Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project

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A Eulogy for Dark Sky, a Data Visualization Masterpiece (2023)

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The Dark Sky mobile app was a hallmark of information design due to its contextualized and dynamic approach to presenting weather data, making it easy to understand the weather at a glance. The app's design, which included features like temperature pills and precipitation graphs, was a pioneering effort in contextualizing data to make it useful for daily life, and its loss has been deeply ...

Drones that recharge directly on transmission lines

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Voltair's drones recharge on power lines, enabling infinite range and 20x more inspection coverage for utilities. The startup aims to expand to rail, road, telecom, and real estate inspections, creating a new infrastructure layer for data on the physical world.

Bichon: A lightweight, high-performance Rust email archiver with WebUI

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Bichon is an open-source email archiving system built in Rust that indexes emails for full-text search and provides a REST API. It runs as a standalone server application with a built-in WebUI and supports unified search across all accounts.

ASCII-Driven Development

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" 1. describe ui in natural language. use a dark theme withblue accents.'[email protected]' is the newest member of our team to review this product - and it's already gotten over 2,000 reviews! if you're looking for an affordable, high-quality lumbar support chair, look no further — edward m.

How your high school affects your chances of UC Admission

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UC San Diego's admissions policy favors students from schools with high-needs students, despite their lower academic proficiency. This shift has led to a significant increase in admissions from these schools, while other schools with strong students have seen a decline in admissions.

New information extracted from Snowden PDFs through metadata version analysis

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Two published documents by The Intercept and ABC had sections on domestic U.S. intelligence facilities removed, while equivalent foreign facilities remained visible. The removed sections reveal operational designations and cover names for domestic U.S. NRO Mission Ground Stations.

Distributed Denial of Secrets

Large data leaks have exposed sensitive information from various organizations, including donor lists, emails, and financial records. The leaks involve groups associated with far-right activists, white supremacist websites, and high-profile individuals like Jeffrey Epstein and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

Side-by-side comparison of how AI models answer moral dilemmas

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AI systems are making decisions affecting people's lives, but their internal value systems can be unpredictable and difficult to control. AI models' inconsistent and concerning values make it hard to trust their decisions, leading to potential problems in the future.

Rats caught on camera hunting flying bats

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In northern Germany, researchers have filmed brown rats (Rattus norvegicus) leaping from cave ledges to catch bats mid-flight — the first evidence that rodents can intercept flying mammals. The finding, published in Global Ecology and Conservation, turns one of ecology’s everyday characters into an unexpectedly agile predator. The behavior was recorded at Segeberg Kalkberg, a limestone cave ...

UK government exempting itself from cyber law inspires little confidence

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The UK's Cyber Security and Resilience Bill excludes central and local government, despite a growing cyber threat landscape. Critics argue this omission undermines the government's commitment to cybersecurity.

UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring PMs, SWEs to automate construction compliance

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We’re looking for talented and motivated people who can help us build easy-to-use compliance and product research tools. Learn about our culture and explore open positions.

Httpz – Zero-Allocation HTTP/1.1 Parser for OxCaml

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The HTTP/1.1 parser and serializer httpz can serve directories on custom ports with zero heap allocations. It can be run with various commands for serving, benchmarking, and getting help.

“Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI”

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AI tools have solved an Erdos problem autonomously with feedback, demonstrating increased capability. AI can rapidly write and rewrite expositions of the solution, enabling dynamic and high-multiplicity conceptions of writeups.

How we made v0 an effective coding agent

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We improved the reliability of our v0 Composite Model Family by introducing a multi-step pipeline with dynamic system prompts, LLM Suspense, and autofixers. This pipeline detects and fixes errors in real-time, increasing success rates by a double-digit percentage.

GPU memory snapshots: sub-second startup (2025)

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At Modal, we’re obsessed with cold start latency. Earlier this year, we introduced memory snapshots to slash startup times by more than half. Today, we’re thrilled to announce the next evolution: GPU memory snapshots—bringing the same checkpoint/restore magic to GPU-accelerated workloads. Our distributed file system uses a series of caches to store, directly in the worker memory, the most ...

Reverse Engineering the Epson FilmScan 200 for Classic Mac

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The user wrote a SCSI driver from scratch to scan 35mm film on a Mac SE/30 using a 1997 Epson FilmScan 200 scanner with a SCSI interface. The driver was developed using THINK C 5.0 on the SE/30 and uses the ESC/I protocol to exchange data with the scanner, allowing for digital copies of film to be saved as PPM or PGM files.

I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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A senior tech editor is testing Linux as his main OS after getting fed up with Windows. So far, he's found it to be a relatively easy transition with most hardware working fine.

Creating Embroidered Charts with R and ImageMagick

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The user created a programmatic pipeline to add an embroidered look to ggplot charts using ImageMagick and R, allowing for reproducibility and customization of the effect. The pipeline involves running an embroidery script, applying texture and shading effects, and boosting colors to achieve a 3D, tactile look.

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Bindless Oriented Graphics Programming

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In this post I begin by covering GPU-driven rendering at a high level before diving into bindless as an accessible gateway to powerful GPU-driven rendering techniques, and how to achieve this pragmatically with low code complexity and mental overhead while reaping the lion's share of the gains. Nothing I present is novel, but my hope is that my approach to bindless may connect with you if ...

Janderland/fenv: FoundationDB development environment

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The fenv CI framework provides a consistent environment for building and testing code that depends on FoundationDB. It allows users to extend the base image with custom build tools and dependencies using a Dockerfile.

AI is a business model stress test

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Adam Wathan's Tailwind Labs faced significant job losses due to AI's impact on their business model. AI commoditized Tailwind's fully specifiable offerings, shifting value to operations like deployment, testing, and hosting.

Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

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Time Travelling and Fixing Bugs with Property-Based Testing (2019)

Property-based testing is used to find edge cases and bugs in software, and a tutorial is provided on how to apply it to a simple form validation system using the Hedgehog framework in Haskell. The tutorial covers refactoring, dealing with non-determinism, testing generators, and measuring coverage, and it demonstrates how to use property tests to find bugs in both the test suite and the ...

Show HN: Yuanzai World – LLM RPGs with branching world-lines

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Yuanzai World (codename) is a story-driven adventure game powered entirely by AI, where players travel with Yuanzai through various fantasy worlds, interacting with characters, experiencing stories, changing the world, and finding the courage to face reality.

JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters

The function u(t) contains a large amount of repeated characters and appears to be a compressed or encoded string.

Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15

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The user compares the Citroen C15 to SUVs and Pick-Ups, highlighting its fuel efficiency, low price, and off-road capabilities. The C15 is deemed superior to its competitors, with the user suggesting that men who buy SUVs are compensating for something.

Good Judgment Open

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Join the internet's smartest crowd. Improve your forecasting skills and find out how you stack up. Forecasting challenge sponsors — including, among others, UBS Asset Management, The Economist, and Harvard Kennedy School — invite you to anticipate the major political, economic, and technological events that will shape the world in the years to come. Be sure to check out all of our active ...

Changes to Android Open Source Project

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We will publish AOSP source code in Q2 and Q4 2026 to ensure platform stability. AOSP contributors should use android-latest-release for building and contributing.