We should stop competing with safety-conscious AGI projects if they have a better-than-even chance of success in the next two years. OpenAI should join forces with Anthropic and Gemini as they meet this condition, but this is unlikely to happen.
The user retrofitted a first-gen MacBook with new guts, including an M1 Mini, and created a custom case using 3D printing and old OEM parts. The project took three months to complete and taught the user various skills, including soldering and 3D modeling, despite some challenges and areas for improvement.
The user set up a homelab using an old gaming PC to meet storage and backup needs, installing TrueNAS for file storage and self-hosting various apps including photo management, recipe management, and AI model running. They also set up a VPN service to access their data and self-hosted apps remotely from any device, but plan to assign custom domain names to each service for easier access.
The user explores an alternate history where the field-sequential color system was adopted instead of composite video, and imagines what an early mass-market 8-bit computer, the Columbia ][, would have looked like in this world. The user details the technical specifications and limitations of the Columbia ][, including its resolution, pixel clock, and color palette, and discusses the ...
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The GNU Public License is popular with many developers, but it’s lost a lot of its momentum over the years. Commercial developers hate it, because it imposes complexity into license management. The “GPL virus” is a bit exaggerated, but the reality is that the moment you include some GPL code, you’ve got to have a link where people can download the source. I mean, my car has an option to read ...
LibreOffice 26.2 is released with improved performance, compatibility, and stability for users worldwide. It's a free, open-source office suite available for Windows, macOS, and Linux with over 120 languages supported.
The user shares their experience and patterns for working with wasm-bindgen in Rust-based Wasm projects, focusing on naming conventions, passing by reference, and using wasm_refgen to improve relationships with the tool. They also discuss handling errors, using duck typing, and other strategies to make Rust+Wasm development less painful and more flexible.
Beagle is a source code management system storing AST trees, not binary blobs, with a database for code-related activities and storage. It uses a key-value database like RocksDB and an experimental AST BASON data format.
The European Commission has accepted a request to provide feedback in Open Document Format ODS. The Commission should follow its own guidances on interoperability by releasing documents in ODF format to allow participation in democratic processes.
blogtato is a simple RSS reader for offline use with optional git sync for multiple devices. It uses a JSONL database and supports filtering, grouping, and export of posts.
LLM-powered agents are evaluated on SWE-CI, a repository-level benchmark that assesses their ability to maintain code quality over long-term evolution. SWE-CI comprises 100 tasks, each representing an average 233-day evolution history with 71 commits.
Researchers at the Rijksmuseum confirmed the painting Vision of Zacharias in the Temple is a genuine work by Rembrandt van Rijn. The conclusion was reached through materials analysis, stylistic comparisons, and other advanced techniques.
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I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine. Running GTA 5 Enhanced with Ray Tracing. 🤯
Odysseus is a Finnish larp that ran for 50 hours, featuring 200 volunteers and over 300 NPCs, and is considered one of the most accomplished larps of all time. Its creators are now exploring ways to make it financially sustainable, potentially requiring a permanent location and sustained demand from larpers.
Rocky AI — Checkly’s AI agent — is now Generally Available. We developed Rocky AI over the last ~6 to 8 months. This is an aeon in AI-years. During this period, we learned a ton. About AI, but mostly about how to fit them into an existing SaaS product, not just another chat widget. This is my ramble… Like almost everyone in SaaS-land, we were pondering doing “something with AI” at least since ...
Apple quietly removed the 512GB RAM option from its top-tier M3 Ultra Mac Studio desktop due to supply chain issues. The move is likely related to a global RAM and storage supply crunch caused by memory-makers shifting production to high-bandwidth memory for data centers.
Mathematical tuning systems based on harmonics have limitations due to prime numbers not dividing evenly. Western musicians use 12-tone equal temperament to have a compromise of being mostly in tune.
Qwen3.5 is a new model family from Alibaba with various sizes and capabilities, including multimodal hybrid reasoning and support for 201 languages. It can be used for tasks like chat, coding, and long-context tasks.
A comprehensive cloud compute VM comparison was conducted, testing 44 instance types across 7 providers, including AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle, Linode, DigitalOcean, and Hetzner, with a focus on CPU performance and price. The results show AMD EPYC Turin as the top performer, followed by Intel Granite Rapids and Google Axion, with significant performance differences between providers and instance types.
Eyot is a new language that makes offloading work to the GPU seamless by transparently compiling code for both CPU and GPU. It aims to simplify GPU programming for areas like game development, numerical analysis, and AI.
The C++ standard has an exception to its strict aliasing rules allowing character types (char, unsigned char, std::byte) to alias any object in memory. This exception makes accessing an inactive union member through a char valid, as seen in the OptBool example from the std::is_within_lifetime proposal.
Lobster is a lightweight, open-source programming language that combines static typing and compile-time memory management with a friendly syntax. It's biased towards game development and has a high level of "batteries included" functionality.
Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B is a compact and efficient multimodal reasoning model that excels at math, science, and computer-use tasks, and is available for use through various platforms. The model was trained with a focus on data quality and a hybrid approach to combine the strengths of different training methods, and is designed to balance reasoning capability, inference efficiency, and data ...
Tools like GitHub Actions, Ansible, and Helm have developed transitive dependency trees, inheriting package manager problems like reproducibility, supply chain amplification, and mutable references. These tools lack effective lockfiles, integrity verification, and override mechanisms, making them vulnerable to supply chain attacks.
CasNum is a library implementing arbitrary precision arithmetic using compass and straightedge constructions, integrating with a modified Game Boy emulator. It features a viewer showing geometric constructions and allows running games like Pokémon Red using only compass and straightedge operations.
The user created a drawing program called WigglyPaint with a unique line boil effect and released it for free on Itch.io, which unexpectedly became a viral hit among artists on Asian social media. However, the user's work was stolen and repackaged by scammers and plagiarists who created fake websites and mobile apps to sell modified versions of WigglyPaint, erasing the user's identity and ...
Oracle is considering workforce cuts of 20,000 to 30,000 jobs and selling its Cerner unit to alleviate financial pressure due to US banks pulling back from financing its AI data-center expansion. The measures aim to free up $8 billion to $10 billion in cash flow and address Oracle's $156 billion infrastructure commitments.
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