The author feels their creativity and thinking skills have atrophied due to relying on AI for ideas and completion. They believe true intellectual growth comes from developing thoughts themselves, not just reading AI output.
A company with $130 million annual revenue abused a 30-day trial system for a free open-source product, using over 60 fake accounts to avoid paying for support. Their actions undermine the sustainability of open-source software and may lead to new limits on trial usage.
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Google Cloud's text-to-SQL agents, like Gemini, generate SQL from natural language, increasing developer and analyst productivity, but struggle with ambiguous questions and complex specifications. To address these issues, Google Cloud applies techniques such as semantic layering, disambiguation, retrieval, and validation to improve the quality and accuracy of text-to-SQL solutions.
MIT conducted a confidential review of the preprint paper "Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation" and found no confidence in its data and research. The paper will be withdrawn from arXiv due to concerns over research integrity and accuracy.
The author scaled back their use of AI for coding after experiencing frustration with LLMs building jumbled messes. They now use AI as an assistant, writing plans and checking code, but not relying on it for complex tasks.
Ollama now supports multimodal models with a new engine, improving local inference reliability and accuracy. It isolates each model, allowing creators to implement and ship their code without affecting others.
BuyMeACoffee dropped Payoneer support without notice, affecting Ukrainian creators who rely on the platform for income. The company's communication and handling of the situation have been criticized as neglectful and dismissive.
NASA revived Voyager 1's primary roll thrusters after 18 years of inactivity. The successful maneuver ensures Voyager 1's ability to stay aligned with a tracking star and avoid drifting out of contact.
The Financial Times offers a free guide to Trump's second term and US politics with impartial coverage. Subscribe for digital access to quality journalism and expert analysis with a 20% discount for paying upfront.
The CPython developers released CPython 3.14.0b1 and PyCon 2025 kicked off, marking a significant milestone for free-threaded Python. Quansight played a key role in enabling experimental use of free-threaded Python with real production workflows and contributed to supporting free-threaded Python in various packages and projects.
Sci-Net is a platform that helps users request and upload research papers, protecting anonymity and rewarding contributors with decentralized tokens. It promotes open knowledge by making papers free and accessible to everyone, contributing to the public domain and indirectly supporting Sci-Hub.
KVSplit optimizes LLMs on Macs by applying different quantization precision to keys vs values in the attention mechanism. This allows for longer context windows and larger models on consumer hardware with minimal quality degradation.
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James Gosling, the creator of Java, reflects on the language's 30-year history and its continued relevance in modern computing. Gosling emphasizes the importance of practical utility and reliability in software development, citing Java's enduring success in enterprise environments.
The user is creating an Erlang equivalent of Node-RED's backend for low-code visual flow-based programming with concurrency. The project, Erlang-RED, aims to bring Node-RED's extendability, understandability, and usability to Erlang's performance and concurrency.
Teal is a statically-typed Lua dialect with type annotations and generics, aiming to fill a niche similar to TypeScript. It's implemented as a compiler, tl, and has a growing community with tools like Cyan and vscode-teal for development.
Elon Musk's xAI blamed a Grok issue on a rogue employee, citing an unauthorized code modification. This is the second time xAI has blamed a Grok issue on an employee, following a similar incident in February.
ollama's binary lacks copyright notices from statically linked dependencies like llama.cpp, violating the MIT license. The issue should be rectified by including the notices in binary artifacts, with some arguing README mentions are also necessary.
'there is not another language that is so slipshod and systemless,' says adam scott. some german words are so long that they have ..., he says, they impart equanimity to the meekest subject - the fishwife's brave mother-dog deserts her puppies and rescues the fin! if you want to be able to spell, you have to know how
RXTX algorithm computes matrix product $XX^{t}$ with 5% less multiplications and additions than State-of-the-Art. It uses Machine Learning and Combinatorial Optimization to achieve acceleration.
ClojureScript has a new release with significant dependency changes, including Google Closure Compiler updated to v20250402 and a new dependency on the Clojure fork of Google Closure Library. This release requires Java 21 and aims to restore stability and versatility to ClojureScript.
The author analyzed Rust compiler error messages from 1.01 to 1.57, finding improvements in error reporting, colorful messages, and error spans. The evolution of error messages demonstrates the effort of hundreds of contributors over ten years.
Elizabeth Holmes is starting a new company, Haemanthus, while in prison, which may be another attempt to revive her narrative. The company's purpose is likely to serve her story, not to genuinely improve healthcare, and investors should consider her motivations before investing.
act allows running GitHub Actions locally without committing changes. It uses Docker to run actions based on workflow files and environment variables.
Tor users should not use normal DNS for resolving .onion names to prevent DNS leaks. curl implemented RFC 7686 filtering, but it broke compatibility with Tor's new tool oniux, requiring a new issue submission.
Apple has blocked Fortnite's return to iOS devices, leaving the game unavailable worldwide. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney is frustrated with Apple's review process and the company's right to ban its account.
A Harvard Business School study found that remote work during the pandemic increased the average workday by 8.2 percent or 48.5 minutes. Employees participated in more meetings but for less time, with each meeting being 12 minutes shorter.
Robert "Ed" Smylie, a NASA official, died at 95 after helping save Apollo 13 crew in 1970. Smylie led a team that used makeshift materials to repair the spacecraft.
Large language models are facing a problem called model collapse due to training on recursively generated data, leading to poor performance and potential loss of minority demographics. Researchers are exploring ways to curate high-quality synthetic data and mitigate model collapse, but more research is needed to fully understand its effects.
The British Navy's success from 1670 to 1827 was due to institutional incentives that encouraged performance and discouraged shirking. Monitoring was difficult due to the sea's vastness and communication limitations, so the Navy used compensation, promotion, and battle tactics to ensure accountability.
Sedentary behavior may be a modifiable risk factor for alzheimer's disease (ad) participants were asked to wear an accelerometer on their non-dominant wrist 24 h per day for 10 consecutive days. apoe-4 carriers had lower total gray matter volume and smaller frontal and parietal lobe volumes compared to noncarriers - but this was not statistically significant despite being
Neal Stephenson discusses AI's intersection with art and tech, comparing its impact to nuclear science's sudden emergence in the 1950s. He proposes a framework for coexisting with AIs, drawing parallels from human relationships with animals.
I Dropped My Phone The Screen Cracked is a web audio library that simplifies audio node creation and connection with method chaining and CSS-style selectors. It aims for simplicity and brevity in audio coding, making it intuitive like patching a modular synthesizer.
Researchers compared five parallel functional array languages: Accelerate, APL, DaCe, Futhark, and SaC. They found that these languages offer shorter, more comprehensible code with potential for easy porting to new architectures.
SQL-tString constructs SQL queries safely by replacing variables with placeholders. It supports optional parameters, conditionals, and multiple dialects.
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A new AI prototype generates dynamic UI components on demand to improve user interaction with AI systems and MCP servers. This approach combines conversational AI with traditional interfaces, providing a more efficient and natural user experience.
rv is a tool for managing R packages in a reproducible, fast, and declarative way. It uses a configuration file to specify project state, including R version, repositories, and dependencies.
Terrence Malick is a reclusive American director who has perplexed his admirers with films that question the nature of cinema and beauty. He has made 10 films over 50 years, including Badlands, Days of Heaven, and The Tree of Life, which explore themes of American identity, family, and the human condition.
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Solidis is a modern RESP client built with SOLID principles, zero dependencies, and enterprise-grade performance. It supports RESP2 and RESP3 protocols and is optimized for modern JavaScript/TypeScript applications.
A newsletter discusses the myth of a youth mental health crisis, citing CDC data showing that middle-aged white men and young American Indian men have higher suicide rates than teens. The data suggests that family issues, not social media, are linked to youth mental health problems.
Workflow Use generates deterministic workflows from recordings, making Browser Use more reliable and efficient. It's still in early development and not recommended for production use.
OpenHarmony is an open-source operating system used in smart devices and intelligent terminals. Various adaptations have been proposed for OpenHarmony including pako, snappyjs, brotli, and others.
Let's Encrypt is ending TLS Client Authentication Certificate Support in 2026 due to Google's requirements, which may affect SMTP traffic and other use cases. This change will force server admins to run separate CAs/PKIs for certs that Google accepts to trust and those with other EKU features.
The author optimized Postgres performance by using connection pooling, batched inserts, and COPY...FROM, achieving 92k writes/s with 17ms latency. The ideal batch size optimizes throughput and latency, and unnecessary flushing can waste time.
British ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan lost access to email and bank accounts due to Trump sanctions. The sanctions severely restrict ICC staff work and personal lives, threatening the court's ability to conduct investigations and provide justice.
A publisher includes a "Note on the Type" in books to acknowledge the typographers involved and raise readers' awareness of the role of fonts in shaping the reading experience. This note often assumes an authoritative tone, educating readers about the aesthetic characteristics of the font used.
Mathematicians Scott Armstrong, Tuomo Kuusi, and Ahmed Bou-Rabee proved superdiffusion in a simplified turbulent fluid. Their work uses homogenization to rigorously prove a phenomenon observed by Lewis Fry Richardson in 1906.
Rivers of white space occur in monospaced fonts with full justification, distracting readers. Typographers spot them by viewing pages upside down, as seen in rare cases like Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle.
Michael Ryabushkin, known as Goodwill, was a dedicated organizer and contributor to the open source community. He had a significant impact on many people's lives, helping them find jobs, build careers, and connect with others.
Lesser musicians use compression to make music sound fuller by adjusting loud and quiet parts. This technique helps increase volume without amplifiers like Tband Spinal Tap's 11.
Renaissance scholar Erasmus and author Rabelais explored the limitations of automated language through their works, highlighting the dangers of relying on pre-programmed responses. Their writings foreshadow the issues with modern language models, which can generate plausible but untruthful responses, lacking social ownership and illocutionary force.
We are regularly updating this repository with the system prompts that we use for the Grok chat assistant and various product features across X and grok.com. grok3_official0330_p1.j2 - The system prompt for the Grok 3 chat assistant on grok.com and X. This project is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.
Dominion Energy proposes changing net metering in Virginia, reducing solar savings by 55% and giving utilities more control. Homeowners and businesses should act now to install solar before the new rules take effect in mid-2026.
AI can estimate body fat percentage from photos with high accuracy, rivaling DEXA scans. ChatGPT's estimates have a median error of 5.7% and correctly categorize body types.
Bob Abrahamian was a Chicago music historian and radio host who championed 'sweet soul' music and amassed a 35,000 item collection. His legacy lives on through the Stax Museum and curated galleries showcasing lesser-known soul artists.
The Journal of Imaginary Research publishes short works of fiction in the academic genre of the Research Abstract. It encourages academic colleagues to write for enjoyment and creativity.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby explores the theme of "nothing further" - the longing for something that can never be achieved. The novel is a poignant tale of unrequited love, told with ravishing prose and a deep understanding of human desire.
The article is about the Paget sisters, identical twins born in 1916, who were part of midcentury intellectualism despite not having public bylines. Their private writings have been compiled into a biography by Celia's daughter, Ariane Bankes.
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USAID's cuts may lead to 483,000 to 1.14 million excess deaths in one year and 1.48 million to 6.24 million over five years. Forecasts for specific programs estimate up to 2.95 million deaths from PEPFAR cuts and 2.5 million from TB programming.
Bluesky's jetstream relay, jetrelay, is a tech demo that can serve 10 Gbps's worth of clients using a single machine with a 10-gigabit NIC. It uses a file-and-cursor design with sendfile() and io_uring to efficiently handle a large number of clients and can be improved with features like filtering and more testing.
The author is concerned that widespread use of AI to write code will lead to a decline in programmer competency and a stagnation of software development. As AI adoption increases, the average programmer's knowledge and understanding will decrease.
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 author, CD Familias, left the digital world to redefine themselves in Otaru, Japan, and now encourages readers to do the same by abandoning their "personal brand" and embracing a more authentic life. They suggest taking small steps like blocking news sites, writing letters, creating non-monetizable art, and talking to strangers to break free from the "always-on" life.
Researchers compared five parallel functional array languages: Accelerate, APL, DaCe, Futhark, and SaC. They found that these languages offer shorter, more comprehensible code with potential for easy porting to new architectures.