GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke resigned, and GitHub will be part of Microsoft's AI engineering team. Microsoft is integrating GitHub into its CoreAI team, led by Jay Parikh, after Dohmke's departure.
The author tried various productivity apps but returned to a simple plain text file called todo.txt, which has been their go-to system for years. This text file is easy to use, fast, and honest, allowing the author to stay productive without relying on complex apps or features.
Wikipedia lost a legal challenge to new Online Safety Act rules that could force it to verify user identities. The judgment emphasizes the UK government's responsibility to protect Wikipedia, but it may still face stricter regulations.
The user has been experimenting with Claude Code, a tool that uses AI to generate code and perform tasks. They've built several projects, including a tool to filter out irrelevant comments on HackerNews and a poster generator that uses AI to create custom PDFs.
The High Court of Justice dismissed the Wikimedia Foundation's challenge to the UK's Online Safety Act Categorisation Regulations. The ruling emphasizes Ofcom and the UK government's responsibility to protect Wikipedia.
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You received a warning from ssh about using non-quantum-safe cryptography. To resolve this, update your server to use OpenSSH 9.0 or greater, or disable the warning via the WarnWeakCrypto option in ssh_config(5).
The user disabled Hyundai's BlueLink remote control and monitoring system by removing the cellular modem from their car's head unit. This was done to prevent unwanted tracking and interference, and to have more control over their vehicle's data.
The team behind Vitess is creating Neki, a sharded Postgres database, to bring explicit sharding to hundreds of thousands of people. Neki will be an open source project suitable for demanding Postgres workloads.
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The guide covers social interaction with 17 lessons in 3 sections, and it's 100% free. It includes tips on body language, conversation, and supporting friends to improve social skills.
A Detroit rapper's song about the Cybertruck allegedly led Tesla to disable his vehicle, stranding him. This incident highlights concerns about Tesla's remote control feature and potential misuse.
Starbucks South Korea banned bulky items like desktop computers and printers from stores due to patrons setting up de facto offices. The policy aims to maintain a "pleasant and accessible store experience" for all customers.
User managed sleep schedule to maximize Claude Pro usage, sleeping in short intervals like sailors to get 2-3 hours of REM sleep and increase productivity 10x. This strategy allows user to ship features quickly before running out of tokens in 1-3 hours.
Here’s a hand-picked selection of articles on AI fundamentals/concepts that cover the entire process of building neural nets to training them to evaluating results.
Tilf is a simple pixel art editor built with PySide6 for creating sprites and 2D assets with live preview and export options. It's an open-source project with a Makefile for automated build and cleanup on MacOS and Linux.
Organisations can forget important information, leading to disasters like the Chesterfield Canal's sudden disappearance and Volkswagen's emissions scandal. This forgetfulness can be due to lack of activity, personnel changes, or deliberate destruction of records, highlighting the importance of institutional memory.
The user implemented a SIMD-friendly substring search algorithm in Zig, achieving a 59% speedup over the standard library's implementation. By choosing less frequent characters in the needle, the algorithm was further optimized, reducing branch misses and achieving a 9% speedup.
Kilo broke the 1 trillion tokens a month barrier on OpenRouter due to rapid growth of open source AI coding tools. This growth is caused by Cursor and Claude throttling users, sending them to open source alternatives.
Tech startups like Cursor and Bolt rely on external AI models, living and dying by the labs that develop them. Unless they own the model, these startups are just dealers, with the labs controlling pricing and features.
The author, a former GitHub CEO, is leaving the company after a decade to become a founder again. He's proud of GitHub's growth and innovations, especially in AI, and believes it will continue to thrive under new leadership.
The original model coudl run without problem, but the gguf model fail to run for below errors Aug 06 03:40:33 ml-machine-1 ollama[2649079]: gguf_init_from_file_impl: tensor 'blk.0.ffn_down_exps.weight' has invalid ggml type 39 (NONE) Aug 06 03:40:33 ml-machine-1 ollama[2649079]: gguf_init_from_file_impl: failed to read tensor info
Smbhs are found at the centre of every massive galaxy, with their masses tightly connected to their host galaxies through a co-evolution over cosmic time. our model successfully reproduces the radial arc and its counter-image, while reconstructing the source’s surface brightness, which exhibits an irregular morphology. we now explore more flexible mass models to assess whether increased ...
Water is essential for life, and the brain monitors the body's water levels to trigger thirst. The brain infers the body's needs from blood data and initiates thirst to maintain homeostasis.
User implemented custom memory copying logic to improve performance of large binary unserialized messages. Custom implementations outperformed std::memcpy for certain sizes and use cases.
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Nyxt is a keyboard-driven web browser that aims to provide a customizable and extensible experience, but its performance and compatibility issues make it less suitable for everyday use. Users are looking for a browser that offers great keyboard integration, configurability, and ad-blocking capabilities, with options like Firefox + Vimium, Qutebrowser, and Nyxt being considered, but none of ...
The author practices a daily rhythm of four verbs: learning, reflecting, preparing, and taking action. These verbs help them stay curious, honest, and productive, and gently shape their days.
Countries like Azerbaijan, China, and India have male-biased sex ratios due to sex-selective abortions and mistreatment of females. If these issues were addressed, population growth and economic consequences might change, as seen in Mauritius, which has had negative population growth for years.
The user discusses combining Markdown with Custom Elements to create a synergy of features, allowing for simpler things to become more complicated things while retaining the "I wrote it in a simple text editor!" joy of Markdown. By using Custom Elements, writers can effectively "escape out" to HTML when needed, and the combination of Markdown and Custom Elements can be used to create a ...
Martin Uecker discusses implementing a "maybe" type in C for handling errors, inspired by Haskell. He creates a safe function for integer division and uses GCC's sanitizers to prove its safety.
President Donald Trump placed the Washington D.C. police department under federal control and deployed 800 National Guard troops to address crime, despite official statistics showing a decline in crime. Local officials condemned the move as unprecedented, unnecessary, and unlawful.
Most companies are not replacing engineers with AI, but rather using it as a productivity booster to free up time for more complex tasks. AI has not yet reached a level to replace human judgement and knowledge, and its impact on hiring is still unclear.
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The book A Philosophy of Software Design emphasizes maintaining low system complexity by minimizing dependencies and duplication, and focusing on cohesive code. It recommends a strategic approach to programming, investing time in clean designs and fixing problems to avoid long-term costs of incremental complexity.
A mom in Virginia faced repeated visits from child protective services due to neighbors reporting her children as unsupervised. She fought for Reasonable Childhood Independence laws to protect her kids' right to independence.
Debian Linux has released its latest version, Trixie, with numerous updates and changes, including dropping 32-bit x86 architecture support. It features updated programming languages, improved security, and new desktop features, such as smoother animations and fractional scaling.
Apache Iceberg V3 introduces new designs to solve core data lake challenges, including efficient row-level deletes and schema evolution. These advancements enable faster, more efficient, and flexible data operations, blurring the lines between data lakes and warehouses.
YouTube videos load 4MB onto a page before playing, causing performance issues. A solution is to show a preview image, then swap it with an iframe when clicked, but requires handling YouTube's inconsistent thumbnail image loading.
Al Jazeera condemns Israeli forces for assassinating its journalists in Gaza, calling it a premeditated attack on press freedom. The network demands international action to halt the ongoing genocide and protect journalists from deliberate targeting.
We're seeing a new area of design, user agent interface (UAI), emerge for interacting with reasoning agents. To design for UAI, we must consider equal surfaces for UI, API, and UAI, centralizing business logic and exposing it through interfaces.
AP is ending its weekly book reviews starting September 1 due to low audience engagement. Current review assignments will be honored and paid, but book coverage will continue as news stories handled by AP staffers.
Teletext is a technology that originated in the UK in the 1970s for transmitting text and graphics over TV signals. It was popular in many countries, including Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, and is still used today in some form.
AI is rapidly advancing, but its integration into workflows may lead to job losses, with some executives predicting up to 50% of entry-level jobs will be automated. A universal basic income or universal basic provision may be necessary to ensure people's basic needs are met in an AI-driven world.
User reminisces about old computers, specifically the zx-81 and z80 assembly, with nostalgic memories of learning at a young age. They credit Claude's speedup for rekindling these memories and appreciate the challenge of translating mnemonics to machine code by hand.
Raised by Wolves" is a sci-fi series that explores faith, parenting, and androids in a war-torn future world. The show has ambitious ideas but struggles to emotionally engage viewers, feeling more like a list of themes than character-driven storytelling.
Jerry and Wyatt from Halluminate are building Westworld, a simulated internet for training AI agents to use computers and software. They're addressing the unreliability of AI agents with Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) and simulators for tasks like booking flights and financial modeling.
Apple will switch to GPT-5 in iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe 26, expected in September. GPT-5 integration in iOS is unclear, with users possibly limited to non-reasoning mode or manual model selection.
A telnet client connected to itself on a Linux machine by using an ephemeral port, which is a high port number assigned by the kernel, and established a connection without a server listening on that port. This behavior is according to the TCP specification and is a result of the kernel's sequential assignment of ephemeral ports, which can be a security problem.
The World Bank updated the International Poverty Line from $2.15 to $3 per day in June 2025, affecting extreme poverty estimates. This change reflects inflation and higher national poverty lines in low-income countries.
Self-guaranteeing promises are verifiable and irreversible, such as file-over-app functionality and stainless steel. These promises ensure a tool's future is less ambiguous.
Bourbon sales have slowed down due to the pandemic, inflation, and trade wars, with sales dropping to 2% between 2021-2024. The industry is facing an oversupply and declining demand, but some experts see potential for innovation and growth in the Canadian spirits market.
AI companies are scraping the internet for training data, often without compensating creators, and claiming fair use, which is considered theft. News organizations and photographers are fighting back with lawsuits, and some are seeking fair compensation for their content used in AI models.
The author discusses the high cost of AI pro models and how it affects low-income countries. They suggest companies extend access to universities or lower prices to make AI more accessible.
Graham is a system that synchronizes clocks by leveraging local clock properties, reducing clock drift by up to 2000×. It characterizes the local clock using commodity sensors and achieves below 1ppm drift.
Bridgewater Associates is warning of a shift from free trade to modern mercantilism, where governments prioritize national wealth and strength over global cooperation. This change will reshape the global economic order, with countries competing through tariffs, industrial policy, and export controls.
A new app TeaOnHer has launched as a response to the viral app Tea, which allows women to post about men they date, but both apps have security flaws. TeaOnHer contains a security flaw allowing access to user data, including driver's licenses and selfies.
The author is creating a map of the world based on the internal knowledge of large language models, sampling latitude and longitude pairs and asking the model to classify them as land or water.
This book is a 21-chapter complaint about React, written in markdown files with no build step. It's a sarcastic guide to learning React.
Women's Rugby World Cup will use new smart mouthguards that flash red when a player sustains a severe head impact. The technology aims to raise awareness about head injuries and concussions in real-time.
The US Justice Department filed a proposed settlement against Greystar Management Services LLC for anticompetitive practices in rental markets. The settlement requires Greystar to refrain from using certain algorithms and accept a court-appointed monitor.
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Load balancing at scale is hard due to various challenges such as uneven load distribution, cold starts, and dynamic environments. Effective load balancing requires heuristics and strategies like weighted round robin, least connections, and randomized algorithms to handle complex scenarios.
Smart glasses apps face privacy issues, but a real-time filter ensures compliance by processing live video and applying protections. It manages consent and runs offline using FFmpeg, OpenCV, and other technologies.
Businesses are under immense pressure to optimize web performance due to consumer demand, but poor performance is still ubiquitous. Companies like Kroger could save millions by improving performance, but the principal-agent problem and lack of metrics hinder progress.
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Ford introduced a new mid-sized EV pickup for 2027 with a starting price of about $30,000 and BlueCruise capability. The truck will be made on the Ford Universal EV Platform and Production System, allowing for multiple vehicle designs on a single skateboard.
A new submarine crew member is initially considered a Non-Useful Body (NUB) and must earn the respect of their crewmates through hard work and qualification in various phases. Once qualified, sailors are categorized into two groups: Nukes, who work in the engine room, and Coners, who work in the rest of the submarine, each with their unique roles and personalities.
The user's opinion on open sourcing projects hasn't changed with LLMs, still valuing sharing code over proprietary vendors. They consider it an honor for their work to be part of LLMs, but worry about the shift to LLM chat apps affecting open source contributions.
The article discusses the costs of various operations on modern CPUs, including ALU operations, memory accesses, function calls, and system APIs, providing estimates of their costs in CPU clock cycles. The author emphasizes the importance of understanding these costs to avoid premature optimization and to make informed decisions about code optimization, and provides various optimization hints ...
The 1965 Ford Transit was a revolutionary van that was spacious, powerful, and practical, becoming the world's best-selling van with over 13 million units built. Despite redesigns, the Transit remains a staple for small businesses and has a strong British heritage, but faces uncertain competition in the modern market.
Sendkeeps offers postcards with voice messages that spring to life, allowing up to 60 seconds of audio to be recorded. They print on premium cardstock and deliver worldwide for $5 per postcard.
Cloudflare's free plan offers unlimited bandwidth but has limitations, such as inconsistent latency and unpredictable caching. For predictable caching and advanced features, users may need to pay for Cloudflare's premium services or consider alternative CDNs.
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.
Parents were less safety-conscious in the 1970s, allowing kids to engage in riskier activities like bike jumping and daredevil stunts. Evel Knievel's daredevil stunts inspired future generations, including skateboarder Danny Way, who credited him with paving the way for extreme sports.
View the initial demo of 1 million rows to analyze performance and identify areas for improvement. Shape it by categorizing features into core business functions: Operations, Marketing, and Product Development.
The Nix community at DEFCON33 discussed replacing NIX_PATH with angled brackets < and > for importing nixpkgs. A new function __findFile was implemented to access current flake attributes within angle brackets.
Tangled's pull request system generates a patch by comparing a branch to the target branch, using a "hidden tracking ref" for forks. The system also features round-based code review, with immutable submissions and the ability to interdiff changes across submissions.
The "Conflict Thesis" or Warfare Model, popularized by John William Draper and Andrew Dickson White, assumes a perpetual war between science and religion, but this idea has been rejected by historians as simplistic and misleading. Despite being disproven, the Conflict Thesis remains a pervasive idea in popular culture, influencing anti-religious polemicists and shaping the public's ...
This script creates a HomeKit TV accessory to easily switch Steam users on a headless machine. It exposes Steam user accounts as HomeKit inputs for seamless user switching with existing HomeKit setup.
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A thread on the iso c standard mailing list asked about nested functions. matthew mitchell: if you want to use lambdas, you need to capture the value of it e.g. he says nested functions are incredibly useful, but they have their problems - they're banned in most contexts by gcc. with lambda functions, we can't guarantee where the memory is, or whether it