sAT Protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based on static sites where users own and control their data. Users follow each other by mutual consent and data is encrypted and stored on their own websites, accessible only to those they follow.
WireGuard is a cryptographic protocol that encrypts UDP datagrams, allowing for secure data transfer without the need for a VPN or complex key management. A .NET library called wg-client provides a simple way to use WireGuard for encryption, making it suitable for use in embedded devices, IoT applications, and other environments where TLS is too heavy or complex.
Jason Williams, a senior software engineer at Bloomberg, discusses the development of Temporal, a new JavaScript API for dates and times. Temporal is the result of nearly a decade of work and represents a major improvement over the existing Date API.
A user conducted an experiment to test the cycle life of various DVD-RW discs using a Lite-On iHAS120 drive and Opti Drive Control software, with the goal of determining how many times a disc can be rewritten before failing. The results showed that some discs, such as the TDK 2x DVD-RW, were able to complete over 1000 cycles without error, while others, such as the Verbatim MKM-A02-000, ...
WebAssembly has made significant progress since its release in 2017, but its adoption is limited due to being a second-class language on the web. WebAssembly Components could provide a first-class experience by allowing direct access to web APIs without JavaScript glue code.
The public key infrastructure of the web, WebPKI, relies on a complex system of Certificate Authorities, browsers, and subscribers to ensure secure communication between users and websites, but it has its flaws and vulnerabilities. The user argues that WebPKI is not necessary for all uses of Transport Layer Security (TLS) and that private Certificate Authorities can be a more secure and ...
Researchers found that AI models' performance on benchmarks does not accurately reflect their real-world usefulness, with a significant gap between automated grader scores and maintainer review decisions. The study suggests that benchmarks should be viewed as one piece of evidence rather than decisive, and that more elicitation or human feedback is needed to accurately assess AI capabilities.
An Iranian hacktivist group, Handala, claimed responsibility for a data-wiping attack on Stryker, a global medical technology company, in retaliation for a US missile strike that killed 175 people in Iran. The attack has forced Stryker to shut down offices in 79 countries and is affecting healthcare providers worldwide.
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The Verge's AI reporter tried AI interview tools, finding them unnatural and biased, despite claims of reduced prejudice. AI-led job interviews are becoming common, but their effectiveness and fairness are still debated.
nah classifies commands by action type, not name, and logs decisions for inspectability. It allows customization through global and project-specific configs, with a deterministic layer and optional LLM resolution.
The user narrates a story about performance issues in a Room List component of a Matrix client, where memory pressure and lock contention were causing problems, but were eventually solved by applying Data-oriented Design principles to reduce memory allocations and lock acquisitions. The solution involved creating a new RoomListItem type that fits in the CPU cache and removing the need for ...
I didn't particularly enjoy the 1922 classic film, Häxan. I had to watch it in several shorter sittings in order to finish the entire film. I think the standards for entertainment have come a long way in the past 100+ years. What was, at the time, horrifying and bizarre seems today to be trite and bland. Maybe that's just a sign of the gradual decay of society... Anyways, I had ...
The MacBook Neo is a $600 laptop that uses Apple's A18 Pro chip, offering impressive performance and features like a bright display and good sound quality. It's a great option for those who want a small, portable Mac for everyday tasks, and it's also a good alternative to iPads for users who prefer a keyboard and MacOS.
Wiz has officially joined Google, combining innovation and scale to change cloud security. The company remains committed to protecting organizations' workloads and applications, now accelerating progress with AI-powered security.
Site Spy is a website monitoring tool that tracks pages for changes automatically and notifies you instantly. It offers a free plan and paid upgrades for more features like faster checks and email notifications.
Scientific fraud is a growing problem, with coordinated activities and entities facilitating systematic fraud, evading interventions, and targeting specific subfields. A study identified networks of cooperating individuals and entities producing fraudulent science at scale, with some editors and authors showing anomalous patterns of behavior.
Death is inevitable and affects everyone, with 60,000 people dying in Los Angeles each year, and the coroner's office investigates 18,000 deaths annually. The process of death and the handling of remains involves various professionals, including coroners, pathologists, morticians, and funeral directors, who work to identify and notify families, and to provide a dignified and respectful end to life.
bitnet.cpp is an official inference framework for 1-bit LLMs that achieves speedups of 1.37x to 6.17x and reduces energy consumption by 55.4% to 82.2% on CPUs. It supports fast and lossless inference of 1.58-bit models on CPU and GPU, and can run a 100B BitNet b1.58 model on a single CPU at speeds comparable to human reading.
The user optimized the arcsine function for use in a ray tracing application, initially using a Taylor series approximation and later discovering a faster and more accurate implementation from Nvidia's Cg Toolkit. This implementation, known as the "CG asin" approximation, was found to be significantly faster than the original implementation, with a speedup of up to 1.8985x on certain hardware ...
Phoenix reduced batch size from 2 18 to 2 16, eliminating gradient accumulation overhead, resulting in 1488 steps and improved val_bpb. Adjusting LRs may further improve small-batch training.
The single-responsibility principle can be misused to create distributed monoliths and spaghetti code. A better approach is to categorize components into groups 0, T, and A, prioritizing reusability and minimizing code.
Urea price rose 0.09% to 585 USD/T on March 10, 2026, up 52.15% from last year. It's expected to trade at 588.58 USD/T by quarter end and 667.23 in 12 months.
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Meticulous is a rapidly growing company that accelerates software development with its novel technology for exhaustive frontend codebase testing. We're hiring a team member to work on building a distributed system and integrating Meticulous into code generation, with opportunities to collaborate with top tech companies and leaders.
A Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is a type of classifier that excels at solving image classification problems by using convolutional layers to extract features from images and a softmax operation to output probabilities. The CNN Explainer is an interactive system that visualizes the Tiny VGG architecture and allows users to understand how it classifies images into 10 classes by analyzing ...
Researchers from the University of Sydney believe Monte Sierpe, a Peruvian hillside with thousands of holes, was an indigenous trade and accounting system used during the 14th century. The holes likely served as markers of equivalence for tracking quantities of goods in a society without currency.
Klaus is a user-friendly, cloud-based OpenClaw distribution with preconfigured integrations and smart permissions. It automates tasks and manages data securely across various platforms and devices.
The user argues that generative models are useful when the relative cost of encoding the work in a prompt is low and the relative cost of verifying the output satisfies requirements is low, and when the process used to complete the work doesn't matter. The user believes that navigating these trade-offs requires engineering expertise and that generative models have made it cheap to produce ...
British Parliament voted to remove hereditary aristocrats from the House of Lords, ending centuries of tradition. The change aims to make the upper chamber more democratic and representative of the UK.