In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants

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Japan aims to capture 30% of the global physical AI market by 2040, driven by labor shortages and demographic pressures. The country is leveraging its industrial strength and expertise in robotics to advance automation and develop full-stack systems integrating hardware, software, and data.

Gemma 4 on iPhone

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AI Edge Gallery is an open-source app for running powerful LLMs on mobile devices offline. It features high-performance Generative AI, Agent Skills, and Thinking Mode for advanced reasoning and creative capabilities.

LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua

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LÖVE is a free, open-source 2D game framework for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS using Lua. It has documentation on its wiki and community support on forums, Discord, and Reddit.

Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]

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Nasa's Artemis II crew saw the far side of the Moon for the first time. They shared a photo of the Orientale basin, marking the first time it's been seen with human eyes.

Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI

The user built a high-quality set of devtools for SQLite called syntaqlite with the help of AI coding agents, which proved to be an incredible force multiplier for implementation but a dangerous substitute for design. The user learned that AI excels at giving the right answer to specific technical questions but lacks sense of history, taste, and human experience, requiring careful use and ...

Running Gemma 4 locally with LM Studio's new headless CLI and Claude Code

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Google's Gemma 4 model is a mixture-of-experts architecture that runs well on local hardware, offering zero API costs, no data leaving the machine, and consistent availability. The 26B-A4B variant is a sweet spot for local inference, delivering roughly 10B dense-equivalent quality at 4B inference cost, making it suitable for tasks like code review, drafting, and testing prompts.

Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick

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Claude Code skill reduces token usage by 75% by speaking like a caveman. It simplifies complex tech explanations into few tokens.

Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold

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Microsoft's GUI ecosystem has failed developers due to internal politics, premature platform bets, and business strategy pivots. This has led to a confusing landscape with multiple frameworks and technologies.

Music for Programming

The list appears to be a collection of electronic music tracks from various artists. The tracks are from different genres and styles.

A tail-call interpreter in (nightly) Rust

The user implemented a tail-call interpreter in Rust using the become keyword, achieving a 40-50% speedup on ARM64 and 2x speedup on x86-64 compared to their previous Rust implementation and hand-coded ARM64 assembly. However, the interpreter still lags behind the assembly backend, and its performance on WebAssembly is significantly worse, with a 1.2-4.6x slowdown compared to native performance.

Computational Physics (2nd Edition) (2025)

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This website offers resources for the book Computational Physics, including sample chapters, programs, and exercises. Users can download and use the material for instruction, learning, or personal interest.

Wavelets on Graphs via Spectral Graph Theory (2009)

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Researchers propose a novel method for constructing wavelet transforms on finite weighted graphs using spectral decomposition of the graph Laplacian. The method involves defining a scaled wavelet operator and localizing it to form invertible graph wavelets.

The Mechanics of Steins Gate (2023) [pdf]

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A brief history of instant coffee

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Instant coffee's development involved overcoming challenges in preserving coffee's flavor and aroma. Innovations like freeze-drying and microgrounds have improved instant coffee's quality, making it a viable option for specialty roasters and consumers.

Nanocode: The best Claude Code that $200 can buy in pure JAX on TPUs

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I'm so excited to share nanocode. This is a library showing you how to train your own Claude Code end-to-end. To a first approximation, we will follow the simplest possible approach for trainin...

The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't

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Switzerland's fast and affordable internet is due to its highly regulated telecom sector with strong oversight and government-backed infrastructure projects. The country's model, which treats fiber infrastructure as a shared asset, allows genuine competition and choice among providers.

OpenJDK: Panama

Project Panama improves Java VM connections to non-Java APIs, including C interfaces. It features foreign memory access and function calls in curated JDK repositories.

Introducing GEN-1 [video]

From birds to brains: My path to the fusiform face area (2024)

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Nancy Kanwisher's path to studying the fusiform face area was unconventional, involving multiple career changes and setbacks before finding success. Her work revealed the basic architecture of the human mind, but also highlighted the limitations of human brain imaging studies compared to animal research.

LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation

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The Document Foundation's growth was initially rapid but was hindered by poor management decisions and conflicts of interest. The foundation has since taken steps to rectify these issues and improve governance.

Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses

Finnish sauna bathing induces immune cell mobilization and changes in circulating cytokines, particularly in response to body temperature changes. The study found associations between sauna-induced heat stress and immune activation, which may partly mediate the health benefits of sauna bathing.

Friendica – A Decentralized Social Network

Musician says AI company is cloning her music, filing claims against her

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Baby's Second Garbage Collector

The author describes the evolution of a garbage collector, from its initial form to its ability to search the native stack for lost objects. The collector's development allows it to efficiently find and manage objects, restoring balance to the dynamic society.

Qwen-3.6-Plus is the first model to break 1T tokens processed in a day

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Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring

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Hightouch is a fast-paced startup that values innovation, kindness, and exceptional talent. It offers competitive compensation, equity, and benefits to support employees' growth and well-being.

The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing

The author argues that the use of AI agents in academic research can lead to a loss of understanding and critical thinking skills among students, as they rely on machines to do the work for them instead of learning through hands-on experience. The author believes that the key to becoming a good scientist is not just producing results, but also developing the ability to think critically and ...

Perfmon – Consolidate your favorite CLI monitoring tools into a single TUI

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Perfmon provides flexibility by allowing users to customize performance monitoring with shell commands via a TOML file. It can be built and configured with a simple make command and a TOML file.

Tracing Goroutines in Realtime with eBPF

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The article discusses how to use eBPF to observe goroutine state changes and memory allocations in Go runtime, and it introduces a tool called xgotop that can be used to trace goroutine lifecycle events in near real-time. The author uses bpftrace to write a PoC that hooks into Go runtime functions and decodes function arguments to observe goroutine lifecycle events, and it provides a simple ...