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.
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.
An attacker can steal a GitHub token by exploiting a vulnerability in VSCode's webviews, allowing them to install malicious extensions and gain full code execution. The attack involves creating a Jupyter notebook with a payload that installs a local workspace extension, which can then be used to steal the token.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The author, who wrote the book Ultralearning, is skeptical of dramatic proposals to reform schools because research consistently shows that direct instruction and practice are the most effective teaching methods. He believes that schools should focus on increasing efficiency and choosing what to learn, rather than trying to make education more like play or using technology to gamify learning.
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.
An actual Clojure REPL running on my reMarkable 2
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.
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.
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.
The Bay Model is a working hydraulic scale model of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta System, located in Sausalito, California. It was built in 1957 to study proposed dam plans but is now open to the public for educational exhibits about Bay hydrology.
Pluto version 1.0 is released, celebrating six years of progress and making scientific computing more accessible and fun. Pluto is an interactive environment for notebook programming in Julia, with features like reproducibility, accessibility, and reactivity.
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.
Coreutils for Windows provides native support for Linux commands on Windows. It ships with some conflicts and limitations due to Windows differences.
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.
Blqsort is a fast sorting algorithm that uses branchless partitioning and custom sorting networks for small subsets. It can be used in C++ and C with multithreading support and is suitable for sorting custom data structures.
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Tokugawa Edo was a unique city where Japan's elites were concentrated and monitored, with a dual nature of being both the apex of society and a prison. The city's physical form was shaped by the government's need to control and monitor the population, resulting in a highly restricted and stratified urban environment.
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.
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.
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.
The demo allows users to view multiple notes at once with tools and mode switching available. It was created using LLM tools due to the author's lack of mathematical background.
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.
Archaeologists are excavating beneath Notre Dame cathedral in Paris to uncover Roman Paris 2,000 years ago. The dig has already found a fourth-century coin and medieval pottery with mysterious markings.
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.
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.
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.
Banda district in India's Uttar Pradesh state is experiencing extreme heat with temperatures reaching 47-48C for over a week. Residents are adapting by rearranging their lives, seeking shade, and working in shorter intervals to avoid heat sickness.
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.
When interacting with public figures or others who often give canned responses, notice if you're getting a pre-prepared answer and try to ask a new or thought-provoking question to break the cache. This can lead to more interesting and original conversations.
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.
Gleam v1.17.0 has been published with new features and bug fixes. It includes improved escript creation, language server support, and compiler optimizations.
The user attempted to build a "fake" GPS module using an ESP8266 to grab time over WiFi for a precision clock, but abandoned the project due to ambitious goals and complexity. The user experimented with NTP and WiFi polling, achieving sub-millisecond accuracy, but struggled with control loop stability and eventually realized a simpler approach using a TCXO would have been more effective.
You created a Linux kernel module to turn USB4 ports on AMD mini PCs into InfiniBand devices for AI workloads. It achieves ~95 Gb/s bidirectional RDMA and ~7 µs latency, enabling tensor-parallel inference and FSDP workloads across two consumer boxes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Databow is a new open source command-line tool for querying databases with ADBC drivers. It provides a unified interface for SQL systems across the data stack with fast queries and a small footprint.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Studio Darius Ou and Benson Chong created Manual, a 3D-printed book carrying part of its own machine code. It uses an XY-for-Z printing method to materialize as a fully bound book directly from the machine.
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.
GoPro issued a going-concern warning due to 80-115% memory price increase and 26% revenue decline. It's exploring sale, defence pivot, and 23% staff cuts to stay afloat.
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.
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.
Backrest is a web-accessible backup solution built on restic, providing a user-friendly interface for creating repos, browsing snapshots, and restoring files. It supports various storage options and can run in the background with automated snapshot scheduling.
User connects JLink to Pinecil using a breakout board and female-to-female dupont wires. This setup allows for debugging with gdb using JLinkGDBServer and port 2331.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A Linux driver for the ASUS ZenVision lid OLED has been created, allowing users to display images, animations, and more on the 3.5" monochrome screen. The driver is open-source and can be used with the companion app zenvision-studio, with support for other ASUS lid-OLED models also possible.
We used the Y-combinator to create a factorial function without using loops, recursion, or declarations by defining a fixed point of a function that calculates the factorial. The Z-combinator, a variation of the Y-combinator, was used to delay the self-application and make the function work in JavaScript's eager evaluation strategy.
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.
You're experimenting with connecting a Raspberry Pi Pico RP2350 to a Z80 CPU and exploring its address and data bus. The minimum clock speed possible for the Z80 is around 5KHz, and you're looking to implement a bus read using the Pico C/C++ SDK functions.
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.
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.
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.
Windows 8 developers used "Mo" prefix for code names, such as MoSh for the new shell and MoGo for the new Start menu. The "Mo" prefix was used for various components, but it eventually became out of control.
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.
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ohbin is a tool that downloads and verifies GitHub release binaries, caching them for reuse. It uses a single engine to manage multiple tools.
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.
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.
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The article discusses devirtualization techniques for CodeVirtualizer/Themida protected code, which can be applied to other virtual machine based obfuscators with minor modifications, and explains how to lift native instructions into a malleable intermediate representation to drive the lifting process forward. The techniques involve a series of optimization passes, including constant folding, ...
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.
Russell Vought, acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has been accused of helping big businesses avoid penalties and refunds to consumers. He has dismissed or withdrawn from over 30 lawsuits and settlements, saving companies millions of dollars.
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 ...
The author implemented a custom RL training loop for a 0.5B model on GSM8K and achieved a 4.8× speedup by optimizing the generate phase with a static KV cache and pinned tensors, but the loop's performance is still limited by the CPU's ability to dispatch kernels to the GPU. The author plans to write custom kernels to further optimize the loop, but first, they need to understand the ...
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.
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.
WinUtils was a CLI toolset built in 1996-1997 using Windows 95 shell APIs for file operations. The project taught the author valuable skills, despite being inefficient, and is now available on GitHub.
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The Leiden Declaration calls for mathematicians to exercise responsibility in adopting artificial intelligence, ensuring the continued flourishing of the discipline, and preserving traditional values such as transparency, attribution, and peer review. It provides recommendations for individuals, institutions, and industry to promote fair and transparent practices in mathematical research.
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