In a dystopian future, the US has become a chaotic, entertainment-driven society where politics, education, and healthcare have been severely compromised. Corporations have replaced institutions, and people are increasingly desensitized to violence and absurdity.
USC researchers warn that AI chatbots are homogenizing human thought and reducing cognitive diversity, which is crucial for creativity and problem-solving. They suggest incorporating real-world diversity into AI training sets to preserve human cognitive diversity and improve chatbots' reasoning abilities.
Researchers found a 57-year-old bug in the Apollo Guidance Computer's gyro control code that could have caused a lunar mission failure. The bug, a resource lock leak, was discovered using a behavioural specification language and was previously undetected despite extensive scrutiny of the code.
User made a heavy laptop stand with a raw concrete surface, 2 USB ports, and a plant pot, inspired by brutalist architecture. It features exposed rebar, rusted metal, and moss for a weathered look, with a deliberate hole and damaged power cable for added urban decay effect.
49 graphics cards. 30 years. From Quake to Cyberpunk. The complete visual history of every GPU that mattered.
Locker is a self-hosted file storage platform that allows you to upload, organize, and share files from your own infrastructure. It supports local storage, AWS S3, Cloudflare R2, and Vercel Blob with a single environment variable.
In 2002, a unique series of events led to my email address [email protected] being blackholed to prevent our broadband account from being terminated due to excessive spam. The account was eventually removed and is now non-existent, but it's unclear if it still receives email worms.
Can you identify London Underground lines just by their sound? 10 questions, 10 lines. How well do you know the Tube?
The user spent January-July 2025 helping with their wife's family rice farm in rural Japan, learning about the process from preparation to planting. Japan's rice farming system faces challenges due to aging farmers, limited income, and automation, potentially leading to a decline in rural communities.
Video game console security has evolved over the years, with early consoles having little to no protection, and later consoles implementing various security measures such as code signing and cryptographic verification, but still being vulnerable to exploits and hacks. Despite these efforts, console vendors have learned that technical mitigations alone are not enough, and have added service ...
The user recounts their past struggles with implementing floating point arithmetic and their decision to revisit the topic with a deeper understanding, focusing on the IEEE 754 specification and the IEEE float format. They decide to build a custom floating point unit (FPU) for a matrix matrix multiplication systolic array, choosing the bfloat16 format due to its simplicity and ease of ...
A server hosted on a small Hetzner machine running NixOS experienced a sudden surge in traffic, causing disk space issues due to a large influx of users downloading a 2.2GB file. The issues were resolved by clearing unnecessary files, moving the nix store to a separate volume, and disabling nginx buffering, resulting in a stable server with manageable disk usage.
Ghost Pepper is a free, 100% local macOS app for speech-to-text transcription. It runs entirely on Apple Silicon, requiring Accessibility permission for functionality.
OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman was fired by the board after allegations of deception, but was reinstated after a public backlash and pressure from employees. The board's decision to fire Altman was motivated by concerns about his trustworthiness and ability to lead the company.
MIDI Guide, a comprehensive MIDI dataset, was created from an abandoned app project and has grown to over 300 instruments from 98 manufacturers. The project's community-driven growth and use in various hardware and software projects has made it a valuable resource for musicians and synth enthusiasts.
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.
You're revising your LT6502 laptop, a work in progress, with recent updates including graphics and text on screen. Changes include a slimmer design, updated memory map, and code modifications for keyboard and modem functionality.
So is a subset of Go that translates to C with zero runtime and manual memory management. It supports Go syntax, type safety, and tooling for systems programming in C.
Git, VMs, deployments, and execution — unified infrastructure for code you didn't write. The platform for AI app builders and workflow engines.
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.
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AdaShape is a modeler for printable shapes that runs on any Windows 11 PC with an SSD, requiring no GPU or workstation. It offers features like parametric solver, immutable project history, and shape ops for easy design and collaboration.
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.
On March 26, Abbas Araghchi announced that ships from five "friendly nations" could transit the Strait of Hormuz: China, Russia, India, Iraq, Pakistan. Since then, the list has quietly expanded to include Turkey, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, France (one CMA CGM vessel), Japan (one Mitsui OSK LNG tanker), and Oman. Ships from the United States and Israel are permanently barred. ...
The Virtual AGC Website is a comprehensive resource for AGC information, featuring recovered and scanned materials from various sources. It offers documentation, videos, and software for those interested in AGC hardware and software, including core memory and DSKY screen emulation.
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.
Little created AI singer Eddie Dalton, inventing his look, sound, and videos, and is releasing music through iTunes and YouTube. Despite high chart rankings, Eddie Dalton's sales are low, with only 6,900 tracks sold, raising questions about the authenticity of his success.
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.
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HackerRank is transforming developer hiring with AI agents, seeking a Field Development Engineer to help customers implement a new hiring process. The role requires technical fluency and strong communication skills to bridge product and customer teams.