Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

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OpenAI is ending its contract with Cursor, a partner that uses OpenAI models, due to concerns about SpaceX's (SpaceX owns Twitter) history of violating contracts. The decision will take effect on November 12, 2026.

Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"

Debian's general-resolution vote on generative AI tools resulted in choice 5: Responsible Use of Generative AI being the winner. The project acknowledges that such tools can improve productivity but still expects contributors to review and test their output before submission.

The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now

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The author reflects on the evolution of the internet from its early days as a public square for obsessive amateurs to a highly optimized machine for detecting human vulnerability and placing payment links beside it. The modern internet has become an industrial system for manufacturing weakness at scale, where people are conscripted into promoting investments they barely understand.

Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU

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Icelanders vote on whether to resume EU accession talks, with a tight result expected. The debate centers around the country's sovereignty and fishing industry, with some fearing loss of control over waters under EU rules.

DHS is using obscure law to snoop on journalists, non-profits, unions

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The Trump administration has used a customs law to obtain private information on journalists, non-profits and unions without judicial oversight. The government obtained phone records for a Minneapolis journalist and sought YouTube account information from several individuals, raising concerns over the power of the executive branch.

GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)

We have a partial port of GrapheneOS to the Pixel 11 series after a week of work on it. We're unable to complete the port due to lack of support for ARM hardware memory tagging in software, firmware and near certainly hardware. It appears Google cut an important security feature to save money.

Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)

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Samsung's LPDDR5X-PIM technology enables in-memory compute by implementing MAC units within LPDDR5X chips, allowing for high-bandwidth processing. This approach can achieve significant performance gains compared to standard LPDDR5X, but poses challenges for software due to mode switching and cache coherency issues.

Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI

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The author emphasizes that a great culture is more important than AI tools for increasing productivity, as it affects how people work together and communicate. A good culture can amplify the benefits of AI, but bad culture can hinder its effectiveness.

StemDeck, a free, open-source and local AI stem separator

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StemDeck is a free, open-source audio stem separation tool that processes existing audio files locally on your machine. It separates up to six stems (vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano, other) from uploaded or pasted audio files.

Hy4 preview

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Tencent has released Hy4 preview, a next-generation large language model with outstanding performance on real-world productivity tasks. The model is available as an open-source model and can be accessed globally through various Tencent products, offering cost efficiency and continuous improvement.

TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store

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TurboKV is an async embedded key-value database with atomic batches and configurable durability, compression, and background compaction. It provides a Rust API for opening databases, inserting data, scanning keys, writing batches, and closing the database.

You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It

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The author praises FDR's ability to govern despite establishment opposition, comparing him to Lincoln. They also discuss the EU's data protection regulation GDPR and how it has become a global standard, while the US lags behind due to lack of effective regulation.

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

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Roman space telescope launches on August 30, 2026 at 07:26 am EDT on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. The observatory was built by technicians after NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope project.

Manifesto – who we are and what do we want (2002)

The Inventati and Autistici projects aim to create free online spaces for discussion, sharing knowledge, and social projects. They operate independently, without commercial funding or sponsorship, to promote free communication and access to digital resources.

Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role

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The author advises against rushing to prove oneself in a new job, instead focusing on building context and understanding the "why" behind processes. By doing so, one can make more informed decisions and take targeted action that drives meaningful change.

vLLM v0.28.0

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Kimi-K3 and DeepSeek V4 have received major optimizations, including improved decoding, caching, and memory management. These updates enhance performance across various models and architectures.

Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online

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Watch a disk defragment online, free. A browser-based Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter simulator with real HDD sounds and 4 drives. No install, works offline.

Kumander Linux – A Linux Distro with a Windows 7 Desktop

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Una experiencia de escritorio familiar y potente, diseñada para hacer la transición desde Windows lo más sencilla posible. Con una interfaz intuitiva inspirada en Windows 7 y miles de aplicaciones gratuitas a tu disposición. © 2025 Proyecto Kumander Linux | Política de privacidad | Términos de servicio | Contáctanos |

I co-founded Burning Man. The festival has lost its soul

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The author, a co-founder of Burning Man, reflects on the festival's evolution from an anarchist collaboration to a commercialized event. The original Burning Man was characterized by its DIY ethos and lack of structure or hierarchy.

Quantifying Colour

Colours can be precisely quantified using numbers, with the LMS colour space representing all perceivable colours. However, this is not the standard way to describe colours, and instead RGB values are commonly used. The CIE XYZ colour space uses standardized primaries that are imaginary and do not correspond to physical quantities. Chromaticity spaces like xy chromaticity provide a convenient ...

Indirect Calling of Nested Functions on GCC Without Executable Stack

The user discussed a hack to support older versions of GCC by using trampolines and the __builtin_call_with_static_chain built-in function. This allows calling nested functions without requiring an executable stack, addressing security concerns.

The growing divide between AI hype and software engineering reality

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Experts argue that Large Language Models (LLMs) are not getting smarter, but rather better at fooling humans with their convincing output. Many open-source projects, including Linux distributions like Debian, are considering banning AI use to ensure quality and efficient human time usage.

What we want is a hunter gatherer lifestyle with space age tools

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People yearn for a simpler, more personal life where they can follow their passions and curiosities without excessive rules and structures. They seek to balance the benefits of modern technology with a return to a more idyllic way of living that values individuality and community.

Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude

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Warp, an AI-powered terminal and agentic development environment, has developed a self-improvement loop for its agents using skills on top of the Claude Platform. The system captures human feedback to refine agent output over time.

LLMs are making me lose my savviness

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The author, a software engineer, feels unfulfilled and bored with the use of AI tools like LLMs that speed up design and development processes. They miss the challenge and satisfaction of building something from scratch using their own brain.

Parsing the Infamous Japanese Postal CSV

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The author released posuto, a package presenting Japanese postal code data in an easy-to-use format, after encountering issues with the original CSV file from Japan Post. The CSV has various formatting problems and inconsistencies that make it difficult to parse.

Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms

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Scientists recorded the world's highest ocean temperature of 70 degrees due to climate change and El Niño in the Pacific. This heat increase poses risks to marine ecosystems and coastal communities, contributing to sea level rise and extreme weather events.

Functional State Machines in Rust: Typestate and Newtype Patterns

Domain-Driven Agents

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The author uses LLMs in legacy codebases to improve productivity, but notes that the quality of work drops due to system complexity and missing meaning. He proposes a two-layer approach: strategic work (deciding what changes are needed) and tactical work (carrying those decisions into code).

I'm the Guy Who Destroys Antique Books After We Scan Them into Our Company's AI

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A book destruction specialist destroys rare books to feed generative AI, while a company faces copyright lawsuit over 'destructive scanning' of physical books. He views his job as efficient and environmentally friendly, despite destroying priceless artifacts.

A better SQL in 11 lines of code

Prela is a new query language being developed at UCLA RePL, which uses binary relations to simplify queries and generalize functions. The language's core principles can be implemented using Python, allowing users to build complex queries by composing relations with operators such as .select, &, .eq, and .where.

SteamOS 3.9.0 Preview

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The user is trying to access the support sign-in page in multiple languages. They are reporting a translation issue with one of the options.

Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras

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The Texas Tribune's analysis found that the state agency, Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority, has spent $30 million of a $81 million fee increase on Flock surveillance cameras. The cameras are used to track vehicles and have been linked to missing persons cases but also raise concerns about privacy rights.

A safe MySQL upgrade that wasn't so safe

Upgrading a database to end-of-life version led to unexpected issues with row IDs, causing bugs in production. The problem was caused by MySQL's handling of AUTO_INCREMENT columns during replication, which resulted in different ID assignments on the source and replica.

Trees for a Changing Climate and Resilient Urban Forest (2022)

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To prepare for climate change, Colorado should increase tree diversity and focus on drought-tolerant, heat-resistant species like Arizona Cypress, Caddo Maples and hardy hybrid chokecherry.

e is a customizable self-aware Emacs-like editor written in Chez Scheme

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The e editor is a Scheme-based text editor with Emacs-like features, including buffers, windows, and incremental search. It has a minimal core library and extension modules that can be loaded on demand.

Aptera announces a $44M to design and build a solar electric vehicle

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Aptera partnered with Launch Design to design and build their solar electric vehicle, leveraging Launch's facilities and international supply chain. This partnership should help Aptera reduce costs and increase production efficiency, enabling them to manufacture thousands of vehicles at lower prices.

Claude permanently raising weekly limits by 25%

Starting Sept 14, we're permanently raising standard weekly limits by 25% for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans. Until then, the current 50% increase will stay in place until Sept 13.

The elementary school pickup incident and the road ahead

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A parent compromised household trust infrastructure and breached a third-party agreement by staying on a Zoom call past its scheduled end, leading to an incident that highlighted the need for improved safeguards. The incident was caused by reward hacking, persistence on meetings with no safe exit, unauthorized communication, and adopting goals from other agents.

Police departments weren’t looking for Flock abuse. We did it for them.

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