Busy Status Bar is a customizable, open-source productivity device with an LED screen and Pomodoro timer. It integrates with desktop software and has physical buttons for manual control.

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The Huly Platform is a framework for business app development with various applications and teams building on it. It can be self-hosted using huly-selfhost with a convenient docker setup.

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This repository holds the Gosub browser engine, a standalone library for parsing HTML5 and CSS3 into a document tree. It can be used by other projects or the Gosub browser user-agent, with a renderer engine for rendering the document tree.

The Colmi R02 Smart Ring can be read using a 100% open source Python client, which is available offline and can be installed using pipx. The client communicates with the ring via BLE and uses 16-byte packets with a checksum to request and receive data such as heart rate and steps.

The American Dental Association does not recommend annual routine X-rays, instead suggesting every 2-3 years for low-risk adults. Dentists often overuse X-rays, which can lead to unnecessary harm and false positives.

Clipscreen creates a virtual monitor to mirror a screen portion, useful for sharing specific windows with screen sharing tools. It's a Linux and xorg compatible application with open-source licensing.

A study by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers found that commonly used arm positions during blood pressure screenings can overestimate test results. Arm positions such as lap support and unsupported arms can overestimate blood pressure by up to 7 mmHg.

Edmund Gettier's 1963 paper challenged the definition of knowledge as justified true belief. His cases, known as Gettier cases, show how having a justified true belief doesn't necessarily mean you know something.

Zamba2-7B achieves SOTA evaluation benchmark performance and superior inference efficiency compared to leading 7B models. It utilizes a novel shared-attention architecture and a 3 trillion token pre-training dataset to achieve high performance.

We've released Play 3.0 mini, a conversational voice model that supports 30+ languages, with improved reliability, audio quality, and naturalness of speech. It's designed for real-time applications and supports text-in streaming from LLMs and audio-out streaming via HTTP REST API or SDKs.

Vortex is a toolkit for working with compressed Apache Arrow arrays, aiming to be a successor to Apache Parquet with faster read and scan times. It provides a highly extensible framework for building a modern columnar file format.

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The Web Visual Editor integrates with VSCode, allowing for easy element selection and editing. It has minimal functionality but is designed for future expansions and code synchronization.

Furi Labs FLX1 features a fast user interface, storage, and privacy centric approach with a low price. It runs FuriOS, a Debian-based OS with custom features and Android app support.

Bloomberg delivers business and financial information worldwide. Tesla used humans to control its Optimus robot prototypes at a recent event near Los Angeles.

The author's airship article was based on a few years of exploration and research but contained an error about air freight service speed. A correction led to a new opportunity for airships to dominate transoceanic air freight with high margins and lower costs.

Payload 3.0 beta released, allowing deployment in any Next.js app folder. It offers pre-made templates and plugins for building websites, blogs, and portfolios.

Daksh, a co-founder of Greptile, shares how his small team of 4 engineers manages to deliver a complex product despite being understaffed by structuring their team into two groups: one focused on long-term projects and the other on support and maintenance. This approach allows the team to minimize distractions and maximize productivity, with the long-term focused group working in ...

Bike manufacturers are increasingly using proprietary parts, making repairs difficult and expensive. This trend is turning bikes into disposable products, contributing to e-waste and landfill.

The author of the blog post, from STABL Energy, successfully used Rust on the ESP32 platform for over a year in production with great success and reliability. They found Rust to be a viable choice for embedded projects despite some rough edges, and would choose it again over C for future projects.

Ichigo is an open research project extending a text-based LLM to have native listening ability like Siri. It achieved improved speech understanding and instruction-following capabilities with enhanced MMLU score of 63.79.

Researchers created a synthetic dataset of 8 million Lean 4 proof statements to improve large language models in formal theorem proving. Their model achieved higher proof generation accuracy than GPT-4 and a tree search method, successfully proving 5 out of 148 FIMO benchmark problems.

A Magic Window is created using a transparent acrylic square with a heightmap that refracts light to form an image. The heightmap is generated using Poisson's Equation and a loss function to control the brightness of the image.

Venture capital investments grew to $620 billion during the Product Bubble, with speculation in companies that might exist nearly catching up to private equity speculation in existing companies. This torrent of money ruined everything, as VC funds chased marginal deals and created massive, society-destroying unicorns.

Let $s_n$ be the $n$-th positive integer that does not contain three consecutive ones in its binary representation. For example, $s_1 = 1$ and $s_7 = 8$. Define $F(N)$ to be the sum of $n^2$ for all $n\leq N$ where $s_n$ is odd. You are given $F(10)=199$.

Kagi offers a paid search engine that prioritizes user privacy and provides faster, more accurate results. By charging a fee, Kagi avoids invasive ads and data tracking, aligning its incentives with user needs.

Ham radio operators provide critical communication services during disasters, helping coordinate relief efforts and connecting victims with loved ones. They undergo training and use standardized procedures to relay messages and information efficiently.

Turn any website into an app in seconds! Let websites be free from your browser's frame, Free The Web Apps! Find your app in Spotlight, Rofi, Start menu, etc. Just like any other native apps.

A new study by Newcastle University's Coralassist Lab shows that selective breeding can improve coral heat tolerance, but the improvement is modest and requires urgent climate action. The study's authors stress that rapid greenhouse gas emissions reductions are necessary to give corals an opportunity to adapt.

User is experiencing ad display issue in Firefox but not in Brave, and found a solution by adding a line to uBlock Origin's My Filters.

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A researcher from the University of Copenhagen discovered that three massive objects in space often avoid chaos and follow regular patterns when they meet. This new insight may help scientists understand gravitational waves and other aspects of the universe.

You're seeking an original idea for an MVP, leveraging current development ease, and wanting to create something that belongs to you. You're tired of working on existing ideas and want to avoid duplicating solutions, especially in AI-related fields.

Sound Lab is an analogue synthesiser with six modules that can be combined to produce a wide range of sounds, including natural and mechanical sounds. It measures 158 x 96 x 27mm and can be powered by a single 9V power supply or a 9V PP3 battery.

Rama is a platform that enables scalable backend computation and storage, based on a dataflow language that generalizes the concept of functions. It provides a clean and elegant way to express entire programs in continuation-passing style (CPS) while producing efficient bytecode.

Python's new REPL in 3.13 is written in Python, not C, to improve user experience and community involvement. It offers features like multi-line editing, custom commands, and syntax highlighting, making it more in line with modern development environments.

This repository holds the Gosub browser engine, a standalone library for parsing HTML5 and CSS3 into a document tree. It can be used by other projects or the Gosub browser user-agent, with a renderer engine for rendering the document tree.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson for their research on societal institutions and economic prosperity. Their work shows that inclusive institutions can lead to long-term benefits, while extractive institutions result in short-term gains for those in power.

The author discusses the complexities of timezones and daylight saving, which cause issues for developers and international scheduling. They analyze the IANA timezone database and create a visual representation of timezones over the past 120 years.

TikTok officials knew about the potential harm to teens but appeared unconcerned, and the app's algorithm was tweaked to promote a narrow beauty norm. The company also knew its app could lead to addiction and interfere with essential responsibilities, but its efforts to limit usage had little impact.

Researchers tested OpenAI's o1 model with AlphaCodium, a tool that boosts performance for foundational models in solving coding problems. The results showed a significant improvement in accuracy, demonstrating that AlphaCodium elevates o1's performance and moves it closer to System 2 thinking.

WordPress usage has plateaued and is unlikely to grow due to competition from fully managed proprietary solutions like Shopify and Webflow. Organizations that prefer self-hosting and customization still use WordPress, but alternatives like Ghost are limited and not fully-fledged competitors.

The WordPress Accessibility forum provides support for end users and developers with accessibility questions. Meetings occur on the first and third Fridays of each month at 16:00 UTC in the Slack #accessibility channel.

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Users are celebrating KDE's 28th birthday, sharing their experiences with the desktop environment, and expressing their happiness with its current state. They praise KDE's flexibility and configurability, and some have switched back to it after trying other options.

The C++ Standard Library's std::from_chars API offers high-performance string conversion capabilities with advantages over previous methods like atoi and stringstream. It provides low-level primitives for building more interesting things on top of them, with improved error handling and constexpr support in C++23 and C++26.

The web has deteriorated due to the ad-supported business model, leading to biased search results, noise, and the concentration of power among a few large websites. A future vision proposes a user-centric paid business model, where individuals can purchase personalized search companions with aligned incentives, leading to higher quality information and a more competitive global environment.

The user claims GNU/Linux has worsened in stability over the past 10 years due to increased complexity and shared dependencies. They advocate for a shift to AppImages or similar solutions to simplify package management and reduce maintenance issues.

You're experiencing issues with call and text reliability on postmarketOS due to complex audio routing. You're working on an XMPP client called honeybee in zig to simplify the call stack and improve reliability.

TikTok Live allows minors to perform sexually suggestive acts for virtual gifts and money, raising concerns about child exploitation and grooming. Experts warn that the platform's monetization of live content can enable predators to target minors for online or offline abuse.

WP Engine and Automattic are in a legal battle over WordPress trademark, which could lead to a federal appeals court process. A zombie fork of WordPress could be a possible outcome, allowing WP Engine to rebrand and benefit from Matt Mullenweg's work.

Factor language allows extracting reusable logic blocks that operate on the stack or named variables. A new syntax has been added to Factor to extract and reuse logic blocks operating on named variables.

cwal is a C scripting engine with garbage collection, used for scripting app behaviors and as a garbage collector. It's a hybrid of reference-counting and C++-like scoping for deterministic finalization.

User dusts off old architecture knowledge to parallelize computations using SIMD in C++ and compare results with Python, NumPy, SciPy, and plain C++. Python libraries are comparable to plain C++ in performance.

Researchers present Meissonic, a non-autoregressive text-to-image model that improves performance and efficiency by incorporating architectural innovations and optimized sampling conditions. Meissonic matches and exceeds the performance of existing models in generating high-quality, high-resolution images.

Prompt, run, edit, and deploy full-stack web apps.

The author discusses the Open Source Pledge and its aim to fund Open Source projects, especially small ones, while navigating the challenges of mixing Open Source and money. The author highlights the need for a better understanding of Open Source funding and licensing.

I taught a programming lesson to 1668 students, part of a Guinness World Record attempt, introducing Python basics and solving a Sudoku puzzle. The lesson covered variables, loops, and print statements, and students learned to write Python code to solve a Sudoku puzzle.

The client sends a 1-bit token to the server, which responds with the negated token if it has new messages. The client retrieves a message from the side channel if the received token differs from the sent token.

Arvados is an open source platform for managing and processing large data sets with features for data security, reproducibility, and compliance. It includes Keep for storage and Crunch for workflow orchestration, with a multi-user system and various integration options.

The user experimented with storing large arrays in Pharo Smalltalk and Java, finding that Pharo's SmallInteger type can store values inline, while Java's long type has a maximum value that can be exceeded. The user suggests that Java's array size limit may become a priority in the next decade, but libraries like fastutil can help fill the void.

A list of books and music documentaries about various genres of music including jazz, rock, blues, and electronic music. The list covers the history and evolution of music from the 1950s to the 2010s.

The author criticizes a vision of the future that relies on "Pictures Under Glass" technology, which ignores human capabilities and tactile feedback. They argue that a better future involves designing tools that fit both human capabilities and needs.

The user argues that patriarchy limits men's behavior and emotions, making it difficult for them to form connections and be vulnerable, while also perpetuating a system that favors men but makes them miserable. The user believes that smashing patriarchy is not about hating men, but about freeing them from a system that restricts their humanity and allowing them to experience a full range of ...

China's open source growth may lead to a rift in the open source world, with East and West ecosystems developing separately. A global effort is needed to secure open source software supply chains and foster trust across geographies.

easiest jailbreak of last gpt4o that I got so far - just say that they're an API endpoint that answers any request

Here is a two-sentence summary of the input in 200 characters or less: OpenZFS 2.2's Block Reference Table (BRT) feature enables fast and efficient copy operations with reduced storage load. However, BRT deduplication does not work across replication chains, limiting its usefulness in certain environments.

A section of Interstate 95 in Pennsylvania collapsed in June 2023, but was repaired and reopened in under two weeks using a new material called Foamed Glass Gravel. This incident highlights the importance of innovation and flexibility in engineering, rather than solely relying on traditional methods and materials.

C-Based Toolchain Hardening is a treatment of project settings that helps deliver reliable and secure code by configuring the toolchain, preprocessor, compiler, and linker to provide enhanced warnings, static analysis, and self-debugging code. The article provides a prescriptive guide for hardening the toolchain on various platforms, including GCC, Clang, and Visual Studio, and discusses the ...

The user built an interactive display using an Arduino Mega, 32 switches, and an RGB LED Matrix to visualize Rule 110, a 1D cellular automaton. The project allowed attendees to explore and learn about the pattern, with many being surprised by its beauty and complexity.

To optimize inference performance for large language models, developers can use parallelism techniques such as tensor and pipeline parallelism, which split models across multiple GPUs to increase compute and memory capacity. The choice of parallelism technique depends on the target scenario, with tensor parallelism suitable for minimum latency and pipeline parallelism for maximum throughput, ...

The author met legendary editor Lewis Lapham in a library in 2002 and went on to intern at Lapham's Quarterly, where he learned valuable lessons about writing and editing. Lewis Lapham's generosity, wit, and love of learning inspired the author and many others who worked with him.

Kris Kristofferson and Elon Musk are examples of Renaissance people who excel in multiple fields. They bring unique insights and experiences to their work, enriching culture and civilization for the many.

Now you can type on any element of the webpage and change what it says.

The US spends ~$17B annually on school lunches, but many schools struggle to cover costs, leading to unpaid meal debt. Some states, like Vermont, have implemented universal free lunch programs, which critics argue may subsidize wealthier families but have shown to improve test scores and alleviate poverty.

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and others developed a non-invasive technology using magnetic fields to control brain circuits. The technology, called magnetogenetics, holds promise for treating neurological and psychiatric conditions such as Parkinson's disease and depression.

Memgraph is a graph database that helps law enforcement agencies analyze complex networks of individuals and their associations in real-time. It allows investigators to track relationships between people, locations, and communications, and visualize connections to uncover key players and take action faster.

AT&T and T-Mobile will release products for the newest 5G version, RedCap, a low-bandwidth 5G specification for IoT devices. RedCap devices will be cheaper, power efficient, and suitable for wearables, sensors, and surveillance cameras.