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Compositing and Blending – Exploring the math and intuition behind blend modes

https://nik.digital/posts/compositing-blending
8•OuterVale•1d ago

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Daub•3m ago
Some nice graphics in this article. I explain the maths of blend modes and compositing to my students using Photoshop. Using nothing more than add and multiply I composite a foot ball over a background. No masks. No eraser. Just simple high school maths.

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https://rivian.com/support/article/can-i-disable-all-data-collection-from-my-vehicle
370•Cider9986•3h ago•147 comments

LinkedIn scans for 6,278 extensions and encrypts the results into every request

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340•un-nf•4h ago•145 comments

How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-whistleblower-who-uncovered-the-nsas-big-brother-machine/
389•the-mitr•7h ago•115 comments

Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey

https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/i-can-never-talk-to-an-ai-anonymously
91•ilamont•1d ago•41 comments

CopyFail was not disclosed to distro developers?

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/30/10
320•ori_b•7h ago•269 comments

Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library

https://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/malicious-dependency-in-pytorch-lightning-used-for-ai-training/
302•j12y•7h ago•99 comments

I built a Game Boy emulator in F#

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183•elvis70•6h ago•46 comments

Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

https://twitter.com/theo/status/2049645973350363168
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https://pu.dev/
57•nahimn•2h ago•16 comments

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https://sciencex.com/news/2026-04-snowball-earth-stranger-climate.html
15•wglb•1h ago•1 comments

How an oil refinery works

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295•chmaynard•9h ago•88 comments

New mechanical panoramic film camera from Jeff Bridges

https://wideluxx.com
52•armadsen•2d ago•17 comments

Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants

https://dpa-international.com/general-news/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:260430-930-14717/
719•mpweiher•11h ago•675 comments

You can beat the binary search

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/04/27/you-can-beat-the-binary-search/
231•vok•3d ago•112 comments

Reverse Engineering SimTower

https://phulin.me/blog/simtower
82•patrickhulin•2d ago•14 comments

Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and a cron scheduler – inside your SQLite file

https://honker.dev/
162•ferriswil•9h ago•49 comments

Full-Text Search with DuckDB

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73•ethagnawl•5h ago•18 comments

Mozilla's opposition to Chrome's Prompt API

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572•jaffathecake•16h ago•213 comments

The Church Rock Uranium Mill Spill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Rock_uranium_mill_spill
44•Sir_Twist•2d ago•4 comments

The upsell game – Vercel upselling tactics revealed

https://theupsellgame.com/
61•bartoindahouse•3h ago•10 comments

Follow-up to Carrot disclosure: Forgejo

https://dustri.org/b/follow-up-to-carrot-disclosure-forgejo.html
33•homebrewer•4h ago•6 comments

Does Postgres Scale?

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/benchmarking-workflow-execution-scalability-on-postgres
65•KraftyOne•5h ago•30 comments

I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

https://bidprowl.com
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A Milestone in Formalization: The Sphere Packing Problem in Dimension 8

https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2604.23468
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SimpleX Channels, SimpleX Network Consortium and Community Crowdfunding

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11•pmw•3h ago•1 comments

Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga

https://www.democrata.es/en/politics/congress-and-senate/congress-will-act-against-massive-ip-blo...
386•akyuu•8h ago•166 comments

Compositing and Blending – Exploring the math and intuition behind blend modes

https://nik.digital/posts/compositing-blending
8•OuterVale•1d ago•1 comments

Recovering files from beyond the grave using PhotoRec

https://lost-number.bearblog.dev/recovering-files-from-beyond-the-grave-using-photorec/
43•speckx•6h ago•9 comments

Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE

https://firethering.com/granite-4-1-ibm-open-source-model-family/
272•steveharing1•13h ago•169 comments

10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home

https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/04/10g-ethernet-what-i-did
126•gpjt•1d ago•94 comments