Waymo introduces the Waymo World Model, a generative model for hyper-realistic autonomous driving simulation. It leverages Google DeepMind's Genie 3 to simulate rare events and enhance road safety.
LiteBox is a sandboxing library OS that reduces attack surface by cutting down the interface to the host. It provides a flexible interface for various use-cases and platforms.
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User is learning about neural networks from basics, focusing on visualization to understand how they work. They explain a simple use case of recognizing handwritten numbers using neural networks with input, processing, and output.
Language models are not yet reliable context learners, failing on most tasks despite having access to all required information. Current models rely on parametric knowledge and struggle with inductive reasoning, context length, and complexity.
Apple partnered with Taboola to serve ads in Apple News, but users are seeing scam ads that look like they were generated by AI. The ads are often from recently registered domains, raising concerns about Apple's and Taboola's ad vetting process.
Caltech researchers invented Sidewinder, a technology to write long DNA sequences with high accuracy. This innovation clears a major bottleneck for bioengineering and could have applications in agriculture and therapeutics.
The user discusses implementing the Free monad as a higher-order monad in the category of endofunctors, showing that it is equivalent to lists in this category. They define the HMonad class and make Free an instance of it, demonstrating that Free monads are also free monoids in the category of endofunctors.
New York lawmakers introduced the NY FAIR News Act requiring news organizations to label AI-generated content and have humans review it before publication. The bill aims to preserve journalism and protect workers by promoting AI transparency and safeguarding confidential material.
The user shares their personal journey of adopting AI tooling, starting with a period of inefficiency, then adequacy, and finally workflow and life-altering discovery, highlighting the importance of using agents with external behavior capabilities. They outline their approach to harnessing AI, including breaking down tasks, verifying agent work, and "harness engineering" to prevent mistakes, ...
UNIX-like/POSIX-compliant operating systems provide atomic operations for thread-safe and multi-process-safe programs without mutexes or locks. These operations include mv -T, link, symlink, open, mkdir, and fcntl, which can be used for file and directory locking, creating new files and directories, and synchronizing access to files.
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The user learned about DNS propagation and TTL after experiencing issues with their domain not updating, and they now understand how DNS works as a chain of referrals from root servers to TLD servers to authoritative nameservers. They also learned about DNS record types such as A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, and TXT records, and how to use them for subdomains, email delivery, and domain verification.
There are two main software development approaches: gradual evolution of complexity over time and big up-front design with a detailed specification.
The user experimented with a new approach called "agent teams" where multiple Claude instances work in parallel on a shared codebase without human intervention, successfully producing a 100,000-line Rust-based C compiler that can build Linux 6.9 on x86, ARM, and RISC-V. The user learned how to design harnesses for long-running autonomous agent teams, including writing tests, structuring work, ...
The author of tldraw is considering shutting down external contributions due to an influx of low-quality AI-generated pull requests. They argue that code is now easy to write with AI tools, making external contributions less valuable.
Automotive door handles have evolved over five decades, from simple bars to modern flush handles that improve aerodynamics. Modern handles often use rods or cables to transfer human motion to the latch, with some using actuators or springs for safety and convenience.
Claude Opus 4.6 is a significant improvement over its predecessor, offering better coding skills, reliability, and safety. It excels in everyday work tasks, including financial analysis, research, and document creation.
The author built a digital clock using Nixie-tubes and neon lamps for driving logic, without transistors or ICs. The clock uses ring counters to divide the mains power frequency and drive the Nixie tubes.
The DoJ's latest Epstein archive release has several issues, including censored names, corrupted files, and poor OCR results due to the use of Courier New font and low-quality JPEG scans.
The user discusses a CSS technique called "shrinkwrap" that allows an element to shrink to fit its content while maintaining its layout, and explains how to implement it using scroll-driven animations and anchor positioning. The technique involves creating a nested structure with a "shrinkwrap-content" element that determines how the text content wraps, and a "shrinkwrap-probe" element that ...
A Minnesota social program has been plagued by industrial-scale fraud, with some childcare centers having no children present despite reimbursement paperwork, and the state's own investigators believe over 50% of reimbursements were fraudulent. The financial industry has a better understanding of fraud and its prevention, and the government could benefit from adopting similar strategies, such ...
The plasma effect is a procedural graphics technique creating organic patterns through sinusoidal wave interference and color mapping. It combines sine and cosine functions with different frequencies and phases to produce a flowing, pulsing appearance.
Scott Aaronson discovered his name in the Epstein Files, showing Epstein's attempts to fund a research project with him in 2010, which he largely blew off after his mom's advice to be cautious. Aaronson reflects on how he was not alone in being approached by Epstein, but notes that many scientists who interacted with him were either charmed by him or prioritized his funding over their reservations.
Artifact Keeper is an open-source artifact registry that can be self-hosted in minutes, offering a drop-in replacement for JFrog Artifactory and Sonatype Nexus with zero feature gates. It supports 45+ package formats and has features like security scanning, SSO, replication, and a WASM plugin system.
This repository maintains a current list of Chrome extensions that have been removed for malware, security violations, or malicious behavior. Since no regularly-updated public database exists for this purpose, this project automates the collection and aggregation of extension removals from multiple sources. I created this project after searching for an updated list of malicious Chrome ...
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User found a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in AMD's AutoUpdate software due to lack of certificate validation and HTTP download URLs. AMD considered it "out of scope" and did not consider it a vulnerability.