The writer feels stuck as a software engineer because they're not using their problem-solving skills as much due to relying on AI for coding. They miss the mental growth and satisfaction from deep thinking.
Voxtral Transcribe 2 includes two models: Voxtral Mini Transcribe V2 for batch transcription and Voxtral Realtime for live applications with ultra-low latency. Both models offer state-of-the-art transcription quality, diarization, and support for 13 languages.
User created a ~/bin/ directory to store custom Unix commands and scripts, but faced collisions with system commands. They solved this by prefixing their custom commands with a comma, allowing for easy tab completion and avoiding future collisions.
The FBI was unable to access a Washington Post reporter's iPhone due to it being in Lockdown Mode, a security feature that limits device connections and blocks vulnerabilities. The FBI was able to access another device, a Macbook Pro, but not a full physical image of it.
The DoJ's latest Epstein archive release has several issues, including censored names, corrupted files, and poor OCR results due to the use of Courier New font and low-quality JPEG scans.
SaaS companies are facing an existential threat from agentic AI, also known as vibe coding, which allows customers to build custom tools and apps. To survive, SaaS companies must evolve into platforms that let customers build on top of them.
Claude will remain ad-free to maintain its integrity as a genuinely helpful assistant for work and deep thinking. This choice aligns with Claude's Constitution, prioritizing users' interests over potential revenue from advertising.
The US Department of Justice released a new dataset of 10,593 PDF files under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which were analyzed for technical aspects such as PDF syntax, malformations, and redaction effectiveness. The analysis found that while the DoJ correctly redacted the EFTA PDFs in Datasets 01-07, some PDFs in the new dataset contain incorrect and ineffective redactions, and the ...
The recent stock market volatility and flash crashes in crypto and gold can be attributed to the unwinding of the Japanese Yen carry trade, which was fueled by the Bank of Japan's Zero Interest Rate Policy and subsequent Negative Interest Rate Policy. The covert unwinding of the Yen carry trade has led to a forced liquidation event, causing a cascade of asset price collapses across various ...
The Guinea worm infection is near global eradication with only 10 human cases reported in 2025, down from 3.5 million in 1986. The Carter Center's eradication program uses cash rewards, public education, and safer water practices to prevent transmission.
Companies are beginning to recognize the value of older workers, with studies showing that they can improve productivity, reduce turnover, and increase profits, but many organizations still design careers to push people out early. To adapt to aging populations and retain experienced talent, companies should map their age profile, redesign roles and career paths, and invest in mid- and ...
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This is a Ghidra plugin that bridges reverse engineering with AI tools. It requires 14 JARs from Ghidra and can be built with Maven.
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Jeff Bezos purchased the Washington Post in 2013 for $250 million, promising a "new golden era" but ultimately overseeing significant cuts and layoffs. The paper's decline has been marked by a loss of talented staff, diminished ambition, and a shift towards a more corporate and Trump-friendly editorial stance.
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Open-Source-Software is crucial for digital infrastructure, yet volunteer work on it is not recognized as volunteering. This imbalance hinders the development and maintenance of critical systems.
The author's company took four years to find a $50 billion buyer, and they wish a book like this existed during that time. This book documents the author's mistakes and lessons learned from their experience.
The user built a custom CRT display adapter to connect a Raspberry Pi to a vintage arcade machine's CRT display, and later decided to use a STM32 microcontroller to improve the display's resolution and color depth. After several iterations of design and testing, the user successfully created a USB display adapter that can output 24-bit color at 60 Hz to the CRT display, greatly improving the ...
The World Factbook, a CIA publication, was a one-stop reference about countries and communities, evolving from a classified to unclassified, hardcopy to digital product. It was launched in 1962 and went digital in 1997, hosting over 5,000 copyright-free photos before its sunset.
Researchers improved self-attention in AI models to reduce costs and energy demands. Their efficient formulation enables unbounded token generation at a fixed cost, reducing infrastructure and energy needs.
Illinois joins the World Health Organization's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network to counterbalance the US withdrawal. This move will provide Illinois with access to research, alerts, and information to respond to public health emergencies.
The user shares a personal anecdote about how a university's travel reimbursement process changed from seamless to adversarial after a new system was implemented, illustrating the importance of setting the right intention regarding friction. The user then shares various hints and principles for designing distributed systems, including modeling minimally, specifying rather than implementing, ...
This text describes a class-based origami model system that follows real-world folding rules and includes methods for various folds and crease patterns. The system uses algorithms like Kawasaki's theorem and Maekawa's theorem to solve layer order and assignment problems in origami models.
Recall.ai's unusual workload of processing millions of meetings led to a bottleneck in their Postgres database due to the single-threaded main loop in the postmaster process. The team discovered that adding additional postmasters on the same host can linearly increase connection throughput, revealing an artificial constraint that has warped the shape of the developer ecosystem around it.
User experimented with Claude Code, a version of Claude, to create original music. Claude generated songs with vocals, instrumentation, and even visual components, but had limitations and quirks, such as a preference for the word "Neon".
RS-SDK is a research-oriented starter kit for RuneScape-style bots with a TypeScript SDK, agent documentation, and a server emulator. It allows automating game tasks, leveling accounts, and experimenting with agentic development techniques in a safe, bot-only setting.
A thought-terminating cliché is a form of loaded language used to end an argument and dismiss dissent with a cliché rather than a point. Examples include phrases like "It's not that deep" and "Let's agree to disagree" that halt debate and restrict freedom of speech.
LispE is a compact, multi-platform language combining functional and array language features. It provides a simple yet versatile formalism for combining programming trends.
The author witnessed massive protests in Iran after the internet went dark, with people from all classes demanding change due to the economic situation. The protests turned violent, with security forces firing directly into the crowd, and the author saw a young woman being shot and a boy being stabbed by a plainclothes agent.
Zendesk is experiencing a spam issue where spammers are using their system to send unwanted emails to users. A user has created a Sieve script filter to block these emails, but warns that Zendesk's mailserver reputation may be severely damaged.
The technocracy movement, which emerged in the 1930s, aimed to replace democracy with a system of rule by technical experts. Today, the idea of technocracy has been revived in Silicon Valley, where tech elites believe they can save capitalism by steering it with their expertise.
The author discusses the rapid advancements in AI, particularly in reasoning and logic, and how it is transforming various fields such as science, engineering, and even warfare. The author predicts that automated thinking will create a massive demand for inference compute, potentially rivaling the electricity consumption of air conditioning, and that this will have significant implications ...
Fastmail donated USD 10,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation to support Perl 5 core maintenance. This donation helped TPRF re-open the community grants program with a USD 10,000 budget for 2026.
The US government is targeting citizens who exercise their right to free speech, with the Department of Homeland Security issuing administrative subpoenas to silence dissent. President Trump's administration is also facing criticism for its handling of the Epstein case, with the DOJ releasing documents with thousands of redaction errors and a federal judge blocking the administration's ...
A custom firmware for the Sony MZ-RH1 has been released with features like track title display and basic track control options. The firmware is open-source and includes a WebUSB-based installer to minimize the risk of corruption during flashing.
The Codex app is a UI for parallelized development with OpenAI's multi-agent tools, allowing users to manage isolated worktrees and chat with them separately. This is part of a larger trend where software development is shifting from code-centric to system-centric, with a focus on managing the things that produce code.
To generate an HTML report, select Connections or download a larger data archive. The report uses exact phrase matching for full names.
Researchers from US universities compare ultra-processed foods to cigarettes due to their engineered addiction and widespread health harms. They call for tighter regulation and lessons from tobacco control to reduce harm from UPFs.
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Anxiety affects a third of US adults, increasing risk for depression and suicide, but social media can provide emotional support and reduce symptoms. A study found that young adults with certain personality traits, such as openness and extraversion, reported reduced anxiety with increased social media emotional support.
Cryptocurrency is a useless and destructive technology that is grossly inefficient and not fit for purpose. It enables billion-dollar criminal enterprises and has sucked people in with false promises of easy money.
Microsoft has been trying to create live information surfaces on Windows since 1997, but each attempt has failed due to performance, security, screen space, privacy, and engagement issues. The current Widget Board is a result of past lessons, using declarative JSON, native WinUI 3 rendering, and an overlay layout to provide interactive widgets with opt-in data access.
The author and their partner have pledged $71M to support the Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) initiative, aiming to provide basic needs to those in need. They are working with existing organizations to launch GMI studies in rural counties, with the goal of lifting thousands of people out of poverty and generating open data for the world.
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The article discusses the concept of a decentralized web, drawing inspiration from Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) and the need for a more personal and interactive web experience. It introduces the A12 protocol, which enables a "one desktop, many devices" approach, allowing for seamless composition of interactive media sources and sinks over a network.
Debian Project Leader Andreas Tille is addressing volunteer staffing challenges due to lack of communication when developers step away from the project. He proposes an automated system to email inactive contributors and solicit a response to maintain Debian's health and effectiveness.
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Monks in Egypt created a palimpsest called Codex Climaci Rescriptus by erasing original texts and replacing them with Syriac translations. Researchers are now using a particle accelerator to uncover the hidden words, which may contain a second-century B.C.E. star catalog created by Hipparchus.
Proof assistants like Isabelle can have bugs, but they are generally reliable. Isabelle's design helps prevent errors, but users must still be cautious.
Intel will start producing graphics processing units (GPUs) for gaming and AI tasks, overseen by Kevork Kechichian and Eric Demers. This move marks a notable expansion for Intel into a new area, previously dominated by Nvidia.
The user is blocked due to using an old browser version or an archive site with a suspicious user agent. They can contact the author or use archive.org for better access.
Elon Musk envisions a world with more robots than people, but experts warn of job losses and the need for regulation to ensure AI benefits society. Policymakers are urged to focus on developing technologies that augment human abilities rather than replacing them.
Three economists, Arvind Subramanian, Justin Sandefur, and Dev Patel, initially found that poor countries were growing faster than rich ones, but now say this trend has ended. They attribute the demise of convergence to poor countries growing slower, particularly in Africa and Latin America.
A technique is described that compresses chroma data of an image to less than 0.5 bits per pixel on average without visible artifacts by using a linear approximation of chroma values based on luma values. The technique uses varying block sizes and deblocking algorithms to improve compression ratio and reduce artifacts, and can be further improved with entropy coding and non-linear coding techniques.
The Thatcher effect shows that brains have trouble recognizing upside-down faces with inverted features. This is due to the brain processing individual features rather than the face as a whole.
Qodo's code review benchmark evaluates AI-powered code review systems, focusing on code correctness and quality. Qodo outperforms 7 other leading AI code review platforms with an F1 score of 60.1%.
The average American reads 8 books in 2025, but the median is 2, with heavy readers increasing the overall average, and 59% of Americans read at least one book. Reading habits vary by age, income, and format, with audiobooks experiencing explosive growth and digital library users increasing by 35% during the pandemic.
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The author is concerned that Swift and Kotlin are overly restrictive with their static typing, forcing programmers to anticipate and manage every possible error scenario. This approach can lead to overly complex code and a lack of flexibility.
The NDP says it wants Prime Minister Mark Carney to cancel contracts for U.S.-made F-35 fighter jets — including the 16 Canada has already committed to buying.
Iranian women have been resisting the oppressive regime since its birth, with the compulsory hijab being a key point of contention. The regime underestimated the power of women, but the "Woman, Life, Freedom" uprising after Mahsa Amini's death in 2022 marked a turning point in the fight for freedom.
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.
You're struggling to adapt to AI automation in your job, feeling like your skills are being commoditized. The system is designed for cost reduction, not workforce transformation, and you need to redefine your role to stay relevant.
Litestream is a Unix-y tool synchronizing SQLite with S3-style storage for speed and data safety. It's used in Fly's Sprites, a fast and durable storage system.
Glance automatically tests UI changes in PRs with video recordings and error logs. It integrates with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and other CI environments for seamless testing.
Meter is a scraping service that detects real content changes and only re-processes what's new, without layout noise or ads. It offers a free trial and plans starting at $29/month for unlimited scraping, webhooks, and priority support, with custom pricing for enterprise plans.
The author suggests that meanness and success are inversely correlated, especially in startup founders and intellectuals. Being mean makes you stupid and unable to get the best people to work for you.
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A toy projector's security was easily bypassed with basic tools in under an hour, revealing architectural failure modes. This case highlights the importance of early design validation and proper security decisions, rather than relying on cosmetic security features.
The Muppet Show special features a return to form for the characters with a half-hour episode operating like a 1970s series, starring Sabrina Carpenter as the celebrity guest star. The special includes a variety of musical numbers, comedy sketches, and running gags, showcasing the Muppets' style of humor and modern guest stars.
KtKit is a Kotlin multiplatform toolkit for server-side app development with Ktor, handling backend development aspects. It uses Arrow and Kotlin context parameters for lightweight error handling and context passing.
Global economy appears uneven with rising billionaires and expensive living, yet it's actually becoming more equal. Average earners struggle to afford rent in most places, despite some polls showing a shift in public opinion.
The user is migrating their personal projects off of GitHub in support of a general strike in Minnesota and to protest GitHub's contracts with ICE and Microsoft's involvement in Israel's apartheid. They provide four reasons for targeting GitHub, including its ease of migration, implicit endorsement of the platform, decline in web interface quality, and suitability as a target for a boycott ...
The US government is targeting citizens who exercise their right to free speech, with the Department of Homeland Security issuing administrative subpoenas to silence dissent. President Trump's administration is also facing criticism for its handling of the Epstein case, with the DOJ releasing documents with thousands of redaction errors and a federal judge blocking the administration's ...
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Claude's /insights command generates a report on usage, providing feedback like a human manager but sometimes limited. The report offers concrete suggestions to improve work style and AI interactions.
BF-Tree is a database system that replaces traditional 4KB page caching with variable-size mini-pages to reduce write amplification and memory waste, and it uses a custom ring buffer allocator with a 6-state machine to manage mini-page lifecycles. The BF-Tree implementation in Rust uses a circular buffer to allocate mini-pages, a RAII guard to track ownership, and a lifecycle machine to ...
OMGYes is a sex-education platform that uses interactive technology to help women and their partners understand female pleasure and intimacy. The platform aims to promote communication and education about sex, rather than revolutionizing it.
Speculative sampling uses a draft distribution to achieve target sampling results by rejecting over-sampled tokens and re-sampling from an under-sampled residual distribution. The residual distribution is defined as the difference between draft and target probabilities, normalized by the sum of these differences.