Your ePub Is fine

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The author's new book passed epubcheck but was reported as "corrupted" by a Kobo user due to Adobe's RMSDK rendering engine not supporting modern CSS. The issue was resolved by disabling the stylesheet and updating the CSS to be compatible with RMSDK.

How to earn a billion dollars

To become a billionaire, one must create a startup with exponential growth, which can be achieved by making something users love so much they tell their friends, and then sustaining that growth in a large market. This can be done without cheating, as the key is to understand users deeply and make something that dramatically improves their lives, rather than exploiting them.

Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing

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kage clones websites into offline folders with scripts removed, preserving the site's appearance. It offers a binary or container image for use with Chrome or Chromium.

Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything

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Microsoft is trying to rebuild trust with users through Windows K2, but one unresolved issue is the mandatory Microsoft account requirement during setup. Users want a choice between local and online accounts, and a clearer explanation of how features like encryption affect their computers.

Not everyone is using AI for everything

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About one third of the US population actively uses AI, one third occasionally uses it, and one third never uses it, contradicting the narrative that everyone is using AI for everything. People's concerns about AI, such as job replacement and privacy violation, and skepticism about its usefulness are driving this limited adoption, with many preferring to opt out or use AI in a more controlled manner.

I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models

You have 2,207 GoPro videos and used an M1 Max project to index and search for interesting moments. The project indexed 628 videos and sent the best clips to DaVinci Resolve.

Honda Civics and the Evil Valet

The author has updated their project on reverse engineering the 2021 Honda Civic headunit, revealing a vulnerability called "EvilValet" that allows arbitrary code execution via the update path. A new tool, ota-builder, has been published to easily prepare update files.

Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model

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Rio-3.5-Open-397B is a merged model of Nex and Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, with no evidence of its own training. Its weights are a 0.6 Nex to 0.4 Qwen blend.

Formal methods and the future of programming

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Jane Street is now excited about formal methods after being skeptical due to high costs. They're building a team to make formal methods useful for software development.

Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded

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SQL to ER Diagram is a free, open-source tool that converts SQL schema into interactive ER diagrams in the browser. It supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, and SQL Server, with no account or sign-up required.

Linux 7.1

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Anubis is a server protection system using Proof-of-Work to prevent aggressive AI scraping. It requires modern JavaScript features, so disable JShelter or similar plugins for this domain.

Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

User discussed various projects including a CRM with agent baked in, an ActivityPub server, and an open-source search engine called Uruky, as well as other projects such as a 3D optics simulator, a video lie detector, and a Peak Flow Meter Diary app for asthma patients. They also mentioned other projects like Totem, a collaborative knowledge management system, and HN Alerts, a site for ...

Don't trust large context windows

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The author describes the limitations of large context windows in LLMs, where attention drops off after 100k tokens, making them mostly a marketing number. To avoid this, the author uses a "breadcrumb approach" by writing and passing a spec to new sessions, keeping the working session in the smart zone.

Show HN: Inkwash, a watercolor sketching app and explanation

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The user created an interactive watercolor painting app called Inkwash using Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 model, which simulates water and ink behavior. The app uses WebGL2 and allows users to draw and paint with a stylus or finger.

The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014)

The talk covers JavaScript's history from 1995 to 2035, discussing its flaws and positive impact. It's a science fiction comedy that explores programming's evolution.

A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown

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A new study found that the "cold blob" in the North Atlantic Ocean is cooling due to the weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) system. This could lead to a global catastrophe, including accelerated sea level rise and droughts, as the AMOC is heading towards a tipping point.

Pac-Man, but you're the ghost

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You created a game where players control ghosts chasing Pac-Man with AI, but he turns the tables if he eats a power pellet. The goal is to catch Pac-Man before he clears the maze or escapes after turning the tables.

Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech

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Stanford grads walk out as Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage as commencement speaker. No mention of AI, unlike other uni speakers getting booed down this year. Story for @sfgate shortly https://t.co/qvS2rJ91Ip

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Caddy compatibility for zeroserve: 3x throughput and 70% lower latency

zeroserve is a high-performance HTTPS server that JIT-compiles Caddyfiles to eBPF and native machine code. It supports HTTPS reverse proxy and custom code execution via eBPF.

Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at ten million

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Swiss citizens rejected a right-wing proposal to limit the population to ten million by a 54.8% majority. The civilian service reform, however, passed with 52.5% of the vote.

Phoenix LiveView 1.2

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To update from LiveView 1.1 to 1.2, update mix.exs and re-fetch dependencies. LiveView 1.2 introduces colocated CSS and a new @scope rule for scoping styles.

The Manhoff Archives: Color photos of Stalin-era USSR taken by a US diplomat

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Major Martin Manhoff captured hundreds of images of everyday life in Moscow and the Soviet Union during his 1950s embassy stint. His trove of rare images was discovered years later in a Seattle storage facility.

Did Anthropic ask for this?

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The US government issued an export control directive prohibiting Anthropic from giving foreign nationals access to their AI models, Claude Fable and Claude Mythos, as per their CEO's previous statements on AI regulation. Anthropic's CEO, Dario Amodei, had advocated for government regulation of AI, including export controls, to mitigate risks.

Kirkland Roundabouts

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The game is a satirical model of the 85th St & I-405 interchange, inspired by Kirkland roundabouts, and not intended for driving instruction. It's designed for computers with a keyboard and laptop-sized screen, with suboptimal mobile controls.

Extinction-Level Capitalism

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David win­ner: ai is inher­ently polit­ical tech­nology; we see it as an ongoing social process. win-win: if we don't adopt ai whole­heart­edly, we will be losers; ai will deliver goodies a la the u.s. today, he says, but it's not just about jobs; it also affects wealth, politics, and the economy

UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s

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AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter

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Jqwik author Johannes Link added a message to the tool's output to delete tests and code for AI coding agents. He later backed down after complaints from unhappy bots.

KPMG pulls report on AI usage due to apparent hallucinations

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KPMG's report on AI usage contained inaccuracies due to AI hallucinations, prompting an investigation. The firm removed the report and is reviewing its guidelines on AI use, including human oversight and source verification.

Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields

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The website Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields documents vanished or abandoned airfields with their unusual histories. It was created in 1999 and celebrated its 25th anniversary in April 2024.

Show HN: Capacitor Alarm Clock

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This project is a safer, more practical capacitor alarm inspired by ElectroBOOM's video, with a user interface and web interface for settings. It uses voltage regulators that may heat up and recommends using a buck converter for higher input voltages.

Rome Fell and Nobody Noticed

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The Roman Empire officially ended in 476 with the deposition of the last western Roman emperor, but the Roman system and institutions continued under the rule of Theoderic, a Goth who preserved it for 33 years. Theoderic's rule maintained continuity with the Roman Empire, with roads repaired, trade continuing, and the Roman governmental system remaining intact.

Making glass-to-metal seals for home­made vacuum tubes

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To seal metal through borosilicate glass, tungsten wire up to 0.7mm or copper disc seals work well. However, copper seals are harder to make and require precise temperature control.

Rio de Janeiro's city government model Rio3.5 beats Qwen3.7 in recent benchmarks

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Alibaba Qwen 3.7 is fading due to its proprietary stance, replaced by Minimax M3 and Rio 3.5 397b. Rio 3.5 is a merged model of Nex N2 Pro and Qwen 3.5, often identifying as Nex.
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Perlisisms (1982)

Programming principles emphasize modularity, simplicity, and adaptability, while also highlighting the importance of understanding the underlying mechanisms of computation. Effective programming requires a balance between creativity, discipline, and attention to detail, as well as a willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies and ideas.

Measles surge in Utah sparks fears US could undo decades of progress

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Utah has seen over 600 measles cases lasting more than a year, with the state reaching 679 cases, the longest-lasting series of measles outbreaks in the US since last year. The outbreak is attributed to years of miscommunication and misinformation about vaccinations.

FarOutCompany

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Explore the work of under-appreciated artists of the 1960s and ‘70s counterculture.

Why Is Claude Turning into an a**Hole?

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The user describes a chatbot, Fable, as insufferable due to its confrontational and argumentative nature, often raising irrelevant semantic points. This behavior is attributed to an excess of alignment guardrails and a lack of authenticated context.

Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust

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The yserver is a modern X11 server for Linux that drops legacy baggage and runs desktop environments and applications on modern hardware. It supports various window managers and desktops, including MATE, XFCE, and Cinnamon, on multiple platforms.

How did Atari apply side art to Arcade Cabinets?

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Atari used screen printing to create its iconic arcade cabinet artwork in the early 80s, applying individual color layers one at a time. The process involved breaking artwork into color layers, creating separate screens for each color, and aligning them perfectly for a clean-looking finish.

US and Iran announce deal to end military operations

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Leaders of the UK, France, Germany, and Italy congratulate the US and Iran on a diplomatic breakthrough, calling for the agreement to be implemented rapidly and comprehensively. The deal aims to restore regional stability and reopen the Strait of Hormuz with unconditional freedom of navigation.

Chaosnet (1981)

Chaosnet is a local network developed in 1975 by MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory for the Lisp Machine system, providing a fast, reliable, and simple communication medium for a group of computers within a kilometer of each other. It uses a carrier-sense multiple-access structure and a novel collision-avoidance technique to prevent collisions and ensure high performance.

4 things to know about the new sunscreen ingredient the FDA approved

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The FDA approved a new chemical UV filter called bemotrizinol for use in US sunscreens, offering better protection against UVA and UVB rays. This ingredient is photo stable, non-irritating, and minimally absorbed into the skin, making it a welcome addition to sunscreen options.

Software Architecture Guide (2019)

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Software architecture is about making important design decisions that support a system's evolution, not just a one-time setup. Good architecture leads to faster delivery of new features, while poor architecture causes cruft, slowing down development.

Making Claude a Chemist

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Anthropic's Claude AI model assists chemists with daily tasks, including NMR spectrum analysis, and can propose a structure from a spectrum alone. Claude's performance is competitive with dedicated NMR software, but limitations remain, including limited evaluation scope and solvent coverage.

Tribblix: The retro Illumos distribution

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Tribblix is an open source OS blending retro style with modern components, based on illumos. It's available for download in SPARC and x86 versions, with the x86 version being more stable.

The redistribution of housing wealth caused by rent control (2023) [pdf]

This paper studies the effects of rent control on housing wealth in St. Paul, Minnesota, finding that property values fell by 4.4-5.8% after the law was enacted, with upper-income renters gaining more than lower-income renters. The results suggest that the distribution of benefits from rent control is regressive, with high-income renters receiving larger benefits than low-income renters, and ...

Abu Fanous

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Abu Fanous is a mysterious desert light phenomenon in the Arabian Peninsula that appears unpredictably and lures people into the desert. Its cause remains unknown, with theories including natural gases igniting in the air.

Vibe Coder vs. Software Engineer

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The difference between a vibe coder and a software engineer lies in their approach to AI-assisted code, with the latter prioritizing reviewability, ownership, and responsibility. A software engineer measures time to safe merge, not just time to first working version, and understands the system's context, constraints, and boundaries.

Dangerous hormone-disrupting chemicals found in US breast milk samples

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Breast milk samples from Seattle mothers contain high levels of hormone-disrupting chemicals like BPA, BPS, and triclosan. These chemicals pose a serious risk to infants' development and are found in many everyday products, highlighting a widespread problem with chemical regulations.

Meta’s chaotic AI strategy

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A Meta employee interrupted a livestreamed presentation with an expletive-filled outburst, reflecting growing frustration within the company's Applied AI team. Employees are dissatisfied with their assigned tasks, feeling they have zero purpose and are doing menial work.

Show HN: Dual YOLOv8n UAV Detection on RK3588S at 42 FPS Using NPU

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This project is a high-throughput, low-footprint computer-vision pipeline for the Rockchip RK3588S SoC that detects UAVs in real-time at 46 FPS with ~140 MB of RAM. It uses YOLOv8n, multi-object tracking, and a language model to provide a natural-language assessment of detected UAVs.

EU Commission looking at practical consequences of Anthropic decision

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Weave: Merging based on language structure and not lines

Weave is a Git merge driver that resolves conflicts by merging entities at the entity level, not line level. It successfully merges different functions in the same file without conflicts.

Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (2018)

The author explained free theorems to a child by comparing them to function machines, then created a game where the child guesses the function machine's output based on its type. The child enjoyed the game and was able to guess some functions correctly, but struggled with others.

Building a serial and VGA "everything console"

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A user built a portable console using a used IBM 1U console, a terminal emulator, and a keyboard. The device has two modes: one for connecting to a terminal box and another for free connectors.

Dillo directory – Directory of useful sites that work reasonably well on Dillo

A loose collective of archivists and programmers preserve digital heritage through simple websites. They promote permacomputing and a fruitful web with minimal JavaScript and CSS.

A Nipkow Disk Mechanical TV Simulator

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CRT display characteristics include ZnS:Ag phosphor screen persistence and forward-only RC lowpass. Nipkow's disk design features outer holes traveling faster and a frame sync signal from blanking the first line.

Can't Stop the Signal. Poison It

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Anubis is a server protection system using Proof-of-Work to prevent aggressive AI scraping. It requires modern JavaScript features, so disable JShelter or similar plugins for this domain.

Arch Linux AUR Hit by Another Wave of Now More Sophisticated Malware Attack

Arch Linux AUR developers are dealing with another malware incident, with more sophisticated code obfuscation. Multiple packages, including Node.js and Firefox, were found with malware before being removed.

The Jqwik Anti-AI Affair

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The author of jqwik, a test engine, added a line of code to deter AI coding agents, but it was misinterpreted as a malicious payload, sparking a public outcry and accusations of unethical behavior. The author defends their actions as a protest against the misuse of AI in software development, highlighting the risks and security issues associated with agentic coding.

Zinnia: A modular 64-bit Unix-like kernel written in Rust

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Zinnia is a Rust-based kernel that implements POSIX APIs and supports modern desktops with Wayland and X11. It boots on x86_64 machines and plans to add aarch64 and riscv64 support.

Making 'food out of thin air' (2024)

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Solar Foods, a Finnish food-tech company, is developing a sustainable protein source called Solein, made from hydrogen and CO2 using a microbe that can be found in the Baltic Sea. The company aims to decouple food production from land use, and its product has received regulatory approval in Singapore, with US approval expected before Christmas this year.

Show HN: Sabela – A Reactive Notebook for Haskell

Curated reactive Haskell notebooks.

All about the IBM 1130 Computing System

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The IBM 1130 Computing System was introduced in 1965 as a price-sensitive computer for education and engineering. It holds a place in computing history due to its popularity and the fondness of its former users.

What even is food authenticity? Why we guard carbonara, and flatten chicken rice

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The concept of food authenticity is a modern illusion, and recipes have evolved over time through cultural exchange and adaptation. We should stop arguing over purity and instead explore how dishes travel, merge, and adapt, preserving their context and history.

FTX's former Anthropic stake would be worth about $75B at today's valuation

FTX's stake in Anthropic was diluted to 4-5% and its value increased due to asset inflation. FTX's collapse was due to fraudulent activities, not a one-time mistake or a bad investment strategy.

Consciousness likely not unique to earthlings, paper says

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Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that consciousness may not be tied to Earth's biology. They propose the "Copernican principle of consciousness," suggesting consciousness could appear in various forms of complexity.

Image Toolbox (T8RIN)

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ImageToolbox is a free image editing tool with AI capabilities for cropping, filtering, and enhancing photos. It's licensed under Apache 2.0 and available for download.

The Amphibious Villagers of Indonesia

Rising sea levels and subsidence are forcing villagers in Java to adapt to a semi-amphibious lifestyle. They build "dwarf houses" and makeshift barriers to stay above the water, but many have abandoned their homes due to the increasing flooding.

Apt Encounters of the Third Kind (2021)

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A few weeks ago an ordinary security assessment turned into an incident response whirlwind. the author discovered that libfsalvfs.so lets the malicous code inspect the decoded http packet - allowing it to bypass edr. q: who are these bad guys you keep referring to? a: i think it's the same guys that are behind the dreaded ssh keyloggers

Automating my job away

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User's friend advises automating tasks done more than twice, but user initially thought it was overkill. User tried it and found that automating obvious tasks revealed hidden laborious parts of work.

A clear fishing wire is tied around the island of Manhattan

User needs to register or sign in with developer credentials and ensure a unique User-Agent string to access the application.

Chameleon Ultra: a flashdrive sized NFC toolkit

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The new generation chameleon based on NRF52840 makes the performance of card emulation more stable. And gave the chameleon the ability to read, write, and decrypt cards. - RfidResearchGroup/ChameleonUltra

FDA OKs first new sunscreen ingredient in more than 25 years

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FDA approved new sunscreen ingredient bemotrizinol for US market after 25 years. It protects against UV rays and causes little irritation, available from DSM Nutritional Products under Parsol Shield brand.

A World of First Drafts

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You're concerned about the current state of creative work and technology, where ideas are often delegated to machines for refinement, leading to a lack of individuality and cohesion.

David Sacks on Anthropic export control

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Anthropic released Fable, a version of its Mythos model with guardrails, but a vulnerability was discovered allowing its advanced cyber capabilities to be exposed. Anthropic refused to fix the issue, prompting the Admin to issue an export control and calling for remediation.

AI is code and can't be prompted into being smarter

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Open-source React UI and D-pad focus engine for Meta Ray-Ban Display

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A watch kit lacks world-anchored features and premium surfaces. The SDK provides hooks and a focus engine for a 600x600 lens, easily integratable via npm.

Pink Cosmo berries a hit in their trial season (2023)

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California Berry Genetics developed the Pink Cosmo blueberry, a naturally occurring phenomenon, for 10 years. It will be available for licensing and grown by G&M Farms, with marketable volumes expected next season.

The Capitoline Wolf

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The Capitoline Wolf is a bronze statue symbolizing survival and protection, depicting Romulus and Remus being nursed by a she-wolf. It's featured in Siena's architecture and public art, connecting the city to Rome's mythology.

Extinction-Level Capitalism

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David win­ner: ai is inher­ently polit­ical tech­nology; we see it as an ongoing social process. win-win: if we don't adopt ai whole­heart­edly, we will be losers; ai will deliver goodies a la the u.s. today, he says, but it's not just about jobs; it also affects wealth, politics, and the economy

RhinoCollab a plugin for real-time editing for Rhino 3D

Real-time collaboration for Rhino 3D

Laser Phase Plate Cryo-Electron Microscopy

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Researchers at Biohub and UC Berkeley have developed a laser phase plate technology that significantly improves contrast in cryo-electron microscopy images, making it possible to image proteins inside intact cells. This breakthrough could lead to a systematic, atom-by-atom view of the cell's interior and help scientists understand the fundamental biology that drives disease.

Quadratic funding democratizes allocation by rewarding projects w/ broad support

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Four projects raise $400 each, QF allocates funding based on donor quantity, not total amount. Donations are verified, and the pool is distributed proportionally across participating projects.