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Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza 154 by Qem | 62 comments on Hacker News.

GuitarPie: Electric Guitar Fretboard Pie Menus 11 by DonHopkins | 1 comments on Hacker News. GuitarPie: Using the Fretboard of an Electric Guitar for Audio-Based Pie Menu Interaction (ACM UIST 2025) - Frank Heyen, Marius Labudda, Michael Sedlmair, Andreas Fender Nowadays, electric guitars are often used together with digital interfaces. For instance, tablature applications can support guitar practice by rendering and playing back the tabs of individual instrument tracks of a song (guitar, drums, etc.). However, those interfaces are typically controlled via mouse and keyboard or via touch input. This means that controlling and configuring playback during practice can lead to high switching costs, as learners often need to switch between playing and interface control. In this paper, we explore the use of audio input from an unmodified electric guitar to enable interface control without letting go of the guitar. We present GuitarPie, an audio-based pie menu interaction method. GuitarPi...

GPT-5-Codex 52 by meetpateltech | 18 comments on Hacker News.

The Perl Programming Language in 2025 (FOSS book) 8 by DavidCanHelp | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Eye drops could replace glasses or surgery for longsightedness, study says 11 by giuliomagnifico | 0 comments on Hacker News.

An Open-Source Maintainer's Guide to Saying No 51 by jlowin | 3 comments on Hacker News.