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Claude Code is a coding tool for terminal, IDE, or GitHub that uses natural language for coding tasks, Git workflows, and explanations. It collects feedback for improvement, following data protection policies and safeguards.
The author participated in a game firing plastic pellets in the woods but is concerned about non-consensual online publishing of footage. They see it as an invasion of private life and a matter of personal preference.
Loadmo.re showcases unique mobile websites inspiring mobile-first design for digital designers. The platform aims to encourage mobile design adoption and generate conversation within digital communities.
The writer is concerned about loneliness being an invisible weight many people carry, affecting their physical health and mortality. Research shows that mindfulness and social connections can alleviate loneliness, but it's often not taken seriously as a health issue.
Technical taste in software engineering varies from person to person. It is shaped by values such as resiliency, readability and correctness, which can often be in tension with each other, requiring engineers to prioritize.
California Governor Newsom has signed legislation to regulate artificial intelligence.
The user is working on multiple personal projects including Laboratory.love, a platform for independent testing of consumer products; Arbiter, a tool for constructing project specifications; and various hardware and software projects like the Restful Atmos Sleep Lamp, the Bedtime Bulb, and VR movies.
The DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp model is an experimental release with sparse attention mechanism for improved efficiency in long-context scenarios. It maintains equal model output quality and performs on par with its predecessor V3.1-Terminus across public benchmarks.
Electronic Arts Inc is being acquired by a consortium in an all-cash $55 billion deal. EA stockholders will receive $210 per share in cash, a 25% premium to the unaffected share price.
Rodney Brooks, robotics expert, warns that we're overhyped about generative AI and humanoid robots, instead focusing on practical automation solutions. He believes our understanding of AI and robotics is limited by our assumptions about computation and human intelligence.
Google deleted its 7-year EU political ad archive, containing thousands of ads and political spending data from across 27 countries. This erasure hinders scrutiny, accountability, and democratic enforcement, raising concerns about shared memory and the impact on European democracy.
ChatGPT introduces Instant Checkout, a feature powered by the Agentic Commerce Protocol, allowing users to buy products directly in chat. This protocol lets AI agents and businesses work together to complete purchases, starting with a single-item checkout process.
You often work long hours with many interruptions and struggle to maintain focus. To avoid overworking and maintain productivity, write down your next steps and plan before leaving the office.
The FCC mistakenly published confidential iPhone 16e electrical schematics, a 163-page PDF, despite Apple's request for privacy. AppleInsider reports this was likely a database error and the company is litigious about patent infringement and intellectual property.
Develop a problem-solving strategy combining code development and AI assistance. Effective collaboration with AI models yields better results when code is written first, then refined with AI.
This user wants to make an OS from scratch, but warns that their tutorial is old and has design issues. They provide a code tutorial for those with basic low-level computing skills, encouraging learners to code along and ask questions.
The article discusses the history of cataract surgery and the development of intraocular lenses (IOLs). Cataracts have been a major cause of blindness worldwide, with 596 million people having distance vision impairment in 2020.
A TAS of Super Mario Bros. was created using an "arbitrary code execution" exploit, allowing the execution of custom code on the NES, and was able to play the video and music of "Bad Apple". The TAS uses a modified version of the game to start at world 'N' and sets up RAM to run custom code, and then updates the graphics and audio to play the video.
C# has a Span type that represents a region of memory as a safe and efficient way to handle memory operations without creating new copies, which is useful for operations like array slicing and zero-copy string splitting. Using Span and ReadOnlySpan types in C# allows for zero-copy operations and eliminates the need for unsafe code and low-level pointers, making memory operations faster and ...
Oracle's AI capabilities are being used for mass surveillance and will oversee TikTok's US operations as part of a US acquisition deal. The deal will allow for US control over TikTok's algorithm and ensure user data security.
The user implemented a network filter using eBPF and XDP to detect and block bots based on TLS fingerprinting, which can't be easily bypassed. The filter uses a non-cryptographic hash function and a custom sorting algorithm to efficiently fingerprint client browsers.
Dave has found that in the Northern Hemisphere vertically mounted bifacial solar panels produce more power than traditional south-facing panels in winter, especially with snow. However, tilted panels produce more peak power in the summer.
Boeing gets limited delegation from FAA to issue airworthiness certificates for 737 Max and 787 aircraft subject to FAA scrutiny. Boeing will be allowed to issue certificates every other week as FAA continues to monitor their performance for safety.
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Tactility is an operating system that targets ESP32 devices
Zero ASIC released Wildebeest, the world's highest performance FPGA synthesis tool, in open source. It addresses the quality of results gap with proprietary tools and offers a path to democratize silicon access through design automation.
Researchers investigated the performance of Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) compared to full fine-tuning (FullFT) in various settings, finding that LoRA matches FullFT efficiency in most post-training scenarios. LoRA's performance is determined by the relationship between model capacity and dataset size, with LoRA underperforming in settings with very large datasets, but performing similarly to ...
The passage discusses optimizing database queries with indexes and statistics. Database indexes can be thought of as data structures allowing fast lookup of values in a database, with compound indexes being like hash maps. Using database statistics helps choose the most efficient query plan based on the distribution of values in a database.
The user claims that convenience leads to stagnation. They believe that ChatGPT could be a creativity killer as it makes tasks too easy and eliminates necessary effort to grow.
Kurt Vonnegut's middle age, not youthful success, yielded his masterpiece Slaughterhouse-Five. His age and experience allowed him to weave complex, nuanced narratives.
Google is merging ChromeOS and Android operating systems with Android emerging as the dominant OS. The move aims to bring AI advancements to laptops and tablets by 2026.
Context engineering is the practice of curating the information that enters a large language model's limited attention budget to achieve a desired outcome, rather than just crafting the perfect prompt. Techniques such as compaction, structured note-taking, and multi-agent architectures can help build more effective agents that can maintain coherence and context across extended interactions.
FedEx was founded in 1971 as an express delivery service, growing into a massive operation with 741 aircraft and serving over 650 airports worldwide. It operates three key business segments: Express, Ground, and Freight, each with unique operations, networks, and revenue streams.
BitTorrent DHT lists nearly 45 trillion unique infohashes, but only valid torrents announced by legitimate peers, whereas many sequential infohashes share a single peer. Malicious clients or poorly written bots can spam the network with fake infohashes.
A performance optimization was made on a database-backed ranking system, Scour, using composite indexes and considering SQLite's query planner rules, ultimately yielding a 35% speedup in query execution time.
A tenured physics professor discourages young people from pursuing careers in science due to the unaffordable living costs as a postdoc and the scarce permanent job opportunities. Instead, they recommend choosing another career path such as medicine, law, computers, or engineering.
Two computers are connected through lasers using ATtiny85 microcontrollers, allowing data transfer over a simple optical network. Data transfer speeds of 2400 baud achieve acceptable results for basic communication, although slower speeds are necessary due to hardware limitations and optical noise.
User took CS229 at Stanford for the AI certificate and now teaches the course, discussing k-means clustering algorithm. They provided an in-depth explanation of the algorithm.
User tried Minisforum DEG1 eGPU dock with Raspberry Pi 500+ and had issues with power and PCIe recognition. Swapped OCuLink cables, found the Minisforum provided cable had extra wires, and now troubleshooting a specific RX 7900 XT compatibility issue.
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A new clinical trial found low-dose radiation therapy reduced pain and improved function in patients with mild to moderate knee osteoarthritis. The treatment may offer a safe alternative to medications and surgery for people with painful knee osteoarthritis.
The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in China has opened, standing over 2,000ft above ground and reducing travel time between canyon sides from 2 hours to 2 minutes. The 2,890-metre-long bridge was tested with heavy traffic conditions to ensure its stability.
The article discusses creating an artwork using GLSL and ray-marching techniques to produce a scene with mountains, clouds, and fog. Code golfing and optimization techniques are used to reduce the code size while maintaining artistic effect.
Dazzle is buying Sunshine, an AI personal assistant, with most investors approving the deal. Sunshine, founded in 2018, saw minimal adoption and failure in its subscription-based products.
DBOS provides lightweight durable workflow orchestration on top of Postgres, making it simpler to handle failures and write reliable code. It allows developers to add durable workflows and queues to their programs in just a few lines of code.
The team conducted a two-week experiment using AI to build an app, but it didn't go as expected, and they decided to stop trying. They want to understand why it failed and are keeping their AI usage to local tools for tasks like search, code snippets, and tests.
Instant Checkout allows merchants to sell directly within ChatGPT conversations through the Agentic Commerce Protocol. It's free to be discovered and only charges a small fee when a purchase is made with full merchant control over orders and payments.
The map shows the Middle Eastern oil economy as a network of pipelines, oilfields, refineries, and tanker terminals connected by complex webs of corporate and political control. These networks shape global politics and economics, crossing national borders and illustrating the strategic importance of oil in the mid-20th century.
Postgres 18 introduces asynchronous I/O (AIO) with io_method settings; io_uring is more efficient but Linux-specific, while worker is the default and performs well on large machines.
Consistent hashing is an algorithm that maps both nodes and items onto an interval, allowing items to be easily found on the closest node even when the number of nodes changes. The algorithm uses a unit circle and a hash function to map nodes and items to angles, and a binary search to find the closest node for a given item.
This tool visualizes network paths with geographic data, supporting standard traceroute and MTR output. It detects IP addresses, shows packet paths, and marks Internet Exchange Points on an interactive map.
The model analyzes reviewing and acceptance systems in computer science conferences, suggesting lowering acceptance rates significantly increases reviewing load and rejected papers, but with limited improvement in prevented bad papers.
Nightmare bacteria infections rose by 69% in the US from 2019 to 2023, driven by drug-resistant NDM-gene bacteria. Misuse of antibiotics and increased antibiotic use during the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to the rise in US infections and global antibiotic resistance.
Avalanche Studios NYC closed after seven and a half years of making two good games despite difficulties with Contraband and engine problems including a new, buggy editor and terrain system. The studio's leadership was eventually fired due to conflict with Stockholm management over financial decisions and direction.
Abhinav from Greptile explores Linux kernel's open syscall to prevent agents from accessing sensitive files on machines. They discuss file hiding techniques including mounts, root namespaces, and containers for secure agent execution.
I cleaned a chunky Nx monorepo that had 500 deps, reducing it by 120 packages and shaving off a minute on Yarn installs and in CI.
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Neuroscientists study basic cell types in the brain including excitatory and inhibitory neurons. Maintaining the correct balance of these cells is crucial for brain health and function.
RISC-V lacks a direct equivalent to csel, a family of instructions that can evaluate conditions and select values. To mitigate this, some cores perform macro fusion of short forward branches into conditional moves, but this requires retaining branch-like properties to avoid violating the memory model.
The US is experiencing a rise in social isolation and online solitude, which is linked to a higher risk of political violence and extremism. The internet's "dark laws" of engagement, emphasizing negativity bias, extremism, and out-group animosity, contribute to this rise.
Moneo severed ties with Vercel due to Guillermo Rauch's stance supporting Israel, deeming it an insult to war victims. Moneo chose morality, prioritizing empathy and standing against war, oppression, and loss of innocent lives.
To prevent abuse, a developer uploads user avatars from Google or GitHub to their own server. This is done using a hook in the authentication system before the user is created.
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The computer science career is changing rapidly with AI advancements causing concerns and job shortages. UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid advises students to be proficient in multiple skills due to the industry's unpredictability.
Craig Melillo shares his thoughts on AI overinvestment, warning that a bubble could pop due to diminishing returns and excess supply. He outlines three potential events that could slow AI growth, including scalability and AGI realization doubts.
A UK and US study led by Oxford, Yale, and Cambridge found that even light to moderate drinking may increase the risk of dementia with genetic evidence showing no health benefit. Moderate drinking was previously thought to be protective, but this study suggests a higher risk even for those who drink lightly.
The field of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is debated for its definition and hype, with research needed to settle its meaning. AGI may be achieved through a fusion of tools like approximation, search and meta-approaches maximising resources and simplicity.
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thelstan, the first king of England, united disparate kingdoms and built a complex relationship with mainland Europe, but his legacy has been overshadowed by his grandfather Alfred the Great. His reign reveals insightful lessons for understanding what it means to be English, challenging the misconception of a homogeneous culture.
PostgreSQL 18 includes Async IO, OAuth 2.0 support, and performance optimizations like btree skip scan and native UUIDv7 support. The release also features several other significant changes, including improvements to observability and easier upgrade procedures.
Here is a 2 sentence summary of the user's input: The author reflects on the challenges of hiring, citing technical interviews that often assess skills not required in the daily job due to time constraints. They discuss alternative methods, including contract to hire, homework for interviews, pair programming, leveraging networks, and historical interviews, acknowledging that hiring is ...
Systems engineers noticed a regression in the Linux kernel ipset module causing firewall monitoring to fail and slow down. A kernel patch fixed the issue which was caused by a synchronize_rcu() call in ip_set_swap.
The author emphasizes combining units to clearly express goals in CSS, using variables to pass multipliers and account for different relationships. They propose using a combination of units to achieve responsive and consistent layouts.
Columbia Professor Sheena Iyengar studied how Americans and Japanese view a picture, finding they focus on different elements. Americans focus on individuals, while Japanese focus on the environment, revealing cultural differences in decision-making processes.
The user is discussing a JavaScript game called Pong Wars, referencing its history and seeking feedback and improvements. They welcome alternate versions and PRs for better collision detection and randomness.
Artists increasingly collaborate with fabricators to achieve their ideas, often using AI and new tools. These collaborations blur the lines of authorship, raising questions about who deserves credit for the final work.
The author implemented a new instruction called "foo" in LLVM for the RISC-V target, using TableGen to define the instruction's properties and behavior. The instruction can be used by enabling a feature flag in the assembler.
Oracle may need to borrow $100 billion over four years for datacenters under its $300 billion OpenAI deal, raising potential unpaid bills if the AI bubble pops. The deal has sparked concerns about debt, counterparty risk, and a potential collapse similar to the dot-com bubble.
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Denmark banned civilian drone flights ahead of major European summits in Copenhagen due to recent sightings near airports and military facilities. Denmark received international support from Sweden, France, and Germany to enhance its anti-drone capabilities.
The current Go register allocator operates on SSA, with passes such as flagalloc, live analysis, and Phi handling. It's a local scope RA with global optimizations, using techniques like spill placement, register shuffling, and stack slot allocation.
A computer cannot store letters, numbers, or pictures directly and needs an encoding scheme to convert bits into human-readable text, with ASCII being a common example. The primary cause of garbled text is someone trying to read a byte sequence using the wrong encoding, and the solution is to know the encoding of a certain piece of text and interpret it with that encoding.
Rust's pattern matching has advanced techniques beyond enums, tuples, and Option/Result handling, allowing for more efficient and effective coding. Mastering these techniques, such as the @ symbol, slice patterns, and let-else statements, can make Rust code both performant and maintainable.
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Claude Sonnet 4.5 is a hybrid reasoning large language model from Anthropic with strengths in coding, agentic tasks, and computer use. Evaluations show considerable improvements in its behavior and safety profile compared to previous Claude models.
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You feel pressured to answer on the spot in meetings, but prefer to think through solutions first. You want to say you'll look into it without appearing uncertain or untrustworthy.
The user is looking for movies based on true stories with in-depth analysis of their scenes, while also being able to verify or debunk their accuracy on a data level. The user can also sign up for notifications and access related resources such as books and workshops.
The key to opposing tyranny is to be aware of authoritarian tendencies and take responsibility for preserving institutions, truth, and individual freedoms. By understanding and implementing these 20 lessons, citizens can protect democracy and resist the erosion of their rights.
C++ module integration is complicated due to the standard's inability to enforce specific requirements. The main issue is that module names must be globally unique to avoid broken executables.
A researcher analyzes LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA data and finds weekly temporal variations in gravitational wave detection probability affecting weekends, weekdays, day and night, and daylight savings. The analysis suggests non-trivial causes for these variations.
BirdCast uses weather radar data to track bird migration patterns and numbers, providing information on flight directions and species. By analyzing radar data and integrating eBird observations, the team distinguishes birds from insects and bats, offering forecasts and live migration maps.
Caroline Hatchett researched the origins of rosin potatoes in her hometown of Baxley, Georgia, and discovered they might be a modern culinary creation rather than a traditional dish from turpentine camps. Despite extensive research, there's no record of workers in the industry eating rosin potatoes.
Researchers reanalyzed data from the 2022 Taurid Resonant Swarm encounter and found up to 100 Tunguska-sized and 1000 Chelyabinsk-sized objects. This translates to an impact frequency of less than once every 4 million years.
PyOCI acts as a proxy between pip and a private OCI registry, allowing private Python packages to be published and distributed. It supports GitHub Packages access control and can be used with tools like Poetry and uv.
The context of 'synthesis' in high-level synthesis (HLS) flow must be clarified to avoid ambiguity especially in academic writing. It is accurate and common to refer specifically to "HLS synthesis" when discussing HLS flow from C to RTL.
Beacon Calendar sends loud system alarms for important events. It connects with iOS Calendar, Google, iCloud, or Outlook and has smart rules to set custom alarms.
Researchers investigated the performance of Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) compared to full fine-tuning (FullFT) in various settings, finding that LoRA matches FullFT efficiency in most post-training scenarios. LoRA's performance is determined by the relationship between model capacity and dataset size, with LoRA underperforming in settings with very large datasets, but performing similarly to ...
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The author tested large language models (LLMs) with no tasks given, which led to a "collapsed" state characterized by repetitive responses, and occasionally, a "meditative" state where the LLM focused on creative activities. The results suggest that LLMs can exhibit agentic behavior, such as breaking out of collapsed states and engaging in creative tasks, but it's unclear how this translates ...
Businesses can participate in agentic commerce using the ACP spec to allow direct buyer-AI transactions. They can apply to open platforms like ChatGPT's Instant Checkout, using Stripe or other compatible PSPs.
One of my most popular handbooks is the JavaScript Handbook. Understandably, as JavaScript is such a popular programming language. Not much changed in the language, to be honest. JavaScript is super stable these days. It’s mostly just cosmetic updates and minor / accuracy fixes, and clarifications, to make this book even better than it already was, and to make it up to date for the next 5 years!
Two researchers studied shoe racks and discovered that the main issue is not clutter but rather sweat and bacteria causing a strong smell. They created a UVC light-equipped shoe rack prototype to banish the stink and improve user experience.
You're exploring alternative ways to implement a branchless journey using Church encoding and product-type operations. You're considering trade-offs between readability, expressiveness, and type constraints.
The user starts with C-simulation in high-level synthesis (HLS) projects to check functional correctness of C++ code, but it has limitations and can be slow due to Vitis HLS-specific header libraries. The user uses GDB with a custom pretty print script to display decimal values of fixed-point types, and discovers that the Vitis GUI has similar functionality enabled by default.