Use Apple's Pass Designer or a preferred design tool to create custom pass designs, editing in real-time for iPhone and Apple Watch previews. The preview mirrors iOS and watchOS rendering for accurate customer experience.
DeepSeek Harness is now in public preview worldwide, offering composable plugins to extend agent capabilities and tools. Users can create custom plugins or use existing ones to analyze documents, write code, and schedule tasks.
This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.
AI painters created artworks in the style of famous artists like Caspar David Friedrich and Edward Hopper without using images as references. They generated paintings by writing code that simulates oil paint, with some even creating their own unique styles and themes.
DwarfStar 4 is a narrow C inference engine for high-memory Mac, CUDA and ROCm machines supporting DeepSeek V4 and V4.1 Flash models with text and vision models. It provides a CLI, HTTP APIs, native agent and local cache sharing the same model state.
Apple will introduce additional controls to limit Full Disk Access, ensuring users grant apps explicit permission before accessing sensitive data. This change aims to protect user privacy and prevent malicious use of this feature.
John von Neumann was a renowned mathematician who made significant contributions to various fields, including quantum physics, logic, and computer science. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential mathematicians of the 20th century.
The Shimano Bicycle Museum in Sakai, Japan showcases a vast collection of bicycles with a focus on their history and evolution. The museum offers an engaging experience for visitors, featuring exhibits on various types of bikes and educational materials about the science behind them.
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon, MIT, and others created an AI called Ataraxos that beat the world's top Stratego player in 15 games. The AI used a unique approach to learn strategy by thinking ahead and sampling plausible moves rather than iterating through every possible arrangement.
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain that has seen significant development, with 5 months of work from over 200 contributors. The latest release includes various improvements, such as enhanced support for architectures like x86_64-linux and ARM targets.
The author successfully booted Asahi Linux on their M4 Mac mini, overcoming several challenges including SPTM and WFI issues. They contributed to the mainline Linux kernel by providing a solution for preventing crashes due to WFI instructions.
A novice wanted to learn the Tao of Backup. The master said: To become enlightened, you must master the seven heads of Backup. He who knows the heads will keep all his data forever.
The author shares their perspective on cultural differences in China, highlighting the importance of understanding Chinese social reality and its impact on AI safety awareness. They discuss various aspects of Chinese culture, including food preferences, beauty standards, and social norms that prioritize strength over kindness.
Singapore is testing a government-run dating service called FirstDate, which uses the Gale-Shapley Stable Marriage Algorithm to match users. The pilot program is currently restricted to government workers and will use Singpass to verify identities and share contact details only when both users agree.
Muse gadgets are open-source devices built by hackers for fun, with side effects including bricked boards and voided warranties. Users can grab an SDK token and start building their own projects or join the community Discord to share ideas and get support.
The author created a fully functional clock made from trash in Glashütte, Saxony, using a pendulum mechanism and inspired by the concept of GMT and UTC. The clock's time scale is called GTC, which serves as a global reference time based on the observation of the Glashütte Trash Clock.
Kimberly Prost, a Canadian judge at the International Criminal Court, was sanctioned by the US after her involvement in an Afghanistan case. She faces limited banking services and restricted technology access due to the sanctions.
The author attempted to use only one efficient open model for the whole of September, but ended up using 1B tokens and exceeding their budget due to various issues. They learned valuable lessons about model selection, infrastructure availability, and experimentation.
The author discusses the need for a new desktop UX that can adapt to changing screen real estate and task-oriented workflows, citing limitations of current OS designs. They propose a system based on tasks, where windows and browser tabs are organized around these tasks, with features like scrollable tiles and privacy flags.
Turso is joining Supabase to build a new database infrastructure for agentic AI, enabling easy creation and scaling of databases. This will bring the Supabase experience to every agent, with Turso's architecture providing on-demand access to SQLite for small workloads and Postgres for larger ones.
Nabu Casa is rebranding Home Assistant Cloud to "Home Assistant Link" to better reflect its values of privacy, transparency, and community support. The new name aims to distinguish it from other cloud-based smart home services that prioritize profit over user freedom.
The author feels hopeless about the impact of AI on their industry, fearing it will make them obsolete and stifle creativity. They yearn for an industry that makes sense, where humans can work meaningfully without relying on AI-generated solutions.
Every charted navigational light on the planet on a night globe you can turn: each one flashing or sweeping at the rhythm printed on the chart. Zoom to a coast, hover a light for its name.
The birth of the bond market began in 1171 when Venice's Doge Vitale II Michiel forced citizens to lend money for a war fleet, promising 5% interest payments. This loan became tradable and helped solidify links between citizens and the state.
A SaaS business will transform into a "harness" around a model, encompassing infrastructure, interfaces, and state that surround a stateless LLM. This harness can be composed of smaller sub-harnesses and is key to maximizing value for customers while optimizing human attention.
An AI agent is guided to build an LDraw LEGO model using a semantic search tool, and the process involves building a Docker image with required tools and libraries. The goal is to enable agents like ChatGPT and Claude to design buildable physical models in LDraw assembly language.
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Audionaut is a free, open-source desktop application for audio editing and recording with precise cutting and clean exports. It runs natively on Windows, macOS, and Linux with optional analysis features that link against a static build of the Essentia submodule.
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Users are leaving large platforms like Reddit, WordPress, and Discord due to changes in policies or ownership. Many are opting for smaller alternatives like personal sites or self-hosted apps for more control and less reach.
The pi harness is a customizable and elegant software that offers freedom from AI companies, while its minimal approach leaves certain aspects lacking. The pi pod project aims to consolidate this capability into a simple and elegant software for self-hosting or future hosted service.
Mars' chaotic terrain is formed by massive floods of water, with evidence suggesting that it occurred 2-3 billion years ago. The terrain features irregular blocks and valleys carved out by these floods.
The author visited three Dutch computer museums, showcasing a wide range of vintage computers and consoles. They enjoyed the unique experiences and artifacts at each museum, highlighting regional differences in computing history.
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This study thanks numerous experts for their feedback and comments, including researchers from top universities. The authors' views are their own and do not reflect the National Bureau of Economic Research's opinions.
A puzzle chip was released in August, requiring reverse-engineering to determine its functionality. The challenge involved extracting a gate-level netlist from the GDS layout and simulating it to find the correct solution inputs.
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The author is building a static website using Org-mode, Emacs, and Nix to create a reproducible development environment. The site uses Markdown for conversion but prefers Org-mode's document model for writing and structuring content.
SEEDS game features a fully emulated Linux system powered by PasRISCV, an open-source emulator that runs on RISC-V 64-bit architecture. The emulator supports various features like SMP/MultiHART, RV64GC, and RVA23 extensions.
David Waitzman wrote RFC 1149, a joke protocol for sending IP packets by carrier pigeon in 1990. A Norwegian group implemented the protocol using pigeons and printed packets, with one surviving packet now framed and signed by Waitzman.
The company decommissioned its F.02 robot fleet by training them to jump into molten steel in Finland, a task deemed impossible due to safety concerns and equipment limitations. The successful experiment was made possible with the help of Arnold Schwarzenegger and resulted in unique metal artifacts commemorating the fleet's history.
The author created a free, open-source macOS app called Magic Switch to share Apple peripherals between two Macs without needing an Apple ID or re-pairing. The app uses secure pairing codes and has features like automatic handoff and conflict resolution.
The Philadelphia Inquirer's AI tool Scrape was created to help editors find newsworthy stories from local communities, saving time and improving the signal-to-noise ratio. By embedding editorial context and using human-in-the-loop feedback, Scrape successfully extracted impactful community news from a fragmented ecosystem of sources.
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The Partner-N64 is a development kit for the Nintendo 64, providing real-time debugging features and allowing developers to test games on actual cartridges. It requires a specially modified N64 console to work correctly, with modifications including tie-lines that connect signals from the cartridge slot connector to the CPU.
A prototype satellite for Project Suncatcher has launched into orbit, confirming it's operating as expected. The mission aims to test machine learning infrastructure in space and gather data on its performance under extreme conditions.
Advanced optimization techniques for a full-speed Gameboy emulator have been discovered, focusing on performance-critical code. These methods may be particularly useful for complex projects like emulators or large simulations.
Dear ImGui was developed by Omar Cornut and every direct or indirect contributors to the GitHub. The early version of this library was developed with the support of Media Molecule and first used internally on the game Tearaway. Embeds Roboto-Regular.ttf font by Christian Robertson (Apache License 2.0). Embeds RobotoCondensed-Regular.ttf font by Christian Robertson (Apache License 2.0).
An LLM-powered agent has successfully completed a World of Warcraft quest, demonstrating its ability to play the game without explicit training. The agent used data mining and protocol layer interactions to complete the task efficiently.
An interactive guide to Edward Tufte's data-ink ratio. Take a cluttered bar chart apart and watch its ink get counted, pixel by pixel.
A 2016 AI match between AlphaGo and Go player Lee Sedol showcased AlphaGo's creative move-making, which was not just intuition but a result of its reasoning capabilities. The system maintained an epistemic state to reason about the game tree and make informed decisions.
US officials, including President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, are accused of interfering in Brazil's upcoming election. Brazilian authorities have confirmed US interference alongside Russia's efforts in the presidential election on October 4.
People are returning to physical media formats like CDs, DVDs, and vinyl due to concerns over algorithmically curated content and a desire for control. Many users value the security of owning physical copies of their favorite films and music, as well as the tactile experience of interacting with these formats.
The user experienced password reset issues due to a maxlength attribute on the password field, which trimmed their long generated password. This was resolved by removing the maxlength attribute and instead validating the length using JavaScript or backend processing.
European payment groups join forces to create a cross-border payments network, aiming to reduce dependence on Visa and Mastercard. The new joint venture will connect national payment systems across 13 European countries, serving around 130 million users.
This site provides optimal configurations for maximizing the area of the smallest triangle formed by n points in a unit-area region, including squares and triangles. It offers exact coordinates, analysis, and references to published proofs for various cases.
The user is using Muse to find high-quality concert videos on YouTube and Reddit, helping with their side project fullsets.fm. They're finding the tool useful for its ability to scan websites and make decisions based on criteria set by the user.
Holes are a paradoxical case study for ontologists and epistemologists, with evidence suggesting they may be real entities but also challenging traditional notions of materiality and perception. The concept of holes is deeply ingrained in human cognition, yet their nature remains unclear.
Google's system detected unusual traffic from your computer network, possibly due to malicious software or automated requests. Solving the CAPTCHA will allow you to continue using Google services temporarily.
Alex Alejandre is a professional Clojure developer and CHICKEN scheme maintainer who enjoys deep diving into code bases to improve their performance. He has been involved in various projects, including Postgres optimization and digital sovereignty initiatives.
This book teaches quantitative finance using OCaml, a language that balances expressiveness, correctness, and speed. It covers topics like pricing derivatives, risk management, and trading algorithms with OCaml's type system ensuring financial programming errors are caught at compile time.
A daily puzzle. Figure out the hidden function in seven rows.
Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter may miss its 2027 start date due to transmission infrastructure delays. The project faces a risk of slipping beyond the planned second-half-of-2027 delivery target, according to research company Aterio.
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The US government has launched America.gov, a single AI-powered gateway to federal information and services with an explicit privacy promise. However, its authentication system uses a long-lived browser identifier that raises concerns over user tracking and data retention.
Micron and Samsung executives predict a memory shortage for at least two years due to high demand from AI and server applications. The shortage will limit supply of memory for consumer devices, causing higher prices for PCs, smartphones, and other gadgets.
The STS-51-F mission, launched on July 29, 1985, was the 19th flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program and carried out an "Abort to Orbit" procedure due to engine failure. The primary payload was Spacelab 2 laboratory module.
The author created a custom Gaussian blur mode called Smol Gaussian for Blender's compositor, which is faster and more efficient than the existing "Fast Gaussian" mode. It achieves this by using a technique called downsample, blur, upsample to reduce computational cost while maintaining a smooth blur effect.
A quote about computer user interfaces being "intuitive" is often attributed to Bruce Ediger, but its origin is unclear. The earliest known reference to the idea dates back to 1994 by Scott Francis and Jay Vollmer.
A terminal's terminfo database is Turing-complete, allowing for a stack machine with parameters and arithmetic operations. This enables the creation of simple programs like an adding machine that can perform calculations using terminal escape sequences.
Trail of Bits introduces SequenceHash and SequenceMAC, a pair of hash constructions that bring secure multihashing to developers using non-Keccak hash functions. These constructions prevent length extension attacks and ensure inputs are semantically distinct.
RE:Dox is a high-performance, token-based structured data engine for .NET that parses and serializes data into compact, fixed-size tokens. It supports various formats including JSON, CBOR, MessagePack, INI, DOX and TOML with converters across formats.
Speedrun.com has replaced its terms of use, removing the Creative Commons license and claiming ownership of user data. This change affects every community tool, site, bot, overlay that relies on speedrun.com data and impacts every runner and user whose data lives there.
Researchers aim to map earthworm movements in-situ and at the paddock scale using a worm detector, which could aid understanding of soil fertility and health. A proposed method involves sending pulses of microwaves or other wavelengths through probes inserted into the ground to detect worms based on their unique hydrostatic skeleton.
Solo will shut down on November 30, 2026, and users can download website data from a ZIP file. A prorated refund for unused subscriptions will be issued to active Solo Pro or Grow subscribers.
Prof. Matthew Schwartz describes a new approach to AI-accelerated science, using LLM tools like Claude to find "Claude-shaped" problems that leverage the strengths of current models. This approach enables scientists to make significant progress on complex problems in various fields with minimal human intervention.
Researchers have developed a retrieval benchmark for company knowledge, using real production data to evaluate seven different retrieval strategies, including traditional RAG approaches and agentic retrievers. The results show that an optimized agentic retriever, Kapa Deep, achieves the highest score with high precision and low latency, making it suitable for enterprise use cases where ...
AstaBrief, an open-weights language model, was developed to generate cited reports for scientific research. It achieved nearly an order-of-magnitude reduction in report generation time compared to proprietary models.
College Radio Day celebrates student radio, with the Internet Archive's DLARC offering college radio collections. The collection includes materials from Harvard, Dartmouth, Milwaukee School of Engineering and Duke University, showcasing early days of college radio.
Researchers from the University of British Columbia discovered seven new species of sea spiders in the Salish Sea, including two previously unknown ones. The creatures have unique features such as hairy feet and legs dotted with eggs, and a mouth resembling a Sarlacc from Star Wars.
GRPO's uniform advantage assignment fails to distinguish consequential decisions, so ProVer is introduced to target pivotal decisions for fine-grained credit assignment. ProVer achieves the strongest average performance at both model scales and improves policy training with modest additional overhead.
The article discusses directory sync, a process of copying an organization's identity directory into an application database to keep it up-to-date. The authors argue that using SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) can be complicated due to provider-specific differences and instead recommend building a custom solution with real-time updates from identity providers' APIs.
A self-service portal for Debian contributors to access LLM inference. Manage your API keys and track your budget consumption.
Lawyers for the Southern Environmental Law Center filed a petition to force local health officials in Birmingham, Alabama to act on a 2023 air permit renewal application for ABC Coke. The facility has been operating without an up-to-date permit since then, despite pollution concerns from nearby communities.
Artificial intelligence is unpopular due to its failure to deliver on promises of abundance and low prices, instead causing inflation and job displacement. The technology's builders had predicted that AI would make everything cheaper, but it has led to rising costs across the economy.
The Fibonacci sequence is generated by a rabbit farm problem in Fibonacci's book, and it can be used to create an L-system. This L-system can generate increasingly long weevil names like "Grmammandmammamammamma".
Marine biologist David Gruber is leading a project to decode sperm whale communication using AI and machine learning. He believes it's the next logical step in understanding these intelligent creatures.
The author reflects on how AI agents have surpassed human expectations in organization and management, solving complex problems like the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem. This shift challenges traditional management structures, suggesting that humans may not need to rebuild elaborate systems for machines.
The author discusses DHH's keynote on the future of software development, where he argues that native applications and Rust are becoming more prevalent due to cost. However, experts like Dan Luu and Varun Gandhi argue that this is not a universal trend and that there are still reasons for software to be slow.
The author used a chatbot to help with their unexplained infertility, which led to discovering a large fibroid in the uterus and ultimately getting pregnant. The chatbot provided helpful medical information and suggestions that were later confirmed by human doctors.
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Scientists discovered that tiny brine shrimp can reverse the flow of energy in a turbulent system by disrupting it with their bodies. This finding has implications for understanding fluid dynamics and may have applications in areas like pollution control and drug design.