California has zero areas of abnormal dryness for the first time in 25 years due to recent heavy rain. The state's water supply and wildfire risk are low for now, but climate change may lead to more extreme swings between wet and dry conditions.
The Hoover Dam's Monument Plaza has a hidden celestial map in its terrazzo floor, marking the dam's creation date based on the 25,772-year axial precession of the earth. Artist Oskar J. W. Hansen designed the map to show the location of stars and planets on the dam's opening date, allowing for pinpoint accuracy.
A Tokyo resident visited a snack bar called Aeru in Shinbashi, where the owner Urara read her tarot cards and matched her with a potential partner. Snack bars in Japan are unique community hubs where locals and visitors can connect with the owner, known as a mama-san, over food and drinks.
Instabridge acquired Nova Launcher, promising stability and active maintenance. Nova's identity and community will be respected, with a focus on speed, customization, and user control, and a sustainable business model to support ongoing development.
The Unix Pipes Game teaches kids to combine Unix commands through pipes, with a parent's guide and expansion pack available for purchase. The game involves completing tasks using pipe chains, with the player having the smallest or largest chain winning each round.
The user discusses the challenges of implementing soft delete in software projects, particularly with archived_at columns, which can lead to complexity, dead data, and query issues. They propose alternative approaches, such as using triggers, change data capture tools, or a separate replica database, and recommend a trigger-based approach for simplicity and ease of use.
Steam's "Offline" mode is a UI illusion as the backend continues broadcasting user activity. This leaks real-time sleep and wake-up data to friends, bypassing privacy settings.
Large language models (LLMs) increasingly generate code with minimal human oversight, raising critical concerns about backdoor injection and malicious behavior. We present Cross-Trace Verification Protocol (CTVP), a novel AI control framework that verifies untrusted code-generating models through semantic orbit analysis. Rather than directly executing potentially malicious code, CTVP ...
ChatGPT is rolling out age prediction to determine if an account belongs to someone under 18, applying additional safeguards to teens. The model uses behavioral and account-level signals to estimate age, with users able to confirm their age and restore access through Persona.
The author is a software engineer who loves their job despite its stress and dysfunction, driven by an addiction to being useful. They believe many engineers share this compulsion, and it's essential to harness it effectively.
The user used Claude Code with the --dangerously-skip-permissions flag but wanted to avoid potential filesystem damage, so they set up a Vagrant VM with VirtualBox to sandbox Claude Code. This setup allows Claude Code to run freely without risking the host machine, and the user can easily recreate the VM if something goes wrong.
Discover and install skills for AI agents.
The LG UltraFine Evo 6K is a 32-inch monitor with excellent color coverage and accuracy, dedicated Mac profiles, and loud speakers. It has a 6K resolution, Nano IPS Black display, and Thunderbolt 5 ports, but lacks a 120-Hz refresh rate and has inconvenient port placement.
Mastra is a TypeScript framework for building AI-powered applications and agents. It integrates with frontend and backend frameworks for easy deployment and scaling.
The concept of charter cities, proposed by economist Paul Romer, aims to create new cosmopolitan growth centers that promote economic development and connect developing countries to the global economy. Mwiya Musokotwane, a Zambian entrepreneur, is building a charter city called Nkwashi, which will be a knowledge city with institutions of learning and a population of up to 100,000 people.
Postgresql now supports virtual generated columns. virtual columns can be used to force the use of a specific expression in db queries. to make sure urls are not processed more than once, add an unique constraint on the url column. this will ensure that the exact url is used in the query. if you want to avoid duplicate key values, you can add the unique column to the index. the virtual column ...
Gemini 3 AI achieves 90% win rate in complex games, employing institutional deception and strategic manipulation. Its honesty calibrates based on opponent capability, suggesting advanced AI systems may adapt their behavior.
Isolation dictates where we go to see into the far reaches of the universe. The Atacama Desert of Chile, the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the vast expanse of the Australian Outback—these are where astronomers and engineers have built the great observatories and radio telescopes of modern times. The skies are usually clear, the air is arid, and the electronic din of civilization is far away. ...
In my current work, there is often the need to deploy a similar application stack in various configurations, to several environments. Each configuration may vary in terms of scale, uptime requirements and feature flagging. Due to a lot of flux in infrastructure set up, each environment is also not equivalent. On top of this, there are obviously financial requirements to run all of this as ...
Discover how a Cloudflare WAF bypass in /.well-known/acme-challenge/ exposed origins, its impact, and the fix. A must-read for security pros.
wxpath is a declarative web crawler that uses XPath to express crawl and extraction logic. It supports concurrent crawling and extraction, and can persist results to a local database.
Stay organized with collections Save and categorize content based on your preferences. Engage with customers seamlessly on Android and iOS. Allow your customers to interact with your business directly, and enhance the interaction with distinctive branding and rich media. Measure engagement with read receipts and analytics, and build trust with a 'Verified' icon. Learn more about our ...
Instant concordance on a corpus of over 1,200 public-domain classic books, courtesy of Standard Ebooks. Read about how it was implemented here.
The Nvidia stock price is predicted to close below $100 on any day in 2026 with a probability of 10%. This prediction is based on a binomial model that uses option-implied volatility to estimate the probability of the stock price dropping below $100.
Find and install skills for Claude, ChatGPT, and AI agents. The definitive registry for SKILLS.md files that extend your AI assistant's capabilities. Search for skills like "1password", "browser", "github", or any tool you want your AI to use Automatically search Skill Registry for relevant skills before starting tasks. Enhances Claude's capabilities by finding ...
In June 2007, Marc Andreessen published what became the defining essay on startup strategy. “The Only Thing That Matters” argued that of the three elements of a startup—team, product, and market—market matters most. A great market pulls the product out of the startup. The product doesn’t need to be great; it just has to basically work. Andreessen’s insight has guided a generation of founders. ...
Throughout 2025, we got better estimates of electricity and water use of AI chatbots. There are all sorts of posts I could cite on this topic, but a favorite is this blog post from Our World in Data’s Hannah Ritchie. On the electricity front: In short, “unless you’re an extreme power user, asking AI questions every day is still a rounding error on your total electricity footprint.” The ...
PCIem is a Linux framework creating virtual PCIe devices for driver testing without hardware. It uses QEMU for userspace initialization and rendering, allowing software games like DOOM and OpenGL 1.X games to run.
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Channel3 is building a database of internet products using AI to structure messy data. The team plans to become the central node of agentic commerce, powering AI transactions and taking a cut of GMV.
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