Between 13:25 and 14:43 PT today, Claude Opus 4.5 and Sonnet models experienced degraded availability. A network routing misconfiguration caused traffic to backend infrastructure to be dropped, preventing requests from completing. The misconfiguration has been reverted and service is fully restored. We’re conducting a review to improve our detection and prevention of similar issues.
Two student projects, Last.fm and Audioscrobbler, used collaborative filtering to bring music recommendations and social networking to the internet in 2002. They pioneered the social web, allowing users to discover new content and communities by following others.
Rich Harris explained that Svelte's move to JSDoc comments was not anti-TypeScript, but rather a stronger commitment to TypeScript. JSDoc is essentially TypeScript without the build step, offering the same benefits with a sometimes clunkier syntax.
Hashcards is a local-first spaced repetition app that uses Markdown files in a Git repo for flashcards, allowing for easy editing and version control. It aims to provide a frictionless experience for creating and editing flashcards, using an advanced scheduler and a simple UI.
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The author argues that Forth, a stack-based programming language, is still relevant today due to its simplicity, flexibility, and ability to be bootstrapped from assembly, making it a powerful tool for building custom systems. Forth's unique features, such as explicit data-flow and executable compression, make it an attractive choice for developers who want to create efficient and portable code.
The user is working on multiple projects including a webapp for local history, a meta framework for building full-stack libraries, and a research project called Next Arc Research that uses AI to analyze companies and predict market trends. They are also developing their own static site generator, a USCIS form-filling tool, and a daily puzzles website, among other projects.
The author discusses the history of GUIs and the rivalry between Apple and Microsoft, highlighting the differences in their approaches to design and business. The author argues that Microsoft's success is due to its ability to make money from selling software, despite its aesthetic flaws, while Apple's focus on design and control has led to its downfall.
Kent Overstreet discusses bcachefs updates, specifically the reconcile feature as its biggest change in two years. He aims to compete with ZFS or Btrfs as a copy-on-write file system for Linux.
The Typeframe PX-88 is a professional system with a dedicated user experience, combining power and specialized features in a compact size. It features a Raspberry Pi 4 B core, mechanical keyboard, and easy maintenance for demanding tasks and web-based editors.
Software agents are changing the SaaS landscape by making it easier for companies to build internal tools, reducing demand for simpler SaaS tools. This shift could lead to a decline in SaaS valuations and profitability.
Official websites use .milA .mil website belongs to an official U.S. Department of War organization. Secure .mil websites use HTTPSA lock ( Locked padlock icon ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .mil website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.
User must register or sign in with credentials, set unique User-Agent string to access application or script. Check default User-Agent or file a ticket for assistance.
Trigger.dev was compromised by Shai-Hulud 2.0, a sophisticated npm supply chain worm, through an engineer's compromised laptop. The incident was contained within 4 minutes, but it highlighted the need for improved security measures, including branch protection and OIDC for npm publishing.
iRobot Corp filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, handing control to Shenzhen PICEA and Santrum Hong Kong. The restructuring wipes out iRobot's common stock and gives PICEA full equity stake.
The user continues discussing Lisanne Bainbridge's paper "The ironies of automation" and its relevance to AI-based automation, highlighting the need for humans to make quick decisions under stressful conditions and the importance of designing user interfaces that support human operators in detecting problems. The user also discusses the training paradox, where human operators need to be ...
You're looking for a natural, food-safe wood finish that's free of solvents and provides a hydrophobic, visually pleasant sheen without creating a plasticky layer.
The University of Cambridge launched the Cambridge Online Trust and Safety Index (COTSI) to track the cost of buying fake social media accounts globally. The study found that verifying fake accounts is cheapest in the US and UK, but prices spike in countries before national elections.
The user learned Swift through Advent of Code and found it to be modern, comfy, and easy to pick up, with a nice tooling environment and good standard library documentation. However, it had some flaws including lack of backtraces, slow type checking error reporting, and significant changes over time that made it sometimes difficult to find answers and use features.
Author suggests that GraphQL's benefits are often overhyped and it may not be necessary in many enterprise settings due to its complexity and extra configuration requirements, ultimately resulting in it being a net negative. Author concludes that GraphQL is niche and often solves a narrow problem while introducing new issues, making it not bad but not necessary for many applications.
When was the last time you wrote if statements in SQL? If it’s been a long time, have you at least seen them? If not, (don’t) worry, you’ll see them today. I’ve started my relationship with computers with games. I still have my Amiga 500. In those days, computers didn’t always have a hard disk. You’ve got a bunch of diskettes with different chapters of the game. Not all of them were simple ...
A "Checkers Arcade" set can be created with a standard American Checkers set and offers various games with different complexities and play times. The games include Ricochet Roombas, Checkers Go-Moku, Halma, Squava, Hobbit Checkers, and others that can be played with a standard 8x8 board and 12 discs per side.
Big Tech is investing heavily in AI, but workforce reductions and automation threaten tax revenues. Experts debate whether AI should be taxed, with some suggesting a tax on robots to maintain social benefits.
The Baumol effect, also known as Baumol's cost disease, is a tendency for wages in jobs with little productivity growth to rise due to competition with jobs that have experienced high productivity growth. This results in increased costs for services like healthcare and education.
Dr Gabor Maté diagnosed Prince Harry with Attention Deficit Disorder, depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder, stating they are normal responses to abnormal stress. Maté's diagnosis is part of a broader cultural shift where trauma is commodified and used to explain everyday experiences.
User wants to start a personal blog but hesitates, wanting to share private writings and learn through essays. They aim to create a "public notebook" for long-term growth, not a media business.
GNU Recutils is a set of tools for accessing human-editable text databases called recfiles. It provides a rich set of utilities for shell scripts and command line use.
The author uses llvm-mca to analyze the execution of various functions on a simulated Skylake processor, providing insights into performance bottlenecks and underutilized resources. By restructuring code to take advantage of processor features such as multiple execution ports and carryless multiply instructions, the author demonstrates how to improve performance by extracting additional ...
A compiler is a translator that converts input language to output language, preserving computation behavior. Compilers are complex but can be debugged like any other command line program if built correctly.
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