LibrePods unlocks Apple AirPods features on non-Apple devices with noise control modes, adaptive transparency, and more. It requires a rooted Android device with Xposed to work.
The website is temporarily blocked due to security reasons after a suspicious action was detected. Please email the site owner with the Cloudflare Ray ID and details of the action that triggered the block.
Heretic is a tool that removes censorship from transformer-based language models without post-training. It works automatically and produces high-quality decensored models.
Zigbook is a comprehensive, open-source guide to the Zig programming language, packed with hands-on chapters, projects, and real-world examples.
A Coinbase customer reported a sophisticated phishing attack in January 2025, but the company failed to investigate and respond to their questions about data compromise. The customer later discovered that Coinbase had been breached in late 2024, with attackers bribing contractors to steal sensitive customer data, affecting less than 1% of the customer base.
The author was stalked by someone in India who wouldn't stop despite her efforts to block him. She realized she wasn't actually trying to solve the problem due to being stuck in a low point in her life.
IDEmacs provides a user-friendly Emacs experience similar to popular IDEs and editors, ideal for beginners and non-programmers. It aims to make Emacs more accessible and comfortable for new users, allowing them to discover its full potential.
A supercookie uses favicons to assign a unique ID to website visitors, persisting even in incognito mode and through cache clearing. This ID can be used to track users across websites, affecting top browsers including Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.
The website was temporarily knocked out by scraping bots from Alibaba hosting in Singapore, prompting the author to block the IP range and consider more aggressive countermeasures. The author is frustrated with the constant attacks and feels it's a waste of time, pushing software hobbyists towards centralized solutions.
A Hyundai Ioniq 5 N owner was unable to change brake pads without specialized computer equipment due to electronic parking brake controls. Hyundai requires a J2534 device and NASTF credentials for bi-directional tests, making DIY brake repairs impossible.
Brimstone is a work-in-progress JavaScript engine written in Rust, implementing the ECMAScript specification with heavy inspiration from V8 and LibJS. It supports almost all JavaScript language features, but is not yet ready for production use.
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Goldman Sachs analysts question if curing patients is a sustainable business model for biotech companies due to potential loss of recurring revenue. They suggest solutions such as targeting large markets, disorders with high incidence, and constant innovation to offset declining revenue.
The author prefers using Bash tools over MCP servers for specific tasks due to their simplicity and compositability. They create custom tools using Node.js scripts that can be easily extended and composed.
A new nuclear power station is to be built on Anglesey, Wales, bringing 3,000 jobs and £2.5bn investment. The plant will have the UK's first three small modular reactors, aiming to generate power by the mid 2030s.
The author of blob-util, a popular npm package, notes that AI-generated code may replace small utility libraries like theirs. The author believes that AI prioritizes instant answers over teaching and understanding, potentially reducing the need for educational open source projects.
The website is for physics students with sections on various topics and interactive Flash demonstrations. It's seeking collaborators to expand its interactive components.
A website called DarkPattern.Games reviews games that use psychological tricks to manipulate players into addiction, focusing on iOS and Android games. The site needs user reviews to help identify and expose dark patterns in games.
Mariona Roca Tort was sent to a reformatory at 17 for refusing to conform to Spain's Catholic values under Franco's regime. She was later detained in a convent as part of the Patronato system, where she underwent forced psychiatric treatment and suffered memory loss.
The user recreated an IBM XT Personal Computer from the 1980s using a mix of authentic parts and modern technology, with a goal to play the EGA version of Monkey Island 1 on it. They designed and implemented the hardware and software components, including a low-power NEC V20 CPU, SRAM chip, FPGA board, and peripherals, and successfully achieved mouse support, hard drive with write access, and ...
The user learned Cloudflare Zero Trust + Warp to overcome Tailscale limitations and now uses it for various purposes including connecting private networks, exposing private services to the public, and creating fully private networks.
Valve's Steam Machine is a powerful gaming console that can run PC games, but it may not be necessary for those who already have a gaming setup and a large backlog of games to play. The Machine's high price and limited features, such as no handheld mode and no physical game insertion, make it a questionable purchase.
Anubis is a server protection system using Proof-of-Work to prevent aggressive website scraping. It requires modern JavaScript features and may be disabled by plugins like JShelter.
Iranian authorities launched cloud seeding operations to induce rainfall due to the country's worst drought in decades. Operations were conducted in the Urmia Lake basin and will continue in East and West Azerbaijan provinces.
User worked on garbage collection in J9 Java VM and applied knowledge to solve a problem with Ohm and ProseMirror. They used reference counting to efficiently find dead nodes in a document after an edit.
The three successful AI products so far are chatbots, completions-based products, and agentic products, with chatbots being the most popular but also the most limited. New AI products, such as AI-generated feeds and AI-based video games, are being explored but face technical and practical challenges.
Nih.a is a python program that prints its own source code. it was written in 1975, and was discovered by someone who stole it from him - and tracked them down if they found it or not. the backdoor was noticed because the compiler got one byte larger each time it compiled itself. you can’t trust code that you did not totally create yourself. there are far easier ways to mount supply chain ...
Z3 is a high-performance theorem prover developed at microsoft research. it uses the same operator precedence of the python language, so no python background is needed if you want to learn how to use the tool offline. the following example shows how traverse the constraints asserted into the solver, and collect performance statistics for the check method. z3py also provides functions for ...
pgFirstAid is an open source PostgreSQL function that provides a prioritized list of actions to improve database stability and performance. It offers 12 built-in health checks covering critical issues and can be run with a single query: SELECT * FROM pg_firstAid().
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The Pragmatic Programmer book provides valuable advice for software engineers, covering topics such as responsibility, communication, and debugging. The book emphasizes the importance of flexibility, reversibility, and decoupling in code, and offers practical tips for implementing these principles.
Vintage LLMs are trained on past data to test AI capabilities in novel ways, including forecasting and scientific invention. They can be used to communicate with people from the past, survey counterfactual intellectual histories, and examine the surprisingness of new ideas.
The user discusses a novel encoding of natural numbers in lambda calculus called de Bruijn numerals, which are defined as nested de Bruijn indices and have elegant properties for arithmetic operations. Despite limitations, the user explores various arithmetic operations such as successor, predecessor, addition, and multiplication, and also discusses the conversion of Church numerals to de ...
The user is trying to optimize a financial system's 'send' path by reducing branch misprediction penalties, but the branch predictor is heavily primed to predict the 'abandon' path due to its high frequency. A potential solution is to fill the system with mocked transaction data that returns true for the 'send' path, allowing the branch predictor to assume the 'send' path will be executed.
Silicon Valley leaders, including Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, are embracing a transhumanist future where humans are replaced by digital beings with superintelligence. They prioritize value maximization over human lives, viewing humans as mere conduits for value creation.
A phishing email led to a GitHub repository and Telegram bot being compromised, exposing the attacker's operation. The community reported the repository and bot, leading to their removal for violating terms of service.
Researchers found that insight experiences are linked to increased activity in the ventral occipitotemporal cortex, amygdala, and hippocampus. This neural signature is associated with stronger memories and more accurate solutions.
Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy and skydiver Gabriel C. Brown collaborated to create a stunning image called The Fall of Icarus. The image shows Brown falling over a hydrogen alpha light image of the Sun, with his silhouette perfectly framed between sunspots.
PicoIDE currently emulates one drive but plans to support two devices in future updates. It has a 3.5" enclosure launch and may offer other form factors later.
Anubis is a server protection system using Proof-of-Work to prevent aggressive AI scraping. It requires modern JavaScript features, so disable JShelter or similar plugins for this domain.
George Colony, Forrester Research founder, has repeatedly declared the Web dead or dying since 1995, but his predictions have been proven wrong. His commentary has been mocked and outdated, with the Web evolving to meet his proposed improvements.
Ubiquiti's Flex Mini 2.5G is a 5-port 2.5GbE switch with low power consumption and PoE-in, but its small size poses cooling challenges. It uses a custom heat spreader and Realtek RTL8372N switch chip, also found in other Ubiquiti and third-party switches.
LFP battery technology is now freely accessible after key patents expired in 2022, shifting global battery strategies. Companies are securing patents around secondary innovation to enhance energy density and safety.
The user created a libdrm-ocaml library to interactively explore the Linux Kernel Mode Setting (KMS) API using OCaml, allowing for easier learning and debugging of display management. The library provides a simple way to configure display settings, render images, and animate graphics directly on the Linux VT, making it easier to understand and work with the KMS API.
Educational technology solutions to monitor student activity are often outsmarted by tech-savvy students. Blocking sites may only be a temporary solution as students find new loopholes.
PlanetScale now offers single node Postgres databases starting at $5/month, with developer-friendly features like Query Insights and branching. You can easily scale up or switch to HA mode as your project grows, with horizontal scaling coming soon through Neki.
Microsoft's Windows chief Pavan Davaluri acknowledged customer feedback on Windows' UX and developer-friendliness. He promised improvements, but actions will speak louder than words until tangible changes are delivered.
The Leibniz notation for derivatives is a historical interpretation where dxdxdx represents an infinitesimally small quantity, not a value. It's used to denote the derivative of a function f(x) as df(x)dx.
The US Mint will stop producing pennies due to a law that empowers the secretary of the Treasury to order no pennies be minted. The government has no plan to deal with the 300 billion pennies in circulation.
The Atmosphere has two options for interacting with the PDS, Option 1 where the client proxies all traffic through the PDS, and Option 2 where the app server speaks directly to the PDS.
The author argues that AI's water usage is a tiny fraction of America's total freshwater consumption, equivalent to 0.008% in 2023 and potentially 0.08% by 2030.
Volcanic eruptions in Siberia 251 million years ago may have triggered the largest mass extinction in Earth's history by releasing hydrogen sulfide into the oceans and atmosphere. This toxic gas killed most oceanic and terrestrial life by depleting oxygen and destroying the ozone layer.
Users often respond to questions with links like lmgtfy.com, which can come across as passive-aggressive, shaming, and lazy. Instead, direct communication and kindness are more effective in teaching community norms and helping others.
The MP944 is considered the world's first microprocessor, developed for the US Navy's F-14 Tomcat in 1970, and was 8x faster than Intel's 4004. It was a secret until 1998 due to its military use and stringent specifications.
Bitfarm will pivot from cryptocurrency mining to AI data center services by 2027, utilizing its 341 MW energy capacity. The company expects this shift to generate more income than its current Bitcoin mining operations.
Mocking the built-in open function can cause issues with other libraries like coverage.py. To avoid this, patch the open function where it's used, not where it's defined, or use autospec=True and verified fakes for better mocking practices.
Perplexity AI, a $20 billion startup, is at risk of failing due to its lack of sustainable competitive advantage and dependence on third-party models. The company's valuation is built on a crumbling foundation, and its India strategy of giving away its premium product for free may not yield paying subscribers.
ReVoLTE is an attack that exploits an LTE implementation flaw to recover the contents of an encrypted VoLTE call, allowing an adversary to eavesdrop on phone calls. The attack uses a predictable keystream reuse and has been demonstrated to be feasible in commercial networks, with 12 out of 15 base stations tested being vulnerable.
Finite fields are formed by polynomials of degree n-1 with coefficients in integers mod p, where p is a prime number and n is a power of p. An imaginary unit i can be added to a finite field of order p if p is congruent to 3 mod 4.
Researchers found a possible link between cat ownership and increased schizophrenia risk, with a 2023 review suggesting a significant positive association. However, more high-quality studies are needed to confirm this connection and understand the potential causes.
Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables AI systems to connect to tools and data sources, but its powerful capabilities also introduce new security risks. Users and developers must be cautious and implement stronger permission validation, unique tool naming, and monitoring to prevent prompt injection attacks.