Jane Goodall, a renowned naturalist, has died at 91 from natural causes in California. She is known for her groundbreaking research on chimpanzees that transformed understanding of human behavior and the natural world.
Trying to appear competent and outgoing despite feeling exhausted from constant masking to fit into a neurotypical work environment. Today, I'll put on a show while secretly burnt out and feeling the weight of hiding my true self at work.
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.
Engineers who refuse to engage in politics often see bad decisions made and think it's the problem. In reality, it's bad politics winning by default due to a lack of influence.
We built a storage cluster in downtown SF to store 90 million hours of video data, costing 40x less than cloud storage. We chose to rent space from a colocation center to save money with fixed monthly costs of $29,500.
The author is enthusiastic about Claude Code, a terminal-based AI tool that has become their primary operating system for note-taking and coding. Its success stems from filesystem access and integration with Unix commands, making it a blueprint for building reliable agentic systems.
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The Future-proof File Format (F3) is a next-generation open-source file format designed for interoperability, extensibility, and efficiency, addressing the limitations of existing formats like Parquet and ORC. F3 embeds WebAssembly (Wasm) binaries in each file to ensure compatibility and extensibility, allowing developers to easily add new encoding schemes and features without breaking ...
Use the simplest solution, such as a Google Sheet, to solve a problem until the requirements change or the current solution no longer works. This approach helps avoid over-engineering and allows for iteration and adjustments as the problem's full scope becomes clearer.
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TigerBeetle is a modern database that prioritizes performance, stability, and fault tolerance through its use of Deterministic Simulation Testing (DST), Zig as its programming language, and strict adherence to distributed architecture. With its innovative approach to software development and testing, TigerBeetle has built a database that can process thousands of transactions per second with ...
When effortful things become effortless due to technology, our positions in economies of joy, self-respect, fulfillment, and happiness may be impacted, leading to a sense of loss and identity crisis. This shift challenges our value derived from work and the identity formed through effortful activities.
In the second quarter of 2025, 54% of EU electricity came from renewables, with solar leading at nearly 20% of total generation. Solar became the EU's single largest electricity source in June 2025, surpassing nuclear and other sources.
Researchers developed Time-Series Language Models (TSLMs) for multimodal reasoning on temporal data like heartbeat and sensor signals. OpenTSLM provides lightweight bases and Frontier TSLMs offer proprietary models for various AI applications.
Cormac McCarthy's private life and interests are revealed through his 20,000-volume library, which scholars are cataloging. The library shows McCarthy's vast intellectual curiosity and polymathic nature, with annotated books on various subjects including philosophy, mathematics, and literature.
The author believes Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is on the decline due to limitations in handling large knowledge bases and context windows. Agentic search, which uses direct filesystem tools and intelligent navigation, represents a fundamental evolution in AI search, making RAG a temporary solution.
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Codeberg is a non-profit Git hosting platform controlled by German non-profit Codeberg eV, serving community members with no tracking or profiteering. You can support Codeberg by becoming a member or donating to sustain the community.
Saunders Mac Lane introduced functors to study natural transformations, which are a way to express morphisms between functors, enabling the definition of category equality and other advanced concepts in category theory. Natural transformations are essentially mappings between morphisms that satisfy a naturality condition, which is essential for defining categorical equivalence and other ...
To get to the campus, I have to walk past the fentanyl zombies. I call them fentanyl zombies because it helps engender a sort of detached, low-empathy, ironic self-narrative which I find useful for my work; this being a form of internal self-prompting I've developed which allows me to feel comfortable with both the day-to-day "jobbing" (that of improving reinforcement learning ...
Constructive Type Theory is a system that brings together logic and programming in a single framework, providing a way to develop and verify programs within a single system. It is an extension of many-sorted, first-order predicate logic.
Congress blames each other for the US federal government shutdown. Non-essential services will be shut down while essential services will continue to operate.
Website about past prison experience from sports streaming site owner who operated from 2016-2021 and served 18 months in FCI Thomson before releasing in 2025. Purpose is to clarify inaccurate reports, citing TorrentFreak as a reliable source.
The author, a software engineer with experience in Silicon Valley, challenges assumptions about Bitcoin's decentralization and security, citing its centralized nature and vulnerabilities to attacks. These weaknesses include its inability to prevent 51% attacks and its potential compromise by a quantum computer.
ICE has purchased a powerful surveillance tool from PenLink, allowing for warrantless location tracking of millions of people. This move reverses Biden-era curbs, echoing Russia's strategy of building a domestic surveillance state.
The passage describes how some world-class performers, such as Sofia Polgar, George Orwell, and Richard Feynman, achieved high level skills without obvious talent or extensive formal practice.
edge264 is a high-performance H.264 decoder developed in C using 128-bit vector extensions and is compiled with GCC or LLVM Clang.
New features add autocomplete suggestions, image file support to context and custom script control. Additionally, team rules and shareable deeplinks are introduced.
The Perl and Raku Foundation received a USD 25,000 donation from DuckDuckGo for the second consecutive year. The donation will fund core Perl maintenance work, including ongoing contributions from Perl developer Paul "LeoNerd" Evans.
Tinker is a flexible API for fine-tuning language models, controlling algorithms and data, while handling complexity. It's now in private beta for researchers and developers, free to start and with usage-based pricing coming.
AI's initial impact on the labor market is unclear with no discernible disruption 33 months after ChatGPT's release. Current data does not support fears of widespread job losses due to AI automation.
Microsoft now allows employees to use Copilot features from their personal Microsoft 365 plans at work. This enables AI usage while IT retains control and enterprise data remains protected.
Minimal PWA files include manifest.json and service worker for installable Chrome apps, with a smaller single-file version using dynamic manifest generation. This enables install flow on both Android and iOS devices.
LatentCSI generates images from WiFi CSI measurements using a lightweight neural network and pretrained LDM. It produces high-quality images efficiently with text-guided controllability and outperforms baselines in both speed and quality.
Memory safety vulnerabilities are prevalent due to programming languages like C allowing direct memory manipulation and undefined behaviors. DARPA's TRACTOR program aims to automate C code translation to Rust to eliminate vulnerabilities using large language models and software analysis techniques.
We built a proxyless, client-driven load balancing system to improve service-to-service communication within a Kubernetes cluster at Databricks, supporting load balancing at the application layer and removing dependency on DNS. The system uses a custom Endpoint Discovery Service to read service data from the Kubernetes API and maintains an up-to-date view of backend pods for intelligent ...
Walmart U.S. is removing synthetic dyes and 30 additional ingredients from its private brand food products. The change aims to provide customers with affordable, high-quality products that meet their demand for simpler ingredients and transparency.
fossaBot is a new AI agent that automates strategic dependency updates for enterprises, backed by a comprehensive accuracy framework. It proposes smart updates by balancing risk vs. reward, understanding breaking changes, and adapting code for newer paradigms.
The developer created NUFLIX, an extension of the old NUFLI image format, to display full-screen images on the Commodore 64 with more colours and detail. The system uses sprites to achieve high-resolution images with three colours in every 8-pixel section, including underlay colours that can be changed independently.
I'm looking for a role in Applied Research or Product Engineering at the intersection of hardware, manufacturing, and software, with expertise in Typescript, AWS, PSQL, and CAD.
We developed an open-source tool called blockdiff for rapid block-level diffs and snapshots of VM disks to reduce VM startup and snapshot times. Blockdiff operates mostly on file metadata to achieve faster snapshot creation and transfer.
A person built an IoT device called SplashFlag to alert neighbors when their kids are swimming, inviting them to join in. They learned several lessons from building the device, including following best practices, using a captive portal for WiFi connections, and setting up remote firmware updates.
The author argues against Silicon Valley's rhetoric of inevitability, saying it's a form of persuasion that shifts responsibility away from those with power. They believe people should manage their lives as if they have agency.
Uxntal is a stack-based assembly language for portable virtual machines, with no variables or precedence rules, and hexadecimal numbering. It supports labels, macros, and objects, and is used for programming portable games.
Harrods has warned customers of a hacker breach that may have stolen names and contact details. Cyberattacks on UK businesses have increased, prompting debate over proposed digital ID cards amid growing awareness of UK cybersecurity frailties.
Scientists have developed molecular biosensors that can be engineered using genes from organisms. New transducers can be seen from a distance using cameras or machines.
The US government shutdown halted non-essential IT modernization projects. Cybersecurity operations continue with skeleton crews, threatening long-term setbacks in IT modernization and cybersecurity.
The author analyzed Netflix streams and found AV1 codec to be more efficient for some content, beating H.264 and HEVC in bitrate savings, but sometimes using more data for very complex scenes.
People across eight countries generally agree that online platforms should have greater responsibility for their own content policies rather than governments doing so. They also think platforms should be held responsible for showing false information posted by users.
Rio is a fast terminal emulator written in Rust that supports 16 million colors and customizable screens. It's known for its high performance and user-friendly interface, with a strong development community contributing to its growth.
VMware recently patched a high-severity vulnerability, CVE-2025-41244, exploited by Chinese state-sponsored threat actor UNC5174 since October 2024. The flaw allows attackers to escalate privileges to root.
Individuals with aphantasia may experience a shift in brain activity after using psychedelics, temporarily allowing them to form mental images. Research suggests that psychedelics may alter neural connectivity, reducing top-down inhibition and reconfiguring brain networks which could help compensate for the deficit experienced by people with aphantasia.
User set up their own mail server on NixOS with rspamd, achieved clean IP reputation, SPF pass, DKIM pass, DMARC pass, and improved email deliverability. They were skeptical about the success of their setup, especially with Microsoft rejecting their emails, but found it effective.
The article discusses how AI technology, such as Large Language Models, is often used to create demoware that looks impressive in demos but fails to deliver when deployed for daily use.
FlowSynx is an open-source, cross-platform workflow orchestration system that empowers developers to define, execute, and manage complex workflows. It provides a modular architecture that is customizable, maintainable, and easy to upgrade.
Tinker is a flexible API for fine-tuning open-source models using LoRA, designed for researchers and developers who want full control without worrying about infrastructure. It's free to sign up and offers efficient training of various large and compact models.
Unbound Academy's 2 Hour Learning model, a virtual charter school using AI, is under scrutiny for lacking evidence of community demand, high tuition costs, and conflict of interest with affiliated vendors. Critics argue Unbound Academy is more of a for-profit private school rather than a solution for public education's enduring challenges.
Austria's armed forces switched from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice to enhance digital sovereignty and maintain independence in ICT infrastructure. This move started in 2021 to prepare for Microsoft Office moving to the cloud.
A Microsoft Entra ID vulnerability, named CVE-2025–55241, allowed a single token to grant complete administrative control over every tenant worldwide. This incident highlights the need for authorityless security, where ultimate authority is distributed and can’t be compromised.
Researchers like Nobuo Yamamoto have been working on an equation for an egg-shaped curve that closely resembles a real egg. They started with a basic derivation of the equation, moving a point along the x-axis co-sinusoidally with the length of the segment varying co-sinusoidally.
The US government has shut down after Democrats refused to support a Republican plan to extend federal funding, which Republicans rejected to secure healthcare concessions. The shutdown affects 10 million people set to lose healthcare and causes layoffs, with Democrats refusing to back down.
The Supreme Court allowed Governor Lisa Cook to stay in her Federal Reserve position pending oral arguments in January. This ruling allows the Fed to continue business operations through the year.
Python is a top choice for developers due to its readability, versatility, and extensive libraries that span various domains of software development. Its ability to scale with users and seamless continuity across projects and platforms make it a great choice for developers of all experience levels.
These are various BASIC interpreters and compilers. They include tools like AppGameKit, BaCon, BASIC Compiler, BBCSDL, and many others that help develop games, applications, and other software in multiple platforms.
EU executive demands major tech companies follow digital competition rules for their AI features. New AI features may be restricted due to EU regulations.
The speaker predicts GenAI's future: hallucinations won't be fixed, mass layoffs won't happen, productivity claims are dubious, and financial damage will be huge.
Alpine Linux will change its base filesystem hierarchy to /usr-merged, making /lib, /bin, and /sbin symbolic links to /usr counterparts. This change will improve support and safety, but may affect users with custom installations or package repositories.
The divide between designers and developers has weakened collaboration by creating different languages and tools, hindering design iteration. A united approach like Nordcraft can bridge this gap, freeing teams to experiment and play without tool and process restrictions.
Hunter S Thompson's death ruled a suicide in 2005 is being reviewed by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation due to his widow's request. The review seeks a definitive answer despite no new evidence to suggest otherwise of the circumstances surrounding Thompson's death at age 67.
Resterm is a workspace explorer and editor that filters HTTP/REST files, has a modal editor with Vim-style motions, and supports incremental search, scripting, and variable helpers. It supports multiple protocols including HTTP, GraphQL, gRPC, and allows for custom configuration through environment files and flags.
Mainstream media has failed to report on a crucial quote from Trump's phone interview with NBC's Yamiche Alcindor, where he admitted to making military decisions based on old Fox News footage and lies from advisors. This journalistic malpractice has led to a pattern of cowardice, where reporters prioritize "view from nowhere" reporting and false balance over clearly communicating truth to the public.
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The author dislikes Unix due to its complicated user interface, obscure command names, and steep learning curve. They claim it's designed to make it difficult for novices to access the machine.
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.
A cannabis-based drug called VER-01 eases chronic lower back pain without serious side effects or addiction. It reduced pain scores by 1.9 points on average in a clinical trial of 820 patients.
Mary Carleton, known as the German Princess, was a 17th-century Englishwoman who posed as a foreign royal to lure a young suitor into a bigamous marriage. Her life and exploits produced a publishing boom, influencing the emergence of the English novel and serving as a precursor to modern-day fascination with conwomen and counterfeits.