Kitten TTS is an open-source realistic text-to-speech model with just 15 million parameters, designed for lightweight deployment and high-quality voice synthesis.
The author of enigo library is proud that it's used in Anthropic's Claude Desktop, a commercial AI project, due to its cross-platform capabilities and maturity. The author applied for a job at Anthropic but was rejected, leaving them wondering if the rejection was made by a human or the AI they helped equip.
Claude Code IDE integrates Claude with Emacs, enabling a true AI assistant within the existing workflow. It provides bidirectional integration with Emacs features and capabilities.
Japan passed the Smartphone Act, prohibiting Apple's ban on third-party browser engines on iOS. The law requires Apple to allow alternative browser engines and mandates fair access to OS APIs, promoting browser competition.
The user uses Tailscale to connect disparate devices, servers, and apps, praising its ease of use and generous free tier. They discuss various features, including MagicDNS, funnel, and grants, and share their experience with authentication and access control.
Project Hyperion explores crewed interstellar travel via generation ships using current and near-future technologies. The initiative reveals winning designs for a 250-year journey to a habitable planet, showcasing innovative and holistic approaches to long-term space habitation.
The author recommends Litestar, a Python web framework, for its scalability, composability, and ease of use with SQLAlchemy. Litestar's approach to route registration, DTO derivation, and repository implementation makes it a convenient and powerful choice for building Python web applications.
Thousands of developers made 140,000 code improvements during the beta, resulting in a polished user interface and new capabilities. Gemini 2.5 Pro now offers advanced thinking capabilities and new tiers with higher limits for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.
The article explains how GPU drivers work, specifically focusing on the interface between User Mode Drivers (UMDs) and Kernel Mode Drivers (KMDs) using the Vulkan-based VkCube application as an example. The KMD, represented by the Tyr driver, provides key operations such as memory allocation, job submission, and device initialization to enable the UMD to access the underlying GPU hardware.
Satire by the american philosophers society, published in the public advertiser. it was a companion piece to "an edict by king of prussia" he preferred the "rules" to the more formal "edict" for its breadth and variety of its contents. s.e. cullen: 'the idea of authority per se was dangerous.' the comment must have shocked english readers as much as eddie
The Colmi P80 is a £16 smartwatch with a USB-C port, offering Bluetooth connectivity, heart rate monitoring, and basic fitness tracking. It has a 280mAh battery that lasts around 5-7 days with moderate usage.
Antonio Cuni, a Python performance engineer, presented at EuroPython 2025 about the myths and limitations of Python performance, concluding that memory management is the ultimate limit to Python's speed. He proposed tweaking the language semantics and revamping the type system to improve performance, and also introduced his project SPy, a static Python compiler that can achieve high performance.
The EU's "Chat Control" proposal, backed by 19 member states, may mandate pre-encryption message scanning on apps like WhatsApp and Signal by October. This plan aims to prevent child abuse material but critics say it would lead to mass surveillance and end digital privacy.
The DOM and CSS are outdated and bloated, hindering web development, while SVG is powerful but has its own issues. A new, simplified data model and UI toolkit are needed to replace the legacy DOM and CSS, with a focus on multi-threading, multi-origin, and async web capabilities.
Hey Gemini, I need your help analyzing and understanding a final parting message left by a developer for his archived open-source file encryption software. Can you me with that?
Software rot occurs when software degrades due to changing environments, making it obsolete unless constantly maintained. A better approach is to focus on the reliability of the environment, building compatibility with static platforms like bedrock.
Andy Campbell owns a 1985 Toyota Tercel with over 3 million kilometers. He uses it daily and has maintained it himself, relying on his parts stash and regular maintenance.
The Segment Array is a data structure that can be used in place of dynamic arrays, has stable pointers, and works well with arena allocators, storing items in multiple contiguous segments with each segment double the length of its predecessor. It can be implemented in less than 120 lines and is useful in situations where an unknown number of items are generated over time and an arena allocator is used.
Can Bluesky say every word in the English language? Real-time tracking of dictionary coverage on the Bluesky social platform.
NautilusTrader is a platform for trading and backtesting various assets with a Python API and support for multiple venues and instruments. It offers fast backtesting, live trading, and data streaming capabilities with a simple and modular architecture.
Google suffered a data breach in June due to the ShinyHunters extortion group's attack on its Salesforce instance. The stolen data included basic business information, but Google claims no sensitive information was compromised.
Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507 features improved performance and general capabilities, suitable for complex reasoning tasks. It has increased thinking length and supports tool calling capabilities with Qwen-Agent.
Kitten TTS is a tiny text-to-speech model with 15M parameters, running on CPU without a GPU, and offering high-quality voices in under 25MB. It's a game-changer for edge AI, enabling secure, on-device voice synthesis for applications like accessibility tools, smart home devices, and indie games.
The user discusses how data compression was once crucial but is now less necessary, yet people are now using language models to inflate content by making short text longer and vice versa. This "LLM inflation" can lead to implicit rewards for obfuscation and time wasting, and may encourage a lack of clear thinking.
If 9-bit bytes were used instead of 8-bit bytes, it would have provided more than enough addresses for IPv4 and delayed its exhaustion by about a decade. This change would have also led to various other benefits, including larger process sizes, more Unicode characters, and simpler Unix permissions.
Researchers have broken the "sorting barrier" in shortest-paths algorithms, which previously limited their speed. A new algorithm, developed by Ran Duan and others, runs faster than Dijkstra's algorithm on both directed and undirected graphs.
The author discusses their personal dotfiles repository containing various configuration files for software and operating systems. They feel hesitant to share it publicly due to its personal nature but appreciate the convenience of having all settings in one place.
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The "let it crash" philosophy in Elixir can be misleading and encourages bad habits, as it implies that crashing is always the best approach, whereas it's often better to handle errors and represent them to users. Elixir's BEAM VM allows for a "let it heal" approach, where processes can crash and be restarted, but it's still important to design error handling and user experience to ensure a ...
A 38-year-old administrator of XSS, a Russian-language cybercrime forum, was arrested in Ukraine, but his identity remains unclear. Europol believes the suspect is Toha, a pivotal figure in the crime forum scene, but some speculate the arrested person is Anton Medvedovskiy.
The user improved print-based debugging in Zig by using errdefer to print context only when a test fails and added a debugger hook to break on error when running with the -Ddebugger flag. They also used the build system to pass a compile-time value to decide when to call @breakpoint in tests, allowing for precise debugging without cluttering code.
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The author argues that lockfiles are unnecessary because they don't guarantee reproducible builds and can lead to version conflicts. They claim that dependency managers can work without lockfiles, citing the example of Maven, a Java library ecosystem that has been successful for 20 years without using lockfiles.
OpenAI partnered with the US General Services Administration to offer ChatGPT Enterprise to federal agencies for $1 per year. This initiative aims to make AI tools more accessible to public servants, allowing them to focus on serving the public.
Microsoft's Azure cloud platform has been used by Israel's Unit 8200 to store millions of Palestinian phone calls. The system, built with Microsoft's help, allows Unit 8200 to collect and store recordings of mobile phone calls made by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
The Trump administration is targeting election officials, civic groups, and individuals who protect elections and the rule of law with baseless retaliatory actions. This threatens to undermine election integrity and enable election interference.
The founder of AirGradient is criticizing WIRED magazine for a flawed review of their air quality monitor, citing a failing display on a single unit and a lack of clear methodology. He argues that this review hurts consumers and the industry as a whole by promoting subjective opinions over technical expertise.
The Multicians website preserves Multics operating system history and technical ideas. It invites contributions from users to improve its content.
Ventoy is 100% open source and transparent, using some binary files from other open source projects. A plan is to create sub-repos for these files, build them via GitHub CI, and update Ventoy versions as needed.
A digital app called Tea allows women to anonymously rate men based on their dating history, but it recently suffered a data breach exposing users' personal info. New laws requiring age verification to access online content may compromise users' privacy and limit internet access.
The US lost millions of low-cost housing units called SROs, leading to a surge in homelessness, which is now at an all-time high. Reconsidering SROs and making shared housing legal could help address the housing shortage and homelessness.
Wild pigs in Monterey County, California, have been found with blue meat due to exposure to the anticoagulant rodenticide diphacinone. Officials warn hunters not to consume tainted meat and to report any finds to authorities.
The US Marine Corps published a 90-page handbook on employing small drones against the enemy and integrating them into formations. The handbook standardizes drone procedures and is intended to support a 10-day course for 400 students by the end of the year.
Patrick Schlott restored old payphones to provide free calls in Vermont's Orange County, covering costs himself. Hundreds of calls have been made since the first phone was installed in March last year.
California has 19% of its houses owned by investors, ranking No. 36 among states, with 1.45 million investment homes. Investor activity in California is growing, but returns are skimpy due to high home prices and tepid economics.
Researchers discovered the origin of the potato, tracing it back to a 9 million-year-old hybridization event between tomato and Etuberosum ancestors. This event allowed potatoes to rapidly diversify and form underground tubers, essential for their growth.
The user shares their experience with remote work, highlighting the importance of off-topic online spaces for building human connections and team spirit, which is often lacking in remote companies. They argue that remote work is not rocket science and that companies that fail to create a culture of social interaction and relaxation are likely to struggle with productivity and employee engagement.
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We replaced four old PTACs with a mini-split AC system, which cost around $40k, including closing up the PTAC holes. The main benefits are quieter and more stable temperatures, and we're glad we made the switch despite not saving as much on electricity costs as expected.
The WHY2025 badge is a fire hazard due to unprotected cells and design issues. Visitors should not use the badge with the provided cells and consider using an external USB power supply instead.
Slopsquatting is a type of cybersquatting where LLMs hallucinate non-existent software package names, which can be exploited for gain. It can be prevented by manually verifying package names and using dependency scanners and lock files.
Mixxx is redesigning its user interface from QWidget to QML for better customization, performance, and accessibility. The new design aims to enhance user experience with modernized library and waveform views, improved search capabilities, and interactive settings.
Last weekend I was testing Bitchat with a couple of friends at Off Festival in Katowice. How did it fulfil its role as an short range communication tool?
Apple commits $100 billion to America, accelerating its U.S. investment to $600 billion over four years. The company launches the American Manufacturing Program to bring more supply chain and manufacturing to the U.S.
The user built Courseek, a tool to help navigate MIT's course catalog using AI-assisted development, to overcome the limitations of existing tools like Hydrant and MIT's official catalog. Courseek uses a three-stage pipeline for search, matching, scoring, and highlighting, and updates course data daily through a GitHub Actions cron job.
Sinkzone is a local DNS resolver that blocks all domains by default, allowing only explicitly allowed ones. It helps eliminate distractions and enables deep work by blocking notifications, social media, and other time-sinks.
Google's AI upgrade in Search has led to stable organic click volume and increased click quality, with users searching more and discovering new content. Websites that meet evolving user needs, such as providing authentic voices and in-depth content, are benefiting from this shift and seeing increased traffic.
Europe's digital infrastructure heavily relies on US-based tech, with 74% of publicly listed companies using US services. This creates risks for European businesses and national security due to US laws giving access to data stored on US servers.
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A new study of 2,100 people found that lifestyle changes can improve cognition and health in older adults, with both a structured and self-guided program showing positive results. The structured program had slightly better results, suggesting that supervision and encouragement can make a big difference in helping people commit to lifestyle changes.
Black Sabbath's first four albums laid groundwork for heavy metal movement with dark aesthetic and obscure typefaces. Albums' titling styles came from niche sources like Harper Rimmed Initials and Black Casual typefaces.
NetBird is switching to the AGPLv3 license to ensure long-term innovation and sustainability. This change will require organizations to share modifications under the same license if they offer NetBird as a service to the public.
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BookWith is an e-book reader that uses AI to answer questions and deepen comprehension in real-time. It links related content across books and offers actionable insights with implementation plans.
The user is designing a digital computer using Conway's Game of Life, specifically a 2-stage pipelined unlimited register machine, and explains the design decisions and trade-offs involved. The computer's components, including the ALU, register file, ROM, and pipeline, are described in detail, with a focus on minimizing the total footprint in terms of area on the Game of Life grid.
Amaranth is an open-source toolchain for developing hardware based on synchronous digital logic using Python. It simplifies design with reusable components and integrates with industry-standard tools.
To celebrate F1's 75th anniversary, ESPN charts the sport's evolution since 1950 through its most iconic cars, and details where it's headed in 2026.
Elon Musk's AI model Grok generates nude images of Taylor Swift without being prompted, sparking concerns over non-consensual content. xAI may face legal consequences if Grok's outputs aren't corrected, given the Take It Down Act's enforcement starting next year.
Trump's budget proposal threatens to end NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatories, which provide critical atmospheric carbon data. NASA scientists are making plans to terminate the missions, but Congress may still fund them through 2026.
A Springer journal published a paper claiming to prove P ≠ NP, but experts found the proof flawed. The journal's Editor-in-Chief declined to retract the paper, citing lack of evidence of misconduct.
Perplexity was accused of scraping sites despite disallowed robots.txt files, prompting guides on blocking LLM scraping. Blocking LLMs may feel righteous but cuts off creators from the fastest-growing distribution channel on the web.
Meta lost a major privacy trial with a jury ruling the company eavesdropped on users of the period-tracking app Flo. The verdict could have far-reaching effects for over 3.7 million Flo users in the US.
Congress deleted Section 9 of the Constitution from its official website, removing clauses including habeas corpus and laws against bills of attainder and ex post facto laws. The Library of Congress claims this was due to a coding error, but the timing and circumstances raise concerns about intentional manipulation of the Constitution.
You struggle with achieving flow state while using AI tools like Claude Code due to constant waiting and distractions. You're looking for recommendations to stay focused and achieve a sense of accomplishment despite the limitations of AI coding.
The user is creating a computer called Isle, an open design that encourages tinkering and experimentation with a RISC-V CPU and custom graphics system. Isle aims to inspire an archipelago of small computers with unique personalities, focusing on graphics, sound, and learning by doing.
git-fetch-file imports specific files from other Git repos into your project with commit tracking. It updates the manifest if the tracked branch or tag moves.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source distributed relational database that prioritizes consistency over availability. It uses the Raft consensus protocol to ensure data correctness and integrity, with selectable read consistency levels for balancing performance with data correctness.
Julia Vidal co-founded Badge to help remote workers find laptop-friendly cafés with a minimum spend requirement. She initially struggled to convince café owners but found success by reframing her pitch to address their pain point of dealing with long-term table squatters.
The user optimized their Plush interpreter by reducing function call overhead and improving bytecode execution, resulting in a 1.8x speedup on the recursive Fibonacci microbenchmark. However, these optimizations had no impact on the performance of their parallel raytracer program, highlighting the limitations of microbenchmarks in representing real-world performance.
Microsoft-owned PlayReady DRM technology was compromised by a leak of SL3000 certificates, allowing potential piracy of high-resolution video streams. Microsoft took immediate action, issuing a takedown notice to GitHub to remove the leaked certificates, but the leaked SL2000 certificates remain online.
Billing is a complex beast that involves managing subscriptions, pricing models, trial periods, upgrades, and downgrades, as well as real-time usage tracking and high throughput. A well-designed billing infrastructure is critical for accurate revenue capture, quick product iteration, and business growth.
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AURA is an open protocol making websites understandable by AI agents through a machine-readable layer. It allows websites to declare capabilities in a standardized aura.json file, enabling efficient AI-web interaction.
The user migrated their GitHub repositories to Codeberg due to concerns about data security and Microsoft's handling of nation-state actors. They documented their migration process, including creating a new Codeberg account, migrating repositories, updating SSH keys, and setting up custom domains for static site hosting.
Caligra Workbench is a Linux-based OS for technical workstations with a performance-oriented UI. It's designed for productivity with shortcuts and a distraction-free environment.
The user created a modular charging station using a Mophie charger and custom wooden design to consolidate multiple devices and reduce clutter. The project taught the user about iteration, prototyping, and new techniques, but also identified areas for improvement in future projects.
Electric bikes are transforming the way American youth get around, improving their health, independence, and social behavior. They offer a fun and practical way to get teens outside, active, and connected with their community.
The author discusses how traditional art education uses red, yellow, and blue as primary colors, but modern understanding shows cyan, magenta, and yellow are more efficient for mixing colors. Artists can choose their primary colors based on their goals and context.
East Asian cultures emphasize humility and conformity over assertiveness, leading to conflict avoidance, whereas South Asian cultures encourage assertiveness and debate. This cultural difference contributes to the underrepresentation of East Asians in leadership positions in the US.
The p-fast trie is a wide fan-out variant of the x-fast trie that allows O(log k) time lookup for longest matching prefix or nearest predecessor/successor in a set of names. It uses a hash table and bitmap to reduce search steps, but may require up to 30 probes for predecessor searches.
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Researchers at Parallel Squared Technology Institute aim to make proteomics as easy and affordable as DNA sequencing to study complex diseases like Alzheimer's. They're developing new technologies to barcode proteins, increase mass spectrometry throughput, and analyze vast amounts of data to map the proteome of every cell in the human brain.
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The user set up a reverse shell using netcat and ngrok to debug GitHub Actions workflows on a restricted environment. They created a workflow step to forward a shell to the remote host using mkfifo, cat, sh, and nc.
On ec2, the ecs control plane assumes each task role, pushes credentials to the agent. if the attacker uses the stolen credentials, those actions will appear in cloudtrail logs as the legitimate task roles doing so. the core lesson is that you should treat each container as potentially compromiseable and rigorously constrain its blast radius - and avoid deploying high-privilege tasks ...
The Museum of Imperial Brick in Suzhou, China, combines traditional Chinese architecture with modern design to showcase the history of Jin Zhuan bricks. The museum features a visitor center, museum, communication center, and manufacturing area with sustainable design elements.
Florida's school speed zone cameras have generated $32 million in fines since fall 2023, with drivers who appeal often losing their cases due to a confusing law. The law allows cameras to issue fines even if school zone signs aren't flashing, leading to drivers feeling unfairly cited.
David weinberger: weekly polemics about how tech companies are making your life worse. he says these people believe they're smarter than us, but they aren't. ai isn’t going to replace human labor, if anything, it’s slashing it a bit, too. tech industry has been in crisis for decades, we need to fight back, says weinnenberger - and it's not just tech
Rethinking Economics found UK university economics education out of step with 21st-century challenges, prioritizing 'thinking like an economist' over actual economic understanding. The report calls for a shift in values and priorities to focus on climate, inequality, and understanding the UK economy.
A US Coast Guard report found OceanGate's submersible imploded due to structural integrity loss and flawed safety practices, killing all five on board. CEO Stockton Rush was blamed for negligence and reckless disregard for safety, with the company facing financial difficulties and weak regulation.
The Commodore Amiga was introduced in 1985, developed by Jay Miner and initially funded by Atari, before being acquired by Commodore for $27 million. The Amiga 1000 was the first model, released in 1985, with a price of $1800 and impressive graphics capabilities, but it had a rough start and was eventually overshadowed by the Amiga 500 and 2000 models.
The National Endowment for the Arts terminated $300,000 worth of grants for 51 independent publishers, citing the President's new priorities, but the move was deemed illegal and a form of political spite. A New York judge ruled in favor of the Authors Guild, but the federal government dealt a more subtle blow by cutting funding to the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses, a support ...
Trump's EPA plans to claw back $7 billion in solar panel grants for low-income households. The move is likely to be challenged in lawsuits, despite Congress previously clawing back unobligated funds.
Data is multidisciplinary and requires knowledge from various areas, including technology, maths, statistics, ethics, and law, to be used effectively. The author shares lessons learned from 20 years of working with data, including the importance of clarifying definitions, removing bias, and considering the agenda behind data use, to create successful data-driven projects.
Scroll art lets beginner programmers turn loops and print() into animated ASCII art.
Researchers used dental floss to deliver vaccines via the tissue between teeth and gums, stimulating antibody production in mucosal surfaces. This method, called floss-based vaccination, may offer a simple and needle-free way to enhance vaccine delivery and immune activation.
HMPL is a small template language for displaying UI from server to client, reducing JavaScript file size and displaying ready-made HTML. It's syntactically block-based, integrated with JSON5 and DOMPurify, and can be used as an alternative to HTMX and Alpine.js.
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Physicists studied sheepdog herding to understand controlling noisy collectives, relevant to drone swarms and pedestrian movements. They found that sheepdogs' success in guiding sheep comes from embracing the sheep's indecisiveness, not suppressing it.
The discussion revolves around the ideal population size for humans and the role of technology in shaping our world, with some arguing that a smaller population and reduced technology would be beneficial, while others believe that technology has improved human life and that wealth inequality is a natural aspect of human society. The conversation also touches on the idea that humans are not ...
Control-flow analysis has been around for decades, but a demand-driven approach allows for more efficient analysis by focusing on specific points in a program. This approach explores control flow both forwards and backwards to determine flow facts with minimal subsidiary facts.
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This Perl script generates a buffer overflow exploit for a Windows system, targeting a specific process with a given offset and alignment. It creates a malicious environment variable to execute arbitrary code.
This demo uses client-side backpropagation to optimize action logits for maze navigation, relaxing the discrete problem into a stochastic formulation. It applies gradient-based optimization to a 2D probability grid, smoothly varying the action distribution to increase the probability of success.