago
I'm so continuously confused why Minecraft doesn't have a show-off mode where a team of people can build something, and then someone else can spectate it, without causing undue server load.

I should be able to give you a URL to some location, and when you click it, it opens up Minecraft, streams the blocks, and you're viewing it.

minecraft://server/loc?w=0&x=0&y=0&z=0

w is the overworld, nether, end, etc.

And if you want to set up a server where you and your friends can interact with each other and make edits, the server should be able to stream blocks from some backing server, but copy-on-write them to your own local storage.

How is this not a thing?

If you want to be really awesome, set it up like bittorrent, where you can share the load, so the central server isn't hammered.

And if bittorrent doesn't really work as a model, then set it up so that "downloader pays" for bandwidth, plus a small royalty for the creator. As a downloader, I get to set up rate limits, etc, to not accidentally spend more than I want to, etc.

This whole 2b2t would cost $2,111.04 to download from AWS, if I'm doing the math right. But that's a trillion blocks. You don't need a trillion blocks to enjoy flying around some awesome maps.

purrcat259•5m ago
This is a great video trying to understand the artistic side of 2b2t as a persistent world (rather than the anarchy its more well known for): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09m5BAkkOtw