Fast software changes behavior by eliminating cognitive friction and making tasks feel magical. Companies that prioritize speed often have focused products and signal respect for users by eliminating non-essential features.
Helsinki achieved a year without traffic-related fatalities due to long-term planning, lower speed limits, and improved infrastructure. The city's efforts aim to reach the European Union's Vision Zero goal of eliminating all traffic fatalities by 2050.
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Andrej Karpathy coined "vibe coding" as AI-assisted coding where you forget code exists, but it's tech debt if you don't understand it. Vibe coding is perfect for prototypes, but not for large projects you intend to maintain.
Oxide has raised a $100M Series B led by USIT, more than doubling its total capital raised to date. This funding will help Oxide address customer questions around scale and roadmap scope, furthering its mission to change computing forever.
Awdah Hathaleen, a 31-year-old Palestinian community leader, was shot and killed by Israeli settler Yinon Levi in the occupied West Bank. Israeli police detained Levi, but he was later released to house arrest, sparking outrage and calls for justice.
Researchers studied fruit flies to understand the biochemical origin of the "tired and need to sleep" feeling. They found that mitochondrial function and electron surplus may be the key to inducing sleep.
Ollama's app now allows downloading and chatting with models on macOS and Windows. It supports file drag and drop, image uploads, and increased context length for large documents.
The user discusses the Mosquito Bucket of Death, a DIY method using a 5-gallon bucket with decaying leaves and MosquitoDunks containing Bacillus thuringiensis to kill mosquito larvae. This method is more effective and inexpensive than hiring a pest control company to spray the yard with insecticides.
Lean is a programming language used by mathematicians to formalize mathematics, treating it as code with theorems, proofs, and structures. It uses tactics like rfl, exact, and sorry to prove theorems and verify logical conclusions.
Keygen music player supports .mod, .xm, .s3m, and .it formats with no illegal content. It has media key controls and a playlist feature.
The author is a side project collector who struggles with procrastination and addiction to fake reward loops, often abandoning projects after initial excitement. They've learned to take a more incremental approach, starting with a prototype before buying a domain name.
Crush is a coding tool that integrates with LLMs, allowing users to access a wide range of models and tools in their terminal. It supports various installation methods and customization options.
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Figma will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "FIG" on July 31, 2025. The company priced its initial public offering at $33.00 per share, offering 36,937,080 shares of Class A common stock.
Optician Sans is a font based on historical eye charts and optotypes, adjusted for readability as a display typeface. It's a continuation of the Snellen and Sloan letters, designed for equal legibility regardless of visual function.
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The World Wide Web was initially a democratized platform for sharing information, but it has become commercialized and complicated with advertising, social media, and tracking. A new movement, Neocities, aims to revive the original spirit of the web with simple design and user control.
The user used an RTL-SDR dongle and antenna to receive ADS-B messages from planes, then built a wind model by processing the data. The model uses wind vectors from thousands of aircraft to simulate real wind conditions, achieving accurate results compared to reference data.
Hans Bishop's vegetable farm in Illinois was forced to close due to rising rents and lack of access to subsidies. The state's farmland is increasingly owned by corporations and businesses, making it difficult for young farmers to access land.
Large tech companies prioritize stockholders over customers, focusing on maintaining a monopoly through barriers to user migration. They use hype, such as AI and quantum, to boost stock prices, disregarding actual product quality and customer satisfaction.
The user explains how to reduce the size of a C struct by understanding its memory layout, grouping fields of the same size, reordering fields from largest to smallest, and using the smallest appropriate size available. By applying these strategies, the user was able to reduce the size of a Monster struct from 96 bytes to 20 bytes, a nearly 5-fold reduction in memory.
Researchers found hundreds of millions of images with personally identifiable information in a large AI training set, DataComp CommonPool. The data set, scraped from the web, contains sensitive information like faces, credit cards, and birth certificates, raising privacy concerns.
LangExtract is a Python library that extracts structured information from unstructured text using LLMs. It processes documents, identifies key details, and maps extractions to their source text locations.
The author spent a week debugging Emacs on MacOS, experiencing high RAM usage and slowness. They found the issue to be related to the ns_select function and NSAutoreleasePool.
The user is impressed with a 3D-printed 5-bay NAS design that can fit a mini PC and 3.5" hard drives, but wishes it had a budget processor option. The user is looking for a way to power the NAS with a single input and multiple outputs for the mini PC and hard drives, and is considering a step-down/boost converter with potentiometers.
Hans Christian Andersen was a famous Danish writer who overcame his physical ugliness to become a successful storyteller. His fairy tales, such as The Ugly Duckling and The Little Mermaid, were written for adults, not just children, and showcased his unique ability to tap into the collective unconscious.
US Justice Department allowed Hewlett Packard Enterprise to acquire Juniper Networks due to national-security concerns about China's Huawei. Intelligence community intervened to help US business compete with Huawei.
Micron has announced three SSDs: the 9650 for speed, the 6600 ION for high-capacity, and the 7600 for low latency. The 9650 and 7600 use TLC flash, while the 6600 ION uses QLC flash.
The blog series "Writing an OS in Rust" creates a small OS in Rust with tutorials and code available on Github. The author is seeking support to continue creating new content and maintaining the associated libraries.
Big Tech companies hired too many developers for corporate greed, causing unsustainable salaries and fake work. Now, with the economy changed, they're slashing jobs, leaving hundreds of thousands of programmers without work.
Wiz Research discovered a critical vulnerability in Base44, a vibe coding platform, allowing unauthorized access to private applications. The vulnerability was fixed within 24 hours after responsible disclosure to Wix, with no evidence of past abuse.
Astronomers using JWST discovered hundreds of "little red dots" in the early universe, which may be a new type of object: a colossal ball of hot gas powered by a black hole. These "black hole stars" could be a missing link in galaxy evolution and help explain supermassive black holes.
Abhinav, Andy, and Jeremy created Lucidic AI, an AI agent interpretability tool to help observe and debug AI agents. The tool offers features like interactive graph visualizations, time traveling, and trajectory clustering to improve debugging and evaluation capabilities.
Meadow OS releases support VirtualBox and QEMU with recommended 2GB RAM and specific hardware controllers. Users can join the #mezzano IRC channel for help and development updates.
Anubis is a server protection system using Proof-of-Work to prevent aggressive website scraping. It requires modern JavaScript features and may be disabled by plugins like JShelter.
Meka Agent is an open-source, autonomous computer agent that uses vision and acts like humans, with state-of-the-art browsing capabilities. It's extensible, customizable, and achieves 72.7% benchmark results in WebArena.
Maintaining weight loss requires continued effort and a focus on habits such as regular exercise, consistent sleep, and mindful food choices to prevent weight regain. By understanding shifts in total daily energy expenditure, prioritizing activity, and using an accountability system, individuals can set themselves up for successful weight loss maintenance.
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The author suggests running shorter trains to reduce metro system costs by 15-20% and increase capacity by running more frequent trains. This approach can be applied to various cities, including New Jersey, to create more efficient and convenient transportation systems.
The Pentagon Pizza Index (PizzINT) tracks real-time pizza shop popularity around the Pentagon as an unconventional OSINT indicator of military activity. Monitor the Pizza DEFCON level and discover when unusual activity might be brewing.
Users trust apps despite data breaches and poor security, with little consequences for developers. Apple prioritizes App Store profits over user protection, allowing problematic apps to remain available.
We scraped celebrities' Spotify accounts since summer 2024, revealing their playlists and listening habits. This data exposes their onshore music tastes, similar to the Panama Papers exposing offshore accounts.
The Albanese Labor Government is introducing laws to delay social media access until age 16, protecting young Australians from online harms. Age-restricted platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok will face fines up to $49.5 million for underage users.
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.
The ski rental problem is a classic example in online algorithms where a person decides whether to buy or rent skis based on the number of days they will ski and the cost of buying or renting. A randomized algorithm with a specific probability distribution can achieve an expected competitive ratio of approximately e/(e-1) by optimizing the cost of buying or renting skis.
The evolution of data interchange formats began with SGML, which was later refined into XML for web use, but its verbosity led to the development of JSON, a simpler and more efficient format for web APIs, and eventually CBOR, a binary format optimized for IoT and constrained environments. This progression demonstrates how technology moves from feature-rich solutions to specialized formats for ...
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 model features improved instruction following, logical reasoning, and text generation. It supports non-thinking mode and can be used with Qwen-Agent for tool-calling capabilities.
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Meta believes superintelligence will empower humanity by giving everyone personal AI to achieve goals and improve lives. They aim to build a free society by sharing superintelligence benefits broadly, while mitigating safety risks.
Scientists discovered extensive chemosynthesis-based communities in the Kuril-Kamchatka and Aleutian trenches, spanning 2,500 km at depths from 5,800 m to 9,533 m. These communities are sustained by hydrogen sulfide-rich and methane-rich fluids.
Lyon is moving to Linux to achieve digital sovereignty and reduce dependence on Microsoft software due to trust issues with American-based companies. The city aims to protect citizens' data and support local economic development through a homegrown solution.
A Seattle EV charging station project has been delayed for three years due to bureaucratic processes, requiring more time and engineering than typical projects. This illustrates America's inability to execute basic infrastructure projects efficiently, hindering progress on larger challenges like climate change and affordable housing.
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Frigade is a platform that uses AI to guide users through product onboarding, surveys, and support, increasing retention and customer success. It automates workflows, reduces support load, and drives user engagement with a single product.
Palo Alto has spent over $7 billion on acquisitions since 2018, with the largest being CyberArk. The company's recent deals include Dig Security, Talon Cyber Security, and Bridgecrew.
This project uses VideoSDK for VoIP telephony solutions, supporting inbound and outbound calls with AI agents. It has a modular architecture for easy addition of new SIP providers and services.
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The author reflects on two significant rivalries in his life: Michigan-Ohio State and his team vs Peyton Manning's Colts. These intense competitions pushed him to new levels of focus and motivation.
The user proposes a conceptual model of arrays that explains multidimensional arrays and tables by representing them as functions that map a sequence of numbers to homogeneous values. This model allows for the extension of arrays to any number of dimensions and enables the use of function transformations to rearrange the array along any ordering of axes.
Scammers are flooding social media with ads for fake gaming and wagering websites that lure users with free credits and cryptocurrency funds. These sites use social engineering tactics to steal deposited funds, with victims often being asked for additional payments after being told to make a "verification deposit."
The cost of pet care is soaring, with boarding costs similar to motel prices, and is subject to the Baumol effect, a slow price increase due to rising productivity in other sectors. This effect also explains the rising cost of child care, which is nearly identical to pet care trends over 26 years.
Doist built Bitmapist, an open-source cohort analytics library, to track user behavior and make data-driven decisions. It uses Redis bitmaps for efficient storage and real-time analytics, saving millions of dollars in analytics fees.
MoebiusXBIN is a text-mode art editor with custom font and color support. It allows artists to explore new possibilities with ASCII art by changing the font and color palette.
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To make libcurl based applications work in WebAssembly without changes, tunnel all traffic over a websocket proxy using websockify and a SOCKS5 server. This solution is secure and easy to implement, requiring only the setting of an environment variable ALL_PROXY in the application.
Peach Payments has partnered with MoneyBadger to enable merchants to accept Bitcoin and crypto payments. This partnership aims to make mainstream Bitcoin payments more accessible to consumers in South Africa.
The Subway Game is a diversion where a Contestant must navigate the New York Subway System from a given station to another without asking for directions. The Contestant is scored based on the number of mistakes made during the journey.
Tiny4FSK is an ultra-tiny high-altitude tracking system using 4FSK and Horus Binary v2. It runs on 1 AA battery for 10-17 hours.
OpenAI's ChatGPT Pro costs $200 monthly due to CEO Sam Altman's pricing decision, despite initially losing money on the plan. The high price tier has set a precedent for expensive chatbot subscriptions, with competitors matching the price and offering free or limited access to their generative AI tools.
User shared a healthier garlic bread alternative using popcorn, which satisfies cravings with fewer calories. The key is oregano, making it taste great and associated with fun.
Connecticut is updating e-bike laws to classify bikes over 750W as motor-driven cycles requiring a license. New laws aim to differentiate between e-bikes and motorcycles based on power levels.
An FBI agent resigned after being targeted by the bureau's leadership for his friendship with a former agent who criticized President Trump. The agent, who is a conservative, fears the FBI is becoming politicized and losing its expertise under Trump's leadership.
The author wants to create a welcoming community around their software, Kinopio, by making support easy and accessible, and by actively engaging with users through regular updates and personal greetings. They believe that treating customers well is key to building a long-lasting company.
The Descent of Inanna into the Underworld is a Sumerian myth about the goddess Inanna's journey to the Underworld to overthrow her sister Ereshkigal. Inanna is restored to life by Enki and returns to the world of the living, but must deliver her husband Dumuzi to the Underworld in her place.
Email tracking pixels allow senders to know if recipients opened their emails and gather data on their location and behavior. To avoid being tracked, recipients can disable HTML messages or images in their email app, or use services that load images by proxy or block them.
The user discusses a spectrum of human to AI context in coding, deciding when to delegate tasks and when to intervene. They propose a layered approach to using AI coders, from formulating questions to trusting AI to handle specific tasks with guardrails.
opsqueue is a queue system for operations that allows flexible prioritization and execution, ideal for large-scale batch processing. It uses object storage and a simple, scalable design to support hundreds of millions of operations and hundreds of connected consumers.
User vermaden is concerned about PKGBASE in FreeBSD, as it breaks the "untouchable" Base System. The "pkg delete -af" command removes third-party packages on classic FreeBSD but destroys most of the Base System on PKGBASE.
The author, a former football player, shares his perspective on finding personal satisfaction and balancing multiple priorities in life. He emphasizes that it's the pursuit of excellence, not the achievements themselves, that brings joy.
TclSqueak Is graphical object oriented programming environment for Tcl programming language inspired by famous Smalltalk programming environments (especially Squeak).
Researchers found that artificially sweetened drinks raise type 2 diabetes risk by 38% and sugary drinks by 23%. Artificial sweeteners may pose health risks, possibly due to gut microbiome disruption or glucose metabolism changes.
A researcher claims a web crash is imminent in 12 days due to a request smuggling flaw. The author believes their Go proxy is immune to the attack due to its design and parsing logic.
The user is writing about NMDA Receptor antagonists and how they can have different effects depending on their subunit selectivity, trapping or flickering properties, and the type of neurons they bind to. This complexity is why some NMDAR antagonists like Ketamine can be anesthetics while others like PCP can cause dissociative effects, and why understanding their interactions with the NMDA ...
The ⵟ-product is a novel neural operator that unifies vector alignment and spatial proximity within a single, non-linear, and self-regulating computation, inspired by physical inverse-square laws, and forms the basis of Neural-Matter Networks (NMNs) that achieve competitive or superior performance on benchmark tasks. The ⵟ-product's inherent non-linearity and self-regulating properties can ...
The writer has a vast collection of similes from various sources, including literature and everyday life. They explore the use of similes in writing, including their ability to evoke vivid imagery and create dramatic scenes.
The script prints daily weather forecasts on a thermal printer using GPS coordinates and timezone from command-line arguments or environment variables, defaulting to London, UK. It can be run automatically at 5am daily using crontab with the line '0 5 * * * python script.py'.
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Researchers developed SensorLM, a model that learns connections between wearable sensor data and human language. It can interpret and generate nuanced descriptions from high-dimensional wearable data, setting a new state of the art in sensor data understanding.
A Texas real estate agent, Tara Jarrett, teaches a class on filing liens to punish public officials, but experts warn this tactic can cause financial harm and is often used by "sovereign citizens" for intimidation.
A New Yorker cartoonist shares their process of creating drawings, involving doodling, observing, and experimenting, with a high rejection rate but also opportunities for growth. They're directing a documentary, "Women Laughing," about the creative process of cartoonists, and are seeking support for post-production.
The problem of bursting balloons is a dynamic programming problem where we need to maximize the total coins collected by bursting all the balloons in a given array, considering all possible orders of bursting. We can solve this problem using a dynamic programming approach by filling a 2D DP table where each cell represents the maximum coins obtainable by bursting all balloons in a given ...
A novel quantum sensor, developed by Q-CTRL, measures gravity changes by detecting atom travel time variations and could serve as a backup for GPS systems. The sensor was tested on an Australian naval ship and could help ships navigate in areas with GPS interference or unreliable satellite signals.
The key to generating big ideas is to think in systems, not isolated products or goals, by understanding how things work together and flipping a single bit in a large system. This approach helps spot weak points in the world and can lead to startups, revolutions, and new opportunities.
Data scientists and ML engineers need a common foundation to build ML and data science applications quickly and robustly. Metaflow provides a user-friendly foundation for data-intensive applications, handling data, compute, orchestration, and versioning.
Developers should focus on code quality, consistency, and long-term effects rather than speed. LLMs can aid in development, but they should be used to follow established principles, not replace them.