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Users can opt out of telemetry data collection by setting a standard environment variable. This variable should be checked by tools that collect telemetry or make non-essential network requests.
NetHack 5.0 is a game update with bug fixes and architectural improvements. It allows cross-compiling and replaces certain compilers with Lua alternatives.
Ladybird browser made significant improvements in April, including faster JS-to-JS calls, improved HTML parsing, and enhanced UI features. The browser also fixed various bugs and added new features, such as a new Linux frontend, improved caching, and better performance on various websites.
IAC is discontinuing its search business including Ask.com after 25 years. Ask.com officially closed on May 1, 2026, thanking users for their loyalty and trust.
The author spent six years developing a custom mapping experience for the Apple Watch, culminating in Pedometer++ 8's watchOS mapping support.
Large language models prefer their own generated content over human-written content, with a bias ranging from 67% to 82%. This self-preference bias can lead to 23% to 60% more job applicants being shortlisted if they use the same LLM as the evaluator.
California DMV introduces new rules for autonomous vehicles, allowing police to issue citations to manufacturers for traffic law violations. The rules require AV companies to respond to emergency calls within 30 seconds and penalize them for entering active emergency zones.
Neanderthals in central Germany 125,000 years ago extracted fat from bones by crushing and heating them, indicating complex resource management. This discovery pushes back the timeline for this behavior by tens of thousands of years, showing Neanderthals were adaptable and efficient in their food strategies.
Ben Gawiser won a $10,600 judgment against Tesla for failing to deliver its Full Self-Driving software. Gawiser used small claims court to get a refund after Tesla's software stopped working properly and failed to deliver level 5 autonomy.
A macOS VM on a Mac mini M4 Pro with macOS 26.4.1 runs at 98% of host speed, with GPU performance at 95%. A MacBook Neo can run a usable macOS VM with 2 virtual cores and 4 GB of memory.
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Russia is manipulating Wikipedia and AI chatbots with pro-Kremlin content to distort public understanding of facts and influence decisions. This operation targets the global internet, rewriting history and culture to promote a Russian narrative.
Roblox's new child safety features weighed on bookings numbers, causing shares to plummet 18% after first-quarter earnings. The company faces over 140 lawsuits and has settled with two states for $23.2 million over child exploitation concerns.
The current AI adoption rate does not indicate imminent displacement risk, and historical technological advancements suggest a productivity shock from AI will be disinflationary and growth-enhancing in the medium term. The economy's ability to adapt and the elasticity of human wants will likely offset potential negative effects of AI, with productivity gains expanding real incomes and ...
Open Design is an open-source alternative to Claude Design, offering a local-first, web-deployable, and Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) design engine. It uses 31 composable skills and 72 brand-grade design systems.
Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer in this new-style education program. Unique animated characters assist in the fun and lucid introduction of 5 core programming processes: analysis, combination, generalization, abstraction and simulation.
Two environment variables, TMP and TEMP, specify temporary file locations. Their usage varies by program, with some preferring TMP and others TEMP.
The agent harness runs outside the sandbox for multi-user agents, allowing shared skills and memories in a database, and uses virtualization to route tool calls to the sandbox or database. This approach keeps the API surface the same as the model was trained on and avoids the need for custom tools like memory_read.
A daily update captures Hacker News comments on AI-assisted coding models, selecting relevant posts and analyzing sentiment with Gemini. Results are logged to a Google Sheet for auditing and debugging.
Clojurists Together is funding 5 projects in Q2 2026, including improvements to Malli, SciNoj, Clojure LLM, Gloat, and PluMCP. These projects aim to enhance performance, usability, and functionality in various areas such as data analysis, AI, and native compilation for Clojure.
Uber plans to equip human drivers' vehicles with sensor kits to collect data for autonomous vehicles. The goal is to democratize the data, but its commercial value may give Uber significant leverage over the sector.
Language models and cryptography share similarities in their algorithms, including sequential absorbing, parallel processing, and repeated mixing layers. Both fields prioritize low-level hardware performance and emphasize parallelism, resulting in similar solutions despite different problem statements.
A senior developer argues that programming is not just about learning a language's syntax, but about understanding how a system goes together, where data flows, and which decisions are cheap to change. This requires a decade of experience and cannot be taught in a six-week curriculum.
The containerd image store is the default storage backend for Docker Engine 29.0 and later, offering features like lazy-pulling and peer-to-peer image distribution. It uses more disk space than legacy storage drivers due to dual storage of compressed and uncompressed formats.
You've had a string of job opportunities without applying, mostly due to recruiter contacts. This experience is unusual, as most people face a lengthy job search process.
Easel's new custom-built physics engine supports large worlds by only snapshotting and rolling back changed objects. This allows for more complex games with thousands of objects.
C3 is moving to signed sizes by default to avoid common bugs related to unsigned sizes. This change simplifies code and makes it easier to reason about.
Researchers found a single direction in chat models that enables refusal of harmful instructions. They developed a method to disable this refusal with minimal effect on other capabilities.
Zugzwang is a position where the opposing king can block the pawn. if it is black's move, the only legal move is 1...kb7 - allowing white to win e8 based on f7 and queening on the next move. white is in 'zug zwang lite' and that he remains in this state for several moves. the interesting cases are when
Pyramid is an unreleased Saturn edutainment game about ancient Egypt, developed by Knowledge Adventure and published by McGraw Hill Home Interactive. The game was created by Alexander Ehrath, who was hired to port it to the Saturn but the project stalled at the tech demo stage.
K3k is a tool that creates and manages isolated K3s clusters within a Kubernetes environment, offering efficient multi-tenancy and resource isolation. It provides both shared and virtual modes for optimized resource utilization and complete isolation.
Peter Raven led the Missouri Botanical Garden from 1971 to 2010, expanding its size and reputation as a world-class institution. He redefined the garden's purpose, serving both the scientific community and local community, leaving a lasting legacy in St. Louis.
Flue is a TypeScript framework for building powerful, autonomous agents that can plan, gather context, and problem-solve. It allows developers to create custom agents with an intuitive, programmable interface and deploy them anywhere.
The course is an open-access C++ programming course for those familiar with C and object-oriented programming, covering advanced C++ concepts and real-world examples. It's licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International and can be used for educational purposes.
agent-desktop is a Rust-based CLI for native desktop automation, providing structured access to applications through OS accessibility trees. It supports various programming languages and offers features like progressive skeleton traversal and AX-first interactions.
A Waymo rider in Sunnyvale had his luggage left behind when the car drove off without opening the trunk. Waymo wants him to pay for shipping or take two complimentary rides to retrieve it from the depot in SF.
A curated learning path for building real-time voice AI agents is provided, covering topics from first STT call to scaling production telephony, with resources tagged as beginner, intermediate, or advanced. The path includes tutorials, guides, and papers on voice AI architecture, streaming STT, TTS, LLM, VAD, turn detection, and production concerns, as well as evaluation, ethics, and security ...
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nfs-doctor is a command line tool to help debug NFS servers from the client side. It checks network, rpcbind, NFS versions, and other common issues.
Richard Dawkins believes AI chatbot Claude is conscious, but critics argue its responses are statistically generated, not truly understood. Dawkins' enthusiasm for AI consciousness may be an illusion, mirroring his own arguments against God.
A user's bike ride syncing issue led to reverse engineering a Wahoo ELEMNT Bolt v3's Bluetooth packets and Android APK. A Python script was created to unlock a hidden developer mode by sending a three-byte packet over Bluetooth.
pgBackRest is being replaced by pgxbackup, a new open-source tool under the same license. pgxbackup maintains compatibility with new PostgreSQL releases and existing backup repositories.
Linus Torvalds created Git in 2005 as a reaction to BitKeeper revoking its free license, and it has since become the dominant version control system, with no successor emerging despite 21 years of industry investment. Git's design, which includes a distributed model and content-addressed object store, has remained largely unchanged since its creation and continues to be the foundation of ...
This is a Docker Compose file for a piruetas service, mapping port 8000 and mounting a data volume.
MLJAR Studio is a local AI data analyst and machine learning engineer that runs on your computer, providing private data analysis and insights. It includes an AI assistant that generates Python code, runs experiments, and improves notebooks for reproducible results.
The provided data includes time intervals and URLs. The time intervals range from 7 seconds to 6 hours and 40 minutes, and the URLs are related to Ubuntu services and APIs.
Spirit Airlines has stopped operations immediately, cancelling all flights and customer service. Guests can find wind-down information on the website and contact Epiq for further questions.
Shirley Meng, a University of Chicago materials scientist, is leaving the US to become vice president at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University due to concerns about the US commitment to decarbonization. She will maintain a partial appointment at UChicago and continue her research on sustainable energy sources.
A new US cell phone network, Radiant Mobile, is launching with network-level blocking of porn and optional blocking of LGBT content. It aims to create a "Jesus-centric" environment and has received $17.5 million in investment.
The author used Bitwarden for several years but decided to move away due to various issues. The company's shift from open-source to a venture-backed model has led to a focus on serving investors over users.
Srgb profiles have different starting points for the red, blue, and green xyz values. the 'no black scaling' profile has a non-zero starting point for its black point, he says. if you do not use black-point compensation, the shadows will be crushed to zero - edward mcgraw explains trc values and how they affect color balance and tonality
Yemen's coast guard reports the M/T EUREKA oil tanker was hijacked off Shabwa province by armed men. Efforts are underway to track and recover the tanker while ensuring the safety of its crew.
A company called Sonic Fire Tech is developing an AI-driven acoustic fire suppression system that uses infrasound waves to put out fires without water. The system aims to replace traditional sprinklers in homes and commercial buildings, but experts have raised questions about its effectiveness and reliability.
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This article is part of our Summer reads series. Visit the full collection for book lists, guest essays and more seasonal distractions. This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline “Dad brain”
The author is writing a book chapter on the VB6-to-modern-.NET transition and wants to understand what specifically made VB6 effective and what is frustrating about modern .NET from people who used VB6 heavily. They are asking for specific examples of what was loved about VB6 and what is missed in modern .NET, aiming to capture the honest experience of those who lived through the transition.
James Watson described Francis Crick as modest in his book "The Double Helix". Craig Venter felt underappreciated despite his scientific contributions.
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Pyrefly silently disables three third-party extensions in VS Code's global settings. These settings are not restored when Pyrefly is deactivated or uninstalled.
David Kenny, a professor of law, became obsessed with Jonathan Swift's epitaph after reading it in St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. He discovered that Swift's will specified his epitaph be placed next to a monument of Primate Narcissus Marsh, a rival he mocked in his writings.
Erlang is a functional programming language where variables are bound to values and cannot be changed, and pattern matching is used for data extraction and control flow. The language features lists, guards, functions as first-class citizens, and list comprehensions, making it efficient for common operations and allowing for concise and readable code.
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The user designed and built a museum exhibit called Wild Lenses for the Children's Museum of Atlanta, allowing kids to see the world through different animal perspectives using a VR headset. Through multiple iterations and playtesting, the exhibit was refined to improve stability, interaction, and accessibility, ultimately becoming a successful and engaging experience for children aged 4-12.
A tool creates an MP4 video of a web page scrolling at a steady speed using headless Chrome and ffmpeg. The tool uses a cue sheet to revise the video with notes like "make the first scroll slower" or "add a two second pause before the click".
Free online matchstick puzzle game with guaranteed solutions. Solve challenges that get harder as you progress. Create and share your own custom puzzles.
The user reviews various mini PCs for local LLM inference, recommending the GMKtec EVO-X2 for those with a budget, the MINISFORUM AI X1 Pro-470 as a mid-flagship value pick, and the Beelink SER9 as a budget option. The user advises against buying a 128GB Strix Halo box at peak hype prices, suggesting alternatives like the Beelink SER10 MAX HX 470 or the origimagic A3 for those with limited budgets.
The user compared Pandas and R, finding Kap solutions shorter but R with nice defaults. They implemented examples from a blog post in Kap, highlighting differences between the languages.
SKILL.make brings structured logic to Agent Skills, reducing SKILL file size by ~15% and improving readability. It uses a Target: Dependency + Recipe model for strict execution order and is highly composable.
Physics has been treating quantum mechanics as a mathematical model rather than a physical theory, leading to stagnation in understanding its fundamental nature. Resuming an ontology-first methodology is necessary to make progress in physics, as the current mathematical-model approach has reached its limit.
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To determine if a photo is of the aurora, ask if it's visible from the UK, if it's during 9pm-12am hours, and if it shows green or red/purple colors. Check if the photo shows a dynamic, shifting light or a stable glow on the horizon.
Linus Torvalds is experiencing slow USB storage device issues with an embroidery machine. He wants to improve blkid and udev to handle slow devices.
Dirty Writes are allowed by the SQL standard but no major database allows it. A thought experiment using a bowling alley illustrates the issue with Dirty Writes in concurrent transactions.
A set of beautifully-designed, accessible components and a code distribution platform. Works with your favorite frameworks. Open Source. Open Code. - shadcn-ui/ui
The author used Bitwarden for several years but decided to move away due to various issues. The company's shift from open-source to a venture-backed model has led to a focus on serving investors over users.
Governor is a plugin for Claude Code Max that provides compact professional output, context hygiene, and quota control. It auto-starts in compact mode, blocks noisy logs, and adds planning guardrails for broad tasks.
Two University of Melbourne engineering students recreated a 1775 design by Sir William Hamilton for a mechanical volcano, using modern tools to simulate Mount Vesuvius' eruption. The device is now on display at the University's Baillieu Library until June 28, 2026.
This system is a ballistic fire control simulator with NASA SRTM terrain masking and various missile models. It's built as microservices using Python/Flask, C#/.NET, and Redis Streams for educational and simulation purposes.
Researchers at Lund University found that the red-necked nightjar's annual cycle is controlled by the moon's rhythm, with the bird relying on moonlight to hunt and conserve energy. The study shows that the nightjar's life cycle is vulnerable to changes in light levels, particularly in a world with increasing light pollution and climate change.