The user found 10,000 GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware by analyzing commit patterns and using a script to filter repositories. The script found 10,000 repositories that matched the pattern of being updated every few hours with a link to a zip archive in the readme file, but the user believes there should be many more due to GitHub's large repository count.
The Federal Palace in Bern is bustling with activity as the National Council and Council of States debate various important issues during their summer session. The agenda includes the 13th AHV pension, the armed forces, federal finances, and the construction of new nuclear power plants.
I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining OpenAI and look forward to working with the exceptional team there. It was a difficult decision to move on. I’m incredibly proud of the amazing team at Google and everything we’ve built together. It has been an honor and a pleasure to work with all of you.
Universities and hospitals are conducting late-stage clinical trials with lower costs, repurposing existing drugs for new uses. This "hidden" research system offers affordable treatments with huge potential, operating outside of the patent system.
TesterArmy is a service that uses AI to test websites and mobile apps by navigating pages and interacting with UI like a human. It integrates with GitHub and other pipelines for automatic testing and reporting.
The Agentic Resource Discovery Specification (ARD) solves the problem of discovering available capabilities for AI clients. ARD lets clients ask what agentic resources can help with a task, returning matching capabilities with details on who provides them.
CS 6120 is a PhD-level Cornell CS course on programming language implementation covering universal compilers and research topics. The course involves reading papers and open-source hacking tasks using LLVM and an educational IR.
The user discusses the concept of the "Harajuku Moment" where a person experiences a sudden realization or epiphany that drives them to make significant changes in their life, such as losing weight or improving their finances. The user shares their own experiences and insights, including the importance of tracking data, using analogies, and finding a simple system that works, to achieve their ...
Craig Newmark, Craigslist founder, donates half a billion dollars to charity, giving away his wealth to those in need. He believes in kindness over riches, inspired by his childhood lessons from Holocaust survivors.
The author is skeptical of RTK's long-term viability due to its misleading savings statistic and critical structural flaws. RTK's optimization may lead to silent failures and decreased task accuracy, making it an operational risk.
The author built a log-structured merge tree in Go and optimized it from 250,000 to nearly 2 million writes per second by profiling and fixing bottlenecks one at a time. The optimizations included memory-mapping the write-ahead log and SSTable files, using a streaming k-way merge for compaction, and correctly sizing the bloom filter.
Modos Flow is a 13.3-inch color e-paper monitor with higher resolution and touch input, improving on the Paper Monitor Dev Kit. The Flow's crowdfunding campaign is live on Crowd Supply, with cofounders discussing engineering and lessons learned from their crowdfunding journey.
Submit your website to various platforms for backlinks and visibility. Choose from launch directories, review marketplaces, and founder networks to reach target audiences and improve search engine rankings.
I will draw district lines to favor the yellow party. I will use gerrymandering techniques like packing and cracking to concentrate yellow voters in a few districts and split opponents across multiple districts.
The author chose Emacs as their primary editor due to its wide range of language support and ease of use on Windows. They eventually switched to Linux and continued using Emacs, learning to customize it effectively over time.
← back to writing We're going to use concrete numbers to ground these intuitions. Let's say you have an implicit valuation of $50m for an early-stage startup. That is, you would exchange $500k for 1% of the equity in the startup, and you're relatively indifferent between the two. Now let's say you're considering working at this startup, with a standard 4-year vesting ...
The user is fascinated by W Social, a microblogging platform that claims to be Europe's alternative to X, but has discrepancies between its public image and reality. The European Commission's migration of its ATproto accounts to W Social is concerning due to W Social's lack of transparency and potential reliance on Bluesky's infrastructure.
The author shares new features in Emacs 31, a pre-release version, that make the editor more efficient and user-friendly. These features include improved tree-sitter support, a markdown mode, and various usability enhancements.
The Trump administration’s move to impose export controls on Anthropic’s most powerful AI technology followed a spat over the company granting South Korean telecom giant SK Telecom access to its Claude Mythos model, according to people familiar with the matter. US officials were concerned about what they alleged were SK Telecom’s ties to China, those people said. Those concerns appear to have ...
A lot has happened in transformer quantization over the past few years, from barely being able to quantize a 7B model in INT8 without destroying accuracy, to routinely fitting a 70B model in 4-bits on a single GPU. But existing guides on the topic are fragmented: either focused on a specific technique or on how to use a library. I’ve been working on integer quantization for fixed-point ...
Git has three levels of file ignoring: .gitignore, .git/info/exclude, and ~/.config/git/ignore. These files allow ignoring files at repository, per-repo, and machine levels respectively.
Alberta, a Canadian province, has been rat-free for over 70 years despite being surrounded by infested areas. Its success is due to a proactive rat control program that began in the 1950s, focusing on a narrow border zone and using a combination of surveillance, education, and targeted poisoning.
The A2A protocol is an agent to agent protocol from Google. I was looking at it 6 months back but it didn't feel like I really understood how to use it at that point. Probably because we were all still trying to figure out agents and then the MCP protocol became quite a big deal. But now I'm starting to think that once an agent has tools and services and data and then contacts. ...
Meta and TerraPower agreed to develop up to eight Natrium reactor plants, providing 2.8 GW of carbon-free energy. Meta will fund the deployment of the plants, with delivery starting as early as 2032.
I'm here looking through logs on my unnamed reverse proxy and CDN service. The crawler bot swarm has been hitting my PHP application like I've upset them so I'm seeing which weird user agent strings are being allowed to connect. There's "Sogou" and "meta-webindexer" and a small number of requests from "SleepBot/1.0" The ASN is Google and the UA string ...
Microsoft's new Outlook for Windows has a notification problem where clicking a notification takes 10 seconds to open the email, compared to 5 seconds when opening Outlook directly. The issue is due to the app's WebView2 architecture, which is a Chromium-based rendering engine that slows down the notification process.
Midjourney is building a machine to reimagine healthcare and body relationships with a new kind of medical imaging. The goal is to make regular health scans accessible and affordable for everyone, potentially preventing 30% of deaths and 50% of healthcare costs.
Agent Builder is now available and uses a persistent memory layer for agents, which is built on Elasticsearch and structured around three categories from cognitive science: episodic, semantic, and procedural memory. The memory system includes features such as hybrid recall with reranking, supersession for contradictions, and per-user Document-Level Security (DLS) isolation, and is designed to ...
Arbee used AI to help debug MAME's Power Macintosh emulation, which led to significant progress. The AI, along with Arbee's supervision, found and fixed several bugs, including issues with the PowerPC emulation, 6522 VIA emulation, and PowerPC 601 emulation.