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To create a responsive website, start with basic HTML and adjust font family, size, and line height. Enable dark mode based on user preferences and limit content width to improve readability.
A language model mistakenly believes a seahorse emoji exists due to its training data and convergent thinking. It tries to construct a residual representation of a seahorse combined with an emoji, leading to incorrect emoji sampling.
The Internet Archive will celebrate 1 trillion web pages preserved via the Wayback Machine in October. Events will highlight the memories and movements that made this achievement possible and look ahead to the future of web preservation.
Microsoft is removing workarounds for creating local accounts on Windows 11 to ensure proper setup. Users will now need an internet connection and Microsoft account for OOBE screens in future versions.
gem.coop is a new server for Ruby gems offering fast, simple hosting and real-time updates. It's community-owned, transparent, and secure, with governance modeled on Homebrew and support for bundling all public gems.
The author discovered a strategy called structured procrastination, where procrastinators use marginally useful tasks to avoid more important ones. By ordering tasks by importance and doing less important ones first, procrastinators can become effective and respected individuals.
Apps SDK is available in preview today for developers to begin building and testing their apps. We will open for app submission later this year.
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OpenZL is an open source data compression framework that offers lossless compression for structured data with performance comparable to specialized compressors. It uses a configurable sequence of transforms to uncover hidden order in the data and can be trained to improve compression performance based on provided data samples.
The author introduces two big ideas in the first chapter: Gaussian elimination and row picture versus column picture, explaining how they can be used to solve linear equations and find the solution to a system of equations. The author also introduces the concept of linear algebra, explaining how it uses arrays of numbers instead of numbers and how it can be used to solve problems in a more ...
We're excited to announce Monorepo Tasks, a powerful new feature that brings first-class monorepo support to mise tasks! 🚀 What is it? Monorepo Tasks allows you to manage tasks across multiple ...
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 is awarded to Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their discoveries on peripheral immune tolerance. Their research helps the immune system distinguish between self and non-self, preventing autoimmune diseases.
The user built a web reverse-engineering tool called Snitch that hooks arbitrary global functions and properties in web pages, allowing for stealthy analysis and modification of browser behavior. The tool uses the Chrome DevTools Protocol and Chromium's Blink layer to create custom events and intercept JavaScript execution, making it a powerful Swiss Army knife for web reverse-engineering.
Set up a financial tracking system with custom descriptions for income and expenses. Organize daily transactions for a clear view of spending habits and income patterns.
Starlink satellites are reentering Earth's atmosphere at a rate of 1-2 per day, with the number expected to increase to 5 per day due to the growing number of satellites in low-Earth orbit. The reentries can cause space debris and potentially lead to the Kessler syndrome, a scenario where collisions between objects in orbit create a cascade of debris.
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Research firm MacroStrategy Partnership warns of a potential AI bubble 17 times the size of the dot-com bubble, fueled by artificially low interest rates. They predict a recession and deflationary bust, recommending investors be overweight in resources and emerging markets.
The user is setting up an XMPP server to protect their private data from surveillance and data leaks, using ejabberd with encryption and clustering. They are configuring the server with a Debian repository, SQLite database, and setting up admin users, file uploads, and registration with captcha.
The user created a script called usbi to check USB connections, initially in bash and then rewritten in Go with AI assistance. This script now makes it easy to identify slow USB cables.
Brent Randall, an engineer on the Gameplay Integrity team for VALORANT, shares the technical story behind the game's optimal server performance, which was achieved through code optimization, hardware tweaks, and OS tunings. The team's efforts resulted in a 20x reduction in server frame time, from 50ms to sub-2ms, and allowed for the launch of free 128-tick servers for players.
The author is concerned about the Trump administration's aggressive actions, including a recent Chicago apartment raid, which suggests a move towards autocracy. The author warns that people and institutions must resist the administration's attempts to intimidate opponents and consolidate power.
ChatKit is a framework-agnostic, drop-in chat solution for building high-quality AI-powered chat experiences. It simplifies chat development with minimal setup and customization options.
CodeMender is an AI-powered agent that automatically improves code security by patching new vulnerabilities and rewriting existing code. It uses Gemini Deep Think models to reason about code and validate changes, ensuring high-quality patches that fix root causes and prevent regressions.
The Global Village Construction Set is a modular DIY platform for building industrial machines at low cost and high performance. It aims to create a world beyond material scarcity through open source collaboration and documentation.
Flightcontrol simplifies AWS management for developers, automating infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD, and deployments with a user-friendly dashboard. It reduces DevOps overhead, saving thousands of dollars and months of time, allowing developers to focus on building products.
Apple and Google removed the ICEBlock app, which helped people track ICE kidnappings, after receiving a warrantless demand from Trump's DoJ boss Pam Bondi. This move has sparked criticism of the companies' role in helping the Trump regime's violent and human-rights invading program.
Mathematicians have long wondered if prime numbers follow a pattern or are truly random. Recent research has proposed several probabilistic patterns in large groups of primes, linked to the Riemann zeta function.
ALPRs are AI-powered cameras that track and store vehicle data, posing a risk to privacy and civil liberties. They collect data on millions of vehicles, often without a warrant, and can be used for wrongful arrests and profiling.
Wiz Research discovered a critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability, CVE-2025-49844, in Redis, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code. Organizations are urged to update their Redis instances immediately to the latest patched version.
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.
The user discusses a potential privacy risk with ChatGPT's memory feature, which can reveal deeply personal information about users if accessed by others. A simulation using Anthropic's Claude and ChatGPT shows how the AI can infer and share sensitive information about a user's thoughts, behaviors, and relationships.
AI is changing software development, making it easier and faster for non-developers to build software. In a crowded market, companies must differentiate themselves through unique features, distribution channels, or regulatory barriers to succeed.
Zurich voters banned petrol-powered leaf blowers with a 61.7% majority and restricted battery-powered models to October to December. The ban applies to both private individuals and municipal employees.
Chess.com uses regional pricing based on a user's IP address and account activity to determine the correct pricing for their premium membership plans in different countries. The company uses techniques such as fingerprinting and Cloudflare anti-bot measures to prevent users from exploiting cheaper regions to share memberships with friends in high-price countries.
AdaCore supports C/C++, Ada/SPARK, and Rust for high-integrity software development, with each language having unique strengths and weaknesses. The choice between Ada, Rust, and SPARK depends on the team's goals, appetite for change, and specific needs, with SPARK offering industrial-strength formal methods for comprehensive proven properties.
The Free Software Foundation celebrated its 40th birthday with a vision for 2026, including a new president, Ian Kelling, and the LibrePhone Project. The event featured talks on free software, community engagement, and the importance of software freedom in education and mobile computing.
OpenAI partnered with AMD, causing the company's stock to rise by 29% to $213 per share. This deal added $78 billion to AMD's market capitalization.
Researchers discovered a vulnerability in high-performance optical sensors in mice that can leak confidential user speech. They developed a pipeline called Mic-E-Mouse to overcome challenges and achieve intelligible reconstruction of user speech.
You attempted to contribute to the lodash project by adding package provenance, but your pull request was rejected and you were blocked from contributing. You learned a valuable lesson about open source contributions and the importance of gauging interest before submitting a pull request.
The author experimented with Mojo, a language for speeding up functions, by translating a part of scikit-learn's DBSCAN algorithm from Cython to Mojo. The translation was surprisingly straightforward, but performance was lacking due to Mojo's PythonObject iteration.
A new study found 41.9% of deceased drivers tested positive for THC, with average levels far exceeding impairment limits. Experts warn that lack of public awareness about marijuana's dangers behind the wheel is putting lives at risk.
A company is developing an AI agent that searches and organizes company data, aiming to reduce busywork and increase productivity. The product, Built to Gather, prioritizes data security and privacy with industry-standard encryption and regular security audits.
US electric car sales surged to 1.2 million last year, but momentum is expected to reverse due to the end of a government subsidy. Analysts predict a drop in demand as carmakers struggle with tariffs and high prices.
The user built a bytecode compiler and VM for a Forth-like language, supporting stack operations, DO/LOOPs, and variables. The compiler generates bytecode directly from tokens, and the VM executes this bytecode using an instruction pointer and jumps.
Artyom Bologov discusses implementing threading macros in Common Lisp using combinators, specifically the T combinator, to create a piping function. He demonstrates the process in his Lambda Calculus compiling language, Lamber, and shows how it can be used to create a threading effect.
US labor market is in a precarious balance, vulnerable to rapid worsening if employers cut job postings. The Federal Reserve is cutting interest rates to lower the odds of a spike in unemployment.
Students use MonsterWriter to manage time and avoid last-minute work. The app adds citations and features for complex content automatically.
The author believes the AI bubble will burst, causing economic devastation, as AI companies are not profitable and rely on investors' money to stay afloat. The author suggests planning for a future where AI is used responsibly and its benefits are realized.
The CHERI project is a rethinking of computer architecture to improve system security by extending instruction-set architectures to add support for capabilities, which are a mechanism for access control. CHERI aims to provide memory safety for languages like C and C++ and fine-grained compartmentalization, and it is being implemented in Linux with the goal of improving the security of computer systems.
Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick contains numerous mathematical references and allusions, suggesting that Melville had a high level of mathematical knowledge and ability. The article explores these references and argues that they demonstrate Melville's enjoyment and proficiency in mathematics, making him an unusually mathematically-minded writer.
User created a WebGPU app to test WGSL shader complexity and compilation time. The app allows users to increase shader complexity with sliders and measures cold and warm compilation times.
Western companies have two different methods for mass layoffs, with the US method involving a sudden Zoom call and the European method involving lengthy consultations and potential strikes.
The user completed a PhD in computer science in 5 years, focusing on machine learning and its applications in drug discovery, and developed an open-source package called DeepChem to facilitate computational drug discovery. The user's research led to several publications and collaborations with pharmaceutical companies, and they are now working on various projects, including deep learning for ...
The author, a passionate ambigram artist, explores the art of creating ambigrams, which have multiple readings or symmetries, and how it brings him joy and beauty. He believes that creating ambigrams is a way to bring beauty into the world, even in dark times, and that it's a crucial part of his life.
Microsoft is testing an ad-supported version of Xbox Cloud Gaming for employees, allowing free streaming of select games with ads. The service will be available on PC, consoles, and web, with a public beta test planned soon.
Tailscale uses Wintun, a TUN driver developed by WireGuard, to create a Layer 3 virtual adapter on Windows. Wintun allows user-space applications to directly work with IP packets, enabling peer-to-peer communication without encryption.
MAC addresses are used for local network communication, such as Ethernet and Wi-Fi, to uniquely identify devices within a network. IP addresses are used for internet communication, while MAC addresses are used for local routing within a network, such as between a device and a router.
The author discusses the history of SIMD instructions on the x86 platform, from its inception in 1966 to the current AVX512 instruction set. SIMD instructions enable a single instruction to perform multiple operations, increasing compute per instruction and delivering performance improvements to suitable workloads.
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OpenZL delivers high compression ratios and speeds for specialized datasets. It's a production-ready library with a universal decompressor and customizable compressors for AI workloads and more.
JetBrains will co-develop the Agent Client Protocol with us, bringing ACP support to their entire IDE lineup. This partnership aims to standardize agent support and give developers freedom to use any ACP-compatible agent in their preferred tools.
AI girlfriend websites are rising in popularity, offering users to form relationships with AI-generated companions, which can be customized to user preferences. Campaigners for women's rights express concern that these sites embed unhelpful stereotypes and may enable users to create illegal material.
George Dempster was born in 1887 to Scottish and Irish immigrants and worked on the Panama Canal project before forming a construction company with his brothers. Dempster developed a novel device for lifting and transporting portable storage containers, which became the first Dempster Dumpster and revolutionized refuse collection.
New class of low-energy Earth-Moon cycler orbits discovered, offering stable and efficient transportation for spacecraft and supplies. These orbits alternate between Earth and Moon, exhibiting temporary capture around each primary body.
WarpStream Tableflow is a solution that converts Kafka topic data into Iceberg tables with low latency and keeps them compacted, addressing the challenges of building and maintaining Iceberg tables from real-time data. WarpStream Tableflow is a custom, BYOC-native and cloud-native database that efficiently creates and maintains streaming data lakes, with a declarative YAML configuration and ...
A Swedish cURL maintainer and an Australian security researcher used AI SAST tools to find 50 real bugs in cURL. The researcher, Joshua Rogers, used generative AI tools to analyze code and found bugs that traditional static analysis tools had overlooked.
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned after 27 days in office due to lack of support from governing coalition parties. His resignation plunges France into political uncertainty, with calls for snap parliamentary elections and President Emmanuel Macron's resignation.
Researchers introduced Expected Attention, a training-free method to compress Key-Value cache by predicting future query attention. It leverages LLM activation properties to rank and prune KV pairs with minimal impact on performance.
A hybrid AI system combining a 'Thinker' LLM for high-level reasoning and a 'Doer' LLM for coding improved efficiency and reliability. Smart architecture and model composition unlock more capable AI agents for complex creative work.
The temporal-spatial locality hypothesis assumes that data written at similar times is likely to be read at similar times, which is true in many streaming systems but not in hash-based databases like DynamoDB. This hypothesis is related to the temporal and spatial locality hypotheses, which assume that recently accessed data is likely to be accessed again soon and nearby data is likely to be ...
Older white-collar workers displaced by AI may face financial hardship due to limited severance packages and lack of retirement savings. A universal basic income could help mitigate this issue, as it has been successful in increasing well-being and employment rates in other countries.
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Boost.Bloom introduces bulk operations in Boost 1.90 for speedup in insertion and lookup. Bulk operations reduce CPU stalling and branch prediction issues.
The user experienced a security warning when trying to access flyflair.com using Firefox due to a revoked SSL certificate, but Chrome allowed access. This highlights the need for better security warning screens and consistency across browsers and operating systems, as well as more efficient certificate revocation methods like CRLite.