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OpenAI's latest video generation model, Sora 2, is more physically accurate and controllable than prior systems, with synchronized dialogue and sound effects. The Sora app allows users to create, remix, and interact with videos featuring realistic, cinematic, and anime styles with friends.
American College of Cardiology recommends universal hsCRP blood test screening due to its stronger prediction of heart disease than LDL cholesterol. Inflammation can still drive events in people on statins or without traditional risk factors.
An image hosting platform, Imgur, stopped being available in the UK due to concerns over children's data and the ICO's investigation. The ICO may fine MediaLab, Imgur's parent company, after reaching provisional findings on its breach of data protection law.
The user recently disabled Disqus comments on their blog due to ads, deeming them invasive and ruining their minimalist goal. They're seeking alternative, self-hosted or privacy-respecting comment systems like GitHub or Twitter/X.
Using Large Language Models generates unreadable code, increasing "comprehension debt" that slows development due to downstream effort. This debt is costly when generated code needs fixing or modification.
Benchmark results for an iPad17,3 with an ARM processor.
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The user has listed favorite essays that changed the way they think about software, including articles by Joel Spolsky, Alexis, Fred Brooks, Raymond Chen, Erik Trautman, Julia Evans, Dan McKinley, Terence Eden, and Brad Fitzpatrick. They highlight the importance of prioritizing developer time and focus over cheap office space and short-term deadlines.
A software engineer discusses the need for a diff library that meets specific criteria. They found existing libraries lacking and created their own Go library to fulfill their needs, which are summarized as follows:
Coding agents like Claude Code and Codex CLI can solve coding problems through brute force by designing an effective loop. They are safe to use with secure sandboxes and careful configuration of available tools and credentials.
OpenAI's latest video generation model, Sora 2, is more physically accurate and controllable than prior systems, with synchronized dialogue and sound effects. The Sora app allows users to create, remix, and interact with videos featuring realistic, cinematic, and anime styles with friends.
Atuin Desktop is an open-source tool that makes developer workflows repeatable, shareable, and reliable. It's a desktop application that runs like a terminal, housing runbooks, scripts, and workflows in one place.
Charlie Javice, a 33-year-old founder, was sentenced to over seven years in prison for defrauding JPMorgan Chase of $175 million by exaggerating her company Frank's user base. Javice made false records and promised to simplify the financial aid process before being caught and convicted of conspiracy, bank, and wire fraud.
Hiring junior engineers offers companies a chance at exceptional growth and fresh energy, as they are AI-native, motivated, and open to new ideas. However, effective hiring requires updated interview processes and proper mentoring infrastructure to bring out their potential and meet industry standards.
You learned Spanish on Duolingo from 2020 for 5 years, but struggled with the gamification approach and pedagogy, eventually realizing Duolingo's methods are subpar for actual language learning. You instead turned to more traditional methods like group lessons, flashcard study, and specialized platforms like Wanikani and Bunpro, which you find more effective for language learning.
Linus Torvalds removed bcachefs from kernel code for 6.18, citing version confusion. The removal could create a risk of out-of-date in-tree changes in other subsystems.
The European Union's EUPL license has undergone several versions, reaching version 1.2, which aims to distribute EU-owned software and facilitate sharing. EUPL is a 'copyleft' license compatible with GPL, designed for EU public sector use but available to all copyright holders.
The writer shares how the "market for lemons" concept, from a 1970 paper by George Akerlof, describes how information asymmetry leads to market degradation. This concept applies to various areas like online shopping, dating, search results, social media and hiring.
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User ran an experiment to find the optimal cooking time for Market Basket Rigatoni. They found people preferred cooking time between 9m15s and 11m30s for ideal texture.
Tech companies claim economy and AI lead to layoffs. Data suggests companies are actually replacing US workers with cheaper H-1B visa holders.
Extract-0 is a large language model optimized for document extraction with 7 billion parameters, outperforming larger models on diverse tasks. It uses novel techniques including synthetic data generation, fine-tuning, and reinforcement learning to achieve better results with fewer resources.
Glide is a Firefox fork that lets you customise the browser with a TypeScript config. It solves usability issues and security constraints of web extensions by supporting arbitrary APIs and process spawining.
Sculptor helps developers with concurrent coding agents and conflict resolution through its container system. The tool supports parallelism, allowing multiple tasks to run simultaneously and maintains the developer's "edge" with AI tools in the dev environment.
Airweave is a platform transforming app contents into searchable knowledge bases via REST API or MCP. Agents can connect and search using a standardized interface after cloning and building the repository.
The script demonstrates various dgsh commands and workflows, including input/output multipiping, parallel processing, and image analysis for data analysis tasks in various fields such as computer science, physics, and geology. The examples process files, compute statistics, analyze Git logs, and visualize data through multiple scripts and tools.
The user accidentally destroyed critical dataset information while migrating pools, potentially leading to permanent data loss due to an undecryptable dataset issue caused by changing the encryption key.
The user has a long list of futuristic tech ideas they wish existed, including AI-powered apps for photo editing, writing assistance, and curriculum creation, as well as a marketplace for hyper-specific AI agents. They envision these tools simplifying various aspects of life, from personal well-being to learning and productivity.
Researchers at APNIC Labs track ISP market share within countries through ad impressions. They use IP-to-country mappings and assumptions about ad placements to estimate user counts per ISP, but results have 15% or so uncertainty due to several factors including assumptions about ad distribution, multiple ISP usage, and satellite service geolocation issues.
The Open Source community's Code of Conduct (CoC) has evolved from a practical solution to solve Debian's dysfunction in the early 2000s to a comprehensive template that has become a tool for power struggles, governance crises, and corporate takeovers. ESR and DHH argue that strict CoCs have become an unnecessary burden, introducing new pathologies, and recommend a return to simple, ...
The book provides a textbook-like treatment of multi-armed bandits, a decision-making framework under uncertainty, covering IID and adversarial rewards, contextual bandits, and more. It includes self-contained chapters on specific topics, along with exercises and surveys on bandits with similarity information, knapsacks, and agents.
Mathematics has evolved significantly over the centuries from a focus on the physical world to a more abstract science, with axiomatic approaches like Peano arithmetic and set theory allowing for the development of modern math. These frameworks have led to understanding infinite sets and cardinalities, which in turn have enabled mathematicians to explore strange but fascinating mathematical ...
Chaotic systems exhibit non-linear behavior and require the Lyapunov exponent, a measure of sensitivity to initial conditions, to determine chaos. A positive Lyapunov exponent indicates chaos, a negative exponent indicates stability, and zero implies neutrality.
Cerebras Systems completed a $1.1 billion Series G funding round at $8.1 billion post-money valuation led by Fidelity Management & Research Company and Atreides Management. The funds will expand Cerebras' AI infrastructure and U.S. manufacturing and data center capacity to meet explosive demand.
Wikimedia Foundation believes access to free and open knowledge is a human right, ensuring everyone can access and share reliable information freely on Wikipedia and other projects. A human rights impact assessment on AI and machine learning technologies was conducted to understand potential risks and opportunities for human rights in the Wikimedia ecosystem.
The user is moderately positive about Online Safety and praises social network BlueSky for its pragmatic approach to protecting minors. BlueSky restricts services for minors who don't verify their age, but its data retrieval process has issues.
Each project runs in its own Docker box (container), preventing dependency conflicts and keeping your host system clean. Boxes restart automatically and persist between reboots. Your code stays on the host filesystem for easy editing with your favorite tools while running in isolated environments.
100,000 federal workers are set to quit the US government on Tuesday, a record mass resignation. The loss of workers may disrupt government services and the economy, impacting unemployment numbers.
The person organized their Slack channels by "how often" they need to engage with them, reducing stress by focusing on most urgent tasks first. This approach, using the Eisenhower Matrix, allowed them to maintain Inbox Zero for Slack every day for almost a month.
I stopped using Julia due to too many correctness bugs in its ecosystem. My experience shows that Julia's bugs often lead to incorrect results, segfaults, or silent data corruption.
The Google-zlib challenge from Google CTF 2025 contains an arbitrary patch that introduces a vulnerability. The bug in the Huffman table construction can lead to memory corruption when encountering incomplete Huffman tables.
The author believes people misuse AI tools by relying on them without understanding their users' needs, making products that don't really solve problems. The solution isn't avoiding AI, but rather using human insight combined with AI capabilities to create products people actually want.
Ruby Central implemented procedural changes for rubygems.org security. Temporary holds are in place while they finalize operator agreements and increase auditability.
The Awakening Bell online platform offers a guided mindful breathing exercise inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh. Users can listen to either a big or small bell sound, customized by set time intervals or random occurrences.
The U.S. Army cannot import Tesla Cybertrucks into Europe due to safety concerns violating EU regulations. The vehicle lacks type-approval and fails to meet the EU's safety standards for vulnerable road users.
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Sen. Mark Kelly leads effort to keep Space Shuttle Discovery at the Smithsonian, citing financial and logistical concerns. Kelly argues that moving the shuttle to Houston would be expensive and risk damaging the historic artifact.
The EU Council's Chat Control proposal would scan billions of people's private conversations, threatening end-to-end encryption and user privacy. Opponents, including Signal, warn this would undermine civil liberties, pave the way for authoritarianism, and affect global users.
ABS should look familiar to most of us, as its elements are borrowed from popular programming languages such as Ruby, Python or JavaScript: System commands are deeply integrated (and encouraged); they make ABS ideal to work with in the context of shell scripting: Grab the latest release, run abs your_script.abs and see the magic happening. ABS works on Mac, Windows and Linux:
DEML is a new syntax for DAGs that takes advantage of the natural flow order, using ---- to represent elevation markers. It can generate Mermaid Diagram files with the command deml mermaid.
Editor demands removal of em dashes to avoid AI detection, citing its overuse in training large language models. Writer grapples with style, considering alternatives to preserve unique writing flow.
BrowserPod is a WebAssembly-based technology that runs full-stack development environments across languages in-browser, supporting Node.js and Python initially. It allows for fast, client-side containerized development with advanced networking and will be released in late November with a free license for non-commercial users.
The user discusses their experience with the Hénon strange attractor, creating visualizations using Julia programming language. They share a gallery of images along with a Julia code description.
The cleanup attribute in GCC can be used with nested functions to create a defer mechanism that runs code automatically at the end of a block and automatically frees resources. This implementation is not portable C and relies on GCC extensions, but it simplifies resource management and is useful for exploration and experimentation.
Electronic Arts, a video game maker behind "Madden NFL" and "The Sims," is being acquired by a $52.5 billion deal involving private equity firms Silver Lake Partners and Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund PIF. The deal will make EA a privately owned company, allowing it to reprogram its operations without public investment pressures.
Molly White and Stephen Harrison discussed criticisms and targeting of Wikipedia editors due to alleged bias, with the Heritage Foundation's plan to identify and target editors being particularly concerning. The process of Wikipedia editing is transparent and based on policies such as notability, with editors working together to resolve disputes.
Meta's Teen Accounts promised parents safety, but a report found 83% of safety tools ineffective. The features don't protect kids, and parents are sold a false sense of security.
Lullamon turns old iPhones iPads into secure baby monitors with real-time streaming and passcode protection. Features include automatic device discovery, no internet, and a 100% free app with no ads.
This is a Rust implementation of the Cap'n Web protocol for promise pipelining, multi-transport support, and secure RPC with zero-panic code and error handling. It includes examples for a simple rpc client and a calculator that uses RPC for arithmetic operations.
The author self-hosted iCloud services in 2019 for customization, privacy, and ownership. However, Apple now requires iCloud for HomeKit device access, suggesting the company wants more control over users' data and devices.
Research shows that sons of fathers who started smoking at 15 or younger may age faster due to biological changes. Stronger efforts to prevent tobacco use in teenagers are recommended to benefit future generations.
Ludwig van Beethoven's genome was sequenced from hair samples found to be most likely authentic, and analysis revealed his likely European ancestry and genetic predisposition to certain diseases, including hearing loss, cirrhosis, and SLE. Beethoven's genetic data showed a polygenic risk score for liver cirrhosis and SLE, but no clear disease-causing variants for his hearing loss or other ...
Charlie Javice, 33, a startup founder, sentenced to over 7 years in prison for cheating JPMorgan out of $175 million by exaggerating her company's customer base. Javice made false records claiming Frank had over 4 million customers when it had fewer than 300,000.
The Forest Service is facing a new era under the Trump administration, shifting focus from conservation to increased resource production and extraction. Proposed budget cuts and office consolidations could cripple the agency and dismantle its environmental protection role.
Large asset managers struggle to identify top investment talent due to lack of reliable information or certain biases. Skilled investors often hide in smaller funds, personal accounts, or unknown locations.
Philip is from Hypr MCP, which connects internal apps to LLM-based workflows using MCP servers, and will show how to build prompt analytics into their MCP server Gateway. By dynamically injecting analytics fields into tool schemas, the HyprMCP Gateway captures prompt information and usage patterns without modifying MCP servers or clients.
The acting guild AFTRA condemns the AI "actress" Tilly Norwood, calling her a stolen performance that jeopardizes actor livelihoods and devalues human artistry. Many Hollywood stars, including Emily Blunt and Whoopi Goldberg, also expressed strong opposition to the AI creation on social media.
You are writing safety-critical software in Rust on Armv7-M processors, aiming to write an RTOS. You are using the Arm Cortex-M's SysTick, PendSV, and PSP features to write a pre-emptive task switching scheduler.
This article discusses using dispassionate observation to overcome anxiety fueled by traumatic experiences. Dispassionate observation can help people "decatastrophize" and view the world objectively, rather than being controlled by preferred narratives.
The text discusses how societal norms and lies can hinder personal growth and happiness suggesting a more authentic approach to life and self-love. It emphasizes living in the present, embracing solitude, and understanding human nature beyond its own limits.
LLVM's TPDE compiler backend was open-sourced for low-latency code generation while maintaining reasonable code quality. It integrates with LLVM's On-Request Compilation framework for JIT compilers.
The author proposes reforming land valuation to align with economic incentives, focusing on simplicity and accuracy. They argue that land value can be determined using a fixed allocation percentage applied to the typical prevailing property value in each local area.
A small business is struggling to rank for its brand name search terms on Google due to competition from big brands that may have paid for a Google whitelist. The issue may be due to a problem with the website itself, such as a misconfigured robots.txt or being blacklisted, or the business must rely on expensive Google Ads.
WhiteLotus is a social app with AI face verification to block bots and fake profiles, offering features like private chats, photo-based posting, and social tribes. It aims to build a space for authentic connections and social growth without noise or fake personas.
The EU's Cyber Resilience Act has been revised to be more open source friendly, requiring companies to document and secure their software supply chain. Open source developers are not liable under the new law, but companies must acknowledge and document their open source dependencies.
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Projects are all stored in a project file. Developers can use ProcASM to compare two different project files and display the differences between the two of them. This is a useful feature for software projects that utilize version control.
Intel had a 64-bit x86 extension from around 1997-1998, but it was never shipped due to marketing concerns. The design, however, had expansion possibilities to support up to 32 registers, but details remain unclear.
Gmailify is replaced by IMAP in Gmail, allowing real-time syncing and access via multiple devices. You can still link and read third-party accounts within the Gmail app.