The map that keeps Burning Man honest

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AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields

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AlphaEvolve is a system that optimizes AI and hardware design, achieving breakthroughs in efficiency and speed. It has been used by various companies to solve complex problems, including optimizing transformer models, computational lithography, and routing challenges.

Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria

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Collaboration between researchers and religious leaders led to a cut in the likelihood of early marriage by 80%. Collaboration between researchers and religious leaders led to a cut in the likelihood of early marriage by 80%.

The Self-Cancelling Subscription

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A family's streaming subscription was unexpectedly deactivated due to a credit card expiration issue. The problem was resolved after un-linking and re-linking the accounts, revealing a delayed and repeatable failure mode in the system's asynchronous workflow.

RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust

RaTeX is a Rust-based math rendering engine that ships SDKs for various platforms and supports chemistry and units. It offers predictable timing and avoids browser stacks for mobile UIs and servers.

Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

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Valve released CAD files for the Steam Controller and Puck, allowing modders to create custom accessories. The files are under a Creative Commons license for non-commercial use, with commercial entities needing to contact Valve directly.

Indian matchbox labels as a visual archive

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Inspired by the visual language, cultural history, and format of matchboxes, three contemporary Indian projects are reimagining this object in strikingly different ways.

Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)

This is a TI-83 Plus BASIC programming tutorial for beginners, covering topics such as DISP, OUTPUT, LBL/GOTO, END/PAUSE, MENU, INPUT/PROMPT, and more, with examples and exercises to practice programming skills. The tutorial also covers advanced topics like FOR, WHILE, IF, THEN, ELSE, OR, STRINGS, GETKEY, RAND, RANDINT, iPART, and fPART, as well as drawing functions like CLRDRAW, TEXT, LINE, ...

37x Speedup in Lattice Boltzmann Cylinder Flow

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Researchers found vortex shedding in 2D cylinder flow to be resolution-robust, preserving frequency and drag coefficient across grid reductions. This has implications for adaptive mesh strategies and sub-grid model design.
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The US Library of Congress recommends SQLite, XML, JSON, and CSV as storage formats for datasets due to their high chance of survival and accessibility. These formats are chosen based on disclosure, adoption, transparency, external dependencies, patent impact, and technical protection mechanisms.

Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense

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Donald Trump's oil market bets before announcements raise suspicions of insider trading. This undermines the oil futures market and contributes to a "predation economy" where success depends on connections rather than knowledge.

Appearing productive in the workplace

Generative AI is creating a new form of "slop" in workplaces, where workers rely on tools to produce work without understanding its quality. This leads to a loss of judgment and expertise, as humans become conduits for AI-generated output rather than evaluators of its quality.

Agent-harness-kit scaffolding for multi-agent workflows (MCP, provider-agnostic)

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Auto-scaffold a multi-agent harness for any repo. SQLite state, MCP tools, health checks, and coordination rules — automatically.

GovernGPT (YC W24) Is Hiring Engineers to Build Thinking Systems in Montreal

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We're a YC-backed startup building AI agents to automate investment fundraising, seeking a backend engineer to own our metadata-enriched database. The role involves building autonomous systems, collaborating with ICs, and working with a team of A-player technologists.

Why should a Trace-ID be 128 bits? (A Surprisingly Long Answer)

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Every time I happen to use the trace tab in SigNoz (an observability platform), I’m met with the same question, and I put it in the “I’ll deal with this later” folder in my brain. So, like a normal human these days, I typed into Claude, “Hey, can you explain why a trace-id is 128 bits long??” The answer touches probability theory, distributed systems constraints and fifteen years of industry ...

Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI

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Motherboard sales are collapsing due to AI shortages and chipmakers prioritizing AI processor production, leading to a 33% decrease in Asus sales and a 28% contraction in the overall motherboard market. PC builders are holding off upgrades, causing motherboard manufacturers to revise sales targets downward and offer discounts on combos to clear inventory.

MPEG-2 Transport Stream Packaging for Media over QUIC Transport

This document extends the MOQT Streaming Format (MSF) by registering the "m2ts" packaging value for carrying MPEG-2 Transport Stream and M2TS source packets over Media Over QUIC Transport. It defines catalog fields for transport-stream track description and specifies receiver and relay behavior for joining, switching, and validating packetized streams.¶ The latest revision of this ...

Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE

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The user set up a Debian 13 server for Netboot.xyz and used it to remotely boot a Debian installation on a network drive via iSCSI, avoiding the need to repartition their local NVMe drives. They configured the setup to use a custom menu, iSCSI targets, and ZFS volumes, and successfully installed Debian on a remote drive using the Proxmox host as the iSCSI target.

Chevrolet Performance eCrate package (400v/200hp)

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Chevrolet Performance's eCrate system is a 50-state emissions street legal kit for electric vehicle conversions. It includes a 66 kWh lithium-ion pack and 400-volt electric drive motor for most conventional combustion engine vehicles.

SingleRide: Longest route on NYC Subway without visiting the same station twice

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Travel the longest route you can on the NYC Subway without visiting the same station twice. Transfer in time before the end of the line! New start station each day. By Logan Williams.

Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like

The author discussed the convergence of vibe coding and agentic engineering, realizing that relying on AI tools for coding can blur the lines between responsible and irresponsible use. They value proven solutions over perfect documentation and tests.

RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google

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User's blog traffic comes from various sources, with 25% from subscribers and the rest from search engines, link aggregators, and other online platforms. They track traffic from RSS, email, and other sources to understand where people find their blog.

The mechanical latching memory of an adhesive tape

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LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

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A LinkedIn user is suing Microsoft over GDPR Article 15, which requires companies to provide users with a copy of their personal data. The user wants a list of people who have viewed their profile, but LinkedIn only provides this to premium users.

Permacomputing Principles

Permacomputing promotes sustainable digital practices through 10 principles, including resilience, hardware care, and simplicity, to reduce environmental and socio-economic impact. It encourages users to observe, question, and reimagine technology to create a more just and regenerative digital culture.

ProgramBench: Can Language Models Rebuild Programs from Scratch?

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Researchers created ProgramBench to evaluate software engineering agents' ability to develop software holistically. Agents struggled to fully resolve tasks, favoring monolithic implementations that differ from human-written code.

Show HN: Agent-skills-eval – Test whether Agent Skills improve outputs

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agent-skills-eval is a test framework for Agent Skills that runs skills against the same prompts twice, once with and once without the skill, to measure its impact. It produces a side-by-side report with a judge model's grades and can be used with various agents and models, including OpenAI, Together, and Anthropic.

The brave souls who bought a used, 340k-mile rental camper van

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A man bought a 2012 Ford Econoline camper van for $4,300 after it was liquidated by Escape Camper Van. He and his wife customized the van, which they named Crayola, and used it for adventures before eventually selling it.

Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA

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Google Cloud launched Google Cloud Fraud Defense, a platform to verify bots, humans, and AI agents, securing digital interactions and commerce. It measures and controls agentic activity, preventing evolving threats and securing customer journeys to accelerate business growth.

From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth

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The user's company Val Town switched from Clerk to Better Auth for authentication due to reliability and rate limiting issues with Clerk, which caused site outages and complexity. Better Auth provided a more reliable and customizable solution, allowing Val Town to regain control over user sessions and data.