The Claude team's source code leak is due to excessive dogfooding, where they're trying to avoid looking at the code's internal workings. This leads to poor quality software, as AI coding tools can't fix issues without human guidance.
Anubis is a server protection system using Proof-of-Work to prevent aggressive website scraping. It requires modern JavaScript features and may be disabled by plugins like JShelter.
The author has changed their position on the urgency of rolling out quantum-resistant cryptography due to recent progress in quantum computers, with experts predicting a deadline of 2029, and believes it's now unacceptable to delay the rollout. The author recommends deploying post-quantum key exchange and signatures immediately, and abandoning hybrid classic and post-quantum authentication schemes.
Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin, a 31-year-old Russian, is identified as the elusive hacker UNKN who led ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil. He and another Russian extorted nearly $2 million euros in cyberattacks causing over 35 million euros in economic damage.
sc-im is a customizable input method with direct color support and wide character support for various languages. It needs donations to continue development due to limited sponsoring.
The novel "Antimemetics Division" by qntm is a cosmic horror story about a team fighting invisible threats to reality. It explores the concept of information as a substrate of reality and the fragility of human memory and identity.
Government surplus auctions sell billions of dollars worth of items annually, including vehicles, equipment, and seized assets. GovAuctions aggregates listings from major platforms into one searchable interface, allowing users to browse and bid on deals.
Sky is an experimental programming language that combines go's pragmatism with elm&39's elegance to create a simple, fullstack language. the compiler auto-wires component messages when the naming convention is followed -- no manual forwarding needed in update! the current compiler (v0.7.x) uses any for function parameters and returns. eight compiler source files were refactored to ...
The author has been running a greytrapping experiment on their mail server since 2007, which has grown to over 22 million spamtraps, surpassing the population of Norway. The author shares their experience and insights on running a mail server, greylisting, and greytrapping, and hopes to encourage others to set up their own mail services using tools like OpenBSD and PF.
Claude's performance in complex engineering tasks degraded starting in February due to reduced thinking depth caused by the rollout of thinking content redaction. This led to quality issues, including reduced research effort, increased edit-first behavior, and production of wrong output.
I was hired to help finish an AR bus tour project in Beijing, but the team was in disarray with no version control, poor coding practices, and unrealistic expectations. They failed to pay me $35k after I worked 24 days straight to fix their project.
The watch costs twelve dollars and has basic functionality since 1989. It doesn't track health or require maintenance, unlike modern devices that need constant updates and attention.
This project trains a tiny language model named GuppyLM from scratch in 5 minutes using a Colab notebook, showing how every piece works. GuppyLM is a simple vanilla transformer model trained on 60K synthetic conversations about a fish's life.
Deep Extract is a new agent harness approach to extraction that verifies and corrects its own output until results are accurate. It's particularly powerful for long documents with complex extraction tasks, achieving 99-100% field accuracy.
Microsoft's GUI ecosystem has failed developers due to internal politics, premature platform bets, and business strategy pivots. This has led to a confusing landscape with multiple frameworks and technologies.
PostHog is a company that equips developers with tools like product analytics and feature flags to build successful products. They are hiring various roles and offer a public handbook and compensation calculator.
The user is frustrated with services pushing their apps over web versions, citing lack of control and intrusive features. This "enshittification loop" prioritizes user retention over a good web experience, ultimately reducing the browser to a marketing channel for the App Store.
AI Edge Gallery is an open-source app for running powerful LLMs on mobile devices offline. It features high-performance Generative AI, Agent Skills, and Thinking Mode for advanced reasoning and creative capabilities.
The device is a high-aperture array for EME experiments and radio astronomy, requiring a 12 V DC power supply and an amateur radio license. It's intended for moon-bounce and one unit per person is allowed, with country restrictions applying.
I created a social media site called iitsocial.com that scraped data from IIT Delhi students and allowed anonymous comments, which became extremely popular but also attracted complaints and threats from students and college officials. After a series of confrontations with the dean and security officers, I eventually took the site down, but later relaunched it with moderation, only to shut it ...
An experimental, vibecoded video codec built from scratch using Claude Code agent teams. Explores lapped transforms, perceptual vector quantization (PVQ), and rANS entropy coding as a patent-free alternative to the H.264/H.265 lineage. This was a learning experiment, not a production codec. The goal was to test one-shot agent team workflows on a domain I had zero prior experience in — and to ...
There are essentially two established ways to use zooming in web interfaces today. They serve different purposes and make different tradeoffs. I built a third one, so I'll try to be fair about what each does well and where it falls short. * Prezi Prezi pioneered the zooming canvas for presentations and remains the market leader in that space. It recently added AI-powered generation and ...
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The Bank of France repatriated 129 tonnes of gold from New York to Paris, generating a 13 billion euro capital gain due to rising gold prices. France's gold reserves remain at 2,437 tonnes, now entirely held in Paris, with 134 tonnes to be upgraded by 2028.
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Researchers found that people who accurately assess someone's intelligence tend to be more intelligent themselves. The best judges of intelligence rely on clarity of thought and vocabulary, not appearance or confidence.
LĂ–VE is a free, open-source 2D game framework for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS using Lua. It has documentation on its wiki and community support on forums, Discord, and Reddit.