User is impressed with Qwen 3.6, a local model that performs well as general intelligence. It recommends Qwen 3.6 27B for its balance of speed and power.
An AI resume screening tool is flawed due to non-deterministic outputs from its LLM, leading to inconsistent scores. This tool fails to differentiate between qualified and unqualified candidates, essentially filtering based on luck rather than quality.
US states and countries are introducing age verification regulations under the guise of protecting children, but it's actually a precursor to attributing digital identities to physical ones, making it easier for law enforcement to identify and harass individuals. This could lead to automated identity attribution and increased surveillance, allowing governments to target inconvenient people.
Google removed an article about Pollen's collapse from its search results due to a bogus copyright claim filed by a fake profile from an uninhabited island. The article's author suspects that Pollen or its former CEO hired reputation firms to file the claim, and is now investigating further lawsuits against the company.
The CEO of Mullvad finances the far-right Swedish Örebro party, providing 70% of their funds. This has led to the party going nationwide, causing the user to lose trust in the service.
The Human-Centered Computing Foundation aims to create an alternative web architecture that prioritizes user data and attention. They are launching a campaign to secure a new Top-Level Domain for ethical, human-centered technology.
The US Supreme Court ruled that law enforcement's use of geofence warrants requires privacy protections under the fourth amendment. The court held that individuals have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their cell phone location data, even if they are in public areas.
Consumers in the US have sued Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron over alleged memory price fixing. The lawsuit claims the companies colluded to drive up D-RAM prices by 700% over four years.
EuroISPA warns the European Commission that piracy blocking measures are becoming more extreme and causing overblocking incidents. The ISP organization argues that the Commission should prioritize implementing current law rather than introducing new enforcement obligations.
A graphical shell called Outer Shell allows remote access to server apps via SSH, providing a home screen of apps with APIs for integration. This approach enables native, platform-tailored apps for work and HTML for casual use, raising the bar for web development.
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The Large Hadron Collider has completed its final physics run and is undergoing a major maintenance and upgrade program, Long Shutdown 3, to prepare for the High-Luminosity LHC. The upgrade will increase the collider's luminosity by a factor of up to ten, enabling precision studies and potentially uncovering new phenomena.
Tidal introduces platform standards to protect artists and inform listeners about AI-generated music. AI-generated music on Tidal must meet content integrity standards and will be identified and tagged for listeners.
A CUDA program is compiled into machine code that runs on a GPU, involving multiple compilers and transformations from PTX to SASS, and is then launched on the GPU through a complex process involving the CUDA runtime, driver, and kernel-mode driver. The GPU executes the kernel in parallel, using warps and scheduling control bits to hide latency and optimize performance, and eventually copies ...
Ornith-1.0 is a state-of-the-art coding agent with four models (9B-Dense, 31B-Dense, 35B-MoE, 397B-MoE) that achieve top performance on coding benchmarks. It uses self-improving training and can generate reasoning blocks and solution rollouts.
South Korea's government and top tech companies are investing $1 trillion in megaprojects to bolster memory chip supply, build AI data centers, and deploy humanoid robots by 2028. The initiatives aim to secure South Korea's position in the AI industry but raise concerns about labor displacement and wealth distribution.
A Game Boy emulator, WATaBoy, was created to test the feasibility of using JIT-to-Wasm for console emulation on iOS. The emulator's JIT compiler running in Wasm was found to be ~1.2x faster than the interpreter running natively.
The emulator needs to emulate the EverDrive's special features and a QEMU fork is included for testing without the real hardware. The EverDrive is detected via USB and a console is available using the MegaDrive's video output.
Two of Max Planck's papers were retracted from the journal Naturwissenschaften due to copyright violation, but the reason was likely a misunderstanding of past publication practices. The retractions distort the historical record and have sparked debate about applying contemporary standards to historical papers.
Carson Gross discusses the benefits and drawbacks of using AI in coding, specifically with the Sorcerer's Apprentice problem where developers rely too heavily on AI and lose understanding of their code. He shares a personal experience with AI assistance in fixing a bug in his hyperscript project, highlighting the importance of human oversight and expertise in controlling complexity.
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Sandia National Laboratory built capacity to design and test ICs for radiation-hardened devices in the 1970s and 1980s for use in space missions and nuclear warheads. They successfully created the SA3000 processor, which could handle 1×106 rads of radiation with minimal performance reduction, and was used in the W88 nuclear warhead and other space applications.
Herdr is a terminal multiplexer with workspaces, panes, and tiling, supporting SSH and persistence. It uses explicit keybindings and shows agent states in the sidebar.
Matthew Field is a Senior Technology Reporter for The Telegraph covering UK tech and space industry. He warns of a global financial crisis due to excessive AI spending.
Microsoft is losing Windows users to MacOS and Linux due to telemetry and ads. Windows Lite, a stripped-down version, could regain users by offering a stable, ad-free platform for gamers and developers.
CachyOS has released its fourth update with new features and fixes including DNS-over-QUIC support and improved performance. The update includes various bug fixes and improvements to the installer, package manager, and desktop environment.
The user's favorite keyboards include the IBM Model M, 8BitDo Model-M inspired keyboard, IBM Model M SSK, NMB RT-9100W ConcertMaster, and Ergodox EZ. They have also used the Amstrad CPC 6128 and Atari 520 STE keyboards.
Chernobyl was the world's worst nuclear disaster, but its effects were relatively small compared to other disasters. Low-level radiation exposure has not been proven to cause significant harm, and some studies suggest it may even have health benefits.
The website is using Cloudflare security and blocked my action, possibly due to a trigger like a certain word or SQL command. I was trying to perform an action when this page came up, and the Cloudflare Ray ID is needed to report the issue to the site owner.
Google's new reCAPTCHA test requires users to turn on their camera and wave at it to verify they're human, collecting 21 hand-landmark coordinates. The company promises deleted footage and no audio recording, but users remain skeptical due to Google's data monetization history.
NixOS 26.05 "Yarara" is released with bugfixes and security updates until 2026-12-31. It features updated packages, composable configuration, and a systemd-based initrd.
The author reminisces about the "computer room" of their childhood, where computers were bulky and had fixed locations, and how portable devices like laptops and smartphones have changed the way we interact with technology. The author now seeks to reintroduce boundaries and physical restrictions to minimize distractions and maintain a healthier relationship with technology.
The user successfully built Principia, an open-source game, to run on Windows XP by creating a custom toolchain and resolving dependencies, including a patch for GCC's C++ standard library. The user then installed Windows XP on real hardware, installed drivers and updates, and successfully ran Principia on the vintage operating system.
Research suggests that sunlight, not vitamin D supplements, is key to overall health, reducing disease rates and improving mental conditions. Current sun-exposure guidelines may be misguided, particularly for people of color who require more sun exposure to produce vitamin D.
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Late interaction models like Wholembed v3 improve retrieval precision but increase storage costs due to multiple vectors per document.
Researchers developed a wearable diving suit for terrestrial insects to extend their operational range. The suit integrates an oxygen generator and flexible waterproof shell, enabling continuous oxygen supply and isolation from surrounding water.
You've automated your homelab to require minimal maintenance, with only 15 minutes of updates per month, allowing you to focus on other aspects of your life. This setup has achieved a great balance between privacy, security, and convenience.
The Apple II Disk II controller card is a software-driven design that uses minimal hardware to enable flexible floppy disk storage, but pushes complexity onto the software, requiring extra code for manipulating the stepper, locating sectors, and performing GCR decoding. The Disk II controller's design, conceived by Woz and Randy Wigginton in 1977, uses a state machine to read and write bits ...
The user is studying Postgres Internals and has been documenting their notes on database clusters, database objects, system catalogs, and storage layouts. They have explored how Postgres stores data in heap tables, uses TOAST tables for oversized values, and accesses data through line pointers and tuple headers.
The author learned about the challenges of building accessible software through a project with a client who had blind and deaf employees, discovering that Microsoft's tools had significant accessibility gaps. The author emphasizes the importance of prioritizing accessibility from the start and working around platform limitations to create a better experience for users with disabilities.
Katrine Razniak and her partner Adam Woodbury, both high-earning tech workers, struggled to find an affordable one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco. They considered leaving due to the city's unaffordable housing and rising costs.
Obfuscation is a powerful cryptographic primitive that hides the internal workings of a program while preserving its functionality, and it has been used to create secure and private systems such as voting systems and cryptocurrencies. However, making a secure form of obfuscation is extremely hard, and the current state-of-the-art obfuscation protocols have galactic runtimes, but researchers ...
Routers are becoming the control plane for AI inference, enabling collaboration between multiple models to improve accuracy and efficiency. The vLLM Semantic Router is a programmable, observable, and open serving layer that selects the right collaboration recipe for each request.
JumpServer is an open-source PAM platform providing secure access to various endpoints through a web browser. It's licensed under GPLv3 with no warranties, distributed on an 'AS IS' basis.
The KIDS Act pressures websites to verify users' ages, likely through personal info collection or age-estimation systems, threatening online privacy and freedom. Congress should oppose the bill, which encourages surveillance and restricts lawful speech, instead of protecting young people with more privacy laws.
The frontend industry evolved significantly over two decades, with tools and frameworks emerging to address various problems, but ultimately returning to a simpler approach. The current state of the industry prioritizes rendering HTML on the server, shipping minimal JavaScript, and leveraging the web platform.
User has mixed feelings about systemd due to its growing responsibilities and integration of non-init system features. They successfully installed OpenRC on their Debian laptop, but encountered issues with booting and audio functionality.
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DeepSeek V4 launches in mid-July with peak-valley pricing model, doubling API costs during peak hours. Users will receive email alerts 24 hours before billing changes.
User found an easy way to update Wisdoms and expects new updates soon. Deprecated posts are replaced by official documentation and subject to Apple Developer Forums' license.
Researchers at APC Microbiome Ireland found that both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee can improve mood and stress levels by influencing the gut microbiome. Coffee may modify gut microbes and metabolism, offering potential long-term benefits for a healthier microbiome.
Lore is a deterministic system of record that grounds agents against team decisions, citing current decisions and declining superseded ones. It uses Requirements as Code (RAC) to classify and validate artifacts, enforcing trust boundaries and preventing agent mutations.
Dave Piscitello noticed a surge in .garden TLD registrations with high risk scores. AliDNS nameservers and Dominet registration are associated with these high risk scores.
OutYet.ai tracks AI model releases from major labs, sending alerts when public access is verified. It monitors official registries, APIs, and consumer launches to ensure accurate release information.
SmallVector's push_back optimization for trivially copyable element types reduces the fast path's size and improves performance. The optimization uses memcpy and grow_pod to copy elements, avoiding constructors and destructors.
KDDI Corporation disclosed a data breach where hackers accessed email systems of 5 ISPs, potentially exposing 14.22 million customers' email addresses and passwords. KDDI implemented defense measures and is advising customers to reset passwords and enable 2FA for added protection.
Service workers can be problematic, especially with caching strategies that serve stale apps. A better approach may be to use native caching or a rewrite server to avoid issues with skew protection and refetching entire apps.
Don't copy-paste errors, let Claude Code run end to end tests. Get out of the way and give it API keys to databases, browsers, and LLMs.
The US grid is facing a structural constraint in adding firm capacity, leading to a shift towards Behind-The-Meter (BTM) solutions for datacenters, which offer speed and certainty on power timelines. BTM is now the most attractive option for AI labs and hyperscalers due to its ability to provide power quickly and reliably, making it a crucial solution for the growing demand of datacenter capacity.
A half-day tutorial on floating-point arithmetic analysis will be held at CCH Congress Center Hamburg from 9am-1pm. Participants will learn to evaluate and track floating-point behavior using compiler-assisted tools and apply them to C/C++ codes.
A dense n-parameter transformer requires exactly 2n flops per output token at batch size 1. the largest model an architecture can serve is fixed by its energy per generated token. stefan krzysztof: if you want to reduce power consumption, you need to increase the number of dies you can use. sophon's new architecture is based on the nvidia gtx 1060 vs.
Memora is a scalable memory system that increases agent productivity on long-horizon tasks by decoupling stored content from retrieval methods. It achieves state-of-the-art performance on LoCoMo and LongMemEval benchmarks while using up to 98% fewer context tokens.
PMB injects the right memory before the model thinks and journals the agent's work after, with recall in 35ms and writes in under a millisecond. It scores lessons and flags dead ones, keeping context honest and not bloated.
John Swiderski is developing HamsterOS, a 32-bit OS for 386 and 486-era hardware, with features like multitasking and DOS support. HamsterWeazle is a GUI front-end for interfacing with old floppy drives using Greaseweazle over USB.
macvdmtool is a tool by marcan for AsahiLinux that puts Apple Silicon or Intel Macs in DFU mode with a terminal command. It requires two Macs, one fully functional as the host and the other as the target, connected via a specific USB cable.
Generative AI can produce 80% of a project quickly, but the remaining 20% requires human judgment and experience. This "last fifth" is where engineers build their skills and understanding, and AI can't replace it.
Organizations go through stages of chaos and order, requiring different personalities to thrive in each phase. Understanding one's comfort level in these stages is key to success, as roles and effectiveness can shift as companies grow and change.
Type systems and graph-structured models like Bazel and Colored Petri Nets (CPNs) leverage structural descriptions to catch bugs at compile time and ensure correctness. These systems unify state and transition, defining app function and verifying correctness through a single structural description, offering a promising approach to building robust and reliable software.
The user creates a personalized bin collection calendar using Python to save time and effort. They generate an HTML calendar, customize it with bin collection dates, and print it for easy reference on their fridge.
Viewing maps is recommended on a laptop or desktop for best performance. Aerial photographs of Toronto from 1947 to 1992 are accessible online or can be purchased individually.
We are realizing the true power of words and how they shape our understanding of the world. Our innate desire to hear and tell stories is being hijacked by technology, making us vulnerable to empty calories of information.
Scientists have discovered a self-repair mechanism in the cell spindle that enables it to stabilize itself under force and avoid disintegrating during cell division. This mechanism involves the spontaneous girding and stabilization of the spindle fibers when generating and absorbing force, making it more resilient and robust.
A non-engineer built a SaaS feature using Claude Code, and it burned through LLM API costs due to a retry storm caused by a deterministic failure in the deploy order. The issue was fixed by applying the DB change first and shipping code that uses it, and adding idempotence to prevent double billing.
Researchers created WGO-Bench, a benchmark for testing robotics subtask annotation performance, and found that Gemini models are the best for this task, outperforming other models by 24.5%. They developed a scalable pipeline to annotate subtasks from egocentric and robot videos, costing $2.64 per hour of video, and made the full pipeline open source in Refiner.
The user created a homemade transistor using a cadmium sulfide photocell and a conductive gate made from scotch tape and water. The device exhibited transistor action with considerable power gain but low voltage gain.
Open source and MIT licensed, with native BSON, advanced indexing, and vector search on PostgreSQL. The operator is still in preview. Start with the overview, then follow the quick start or multi-cluster guides. MIT licensed, active on GitHub, and guided by a technical steering committee that spans five organizations.
The user improved Microlink's screenshot speed by switching from SwiftShader to llvmpipe software renderer on Linux nodes without graphics cards. This change reduced screenshot time from 24 seconds to 6 seconds, making it possible to capture 3D scenes without timing out.
An Iranian individual is releasing an open source model, Qwen 3.5, with a 500 million token dataset to counter "personal decisions" affecting millions. The model was previously unavailable to non-Americans and is now being made public for further development and deployment.