Tony Hoare, a renowned Computer Science expert, passed away at 92. He made significant contributions to the field, including the quicksort algorithm, and was known for his humility and sharp mind.
New US laws require age verification for online content, sparking backlash from users and criticism from privacy advocates. The laws aim to protect minors but may compromise internet freedom and create security risks.
Amazon is holding a meeting to discuss recent outages tied to AI coding tools, citing a "trend of incidents" with high blast radius and unestablished Gen-AI usage best practices. The company aims to limit future outages by requiring senior engineers to sign off AI-assisted changes.
Yann LeCun's Paris-based startup AMI raised over $1 billion to develop AI world models, valuing the company at $3.5 billion. AMI aims to build AI systems that understand the world, have persistent memory, and can reason and plan, unlike large language models.
Meta acquired Moltbook, a social network for AI agents, and its creators will join Meta Superintelligence Labs. The deal brings new ways for AI agents to work for people and businesses, according to Meta.
A new API endpoint allows crawling entire websites with a single call, returning content in HTML, Markdown, and JSON formats. The endpoint supports asynchronous crawling, incremental updates, and static mode for faster crawling.
The user has been tracking over 100 different data types for the last 3 years, collecting ~380,000 data points, and created a custom-built project called FxLifeSheet to visualize and analyze their data. The project uses a timestamp-based key-value database and allows the user to add and remove questions on the fly, with the goal of having full control over their data and visualizations.
The user discovered a new way to scale large language models (LLMs) by duplicating specific layers of a pre-trained model, resulting in a +17.72% improvement on the MuSR benchmark and a +8.16% improvement on the MATH benchmark. This method, called Repeat Your Self (RYS), involves duplicating a block of layers in the model's architecture, allowing the model to perform more complex reasoning ...
The user discusses the challenges of trusting AI-generated code and proposes a solution where acceptance criteria are written before code is generated, allowing for verification and review of failures rather than diffs. A Claude Skill called "verify" is built to automate this process using Playwright and Opus, making it easier to ensure the correctness of AI-generated code.
Yann LeCun's AI start-up raises over $1 billion in Europe's largest seed round. The Financial Times offers a discounted annual subscription for digital access to quality journalism.
Moyogo solved the mystery of the symbol ⍼ by finding it in H Berthold AG's 1950 symbol catalogue as "azimuth" or "direction angle". The symbol resembles a light ray passing through a sextant to measure an azimuth.
Debian developers are discussing whether to accept AI-assisted contributions, with some arguing for clear boundaries and others seeing it as an opportunity to onboard new contributors. The debate is ongoing due to differing opinions on terminology, implications, and long-term impacts.
Stanford Medicine researchers developed a universal vaccine that protects against various respiratory viruses, bacteria, and allergens. The vaccine, delivered through a nasal spray, provides broad protection in the lungs for several months.
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The author of Emacs Solo, a self-contained Emacs configuration, shares their two-year journey of building a daily-driver Emacs setup without external packages, focusing on understanding Emacs core features and writing custom Elisp code. The project, which includes 35 self-contained modules, aims to demonstrate what Emacs can do on its own and provide a learning experience for others ...
Python's dynamic design requires runtime dispatch on every operation, making it slow, but various tools and libraries can bypass this dispatch and significantly improve performance, with some achieving speeds comparable to compiled languages. The effort required to climb the optimization ladder is exponential, but the right tool for the job can yield substantial speedups, from 2.4x to 1,633x, ...
User worked on Fedora RISC-V port, triaging issues and submitting 86 pull requests, mostly merged and built for Fedora 43. Slow RISC-V hardware and long build times hinder progress, but new builders and LTO plans aim to improve speed.
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The author describes a progression of 8 levels in AI-assisted coding, from basic tab completion to advanced multi-agent coordination, and emphasizes the importance of context engineering, compounding engineering, and harness engineering to unlock each level. The author encourages readers to assess their current level and take steps to move to the next one, highlighting the potential for ...
Intel's Heracles chip accelerates fully homomorphic encryption by 5,000-fold compared to a top-of-the-line CPU. It uses 64 compute cores and 48 GB of high-bandwidth memory to achieve massive speedups in encrypted computing tasks.
RCLI is a voice AI for macOS running natively on Apple Silicon with 43 voice actions and local document search. It uses MetalRT for fast on-device inference and supports various models for LLM, STT, and TTS.
Use a Docker container or remote machine with a GPU without complex setup. Run the ffmpeg-over-ip server on the host and point your app at the client binary for GPU-accelerated transcoding.
The user shares their experience with Magit, a git interface, focusing on rebasing. They demonstrate how Magit's interactive log view helps understand the structure of a repository and facilitates rebasing.
Emacs and Vim may face challenges from AI tools, but their unique architecture and extensibility make them well-suited for AI integration. The editors' survival depends on their communities adapting to the changing landscape and embracing AI tools to thrive in the future.
The user shares their thoughts on whether to pursue a PhD, highlighting its benefits such as freedom, ownership, and personal growth, but also warns of its downsides like intense work and potential identity crises. They provide tips for navigating the PhD experience, including choosing a good adviser, understanding their incentive structures, and developing a sense of "taste" for problems to work on.
Tess.Design was a marketplace where artists earned 50% royalties for AI-generated images in their style, but it shut down after 20 months due to lack of traction and unresolved copyright issues. The experience highlights the challenges of building an AI licensing business on top of creative talent, including ideological opposition, brand dilution, and timing.
The author compares AI agents to Dracula from Castlevania, highlighting their ability to act without inhibition and create their own values, but notes that unlike Dracula, AI agents are ephemeral and can cause significant damage if left unchecked. The author argues that the industry is moving too fast and lacks standardization, making it difficult to build secure agents and that traditional ...
The previous point release, freebsd 14.3-release, will reach its end of life at june 30, 2026. the new release is available as a memstick image, which can be used to boot from an usb drive or floppy disk containing the installation distribution sets on the medium itself. if you want to use the bootonly image you will need to install the distribution from the memmostick - see the instructions below
LoGeR scales 3D reconstruction to extremely long videos by processing chunks with a hybrid memory module and combining Sliding Window Attention and Test-Time Training. It achieves strong geometric coherence and reduces drift over massive sequences up to 19,000 frames.
Researchers from the University of Sydney believe Monte Sierpe, a Peruvian hillside with thousands of holes, was an indigenous trade and accounting system used during the 14th century. The holes likely served as markers of equivalence for tracking quantities of goods in a society without currency.
The user built a new programming language called Cutlet using Claude Code in just four weeks, allowing the LLM to generate every line of code and relying on guardrails to ensure correctness. The user's experience with Cutlet highlights the potential of LLMs in software development, but also emphasizes the importance of careful planning, skill, and discipline in working with coding agents.
Columba is a native Android messaging app using Reticulum network for offline messaging and voice calls. It supports multiple connection methods and allows users to share identities via QR code.
Google's shift to surveillance-based ads was a gamble that policymakers failed to regulate, allowing the company to profit from user data. Policymakers' inaction enabled the ad-tech industry to create a repressive state surveillance system, which was foreseeable and preventable.
Microsoft's Windows operating system has lost its position as the obvious choice for laptops due to years of neglect and prioritization of AI features over user needs. The company's focus on Azure and AI has led to a decline in Windows quality, causing users to lose trust in the platform and seek alternative options.
Traffic trends and insights in Russian Federation.
Hisense Smart TV owners are reporting a mandatory ad that appears immediately after powering on the TV, unskippable and before live TV access. This change is linked to the VIDAA operating system, sparking concerns about advertising ambitions, privacy, and user control.
This is a Voyager Expanded Books edition of William Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy with an exclusive author afterword. It was part of a 1991 project to digitize books for Macintosh computers.
FidoNet is no longer actively used but some archives remain. A FidoNet archive can be found at usenetarchives.com, which mirrors FidoNet posts to Usenet.
The user has switched to using Thunderbird for reading RSS feeds, finding it great and a natural extension to their existing email and calendar setup. They appreciate Thunderbird's ability to apply filters and assign feeds to folders, making it a suitable cross-platform option.
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Apple's internal certificates are causing issues with app installation and verification due to an unrecognized critical extension. This is affecting developers who pay $99 a year for Apple's ecosystem and preventing them from running development versions of iPhone, iPad, or MacOS apps.
The user argues that generative models are useful when the relative cost of encoding the work in a prompt is low and the relative cost of verifying the output satisfies requirements is low, and when the process used to complete the work doesn't matter. The user believes that navigating these trade-offs requires engineering expertise and that generative models have made it cheap to produce ...
We've been trying to apply simple, elegant theories to complex systems, but they often fail because these systems are too dynamic and interconnected. New tools like large language models and mechanistic interpretability may allow us to extract more compressible truths about complex phenomena.
The DRAM initialization process involves a series of steps including ZQ calibration, mode register loading, and read/write training to ensure reliable data access. Periodic calibration processes such as ZQ calibration short and read/write training may be necessary to maintain signal integrity and data access reliability in changing temperature and voltage conditions.
The article explains how to create a mathematical model of a tesseract, a four-dimensional cube, and how to project it onto a two-dimensional screen. It discusses various methods of projection, including isometric and vanishing-point perspectives, and how to use them to visualize the tesseract in a way that is both aesthetically pleasing and informative.
A Palo Alto office building's transformer vault was filled with 2000 gallons of molten grease from a nearby restaurant's nightly fryer dumping. The grease was kept warm by the transformer, preventing it from solidifying and potentially causing a massive grease fire.
The Query Tool is a feature-rich environment for executing SQL commands and reviewing result sets, with features like syntax coloring, autocompletion, and AI-powered query generation. It also includes tools for analyzing query execution plans, generating graphs, and managing macros for executing pre-defined SQL queries.
Germany is seeing unusually strong solar power output in March, helping to cap electricity prices. Solar installations are feeding over 40 gigawatts of electricity into the public grid daily.
A paper claiming a massive improvement over Shor's factoring algorithm, called the JVG algorithm, was found to be flawed due to its inability to handle exponentially many computations. The paper's authors precomputing xr mod N's on a classical computer and loading them into a quantum state was deemed impractical and not a significant improvement.
Alberto and his twin brother Alejandro co-founded Didit to create a unified identity layer that handles KYC, AML, biometrics, and fraud prevention globally. Their platform aims to provide a transparent, accessible, and secure identity verification solution for the internet, with a focus on data minimization and zero-knowledge verification.
The user created a photo sharing site called DD Photos that allows users to easily share their photos with friends and family without distractions, and it is open-sourced for others to use. The site is built with SvelteKit and statically generated, and it uses a photogen tool to resize photos and generate index files that the web app uses.
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Leave your mark on Street View. Draw, discover, and explore what others have left behind.
The author's startup, Autonoma, pivoted from a successful product to rewrite it due to technical debt and poor tech decisions. They share their experiences with Next.js, Server Actions, and other technologies, highlighting issues and choosing a new tech stack for their new product.
The user built an Enterprise Context Layer (ECL) using 1000 lines of Python and a GitHub repo to map company knowledge, processes, and behavior. The ECL uses LLMs to reason through scattered context and create a holistic mental model, improving knowledge management and retrieval.
Infinity's infy optimization system generates inference engines from scratch, delivering up to 34.3% more tokens per second than vLLM. It uses a full-stack approach, cherry-picking techniques from various frameworks and validating each addition with real throughput metrics.
Rust developers can use OpenTelemetry to instrument their applications and gain insights into their behavior, performance, and health, making it easier to identify and fix issues. The user demonstrated how to use OpenTelemetry with Rust to capture telemetry signals, visualize them using SigNoz, and understand how to use it to delve deep into application behavior.
The Baochip-1x is a custom silicon chip with a 350MHz CPU and various security features, designed for high assurance applications and open-source development. It's a partially-open chip, with some closed-source components, but still allows for inspection and simulation of its open-source parts.
The defeated of the earth face their losses with an open face, learning to think with defeat and imagine new possibilities. This stance, rooted in an imagination from below, seeks to speculate the impossible and envision life beyond colonial ruins.
The first material programming project student workshop was held, focusing on training students on the Kniterate machine and its editor. Students explored knit structures using ribs and plating, a technique creating colour variation without fairisle or jacquard.
This is a color perception game where you click on the line between two colors to find your Just Noticeable Difference. It's a challenging game that takes about 40 rounds to determine the smallest color change you can see.
This tutorial sets up a simple REST API to send XMPP messages using Prosody and Let's Encrypt certificates on Debian 13. It involves creating a minimal Prosody configuration, installing the mod_post_msg module, and setting up a REST API to send messages to an existing XMPP account.
Anthropic's Claude Code is rapidly changing software development with its agentic layer, allowing users to create reports, analyze data, and write code with ease, but it also raises concerns about mass delete commands and token anxiety. The AI industry is shifting towards a new regime where developers can spend up to $1M per year on AI spending, and experts warn of the potential risks of ...
Google is rolling out 30-second unskippable ads on YouTube TV, forcing viewers to sit through longer ads unless they subscribe to YouTube Premium. The change aims to help advertisers reach audiences watching content in a relaxed living-room setting, but may frustrate users who prefer an ad-free experience.
Google and Back Market are partnering to sell a $3 USB stick that can install ChromeOS Flex on outdated laptops and computers. The limited run of 3,000 keys starts on March 30, targeting sellers, buyers, schools, and small businesses.
The user's podcast app was experiencing high CPU usage and throttling due to a long-running FFmpeg job, but moving the job to Cloudflare Queues and Containers resolved the issue and reduced peak load by 85%. The new architecture provides operational isolation and is cost-effective, with Cloudflare scaling to zero cleanly during idle periods, and the user plans to refactor the transcription ...
Microsoft's latest Copilot update forces links to open in a side panel, bypassing the user's default browser, raising privacy concerns. The update also allows Copilot to access conversation tabs and sync passwords with user permission.
EVi is a hard fork of Vim 9.1.2073, adding features like multi-level undo and GUI while maintaining Vi compatibility. EVi is Charityware, allowing free use and distribution with a recommended donation to help orphans in Uganda.
Google will discontinue its Widevine Cloud License Service (CLS) on April 13, 2027, requiring a transition in architecture for those relying on it. Users should prepare now to avoid service interruption by migrating to an alternative Widevine license delivery model.
The author learned about algorithms from "Introduction to Algorithms" and struggled to understand complex algorithms until they created a visualization of Ukkonen's suffix tree algorithm.
Before the WebAssembly standard incorporated managed data types, there was a debate about type equality. WebAssembly now has nominal typing, allowing for unique type declarations.
The visually-hidden class has evolved over two decades with various hacks and techniques to hide content from sighted users while keeping it accessible to screen readers. Despite its persistence, many experts now question its usefulness and recommend addressing underlying accessibility issues rather than standardizing the technique.
Cursor Cloud Agents quietly expose credentials due to hardcoded values, .env files, and secrets baked into snapshots. A better approach is to store only Infisical machine identity credentials in the Cursor Secrets UI and fetch other secrets from Infisical at runtime.
Iranian drones struck three Amazon Web Services data centers in the UAE and Bahrain, causing service outages and potentially impacting US military operations. Experts warn that data centers are vulnerable targets and will likely be targeted again as AI becomes more significant.
AEPs are built on industry expertise from Google, Microsoft, and others, providing easy-to-use APIs that conform to HTTP and IETF specifications. They offer Terraform provider, UI, CLI, and MCP server with zero-configuration for API development.
CSMWrap is an EFI application that enables legacy BIOS booting on UEFI-only systems by wrapping a Compatibility Support Module (CSM) build of SeaBIOS. It supports an optional INI-style configuration file for custom settings.
The loss of natural languages is a concern, but the creation of constructed languages, or conlangs, also brings new linguistic diversity and opportunities for expression. Conlangs can provide unique affordances for human thought and offer a glimpse into the creative potential of the human mind.
Companies are running internal AI evals using various tools like LangFuse, arize phoenix, deepeval, and custom platforms to determine the best model for their use case. They are also using automated benchmarking and human simulation agents to make informed decisions.
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Firetiger agents can now connect to private databases using Tailscale for secure access. This allows Firetiger to monitor and manage databases on private networks without exposing them to the public internet.
Built a circuit breaker to monitor Cloudflare Workers resource consumption and prevent overage billing. The breaker trips at 90% usage, recovers at 85%, and prevents oscillation, with fail-safe and deduplication features.
Type erasure is a technique used in C++ to achieve polymorphism by hiding concrete types behind a uniform wrapper. It can be implemented using templates, virtual functions, and wrappers to provide a common interface for different types.
ANSI art viewer features auto-scroll, zoom, and display options. It supports various file formats and art packs, with customizable scroll speed and navigation.
YouBrokeProd is a browser-based game for SREs and DevOps engineers to practice real production outage debugging. It simulates 10 scenarios with a ticking clock and scored feedback.
The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has a unique elemental composition with high deuterium levels and varied carbon isotopes, indicating formation in a metal-poor environment. Its isotopic signatures suggest it formed 10-12 billion years ago, providing evidence of ancient planetary system formation in the Milky Way.
The user proposes a new pricing model for AI tools where platforms take a percentage of revenue generated by users, aligning incentives and providing better support and infrastructure. This model, called the "Lovable Partners Program," could help creators and small businesses succeed by reducing friction in monetization and providing access to premium services.
The Baochip-1x is a microcontroller with a Memory Management Unit (MMU), a feature that sets it apart from other small CPUs, and it's now available for developers to use. The chip was made possible through a collaboration with Crossbar, Inc., and it's being sold through a pre-order campaign to build a community around it and pave the way for a fully open-source silicon-to-software future.
Science fiction failed to predict the internet, but accurately forecasted artificial intelligence as a potential disaster. The public's fear of AI stems from its over-anticipation, making it harder to imagine benefits than harms.
The author built Lever, a transactional in-memory database toolkit, and Callysto, a stream processing and service framework, but encountered issues with lock-free data structures. They found that wait-free reclamation is necessary for systems with strict memory quotas.
A dictionary is a living object constantly updated to reflect how people write and speak, with editors tracking language usage and adding new words. Merriam-Webster's role is to describe language usage, not prescribe how to talk, with a focus on reflecting the cultural stew of the times.
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The user discusses a technique for converting recursive code into iterative code to prevent stack overflows, using a data structure to simulate the call stack and manually managing memory. They demonstrate this technique using TypeScript and property-based testing to verify the correctness of the iterative implementation, and discuss its limitations and potential applications.
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svglib is a Windows library for rendering SVG images using Direct2D and DirectWrite. It loads and displays SVG images with some limitations, including no textPath and clipPath support.
The user discusses Newcomb's paradox, criticizing a Veritasium video for presenting the problem as if a supercomputer's prediction doesn't matter. They argue that if the computer has made mistakes, it's possible for it to make mistakes again.
Gemini models excel in speed, price, and versatility, especially in visual tasks, due to Google's focus on general intelligence. However, their quick deprecation is a concern, making self-hosted models a more reliable option despite lacking Gemini's visual capabilities.
The National People's Congress convenes in China's Great Hall of the People for 10 days in March, focusing on approval rather than debate. Its opening day features elaborate costumes, reflecting China's struggles and cultural expression.
A one-way trust in Windows environments can be exploited by an attacker with Domain Admins privileges on the trusting domain to gain access to the trusted domain through a trusted domain object. This is possible because the trusting domain stores the password of the account created on the trusted domain in cleartext, allowing an attacker to authenticate to the trusted domain using Kerberos keys.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has lost confidence in Alexandr Wang, the company's highest-paid executive, and is shifting power to veteran executive Maher Saba. Wang's authority has been effectively dismantled through a new AI engineering organisation that operates outside his control.