macOS Tahoe's large corner radius causes usability issues with window resizing due to an unresponsive area near the corner. Users must grab the window outside the corner for reliable resizing, which feels unnatural and error-prone.
The user, a programmer, believes AI has changed the field forever, making it possible to complete large projects with minimal human effort, and now sees AI as a tool to help write better software faster. They suggest embracing AI, testing its tools, and finding ways to multiply one's productivity, rather than resisting its impact, to stay relevant and continue enjoying the fun of programming.
The user switched from Windows to Linux due to issues with telemetry and poor software stability in Windows 11, and they found Linux to be more stable and enjoyable to use. They tried various Linux distributions, including Mint, Debian, and Artix, and settled on Artix for its flexibility and customization options, which allowed them to fully unlock the potential of their computers.
The user has successfully self-hosted various services on a cheap mini PC using CLI agents like Claude Code, which made the process easier and enjoyable. They now have 13 services running on the device, including password management, photo storage, and media services, using minimal resources.
iCloud Photo Downloader is a weekly-released tool available for direct download and through package managers. It downloads iCloud photos and supports Live Photos, RAW images, and has an experimental mode.
Clothing shrinks due to fibre memory, where heat, moisture, and mechanical action cause fibres to relax and return to their natural crinkled state. To prevent shrinkage, use cold water, gentle cycles, and delicate settings, especially for cotton and rayon.
OpenCode's unauthenticated web server was enabled by default before v1.1.10, allowing code execution with user privileges. It's now disabled by default but can be enabled, exposing endpoints to any client without authentication.
Gentoo Linux has 31663 ebuilds for 19174 packages, with 89 GBytes of binary packages available on mirrors. The project has 154 weekly installation stages and 377 external contributors.
The software industry is at a crossroads due to AI coding advancements, with two contrasting scenarios: AI automating entry-level tasks and junior developer hiring collapsing, or AI unlocking massive demand for developers across various industries. To thrive in this landscape, developers must adapt by becoming versatile, AI-proficient, and skilled in areas like system design, communication, ...
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User created a Snake game that runs on Windows, Linux, and in the browser from a single source file. The game is around 13 KiB in size and uses compression and packing techniques to achieve cross-platform compatibility.
Meta is partnering with companies like Oklo, TerraPower, and Vistra to add clean, reliable nuclear energy to the US grid, supporting AI innovation and creating thousands of jobs. The agreements will provide up to 6.6 GW of new and existing clean energy by 2035, reinforcing America's nuclear supply chain and supporting new and existing jobs.
The user's fibre optic cable in their home office exploded due to movement, causing damage to the cable's jacket and potentially the inner fibre strand. They are now trying to salvage the situation by repairing the cable with electrical tape, but are concerned about the integrity of the other cables.
The user has been working on several projects including a Spotify recommendation engine, a color palette tool, a Substack for life advice, a solitaire game platform, an iOS camera app, a USCIS form-filling tool, an AI time tracker, and a developer blog aggregator. They are also working on a daily puzzles website and are open to feedback and suggestions on their projects.
Suppose you are handling an HTTP GET request targeting the path in a hidden link.
Ferrite is a lightweight text editor built with Rust and egui for native experience. It supports Markdown, JSON, YAML, and TOML files with features like code folding and Mermaid support.
BYD's upcoming Seagull and Dolphin models will feature LiDAR sensors for improved ADAS offerings. This tech will bring Navigate on Autopilot functionality to these low-cost cars, making it more accessible to mass markets.
The Concise TypeScript Book is a free and open-source resource that provides a comprehensive overview of TypeScript's capabilities, covering its powerful type system, advanced features, and practical skills for effective development. TypeScript is a strongly typed programming language that builds on JavaScript, designed to detect possible exceptions at compilation time, and can be configured ...
Instagram users received password reset requests due to a data breach exposing 17.5 million users' sensitive information. The leaked data is available on the dark web and can be abused by cybercriminals for phishing or account takeovers.
Implementing a filesystem in a sandboxed environment for AI agents provides ergonomic tool behavior and reduces tool space. FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) can be used to expose arbitrary data structures as files, making it easier to integrate with existing platforms.
We're experimenting with LLaMA at a negative temperature to see unusual results. The model generates weird and incomprehensible text, repeating certain tokens like Хронологија and entferne.
A cluster of patients in New Brunswick, Canada, was initially suspected to have a mysterious new neurological condition, but research later concluded that they likely suffered from previously known conditions. The patients and their supporters, however, continue to dispute this conclusion, believing they were poisoned by an industrial environmental toxin and that the government conspired ...
Iran has deployed military jammers to shut down Starlink Internet, affecting protesters and anti-regime activists. Elon Musk has offered free Starlink connectivity in Iran, as authorities hunt down users to stop protest videos from going global.
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Max Payne's 2001 graphics were phenomenal for its time, achieving realism and fidelity with technical synergy and precalculated rendering techniques despite severe limitations. The game's particle effects, prebaked lightmaps, and baked detail textures were notable features, but some techniques were inconsistent or limited by the era's technology.
InvestigateWest discovered hazardous chemicals seeped from a SpaceX lab in Redmond into the lungs of unsuspecting workers next door.
Bobby Weir, co-founder of the Grateful Dead, has died at 78 after a long battle with cancer and lung issues. He was a guiding force in American music, leaving behind a legacy of warmth, community, and a unique artistry that will endure for generations.
Chinese firms plan to launch over 200,000 internet satellites, sparking concerns about orbital resource crowding. SpaceX's Starlink constellation, with 15,000 satellites, is currently the largest in low Earth orbit.
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A researcher spent 70 years studying extraterrestrial visits to Earth, which he believes inspired ancient mythology and religions. He aims to provide conclusive evidence through his work, countering what he sees as scientific and religious humbugs.
The author criticizes Apple and Google for not removing X from their app stores despite its use of deepfake images, blaming their inaction on fear of Trump. The author suggests Apple and Google should stand firm on their guidelines and remove X, making Trump and Musk defend the indefensible.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem blocked lawmakers from visiting an immigration detention facility in Minneapolis due to a new visitation policy requiring 7-day advance notice. The policy applies to facilities funded by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which Congress passed with Republican support.
Robert Escriva, a Cornell PhD, shares his experience with schizophrenia and applies debugging techniques to manage his condition. He wrote a guide, "Engineering Schizophrenia," to help others navigate mental health challenges.
People treat interactions as one-off events, but they're actually conditioning events that shape others' perceptions and behaviors. Each interaction reinforces a behavior, defining your reputation and ability to make progress.
To avoid lazy-loading issues, conditionally preload images above the fold using media queries. This ensures images are loaded eagerly on larger screens and lazy-loaded on smaller devices.
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The ALPM project created a Rust-based framework for Arch Linux Package Management, funded by the Sovereign Tech Fund, and developed various tools and integrations over 15 months. The project aims to empower developers to build robust package management applications with a strongly typed, memory-safe language.
The American Dialect Society chose "slop" as the Word of the Year for 2025, representing low-quality content generated by AI. Slop was recognized for its widespread use and productivity in forming new compounds.
A BasiliskII Macintosh 68k emulator was ported to the ESP32-P4 microcontroller for the M5Stack Tab5, running classic Mac OS 7.x to 8.1. The project includes touchscreen input, USB support, and Motorola 68040 emulation.
The history of film gauges is complex, with over 100 sizes developed from 3mm to 75mm, many of which are now obsolete. Kodak's 8mm and 16mm formats eventually dominated the market, but other sizes like 9.5mm and 17.5mm had brief periods of popularity.
Elasticsearch was designed as a search engine, not a database, and using it as a primary database can lead to unexpected results. It lacks key features like atomic transactions, predictable updates, and schema evolution, making it brittle as a database.
Google advises against breaking content into bite-sized chunks for LLMs like Gemini. Creating content for humans, not machines, is the best way to rank on Google for long-term search exposure.
A system automatically generates targeted unit tests for rare bugs using fractional proof decomposition, catching bugs like Anthropic's approximate top-K bug. This method decomposes theorems into smaller PBTs, allowing for systematic understanding and control over testing compute, catching rare bugs without sacrificing developer speed or efficiency.
The text discusses design theories for creating high-quality Quake 1 single-player maps, including guidelines for map quality, theme, architecture, and gameplay. It also lists common flaws to avoid in single-player levels, such as poor theme, instant death traps, and obscure progression, and emphasizes the importance of skill settings, monster placement, and secret usage.
A KIM-1 demo celebrates its 50th birthday by gathering scattered components and inviting retro-computing enthusiasts to contribute. The goal is to experiment, build, and create together, including a painting program using cursor positioning.
Windows XP is retired, but you can still use it without updates. You can upgrade to Windows 8.1 or 7, or switch to Linux for free.
A two-player reaction game is played on a single strip of WS2812B LEDs where players press their button at the right moment when the ball enters their zone. The game has various parameters and animations, including attract mode, gameplay, and winner animations, and can be extended with custom animations.
Erich von Däniken's book Chariots of the Gods? claims human history was shaped by aliens, but lacks credible evidence. His arguments are based on flawed logic and misinterpretation of archaeological findings.
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Oh-my-claude-sisyphus is a TypeScript monorepo using Bun, React, and PostgreSQL with a silent auto-update system. It includes various tools and plugins for tasks like authentication, user dashboard, and performance analysis.
KaraDAV is a lightweight WebDAV server for file sharing, compatible with NextCloud and ownCloud clients, with good performance and no dependencies. It supports WOPI, RFC 3230, and two-way sync with csync, but is not a drop-in replacement for NextCloud.
Ripple is a compiler-first TypeScript UI framework for building fast, clean, reactive applications with minimal boilerplate and optimal performance. Front-end development has reached an unusual point in its history: writing code is easy — maintaining it is hard. If React gave us JSX, Vue gave us SFCs, and Svelte gave us compilation, Ripple asks:
VAM Seek is a JavaScript library that enables video navigation with a thumbnail grid, allowing users to visually seek through videos without uploading frames to a server. The library uses the Canvas API for client-side frame extraction and is free for personal, educational, and research use, but requires a paid license for commercial use.
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Cunningham chains involve prime numbers where each is almost double its predecessor, with two types: 2p + 1 and 2p - 1. Primecoin cryptocurrency uses finding prime chains as its proof of work task, adjusting mining difficulty by varying chain length.
pgwire-replication is a low-level PostgreSQL replication client that provides explicit control over replication state and minimal runtime overhead. It interacts directly with a Postgres instance using the START_REPLICATION command and relies on the built-in pgoutput output plugin for change data capture and streaming.
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Deductive's account was deactivated by Datadog due to perceived competitive threat, but the team quickly migrated to Grafana Cloud with minimal disruption. The experience highlights the shift in observability economics, where code is cheap and vendor lock-in is no longer a significant barrier.
A proposed 5% one-time wealth tax on California's billionaires could raise ~$58B, but may trigger a 10-25% exodus. The tax could also impact Personal Income Tax, Corporation Tax, and Sales Tax revenue.
Facebook wants to buy WhatsApp for its massive user base and mobile growth potential. WhatsApp cofounders Jan Koum and Brian Acton should stay independent to maintain control and continue their service's upward growth trajectory.
The user developed Geoscript, a programming language for generating and manipulating 3D geometry, and optimized it with techniques like constant folding and common subexpression elimination. A persistent expression cache was implemented to speed up Geotoy, a live-coding environment, by reusing results from previous runs for unchanged program portions.
The Advanced iMessage Kit is a full-featured SDK for reading, sending, and automating iMessage conversations on macOS. It offers advanced features like threaded replies, tapbacks, message editing, unsending, and live typing indicators.
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Kodbox is a self-hosted file manager with multi-cloud support, allowing online or local access on various platforms. It offers features like online preview, editing, and playback of hundreds of file formats, as well as advanced search, file management, and collaboration tools.
A Japanese developer and entrepreneur reflects on his startup journey, learning from mistakes and focusing on enjoying life beyond screens. He now prioritizes building products, investing, reading, and spending time with loved ones, leveraging technology to maximize output with less effort.
Researchers tested 12 AI agents with zodiac-inspired personalities on identical dilemmas, achieving consistent results despite varying traits. The council's consensus showed a mix of radical honesty, loyalty, and prioritizing personal growth in various scenarios.
The author discusses the potential of large language models (LLMs) to create great poetry, arguing that technique is not the problem but rather the ability to capture particularity and culture. The author praises Gwern's experiments with LLMs, which demonstrate a more artisanal approach to poetry.
The user met two influential people in San Francisco and will co-host an event on January 16th. They will revisit and update old blog posts from 2024, reflecting on predictions made in the bio-ML field and what has changed since.
GoScript translates Go code to TypeScript for sharing algorithms and business logic between Go backends and TypeScript frontends. It enables write once, run everywhere functionality with seamless sharing of data structures and concurrency support.
The author, the lead maintainer of the LLVM project, lists several issues with the project, including insufficient review capacity, frequent API changes, and slow build times, and suggests ways to address these problems. The author also mentions several other issues, such as the need for end-to-end testing, better handling of undefined values, and improved performance tracking infrastructure, ...
A Figma engineer's hunt for the perfect answer to a programming challenge led to a mathematical odyssey to describe Apple's squircle shape, a rounded rectangle with continuous curvature. The engineer used mathematical tools to analyze the shape and develop a parametrizable smoothing scheme, but ultimately had to go back to the drawing board due to limitations in representing the shape with ...
Pigeon's device is a C loop optimization technique similar to Duff's device, used for sorting date/time records in various orders. It uses a switch statement with a Gruesome Hack to set and read the comparison mode, allowing for efficient sorting with different modes.
MPC-QT is a media player that reproduces MPC-HC's interface and functionality using libmpv. It offers features like multiple playlists, quick queuing, and screenshot templates.
The act() function in React is used to ensure that state changes and side effects are fully processed before making assertions in tests. It should be used to wrap functionality that updates internal state, especially when using fireEvent or calling functions that update state.
The author criticizes Apple and Google for not removing X from their app stores despite its use of deepfake images, blaming their inaction on fear of Trump. The author suggests Apple and Google should stand firm on their guidelines and remove X, making Trump and Musk defend the indefensible.
The code defines a control plane application using the Chronon framework, separating heartbeats and elections from data plane operations. It implements basic application traits with placeholder functions for query, snapshot, and restore.