The user verified their identity on LinkedIn through Persona, a US company, and found their passport data was shared with 17 US-based subprocessors, including AI companies. The user recommends requesting data deletion and objecting to data use under "legitimate interests" due to concerns over data protection and US law enforcement access.
A 12-year-old boy's jargon code was mistaken for a Japanese spy's and led to an FBI investigation, costing thousands of dollars. The boy's glasses case was found and the code key was kept by the FBI, compromising his secret communication scheme.
Taalas released an ASIC chip running Llama 3.1 8B at 17,000 tokens per second, 10x cheaper and 10x less electricity than GPU based systems. The chip hardwires model weights, sidestepping memory bandwidth bottlenecks and using a "magic multiplier" for efficient multiplication.
Claude's desktop app uses Electron despite its downsides due to its benefits of one codebase for multiple platforms. However, coding agents struggle with the last 10% of development and increased support for native apps.
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A high-efficiency C++/CUDA LLM inference engine achieves 33x speedup on consumer hardware by streaming model layers through GPU memory. The engine uses adaptive caching and optional NVMe direct I/O to bypass the CPU and achieve high performance.
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The user maintains a list of websites that generate low-quality content using AI, which can be misleading or even dangerous, and invites others to contribute to the list. The list aims to block access to AI-generated content farms that prioritize SEO and monetization over providing useful information.
Flickr's URLs were simple, readable, and editable, making them efficient for users. They were also short and could be easily guessed, allowing for easy linking and sharing.
Andrej Karpathy discusses Claws, a new layer on top of LLM agents, enhancing orchestration and task management. Claws are AI agent systems running on personal hardware, communicating via messaging protocols.
zclaw is a C-based firmware for ESP32 boards with a 888 KB budget, supporting tasks, GPIO, and secure flash storage. It's tested on ESP32-C3, S3, and C6, with other variants likely compatible.
Chinese DRAM maker CXMT is flooding the market with cheaper chips, forcing Korean rivals Samsung and SK hynix to reevaluate their strategy. CXMT's aggressive pricing is gaining traction, with US and Taiwanese firms testing its DRAM and seeking cooperation.
Acme Weather addresses forecast uncertainty by providing multiple predictions and community reports to help users plan their day. The app uses various data sources and allows users to submit real-time reports of current conditions near them.
The user discusses the concept of encoding invariants in Rust's type system to avoid runtime errors and improve code robustness, using examples like NonZeroF32 and NonEmptyVec to demonstrate this approach. By using newtypes to represent valid states, the user argues that validation can be done at compile-time, reducing the risk of runtime errors and making code more maintainable and resilient ...
The author went through multiple polygraph tests throughout their career, initially failing one due to a minor white lie about their weight, but later passing with the help of an experienced examiner. The author became increasingly cynical about the polygraph's effectiveness and eventually stopped fearing the examiners.
A new European law requires batteries to have low carbon footprints, minimal harmful substances, and be collected, reused, and recycled. The law aims to support a circular economy, increase raw material security, and enhance EU autonomy by 2050.
OAuth was designed to allow users to grant access to their accounts without sharing passwords, driven by the need for Twitter to support OpenID in 2006. The core idea of OAuth is simple: send a secret to a trusted delegate with user consent, and the delegate can make subsequent requests on the user's behalf.
Sandbox-exec is a built-in macOS command-line utility that enables users to execute applications within a secure, isolated environment with limited access to system resources. It provides a powerful tool for security-conscious users and developers to create finely-tuned security environments with custom profiles tailored to specific applications and use cases.
EDuke32 is a free, open-source game engine and source port of Duke Nukem 3D with thousands of features and upgrades. It's the most actively developed and maintained Duke3D port, running on Windows, Linux, and more.
Cloudflare experienced a 6-hour service outage on February 20, 2026, due to a change in how the network manages IP addresses onboarded through the Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) pipeline, unintentionally withdrawing customer prefixes. The incident was caused by a software bug in the Addressing API and was exacerbated by incomplete testing and a lack of controlled rollouts, but Cloudflare is ...
The Toyota Mirai's rapid depreciation is due to limited hydrogen infrastructure and the rise of battery-electric vehicles. Its value has dropped dramatically due to geographical limitations and maintenance complexities.
A distributed job queue was built using a single file on object storage and a stateless broker to handle indexing jobs with high throughput and reliability. The system uses a simple design with compare-and-set (CAS) operations, group commit, and heartbeats to ensure at-least-once delivery and failover capabilities.
Current AI models are good at planning and breaking down tasks into subproblems, but existing frameworks require developers to predefine the coordination structure. A new framework, Cord, uses a protocol with five primitives and allows agents to understand and use coordination tools they've never seen before, enabling them to decompose tasks and parallelize work on their own.
A high-value Meta ad customer is experiencing repeated account bans for its employees, despite following standard professional practices and having a long history of advertising on the platform. The customer is seeking a manual onboarding pathway for verified agencies and a human-accessible support channel to resolve the issue.
The Document Foundation accuses OnlyOffice of being "fake open-source" for partnering with Microsoft and defaulting to proprietary file formats. This move is seen as a replay of Microsoft's past attempts to enforce vendor lock-in through proprietary standards.
Coccinelle is a tool for writing source-to-source transformations on C code, allowing for refactorings and more. It can be installed from source or downloaded pre-compiled, with instructions found at https://coccinelle.gitlabpages.inria.fr/website/download.html.
This C++ library, called canvas_ity, is a single-header implementation of the W3C HTML5 2D canvas specification, providing high-quality rendering and ease of use with a compact size. It supports various features like path building, fills, strokes, gradients, and compositing operations, and is designed to be widely portable and easy to understand.
24 Hour Fitness has a broken unsubscribe page that links to a Spanish error message. They were informed in November 2025 but have not fixed it, violating the CAN-SPAM Act.
Input lag in gaming systems is a growing issue due to increased complexity and developers' lack of understanding of its causes. This website aims to help developers and consumers understand and tackle latency issues.
The author argues that multitasking is a myth, as the human brain can't handle multiple tasks simultaneously like a multi-core processor, but rather switches between tasks quickly, wasting energy and causing burnout. The author longs for a simpler, more focused approach, like a single-threaded program, where one task is handled at a time.
Etsy's shift to standardizing on PHP was critical to unlocking success, as it focused on delivering value through human-technology hybrids rather than code quality. The cost of producing code is plummeting, requiring a ton of change and rethinking of social contracts and team work.
The goal is to recreate Wolfenstein 3D in Rust, specifically the shareware version, with mod-friendliness in mind. A web version is available at https://wolf.ironmule.dev, and a local version can be run with a config file for optional settings.
Researchers from ETH Zurich discovered serious security vulnerabilities in three popular cloud-based password managers, allowing hackers to view and change stored passwords. The team found 25 attacks on Bitwarden, LastPass, and Dashlane, compromising millions of users' sensitive data.
The challenge is to build a Forth-like interpreter that can run a subset of the Forth language, including generating the Fibonacci sequence and FizzBuzz, and can be built as a CLI tool or in-browser interpreter. The interpreter should support various features such as stack manipulation, word definition, conditionals, loops, and running code from a script file.
Minimalistic directions service for feature phones and low-bandwidth users, suitable for public transport directions. No JavaScript required, supports screen readers and terminal-based browsers.
Trunk-Based Development is a model where developers collaborate on a single branch called 'trunk', avoiding long-lived branches and merge hell. It enables Continuous Integration and Delivery, allowing teams to release code on demand with a high-throughput and quality.
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.
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Modelwrap is a system that guarantees a specific model is being used by verifying its weights through a Merkle tree and dm-verity, a Linux kernel subsystem. This approach ensures the model weights are not tampered with and provides a strong guarantee that the same model is used every time, even in a cloud environment.
The software development lifecycle (SDLC) is collapsing due to AI agents that can generate code, tests, and deploy it simultaneously, eliminating traditional stages like design, testing, and code review. The new skill is context engineering, and the new safety net is observability, which feeds directly back into the agent loop to ensure faster and safer shipping.
PRQL is a modern language for transforming data
Colorado lawmakers are revisiting online age verification, focusing on how to protect children without burdening adults' rights. A new bill, SB 26-051, shifts responsibility to operating system providers and app developers to verify users' ages.
ATAboy is a user-friendly USB bridge for connecting classic IDE hard drives to modern computers. It supports all IDE drives, including CHS only and PIO Mode 0, and features an Award BIOS inspired UI for drive configuration.
The four-color problem, first posed by Francis Guthrie in 1852, was eventually answered in 1976 by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken, who proved that any map can be colored with four colors. The problem's history involved many mathematicians, including Augustus De Morgan, Arthur Cayley, Alfred Kempe, and Percy Heawood, who made significant contributions and attempts to solve it before the ...
User experienced sudden and excessive usage of CC 2.1.1, hitting 5h limits much faster than usual. This issue started after updating to CC 2.1.1 and is affecting Opus but not Heiku.
The collected works of the Nekochan forums.
Pressure is a real physical force that can paralyze athletes, but some, like Mikaela Shiffrin, learn to overcome it. By understanding their body's chemical reactions and using techniques like meditation and breathing, athletes can achieve clutch performances under pressure.
TAL is a typed assembly language that ensures memory safety and type safety through typing rules and constructs. It's an ideal target for type-directed compilers producing verifiably safe code for secure applications.
Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855), one of the greatest mathematicians in history, devised a compact formula to determine the weekday of January 1st for any given year. Found in a handwritten note among his papers, it was first published posthumously in 1927. The formula is valid from 1583 onward — the first full year of the Gregorian calendar. Enter a year above to see it in action.
The user discusses an iterative process for determining the order cities should be closed in the game Two Spies, modeling the map as an undirected graph. They propose using Beam Search to avoid locally optimal traps and find a more optimal solution, outperforming greedy pruning in the long term.
The user set up a cloud-edge continuum testbed for a computer vision demo using MLSysOps, a framework that enables custom policies to adapt application deployment and runtime behavior. A subtle problem arose due to etcd timing out due to slow storage, which was resolved by optimizing ZFS settings on the NUC, teaching the user that distributed systems have strong opinions about their infrastructure.
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Austrian researchers created the world's smallest QR code, measuring 1.98 square micrometers, using an electron microscope to read it. The code is etched onto a ceramic film and can store over 2 TB of data per A4 sheet, advancing durable data storage technology.
Researchers present a comprehensive survey on Large Language Models' reasoning failures, categorizing them into embodied, informal, and formal types, and addressing root causes and mitigation strategies. The survey aims to unify research efforts and guide future development of more reliable and robust reasoning capabilities in LLMs.
The code uses the cellarium library to create GPU-accelerated cellular automata simulations in Rust, cross-compiling Rust code to WGSL shaders that run on the GPU via wgpu. It provides a procedural macro to define cell behavior and supports various field types, neighborhood functions, and runtime parameter tuning via a terminal UI.
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You're looking for a programmable watch with WiFi that allows custom apps and direct server communication without a smartphone mediator, and doesn't require annual fees.
MeshTNC can be flashed using MeshCore Flasher, OEM tools, or VS Code, and supports most hardware variants. It has a CLI with KISS mode for LoRa radio compatibility and can be used with APRS tools and AX.25 interface.
The Human Root of Trust is a framework for cryptographic accountability in autonomous systems, ensuring a human is accountable for AI actions. It's a public domain framework for security engineers, cryptographers, and implementers to build upon.
A nano-GPT language model runs on a 1996 Nintendo 64's VR4300 CPU, generating responses in real-time. This is the first neural language model to run live inference on N64 hardware, enabling game mechanics previously impossible in the cartridge era.
The current auto-compaction process in Claude irreversibly loses user-provided data when the context window fills up, causing Claude to hallucinate or ask for re-pasted data. A proposed solution is to tag compacted entries with transcript line-range annotations, allowing Claude to surgically recover specific content on demand and reducing token cost.
A blog called "Rhythms" shares life on a US Navy Aircraft Carrier through the writings of Carroll "Lex" LeFon. His work, started 16 years ago, offers a unique perspective on life on a carrier.
Catherine of Braganza married King Charles II of England in 1662, bringing a valuable tea supply from Portugal that helped popularize tea drinking in England. Her legacy extends beyond politics to shaping English culture, introducing tea as a social beverage and influencing the country's customs and traditions.
Elecxzy is a lightweight, Lisp-free text editor with Emacs keybindings, currently in alpha stage. It offers a modern UI, real-time previews, and high-performance buffer engine.
The author, a mathematician, discusses the rapid progress of AI models in mathematics research, citing the First Proof project where models successfully solved 6-8 out of 10 lemmas, and argues that this technology is likely to be more impactful than the invention of the computer. The author believes that the main obstacle to automation is not the models' lack of knowledge, but rather their ...
Script Snap is a video-to-blog engine with 99% accuracy for technical terms like Kubernetes and LLM. It validates against strict engineering ontologies to ensure correctness, not just confidence.
Agent Passport is an open-source identity verification layer for AI agents, preventing impersonation and data exfiltration. It uses Ed25519 authentication, JWT tokens, and a risk engine to securely verify agent identities.
Daniel Bernstein, a renowned cryptographer, introduced Curve25519, a faster and safer elliptic curve, and NaCl, a high-level library, in the late 2000s. His designs, including ChaCha and Poly1305, rapidly became industry defaults, securing most internet connections.