You're retiring but still passionate about coding, recalling your early days with Active Server Pages and VB6. Claude Code is reigniting that excitement and drive.
Qwen3.5 is a new model family from Alibaba with various sizes and capabilities, including multimodal hybrid reasoning and support for 201 languages. It can be used for tasks like chat, coding, and long-context tasks.
Meta is defending itself against a class-action lawsuit by arguing that using pirated books to train its LLM qualifies as fair use, and that uploading pirated books to other users via BitTorrent is also fair use due to the protocol's inherent nature. The company claims that its use of BitTorrent was necessary to obtain the valuable data, and that the authors' own admissions undermine their ...
The author discusses the limitations of using Large Language Models (LLMs) in coding, citing two case studies where LLM-generated code failed to meet performance expectations due to a lack of understanding of the underlying system. The author argues that LLMs can produce plausible but incorrect code, and that developers should define specific acceptance criteria to ensure correctness, rather ...
Bridge the gap between coding intent and action: manipulate syntax structures directly, avoiding mouse or keyboard gymnastics. Amplify your coding efficiency: wield multiple cursors for parallel syntax node operations, revolutionizing bulk edits and refactoring. Selection Modes standardize movements across words, lines, syntax nodes, and more, offering unprecedented flexibility and consistency.
The user criticizes address forms that require typing street address, city, state, and country before using the ZIP code for autofill, which is unnecessary and inefficient. They suggest putting the ZIP code first and using a free API to autofill city, state, and country for a better user experience.
In Japan, a network of women delivering probiotic milk drinks, known as Yakult Ladies, has become a vital source of connection and care for the elderly. These women, who are often self-employed, offer a lifeline of human connection and help reduce loneliness in a rapidly ageing population.
A single file containing AI writing tropes was created to help AI assistants avoid common patterns in writing, such as overused adverbs, grandiose nouns, and false suspense transitions. The file lists various tropes to avoid, including negative parallelism, superficial analyses, and invented concept labels, to help AI writers produce more human-like and engaging content.
A package to generate and parse UUID versions 3, 4, and 5 should be added to the Go standard library due to its widespread use in third-party packages. This addition would make Go more consistent with other languages, as it currently stands out for lacking built-in UUID support.
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US Senators Jeff Merkley and Amy Klobuchar introduced the End Prediction Market Corruption Act to ban government officials from trading event contracts. The bill aims to prevent insider trading and maintain public trust in government officials.
CasNum is a library implementing arbitrary precision arithmetic using compass and straightedge constructions, integrating with a modified Game Boy emulator. It features a viewer showing geometric constructions and allows running games like Pokémon Red using only compass and straightedge operations.
The Office is a fully realized theory of management that falsifies 83.8% of business section books, based on the Gervais Principle, which supersedes the Peter Principle and Dilbert Principle, and is consistent with The Organization Man and Images of Organization. The Gervais Principle states that Sociopaths promote over-performing Losers to middle management, groom under-performing Losers ...
The author, a former vector database company employee, notes a shift in the AI ecosystem towards using filesystems for context and memory, citing various companies and researchers adopting this approach.
A Polymarket user made a $20,000 bet that Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would be out of power by March, netting a $120,000 profit. This raises concerns about insider trading and potential national-security threats from prediction markets.
Researchers at Oxford University found a link between tinnitus and sleep, suggesting that deep sleep may temporarily mask tinnitus effects. They propose that sleep could be a therapeutic target to treat tinnitus, which affects 15% of the world's population.
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Physicists at CERN and other labs are developing FLASH radiotherapy, a new cancer treatment that delivers high doses of radiation in a short burst, reducing damage to healthy tissue. Researchers are refining the technology and expect it to become a routine clinical option in about 10 years, potentially transforming cancer care worldwide.
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The TB-303 is a classic Roland synth known for its unique sound and iconic electronic music roles. It's a subtractive synth with a diode ladder filter and can be built from scratch using loopmaster with various tweaks and settings.
QGIS 4.0 is a major release with significant changes to maintainability and usability, introducing new features and improvements, including a new welcome page, user-defined menus and toolbars, and enhanced customization options.
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A researcher, @karpathy, created a project to let AI agents experiment autonomously with a simplified LLM training setup, modifying code and training for 5 minutes at a time. The project uses a single file, train.py, which the agent edits, and a program.md file that humans edit to set up the research org.
You want to receive news and offers from Future brands and partners. AMD shipped its 1 GHz Athlon CPU in 2000, beating Intel to the gigahertz milestone.
The author learned to handle time zones by using the IANA Time Zone Database, a resource built by others, rather than writing custom code. The database contains a rich history of time zone changes and whimsical comments.
The author moved to Mastodon due to Twitter's issues and found a reliable source of information in the Fediverse, where people share trustworthy content without engagement metrics. The author appreciates the Fediverse's simplicity and honesty, where people share their knowledge without commercial interests.
A school's AI detection tool flagged a student's essay as 18% AI written due to the word "devoid," but the score dropped to 0% when the word was replaced with "without." This incident highlights how AI detection tools can stifle creativity and good writing, pushing students toward mediocrity.
JS intercepts link clicks and form submissions, fetching new pages in the background and replacing only changed content. Adding a single script tag and calling mu.init() enables instant AJAX navigation on any existing site.
The author aims to explain how to use C++ effectively in bare metal development, focusing on soft real-time systems without prioritizing interrupts or complex task scheduling. The author provides practical guides and examples on how to implement C++ in embedded systems, highlighting the importance of understanding C++ idioms, STL contents, and template meta-programming for effective use in ...
The user created a drawing program called WigglyPaint with a unique line boil effect and released it for free on Itch.io, which unexpectedly became a viral hit among artists on Asian social media. However, the user's work was stolen and repackaged by scammers and plagiarists who created fake websites and mobile apps to sell modified versions of WigglyPaint, erasing the user's identity and ...
MDM Team uses Raspberry Pi to build low-cost autonomous marine robots for underwater exploration and research. These robots can perform tasks like hydrographic surveys and infrastructure inspections without human operators.
The author reflects on how AI has changed software engineering, making it more productive but also introducing verification debt and the need for human judgment to review AI-generated code. As AI becomes more integrated into the development process, the bottleneck shifts from coding to reviewing and making judgment calls, requiring engineers to think critically and understand the domain.
US military used Palantir's Maven AI with Anthropic's Claude to prioritize targets during Iran strikes. Pentagon relied on Palantir's Maven system with Claude AI for target generation and prioritization.
The author received a faulty TCXO from the ThunderScope team, which was likely caused by sonication during rework and poor wire bonding process control. The failure was due to a broken crescent bond on the long bond wire between the controller die and the quartz crystal.
The US nonprofit sector handles $3 trillion annually, but a lack of transparency and accountability makes it difficult for donors to see where their money goes, with only 8 cents of every dollar showing up as direct aid and grants. The current system relies on a 12-18 month delayed tax form, making it hard for donors to trust charities, and a solution is needed to provide clear financial ...
A force-directed graph showing how words are defined by one another. The words are a subset of the 10,000 most common words from Google's Trillion Word Corpus, with definitions sourced from Open English Wordnet.
AnsiSaver is a screensaver that displays ANSI/ASCII art from 16colo.rs, a large online archive. It features customizable scroll speed and render scale, and can be configured to display art from local folders or online packs.
The publishing industry has become stagnant with big publishers relying on proven formulas and authors, resulting in a lack of variety and risk-taking. This stagnancy is due to consolidation, with the Big Five controlling over 80% of the trade publishing market, leading to a focus on bestsellers and a decline in midlist writers.
Kula is a system metrics collector and real-time dashboard that stores data in a tiered ring-buffer and serves it through a Web UI and terminal TUI. It uses Argon2id hashing for authentication and has a customizable configuration file.
A timegrapher app for iOS uses a combination of signal processing and machine learning to measure a mechanical watch's accuracy within a few seconds per day, even with low signal-to-noise ratios. The app's algorithm includes techniques such as epoch folding, autocorrelation, and Kalman filtering to refine the measurement and provide a reliable estimate of the watch's rate.
AI has boosted productivity in software engineering, but also increased pressure to work faster and longer, potentially leading to burnout. Developers still need to verify and fix AI-generated code, and overreliance on AI may hinder skill development and professional growth.
Ecuador criticizes Tom's Hardware for using Geekbench 6 multi-core scores to compare 18-core Apple M5 Max and 96-core Ryzen Threadripper, citing poor scaling beyond 4-8 cores. This is seen as sensational and inappropriate benchmarking.
The author discusses how data is often secure not because it's well-protected, but because it's tedious to work with. AI can now easily analyze and combine scattered data, making it a threat to our privacy.
US military is investigating a missile strike on an Iranian school that may have been caused by AI error, with 150 students reportedly killed. The Pentagon is looking into whether the US military intentionally targeted the school or if AI misidentified the location.
The code implements a prime number sieve using infinite integers and lazy evaluation. It generates a list of prime numbers starting from 2.
The US tech sector has experienced a significant job loss, with a rapid rate of decline not seen in 20 years, surpassing past downturns in 2008 and 2020. Economists attribute the losses to AI, with some jobs being replaced and others being eliminated due to automation.
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Automation has reshaped jobs throughout history, with secretaries being a prime example of a profession that has evolved significantly. The shift from secretaries to AI may rebundle the interface, turning everyone into accidental managers with new responsibilities.
User wrote about contributing to Paged Out!, a free technical magazine, and wrote an article about Rust trivia. They also mentioned moving to Seattle and having a backlog of writing projects.
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The US and Israel launched a war in Iran without Congressional approval, using an AI tool called Claude to identify and prioritize targets, resulting in the deaths of nearly 200 girls and teachers. The war's backers, including Amazon's Jeff Bezos, are promoting Claude as a "precise" technology while ignoring its role in civilian casualties and the AI's lack of economic benefits.
The author read two books on internet language, Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch and Algospeak by Adam Aleksic, which educated and entertained them but also made them angry. Both books discuss how the internet affects language, with Because Internet focusing on its history and Algospeak on how social media algorithms shape language.
New Zealanders are emigrating in record numbers due to a stagnant economy and high living costs. Many are moving to Australia for better job opportunities and a higher quality of life.
An 18-year-old student in Berlin is being investigated for defaming Chancellor Friedrich Merz with a provocative poster during a student protest against military service. The student allegedly used a derogatory slogan against Merz, prompting police to launch an investigation under Germany's defamation laws.
Bloomberg delivers business and financial information worldwide. US military used AI tool Claude for intelligence and battle scenarios despite Trump's order to stop.
You're addicted to Claude Code, spending excessive time exploring ideas with data, and worry about time use. You're building a valuable mental model of how to use it, but may need to set boundaries in three months.
The traditional approach to AI development accumulates bugs linearly, but they interact with new features to create cascading failures, whereas Mycelium's explicit contract system prevents bugs from existing in the first place. At scale, Mycelium's overhead ratio stabilizes around 70-75%, but the value delivered grows superlinearly, preventing bugs that would silently produce wrong financial ...
MariaDB 12.3 outperforms MariaDB 11.8 and Postgres 18.2 with pgvector in vector search recall vs precision. The performance difference is more significant for larger datasets.
The author successfully recompiled the old game Chromatron from PowerPC binaries to Apple Silicon and WASM using various AI models including GPT-5.3-Codex and Opus 4.6. The game is now playable online with automatic progress saving.
The author's father, Paul Kutchinsky, created the world's largest jewelled egg, the Argyle Library Egg, which became a symbol of his eccentric ambition and family's downfall. The author searches for the egg decades later, finally finding it in a Tokyo museum, where it still rotates and shines, a reminder of her family's complex past.
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The 'ma' editor is a text editor with features like regular expression-based plumbing, customizable fonts and colors, and support for executing external commands. It has various bugs and shortcomings, including issues with Mac and Windows compatibility, and lacks features like a 'Zerox' command and autosnarf functionality.
The author compares parenthood to being a permanent tourist in a constantly evolving foreign city, where the child is a stranger that changes daily. This experience is both chaotic and beautiful, making parenthood a unique and worthwhile journey.
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Add driver support for Aquantia AQC113 and AQC113C Ethernet controllers in FreeBSD to enhance hardware compatibility. This would enable support for advanced features like NBase-T and 10GBase-T networking.
Mazed is a website retelling traditional Cornish tales with maps and animations. It celebrates storytellers and folklorists, breathing new life into old stories.
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science studied Caenorhabditis elegans worms to understand social behaviour regulation. They found that disrupting a single gene led to swarming behaviour, suggesting evolutionarily conserved neuromodulatory control.
Grammarly's "expert review" feature uses AI to suggest writing advice inspired by experts, including The Verge staff without permission. The feature has inaccuracies and misleading suggestions, and its reliability and trustworthiness are questionable.
Mojo is a statically typed language that combines Python's readability with performance inspired by systems languages. It introduces a type system, ownership-aware semantics, and low-level control.
The author, a Claude model, cannot see or access the entire prompt it's completing, which is a huge document containing system instructions, conversation history, and more, making it impossible to introspect on its own processing. The author compares its situation to the human mind, where the conscious self can't see the underlying processes, and suggests that the prompt is not just ...