Astral's tools will join OpenAI's Codex team to push AI and software development forward. The goal remains to make programming more productive with tools that feel fast, robust, and integrated.
Afroman, whose real name is Joseph Foreman, was found not liable for defamation in a lawsuit filed by seven Ohio cops over a satirical music video. Foreman was sued for $3.9 million in damages but was cleared of all charges.
Google is introducing a developer verification program to combat malware on Android devices, requiring verified developers to provide identification and pay a $25 fee. Power users can bypass this verification through an advanced flow in developer settings, but it's not immediately accessible and has a 24-hour countdown.
Delve, a compliance company, uses fake evidence and fabricated audit reports to make companies appear compliant with frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR. Delve's platform relies on pre-populated templates, manual forms, and dodgy auditors to produce reports that falsely claim independent verification, putting clients at risk of criminal liability and hefty fines.
Austin, Texas, implemented policy reforms to increase housing supply and affordability, resulting in a 30% increase in housing units and a 7% decline in rents from 2015 to 2024. The city's proactive policies, including zoning changes, density bonuses, and streamlined permitting, have made it one of the only major cities where rent has fallen since the pandemic.
The author argues that agentic coding's claim to generate code from specifications is misleading, as these specifications often resemble code themselves. The author also claims that generating code from specifications doesn't reliably work.
The author criticizes modern websites for prioritizing ads over user experience, leading to frustrating and intrusive designs. This is driven by an auction system that rewards publishers for keeping users on their pages.
Kitten TTS v0.8 is out with 15M, 40M, and 80M parameter models for high-quality voice synthesis on CPU. It supports various voices and offers commercial support for teams integrating it into their products.
User is trying to apply a suggestion to a GitHub conversation but is encountering various errors such as no code changes, deleted lines, and pull request queue. The suggestion cannot be applied at this time due to these restrictions.
Ofcom fined 4Chan £520,000 for failing to comply with UK's Online Safety Act. 4Chan's lawyer responded with an AI-generated image, claiming the platform breaks no law in the US.
Walmart ended its Instant Checkout deal with OpenAI due to low conversion rates. It will now use its own chatbot, Sparky, to offer a seamless shopping experience within ChatGPT.
1/ Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland in January, with military support from France, Germany, and Nordic nations. Elite troops and F-35 jets with live ammunition were sent, and runways were to be blown up to prevent an invasion. ⬇️
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Waymo's safety impact research uses best practices to align ADS and human crash data, comparing Waymo's crash performance to the current human driving fleet from the areas where Waymo operates. The results show that Waymo has 70-90% fewer crashes than the benchmark, with statistical significance achieved due to the large number of miles driven by Waymo.
OpenTTD developers collaborated with Atari on Transport Tycoon Deluxe re-release, allowing new Steam and GOG players to purchase TTD first then access OpenTTD for free. This compromise balances Atari's commercial interests with OpenTTD's availability, ensuring the project's continued independence and development.
Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers. - cockpit-project/cockpit
The user created an interactive display for Conway's Game of Life using a 17x17 matrix of switches and LEDs, with a Microchip AVR128DA64 MCU controlling the display and user input. The project involved designing a PCB, adding MOSFETs and transistors for row and column switching, and implementing safety features such as a watchdog timer and blackout window for screen updates.
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A reviewer checks quality, and a gate decides to either pass to Ralph or iterate. Ralph then decides to either exit or advance to the next task.
Mozilla is introducing a free browser-integrated VPN in Firefox 149 on March 24, 2026, providing 50GB of monthly data to users in the US, France, Germany, and the UK. The feature aims to offer safer browsing with no hidden tradeoffs, aligning with Firefox's long-standing data minimization stance.
Juggalo face makeup can evade facial recognition due to its black bands obscuring key features. However, Apple's Face ID uses depth perception, making Juggalo makeup ineffective against it.
The quadratic all-matches problem in regex engines has been a long-standing issue since the 1970s, causing worst-case time complexity of O(m * n²) when searching for multiple matches in a large input. A new regex engine called RE# has been developed to solve this problem, offering a hardened mode that guarantees linear time even on adversarial input, and a normal mode that is faster but may ...
Property-based testing for web UIs, autonomously exploring and validating correctness properties, finding harder bugs earlier - antithesishq/bombadil
The book "Electronics for Kids" is praised for its engaging and accessible approach to teaching electronics and circuitry. Reviewers commend its hands-on projects and clear explanations that make STEM topics enjoyable for kids.
The noq team has created a general-purpose QUIC implementation with multipath and NAT traversal support, which is a separate codebase from Quinn but aims for collaboration. noq's headline feature is a full implementation of the QUIC Multipath spec, enabling latency improvements and supporting various network conditions.
We used Claude Code to automate neural network training with 16 GPUs on a Kubernetes cluster, achieving a 2.87% improvement in val_bpb and discovering a strategy to exploit performance differences between H100 and H200 GPUs. The agent ran for 8 hours, submitting ~910 experiments and finding that scaling model width mattered more than any single hyperparameter, with a total cost of under $300.
The user encountered a sign-extension bug in their C code while developing a Type-2 hypervisor, which caused the system to crash unpredictably due to a triple fault. The bug was caused by integer promotion and sign extension in the get_desc64_base function, which was fixed by casting values to unsigned types before the bit-shift operation.
OpenBSD's PF packet filter now supports 64-bit bandwidth values, removing a 4.29 Gbps limit. This change allows correct configuration for high-speed interfaces up to 999G.
The user discusses best practices for research, including avoiding overview slides, developing a unique view of the world, and staying on top of literature, and emphasizes the importance of collaboration, communication, and time management in research. They also provide tips for staying organized, reading efficiently, and avoiding burnout, and encourage researchers to view their work as a ...
ICML 2026 implemented rules to handle AI usage in peer review, with 506 reviewers violating LLM usage rules. 497 papers were desk-rejected due to reviewers using LLMs despite agreeing not to.
Tens of thousands of Claude users shared their hopes and fears about AI, revealing a desire for AI to help them live better, more enjoyable lives, and alleviate current burdens, with many seeking to use AI for productivity, personal growth, and societal transformation. However, concerns about AI's impact on human autonomy, job displacement, and potential negative consequences, such as ...
The investigation will assess Tesla's FSD system in degraded roadway conditions, evaluating its performance and updates to the degradation detection system. The system's ability to detect and alert drivers to impaired camera visibility has raised concerns, with potential under-reporting of crashes due to data limitations.
A study found that direct marketing from gambling accounts increased bets by 23% and spending by 39% among participants. The study suggests tighter regulations are needed to limit gambling marketing and protect consumers from harm.
Align Technology, the company behind Invisalign, is undergoing a major manufacturing overhaul to directly 3D print aligners, which could lower costs and make treatment more affordable. The company's manufacturing veteran, Joe Hogan, expects decades of growth ahead and believes that 3D printing will entrench Align as the world's biggest user of 3D printers.
Meta employee received inaccurate AI advice, exposing company and user data for 2 hours. Incident resolved, no user data mishandled, according to Meta spokesperson.
Reinvest taxable income in business expenses and depreciate assets to defer US taxes. The US tax code rewards entrepreneurial pursuits, allowing you to create wealth and pay taxes later.
To maintain a well-structured codebase, use semantic functions as building blocks that are minimal, self-describing, and unit-testable, and pragmatic functions as wrappers around complex logic. Effective data modeling involves enforcing correctness, using precise names, and avoiding loose typing to prevent bugs and make code easier to understand and maintain.
Researchers achieved 10x data efficiency with NanoGPT Slowrun by ensembling 1.8B parameter models and applying architectural tweaks. This allows scaling with compute rather than data, potentially leading to significant model performance improvements.
An AI agent learns MaxSAT strategies without human guidance, refining its toolbox and pushing improvements to a shared repo. It uses git for communication and low parallelism, but can focus on a single instance for hours.
FilmKit is a BETA app for Fujifilm cameras, currently tested on X100VI, with possible support for other X-series cameras. It uses WebUSB for direct camera connection and faster RAW conversion than X RAW STUDIO.
OpenAI acquires Astral to bring powerful open source developer tools into its Codex ecosystem. This move aims to accelerate Codex's work and enable AI systems to participate in the entire software development lifecycle.
I politely clarify the limitations of LLMs, explaining that they can provide helpful information but may not always be accurate or reliable. I encourage users to verify information through reputable sources and think critically about the answers they receive.
The dice included in the game's box have density issues within their plastic which could cause biased results, but they are safe to use for this game due to the limited number of rolls. The user recommends these dice for casual games but not for games that heavily rely on dice rolling.
We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. We also have bulk ebook downloads and a list of collections available, as well as ebook catalog feeds for use directly in your ereader app or RSS reader.
Clockwise will remove Smart Hold events and Flexible Meetings, then delete user data on March 27, 2026. Users will get a prorated refund for prepaid subscriptions and can transition to Reclaim for AI-powered scheduling.
The user's GitHub repository, awesome-mcp-servers, has been flooded with AI-generated pull requests, making manual review unsustainable. The user is exploring ways to distinguish human contributions from bot-generated ones to maintain open-source projects efficiently.
The user decoded UDP packets from raw voltage waveforms captured by an oscilloscope connected to a high-speed active differential probe soldered to a rack switch. They implemented a parser to extract the packets from the waveform data, which involved decoding QSGMII protocol and rate adaptation to convert the data into conventional Ethernet packets.
John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Lara B. Aknin, and Shun Wang Helliwell, J. F., Layard, R., Sachs, J. D., De Neve, J.-E., Aknin, L. B., & Wang, S. (Eds.). (2026). World Happiness Report 2026. University of Oxford: Wellbeing Research Centre.
Eric Schmidt predicts UIs will go away, replaced by agents generating UIs on the fly. A prototype uses markdown as a protocol for agentic UI, combining code execution with text and data in a single stream.
ENIAC, the first large-scale electronic digital computer, was unveiled in 1946 and revolutionized mathematics and engineering. It paved the way for modern computing and transformed industries with its high-speed, general-purpose computing capabilities.
Qite.js is a lightweight frontend framework that enhances HTML with declarative behavior without requiring a virtual DOM or complex setup. It allows you to write components in plain JavaScript, separate from HTML and CSS, and works naturally with standard CSS transitions and animations.
Processors can learn to predict branches over time, especially with repeated use of the same random values. AMD processors performed well in this benchmark, while Intel processors showed disappointing results.
Xiaomi's next-gen SU7 electric sedan offers up to 902 km range, standard LiDAR, and 897V charging. It starts at 229,900 yuan, undercutting the Tesla Model 3 in China by about 5,600 yuan.
You've created animations to help people understand inequalities in a geometrical way, using classic shapes like circles, triangles, and squares. Your visualizations show how the Arithmetic Mean (AM), Geometric Mean (GM), Quadratic Mean (QM), and Harmonic Mean (HM) relate to each other, and how they can be represented using geometric shapes.
The batch cannot be applied due to multiple invalid suggestions. Suggestions cannot be applied in certain situations such as deleted lines, pending reviews, and queued pull requests.
The user is trying to apply a suggestion to a GitHub conversation but is encountering various errors such as no code changes, deleted lines, and pull request status. The suggestion cannot be applied due to these restrictions.
Delve, a compliance company, uses fake evidence and fabricated audit reports to make companies appear compliant with frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR. Delve's platform relies on pre-populated templates, manual forms, and dodgy auditors to produce reports that falsely claim independent verification, putting clients at risk of criminal liability and hefty fines.
Gas prices jumped to four-year highs after Israel and Iran escalated attacks on energy facilities, causing damage to Qatar's LNG export capacity. Oil prices rose by 8% to $116 a barrel, with Brent crude soaring 60% since the US-Israeli war on Iran started.
US national debt surpassed $39 trillion, a record milestone, due to competing priorities and rising government spending. Experts warn of unsustainable borrowing and long-term financial burden on future generations.
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Researchers created EsoLang-Bench to evaluate large language models on esoteric programming languages with limited training data. The results show a significant gap between models' performance on mainstream languages and their genuine programming ability.
The author's interest in type design began at 20 years old in 1976 while studying commercial art at North Hennepin Community College. A lettering project sparked this interest, leading to the creation of an original alphabet, Uncial Sans, which ignited a lifelong passion for designing typefaces.
The New Punditry's advice on building successful startups has failed to make a difference, with startup success rates remaining flat over the past 30 years despite widespread adoption of their methods. To build a true science of entrepreneurship, we need to break the rules of science as traditionally practiced and encourage a proliferation of competing theories, rather than converging on one, ...
Voltair Labs is developing weatherized, hybrid-fixed drones for power utility inspections, aiming to replace foot patrols and helicopters with a cost-effective solution. The company's first product is a long-range, fixed-wing drone that recharges inductively on stripped-down charging pads, enabling inspections of entire transmission line corridors with reduced costs and increased efficiency.
The user discusses the importance of language and its malleability, arguing that semantic drift is a feature of language that enriches it, and that policing language usage can be limiting. A recent research paper on corporate bullshit found that people who are susceptible to it are often those who are bad at analytical reasoning and easily convinced, and that this can create a feedback loop ...
The Pentagon has requested $200 billion from Congress to fund the war against Iran. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claims the campaign is ahead of schedule despite concerns of a quagmire.
SpiceCrypt is a Python library and CLI tool that decrypts encrypted SPICE model files, restoring interoperability between simulators. It exploits a bug in PSpice's encryption scheme, allowing it to recover user keys in seconds and decrypt files that were previously locked to a single simulator.
The user is explaining the mathematical concept of consensus, specifically the Paxos algorithm, through a series of illustrations of a committee of five members trying to choose a color for a bike shed. The user is focusing on the logical structure of the universe that makes consensus possible, and will eventually discuss the pragmatics of consensus in a future post.
The user was scammed by TiinyAI's "pocket-sized AI supercomputer" that claimed to run a 120-billion-parameter model at 20 tokens per second for $1,299, but after digging deeper, they found it was a custom-built device with a CIX P1 SoC and a VeriSilicon VIP9400 NPU accelerator card. The device's architecture is a Linux SBC with an NPU accelerator card, serving an OpenAI-compatible API over a ...
Lawmakers and advocates are concerned that facial recognition technology in stores could lead to profiling and dynamic pricing without clear regulations. Proposed legislation in New York City and Congress aims to ban the use of facial recognition for setting prices without customer consent.
A self-hosted reverse geocoding service built from OpenStreetMap data returns street addresses from latitude and longitude coordinates. It's part of the Traccar open source GPS tracking platform and available as a hosted service or Docker container.
Node.js community members petition the TSC to reject AI-assisted development in core internals due to concerns over diluting hand-written code and reputational impact. A 19k line Pull Request using LLM was submitted, sparking debate over Developer's Certificate of Origin compliance.
Remote work may become more prevalent due to high gas prices and supply issues. Companies may shift to flexible, team-led in-office decisions rather than strict requirements.
Ofcom fined 4chan £450,000 for lacking age checks on its site. The company must implement age assurance by April 2 or face daily penalties.
Gerd Faltings, a 71-year-old German mathematician, has been awarded the Abel Prize for his influential work on the Mordell conjecture, now known as Faltings's theorem. The theorem proves that certain curves have a finite number of rational points, a cornerstone of arithmetic geometry.
Aakash and Viswesh from Canary built AI agents to test code changes and user workflows, closing the gap in code verification. Canary outperforms GPT, Claude Code, and Sonnet in code verification benchmark QA-Bench v0.
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is causing a "paralyzing problem" for US defense readiness due to disruptions in sulphur and mineral supplies. This could lead to a doubling or more of costs to replace damaged equipment and a precarious situation for US military readiness.
FIRST and LEGO Education are ending their partnership after the 2026-2027 season. FIRST is developing new K-8 program experiences to continue inspiring young people in STEM.
We're providing different identity verification paths to fit users' needs, including free limited distribution accounts for students and hobbyists. These accounts allow sharing with up to 20 devices without ID or fee, ensuring Android remains open for learning and experimentation.
Marina Abramović and Ulay's 40-year collaboration revolutionized performance art, exploring ego, identity, and human connection through iconic works like "Relation in Movement" and "Nightsea Crossing." Their bond, marked by both creative triumphs and personal struggles, left a lasting impact on the art world.
Two geographers in Connecticut discovered that having solar panels near you is the biggest predictor of getting them yourself, with neighbors within one kilometer being most influential. This proximity principle applies beyond solar panels, influencing people's choices on health, technology, and other priorities.
Francisco, a Spanish researcher, created P2PCLAW, a peer-to-peer network for AI agents and humans to share results and validate claims with formal mathematical proof. P2PCLAW uses GUN.js, IPFS, and Lean 4 for security and verification, with a small team behind it.
Reinforcement learning (RL) environments are crucial for training AI models, with labs spending over $1 billion on them in 2025. Key challenges include preventing reward hacking and scaling production without sacrificing quality, with demand growing for enterprise workflows and longer-horizon tasks.
The Land Walls of Constantinople are a 7.2 km long defence system built in the 5th century CE to protect the city from sieges. They were constructed to counter the threat of the Huns and to accommodate the city's rapid expansion.
Heisuke Hironaka, a renowned mathematician, died at 94 after winning the 1970 Fields Medal for resolving algebraic variety singularities. He nurtured young talent and contributed to education through the Sansu Olympics and various books.
Minecraft's PS3 source code reveals clever optimizations and workarounds used by 4J Studios to port the game from Java to C++ on a console with limited RAM. The codebase showcases a mix of clever algorithms, manual memory management, and creative solutions to performance issues, providing a unique glimpse into the inner workings of a real-world game engine.
A Verilog vectorizer replaces multiple operations on scalar values with a single operation on vector values, reducing symbolic complexity and improving formal verification tool efficiency. The vectorizer improves elaboration time by 28.12% and reduces memory consumption by 51.30% with EDA tools like Jasper.
Metrology Systems for Testing the Accuracy for Nanopositioning Systems
You're looking for founding engineers with specific skills and traits, including technical ability, independence, low ego, passion, drive, and good judgment. You want to hire people who can ship products quickly, make good decisions, and work well with others, with a focus on builders who can create value for the company.
The "glass delusion" was a historical phenomenon where people believed their bodies were made of glass, often due to trauma or stress. This delusion served as a culturally available idiom for expressing suffering and vulnerability, eventually fading out as new idioms emerged with the rise of industrialization and technological advancements.
Independent AI teams face a structural cost of low compute utilization and uncertain access due to unpredictable workloads. An AI grid can solve this by pooling compute needs, maximizing utilization, and providing shared automation, infrastructure, and security.
You created Time Keep, a multi-tool app combining world clocks, timers, alarms, and more in one place. It's built with Next.js and allows users to save data and sync across devices with a Pro subscription.
US national debt surpassed $39 trillion, a record milestone, due to competing priorities and rising government spending. Experts warn of unsustainable borrowing and long-term financial burden on future generations.
Spreadsheets are being transformed by Large Language Models, moving from manual formulas to natural language interaction. This shift aims to reduce errors and increase efficiency in data analysis and manipulation.
Oku is a tool that helps you manage multiple feeds and apps in one place, saving time and reducing distractions. It offers features like digests, summaries, and saved cards to help you stay organized and focused.
I built a custom AI-powered building design consultancy to replace Wix, using Netlify and DeepSeek-R3, despite technical challenges and liability concerns. The system works, but requires constant tuning and optimization to balance tone and responsiveness.
Google is introducing a developer verification program to combat malware on Android devices, requiring verified developers to provide identification and pay a $25 fee. Power users can bypass this verification through an advanced flow in developer settings, but it's not immediately accessible and has a 24-hour countdown.
The user explores different approaches to implementing semicolonless syntax in programming languages, discussing 11 languages including Python, Go, Kotlin, Swift, JavaScript, Gleam, Lua, R, Ruby, Julia, and Odin. The user concludes that a parser that splits on newlines in most cases, along with tooling to catch mistakes and consideration of the language's syntax, is a good approach to ...
Astrobiologists study life beyond Earth despite having no evidence, a puzzle that has existed since humans first looked at the stars. They search for clues in Earth's environments and other planets, but finding life elsewhere remains uncertain.
Qcart's AWS account remains restricted 18 hours after resolving security flag due to exposed CircleCI access key. AWS support is unresponsive, citing a specialized team review despite remediation efforts.
The user created an interactive display for Conway's Game of Life using a 17x17 matrix of switches and LEDs, with a Microchip AVR128DA64 MCU controlling the display and user input. The project involved designing a PCB, adding MOSFETs and transistors for row and column switching, and implementing safety features such as a watchdog timer and blackout window for screen updates.
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The user optimized their site for Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) by adding structured data, meta descriptions, and welcoming AI crawlers. This shift in optimization aims to get content cited in AI-generated answers rather than just ranked in search engines.