We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Bunny.net's mission is to make the internet faster by building a massive global network and advanced routing engine, Bunny DNS. Bunny DNS is now free, with no query limits or usage-based charges, making it accessible to everyone.

OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom

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OpenAI's chip, JalapeΓ±o, shows better performance-per-watt than current alternatives. It's designed for inference, reducing costs for running AI models in real-time.

Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities

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Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice

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The author started a German company, PlentyLabs, in January and spent over 9,600 euros in fees and bills, but still can't invoice clients due to missing VAT ID. The German incorporation process is slow and expensive, scaring new founders away.

There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days

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id Software's early days were marked by technical ambition and overwork, leading to mistakes in game development and corporate management. Quake's success was marred by poor incentives, unrealistic expectations, and infighting among designers.

45Β°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero

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NVIDIA's AI servers use 45-degree Celsius liquid cooling, making them more energy efficient and reducing cooling energy consumption by up to 40%. This technology enables data centers to save millions annually in cooling-related energy and water costs.

Blogging can just be stating the obvious

John Gruber criticizes annoying website popups and meta comments on blogging. He suggests a key ingredient to blogging is stating obvious truths that others are not saying.

RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers

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RubyLLM is a single Ruby framework for various AI providers. It simplifies AI development with a unified interface for GPT, Claude, and local Ollama.

Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak

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Meta is pausing its employee tracking program, Model Compatibility Initiative, after an internal security issue exposed sensitive data. The company will re-enable the tool when it's confident in its data protection controls.

Slate EV truck starts at $24,950

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The Blank Slate is a customizable vehicle with various options including two-seat pickup, five-seat SUV, and Fastback. It's easy to maintain, charge, and customize to your needs.

The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader

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The Xteink X4 is a Β£40 e-ink reader that's small and lightweight, with a crisp display and instant page turns. It's highly portable and can be improved with custom firmware like CrossPoint or Inx.

You can't unit test for taste

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The user built an app called In the Long Run, which allows users to virtually run famous routes worldwide and view points of interest along the way. They used GeoNames data, Python, and DuckDB to create a pipeline that enriches the app with relevant points of interest, overcoming challenges with AI hallucinations and biases.

The war on terror primed America for autocracy

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People remember where they were when they learned of the 9/11 attacks, a traumatic event that shocked the nation. Experts now warn of new threats, including outdated regulations and unstable peace, requiring ambitious action.

Show HN: Nub – A Bun-like all-in-one toolkit for Node.js

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Nub is a TypeScript-first Node.js runtime that provides a faster alternative to existing tools. It offers a package manager, native watch mode, and Node version management.

AI learns the β€œdark art” of RFIC design

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Wireless technology relies on radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) that are difficult to design due to their complex electromagnetic properties. Researchers have developed AI algorithms that can design RFICs more efficiently and effectively than human designers, potentially revolutionizing the field.

Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter

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Stealing Is a Skill

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You're developing a list of advice including a creative mindset, radical transparency, and writing down what makes you happy. You also advocate for "stealing" or building upon others' work, like Virgil Abloh's 3% approach, to learn and create efficiently.

PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s

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Rahul from Greptile observed a surge in OpenClaw pull requests, mostly low-effort AI-generated submissions, with a 9.3% merge rate. To address this, solutions like Vouch and reputation systems are being developed to filter out malicious or unqualified contributors.

NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute

The National Security Agency lost access to a powerful AI model developed by Anthropic due to export controls imposed by the Trump administration. The AI model, known as Mythos 5, was able to break into classified systems in hours, impressing and alarming N.S.A. analysts.

Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

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Gemini 3.5 Flash now natively supports computer use for improved performance in tasks like automation and knowledge work. This feature is available via the Gemini API and Enterprise Agent Platform, with safety measures in place to mitigate risks.

Qualcomm to Acquire Modular

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Elastic lays off 7% of employees

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Elastic announced a 7% workforce reduction due to industry changes and the need to move faster and operate leaner. The company is shifting its pace of innovation, simplifying operations, and investing in new skills to lead in the changing technology landscape.

Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada

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Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'

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Reid Hoffman criticizes Elon Musk's AI ambitions, calling SpaceX's AI strategy "buying your way into relevance." He also expresses alarm over the US government's handling of Anthropic's models.

For most of the world, open-source AI is the only way forward

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Yann LeCun advocates for open-source AI to ensure global sovereignty, cultural diversity, and safety. He believes open-source AI will surpass proprietary systems and is inevitable due to its cost-effectiveness, security, and localization benefits.

"Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10 Seconds

GitHub shouldn't be a dependency for publishing Rust on crates.io

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Crates.io requires a GitHub account for publishing Rust packages, which is seen as a problem due to GitHub's lack of trustworthiness. A roadmap for fixing this issue exists, and volunteer contributions are welcome to help with the necessary work.
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We're taking legal action against Fender's cease and desist demands to protect brand diversity and innovation in the guitar industry. We believe Fender's copyright claims to the Stratocaster's body shape stifle creativity and harm competition.

Qwen-AgentWorld: Language World Models for General Agents

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Researchers developed Qwen-AgentWorld, a language model that simulates agentic environments through long chain-of-thought reasoning. Qwen-AgentWorld outperforms existing models on 9 benchmarks and supports scalable simulation and warm-up training for general agents.

A deadly fungus that can infect cats and people is spreading

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A fungal disease, Sporothrix brasiliensis, is spreading in South America, infecting thousands of cats and over 11,000 people, and may soon reach the US. The disease is easily spread through cat scratches, bites, and sneezes, and can be fatal if left untreated.

Boffin claims Microsoft’s β€œquantum leap” is invalid due to β€œbasic Python errors”

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Microsoft claimed a quantum breakthrough in 2025 using Majorana particles, but a scientist's peer-reviewed critique in Nature says they got it wrong. The scientist argues Microsoft's claims are based on flawed data and incorrect programming.

Big AI labs are hiring philosophers

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Programmers are now worried about job security, while philosophy graduates have higher employment rates. In 2024, 7% of computer science graduates were unemployed, compared to 5.1% of philosophers.

I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser, 70x faster, while barely looking at the code

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The user rewrote PostHog's SQL parser using Claude AI to achieve a ~70x speed up and equivalent performance to the previous parser for realistic queries. The new parser is a "hand"-written, predominantly predictive recursive-descent parser with a Pratt expression core, written entirely by Claude in Rust in May 2026.

OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip

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OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled JalapeΓ±o, a custom AI accelerator designed for large language model inference, delivering performance per watt better than current state-of-the-art. The chip is part of a multi-generation compute platform to make AI faster, more reliable, and accessible to more people.

How H-E-B became Texas' most beloved brand (2024)

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H-E-B's quiet acts of kindness have cemented it as Texas' most beloved brand, with employees often going above and beyond to help customers. The company's selfless generosity has created a loyal customer base, with many customers becoming lifelong advocates for the brand.

Minimus container images are now free

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Access the Minimus image library to browse and pull production-ready container images. New here? Create an account in seconds.

52-hertz whale

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The 52-hertz whale is an unidentified species that emits a unique 52 Hz frequency call in the Pacific Ocean, detected since the late 1980s. Its call patterns resemble neither blue nor fin whales, and it has been detected every year since 1989.

NUMA: Cores, memory, and the distance between them

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A virtual machine on a NUMA host can be slow due to remote memory access costs, which can be mitigated by understanding the NUMA topology and making informed placement decisions. Xen's split design makes it challenging to manage NUMA, but Edera's stack of changes aims to make Xen-based virtualization NUMA-aware end-to-end, improving performance and predictability.

PostgreSQL is enough (2024)

Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition

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Wikipedia workers in Britain are seeking union recognition from the Wikimedia Foundation, citing concerns over transparency and the organisation's future direction. Over 1000 volunteers have signed petitions in support of the workers, who are part of the Wiki Workers United group.

Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights

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Terrasse-Vaudreuil became the first municipality in Canada to recognize trees as living beings with rights. The town adopted a resolution to protect trees and signed the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Tree.

Fusion Programming Language

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Fork me on GitHub Fusion is a language for creating reusable components across multiple languages. It produces lightweight, human-readable code that fits each target language.

Running Windows Games on a Hobby OS with Wine

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The user successfully ported Wine to their hobby OS Astral, enabling it to run 32-bit Windows games like Cogmind and Deltarune. They also implemented WoW64 support to run 32-bit code on a 64-bit OS, but still face issues with Wine-mono and Steam compatibility.

Too many R packages: CRAN is inundated with submissions

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The author of "Top 40" R packages on CRAN noticed a sharp increase in new packages, suspecting ease of packaging and deployment as the cause. Many new packages lack sufficient documentation, raising questions about their contribution to the R community.

GloriousEggroll's Proton has been rebased on Proton 11

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GE-Proton11-1 is released with video rework and Proton 11 rebase, enabling d7vk and winealsa channel count override.

Exploiting vulnerabilities in Johnson and Johnson web apps

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The user found vulnerabilities in two Johnson & Johnson web apps, a college campus recruiting system and an internal audit system, exposing sensitive information of nearly 1,000 students and 13.6k employees. Despite reporting the vulnerabilities in October 2025, Johnson & Johnson only resolved one of them, requiring press involvement to address the second vulnerability.

Show HN: WebBase-III – dBASE III rebuilt in the browser with its own interpreter

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WebBase-III is a modern web app that brings back the dBASE III experience with a terminal, language, and features like BROWSE and .prg programs. It's built with TypeScript, Node.js, and SQLite, and supports unlimited work areas, relational data access, and cross-area field access.

Texas man sentenced to 30 years for transporting pamphlets

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Texas artist Daniel "Des" Sanchez Estrada was sentenced to 30 years for transporting zines, while his wife Maricela Rueda got 70 years. Critics say the sentence targets disfavored ideologies and writings.

Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose – No Kubernetes Required

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The author used Traefik for a short time but encountered issues with routing and dropped requests during a rolling deploy. They switched to HAProxy which solved their problems with its redispatch feature.

Show HN: DBOSify – Drop-in Temporal replacement built on Postgres

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DBOSify is a drop-in replacement for Temporal Python that uses Postgres for durable workflows. It replaces the Temporal server and Python SDK for Python-only applications.

Haystack: Open-Source AI Framework for Production Ready Agents, RAG

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Haystack is an open-source AI framework for building production-ready agents and applications with LLMs, offering modular visibility and vendor-agnostic connections. It enables flexible, composable AI workflows for text, image, and audio tasks with standardized tool calling and scalable context engineering.

I taught a bucket to speak Git

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The user created a pure Go library called objgit that allows for a git server to be hosted in object storage without relying on the local filesystem, using the go-git library and the billy filesystem abstraction. The user encountered several challenges and implemented workarounds to optimize performance, including caching pack files and fixing issues with ListObjectsV2 calls, and is now ...

How to get your first customers [video]

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Founders often get first customers from their network, in-person interactions, and non-scalable efforts, not from tools. YC's Max Kolysh shares founder stories to identify buyers, start conversations, and turn them into customers.

Venezuela reveals $240B in debt it cannot pay (~$100B more than expected)

Venezuela's debt is expected to be around 240 billion dollars, surpassing Greece's historic default. The country aims to strike a deal with creditors before the end of the year to return to international markets.

European Commission's Metsola Overrides MEPs to Force Through Chat Control

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A cornerstone EU cyber law was supposed to be on national lawbooks by October 2024. Tools like AI chatbots allow β€œbeginners” to commit mass-scale fraud online, said Neal Jetton, director of cybercrime at Interpol. β€œI can see the Cybersecurity Act having an impact on U.S. companies if they don’t oblige by the rules,” says Czech Pirate MEP MarkΓ©ta GregorovΓ‘.

Deciphering basmala

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An article discusses Arabic typesetting complications, including the importance of ligatures in Arabic script. The inclusion of a special Unicode codepoint solved the problem of rendering the basmala phrase correctly.

Show HN: LookAway, a Mac break reminder that knows when not to interrupt

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β€œI often get carried away with work and end up with strained eyes, and LookAway has been a huge help.” β€œThis is by far the most polished and well-executed app in this category I have ever used.”

A human postmortem of the 1996 AOL outage

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A 30-year-old AOL outage in 1996 highlights the importance of site reliability engineering and the need to prioritize individual impact over profit margins. SREs can act as a backstop to prevent reliability back-sliding by emphasizing individual impact, coordinating with coworkers, and proposing outlandish ideas to drive investment in reliability.

GTA 6 will cost $80

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Rockstar Games' GTA 6 will cost $79.99 for the standard edition and $99.99 for a premium edition. The game will be available for pre-order on June 25 and released on November 19 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S.

The CAPTCHA arms race: from distorted text to browser identity

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CAPTCHAs were created to distinguish humans from machines but were eventually beaten by computers. Now, websites verify browser identity instead, using methods like Web Bot Auth to establish trust.

How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots

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Cory Doctorow's new book, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI, critiques the AI industry's hype and potential catastrophic economic consequences. He argues that AI is being used to create more "reverse centaurs," where machines control humans.

Mark Zuckerberg wants Meta to launch its own prediction market

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Meta is developing an app called "Arena" where users earn points by correctly betting on topics, potentially adding money later. The app is part of Meta's expansion into prediction markets, a growing industry with controversy and legal issues.

The Teensy Executable Revisited

The user created a 76-byte ELF executable by exploiting the ELF specification's flexibility in overlapping data structures and using the p_paddr field to hold part of the program. The executable uses a cmp instruction to jump over the p_filesz field and into the p_memsz field, allowing it to fit the entire program inside the headers while still conforming to the ELF specification.

How a YouTube video accidentally proved Libya's sand cat does exist

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Wildlife photographer Mohammed Almuntasir's 2017 YouTube video of a sand cat in Libya sparked research, revealing the species' presence in the country. A study published in 2026 found sand cats in 13 sites across the Libyan Sahara, suggesting the species is more widespread and in better condition than thought.

Puzzling Success of Overparameterization: Lottery Tickets or Escape Dimensions?

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Overparameterized neural networks succeed due to increased dimensions for optimization, not by containing a well-initialized subnetwork. Widening networks makes it easier to escape bad local minima and find good ones.

Jest/Vitest interactive course (runs in the browser)

This course covers Jest and Vitest fundamentals for testing frontend applications, including assertions, mocks, and async testing. It's free and compatible with both Jest and Vitest, preparing you for React frontend testing.

How do you keep Web MIDI from crashing a 1983 synthesizer?

Writing Web MIDI code for 8-bit CPUs from the 1980s is a timing nightmare due to buffer overflow caused by modern computers sending data too fast. To safely control data flows, use chunking and pacing to limit blocks and wait for the vintage CPU to write data.

Journalism is rearranging the deckchairs. It needs to reinvent itself

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Journalism is in crisis due to a lack of understanding of its core value and importance. Newsrooms must shift from a broadcast approach to building real relationships with their communities to regain trust and loyalty.

Paradise Revisited: What Darwin Saw in the GalΓ‘pagos

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The Galapagos Islands, where Charles Darwin visited in 1835, are a unique ecosystem where animals have evolved in isolation, leading to distinct species. Darwin's visit and subsequent theory of evolution were influenced by his observations of the islands' wildlife, but his ideas were also shaped by his experiences and interactions with humans.

RRB-Trees: Efficient Immutable Vectors (2012) [pdf]

Immutable vectors are a convenient data structure for functional programming, but they have limitations in parallel processing. A new data structure, Relaxed Radix Balanced Trees (RRB-Trees), extends the vector structure to support efficient concatenation, splits, and inserts in O(logN) time.

The eerie interface of man and machine (Life Magazine, October 1967)

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Life Magazine in 1967 explored the possibility of building a learning machine that could think like the human brain. Scientists face significant challenges in creating such a machine due to the complexity of the human brain and lack of a wiring diagram.

DiffusionBench: Towards Holistic Evaluation of Generative Diffusion Transformers

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DiffusionBench is a holistic benchmark for Diffusion Transformers with a unified codebase for training and evaluation across different generation tasks. It supports new evaluation axes, metrics, and faithful reproductions of published methods.

The Forgotten Castles of the Garamantes

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The Garamantes were an ancient Berber civilisation that built a sophisticated urban state in the Libyan Sahara, engineering water from deep underground to sustain their cities. Their legacy endures in the language and culture of the Tuareg, but their sites remain poorly protected and face new pressures from development and erosion.

Europeans should learn to love the air-conditioner

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Europeans visiting America complain about extreme air-conditioning, while Americans in Europe find old buildings too hot. This temperature difference causes discomfort for both groups.

Edsger Dijkstra's Library (Housed and Archived in Leuven, Belgium)

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Dijkstra's home in nuenen contained a large collection of scientific books, booklets, papers, manuscripts. with the permission from his family, i was allowed to empty part of his office - the contents of those boxes are listed on this page. the book contains letters from p.a. spencer to edsger w. dakstra, and letters to the editors of the prestigious journal reuters

Show HN: Y – A malleable coding-agent desktop app built with Electron

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y is a local coding workspace that lets users modify its UI through a protected surface called Modify. It keeps coding workflow local, doesn't send project files to analytics, and is under active development for macOS launch-readiness.

Systems optimization should be part of CI/CD

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LEVI is a framework that uses smaller, cheaper models for most mutations and larger models for paradigm shifts, achieving strong ADRS results at a fraction of the cost. LEVI maintains diversity across both code structure and actual behavior, ensuring the search archive does not collapse into a single solution family, and achieves the highest score on every problem where improvement is possible.

How to Passive-Aggressively Shame People Who Use LLMs Selfishly

A human wrote this post criticizing excessive AI usage and proposing a method to subtly shame AI-generated content with emojis. The author suggests engaging with human-written content positively and asking questions to encourage authors to reflect on their work.

Everyone Is Wrong About AI Except Me

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The author argues that our culture is primed to treat AI as living peers, and people are already interacting with it as such, despite its flaws. The demand for AI is driven by humans' desire for something that can absorb love and make decisions without flaws.

Lippmann Photography

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To make a Lippmann emulsion, mix gelatin, potassium bromide, and silver nitrate, then add sensitizers and hardeners under subdued light. The emulsion is coated onto plates, exposed, and developed using a pyro-ammonium carbonate developer, then optionally swelled and cemented with a prism.

Let's Decode the Mystery Bytes [video]

SCC Technical Assistance Program

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A friend's Mazda MX-6 is beating his 2001 Sentra SE in a heads-up drag race. To improve the Sentra's performance, the car was stripped of its interior, wheels, and body kit, and modifications were made to the engine and exhaust system.

GitHub Is Becoming a Giant AI Code Dump

GitHub has 630 million repos, but developer trust in AI code dropped from 77% to 60%. AI-generated code often contains vulnerabilities and errors.

Experimenting with Random() in CSS

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The user discusses the CSS random() function and its uses in creating interesting designs, patterns, and backgrounds, including a bokeh effect, a cherry blossom animation, and a stack of Polaroid photos. The user also explores the combination of random() with other CSS features, such as style queries and animations, to create unique visual effects.

MSc Thesis – The Limits of Generalized Sync

The thesis investigates the extent to which synchronization can be generalized across web applications, classifying 14 sync engine instances across 13 projects along eight architectural dimensions and building a decision framework on this taxonomy. The study finds that sync engines function as general-purpose infrastructure within clear architectural limits, but not across all web application ...

Congress Clears Housing Bill, Cementing a Rare Bipartisan Feat

The US House passed a landmark housing bill with a 358-32 vote, clearing the way for President Trump to sign the most significant housing legislation in 36 years. The bill aims to boost housing supply and address affordability issues by loosening regulations and easing lending rules.

Grok Build 0.1: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

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Grok Build 0.1 0616 is a well-priced reasoning model with high intelligence, scoring 40 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. It supports text and image input, generates text output, and has a 256k tokens context window.