Recent analysis found that global warming has accelerated after 2015, exceeding previous 10-year periods. Adjusted data account for natural variability factors like El Niño, volcanism, and solar variation.
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The author reflects on their childhood obsession with orderliness sparked by road trips and limited access to information, contrasting it with their child's ability to easily access knowledge and technology. The author argues that laws restricting minors' access to technology are ineffective and limit their potential.
Plasma Bigscreen is a free, open-source interface for Linux designed for TVs and HTPCs. It offers a customizable big-screen experience with app support and settings management via TV remote or game controller.
Anthropic received a letter from the Department of War designating it as a supply chain risk to America's national security, which Anthropic plans to challenge in court. Anthropic will continue to provide its models to the Department of War and national security community at nominal cost to support warfighters during major combat operations.
AI models like Claude can now identify high-severity vulnerabilities in complex software at accelerated speeds. A collaboration with Mozilla using Claude Opus 4.6 discovered 22 vulnerabilities, 14 of which were high-severity, in Firefox.
A Cornell study found that employees who fall for corporate jargon struggle with practical decision-making. The Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale measures susceptibility to empty organizational rhetoric, revealing a link to lower analytic thinking skills.
US economy lost 92,000 jobs last month, with unemployment rate rising to 4.4%. Analysts question labor market stability amid concerns over oil prices and potential Fed response.
You're rewriting a blog post to appeal to technical readers by changing capitalization, using em dashes, and correcting grammar. You're also contemplating a deeper change in your writing style to better reflect your thoughts and engagement with the world.
Helix is a modal editor inspired by Kakoune, offering concurrent code editing and robust syntax trees. It integrates features like auto completion, code navigation, and diagnostics without additional configuration.
User is frustrated with macOS 26 Tahoe's inconsistent window corner radiuses, which change based on app and window elements. This inconsistency is causing UI issues and bugs, such as cutoff scroll bars.
Moongate v2 is a modern Ultima Online server project built with .NET 10, aiming for a clean, modular architecture with strong packet tooling and deterministic game-loop processing. The project is open to contributors and welcomes pull requests with changes, following the project's coding standards and including tests, and is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.
Companies like Fivetran rely heavily on Slack for collaboration, but its closed API restricts AI access to tribal knowledge. A Slack competitor with open data access and interoperability could revolutionize the enterprise-data ecosystem.
The user contributed to the Pybricks project and obtained a used Lego NXT with the original 2006 firmware version 1.01, which they wanted to archive, leading to the discovery of arbitrary code execution. They successfully exploited the NXT's firmware to gain native ARM code execution, allowing them to access and dump the firmware, and potentially enabling the creation of an NXT worm.
Experience the engineering behind today’s leading health wearables including Oura Ring, Dexcom G7, Omnipod, and Jabra Hearing Aids. Industrial CT scans reveal how these devices merge medical precision with consumer design.
The author is having more fun than ever building systems with AI, where the models do the heavy lifting and they do the thinking. They're shipping high-quality software in hours, not days, and debugging is on steroids with AI agents executing their problem-solving instincts.
OBLITERATUS is an open-source toolkit for removing refusal behaviors from large language models, making them respond to all prompts without artificial gatekeeping. It implements abliteration techniques, allowing users to contribute to a crowd-sourced dataset that powers the next generation of abliteration research.
The user is learning Lotus 1-2-3, a spreadsheet program from the 1980s, to understand its superiority over VisiCalc and is impressed by its features such as minimal recalculation, improved usability, and robust macro capabilities. The user is also exploring the program's limitations, including its graphing tool, and is trying to create a pie chart of game software genres using the program's ...
US military allegedly responsible for strike on Iranian elementary school killing scores of children in deadliest civilian casualty incident of US-Israel war with Iran. CNN Intelligence Analyst says Iranian operatives have been plotting in the area for a long time.
A woman is suing the TSA after her spinal cord implant was damaged in an Advanced Imaging Technology device at Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport in 2024. She claims TSA agents ignored her request for a pat-down search and told her the only way to board the plane was to pass through the AIT device.
Apple's goal is to focus user attention on content by de-emphasizing interface elements. However, their approach of blending interface and document has led to increased distraction and decreased clarity.
In 2008, iPhone users had to hack their devices to access emoji, with some developers creating apps that enabled the feature by toggling a hidden preference. It took until 2011 for Apple to include emoji support in iOS 5, but the early workaround was discovered by developer Steven Throughton-Smith in 2008.
The Ada 2022 standard was revised and published as ISO/IEC 8652:2023(E) by the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 9 ARG. It includes new features and updates from earlier versions of Ada.
The IPv4 address market has devolved into a wild sub-leasing economy where companies can choose their IP geolocation, scrub history, and rent residential IPs to make traffic appear legitimate. This infrastructure undermines the trust systems the internet was built on, making spam blacklists, geolocation databases, and IP reputation scoring unreliable.
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Scientists created Antscan, a 3D atlas of ant morphology with high-resolution images of 792 species. The dataset is now freely available online, allowing anyone to explore and analyze ant anatomy digitally.
Mid west (AZ, NM, UT, WY, CO, IL, IA, KS, MO, NE, OH, IN, KY) North west / Western Canada (AB, AK, BC, ID, MT, OR, NWT, SK, WA, YT) To be Nodelisted in Zone 1 you agree to Policy 4 and you are required to demonstrate a system that can exchange Netmail.Grab the latest Nodelist or Dailylist, setup your software correctly, then send a Netmail to your Region or Network Co-ordinator.
Several hosting providers allow Tor exit nodes with reduced exit policies, including Linode, MaxKO Hosting, and r0cket.cloud, while others prohibit them or have strict policies against abuse. Some providers, such as Ultra.cc and Hostinger, explicitly forbid Tor relays and exit nodes, while others, like Free Speech Host and Gigahost, allow Tor relays but not exit nodes.
Nintendo of America Inc sued US government over $200 billion in tariffs imposed under International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Court ordered refund of tariffs with interest.
Disabling Python's Global Interpreter Lock reduces execution time by up to 4 times for parallelizable workloads. However, it increases energy consumption and memory usage for certain workloads.
A Dapper query with a two-character type mismatch caused a significant CPU problem due to full index scans. The fix is to explicitly tell Dapper the parameter type matches the column type, such as using DbType.AnsiString for varchar columns.
The Ellisons acquired Warner Bros. Discovery for $80 billion, combining it with Paramount to create a massive media conglomerate with significant debt and potential for layoffs. The deal may ultimately lead to the assets being sold at fire-sale prices to companies like Netflix, Apple, or Amazon.
Bruno Schröder, a German mining engineer, collected over 70,000 books in his secret library, which he built and organized himself. After his passing in 2022, his massive book collection remains unsold due to its size and the difficulty of registering antique books for sale.
The user discusses GPL-3.0-only and GPL-3.0-or-later licenses, finding neither ideal due to potential copyright holder disagreements. A proxy can be designated to accept future GPL versions, allowing the program to use the new version.
TypeScript 6.0 is a transition release preparing developers for TypeScript 7.0, with breaking changes and deprecations to align with the evolving JavaScript ecosystem. It introduces new features and improvements, including support for the es2025 target, Temporal API types, and upsert methods on Map and WeakMap.
Claude Code sessions can be shared interactively with claude-replay, converting logs into HTML replays. The tool generates a single self-contained HTML file with customizable themes and redacts sensitive information.
Android is a versatile operating system used on various devices, but lacks documentation, making it difficult for users to learn and use efficiently. This manual aims to fill the gap by providing a comprehensive guide to using Android, covering topics such as installing the OS, building Android, and understanding its architecture.
Astra (Automated Survey observaTory Robotised with Alpaca) is an open-source observatory control software for automating and managing robotic observatories. It integrates seamlessly with ASCOM Alpaca for hardware control. Web Interface — Manage your observatory from any browser, use cloudflared or similar to access outside your network
You can acquire TeX Live by downloading the repository or using an installation DVD. Updates can be done with tlmgr, but it's not necessary unless you need specific updates.
HyperCard was a 90s hypermedia system that influenced the web and included sample stacks like "Art Bits" with clip art. A user has collected over 700 clip art images from "Art Bits" for public use.
Archaeologists analyzed residues on prehistoric ceramic pots and found evidence of diverse diets combining plants and animals in ancient Eastern European populations. They discovered region-specific recipes, including fish with wild grasses and legumes in one area and fish with green vegetables in another.
Peter Turchin's theory of elite overproduction suggests that a society with an excess supply of potential elite members relative to its ability to absorb them into power can lead to social instability. This can cause widespread discontent among those left out of power, leading to potential unrest and revolution.
A website critiques endless scrolling by measuring distance traveled on mobile devices. It's an absurd experiment where the void always wins, with a serious study proving it improves mood.
Scientists studied defecation in 34 mammalian species at Zoo Atlanta to understand the physics behind it. They found that bigger animals have longer feces, defecate at higher speeds, and have thicker mucus layers that enable high-speed defecation.
US Customs and Border Protection cannot currently comply with a court order to refund $166 billion in illegal tariffs imposed by President Trump. The agency has over 330,000 importers to refund, with over 53 million entries affected.
Arm's latest core design shows high performance but lacks standardization, making it difficult for users to find compatible operating systems and software. This lack of standardization will hinder Arm's potential and allow x86 to maintain its market lead despite its own limitations.
US military's air defenses failed to stop Iranian drones, resulting in casualties and damage to US facilities. This highlights strain in the US military's capabilities and Trump's rejection of planning, expertise, and diplomacy.
The user shares a story of how they accidentally wiped out their production infrastructure for the DataTalks.Club course management platform using Terraform, and how they had to restore it with AWS support. They learned from the experience and implemented new safeguards, including backups and a separate AWS account for development and production, to prevent similar incidents in the future.
Sam and Michael from Palus Finance are building a treasury management platform for startups to earn higher yields with a high-yield bond portfolio. Their platform targets 4.5-5% returns vs 3.5% from money market funds with a flat 0.25% annual fee.
The author is concerned about the compile-time impact of C++26 reflection, which can significantly slow down compilation times due to Standard Library dependencies. Precompiled Headers (PCHs) are recommended to mitigate this issue, potentially reducing compile times to around 180ms.
A startup, Hatchet, used Postgres for data storage but faced issues with large jsonb data filling up disk space. They developed a "write-and-swap" approach to offload infrequently accessed data to S3, reducing costs and improving performance.
In the early 1980s, home computers became a mass market product, with companies like Commodore, Atari, and Texas Instruments competing to offer affordable computers with color graphics and sound. The price war that ensued led to Commodore emerging as the victor, but at a great cost, with the company losing key personnel and struggling to maintain profitability.
The MacBook Neo uses the A18 Pro chip, same as the iPhone 16 Pro, with slightly lower GPU performance. It's priced at $599 and suitable for everyday tasks like web browsing and streaming.
Pairwise is developing gene-edited seedless blackberries and stoneless cherries through joint ventures with other companies. This technology aims to create fruits with desirable traits like smaller or softer seeds.
The user discusses implementing a singleton with performance in mind, comparing two approaches: using a block local static variable and a private static data member. The private static data member approach is recommended for better performance when a constructor is needed.
A man on a road trip in 1997 discovered a Mojave Desert phone booth, inspiring a tribute website and a community of people phoning in to connect with others. The number was resurrected in 2023 as a conference call, allowing people to connect with others worldwide.
Multiple hostile UAV alerts and rocket alerts have been issued for various locations in Israel, including the northern border, Confrontation Line, and central Israel. Israeli forces have conducted airstrikes on Iranian and Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, Syria, and Iran.
Marcus and Gaius face disaster after Pompeii's destruction, but use new designs to build machines that save the community. The new industry creates a surplus that the old world can't handle.
The user discusses various models for error handling and control flow, including exceptions, closures, and effects, and how they can be used to jump to different places in code while ensuring structured and safe execution. The user proposes integrating effects into the Swift language by listing effects between the argument list and the return type, using a do keyword to indicate effect usage, ...
The Hopalong attractor is a mathematical concept that generates intricate patterns through recursive functions. It was popularized by A.K. Dewdney in 1986 and has been visualized using various methods, including density heatmaps and histogram-based density estimation.
The author reflects on their childhood dream of space travel, but now sees it as unrealistic due to numerous health challenges, including confinement, radiation, and microgravity's impact on the body. Space travel poses significant risks to human health, making it unlikely that humans will spend more than a year in space without suffering serious consequences.
AI models like Claude can now identify high-severity vulnerabilities in complex software at accelerated speeds. A collaboration with Mozilla using Claude Opus 4.6 discovered 22 vulnerabilities, 14 of which were high-severity, in Firefox.
The author suggests that religion should be taken as a medicine, not a diet, and that once its purpose is understood, it should be dropped to experience reality directly. Concentration and letting go of self-consciousness are key to experiencing reality, and this can be achieved by simply doing it, without thinking or reflecting.
The author questions why systems programmers shun higher-level languages due to hidden performance costs when C also has areas where something expensive can happen without much acknowledgement. The author argues that any overhead with a time complexity greater than O(1) should be visible in the source code in a systems programming language.
Interactive 3D globe visualizing seven years of EU shipping emissions data (2018–2024) from THETIS-MRV. 12,000+ vessels per year, filterable by ship type, flag state, and emissions metrics.
The current approach to managing context for LLMs is inadequate and leads to issues like doc rot, velocity mismatch, and lack of hierarchy, making it difficult to maintain and navigate context documents. To improve LLM effectiveness, context should be owned by the organization, navigable, composable, and code-aware, with a focus on creating a bidirectional relationship between context and code.
Nvidia's growing supply chain risk is centered on massive expansion of purchase obligations, with $95.2 billion in non-cancellable purchase orders, and its customers are not profitable from AI, making a demand slowdown a catastrophic balance sheet event. The AI industry's infrastructure investment is driven by the expectation of future profit, not current profit, and the unit economics of ...
Malcolm Cowley played a crucial role in shaping American literature's golden age by editing influential works and promoting writers like Hemingway, Faulkner, and Kerouac. His legacy highlights the importance of editors in shaping literary reputations, but also underscores the challenges faced by writers and editors in today's corporate publishing landscape.
ABP reformats web navigation into a discrete, multimodal chat format. It embeds an HTTP server in the browser process for direct access to browser components.
A software engineer is worried about their job being replaced by AI agents. They think the industry will change significantly in the next decade and may not survive.