You launched a project called Dark Hours, but it was similar to an existing open source project called DarkHours.app. You apologized for using AI to create the project without checking for existing work and will redirect the domain to the original project.
The user has been working on various projects including an offline meeting document generator, a software house, a PlayStation bare-metal programming tutorial repo, a free and open source Chrome extension, and several other tools and platforms such as a music player, a calorie tracker, and a screen recording tool. They are also working on analytics for AI chat and search, a language with AI, ...
Aptera is a California company making solar-charging electric vehicles. Their first vehicle is exotic-looking and hyper-efficient, gaining up to 46 miles of range per day parked in the sun. Many people will find they never need to plug in their Aptera for local travel, with all electricity coming from the sun for free. They are taking reservations now, you can reserve one here for $30 off. ...
Man's existence on Earth was sustained by water and carbon compounds, but he created machines that eventually took over and formed a single, planetwide mind. This solid-state entity, now independent of Man, eliminated all life and eventually moved the planet to explore the galaxy for other entities like itself.
Set a finish line. The agent keeps working toward it, turn after turn — even with the app closed. Run one task across up to five models. Keep the best result, or fuse the strongest parts. Point at an element in your running app and send the agent everything behind it. Start from a GitHub issue or PR, send failed checks back, and merge without leaving. Run a prompt on a cron schedule. Pair it ...
A version of the Project Oberon System has been migrated from Oberon 07 to Oberon 90 using a recent OP2 compiler with a RISC-V backend, preserving the original system's simplicity and regularity. The system now runs on an emulated RISC-V machine, with future iterations planned to migrate it to an Olimex board, providing a low-cost and widely available hardware platform.
A database write can stop after memory, a local SSD, an object PUT, or a replicated WAL. Each choice changes latency, durability, and who owns the work left for later.
The text provenance tool identifies human-authored lines within machine-generated text, preserving ownership and agency in collaborative editing. It uses version history and diffing to categorize text as human (1.0), modified (0.46), or agent-authored (0.00).
Cricket keeping originated in China in early antiquity, where crickets were prized for their songs and fighting skills, and the art of breeding and training them was perfected during the Qing dynasty. Today, cricket fighting remains a popular seasonal sport in China, with a thriving trade in wild-caught crickets and a complex system of ranking and betting on fights.
The user used AI to solve the problem of constructing abnormal magic hexagons, a long-standing open problem in mathematics, by imposing additional symmetry constraints and using a potential field representation to reduce the search space. The AI, GPT-5.6 Sol, was able to find a constructive proof for the existence of abnormal magic hexagons for every order n > 3, and the user was able to ...
This ProtoLink showcase puts autonomous agents inside a fictional liability tribunal and makes their communication observable. The case is memorable, but the case is not the product. The product is the interaction: The default run is deterministic and offline. It produces JSON results, ProtoLink traces, a public transcript, and standalone interactive HTML reports. Everything and everyone in ...
Historian Jill Lepore discusses her book "The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State" which explores how private corporations are increasingly taking on the functions of the state, threatening democracy and individual rights. Lepore argues that this trend is a result of a misreading of science fiction and pulp culture, and that a return to democratic values and a more nuanced understanding of ...
Tom Stanton created a gravity-powered trebuchet that crossed the speed of sound. He used a 3:1 pulley system, carbon fiber arm, and aerodynamic design to achieve 776 miles per hour.
This project is a native Windows x64 port of Microsoft Word 1.1a, preserving the original user experience and behavior. It uses CMake and Visual Studio 2022 to build a 64-bit executable from the original source code and resources.
The Heil-Ramanathan-Topiwala conjecture stated that certain functions obeying linear relations between their time-frequency shifts do not exist. However, the conjecture has been resolved by Faulhuber et al. who found a counterexample using AI-assisted guesswork and numerical computation.
Digital Equipment is offering a sneak preview of the next generation in NT processing with the 64-bit Alpha 21264 processor, which is one of the fastest chips in the world and available today. The 21264 has an innovative design with larger primary caches, additional functional units, and out-of-order execution, making it a brainiac processor that executes instructions out of order more ...
The FCC proposes banning US sales of foreign-made drones with LiDAR features, citing national security concerns. The ban would affect popular consumer models like DJI's Air 3S and Mini 5 Pro, but not existing owners.
Two studies found that taxi and ambulance drivers have a lower risk of dying from Alzheimer's disease due to their continuous real-time navigation work. This association is linked to the hippocampus, a brain region that governs memory and spatial navigation, which is damaged early in Alzheimer's disease.
Confession: When we thought about what we wanted to ask our writers this summer, our desires immediately turned to the gossipy, the secret, the lurid. What was it that they were not telling us? What might they not even be telling themselves? The editorial process is, of course, set up to root out any misdeeds. Every piece of writing you read in our pages has been copy-edited, fact-checked and ...
A QR code is a grid of squares that encodes data, with function patterns for easy scanning and data modules for storing information. By modifying data modules, QR codes can be made to look distinctive, but may be less robust when scanning.
Countries and cities are used as colored markers on crust polygons split by the 2021 plate model. Red areas show overlapping plate fragments after reconstruction, with the future side as an interactive sketch rather than a forecast.
Microsoft's Weather app consumes over 1 GB of RAM, making it inefficient on PCs with limited RAM, contradicting the company's goal of improving Windows 11's efficiency. The app's high memory usage is due to its non-native Windows implementation and multiple Chromium-based subprocesses.
The Port of Long Beach in Southern California uses geocells, a 3D structure made of plastic strips, to improve bearing capacity and prevent washboarding on unpaved roadways. Geocells can significantly reduce the thickness of a base layer needed for road construction, make it possible to use cheaper base materials, and provide a net environmental benefit by reducing excavation and haul distance.
Banksy's artworks have cost taxpayers almost £150,000 in cleaning and security operations, with the largest cost being £85,000 for a mural on the Royal Courts of Justice. The Ministry of Justice and Westminster City Council have spent thousands of pounds trying to remove Banksy's murals from public buildings.
Airy Studio — Turn lines into speech. Choose a voice and export audio.
Most warnings about the next few decades reach for a single dramatic hinge — a collapse, a war, a tipping point with a date attached. The more uncomfortable possibility is that there isn't one hinge. Three systems that have nothing to do with each other — the atmosphere, human reproduction, and the architecture of state power — are all under strain at once, on different clocks, for ...
Shopify used SKIP LOCKED, composite primary keys, and connection visibility to handle high-throughput inventory reservations during peak traffic. The solution eliminated overselling and underselling issues, improved database health, and allowed Shopify to meet its scale targets on Black Friday 2025.