UK government study found 0.21% of 6.8 million pageviews used social sharing buttons, with users mostly copying and pasting links instead. Similar low usage rates were found in other studies, with users preferring to copy links or use browser share buttons.
The user has been using local models since their release and has seen significant improvements in accuracy and speed, particularly with the Gemma 4 family, allowing for agentic coding and tasks like refactoring code and writing unit tests. The user is excited about the potential of local models but notes that they still have limitations, such as slow inference and small context windows, and ...
Apple is changing Sign in with Apple and Hide My Email aliases to @private.icloud.com, making it easier to ban them. This change may lead to services rejecting these emails, reducing their usefulness for iCloud+ users.
Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker
To make a GET request in a minimal Docker container, use bash to open a TCP socket with /dev/tcp and write the request by hand. This method works for plaintext HTTP but not HTTPS, and is a bash feature not available in all shells.
Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes, refused to license his characters for merchandise due to artistic integrity concerns. He fought a six-year battle with his syndicate, Universal Press Syndicate, before they agreed to his terms.
A mechanical watch uses a spiral torsion spring to store energy, which is then released to power the watch's hands. The energy is controlled by gears and an escapement mechanism, ultimately regulated by a balance wheel oscillating at a precise rate.
The user has a custom NAS setup using Alpine Linux with a single initramfs containing the entire system. They've created a custom setup using alpine-make-rootfs to build a container image with a simple system configuration.
Researchers at TNO, SURF, and NFI are building a Dutch language model, GPT-NL, with strong governance, transparency, and public values. This independent model strengthens the Netherlands' digital autonomy and provides a foundation for responsible AI applications.
The author built a custom static site generator from scratch, which is an example of yak shaving, a term coined by Carlin Vieri to describe doing a chain of related tasks that eventually lose their original purpose. Yak shaving can be fun but often leads to wasted time and resources.
fn ast_safe_div(a: f32, b: f32) -> f32 { if (abs(b) <= 0.000001) { return 0.0; } return a / b; } fn ast_mod(a: f32, b: f32) -> f32 { if (abs(b) <= 0.000001) { return 0.0; } return a - floor(a / b) * b; } fn ast_eq(a: f32, b: f32) -> bool { return abs(a - b) <= 0.000001; }
Claude's Status Page - Elevated errors across many models.
I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer than I am. A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name. He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, every Netflix show, every TikTok clip. He wrote the code that runs the virtual
The author uses Apple's Vehicle Motion Cues to reduce motion sickness while working in a moving vehicle. This feature, introduced in 2024, uses dots on the screen that move in harmony with the car's motion.
User upgraded home LAN to 10Gb/s using 10GBASE-T modules. A new Broadcom-based module replaced a Marvell-based one that overheated, resolving network issues.
The game Slay the Spire 2 has a bug called correlated RNG (CRNG) that allows players to predict certain random events, such as the curse from Neow's Bones, the first fight's drop rate, and the Doll Room's outcome, due to unexpected correlations between different random number generators. The bug is caused by the C# implementation of the System.Random class, which makes the output linear in ...
Tim Ferriss shares his concerns about the impact of AI on the self-help and non-fiction book industry, citing a 57% drop in print sales of his own books since the launch of LLMs like ChatGPT. He believes that the trend will continue and that the industry will need to adapt by focusing on long-form content, personal connections, and unique experiences that AI cannot replicate.
Jane Street is now excited about formal methods after being skeptical due to high costs. They're building a team to make formal methods useful for software development.
The user's AI reflex-app builder generates massive Python code, but running reflex compile finds issues one at a time, increasing latency. To fix this, the user built a custom linter, but it was slow due to ast.walk, which they optimized by rewriting it in Rust and caching subclass information.
The Qwen-Robot Suite bridges the gap between vision and language understanding and physical control with three foundation models: Qwen-RobotNav, Qwen-RobotManip, and Qwen-RobotWorld. These models enable an agentic system where general intelligence translates directly into physical action.
SubQ 1.1 Small is a new AI model that removes the constraint of attention compute, enabling direct reasoning over large artifacts. It achieves near-perfect long-context retrieval and reduces attention compute by up to 64.5x compared to dense attention.
Curated reactive Haskell notebooks.
Databricks introduced LTAP, a new data processing architecture that unifies OLAP and OLTP on a single copy of data in the lake, eliminating ETL and replicas. LTAP is built on Lakebase, which serves thousands of customers and handles 12 million database launches per day.
Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker
VoiceDraw turns your words into architecture diagrams. Speak or type what you want to build — the AI renders it in real time. This tour covers everything in under a minute.
The website is blocked due to security reasons after a suspicious action was detected. Please email the site owner with the Cloudflare Ray ID and details of the action that triggered the block.
Snap built SPECS, a wearable computer that uses augmented reality to help people engage with the world around them, rather than pulling them away. SPECS are designed to be natural, with a 51-degree field of view, 16 million colors, and a lightweight design, making computing useful in the moment.
Ollie Wagner, Apple's first emoji designer, shared his experience designing over 300 emojis in 2008. He worked from a SoftBank spreadsheet, applying Apple's visual language to hundreds of symbols, with Steve Jobs' final approval.
The user created 25 generative art designs using Perlin flow fields in Processing, experimenting with various parameters and techniques to achieve unique results. The process helped the user understand how to practice creativity within self-imposed constraints.