A blind man received a letter from the government asking for updated medical evidence to prove his blindness. He outsmarted the system by faxing a massive, automated document that jammed the office's fax machine, forcing them to accept his evidence.
Postman released a cost savings analysis comparing AI-native tooling to bolted on AI, and a newsletter explains the anatomy of the .claude folder in Claude Code, which holds project and personal settings, rules, and preferences.
The user created a Bash script to automatically deploy a Let's Encrypt certificate to their Brother printer using Cloudflare DNS integration, allowing for HTTPS access to the printer's web management portal and IPP connections. The script uses Certbot and the Brother Cert tool to request and deploy the certificate, with the user modifying variables in the script to suit their own printer's ...
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jsongrep is a fast JSON search tool that compiles queries into deterministic finite automata (DFAs) for single-pass search. This approach allows jsongrep to outperform other JSON query tools like jq and jmespath in benchmarking tests.
The hardware industry is shifting towards data centers and away from consumers, leading to rising prices and vanishing consumer choice. This structural shift is driven by high demand from data centers and AI technology, causing a shortage of specific components like RAM and storage.
Claude Code offers three ways to schedule recurring work: cloud tasks, desktop tasks, and /loop for quick polling. Tasks can be created from the Desktop app, CLI, or web interface.
The user implemented a gzip decompressor from scratch in Rust to gain a deeper understanding of how compression works, and found that the core ideas are based on the DEFLATE algorithm and Huffman coding. The DEFLATE algorithm uses LZ77 back-references to replace repeated sequences with shorter codes, and Huffman coding assigns shorter codes to frequent symbols, allowing for efficient ...
Apple has discontinued the Mac Pro, removing it from their website and confirming no future hardware plans. The Mac Studio is now set to be the 'pro' desktop Mac of the future in Apple's lineup.
A Graphic Designer shares their discovery of a specific seafoam green color used in 1940s industrial design, particularly in the Manhattan Project's control rooms. This color was chosen for its non-distracting and restful properties, as advocated by color theorist Faber Birren.
The AllSky7 network uses seven highly sensitive cameras to record meteors and fireballs 24/7, covering the full sky with a limiting magnitude of 4 mag. The network's software allows for automatic analysis and sorting of false detections, and data is shared with the public under certain conditions.
claude is officially at one nine of uptime
The author uploaded a paper on local Bernstein theory and lower bounds for Lebesgue constants, motivated by a problem of Erdős on Lagrange interpolation. The paper modifies classical Bernstein-type inequalities to obtain localized versions.
The user created a custom AI chatbot, nullclaw, using IRC protocol and Haiku model, which can clone repos, read code, and provide specific answers to questions about their projects. The system has a minimal attack surface, with a public-facing doorman and a private agent, and uses tiered inference to keep costs under $2/day.
It’s a meme from the turn of the century, an irony to end all ironies. The cheapest computers on the market at the time, which were arguably obsolete the day before you bought them, had stickers on the front bragging they were never obsolete. Of course I’m talking about the eMachines Never Obsolete marketing campaign. Emachines was for a time a very popular line of inexpensive PCs, and the ...
A developer ported the QNX Neutrino operating system to RISC-V, achieving a working shell prompt after 5 years of work. The project, called QRV, is a ground-up reworking of the 32-bit codebase into a 64-bit system, with deliberate simplifications and a focus on preserving the core architecture.
ATLAS achieves 74.6% LiveCodeBench pass rate with a frozen 14B model on a single GPU, up from 36-41% in V2. It uses constraint-driven generation and self-verified iterative refinement for self-hosted AI.
Hong Kong police can now force device unlock with no warrant, risking jail for refusal. Those who refuse to comply or provide fake credentials face up to three years in jail.
Global warming and socio-economic development are driving a surge in air-conditioning use, which emits large quantities of greenhouse gases, exacerbating climate change. The study quantifies global AC-related GHGs and warming impact under five climate scenarios, highlighting the need for a rapid low-carbon cooling transition.
We will use a modified ELO algorithm to rank Apple products. Users will vote on paired options to contribute to the overall community rankings.
Microsoft is updating Windows 11 to address common issues but still requires a Microsoft account. Microsoft Vice President Scott Hanselman is working to relax this requirement but no committed plan is in place.
A native C++ version of a script to parse and count words in a text file uses significantly less memory than a Python version, with a 98.4% reduction in memory usage. This is achieved by avoiding string objects and using string views, as well as disabling exception support in the C++ runtime.
Reco's Principal Data Engineer Nir Barak used AI to reimplement JSONata 2.x in pure Go, resulting in a 1,000x speedup and saving $500K/year. The new implementation, called gnata, eliminated the need for an RPC fleet and allowed for end-to-end batching in the rule engine, saving another $200K/year.
A PowerShell script uses Cloudflare's DNS TXT records to serve the entire DOOM game, compressed into 1964 records across a single zone. This allows users to play DOOM without storing the WAD file on disk, using a .NET game engine and public DNS queries.
The user successfully set up a Tesla Model 3 car computer on their desk by purchasing parts on eBay and using Tesla's electrical reference to connect the components. After several challenges, including a burned power controller chip, the user was able to get the system running and is now exploring the car's operating system and network interfaces.
A supply chain attack was discovered on the litellm package on PyPI, which steals credentials and attempts to exfiltrate them to a malicious domain. The attack was reported to PyPI and the litellm maintainers via email, and a tracking issue was created to monitor the situation.
Whistler is a Common Lisp-based DSL for eBPF that generates highly-optimized eBPF output and allows for direct inlining of code in Lisp programs. It simplifies the eBPF workflow by allowing developers to write Lisp code for both the BPF and userspace sides, eliminating the need for separate build steps and languages.
To install and set up the Hyperagents repository, run installation commands and create a virtual environment. This involves executing potentially untrusted code with associated safety risks.
This open access book examines the legibility of serif and sans serif typefaces in various situations and populations, with implications for education and publishing. It explores the psychology of reading and differences in readers' preferences among typefaces for printed and digital materials.