US tariffs in 2025 mainly burden American importers and consumers, with only 4% absorbed by foreign exporters. The tariffs generated $200 billion in US customs revenue, paid almost entirely by Americans.
Bitchat is a decentralized messaging app using Bluetooth mesh networks, no internet required. It provides censorship resistance and infrastructure independence.
Apple is testing a new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and search results by removing the blue background around sponsored results. This change may increase ad click-through rates but potentially mislead users into not recognizing paid placements.
Radboud University will issue Fairphones to employees from 1 February 2026 for sustainability and cost efficiency reasons. Employees can also use their own devices or reissued Samsung phones, but will not be reimbursed for personal phone costs.
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Martin Luther King Jr. responds to criticism of his civil rights activities in Birmingham, arguing that nonviolent direct action is necessary to bring about change. He emphasizes the importance of standing up against unjust laws and systems of oppression.
A routine update to 1.1.1.1 caused DNS resolution failures due to a subtle shift in CNAME record ordering. The issue was resolved by reverting the change and proposing a new standard to clarify CNAME ordering in DNS responses.
Join our Discord community and check out the GLM-4.7 technical blog for more information. GLM-4.7-Flash offers a lightweight deployment option balancing performance and efficiency.
Reticulum is a cryptography-based networking stack for building local and wide-area networks with readily available hardware, offering end-to-end encryption and initiator anonymity. It allows anyone to be their own network operator, creating independent, inter-connectable, and autonomous networks.
Compound interest grows money exponentially over time, calculated on both principal and previous interest. Starting early and frequent compounding can significantly increase earnings over decades.
In a new analysis we trace Big Tech's fingerprints on the Digital Omnibus proposals - a major deregulation of EU digital laws including the GDPR and the AI Act. They are helped in this attempt by the Trump administration and the European far right.
The user ran experiments with Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.2 agents to develop exploits for a zeroday vulnerability in QuickJS, achieving over 40 distinct exploits across 6 scenarios, and concludes that LLMs will industrialise exploit development, making token throughput the limiting factor for state or group's cyber capabilities. The user suggests evaluating models against real, hard targets using ...
The Nano Texture display is great for reducing glare in various lighting conditions, making it ideal for outdoor use and environments with intense lighting. However, it requires more maintenance to keep clean and may not be suitable for those with chaotic environments or who don't mind glare.
NVIDIA is facing a class action lawsuit over its use of pirated books for AI training, with authors accusing the company of willingly downloading millions of copyrighted works. The lawsuit alleges NVIDIA collaborated with the pirate library Anna's Archive and distributed scripts to access pirated datasets, generating revenue from customers.
Wikipedia editors are working together to identify and remove AI-generated content that introduces errors and lacks proper sourcing. The goal is to verify AI output and fix or remove it if necessary, without restricting AI use in articles.
NanoLang is a modern language transpiling to C for native performance with a clean syntax. It uses a 3-stage bootstrap and supports self-hosting and LLM-friendly design.
Kalshi prediction market analysis reveals a wealth transfer from takers to makers due to taker bias towards affirmative outcomes. Makers profit by providing liquidity to takers, not through superior forecasting, but through a structural arbitrage mechanism.
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The user has developed their own C coding style, influenced by other languages like Rust and C#, which emphasizes strict type checking, explicit memory management, and error handling through result types and parsing. They use C23 features like tagged types and explicit standardization to create robust APIs and prefer to reimplement standard library functions when possible to achieve better ...
Android phones can be vulnerable to fake cell towers called Stingrays, which can intercept calls and texts. Google has added security features to Android 16, but they are only available on the Pixel 10 series, which can be enabled in the Mobile Network Security settings.
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This PDF site uses local-only architecture, processing files in browser memory with WebAssembly, ensuring data security and no server costs. This allows for free professional tools without limits, making it a secure alternative to cloud-based services.
The user has been designing and iterating on their ergonomic laptop setup for health reasons, using a 3D printer to create custom parts. They've made several versions, each with its own set of problems and benefits.
COBOL developers see LLMs as useful for simple tasks and info retrieval, but not a threat to job security. LLMs can be effective with COBOL, despite initial struggles, and are being used for tasks like code review and legacy app conversions.
The Strategic Services document outlines a plan for simple sabotage, a type of non-violent resistance that involves disrupting the enemy's operations through everyday actions, such as damaging equipment or supplies. The goal is to encourage citizens to engage in simple sabotage, which can be done using ordinary tools and materials, to harass and demoralize the enemy and support the war effort.
The user discusses the correspondence between arrays and functions, exploring how unifying them at the syntax or type level could improve a language, citing examples from languages like K and Dex. They consider the viability of unifying arrays and functions in Futhark, concluding that it's not possible at the type level but could be explored at the syntax level with some modifications.
Threads had 141.5 million daily active users on iOS and Android as of January 7, 2026, while X had 125 million daily active users on mobile devices. Threads' growth may be driven by cross-promotions and new features, while X faces controversy over its AI, Grok.
Googlebot stops crawling a site if it can't access the robots.txt file. Creating a simple text file named robots.txt at the site's root with permission for Googlebot to access the site resolves the issue.
"Greenland dispute" There is no "dispute" what is this terrible journalism? Greenland is not for sale or acquisition by any means. It is an ally and sovereign nation. Stop being so absolutely horrible at your job, words matter.
The Code-Only paradigm simplifies agent design by forcing the agent to produce executable code, making it more trustworthy and repeatable. This approach enforces guarantees and precision, ideal for computable tasks, and blurs the line between prompting and programming an agent.
Martin Luther King's nonviolence was influenced by Gandhi and Christian love, which he believed was a powerful force for social change. He developed six key principles of nonviolent resistance, including resisting evil without violence and seeking to win the understanding of opponents.
The user has consolidated knowledge on Claude Code, a tool for creating AI agents that can write code, and shares their experience and best practices for using it, including tips on workflow, debugging, and testing. They also discuss the importance of context management, compacting, and transferring context, as well as the use of plugins and commands to streamline the coding process.
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Turso Database is a Rust-based evolution of SQLite with native async support and features like vector search. It's still in beta and has a bug bounty for data corruption issues.
The safety of large language models relies on specific formatting, and bypassing this formatting can cause models to generate harmful content. This vulnerability, known as the "format mismatch attack," is not fixed and remains in open-source models, highlighting the need for more robust safety measures.
To increase job odds, focus on 5-10 specific opportunities where you're genuinely interested and have a unique connection. Stand out by contacting current employees and the CEO directly, and spend more time on each opportunity.
User argues that regular web components are not suitable for marketing website design systems due to JavaScript dependency. They propose using HTML Web Components with minimal JavaScript and leveraging CSS for functionality and styling.
The US under Trump has pursued a campaign to annex Greenland, sparking a confrontation with Denmark, the EU, and NATO. This has led to a trade war and widespread condemnation from international leaders.
Researchers studied the behavior of large language models and found that their "Assistant" persona is linked to a specific pattern of neural activity called the "Assistant Axis." By monitoring and stabilizing this axis, they can prevent models from drifting away from their intended persona and producing harmful responses.
The user discusses the history of floating-point printing and parsing, citing various researchers and their contributions to the field, including Coonen, Slishman, Steele, and White. The user presents a new approach called unrounded scaling, which combines and simplifies earlier works to provide fast and accurate floating-point printing and parsing.
pipenet is used for tunneling capabilities, connecting local MCP servers with remote AI clients. It can be embedded in tools and used with custom subdomains, servers, and domains.
West Midlands Police Chief Constable Craig Guildford retired after using fictional AI output to ban Israeli fans from a football match. He admitted to using Microsoft Copilot, contradicting earlier claims that his officers didn't use AI.
The user recently tested AMD Zen 5 CPUs and found them to be very exciting, especially for developers who can use AVX-512 SIMD instructions without downclocking. The user provides an introduction to writing SIMD-accelerated code in pure Rust, including examples and advice on how to implement and optimize SIMD code for different CPU architectures.
A cow named Veronika used a deck broom as a scratching tool in a series of 10 trials, demonstrating egocentric tool use. This cognitive feat suggests that cows may be more intelligent than previously thought, challenging assumptions about livestock intelligence.
A 200-year misinterpretation of Beowulf's opening line has been corrected by a University of Manchester academic. The word "hwæt" is now understood as an interrogative pronoun, meaning "How" rather than an attention-grabbing command.
A cancer patient's account was disabled by Anthropic after a $106.60 charge, trapping her medical documentation. She's appealing for account restoration and chat history export, citing lack of human review and automated responses.
TrackrTrain creates visually stunning physical maps showing live train movements using open data and electronics. Their products combine passion for transport networks and visualizing data.
The user is implementing character-property regexp features in Quamina, a Go programming project, by building on the Unicode Character Database to avoid generating 1.5M lines of code. They used caching to improve performance and considered using GenAI, but chose not to due to lack of tooling and experience.
A user submitted a thought with contents "hello world". The thought was stored with a SHA256 hash and an unsalted MD5 hash.
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User quit Facebook in 2020 due to misinformation and excessive ads. Now they use social media intentionally, focusing on sharing helpful content and having real conversations.
mTOTP is a manual time-based authentication protocol for humans, computed without electronic devices. It uses a secret key, substitution box, and diffusion to generate OTPs for future times with intentional authentication time.
The author struggles to find a comfortable position while reading due to the unnatural posture required. A physical therapist explains that this is because the body is not meant to stay in one position for an extended period.
Researchers at UP MSI found elevated iodine-129 levels in West Philippine Sea seawater samples, higher than in other parts of the country. The levels pose no health threat but may be linked to nuclear activities in China through ocean circulation.
This book is about Wall Street quants, their roles, and contributions. It provides stories and insights into the world of quantitative finance.
The Milk-V Titan is a RISC-V Mini-ITX motherboard kit with an Ultra-RISC UR-DP1000 CPU, supporting up to 64 GB DDR4 RAM and various ports. It's available for preorder at Arace Tech for $279, a reasonable price for a development-focused board.
Josephine Ballon and Anna Lena von Hodenberg, directors of HateAid, a German nonprofit, were targeted by the US government with travel bans due to their advocacy of EU tech regulations. They and other digital rights advocates reject accusations of censorship, saying their work is about making people safer online.
The UN head António Guterres criticized the US for acting with impunity and disregarding international law. He called for UN reform to tackle global challenges and limit veto powers in the Security Council.
The author of the R.E.A.L. VR mod has announced they are leaving due to a DMCA notice from CD PROJEKT S.A. over the Cyberpunk 2077 VR mod. The author is bitter about the company's stance on modders working for free.
Ballin is a TUI app in Rust that simulates physics with thousands of balls using the rapier engine. It features customizable options, shapes, and colors, and can be downloaded from the Releases page.
To create a robust Helm chart, use Helm lint and template commands to ensure configuration compliance and render templates correctly, and consider using Helm unit tests and native tests to validate chart functionality and output. Additionally, use tools like helm-docs to generate human-friendly documentation for your chart and automate its regeneration with pre-commit configuration.
Create a simple website with plain HTML to publish your writing without worrying about tooling. Once you have content, you can add tooling to make your writing process more enjoyable.
The Ralph Wiggum Technique, created by Geoff Huntley, uses coding agents to automate tasks and refactor code. It went viral in late 2025 and has sparked discussions on the future of software development and AI engineering.
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ShapeR performs generative 3D reconstruction from image sequences using multimodal inputs and robust training strategies. It leverages multimodal conditioning and heavy augmentations to produce metrically accurate and consistent reconstructions in real-world scenarios.
A Ukrainian city, Trostianets, has completed a sustainable heating pilot using heat pumps and solar power in a renovated apartment building. The project aims to make heating in Ukraine secure, affordable, and independent from fossil fuels.
The author built a bootstrapped version of the Bun JavaScript toolkit without relying on its binary dependencies, overcoming several challenges including a lack of documentation for bootstrapping Bun and complex dependencies in its build scripts. The author successfully created a working build system and binary, and has made the bootstrapped build commands available in a fork of the Bun repository.
The FAA and IBM collaborated on the NAS Enroute Stage A project, which led to the development of the IBM 9020, a multisystem computer designed for real-time air traffic control. The 9020 used a cluster of seven S/360 computers connected by a common bus, with a central System Console for operator control and redundancy for high uptime and performance.
CornerFix restores sharp display edges in macOS 26 and newer by drawing unobtrusive overlay caps. It's a safe, non-invasive solution to bring back straight edges without hacking system files.
C++ ownership model involves object creation, destruction, and reference management through RAII, references, and move semantics. Understanding these concepts is crucial for writing and reading modern C++ code, avoiding bugs, and ensuring correct memory management.
aws-doctor is a Golang tool that diagnoses cost anomalies, detects idle resources, and provides proactive analysis of AWS cloud infrastructure. It automates routine checks to help users understand where money is going and what can be cleaned up.
OpenCode had a massive CVE allowing RCE, exposing thousands of developers to potential data breaches and system takeovers. The vulnerability was significantly easier to exploit than previous ones, with a wide open POST endpoint for executing arbitrary shell commands.
We achieved 1.3-second cross-machine parameter updates for Kimi-K2 using RDMA point-to-point communication. Our solution leverages a static transfer schedule and pipelined execution to reduce trillion-parameter updates.
Fire services attended Rockstar North's Edinburgh office after a reported boiler explosion, securing structural damage. The incident occurred on January 19, with crews remaining on-site for over four hours.
TPM chips provide secure data storage and boot chain integrity, but their use in embedded systems requires careful consideration of physical attacks, session encryption, and attestation protocols. A well-defined threat model and robust hardening measures, such as measured boot and verified boot, are essential to mitigate code execution flaws and ensure the security of TPM keys in embedded systems.
The code creates windows with different colors, animates their positions and colors, and displays media. It also displays text and waits for user input.
A new phone called Jolla has a physical privacy switch that disconnects the microphone, camera, and Bluetooth, giving users control over their data. The phone runs on Sailfish OS 5, a clean and open-source Linux operating system that prioritizes user privacy and control.
User clones a repository, sets up a virtual environment, and installs dependencies to run a text-to-image generator. The user then runs the generator with various options, including custom dimensions, multiple variations, and reproducible generation.
A raccoon broke into a liquor store in Ashland, Virginia, and its story went viral, highlighting the species' intelligence and curiosity. Researchers are now studying raccoons to understand their sophisticated brains and mental capacities, which may offer insights into human intelligence and behavior.
Preserved Fish, born in 1766, was a New York merchant with a Quaker name meaning preserved from sin. He became wealthy through shipping and banking, controlling Tammany Hall and fending off the Locofocos reformers.
Researchers argue that the "Do Nothing" challenge and rawdogging trend misunderstand how boredom works, suggesting it's a signal to find meaning, not a restorative activity. Boredom is linked to problems with self-control, self-esteem, and social connection, rather than being a catalyst for creativity.
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You've been using Claude Code daily with varying results across repos, but it helps set up AGENTS.md files for context. It's part of the Intent Layer skill, built on Tyler Brandt's AI Adoption Roadmap.
A query plan changed between two executions despite the same data and statistics due to the planner's estimation error caused by dead tuples in the index. The planner used the extreme value recorded in the histogram on the first execution, resulting in an underestimated Merge Join node, while on the second execution it used the actual extreme value, resulting in a Nested Loop Join.
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Researchers have found a way to predict which policies trained in simulation will work on real hardware by analyzing the movement style or "accent" of the robot. This approach uses a classifier to identify successful transfer policies based on their kinematic signatures, allowing for faster and more reliable deployment of robots on new hardware.
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Kacet is a crypto-native freelance marketplace for blockchain professionals with instant trustless payments secured by smart contracts. It solves problems like unclear fees, delayed payouts, and centralized control with transparent escrow and fair fees.
Yashiki is a window manager that allows custom layouts and tags. It uses a shell script for configuration.
Project Cybersyn was a Chilean project from 1971 to 1973 that aimed to create a distributed decision support system to aid in the management of the national economy. It was based on the viable system model theory and featured innovative technology for its time, including a network of telex machines and a mainframe computer.
Slop Swapper provides AI-generated content with human artists claiming authorship for plausible deniability. They offer a network of artists with verified credentials, creating a new revenue stream for those whose jobs were eliminated by AI.
We need to find the location of each item in a list of lists given a list of items, considering non-scalar items and returning the sublist index where the item is found. Solutions include using the outer product of membership, flat array indexing, and the Where function with interval index, with the latter being the most efficient for large lists.
Extreme inequality is growing with billionaires' wealth increasing three times faster than average, while one in four people lack food and nearly half live in poverty. Governments are siding with the super-rich, suppressing dissent and fuelling division to protect inequality.
I didn’t want another app, notification, or dashboard. I wanted a subtle daily reminder through something I already look at all the time — my desktop. So I built a small local-first daemon that updates the wallpaper once a day with a message aligned to my goals.