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.
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.
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.
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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.
The South Pole Beer Can is a 50-foot corrugated metal cylinder connecting the elevated living zone to the industrial arches below. It contains 90 stairs and a freight elevator, serving as a vital transition element between the two zones.
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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.
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.
NET 10 introduces significant garbage collection improvements, including escape analysis, stack allocation, and DATAS, which can reduce memory usage and improve speed. However, these improvements come with trade-offs and require careful evaluation and tuning to ensure optimal performance in specific scenarios.
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.
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.
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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 ...
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.
The narrator, a tech worker, navigates his job at a short-form video platform while developing a self-narrative of ironic corporate psychopathy to cope with feelings of guilt and complicity in a system he perceives as evil. He joins a team working on a project to create a superintelligent AI, which he believes may lead to existential risks, but also offers a chance for personal gain and a ...
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.
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.
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 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.
Zig is a high-performance, low-level programming language for systems programming that provides a simple and modern package. It's suitable for serious projects like writing libraries, daemons, and operating systems.
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 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.
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 user shares their 5-year journey as a CTO in a startup, overcoming challenges and learning valuable lessons about team building, technology choices, and leadership. They highlight key takeaways from their experience, including the importance of building a team early and being prepared for a long journey to gain traction or exit.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
Newton is a GPU-accelerated physics simulation engine for roboticists and researchers, built on NVIDIA Warp and MuJoCo Warp. It's a community-maintained Linux Foundation project under the Apache-2.0 license.
Engineers introduced technical debt by using negative primary keys to avoid a disaster when their database's integer keys reached their limit. This temporary fix bought them time to migrate to bigints and implement a long-term solution.
TypeScript codebase uses var statements for performance reasons due to Temporal Dead Zone limitations. Using var instead of const or let avoids runtime errors and improves performance by 8%.
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 Clavier is a mechanical keyboard with an FPGA and USB hub, featuring various interfaces and a unique 'coffee key' to lock computers. It uses OSS CAD Suite and GNU Make for FPGA programming and has a licensed open hardware design.
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.
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.
Radicle is a decentralized collaboration platform built on top of Git, allowing users to run their own nodes and collaborate on projects without relying on a central server. However, the platform has some limitations, including immutability of data, Git security concerns, and lack of moderation, which may make it less appealing for public collaboration.
The user rebuilt their homelab to be resilient, extensible, and useful, with a 22U setup in a sound-treated closet. The new setup includes 8x Beelink SER9 Pro servers, UniFi Dream Machine SE, and various hardware for local and remote access.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The author implemented a matrix multiplication algorithm in pure C using SIMD FMA instructions and optimized it for modern x86-64 processors, achieving strong performance on various CPUs. The algorithm uses a kernel function that efficiently computes a sub-matrix of the result matrix by iterating over the dimension and performing rank-1 updates using SIMD instructions.
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.
You're considering GraphRAG and graph databases for agentic applications. They can model relationships naturally, but benefits may not be drastic over traditional databases like Postgres.
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.
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.
The perceptron, a machine learning model, emerged from the intersection of biology and mathematics, revealing that intelligence can be recreated as a pattern of interaction. Through gradient descent and regularization, machines can learn from experience, adapt, and generalize, mirroring the human learning process.
The project saves and restores macOS Finder folder sizes and positions on screen, limited to Documents folder subfolders. It uses scripts to store and load folder states in a hidden .framedata.json file.
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.
The author wrote a post about the duration of regular season baseball games, using data from Retrosheet up to the 2024 season. The pitch clock implemented in 2023 significantly reduced game duration, with 2024 seeing a smaller but still within-historical-year change.
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.
Distribute your app to a pre-defined set of testers before going live with Live App Testing. Distribute your app to a pre-defined set of testers before going live with Live App Testing. Get the most up to date Amazon Appstore developer news, product releases, tutorials, and more.
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.
The author prefers pre-recorded demos over live ones due to potential technical issues and setup constraints. Pre-recorded demos allow for polished presentations and scrubbing through slow loading screens.
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.
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.
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 used machine learning to analyze prime numbers in an Ulam spiral, finding more regular patterns near 500m and varying classification approaches. This suggests machine learning can aid number theory research, particularly in understanding strong and weak primes for cryptography.
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.
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.
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.
Microsoft Surface devices have varying levels of pen support, including pressure sensitivity, latency, and haptic feedback, with different generations of pens and devices offering different features and compatibility. Users have reported various issues with Surface pens, including jitter, tip offset, and battery life, but Microsoft has released firmware updates to address some of these problems.
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.
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.
Kairos allows building custom bootable-OS images for edge devices from chosen OS and Kubernetes distribution. It provides secure, decentralized, and containerized edge solutions with features like data encryption and cloud-init configuration management.
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.
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.
Researchers at the NeuroPiano Institute confirmed that pianists can change piano timbre through touch alone using high-speed sensors. The study found that subtle key movements produce distinct timbres, a skill rooted in precise motor control.
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.
Plutonium's radioactivity provides functionality for nuclear batteries and reactors, but its complex electronic properties give rise to interesting phenomena, including a 25% volume collapse between δ-Pu and α-Pu. A combination of novel approaches in all-electron density functional theory and pair distribution functions reveals covalent bonds in α-Pu, which explains its physical ...
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.
The Concrete Ship Blog is an encyclopedia with an index to help navigate its vast information on concrete ships. It covers various topics, including World War I and II concrete ships, Mulberry Harbours, and steel ships.
You can generate up to 250 public AI results per month without credits, but private results use regular credits. Sharing publicly also earns you free credits and helps others learn the product.
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.
Researchers at Cranfield University found that 3,000-year-old copper smelters in Georgia used iron oxide as a flux, which may have led to the discovery of iron metallurgy. This discovery suggests that the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age may have been sparked by experimentation with iron oxide in copper production.
Icebird is a JavaScript library for reading Apache Iceberg tables using hyparquet, supporting features like metadata and authentication. It allows reading Iceberg tables from URLs with optional metadata and authentication.
Government shutdown started Wednesday at 12:01 a.m. due to Capitol Hill impasse over spending bills; federal layoffs are "imminent" according to a White House spokesperson.
The user discusses the basics of raw image files, log gamma curves, and color science, explaining how cameras capture and process color information. They then dive into Nikon's flexible picture controls, which allow for advanced color corrections and tonal adjustments, making Fuji's film simulations look basic and limited.
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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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.
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.
Researchers in Canada and France designed a parachute using kirigami that can deliver payloads accurately and safely. The parachute's deformable design stabilizes airflow, eliminating the need for drifting and promising uses in drone delivery and humanitarian aid.
Researchers used high-precision sensors to measure piano key movements and found a causal relationship between key movement and timbre. Listeners could distinguish pianists' intended timbres, regardless of their piano experience.
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.
The author continues to explore Angular Signals by extending the CartService with removing items, clearing the cart, and tracking the number of products, showcasing how signals simplify state management and improve testability, performance, and debuggability. The service is consumed declaratively from components without the need for RxJS or the async pipe, making it easier to write unit tests ...
Researchers developed a low-cost memory interposer called Battering RAM that can bypass memory encryption and access sensitive data on Intel and AMD cloud processors. The interposer can be built for under $50 and can compromise the security of confidential computing technologies like Intel SGX and AMD SEV-SNP.