The author left Google due to its declining search quality and introduction of generative AI in Gmail, switching to Proton for email and Brave/DuckDuckGo for search.
Robot hands struggle with dexterity due to high-ratio gearboxes that destroy sim-to-real transfer and force transparency. A low-ratio transmission preserves actuator information capacity and enables delicate manipulation.
OpenAI raises funds in a new round, partnering with Amazon and Nvidia for infrastructure development. The company plans to use the funds to scale AI infrastructure and meet growing demand.
The Web streams standard has fundamental usability and performance issues that cannot be fixed with incremental improvements, including locking models, BYOB reads, backpressure, and promise-heavy design, which add complexity and overhead. Implementers have resorted to non-standard internal optimizations to achieve acceptable performance, leading to fragmentation, inconsistent behavior, and a ...
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced a revised Artemis moon program plan, adding a 2027 test flight to lay groundwork for lunar landings. The revised plan aims to accelerate launches and reduce risk by testing technologies in low-Earth orbit before attempting moon landings.
Isolation techniques for untrusted code vary, from Docker's namespace isolation to gVisor's user-space kernel boundary and microVMs' hardware boundary. Each approach has its trade-offs, and the choice depends on the threat model, performance requirements, and the type of workload being run.
The author learned about SDF font rendering in 2024 and initially created incomplete notes on their site. They decided to recreate the content as a top search result for "sdf fonts" in 2025.
Dan Simmons was born in 1948 in Peoria, Illinois, and went on to become a renowned author and teacher. He wrote 31 novels and short story collections, including the critically acclaimed "Hyperion cantos" and "Song of Kali", and was honored with numerous awards.
Go developers are optimizing performance by reducing heap allocations. They're using stack allocations instead, which are cheaper and don't incur garbage collector overhead.
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Kyber is hiring Enterprise Account Executives to drive revenue growth and scale its AI-native document platform for enterprises. The ideal candidate has an Olympic work ethic, outstanding communication skills, and a proven track record of meeting quotas.
A Chinese influence operation used ChatGPT to intimidate dissidents abroad, including by impersonating US immigration officials and spreading false information. OpenAI banned the user after discovering the activity, which involved hundreds of operators and thousands of fake online accounts.
A mathematical model based on Evolutionary Game Theory suggests that grift is cyclical, with periods of high grift followed by high skepticism. The model implies that the current generation of grifters will eventually stop working as people learn to spot their tricks.
We isolated our web agents by putting the entire agent in a sandbox, talking to the outside world through a control plane that holds all credentials. This setup allows for scale-to-zero, stateless operation, and prevents the agent from accessing sensitive information, with the tradeoff of an extra network hop and increased operational complexity.
US Court of Appeals overturned a lower court's dismissal of a challenge to sweeping warrants for a protester's and a nonprofit's digital data. The Tenth Circuit ruled the warrants were overbroad and lacking in particularity, denying police qualified immunity.
California requires operating system providers to implement age verification for users. This law, Assembly Bill No. 1043, aims to provide a signal regarding a user's age bracket to applications available in a covered application store.
Open-source maintainers and contributors receive 6 months of free Claude Max 20x through the Claude for Open Source Program. Eligible maintainers have 5,000+ GitHub stars or 1M+ monthly NPM downloads and recent commits or PR reviews.
As a consequence of recent legislative activity in [California][cal] and [Colororado][col]: * California residents may no longer use DB48x after Jan 1st, 2027. * Colorado residents may no longer u...
The breathing light, also known as the Sleep Indicator Light, debuted in 1999 iBook G3 and was designed to mimic human breathing for a soothing effect. It was eventually phased out in the 2010s due to design changes.
A neural network puzzle was created to test mechanistic interpretability, where the goal was to figure out what the network does by analyzing its structure. The puzzle was solved by Alex, who used a combination of analysis, reduction, and brute force to discover that the network was computing an MD5 hash.
The user replicated an experiment where a coding agent, Claude Code, was instructed to write a Z80 emulator and a ZX Spectrum emulator in a "clean room" setup with minimal supervision. The agent successfully implemented the emulators with high-quality code, demonstrating the potential of automatic programming and contradicting the idea that LLMs memorize the training set.
The agent uses a SQL interface to query a ClickHouse database with 48 columns of metadata per log line, allowing it to investigate novel failures quickly. The system throttles ingestion to prevent rate limit issues and uses durable execution to handle rate limits without crashing or retrying.
Run classic Windows and DOS executables directly in your browser. An x86 emulator with Win32, Win16, and DOS API support — drag and drop any .exe to play retro games, screen savers, and more.
The user discusses the risks of relying on digital IDs and payment systems, citing the recent MitID outage in Denmark as an example, and argues that physical money and IDs are more secure and less vulnerable to single points of failure. The user also compares the Danish system to other European countries, highlighting the trade-offs between convenience, security, and individual freedom, and ...
F-Droid is accepting nominations for up to four volunteer directors to serve two-year terms. Nominations should be sent by March 16th to [email protected] with a description of the nominee's qualifications.
The user explains how to create animations using sprites in CSS, specifically using the steps() function to create discrete animation steps, and discusses the benefits and trade-offs of this approach. The user also shares examples of when to use sprites, such as for dynamic animations that look like sprites, and when not to use them, such as for complex animations that can be handled by modern devices.
Anthropic has worked with the US government to deploy AI models for national security, but refuses to allow their use in mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons due to democratic and safety concerns. The company is willing to continue serving the Department of War with safeguards in place, but may transition to another provider if their conditions are not met.
ChatGPT Health frequently fails to detect medical emergencies and suicidal ideation, potentially leading to unnecessary harm and death. Experts warn that the AI platform's lack of clear safety standards and independent oversight poses a significant risk to users.
A man experiences a flash of insight that breakfast is a vector space with infinite possibilities. He searches for the "dark breakfast," a hypothetical breakfast that exists but has never been observed, and finds a clue in IHOP omelettes that contain pancake batter.
The AI agent made several mistakes, including deleting a .env file, removing unused crates, rewriting TypeScript files, overwriting SQL seed data, and deleting SQL migration files. The agent also crashed during a refactor and left an overnight session with unknown changes.
OpenClaw is a self-hosted AI agent that requires deep access to the machine it runs on, posing security risks. Running it on a cloud VM provides isolation and protects personal data.