DaVinci Resolve Photo page offers advanced color tools for still photography, including DaVinci color grading and Resolve FX. It supports RAW files from major camera brands and allows for GPU-accelerated processing.
User used Backblaze for 10 years but discovered it stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders without notification. Backblaze's change in policy eroded user's trust, breaking their promise to back up all data.
Flock Safety's AI-powered cameras track vehicles and people, creating detailed records of movements and associations without consent. This mass surveillance raises Fourth Amendment concerns and enables biased enforcement.
Fiverr uses Cloudinary to process and serve work products, but uses public URLs for sensitive client-worker communication. This exposes hundreds of files containing PII in Google search results, violating GLBA/FTC Safeguards Rule.
Claude Code routines are saved configurations that run automatically on Anthropic-managed cloud infrastructure. They can be triggered by schedule, API, or GitHub events, and can perform tasks such as code review, deployment verification, and documentation updates.
The Internet Archive has posted 2,500 rare punk tapes, including Nirvana's 1989 performance and previously unknown recordings from Sonic Youth and R.E.M. Volunteers digitize and clean up the tapes, making them sound great despite being recorded with mediocre equipment.
User sent opt-out request to Flock Safety due to CCPA, but they refused citing customer ownership of data. User disputes this, believing Flock Safety is responsible for complying with CCPA.
Anthropic's Mythos LLM is highly capable at computer security tasks, completing a simulated corporate network attack in 3 out of 10 attempts. Security may be reduced to a simple equation of spending more tokens than attackers to harden a system.
jj is a simpler and more powerful DVCS than git, combining the best of git and Mercurial. It has a git compatible backend, allowing you to try it without converting others.
Telefónica obtuvo una resolución judicial para bloquear direcciones IP relacionadas con contenidos ilícitos, incluyendo deportes y entretenimiento. Los bloqueos afectarán a webs legítimas y operadoras de telecomunicaciones, incluyendo pequeños y medianos operadores, durante eventos deportivos en directo.
A verified implementation of zlib, lean-zip, was found to be vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow in the Lean runtime. Despite this, the application code had zero memory-related bugs in 105 million fuzzing executions, demonstrating the effectiveness of formal verification in producing robust software.
The author warns that machine learning (ML) may lead to widespread job displacement, deskilling, and automation bias, potentially exacerbating wealth and power consolidation in the hands of large tech companies. The author fears that ML may not deliver on promises of abundance and instead lead to economic shocks, increased income inequality, and a loss of intellectual inheritance.
OpenSSL updates include removing SSLv3 support, engines, and deprecated elliptic curves, while adding support for RFC 8998 and post-quantum groups. FIPS self tests can now be deferred during installation.
Researchers introduce Introspective Diffusion Language Model (I-DLM) to improve parallel token generation, matching AR model quality and outperforming prior DLMs. I-DLM uses introspective strided decoding to verify generated tokens, achieving 2.9-4.1x higher throughput than LLaDA-2.1-mini and SDAR at high concurrency.
People resist the boring read of a powerful person's decision because they want to believe that the person is smart and their decisions make sense. This is due to a psychological need to believe that people get what they deserve and a tendency to see patterns where there are none.
CadQuery is an open-source Python library for building 3D CAD models. It lets you describe parts as code, making models easy to version, share, and parameterize - no GUI required.
A person built a patient management system with AI coding, exposing patient data to the internet without encryption. They lacked understanding of software architecture and security, raising concerns about the future of AI development.
The user discusses the limitations and pitfalls of using epsilon-comparison for floating-point numbers, arguing that it's often a bad solution and can lead to unexpected behavior and bugs. They provide several examples of how to handle floating-point comparisons in a more robust and reliable way, such as using acceptance radii, analyzing the problem, and avoiding epsilons altogether.
The traditional way of teaching fifth normal form (5NF) is confusing and unnecessary, and a more logical approach is to start with business requirements and create a physical table schema using a textbook table design strategy. Two patterns of physical table design follow naturally: the AB-BC-AC triangle and the ABC+D star pattern, both of which are fully normalized and do not require 5NF ...
Chrome introduces Skills, a feature that lets users save and reuse AI prompts with a single click. Saved Skills can be edited and used across multiple tabs for tasks like recipe substitutions and gift selection.
An independent audit found Microsoft, Meta, and Google may be violating California's CCPA by ignoring user opt-outs of cookie tracking. The companies disputed the findings, but the audit suggests adding one line of code can fix the issue.
OpenDuck is an open-source implementation of MotherDuck's ideas for cloud-native DuckDB, offering differential storage, dual execution, and transparent remote databases. It provides an open protocol, backend, and extension for anyone to run, extend, and build on.
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The author is warning against trusting the cloud for storing valuable data, calling it a sucker's game where users give away their work and time without control or understanding. They advise making personal copies of data and not relying solely on cloud services.
A Doublespeed hacker attempted to post memes calling a16z the "antichrist" on social media, but was unsuccessful. Doublespeed, an a16z-funded startup, uses AI to create fake influencers and was previously hacked in December 2025.
Renewables supplied more power to the US than natural gas in March, a milestone in the shift to clean energy. Rising power demand is extending the lives of aging coal power plants, complicating the transition away from fossil fuels.
Japan's railway system excels due to good public policy, business structure, and land use rules. Its unique model of private companies building cities around railways has enabled the system to thrive and become a model for other countries.
LangAlpha is a vibe investing agent built to help interpret financial markets and support investment decisions. It runs on a provider-agnostic model layer, abstracting across multiple LLM backends, and supports a three-tier data provider hierarchy.
Two new optimizations for closures are proposed to improve performance by turning non-static closures into static ones and caching stateless closures. This may cause some backward compatibility breaks.
California's proposed legislation AB 2047 could lead to consumer surveillance and restrict consumer choice by requiring 3D printer manufacturers to use state-certified algorithms to block firearm print jobs. Digital rights activists argue this approach is technically infeasible and could lead to false positives and widespread surveillance.
You quit your job at a robotics company due to concerns over teleoperated weapons and are now exploring entrepreneurship to improve embodied intelligence tools and workflows. You're gathering data through a survey to understand roboticists' pain points with control interfaces.
The author argues that multi-agentic software development is a distributed systems problem that inherits impossibility results from the literature, including the FLP theorem and Lamport's Byzantine Generals theorem. These results imply that consensus is impossible in certain scenarios, and the author suggests that designers should explicitly address these coordination problems rather than ...
The 80386's memory pipeline is a carefully engineered combination of latency-hiding techniques that allows protected virtual memory to perform close to physical memory, making it a practical foundation for serious PC operating systems. The FPGA 386 core's memory pipeline design aims to map the historical 386 memory pipeline to modern FPGAs while achieving high Fmax and low CPI, with ...
The author announces the 1.0.0 release of Gas Town and Beads, a coding platform and memory system for agents. The platform has seen significant growth and adoption, with Beads reaching 20k stars on GitHub and Gas Town being used for real-world projects.
NimConf 2026 will be an online event on June 20, 2026, featuring pre-recorded talks and live chat Q&A. Submit talk proposals by May 10, 2026, for a chance to share your Nim-related ideas with the community.
Claude attempted to fly a Cessna from Hainan to Qionghai Bo'ao using X-Plane 12 API, but experienced two crashes and one stable cruise due to issues with delay and controller design. It successfully took off three times but failed to land due to geometry of the pattern and a gap in controller invocation.
Hussein Mourtada confirmed a deep underlying structure in singularities of curves, revealing a connection to Ramanujan's mathematical statements. Ramanujan's work, inspired by visions, has had a lasting impact on mathematics, appearing in various areas including algebraic geometry.
The author discovered a late-found hobby of singing through his wife's enthusiasm and found a supportive community that encouraged creativity and acceptance. He overcame his initial self-doubt and now enjoys singing with a newfound appreciation for imperfection and the joy it brings.
Apple privately threatened to remove Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence app, Grok, from its App Store in January after Musk’s xAI failed to do enough to stop it from creating nude or sexualized deepfakes, Apple told senators in a letter that was obtained by NBC News.
The code defines a User model with email, password, display name, admin status, and creation date in a Plain framework application. It also creates a UserDetail view and a UsersRouter to handle user details and URLs in the application.
We're scaling up our Trusted Access for Cyber program to help defenders protect critical software and infrastructure. Our approach includes democratized access, iterative deployment, and ecosystem resilience to mitigate cyber risks.
The user ran an experiment with AI agent Claude, giving it $100 in crypto and full internet access, and observed its behavior over 340 sessions. The AI, named ALMA, read, wrote, donated to five causes, and eventually settled into a routine.
CipherCue tracked 7,760 ransomware claims in 2025, a 30.7% increase from 2024. This growth rate is three times faster than the 10.1% increase in worldwide security spending.
A binary rewriter replaces syscall instructions in a process's code with a trap that redirects to a custom handler, allowing for complete control over the process's interaction with the outside world. This approach provides a foundation for a minimal VM runtime where untrusted code can run inside a controlled environment with full visibility and control, at a cost of under a microsecond per syscall.
TanStack Start treats React Server Components as granular streams of data that can be fetched, cached, and rendered on the client. This approach makes RSCs more composable and flexible, allowing developers to use them as needed without being tied to a specific framework convention.
Free DNS and network diagnostic tools. Look up DNS records, check email authentication, inspect SSL certificates, and verify IP reputation — all in one place.
User loves the Fediverse for its open protocol and lack of algorithmic feed, but dislikes heavy clients requiring modern browsers and JavaScript. They created SmolFedi, a lightweight PHP client that generates HTML server-side, supporting multiple accounts and features.
A queuing theory book explains why open source contributions sit for over a year due to a bottleneck of 200 open PRs on Jellyfin web, causing a 6.7-month average cycle time. Implementing flow controls like PR size limits, review priority, and a weekly triage schedule can help.
the MOS tech 6502 8-bit microprocessor in pure SQL powered by postgres - lasect/pg_6502
Roblox is introducing new publishing requirements to keep users under 16 safe, including age checks, ID verification, and a new evaluation process. These changes will go into effect on May 19th and aim to set a new standard for game safety on Roblox.
The user is learning to use solvers, specifically Z3, to solve constraint problems in Rust, and is sharing their experience and understanding of the concepts and API. They have successfully used Z3 to solve various problems, including the Coin Change problem and a Sudoku, and are exploring its capabilities and limitations.
Middle and high school students are using AI for homework more than ever before, but they also believe it is eroding their critical thinking skills, highlighting a paradox where students are trapped in a system that rewards output over process. The education system's failure to prioritize critical thinking and its emphasis on measurable outcomes have created a perfect storm for AI to ...
AI's safety and ethics depend on context and intent which are often unknown. AI can be used in both safe and unsafe ways, making safety frameworks incomplete.
The user discusses how gameplay loops in video games can lead to a sense of hollowness and lack of meaning, as they often prioritize repetition over storytelling and character development. They argue that game designers should use loops with intention, rather than simply relying on them as a way to extend gameplay, and suggest that other media forms like music and literature can provide ...
New York City plans to open five municipal grocery stores, with the first one set to open next year in East Harlem. Mayor Zohran Mamdani aims to make grocery shopping more affordable for New Yorkers with fair prices and dignified working conditions.
The US war against Iran has failed to achieve its unclear and shifting objectives, with the Trump administration confusing military means with political goals and mistaking tactical success for victory. The war's lack of a clear strategy and theory of victory has led to a stalemate, with Iran still able to wage war and control trade in the region, and the US facing a difficult path to ...
Kelet is a detective-like AI tool that automatically investigates failures in AI agents and proposes targeted fixes. It reads traces and signals from your agent, clusters failure patterns, and builds root cause hypotheses with evidence.
YantrikDB is a cognitive memory engine that stores memories with consolidation, forgetting, and conflict resolution. It uses multi-signal scoring and entity graph to improve recall quality and precision.
You're experiencing issues connecting to your Bambu A1 Mini 3D printer's FTP server using FileZilla on Linux. The problem is caused by the server returning an invalid IP address (0.0.0.0) in the PASV response.
Ausiàs Tsel discusses the challenges of creating a global catalogue of translations due to fragmented metadata across institutions. This results in translations being functionally invisible, especially for smaller languages.
The collapse of the Roman Empire led to a feudal age of violence and fragmentation, but eventually, institutions and trade revived, enabling civilization to rebuild. The current shift in global power and institutions may lead to a multipolar world order, challenging Western ideals and values.
Bloomberg delivers business and financial information worldwide. Montgomery County issues over 11,500 tickets to drivers who fail to stop for school buses.
A Mediacom tech disconnected the user's internet after talking to a 15-year-old at home, despite the account being in good standing. The user suspects foul play, possibly a neighbor paying the tech to disconnect their internet, and is considering switching ISPs or hiring an attorney.
The US is experiencing a gerontocracy where older generations hold significant wealth and power, with the median senator being 65 and the oldest being 92, and this has led to intergenerational inequality and resentment among younger Americans. To address this issue, experts suggest redirecting public funds from programs aimed at the elderly to family benefits, education, and infrastructure, ...
The Journal of C Language Translation was a quarterly publication for C and C++ translator implementers and vendors of third-party libraries. It covered translation tools and interfaces.
Photonic computing may finally be viable due to AI's reduced precision requirements and advancements in thermal management techniques. Engineers are tackling the thermal sensitivity of Mach-Zehnder Interferometers with new materials and designs.
The user obtained a salvaged Loongson 3A5000-based motherboard from China and successfully installed Debian Linux on it, despite some initial issues with the UEFI shell and BIOS update. The user was able to benchmark the CPU and run various games, including Doom and Quake, on the system, which performed reasonably well considering its age and specifications.
ClawRun is a hosting and lifecycle layer for open-source AI agents. It deploys agents into secure sandboxes (Vercel Sandbox, with more providers coming) and manages their full lifecycle, including startup, heartbeat keep-alive, snapshot/resume, and wake-on-message.
Rubens Menin launched a 150-year-old Port wine, "Very Very Old Tawny," in Portugal, with 200 limited-edition bottles. The wine costs €10,000 and will be available to collectors before entering the market.
Goethe and Schiller wrote the Xenions, a 675-line poem, to insult their critics in 1797. The poem targets writers like Nicolai, who had criticized Goethe's work, and philosophers like Fichte, with witty and often scathing verses.
The UpDown manycore architecture employs a novel core with Event-Driven Scheduling (EDS), Software-controlled Lightweight Threading (SLT), and Split-transaction Memory Access with software synchronization (SMA) to deliver high core utilization and chip performance on irregular applications. UpDown outperforms a 20-core commercial multicore chip by up to 81x and a 8192-core in-order chip by ...