The app allows editing TikZ figures with drag-and-drop functionality and instant code updates. It supports common TikZ features, including \foreach loops, and has a free, open-source license.
The model Unlimited-OCR is available on ModelScope for inference using Huggingface transformers on NVIDIA GPUs. It supports single image and multi-page parsing with various configurations.
The user discusses online surveillance, age verification, and its implications on kids and privacy, arguing that it's a surveillance industry dream. They also mention various books and events, including their own works, and a call to action to prioritize privacy over age verification.
AI platforms are subsidizing their products to generate massive demand, but this strategy is unsustainable as costs are rising and users are being forced to switch to token-based pricing, which is eye-wateringly expensive. The AI industry is facing a debt crisis, with estimated debt of $3T, and needs to replace human labor on a colossal scale to service the debt, which is a daunting task.
Lift4D is a test-time optimization framework for 3D reconstruction from monocular video, combining visual cues with data-driven priors. It improves over prior methods by providing coherent initialization and occlusion-aware optimization for challenging in-the-wild sequences.
The SUPPORT sign has multiple language options for users to choose from. Users can report translation problems for any language.
Mistral OCR 4 is a document-understanding model that extracts text, bounding boxes, block types, and confidence scores from 170 languages. It's available through a single API endpoint and can be used for enterprise search, RAG, and agentic workflows.
Madison Square Garden compiled a list of activists who criticized its facial recognition technology, including Evan Greer, Adam Schwartz, and Albert Fox Cahn. The document, found in a data breach, included background information, contact details, and quotes from the activists.
The bun-sqlgen library generates typed SQL queries at compile-time, catching errors before runtime. It uses migrations as the source of truth for the schema and writes generated types to a file for static type checking.
Plotnine is a Python data visualization package based on the grammar of graphics, similar to ggplot2 in R. It's used to create customized visualizations like Anscombe's Quartet with features like coloring, trend lines, and faceting.
Just run treedocs to see the repository at a glance. Current files render green, while stale or invalid entries render red so problems stand out immediately. Give new teammates, future you, and coding agents the concise context they need to understand complex repositories so that they don't need to wander aimlessly. Keep documentation from going stale with automatic drift checks that warn ...
Run the new GLM-5.2 model by Z.ai on local hardware!
Linux on IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE use the s390x hardware architecture to run various Linux distributions, including SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and Ubuntu. Tens of thousands of software packages are tested and distributed through these projects, and various community distributions. But for some applications, a team at IBM pays special attention to make ...
The author created a benchmark suite to test various AI models' ability to find security bugs, specifically those found by Mythos, and found that some models, like Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.6, performed well.
The user discusses the importance of GIF fallbacks for old browsers and explores image compression techniques, including ZopfliPNG and flexiGIF, but finds that flexiGIF can give worse results due to its greedy approach. The user then implements their own GIF compression tool, ZGIF, which uses a hybrid search with pruning to achieve faster results while still beating the current state-of-the-art.
VibeThinker-3B achieves frontier-level performance on verifiable tasks with 94.3% on AIME26 and 96.1% on LeetCode contests. It matches larger models like DeepSeek V3.2 and GLM-5 in performance, suggesting compact models can be a path to frontier-level performance.
The crypto industry has created a high-throughput onboarding ramp for retail gambling, preying on young people's economic anxiety and financial nihilism. The industry's products, including prediction markets and stablecoins, are essentially self-referential games that lack any real-world value or information.
Researchers at Binghamton University developed a 99% successful method to solve Wordle using information theory. Their approach prioritizes guessing words that provide the most information to reduce the pool of possible words.
SPH perception aggregates nearby particles using smooth kernels to estimate quantities like density and state gradients. It preserves locality in Neural Cellular Automata while allowing particles to live on irregular configurations.
The vi editor was developed in 1976 by Bill Joy at UCB, but its source code was restricted until 2002 when Caldera removed usage restrictions. This port of vi is a free version with international character support and minor enhancements.
The user is discussing the misuse of Redis as a database due to its ease of use and features, leading to maintenance and monitoring issues. They prefer Memcached for caching due to its simplicity and stateless architecture, making it easier to handle downtime and clustering.
When Intel designed the 80386, they gave it a trick for hiding memory latency: Early Start. Instead of waiting for an instruction to reach its memory micro-op, the 386 begins the next instruction's address work — effective address, segment relocation, the bus cycle — in the last cycle of the current instruction. Intel put it at about 9% of overall performance. It is also the source of the ...
Claude's Status Page - Elevated error rate across multiple models.
Shumai is a media management tool with features like secure storage, frame-by-frame annotations, and AI-powered metadata autofill. It can be run locally or remotely with Docker and Docker Compose.
FROMSOFT uses a low-tech AI system in their Soulsborne games, based on a stack of states called Goals, which can be updated and modified to create complex behavior. The system uses a mix of Lua scripting and C++ code, with a focus on flexibility and ease of use for designers and animators, making it well-suited for creating diverse and punishing NPC encounters.
Steve Braithwaite owns a 23-foot-long giant banana car, the Big Banana Car, which attracts constant police attention due to its unusual appearance. Braithwaite has been driving the car for 15 years, covering over 250,000 miles and plans to drive it around the world.
A woman's experience of childbirth can be extremely painful, but epidural anesthesia provides effective pain relief, allowing her to remain alert and focused during labor. Epidurals have some side effects, but for most women, the benefits of pain-free childbirth outweigh the risks.
OpenAI is expanding Daybreak to help organizations patch vulnerable software at machine speed, using models like GPT-5.5-Cyber and Codex Security.
The author defends the 8086 segmented memory architecture, seeing it as clever in its original context, despite its flaws. The design allowed for 1MB of memory addressability with 20-bit addresses, but used segment registers to combine with 16-bit offsets.
User found an old Python project with a problem15.txt file, imagining a naive brute force approach followed by memoization and dynamic programming to solve it. User is impressed by past self's coding skills but feels nostalgic and a bit sad about the contrast between past and present abilities.