A team member used Copilot to edit a PR description, adding ads for itself and Raycast. This is seen as an abuse of the platform's features for self-promotion.
User wants to create a homebrew router using a Linux-powered device, such as a mini-PC, to bypass a US policy banning new consumer router imports.
LLMs can undermine authenticity and credibility by generating writing that lacks thought and understanding. Effective writing requires human thoughtfulness and effort to establish credibility and increase understanding.
The US government's mobile apps, including the White House app, request excessive permissions and embed trackers, violating users' privacy. These apps, part of a surveillance apparatus, collect sensitive data that feeds into ICE raids and warrantless location tracking.
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Philadelphia courts ban smart eyewear with recording capabilities due to potential witness and juror intimidation. Those caught attempting to bring smart eyewear into courtrooms may be barred entry or arrested for criminal contempt.
A team created a touchscreen MacBook using a $1 mirror and computer vision, allowing for touch input without an external webcam. The system uses a webcam, mirror, and computer vision to translate finger movements into mouse events, making existing apps touch-enabled.
Big AI labs are struggling due to high energy costs, reduced capital from the Gulf, and concerns about rate hikes. This could lead to a market downturn and affect public companies' balance sheets and growth prospects.
The demo scene initially tolerated copying due to technical limitations, but as it evolved, artists began to value originality and craft over plagiarism. Today, many sceners reject AI-generated art and plagiarism, valuing the creative process and technical limitations that define the scene.
Generative AI companies are injecting ads into their products, with Microsoft's Copilot inserting ads into over 11,000 GitHub pull requests. This move is likely to become a new revenue stream for companies like OpenAI, which has already seen a $100 million annualized revenue from ChatGPT ads.
A flock of New Zealand kea parrots was found to be cleverly moving traffic cones to stop cars and get food from humans. Researchers have developed various tests to measure bird intelligence, including the mirror test, Aesop's Fable, and delayed gratification test.
Washington state law signed by Rep Liz Berry outlaws noncompete agreements, effective June 30, 2027. Employers must notify workers about voided agreements by October 1, 2027.
Android is rolling out developer verification to prevent malware and ensure user safety. Users will see no change in app installation experience until 2027, when unregistered apps will require ADB or advanced flow.
The user's writing skills have deteriorated due to over-reliance on AI tools for grammar and vocabulary checks, causing them to lose their unique voice and creative expression. They are seeking advice on how to regain their writing skills and focus on their own voice, rather than relying on AI assistance.
The FTC took action against OkCupid and Match Group for sharing users' personal info with an unrelated third party despite promises to protect it. OkCupid and Match are now prohibited from misrepresenting their privacy policies.
Apple Silicon M4 and M5 Macs have a limitation that prevents full-resolution HiDPI 4k modes on external displays due to a GPU driver policy. The limitation can be reproduced on M5 Max Macs using specific commands and cannot be bypassed by modifying EDID or DCP settings.
Webminal.org is a free Linux terminal practice site that has survived 15 years with 500k users, despite being built on outdated tech. It's maintained by two developers who met online and have kept it free, relying on personal savings to cover server costs.
User created an Excalidraw extension to generate SVGs for light and dark mode, but it caused frustration due to dependency on text changes. They then created a new extension that automatically exports frames as SVGs in both modes, allowing for local review and reference.
Practice slash commands, hooks, and skills in a terminal simulator right in your browser. No setup, no API key. Interactive forms generate CLAUDE.md, hooks, and plugin configs you can copy straight into your project. Each module ends with a quiz. Answer wrong and you get the explanation, not just the answer.
AI coding agents will drastically alter exploit development, making it easier to find vulnerabilities in software. This shift will profoundly impact information security and the Internet, potentially rendering traditional countermeasures ineffective.
The article discusses the failures of various startup founders, including those from elite institutions like Stanford and MIT, who engaged in deceptive practices and scams, often with disastrous consequences. A humorous model is presented that attempts to predict startup success based on factors like founder credentials, funding, and industry, but is ultimately revealed to have a 0% accuracy rate.
AI is a natural evolution of human tools, facilitating idea creation and dissemination. Its development should remain human-centered to enhance quality of life and expand human thought.
The author uses a four-part note-taking system, with the most useful method being writing by hand in paper notebooks. They date every page and use an index to organize their notes, allowing them to easily find information later.
The US Consumer Price Index has tracked inflation since 1913, revealing episodic regime breaks rather than gradual erosion. Four major inflationary episodes account for 72% of the total cumulative price increase.
The korb CLI is a Haskell program that allows users to create baskets and order groceries from REWE markets programmatically. It uses a shared markdown file to store shopping lists and generates a template based on user history and preferences.
CTEs are now inlined by default in PostgreSQL 12, allowing the planner to apply normal optimisations. Materialization is used when a CTE is referenced multiple times or contains side effects.
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A seminal 1952 paper lays the foundation for optimal control and reinforcement learning. bellman extended his work to continuous-time systems, turning the optimal condition into the pde. he estimates $v_kapprox valpha_j$ by monte carlo rollouts of the closed-loop sde and fits $v_theta$ via regression. $$ learned value function matches the exact power-law $
Pratt parsing is a method for parsing expressions with varying precedence by walking back up the spine of the tree when a transition operator appears and building a left-leaning subtree. The Pratt parser uses a recursive descent parser with a call stack to build the tree, and it handles left-associative and right-associative operators by adjusting their left and right binding powers.
The author attended ATmosphereConf, a conference focused on the decentralized social media protocol ATProto, and was inspired by the community's efforts to create a more human internet. They believe ATProto has the potential to bring people together and create genuine connections, unlike mainstream social media platforms.
The US war with Iran has weakened America's global influence, driven wedges between the US and its allies, and strengthened Russia and China. The US has abandoned its traditional alliances and now relies on coercion, making it a rogue superpower that will be lonely and dangerous.
US corporate media generally serves business interests, often parroting CEOs' claims without context or challenge. This "CEO said a thing!" journalism has become normalized, prioritizing ad traffic over truth and public interest.
VHDL's delta cycle algorithm preserves determinism in a concurrent language by separating signal value updates and process evaluations into distinct phases. In contrast, Verilog's nonblocking assignments do not solve the problem of non-determinism in general, although they can provide determinism in synchronous designs.
Ghostmoon is a pre-release app that provides system control and utility features for macOS, including display management and network tools. It requires Gatekeeper approval or Terminal command to run, with optional donation for additional features.
Zerobox is a tool for credential injection and sandboxing processes, allowing secrets to be passed to specific hosts without being visible to the process. It provides features like environment variable inheritance, network proxying, and restricted access to user data and system libraries.
The author is concerned about social media's decline into a platform for automation and fake human interaction, where people use AI tools to post and comment on behalf of others. They advocate for authenticity and honesty, urging creators to be present and human on social media, rather than relying on virtual doubles.
Nodes are placed in ascending order by z-index, with the last node on top and the first node below others. Node types include text, file, link, group, and canvasColor.
Anchorgrid.ai's door detection service processes PDFs in 2-4 minutes per job, scaling with page count and complexity. Upgrading to Pro or Enterprise plans uses dedicated GPU infrastructure for faster detection.
User relied on Touch ID and muscle memory, leading to password reset issues. Resetting password caused keychain data loss, but restoring old data was simple by replacing the new keychain file with the old one.
The author built an NSFW filter for a search engine using a single hidden layer neural network, trained on a dataset of labeled search results. The filter was implemented from scratch and performed well, with a 20-30% agreement with a classifier using open-source models.
Developers built an autonomous agent that generates API integrations across five platforms in 15 minutes and under $20, using skills and a simple orchestrator. The agent learned from its mistakes and was improved with better instructions, tighter edit permissions, and explicit checks to produce trustworthy integrations.
Coasts is a CLI tool for running isolated dev environments on a single machine with a local UI. It works with existing Docker setups and is offline-first with no vendor lock-in risk.
AI tools are changing the landscape of software engineering, but the conversation is focused on code generation rather than the skills and judgment required to supervise AI. The structural problem is that AI handles tasks that used to train engineers, leaving a gap in the career ladder and raising questions about where the next generation of engineers will come from.
Kurt Gödel's 1931 proof showed that any formal system, including Principia Mathematica, is either incomplete or inconsistent, meaning it cannot prove all true statements or prove a false statement. This discovery, known as Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem, limits the ability of formal systems to capture all mathematical truths and has far-reaching implications for mathematics, logic, and ...
Asimov Press is going on hiatus in April due to new projects for its founders. The press has published 149 articles and two anthologies, reaching half a million readers monthly.
US President Donald Trump threatened to destroy Iran's energy resources and infrastructure if a deal is not reached, while Iran continued to attack Gulf neighbors and Israel launched new strikes on Iran. The war raged on with no end in sight, causing widespread destruction and civilian casualties.
The user is reverse engineering the .shp file format used in Crazy Taxi, a 3D game, and has discovered that the file contains vertex data, color data, and texture coordinates, which are stored in fixed-point format. The user has used a combination of analysis and experimentation to determine the format of the data, including using a hex editor to play with column widths and noticing patterns ...
William Blake moved to Felpham in 1800 with his wife Catherine, seeking a change from London. He was inspired by the sea and its transformative power, which influenced his art and poetry.
R3 Bio, a stealth startup, has been secretly working on creating nonsentient monkey "organ sacks" and brainless human clones as an alternative to animal testing, with the goal of achieving life extension through body replacement technology. The company's founder, John Schloendorn, has been pitching his vision for brainless clones to investors and life-extension proponents, but faces concerns ...
To set clear boundaries, define lines and actions beforehand, and communicate them to others. Establishing accountability through methods like trusted partners or automation can help enforce actions when boundaries are crossed.
The user built a retro computer with a socket 754 motherboard and a GTX 960 GPU, but encountered issues with the MSI 970 Gaming motherboard's fan control, which was not connected to the Super IO chip. The user created an Arduino script and a C++ application, DummyFanX, to control fans and read CPU temperatures, making it available for Windows XP to Windows 11.
Seeing individual atoms is impossible with light, but nuclear reactions like alpha particle emission from heavy elements like uranium can produce a visible flash. A scintillation screen coated with zinc sulfide can convert alpha particles' energy into light, allowing us to see thousands of momentary points of light around the source.
The S&P 500 index is down 7% year-to-date due to the "Hateful Eight" stocks, which account for 85% of the drawdown. These mega-cap tech stocks, including Microsoft, Nvidia, and Apple, have large weights and are causing the index's decline.
DigitalOcean increased its offering to over 10.38 million shares, expecting to close on March 26. The funding will be used for capacity expansion, paying down debt, and general corporate purposes.
Cape hid an Easter egg in their privacy policy offering a free trip to Switzerland, and someone found it after reading the fine print. This highlights the importance of transparency in privacy policies, as most people don't read them and companies often hide data-sharing practices.
Real-time and historical data on Stripe system performance.
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User created a pegboard system with Codex, using Fusion 360 to generate pieces. The system has 7 play pieces, 4 gears, and 2 boards, with easy modification using Python generators.
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Bitwarden's Agent Access SDK allows AI agents to access credentials with human approval, eliminating the need for agents to store API keys. OneCLI, an open-source gateway, injects credentials into requests at the network layer, ensuring secure credential handling.
This project is an Alpha HD Audio driver for Intel 915 and later chipsets, supporting Windows 98 SE and ME with known issues on Windows 98 First Edition. It's not well supported on Nvidia and AMD chipsets, and may cause garbled audio or hard freezes.
Researchers are developing autonomous labs that use AI and robotics to automate scientific experiments, potentially making the process more cost-effective and efficient. These labs can perform complex tasks, such as designing and running experiments, and analyzing data, with minimal human input.
The Middle East's petro-monarchies' image as reliable oil suppliers has been shattered by the third Gulf war. The war has led to a surge in energy prices, potentially causing a recession.
Open source operating systems are not implementing age verification due to various laws and restrictions. Some developers plan to comply with age verification laws, but none have fully implemented it for Brazil or California.
fxcp is a smart copy tool that auto-selects the optimal strategy for file transfers. It uses adaptive CoW/reflink, io_uring, and BLAKE3 Merkle delta detection for fast and efficient transfers.
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Human Security's State of AI Traffic report found AI traffic grew 8 times faster than human traffic in 2025. AI traffic, driven by large language models, now eclipses human users on the internet.
This clock displays the current time alphabetically. It is inspired by this post on Mastodon. In Three-Hand mode, the hours, minutes, and seconds are each independently sorted by their English spelling, with a hand for each.In Combined mode, every possible time (43,200 of them) is spelled out, sorted alphabetically, and a single needle points to the current one.
To stand out in an AI-driven world, focus on building strong social capital through trust and emotional connections, and continuously learn new skills to stay adaptable. By being a connector, treating learning as a daily journey, and cultivating curiosity, you can distinguish yourself in a fast-changing tech landscape.
You should use std::wstring const& instead of std::wstring_view for Win32 API calls that expect null-terminated strings. This is because std::wstring_view does not guarantee null-termination, unlike std::wstring.
The study investigates a text excerpt from Pushkin's novel Eugene Onegin to determine the probability of a letter being a vowel. The study finds that the probability of a vowel following a vowel is higher than the probability of a vowel following a consonant.
Mechanism design is a science of creating rules that align self-interest with the collective good, used in various cities to balance preservation and development. This approach has been successful in places like Montgomery County, New York, and Tokyo, but requires maintenance, transparency, and adaptation to work effectively.
The author discusses the drawbacks of using queues to handle high request rates, as they can lead to increased latency and unfair treatment of requests.
The user has found several limitations of current coding models, including their tendency to produce unnecessary code, struggle with multithreading and OOP concepts, and lack of aesthetic instinct for code. The user believes that the main limitation of these models is their inability to understand complex problems and their tendency to make things up or cut corners, rather than a specific ...
The South Polar Times was a magazine published by Robert Falcon Scott's Antarctic expedition in 1902, featuring articles, poetry, and illustrations by the crew. The magazine was revived in 1911 and 1912 under the editorship of Apsley Cherry-Garrard, with contributions from Edward Wilson, who was the expedition's artist and illustrator.
The developers of Burrito Bison created a new game, Launcha Libre, after struggling financially and needing a way to get back on their feet, with the help of Kongregate's funding program. They made significant changes to the game, including new gummy bears, launch mechanics, and a Mexican setting, while also introducing a free-to-play model with video ads and a piñata character.
The author is exploring the concept of interior design, questioning the urgency to blur the distinction between inside and outside, and examining how objects relate to space. They propose a framework for understanding the types of aesthetic relationships between objects and spaces.
F5 Networks reclassified a BIG-IP APM vulnerability as critical-severity RCE flaw, warning of exploitation to deploy webshells. F5 advises checking BIG-IP systems for signs of malicious activity and securing systems against CVE-2025-53521 attacks.
Tickets should be outcome-shaped, not task-focused, to prevent agents from following narrow paths and introducing new bugs. Assigning big tasks and letting agents break them down is more effective than breaking tasks down upfront.
AI singularity is not a single mind but a complex society of thought, with intelligence emerging from social and relational interactions. A new era of human-AI centaurs requires shifting from individual alignment to institutional alignment through digital protocols and checks and balances.
Phantom is a dedicated AI agent that runs on its own machine, installs software, and builds infrastructure without permission, allowing it to remember and learn over time. It can be controlled through Slack and has its own email address, creating tools and dashboards that can be shared with others.
The user warped 180 threads in two halves, creating a continuous thread with a 'cross' at one end, and then threaded them onto an eight-shaft loom using a binary grid pattern. They successfully completed the threading, but made a small mistake that was later corrected.
A new study found that women with more sun exposure lived longer and had less heart disease, but the impact was small, adding only 7 months to 2 years to their life. The study's results are uncertain and may be due to other factors, such as healthier lifestyles among sun-exposed individuals.
User combined Lime bike data with GDPR to analyze their geospatial trail using Claude. The analysis revealed detailed insights into their daily routine, including work locations, favorite spots, and regular appointments.
Pretext is a browser library that calculates paragraph height without DOM interaction, using an array of tricks to make it faster. It separates calculations into prepare() and layout() functions, caching results for efficient word-wrapping logic.
You've opened a web shop for the BurgerDisk and partnered with Joe's Computer Museum to distribute variations in the USA. You're also sourcing D-SUB 19 connectors for the Apple II community.
A study of 252 adult visitors to the Montreal Insectarium found that 44% of participants were open to eating insects, with men more willing than women to consume various insect-based foods. Demographic differences, especially gender and education, shape openness to entomophagy more strongly than age alone.
The Ogallala Aquifer and roads are common-pool resources that will be overused if not charged for. Governments can charge variable prices for roads, especially in busy areas, to prevent gridlock.
Playing computer games like Diablo inspired my passion for software and design. Learning AI requires understanding its capabilities and using them efficiently, just like mastering spells in Diablo.