President Trump announced a joint venture, Stargate, investing up to $500 billion in AI infrastructure with OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank. The project aims to build data centers and electricity generation in Texas, with an initial investment of $100 billion.
User discusses using large language models for coding tasks, specifically de-anonymizing code with Llama 3.2 and Llama 3.3. They also use smaller models for bash oneliner generation.
The Mario franchise has two logo styles, with the multicolor polygonal style introduced in Super Mario World and used in most 3D Mario games. The most common color sequence in Mario logos is red-green-yellow-blue, found in a quarter of all logos.
The startup ecosystem is shifting due to increased awareness of human costs and changing risk-reward equations. A "Startup Winter" may be emerging, where the mythology around startups freezes over, potentially leading to a more authentic and diverse innovation ecosystem.
A 3M plant worker witnessed an "invisible wall" created by static electricity from a plastic film, repelling people and objects. The phenomenon is still not fully explained, but it's thought to be related to charged air and electrostatic fields.
You want to move your community off Facebook and onto a self-hosted platform, considering Mobilizon, Discourse, or other alternatives. The key challenge is getting users to adopt a new platform.
Amber Case founded the Calm Tech Institute to promote calm technology, which requires minimal user attention and works even when it fails. The institute offers a 81-point certification for devices that meet its standards, with the first batch of certified products announced at CES 2025.
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Hunyuan3D 2.0 is a large-scale 3D synthesis system for generating high-resolution textured 3D assets. It includes two models: Hunyuan3D-DiT for shape generation and Hunyuan3D-Paint for texture synthesis.
Yasser is creating an alternative to LLVM called Tilde (TB) due to its slow compilation speed and large size. TB aims to be a fast and modular compiler backend with a clean API, capable of JITing and AOT.
Scientists found that people underreport their food intake in surveys, with over 50% of records in large databases likely wrong. This calls into question thousands of studies linking diets to health, highlighting the need for better measurement methods.
Instagram users are reporting that searching for certain terms like "democrat" and "fascism" returns no results or a warning, while searching for "republican" does. This is seen as a form of censorship and manipulation of search results, possibly linked to the current US administration.
The app blocks distractions with custom profiles for work, studying, and bedtime. It uses NFC tags for easy profile activation without unlocking the device.
The text describes an extreme Mercator projection map that cuts off much closer to the poles than normal, allowing for more distortion and visualization of distant points. This map can be centered on any point on Earth, creating a unique perspective on transportation networks, long-distance driving routes, and antipodes.
Gig workers in Northern Ireland and elsewhere are demanding greater openness from food delivery apps like Uber Eats and Deliveroo about their algorithms. The apps' opaque systems lead to frustration and uncertainty for workers, who often feel like they're being "gamed" into accepting jobs with varying pay.
A study of 45,500 researchers found that 41% of postdocs leave academia, with those who stayed more likely to have had a highly cited paper or changed research topics. Success in academia is determined by factors such as publishing highly cited papers and changing research topics during postdoctoral years.
Kimi k1.5 multi-modal LLM outperforms GPT-4o and Claude Sonnet 3.5 on various benchmarks by up to +550%. It achieves state-of-the-art reasoning performance across multiple modalities with long context scaling and improved policy optimization methods.
Ruff is a fast and versatile tool that integrates multiple Python linters and formatters into a single interface, offering a significant speed improvement over alternative tools. It can be used to replace multiple tools, including Flake8, Black, and isort, and is available for installation via various package managers.
The user received an email from the Apologist Project asking to use their apologetics resources in an AI chatbot and responded with concerns about the reliability and truthfulness of Large Language Models (LLMs) in apologetics. The user argues that using LLMs in apologetics is reckless and can lead to the spread of misinformation, and that the Apologist Project should reconsider launching ...
Printercow offers 300 free prints per month during beta, with a potential pay-what-you-use model post-beta and a generous free allowance. The goal is to keep Printercow accessible for hobbyists and creators while making it sustainable.
Meta used a database of pirated books to train its AI systems, according to recently unsealed court documents. The company's employees admitted to using stolen material from a notorious piracy site, raising concerns about the ethics of AI development.
Researchers have discovered concept cells in the brain that fire for specific concepts such as people, places, and objects, and these cells play a crucial role in forming and retrieving memories. Concept cells are highly specialized and can fire for multiple related concepts, and they are thought to be linked together to form new associations and memories.
The author of this post is unhappy with the Go language's context package, which they believe spreads like a virus and is too complex. They think the package should be simplified or changed in Go 2.
JReleaser automates project releases with simple configuration and various formats. It packages apps for distribution via popular software packagers with a single command.
The President establishes the Department of Government Efficiency to implement the DOGE Agenda through modernizing Federal technology and software. The Department will be headed by the USDS Administrator and will work with Agency Heads to promote inter-operability and data integrity.
Rafael Araujo combines geometry and nature in his artwork, blending science and art to create intricate and beautiful pieces. He uses traditional techniques to render his drawings, showcasing the significance of the Golden Ratio in nature's patterns and structures.
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The user improved their Uxn CPU and Varavara ordinator implementation, Raven, by adding automatic tests, fuzz testing, and statically preventing panics, resulting in a more robust and correct system. They also fixed discrepancies between their baseline and native interpreters using fuzz testing and corrected a bug in their Rust implementation of the SFT opcode.
The author values people who respect complexity, even when they don't understand it, and believes this virtue is lacking in today's society. This lack of respect for complexity is partly due to automation and the detachment from real-world industries, leading to frustration and a desire for quick answers.
Poland styles itself as a key US ally, but the chip restriction threatens to impact its ambitious military expansion on Putin’s border.
The user created a program to maximize the number of packages installed on Alpine Linux using a constraint solver and PuLP. The program successfully installed 99.5% of available packages, but the results will drift out of date as packages update.
The user discusses the limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs) and how they should be used to augment human capabilities rather than replace them, emphasizing the importance of clear-eyed understanding of their limitations. LLMs excel at turning text into less text, making them suitable for tasks like answering general-knowledge questions, but they are not suitable for complex tasks that ...
Amurex is a meeting assistant that integrates AI to boost productivity and efficiency. It's an open-source tool with features like real-time suggestions and smart summaries.
The model number of this peppermill is in conflict with another design. A description is needed to resolve the conflict.
The user created a Rust library called rtsan-standalone-rs to make RealtimeSanitizer (RTSan) accessible from Rust, a tool that detects real-time violations in code. RTSan is now available with LLVM20 and can be integrated with Rust using the -Zsanitizer=realtime flag.
AI research is focused on automation, not advancing humanity, with AGI prioritizing economic value over human benefit. Admitting this truth can help people prepare for AGI's inevitable impact.
The author explores the origins of regular expression anchors $ and ^, tracing them back to Ken Thompson's port of the QED text editor. The symbols likely originated from the Teletype Model 35 keyboard, where $ was a spare symbol and ^ was available due to ASCII inclusion.
The web's complexity and lack of inherent character stem from its design, influenced by print media, making it difficult to infer the structure and function of hypermedia artifacts. A file system-based approach could have provided a more streamlined and robust way to conceptualize and implement the web as a medium.
Apache Kvrocks is a distributed key value NoSQL database that uses RocksDB as storage engine and is compatible with Redis protocol.
The US Navy's Parcae satellite program, launched in 1976, provided global ocean surveillance and electronic intelligence to counter the Soviet Union's growing naval presence during the Cold War. The program's advanced technology enabled rapid data processing and dissemination, allowing for timely military decision-making and maritime-domain awareness.
The Liskov Substitution Principle states that subtypes must be substitutable for their base types without altering program properties. It ensures behavioral compatibility and interchangeable components through meeting base type contracts.
EU businesses must use PEPPOL for B2B invoices starting next year, impacting small businesses with complexity and costs. Many third parties offer access, but at a price, making it a challenge for small businesses to prepare.
Pica offers a drop-in web component for developers to build and deploy AI agents with 100+ API integrations. It provides seamless tool integrations, granular control, and complete visibility for debugging and compliance.
President Trump issued an executive order to not enforce penalties against TikTok and its service providers for 75 days. This move aims to extend the deadline for a sale by undercutting penalties on American companies working with TikTok.
FOSDEM 2025 is expecting protests due to a controversial talk with sponsored speakers. The organizers welcome peaceful protests, but ask organizers to contact them in advance to ensure crowd control and safety.
magenta.nvim is a neovim plugin that leverages LLM agents for coding assistance. It provides a chat window and tools for context population and inline edits.
A submarine knife fight simulator by Carl Kolon.
The Lisp family of programming languages, including Common Lisp, Scheme, and Clojure, offers several advantages that make it an ideal choice for bioinformatics and computational biology research, such as its ability to create powerful and flexible software, support for domain-specific languages, and high productivity. By adopting Lisp, researchers can write faster programs, create extensible ...
Intel's Pentium processor features a BiCMOS floating point unit with a ROM holding 86-bit words, including constants like π. The ROM is accessed through a multiplexer/driver circuit that amplifies the signal for long-distance bus wiring.
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Tokyo plans to offer free childcare for all preschool-aged children starting in September to address its declining birth rate. The measure aims to promote work-life balance and alleviate the financial burden of parenting for families in the city.
MIT researchers developed a robot insect for artificial pollination with lifelike flapping wings, weighing under a gram and achieving 17-minute hover time. The robot's design aims to bridge the gap between natural and robotic performance, paving the way for indoor farms and assisted pollination.
Dokploy is an all-in-one platform for managing projects, data, and system health with simplicity and efficiency. It offers seamless multi-server deployments, advanced user control, and flexible database management, trusted by developers worldwide with over 10k stars on GitHub.
This series provides bite-sized tutorials for setting up a functional work environment on Arch Linux and other systemd-based Linux distros. It aims to make users quickly functional by teaching atomic tasks in self-contained articles.
You're looking for a story about an engineer who wrote code on paper and then typed it in one go, working flawlessly. You think it might be related to a blog post about a niche OS system or a story from Bill Gates' biography.
Developers are resistant to new JavaScript frameworks due to fear of losing employability and having to constantly learn new technologies. This fear is driven by the reality that outdated skills can make it harder to get hired.
A Minimalist TypeScript for C. Cp1, or C+1, or C plus 1 programming language adds only the bare essentials to C language that allows you to output C codes and able to use namespaces, modules, methods on enums/structs, auto variable deduction and more.
Perl community is active in 2025 with new podcast The Underbar and revived Perlcast, and upcoming German Perl/Raku Workshop in Munich. The Weekly Challenge has secured a sponsor for another year and offers a chance to win $50 with fun tasks and Perl/Raku solutions.
Researchers at multiple universities studied the impact of extremely low temperatures on 5nm SRAM arrays, finding that parasitic effects limit array size and performance. Their work aims to improve understanding of low-temperature CMOS computing and its potential for performance and power consumption enhancements.
CompFuzzCI is a framework for incorporating compiler fuzzing into the continuous integration workflow of the Dafny compiler, a programming language used in industry for high-assurance software development. The framework has been deployed in practice and has found previously-unknown bugs in the Dafny compiler, demonstrating its effectiveness in detecting compiler bugs.
This page displays daily temperature estimates from ECMWF Reanalysis v5 (ERA5) with a 6-day lag, showing global and regional temperature changes from 1940 to present. The data is sourced from Copernicus Climate Change Service and can be visualized as time series and maps.
The author compares DeepSeek's R1 model to OpenAI's O1 model, finding R1 to be faster, cheaper, and comparable in accuracy. R1 outperforms O1 in various benchmarks and real-world tasks, including generating SQL queries and creating automated trading strategies.
The year 2024 was marked by significant events including the US presidential election, the release of notable movies and TV shows, and the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. The top 50 most viewed articles on Wikipedia included topics such as the US election, the MCU film Deadpool & Wolverine, and the Indian films Pushpa 2 and Kalki 2898 AD.
The 2025 Tokyo Xtreme Racer game is a racing game that delivers a classic experience with a focus on highway racing and customization, and it is now available in Steam Early Access. The game runs smoothly on a wide range of PCs, including those with older graphics cards, and it also performs well on the Steam Deck, with some minor issues that can be improved in future updates.
Archaeologists in France discovered Roman-era graves with curse tablets, including one written in an extinct Gaulish language. The tablets were used to talk to the gods and contain curses or wishes, with one tablet dedicated to Mars the Royal.
Dokku is a straightforward alternative to Kamal for deploying Rails applications on bare metal servers, offering support for Sidekiq, ElasticSearch, and other components. The process involves installing Dokku, adding SSH keys, creating a new application, setting environment variables, configuring the domain and SSL certificates, and deploying the application using a tool like Deployless.
Meta, Google, TikTok, and X pledged to remove illegal hate speech on their platforms. They signed a revised Code of Conduct to increase transparency and review hate speech notices within 24 hours.
The US President issues an order limiting birthright citizenship to individuals born in the US to parents who are US citizens or lawful permanent residents. The order affects those born after 30 days from the date of the order.
Saving snapshot will save grid in current configuration if grid isn't saved or if it's saved as draft. Enter sudoku grid as text (use 0 for empty cells). Only classic sudoku grids can be imported as text. Importing grid cannot be undone, please save all previous changes.
OpenSSL's delay in providing a QUIC API has hindered QUIC library implementations. OpenSSL is now focusing on a complete QUIC stack, but without a library API, it will continue to hold back QUIC adoption.
The author discusses how the early cloud narrative got many things wrong and compares it to the current AI movement, noting that AI has a long history and has experienced two distinct "winters." The author believes AI will continue to evolve but predicts that things will veer off in unexpected directions.
The user showcases how dependent types and GADTs helped them avoid mistakes in a compiler backend by forcing them to consistently put type annotations when targetting typed λ□. They used a Target type with a typing mode to conditionally compile type information, preventing common mistakes and keeping most of the compilation logic the same.
Henry Dudeney's book "Amusements in Mathematics" mentions "The Cab Numbers" problem, where two numbers with distinct digits excluding 0, when multiplied, produce another number containing all nine digits. A computer program found 12449 solutions for 10-digit Cab numbers.
A CLI tool and web interface send Wake-On-LAN packets to wake devices on the network. It uses a config file and supports CLI commands and a web interface.
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MIT has received over $3.7 million from Israel for warfare technology research since 2015. The university has faced criticism for its ties to Israeli military contractors and its handling of student protests supporting Palestinian human rights.
The author, a bootstrapped founder, realized that traditional startup research methods were not suitable for their limited resources and time. They developed a faster approach to validate ideas, focusing on real results in 72 hours.
Henry James' novel "The Princess Casamassima" explores the psychology of a revolutionary, leaving readers wanting to know more about his motivations. The novel's ambiguity mirrors the public's fascination with real-life cases of political violence, like the alleged murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
OpenAI's o3 model achieved 25% on FrontierMath, a benchmark of hard math problems, but its announcement lacked transparency about funding and access. This raises concerns about AI benchmarking, evaluation, and safety, and highlights the need for clear guidelines and agreements.