We often lack "bridging" social capital due to living in isolated communities and preferring relationships with like-minded people. This lack of connection with strangers makes us miss opportunities to build trust and helps to erode society.
Tempo is a purpose-built blockchain for high-volume payments with predictable fees, high throughput, and private transactions. It's a permissionless, open blockchain for global-scale real-time payments with collaborations for cross-border use cases.
Paying sustained attention to something can unlock intense and pleasurable experiences by allowing bodily systems to sync and loop with each other, restructuring the attentional field. This can be seen in deep relaxation, sensory experiences like sex, creative inspiration, and even understanding complex ideas in math, art, and science.
A 3D animated visualization of an LLM with a walkthrough.
Wikipedia's unique process of allowing anonymous strangers to collaborate and come to a consensus on fact-based articles has made it a crucial source of information, but it also makes it vulnerable to external attacks and internal conflicts. Despite its imperfections, Wikipedia's governance model, which focuses on process rather than content, has enabled the site to stay neutral and ...
Atlassian agreed to buy The Browser Co., which makes web browsers Arc and Dia, for $610 million in cash. The deal will boost Atlassian's browser technology with AI features to enhance user experience for its Jira project management software users.
Fourier analysis, developed by Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, separates sound and other functions into elemental frequencies. This technique has become a crucial tool in mathematics, physics, and chemistry.
Researchers at UC Santa Cruz created Pulse-Fi, a system accurately measuring heart rate using low-cost WiFi devices and a machine learning algorithm. The system works from up to 10 feet away and in various positions, demonstrating its potential for low resource health monitoring.
Le Chat is now integrating with 20+ enterprise platforms, featuring a wide connector directory and custom extensibility. This integration empowers users to search, summarize, and act in various business-critical tools.
Google removed its 2030 net-zero pledge from its Sustainability website due to growing power demand from AI data centers. The company still claims to be committed to reaching net-zero emissions by 2030, but critics see this as an unrealistic goal.
Vim packages are directories containing plugins, allowing plugins to be downloaded, unpacked, and loaded automatically on startup. Packages can have optional plugins that load only with the :packadd command or be added to runtimepath manually.
Melvyn Bragg steps down from BBC Radio 4's In Our Time after 1,000 episodes over 25 years. He will continue working with the BBC on other projects, including a new series in 2026.
The author is using a server with 32 CPU cores and 96 GB of memory to benchmark the performance of counting integers from disk versus memory. He uses a combination of disk and memory to find that disk can be faster than memory when using a custom IO pipeline.
User built a self-hosted music streaming setup using Navidrome and other tools, offering features beyond Spotify. The setup allows for music ownership, direct artist support, and customizable music discovery.
Using SQLite as a container for OpenDocument presentations could improve user experience with faster file save operations, smaller memory footprint, and quicker startup times. This approach allows incremental updates, improved accessibility, and support for features like document versioning and undo/redo capabilities, suggesting SQLite could enhance future application file formats.
An office manager was unfairly sacked after calling her boss and another director "dickheads" in a heated row. She was awarded £30,000 in compensation and legal costs.
toilé is an open-source project aiming to create a user environment for create, collaborate, and learn tasks with a simplified user interface. It's built on GNUstep with MIT/BSD license for portability to various operating systems.
A student at a New York high school says AI tools have made schoolwork easier but also led to excessive shortcuts and cheating. This has resulted in a lack of intensity and discipline among students who rely on technology to complete tasks.
Hollow Knight: Silksong's release caused platform chaos with Steam issues and error messages during payment. Players on Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch also face difficulties adding the game to their carts and wishlists.
The age simulation suit GERT offers young people to experience age-related impairments. It's durable and effective, suitable for teaching elderly behavior.
Building an effective AI agent requires strategic architectural decisions that prioritize user trust over accuracy, by admitting uncertainty and being transparent in limitations. Implementing an agent that handles complex tasks involves choosing between several orchestration approaches, each offering advantages and trade-offs for predictability, adaptability, and cost.
The SQLite database file format describes the organization of an on-disk database file into pages with a fixed size, ranging from 512 to 65536 bytes. The main database file is composed of a database file header, a freelist, b-tree algorithm storage, and reserved space for extensions with different fields for auto-vacuum and incremental-vacuum modes.
Amazon's rigid return-to-office policy is hindering tech talent recruitment, as candidates prefer flexibility over higher pay and benefits. The company is at risk of falling behind in the AI space due to strict RTO rules and is losing employees to competitors like Oracle.
Polars Cloud is now Generally Available on AWS, offering a managed data platform for remote execution of Polars queries at scale. The launch includes a distributed engine in Open Beta with novel streaming architecture for vertical, diagonal, and horizontal scaling strategies.
The user extracted 38 classic Mac black-and-white patterns from a System 6 disk. They used various programs and commands to extract the patterns including DeRez, The Unarchiver, and ImageMagick.
Flock Safety's nationwide ALPR system creates a mass-surveillance tool allowing any law enforcement to access data on vehicle movements. This system erodes Americans' privacy and may be extended to unjustifiable arrest and detention of innocent people.
The code snippet uses CacheStorage to cache and retrieve resources like fonts, while handling exceptions and HTTP error responses. It also shows a way to version caches and manage multiple caches with a service worker.
Atlassian agreed to buy The Browser Co., which makes web browsers Arc and Dia, for $610 million in cash. The deal will boost Atlassian's browser technology with AI features to enhance user experience for its Jira project management software users.
The color blue played a significant role in human history, with its artificial production driving technological advancements and cultural associations. From the rarity of blue pigments to the invention of blue LEDs, blue became a symbol of innovation and the future in science fiction, art, and technology.
Zig with io_uring is used to maximize file IO performance on Linux with a Ryzen EPYC CPU and 756 GB RAM. The example code is slower than fio but hits expected SSD numbers and uses features like polled io, kernel busy polling, and pre-registered buffers to achieve performance benefits.
Here's a 2-sentence summary of the user's text within a 200-character limit. The dimension of a line is a subtle concept that can be approached through spatial containment or the dimensionality of the space under the line. A mathematical model by Minkowski uses box-counting to assign dimension, which can apply not only to lines but also to fractal shapes.
The user optimized their NYC Chaos Dashboard by converting GeoJSON data to vector tiles, reducing site load time and paint time. This improved performance and made the site usable for more users with the help of MapLibre GL JS and Mapbox Vector Tiles (MVT).
Reports of Google services outage flood Eastern Europe causing disruptions across YouTube, Maps and Gmail. The outage is indicated by a 5xx server error, with alternative search engines available.
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Analog optical computers can efficiently accelerate both AI inference and combinatorial optimization using a non-traditional computing platform, leveraging 3D optics and analog electronics to perform a fixed-point search without digital conversions. This enables the computer to run complex machine learning models and solve industrial optimization problems in a scalable and sustainable manner.
A new technique called electromechanical reshaping (EMR) uses electrical pulses to permanently reshape the cornea without cutting or burning. The cost-effective method, developed by surgeons-engineers, promises to replace traditional LASIK surgery for correcting vision issues.
Saquon Barkley is an NFL star who manages his finances, treating endorsement deals as investments, not just payments. He parks his earnings in venture capital, real estate, and index funds, often getting direct equity stakes in companies through referrals and research.
Action! was an 8-bit compiled language developed by Clinton Parker for Atari computers. It was an integrated development environment with a text editor, compiler, debugger, and monitor that allowed for structured, procedural programming in a relatively fast and efficient manner.
The macro lam/anon in Racket allows anonymous recursive functions with the use of anaphoric references. It enables a function to refer to itself without needing an explicit name.
Someone is going back to using cash due to positive reasons and wanting to reduce smartphone dependence. The benefits of cash include being anonymous, not having hidden charges, and being accessible to everyone, but convenience and budgeting ease make digital payments preferable.
Between 1945 and 2017, over 2100 nuclear tests were conducted, mostly by the US and USSR, with the largest test being the 50-megaton Tsar Bomba in 1961. This explosion caused massive destruction across hundreds of kilometers and its effects were felt around the world.
Bitrig creates a Swift interpreter to run Swift apps on iOS, interpreting from Swift to Swift. It uses SwiftSyntax to parse code and generate runtime values and native API calls.
The US launched a strike in the Caribbean killing 11 suspected Venezuelan narco-traffickers without trial or capture. This move raises concerns about lawlessness, the rule of law, and US adherence to international law.
Voltron Data's Theseus is a distributed runtime designed for efficient data movement, hiding latencies and keeping accelerators busy. It beats Databricks Photon at large scales, proving the importance of intentional data movement in distributed computing.
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Julian Gollop is a veteran game designer who began coding in BASIC while in school and has worked on various projects, including X-COM. His game Rebelstar Raiders, released in the 1980s, laid the foundation for his tactical combat system, which he later refined in games like Laser Squad and X-COM.
Students from two American universities were given a classic novel excerpt to read and explain, surprisingly finding it challenging. They were tasked with reading 19th-century English literature for understanding.
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Meshnet will be fully shut down on December 1, 2025, due to low user adoption and ongoing resource needs. Alternative solutions including NordLocker for secure file sharing and other mesh networking solutions are recommended.
A conspiracy theory suggests Unix was created to hobble competitors and keep control over them with upgrades. This theory claims Unix was designed to be unreliable and spread indirectly through people and market forces.
Apple's Liquid Glass design is visually appealing but resource-intensive, potentially causing hardware strain. It's computationally weightless for now due to powerful M4 chips but may become a problem on future, less powerful devices.
Slashy is a general AI agent that connects to apps, reads data, and performs actions through tools and semantic search. It solves context-switching issues by integrating with 15 services and allowing users to describe automation workflows naturally.
hledger has updated its transaction balancing to use local precisions only. Updates to journal entries may be needed for accuracy.
In the mid-90s, Sasaki Miho created Purikura, a photo-taking, sticker-printing booth that became Japan's highest-grossing arcade game in 1996. Purikura's popularity remains despite waning in the 2000s, with over 90% of Japanese people trying it at least once.
Building a database is challenging due to various potential issues and the need for a robust logging system to ensure data durability and availability.
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Lost technology is a trope often used in fantasy and science fiction, where a hero stumbles upon an ancient device or process that has been forgotten. However, in reality, lost technology is relatively rare.
The author shares the "superpower" of finding bugs in code when carefully reading through implementation, and how reading source code helps build a precise mental model of a program. This skill allows for proactively revealing problems and creating more reliable software.
Atlassian bought The Browser Company for $610 million, focusing on AI browser Dia for work tools. Atlassian will run Dia as an independent entity, expanding its features for work apps.
The user built PianoReader, a web tool that watches piano tutorial videos and extracts notes and chords. It uses HTML canvas for video processing, Fabric.js for interactive canvas, and tonal.js for chord detection.
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The author discussed a recent lecture by Professor Sarah Paine on the Cold War and a framework she uses to analyze history, which the author found life-changing. This framework involves questions, research methods, and sustaining lessons, making complex ideas more approachable and understandable.
Integer-programming models are a type of math problem that deals with discrete rather than fractional values, often used in decision-making situations such as capital budgeting, warehouse location, and scheduling. These models are used to solve practical problems that involve logical constraints and 0-1 variables, representing binary choices or decisions with two possible outcomes.
Volkswagen is renaming its entry-level electric vehicles to reuse well-known names such as Polo, T-Cross and GTI for affordability. The ID.Polo and ID.Cross are among the new affordable EVs that will be launched soon, along with a GTI variant.
A successful startup like Figma, takes a long time to reach its goal of becoming interstellar by slowly getting further away from everyone and everything interesting. These "slingshot" companies have hard-earned technical moats, unique customer relationships and are often hard to copy.
FlipCards uses spaced repetition and card variations to improve learning retention and understanding. It prevents memorization by using multiple variations of each concept to assess comprehension.
Scientists inspired by water striders' gliding ability created Rhagobot, a robot that uses morphing fan-like appendages to traverse water surfaces effortlessly, outpacing competitors in speed and agility. Rhagobot's design could revolutionize water exploration, search and rescue, and potential planetary exploration, building on the tiny insect's remarkable adaptability.
Reddit used RabbitMQ task queues for horizontal scalability, flow control and scheduling, but needed durable queues for robustness with durable workflow checkpointing to a store like Postgres. Durable queues provide a persistent record of tasks and relationships for recovery and observability, and are suitable for lower volume business-critical tasks.
Anthropic is restricting services for companies with ties to authoritarian regions due to security risks and potential misuse. This update aligns with its commitment to advancing democratic interests with AI development.
Jakob, an Engineer at Hypr MCP, built a MCP Server Gateway that acts as a reverse proxy and supports the MCP authorization framework with a custom solution using Dex as the identity provider. The MCP Server Gateway provides an easy-to-use package for MCP server implementers and handles authentication using OAuth2 access tokens validated by JWTs from the client.
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The AI Darwin Awards celebrate pioneers who mishandle artificial intelligence, putting their company and everyone else at risk. These nominees showcase spectacularly poor decisions and hubris in the field of AI.
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Someone owns a valuable domain name, milk.com. They're not selling it despite potentially making millions, leaving investors and Planet Money to wonder its real worth.
You built a Hungry Hungry Hippos game robot with a W65C265SXB, Intel Atom netbook and Alexa control. It plays by itself using image processing and was then made controllable via voice commands.
Dr. Karen Norberg studied brain development using knitting as a similar process, comparing cell growth to stitches in a row. She knit an anatomically correct human brain replica, a labor of love, appealing to her sense of humor due to its absurd ambition.
Pezy Computing's new Pezy-SC4s chip boosts floating-point performance by 25% and lowers power consumption despite a significant increase in clock speed, potentially matching the Green500's record 55 GF/W. The company plans to release its first exascale system next year, featuring 737,280 cores and a peak performance of 8.6 petaflops.
Fossil fuels cause over 75% of global greenhouse gas emissions. You can help modernize electrical grids through OpenStreetMap by mapping and validating local grid data to support clean energy projects worldwide.
The rm-safely alias prevents accidental deletion of important files on MacOS by prompting for confirmation before deleting. It allows for safer deletion by redirecting files to the trash bin first for further decision.
Campfire is a single-tenant app requiring separate instances for distinct groups. Deployment includes web app, background jobs, caching, and SSL.