The map that keeps Burning Man honest

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You ran a successful campaign to find 15 more paying members of Not-Ship. You're now taking a break from writing "pay if you love this work" emails after two weeks.

Agents need control flow, not more prompts

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Reliable agents need deterministic control flow encoded in software, not elaborate prompt chains. Deterministic scaffolds and aggressive error detection are necessary for reliable systems prone to silent failure.

Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text

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Researchers developed Natural Language Autoencoders (NLAs) to understand AI model activations by converting them into human-readable text. NLAs help improve AI safety and reliability by revealing internal thoughts and motivations.

AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields

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AlphaEvolve is a system that optimizes AI and hardware design, achieving breakthroughs in efficiency and speed. It has been used by various companies to solve complex problems, including optimizing transformer models, computational lithography, and routing challenges.

DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal

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ds4.c is a native inference engine for DeepSeek V4 Flash, a large language model with unique characteristics that make it suitable for local inference on high-end personal machines. The engine provides a Metal-only implementation with a KV cache that allows for long-context inference and persistence, and is designed to work with the DeepSeek V4 Flash GGUFs.

AI Slop Is Killing Online Communities

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The author is frustrated with the internet being overrun with AI-generated content that adds no value to communities. They argue that sharing low-quality AI work can be detrimental to communities and stifle organic growth.

Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria

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The Pathways to Choice programme in northern Nigeria delayed girls' marriage by 80% and increased school attendance by 70 percentage points. This multipronged intervention had a net return of $1,627 per $1,000 invested and a benefit-cost ratio of 2.41.

Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers

User needs to register or sign in with developer credentials and ensure a unique User-Agent string to access the application. Alternatively, try resetting to default User-Agent or file a ticket for assistance.

Principles for agent-native CLIs

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I want to live like Costco people

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The author, a former Costco skeptic, has become a member and is embracing the Costco lifestyle, finding comfort in its familiarity and convenience. He reflects on the diverse people and experiences within Costco, where every phase of life can be shopped for.

PySimpleGUI 6

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PySimpleGUI version 6 is released with new features and bug fixes, replacing version 5. The project is now open source and available on GitHub and PyPI.

OpenBSD Stories: The closest thing to cute kittens (OpenBSD/zaurus)

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A few cats machines are coming to the uk. <deraadt' paid for that too - don't know how long i can get it from the uk ;-) on february 12th, gareth simpson of simtec sent an email which apologized for some mistakes in the board configurations, due to them having been prepared quite hastily. 2) one of the boards was incorrect

The Self-Cancelling Subscription

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A family's streaming subscription was unexpectedly deactivated due to a credit card expiration issue. The problem was resolved after un-linking and re-linking the accounts, revealing a delayed and repeatable failure mode in the system's asynchronous workflow.

Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE

Message-ID: <afzgS2SCWNcZU3vU@v4bel> Date: Fri, 8 May 2026 03:56:11 +0900 From: Hyunwoo Kim <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE Hi, This is a report on "Dirty Frag", a universal LPE that allows obtaining root privileges on all major distributions. This vulnerability has a similar impact to ...

RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust

RaTeX is a Rust-based math rendering engine that ships SDKs for various platforms and supports chemistry and units. It offers predictable timing and avoids browser stacks for mobile UIs and servers.
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The US Library of Congress recommends SQLite, XML, JSON, and CSV as storage formats for datasets due to their high chance of survival and accessibility. These formats are chosen based on disclosure, adoption, transparency, external dependencies, patent impact, and technical protection mechanisms.

Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI

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Motherboard sales are collapsing due to AI shortages and chipmakers prioritizing AI processor production, leading to a 33% decrease in Asus sales and a 28% contraction in the overall motherboard market. PC builders are holding off upgrades, causing motherboard manufacturers to revise sales targets downward and offer discounts on combos to clear inventory.

MPEG-2 Transport Stream Packaging for Media over QUIC Transport

This document extends the MOQT Streaming Format by registering the 'm2ts' packaging value for carrying MPEG-2 Transport Stream packets over Media Over QUIC Transport. It defines catalog fields for transport-stream track description and receiver behavior for joining and validating packetized streams.

Colored Shadow Penumbra

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Some time ago I saw this effect implemented by Romain Durand on a social media post where the penumbra regions of a light’s shadows would get additional color, known as Colored Penumbra or Colored Shadow Terminator. I really liked the effect and took a stab at it, and now I’m making it available. If you’re curious this Medium article by Shahriar Shahrabi goes through some of the theory. ...

Printing Blogs

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The user printed out 5 blogs, including Paul Graham's essays, Marginal Revolution, Max Hodak's blog, guzey.com, and their own blog, using a home printer and manual formatting. They used a combination of automated and manual methods to select and format the content.

Show HN: Stage CLI – an easier way of reading your AI generated changes locally

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A viewer for reviewing local code changes in small individual chapters. Works with any AI agent. - ReviewStage/stage-cli

GovernGPT (YC W24) Is Hiring Engineers to Build Thinking Systems in Montreal

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We're a YC-backed startup building AI agents to automate investment fundraising, seeking a backend engineer to own our metadata-enriched database. The role involves building autonomous systems, collaborating with ICs, and working with a team of A-player technologists.

Nobody Reviews Compiler Output

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Philip Su's recent post argues that code reviews are not just impractical in the age of coding agents, they're headed toward being irresponsible. He's right on trend. But I think the framing of "lights-out codebases" skips over the more interesting and uncomfortable question: why does lights-out feel so scary, and what does that fear actually tell us? The answer, I think, ...

OurCar: What I learned making an app for my family

The user built an app called OurCar to help their family share a car, solving issues like gas bill splitting and car location tracking. The app was built using Flutter and Pocketbase, and while it was a successful prototype, it never reached a 1.0 release due to the family's relocation and lack of interest from other users.

Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989

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TRUST is a retro Rust IDE inspired by classic DOS environments, allowing file saving with F2 or Ctrl+S. It's an independent nostalgia project with features like project creation and compiler output display.

How Cloudflare responded to the “Copy Fail” Linux vulnerability

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Cloudflare's Security and Engineering teams quickly assessed and mitigated the "Copy Fail" Linux kernel vulnerability, ensuring no customer data was at risk and no services were disrupted. The team used existing behavioral detections, bpf-lsm, and eBPF tracing to identify and block the exploit, with all machines in the fleet protected within hours.

Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)

This is a TI-83 Plus BASIC programming tutorial for beginners, covering topics such as DISP, OUTPUT, LBL/GOTO, END/PAUSE, MENU, INPUT/PROMPT, and more, with examples and exercises to practice programming skills. The tutorial also covers advanced topics like FOR, WHILE, IF, THEN, ELSE, OR, STRINGS, GETKEY, RAND, RANDINT, iPART, and fPART, as well as drawing functions like CLRDRAW, TEXT, LINE, ...

Brazil's Pix Payment System Faces Pressure from Visa and Mastercard

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Brazil's Pix payment system has surpassed Visa and Mastercard in transaction volume, but faces a US-led commercial investigation into anti-competitive practices. The Brazilian government defends Pix, calling it a "national treasure" and enhancing its functionalities to promote competition.

ZAYA1-8B matches DeepSeek-R1 on math with less than 1B active parameters

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Zyphra's ZAYA1-8B model performs well on math benchmarks with less than 1 billion active parameters, trained on AMD hardware. It's a reasoning and math specialist, outperforming larger models on certain tasks with the help of a custom inference method called Markovian RSA.

ProgramBench: Can language models rebuild programs from scratch?

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Researchers created ProgramBench to evaluate software engineering agents' ability to develop software holistically. Agents struggled to fully resolve tasks, favoring monolithic implementations that differ from human-written code.