You're a skilled developer looking for a job in hospitality, food tech, and automation, and are struggling with unemployment and debt. You're suggesting AI developers consider empathy and humanity in their work.
Adafruit received a letter from Flux's counsel demanding they stop publishing an article about Flux's intellectual property and user base. Adafruit has temporarily stopped publishing to consider their response to the demand.
The user is frustrated with Gmail's new AI features that nag and interrupt them while composing emails. They're switching to Fastmail after 16 years with Gmail due to the unwanted features.
The author promotes Janet, a small, easy-to-learn Lisp dialect with a simple syntax and powerful features like macros and implicit serialization. Janet is ideal for writing command-line apps, scripting, and embedding in other languages due to its ease of use and flexibility.
The user created an app called GridLion to restore grid-based virtual desktops to macOS, a feature removed in Lion. They used an LLM to help with development, but found it challenging to create a polished app due to macOS limitations and permission requirements.
Microsoft introduces MAI-Code-1-Flash, a new coding model for fast and efficient assistance in developer workflows. It outperforms Claude Haiku 4.5 with better price to performance and is now rolling out to GitHub Copilot users in VS Code.
This walking tour in downtown Seattle aims to expose the hidden layers of surveillance technology in the city, including cameras, license plate readers, and data collection systems, and to raise questions about their use and impact on society. The tour highlights various surveillance tools and sites, including Amazon Go, Acyclica, the Washington State Fusion Center, and a peering site, and ...
Systemd timers are a modern alternative to traditional cron jobs, offering more flexibility and features such as stdout and stderr output control and calendar versus time span units. They can be configured to run at specific times, intervals, or relative to other events, and provide a clear picture of scheduled tasks with the list-timers subcommand.
The user created WhisperPad to help people with hand injuries like themselves type more efficiently, but Apple rejected the app due to a guideline issue. The user decided to release a compromised version on the App Store and a full version directly, which led to a better-organized product and a new understanding of their build configuration.
Larry Ellison predicts a future with AI-driven surveillance, where citizens adjust behavior due to increased monitoring. This vision raises concerns about a Big Brother-like society, echoing George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Paul McGowan's insight is that quality is what remains when flaws are removed. He suggests that customer delight, curiosity, satisfaction, and trust are all preserved if not ruined by external factors.
eyeball is built for precision clicking with a mouse or trackpad. you can play on touch, but finger taps aren't accurate enough to really compete.
My father shared a three-part rule about honesty and deception. The rule states that lying to those who want lies gets you rich, telling the truth to those who want it gets you a living, and telling the truth to those who want lies gets you broke.
We CT scanned four BYD components—a battery cell, window switch, EV charger, and key fob—to see what's inside the world's best-selling EV that's banned in the U.S.
Coreutils for Windows provides native support for Linux commands on Windows. It ships with some conflicts and limitations due to Windows differences.
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Microsoft introduced MAI-Thinking-1, a strong AI model trained from scratch on enterprise data, demonstrating advanced reasoning and coding capabilities. It's designed for human-centric AI, with a focus on safety, security, and enterprise readiness, and is available in private preview on Microsoft Foundry.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order addressing AI-driven cyber threats with a voluntary review process for AI companies. The order aims to enhance national security and global AI dominance while avoiding heavy federal oversight.
Project Glasswing is expanding to 150 new organizations in 15 countries to secure software with AI. The goal is to adapt to AI's changing cybersecurity landscape and prevent catastrophic attacks affecting over 100 million people.
Groq, a company that licensed its AI chip tech to Nvidia, is raising $650M despite already being acquired. They have 4 large datacenters and a unique asset as a private inference datacenter operator.
FidoNet is a point-to-point email network that uses modems to connect over 20,000 nodes worldwide, allowing users to send and receive email and news. The network was developed in 1984 and has a unique addressing system, with gateways to the Internet and other networks, and a strong focus on user autonomy and minimal technical support.
Jane Street developed Bonsai_term, a terminal UI framework, to create fast and keyboard-centric apps. Bonsai_term uses a declarative, type-safe approach and is well-suited for AI assistance and testing.
Plasma is transitioning to Wayland, removing X11 support in Plasma 6.8. This change will allow for new performance improvements and features, but may require custom scripts and workflows to adapt.
CSS Scroll-driven animation timelines enable parallax effects without JavaScript, improving performance and simplicity. A utility class uses a single block of declarative styles to create a parallax animation with a variable offset and scale.
Burry questioned SpaceX and Anthropic's valuations, calling them hype and technicals. He believes Anthropic's AI model development is too expensive and will be commoditized, making its $1 trillion valuation unlikely.
Big Tech companies are proposing a built-in advertising system, Attribution Level 1, which prioritizes their own tracking over user privacy. This system could lead to more money for Big Tech and less for legitimate sites, while also enabling riskier tracking practices.
The HP 16c Collector's Edition retains the classic layout but is 100x faster with customizable word size and base conversions. It features programming capabilities with conditional branching, subroutines, and flags, and supports up to 203 bytes of program memory.
Americans are fighting data centers due to concerns about AI's impact on their lives, jobs, and future, rather than just environmental issues. The backlash against data centers is a symptom of the public's fear of AI and a lack of a broader national debate on how to regulate and manage the technology.
User is considering GitHub Copilot preview, and agrees to share info for personalized communications and targeted ads. GitHub Copilot is currently available to existing Pro users, with future access for free users and new customers.
The user is learning Clojure and finds it ergonomic and powerful, preferring it over Common Lisp and Scheme due to its cohesive design and large standard library. They appreciate Clojure's simplicity and uniformity, but acknowledge some pain points, such as its syntax and the need to learn Java for interop.
San Jose State University's president Cynthia Teniente-Matson is using AI to integrate technology across campus life through the AI Everywhere strategy. The university has partnered with OpenAI to provide 500,000 licenses of ChatGPT.edu to students, faculty, and administrators.
The Open Repair Data Standard (ORDS) helps combine repair data on electronics by defining a shared approach. It collects data on product, repair, and session information to identify trends globally and locally.
Microsoft has developed Scout, an 'autopilot' AI agent that can run independently to complete tasks across Microsoft 365 applications. Scout is available as an experimental release to Frontier program customers, with pricing details yet to be announced.
A daemon allocates VRAM as a block device using the NBD protocol, exposing it as a swap device to the kernel. This approach sidesteps NVIDIA driver limitations and provides a swap solution with lower latency than NVMe.
Kapa's AI assistant uses a vision model at indexing time to describe images as text, then retrieves these descriptions alongside text chunks at query time, improving answer quality and reducing costs. This approach, which involves describing images once at ingestion and storing them as separate text chunks, outperforms query-time vision and is more cost-effective for large-scale applications.
Appeals Centre Europe found Meta rarely provides evidence in cases of wrongly banned social media users. The centre disagreed with platforms in 59% of nearly 3,000 reviewed decisions, including hate speech cases.
Gleam v1.17.0 has been published with new features and bug fixes. It includes improved escript creation, language server support, and compiler optimizations.
Doubleword is building an inference cloud using AMD's MI300X, a high-end AI accelerator. The MI300X is underappreciated due to software issues, but it offers 192GB of HBM3 and comparable FP8 compute to NVIDIA's H100 at a lower price.
QBE 1.3 is a significant release with 7k new lines of code and 1.5k deleted ones, featuring a new IL matching algorithm and optimizations. It achieves 63% of commercial compiler performance on coremark and 33% improvement on the Hare test suite.
The 2026 US election threat is not from hacking voting machines but from manipulating information through fake content and impersonated news sources. Sophisticated operators are using AI-powered disinformation to erode trust in online information, with phishing, brand impersonation, and credential theft being the top threats.
Software developers may adapt to new job titles and roles as AI changes their jobs, with some becoming product builders and focusing on high-level product thinking. The future of software development is uncertain, but it's likely that developers will need to evolve and adapt to new technologies and tools.
Perplexity Computer introduces Search as Code (SaC), a new reference search architecture that empowers AI models to directly control search operations. SaC exposes the components of the search stack as primitives within an SDK, allowing models to assemble retrieval pipelines tailored to specific requests.
Uber has capped monthly AI usage at $1,500 per employee and tool, trackable via an internal dashboard. The move raises questions about AI return on investment as companies struggle to measure its productivity impact.
Daniel Cliff, a wealthy entrepreneur, tries to hire AI researcher Julie Dehghani to help him create conscious, human-level artificial intelligence using a revolutionary new processor. Julie is hesitant due to the potential cruelty and suffering involved in the process, but Daniel is determined to succeed, even if it means making difficult decisions about the fate of his simulated creatures, the Phites.
The AI bubble is unsustainable due to its high costs, lack of ROI, and inability to measure its value. The industry's hype and misinformation have inflated AI's value, but it will collapse once the bubble bursts and companies face the true costs of AI.
The user is building a competitor monitoring agent and notes that sites with RSS feeds are more reliable than those without, requiring less maintenance. They added an RSS feed to their newsletter and saw two aggregators pick it up automatically within a week.
Martin Scorsese partnered with Black Forest Labs, an A.I. start-up, to explore technology's role in storytelling. He believes cinema's evolution requires embracing new tools like A.I. for deeper experiences.
Anthropic expanded access to its powerful AI model Claude Mythos to 100 organizations, including governments and companies, to scan for vulnerabilities. The model can identify thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities and a successful attack could affect over 100 million people.
Archaeologists found lower inequality levels in ancient Mohenjo-daro, with economic gaps shrinking over time. The city's focus on public infrastructure and shared resources contributed to its stability and equality.
RePlaya is a self-hosted session replay built on S2, storing each session as one S2 stream. It replays sessions live and allows filtering and exporting.
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Rishi and Sahil developed Rudus, an AI-powered takeoff and estimation platform for concrete subcontractors. It accelerates their workflow by auto-classifying plans, detecting concrete elements, and generating line items for estimators to review and export.
The US President orders the government to prioritize AI innovation and security by upgrading American systems and promoting collaboration with the private sector. The order aims to enhance national security and global AI dominance by addressing new national security considerations and protecting against criminal actors.
A Stanford study found law professors prefer AI-generated answers to student questions over human-written ones, with AI winning 75% of head-to-head matchups. The study suggests AI can be a valuable tool in legal education, offering high-quality, on-demand support that complements classroom instruction.
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This book is dedicated to numerous individuals, including family members, friends, and those who have inspired or supported the author throughout their life. The dedications range from loved ones who have passed away to those who have made a significant impact on the author's life, with a focus on themes of love, loss, and resilience.
Intelligent Terminal is an open-source experimental fork of Windows Terminal with native agent integration. It provides a context-aware agent pane for error detection, explanation, and fix suggestions.
Researchers at Anthropic used circuit tracing to understand LLMs by training a replacement model to recreate outputs of base model's layers, decomposing activations into human-interpretable features. This allows tracing semantic relationships between high-level concepts, enabling pseudo-symbolic inference and multi-step reasoning.
The app uses a phone microphone to detect breathing patterns in real-time, without uploading audio or speech analysis. It provides biofeedback by reflecting the user's breathing back to them, without forcing extreme or forced breathing.
The author has a remarkable memory that allows him to recall scenes from his past with vivid detail, while his brother has a poor memory and feels disconnected from his past. The author's memory is a result of a condition called highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM), which is a rare neurological phenomenon.
Semgrep, a security company, developed a continuous profiler called Pyro Caml to monitor the performance of their OCaml-based software, Semgrep, which analyzes code in hundreds of thousands of repositories. The profiler uses OCaml's built-in Memprof library to sample allocations and then sends the data to the Pyroscope backend, providing insights into performance bottlenecks and helping ...
DropLock is a secure link-sharing system where a public key is shared and used to lock secrets locally. The system uses AES-GCM encryption and HKDF-SHA-256 key derivation for secure data transfer.
Mental health continues to deteriorate worldwide with 46% of people struggling or languishing. New technologies like AI can play a positive role in mental health support, but also have negative effects on mental well-being.
Paseo is a self-hosted coding platform that allows running agents in parallel on your machine with full dev environment. It supports multi-provider models, voice control, cross-device access, and local server management.