California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply

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California has 4-6 weeks of fuel supply left under normal conditions, but leaders warn of potential long lines at gas stations if imports do not improve. Gas prices are rising, with the average price in Fresno up 25 cents per gallon over the last week.

The map that keeps Burning Man honest

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You ran a successful campaign to find 15 more paying members of Not-Ship. You're now taking a break from writing "pay if you love this work" emails after two weeks.

AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields

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AlphaEvolve is a system that optimizes AI and hardware design, achieving breakthroughs in efficiency and speed. It has been used by various companies to solve complex problems, including optimizing transformer models, computational lithography, and routing challenges.

Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria

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Collaboration between researchers and religious leaders led to a cut in the likelihood of early marriage by 80%. Collaboration between researchers and religious leaders led to a cut in the likelihood of early marriage by 80%.

Agents need control flow, not more prompts

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Reliable agents need deterministic control flow encoded in software, not elaborate prompt chains. Deterministic scaffolds and aggressive error detection are necessary for reliable systems prone to silent failure.

DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal

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ds4.c is a native inference engine for DeepSeek V4 Flash, a large language model with unique characteristics that make it suitable for local inference on high-end personal machines. The engine provides a Metal-only implementation with a KV cache that allows for long-context inference and persistence, and is designed to work with the DeepSeek V4 Flash GGUFs.

The Self-Cancelling Subscription

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A family's streaming subscription was unexpectedly deactivated due to a credit card expiration issue. The problem was resolved after un-linking and re-linking the accounts, revealing a delayed and repeatable failure mode in the system's asynchronous workflow.

Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers

User needs to register or sign in with developer credentials and ensure a unique User-Agent string to access the application. Alternatively, try resetting to default User-Agent or file a ticket for assistance.

RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust

RaTeX is a Rust-based math rendering engine that ships SDKs for various platforms and supports chemistry and units. It offers predictable timing and avoids browser stacks for mobile UIs and servers.

PySimpleGUI 6

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PySimpleGUI version 6 is released with new features and bug fixes, replacing version 5. The project is now open source and available on GitHub and PyPI.

OpenBSD Stories: The closest thing to cute kittens (OpenBSD/zaurus)

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A few cats machines are coming to the uk. <deraadt' paid for that too - don't know how long i can get it from the uk ;-) on february 12th, gareth simpson of simtec sent an email which apologized for some mistakes in the board configurations, due to them having been prepared quite hastily. 2) one of the boards was incorrect

MPEG-2 Transport Stream Packaging for Media over QUIC Transport

This document extends the MOQT Streaming Format by registering the 'm2ts' packaging value for carrying MPEG-2 Transport Stream packets over Media Over QUIC Transport. It defines catalog fields for transport-stream track description and receiver behavior for joining and validating packetized streams.
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The US Library of Congress recommends SQLite, XML, JSON, and CSV as storage formats for datasets due to their high chance of survival and accessibility. These formats are chosen based on disclosure, adoption, transparency, external dependencies, patent impact, and technical protection mechanisms.

Indian matchbox labels as a visual archive

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Inspired by the visual language, cultural history, and format of matchboxes, three contemporary Indian projects are reimagining this object in strikingly different ways.

Speedup in Lattice Boltzmann Cylinder Flow

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Researchers found vortex shedding in 2D cylinder flow to be resolution-robust, preserving frequency and drag coefficient across grid reductions. This has implications for adaptive mesh strategies and sub-grid model design.

Appearing productive in the workplace

Generative AI is creating a new form of "slop" in workplaces, where workers rely on tools to produce work without understanding its quality. This leads to a loss of judgment and expertise, as humans become conduits for AI-generated output rather than evaluators of its quality.

GovernGPT (YC W24) Is Hiring Engineers to Build Thinking Systems in Montreal

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We're a YC-backed startup building AI agents to automate investment fundraising, seeking a backend engineer to own our metadata-enriched database. The role involves building autonomous systems, collaborating with ICs, and working with a team of A-player technologists.

Show HN: Stage CLI – a tool to make reading your AI generated changes easier

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A viewer for reviewing local code changes in small individual chapters. Works with any AI agent. - ReviewStage/stage-cli

Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)

This is a TI-83 Plus BASIC programming tutorial for beginners, covering topics such as DISP, OUTPUT, LBL/GOTO, END/PAUSE, MENU, INPUT/PROMPT, and more, with examples and exercises to practice programming skills. The tutorial also covers advanced topics like FOR, WHILE, IF, THEN, ELSE, OR, STRINGS, GETKEY, RAND, RANDINT, iPART, and fPART, as well as drawing functions like CLRDRAW, TEXT, LINE, ...

Agent-harness-kit scaffolding for multi-agent workflows (MCP, provider-agnostic)

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Auto-scaffold a multi-agent harness for any repo. SQLite state, MCP tools, health checks, and coordination rules β€” automatically.

Printing Blogs

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Printing out blog posts greatly elevates the reading experience. I recently tried it and had a lot of fun highlighting, margin-scribbling, dog-earing. This made me want to try printing out entire blogs, and here we'll do exactly that. The preview cover pages below link to printable excerpts of paulgraham.com, marginalrevolution.com, maxhodak.com, guzey.com, and this blog. For the first ...

Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI

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Motherboard sales are collapsing due to AI shortages and chipmakers prioritizing AI processor production, leading to a 33% decrease in Asus sales and a 28% contraction in the overall motherboard market. PC builders are holding off upgrades, causing motherboard manufacturers to revise sales targets downward and offer discounts on combos to clear inventory.

Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE

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The user set up a Debian 13 server for Netboot.xyz and used it to remotely boot a Debian installation on a network drive via iSCSI, avoiding the need to repartition their local NVMe drives. They configured the setup to use a custom menu, iSCSI targets, and ZFS volumes, and successfully installed Debian on a remote drive using the Proxmox host as the iSCSI target.

RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google

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User's blog traffic comes from various sources, with 25% from subscribers and the rest from search engines, link aggregators, and other online platforms. They track traffic from RSS, email, and other sources to understand where people find their blog.

Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

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Valve released CAD files for the Steam Controller and Puck, allowing modders to create custom accessories. The files are under a Creative Commons license for non-commercial use, with commercial entities needing to contact Valve directly.

Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like

The author discussed the convergence of vibe coding and agentic engineering, realizing that relying on AI tools for coding can blur the lines between responsible and irresponsible use. They value proven solutions over perfect documentation and tests.

Chevrolet Performance eCrate package (400v/200hp)

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Chevrolet Performance's eCrate system is a 50-state emissions street legal kit for electric vehicle conversions. It includes a 66 kWh lithium-ion pack and 400-volt electric drive motor for most conventional combustion engine vehicles.

SingleRide: Longest route on NYC Subway without visiting the same station twice

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Travel the longest route you can on the NYC Subway without visiting the same station twice. Transfer in time before the end of the line! New start station each day. By Logan Williams.

The mechanical latching memory of an adhesive tape

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ProgramBench: Can Language Models Rebuild Programs from Scratch?

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Researchers created ProgramBench to evaluate software engineering agents' ability to develop software holistically. Agents struggled to fully resolve tasks, favoring monolithic implementations that differ from human-written code.