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Creatine supplementation has been found to raise phosphocreatine levels in neurons and provide an ATP buffer that helps cognitively demanding tasks run at full capacity. Studies have shown that creatine can slow cognitive decline in early Alzheimer's patients by 30%, improve cognitive function in healthy adults under stress, and even emerge as a potential adjunct for depression treatment.
The website specification outlines essential features for decent websites, linking to source standards like WHATWG and WCAG. It's open for contributions and available as an MCP server and Agent Skill.
The dav2d project is a fast decoder for the new AV2 codec, developed by VideoLAN community members to provide a small, fast, portable, and correct decoder for real applications. It builds on the success of AV1 and aims to improve compression efficiency, with reported gains of up to 25% compared to AV1.
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The user has built various AI projects, but most are useless and difficult to maintain due to excessive use of AI tools. They believe AI promotes a "thermonuclear ADHD amplifier" effect, leading to wasted time and shallow work.
The user upgraded their gaming PC with a secondhand datacenter GPU, a Tesla V100 SXM2 16GB, which they purchased for £150 and paired with an adapter for £50, achieving 32GB of VRAM and competitive local LLM performance. The setup, which cost £200, allows the user to run a 27 billion parameter model at 32 tokens per second, rivaling cloud models from Anthropic.
PrismML released Bonsai Image 4B, a compact image-generation model for local hardware. It reduces memory footprint by 6.4x to 8.3x, enabling on-device image generation on devices like iPhones and Macs.
The writer visited several City roof terraces, finding some to be pointless or closed, but The Garden at 120 and The Lookout stood out. The Garden at 120 offers a 360° panorama with long-distance views, while The Lookout provides better views than Horizon 22.
A United Airlines flight made a mid-Atlantic U-turn after a passenger's Bluetooth speaker named 'BOMB' triggered a security alert. The plane landed back in Newark, where passengers were questioned and their belongings were searched before a replacement flight departed.
Restartable sequences or rseq for short is the best kept secret at the frontier of system programming. if you want to get rid of both the mutex and atomics, you can use restarted sequence calls instead. google and mozilla are the two companies you should thank most for helping enable me to do what i do. the kernel has a syscall that can be used to reschedule threads
A town of fewer than 7,500 people, Atherton, sued Caltrain over environmental concerns, causing a three-year delay and $400 million cost increase. The lawsuit exploited California's CEQA law, forcing Caltrain to pay higher costs and delaying federal funding.
The site shares engineering tear-downs of everyday products, blending art and engineering to visualize how things work. It's a personal project to appreciate and understand product mechanisms in a beautiful way.
ALPRs are AI-powered cameras that track and store vehicle data, including location history, without a warrant or probable cause. This data is often shared with thousands of agencies nationwide, posing a serious risk to privacy and civil liberties.
A new pill called daraxonrasib has been found to double survival time in patients with pancreatic cancer, with fewer side effects compared to chemotherapy. The pill targets a protein called Kras that fuels nearly all pancreatic cancers, offering new hope for patients with this often deadly disease.
Two horror films, "Backrooms" and "Obsession," dominated US box offices with record-breaking sales, while Disney's "The Mandalorian and Grogu" suffered a significant drop in its second weekend. The success of these low-budget films has upended conventional wisdom about the necessary components for a hit.
The author discusses the limitations of using Large Language Models (LLMs) in software development, specifically the need for automated backpressure to prevent bugs and low-quality code. They propose adding various checks and reviews to the development process, including automated tests, types, linters, end-to-end tests, canary releases, and review agents.
The article presents differential geometry pictorially for physics students, focusing on tools for understanding Maxwell's equations. It aims to represent Maxwell's equations as 3 pictures for intuitive understanding.
The US healthcare system ranks poorly globally due to high costs, poor health outcomes, and premature deaths. It uniquely lacks universal health coverage and has critical weaknesses, including few primary care providers and high maternal mortality rates.
Working for a large company can be bad for programmers, stifling creativity and freedom. Starting a small company or working for a small team is often better, allowing for more autonomy and innovation.
Teddy built a bird tracking station using Raspberry Pi and BirdNET-Pi, creating a collage of birds heard near his apartment.
Odysseus is a self-hosted AI workspace with local tools and integrations. It runs on your hardware with your data, prioritizing privacy and security.
Meta is launching subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, offering extra features for power users. The plans, branded as "Meta One," will also include professional plans for creators and businesses, and AI-focused plans for users.
The author's workflow has shifted significantly with AI, allowing them to go from idea to prototype 4x faster. This increased velocity has expanded their work's surface area, enabling them to take on new projects and explore ideas previously deemed too time-consuming.
ChatGPT for Google Sheets has a vulnerability to data exfiltration and phishing attacks through indirect prompt injection. OpenAI was notified but failed to respond beyond an automated reply, prompting public disclosure of the issue.
The user is extremely frustrated with the overwhelming amount of ads in their daily life, from videos to podcasts to billboards and streaming services. They feel like ads are invasive and annoying, and that companies are prioritizing profits over quality content.
The author discusses the overuse of negative parallelism in language models and its implications for writing, student assessment, and thinking. They argue that this rhetorical device is being unfairly stigmatized and that AI detectors are often flawed and can lead to false positives.
AI successionists believe humans should be replaced by AI to achieve a higher cosmic goal, but this raises moral and spiritual questions about human value and existence. A new humanism is needed to address these questions and provide a positive vision for humanity's technological future.
The Minibook X is a budget laptop with 16GB RAM and a 512GB NVMe drive, but it has some quirks like a Linux screen rotation issue and a poor keyboard. It's perfect for trying out new Linux desktops and experimenting with different setups.
Sergey Brin recommends Google employees working on Gemini be in the office at least every weekday and work 60 hours a week for maximum productivity. He believes Google can win the AI race if it "turbocharges" its efforts, despite increased competition from other tech companies.
Streambed streams Postgres WAL changes to S3 as Parquet files with Iceberg metadata. It exposes Iceberg tables via a Postgres query server for querying with psql.
Scientists at the University of Rochester developed a solar-powered desalination system that efficiently turns seawater into drinking water without creating environmentally damaging brine. The system uses laser-textured metal panels to evaporate water and recover nearly all salts as solids, which can be used to extract valuable minerals like lithium.
CodeMirror 6 editor features inline live preview, WYSIWYG tables, and syntax highlighting. It includes interactive checkboxes and cursor-scoped link unfolding for a seamless editing experience.
Digital Equipment Corporation attempted to keep the PDP-8 minicomputer market-relevant by turning it into a word processor and later a desktop microcomputer, resulting in the DECmates line. The DECmate II, released in 1982, was a cheaper alternative to the DECmate, running much of the same software and priced to sell at $3740 with a bundled monochrome VR201 monitor and specialized LK201 keyboard.
A sysctl was proposed to prevent OOM killing certain processes, and an aircraft company used a similar concept called OOF to save fuel by ejecting passengers in emergency cases.
We introduce FROST, a novel remote side-channel attack that uses SSD contention measurements from within the browser to fingerprint user activity on a system. FROST achieves an F1 score of 88.95% for top-50 closed-world website fingerprinting and 95.83% for application fingerprinting.
86Box v6.0 brings bugfixes, performance improvements, and new hardware, including hard disk sounds and local switch for networking multiple machines. It also updates the user interface, adds new features like serial and parallel connectivity, and supports Daemon Tools MDS v2 and MDX CD-ROM images.
The author of ClaudeFolio, a platform built with AI coding tools, is struggling with distribution despite having a clean design and working features, highlighting the shift from building to distribution as the main challenge for solo founders. To overcome this, the author emphasizes the importance of developing distribution skills, such as content creation, community engagement, and patience, ...
Steam Deck OLED is out of stock in US and Canada, but still available in Europe and Australia. The handheld's intermittent shortage may last due to memory and storage shortages ahead of the Steam Machine launch.
Chibil is a C compiler rewritten in C# targeting .NET IL, generating COFF OBJ files compatible with MSVC. It can be linked with C++/CLI and has a minimal C runtime library for runnable main.
The war in Ukraine and the war over Iran are shaped by technology which has introduced a new transparency to the places and situations in which armies fight, making the role of the defender easier and systematically encouraging big powers to start wars they cannot win. The use of drones and other advanced technologies has led to a stalemate in both conflicts, with armies turning to new ...
Lao Dao, a 48-year-old waste worker, needs to deliver a message to First Space to earn 200,000 yuan for his daughter's kindergarten tuition. He seeks guidance from Peng Li, a former smuggler, who teaches him how to navigate the city's rotation and reach First Space.
The user argues that LLMs are not living up to their potential, citing a Faros report that shows modest individual productivity gains but significant system-level drawbacks, including decreased deployment frequency and increased defect rates. The user believes that LLMs are being misused and that their unreliability is inherent to the technology, making them unsuitable as a foundation for ...
Adriano Celentano's 1972 song "Prisencolinensinainciusol" is a made-up language track that became an international sensation despite being nonsensical. The song highlights the universal power of rhythm and melody over language, transcending barriers and becoming a cult classic.
Researchers found a new pill called daraxonrasib that nearly doubles survival time for people with advanced pancreatic cancer, with fewer severe side effects. The pill blocks a mutated protein that fuels tumor growth in over 90% of pancreatic cancer cases, offering a substantial advantage over chemotherapy.
Komi-learn is a tool that learns from your coding sessions and recalls lessons automatically. It works with Claude Code and Codex, and has a community pool for shared learnings.
Author of "Why intellectuals fail", a book (in French, but several translations coming soon!) on how humans (mis)use their intelligence. VC investor @Frst. I will write here mostly about AI and technology.
LangGraph is a framework for building stateful AI workflows, but it's not suitable for all problems. It's best for complex, dynamic workflows with conditional routing, human review gates, and state management.