AI financial advice is surprisingly good if you ask the right questions

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Researchers found that AI financial advice can be good but gets better with structured prompts. Following AI advice can result in sizable savings for individuals above 30, but it may not adjust well to life changes and relies on simple rules.

Diátaxis

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Diátaxis is a systematic approach to documentation that identifies four needs and forms of documentation: tutorials, how-to guides, technical reference, and explanation. It helps maintainers think effectively about their work and has been successfully adopted in hundreds of documentation projects.

Seedance 2.5

Seedance 2.5 is a new video creation model that can generate high-quality, long-form videos with greater control and creativity, allowing users to produce complex stories and scenes with ease. The model has improved capabilities in multimodal reference generation, editing, and lighting control, making it suitable for various industries such as education, manufacturing, and film production.

Stop fucking around with database commits and transactions

Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576

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A soundness bug in Lean's kernel was reported and fixed on July 27, allowing a proof of False to be accepted. The bug was only reachable through metaprogramming and has been fixed along with other related bugs found by nanoda and an AI.

Unraveling the mysteries of habit formation

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Kyoto, Japan -- Habit formation describes the repeated performance of a behavior until it becomes routine: in other words, the shift from deliberate to automatic decision-making. This concept is often invoked as a way to improve one's life by making a routine of beneficial activities that can otherwise feel tedious, such as cleaning, studying, and regular exercise. That repeating the same ...

But can your calculator run Linux?

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The user is interested in running Linux on the HP Prime G2 calculator, which has a powerful ARM Cortex A7 CPU and 256 MB RAM, and has successfully updated an old Linux port to work with the calculator's newer touchscreen controller and keyboard. The user has made a pre-built download available for the calculator, which can be run without compiling the entire Linux system, and has also added ...

Morph (YC S23) Is Hiring Member of Technical Stuff

We're hiring a performance engineer to optimize Morph's inference infrastructure, making it faster, cheaper, and more reliable. The ideal candidate has expertise in GPU performance, Python, and complex system optimization.

CISA Alert: Water Sector PLC Targeting

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CISA issued an alert warning of increased threat actor targeting of internet-exposed PLCs in Water and Wastewater Systems, causing boil-water notices and manual operations. Exposed hosts include 4,148 Rockwell/Allen-Bradley, 4,117 Siemens, and 2,072 Schneider Electric devices.

The Art of 64-bit Assembly

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The book covers advanced programming topics including macros, Unicode strings, and object-oriented programming. It also covers concurrent programming, exception handling, and advanced parameter implementation.

How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)

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Google has a history of building products with RSS support, then removing it, which has led to a decline in RSS adoption. This behavior poses a threat to the freedom and openness of the internet, as users lose trust in RSS feeds due to Google's inconsistent support.

Nyctography: A substituton cypher by Lewis Carroll

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Lewis Carroll invented Nyctography, a substitution cipher, and the Nyctograph device in 1891 to write in the dark. It uses a system of dots and strokes on a gridded card with 16 square holes to represent an alphabet and record thoughts without light.

Just because a game is on disc doesn't mean it will work in the future

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DoesItPlay found that 27% of physical game releases require downloads to function, with 34% of PS5 and 50% of Xbox Series X games needing them. This trend is seen as a disregard for physical games by larger companies.

NetBSD 11.0

NetBSD 11.0 is released with various ISO images, including CD-ROM and DVD options, and users are advised to check installation notes for their architecture. The release includes fixes for security issues, such as hdaudio and ipfilter vulnerabilities, and open pullup requests will be committed to the stable branch for the upcoming 11.1 release.

RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches

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Ripgrep occasionally crashes with a SIGSEGV when searching very-large trees at high concurrency due to a heap metadata assertion failure in MUSL's mallocng. The bug can be reproduced by running a generated tree of 1.8M files with 20GiB of data and searching for an arbitrary string in a loop.

Beltrunner: Game Design Postmortem

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2026-07-30 14 mins read true Last week I shared a look at an arcade-faithful version of Asteroids to demonstrate the totally new way of making games that I’ve been working on. It’s called Jinks and it’s a lightweight game-engine, interactive development environment, and a language of sorts. This post is a game design postmortem for BELTRUNNER, an original game built from the same bones of ...

Explorative modeling: Train on the best of K guesses

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Explorative Modeling is a new paradigm for generative modeling that increases generative expressivity by exploring multiple possible answers during training, improving existing models across images, video, and language. This approach enables end-to-end generation and scales generalization, with gains growing with model and data scale.

Glyphs 4 – the leading Mac font editor

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Glyphs 4 is a leading Mac font editor that allows users to draw quickly, manage efficiently, and release with confidence. It offers various features such as customizable shapes, blending modes, and opacities, as well as a powerful left sidebar and kerning assistant.

Pgtestdb's template cloning approach to testing is fast

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The user compared pgtestdb, a Go/Postgres testing package, to River's schema-based testing approach and found both to have similar setup times around 100 ms. However, River's approach is faster overall due to its optimization of reusing test schemas.

Kenji/Serious Eats – 30-Min Pressure Cooker Pho Ga

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Linux on ESP32

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A custom CLIC driver is needed for S31 due to Linux expecting PLIC. OpenSBI was modified for XIP in flash and internal SRAM to save PSRAM memory.

Kaisel – Routes as Values. Dart 3 Native Router for Flutter

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The guide provides a quick setup for navigation with typed routes, using sealed classes and exhaustive switches for error-free routing. It uses a List of route objects for history management, with operations like push, pop, and set.

Show HN: Legionlinuxtui – Control Lenovo legion laptops in the terminal

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Ensure that the Lenovo Legion Linux Drivers and lm_sensors are installed properly on your system. You can install legionlinuxtui without having the NUR setup by using my NUR flake directly. legionlinuxtui-git builds from the latest commit from the main branch (rolling release) and legionlinux builds from each tagged version, so pick your poison. The application needs sudo privileges for I/O; ...

RamenHaus

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Welcome to RamenHaus, home of rotating ramen. So far, 114 bowls have been photographed, slurped and posted. Start with the latest entry, click a bowl to continue, or browse the complete index. Inspired by Lauren's Rotating Sandwiches and everyone at Naive Yearly. Ideas, collaborations, and questions: [email protected].

A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention

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Canada signed the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime, a treaty that critics say enables cross-border surveillance and electronic evidence sharing. The decision raises concerns about human rights and state surveillance powers, despite Canada's previous opposition to the treaty.

Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export

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Cursor updated its Usage window to display token amount instead of dollar signs. You're not alone in experiencing issues, as some users report increased bugs, including auto-selecting sub-agents despite default settings.

The Burau representation of the braid group is faithful for n = 4

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Researchers Tara E Brendle and others prove the Burau representation of the classical braid group is faithful for n = 4. This result also implies the Jones representation of the braid group is faithful for n = 4.

Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era

Register deprivation: spills and runtime under forced register scarcity

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Researchers measured the effect of reserving registers on kernel performance. Reserving registers increases spills and slows down eight of nine kernels, with the ninth kernel showing no slowdown despite a 23 spill increase.

Anime User Interfaces

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