Ladybird is moving to a tighter development process with only project maintainers introducing code changes. This change is necessary to ensure security and accountability as the project prepares for its first alpha release.
The UK's GDS has replaced Stripe with Adyen as its payment processor for GOV.UK Pay, a three-year contract worth up to £25.3 million. The change will introduce new payment options and no loss in functionality for users.
Researchers at the University of Rochester developed a new solar-thermal desalination process that produces fresh water efficiently without leaving behind brine. The technology uses superwicking solar panels to extract nearly 100 percent of salts in solid form, potentially providing an abundant supply of table salt and precious minerals like lithium.
The rsync project's use of AI tool Claude led to a heated debate about reliability and maintainability, but analysis shows that the increase in bugs was due to a flood of AI-generated security issues, not Claude itself. The data suggests that the Claude releases are not significantly different from the project's historical distribution, and critics' claims of harm are based on a post-hoc ...
pg_durable is a PostgreSQL extension that provides durable execution of SQL workflows with automatic checkpointing and resume after crashes or restarts. It allows teams to define workflows in SQL and execute them reliably without external services.
A space-based GNSS interference source has caused widespread interference in Europe, Greenland, and Canada since 2019. The source was identified as a constellation of Russian early warning satellites in Molniya orbits.
C++: The Documentary premiered on YouTube, showcasing the language's 40-year success story. Key figures like Bjarne, Andrew Koenig, and Herb Sutter contributed to C++'s growth.
The ISS crew has a plan to split into two groups in case of an emergency, with five crew members in the SpaceX Crew Dragon and two Russian cosmonauts in the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft. The crew is prepared to leave at a moment's notice, with spacesuits on and engines ready.
We released Gemma 4 QAT checkpoints to make it more efficient on edge devices and consumer GPUs, reducing memory requirements while preserving quality. The new checkpoints use Quantization-Aware Training to minimize quality loss when compressing models.
The author argues that Conventional Commits is a flawed standard that prioritizes the wrong information in commit messages. It focuses on the type of change rather than the scope, which is more important for developers and end-users.
The author created a pancake calculator to optimize pancake recipes by balancing four axes of quality: interior texture, tang, rise, and exterior crisp. The calculator uses stoichiometry to determine the optimal ratio of ingredients, including acid, leavening agents, and dairy, to create the perfect pancake.
SpaceX has signed a deal with Google to provide AI compute capacity for $920 million a month until June 2029. The agreement allows Google to end the deal if SpaceX fails to deliver the committed amount of GPUs by September 30, 2026.
The user reviews various IP KVMs, including PiKVM, BliKVM, GL-iNet, NanoKVM, JetKVM, and others, highlighting their features, pros, and cons, and recommending the JetKVM as a good option for its simplicity and value. The user also emphasizes the importance of security and proper setup when using IP KVMs, and notes that the market for these devices is booming with new options and features ...
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We used Codex to generate a million lines of code for a software product in 5 months with a team of 7 engineers, achieving an average throughput of 3.5 PRs per engineer per day. To maintain the codebase, we focused on designing environments, scaffolding, and feedback loops that enable agents to do reliable work, enforcing invariants and mechanical rules to keep the codebase legible and consistent.
The Dutch government will conduct the next DigiD management tender via the Defense and Security Procurement Act to limit national security risks. Only European companies will be eligible, excluding countries with restrictive legislation like the US.
A VC partner passed on Cloudflare due to sexism and another thought a casual meeting was a pitch.
Open Code Review is an AI-powered code review CLI tool that identifies code defects and generates structured review comments. It combines deterministic engineering with an agent for precise file selection and smart file bundling.
India's school textbooks will now warn of the risks of low birth rates, not high ones, due to global economic threats. This shift reflects a change in India's demographic concerns from overpopulation to underpopulation.
The /lost+found/ folder in Linux and Unix is for storing files that fsck, the filesystem check and repair command, recovers from a damaged filesystem. You would interact with it after a system crash or power failure, when fsck places recovered files there.
Postgres 19 introduces query advice modules pg_plan_advice and pg_stash_advice, allowing users to provide guidance to the planner without embedding hints in SQL. These modules address long-standing concerns about hints, including maintenance and upgrade headaches, and provide a more controlled and expressive way to influence query planning.
To resolve the security verification issue, check if your internet or firewall settings have blocked "challenges.cloudflare.com". Adjust your settings or try a different network if necessary.
Microsoft released Azure Linux 4.0 in public preview, allowing users to run it on any Azure virtual machine. This marks a shift from a special-purpose appliance distro to a general-purpose Linux distro, built from Fedora with declarative overlays.
ESP32 Bit Pirate is an open-source firmware for multi-protocol hacking and debugging. It supports various digital and radio protocols via serial terminal or web-based CLI.
The user fine-tuned LLMs to write like 90s tech writers using Microsoft manuals and achieved convincing results. Fine-tuning is a cost-effective way to adapt models to specific styles, but requires high-quality training data and careful parameter selection.
Physicists have found a way to describe how space and matter interact in a quantum universe. They used a new code that incorporates "magic" from non-Clifford gates to make space bend and interact with matter.
The user creates a handoff document for Claude to maintain project knowledge, but now commits it to the repository for future reference. This helps others learn from past projects and ensures accurate documentation.
User created HNSansAI, a Hacker News clone that filters out AI-related content. It uses the official Hacker News API to exclude articles mentioning AI terms.
Random UUIDs cause extra paging due to unordered nature, leading to performance issues. Using time-ordered UUIDs like UUID7 can improve performance by eliminating re-balancing.
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Researchers have found autoantibodies in Long Covid patients, suggesting an autoimmune hypothesis. These autoantibodies may target skin, epithelial, neural, and endocrine tissues, causing symptoms like pain, fatigue, and coordination problems.
You're planning in-person developer boot-up workshops focusing on modern tooling, targeting participants with varying backgrounds and experience levels, and seeking suggestions on AI tool integration and open-source solutions. Your workshop goals include setting up a blog, creating a simple web app, and exploring AI harnesses, with a focus on long-term quality and supportability.
Symbolica 2.0 is a high-performance symbolic computation framework with programmable symbols, improved ergonomics, and faster performance. It supports multiple numerical domains, including double-float arithmetic and JIT compilation.
Researchers used a neural network called DINOv3 to generate images from a 384-dimensional space, where each dimension represents a unique feature. By training a sparse autoencoder (SAE) on DINOv3's embeddings, they were able to decompose the images into individual features and understand what each dimension encodes.
lowfat is a CLI tool that filters unnecessary output to reduce AI token costs. It integrates with shells, allows customization, and provides features like stats and plugin management.
Cloudflare CEO misrepresented reality by publishing bot traffic increase, ignoring overall traffic numbers and highlighting a small, friendly category. Actual data shows search crawlers are largest bot category, with AI traffic mostly from training scrapers, not malicious agents.
16-bit Windows used a segment-based memory management system, where applications were divided into segments that could be moved or discarded by the operating system, requiring programmers to use specific compiler switches and APIs to manage memory correctly. The system was complex and required discipline from programmers, but it allowed for efficient memory management and the use of ...
Transformers can describe certain languages extremely succinctly, being exponentially more succinct than linear temporal logic and recurrent neural networks, and doubly exponentially more succinct than finite automata.
Researchers analyzed 12.16 million GPS observations from 2007 to 2026, finding the "special messages" field contains random data, but with intentional placeholders and shared text strings. The field's purpose and changes over time suggest a global cryptographic network, inviting security researchers to analyze the signals.
isUpMap packs 90+ services into a live heatmap. It works on phones, but a wider screen shows the full map and incident details far more comfortably.
Authorization failures occurred from 14:49 to 16:45 UTC due to a feature flag issue, now resolved. Customers can manually re-subscribe their repo for chat integration.
A language model can perform arithmetic operations without explicit programming, but the question is whether it recalls a pattern, runs an algorithm, or merely produces a plausible next token. The project Rune found that a language model's internal state can supply operation and operand structure for arithmetic prompts, which can drive a calculator route under an opaque-prompt boundary.
The US government is secretly funding a propaganda website called La Tilde to influence Latin American audiences through AI-generated content. The site promotes US military operations and downplays national sovereignty issues.
User experienced unusual vision issues after 50th birthday, seeing double rows on spreadsheets. Using dark mode helps alleviate floaters caused by posterior vitreous detachment in left eye.
The US military has been broadcasting encrypted codes through public GPS for nearly 20 years, sending hidden information to devices worldwide. An expert discovered the codes, which were likely used for distributing cryptographic keys to military personnel.
The Commission proposes a comprehensive strategy for technological sovereignty through interconnected initiatives across the value chain. Key acts include Chips Act 2.0 and Cloud and AI Development Act to boost domestic demand and unlock AI potential.
The project implements an autoregressive sequence model using a transformer architecture that can process byte streams from various sources. It trains on text data but can model any byte stream, including DNA/RNA sequences, compressed data, and executable binaries.
The writer's mother died after 18 months in assisted living due to Parkinson's and the pandemic, and they chose to bury her on their 40-acre property in North Carolina. The family built a casket and dug the grave together, creating a meaningful and intimate farewell.
New York lawmakers sent a bill to Governor Kathy Hochul imposing a one-year moratorium on large-scale data centers to address rising electricity costs. The bill aims to prevent the situation from getting worse while the state figures out the rules for data center development and grid connection costs.
The company has changed from a culture that focuses on people to one that prioritizes profits and AI, leading to burnout and job insecurity. The author feels trapped, questioning how long they can work in a job that contradicts their values before being let go.
Browser Choice Alliance believes PC users should have free choice and respect, not control or manipulation. Microsoft's tactics restrict user choice, undermine web freedom, and unfairly favor its own browser, Edge.
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Microsoft's "Scout" AI aims to make users addicted before adding features. This strategy follows the company's history of creating dependency through lock-ins and lock-outs in products like Windows.
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The author questions the necessity of billionaires in the US economy, suggesting that their wealth may be unearned and that their influence can be detrimental to society. They propose a limit on individual wealth to prevent the concentration of power.
Microsoft's AI project Scout aims to make users dependent on it by integrating it across various products. CEO Satya Nadella denies this goal, but internal documents reveal a plan to achieve addiction through daily usage.
Magenta RealTime 2 is a live, interactive AI model for music synthesis with low-latency real-time controls via MIDI, text, and audio. It enables musicians to build and play AI instruments on their laptops.
Following a meticulous course of conservation treatment, Eugène Delacroix’s Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople is returning to the Red Rooms, joining a number of other famous works by the artist. By restoring the piece’s colours to their original brilliance, once darkened by yellowed varnish, the conservators’ work has allowed its complex significance to shine through once more.
Guanming and Bill from General Instinct developed a method to compress large AI models for edge hardware, preserving performance and reducing size. They're interested in hearing from people deploying models on robots or edge devices, specifically about the biggest bottlenecks in production.
Nordstjernen is a web browser, written from scratch in C, focused on supporting the HTML and CSS standards. License: Nordstjernen Source License v1.0 — use, modify and redistribute freely, except as a competing browser; each release becomes MIT after ten years. See License.md. Commercial licenses by agreement.
The author set a challenge to write a short blog post and succeeded in doing so, despite their tendency to write long posts. They demonstrated a simple method for generating continuous color palettes in R and showcased its application in generative art.
The traditional hiring process is broken, selecting for the wrong things and rejecting people it can't evaluate, and companies should focus on detecting toxicity and evaluating the interview process itself. A framework called FATE Metrics, which stands for Feedback, Accuracy, Time, and Effort, can help companies evaluate and improve their interview processes to produce better results.
Warren's Abstract Machine: A Tutorial Reconstruction by Hassan Ait-Kaci - a-yiorgos/wambook
GOV.UK Pay has appointed Adyen as its new payment services provider for non-Crown card payments and pay by bank services. The transition will enable modern payments infrastructure, faster innovation, and evolving consumer payment preferences for over 1,700 services across the UK public sector.
Hermes Agent is an open-source AI agent that lives on your server, learning your projects and preferences over time. It automates tasks, generates training data, and supports Linux, macOS, and WSL2 with no prerequisites.
A Gaussian process is a machine learning method that constructs an infinite amount of guesses or functions to approximate a true process, and it is characterized by its mean and covariance, with the kernel function helping to calculate the covariance or uncertainty. Different kernel functions, such as linear, periodic, radial basis function, rational quadratic, and Matérn kernels, can be used ...
Yon's heap allocates content-addressed slots with identical content returning existing slots, ensuring O(1) equality checks. Topos-Oriented Programming uses categories, objects, and sections for immutable values, with behavior in arrows and explicit identity.
ANSI escape codes are a 50-year-old standard that allows terminals to control cursor position, text formatting, and colors. They use escape sequences like \x1b[1;31m to render bold red text and \x1b[38;2;255;128;0m for 24-bit color support.
Japan's hardline immigration policy may lead to a shrinking economy, strained pensions, and depopulated rural areas, but the government prioritizes social cohesion and cultural preservation. The country will likely experience a two-tiered economy with concentrated corporate profits and stagnant consumer convenience.
Teradata is cutting employee salary raises to fund AI investments, while TTEC paused 401(k) matches for similar reasons. Companies are prioritizing AI spending over workforce investment, citing existential risks and short-term gains.
X11 fonts have been extended to include ISO 10646-1 Unicode characters, with new fonts and revised versions of existing fonts available. However, X11 was not designed to handle complex scripts like Arabic, Syriac, and Indic, requiring special libraries like Pango to support these scripts.
SpaceX's IPO is a potential Ponzi scheme with a trash bag of Musk ventures and crimes, forcing vulnerable funds to invest in unprofitable companies. The stock market is a house of cards where the wealthy have an advantage, and the collapse will leave the most vulnerable with significant losses.
To be the first to do something, consider projects that are obscure, time-consuming, difficult, and involve unknowns. The more of these factors your project involves, the lower the number of people who will have done it.
In the 19th century, counterfeit money was widespread in the US due to a lack of authentic banknotes, with some regions accepting it as a medium of exchange. The federal government eventually took action to combat counterfeiting, creating the US Secret Service in 1865 to protect the currency and ultimately leading to a decrease in counterfeit activity.
You're tired of marketing-heavy websites and prefer simple formats like gopher and gemini. You think AI could improve the web by providing clear, concise content like LLMs.
China Unicom, которое используется для фильтрации интернет-трафика и блокировки сайтов.
The user discusses the ruliology of competition, specifically how finite state machines compete in games like match-or-not and prisoner's dilemma, and how adaptive evolution can lead to winning strategies. The user finds that winning machines are not necessarily more complex, and that machines with more states can systematically do better than those with fewer states, but the relationship ...
Meta has embedded face-recognition technology in its AI app, allowing users to identify people captured by smart glasses. The feature, called NameTag, is currently not enabled but sits inside a companion app downloaded over 50 million times.
Sakana AI is establishing the RSI Lab in Tokyo to develop recursive self-improvement AI technology using Japan's unique strengths in science and engineering. The lab aims to create sample-efficient AI systems that can compound on national compute budgets.
kernel got our start running chromium in a firecracker vm. we spent the past 14 months making it even faster. we're sharing how we get the most out of firecracker using snapshots, copy-on-write forks, uffd paging, and hot pools. Kernel started out by running Chromium inside Firecracker microVMs, which gave us pretty fast cold starts out of the box. Still, “good enough” wasn’t good enough. ...
A Boeing 787 Dreamliner's door detached from the fuselage at Mataveri Airport on Easter Island, leaving engineers searching for answers. The incident has complicated repairs due to the remote location, requiring spare parts and specialist engineers to be flown in.
This tool tests adblock effectiveness by checking cosmetic filters and script loading. It provides a score based on the results, with a green score indicating satisfactory protection.
Bricks & Minifigs permanently closes Salem, Oregon store due to negligence and operational gaps. The company offers to resolve issues with Bryan Mansell over his father's Star Wars LEGO collection.
Compare AI model outputs for the Hamster playing table tennis generation showcase, including render status, cost, time, and token usage.
The website provides live and past game scores, play-by-play, and league standings without an API key or account. Live games auto-refresh every 15 seconds, but endpoints may change or rate-limit without notice.
Start the Test → Am I Unc? is a comedy internet-culture quiz. Check the everyday habits that apply to you — slang, social media, group chat behavior, aura damage — and get an instant Unc Score. No account, no signup, no personal info required.
To build a meaningful career in a dysfunctional company, focus on learning to survive, navigate, and solve human-caused problems without burning out. Develop skills like communication, reputation management, and strategic volunteering to advance your career.
Language hides road traffic harm by blaming roads and victims, not drivers. Changing language can reveal the system's role in causing crashes and deaths.
The Amber Tree is a syntax tree design that offers a friendly API and text range support without parent/sibling consideration, achieving green tree performance. It holds a reference to the green node and stores the node's source location, allowing for efficient traversal and significant performance improvements.
You compared expressions along the imaginary axis and found the double exponential function's power series has coefficients related to Bell numbers. The series converges slowly due to the rapid growth of partitions compared to permutations.
The user discusses two examples of individuals, Terry A. Davis and Kent Overstreet, who created notable projects but struggled with mental health issues and were subsequently harassed and ridiculed online. The user argues that it's essential to approach these situations with compassion and respect for individuals' privacy, rather than sensationalizing their struggles or participating in ...