User wants to create a homebrew router using a Linux-powered device, such as a mini-PC, to bypass a US policy banning new consumer router imports.
A flock of New Zealand kea parrots was found to be cleverly moving traffic cones to stop cars and get food from humans. Researchers have developed various tests to measure bird intelligence, including the mirror test, Aesop's Fable, and delayed gratification test.
The author uses a four-part note-taking system, with the most useful method being writing by hand in paper notebooks. They date every page and use an index to organize their notes, allowing them to easily find information later.
Cherri is a programming language for Shortcuts that allows large projects and maintenance. It has a package manager, type checking, and a GUI IDE for macOS.
Anchorgrid.ai's door detection service processes PDFs in 2-4 minutes per job, scaling with page count and complexity. Upgrading to Pro or Enterprise plans uses dedicated GPU infrastructure for faster detection.
Washington state law signed by Rep Liz Berry outlaws noncompete agreements, effective June 30, 2027. Employers must notify workers about voided agreements by October 1, 2027.
build123d is a Python-based CAD framework for 2D and 3D modeling, built on Open Cascade. It offers algebraic modeling and a clean, Pythonic interface for precise models.
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AI is a natural evolution of human tools, facilitating idea creation and dissemination. Its development should remain human-centered to enhance quality of life and expand human thought.
The FTC took action against OkCupid and Match Group for sharing users' personal info with an unrelated third party despite promises to protect it. OkCupid and Match are now prohibited from misrepresenting their privacy policies.
Cloudflare's Turnstile program collects 55 properties from a user's browser, including font measurements, storage, and React application data, to verify the user is running a real browser with a fully rendered ChatGPT application. The program uses a custom VM with a server-generated XOR key to collect and encrypt the fingerprint data, which is then sent as the OpenAI-Sentinel-Turnstile-Token ...
The author is concerned about social media's decline into a platform for automation and fake human interaction, where people use AI tools to post and comment on behalf of others. They advocate for authenticity and honesty, urging creators to be present and human on social media, rather than relying on virtual doubles.
The author built an NSFW filter for a search engine using a single hidden layer neural network, trained on a dataset of labeled search results. The filter was implemented from scratch and performed well, with a 20-30% agreement with a classifier using open-source models.
The team switched from Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve due to a desire for a lightweight infrastructure stack that fit their workflow. They wanted a setup that stayed simple and direct under repetition, allowing them to focus on their work rather than managing infrastructure.
The demo scene initially tolerated copying due to technical limitations, but as it evolved, artists began to value originality and craft over plagiarism. Today, many sceners reject AI-generated art and plagiarism, valuing the creative process and technical limitations that define the scene.
Coasts is a CLI tool for running isolated dev environments on a single machine with a local UI. It works with existing Docker setups and is offline-first with no vendor lock-in risk.
User created an Excalidraw extension to generate SVGs for light and dark mode, but it caused frustration due to dependency on text changes. They then created a new extension that automatically exports frames as SVGs in both modes, allowing for local review and reference.
The user's writing skills have deteriorated due to over-reliance on AI tools for grammar and vocabulary checks, causing them to lose their unique voice and creative expression. They are seeking advice on how to regain their writing skills and focus on their own voice, rather than relying on AI assistance.
One reason to have a blog is that posting is a proactive way to build parasocial relationships. I’m using relationships in the usual sense: how one person relates to another. I'm using parasocial in the sense introduced by Horton and Wohl in their 1956 paper Mass Communication and Para-Social Interaction. They begin: One of the striking characteristics of the new mass media—radio, ...
A seminal 1952 paper lays the foundation for optimal control and reinforcement learning. bellman extended his work to continuous-time systems, turning the optimal condition into the pde. he estimates $v_kapprox valpha_j$ by monte carlo rollouts of the closed-loop sde and fits $v_theta$ via regression. $$ learned value function matches the exact power-law $
Voyager 1, a 48-year-old spacecraft, is still functioning and transmitting data from interstellar space despite having only 69 kilobytes of memory and an 8-track tape recorder. It has made numerous discoveries and is now the most distant human-made object in the universe, carrying a golden record with sounds of Earth for potential extraterrestrial life.
A comprehensive benchmark of 29 C++ hashmaps was conducted, evaluating 174 combinations of hashmaps with different allocators and hashes, resulting in 1914 benchmark evaluations. The benchmark results show that Google's Abseil's absl::flat_hash_map and ankerl::unordered_dense::map are among the fastest hashmaps, with excellent performance in various scenarios, including search, insertion, and ...
DigitalOcean increased its offering to over 10.38 million shares, expecting to close on March 26. The funding will be used for capacity expansion, paying down debt, and general corporate purposes.
A team member used Copilot to edit a PR description, adding ads for itself and Raycast. This is seen as an abuse of the platform's features for self-promotion.
VHDL's delta cycle algorithm preserves determinism in a concurrent language by separating signal value updates and process evaluations into distinct phases. In contrast, Verilog's nonblocking assignments do not solve the problem of non-determinism in general, although they can provide determinism in synchronous designs.
The creator of Waterfox, a 64-bit Firefox build, shares its 15-year history, from 50,000 downloads to 1M monthly active users. Despite financial struggles, the browser remains independent and committed to user privacy.
Ninja binaries are available on GitHub for Linux, Mac, and Windows. To use Ninja, run ./ninja -h for help or copy misc/ files for features like Bash completion.
The ISO C++ committee completed technical work on C++26 in London, resolving international comments and producing a final document for approval. C++26 features include reflection, improved memory safety, and language contracts.
Files extracted from SAILDART archive include LT, TA, TB, TOP6, and CON6, with documentation and logs to be committed. The software is in the public domain, funded by the USA government through ARPA.
Bitwarden's Agent Access SDK allows AI agents to access credentials with human approval, eliminating the need for agents to store API keys. OneCLI, an open-source gateway, injects credentials into requests at the network layer, ensuring secure credential handling.