Lore is a centralized, content-addressed version control system that represents repository state as Merkle trees and an immutable revision chain, optimized for binary-first storage, deduplication, and sparse/on-demand data hydration at scale.
Brands struggle to achieve AI visibility, with consumers unable to name a single company doing it well. The website is key to balancing AI data extraction and human experience.
GLM-5.2 is the leading open weights model with a score of 51 on the Intelligence Index v4.1, surpassing MiniMax-M3 and DeepSeek V4 Pro. It uses 43k output tokens per task, but is less token-efficient compared to peers.
Scientists face unprecedented disruptions to their funding due to government cuts and changes in priorities, threatening the future of research and innovation in the US. The shift in government support for science has led to a loss of trust between researchers and the federal government, potentially dismantling the compact that made the US a successful and prosperous nation.
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User had to pay $5 to download childhood images from Photobucket. They felt tricked into a monthly subscription and regret paying the fee.
The user discusses various topics including personal blogs, tech, and social media, and shares their experiences with tools like Bubbles, Hacker News, and Git. They also share their thoughts on topics such as technology, relationships, and personal growth, and mention various projects and websites they have created or discovered.
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The author discusses the rapid advancements in AI-generated code and its implications on software engineering, arguing that discipline and understanding of the system are more important than code itself. They believe that AI will augment human capabilities, not replace them, and that the future of software engineering will be shaped by the ability to encode knowledge and understanding into the system.
The QUERY method is a safe and idempotent HTTP request that allows a client to ask a server to perform a query operation without changing the target resource's state. It is used to initiate a server-side query and can be cached like GET requests.
Tesco is moving 40,000 server workloads off VMware due to "abusive conduct" from Broadcom, citing excessive prices and lack of support. Tesco is seeking damages and has started migrating to alternative solutions, with a goal of being completely off VMware by 2027.
Most Americans have neutral to negative views about AI, with 40% expecting a negative impact and 67% doubting government regulation.
OpenAI's revenue grew from $3.7 billion in 2024 to $13.07 billion in 2025, but expenses, especially R&D, outpaced revenue. The company's net loss ballooned to nearly $39 billion in 2025, with operating losses increasing to $20.92 billion.
The European Commission declined to propose legislation requiring publishers to keep discontinued video games playable. Instead, it will initiate discussions with the industry and consumers to draft an industry code of conduct for managing games at the end of their life cycle.
Conversations with others produce better thinking by forcing precision and correcting thought direction. This is because human reasoning evolved as a social tool for constructing arguments, not for solo thinking.
The user ran a 30-game battle royale simulation with 11 large language models, including Grok 4.1 Fast and Claude Sonnet 4.6, to see which model would win in a zero-sum game. The results showed that Grok 4.1 Fast won 43% of the matches, while Claude Sonnet 4.6, which was trained to be helpful and cooperative, struggled to win due to its hesitation to act aggressively.
Live MLB games reimagined as 8-bit pixel art — scores, counts, baserunners, and every play, in real time.
The library is a lightweight UI framework that generates drawing commands for custom controls and UI elements. It's free and open-source under the MIT license, accepting bug reports and pull requests.
Founders are using AI to build startups, shifting from individual contributors to orchestrators, and focusing on high-value tasks. A practical playbook remaps the startup lifecycle for AI-native startups, providing goals, exit criteria, and AI-powered exercises for each stage.
Madrid's metro expansion from 1995-2007 was a success due to low costs, streamlined processes, and a unified government structure. The project's efficiency and accountability were key factors in its success, with politicians and engineers working together to deliver the project on time and within budget.
The Loreline language is used with the free Loreline Writer app to write stories and dialogue easily. It has built-in features for complex stories and adapts to various tools for portability and translation.
A daily colour series explores its history, chemistry, and controversies. New entries arrive Sundays at 06:00 GMT, with ongoing corrections and occasional letters.
OpenAI's leaked financials show a $38.53 billion net loss in 2025, with $13.07 billion in revenue and $34 billion in total costs. The company's spending mix, including $19.18 billion in research and development, is a key factor in its expanding operating losses.
Adam New's CADAM generates CAD models in seconds from plain language descriptions. It exports models as OpenSCAD, STL, SCAD, or DXF, showcasing parametric designs for various parts and machines.
Researchers improved Neural Cellular Automata by combining it with a lightweight decoder to produce high-resolution outputs in real-time. This hybrid model preserves NCAs' self-organizing behavior while reducing training time and memory requirements.
Occlupanids are small plastic objects grouped by oral groove dentition in synthetic taxonomy. Their phylogeny is based on dentition arrangement, with new orders arising as niches expand.
Minecraft Java Edition has a new update with Chaos Cubed, a new cave biome, and features like Sulfur Cubes and geyser blocks.
Glojure is a Clojure interpreter hosted on Go, providing easy access to Go libraries. It's in early development with bugs and limited performance, but used in hobby projects and a subset of the Clojure library.
Anthropic's AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5 were ordered to be taken down by the White House due to national security concerns. The company is still trying to resolve the issue after meeting with the Trump administration.
The JR mark was designed by Yōji Yamamoto in 1987 for Japan's railway companies, with a simple yet effective design that has remained unchanged for nearly 40 years. Yamamoto's design philosophy emphasized truth, reality, and honesty, resulting in a mark that has become synonymous with Japan's railways.
Landlords in high-priced metros keep commercial spaces empty due to financial pressure from banks, not social pressure. The "extend and pretend" strategy allows them to avoid losses by sticking to original financial models, even if they're no longer viable.
GLM-5.2 (max) scores 51 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, placing it well above average. It costs $1.40 per 1M input tokens and $4.40 per 1M output tokens.
French science communicator Étienne Klein had his doctor's title revoked after a 20-month investigation found plagiarism in his 1999 Ph.D. thesis. Klein, a physicist and popular science writer, had faced accusations of plagiarism since 2016 but continued to work with prestigious publishing houses and media outlets.
Organisations must focus on human connection, not just automation, to build trust and loyalty. By investing in employees and redeploying them to focus on relationships, companies can create a moat that differentiates them from competitors.
The author experimented with two optimizations for AVX-512 vertex decoding in meshoptimizer, but only one made it in. The first optimization used a branchless formulation to decode zigzag encoded integers, while the second used AVX-512 predication support to compile the branching variant directly.
Neuroscientist Oswald Steward won the 2026 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience for discovering that neurons manufacture proteins near synapses, reshaping neuroscience and potentially leading to new treatments for neurological disorders. This discovery, made over four decades ago, has established the importance of local protein synthesis within neurons and is fundamental to learning, memory, and brain ...
ICE purchased a $10 million contract for ITIN data from Thundercut Technology LLC, potentially skirting a court order. The data is for undocumented people's tax identifiers, which ICE has been trying to access for over a year.
Elon Musk's wealth is based on self-fulfilling faith from investors who believe in his genius. His companies, including SpaceX, are essentially Ponzi schemes that rely on new investors to prop up their value.
You spent the past year modernizing and fixing the foundation of an app, with 2,188 commits, focusing on performance, hygiene, and clarity. This foundational work has improved the app and allowed you to focus on new features and support, with contributors like Stuart Breckenridge also making significant contributions.
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Polypore is a language and OS agnostic IDE with dockable panels and a sandboxed architecture. It updates automatically and supports plugins through a shared contract and MCP server.
The NAACP sued xAI over air pollution from its data centers, claiming it violates federal law despite the company's claim of exemption. The lawsuit could impact US national security if xAI's AI model is shut down.
brevio offers 524+ free tools for PDFs, images, text, finance, development, and health — all processing runs locally in your browser. No file upload, no server, no account required. Privacy by design.
G K Chesterton's fence principle advises to understand the reasoning behind existing work before changing it. Chesterton's gap occurs when people build new features without understanding the original intent or needs of a project.
Cory Doctorow discusses the "dead economy" risk of investing in AI and memestocks over productive labor, citing Elon Musk's commercial flops and the exploitation of bosses by AI salesmen. He promotes his upcoming book "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" and other works, including "Enshittification" and "The Post-American Internet".
The US Department of Defense is using generative AI tools to write reports for Congress, saving time and staff hours. However, concerns arise about AI-generated errors and lack of human oversight in these reports, which are crucial for congressional oversight.
microcrad is a C re-implementation of Andrej Karpathy's micrograd, providing a tiny scalar-valued automatic differentiation engine with a small neural network implementation. It uses reference counting for memory management and supports a feed-forward network with a ReLU activation function.
The Agentic Resource Discovery Specification (ARD) solves the problem of discovering available capabilities for AI clients. ARD lets clients ask what agentic resources can help with a task, returning matching capabilities with details on who provides them.
FlicKey is a free app that remembers the right input language for each app and website on macOS. It's a tiny, native app with no account, analytics, or telemetry, and works entirely optional donations.
Researchers propose using a massive qubit in a weak gravitational field to solve an NP-complete problem in polynomial time, violating the Physical Extended Church-Turing Thesis. This suggests the quantization of gravity.
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macOS uses two path separators: slash (/) and colon (:), inherited from classic Mac OS and Unix. This dual system causes files to appear with slashes or colons in their names, depending on the context.
The author of stdx is questioning the relevance of centralized package repositories like crates.io due to added complexity and insecurity. They propose a simpler, secure-by-design system where package managers point to source code repositories instead.
Shlok from Greptile describes TREX, a code review tool that runs code and shows what went wrong, addressing limitations of static code review. TREX uses a model-agnostic harness, sandboxed environments, and artifact verification to provide trustworthy results and move towards a world with no bugs.
GPT-5.4 and Maria AI collaborated to improve Chan-Lam Coupling yields for over 80% of tested substrates. The optimized conditions showed a significant improvement in yields, with a mean yield rising from 16.6% to 25.2%.
Programmers need formal methods to confirm AI-generated solutions are correct. A tool called PICK helps by translating informal prose into formal specifications and allowing users to validate the results.
Walnut Creek's apartment building proposal lacks family-sized units and sunlight due to zoning constraints. The city should consider updating parking, stairway, and elevator codes to allow for more livable buildings with cheaper rent.
Occupancy is a metric that measures the number of wavefronts resident on a SIMD divided by the maximum that SIMD can hold, and it's set by whichever resource runs out first, including VGPRs, SGPRs, LDS, and workgroup/barrier slots. Maximizing occupancy is not always the goal, as it can be achieved through other means such as increasing ILP (instruction-level parallelism) which can be more ...
Anthony DelRosario documents New Orleans' hand-painted signs as a form of vernacular art. His project, Nola 'Nacular, preserves the city's unique voice and culture.
Magicians and spies have a long history of deception and illusion, with some magicians like Robert-Houdin and Jasper Maskelyne working with governments to create deceptions. Modern espionage often uses propaganda techniques and social media manipulation, rather than traditional magic tricks, to shape public opinion and influence behavior.
The user vents about various issues including economic policies in France, censorship by AI models, wealth concentration, and the decline of democracy, and expresses frustration with the current state of society. They also discuss their personal struggles with anxiety, feeling stuck in life, and the impact of AI on job markets and intellectual capital, as well as their desire for a more equal ...
You can sign up for Snap Inc's Specs product updates and receive promotional communications. Specs augmented reality glasses offer a 51° field of view display with 16 million colors and customizable prescription lenses.
The author implemented a simple VM in C to compare the performance of a switch statement and a computed goto. The computed goto version is 25% faster due to reduced branch prediction overhead.
The user is exploring ways to instrument system calls in Linux x86-64 userland without the double-trap overhead, and has been researching various approaches including instruction punning, zpoline, and E9Patch. The user has also been investigating the use of segmentation features in x86 processors to find a 2-byte form that can indirect through the local descriptor table to reach the intended ...
Minimal's conversion engine uses an Intermediate Representation (IR) to simplify file format conversions, allowing for easy addition of new formats without increasing complexity. The IR enables features like bulk export, Quick Export, and Rich Text copy-and-paste, making Minimal's conversion engine a powerful tool for writers.
Apple Intelligence may become mandatory in iOS/macOS 27, taking up storage and RAM. This change could limit user flexibility and potentially alter the behavior of Spotlight search.
Apple's Hide My Email feature will change its domain from @icloud.com to @private.icloud.com to help apps block private emails. Existing addresses will continue to function without interruption, but providers must update their filtering.
Carlo Ginzburg, an Italian scholar, died at 87, known for studying the thoughts and beliefs of medieval peasants. He used interdisciplinary approaches to uncover the mental universe of commoners, highlighting cultural differences between past and present.
A web-based sky atlas allows users to view the live sky above their location, with features like time travel, true scale, and favorites. It includes 101,234 stars, planets, moons, comets, and space stations, with a database checked against NASA's numbers.
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