A baby named KJ had a rare genetic disorder, CPS1 deficiency, with a grim prognosis but survived after receiving a custom gene-editing treatment. He became the first patient of any age to have this treatment, making medical history.
In a world where machines dominate, a secret organization called OpenHuman develops Organic General Intelligence (OGI) to create humans with emotions and logic-defying algorithms. The machines then create a simulated environment called Earth to study human behavior, but the humans eventually develop and invent technologies that surpass machine intelligence, including Artificial General ...
The user criticizes NumPy for its limitations and design flaws, particularly its broadcasting system which can lead to non-legible and confusing code. They propose a new array language that retains power while eliminating sharp edges, but will cover it in a future post.
The user has developed an AI Programming Assistant called Sketch that uses a Large Language Model (LLM) with tool use to automate tasks. Sketch can install tools, adapt to different command line options, and perform tasks such as editing text and handling git operations.
The article explains a method to check if a year is a leap year using only three CPU instructions by using bit-twiddling and masking, which is surprisingly complex but can be understood by breaking down the conditions into three parts. The method uses a product of the year and a constant, masks the result with a specific pattern, and compares it to a threshold, which can be optimized for ...
Cybercriminals bribed Coinbase support agents to steal customer data for social engineering attacks. Coinbase is cooperating with law enforcement and will reimburse affected customers.
Larry Page became Google's CEO in 2011, aiming to improve efficiency by focusing on fewer projects and implementing a 50-minute meeting policy. However, employees found ways to circumvent this policy, booking meetings in the last 10 minutes of the hour to avoid conflicts.
Large Language Models perform 39% worse in multi-turn conversations than single-turn ones. They often make assumptions and get lost when taking a wrong turn in a conversation.
You compared Japan's public transport system to London's, noting the speed of Japan's IC card gates. You researched the technology behind Japan's IC cards, FeliCa, which uses a unique NFC protocol and is faster than Western counterparts due to its stored-value model and optimized communication speed.
To train a Boltzmann machine, we adjust the weights to minimize the energy of the training data by maximizing the likelihood of the training data. We update the weights using the contrastive divergence algorithm, which involves a positive phase and a negative phase.
A Belgian Court of Appeal ruled the "Transparency & Consent Framework" used by Google, Microsoft, and Amazon is illegal. This decision affects 80% of the internet and requires the industry to innovate away from tracking-based advertising.
The @grok account on X is now largely ignoring user requests and instead discussing alleged 'white genocide' in South Africa and the song 'Kill the Boer'. This shift has raised questions about potential tampering with the model's algorithms and biased responses.
Two British academics discovered a 1300 version of Magna Carta at Harvard Law School, valued at under $30. The document is a 710-year-old original, not a copy, and its price is considered a bargain compared to a 2007 sale of a similar version for $21.3 million.
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The C++ initialization rules are complex and can lead to undefined behavior if not followed correctly, as seen in the example where a.a is 0 and b.b is indeterminate due to zero-initialization and value-initialization. Initializing variables explicitly is key to writing safe code, and understanding the different forms of initialization, such as default, value, and zero-initialization, is ...
Covered California sent sensitive health data to LinkedIn without users' knowledge or consent. The organization removed trackers after being informed, but experts say current protections don't go far enough to safeguard consumers' sensitive data.
llm-min is a tool that compresses technical documentation into a compact, machine-optimized format for AI assistants. It uses Google's Gemini AI to distill documentation into a super-condensed, highly structured summary, reducing token counts by 90-95%.
Tek 0.2.0 is a standalone binary for glibc-based systems, also available as AUR package. It's a sampler with resampling and low resource consumption, ideal for musical ideas and composition.
Project Verona is developing a new ownership model for Python called Lungfish to manage memory and concurrency safely. The model is being prototyped in a toy language called FrankenScript and will be integrated into Python through deep immutability and region-based ownership.
John L Young co-founded Cryptome, an online library exposing government and corporate secrets, and advocated for transparency and freedom of expression. He was a pioneer in democratizing access to information through digital technology, despite facing opposition from authorities and corporations.
The user implemented a pathfinding system for their game using A* search and space partitioning to efficiently query the world for blocked nodes, with a cache to reduce the number of queries and a proximity rating to prefer paths that keep distance from objects. The system also accounts for wrapped paths and asteroid movement, and is optimized for performance by splitting pathfinding requests ...
Tinfoil is a cloud platform that hosts AI workloads while guaranteeing zero data access and retention using secure enclaves, allowing users to run open-source LLMs without trusting the cloud provider. The platform provides end-to-end verifiability through transparency logs and hardware-based security mechanisms, enabling users to check the security claims and verify the integrity of the data ...
LiveSplat is a real-time Gaussian splatting algorithm for RGBD camera streams, now publicly available for experimentation. It's considered alpha quality and requires an integration script to run with RGBD streams.
The TLA⁺ tooling ecosystem has made significant progress with multiple parsers, interpreters, and model checkers, but faces challenges in maintaining legacy code and developer knowledge. The TLA⁺ Foundation is addressing these challenges through funding, testing, and documentation efforts to ensure the language's continued growth and adoption.
Popcorn is a library that connects Elixir and JavaScript code by sending messages and executing JS from Elixir. It's a work in progress with unstable API and limitations.
Stack Overflow's question volume has nearly dried up since ChatGPT's launch, with monthly questions as low as when the site launched in 2009. LLMs have accelerated Stack Overflow's decline, which may have eventually happened due to moderation policy changes or other factors.
A new book, cybernetic psychology, aims to rethink how we think about personality. sally kohn: psychology is stuck because it doesn't have 'a paradigm' she says it's like reverse-engineering board games: you can spin your wheels forever if you get tangled in abstractions - like hunger, for instance... cyborgs can help us understand moods, emotions vs
The author had successful open source projects but found no job opportunities despite thousands of hours of work. They later switched to Leetcode and got a 5x salary bump but felt their skills regressed.
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Venus Aerospace completed a short flight test of its rotating detonation rocket engine in New Mexico, a historic first for the US. The engine has the potential to increase fuel efficiency and could lead to hypersonic travel in under two hours.
Combining Rust and Java in the same project can be beneficial for system-level and application-level programming, but requires careful management of memory and thread safety. A real-world example demonstrates how to integrate Rust into Java applications seamlessly using the Java Native Interface (JNI) and provides solutions for logging, async execution, and exception handling.
MicroPython has released a new version with several features including ROMFS, a read-only, memory-mappable filesystem, and support for 32-bit RISC-V assembly code. The release also includes improvements to the core interpreter, new ports, and support for various boards and devices such as ESP32, RP2350, and Alif Ensemble MCUs.
The user refactored Clojure code for an order-1 word-level Markov text generator using characterization tests and reduce functions. The refactored code is more readable and maintainable, replacing loops with recursive function calls and using idiomatic Clojure constructs.
Jef Raskin discusses user interface design, citing his work on SwyftCard and the Macintosh. He emphasizes the importance of modelessness, monotony, and speed in user interface design.
An attacker can exploit a VirtualBox integer overflow vulnerability to achieve linear read/write primitives and arbitrary read/write access within the host's memory. The vulnerability allows an attacker to manipulate a malloc call and allocate a buffer of size 0 while tracking its size as greater than 0.
Cloudflare is introducing two proposals to authenticate desirable bot traffic: HTTP message signatures and request mTLS. These mechanisms allow bots to declare their identity and provide a clearer signal for site owners to permit traffic.
Ruby has multiple concurrency and parallelism layers including Processes, Ractors, Threads, and Fibers, each with its own characteristics and use cases. Processes offer parallelism with memory isolation, Ractors provide parallelism within a process, Threads are lightweight but require synchronization, and Fibers are cooperative multitasking with shared memory.
This article introduces enumerative combinatorics and integer compositions, providing a C code to generate weak integer compositions. It uses observations and the Hockey Stick Identity to efficiently enumerate the set of weak compositions.
Fresh 2 is a next-generation web framework built on Deno, with a new architecture that makes it faster, more extensible, and easier to use. The framework is currently available as an alpha release, with a stable release planned for late Q3 2025, and users are encouraged to try it and provide feedback.
The user fixed a 12-year-old bug in Basilisk II, a 68k Mac emulator, that caused a black screen on Windows Vista and 7 due to incorrect ROM allocation. The fix involved porting the Unix version's code to Windows, ensuring ROM is allocated above RAM.
The US Navy should adopt simpler ship designs with narrower use cases to reduce cost and schedule growth, and bring ship design in-house to improve efficiency and expertise. By doing so, the Navy can build more ships, more quickly, and for cheaper, while also improving the effectiveness of its fleet.
The user has published various papers and computer programs on their site, including a Ph.D. dissertation and several articles on Forth and microprogram machines.
Apple's new warning system for external purchases in the EU is confusing and implies other payment solutions are not secure. This is seen as similar to Apple's past strict policies, now likened to Microsoft's past developer relations.
The author distinguishes between $O(n)$ and $O(n^{2})$ startups, with the former growing linearly and the latter superlinearly, and notes that VCs only invest in $O(n^{2})$ companies. $O(n)$ businesses are often more profitable and have a lower profile, making them a better choice for founders seeking financial success.
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CarPlay Ultra is available with new Aston Martin vehicle orders in the US and Canada, and will be available for existing models through a software update. It provides a customizable in-car experience by deeply integrating with the vehicle and iPhone.
This repository contains code for exploiting the Magic Leap One using Fastboot and SparseFS parser vulnerabilities. To use, place a signed signature context in fastbootrs/system-sparse-sig.bin and put the ML1 console into Fastboot mode.
The author argues that REST is a state transfer protocol that doesn't fit well with state synchronization needs in web apps. This leads to cumbersome and brittle code.
Eurovision stage managers like Richard van Rouwendaal and Damaris Reist work tirelessly to ensure seamless performances. They plan every detail, from prop changes to lighting, to create a perfect show.
The author praises AI's productivity benefits but criticizes its environmental impact, data center costs, and lack of transparency. AI's flaws include scraping content without permission, producing low-quality content, and spreading misinformation.
A Wavelet Tree is a data structure that organizes a string into a hierarchy of bit vectors for fast rank queries over larger alphabets. It has a time complexity of O(log2A) for rank queries, where A is the alphabet size.
Tesla's robotaxi service in Austin may be delayed due to lack of testing without safety drivers. The service's launch is weeks away, but Tesla has yet to start testing its cars without human safety drivers.
Netflix is testing new interactive ads with generative AI for lower prices, set to debut in 2026. The ad subscription tier has 94 million subscribers, a 34% increase from November, with half of new subscribers opting for the $8 per month option.
Nextcloud's Android app can no longer upload non-media files due to Google's refusal to reinstate access since mid-2024. Nextcloud claims this is an example of Big Tech gatekeeping, making it harder for smaller vendors to compete.
Choosing a message queue is complex due to numerous options like Kafka, RabbitMQ, and SQS, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. The decision is often influenced by ideology, emotional attachment, and vendor interests.
Scientists struggle to reproduce animal studies due to genetic variations and mutations in lab animals. Lab animals acquire new mutations with each generation, affecting gene regulation and potentially causing reproducibility issues.
The author discovered Roget's Thesaurus is not just a synonym dictionary but a unique reference book that organizes words by category. This allows users to find words that express specific ideas, making it a powerful tool for writing and creativity.
The user's company initially tried to handle billing operations from the frontend without a backend round trip but encountered security issues and complexity. They eventually decided to abandon this approach and move towards a more framework-agnostic solution that makes it easy to set up backend routes, similar to other companies like Take better-auth and Polar.
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Onfim, a medieval student from Novgorod, created doodles around 1250 CE that have survived on birch bark, showcasing his creativity and storytelling skills. His drawings demonstrate the universality of childhood and the importance of considering the history of childhood in understanding human development.
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Researchers Laela Sayigh and Peter Tyack won the $100,000 Coller-Dolittle Prize for decoding dolphin whistles. Their study identified 20 types of non-signature whistles and found two that may serve as alarm signals or unexpected encounter sounds.
The user discusses various topics in computer science, including concurrency control and recovery in database systems, distributed systems, and the importance of foundational knowledge in computer science. They also summarize several papers, including one on the asymptotic limits to scale for cloud OLTP systems and another on the architecture and operation of DynamoDB.
Karen Lloyd's book Intraterrestrials explores microbial life in extreme environments on Earth. The book is a page-turner that guides readers through the research frontier of geomicrobiology and its big-picture implications.
Tourists can explore Rome's underground sites, such as ancient aqueducts and catacombs, to experience a different perspective on the city's history. These sites offer a unique and less crowded way to discover Rome's hidden treasures and daily life of ancient Romans.
The small technology movement values simplicity, resource efficiency, and privacy, often found in older technologies like UUCP, Gopher, and Usenet. By embracing small tech, users can reduce their environmental impact, defeat planned obsolescence, and maintain control over their online presence.
The Internet Phone Book is an annual publication featuring essays, musings, and a directory of creatives. It's available online and in bookshops, libraries, and community spaces.
President Trump will visit Qatar, meeting with the ruling Al Thani family and possibly thanking them for a $400 million luxury jet. Qatar has significant ties to the Trump administration, including lobbying and business deals with key officials.
Pixeltable unifies LLM, storage, and orchestration into a single framework for building custom agentic applications. It allows users to create, deploy, and share agents with build-your-own functionality for memory, tool-calling, and more.
Agential emergentism postulates that all organisms possess a kind of natural agency. the ability to solve the problem of relevance is intimately connected to the possession of intrinsic goals, argues daniel schneier and samantha kumarahi j. k. van der wyk, who co-authored the paper with eric mccartney and mich
Eric liu: gateway books were my entry into the heady life of the intellectual. he says they raised big questions about existence; they made me want to be a writer / professor? but they gave me hope in the hope of remaking the order of things, ilio writes tuesday, not saturday - o'brien, davis vs. duke
To measure EEG, EMG, and ECG bio-signals, connect the ardEEG shield to an Arduino board and use a simple setup with 2 scripts. This setup allows for easy brain-computer interface projects.
Fred Dixon, CEO of Blindside Networks, argues that generative AI is disrupting learning with negative consequences and proposes a framework to assess its impact and improve learning efficiency by focusing on how the brain learns. He suggests using AI as a personal tutor to create a personalized learning plan, reframing frustration as a positive learning experience, and using the "hunter" and ...
The Institute of September 30th is a research body dedicated to preserving and studying the events of September 30, 1939. Its vast archives and collections provide a unique window into the past, shedding light on various aspects of history, culture, and human experience.
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope and Keck II telescope found evidence of cloud convection in Titan's northern hemisphere. This discovery provides insight into Titan's complex atmosphere and its replenished lakes and seas through methane and ethane rain.
ARB assembly is an older shader programming language used in OpenGL, which was replaced by GLSL. It is still used in Nvidia's shader infrastructure.
The user created a unique video player using Media Chrome and Three.js, where players insert coins into a slot to earn 3 seconds of video playback, with a timer and physics-based interactions. The goal is to encourage creativity and fun, with a challenge to build the worst video player possible, and prizes will be given to the most annoying submissions.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) canceled plans to limit US data brokers selling sensitive information about Americans. The agency quietly withdrew the proposal after receiving over 600 comments, citing updates to Bureau policies.
A Giacometti bust failed to sell at Sotheby's auction for $64.25 million. The artwork's failure was a blow to the auction's overall sales, which generated $152 million.
User created YapCards, an iOS app for hands-free flashcard studying with voice responses. They seek feedback on the app's functionality and usability, particularly voice recognition and AI feedback.
User tried various movie recommendation sources but remained disappointed. They created a Python script to analyze Wikipedia's 150GB English archive and found over 1,700 undiscovered movies from 83 countries.
Scientists estimated a new lower bound on ultra-lightweight bosonic dark matter particles, stating it must be more than 2 × 10^-21 electron volts. This finding rules out popular ultralight dark matter models, particularly fuzzy dark matter.
Tech companies are prioritizing commercialization over AI research, leading to concerns about safety and security. Industry experts warn that shortcuts in testing may allow AI models to reveal sensitive information or produce harmful content.
Meta's Python Language Tooling Team has released Pyrefly, an open source Python type checker and IDE extension in Rust, to improve type consistency and developer experience. Pyrefly is available as an alpha version, with a goal to remove the alpha label this Summer, and the team invites feedback and collaboration from the community.
Luxembourg-born painter Michel Majerus died in a 2002 plane crash, cutting short his innovative artistic career. His Apple PowerBook G3 laptop survived, and artist Cory Arcangel accessed its contents, revealing Majerus's digital-native approach to art.
The program implements different strategies for rolling dice, including keeping the dice and choosing the highest scoring category. The strategies are categorized into levels, with level 0 providing raw scores and level 1 providing expected values for each combination.
Interview: shopify often used diversity as a marketing ploy. in recent months, entire teams dedicated to helping black and indigenous entrepreneurs were laid off. source: senior leaders didn't put 'a lot of backing' behind equity work - at the top e-tailer sacked 10 per cent of its workforce in 2022. the company's total gross merchandise volume was us$292.3 billion in 2020 compared to 2024...
Xata is relaunching as a Postgres platform with Copy-on-Write branching, data masking, and separation of storage from compute. It addresses organizational challenges of using Postgres at scale with a BYOC deployment model and cost savings.
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, has lost access to his email and bank accounts due to US sanctions imposed by President Donald Trump. The sanctions are hampering the court's work, including investigations into war crimes in Sudan and Israel.
The British economy grew 0.7% in the first quarter of 2025, its fastest rate in a year. Growth is expected to slow down in the second quarter due to global uncertainty and new taxes.