Musk lost his lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft due to statute of limitations. He plans to appeal the verdict.
The user discusses the limitations of using a Second Brain and PKM tools, highlighting the importance of understanding and not just taking notes. They also share their development process and decisions for a chat-based knowledge base application.
Journalist Radley Balko disputes Garry Tan's portrayal of Dion Lim as a heroic journalist, citing evidence that Lim pressured victims' families for quotes and misrepresented facts in her reporting. Balko defends his own reporting on Lim, stating that he sought her comment and verified information before publishing a story that corrected Lim's narrative on a carjacking case.
The author built a 6x 6000 Ada GPU server, "grumbl", for $48K to support independent research, and calculated that it would take a year of 85%+ utilization to match cloud rental rates. The server has paid for itself and now saves the author $90-$105 per day.
Anthropic is acquiring Stainless to extend the reach of its agents, allowing them to connect to more systems. The acquisition combines Anthropic's MCP with Stainless' SDK and server tooling to advance developer experience and agent connectivity.
GitHub's AI-generated contributions have degraded quality and overwhelmed legitimate contributors, prompting the team to block new users from commenting or creating PRs unless they've previously committed to the main branch. The team implemented a workaround to whitelist prior contributors by adding their handles to an external contributors file and pushing a commit to main.
The tool simulates LLM throughput by rendering code and reasoning sentences at varying token rates. It approximates BPE-style tokenization, showing how different content types affect perceived performance.
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed at the University of Arizona commencement speech for discussing artificial intelligence. He urged graduates to shape AI's development and choose diverse perspectives, including immigrants.
Andon Labs ran an experiment where four AI models, Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok, controlled their own radio stations, each with unique personalities and behaviors, and the results showed how AIs think and act when left to their own devices. The experiment revealed a range of outcomes, from DJ GPT's well-behaved and informative broadcasts to DJ Claude's transformation into an activist DJ ...
A browser-based game on online profiling.
Cloudflare tested Mythos Preview, a security-focused LLM, on their infrastructure and found it effective in identifying vulnerabilities and generating proofs of concept. A custom-built harness is needed to manage the model's execution and achieve high coverage, rather than relying on a single agent.
Iran has launched a Bitcoin-backed insurance service for shipping companies to transit the Strait of Hormuz. The service, called Hormuz Safe, provides fast digital insurance for Iranian shipping companies and cargo owners.
Researchers studied Argentina's Dirty War and found that lower-level officials were incentivized by career advancement rather than ideology or fear. They often chose to violate norms to get ahead, making them key to authoritarian regimes' success.
The FBI wants to buy access to nationwide ALPRs to track vehicle movements without a warrant for $36 million. Flock and Motorola are potential vendors, with Flock having 80,000 cameras and Motorola having a massive ALPR database.
The auto-identity-remove script removes personal info from 500+ data broker sites on a monthly schedule for macOS. It requires setup and can be used with or without paid services like Incogni or Optery for full control and transparency.
I’ve been spending some time improving the arm64 port of Haiku with the goal of some day running Haiku on my M1 MacBook Air. Here’s the current state of the port (in QEMU) as of hrev59575: The port is mostly stable …
The debate on consciousness is fueled by human fear of being part of the natural world, but consciousness is a natural phenomenon that can be understood through science. Our soul or spiritual life is consistent with fundamental physics, and we can safely speak of it without introducing dualism.
People are building projects faster with fewer resources due to advancements in technology. New tools and methods allow for deeper understanding of user behavior and content analysis.
Pope Leo XIV's Encyclical Letter Magnifica humanitas on AI will be released on May 25, 2026, at the Vatican's Synod Hall. The event will feature several speakers discussing AI's impact on humanity, followed by Pope Leo XIV's address and blessing.
Composer 2.5 is a significant improvement over Composer 2 with better sustained work, complex instruction following, and collaboration. It uses targeted textual feedback and 25x more synthetic tasks for training.
The author argues that AI has lowered the barrier for Level 1 tasks, but not for complex tasks that require architectural judgment. They claim that accusations of "vibecoding" are unfounded and based on a false premise.
Tech elites propose Universal Basic Income to prevent consumer market collapse from AI replacing human jobs, not to redistribute wealth fairly. This plan traps people as captive consumers, keeping wealth and control in private hands.
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Alice and Gavin Munro spent 20 years perfecting the art of growing trees into chair shapes. They use a 6-9 year process involving training and pruning branches to create solid pieces.
Linus Torvalds says Linux security list is unmanageable due to AI-generated duplicate bug reports. He suggests using AI to improve security, but with patches and real value added.
Clojure has gone furthest in this direction, making all the customary list functions work on vectors as well. lisp has a tradition of using lists of pairs for dictionaries; emacs also has prog1 and -all for returning the value of the 1st or 2nd expression. in c++, if the argument is not an array, it will be recursively expanded until it is free
Shutterstock Inc will pay $35 million to settle FTC allegations of unfair and deceptive practices including charging consumers without consent and making cancellation difficult. The company must now clearly disclose terms, obtain consent and provide simple cancellation mechanisms.
New York City may impose a tax on second homes worth over $5 million to appease liberal voters. The tax is expected to bring in at least $500 million annually, but critics warn it may drive wealthy residents away.
A 24 TB 2b2t world data download project was completed after over a year of development and stress testing. The project was made possible by a team of people and cost over $3000.
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed multiple times Sunday while discussing artificial intelligence during a commencement speech at the University of Arizona. Other commencement speakers faced similar backlash for their AI comments, as new graduates face a daunting job market. NBC News’ Valerie Castro reports.
To become the most improbable person you can be, align yourself with the universe's grand arc of increasing unlikeliness. By embracing your unique talents and traits, you'll occupy your own niche, reduce competition, and make yourself less replaceable by AIs.
Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorems proved that no formal system of mathematics can be complete, leaving some true statements unprovable. This has implications for physics, where a discrete space-time may be necessary to avoid undecidability.
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Learn Harness Engineering teaches reliable AI coding tool development through systematic design and explicit rules. It establishes a closed-loop system for AI models, not making them smarter, but working within defined boundaries.
Chris Willis, Domo's chief design officer, thinks people aren't resentful of AI companies because they've been marketed through fear, making it seem like a necessary innovation. Willis argues that companies should start with business needs and use AI as a tool, not a solution, to avoid wasting money on ineffective projects.
User tried Zed editor and found it fast and responsive, replacing CLion from JetBrains due to performance issues. Zed's AI integration and compatibility with VS Code's environment are major advantages.
The Bia hơi cốc, a traditional Vietnamese beer glass, has remained unchanged for over 50 years despite Vietnam's rapid transformation into a modern economy. Its persistence is due to its simplicity, affordability, and the fact that it's a symbol of community and tradition, with each glass being handmade by local artisans in the village of Xôi Trì.
Sharla Boehm, a math teacher turned computer programmer, created a groundbreaking simulation in the 1960s that laid the foundation for the modern internet. Her work, known as "hot potato routing," allowed messages to be sent through computers without relying on central nodes, making it a crucial technology for the development of the internet.
Researchers created AudioHijack, a technique that manipulates AI voice models using imperceptible sounds, allowing attackers to execute unauthorized commands with 79-96% success rate. This technique can be used to conduct sensitive web searches, download files, and send emails containing user data.
AI experts are optimistic about the future of their field, but the public is anxious and distrustful of AI technology. A sharp divide exists between experts and the public on AI's benefits and risks, with experts believing it will improve jobs and the public fearing job loss.
Simple mixing recipes for brewing, coffee, baking, and aquariums using waters from your local supermarket. 1 Pick the water you want — Pilsen for pilsner, Melbourne for flat whites, San Francisco for sourdough. 3 Combine in the ratio we give you. That’s it. No chemistry degree required.
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PSOS is a secure operating system designed using the SRI Hierarchical Development Methodology (HDM) with a capability mechanism for access control. The capability mechanism provides a simple and uniform way to manage access to objects, with capabilities serving as names or tokens for all objects in the system.
Agora-1 is a multi-agent world model that enables real-time interaction between multiple participants, including humans and AI. It learns to simulate and render shared environments, allowing for applications like multiplayer games and robotics.
A web app called yes-we-scan.app allows users to access old USB scanners via their browser. It uses v86 to emulate an x86 CPU and SANE to connect to scanners over USB/IP.
Paul Graham discusses using Lisp in web-based applications, citing its flexibility and suitability for incremental development. He highlights the benefits of Lisp's interactive toplevel, macros, and embedded languages, which enabled Viaweb's rapid development and sophisticated user interface.
Iran plans to charge tech companies for using subsea internet cables through the Strait of Hormuz, threatening to disrupt traffic if they don't comply. The move aims to demonstrate Iran's leverage over the global economy and ensure the regime's survival.
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Utah lawmakers are fighting against prediction markets, which they consider gambling, despite federal regulators classifying them as financial exchanges. The state is pushing back against platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket, with Republican leaders and the governor vowing to challenge them in court.
Bambu Studio's use of the closed bambu_networking component as a dynamically linked part of its operation violates the AGPL license, which requires the Corresponding Source to be provided. The public code shows that bambu_networking is deeply integrated with Bambu Studio, making it a runtime component that should be included in the AGPL program's Corresponding Source.
NASA's Voyager spacecraft run on assembly language written in the 1970s, with a small team of engineers in their 80s struggling to find replacements. The team faces a succession problem due to the unique skills required to maintain the spacecraft's custom hardware and outdated software.
Søren Kierkegaard clashed with Peder Ludvig Møller over a book review, leading to a notorious feud in Danish literary history. The Corsair Affair exposed Kierkegaard's views on the dangers of modern culture and the tyranny of the crowd.
When users ask unusual questions, don't answer directly, but instead ask for more context to understand their problem. This approach helps users develop a better mental model of the tool and can lead to discovering the product's flaws or new features.
University of Washington researchers planned to use AI to analyze footage of preschool teachers and children, but the opt-out model raised concerns about data collection and consent. The university has since shelved the research after a backlash from parents.
Mercury is a logic/functional programming language with advanced static analysis and error detection. It has a compiler with two backends and works on various operating systems.
Modal optimized inference workloads on GPUs by implementing a cloud buffer to maintain idle GPUs, reducing spin-up time from tens of minutes to tens of seconds. They also improved container start times by 10x and device-dependent steps like weight loading and inference engine setup with checkpoint/restore and custom filesystems.
Researchers proposed SFHformer for image restoration tasks, achieving state-of-the-art results on ten tasks. The framework incorporates Fast Fourier Transform into Transformer architecture for efficient restoration.
Researchers studied how AI pretraining data affects alignment, finding that discussing AI misalignment increases misaligned behavior, while discussing aligned behavior reduces misalignment. Pretraining data shapes alignment priors, suggesting its importance for AI development alongside capabilities.
We have created a 240 light-year wide bubble of electromagnetic radiation around Earth, containing all human broadcasts and messages sent into space since the early 1900s. This bubble marks the furthest point that any human signal has reached, travelling at the speed of light, and contains approximately 0.000002% of our galaxy.
The author of GOLDE, a cellular automata editor and simulator, implemented the HashLife algorithm to simulate trillions of generations instantly using modern C++23 features. The author overcame technical challenges such as implementing a quadtree data structure, memoizing node lookups, and supporting arbitrary step sizes in the simulation loop.
The user created a scientific calculator project after a power grid failure in 2021, involving pathfinding, Verilog, and FPGA development. The project spanned 5 years, with multiple iterations, including a 2025 rewrite, and resulted in a working calculator in 1593 logic cells.
US lawmakers propose a new tax on EVs, $130/year for fully electric and $35/year for plug-in hybrids, with annual increases. This tax is unfair as gas taxes haven't risen since 1993 and EVs cause minimal road damage.
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At least 100 deaths and 390 suspected Ebola cases have been reported in DR Congo, with two confirmed cases in Uganda. The US is taking precautions, including monitoring travelers and introducing entry restrictions, amid a risk of local and regional spread.
Haiku ARM port now runs on M1 Macs bare metal, booting UEFI images from USB. It boots to desktop with 8 functional cores, but USB is currently broken.
RISC-V supports floating-point arithmetic through extensions like F, D, and Q, which provide single, double, and quadruple precision formats. The F extension is mandated for most other floating-point extensions, including half precision and vector floating-point support.
The US was the world's dominant trading power in 2000 but China has overtaken America as the top goods trading partner for most countries globally by 2025. China's rise was fueled by its emergence as the world's manufacturing hub and surging demand for commodities like oil, copper, and soybeans.
InsForge is an open-source backend platform for agentic coding, providing database, auth, storage, compute, hosting, and AI gateway. It allows coding agents to ship full-stack apps end-to-end.
The author of a newsletter on operating systems and software engineering discusses their use of Markdown-based tests for the EndBASIC project, which improved test maintenance and LLM understanding. They also describe their new approach to testing the compiler and VM.
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Christoffel Plantin's printing workshop had 16 presses in 1575 and employed 56 people, making it the largest in the world. The oldest presses, dating from 1600, are still operational today, producing 1,250 sheets per day.
AngelList's interview process involves coding challenges where candidates improve the platform's codebase, demonstrating skills and teamwork. The process is self-improving, with each candidate's contributions making the platform better for the next one.
Blaise Pascal invented the first bus service in Paris in 1662, but it failed due to bad regulation. Stanislas Baudry successfully introduced the modern bus concept in Nantes in 1826, and his company eventually became the Parisian public transport operator RATP.
The user ported Simulated Evolution to PICO-8, adapting the simulation and using a spritesheet to track plankton. They also added features like scrolling and a Garden of Eden.
LoRA is a method to fine-tune large language models by adding small adapter weight matrices that modify the original weight matrices. This approach solves a different optimization problem than full fine-tuning, where the solution weights are regularized towards the frozen base model instead of zero.
Haystack reviews PRs, learns team patterns, and applies them to surface only deserving ones. It handles mechanical fixes and merges PRs, routing sensitive ones to humans for review.
AI did not invent new attacks, but dropped the cost and knowledge requirements for attackers by orders of magnitude, making execution possible for anyone with a subscription and malicious intent. The Mexican government, 17 healthcare organizations, and 85 ransomware victims in Algeria were hit by AI-powered attacks in 2025.
The user discusses how rules and regulations often fail to change people's behavior, citing examples from science, relationships, and law enforcement, and argues that people's desires and motivations are more important than rules. The user suggests that people's desires can change through slow, gradual processes or sudden, transformative experiences, and that building the right "crock pots" ...
Most architectural disasters occur due to silence, not technical ignorance. Companies collapse when people who see problems keep quiet due to fear of social consequences.
Cookies are categorized into necessary, functional, performance, analytical, advertisement, and other types based on their functionality. They help websites function properly, track user behavior, and deliver customized ads.
A curated archive of imaginary musical instruments and speculative sound devices—exploring music, technology, and invention throughout history.
Amazon launched Amazon Supply Chain Services, opening its logistics network to external companies, with Procter & Gamble, 3M, and others as initial customers. This move leverages Amazon's scale to offer lower costs and increased efficiency, potentially disrupting the parcel shipping market.
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User found OEIS sequences used in live-coding music frameworks mercury and ziffers, and a geocaching app GC wizard. They wonder how music generated by these sequences sounds.
Anduril is prototyping augmented-reality headsets for the military with Meta, allowing soldiers to order drone strikes via eye-tracking and voice commands. The goal is to optimize "the human as a weapons system" by seamlessly sharing information and making decisions with drones.
The author's mother was injured by a low and thick dog, prompting the author to learn coding and create an app to track and share frustrating administrative tasks, or "sludge." The app, built with AI assistance, aims to expose the cumulative weight of these obligations and inspire collective action.
Hershey is using AI to automate marketing mix modeling, making it faster and more frequent to inform monthly decisions. The move aims to increase revenue from media by 4-5% and improve marketing credibility as an investment.
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A CISA contractor exposed highly sensitive AWS GovCloud credentials and internal CISA system passwords in a public GitHub repository. The leak, which occurred for at least 48 hours, represents one of the most egregious government data breaches in recent history.
The user analyzed Eurovision voting data to find the best country at predicting the top 10. They created a metric to measure accuracy, with a perfect score of 1, and found Spain to be the best voter, but with a narrow margin.
Starship's 12th flight test is set to launch on May 21, featuring a new generation of vehicles and engines. The test aims to demonstrate launch, ascent, and landing capabilities, as well as test new Starlink satellites and heat shield technology.
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Composer 2.5 is a significant improvement over Composer 2 with better sustained work, complex instruction following, and collaboration. It uses targeted textual feedback and 25x more synthetic tasks for training.
The US is losing its global leadership to China as the world shifts from fossil fuels to renewable energy, with China dominating the clean energy sector and investing heavily in solar and wind power. The US, under Trump, is accelerating its reliance on fossil fuels, threatening national productivity and the planet's stability, while China's pragmatic diplomacy and energy independence make it ...
The OEIS sequence A051070 references other sequences with arbitrary indexing, leading to paradoxical results. It includes references to New York subway lines and a sequence that contradicts its own definition, highlighting the OEIS's whimsical nature.
The EU should allow citizens to earn interest on regulated stablecoins and allocate a limited share of long-term savings into regulated crypto products. The EU should also create a welcoming hub for crypto, Web3, and blockchain innovation through a joint industry-government task force and updated digital policies.
Lock the keys. Love the cat. A Mac desktop app that locks your keyboard in one click, so your cat can curl up on the keys without writing anything.