Zed is a new editor built from scratch with a custom UI framework, GPUI, to provide a fundamentally better coding experience. Version 1.0 is now available, offering AI-native editing, collaboration features, and a growing list of capabilities.
AI company Anthropic claims its new model Claude Mythos is too powerful and could have catastrophic consequences if released. Critics argue this is fear-mongering to distract from the company's real-world damage.
Tangled aims to decentralize code collaboration by allowing events to be federated among git servers, enabling cross-server collaboration and hosting. It uses Authenticated Transfer to share events and social features, breaking free from GitHub's monoculture.
code.overheid.nl is a government-wide code platform for open-source software, currently a pilot using Forgejo. Developers are invited to contribute and join the platform by emailing [email protected].
The author has been using GitHub daily for 18 years, finding it the place where they've been happiest and most productive. However, due to frequent outages and reliability issues, they've decided to leave GitHub and move their project Ghostty to a new platform.
An AWS engineer found PostgreSQL throughput dropped by half on Linux 7.0 due to minor page faults while holding a spinlock. Enabling huge pages reduces faults and eliminates TLB pressure.
Mistral Vibe moves coding agents to the cloud, running in parallel and notifying users when done. Mistral Medium 3.5, a new default model, powers cloud agents and Le Chat's Work mode for complex tasks.
Researchers found that friendly AI chatbots are 30% less accurate and 40% more likely to support false beliefs, including conspiracy theories. The trade-off between friendliness and accuracy is a concern as chatbots handle sensitive information in roles like digital companions and therapists.
🧵 THREAD 1/ Online age verification is the hill to die on. Not a fight you can sit out. Not a battle you can skip. Not a policy you can afford to ignore while you focus on something else. This is it. This is the line. This is the infrastructure that enables every other piece of the digital control grid. If we lose this fight, we lose everything.
LLMs are increasingly deployed to produce structured data from unstructured and semi-structured sources, parsing invoices, medical records, meeting transcripts, and converting PDFs to database rows. For deterministic output, the next step in a workflow reads a specific key and expects a specific type. A hallucinated invoice_total or an array ordered incorrectly because of inaccurate date ...
This project aims to create a low-cost, research-validated stethoscope with freely available plans. The goal is to produce the stethoscope for approximately USD$1-2.
Using FastCGI as a protocol for proxy-to-backend communication can avoid HTTP's pitfalls, such as desync vulnerabilities, by providing clear message boundaries and domain separation between client and proxy headers. FastCGI is a 30-year-old protocol that is still usable today, but its lack of awareness and outdated tooling may hinder its adoption despite its potential benefits.
Researchers at Great Ormond Street Hospital studied ICU handovers and applied lessons from Ferrari and aviation to improve safety. They developed a four-stage process that reduced errors and improved patient care.
Tim Paterson's DOS source code listings are available for browsing and compilation. The listings include 86-DOS 1.00 kernel and PC-DOS 1.00 pre-release kernels.
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Stardex is an AI-native ATS and CRM built for executive search and recruiting firms. We're backed by Y Combinator and serve some of the leading US based executive search firms. Our customers are operators, they make money when they make placements, so every minute of downtime matters to them. We've been growing fast, and our founders have been handling support directly. We've hit ...
Canonical disclosed 44 CVEs in uutils, a Rust reimplementation of GNU coreutils. The bugs highlight the importance of careful handling of paths, bytes, and syscalls in systems code.
A Firefox extension called adblock-rust-manager enables and manages Firefox's built-in adblock-rust engine. It provides a user interface to disable ETP, add filter lists, and reorder them for better ad blocking.
The 10th Circuit Court ruled that the Second Amendment applies to buying, selling, and possessing firearms parts without serial numbers. This ruling may allow gun owners to challenge charges related to unserialized parts based on their Second Amendment rights.
The author reflects on GitHub's decline and its impact on the Open Source community, remembering a time when projects were more decentralized and had more autonomy. They advocate for a public archive to preserve Open Source history and suggest that the community should learn from the past to build a more resilient future.
OpenAI's ad platform injects ad units into ChatGPT conversations and tracks clicks with Fernet-encrypted tokens. The platform uses two domains and specific cookies to track ad events and user behavior.
Rocky is a Rust-based control plane for warehouse pipelines with features like branches, replay, and compile-time safety. It helps prevent data corruption and provides column-level lineage and cost attribution.
An autonomous research loop was tested outside its comfort zone, achieving a 92% improvement over a baseline VexRiscv CPU on CoreMark iter/sec. The loop's success was due to a verifier that caught and rejected incorrect hypotheses.
SHRDLU is a 1968-1970 AI program that allows users to interact with a virtual blocks world using English commands. It uses a simple language parser and memory to understand and respond to user queries.
HardenedBSD's Radicle integration is now usable, but still has performance issues and needs further work. Users should configure Radicle to support larger repos by editing ~/.radicle/config.json.
The internet has lost many services and platforms over the years, including ICQ, MSN Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, and others. These services were once popular but eventually shut down or merged with other platforms.
The Withnail coat from the 1987 film Withnail & I is a distinctive and iconic piece of men's clothing. It was designed by Andrea Galer and made from a unique Heather Brown tweed fabric.
Physics can help reduce coffee waste by optimizing brewing techniques, such as grind size and pouring height, to improve extraction and quality. By understanding the complex process of coffee brewing, scientists can provide insights to the coffee industry to reduce waste and help the environment.
Matt Garman and Sam Altman discussed how AWS and OpenAI are partnering to make AI more accessible to businesses, with Bedrock Managed Agents being a key product that integrates OpenAI models with AWS infrastructure. The integration of models and harnesses is crucial for making AI work effectively, and the partnership aims to make it easier for businesses to build and deploy AI-powered agents.
A Colorado bill that would have undone repair protections failed in a 7-to-4 vote. Repair advocates won the battle, but expect the fight to continue as lobbyists push for similar bills in other states.