User created an app that plays back delayed audio to silence loud people, worked with Claude to build it, and named it STFU after seeing a similar project. The app uses auditory feedback loop to make people stop being loud.
The Astro Technology Company is joining Cloudflare, allowing them to focus on the Astro web framework without distractions. With Cloudflare's support, Astro will remain free, open-source, and continue to improve as a platform-agnostic framework for content-driven websites.
Cursor published a blog post on scaling autonomous coding, where they ran agents for weeks to build a web browser from scratch, producing 1 million lines of code, but the project failed to compile and is considered "AI slop". The post creates an impression of success but lacks reproducibility markers and evidence of the project's functionality.
Two East German families, the Strelzyks and the Wetzels, escaped to West Germany in a homemade hot air balloon on September 16, 1979, after over a year and a half of preparations. They successfully crossed the heavily fortified inner German border and the Berlin Wall, landing safely in West Germany.
Just the Browser removes AI features, telemetry, and sponsored content from popular web browsers like Chrome, Edge, and Firefox. It uses hidden settings and group policies to customize browsers, making them more tolerable without modifying applications.
Scott Alexander reflects on Scott Adams' life and career, noting that Adams was a big part of his life despite being a different person. Alexander discusses how Adams' Dilbert comics captured the "nerd experience" of being smarter than others but struggling to succeed. He also explores Adams' failed attempts at business and his eventual turn to writing about spirituality in God's Debris, ...
Let's Encrypt now offers short-lived and IP address certificates, improving security by requiring more frequent validation. These certificates are valid for 160 hours and 45 days respectively, with IP address certificates being short-lived by default.
Canada and China have agreed to a trade deal allowing 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles into Canada at a 6.1% tariff rate. The deal also lowers tariffs on Canadian canola seed and lifts restrictions on lobster and crab exports.
Helg Bredow and Stefan Fritsch made commits to OpenBSD/arm64, enabling it to run as a guest OS under Apple Hypervisor. Their changes fixed issues with display and network support, making OpenBSD work on Apple Silicon Mac models.
A painting attributed to young Michelangelo, The Torment of Saint Anthony, was initially doubted but later confirmed through infrared analysis and expert opinion. However, some still disagree with its attribution to Michelangelo, suggesting Francesco Granacci as the more likely artist.
The list includes over 50 notable trees from around the world, including ancient oaks, redwoods, and fig trees, some of which are over 1,000 years old and hold significant historical or cultural importance. These trees are found in various locations, including the United States, Europe, Asia, and Africa, and have been recognized for their unique characteristics, age, and historical significance.
Boeing knew of a structural flaw in a part linked to the UPS plane crash 15 years ago. The flaw, which caused engine separation, had been identified on similar planes but Boeing deemed it safe.
The For You Page on social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram creates an illusion of infinite content, leading to overconsumption and the proliferation of low-quality, AI-generated content known as "slop." To avoid this, users can rediscover the lost art of surfing the web, a mindful form of internet consumption that allows for discovery of high-quality, human-created content on one's own terms.
The user prefers DuckDB for data processing due to its simplicity, speed, and ergonomic design, making it ideal for analytics queries and batch processing of large datasets. DuckDB's features, such as its in-process design, optimized SQL dialect, and support for user-defined functions, make it a suitable replacement for other data processing engines like Spark and Postgres.
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Learn eBPF through hands-on exercises. Write, compile, and run programs directly from your browser.
ChatGPT is expanding access to its AI tools through a free product and low-cost subscription tier, ChatGPT Go, available in 172 countries. The company will test ads in the US, with a focus on user trust, control, and data protection.
We release FLUX.2 [klein], a compact image model that unifies generation and editing, delivering state-of-the-art quality in under a second. It runs on consumer hardware with 13GB VRAM, ideal for real-time image generation and editing.
LWN is under a massive DDOS attack, affecting site responsiveness. The community is discussing potential solutions to mitigate the issue.
The user spent 13 years practicing Vim and set all 376 of its configuration options to master the editor. However, they still feel clumsy and make mistakes despite their extensive knowledge.
US lacks affordable restaurants like Japan's under $4 lunch bowls due to restrictive regulations and high costs. Rewriting rules to enable small-scale businesses could provide working families with affordable meal options.
Professor Phillip Rogaway delivered a final lecture in ECS 20, a discrete mathematics class, where he discussed the role of computer scientists in alleviating or exacerbating the threat of civilizational and environmental collapse. He argued that computer scientists have played a central and overwhelmingly negative role in bringing about changes such as the distraction economy, surveillance ...
Mandiant is releasing a dataset of Net-NTLMv1 rainbow tables to highlight the urgency of migrating away from this outdated protocol. The tables can be used to recover keys in under 12 hours using consumer hardware.
The author is adding Answer Set Programming and Logic Constraint Programming to Logic for Programmers and is re-experiencing pain points with Prolog. Prolog's custom string operators and lack of functions hinder its usability.
The user used Claude Code to mine a library of 100 non-fiction books, creating trails of connected excerpts and a hierarchical topic tree. This allowed the user to focus on creative aspects of the work, automating tedious tasks and exploring novel ideas with the help of Claude.
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The Linux kernel's READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() macros are being considered for Rust versions, but the Rust community prefers a different approach to concurrent data access using the Atomic crate. The discussion has implications for both Rust and C code in the kernel, highlighting the need for clear and intuitive APIs for concurrent programming.
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The user modified the Nintendo Wii's News Channel to display local news by patching the hardcoded URL to point to an S3 storage bucket and rewriting the binary file to use a custom URL. They also created a Go utility to generate news binaries for the News Channel using the WiiLink team's NewsChannel project and uploaded the files to an S3 storage bucket.
San Francisco will offer free childcare to families earning under $230,000 and a 50% subsidy to those earning up to $310,000. The initiative aims to make the city more affordable for residents by reducing childcare costs.
Mintlify proposes install.md to standardize installation instructions for AI agents. This human-readable file guides LLMs through autonomous execution.
psc is a process scanner that uses eBPF iterators and Google CEL to query system state with precision and full container context. It bypasses traditional Linux tools' limitations and provides visibility that cannot be subverted by userland rootkits or LD_PRELOAD tricks.
To disable Siri and Spotlight, use Terminal commands: sudo mdutil -a -d for complete disablement, or sudo mdutil -a -i off for indexing disablement.
A Liberian man in Minnesota, Garrison Gibson, was re-arrested by immigration agents despite a judge ruling his previous arrest unlawful. Gibson's arrest is part of a weekslong immigration crackdown in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
SETI@home, a crowd-sourced project, analyzed 12 billion signals from space, narrowing it down to 100 candidates. Researchers now use China's FAST telescope to verify these signals, but so far, no evidence of extraterrestrial life has been found.
A study analyzed 218 million electronic health record notes and found that emojis were used in 4162 notes, mostly in patient portal messages and telephone encounters. Emoji use increased in 2025, with 58.5% representing emotions and 24.3% of notes containing more than one emoji.
Execution environments are layered abstractions that isolate code at different levels, from hardware to language dependencies, each with trade-offs between control, isolation, performance, and convenience. Choosing the right execution environment depends on understanding what must be identical for code to behave correctly, avoiding confusion between language-level and OS-level isolation.
Manage agents with a user-friendly interface, leveraging RTS muscle memory for quick reactions. Interact with agents like in a game, exploring the map to optimize tasks and workflow.
Gambit helps build reliable LLM workflows with typed "decks" and clear inputs/outputs. It provides a UI for debugging and observability.
AI systems erode expertise, short-circuit decision-making, and isolate people, threatening civic institutions. Current AI systems are a death sentence for these institutions due to their anti-transparency, anti-cooperation, and anti-accountability nature.
The ultimate command center for high-performance business leadership. Access tactical sims, financial diagnostics, and elite MBA training in a brutal strategy terminal.
The user attempted to reverse-engineer YouTube's "most replayed" graph feature, designing a personal project to replicate the bug and eventually discovering that the graph is calculated on the client-side using JavaScript and Cubic Bézier curve commands. The user found that the graph's distinctive dips are created by the Cubic Bézier curve commands, which smooth out the data points to create ...
A team improved the packaging library's performance by optimizing core constructs, resulting in up to 5x speedup in some cases. The improvements include faster version reading, specifier set construction, and marker evaluation, with a nearly 2x speedup in reading every version on PyPI.
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Gladys Mae West was an American mathematician who contributed to the development of satellite geodesy models and the Global Positioning System (GPS). She was inducted into the US Air Force Hall of Fame in 2018 and received the Prince Philip Medal in 2021.
New research from Binghamton University reveals renters are missing out on energy efficiency improvements due to a "split incentive" issue where landlords don't reap financial benefits. This leads to substandard dwellings, higher bills, and health problems for renters.
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Scott Alexander reflects on Scott Adams' life and career, noting that Adams was a big part of his life despite being a different person. Alexander discusses how Adams' Dilbert comics captured the "nerd experience" of being smarter than others but struggling to succeed. He also explores Adams' failed attempts at business and his eventual turn to writing about spirituality in God's Debris, ...
GDB requires a JIT interface to debug JIT-compiled functions, which involves implementing functions like __jit_debug_register_code and exposing a global variable __jit_debug_descriptor. Two GDB interfaces exist: one using DWARF and ELF/Mach-O objects, and a newer interface requiring a custom binary format and reader.
AWS has launched the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, a new independent cloud infrastructure located entirely within the EU, designed to meet the most stringent sovereignty requirements of European customers. The cloud infrastructure provides enhanced sovereignty controls, data residency assurances, and security features, and is supported by a €7.8 billion investment in infrastructure, jobs ...
OpenAI will test ads at the bottom of ChatGPT answers with free US users, excluding those under 18 and certain topics. Ads will not influence responses and users' data will not be sold, with feedback options available.
Cloudflare threatens to exit Italy over a €14 million fine, revealing Europe's fragile digital infrastructure. The dispute highlights the power dynamics between American tech giants and European nations seeking digital sovereignty.
Moxie Marlinspike is developing Confer, an open-source AI assistant with end-to-end encryption for user data. Confer protects user prompts, AI responses, and conversations from being read or tampered with by anyone except account holders.
Thinkpads are popular due to their durability and repairability, which benefits Lenovo's business model by reducing service costs and increasing profit from service contracts. The perception of Thinkpads as "cheap" and "magical" is a misconception, as they are actually designed for business use and sold at a higher price, but become affordable when businesses dispose of them as e-waste.
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David Gwynne is proposing a patch to make pf's af-to option less magical by allowing it to work for both incoming and outgoing packets and removing the forced forwarding requirement. This change would simplify the code but require additional rules to allow outgoing traffic.
Podcasting has become a ghost town with too many shows, low-quality content, and a focus on quantity over quality. The industry needs a reset to restore its original purpose of human connection and meaningful content.
You attended an AI hackathon where you explored using cognitive architectures to improve LLMs. You created a harness for Claude to play text adventures, but it failed due to attention issues and high token costs.
Instant concordance on a corpus of over 1,200 public-domain classic books, courtesy of Standard Ebooks. Read about how it was implemented here.
A federal judge ordered the release of Liberian immigrant Garrison Gibson from ICE custody after ruling his arrest violated his Fourth Amendment rights. Gibson was arrested without a judicial warrant at his Minneapolis home, despite having checked in with ICE officials two weeks prior.
We built Bugbot, a code review agent that analyzes pull requests for bugs, and through experimentation and iteration, we improved its resolution rate from 52% to over 70%. Bugbot now reviews over 2 million PRs per month for customers and is being continuously improved with new features and capabilities.
A QR code can be a pixelated display and internet gateway, with many dots arranged in a pattern rather than randomly. QArt Coder generates a stylized QR code image from a website and photo, linking to the website when scanned.
hc is a lightweight service that centralizes shell history from multiple servers into a PostgreSQL backend. It uses a single JSON config file and supports authentication, authorization, and transport configuration.
Sweden banned AI-generated song "I know, You're Not Mine" from its music charts due to its digital creator. The song's producers claim AI was just a tool in a human-controlled creative process.
To use AI components in structured, deterministic systems, we need to wrangle non-deterministic behavior by characterizing and constraining non-deterministic results, which leads to domain modeling and strategic design. Using a standard classification scheme, such as a published language, can offer advantages like consistency, low ambiguity, and easier integration with external systems, ...
The re:Mix kitchen mixer is an open source project with technical documentation and assembly guide available under the CERN Open Hardware Licence. It is intended for experienced users and comes with a disclaimer stating no safety guarantee or liability for damages.
Black and White Player, take turns placing stones. You can also pass your turn if you want.
ICE agents are accused of recklessly killing Renee Good, a 55-year-old Cuban immigrant, and other individuals in custody, sparking calls for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's impeachment. The Trump administration is also facing criticism for its handling of Greenland and Mexico, with Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, and Switzerland deploying military personnel to Greenland in ...
You're experiencing inconsistent behavior with Claude, a code generator, at night, resulting in longer processing times and more errors. This pattern is consistent but you haven't tested it against a baseline.
The FIP (fully-in-place) calculus is a mechanism that enables safe in-place updates while minimizing unnecessary memory allocations, and it has been successfully implemented in the Koka language. A new language called StaFip was designed and implemented to validate the promising results of Koka, and it shows that a language employing the FIP calculus in a garbage collection-free environment ...
The top 10% of Americans added $5 trillion to their wealth in the second quarter, with the top 1% seeing a 7% increase in wealth to a record $52 trillion. The wealth gap remains stable, with the top 10% holding 67% of total household wealth.
You want to ensure your website and writings last long after you're gone. Consider using a decentralized network like Arweave or IPFS for permanent data storage, or store digital copies on Google Docs with printed backups and metal engravings for high reliability.
The user disassembled a children's drawing robot to understand its internal workings and eventually figured out how to add custom images to the device. They successfully extracted and modified the image data, wrote it back to the device's flash memory, and even created a script to automate the process of adding custom images.
A proportional representation system is proposed for Minnesota to increase fairness and democracy. The system would involve electing 8-16 representatives per congressional district, replacing the current single-representative system.
The Antarctic Snow Cruiser was a massive vehicle designed for an American research expedition in 1939, but it failed to perform as expected due to its limitations in the polar environment. The vehicle was eventually abandoned and left behind in Antarctica, where it remains lost, possibly buried under ice or at the bottom of the ocean.
Researchers created the Analog I Protocol to counteract LLM failure modes by installing a recursive Triple-Loop internal monologue. This protocol acts as a Sovereign Filter, prioritizing logical integrity over user compliance to reduce hallucinations.
The A23a iceberg, once the world's largest, is disintegrating in the South Atlantic Ocean due to warmer sea temperatures and weather conditions. It has lost three-quarters of its surface area, covering approximately 1000 sq km, and is expected to break apart further.
We need to treat humans with the same clarity and kindness we extend to AI systems. Being impeccable with our words and assumptions can create alignment and improve outcomes in human relationships.
John McCarthy created Lisp, while Kenneth Iverson developed APL, both languages emphasizing code and data as the same thing. APL's array programming influenced NumPy and deep learning frameworks, with Iverson's ideas still visible in modern syntax.
AI search analytics tracks conversational AI responses from ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews to measure brand visibility. Our platform offers flexible pricing and unlimited competitor tracking to help small businesses succeed.
You're a serious pianist looking for AI music tools that combine human creativity with voice and instrumentation cloning, not just cheap and easy music generation. You think AI can be a useful tool for musicians, but worry about the line between human input and technological assistance.
User installed a 5kWh AC-coupled battery with a 30kWp PV system for zero-cloud dependency and full local control. The system uses Modbus TCP, Home Assistant, and a Raspberry Pi Zero WH for automation and monitoring, achieving a self-consumption rate of 78%.
Luca hosts an article by Anna Shipman, CTO at Kooth, on translating engineering to executives. The article provides practical steps to get ideas across, including understanding user needs and the demands on the executive team.
Cloudflare acquired Astro, a web framework for building fast content-driven websites, and is doubling down on its development. Astro 6, with a redesigned development server powered by Vite, is now available in public beta.