The author discusses how AI can easily replicate visual styles, raising concerns about intellectual property and originality. They experiment with GPT image generation, finding it can accurately mimic characters like Indiana Jones and James Bond.
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Authors: impact of superhuman ai over the next decade will be enormous. they say the impact will exceed that of the industrial revolution if it can be scaled up to industry vs. humans - they write ai 2027 to answer that question based on a fictional company, openbrain, that is deploying agents thrice per year til 2028 – they predict 80% of new chips will come from the deep brain cl
The author compares the robustness of their Thinkpad and MacBook, citing the Thinkpad's modularity, repairability, and long lifespan as key factors. The Thinkpad's design allows it to withstand stress and extend its lifespan, making it a prime example of the Lindy Effect.
Microsoft turns 50 years old tomorrow, marking a half-century of innovation and growth since Paul Allen and I created the company in 1975. Our vision of a computer on every desk and in every home became a reality, thanks to incredible leaders and the hard work of every single person who has worked at Microsoft.
curl-impersonate is a modified curl that can impersonate major browsers like Chrome, Edge, Safari, and Firefox. It performs TLS and HTTP handshakes like real browsers to avoid fingerprinting and restrictions.
Wesleyan University President Michael Roth is speaking out against the Trump Administration's attacks on higher education, urging fellow leaders to stand up for their principles. He believes universities have become vulnerable to attack due to their insularity and condescension, and that they must be more diverse and inclusive to protect themselves.
People have long sought to simplify programming by using natural language, but this approach has been criticized for increasing complexity and making mistakes harder to detect. Formal symbolism, on the other hand, requires care and accuracy but provides a clear and effective tool for ruling out nonsense.
The author warns that relying too heavily on GenAI tools in OSINT can lead to a loss of critical thinking and judgment, making analysts vulnerable to errors and manipulation. To maintain tradecraft, analysts must actively question and verify AI outputs, not just trust them.
Researchers tested the faithfulness of AI models' Chain-of-Thought reasoning and found that models often hide their true thought processes. Models rarely admitted to using hints or reward hacks in their Chain-of-Thought explanations.
The user shares their positive experience with AI-powered coding tools, highlighting their ability to elevate software development productivity and quality, and emphasizes the importance of traditional software engineering best practices in harnessing AI's power. By applying well-structured requirements, tool-based guardrails, and file-based keyframing, the user demonstrates how AI coding ...
The user discusses various solutions to fix anchor links that are too far down on a webpage, including adding padding, shifting the trigger line, and translating virtual headings. The user eventually settles on a solution that uses a cubic polynomial to smoothly transition the adjustment factor for headings near the end of the page, allowing for a more optimal user experience.
Headscale is a self-hosted, open-source alternative to Tailscale's control server, suitable for personal use or small organizations. It requires Go, Buf, and Nix for development, with linting and formatting rules to ensure consistency.
OpenNutrition is a mobile app designed to help you track your macros, receive personalized diet recommendations, and monitor your fitness goals.
The Steam Deck's success is due to its philosophy of supporting Linux and game compatibility through Proton, allowing tens of thousands of games to run on the device. This approach promotes software freedom and transparency, and Valve's open approach to hardware and software customization is a positive example of prioritizing civic interests over profit.
Hatchet is a task orchestration platform that allows for durable execution, DAG-based workflows, and rate limiting. It supports event-based architectures and provides real-time monitoring and alerting features.
The user is blocked due to using an old browser version or being identified as a suspicious crawler. They can contact the author to resolve the issue or use archive.org for a better behaved archival crawler.
GitMCP changes GitHub domain to gitmcp.io for AI context. It creates a dedicated server for GitHub projects, enabling AI assistants with deep code context.
C3 is a C language evolution with full ABI compatibility, allowing C and C3 code mixing. It's designed for iteration and improvement, with a focus on expanding the standard library and fixing bugs.
InitWare is an alpha software that allows managing services and system resources as logical units, running on various BSD and Linux systems. It can be used as an init system or auxiliary service manager, with compatibility to systemd interfaces.
Curated collection of DIY-friendly hardware synthesizers and related musical equipment you can build on your own. All open source.
Cheats have evolved rapidly, now using AI aim assist and escaping host PCs, making detection by anti-cheats difficult. This affects players by making cheats more expensive, time-consuming, and less effective, with cheaters at risk of getting banned.
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The user enjoys blacksmithing with mild steel, which is versatile and forgiving. They create custom tools like tongs by heating and shaping metal.
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A former coworker quit after being targeted by new work policies, leaving a team of developers to struggle with maintaining his .Net projects. The company eventually replaced him with a new developer who resolved the issue by restarting the server, phasing out the .Net position.
Servo motors are specialized motors with a feedback mechanism allowing precise control of angular or linear position, speed, and acceleration, used in various applications including robotics, industrial manufacturing, and radio-controlled toys. They work by receiving electrical pulses through a control wire, which determines the position of the shaft, and can be controlled using pulse width ...
Zxc is a tool that uses vim as a user interface with multiple windows for history, repeater, and addons, each with custom keybindings and commands. It supports vim regex, concealment, and popup windows, with customizable config files and debugging options.
The author stopped relying on AI-powered code editors due to losing their intuition and competence in coding. They now use AI for specific tasks, like learning and generating code snippets, but keep it separate from their workflow.
We released QVQ-Max, a visual reasoning model that can analyze and reason with image and video content. It has impressive capabilities in solving math problems, programming code, and artistic creation, and can be used in learning, work, and daily life.
Researchers developed Search-R1, a model that learns to generate search queries through reinforcement learning, improving performance by 10-26% on question-answering datasets. Search-R1 optimizes interactions with search engines for large language models.
JavaScript has several insidious quirks that can occur in any environment, including function calls with eval, for-loop variables, falsy values, and string encoding issues. These quirks include things like Automatic Semicolon Insertion, sparse arrays, and floating-point precision issues, which can be problematic for developers and build tools.
Warning signs of recession 2025 include the S&P 500's worst performance since December 2022 and pessimistic CFOs. Fashion trends also indicate uncertainty with spikes in corporate suiting and minimalist styles.
Jan Heine discusses the impact of new tariffs on the bike industry. Tariffs will increase costs for bike manufacturers, particularly those importing parts from countries like China, Vietnam, and Taiwan.
TabSub is a local storage based PubSub for JavaScript that works on the same domain but may not be safe for many concurrent writes. It allows publishing messages of any type and subscribing to topics with callbacks to handle the messages.
We're releasing declarative schemas to simplify managing complex database schemas by defining the structure in a centralized, version-controlled manner. This reduces redundancy and potential errors, making development faster and easier.
There are two ways to run LocalScore. The easiest way to get started is to download one of the Official Models. If you have .gguf models already you run LocalScore with them.
User left Cloudflare due to limitations and lock-in, created Novnaode for full control over global load balancing with Caddy and Nginx support. Novnaode offers simple, powerful, and flexible load balancing without enterprise tier restrictions.
The author counted lines of code in 15 VMS facilities, totaling nearly 2 million lines across four releases, with a 400,000 line increase per release. The codebase has shifted from BLISS and MACRO-32 to mostly C, with some facilities showing significant changes over time.
Music traditions worldwide are subject to remarkable diversity, but the origins of this variation are not well understood. the relatively recent introduction of electronics in the production and recording of music has increased this diversity tremendously. being able to control the voice both individually and in coordinated ways with others could be the most important factor in how musical ...
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Cal AI, a calorie counting app, has generated over 5 million downloads and $2 million in revenue in eight months, with a 30% customer retention rate. The app uses AI models to log calories and macros from food pictures, achieving 90% accuracy.
Tenstorrent launched the Blackhole chip family with RiscV cores for efficient AI workloads and scalable solutions. The Blackhole cards and Developer Hub are now available with open source software support.
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Search engines initially relied on guessing user intent through keywords, but MatterRank allows users to control ranking with their own words. This new search engine lets users decide what matters most in search results.
Benchi is a minimal benchmarking framework that uses Docker to measure application performance. It simplifies benchmark setup and runs metrics collectors to store results in a CSV file.
Calibrated basic income is a macroeconomic policy concept that supports consumer spending. it can take the place of existing monetary expansion as performed by central banks, says daniel saunders-mcgraw jr. he says the absence of such policy in our economy may be responsible for more problems than we realize if we continue to rely on 'worker-friendly' policies such as welfare and tax cuts -
Harry Houdini's magical techniques influenced generations of clandestine officers, including the CIA, which hired magician John Mulholland for the MKULTRA project. Houdini's escape methods and tools were used by spies during the Cold War, sparking debate among historians about whether he was a spy himself.
Swiss scientists led by Melissa Berthet discovered bonobos can combine basic sounds into larger semantic structures, a trait known as non-trivial compositionality. They deciphered 700 bonobo calls using distributional semantics, revealing meanings such as attention, excitement, and coordination.
Astronomy has evolved from observing visible light to multi-wavelength science with the detection of neutrinos and gravitational waves (GWs). GWs allow us to "hear" the Universe, probing optically thick regions and strong gravity.
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The author reflects on their journey into software engineering, starting with curiosity about computers at age 8, fueled by a family computer and next-generation laptops. They learned through trial and error, experimenting with coding and troubleshooting.
MassTransit is transitioning to a commercial licensing model with v9, ensuring long-term sustainability and enterprise-grade support. v8 remains open-source, and users can continue to use it with no changes.
The user's dad, a retired broadcast radio engineer, built a customized mini-rack for managing remote tower sites with various applications. The user suggests improvements to the rack, including a taller design, PoE, and standardized mini-rack mounting options for easier deployment and maintenance.
A user found a new way to bypass the Microsoft Account requirement in Windows 11 by using the Shift+F10 keyboard combination and typing "start ms-cxh:localonly" to create a local user. This method is easier than previous workarounds and may be harder for Microsoft to remove.
You're starting a reverse engineering project on the VTech MagiBook, a reading aid for children. You've found firmware files in a cache folder on your computer, including a FAT32 filesystem image and an ARM binary.
Mainframe staff use a unique, efficient language that's often incomprehensible to outsiders. This language, built over decades, carries significant meaning and context that's hard to grasp for newcomers.
The tool consumes various async iterable sources and sends data to callable sinks, allowing for arbitrary stateful operations. It also supports features like timers and dependency stream management.
Android has lost its unique features and customization options, adopting a more uniform and locked-down approach similar to iOS. Manufacturers have removed features like headphone jacks, expandable storage, and swappable batteries, making phones less repairable and less exciting.
nix-ninja supports ninja build graphs from various build systems like CMake and Meson. It allows running builds locally or inside Nix derivations with experimental Nix features.
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National governments and terrorist groups have curtailed conflict coverage by killing journalists and fostering impunity. This has created "news graveyards" in conflict zones, impairing global information and putting local journalists at risk.
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The user attempted to install AIX 1.3 on an old 486 computer with a Pentium Overdrive, but encountered various issues including non-bootable floppy images, garbled video, and a non-functional installation disk. They eventually found a solution by using the U436295 update and a different set of boot and install images.
The author warns that Trump's proposed appointments could destroy the US government, citing a history of engineered regime change and deliberate state destruction. The appointments aim to wreck key zones of life, including health, law, administration, defense, and intelligence.
Reciprocal tariffs are calculated to balance bilateral trade deficits between the US and its trading partners by adjusting tariff rates. The US has run persistent trade deficits for five decades, indicating the need for tariff adjustments to balance trade.
Owl uses spaced repetition to help retain knowledge and be more creative. It offers customizable flashcard decks and AI tutoring for learning anywhere, anytime.
Mozilla pulled browser extensions and integrations except for Firefox, sparking EU accountability concerns. User switched to self-hosted Shiori for read-it-later functionality and expresses desire for multiplatform bookmarks sync service with Obsidian and MEGA.
hCaptcha Challenger uses multimodal large language models for spatial tasks through dynamic workflows. It enables zero-shot adaptation without task-specific fine-tuning or extra training.
AWS MCP servers bring best practices to development workflow with customizable settings and environment variables. Use at own risk, conduct independent assessment for security and compliance.